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~~~ Vol. XVII; No. 23

WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931

Price: 10 Cents





‘Margaret Shaughnessy Is Winner of the European Fellowship for 1931



Curtis Institute.
Described by Dean
' Scholarships Given bad. Ability;

-No Degrees and Diplomas
Are Conferred.





—,
an With the advent of commencement,
os tempted to consider everything
which it brings to an end. And we do not
mean the academic year only, but the
pleasures of the college season as well.
Not the least of these was the Bryn

' Mawr series, and as we look back, we
find that the concert by the Curtis Insti-
tute-.was one ofthe most enjoyable, and
especially interesting as representing the
work of .students like ourselves. Dean
Spofford some time ago was kind enough
to grant us an interview, for we as well
as many. others, were anxious to learn of
the workings of so great .an institution,

We were not a little surprised to find
ourselves opposite the Rittenhouse
Square; and confronted by four beautiful
buildings of white stone. But when we

~had*entered-we-were-taken—even--further
aback by the spacious room which
- _Sreeted us, to all appearances the liv-
‘ing room of a private home. And there

&

was not a sound to betray the musician].

at work, although -in-such surroundings,
he must be particularly inspired. The
appeal of craftsmanship through works of
art, also assists the institute in carrying
out its expressed purpose, which is} to
hand .down the tradition of the -past
through contemporary masters and _ to
teach students to build on this heritage
for the: future. °

The institute was founded in 1924 by

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. Tabane Urges
Sins Be Remitted



The Baccalaureate service was held on
, Sunday evening. “Dr. Johnston, rector
of St. John’s Church, ‘Washington, who
was the speaker, took.as his text: “Who
so sins ye remit they are remitted, and
who so sins ye retain they are retained.”

Dr. Johnston said that at the risk of
sentimentalizing an impression, he cold
not help remembering Bryn Mawr as
the sweetest, most wholesome and one of
the noblest places in the whole land.

Dr. Johnston declared that the ideal
of life which he was seeking: is one as-
oe sociated with the Christian religion. The
words of the text, although variously in-
terpreted, are not words of mystery; their
/ meaning is obvious and plain. Christ was
no lawgiver; He proclaimed ideals, which
He knew could and ought to be worked
e out in life.

These the Christians crystallized into
laws and, for the weak, they are helpful
and so legitimate ; they obviate the neces-

: sity for search, requiring nothing but
obedience. But “roads make wings un-
necessary,’ and if they give safety, they

give also prison.

The present text is the religious au-
thority for our “regular confession,”
‘which has been. too much a matter of
personal salvation. The Kingdom of
Christ heretofore hag been lost in other
worldliness. It is for us of the present
age -to- find-out~ what salvation means
more than the saving ef a soul, for our

Bt Ai a

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Varsity Players Elect
The committee of the Varsity

“The thing that strikes me,”

-|woman who



ELIZABETH BAER



Mrs. Barnes Urges
Creation ion By Youth

‘Only Real Equality~ “yf Sexes}
Found on‘Stage; Writer Has
Less Economic Pressure.



Mrs.
winner of the
best
Grace,”

07,
Pulitzer Prize for the

Margaret Ayer Barnes,

novel of the year, “Years of

is taking advantage of her
presence in the East both to attend her

class reunion and to receive the formal
award, of her prize in New York.
Mrs. Barnes insists that no one was
more surprised than she when she was
notified that she was a prize-winner,
and is inclined to look on. her entire
literary career, which has lasted for
about four years, with some incredulity.
she re-
peats, “is that I was very lucky, and
got all the breaks at the right time. I
really just drifted into writing.’ She
told how she began writing short
stories for the:pleasure it gave her, and
sent one to the Pictorial Review out
of idle curiosity. She received a check
a few days later and promptly had it
framed. Mrs. Barnes has since written
ten short stories, three plays and two
novels.

Mrs. Barnes says that she did not’
do anything important while in Bryn:
Mawr, except to major for four years
in English which she has always loved.
She feels that the greatest value of the
English courses of the time was the
enormous’ solid bulk reading which
they presented to the student. She ob-
tained no technical training in writing
at college and was left with the feeling
that the_creative end was submerged
in the critical. Since no impression
was given that literature is a: proces-
sion, the inference that the last word
in literature’ had been written offered
no stimulus. A firm foundation of the
classics is a virtue but youth should be
encouraged, not made to feel young
and inadequate. How the young au-
thors of today have obtained such a
mature point of view is a puzzle to Mrs.
Barnes, who has dlways said that she
could not have started writing earlier
than she did. because -she would not
have felt capable.

