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Miss Park ome Forty:
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the two Helen Schaeffer Huff Fellows
and the special fellow in Social Econ-
omy are distinguished. Russian women

The -Freshman Class numbers. ex-

ful when that civilization is halted.
Formal education first began, we all
know, «when the facts which the indi-
vidual required in -order to keep him-

| self afloat became so many and so hard

to get at, the ideas became so complex,

that he‘needed the help of other in-’

dividuals who knew more than he, of
books which represented the contribu-

trast to the present seems a calm sea,
then certainly it is worth while now
when there is a hundred times more
need of steady nerves and _ intelligent
brains, when the amateur will be not
a gallant figure but merely futile and
the expert only will be in demand.
That the college gives to its best abil-
ity an education preparatory to living

your co-operation. We come to life

when you put out your hand, touch

the wire and make the circuit com-

plete. In the past the proportion of
Bryn Mawr students who have accom-
plished that connection with the col-
lege and so derived their training is
high. I ask seriously this morning

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If
a new civilization replaces it not by the
changes of growth but by a fearful
upheaval in which much good must’
inevitably be lost, or if the new age
replaces ours only. after a long period
of darkness as happened after_ the
Roman Empire fell it will be the fault

old ciyilization is* disintegrating.

actly 100 which will make next week’s| tions of others still toward his prob-| is its justification and pérhaps its only that the number be increased. I ask, | I believe of people like ourselves—rea-
work in statistics. easy even when the| lem, later on of scientific apparatus | justification. For its task is not the | that is, that in this critical year you] sonably intelligent, reasonably strong, |
mathemaucs must be undertaken py | Which provided a shortcut to the solu-| keeping alive of learning. The endless | #5S4™* the responsibility for your own reasonablly well meaning. And _ the
a Latinist. Its upper fifth comes into| tion he needed to reach, That is the} chain of teacher and pupil can still part--which: is: the was part--af our’) monster he double-headed. We can,
‘college with high school records and| line of Bryn Mawr’s descent. That is} transmit what was handed down from | ©O™™0" task. I gaara plans oe I trust,..tace. poverty but out of the
the proud words of principals and the kind of help which such colleges; small group to small group in the-mon- since the war the =P responsibil- combination of poverty and fear littlé
head-mistresses and with examination] aS Bryn Mawr have attempted to offer| astary schools, if there remain. only ity,” even the shadow of the thing, | develops but more poverty and more

the men and women, has made every American. between | fear. If the advance of the arts, of

averages aver eighty; and only a hair’s
breadth below-stands the name of the
Chinese scholar of the year, an achieve-
ment so remarkable ‘that I must men-
tion it even in an advance edition of
the Freshman and Graduate, statistics
of next week. The Kreshman. Class,
not yet the graduate students, havé
passed before me and I can testify to
an impression of beauty, intelligence
and virtue—to use the words accom-
panying a decoration once given to a
Bryn Mawr graduate by the Sultan of
“Turkey. Beauty will be convenient
at May Day, intelligence is always
handy in the classroom and virtue will
be a comfort to the Executiye Board of
the Self-Government Association.

Our great and notable loss. of the
Fal -ise the iseontinuance” Gt the]
Thorne School, ©The headmistress,
Miss Frances Browne, has been ap-
pointed head of the Lower School of
Milton Academy, and the assistant
headmistress, Miss Baechle, is Director
of the Academic Work at the Wheeler
School in Providence.

During the year in which T was a
student at the* American School in|
Athens my great aunt took the ocea=
sion to make the then rather difficult
~ journey to Greece and™to pay mera
visit, There was, as it happened, in
that particular year a -wave of ariti-
Russian feeling in Athens which finally
swelled’ One afternoon. into a riot in
Constitution Square. A mob. broke
into_and destroyed one of the news-
paper offices, surged toward the palace,
“Was driven back and finally fired’ on
by the troops and retreated, leaving
several of its number and several more
innocent bystanders dead on the pave-
ment. I had been caught on the out-
skirts of the crowd, had run to cover
with the rest and turned up an hour
later in great excitement mingled with
some satisfactidn*at my aunt’s hotel
which faced the square. © When ‘1
opened the door she advaticed to inéet
me-with*a face of horror and” said,
“Marion, I am convinced there a
mouse in this room”

Now if Prime Minister Macdonald
or Finance Minister Bruening or Pres-
ident Hoover were here they might
conceivably think that .our modest stir
of this morning was of a piece with

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relatively few,
who could compass the needed time for
quiet training, It is .true that some

-experiences of life can be understood

only -by going through them, but it is
possible for instancé to collect and
store away a good deal of. information
which may bear on what you must in-
eVvitably meet, to learn ways of dealing
with simple questions which can be
applied to more complex ones, to de-
vise ways to act when more than qne
quantity in the problem is unknown to
you. An illustration of this can be
found in the first few lines of the Tes-
tament of Beauty—‘“Our stability is
but balance and conduct lies in the
masterful administration of the unfore-
séen.”

ae: has Sian cceettie ‘and worth
while to make these acquisitions in
the past, a past which already in con-

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task is to give their students, to quote
President Hopkins, of Dar@mouth, “a
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Now it is clear that the Bryn Mawr
student sometimes makes little or no
use of the possibility which the col-
lege offers. Skill, information, devel-
opment, stand around the cofner but
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fifteen and thirty fold his tents like
the Arabs and silently steal away, I
have often myself been left alone with

1a few. faithful wardens and the ’mon-

ster, I am asking you to break off
sharply with this habit of mind and to
get ready to ‘assumé_ responsibility
again. If you lift the calf every day
you will find yourself lifting the cow
by the time you take your degree and
walk out to meet a complicated world.

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