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College news, June 2, 1937
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 23, No. 26
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BMC-News-vol23-no26
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
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(Founded
“THE COLLEGE NEWS
in 1914)
‘Published weekly durin
of
Mawr College.
the College Year (excepting during Thanksgiving,
Christmas ahd Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest
Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building,
Wayne, Pa.,
and
Bryn
Editor-in-Chief.
The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in
it.may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission of the .
‘News Editor ,
ABBIE INGALLS, ’38
ANNE LOUISE AXON, ’40 “
ELEANOR. BAILENSON, 739
EMILY CHENEY, ’40
CATHERINE HEMPHILL, ’39
MARGARET HOWSON, ’38
Mary R. MEIGs, ’39
ALICE Low, ’38
ROZANNE PETERS, ’40.
Editor-in-Chie f
JANET THOM,
. io
« Copy Editor
Marcbry C. HARTMAN, ’38
Editors
JEAN MORRILL, ’39
MARGARET OTIS, ’39
ELISABETH POPE,
- LUCILLE SAUDER, 39
BARBARA STEEL, ’40
IsoTaA TUCKER, ’40
Business Manager
ETHEL HENKLEMAN, ’38
»
BARBARA STEEL, ’40
Subscription Manager
Mary-T.-RITCHIE,’39—.
Graduate Correspondent: VESTA SONNE
Musie Correspondent: PATRICIA R, ROBINSON, ’39
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Mrs. Fiesel and Mr. King
Mrs. Eva Fiesel was one of the foremost scholars among the German
exiles and one of the world’s most prominent philologists.
ence at Bryn Mawr stimulated ‘wide-spread interest in the whole field
of ancient linguistics: classical students had the opportunity to learn
from her something of the value of the study of comparative language.
Her .record of scholastic achievement proves how greatly the whole
it is a tribute to her personality
and professional ability that, at the very beginning of her association
with us, the gollege should feel her loss so keenly.
While Mr, Samuel Arthur King has been a non-resident lecturer at
Bryn Mawr for more than thirty years, his method for the teaching of
English diction and phonetics was well-known in other parts of the
‘academic world will feel her death;
_country.
Her pres-
This college, however, feels that it is particularly indebted to Mr.
King. His freshman course in English diction has been familiar to
two generations of undergraduates, and, in directing the productions
of six May Days, he has played an important part in the development
of the great tradition. Until his very recent retirement, his connection
with Bryn Mawr has not only been of the closest, but also of the most
rewarding character.
United They Stood
The particular contribution of the class _of nineteen thirty-seven
has not been-in the realms of scholarship, although there are several
quite brilliant members.
More significantly, as a class, they have shown
a_particular kind of public-spiritedness and devotion to the College.
During the May Day year, the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration, and
the trial year for the Comprehensives, they have had opportunity to
display their active interest in Bryn Mawr’s
fortune,
The usual practice is to congratulate the eraduating class on thaty
record and on the successful completign of college life.
But it is partly
- because we believe that the class of thirty-seven is a remarkable one,
_that we do not only do this.
As a class, their career is ended, and never
again will they have an 6pportunity to display that group cooperative-
ness which has been their special talent.
In the future we must regard
‘them as individuals, and hope that the experience they’ have’ had as
members of a college community will be “of some value to them in their
utterly different future environments.
As college students their open-
“mindedness has been a virtue, they have been admirably susceptible
to liberal education, and have taught themselves discrimination as part
of the absorption of unrelated facts.
ad
Therefore when they leave Bryn Mawr we hope they will continue
to. change.
ness and become more-opinionated.
of “typical liberal inactivity.”
They will inevitably lose a measure“of their open-minded-
That is a good thing’; we also hope
they can conserve a flexibility_of mind without falling into the slough
But the college itself can never know
how these people will edntinue as personalities, nor carf it accept credit
for more than their intellectual activity. If they fulfill our hopes as
v individuals, then, Bryn Mawr will never be benefited directly.