Mrs. Barnes does not think that 4
is trying to manage a
house and three sons can adopt regu-
lar habits of work. She is a slow writer
and makes constant revisions. Often

B. A.’s Conferred On
72 In Class of 31

M. A's and Ph. D.’s Also Given
At Close of The 46th
Academic Year.



MR CRAM IS. SPEAKER



The commencement exercises of the
forty-sixth academic year of Bryn Mawr
College held on June 3 combined the

distinguished~-work: The speaker, Mr.
Ralph Adams Cram, Litt.'D., LL.D., ‘of
Boston, chose “The Educational Value of
Beauty” as his subject.
consulting architect of Bryn Mawr,
Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, and is
the author of many books on architecture,

Margaret Shaughnessy, of Framingham,
Mass., was awarded the European Fel-
iowship. The recipients of degrees and
certificates were then read:

The recipients of the Bachelor of Arts

Degree-are-as-foltows:—_—___—_—__——

Biology

Dorothy Wilemina Asher, cum laude
with distinction in biology.

Enid Appo Cook, cum laude.

Margaret Dean Findley, with dis-
tinction in biology.

Martha Jefferson Taylor, cum laude,
with distinction in bioldgy.

: Chemistry

Carolyn B&illock Beecher.

Helen “Louise Snyder, magna cum
laude with distinction in chemfstry.

Classical Archaeology

Kathleen Cone, with distinction
Classical Archaeology.

Barbara Kirk, cum laude.-

Ruth Levy.

Caroline Huston Thompson, magna
cum laude with distinction-in Classical
Archaeology.

in

Economics

Isabel Hamilton Benham,
tinction in Economics.
Virginia Burdick, cum
distinction in Economics.
Frances Haswell Robinson, with dis-
tinction in Economics.
Margaret Shaughnessy, magna cum
laude with distinction in Economics.
Ethel Picard’Sussman, with distine-
tion bi gti sabi

Economics and Politics
Katherine Wise Bowler.
Elizabeth Lawson Cook, cum laude,
with distinction in Economics.

Anne Beverley George.

Dorothy Susan Mead.

Celeste Walker Page.

English

Angelyn Louise Burrows, with dis-
tinction in English.

Celia Gause Darlington, magna cum
laude, with distinction in English.
Mary Polk Drake.

Bertha Brossman Faust, cum laude,

with dis-

laude, with

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usual ceremonies and speeches with the |
‘| announcement of the honors awarded for

Mr.-Cram--was}







-MARGARET SHAUGHNESSY



Theresa Helburn, ’

_ Grants Interview



Tellsof Her Career Both’ in|

College and is in the
Theatrical World.



Miss Theresa Helburn, '08, of the

Theater Guild Board of Managers, is
one Sf the most interesting of the alumnae
who have returned this year, not only
because of her importance on Broadway,
but because she- held almost every posi-
tion of importance while she was in’ col-
lege. In her’senior year, she was on
the basketball and hockey’ teams, was
on the Lantern Board, ran a somewhat
less literary .publication, the’ T’zw’p’ny-

\Bob, managed all the .plays which were

given, and carried several English
courses, all of which involved a great
deal of writing. The result was a break-
down. She’managed, however, to achieve
two prizes in that year; a gold watch in
a hunting case for the George W. Child’s
essay prize for a composition written
to complete. her English major, and a
set of Shakespeare which she received ‘as
the first holder of the: “Sunny Jim” award
for high courage, steadfastness, loyalty
and cheerfulness.

She was very interested in ew drama
at a time when contemporary plays were
not allowed on the college library
shelves, and scandalized the English de-
partment’ by writing her Sophomore es-
say on Arthur Wing Pinero. “I had to
go into the Philadelphia Library to get
any material on him,” she added. As an
actress she always played the low come-
dian in the Shakespeare plays or took
the part of the villain. In Miss Hel-
burn's college days, the tradition ‘of the
intellectual woman was cherished—one of
the symptoms was the Pedants’ Club,
which the present Mrs. Barnes founded.
“We were more serious in those days. I
understand that the younger generation

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laboratory schedule next year,
afternoons,

will then meet on Monday and

in courses already arranged,

Schedule Changed

It has been decided to make a _ general.
so that the First Year Biology
_and First Year .Phxsics. sill. meet_on.Monday -andyhuesday
and the First Year Chemistry
Geology on Thursday and Friday.

