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NMOL. XXII, No. 25°

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1936

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1936

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PRICE 10 CENTS





SEVENTY-ONE STUDENTS AWARDED A. B. DEGREES



| Dr. Hamilton Urges
~ War be Combatted
As Dread Disease

Work of the League Health
Commission is Summarized

In Address

SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE
~ TYPICALLY PACIFISTIC







Goodhart, June 8.—“I sometimes
think how much nearer we should be
to world peace if statesmen would
face war as physicians face gisease,”
remarked Dr. Alice Hamilton, who
delivered the Commencement address
here today. Dr. Hamilton’s speech
was concerned chiefly with the ex-
cellent work done by the.Health Com-
mittee of the League of Nations, of
which she is an eminent member.

Sickness is not the cause of heroism

and “beautiful instances of self-sac- |:

rifice’’; usually its stunts and embit-
ters, rather than ennobles. The ar-
gument that disease is necessary to
keep down excess of population and
to eliminate the unfit is specious, for
sickness often takes those who are
fittest both mentally and spiritually.
All of these arguments are used by
those who believe pacifism to be an
impossible and undesirable idea.

We are told that you cannot change
human nature, that war always has
been and therefore always will be,
that it stimulates heroism: That is
why the fight against disease is so

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Miss Donnelly Regards
Literature as an Art
Instituted Courses in Creative

Writing’ Here and Movement
For Comprehensives





HAS TAUGHT 40 YEARS



“T am interested in literature as an
art, in its creative spirit and the link-
ing of its past with present growth, as
well as in its sources and history.”
With these words, Miss Donnelly, who
is retiring this June from her place as
head of the English Department,
summed up the spirit of the. forty
years of her teaching here. “You
see,” she added, “I was brought up in
the Nineties, when art was spelled
with a capital A, and still the form
and quality of any literary work
seems to me the most important thing
about it,—the thing which no student
should fail to grasp.”

When Miss Donnelly began her
work at Bryn Mawr as an instructor
in required general English, she put
her theory into practice. She felt
that the exclusively critical interests
of this course were too narrow, and
through her influence, accordingly,

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Many’ Alumnae Gather
To Attend Reunions



President Park Entertains at Home;
1926 Largest Group



In spite of the fact that many alum-
nae had the opportunity of seeing
each other again at Big May Day, be-
tween 200 and 250 people found it
possible to attend class reunions on
June 6 and 7. The largest group
present was the class of 1926, repre-
sented by thirty-six alumnae. Their
headquarters were at Wyndham, with
Edith Harris West, ’26, acting as man-
ager.

Less than ten people were -présent
from classes of 1934 and-1935, whose
reunions were*managed by Josephine

Continued on Page Five



Alternate Fellow is
Horace Prize Winner



Jean Holzworth, Latin Major,
Has Magna Average of 88.7
For Four Years



FELLOW HERE NEXT YEAR



Jean Holzworth, the alternate for
the European Fellowship this year,
has had a distinguished career of fine
and original work and has maintained
throughout her four years an aca-
demic average of 88.712. Her most
spectacular achievement while at Bryn
Mawr was the winning of the prize
contest sponsored by the American
Classical League in connection with
the bimillenium celebration of Hor-
ace’s birth.

The contest, known as the “Uni-
versity of Cincinnati Prize Contest,”
was open to undergraduates of uni-
vérsities in the United’ States and
Canada and involved the presentation
of a metrical translation of at least
fifty lines of Horace’s odes or epodes,
an original ode or satire in the style
of Horace and an essay on “Horace
and Augustus.” All the papers were
submitted anonymously or under
pseudonyms; Miss Holzworth chose
the name “John Michael” and hers (or
his) were chosen unanimously by the
judges.

Miss Holzworth won the New Eng-
land Matriculation Scholarship when
she entered college and at the end of
her junior year won the Shippen
Foreign Language Scholarship award-
ed for excellence in a foreign lan-
guage. This year she has done honors
work with Dr. Taylor, writing her
thesis on the Philosophical and Rhe-
torical Works of Cicero. When she
came to college after graduation from
Greenwich Academy, Miss Holzworth
planned to major in English and then
changed to classical archaeology; but
in the middle of her sophomore year
she made up her mind to major in
Latin, doing the work of the entire
first semester of the second year Latin

Continued on Page Six



Josephine Heiskell Wins Second Prize
In Vogue Prix de Paris Contest



Begins Work on Editorial Staff
- In September; Will Assist
Fashion Editor

ANSWERED SIX QUIZZES





' With Josephine Heiskell, ’36, on
the Editorial Staff of .Vogue, Bryn

- . Mawr will have to change its collegi-
ate style in order to keep up with the.

times. Miss: Heiskell is the winner of
_ the second prize in Vogue’s Prix de
’ Paris Contest. She will start work-
_ ing on ‘the Editorial Board in Sep-

~ tember, For a week in June she’ will

_ “cover the market” and ass'st the

fashion editor in the picking out of
s or the Au gus!





ist” who shocked all the slack-clad in-

| tellectuals in the famous New Yorker

cartoon.

