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year of baby Greek turned to English
literature“and took her two majors
eventually in Philosophy and Poli-
tical Economics, Returning as fel-

-low-in English and then in Philosophy

she wrote a dissertation, an aspect of
one of them,.on the German philoso-
phers and in 1897 took her M.A. in
English. Work at the Collége de
France, done frankly for the pleasure
of listening to Gaston Pais, followed.
In the summer of 1898 she studied
Italian Renaissance painting in-
tensely in the galleries and libraries
of Italy. “In 1910, four years after
returning to Bryn Mawr, I. grew
weary of explaining sentence struc-
ture to young women and asked Miss
Thomas if I might give elective lec-

‘tures in art.”

The combined’ Department of Art
and Archaeology at that .time con-
sisted of two lecturers, one room in

_the top of Taylor containing two

cases of reproductions, one of Quat-
trocento Italian painting, the other
of Greek sculpture, and two lecture
courses in those. subjects. Soon
Gothic architecture ‘alternated with
Italian painting, and Miss King
turned from. correcting -English’ pa-
pers to lecturing in comparative li-
terature as the other half of her
activities. When in 1915 the popu-
larity of her art electives demanded
that Higgory of Art be made a full

SMILING JIMMIE FOXX —
hard-hitting first faseman
of Boston Red Sox, says: “I
Sntoke Camels with méals
and after for the help they
give my digestion.”







major department, Miss King in-
sisted that oriental art be included.
Professors at Haryard and Princeton}

laughed at her for ,wanting to teach
this subject to undergraduates. But
Miss King persisted and: at last/ dis-
covered a young man at Princeton
who undertook to teach the/ course
four months later. Since -that time
art of*the far east has. beén a vital
unit here as in. all thorough-under-
graduate curricula, and George Row-
ley, the courageous “young man” has
achieved..wide distinction in the field.

It was on her sabbatical leave that
Miss King first visited Spain. In
1915 and again in 1917 the Hispanic
Society of America sent her back to
write The Way of «Saint. James, a
“nersonal history” of travel,
tecture, art,/ religious’ interpretation,
folklore’ and iconography of. Spain
chiefly in/ the Romanesque period.
This remains the author’s favorite
work, although others have included
writings on Mudéjar, Spanish Pre-
Romanesque, Sardinian, “Gothic, Ro-
manesque, Spanish and Italian art
and architecture, and on Italian and
Spanish itonograph¥ and saintly
legends. Miss King is’a correspond-
ing member of the Royal Gallegan
Society at Corinna. She is the only
woman member of this learned so-
ciety as well as of the Instituto de
Valentiade Don Juan in Madrid.

Two. years ago, speaking of Spain,
Miss King said: “Its black magic. is
still the most exciting thing in the
world to me. I.am a real Hispano-
phile. -I came there last and it still



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That's why I always smoke
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trails clouds of glory for me, as the
It_has not yet
become a_part of the general scheme
of. things as Siena, for instance, has.”
Of Spain today: “I am completely
with the government and hope that
they shall win. It makes me nervous
when I see how long the war drags
‘ I could no more return
to Spain now than I could picnic on
the family graveyard.”

In Santiago on_ sabbatical leave a
year ago last November when she
was writing an article on Portugese
Romanesque, Miss King was taken
ill. She was obliged to take the first
boat home, unfortunately an Italian
liner.- In the midst: of the Italo-

thiopian crisis she wished to have

o dealings with Italians, but there
“was no-choice. For over a year Miss

King has been ‘living in Hollywood,
California, with her sister. When
she returns there néxt week it will
not be to leave Bryn Mawr for’ good.
In a year she hopes to return to live
here. “Somehow we all do
gravitate back. But it’s the
books that draw me back, I ‘should
never have devoted such care to the
books for the department all these
years if I hadn’t intended to ‘use them
all myself sometime. I have stored
in the village boxes of.Italian, Span-

ish and English classics all of Which)

I have taught at one time and now
intend to reread at my leisure. I
want, too, to return to Portugal to
complete a book on which I have not

‘enough_ notes.”

During the month in which she

ghas been’ on the campus, Miss ‘King
‘fas lectured to the first year class on
Caravaggio, Mattia di Preti pursuing

his ghostthrough,.Calabria_ and. even
to Matta, Giavanni ‘de Paolo, to: the
Art of the Far East class on The
Chinese Influence in Sienese Painting,
to the mediaeval~students:on Portu-
gese Romanesque.

Before her sabbatical, Miss’ King
had a great deal to do with the riew
construction plans for the fine arts
departments. -Of the possibilities of
a workshop she is hopeful, for she
has |éng hoped that every student
who cares for it.should have a chance
at pratical art work. The-~effect. of
this laboratory work will, of. course,
depend entirely, on the individual stu-
dents, but it will not change the his-
torical and iconographical approach.
“T have always stuck to the historical
method because no’ one can -under-
stand a subject unless he knows they
history that goes with it.’

Miss King feels that the studemit,
today knows much more when _ she
comes to. college than her predeces-
sors knew. The final examinations
are an excellent thing, but “the thing
I should think I would miss were I
going to teach more here, are those
people. who drift imto the first year
course just to see- what it is all about.
They have so often been a delight to
me and many of them have changed
their majors in their senior years,
which is, of course, impossible now.”

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February 15, 1937.

__Dr. Marion Park, Pres.,

“Bryn Mawr College,

Bryn Mawr, Pa.

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No. 1, American Red Cross, for -
the cooperation of Bryn Mawr
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Mrs. Henry C. Earnshaw,

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eS e all products of a system
which knoWs pot the classics and the
liberal arts, and there is every indi-
cation that the system is growing:
worse instead of better. Every day
brings us news of some educational
inventioris designed to deprive the
student of the‘last vestiges of his tools
and to send him for his education help-
less against the environment itself.”
The dirge of President Robert May-
nard Hutchins, of the —w of
Chicago. —(ACP)*



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