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VOL. ‘XXV, No. 24

ory. MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1939

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G.. DOLOW ITZ WINS EUROPEAN “FELLOWSHIP, 90. 94 |



Faculty Scattering
As College Finishes



Fifteen Professors Plan Summer
Of Hard Work; Four Prefer
Quiet Holidays



-. Still seattered about the half-empty
Library a few of the faculty are hold-
ing conferences about backward stu-
dents and last minute papers before

they march through the commence-
ment procession, and hasten away to
do some serious work. Mr. Samuel
Chew, professor of English, is dfiving
to California with his wife where he
will stay until the second semester of
next year on sabbatical leave. Mr.
Stephen Herben, also of the English
department, and Miss Caroline: Rob-

‘bins, associate professor of History,

are sailing for England. They plan
to: work in the British Museum on
their respective subjects.

Mr. Charles Fenwick, professor of
political science, is staying in Bryn
Mawr. during June to work on his
book, The Foreign Policy of the
United States. On the side he will}
also lecture at an Institute of Inter-
national Relations in Lafayette Uni-
versity. In July Mr. Fenwick has
been invited to attend a conference at
Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss a con-
structive program for meeting the
present. world situation. On his return
in August,.he will give a further
series of lectures at another Institute
of International Relations in New

* England.

The Latin department is perhaps
the most ambitious of all. Miss Lily
Ross Taylor and Mr. Thomas Brough-
ton, with the assistance of Miss Eliza-
beth Ash, ‘ graduate student, will
spend the summer in Bryn Mawr
working on an index for Mr. Tenney
Frank’s unfinished Economic. Survey
of Ancient Rome, in five volumes. Mr.
Broughton, who was an original col-
laborator on the Survey, is writing in
addition several articles for the New

Oxford Classical Dictionary. Miss
Continued on Page Two



Garden Party

Wyndham Garden, June 6.—.
On Tuesday the annual Senior
Garden Party began Commence-
ment festivities. From four un-
til- seven Wyndham lawn was
crowded with nearly a thousand
guests, students, faculty and
friends and relatives of those
graduating. Miss Park and
Dean Manning received. * Re-
freshments of punch, ice cream,
and cake were served.











Gene Irish Awarded First Alternate:

Taft and Sperry Give Final Addresses



SPERRY CHOOSES
‘LET ME ‘NOT BE
ASHAMED’ AS TEXT



Goodhart, June 4e—Preaching the

Baccalaureate Sermon at the close of
the 54th academic year, Dean Willard
L. Sperry, of the Harvard Divinity,
took as his text, “Let me never be
ashamed.”
Dean Sperry déscribed the prob-
lems of courage which confront the
people inva world of changing con-
ventions. There are three kinds of
The first is to dare, to act
in bad form, the second to be reticent
and unblatant, and the last to have
courage in the face of change.
“Every attempt to translate life in
any one type of culture into the terms

courage.

of life in another culture is held up

by mental detours, which have had
to be: made to replace conventions
which have been washed out. And
every attempt to translate the life of
the past into the terms of thepresent
is confronted by the same necessity.
Deliberate acts of honest imagination
are required for such translation. : It
is in something of this spirit that I

am asking you to think, as appropri-|-

ate to the occasion, of a half dozen
familiar words from the Bible, ‘Let

me never be ashamed.’ ”
Continued on Page Three

YEARBOOK DEPARTS
FROM USUAL TRACK





Pictures Show Seniors,
Faculty With Habitats



After the whitewashing effusions
on the subject of sweet girl gradu-
ates current in our earliest youth, it
was a relief to find that the 1939
yearbook presented the seniors in the
normal atmosphere of college life. It
deserves applause for its effort to
record people with their personali-
ties “en deshabille” as well as stream-
lined by the average portrait photo,
and because it makes an excellent
vehicle for the inevitable college gos-
sip that is an intrinsic part of every
yearbook. Unlike the college movie,
its first cousin, the Yearbook was not
created for the mothers of \incoming

freshmen, and we find it pleasantly
Continued on Page Three

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GRACE BELLE DOLOWITZ |

WINNER PLANS
FUTURE CAREER
IN EDUCATION

Grace Dolowitz, winner_of the Eu-





ropean Fellowship, has aiways lived
in New York though by chance -she
was born in Long Branch, New Jer-
sey, where her family were spending

their summer vacation. A major in
French, she is also interested in
music and writing though she insists
that both of these pursuits are merely
for her ‘own pleasure. In college her
average has stayed consistently above
90 except in the second semester of
freshman year when it dropped to a
mere 89.

Miss Dolowitz graduated from the
Packer Institute in Brooklyn where
she was humor editor of the magazine
and actress in many of the school
plays. Her interest in French be-
gan at home, however, because her
mother disapproved of high school
language teaching methods and em-
ployed a French governess and French
maids to bring up the children. Fresh-
man year she planned to major in
English, but the required English
course changed her ,mind.