The Prix dé Paria | prize was not a
gift from heaven which descended af-
ter an ardent prayer. Miss Heiskell
won it by answering six quizzes issued
from November to April as well as by
writing a thesis of not more than 1500
words. The quiz questions were
usually on ideas received from the
preceding issue of Vogue, for instance,
writing an answer to the article which
Vogue,ran on “What the College Man
Thinks of the College Woman.” The
subject of Miss Heiskell’s thesis was
“Modern Trends in Advertising.”

YO¥k“umte one of the staff greeted

n| her with the words, “Oh, this is just



Recently when she visited the New|,

like having a baby. This is the first
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Rufus Jones Outlines
Personal Philosophy



Baccalaureate Speaker Relates

Doctrine of a Progressive
World Creation



MIND PRODUCES SPIRIT}



Goodhart, June 7.—In his Baccalau-
reate sermon, Dr. Rufus Jones, pres-
ident of the Board of Trustees, ad-

vanced his philosophy of the progres-
sive, creation of the world and the
emergence: of the “free self-transcend-
ent spirit” from the natural-animate
to where “we find ourselves in mutual
reciprocal and communion with a
Beyond within ourselves.”

He began with the proverb: “ ‘the
spirit of man is a candle of the Lord.

Our lives are kindled by G&d’ and as

we feed the flame with our enkindled
lives we become revealing places for
the life of God,” and our religion be-
comes “complete normal spiritual
health.”

This spirit is the result of slow
development of life towards higher
forms, and man “a being with a slen-
der body, but with ideal vision in his
eyes,” has succeeded the mighty
saurians. The spirit does not come
from above but ‘‘as a new and subtle
elevation of what was here before.”
Refined forms of matter allow con-
sciousness to break forth. When the
mind progresses beyond being able to
know an object to being able to know
“that it knows as well as what it
kngws,” the term spirit can properly
be used. The mind is no longer com-
pletely dependent on objects; it can
now “enlarge the empire of its estate
by the ideal forecast of what ought
to.be.” We can enjoy abstract, spir-
itual realities such as Beauty and
Truth, ideas which are eternal. At
the top of this “Jacob’s ladder” we
find within us “a More that is akin
to what we know as spirit in our-
selves.” This actual world only
touches this world within a world as
a “bounding shore.” The upward urge
in the universe has shifted from physi-
cal development and has become a
“nisus towards spirit.”

Dr. Jones said that he preferred
the account. of the creation in~ the
Romans to that in Genesis, because
the former sees man as being still in
the making. In the latter, when God
has made man, “the work is. finished

Continued on Page Five

STEWART WINS MEDAL
FOR FRENCH READING





Alicia B. Stewart, of the graduat-
ing class, won the gold medal for
French reading at the Concours Ora-
toire held on Thursday, May 15. The
medal is offered each year by the
Comité France-Amérique. Last year
it was won by Mary Pauline Jones
who graduated summa cum laude
with distinction in French. Miss
Stewart is diso majoring in French
and has been doing honours .work on
Victor Hugo with Mademoiselle Sou-
beiran. Miss Stewart was one of six
contestants for the medal, who read
the same selections both of prose and
poetry. Each girl read prepared
passages of La Fontaine and de Vig-
ny, and also read at sight from work
of Andre Gide and Emile Verhaeren.

The judges were Mrs. Pavey, whose
husband is President of the Alliance
Francaise, Madame Cret of Phila-
delphia and Miss Edith Phillips, of
Swarthmore.



Students’ Change df Courses
Students who are changing
their courses must notify the
Dean’s office before September
15. After Commencement: noti-
fication may be made by letter
to either Mrs. Manning or Miss
Ward. After September 15 a —
fine of $5.00 will be charged un-
less a very good reason for de-









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Science Building Plans Delayed

a ement to the College
ews, Mrs. F. Louis. Slade,
chairman of the Fiftieth Anni-
versary Fund, said that. the
committee had decided not to
plan the new science building
this spring, although the alum-
nae have obtained enough money
to begin construction. They ex-
pect to wait until they receive
enough to cover the carrying
expenses before the building
shall be begun in order not to
burden the college with the ex-
penses of running it.

