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VOL. XLII, NO. 26

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1946

Copyright Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,

PRICE 10 CENTS

1945



Elaine Hoisington Wins European Fellowship.



Taylor Stresses
Duty ofStudents
To Help Faculty

Common Room, June 8. ‘The
raising of faculty salaries now is a
question of the preservation of the
college,” asserted Mrs. Pamela C.
Taylor, retiring president of the
Alumnae Association, at a meeting
of all alumnae, graduates and un-
dergraduates on campus. The pres-
ent faculty salary scale was set in
1920 and obviously is insufficient
now.

A unanimous vote of the alum-
nae council approved holding a
drive for funds. Mrs. Caroline Mc-
Cormick Slade was elected chair-
man.

“Alumnae have always. been con-
cerned with faculty salaries,” Mrs.
Slade stated. “The, president and
the faculty run the college and
keep it going while the alumnae
own it.”

Between two and three million
dollars are needed in order to in-
crease faculty salaries sufficiently.
This amount cannot be raised un-
less every student is “a messenger
in her own home and country of
what Bryn Mawr means,” accord-
ing to Mrs. Slade.

“We of Bryn Mawr have the
chance for an education that will
train us to go ahead in our time
and become citizens of the world;”
we would not have this advantage
without our*faculty, and therefore
we must support it adequately.

Early Discoveries

In Medical Work,
Technique Studied

Oppenheimer Discusses

Hunter Brothers
In New Book

Contributed by L. Mezger, ’46

“Perhaps there is nothing in
Nature more pleasing than the
study of the human mind, even in
its imperfections or depravities...”
It is from the point of view of
this statement by John Hunter
that Miss Jane M. Oppenheimer
has approached an _ investigation
into the lives of two famous doc-
tors of eighteenth century Eng-
land. In “New Aspects of John
and William Hunter,” published by
Henry Schuman, New York, 1946,
with a Foreword by Fenwick Beek-
man, M. D., an interpretation of
old and newly discovered facts has
been made to give a picture of
the personalities and world of the
two brothers, John and William
Hunter.

The first essay, “Everard Home
and the Destruction of the John
Hunter Manuscripts,’ attempts to

' find the possible motive Everard

Home could have had for destroy-

~ ing the unpublished manuscripts

_ The. intellect and’ personalit

of his lifelong teacher and friend
after his death. The problem is
approached mainly by an analysis

Home’s personality and. back-
pace and to a lesser degree that
of his chief accuser, William Clift.

Alumnae Pass

New Drive Plan
For Next Year

The Alumnae Association held
its annual meeting at 2 P.M. Sat-
urday, in Goodhart, at which it
voted to proceed with the Drive
next autumn. Mrs. F. Louis Slade
(Caroline McCormick) was elected
National Chairman, and Mrs.
James Chadwick-Collins, of Bryn
Mawr, Executive Director. The
meeting was addressed by Mrs.
Francis H. Taylor (Pamela Coyne),
and was followed. by .a meeting of
the student body at which Mrs.
Slade spoke.

The Drive plans to take care of
the College’s need for additional in-
come due to increased expenses
and faculty salaries which were es-
tablished by the 1920 Endowment
Drive and are now insufficient. Dur-
ing the war the College was able
to make certain economies which
enabled it to balance the budget;
now, however, prices are still high,
while the faculty salary budget re-
turns to its maximum, and gradu-
ate scholarships are necessary in
fuller measure. The fees have al-
ready been increased for graduates
and undergraduates, and any fur-
ther increase would make it in-
creasingly difficult for many stu-
dents to come to Bryn Mawr.

The Alumnae Association hopes,
therefore, to raise, through the
Drive, additional money either for
endowments or expenditure over a
period of years, increasing the
yearly income by about $60,000.
The Drive will be divided into two
parts: one, the obtaining as quickly
as possible the necessary money
for faculty salary increases and
scholarship funds, and two, a long
range program for both academic
and building projects, the latter to
include such buildings as language
houses, the biology and _ physics
wings of Park Hall, and necessary
improvements in the Library.

