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THE COLLEGE NEWS
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VOL. XXVI, No. 24
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA.,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1940
Marie Wurster Wins European Fellowship
(Dr. Hu Shih
Dr. Buttrick
Views Problem
Of Faith, Reason
Defines Relations
Of Religious Learning
In History and World War
Goodhart, June 2.—The Rever: |
end George A. Buttrick of the
Madison’ .Avenue Presbyterian
Church in New York, spoke at the
Baccalaureate Service. The his-
toric conflict between religion and
learning provided the subject for
his address: His text was taken
from the eighth chapter of Cor-
inthians: “For if any man think-
eth he knoweth anything, he know-
eth nothing yet as he ought to
know, but if any man know God,
the same is known. of Him.”
Wisdom, said Dr. Buttrick,
should be sought through religion,
which has often been too eager to
defend partial, instead of absolute
truth. “Religion is dedicated to
the whole truth and thus it must
welcome the new psychology, new
eugenics and new probings into
social and economic problems.” It
must be looked upon as an agent
for uniting all the parts of spec-
ialized studies, but it is itself nec-
essary in addition to the sum of
these parts.
Continued on Page Four
GARDEN PARTY
Wyndham Garden, June 4.
—Opening the annual Com-
mencement festivities, the
senior garden party drew a
crowd of over-one thousand
to Wyndham lawn from four
until seven on Tuesday after-
noon. Receiving the guests,
friends and relatives of those
graduating, and members of
the faculty, were Miss Park
and Mrs. Manning. Refresh-
ments of punch, ice cream,
and cake were served.
&
Faculty Prepares
To Work as Loafing
Undergraduates. Go
Although summer may mean va-
cation for the student body, for
many of the faculty it means only
a change of scene in which to do
more work. a
Mr. Weiss of the philosophy de-
partment will lead a bucolic life in
Vermont for the early part of the
summer, while he works on his
book. In September he will spon-
sor a National Conference on Sci-
ence Philosophy and Religion, at
which.time he will present a-paper
on September 10 on Theology and
Philosophy. In October he will
lecture at the Jewish Thelogical
Seminary in New York.
Continued on Page Five
Eager Male Stagline
Enlivens Junior Prom
On the night of June 1, a glori-
fied gym was the scene of the most
spectacular event of the Bryn
Mawr social season. The Junior
Prom a potential revolution
in Bryn dances for it
deigned or dayed to have a gentle-
man stag like —and the success
was stupendous. The young ladies,
gay in the newest creations of
1940, were eagerly sought after
and danced zestfully from 9.30 till
2.00 to the musi¢ of Alex Bartha’s
orchestra.
Miss Park, Mrs. Manning, and
Miss Ward received with the heads
of the dance committee,
Stokes, in*’a gymnasium which had
been turned quite miraculously in-
to a garden. Balloons. hung in
Continued. on Page Seven
Self-Admiring Alumnae
Lay Claims-to-Fame
In Domestic as Well as Intellectual Fields
By Alice Crowder, ’42
“Hey, Mildred; I-want to go up
and take my energy food and pain
remover; I’lk meet you down here,”
was heard Friday afternoon as
alumnae dribbled in from all parts
of the world for reunions. They
showed no lack of energy, however,
as they hurried from picnic to tea
to dinner to breakfast, from schol-
arship meeting to the showing of
the college. movies,..taking com-
mencement — activities in — théir
stride. Faded, moth-eaten banners
flew from windows in the halls
wheove—sthe classes. were concen-
trated. =
Interviewed at headquarters,
members of the reuning classes
divulged great quantities of inval-
uable information. | Each group
readil¥ agreed that only the super-
lative could be: applied to itself
as a class. 1903, the oldest one
_ of the classes, said openly, “‘we
are the best class that ever came
to Bryn Mawr. We. always
thought of-ourselves-in-the super-
lative.” They were freshmen for
the first May Day, had the highest
_ranking Euzopean Fellow and were
the yaeet class» up to the time
they came.
1904 modestly claimed to be more
gentille than some immediate pred-
ecessors, a source of friction with
those classes. 1905 vouched for
the fact that it was “the most re-
markable class that ever entered
down the ages for having: petition-
ed the faculty to abolish orals and
for breaking the banisters in
“Denbigh.” They were at college
in the days-when_skirts for_basket-
ball were immodestly short if three
inches above the floor, when a gir]’s
soul was considered han gi ng
in the balance if the faintest sus-
picion of. smoking were attached to
her, when the fad was for ragged
and tattered gowns, when social
engagements with the faculty were
not allowed, when the library was
being built and. when Denbigh
burned down. A’ undergraduates
the members of 1905 were ex-
tremely. scornful of returning
alumnae. They thought it unsafe
forall the crippled_old-ereatures
to be hobbling around. “We had
a great deal of gumption and a
fair amount of intelligence,” 1906
said.’
Continued on Page Two
Madge |
Lazo, Helen MacIntosh and Alison
college. We have no other, claim’
to fame except noise,” they said
“but we should go _ thundering
MARIE WURSTER
M. Wurster Admits
A Commonplace Life
Complicated By Math
Marie Wurster, the winner of
the European Fellowship, positive-
ly blushed in mentioning what’ she
considered her prosaic life. She
graduated from the Philadelphia
High School for Girls and she has
never studied abroad. To continue
her self-condemnation and _ to
show further distinctions between
herself and most. European fel-|"
lows, she confessed that she gradu-
ates from cllege without any pre-
tensions of being a child prodigy.
Miss Wurster graduated summa
cum laude with an average of
90-47.
Her major is mathematics. From
writing an honors paper on differ-
ential equations she has learned
that the great complication in-
solving a problem it is necessary
to prove that the solution exists.
pilios at Bryn Mawr, ay Wur-
ster said, serve a double purpose,
for athletic requirements are more
than fulfilled when you walk daily
the fourth floor of Dalton.
Next year Miss Wurster will
teach mathematics at Baldwin
School. One of sher ulterior mo-
tives is to dissuade those sup-
posedly allergic to the subject.
Her extra-curricular activities. at
college have been limited to the
Science Club and the International
Relations Club. At first a non-res-
ident, her last two. years have been
spent _hectically in . Rockefeller
Hall. Of college whims she finds
‘the eternal conversation about food
the most intriguing. Her own nu-
tritious -weakry mis: ice coonmeeniine
chocolate sauce.
Notice
Students who are changing
their courses must notify the
Dean’s office before Septem-
ber 15. After Commence-
ment notification may ~-be
made by letter to either Mrs.
Manning or Miss Ward. Af-
ter September 15 a—fine of
five dollars will be charged
unless a very good reason. for
delay can be given.
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volved in such a Stiidy is that after]
from the- new Science Building to}
Helen Bacon is Named for Alternate;
Percentage of Magna Degrees Exceptional
Fellows Announced
By President Park;
Runners-Up Praised
At the 55th Commencement Ex-
ercises of Bryn Mawr College,
President Park said that’ rather
than being considered in view of
the-war. in-Europe,_as.such_exer-
cises should be thought of as a
symbol of unshakable belief in the
orderly training of the mind: and
of a peaceful and reasonable world
which such training has as _ its
purpose.
After the conferring of the de-
grees, Miss Park announced Marie
Anna Wurster, of Philadelphia, as
the 52nd Bryn Mawr European
Fellow. Miss Wurster was gradu-
ated summa cum laude. Out of
over 3300 A.B.’s of Bryn Mawr,
only 28 have been in this exclusive
crass, . said Miss Park.
Helen Hazard Bacon, who com-
pleted the work in two majors,
Latin and Greek, was appointed by
the faculty as the alternate
“It would have been easy,” -said
Miss Park, “to decorate with aca-
demic honors three other students,
Louise Morley, Joy Rosenheim and
Anne Louise Axon, and in leaner
years I should have beamed with
satisfaction over the choice of any
two of them as fellow-and alter-
nate.”
~Pellawing is a list of those who
receive M.A., and Ph.D. de-
grees from Rryn Mawr College.
BIOLOGY
Susan Gardher Miller
New York City
CHEMISTRY
Eleanor Benditt Philadelphia
Ingeborg Karla Hinck
New Jersey
cum laude
Continued on Pase’ Six
Stresses Need
For Clear Vision
Ambassador Says
Intellectual Discipline
Is Important to Freedom
6
Goodhart, June 5.—“All of us
who have to think about interna-
tional problems or about the candi-
dates and issues of the coming
elections are thinking in situations
where the rightness—or--wrongness
of our thinking may affect the wel-
fare of millions of people,”
His Excellency Dr. Hu-Shih, the
Chinese Ambassador to the United
States, in his Commencement Ad-
dress.
“It is our sacred duty,” he con-
tinued, “to discipline ourselves to
think responsibly.’ | Responsible
thinking, Dr. Hu-Shih said, implies
three elemental requirements: the
first, the duty of verifying our
facts and checking Our evidence;
second, the humility to admit the
possibility of error in our judg-
ments and to guard against bias
and dogmatism; and lastly, a will-
ingness to work out all possible
Continued on Page Five
College Council Plans
Play Room for Maids .
_ Wednesday, May 15.—At its last
meeting for this semester, the Col-
lege Council discussed living condi-
tions of the maids and porters and
banking facilities for the campus.
A “cushion fund” was suggested
for the maids and porters. This
plan would provide salary during
illness and would pay for: tempo-
rary substitutes. This type of plan
has been successfully used for fac-
ulty and staff members,
Merion cellar, abandoned by the.
art club, will serve as a recreation
center for the maids and porters.
»»*Continued on Page Seven
Senior Poll Reveals Collective Nature of 40.
As to Teeth, Breakfast, Majors, Marriage
By Agnes-Mason, ’42
Believing that a poll of the sen-
iors’ thoughts and actions should
prove of great value to the under-
graduates, we submit ‘the follow-
ing information for their guid-
ance. Most gratifying news of all
to the student body should be the
fact that out of the whole senior
class only five would not have came
to college if they had known as
much about it as they do now. The
interviewers received such an-
swers. to their question ‘Would
you do it all over again?” as “You
bet, I think it’s a picnic,” ‘(con-
tributed by M. A. Sturdevant,
| psychology... maigg) and ‘‘Cer-
tainly: That’s a dumb question!”
The opposition was based on frus-
tration due to separation from the
male, and upheld the merits of
coeducation. Stick to it, girls.
You’ll never regret it.
History and English are the fa-
vorite majors, French, and _ sociol-
ogy coming second. The majority.
held that the comprehensive sys-
tem was good but that the work
could be vetofobanie and even
more comprehensive. (Suckers~for
punishment, the class of 1940).
