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College news, November 14, 1951
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1951-11-14
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Weekly
6 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 38, No. 08
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
BMC-News-vol38-no8
Wednesday, November 14, 1951
THE COLLEGE
NEWS
at Page Five
Speakers Recall Incidents of Their Acquaintance
As Bryn Mawr Athletes With Miss C. M. Applebee
Continued from Page 1
moment hockey started at Vassar,
and a little later at the other col-
leges. Genie Ford of ‘Wellesley
thanked Bryn Mawr and Miss Ap-
plebee and retold a few of Miss
Applebee’s well known sayings,
such as “She plays like a hen ona
hot griddle” and her invariable
comment to the bandana-ed play-
er, “You, with your head in the
bag”’.
The next speaker was Miss
Nancy Offutt, headmistress of
Garrison Forest School. Miss Of-
futt highly entertained her audi-
ence by telling them a story of one
of her hockey games under Miss
Applebee when the team used
somewhat unusual tactics (at one
point the entire team was stand-
ing in the goal) and afterwards in-
stead of receiving the praise they
expected they found Miss Apple-
bee lying flat on the ground on
her back, saying that she never
wanted to see any of them again.
Later in the evening, she told
them that “you must never let the
winning of the game be more im-
portant than the rules of the
game” which is applicable in every
part of life. She stressed Miss
Applebee’s positiveness, and be-
lieved her to be one of the most
colorful figures of any generation,
concluding by saying that England
had given us “our language, most
of our customs and laws, Winston
Churchill, and M. K. Applebee.
(Miss Hawkins and Mrs. Man-
ning divided two different aspects
of the Bryn Mawr life when Miss
Applebee coached here. Miss Haw-
kins presented a picture of what
being an athlete was like under
Miss Applebee, while Mrs. Man-
ning took the view of the unath-
letic student. Miss Hawkins said
that no person except M. Carey
‘Thomas had ever affected Bryn
‘Mawr so much.
Miss Applebee gave every-
sone who ever played under her a
respect for the virtues of integ-
rity, courage, justice, self-reliance,
humor and a sense of proportion.
(Miss Hawkins well remembers
Miss \Applebee’s robust, almost
Elizabethan sense of humor, com-
bined with a knowledge of how
much a person could take. Once
Miss Applebee yelled at her when
she seemed to be retrogressing in-
stead of progressing down the
field, “Hawkite, stop acting like a
crab”). One of her most import-
ant contributions to Bryn Mawr
‘was her conception of personal re-
sponsibility that she gave to each
girl. In 1906 she reorganized the
Physical Education Department
and in 1909 instituted the Health
Department. Miss Hawkins said,
“She was part of the fabric of
Bryn Mawr’.
Mrs. Manning said that as she
was probably “the least athletic
person in this gathering”, her col-
lege view of Miss Applebee -was
entirely different, because since
she was not trying out for teams,
she received nothing but kind
words and encouragement. . Miss
Appiebee was tremendously inter-
ested in the activities on campus
and part of her concrete results
were to reconcile the two non-
speaking Christian Associations
and to help start and maintain the
College News. She was the one
adult on campus to whom the girls
felt they could come for help. As
the father of a student said to
Mrs. Manning in 1920, “Miss Ap-
plebee has done ten times more
for my girl than any of those pro-
fessors you have got”,
Miss McBride then said that in
order to continue the college’s ap-
preciation of what Miss Applebee
has done, the Scull property is be-
ing given in the name of Miss Ap-
plebee and Miss Mary Warren
Taylor and she introduced as chair-
man of the Scull property commit-
tee, Mrs. Mumford, who spoke of
what is now called “Applebee Cor-
ner” as something that will per-
manently stay as “evidence of our
affection for her’. It is Mrs. Mum-
ford’s idea to build a field house
from the old barn and put in ter-
raced tennis courts. Plans are al-
ready in operation to turn the
main building into a nursery school
and a child study institute.
At the conclusion of the speech-
es Miss Applebee stood up to
thank all the people who had made
the weekend possible. She thanked
Miss McBride, Mrs. Paul and the
Aluninae Association for the hon-
or done to her and Miss Taylor,
she thanked Janie Stone for trans-
mitting the original germ of the
idea, the Physical Education De-
partment for the weekend which
she hopes will .become an annual
affair, her former colleagues at
other colleges for coming, and she
thanked the four teams for the sil-
ver bowl.
She told in detail how she had
schemed to meet Miss Ballantine
by playing musical chairs when
she was a “shrinking little Eng-
lish person” at the Harvard sum-
mer school and how from this
meeting went on to teach hockey
Calendar (Continued )
Continued from Page 1
evening.
Thursday, November 15
8:30 p.m. Chapel Committee
speaker. Common Room. °
Sunday, November 18
7:15 p.m. Chapel. Rev. Paul
Wolfe, New York, on “The Inter-
pretation of Man.”
Monday, November 19
12:30 p.m. Alliance Assembly.