We
can congratulate the college that thirty-seven has been one of its most
successful classes; we can congratulate the class ‘itself for beitig what
it has. been; but we recognize that from now on it cannot realize its
potentialities as a group, but each member must proceed individually
ina new direction. .
w*
The Barn Door
The. alumnus who locks up his intellectual activity with his col-
lege notes has recently been under
special treatment.
Harvard, par-
_ tieularly aroused, is coaxing her mentally spiritless graduates with
“hobby plans.” Such devices seem to us belated.
Rather than satiate, the Sip! process of education should have a
-» dynamic value—a disturbin
education in itself necessarily implies.
_ fore’ liberal. sense, education is largely up to the individual.
-pomt bear Y
realization of the incompleteness which
In this progressive and) there-.
At some
ation and his creative. tendencies
to see where jes b provocative gaps in his pattern. occur and to see the
-eonnection between his subject and others.
The value of Comprehensives lies in this direction.
“A mere
-in of facts is inadequate. Fa win penta should
Seniors Remarkable
For “Good Sense”
Miss Park Announces iti Chapel
Alterations in Next Year’s
: Faculty ,
MISS G. G. KING RETIRES
Goodhart Hall, May 14.—-Miss Park
opened the last chapel of the year by
reading the extract from the Senate
ules concerning examinations. She
then mentioned the recent . Mount
Holyoke Centennary celebrations
which she, Dean Manning, and Mrs.
Anna Pell-Wheeler attended. One of
the greatest of Bryn, Mawr’s many
ties with Mount Holyoke, Miss’ Park
said, is her achievement of that free-
dom for women in all activities which
Mary Lyons, president of, Mount Holy-
as’ time, so desired.
Miss Park expressed pride in Bryn
Mawr’s attainment of the spirit of
free and equal opportunity at college,
but deplored the fact that after
graduation many do not try to main-
tain this freedom. She stressed their
duty “to be as responsible, as self-
reliant, with as professional an atti-
tude as any Grade A man” and to de-
mand the same high standard of other
women.
With her Fiftieth Anniversary last
year, Bryn Mawr left an era. The
upper classes, who saw the gathering
of the oldest graduates may haye
gathered some idea of the old Bryn
Mawr. Signs of the new are visible
in such thin’s as the-new workshop
theater which will be completed by
next fall. -Coming experiments must
cause a period of adaptation after
temporary disappointments. In this
task the class of 1937 will be greatly
missed. As‘a group, they have been
“remarkable for their good sense, and
their ability ‘to cope with difficult situ-
ations, to adjust misunderstanding,”
Miss Park announced the following
changes in the faculty for. next year:
Miss Georgiana King, who has been
on the faculty longer than any other
person, is retiring permanently. She
has been a member: of the English,
Philosophy and finally History of Art
departments. In all, said Miss Park,
she was “brilliant and hardworking,
and trained others to a mature and
civilized point of view.” The History
of Art department will continue next
year with no other additions or
changes.
Mr. William oiask from Goluuibia;
will take over diction instruction. He
will make recordings of the freshmen
voices on entrance and throughout the
year.
By a recent gift, Mr. David H. Ten-
nent, Professor of Biology 1912-1988
will be able to retire ‘from teaching
and devote himself to research in his
own laboratory.
Mrs. Helen Taft Manning will
leave on a sabbatical year to work on
a book. Her place as Dean will. be
taken by Miss. Julia. Ward, who is to
continue working with the freshmen,
and by Miss Dorothy Walsh, who is
to advise students in -the higher
classes.
Mr. Edward Watsos, of the Geology
departmént, and Mr. Milton C. Nahm,
Philosophy department, will return
from sabbatical leaves. Mr. Paul
Weiss and Mrs. Grace de Laguna, also
of the Philosophy department, are to
be away next year. Miss Walsh, Mr.
Nahm and Mr. D. T. Veltman will
teach requiréd Philosophy. The Logic
course will be given by Mr. Henry
Bradford Smith of the University of
Pennsylvania. —
Mr. William Lewis Doyle, of Johns
Hopkins and Cambridge Universities
has been appointed to the Biology
department. His field is Bio-Chem-
istry and Bio-Physics.