They were ‘described as “hell but
excellent” and “good but grue-
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some.” One girl, asked about the
comprehensive system,.. said. that
she “never gave them a thought.”
Those who did honors enjoyed
them, but said they should not be
allowed to encroach on compre-
hensives. One suggested that fhe
seniors should have no courses the
last.. semester, one . half of this.
time to be devoted to honors, the
other to comprehensives. The gen-
eral opinion was that half unit
honors should be abolished as you
have to work just as hard as for
a whole unit.
Courses in * Economic History
and Theory, one in Public Admin-
stration. of, Governmeng Finance.
and one .in Advanced Medieval
European History, were suggested
while a psychology major com-
plained of too many unpleasant
requireds in her department.
Baby German. and_ Freshman
English were. the — most generally
disliked courses.
A senior’s day begins either~at
early or regular breakfast . (three
or four ignore the meal entirely)
and ends between midnight and
three A. M:~-A--few~ go to bed
early because they get “tired as
hell.” Bunty Smith had the tem-
Continued on Page Eight
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HOWARD L. GRAY
H. L. Gray to Retire
From College Faculty
Plans to Stay in Bryn Mawr
For Summer and to Travel
Widely in Fall
The --retirement-of Mr. Howard
L. Gray from the Bryn Mawr
faculty, after twenty-five years as
professor of history, takes place
this year. Mr. Gray was graduated
from the University of Rochester
1897, received his A. B. from Har-
vard University in 1897, his M. A.
in 1900, and his Ph.D. in 1907. He
was instructor and assistant pro-
fessor at Harvard from 1909 to
1918, and came to Bryn Mawr in
1915.
During the war, Mr. Gray, af-
ter repeated attempts to qualify
for military service, for which bad
eyesight made him _ ineligible,
served in London jin the Depart-|
ment of Supply of the govern-
Sheet-Drape, Original Lyrics and Epigrams
Give Artistic Finish to Last Day Speeches
By Marguerite Bogatko, ’41
Friday, May 17. — On Taylor
steps, lightly wrapped ‘in a sheet,
Emily Cheney set the last day
speeches on their way. She intro-
| dueed herself by a short disserta-
tion on the nature of sheets in gen-
‘jeral and “what they mean to me.”
After this she told about her effi-
ciently systematized outMwe and
wand@yed pleasantly over the per-
sonalities of her college career.
Returning from her digression with
an apt remark about the vaude-
ville trend of ’43’s Freshmen Show,
then let her protective sheet slip
gently from her white shoulders
and emerged trucking from. the
folds in a bandanna and Tucker’s
(see Vogue) sensational bathing
trunks.
In front of Dalton there was a
short duet yelled by Cooey Emery
and Caroline Garnett before each
lady discussed separately -her in-
‘dividual woes. Miss Garnett, hav-
ing been encouraged to try and
find out about Life, entered the
sordid—atmosphere—of -the— biology
laboratory. To the tune of lewd
comments she quickly became hard-
ened to face the Facts although
not without a good deal of mental
pain and struggle.
Possessed with a desire for ro-
mance, Cooey Emery chose geology
for her science. But “gee oh gee
ology!” Her hopes died amid the
rocks, for Mrs. Watson and then
Mrs. Dryden broke her dream of
professorial love. Even. the Hav-
étford field-trippers let her down
in her quest.
Isota Tucker, looking very poised
and_comfortable in an abbreviated
one-piece garment held forth in
front of the gym. Speaking first
of her ‘struggles with organized
sports, she gave, in sKort rhymed
verse, a bird’s ‘eye view of her
varied career, and her social awak-
ening under Miss_ Stapleton’s
tutelage.
The last speech was given by
Ledlie Laughlin (with gestures)
on a subject closely related to all
our interests. She spoke of li-
braries . . . our own library with
its thinly walled, secret-revealing
Carola. Woerishoffer Room, the
Widener Library, and the Biblio-
théque Nationale. Finally she
spoke about that little known
haven of peace, the Villanova li-
brary. She was going to say more,
but she thought she saw some Vil-
lanova- boys approaching:—-One—of}
the main points made by Miss
Laughlin was that books every-
where are the same but the main
show, men, vary and each place
offers a_ different opportunity.
Bryn Mawr, said Miss Laughlin,
is the only library where you can-
be yourself.
|
Returning Alumnae Laud
Their Accomplishments
Continued from Page One
in the
twenties were a little less sure of
1922
itself as a very average class which
The group of -classes
themselves. characterized
ment, from 1918 to 1919.. During/c#me ata very bad_and_confused
this period he gathered material
for his book, Wartime Control of
Industry, the Experience of Eng-
land in Wartime, which was pub-
lished in 1918.
Mr. Gray has made many im-
portant contributions to historical
research, particularly in the field
of English agricultural economy.:
In 1915 he published English Field
Systems, for the Harvard Histori-
cal Series; in 1932 the Oxford
Press published his Influence of
the Commons on Early Legislation;
and he has contributed sections to
several other books. :
In articles Mr. Gray has brought
forward new material on villein
services, yeoman farming, the
English woollen industry, and
English. land-incomes in the fif-
teenth century... Now under way
is a new. book, a Study of Mid-
Fifteenth Century Finance and
Administration, particularly relat-
ing to the decade 1446-1456. In it
Mr. Gray will study the effects .of
finance on England’s part in the
Hundred Years’ War.
Since the war prevents Mr. Gray
from returning to London to work
in the Record Office, he plans to re-
main here for the larger part of
the summer. He hopes to goto
Berkeley, California, in September,
and perhaps to “drift through the
South” on his way back to Bryn
Mawr, which he considers his per-
manent home. 8
200,000 students attend college
in other than their home states.
Latest available figures give a
total of 1,709 institutions of higher
learning in the nation.’ ;
|time. A class questionnaire _re-
veals that one third of them are
now married, ‘that five are M. D.’s,
three authors, one a head mistress,
jthe majority teachers, and many
housewives; that half are repub-
lican and a fourth democrats, that
| 48 per cent of them are now less
'conservative than in 1922.
| ““We are the most charming and
fmost beautiful _—_class._ that. ever
‘stated,—“‘and’ we think we have
more children per capita.” 1924 is
certain that it is the most irre-
sponsible and the most individual.
They are, they say, entirely with-
out college spirit. ‘‘We consider
that we have aged interestingly,”
said-one member of the class, “as
we haven’t yet come to the age
when we are well preserved.” 90
per cent of this class is married.
1925, not to be outdone, is super-
lative in another respect. They
are “the most harassed class, brow
beaten by figures (of both kinds)
and children.”
Of the classes more recently
graduated, 1938 believes itself ab-
solutely mediocre. ‘‘We have no
shining lights, no beauties, and
none of us seem to get startlingly
married. We are, however, one
of the nicest‘ classes that ever
came to Bryn Mawr.’ 1939 on the
other hand believes itself ‘“‘eccen-
tric and delightful.” !
Most classes echoed 1924 in
agreeing that college felt the same
hand smelt the same except for
Rhoads. The slamming of Rhoads’
The prevalence of radios, private
The Bryn Mawr College Inn
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Appreciation for
and
Success in the Future
to
The Class of 19
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came to~ college,” 1923 members |
doors was.generallv.as¢laimed_the|
strongest atmosphere of that hall. |-
phonographs, house coats at break-
fast, pants on campus and of men
was remarked. A member of the
of 1904 recalled that her
compatriots pitied those who had
class
to go away on weekends‘and found
this situation much changed. “The
whole place looks twice as delapi-
dated,” a 1939: member said. ’38
heartily disapproves of the inhospi-
tality of the shortage of bath tub
plugs in East.
Three classes chose doctors as
their most successful class mem-
bers, ten teachers, one the head of
a prep school and another an
editor.
The typical college students—has
a vocabulary of 60,000 words.
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To Lead Refugee Seminar
This. Summer
Mr. Herbert A. Miller, lecturer
in sociology, retires from the Bryn
Mawr faculty this year. Mr.
Miller was graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1899, took his
M.A. there, and in 1905 received
his Ph.D. from Harvard Uni-
versity. He has taught at several
universities in the United States,
and has lectured at universities in
“td continue his
work in several interesting direc-
tions. He is contemplating writing
an autobiography. Next winter he
will hold a visiting professorship
at Temple University, and this
summer he will be at the school
for refugee scholars at Wolfeboro,
New Hampshire, where he, will con-
duct a special seminar on the So-
ciological Interpretation of
America. .
This school was planned by Miss
Hertha Kraus, Carola Woerischof-
fer associate professor of social
economy, and will be administered
by the Friends’ Service Committee.
Its aim is to aid refugee scholars
who are handicapped in gaining
positions here by lack of under-
standing of America. Mr. Miller
believes that the cooperation of the
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school will bé invaluable.
About forty students, most of
whom are German or Czech, will
attend the school. Since the build-
ings and instruction have been
contributed, the tuition will be
only 100 dollars for the eight-week
period. All subjects, from music to
science, will be taught; but work
will be focussed mainly upon three
fields: English, education, and the
field of Mr. Miller’s seminar. Ex-
cellent visiting lecturers, among
them Mr. Rufus Jones, have prom-
ised their services to the school;
and Mr. Miller also plans to give
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THE CQLLEGE NEWS
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‘
. Number One news spot in the U.S. A.
ALL IN!”
It is the voice of Bill Donaldson, Superintendent of
the House press gallery. Evéry Friday morning at
10:30 and Tuesday afternoon at 4, that familiar call
resounds through the oval inner room of the White
House executive offices.
And with these two words, as free of ceremony as
the shout of a subway guard, proclamation is made
that the accredited correspondents of the nation’s
newspapers—75 to 200 strong—will now proceed to
question the President of the United States.
P Let no foreign newspaperman suppose (and sev-
eral of them are usually present) that the absence. of
fanfare implies any lack of seriousness. Not these
days.
~
In the doldrums of last winter, the spot news men
in the front row and the stiff-collared Mark Sulli-
van atthe rear exchanged many a wisecrack. with
the man in the chair. But now the correspondents’
questions, always prepared in advance and care-
fully worded, are asked with a full sense of cheir
national and international import.
The front row may occasionally relieve the ten-
sion with a jest, but for the most part the prob-
lems of the hour are too harsh and dire for anything
but the gravest faces, the most searching and genu-
ine thoughtfulness on both sides of that famous,
gadget-laden desk.
> Number One news spot in the U. S. A.? Yes, and
in “this “portentous year of 1940, it_ may well be
more than that. For this year, a World War and an
American presidential election cross each other’s
“ paths—a meeting more weighted with destiny than
any conjunction of planets.
