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The GULLEGE NEWS



VOL. XLV, NO. 25

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1949

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College,1945

PRICE 15 CENTS



Beverly

m Levin Awarded European

Fellowship



Dr. Machregor

Named to Hold
R. Jones Chair

Philosopher, Minister_
To Offer Three

New Courses

The announcement of the ap-
pointment of Dr. ‘Geddes Mac-
Gregor to the Rufus M. Jones
Chair in Philosophy and Religion
was made by Miss McBride this
morning, during the course of the
Commencement ceremonies. Mr.
MacGregor, who holds the degrees
of B.D. and L.L.B. from the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh, and D. Phil.
from Oxford, is a Minister of the
Church of Scotland, and has, at
present, his own church in Glas-
gow. At the same time he holds
an appointment as Assistant in
Philosophy. and Religion at the
University of Edinburgh.

Mr. MacGregor will give three
full courses, or the equivalent, next
year. He is scheduled to take on
one section of the first year course
in History of Philosophy, which
will be given in five sections for
the first time. He will give two
semester courses in the second
year group: Philosophy and Re-
ligion in the first semester, and
Comparative Religion in the sec-
ond. The third course Mr. Mac-
Gregor will give will probably al-
ternate from year to year between
a seminary and an advanced
course: next year, he will give an
advanced course in Mediaeval Phil-
osophy.

Mr. MacGregor has studied at
the Sorbonne as well as at Ox-
ford and Edinburgh, and is ac-
quainted with the leading French
Philosophers of the day. Earlier
this year, he was flown from Scot-
land to Bryn Mawr between Sun-
day services, to interview the ad-
ministration. The NEWS hopes to
publish a-full interview with Mr.
MacGregor in its first fall issue.





Beverly Ann Levin, European Fellow

Jean Helene Ellis, Catherwood Fellow



a yy SBS eae

Nancy Martin, Burch Fellow



3-Year Drive Reaches $2,200,400;

Slade Announces Succesfui

The news that the Drive has not
only been completed but overrun
by the welcome margin of ten per-
cent, bringing the total to $2,20,-
000, was announced by Mrs. F.
Louis Slade, Chairman of the
Alumnae Fund for the primary
purpose of increasing academic
salaries and also for the increase
of scholarships and certain special
projects.

Of the 4712 contributors 3816
or over 81% are alumnae.

The Fiftieth Reunion Class, 1899,
has contributed through the Fund
$29,700.

The districts into which the
alumnae are divided made contvi-
butions as follows:

District I, .$247,800; District II,
$1,331,400; _District_ITI, $91,400;
District IV, $87,700; District V,
$259,000; District VI, $27,000; Dis-
trict VII, $31,300; District VIII,
$15,100; Foreign, $6,600; and Un-
allocated, $102,700.

The first two gifts to the Fund
were: $26,000 for the Paul Shorey
Chair of Greek collected by Evan-
geline Walker Andrews and Susan
Walker Fitz Gerald of the Class of
1893, and $30,000 from Mr. and
Mrs. Gerard Swope for the in-
crease of academic salaries.

Mrs. Slade also announced the





Dachshund, Trunk, Bibulous Bird
Brighten B. M.’s Fond Farewells

by Paula Strawhecker, °52
and Emily Townsend, ’50

Across from a huge, extremely
attractive, red balloon dachshund
swaying elegantly between the li-
brary towers, the round of senior
humor and_nostalgic singing which
make up the annual Class Day pro-
gram began. Even the dachshund
admirers were forced to pay atten-
tion as the seniors sank down in
front of a large red trunk repos-
ing mysteriously on the top step.
_ Bumpings and scratchings gave
way to the eventual emergence cf
Gale ‘Minton, in a surprisingly im-
maculate state. One of ,the few
people to look even semi-decent in
a Bryn Mawr tank suit, Gale was
also chicly accoutred in a pocket
comb and a cigarette. The high
point of her speech was the auction
of her bicycle, which she refused
to sell to her sister but finally got
rid of for thirteen dollars. On: the
way, however; she managed to slip
in enough disrespectful references
ito Freshman Comp to keep the
audience satisfied, and furnished
a useful topic sentence for future



essayists: “Last summer several
friends of mine and I went on a
picnic...” From there, she claim-
ed, politics, religion, sex, anything
could be worked in. A politics
major, Gale explained the two
kinds-of. courses. offered by-her-de-
partment: theory and practice, and
“The higher level—the third floor
of Taylor.” Offering a few ex-
planations of the presence of the
Library Dog, Gale suggested a
man with an autogyro and retreat-
ed, with some difficulty, into her
trunk once more. |

* Kathy Geib. dunking her head
rhythmically and abstractedly into
an-enormous bucket of suds on an
upper window sill of Dalton wel-
comed the audience that persisted
in the round instead of waiting un-
der the Library tree for the last
speech. Her resemblance to Welles
a la Martin was, of course, entire-
ly unintentional. Discussing Su-
perstition at Bryn Mawr, the
“bibulous bird who burped” men-
tioned briefly the red lanterns in
the cloisters—an ancient custom

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present standings and _ various
academic projects: the
Rufus M. Jones Chair of

Philosophy and Religion, which
will be inaugurated in September,
now has $154,000; the Theresa Hel-
burn Chair of the Drama _ will
continuing Bryn Mawr’s work in
that field and for which funds will
be further collected; the Eunice
Morgan Schenck Chair in French
has received an addition of $17,-
900; the Georgiana Goddard King
Fund in the Department of Art
and Archaeology, $59,200; the
Eloise Ruthven Tremain Instruc*

Continued on Page 5

Warburg Receives

M. Thomas Prize

Geraldine Warburg won the an-
nual M. Carey Thomas Essay
prize, awarded to a senior for the’
best creative or critical work sub-
mitted for the contest. Gerry’s
paper was a critical essay entitled
“Charles Lamb and Sir Thomas
Browne,” and was chosen as the
best entry by unanimous decision
of the three English Department
judges, Professors Linn, Meigs,
and Stapleton.