Mlle, Germaine Brée will become
Assistant-Professor of French. Leave
of absencé has been granted Mlle.
Madeleine Soubeiran for the year on
account of illness. Miss Cornelia
Lynde Meigs is.to be Associate-Pro-
fessor of English Composition on t
Margaret Kingsland Hasdell Founta-
fy" : ener Mea
Mr. Richard: ger ee ib.
Eastern European History at th Jni-
versity of Hamburg, and will give a
ory
_| course in Europe Since 1870. at, Bryn
Mawr during the first semester.
Two sets of Flexner lectures are
to be given next year. In the fall Mr.
Erwin Panofsky, from Princeton, will
*| give six lectures on Renaissance Hu-
manism in Art; An Interpretation “
oke some 50 years before Miss-Thom-.
TN oe Election
The College News takes pleas-
-ure in a iig the election
of Mary Dimock ’39 to its ner
torial Board.
LINGUISTIC AUTHORITY,
MRS. EVA _ FIESEL, S
Miss Lily Ross Taylor, Professor
of Latin at Bryn Mawr and Acting
Dean of the Graduate School, made
the following statement in connection
with Mrs. EVa Fiesel’s death:
“Bryn. Mawr College welcomed in
Dr. Fiesel, a scholar of, international
reputation who could offer opportuni-
ties for study and research in a field
not represented at any other gradu-
ate school in America. The interest
aroused by Dr. Fiesel’s course in the
Etruscan _Language~-is shown by. the
fact that it was attended not only
by graduate students but. by members
of the departments of Latin and Clas-
from the University of Pennsylvania
and from Haverford College. Dr.
Fiesel-possessed the imagination and
the open-mindedness required to grap-
ple with an unknown-language,-and it
was a- revealing experience to see
her at work on material which has
baffled scholars for centuries, Al-
though her great book is unfinished,
she has left in her published and un-
published papers contributions of
great importance for the solution of
the Etruscan problem. _
Dr. Fiesel was not less great as a
teacher than as a scholar. The stu-
dents in her course in ‘Comparative
Grammar remember vividly not only
the regular meetings of the course but
the special sessions for - discussions
held at her house. Her. interest in
her students continued throughout her
serious illness, and after she left Bryn
Mawr she-had-a-conference with one
of them who had begun: a dissertation
under her guidance. When I saw
her in the hospital a month ago, she
‘was much more concerned with their
welfare and their progress than with
her own critical condition.
But Dr. Fiesel’s contribution to the
graduate school went beyond the field
of her own special work. She was a
person of wide interests and remark-
able breadth of culture. The part
which she took in the conferences on
General Linguistic Theory conducted
by the Department of Philosophy last
winter showed how much she had to
give to the intellectual life of the
college.”
Mrs. Eva Fiesel, a world authority
guages, died on Thursday at the élose
of her first year as visiting Professor
of Linguistics at Bryn Mawr College
under a three year appointment. She
had lectured at the University of Mu-
nich until her dismissal in 1933 be-
cause of Jewish ancestry. She spent
the following year studying inscrip-
tions in various Italian museums and
came to-this country in 1934 as re-
search assistant in Etruscan at Yale,
where she remained until last year.
In connection with Etruscan lin-
guistics, Mrs. Fiesel was particularly
interested in the origin of the Latin
alphabet. While in this country, she
examined inscriptions at museums in
Philadelphia and New York and es-
tablished reliable evidence that. the
Latin alphabet was evolved from that
of the Italian Greeks rather than from
that of the southern Etruscans.
A thoroughly trained Indo-Euro-
pean philologist as well as a linguistic
expert, she had studied the languages
of Asia Minor with particular atten-
tion and was familiar with present-
day research on the subject.