In her junior year, Miss Dolowitz
studied in Tours and Paris with four
other:Bryn Mawr French majors as
members of the Delaware Group. Her
work for the Sorbonne diplome con-
sisted chiefly of a. long paper on
Marcel. Proust’s Idea “of Happiness.



Campus Flooded by Commenting Alumnae,
Reunion “Marked by Continuous Festivity



Eleven classes, ranging from 1889
to 1938,-have been actively visiting
the college during the past week. The
reunion was opened on Saturday after-
noon by the annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association. Plans for pic-
nics, suppers, teas and other activities
were made afterwards by the indi-
vidual classes.

‘As usual, the reunions were planned

~s0 that the groups who returned. had

been in college simultaneously. The
group of twelve 1889ers who made
their headquarters in the Blue Room
at the Deanery was an exception,

“however, as they were ‘celebrating

‘their fiftieth anniversary.

It has always been a matter. for
speculation that the alumnae who used
t> grumble in the smoking rooms year
in and year out that they would never

Deanery Garden. In 1897 (before
the Denbigh fi they gave a play
as Freshmen cc aehekes staircase.
The one given Saturday was’a repeat
performance, with an altered cast,
slightly inferior” only from want of
rehearsals,- and’ a more appropriate
setting. Adam was played by Fannie
Woods, Eve ‘by Helen Converse
Thorpe. There were Archangels, An-
gels, Imps and Satans in the cast
and a very capable and mellow chorus.
The stage effects included false mus-
taches, Herald Tribune angel wing$,
and writhing coils of ivy. 5

An* encounter with some members
of the class of 1901 proved enlight-
ening. When asked her opinion of
Rhoads, one answered that ‘she
thought it was “very lovely, but if
you want a Jittle constructive criti-

come back to a reunion—that they] cism J think if they took those curley-

would rather be seen dead—that it
was all a lot of—are. always the
ones seen around campus ;








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course, I’ll be back” type.
1901 rose to



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cue gadgets off the ends of things
there would be much more. room .for
something like drawers.” —.A--second
alumna said: “But there’s not enough
room to live in. It’s all very well

to go in for spacious, furniture, but:



no room to walk around. in.”
id 1 ‘Three



On the side, she acted in L’Ecole des
Femmes, a production of the Group
which was attended by a great many|
bearded Sorbonne professors.

At Tours, Miss Dolowitz enjoyed the
bicycling, the chateaux, and the gen-
eral environs, but found the city dull.
Paris was much_petter; she lived
with a charming family and enjoyed
walking around the streets to see the
city. During Easter vacation some of
the Group toured vaguely around
Italy in a bus. “I thought Italy was
wonderful,” she said, “but maybe it
was just because I had finished my
Proust paper and needed the change.”

She found the French -a rather
serious race, though she had many
amusing experiences with them. One

day on the subway, two Frenchmen
’ Continued on Page Five



Notice
Students. who are changing
their courses must notify the
Dean’s office before September
15. After Commencement noti-
fication may be made by letter

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MR. TAFT -ASSERTS
SPIRITUAL. VALUES
VITAL TO SECURITY

Goodhart Hall, June 7.—“I submit
that the effort in Russia to build a
state capitalism without belief in God
is what produces the cruelty to man
and the disregard of personality that
most observers report,” stated Charles
Phelps Taft, LL.D., in his address to
the graduating class of 1939. Mr.
Taft discussed aspects of the search
for security today, developing his
opinion that spiritual values stand
before simple economic safety in the
individual’s search for security.

The ChristiaA religion as preached!

by Christ, and later the Puritans and |
Methodists, has emphasized the worth |
and equality of every. man before

God, and, said Mr. Taft, “democracy

can only exist while we look on each
man, woman, and. child as a_ person,

|who in some degree can make ‘his

contribution to the common good.
Each must have a life to lead, his
own, not eo else’s plan for
him.”

In answer to the often posed ques-



7

192 Receive Degrees

Of Bachelor of Arts .

7 Magna Cum Laudes, 25 M. A.’s,
10 Doctors of Philosophy
Conferreal





Goodhart, June 7.—Closing the 54th
academic year, Miss Park announced
the selection of Grace Dolowitz as the

year. The Bachelor of Arts degree

was received by 92-members of “the
graduating’ class, 7 magna cum laude
and ™ laude. To graduate. stu-
dents at Bryn Mawr 35 doctorates
and Master’s degrees were awarded.

As the announcement was made,
Miss Dolowitz, who was graduated
summa cum laude, with distinction in
French, rose to take her place on the
platform with the other scholars and
fellows of Bryn Mawr.
Irish, graduated magna cum laude,
with distinction in physics, was named
as alternate for the fellowship.