Third term -possibilities...changes in defense
plans..:developments in foreign policy...no news-
man can go through these doors now without feel-
ing that he may come out with a story for the ni
tory books. —n
Not always have the Presidential doors swung
open to cortespondents. Most 19th century Presi-
dents, even Lincoln, were suspicious of newspaper-
men. But during the reign of the unbending Cleve-
land, a reporter named Bill Price hit on the scheme
of hanging around the White House gate to button-
hole the departing visitor, and he soon had Plenty
of imitators. .
It was Theodore Roosevelt who first saw the pos-
sibilities in that little group of gate-watchers. One
rainy day soon after the assassin’s bulfet\had cata-
pulted him into the Presidency, he called them in,
gave them an anteroom of their own, and estab-
lished the custom of face-to-face questioning of
President by press.
This journalistic questioning has really become
part of the American governmental process. It
means that Democracy gets more than lip service
between elections. It means that it is somebody’s
regular job to report to the stockholders of U. S. A.,
Inc. what their chief has on his mind. Extended to
all other public servants in Washington, it means
that the citizen learns what the.government is do-
ing, and the government — the citizen is
thinking.
> White House coverage, of course, is only a frac-
tion of the complicated Washington assignment.
The queer little political island of D. C. is dotted
with news sources. There is the Senate, which can ©
(and has) upset the Presidential foreign affairs ap-
ple cart. There is the House, which must untie the
purse strings for every Presidential project. There is
the Supreme Court, which can topple his legisla-
tion after it’s all signed, sealed, and delivered. And
the Executive Departments ... and the 79 indepen-
dent administrative agencies...and the foreign
embassies and legations ... all gushing news from
time to time faster than the White House itself.
It’s no job for an amateur—and there are no ama-
teurs in the Washington correspondent corps. Many
have been foreign correspondents in important
European capitals, editorial writers on great met-
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Liberal Education
With the advent of the second world war we are impressed
more and more/with the cloister-like nature of undergraduate life.
We all want to be outside “doing things.”
justify the wastage of four years
What, say many, can
on academic matters?
The answer is that a liberal arts college offers the student, on
terms she will probably never again obtain, a chance to view events
as an intelligent spectator.
It is true that we must avoid the fallacy
of living only in books and that we must give our learning vitality
by blending with it experience acquired either through extra-cur-
ricular activities or through summer -work.
That we are, today,
aware of this danger is shown by our criticisms of the ivy-covered
lives we lead.
We must not, however, go to the other extreme by emersing
ourselves in activity and by forgetting all which is valuable in the
liberal education.
Clear thinking is of greater importance than
purely practical knowledge. Only by viewing events as impartially
as possible and by. continuous practice in the use of one’s mind, can
one approach problems with balanced judgment.
We must not merely make ourselves aware of the outside world,
but. must also try to learn from the liberal education provided within
the cloisters what logical and impartial thinking means.
If we learn
this, we will be better prepared than if we had had merely a prac-
tical education.
Meigs Review Cites ‘Lantern’ for Bravery,
Suggests Rejected Material be Printed
Specially Contributed By
Mary Meigs, ’39 —
The Lantern is perennially cour-
ageous. It is frowned on, it is
laughed at, it is treated with in-
difference, it is admonished some-
what as Mr. Roosevelt admonished
the Youth Congress, and yet it goes
on. Two years ago in a bitter edi-
torial, it threatened to commit sui-
cide. Unintentionally, this was a
good move; its critics were furious,
its adherents were desolated, and
the next fall it rose again like a
phoenix from the ashes. The fact is
that the Lantern is needed and
that is enough to keep it alive. But,
granted that it will stay alive
through demand, we question even
“jow its efficiency as a campus
organ.
In the May issue, the Lantern
bites editorially the hand.that feeds
it. The Campus, says J. G., makes
. the Lantern what it is; the campus,.
by implication, better be careful
what is says about itself When it
an
the editors rejected, we could” tell
whether their boomerang criticism
is justified. Perhaps it-would—be
possible to have a new section en-
titled Censored, for,-which they
would take absolutely no responsi-
bility. This suggestion is not
meant to be facetious; if it were
‘, eagried out it would “be the first
step toward making the Lantern a
consumers’ cooperative, where the
campus would feel that what it
puts into the venture is the equiva-
lent of what it gets out.
At the same time, we are not
depreciating the May issue. What
there is of\it iS very good, but we
cannot help feeling that the ma-
terial handed in by that poor old
goat, the campus, was too consci-
entiously. pruned. There are four
stories, but only one poem, one es-
say, and one political exposé. All
four stories are perfectly genuine
and have enough variety of subject
matter to please even a Lantern
critic. In both Sunflower Street,
by’ Florence Newman and The
Pagan, by Isota Tucker, the situa-
tions are thoroughly human be-
cause they are not altogether tra-
gic, or comic, but a mixture oof
both. In. Sunflower Street, how-
ever, humor breaks through what
is perhaps predominantly a tragic
situation to such an extent that the
sensitive (and humorless) “I” of
the story is disassociated from the
laughing like someone who has had
a-bad_fright, she could identify
herself with “I,” but at the:end of
the story, “I’’ is still tragically in
Sunflower Street and the story-
teller is still humorously outside it.
The Pagan may seém more con-.
sistent because it is written in the,
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. questions and too little stress on
OPEN FORUM
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History of Art *Major
Comprehensives. Valuable
For Correlation
Comprehensive examinations are
in history of art. They are an ex-
cellent meang of discovering basic
principles and correlating mater-
ial which is spread over a great
length of time, which deals with
so many different epochs and in-
cludes such a variety of subject
matter. The comprehensive view
necessary for a real understand-
ing of the history of art, i.e. the
ability to see it as a whole and
‘beyond’ any particular course or
set of courses seems to be able to
be most completely grasped in the
preparation for these’ exams.
Because ‘comprehensives in’ this
department are being changed next
year, it does not seem worth
worth while to make specific criti-
cisms of this year’s examinations.
The art majors do feel, however,
that questions of a broad and gen-
eral nature to which one can apply
one’s facts and all of one’s art
knowledge and which are arranged
with the possibility of a fairly
wide choice, are more truly com-
prehensive.
MARION GILL, ’40.
Majors Slightly Annoyed,
Bored Consider History Fi-
nals Uncomprehensive
Already, on the eve of A.B-ing
and leavetaking _ comprehensives.
have begun to appear in the nor-
mal perspective of three weeks’
worry, one: week’s work and one
week’s Hell. Perhaps the most
general, as well as my own, in-
dividual reaction to the History
questions was one of slightly irri-
tated boredom. The chief trouble
lay in a wide choice of subjects
not only in regard to topics, but
in regard to difficulty. This made
the harrassed student wary of
choosing the more interesting and
controversial discussion questions
when easier, more straightforward,
questions were available. Yet
even the better questions were of-
ten..not what I should term. “com-
prehensive.” It does not seem to
me that it should be possible to
of great value+to, those majoring out that an undergraduate cannot
Axon Praises Comprehensive
System, But Finds Exams
Disappointing
It has several times been pointed
‘possibly, on the basis of one (or
even four) years of experience,
hope to gauge the worth of an edu-
cational experiment under which
she has been working. Even the
faculty has refrained from passing
judgment on the comprehensive
examination system until it has
gone through a five-year trial
period. «Nevertheless, there are a
few impressions which we seem
quite generally to have received
during the year of preparation for
the final examination in the major
subject, and which may not be en-
tirely undependable.
In physics, as apparently in a
great many other fields, it has
been felt that the-unit spent~-on
preparation for the final exams was
valuable,-and- that the experience
of attempting to coordinate all the
work done in the major field was
perhaps the most important one of
the whole four years. The unit
of comprehensive reading did sev-
eral good things. It necessitated
some acquaintance with the litera-
ture in the field—both contempo-
rary and classical—which we might
otherwise never have bothered to
make. It served to fill in large
gaps in our general knowledge of
physics: this year’s majors, for
instance, had never had courses in
either optics or atomic physics, and
were able in this unit of work to
make up these deficiencies to some
extent. And best of all, it forced
us to coordinaté disparate fields as
we reviewed for the exams. In
re-studying old courses, similari-
ties in approach to different ,prob-
lems, and in mathematical methods
of attacking them, were made quite
obvious. We realized, for example,
that electric and _ gravitational
fields of force had a great deal in
common, and could be treated in
exactly similar ways; this analogy
had several times been pointed out
to us, without” our” having had
more than the slightest idea of
what was meant. In the same way
we. saw, new similarities in sound
and light, in the simple pendulum
and electrical circuits, which we
find any comprehensives’ question
which might also be set for the:
final of a regular course—but a.
number of such questions were}
asked in both Modern England and
Modern Europe. My general im-
pression of the two above-men-
tioned and the American history
comprehensives was that there were
too few “compare and contrast’
important personalities, although
the latter criticism is. not true of
the Modern England examination.
Finally “they” are right about this
business of studying. If I had it
to do over, I fondly imagine that I
would read over my notes in early
April, prepare four possible ques-
tions the day before the exam and
go to a good movie.
The use to which the compre-
hensive unit is put is a far more
vital issue than the exam itself.
In the history department compre-
hensive work is a pleasant farce.
If tutorial work had not been lim-
ited to desperate Mondays every
other week, I would not have sur-
vived. This was the case with a
good many people and so, maybe,
the system is best as it stands.
However, if we were going to make
of the comprehensive unit a -solid
year’s work, certain definite things
would have to be done err
In the--first place, the work to
be accomplished should be planned
out in advance. Moreover, the idea
of filling ina century_or so should
be relegated to a subordinate posi-
tion. Given as broad a field as the
comprehensive exams offer, no one
is _apt to: need to do or want to
choose a question upon which she
has never had a course. Fill-in
might have overlooked entirely if
we had not had comprehensives in
view. The necessity for having a
Continued on Page Five
books’ of the textbook variety
should be recommended, not. as-.
signed. The comprehensive unit
itself should be devoted to present-
ing a new attack on the material.
ae of accomplishing this pur-
poses by reading documents and
learning how to relate them by con-
ference discussions.
is by reading innumerable biog-
raphies and, finding out if the es-
sence of history really is in them.
Still another is by attempting to
approach the history of a period
either in its literary or its eco-
nomic aspects. At the risk of kill-
ing off Miss Robbins in a sentence,
I think. she should discuss these
possibilities in the spring with each
history junior and arrange and
pursue a definite line with each girl
the following year. Then, when
each student comes to read over her
misspelled, semi-illiterate fresh-
men and sophomore notes, she will
have the facts behind a new slant
with which to reinterpret her old
material. . This is, after all, the
most which any course or professor
can do towards getting a student to
brood comprehensively.