Biologists to Do

Summer ‘Research

This summer Dalton Hall will
be the scene of at least three ex-
periments in biology, to be per-

formed by Miss Gardiner, Mr.
Berry, and five students.
Ruth Leyendecker, Margaret

Hilgartner, and Alice Hedge of the
present graduating class, Rose-
mary Gilmartin *47, and Evelyn
Haller, a graduate student, will
assist in making experiments on
phagocytosis, the ability of the
white blood cells to eat up bacteria.
The fact that anemia increases
phagocytosis was first observed in
humans; last. year Mr. Berry and
Miss Haller found the same phe-
nomenon in rats. During the sum-
mer the biologists will bleed mice
to see if this increases the re-
sistance to bacterial infection.

In her honors work Ruth Leyen-
decker discovered that the injec-
tion of small amounts of detergent,
soluble soap, increased phagocy-
tosis greatly. Ruth will spend part
of the summer on further investi-
gations into this problem.

The students will live with Miss
Gardiner for the summer.g’\._





‘John Hunter, ‘the “nan who made
surgery a science, are also reveal-

ed. Of the two essays this is the|
more interesting; the evidence is
accumulated, weighed and then the

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_SNGAGEMENT
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to Lt. (j.g.) James Fearon
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Faith Is Needed
In World of Today,
Rev. Mutch Says

Goodhart, June 11.

a half-hearted devotion will not
suffice, when we must love the
things we prize with a passionate

intensity and serve them with a

wholehearted loyalty, and if we
are to do this, we must have
faith,’ said Reverend Thomas S&S.

Mutch in his sermon at the tradi-| ;

tional Baccalaureate Service.

Noting the modern emphasis on| }

results rather than on the methods
whereby they are obtained, Dr.

Mutch questioned the value of|:
America’s latest accomplishments, | |

such as the atomic bomb and the
United Nations Organization, in
reference to the disturbed condi-
of the world. The worth. of
modern institutions is being ques-
tioned because the people have no
faith, according to Dr. Mutch.
“As you go out to take your place
and play your part in this des-
perately needy world, there are

certain questions which you must

face and answer, and the answer
in-each case. will be an indication
and a measure of your faith.”

The question, “Do I matter?”
should be answered positively by
the Bryn Mawr seniors because
by background and training they
should be leaders.

The second question, “Is it worth-
while?” can be answered in the
affirmative only if we have faith.

The answer to “Is there hope
for success?” can be found only
in the fountain of religious faith.
“Victory is certain if you have
faith enough to endure to the
end!” :

—‘The time] i
has come for us in America when |}





winner of

Elaine Hoisington,

the European Fellowship, is a
French major. She did honors
work this year on Marcel Proust.

Last year Elaine was the win-

ner of the Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship and the Maria L.
Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial
Scholarship. She was awarded the
Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Prize for
English Composition and also the
Scholarship for Advanced Eng-
lish. She has also held the Alice
Day Jackson and the Misses Kirk
scholarships.

Elaine hopes to use the Fellow-
ship to go to the Sorbonne next
year. Her outside interests in-
clude--sports, painting and writ-
ing. She was prepared by the
Montclair High School, New Jer-



sey.,



Bitter Humor, Bandaids and Toga

—

eatured'in Class Day Speeches

By Judy. Marcus, ’49

Class Day Speeches are always
one of the high spots of the year,
because they give the seniors their
last chance (before comprehen-

sives, of course) to demonstrate
what they have learned during the
course of four long years at Bryn
Mawr. The first scholar to speak
this year was a tall erudite-look-
ing Bryn Mawrter answering to
the name of Biffy Horrax, who
wore a yellow head band and a
rather battered white toga that un-
doubtedly would have been more
at home covering a bed than on
the back of Mark Antony. The
subject of Miss Horrax’s address
appeared to be “My Experiences
With the Inter-departmental
Major,” or something like that. .
_Miss’ Horrax’s Bryn Mawr ex-
periences have apparently left her
with the burning conviction. that
“The more freshmen. there are,
the fewer seniors graduate.” She
also exhibited a great deal of in-
tellectual curiosity, asking such
questions as “Why is Henry Miller
in the Raw Book Room?” But
the highlight of her speech was
undoubtedly her solution to the
problem of what to do with the

busts in Taylor. Suggested the
lanky Miss H.,’ “Distribute them
evenly among the students. I’ve

always wanted.a bust!”

