College News, 1920-09-28, Vol. 07, No. 01

              The College News
Volume VII.    No. 1.
BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,  1920
Price 10 Cents
THIRTY-SIXTH ACADEMIC YEAR
BEGINS TOMORROW
No Western Matriculation Scholar-
ship Given
President Thomas, after a year's ab-
sence, will open the thirty-sixth academic
year of Bryn Mawr College with a wel-
come address to the Freshmen in Chapel
tomorrow morning.
Of the entering class of over a hundred,
several members have noted parents: H.
Simkhovitch is the daughter of Dr. Vladi-
mir G. Simkhovitch, professor of Economic
History at Columbia University and
trustee of Greenwich House, social service
center, and Mrs. Mary Simkhovitch, the
noted social economist. Both her parents
are authors of hooks on social economic
problems.
A. J. Wise is the daughter of Rabbi
Wise, head of the Zionist movement in
New York, who represented Jewish inter-
est! at the Peace Conference. M. L.
White is the daughter of one of the direc-
tor! of  Bryn  Mawr College.
The father of M. Angell is a member
of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Ten Freshmen have had sisters in col-
lege. R. Murray is the sister of H. Mur-
ray Busselle ex-'02; H. Dillingham of
Louise Dillingham, '16; J. Bensberg of
Betsy Bensberg, '16; J. Gregg of Marian
Gregg, '20; J. 1'rewitt of M. Frewitt,
ex-'20; M. Cooke of D. Cooke, '22; C.
Fountain of A. Fountain, '22; M. Palache
of J. Palache, '22, and M. Beaudrias of
I.   Beaudrias,  '23.
Of the four matriculation scholarships
available to members of the Freshman
1 liss, three have l>een awarded this year.
M. Minott, prepared by the Brearly School,
won the scholarship for the New York
State division with a grade of 83.40. A.
Shiras, from the Ethel Walker School, m
awarded the scholarship for the New Eng-
land States with a grade of 83.55. K. Van
Bibber, of the Bryn Mawr school, holds
that of the Pennsylvania division with
81.01.
No scholarship for the Western States
was given this year since no candidate
reached  the   required   standard.
ALL-AMERICAN    HOCKEY   TEAM    TO
TOUR  ENGLAND AND 8COTLAND
For the first time in the history of Amer-
ican Hockey a team of American women
will tour England this Fall playing matches
against the English and Scotch university
women's teams ending with matches
�gainst the Scottish women's team and the
All-Fngland team. Organized by the
Misses Cheston, of the Philadelphia
Cricket Club, in answer to a challenge
from England, the team and subs began
daily practices on September 20th. All the
league players in the Philadelphia League
were asked to try out. Gertrude Hearne.
'1". and Mary Morgan, '15, are trying for
positions. While in England Miss Applc-
bee arranged the details of the tour for
the American team and has l>een coaching
the players. Before sailing matches will
I* played against the Bryn Mawr Varsity
and against the league club teams. The
team colors will I* cadet blue and white.
The color- of the \I!-Kni:land learn are
red and white.
Endowment  Totals   $2,191,346.56
During the summer $91,346.56 has been
contributed to the Endowment Fund.
Since the Drive closed at Commence-
ment with $2,100,000 no effort has been
made to raise a third million, but numer-
ous gifts have been received bringing
the  national total to $2,191,346.56.
Margaret G. Blaine '13, executive sec-
retary of the Alumnae Association, takes
the place of Bertha Ehlers, '09, who has
resigned and will head the Publicity Com-
mittee which is preparing for a year of
work. Miss Blaine was chairman of the
New Kngland Committee for the Endow-
ment Drive, and during the war she was
on the War Trade Board at Washington.
The Alumnae Quarterly, beginning
January 1st, will be issued as an Alum-
na. Magazine every month. Miss Blaine
will be the editor instead of Isabel Foster,
'15, editor of the Quarterly.
Nine New Foreign  Scholars  Enter
Bryn Mawr as Graduates
Four British scholars, three French, i
Scandinavian and the first holder of a
Spanish Scholarship enter the graduate
school this fall. Maria Luisa Garcia-
Dorado, of Sierra Morena, the Spanish
scholar, took her Licenciada, equivalent to
an M.A., in Philosophy, at the University
of Salamanca and has been studying for
a doctor's degree at the University of
Madrid. Her father is professor of law in
the   University  of   Madrid.