__ Nevertheless, I completely ap-
prove of the comprehensive system.
The idea of getting ready to take
the exams is sufficiently vast to in-
spire awe which is all to the good.
A clearer, more direct approach
and a more balanced set of con-
troversial questions seem to me the
principal needs.
BARBARA AUCHINCLOSS, 40.
Another way}.
Tucker and Moon
Win Prix de Paris;
Will Work on ‘Vogue’
By Elizabeth Crozier, ’4]
By Joan Gross, ’42
Vogue Magazine conferred on
hyperbolic Mary Moon and Isota
Tucker of the turned phrase, first
and -third prizes respectively in
their nation-wide Prix de Paris
Contest this year. Miss Moon, as
first prize winner, will be assured
a place on Vogue’s staff for one
year, and Miss Tucker, as third
prize winner, for six months.
When we asked Miss Moon to
what._she attributed her success,
she said, “late hours and too many
cokes.” But Miss Tucker contra-
dicted her. It was “Moon’s magni-
ficent way with the word and °:
phrase—‘richer than blood velvet’
—that was responsible for her
success,” she said. “Moon is ob-
viously. A-number-one Vogue ma-
terial,” Tucker declared. -
In a more serious mood, each
together sincerely attributed her
success to the influence of the
other. “I almost gave up on the
second batch,” Miss Moon said,
“but when I saw Tucker going on
I persevered too.”
“To the fifth year,’ Miss Moon
suddenly exulted. ‘All things
come to him who waits—in the
fifth year.”.And Miss Tucker, af-
ter paying tribute to Miss Moon’s
guiding influence, said other fac-
tors were ‘my friend Cheney’s
typewriter which I used on all oc-
casions and my preference for
writing Vogue articles rather than
studying.”
In the quizzes, Miss Moon and
Miss Tucker sometimes chose dif-
ferent questions. Both took the
fashion poser in the first quiz on
the Mainbocher corset. Isota did
thumbnail sketches of famous
people, a table decoration sug-
gested by Miss Robbins, and ad-
vice to the college world. Wrote
Tucker: ‘Blow your own trumpet,
but keep in tune.”
Miss Moon wrote on places to
travel, designed a cover for Vogue
and suggested a ski window dis-
play. She described an 18th cen-
tury drawing room in the south
of Germany, and wrote on clothes
for those under 20. “‘The orchid
of yesterday has taken on a pa-
per frill.”
For their final theses, Miss
Tucker wrote on Charleston’s St.
Cecilia Ball and Miss Moon on
Elizabethan music.
As Vanity Fair winner, Miss
Tucker will. write features ex-
elusively,--while-—Miss~ Moon ~as -
first-prize winrer, said she didn’t
know what she would be doing.
She thought she would be shunted
around and “nobody knows, I'll
probably turn out to be the bath-
ing suit expert.”
Dr. Buttrick Presents
Baccalaureate Speech
Continued from Page One
In the growth of the new sci-
ences, faith is a necessary factor,
said Dr. Buttrick. It is “an ascrip-
tion of meaning, a passionate intu-
ition.” It is, above all, the life-
‘blood of reason. Democracy is an
outgrowth of this spiritual faith.
It recognizes man’s superiority to
animals and emphasizes his im-
portance as an individual.
Buttrick, is bringing about the de-
struction of our new scientific so-
ciety. The progress of science,
which is “the extension of human.
powers,” is now seeking to an-
nihilate the society which has
furthered it.
~ “Tf Hitler is* conquered,” con-
tinued Dr. Buttrick, “we shall have
used his methods and by using his
methods we invite dictatorship
upon ourselves. So long as wars
continue, all learning is under
threat. Unless we can _ derive
wisdom from God, chaos will con-
quer learning.”
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,tivate these habits of intellectual
‘dinated knoweldge, however, the
“might almost as well, as far as the
~except presence of mind -in an
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Dr.. Hu --Shih Gives
Commencement Address
Continued from Page One
consequences that may follow the
acceptances of our views and
theories and to hold ourselves mor-
ally responsible for these conse-
quences.
It. isour duty, he added, .to cul-
discipline in college and to practice
and develop them in all our activi-
ties. Because thinking is often a
matter of daily and hourly neces-
sity, it most easily degenerates into
carelessness, indifference and rou-
tine. Therefore, Dr. Hu-Shih be-
lieves that the most © difficult
problem for the university man or
woman after leaving college is how
to continue to cultivate and master
the laboratory and research atti-
tude of mind so that they may
pervade his or her daily thought,
life, and activity. :
He suggested that every college
graduate should have problems
sufficiently intaresting to demand
his attention ankstudy, for with-
out them he is.int@Mectually dead.
voters in a democracy, and we
swamped on all sides by “powerful
water-tight idealogies, subtle
propaganda, and willful falsifica-
tions of history.” ‘
We are warned, said Dr. Hu-
Shih, to be constantly on our guard
against sinister propaganda. “But.
how are you to guard yourself
when the very persons who thus
warn you are often themselves pro-
fessional prypageillsts, only for
a different brand of canned goods,
equally readily made and equally
hermetically sealed?” The only
way in which we may hope to main-
tain some mental poise and bal-
ance and to be able to exercise in-
dependent judgment, is to train our
minds and master a technique of
free reflective thinking.
Axon, Physics Major
Writes on Comprehensives
Continued from Page Four
simultaneous command of some
half-dozen fields gave us an entirely
different, and much more instruc-
tive, attitude toward.-.the... whole
field of physics.
In view ‘of all this new coor-
final examinations themselves were
somewhat disappointing. The last
hard though exciting month of re-
viewing and outlining, and making
new approaches to old problems
examinations were concerned, have
never been. done. There were few
questions which could not better
have been on a final course exam.
In the case of the exam, which was
supposed, we had thought, to test
our grasp of the whole field, the
questions were completely specific
and could easily have been an-
swered from class notes alone. One
was almost word for word taken
from the first-year final. The
others were simple problems which,
whether done right or wrong, could
give little indication of anything
exam,.which is not, after all, the
most important thing to be learned
in four years of college. There
was no question capable..of dis-
tinguishing between two people,
one of whom had a fair command
of the whole huge field of physics,
and one of whom knew a half-
dozen things passably well.
The comprehensive system is a
good one,,and- compels a kind of
attention to subject matter and an
awareness of the place of specific
pieces. of information in the whole
which might, without the compre-
hensives; never develop. This being
so, it does seem that something
could be done about the examina-
tions to prevent the almost uni-
versal feeling of disappointment
and futility which was apparent
after them this year.
ANNE LOUISE AXon, 740.
| Alternate Fellow Will
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Study Classical Lyric
And Maybe Sanskrit
Helen Hazard Bacon, siete |
for the European Fellowship, has
carried for the past four years a
double major of Latin and Greek.
At.an, unmentioned but. very
early age she enjoyed translating
Latin with her father. All her
notes from freshman year carry
out this trend, for, her roommate!
reports, they yare. decorated with
“winged horses ‘and classical
nudes.” A secret and unrewarded
leaning toward Sanskrit further
reveals her linguistic inclinations,
as does a two and a half years’
residence in the French house.
However, Miss Bacon’s scholastic
interests do not complete a picture
of the varied activities throughout
her college career. She has twice
blessed the French club play at
Christmas in the person of an
angel.. The maids have benefited
from her tutelage in English gram-
mar. (She used Ferdinand the
Bull as a textbook.)
The great exception has been
Miss Rice’s string’ quartets. Al-
ready adept at» the violin, Miss
n learned to play the viola to
provide more instrumental variety.
An “old faithful,’ she has been
working with the group since it
ewas first organized.
HELEN HAZARD BACON
Describing her peaceful home in
Peace Dale, Rhode Island, she re-
verted to Latin as most expressive
of her idea. Her words were,
“Horrendum silvis et religione
parentum.” .A confessidn followed
in which she explained that the
idea was. Vergil’s originally and
that he really wasn’t thinking of
Peace Dale.
In spite of such. spontaneous
bursts of Latin, Greek will come
first in graduate work. She will
limit her field to the literary rather
than the historical aspect and
further states that the lyric in-
terests her particularly.
H. L. Gray Honored
At Large Reception
Collection’ of Chinese Jades
And Ming Pottery Shown
In New Wing
Adelaine Mills, ’41
Library Wing, May 31.—A._ re-
ception was given in honor of Mr.
Howard L. Gray in the new-wing
of the library which was formally
opened at the same time. Mr.
Gray’s collection of works of art
was on display for the occasion.
Besides the faculty” members
present, students of Mr. Gray’s
classes for the past four years
had the opportunity to see his rare
Chinese jades ‘and pottery in the
panelled book room on the first
floor. and. his modern originals in
the third floor gallery.
The jades date from the Chou
Dynasty (approximately the 10th
to the 8rd century B. C.), down
to the 19th century A. D. Re-
markable among them were the
early “Heaven” symbols, large
figured discs which are particu-
larly “smooth to the touch, “the
slightly later ceremonial weapons,
and the delicately carved ornaments’
and official insignia of Ming and
later periods. The pottery con-
sistc1 principally of: Ming and
pre-Ming vases, interesting for
their purity of shape and the en-
during quality of their glazes, but
chiefly: unornamented. The most
attractive figures were the speci-
mens of Tang tomb figures (7th
to 8th centuries A. D.),—a war-
rior, several female figures and an
arrogant-looking camel,
Of the modern works, the most
interesting examples were the
rdrawings of nudes: by the Croatian
sculptor, Ivan Mestrovic, a draw-
ing of Mr. Gray’s. mother by Jul-
ian Bloch, a line drawing of three
figures by Picasso, the Russian
Full Summer of Work
_ Planned by Faculty
Mlle. Bree, of the French de-
partment, will teach at the Mid-
dlebury Summer School for six
weeks. Then she plans to:go to
France or Maine,
In the English department, Mr.
Sprague will be in Cambridge
working on his book on Shakes-
pearean acting. Mrs. Woodrow is
moving to Schenectady next year
and hopes to teach there during
the winter. Miss Woodworth will
be at the Huntington Library, at
Berkeley, California, doing work
on the 18th century. Miss Staple-
ton will retire to “somewhere in
New England where work, whose
nature is too.important to be pub-
lished,” is awaiting her.
In the Geology department, Mr.
Watson will work, “ticks and: heat
permitting,” on a map of the ‘re-
gion from Bryn Mawr to Avon-
dale, for the Pennsylvania Geol-
ogical Survey.