To Miss Irish also went one of the
two new awards announced by MiSs
Park, the Charlotte Angas Scott Prize
in Mathematics. This prize, given
ee memory of former Professor Char-
lotte*Scott, js awarded by the head of

senior majoring in mathematics whose
work has shown “diligence, intelli-



tion: “Is the religion of Christ rele-! gence and promise.”

vant today?” Mr. Taft concluded his

address to the class of 1939. He said’

that the Christian religion is a “gos-
pel of perfection, perfection in your
own life, and perfection for your com-
munity from class to world stage.
If you look at that glorious teach-
ing as a vision to achieve, a plan to
work on, a goal and purpose or your
own life—not as a set of laws or a
moral code—it has a fascination that
is deathless Arom generation to gen-
eration.”

Overemphasis on Economic Values

“Don’t think I am attacking the
ideal of the full dinner pail and the
solid house. Neither am I suggest-
ing that we abandon the attempt to
solve economic problems—I simply
raise the question of whether we do
not need some other standard of val-
ues while we push along the_ high-
way.

“Very likely you may suggest that
of course you believe in religion and
spiritual values, but ‘that they can-
not live in the slums and on relief
and in sweat shops. Therefore, -you
say, we must first attack these in-
equalities and injustices. It is to

some degree a matter of: emphasis,
Continued on Page Six

The second award, a scholarship -

given by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hislop
and Mrs. Frederic W. Crawford in
memory of Jeanne Crawford Hislop

Virginia Center Nichols, ’41, of New

given annually for twenty-five years
at the discretion of the president and
faculty to a member of the sopho-
more class.

Following is a list of those who
receive A.B., M.A., Ph.D. degrees from
Bryn Mawr College.

BIOLOGY
Ethel Alberta Shepherd Dana

(with distinction in chemistry)
Dorothea Reinwald Heyl
magna cum laude Pennsylvania
(with distinction in chemistry)
Dorothea Radley Peck ‘ ‘
magna cum laude New York

‘ (with distinction in chemistry)
Rentinuas on Page Four





Senior Sirvey. Shows Six Biides To Be,
Majoaiey: Plan Summer of Recuperation



Before the seniors cease to be nor-
mal individuals and enter the odd re-
mote worlds of graduates and alum-
nae, we thought some statistics, as to
plans, marriage, and majors, would
appeal to their public.

Out of the 82 seniors interviewed
over 50 are going to spend the sum-
mer in “relaxing hard.” But ap-
parently some few hardy individuals
still have ‘energy despite comprehen-
sives. . Jean Morrill (an English
major) will be doing settlement wok
in St. Louis, Agnes Spenter (eco-
nomics) hopes to he with some trade
unign, Sarah “Meigs (history. of art)
has ‘been asked to work with the
Weston Theatre group in Vermont,
Jane Braucher and Eleanor Taft (so-
cial economy majors) are to work
with the International Labor Office in
Geneva and Elizabeth Aiken (eco-
nomics) is an assistant at the Hudson
Shore Labor School. Besides this
there is_a Rhoads. contingent driving



- to Mrs. Manning. After Sep-
tember 15 a fine of five dollars
will be charged unless a very
good reason for delay can be
given. pete Miplliien, 9:









out to Alice Biddle’s wedding and a

small group who plan to spend

summer in learning how to cagk.
‘Befo bothering with the winter




one particular group deserves a very
special and careful analysis—the six
that admit they are marrying this
summer and the one that is doubtful
yet says “probably this summer.”
What are the characteristics of this
group? Their majors: Biddle and
Ann Rauch, philosophy, Denise Debry
and Ruth Stoddard, chemistry; Alys

|major, Amanda Gehman. No history,
English or French majors, notice.

But to go deeper into the analysis
of this group—only one wears glasses

dard and Biddle went to the German
orals several times,
French oral more than once and Welsh
is violent against: either German or
French or even hygiene. The prin-.
cipal outside activities of this group

too long, art club and philosophy ¢!

or, if absolutely necessary, risk Latin; —
take off your glasses and sprout wis-



5 more peniensy individuals,

Continued on Page Three

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Bryn Mawr European Fellow for next .

the Mathematics Department to a”

of the class of 1940, was awarded to

York City. This scholarship is to be .

New York
Catherine Dallett Hemphill a

Maryland

Mary Tyrrell Ritchie Illinois ’
CHEMISTRY

Denise Debry New York
Catherine Christine Eide

magna cum laude Ohio

Welsh and the indefinite Adel Clement, ~
history of art, and one lone Latin |

Debry to the |

To belong to this group, major. re
€| philosophy, chemistry, history of art,



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Gene Roberts’ |

and all have their wisdom teeth |
Still more significant perhaps, Stod-.

are either weekends or, if the — is ,