Classical Subject-matter in Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Century Painting and
Sculpture. Mr. Edwin Francis Gay,
Harvard professor of Economic )His-
tory, will give public: lectures in the
spring on Social “and Economic Prob-
ms under the Tudors. He is to re-
ain on campus and conduct a semi-
nary on The Industrial Revolution and
an advanced undergraduate course in
emnomin Wiatery. :
fnew-plan-of correlative sciences
will be directed by Mr.’ David Tennent.
Miss Park believed ‘that the new Bi-
fit in well with the plan.
Miss Mary Henderson will, succeed
Miss Walsh as warden of: Pembroke] —
West. In Merion, Miss Katrina ‘Van
Hook will take the place of iss Mary
Eliot ae e
sical. Archaeology and by professors
on Etruscan and other ancient lan-
ology Professor, Mr. Doyle, would also|
soca
| Me. Samuel A. King Dies
. In Palo’ Alto, California
Streptococcic Infection Was Followed
by Pneumonia
Mr. Samuel Arthur King, Non-
resident Lecturer in English at Bryn
Mawr College from 1907 to 1937, died
May 30th, at Palo Alto, California,
after a long illness resulting from
pneumonia. He was born in 1872 and
received his M.A. from the Univer-
sity of London in 1900. The follow-
ing year he was ‘special lecturer in
public speaking at Johns Hopkins
University, and special lecturer in
speech at the University, Califor-
nia in 1902.
Connected with Bryn Mawr College
since 1902, he directed the plays for
six Big May Days beginning in 1910
and continuing through 1932. When
the Folger Shakespearean Library
was opened in Washington, D. C,, Mr.
King gave the first lectufe there on
Shakespeare’s Hamlet. e was also
associated for several years with the
Curtis Institute. of Mugie in Philadel-
phia.
After coming to Bryn Mawr, he
married Mary Anderson. Four chil-
dren survive: Mary Agnes, a Senior
at Léland Stanford University; Nor&
Joan, who also,attended Leland Stan-
ford; Samuel Arthur, Jr., a student
at Episcopal Academy; Elaine, who is
at the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr.
Mr. King went. to California in the
Spring. While there he developed
streptococcus of the throat and later
contracted pneumonia. Mrs. King
flew to California when his condition
became serious. Some signs of recov-
ery were evident and it was thought
he was past danger, but a relapse
occurred several days ago.
Elizabeth Lyle Wins
European Fellowship
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ECONOMICS
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cum .laude Florida
(with distinction in economics)
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POLITICS
Ethel Elizabeth Huebner Philadelphia
Mary Meyer New York
Janet Marie Phelps Illinois
GEOLOGY
Rosanne Dunlap Bennett
in absentia Pennsylvania
Virginia Marie Jussen
cum laude
ENGLISH
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cum laude Pennsylvania
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Ohio
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in absentia California
Elizabeth Roberta Bingay
cum laude Pennsylvania
Helen Elizabeth Cotton
Madaehuidies
Janet. Virginia Diehl Maryland
Madge Nathan Haas “New York
Josephine Bond Ham Pennsylvania
Emily Williamson Johnson Maryland
Margaret Sprague Lippincott
magna cum laude Pennsylvania
_ (with distinction in English)
Mary Livingston
Mary-Elizabeth. Lloyd Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Duncan Lyle
summa cum laude Massachusetts
(with distinction in English)
Anne. Tasker Ogle Marbury :
Maryland
Emma Zimmerman Scott ~
cum laude Pennsylvania -
Elizabeth Jane Simpson New Jersey
Virginia Johnston Walker. Tennessee
Marjorie Caroline Wylie
in absentia Massachusetts
(work for this degree
completed in February)
FRENCH
Margaret Hetherington Houck
cum laude > New York
Katharine Moss Jacoby ,+...
magna.cum laude New York City
(with: distinction in ‘or?
Sara Bevan Park’
in absentia Maryland
(with distinction in French)
Mary Idelle Peters Ohio
(with distinction in geologyy —.—
Katharine Selden Kniskern/Virginia
Mary Elizabeth Reed :
™ absentia
GERMAN
‘Mary Lee. Powell ___ Massachusetts _.
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