Miss Gardiner of the _ biology
department will be at the Mt.
Desert Biological Laboratory.
Mr. Carpenter of the archaeol-
ogy department will return to
Bryn Mawr early in the summer.
He has made several discoveries
during his year’ at the American
Academy in Rome. Miss Swind-
ler will complete her book on The
Beginning of Greek Art, and hopes
also to manage a month’s holiday
in Mexico.
Miss Lograsso of the | Italian
department will spend her summer
working on Pierro Maronelli, a
Chagell’s Soldier and a moderately
surrealistic scene by the Italian
Chirico. A watercolor of two
figures in different tones of blue
by the American, Boardman Rob-
inson, was reminiscent of the ,;work
of William Blake. .Also in the
collection were a still-life of brown
flowers by the Japanese Kunyoshi.
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‘Best Wishes for ducceas
: to the
CLASS OF 1940
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third person. On the other hand,
Sunflower Street gives the impres-
sion of being pictorially better
integrated. Miss Newman (and
subsequently Martha Kent in
Nanon) works in fairly simple
masses.and areas of dark and light.
Mig@ Tucker depends on little
dashes of color, “black mother, yel-
low flowerpot hat, small brown
hands with pink palms, sea-green
satin coverlet,” little dashes of
comedy and drama, and thé compo-
sition becomes evidently planned
and preconceivedt#fe a pointalist
painting, only when seen at a dis-
tance. And yet The Pagan is much
more than impressionistic. Susan
and Little Alice and even the in-
credible Chicken-like Mademoiselle
are not static but fourth- dimen-
‘sional.
To continue with my artistic
analogy, Nanon, where Martha
Kent has succeeded in making an
incident significant and symbolic, is
like Ryder’s painting of the moon-
lit cove.
Transition by Virginia Hwa-Pao
in emphasis. The contrast between
the old convention-ridden China
and the new liberal and intellec-
tual China is brought out almost
entirely through the difficult med-
ium of conversation, and has to be
sensed too much by the reader. The
real conflict in Mei Feng’s mind
is suggested too subtly and it comes
about in a way that is, conceivabl
but almost haphazard. The end
succeeds better than the rest in
creating an atmosphere of dramatic
oppressiveness. Every — sentence
counts and the conversation has a
i
figure of the Risorgimento. Miss
Taylor of the Latin department
will go to Berkeley to continue
work—on-her~ book on Roman ~re=
ligion.
In the psychology department,
articles on colour before leaving
Bryn Mawr for Maine, and. Mr.
MacKinnon ‘will also be in Maine,
on a farm, working on his book,
Experimental Psychology.
In the sociology department,
Miss Fairchild is writing a book,
The Influence of Labor on Recent
Legislation. Miss Kraus, besides
supervising the Refugee Seminary
at Wolfeboro, will work on a book,
Child Welfare Services.
Dzung seems to me to fail a little.
Mr. Helson will complete several].
)
| special significance that- it lacked
before.
In The Daughter, Frances Lynd
seems to have come under Eliot’s
inevitable influence (“Five shining
solid nickels in my hands on Sat-
urday morning’). The nickels do
have a meaning, though, the sol-
idity and brightness embodied in
a picture of childhood. The process
of realization is convincing and
good in the second section, but the
the third section and the enigmatic
last three lines are weak, I think,
and the last line (‘I .shall-go on
creating Christs”) seems not only
sensational, but inconsistent. After
all, Miss Lynd has just finished
creating not a Christ, but a man
with perfect faults, and a large
part of the poem is devoted to
proving that except in childhood,
“men cannot be indisputable.” But
perhaps I have missed the vital
point.
. There remain Contemporary Po-
etry by Martha Kent and Oil, Saus-
ages and Courts by Rebecca Rob-
bins. The first is excellent except
for a rather bad. typographical
error (i. é. Imitations of IMmmor-
tality . The whole Lantern could
do with some proof-reading). Miss
Kent knows her poetry and she
knows what poetry should be, and
that is something.
TI found Oil,. Sausages and
Courts confusing because it was ap-
| parently so condensed.. For in-
| stance, Miss Robbins says, “For the
first time, the Pennsylvania Su-
| preme Court is confronted with the
|need of interpreting the state’s
Anti-Injunction Act of 1937 in re-
spect to the so-called secondary
boycott.” I find myself embaras-
singly ignorant about both the
Anti-Injunction Act of 1937 and
the so-called secondary boycott,
To sum up—the Lantern has no
need to be discouraged or annoyed.
There is no question of its present
or its potential strength. All it
has to do is to keep trying, to
keep on bearing with its contribu-
tors, and it will be what it can be.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
iv Fenwick Calls Var
International Arson
_ The follgwing statement is a
Mr.
Bryn Mawr students.
Fenwick to
Mr. Fen-
wick is also forwarding it to the
American Union for : Concerted
Peace , Efforts. Since Miss Park;
has not had the opportunity to
read it to the students, it is pub-
lished below:
“The invasion by Germany of the}
small neutral states is a wrong|
not only to the particular states
which are the victims of its lawless
acts, but it is a wrong done to all |
other neutral states. It has-~ un-
dermined ‘the foundations of neu-
trality and has made it illogical
for neutral states to continue to re-
gard themselves bound by the du-
ties of neutrality when the rights
of neutrals are so flagrantly vio- |
lated.
“We have made the mistake of
believing that we could ignore the
existence of international crimes
because they were being committed
on some other continent, and that
we could safely wait until we were
directly attacked before we -need
concern .ourselves with what was
happening to others. We refused
to make any distinction between
right and wrong in the world, pre-
tending that we had no concern in
law and order except when some
national interest of our own was
involved.
“Surely we must see now that
we have taken too narrow a view
of our national interests. We have
neglected the outer defenses of in-
ternational law, and we now find
that it will take all of our military
power to protect our inner
fenses. We have allowed fires to
spread unchecked in the eastern
and western sections of our. city,
and we awake to realize that our
own homes are in danger from the
conflagration. If the perpetrators
of the crime of international ar-
son should triumph, the American
people will come to regret the day
when they. refused to see that law
and order could not be partitioned
by continents, and that neutrality
in the presence of crime only post-
pones the day when the criminal
will turn his attack upon those
who could see no interest of their
own when others were the victims.”
C. G. FENWICK.
Miss Reid Substitutes
For Absent Fenwick
Mr. Fenwick has been granted a
leave of absence for the first sem-
ester of next year to continue his
work with the Pan-American
Peace Conference. His leave will
be extended, if necessary, to the
second semester.
. Miss Reid, who has substituted
for Mr. Fenwick this year, will re-
main with the Department of Eco-
nomics and Politics. She will con-
duct a free elective course in Amer-
ican Foreign Policy, which will re-
place Mr. Fenwick’s course in In-
ternational Law.
_ The-course will include a study
of the machinery for the conduct
and control of the foreign rela-
tions of the United States, and a
survey of the evolution and present
trends of American policy. Spec-
jal attention will be given to rela-
tions with Latin America and the
Far East, and to the role of the
United States in contemporary
politics.
message’ from
‘Reimbursement Plan
Refunds 1200 Dollars
Out of the 165 students who took
out policies for Student Health
Reimbursement Insurance, 12 pre-
sented claims during the second
semester and received refunds in
excess of 1200 dollars. The larg-
est refund was 428 dollars, and the
smallest was two dollars-and 69
de-?
dpenes Announced
By President Park
Continued from-Page One
Genieann Parker New York
cum laude
Rozanne Marie Peters Ohio
Elizabeth Dawson Taylor.
; Pennsylvania
magna. cum laude
(with distinction in chemistry)
CLASSICAL ARCHEOLOGY
June Lawder Gamble %
Massachusetts
cum laude
(with distinction, in
archeology)
Anne Shuttleworth Homans
Massachusetts
classical
cum laude
Mr. Weiss to Direct
New Elective Course
An elective course will be given
next year under the direction of
Mr. Weiss of the philosophy de-
partment, to a limited number of
students, ~ The~-course—-will—deal
with “the leading ideas of all time
and their repercussions on the dif-
ferent fields of human knowledge.”
Details aré still undecided. The
present plan: provides that differ-
ent members of the faculty will be
calleds in to deal with various as-
pects of the course. Anyone inter-
ested in electing this course should
apply to the Dean of the College.|Jane Anne Jones
Elizabeth Arden offers a
CAREER COURSE
To prepare College Girls for the compe-
tition that awaits them next September!
You master .
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the art of
make-up.
You are taught how to use a comb
and brush with a professional touch.
_|Mary Charlotte Moon
| Margaret Iglehart Long
Pennsylvania.
New York City
Jane Norton Nichols, Jr.
