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ns Straws in the Wind

This ing one of the most eventful years in the history of the
college will close. The alumnae returning to see their friends and the
college will find the face of the campus much the same as: ever and
much the same kind of undergraduate bidding them welcome. . Their
coming demonstrates again their loyalty to the college, gives us after
the heat of examinations a deeper view of our college work and urges us
to see more clearly that work’s relation to the world outside. They
will see graduated a class with no brilliant peaks in its record, but of
an extraordinarily high level, almost one-third receiving their degrees
with distinction. The class itself has been characterized as “hard-
working, steady, disinterested,” and this in the year of the Fiftieth
Anniversary is significant.

The alumnae cannot realize themselves how confusing as well as
exciting this anniversary year has been to the undergraduates, yet
because they have done and are continuing to do so much for the col-
lege they may see more clearly than we the marks of a completed old
and an unknown new. The anniversary celebration fittingly climaxed
a half century of leadership and celebrated the success of a small col-
lege devoted to the advanced education of women. The death of Miss
Thomas four weeks later made clearer the fact that we have reached a
pause, perhaps a turning point. The retirement today of two illustrious
women who have been for many years in the vanguard of all that Bryn
Mawr has meant, whose fresh vigor is more modern than we ourselves,

ELIZABETH LYLE, 37
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The undergraduate curious about the Bryn Mawr to be may pause
to “sniff the wind” and to ask the vitally interested alumnae their
opinion of the future place of Bryn Mawr in the world. The work

and universities; of this she is sure, Standards as far as grades indi-
eate them are high, and comprehensives promise an improvement in
work generally. In the events of the year there have been innovations.
The choir undertook an unusually ambitious production with Princeton.
May Day was outstanding for its brilliant costumes, its smooth func-
tioning organization, and for hardworking undergraduate cooperation.
Weekends have taken a turn for the better for the student, and two
new dances have been given. Government part-time jobs for needy
students have pointed clearly. to at least one trend which promises to
leave its mark on the college. Three active political groups sprang up

six weeks on the campus. without evoking significant student response,
The Mil-
lion Dollar Drive has almost reached its goal, and plans for building
and for a bigger, better-equipped college are well under weigh. The
Summer Sehool has returned to the campus. A new and promising
graduate research institute in the social sciences has been in part
attained.

There are many streams at work here,.and we are too much in the
middle of them to see their course. Yet the very presence of the
alumnae urges us to consider them carefully and to put a serious query
for the Bryn Mawr to come. That the future of a small college
if it is to be distinctive and academic in the old sense of the word
lies only in specialized graduate fields, is a possible conjecture. Politi-
eal and social trends of the times may make us but one among other
colleges. These are both possible, but they do not promise the future
Bryn Mawr should have. Today the college is a marked success.
It has met with thoroughness and wisdom great needs, but those needs

only keeping abreast, but ahead of those needs and becoming again a



Miss Donnelly and Dr. Kingsbury.
The close of the year 1936 brings with it the retirement of two of
its professors who are not only inextricably bound up in Bryn Mawr’s



| tieth year of Miss Donnelly’s affiliation with Bryn Mawr.

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sive interest among the undergraduates whom they taught.

The fiftieth year since the fouriding of the college marks the for-
Het wide
teaching experience has enabled her to make’a versatile head of her
department, for she has giveh, at one time or another, almost all of the
English courses offered here. Watching every branch and development
in her department, she has been a broadminded and reasonable execu-
tive; teaching her students, she has been a person who at once opened
a new fineness in whatever she taught and symbolized this fineness in
herself.

Dr, Kingsbury has ever been a pioneer in her method of presenta-
tion of her subject, in her insistence upon a continual afd close connec-
tion between practical experience and theoretical study of social
economy. For the freshness of her method of approach she was chosen
by Miss Thomas in 1915 to direct the newly-founded Carola Woerishoffer

ging interest and enthusiasm which she maintained and managed to
evoke among her students during the past twenty-one years, has spread
her fame far beyond the boundaries of Bryn Mawr. The expression
“mental and spiritual hospitality” which has been applied to Dr. Kings-
bury epitomizes both her intuitive executive ability and the pioneering
spirit which has marked her long and varied teaching experience.