Charlotte Churchill, British scholar from
the Sorl)onnc and Oxford, was a Red
' i"sS worker in devastated France during
the war and has been secretary of the
British Office of the French Red Cross
At Oxford, she took Second-Class Hon-
ours in Honour School of Fnglish Lan-
guage and Literature and was Gilchrist
Scholar. 1916-18. Theresa Kathleen Kelly,
of Dublin, Ireland, A. B. with Honours,
University of Ireland '16, has been a civil
service employee since her graduation, as
examiner of income tax claims and stamp
doty. Prom Britain also come Florence
Duncan, of London, Somerville College,
Oxford, First (lass Final Honour School
"i Fnglish Language and Literature, '20,
and Mildred Tonge, of Bolton, Lancashire,
N'ewnam College, Cambridge, First Class
in  Fnglish Tripos  Part '1<>, and  Part 2. '20.
StUnSMK l hamliry, of Paris, topi ho
laureate in Latin and Philosophy, and
License in English, diplome d'etnde- SU-
perieures d'anglais. She was a student at
the Sorboane, 'I3-'16, and assistant at the
University of Birmingham '16-'18, and is
candidate lor the Agregation in F.nglish.
Georgette Vernier, Baccal.uiii.it in Latin
Languages and Philosophy 16-17, was a
student at the Sorlninne '17-"JO. preparing
for the License in History and Geography.
lean    Galland    took    her    Baccalaureat
Choose Freshmen Committee
The Freshman committee, which has
been chosen by 1922 lo run the class for
the first five weeks, is Elisabeth Price,
Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, Vt.;
Elizabeth Pearson, Germantown Friends'
School; Blanche McRae, Northrop Col-
legiate School, Minneapolis, Minn.; Vir-
ginia Miller, Abbot Academy, Andover,
Mass., and   Dorothy Gardner.
Miss Gardner and Miss McRae were
presidents of student government in their
respective schools. Miss Pearson was
\ ice-president of her class and head of
student government.
The plan of having a Freshman com-
mit lee was adopted by 1920 for 1922.
Before that time the Freshman class was
run by a temporary chairman chosen by
the Juniors.
Montpellier,   '18,   and   studied   there    for!'                                    (',ad>'s   Boone,
two  veirs                                                           ;"          "   Birmingham   University, will be
Sixteen  Changes in  Personnel of
Faculty and Staff
Sixteen new members have been added to
the faculty and staff for 1920-21, to take
the place of those who are leaving. The
list of resignations includes Dr. Brooks,
associate professor in Physiology and Bio-
Chemistry; Miss Dorado, instructor in
Spanish; Miss Bezanson, instructor in So-
cial Economy and Social Research; Dr.
Derry, instructor in Political Economy;
Dr. Bye, instructor in History of Art; Dr.
Ware, instructor in History; Louise Wat-
son, '07, Business Manager; Dr. Rea, Resi-
dent Physician; Alice Hawkins, '07,
warden of Merion; Miss Geer, reader in
English Composition. Dr. Wilmer Cave
Wright, associate professor of Greek, who
is taking her sabbatical year, has been
appointed one of the directors of the
\inerican  t lassical   School at   Athens
Dr. Anna Baker Yeats will succeed Dr.
Brooks as assistant in Physiology and Bio-
I hemislry. Dr. Yeats, \.|{ M,. Hotyoke
and Ph.D. Colombia, has been assistant in
i hemistry, Barnard, instructor in Physiol-
ogy, Mi. Hotyoke, and teaching fellow m
Physiology, University of Minnesota.
During the summer of 1918; she instructed
in Physiology and Hygiene in the Mt.
Hotyoke course for Health Officers. Since
then sin has been special investigator for
the Women's Branch of Industrial Service,
secretary of the Chicago District Ordinance
Department and instructor of Physiology
at   Wellesley.
Mr. Cyril Armstrong, of F.ngland, Uni-
versity of Cambridge, will I* lecturer in
Greek, and Mr. Joachin Ortega, M.A., the
lecturer in Spanish. Mr. Ortega has been
assistant professor of Roman Languages
in the University of Wisconsin and at the
University of Chicago. He holds the boa
orary position of assistant professor in
Spanish universities,
In the department of Social and  Indus-
trial   Research   Miss   Gladys   Boone,    \ M
PRESIDENT THOMAS SKETCHES
ITINERARY OF TRAVELS
Motors Eleven Thousand Miles in
Eleven Countries
Specially Contributed by President
Thomas
I understand that you think that the
readers of the College News may be inter-
ested in the itinerary of my travels and the
names of my traveling companions. I left
New York on the Cunard liner Aquitania
on June 30, 1919, with Dean Helen Taft
(Bryn Mawr, 1915), now Mrs. Manning.