New York City
cum laude
(with distinction in classical
archeology)
Emily Lamb Tuckerman
New York City
ECONOMICS
Emily Cheney Connecticut
magna cum: laude
(with distinction in economics)
Margaret Elizabeth Eppler
Philadelphia
cum laude
ENGLISH
Barbara Bigelow Massachusetts
Eleanor Storrs Emery
Colorado
Dearborn Colette Hanham
North Carolina
Frances Elizabeth Homer
Maryland
Marian Kirk District of Columbia
Sally Hutchman Norris
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Marie Pope
District of Columbia
-_magna_cum laude
(with distinction in English)
Kristi Aresvik Putnam Vermont
Louise Sharp Virginia
Isota Ashe Tucker Pennsylvania
FRENCH
Deborah Hathaway Calkins
California
magna cum laude
(with distinction in French)
Ruth. Marie Lilienthal
cum laude
Nancy Church Logan New York
Charlotte Snowden Pancoast
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Illinois
Jean Flender Small
Dorothea Dunlap Smith
Barbara Anderson Steel
Pennsylvania
.cum laude
(with distinction in French)
GEOLOGY
Anne Moring Robins
cum laude
GERMAN
New York
Pennsylvania
Mary Wolcott Newberry England
cum laude
Ruth Mary Penfield
cum laude
(with distinction in German)
Bernice—-Olivia—Sehultz
New Jersey
HISTORY
Barbara Auchincloss
New York City
Canada
cum laude _
(with’ distinction ‘in history)
Helen Jackson Cobb
Massachusetts
New York
Virginia
Barbara’ Groben
Bettie Tyson Hooker
cum laude
Rebecca Ledlie Laughlin
K Massachusetts
cum laude
Julia Conner Ligon Maryland
Mary Macomber Massachusetts
Josephine McClellan Pennsylvania
Virginia Maitland Pfeil
Maryland
Pennsylvania
cum laude
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Lucy Dunlap Smith Connecticut
Anne de Bonneville Young
Nebraska
HISTORY OF ART
Marian Parkhurst Gill
Rhode Island
(with distinction in history of
art)
Catherine Hildegarde Norris
Maryland
Janet Russell New York City
cum laude
(with distinction in history of
art) j
LATIN
Helen Hazard Bacon
' Rhode Island
magna cum laude
(with distinction in Latin and
Greek)
Anne Head Bush Pennsylvania
Terry Ferrer New_York City
cum laude
(with distinction in Latin)
Camilla Kidder Riggs
New York City
Betty Wilson ‘New York
MATHEMATICS
Jane Klein New Jersey
magna cum laude
(with distinction in mathematics)
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looks make a good impression in business, and are imperative to a successful
career, Elizabeth Arden did this: She took in hand four college graduates
who were unable to get jobs, because of their appearance. In four weeks,
miraculous changes were made. P.S. These girls got jobs immediately. This
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Seven
Degrees Announced
By President Park
Continued from Page Six
Julia Whitney Martin
! New York City
Marie Anna Wurster
Philadelphia
summa cum laude
(with distinction. in mathematics)
PHILOSOPHY
Mary Dimock New York
Mary Jordan McCampbell
New York City
magna cum laude
(with distinction in philosophy)
Mary Kate Wheeler Oregon
PHYSICS
Anne Louise Axon Missouri
magna cum laude
(with distinction in physics)
Helen Stuart Link Pennsylvania
cum laude
Ellen Matteson Massachusetts
cum laude
POLITICS
Helen Bowden Philadelphia
Mary. Annette Beasley Maryland
‘Pennsylvania
cum laude
Louise Booth Morley
magna_cum laude
(with distinction. in politics)
New York
PSYCHOLOGY
Katherine Comey Massachusetts
Lois Johnson Pennsylvania
Mary Alice Sturdevant :
District of Columbia
Dorothy Jenny Luise Voigt
Illinois
SOCIOLOGY
Janet McLean Arnold
Minnesota
Della Margaret Kurtz
: Pennsylvania
Joy Rosenheim New York City
magna cum laude
(with distinction in sociology)
Anne Elizabeth Spillers
Oklahoma
cum laude
(with distinction in sociology)
Illinois
Eager Male Stagline
Enlivens Junior Prom
Continued from Page One
bunches from the ceiling (a crea-
tion of dark blue material) and
even bobbed in the window boxes.
The floor was slippery, and the
orchestra, which plays at the Steel
Pier in. Atlantic City during the
Although
the Prom was run on the card
dance system, a great deal of cut-
ting in went on too and proved
summer, was excellent.
very exhilerating.
The fruit punch flowed unspar-
ingly and the “sandwiches were in-
finite, while during the intermis-
sion entertainment was_ provided
“It Ain’t
’
by the porters’ quartet.
Necessarily So” and “Deep Purple’
received ‘the most applause, —but:
the entire performance was excel-
lent and thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Scientists Whoop It
Up at Annual Picnic
May 29. — Seventy-five under-
graduates and faculty played base-
ball and ate at the annual science
club picnic in Mrs. Carter’s mea-
Mrs. Carter was formerly
dow.
Mr. Watson’s landlady.
Several students waded in the icy
brook while a few embryonic girl
scouts built a roaring bonfire in
Everyone
chased the two cows and a third
animal of unknown and much dis-
cussed species; it turned out to be
a young heifer. Searching for dead}:
limbs, Mr. Chambers succeeded in
climbing on Mr. Michel’s shoulders
to reach one and was left hanging
a two by four fireplace.
in mid-air.
Libby Gregg, °42, and
ing kibitzers.
of sliding to and on bases,
Nancy
Taylor, ’41, chose baseball teams
to provide entertainment for loung-
Mr. Michels’ knack
Mr.
leave of absence for 1940-41 Mr.
Michael |
pointed professor of economica.|
Well known among economists, Mr. |
Heilperin has a Ph.D. from the
University: of Geneva and for three
years was assistant professor. at
the Graduate. Institute of Inter-
national Studies at Geneva. He
later received a fellowship from
the Rockefeller Foundation for two
years of
States, and for one semester in
1938-39 he was lecturer
nomics, at the University of Cali-
fornia at Berkeley.
under the auspices of the Institute
of International Education, he lec-
tured throughout this country, vis-
iting more than 30 universities and
colleges.
clude International Monetary Eco-
nomics and Monetary “Aspects ef
the Raw Materials Problem, and
the Revival of International Trade,
a pamphlet written for a League
of ‘Nations Committee.
Dr. Micheal Heilperin
To Teach Economics’
During .Mr. Karl Anderson’s|
Heilperin has been ap-
study in the , United
in eco-
In 1939-40,
Mr. Heilperin’s publications in-
Year Book
The editors of the 1940
Year Book wish to apologize
for the lateness of publica-
tion, and to announce that
the books will be sent to find-
ing list addresses of all sub-
seribers before or during
the first week in July.
Carola Woerishoffer Scholar in
Economy and Social Research,
Mawr College, 1938-40,
BELLE BIBERMAN PARMET of
Philadelphia
A.B. University of Pennsylvania 1938.
Social Welfare Planning Tuition Schol-
ar in Social Economy and Social Re-
search, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-39 and
Family Welfare Society Fellow in So-
cial- Economy and Social. Research, 1939-
40,
Social !
Bryn |
MARGRET MELANIE PASCHKIS: of |;
Philadelphia
M.D. University of Vienna 1919. School
Doctor in Vienna, 1922-38; Graduate
Student in Social Economy and Social
Research, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-40.
ELLEN IRENE PIERSON of Bridge-
reduce, their» required
accounh fron) to 25 dollars.
College Council Plans
Playroom for Maids
Continued from Page Ona
Another plan proposed was to use
the money made from Porgy and
Bess to build a portable play room
which would then be a separate
building. Although primarily for
recreation, this building might also
provide a focal point for other
activities, such as maids’ classes.
The use of tennis courts by the
maids and porters was also dis-
cussed but a decision was post-
poned until the number interested
was knawn.
Safes on eollege were thought
to be expensive dnd. of little use.
As a more satisfactory alternative,
it was suggested that undergrad-
uates be urged to make deposits
through the News and through the
Freshman Handbook.
that the banks in the vicinity will
It is hoped
permanent
Lillian Seidler
SPANISH
Josephiné Randolph Lane
Washington
Candidates for Master of Arts
Degree
Subject, Biology:
Mary ELIZABETH DUMM of Madi-
son, New Jersey
A.B. Swarthmore College 1938,
ant in Biology, Bryn Mawr
1938-40.
ELIZABETH LILLIAN KLEIN of
Rochester, New York
A.B. University. of Rochester 1938.
Assistant in Biology, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1938-40.
MARY ELLEN PARRISH of Van-
dalia, Missouri
A.B. University. af Missouri 1939.
Scholar in Biology, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1939-40.
Assist-
College,
Subject, Chemistry:
OLIVE CozAD BATES of Narberth,
Pennsylvania
A.B, Wilson College 1938. Non-resi-
dent Scholar ‘in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr
College, 1938-39 and Graduate Student,
1939-40; Research Assistant, University
of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1938-40.
DOROTHEA REINWALD HEYL of
Easton, Pennsylvania
A.B. Bryn Mawr .College, 1939. Gradu-
ate Student in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr
College, 1939-40 and part-time demon-
strator, Semester II, 1939-40,
KATHRYN EDNA HOYLE of Phila-
delphia
A:B. University of Priknsylvania 1938.
Non-resident Scholar in Chemistry, Bryn
Mawr College, 1938-39 and Scholar of
the Society of Pennsylvania Women in
New York and Resident Scholar in
Chemistry, 1939-40.
Mary ELIZABETH WRIGHT - of
Trenton, New Jersey
A.B. Barnard College 1939. Non-resi-
dent-Scholar in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr
College, 1939-40. ;
Subjects, Education and History
of Art: ~
LYDIA CORNWELL HEMPHILL of
West Chester, Pennsylvania
A.B. Bryn Mawr College 1936.
Baldwin School, 1936-38; Graduate Stu-
dent in Education, Bryn. Mawr Col-
lege, 1936-37 and 1938-39, and in. His-
tory .of “Art, * 1937-38;
Teacher,*-Germantown Friends’. School,
1938-40,
Subject, French:
MoTHER MARIA CONSOLATA. of
Rosemont, Pennsylvania
A.B. Rosemont College 1935. ° Grade
School Teacher, 1926-33; High School
“Teacher of French, History and Eng-
_ lish, 1933-36; Teacher, Rosemont Col-
lege, 1936-40; Graduate Student in Ro-
mance Languages, Bryn Mawr College,
Semester II, 1936-37 and 1937-40.
Subjects, French and Philosophy:
GRACE BELLE DOLOWITZ of
Brooklyn, New York”
Bornemeier’s elusive “smoke-ball,”’
and Mr. Chambers’ rolling motions
in evading Mr. Michels kept the
play at a hilariously high pitch.
bonfire
daughter, an expansive feast ap-
peared for the chilled picnickers.
With the aid of the community
and the MacKinnons’
Subject, Geology:
Subjects,-Greek and. Latin:
Subjects, History and History of
Subjects, History and Latin:
Subject, History of Art:
Germany _
Subjects, Latin and Greek:
i _ A:B. Hood: Gollege 1937..'Graduate Stu-
Kindergartén
Subject, Social’ Economy:
A.B. Bryn Mawr College 1939. Scholar
in French, Bryn Mawr College, 1939-40.
JANE BAKER BELL .of (Petersburg,
Virginia
A.B. Barnard College 1939. Scholar in
Geology, Bryn Mawr College, 1939-40,
DoroTHY KING BENEDICT of New
York City :
A.B. Barnard Coilege, January 1938.
Assistant in Geology and Graduate Stu-
dent, Bryn Mawr College, Semester II,
1937-38 and Demonstrator in Geology
and Graduate Studenty 1938-40.
MABEL LANG of Hamilton, New
York
A.B. Cornell University 1939. Scholar
in Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1939-40.
Art:
HELEN MEREDITH GARTH of Or-
mond Beach, Florida
A.B. Vassar College 1938. Graduate
Student in History, ~English~ and ‘His-
tory of Art, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-
40.
JANET CAVETTE WILSON of Jack-
son Heights, New York
A.B. Smith. College 1939. Scholar in
History, Bryn Mawr College, 1939-40.
GERT ACHENBACH of Frankfurt,
Student, Wells College, 1935-36, Uni-
versity of Munich, 1936-37, Universities
of Rome and Perugia, 1937-38. Ger-
man Exchange Scholar, Bryn Mawr
College, 1938-39 and Special Scholar in
History of Art, 1938-40.