Biology and Second Year Physics on Thursday and Friday.
It is hoped that this general shift will not result in any conflicts

change in the

and First Year
The Second Year Chemistry
Tuesday, and the Second Year

but if there should be any

¢| scribe the. latter.

| Economics Major Leads Class with Average of 89.075, Graduating Magna

| Foreign Bryn Mawr

<— Interviewed

"% "Beaad Between
Universities of Europe
and America.

Contrast



CO-EDUCATION FAVORED



“Why did you come to Bryn Mawr?
Are you glad that you did? ‘How do
you find it different from the university
you left?” These are the questions that
the News has been asking up and down
the halls of Radnor. The answers have
been illuminating and varied. On one
point-alone~-has~unanimity been found.
No one is sorry for having come.

Molly Allen came |here from the Lon-
don School of Economics, in England,
more or less by accident. Having heard
a good deal about Bryn Mawr’ from a
friend who had been here, she applied,
rather casually, for a fellowship and
promptly _ forgot all.about-.the matter.
The announcement of the award came as
a _v¢ry pleasant shock. It was celebrated

with a bottle of witie. Being
in America and at Bryn Mawr she has
found on the whole very pleasant.

Probably the best way to show the
differences between Bryn Mawr and the
London School of Economics is to de-
One myst remember
first of all that it is a specialized school
and not at all typical of English uni-
versities. It has about 2000 students
altogether, including graduates, day and
evening students, old and young, men
and girls. They cdme from about forty
different countries (a large number come

by the w vay, ¥

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Prof. Kingsbury Aids
Prohibition Research





On May 26, Tuesday a week... ago,

Professor Susan M. Kingsbury, of the
Department of Social Economy, Bryn
Mawr College, attended in Washington
the first meeting of the Prohibition Bu-
reau Advisory Research Council, a’
group formed by the Division of Re-
search and Public Information of the
Bureau of Prohibition in the Department
of Justice. Miss Kingsbury is the only
woman member of the council, which is
composed of representatives of ten grad-
uate schools of American universities.
The body will serve under the Federal ©
Department’ of Justice as an advisor to
the Bureau of Prohibition in its own
research and investigation, and secondly
it. will serve as a body to co-ordinate
research by the Bureau and research in
American graduate schools. In the words
of the Chief of the Division of Research
and Public Information, Mr. E._P. San-
ford, it will hope to adopt “a standard
plan of subjects of research to be fol-
lowed in universities.” “A number of
studies in one subject carried out in
various. localities and ultimately ‘sub-
mitted tagthe Bureau for co-ordination
and compilation will give a wider horizon
and larger background than can be se-
cured in any other way: ... It is to be
hoped that the Bureau may be able to
publish outstanding theses submitted--by----—
graduate students as an indication of

the Bureau’s appreciation of careful,
scholarly work . . . The ytmost ‘academic
freedom is to be given directors of re-
search and those graduate students who
elect to investigate the subjects suggested

by the Council. ,No_ special objective is





players has_elected_for_the—next
year’s board the following Execu-
tive Committee. “This committee
will, in the fall, select the members
of the Advisory Committee.
President ............ Betty Young, 1932
Business manager,
Polly Barnitz, 1933~
Executive. Committee Member,
: Janet Marshall, 1933
Executive Committee Member, .
Leta Clews, 1933









she spends froin breakfast-untik diner
at- her desk,’ or works after an eve-
-ning’s entertainmerit until daylight if
things are shaping as she wants them.
On other days she does no work at
all. Mrs. Barnes believes that women
heve a supreme advantage over men
in artistic lines because tey are rarely
in a position where it is necessary to
sacrifice their own standards to 'eco-
nomic necessities. A woman who is
settled and has financial support or is

the Dean’s Office. se



difficulties they. should be ‘reported as soon as possible to
For the year 1932-33 one change in the morning lecture
schedule has already been decided upon and should be noted
by all under-classmen. The First Year History and Apprecia-
tion of Music is to be moved from Group G to Group E, and
will. meet. Mondays, ..Wednesdays..and Thursdays at-eleven.
‘One or two. other changes in the morning lecture schedule
are being discussed, and if they are decided upon they will
be announced in the fall,.to take effect in 1932-33.









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asked for. It is facta that are wanted.”
The meeting in Washington lasted all
day. It discussed subjects and_-sfethods a
for college research work to discover
the social changes resulting from ‘pro-
hibition and the consumption of alcohol.
Each worker of the Council is to sug-
gest more subjects and -methods.~ About
thirty . unrepresented universities also
have already suggested topics. The work
may be done in college departments of
Social Economy, psychology, physiology,

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