E. Wyckoff is Major
In Ancient Classics

Average is 88.919; Interests
Include English, Politics and
* Creative Writing









IS EDITOR OF LANTERN

Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff, the Eu-
ropean Fellow chosen from this year’s
senior class, is a scholar. as the stu-
dents of the Middle Ages were..Choos-
ing no new-fangled science for her
work, she has majored in the litera-
ture and language of ancient Greece;
and the classical studies of Latin and
philosophy have supplemented her in-
terest in the time-honored, traditional
knowledge on which to some degree
all other knowledge rests. Not a whit
dismayed by the incomprehensibility
attributed to Greek by popular talk,
she has maintained a brilliant record
in this subject as well as in her other
courses throughout her college years,
for her general average is 88.919%



Miss Wyckoff is not, however, ex-
clusively devoted to antiquity. She
is a member of the executive commit-
tee for the very modern organization
of the A. S. U. and heartily approves
of the union between liberal and radi-
cal forces accomplished by this asso-
ciation. She is encouraged, too, by
the increased interest in _ political
affairs shown on the campus. Since
one of her two habitual modes of
recreation is talking—the other is
walking—, she has always been in
close touch with all sides of campus
activity, not merely politics. As hall
president for Pembroke East this
year, she has been a leader in student
government, and as editor of the Lan-
tern, she has been a leader in student
expression. She only wishes the col-

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Meeting Votes Assent
To New Plan of Marks



Faculty Endeavoring to Eliminate
Emphasis Upon Grades



On the recommendation of the com-
mittee especially appointed to con-
sider the problem, the Faculty . voted
at its meeting in April that in the
future no grades should be posted in
Taylor Hall. Instead of posting the
grades the Registrar will enter them
on the students’ course cards and send
out the course cards as soon as the
record is complete. In February the
cards will be sent by campus mail; in
June it Will probably be necessary to
send them to the student’s home ad-
dress. In special cases information as
to grades will be given out through
the Dean’s office. Mrs. Manning will
furnish such information when , it
seems necessary for the upperclass-
men, and Miss Ward for the freshmen.
Members of the faculty have agreed
not to give out grades, and students
are especially requested not to ask for

grades for the language examinations
will be sent to the students on sep-



Continued on Page Six

them except at the Dean’s office.. The|



European Fellowship ie Given
To Elizabeth Porter | Wyckoff

11 of 71 Graduated
Magna Cum Laude



25 Students Receive Diplomas
Cum Laude, 22 Gain Degrees
With Distinction



3 PH.D”’S CONFERRED



Goodhart, June 8.—Elizabeth Porter
Wyckoff has been selected as the Bryn
Mawr European Fellow for next year,
Miss Park announced at the Com-
mencement exercises this morning.
Miss Wyckoff was graduated magna
cum laude with distinction in Greek.
Jean Holzworth was named alternate
for the fellowship.’ The M. Carey
Thomas Essay Prize of one hundred
dollars, awarded to the member of the
graduating class whose writing is
adjudged best in the class, the second
coveted honor announced on Com-
mencement Day, went to Margaret
Kidder. Out of a class of seventy-

one, eleven students were graduated

magna cum laude and _ twenty-five,
cum laude. Twenty-two received
their degrees with distinction. Dr.
Alice Hamilton, eminent research
worker in the field of industrial poison,
delivered the Commencement address.

Following is a list of those who re-
ceived A. B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from Bryn Mawr College:

Continued on Page Four



Susan M. Kingsbury
Retiring This Month



Directed Carola Woerishoffer
Department Since Founding
In 1915.

AMAZING CAREER



HAS



The choice of Susan M. Kingsbury
as director of the Carola Woerishoffer
Department of Social Economy in
1915 resulted from a consideration of
her personal qualities and the achieve-
ments in which they had already as-
serted themselves at, that time.

In 1890 she had her B. A. from

College of the Pacific in California, —
She

of which her mother was .dean.
became president of the Y. M. C. A.

of her college and later of the'State.~

organization. In a very brief .time
after that Dr. Kingsbury had* a
strange assortment of teaching posi-
tions.
country school she went to, the Coggs-
well Polytechnical School, then the
Lowell high school in San Francisco.
During her free hours Miss Kings-
bury managed to work toward her
M. A. in history at Stanford Univer-
sity.

At ‘Columbia, where she secured
her doctorate in 1905, Dr. Kingsbury’s
career began when she became the
first woman ever to receive a fellow-
ship. Following her studies at Co-
lumbia, she was awarded the foreign
fellowship by the American Associa-
tion of University Women. She went
to London, where she ferreted out ex-
ceptionally important documents con-
cerning the Virginia company, which
the Library of Congress published.

In 1908 Dr. Kingsbury went to
teach at Vassar; but an offer of the
Massachusetts State Commission of
Industrial Education to investigate

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The Drive is Over the Top!

June 7.—Just as the News

nounced that the Alumnae had
“reached their goal and the Mil-







After a year in a two-room '

went to press Mrs. Slade an- }

lion Dollar Fund was complete. e

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