Past Activities

Gerry has done a good deal of
writing during her college career,
joining the board of the Title last
spring and being the first Editor in
Chief of the new Counterpoint. She
has also been active in the Drama
Guild, of which she was Vice-
President this year; her sophomore
year she played in The Skin of Our
Teeth, her junior year in The Sea
Gull, and this year she played the
title. role in Anouilh’s. Antigone.
President of her class her fresh-
man year, she was also a member
of the Chorus, and received a var-
sity owl for riding. This year she
has been active on the Chapel
Committee. Gerry is an English
major, graduating magna cum
laude.



Permanent Officers of 1949

The permanent officers of the
Class ,of 1949 were recently
elected. Nancy Martin was chos-
en as the class president, Ally
Lou Hackney as collector and
treasurer, Edie La Grande as
secretary and class editor for
the Alumnae Bulletin, and Mary
Rose Beetlestone as reunion



manager for next year.









Jean H. Ellis Wins
Catherwood Award

Jean Helene Ellis was awarded
the Catherwood Foundation Fel-
lowship, awarded by the college
for the first time this year; she
plans to use it for further study at
Oxford, where she has already
been accepted. She is a history
major and plans to continue in
Mediaeval History. She did honors
this year with Dr. Cuttino, on “The
Process of Perigueux.” She has
been very active extra-curricularly,
as Copy Editor of the NEWS ani
Chairman of the Curriculum Com-
mittee; she was business manager
of the Junior Prom, and a member
of the French and Philosophy
Clubs; she took one comprehensive
in French.

N. Martin Gets
Burch Fellowship

(Nancy Martin has been awarded
the Burch Fellowship for study in
England, given last year for tw?
years by Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Burch, whose daughter Helen
graduated last year. Nancy is a
politics major, graduating cum
laude; she has held the Alumnae
Regional Scholarship and the Ed-
win Gould Foundation Scholarship

Continued on Page 5

5 New Members
To Join Faculty

Miss McBride and the Board of
Directors have announced several
additional appointments to the fac-
ulty for the academic year 1949-
50.

In English, Miss Isabel Gamble
has ben appointed instructor; she
is now an-assistant-in.English--at
Radcliffe, and tok her A. B. at
Swarthmore.

Mr. John Pruett, M.S. and Ph.D.
at Indiana, will be an Assistant
Professor in Physics; during the
war he did experimental research
for the Manhattan Project.

In Chemistry, Mr. Harold Kwart,
Ph.D. Harvard,.will become an
Assistant Professor; he, too, work-
ed on the Manhattan Project and
has been Research Fellow at Har-
vard since 1947.

‘Mrs. Maxine Woolston, a mem-
ber of the City Planning Commis-
sion, has been appointed part-time
lecturer in Economics; Miss Cyn-
thia Gee, B. A. University of Bris-
tol and graduate student at Bryn
Mawr, will be part-time lecturer
in Greek.

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Faculty Name Bachner
As Alternate
Fellow

The award to Beverly Ann Levin
of the European Fellowship, the
highest honor in the gift of the
college, was announced this morn-
ing during the Commencement Ex-
ercises. Beverly is a philosophy
graduating summa cum

laude, who plans to take her M.A.

major,

degree at the University of Penn-
sylvania next year. Her academic
career at Bryn Mawr has been
noteworthy: last year she received
the Hinchman Memorial Scholar-
ship, in conjunction with Anne
Hunt Thomas, for work of special
excellance in her major field. Bev-
erly was Ann Hallowell Memorial
Scholar-in 1946-47; last year, apart
from the Hinchman, she held the
Anna Margaret and Mary Sloan
Scholarship. She was prepared by
the High School in
Charleston, West Virginia.

Beverly wrote her honors paper
in philosophy on “The Connexity
of Experience,” dealing with Kant
and Hume; the method of handling
was an explation of various prob-
lems to be discovered in Hume, and
an attempt at their solution
through an interpretation of Kant.
She worked with Dr. Nahm.

Beverly is being married in June
to Leon Robbins, Haverford ’48
and now a graduate student at the
University of Pennsylvania; she
hopes to live in Bryn Mawr next
year while attending Penn. Her
chief interests in philosophy are
British Epiricism and Logical Pos-
itivism: she plans to work in the
Logical Positivist School in the
future:

Jackson

Sue Bachner Alternate

~ Suzanne Bachner, named ‘the al-
ternate to the European Fellow-
ship, is a history major who did
honors with Dr. Gilbert in Russian
History: the subject of her paper
was the Russian Decembrist Rev-
olution.of 1925. She has completed
her college course in three years,
accelerating from the sophomore
to the senior class; her average at
every point has been summa cum
laude. She comes from New York,
where she was prepared by the
Hunter College High School; she
plans to be married soon, and do
graduate work at Columbia.



ENGAGEMENT

Gale Minton, ’49 to Francis
Xavier Critchlow.