SARAH AGNES LAND of Ham-
burg, Pennsylvania, in ab-
sentia
dent, Johns Hopkins University, 1937-
38; Graduate Student in Latin and
Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-40;
Teacher of Latin, Northfield Seminary,
1939-40,
MARGARET HILL COLLINS of Bryn
Mawr
A.B. University of California 1939.
Graduate Student! in» Social Economy,’}
Bryn Mawr College, 1939-40.
GERTRUDE ‘ARMSTRONG- LucAsS -of
Roanoke, Virginia
A.B. West Virginia University 1937;
Certificate in Social Economy agid So-
ton, New Jersey
A.B. Middlebury College 1938; Certifi- |
cate in Social Economy and Social Re-'
search, Bryn Mawr. College, 1940. |
Graduate-— Student in Social eboagein B
and Social Research, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1938-4), !
|
OTTO POLLAK of Bryn Mawr |
LL,D. University - of . Vienna 1930. |
Lawyer, Court’s Clerk, Vienna, 1930-
38; ‘Graduate Student in Social Economy
and Social Research, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1939-40,
ELLA MARY ROSENBERG of Phila-
delphia
A,B. Bryn Mawr-€ollege 1918. Gradu-
ate Student in-Social_Economy—and—So-
cial Research, Bryn Mawr College, 1937-
1939. Subject: Vocational Guidanée,
CARLA FAA of Milan, Italy
Lé@prca in filosofa, State University of
Milan, 1936, \M-A: Bryn Mawr ~ College
1939. Italian Exchange Scholar in So-
cial Economy and—Social Research and
Education, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-
39, and Graduate Student in Social
Economy and Social Research, 1939-40,
Subject: Sécial Case Work,
GERTRUDE ARMSTRONG
Roanoke, Virginia
A.B. West. Virginia »University 1937.
M.A. Bryn Mawr College, to be con-
ferred in 1940. Carola Woerishoffer
Scholar in Social: Economy and Social
Research, Bryn -Mawr College, 1938-40.
Subject: Child Welfare and Research.
EDITH BRAUN TREUER of Phila-
delphia
Certificate, Kindergarten Teacher Train-
ing School, Vienna, 1927, Student,
Psychoanalytische Vereinigung, Vienna,
Lucas of
1933-36. Graduate Student in Social
Economy and _ Social Research, Bryn
Mawr College, 1938-40. Subject: Social
Case’ Work.
RUTH WELLBURN of Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania
R. M. Bernheimer Will
Study at Princeton
Mr. Richard M. Bernheimer, as-
sistant professor in history of art,
has been asked to become a.tem-
porary member of the Princeton
Institute for Advanced Study. This
membership will continue his re-
search on the nature of symbols
and their relation to art.
Mr. Bernheimer intends to use
this invitation during a half sab-
batical in the Second term of 1940-
41. Having already allotted its
funds for the year, the Institute
obtained. from the Carnegie Foun-
dation ‘the additional stipend for’
Mr. Bernheimer’s membership.
A.B. Wells College .1929.
Student, New York School of Social
Work,* 1929-30 and 1932-33. Visitor-in-
Training, Charity Organization Society,
New York, 1929-30. Case Worker, Mor-
ris County Children's Department, Penn-
sylvania School of Social Work, 1933-
36 and 1937-38. Visitor, Department of
Public Assistance, Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, 1933-36 and Supervisor,
1936-38. . Graduate Student in Social
Economy and Social Research, Bryn
Mawr College, 1938-40. Case Worker,
Community Center, Media, Pennsylva-
nia, 1939—, Subject: Social Case Work.
Graduate
To be ‘Awarded on Completion
of the Practicum
ELLEN IRENE PIERSON of Bridge-
ton, New Jersey
A.B. Middlebury College 1938. M.A,
Bryn Mawr College to be conferred’ in
1940,, Graduate Student in Social Econ-
omy and Social Research, Bryn Mawr
College, 1938-40. Subjects: Social Case
Work and Child Welfare Services.
Doctor of Philosophy
Subjects, Biology and Chemistry:
ELIZABETH KNIGHT PATTERSON
of Haverford, Pennsylvania
A.B. Wellesley College 1930, Technician,
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search, 1930-34; Graduate. Student, Cor-
nell University Medical School, 1934-
35; Graduate Stwulent, Wellesley Col-
lege, 1935-36; Graduate- Student in Bi-
ology and Chemistry, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 84036-40, Dissertation: The Photo-
dynamic Action of Neutral Red on Root
Tips ef Barley Seedlings.
Presented by Professor David
Hilt Tennent
Subjects, Biology and Biochemis-
try:
ELIZABETH HAZARD UFFORD of
of New York City
A.B. Bryn Mawr College 1929 and M.A.
1934. Graduate. Scholar in Biology,
Bryn Mawr College, 1933-34, Fellow,
1934-35, Part-time. Demonstrator, 1935-
38, Graduate Student, 1935-39, and Fel-
low, 1939-40, Dissertation: A Study of
Continued on Page Eight
40; Case Worker, Jewish Welfare @o-
ciety, Philadelphia, 1925—,
Candidates for
Carola Woerishoffer Certificates
MARGARET FRANCES BECKER of
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
A.B. Barnard College 1937. Visitor;
Board of Public Assistance of Delaware
County, Pennsylvania, 1937-38. Special
Child Welfare Scholar in Social Econ-
omy. and Social Research, Bryn Mawr
Colfge, 1938-40. Subjects: Social Case
we and Child Welfare Services.
SORHIE THERESA CAMBRIA~-of
New York City
A.B. Barnard College 1937. M.A. Bryn
Mawr College 1938: Carola Woerishof-
‘fer Scholar in Social Economy and So-
cial Research, Bryn Mawr College, 1937-
38, and Carola Woerishoffer Fellow,
1939-40. Interviewer, New York State
Employment Service, June to December,
1938. Assistant Guidance Counselor,
Dewey Junior High - School, Spring;
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Page Eight THE COLLEGE NEWS
1940-on-the-Warpath Hurls Sacrificial
Souvenirs Into Beautiful Bounteous Blaze
Audience at Christian: Front Trial Puzzled;
Auchincloss’s Talking “Paper” Amazes Miller ‘
Baby German Boners
Ger-
man found itself involved with fe-
{pressed gardenia corsage, Annette | »ocious animals and_ bloody’ bat-|
Beasley’s trial college boards, and'tjes jn the récent final examina-
millions of Freshman English pa-!tion. We present a few of the
pers added to the conflagration.|,mazing interpretations of the
One senior with pointed finger and thoughts of Carl Hagenback and!
awed expression followed” the Gustaf Adolfs Page:
course of a charred paper. “There| «any people wonder about the| T° begin at the beginning,
goes Descartes,” she was heard to! fact that ,I have not eaten any! Barbara was writing a paper
. > . : : : | j i
murmur. i ae jof the many wild animals with," the trial of eighteen mem-
The gallant News, in dire peril | |which I have come in contact.” bers of the Christian Front.
The class in Elementary
By Barbara Cooley, ’42
With feeble-attempts to sing
their athletic song, the Seniors
bounced down the hill onto the
hockey field ladened with note-
books and papers. Although the
majority struggled’ with armfuls
of loose paper, the more practical
seniors carried their notes in waste.
By Janet Meyer, ’42
Barbara Auchinéloss, ’40, . has
proved that history can be glam-
orous. A»paper. due, and a typist
needed but undvailable was the
cause of recent campus stir.
necessary information.
When the paper had.been writ-
ten and the-aforementioned unfor-
tunate predicament realized, Bar-
bara fell ingeniously upon an idea.
“His Master’s Voice’ would en-
lighten Mr. Miller ~sufficiently. A
jaunt to Philadelphia and a friend-
ly afternoon in a radio station
worked wonders as she recorded
baskets, laundry bags, and car-|of its life from hoards of savage; «yoy can believe me, if I am|Charged with the intention of|her pearls of wisdom. Barbara
tons, labeled :‘*Dunk’s Dill Pieldlos.” seniors, managed¥to rescue SeV-| beheaded, that I have eaten among) °Verthrowing the government and|practiced briefly and then in a
The only casualty occurted when|eral illuminating (and __ illumi-'jions, tigers, and panthers many|°f stealing arms and ammunition|clear modulated ‘voice explained the
two over-anxious seniors stumbled
over each other’s feet and fell
down in a holocaust of history of
art notes.
_All the pent-up anxiety of the
past harassed four years could be
__seen_in their eager faces as_they
hurled vast piles of paper onto
the fire, which, according to one
-nated) papers from the blaze, in-
cluding an absolutely incomprehen-
sible page from a paper on the in-
comprehensible Miss Stein; a car-
toon of three chorus girls dancing
in front of the chemistry profes-
sor’s- desk and the frustrated—re-
mark, “It was only a suggestion”;
a composition about impressionable
from the National Guard, they
faced judge, jury, and Barbara—
in the press box. Just how she
got there cannot discreetly be de-
scribed. What can be mentioned
is the widespread attention she
aroused and the vivid impression
she made. Was she taking notes
for a lawyer, or was she a govern-
subversive attitude of the Christ-
ian Front. (A monotonous. effect
was avoided by dropping the voice
at the end of each sentence). The
climax was the conclusion, in
which she tried to pacify Mr. Mil-
ler with the words: “Goodnight’”—
Mr. Miller, the victim of Bar-
bara’s conflict with time, was re- °
good friends with whom I can turn
as trustfully as with a house dog.”
“T once caught a pair of young
tigers, who had fought each other
with strong scratches one after
the other and over both one’s eyes,
a bluish skin grey.”
“The two lions to this day whis-
per in subdued tones.”
pleased senior, “makes a pretty| fifteen year old girls titled Upside; «phen he laid him out with the;™ment stooge studying actions and|ceptive to. the talking paper.
good show for only ten dollars.”| Down Hyprocrisy; and a trigon-|help of his confpanion, the dead|reactions or was she, perhaps, the] Awakened from a . sound sleep
Barbara Auchincloss threw her|ometry paper with a comment|man, who was too heavy for his|Wife of Healey, the informer for|his attitude was -not hesi-
notebooks fiercely into the fire.
Bedraggled espadrilles, Cooey’s
oft-used hygiene notes, a carefully
which exactly expresses our feel-
ing—“This is a hell of a lot of
trouble for nothing.”
the government, mused courtroom|tant, but temporarily béwildered.
gossipers. Said he: “Sure, sure, I’ll accept
Midst trial and tribulations and|it. It’s just that I’m not quite
interesting hunehes, she reaped all|used to this kind of thing.”
arms on a shabby sofa.”