I returned on the same steamer, reaching
New York September 17th. having been
away just one year, four months and
seventeen days, of which thirty-two and
a half were spent on the perfectly well
liehaved seas: seventeen days on the At-
lantic (sixteen crossing lo England and
back and one going from Tangier to
^ ksablanca on the Moroccan coast); eight
dayi on the Adriatic (going from Trieste
to Egypt and back); fourteen and a half
days on the Mediterranean (one and a
half going from Spain to North Africa and
back; six from Italy to Greece and back;
four from Athens to Crete and back; two
from Beirut, Syria, to Joppa, Palestine) ;
one day on the Aegean Sea around Salamis
to Aegina; one-half day on the Knglish
C hannel  crossing to   France and  back.
Travels With Dean Taft
I lean Taft and I spent ten days in
London, where, as hotel rooms were im-
possible to secure, my cousins Alys Russell
(Bryn Mawr '90) and Logan Pearsall
Smith lent us their house and servants;
ten days in Paris; four days in a beautiful
villa in the Ficsole hills above Florence,
which was lent us with servants and
motors by my cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Bern-
ard Bercnson. While there we motored lo
Volterra and Sienna and spent two days on
the Florence galleries. Then we went to
Rome and Naples, and from Naples we
made excursions to Pompeii and Capri anil
took by motor the beautiful coast drive
from SorentO li> Salerno after spending
one night each ai  Ravello and Amalfi.
When Dean Taft sailed for home at the
end   of   August,    I    was   joined   by   Alys
Russell, and  we spent  fifty-one days  (Scp-
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two   years.
Scandinavia is represented by Ruth
F.mma Maria Rehnhcrg, of L'psala,
Sweden.     She Studied al  the  University of
I peals '1;-'17. specializing in History and
Politics. From April, 'IS, in the present
she has been assistant in the l'psala
Library.
REELERS  AND  WRITHERS  WILL
CONFER   WITH   NOTED   POET
Robert   Frost,  the   New   Fnnland  poet,
bate    -.cured   by   the   Reeling   and
Writhing  Club to give four or rive con-
ferences   on   ihe   art   of   writing   poetry.
The    date    lias    not    vet    hrrn    dctimtely
Menders     ,.|     the     C lub     who
ma    material   tor   err.
are eligible lo confc  .
MILLICENT   CAREY   ELECTED   1920S
PERMANENT   PRESIDENT
\'>20  elected   its   permanent   class  oflfi-
cers   after   Commencement   las)   June.
MilUccntCarey is president; LoisKetmn
\ ice-president;    Martha    Find-.
BTcr;  Dorothy   Smith, corn
,rel   1 itlcll.
ntar.           �'.. la t lark, CHUI eC
m, rttl, is the date set
lust    reunion      The   second   will   le   held
1031IB
instructor. She was the first holder in 1920
of the Rose Sidgewick Memorial Fellow-
ship   and   has   studied   labor   questions   in
England   Gwendolyn Hughes, fellow but
year in Social Economy, will be statistical
for the department,
The position of business manager will
be Wed by Fdnh Adah '<". warden of
Rockefeller last rear, and that of res
dent physician by Dr. Jane S.ni.l- New
I ndish Readers are Miss Middlcmorc.
final Honor School in English l.nij
and Literature, Oxford, and Katharine
Forbes l.iddell, '10. who has studied at
rd and l<en instructor in Fngbsh
Composition at   Mi--   Madeira's  School anil
Weheale) t oUeai    Miss I id.Ml it � cousin
I    V      I     Well.    J.'
-a   Ward.    \ B    Smith.
I'h 1>    Bryn   Mawi.  IV..
leve. is nntstn
MISS  HELEN  TAFT  MARRIED
IN JULY AT MURRAY BAY
Former Acting-President Helen I.lit
u.i- married to Mr. Frederick Johnson
Manning, Instructor of History at Yale
University, on July IS. The wedding
took   place  al   tin    little   -tone  church  of
Murraj   Bay. t snada.
< )n the day oi the ceremony towns-
people and friend- iiowdcd llie lawn
before the church, vicing with each
other for the first vice oi Mis- l.nt
She eras greeted with cheers when she
arrived in a carriage covered with a home-
spun convert in honor of the occasion.
Miss Edith Morgan, of New York, was
and Mi-- Tail'- two
nephews w. re her pages The cer<
mon) \n.i- performed bj the Rev Dr.
Symionds
lii< wedding breakfast was held after
wards on tin Taft lawn when Sii l i
Gouin made a speech is  Preach on the
honor    which   had    been   conferred   "n
BSS later the bride uml groom
drove to the whan in a nativt caleche
decorated with peonies and nhhvn and
with an old tennis line, bed behind.
\-    the)     bo.ir.lnl     uV     bo.il     I
with confetti l>>                 � the
flharf,    and    w.                        ,.ul    sung    to
till   the   bent    k. !    iin.l. i    �j\        Mr     ami
ipesM    their    wetkling    tup
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