Clayton E. Whipple will speak
on “Point Four: Where Is It Go-
ing?” Goodhart Auditorium.
7:15 p.m. Current Events, Com-
mon Room.
8:30 p.m. The last Crenshaw
lecturer, M. King Hubbert, will
talk on “Mineral Resources and
Human Affairs.” Goodhart Au-
ditorium.
Tuesday, November 20
8:30 p.m. Chapel Committee,
Common Room.
Wednesday, November 21
Thanksgiving Holidays begin!
Be sure to sign the _ sheets
passed around in your last class.
Monday, November 26
Classes resume at 9:00 a.m.
7:15 p.m. Current Events, Com-
mon Room. Miss McBride will
speak.
8:15 p.m. Mary Jo Shelley,
head of the Women’s Air Force,
will talk in Goodhart about the
role of women in the emergency
in regard to positions open in all
the women’s services,
Tuesday, November 27
8:30 p.m. Film Forum, SDA,
Music Room.
Wednesday, November 28
8:30 p.m. Open Meeting to dis-
cuss costs and fees. Are you in-
terested in how much money col-
lege costs you? Then come and
learn the facts!
at Vassar and the other colleges.
She described how fitting it
was to have the Scull property
dedicated to Mary Warren Taylor
because this very strong exacting
personality had inspired and driv-
en so many people to accomplish
somuch. As she put it Miss Tay-
lor lived “blood, sweat, and tears”,
and expected everyone else to live
it too. Finally Miss Applebee ex-
pressed her great love for these
colleges who had first given her
such a welcome and her thanks to
Bryn Mawr for teaching her the
inner meaning of the American
way of life. “It is one of the great-
est pleasures of my life”, she said,
“to have been born British, but
die American”,
Hockey, Headlines Still Remain as Dividends
Payable to Enthusiasm of Miss C. M. K. Applebee
Continued from Page 1
be as high as those of Oxford and
Cambridge, and she had the same
idea about athletics. “One year,”
said Miss Applebee, “she found
that all the English universities
were playing water polo—she in-
formed me that when I went to
England in the summer, I was to
learn the game, come back and
teach it. Well, I learned it—but
the only instructors I could find
were the English policemen! And
we played it at Bryn Mawr the
next year—indeed we did, though
some of my girls played it more
at the bottom of the poo! than
at the top.”
President Thomas commissioned
Miss Applebee to teach the under-
graduates Jiu-Jitsu, but this she
refused, on the grounds that, “The
students were dangerous enough
without learning anything new.”
It was Miss Thomas who first
made the Physical Education de-
partment of a college also re-
sponsible for health and hygiene,
for what was the use of educat-
ing women. if they weren't
strong?” The first three build-
ings she built were Merion, Tay-
lor, and the Gym.”
The College News began in
1914, because one of the under-
graduates, Isabel Foster, who
later was to write for the Chris-
tian Science Monitor wanted prac-
tical journalistic experience while
still at college. She went to Un-
dergrad, but that organization
said no, chiefly because it was un-
believable that a college news-
paper would ever be_ solvent.
Nevertheless, an enthusiastic, de-
termined group of potential Mar-
guerite Higginses fppealed to
Miss Applebee for support and
ideas. She had both to give, and
the energetic ladies elected them-
selves to the first News board,
and formed a corporation. Each
contributed ten dollars, and each
held shares according to the
amount of work she was to do.
Policy: “The News and nothing
but the news.” By the time these
plans had been formulated, it was
Commencement Week — probably
the busiest time of the year for
a college president. Could the
News Board possibly have an Ap-
pointment with Miss Thomas?
They could, of course, and did.
“Utterly impossible—why do you
want to do it”? Miss Thomas ask-
ed. And when they told her, she
thought it was a wonderful idea.
But this new venture couldn’t be
called merely, The News, for in
that case, it might be confused
with the Harvard News. The Col-
lege News then, it came to be.
Secure in the knowledge that,
“Every editor of every college
newspaper always ends up by be-
ing expelled,” (Miss Thomas’
parting words) Miss Applebee,
Isabel Foster and company began
work. Board meetings often last-
ed past the dinner hour, but Miss
Applebee served shredded wheat
and milk in her office, so that
neither meals nor meetings were
skipped. Of course, President
Thomas subscribed. “She always
sent for us,” said Miss Applebee,
“the morning that thing came
out.’”” But if the News caused con-
troversy, at least it presented
both sides, and “All the Board
were hockey players, and so very
fair-minded about things.”
To relieve any excess exuber-
ance about unprintable matter,
the Board published, strictly for
their own amusement, a private
document that contained every-
thing not for publication. It was
their own, and they called it The
College Booze.
Its more. respectable _ sister
flourished, however, and is now 2
mature thirty-seven. Long ago it
paid back dividends to its first
Board. Still, it is questionable
whether the great dividend to Miss
Applebee can ever be fully repaid.
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