“Frau Ida blushed from head to
foot.”
A.B. Vassar College 1935; M.A. Bryn
Mawr College 1936. Graduate Student
in Greek and_ Classical
Winternitz Presents Fourth Place
maturity. The after-effects of}wants. Several
Deanery Violin Recital
By Portia Miller, "43
Deanery, May 26.—The Enter-
Archaeology,
Bryn Mawr College, 1935-36, Graduate
Scholar in- Greek, 1936-37, Fellow’ in
Greek, 1937-38, Holder of the Mary
Elizabeth Garrett European Fellowship
at the American Academy in er
1938-39 and Graduate Student, 1939-48.
The Bryn Mawr Tennis
Team, after a seemingly in- —
glorious season stands ,
proudly in fourth place in
@ The Philadelphia Women’s
comprehensives caused Pedgie Ep-
pler’s one incoming tooth to re-
cede. Debbie Calkins finds that
wisdom teeth detract from wis-
dom because” more time has. to be
several to study.
ing to “loaf like hell” all summer
and will then work in the Wash-
ington Public Library. Parker is
intend to teach,
Sharpie is go-
going to medical school and Ligon
to law school. Two young ladies
will work on Vogue. L. Smith, L.
Morley, D.. Kurtz, C. Norris, P.
Schultz and C. Riggs-are getting
Dissertation: The Banquet-Libations of
the Greeks
Presented by Professor Rich-
mond Lattimore
Subject, History:
tainment Committee of the Dean-
ery presented a violin recital by
Felix Winternitz on Sunday after-
noon, May 26. The program con-
sisted of compositions involving
Tennis Association. :
i spent away from studies, brush-
ing ‘the extra ivories. The con-
census of opinion is that no_no-
ticeable change occurs in the mind
Senior Poll Reveals
Grim Facts of 1940
‘opratibevable. Geabaieat “Ciicnltles MARY MARGARET TAYLOR of when the wisdom teeth appear. married. Marriage is a potential
The jyrical weataces of the lesen es Continued from Page One Most seniors passed their orals|idea for the: majority.
" A.B. Mount olyoke College anc . . 2 ‘ r :
Sonata in E major by Bach were| M.A. 1935. Graduate Student, Mount |erity to tell the interviewer that — nygrens “= — es on on ot ae — and if
laved with ease of xpressio Holyoke College, 1934-36; Fellow in she liked earl breakfast, while on quizzes were taken y. af out|;so why: e le ourse ves open
ition rod aan, History, Bryn Mawr College, 1936-38, : ten in each course. Qne delicate}on this one, but luckily almost
at the same time making a late
date at the Inn for the following
and a clear pure tone.
ternitz executed the Gavotte with
Holder of the Fanny Bullock Workman
Fellowship at the Public Record Office,
les
girl was “allergic to German and|every senior does read the News.
ee i Engiand, 1938-39. Dissertation: Some . ; had to take the oral. five times.” | Gilli i it avidly. Sev-
vitality and vigor, but the tempo] | Seesions of the Peace in Cambridgeshire |Morning: Penfield likes early Leakig ll nek os he G one _ Wa read i bad Ss :
ak aan belie. ia the aucaenth ‘Cantiry: breakfast because there’s “more: Auchincloss took mental hygiene/eral read it because their friends .
three times but Gregory had no
trouble with the :course at all be-
cause as she says, “I was the
modern woman before I canie.”
French and German were useful
write for it or because they used
to do so themselves. Cheney reads
it to see how we’re doing, not to
see what we’re saying. One said
yes, she did read it, “God knows
Presented by Professor Howard
L. Gray
Subjects, History and Politics:
JULIA Warp of Highlands, New
Jersey
to eat with less effort and harder
boiled eggs.”
Wisdom teeth are more uncom-
mon than common. Those who
have them have either two or four,
The well-known Sonata in D mi-
nor by Bach proved to be the high
spot of the ,program. This the
violinist rendered with an intellec-
tual interpretation worthy of the
composer and with considerable
contrast of coloring. The deep
notes of the Sarabanda were full
and sonorous, and the bowing was
light-and-relaxed;_The scale_runs
of the Chaconne were well played
and each note stood out clearly.
The program also included four
Caprices by Paginini and a Chor-
ale Study by Kreisler.
Degrees Announced
By President Park
Continued from Page Seven
Crystals in the Lungs of Swiss Mice,
Presented by Professor ‘ David
Hilt Tennent
Subjects, Politics and History:
CH’EN FANG-CHIH of Swatow,
China, in ‘absentia
A.B. Yenching University 1935. Gradu-
ate Student, Yenching University, 1935-
36; Chinese Graduate Scholar, Bryn
Mawr College, 1936-38 and Scholar in
Economics and Politics, 1938-39 and
Semester I, 1939-40. Dissertation: Cer-
tain Problems of International Law with
Reference to China. :
Presented by Professor Roger
Hewes Wells
Subjects, English and Old French:
MoTHER MARY NORBERT of Rose-
mont, Pennsylvania
« A.B. Bryn Mawr College 1919; M.A.
University of Pennsylvania 1923. Teach-
er of English, Public High School, Phil-
adelphia, 1920-25 and at Sharon Hill
Academy, 1927-29; Teacher of English,
Rosemont College, 1929-40; Graduate
Student in- English, Bryn. Mawr Col-
lege, 1929-31, 1932-37, 1938-40 and Hon-
orary Fellow in English, 1937-38. Dis-
sertation: The Reflection of Religion in
English. Medieval Verse Romances.
Presented by Professor Stephen
Joseph Herben
Subject, Geology: —
LoIs MARGARET ,SCHOONOVER of
Marietta, Ohio
A.B. Oberlin College 1934; M.A. Cor-
nell University 1936. Assistant, Paleon-
tological Research Institute, 1934-36;
Demonstrator and Graduate Student. in
Geology, Bryn -Mawr College, 1936-40.
Dissertation: A Stratigraphic Study of
the Mollusks of. the Calvert and Chop-
tank Formations of Southern Maryland.
Presented by Professor Lincoln
Dryden
“Subjects, Greek and Latin:
DELIGHT TOLLEs of Mount. ¥er-|
non, .New York
A.B,.Bryn Mawr College 1923, Teacher,
Weaver School ‘for Boys, Newport,
Rhode Island, 1923-24; Graduate Stu-
dent, Bryn Mawr College, 1924-27 and
1928-30, Warden of East House, 1924-
25, of Rockefeller Hall, 1925-27 and
1928-30, Holder of the Fanny Bullock
Workman European Fellowship, 1927-
28, Director of Scholarships and As-
sistant to the Dean, 1930-33, Director
of Admissions and. Assistant to the
Dean, 1933-37. and 1938-—- and Acting
Dean of the College, 1937-38. Disser-
tation: English Government Finance
During the Reign of Richard III,
1485,
Presented by Professor Howard
L. Gray
Subjects; Latin
Latin:
JEAN HoLzwortH of New Pres-
ton Connecticut
A.B. Bryn Mawr College 1936 and M:A,
1937. Graduate Scholar in Latin, Bryn
Mawr College, 1936-37, Graduate Stu-
dent, American Academy in Rome, 1937-
38; Graduate Scholar in Medieval Stud-
ies, Bryn Mawr College, 1938-39; Holder
of the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Travelling
Fellowship at Yale University, 1939-40.
Dissertation: An Unpublished Commen-
tary on Ovid’s Fasti by Arnulfus of
Orleans.
Presented by Professor Berthe-
Marie Marti
Subjects, Latin and Ancient His-
tory:
SUSAN MAY SAVAGE of ible
New Jersey
A.B. Bryn Mawr. College 1933 and M.A.
1934, Scholar in Latin, Bryn Mawr
College, 1933-34 and Fellow in Latin,
1934-35; Bennett Fellow, University of
Pennsylvania, 1935-36; Fellow, Ameri-
can Academy in Rome, 1936-38. Disser-
tation: The Cults of Trastevere.
1482-
and Mediaeval
Presented by Professor Thomas
Robert Shannon Broughton
Subject, Mathematics:
DorRoTHY MAHARAM of Pitts-
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but Cheney and Penfield haven’t
gotten all their second teeth yet.
Jonnie Johnson says her wisdom
teeth haven’t come in yet because
she hasn’t yet reached intellectual
burgh, Pennsylvania
B.S. Carnegie Institute of Technology
1937. Scholar in Mathematics, Bryn
Mawr College, 1937-38 and Fellow, 1938
40. Dissertation: On Measure-Preserv-
ing Transformations.
Presented by Professor Anna
Pell. Wheeler
Subject; Philosophy:
GRACE CHIN LEE of Jackson
Heights, New York
A.B. Barnard College 1935; M.A. Bryn
Mawr College. 1937. Chinese Graduate
Scholar in Philosophy, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1935-36, Graduate Scholar in Phi-
losophy, 1936-37 and Reader in Phi-
losophy and Graduate Student, 1937-39;
Secretary, Christian Association of the
University of Pennsylvania, September,
1939, to January, 1940. Dissertation:
Social Individualism, A Systematic
Treatment of the Metaphysics of George
Herbert Mead.
Paul
Presented by Professor
Weiss
THE GREEKS
extend their wishes for success
to the
?
CLASS OF 1940
and thank them for-their-pata. Sy
age during ‘the past
four years
Compliments
of
Maison Adolphe
to about 50 per cent in their major
subjects, but hygiene wasn’t used
by any.
Requireds are generally unpop-
ular. A great mai / people liked
the required philosophy course-but
didn’t think it’ should be obliga-
past statements from the News)
was enjoyed by the majority of the
people who took it. It was sug-
gested that here should be more
papers and that if an English
course is to be required, the choice
should be at least be left, to the
individual.
The immediate future for the
Bryn Mawr senior seems to. hold
a job or at least that’s what she
report to the Foundation...”
Youu find resourceful, well-
paid Katharine Gibbs secreta- ,
ries from Singapore to Seattle
@s well as in no less glamorous
stay-at-home jobs. -
@ Special Course for College
Women opens in New York
and Boston, September 24.
e OPTIONAL—A? NEW YORK
SCHOOL ONLY—same course
may be started July 8, prepar-
ing for early placement.
_ Ask College Course Secretary,
for “RESULTS.” a booklet of’
‘placement information, and'
illustrated catalog.
BOSTON . 90 Marlborough St.
NEW YORE .. . 230 Park Ave.
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it’s stuck under my _ door.”
Sharpie even placed an order for
next year. Those who don’t read
think it’s “infantile.”
Suggestion !
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