Thee secc Ik, “denvere
front of Dalton and punctuated
picturesquely by the barking of
an appreciative canine, was en-
titled, “Spring in the World of









Science, or, Who Doused the
Lights in the Common Room?”
Alice Bronfenbrenner, attired in a
very chic. outfit consisting mostly
of pajamas and bandages, began
her discussion by explaining that
“in the Spring the biology lab is,
very active,” and describing the
charming antics of all the little
dogfishes and chicks. Next she
turned her attention to the science
of geology. “Geology field trip:
an excursion on which each par-
ticipating maiden spends the whole
time looking for some old fossils
to work on.”

Amid a blast of whistles the
third speaker,, Sandra Lane, rode
up to the gym and proclaimed as
she collapsed on the steps that
“relaxation is the keynote of
sports.” (Fashion note: the sedate
charm of Miss Lane’s black cap
and gown were set off most at-
tractively by a number of gay
white bandaids.) Finally recover-
ing sufficient energy to stand up,
she took her audience on a quick
tour through the world of sports,
advising that in athletics you must
always “watch your opponent—you
can’t trust anyone!”

After emerging from the bushes
in front of the library, Connie
Chester launched into an account:
of her four years at Bryn Mawr,

that. = cou
rilling and erat Pyere
chilling.” Miss Chester peered out
from behind a mass of blond hair

and expressed. her dissatisfaction
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‘|graduating class.

Elise Kraft, Chemistry Major, Named as Alternate
To Hoisington for Europear

Fellowship in 1946

E. sington Honored
In Commencement
Exercises

Goodhart, June 11. Elaine Hois-
ington was named by Miss McBride
as the winner of the 1946 Euro-
pean Fellowship at the Commence-
ment exercises. This scholarship,
the highest undergraduate honor
the college gives, goes to Miss Hoi-
sington for her work in French.
Elise Kraft was named as alternate




‘|to Miss Hoisington, in recognition
4|of her work in chemistry.

The Hon. Dean Acheson, Under-
Secretary of State, addressed the
Mr. Acheson’s

daughter-in-law, Patricia Castles

‘| Acheson, is a member of the grad-

uating class.

The list of Seniors receiving
their A. B. degrees, and of those
receiving graduate degrees follows:

Biology

Mary Caroline Corner of Mary-
land, cum laude.

Alice Nowell Hedge of Massa-
chusetts.

Margaret Wehr
Maryland.

Ruth Alden Lester of New York,
magna cum laude.

Ruth Leyendecker of New York,
cum laude, with distinction.

Julia Kuo-Fang Ling of New York,
magna cum laude.

Margaret McAneny Loud of New
York, cum laude.

Liselotte Mezger of Pennsylvania.

Julia Frazier Murray of New York,
cum laude. sus

Barbara Helen Sawyer .ofPennsyl-
vania, cum laude.

Chemistry
Alice Bronfenbrenner of Missouri.

Hilgartner of

| Louise Gillies Brown of New York,

magna cum laude, with distinction.

Elizabeth Randolph Carmichael of
Virginia.

Lucille Jeanette Holljes of New
Jersey.

Elise Rhoda Kraft of New York,
summa cum laude.

Elizabeth Livermore Manning of
Maryland.

Margaret Winthrop McEwan of
Illinois.

Margery Elizabeth Richardson of
Pennsylvania.

Elisabeth K. Sheldon of Rhode
Island.

Joan Judith Tomic of New York.
Elizabeth Barbara Williams
Pennsylvania, cum laude.
Mary Camilla Williams of Mary-

land.
Classical Archaeol
Phyllis Pestronk of New York.
Economics ||
Marjorie Louise Amos of Pennsyl-
vania.
Katharine Lee Marshall of Penn-
sylvania, cum laude.
Elizabeth Ann Mercer of Pennsyl-
vania.

of

Politics

Anne Warren Bird of the District
of Columbia.

Helen Dwight Brooks of New York,
with distinction.

Joanne Cecil of New York, in ab-
‘sentia.

Joan Coward of Pennsylvania.

Fatma Selma Ertegun of Istanbul,
Purkey.

Elaine Virginia Julian of New
York, magna cum laude. -

Margaret McBride of Pennsylvania.
Joan Isobel’ Vitkin of Massachu-
setts.



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