Freed from the responsibility of academic routine Miss Donnelly
and Dr. Kingsbury undoubtedly will find many fascinating subjects to
occupy them and will devote their amazing energy to further explora-
tion of old and new fields.. But we hope that they will retain, though
unofficially, their close connection with the collegé and will continue to
impart to it the vigor and sparkle which has for so long been their
contribution to Bryn Mawr.

The College Loses

(Especially contributed by Eliz-
abeth Wyckoff, ’36.) Bryn Mawr Club, May 2.

The students who have worked| Spoke at an informal supper of the
with her wish at this time to record|New Haven Bryn Mawr Club, May 5.
their deep regret that the college] Attended the 50th anniversary cele-
is losing as distinguished a teacher|bration of the Winsor School, Boston,
and scholar as Miss Enid Glen.|May 15. : :
Even those of us whose only experi- mpame Ot tie 20th anueversary ot

; 2 the Ambler School of Horticulture,
ence of her teaching was in the Re-|May 20. ‘
quired English Composition re-| Attended a meeting of the Execu-
member that course as one of the|/tive Committee of the Bryn Mawr
most significant experiences of our|S¥™mer School, New York, May 28.

college career. We learned there
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vigor of her criticism, her remark-
able power of stimulating the mind
of the young and bewildered stu-
dent, and of enabling her to give|| ~~~~.-~»--~ ~~
form to her own confused ideas.
The students who have taken her
more advanced courses in the De-
partment of English are more

competent than we to speak of the}{
range and depth of her scholarship,
and the great value of hearing her
criticism of English Literature of
various periods. We all join in
feeling her departure as a great|\
loss to the college.





STUDENT ENTHUSIASM _|\
FOR MAY DAY PRAISED

The -following letters, from Miss
Park and Mrs. Chadwick-Collins,

representatives on the May Day Com-
mittee:
“The Board of Directors, at its
meeting on Thursday, May 21, voted
to express to the undergraduates its
thanks for their great contribution to
the success of the May Day of 1936.
All the reports to the Board go to
show that the pleasure given to the
spectators of the performances this
year was not only due to the skillful
direction of the whole and of the
various parts, but also in large meas-
ure to the hard work and genuine in-
terest which the undergraduates put
not only into the final performances,
but into the routine preparations. The
result of tKis general feeling of inter-
est and responsibility was quite evi-
dent in the high spirits and the
smoothness with which the final per-
formances were carried out.

_Nery sincerely yours,

MARION E. PARK.”

Mrs. Chadwick-Collins expressed
her appreciation for the blue plates
sent her in memory of May Day by
the undergraduates, and thanked the
two representatives for their time
and effort during the preparations.
The letter continued: {
“May I take this opportunity too,
to tell you that I consider the per-
formance on Saturday the best May
Day I ever saw; in fact, I cannot see
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their courses an originality and : an ‘enthusiasm which produced a respon

Department of Social Economy and Social Research; and the unflag-

CURRENT EVENTS —

(Gleaned from Dr. Vesicle
summary of the year)



the last session of Congress, acts were
passed to insure the conservation of
the soil through the.planting of crops
to make the soil suitable for cotton,
to extend the neutrality act and to
give the bonus to the veterans. This
last act, passed over the President’s

-‘|veto, will probably result in a two-

months’ boom by which Roosevelt may
gain. Congress rejected the Town-
send plan for inflation that proposed
to provide three billion dollars to pay
for mortgages. Trade pacts have
been made with many countries in-
cluding Canada, Cuba and France and
since the lowering of rates, trade with
the signers has increased consider-

\ably.

The recent decision by the Supreme
Court on the Guffey Coal Bill is “an-
other instance of a_ constitutional
vacuum,” as the miners, whose wages
are low because of interstate compe-
tion, their employers and the state
itself will suffer equally from the
decision declaring the act to be an
invasion of states’ rights, which may
defeat the Republicans next Novem-
ber.

The League has failed. Great
Britain is now greatly embarrassed
by her former policy of advising the
Ethiopians to hold out against the
Italians. There are two possible ways
out of the situation in Europe, the
first being to “turn the League into
a sewing circle” in the hope that the
U. S. A. will join and then to advo-
cate a stiffer policy, the second, to
strengthen the League with military
sanctions. This seems possible, as
‘France, which has been conservative
all winter, has become liberal since
the elections. Meanwhile, Mr. Eden
has been trying without success to
force Hitler to lay his onrey on the
table.



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