College News, 1922-06-07, Vol. 08, No. 25

              Copyright, 1922, by The College News

Volume VIII.   No. 25.
BRYN MAWR, P�., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7,  1922 �
Price 1Q Cents
DR. W. H. WELCH TO BE
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
Program   Follows   Customary  Plan
x    Starting with Procession from
. Library at 10:30 o'clock
PROMINENT GUESTS PRESENT
Commencement exercises will be held
in the gymnasium, on Thursday, at 11
A. M. President Thomas will confer
the degrees for the last time, as she is
resigning at the end of this year. A
number of prominent people, whom she
is entertaining at the Deanery, will be
present. Dr. Welch, who' is Commence-
ment speaker, is a well-known pathologist.
During the war he served as colonel,
O.R.C., U.S.A., and received the Distin-
guished Service Medal.
Order of Commencement:
1.    At Commencement, Seniors are
seated in rows of six on each side and
forward of the central aisle of .the gym-
nasium, and this space is ribboned off.
The front seats are filled first. No devi-
ation from this seating as assigned can
be made, and Senior marshals for Com-
mencement are responsible for the cor-
rect seating of the class.
2.    Candidates for the M.A. sit alpha-
betically in rows of seats behind the en-
trance aisle, first on the left of the cen-
tral aisle, then on the Tight, beginning
from the aisle.
3.    Former members of the Senior
class sit behind the Seniors in front of
the entrance aisle, as space permits.
4.    Marshals sit directly in front of the
platform; diploma marshals, on the
platform.
5.. The president, directors, guests of
fbe College, faculty, staff, fellows, candi-
dates for the doctorate, and the speaker
occupy the platform.
6.    Undergraduates sit in the galleries.
7.    The section of the procession form-
ing not  later than 'l0.40 A. M., June 2,
(Continued on pace 8)
FOURTEEN  EMINENT  EDUCATORS
TO  8PEAK  AT  BANQUET
Mr. Taft and Mrs. Manning Among Those
to Honor President Thomas �
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PRESIDENT TrfbMAS
One of the principal events of this
year's commenceTnent is the dinner to
be given in honor of President Thomas
in the gymnasium tomorrow night.
Fourteen distinguished speakers all re-
lated to Bryn Mawr students or Alumnae
will pay tribute to Miss Thomas in five-
minute speeches. Dr. Rufus Jones, Presi-
dent of "the Board of Directors, will pre-
side at the dinner, while Mrs. Louise
Brownell Saunders will act as toast
mistress. The list of speakers in their
orders is:
Chief Justice Taft of the United States
(father); President Goodnow, Johns Hop-
kins (father); President Pendleton,
Wellesley (President Woman's College);
Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, Rosemary
(Head Mistress) ;. President Mackenzie,
Daltiousie (father) ; Mrs. Helen Taft Man-
ning (Alumna, Sometime Dean and Acting
President); President Garficld, Williams
(father); Professor Tennent, Bryn Mawr
(Professor and husband) ; President Vin-
cent, Rockefeller Foundation (father);
President Woolley, Mount Holyoke (Presi-
dent Woman's College); President Hib-
ben, Princeton (father); Mr. Norman
Hapgood (husband); Dean Comstock,
Smith (President American Association of
University Women); Professor Paul
Shorey, Chicago (Sometime Bryn Mawr
Professor); Mrs. Caroline McCormick
Slade  (Alumna).
Bryn Mawr, like every College, has an
atmosphere and a tradition peculiarly its
own. Since Miss Thomas' presidency be-
gan, the successive classes which have had
their part in making, this tradition have
found that its center, its well-spring and
moving force is the personality of Miss
Thomas. She has so identified herself with
the College that to think of Bryn Mawr
is to think of her. The success of the
College has been her success.
Her students know that it is not only
within the College that Miss Thomas has
been successful, but that wider services to
women's education and a varied interest
in other causes have combined to give her
the position of prestige which she holds.
Yet they feel confident that her first
thought has always been for the College,
and that they themselves have always
claimed hef best attention and most untir-
ing service. With all the demands upon
her time which her outside activities in-
volve, and with air the unnumbered details
of administration to direct, she never al-
lows anything to come between her and
the needs or interests of the students.
Since the time when, as Dean, she helped
to found the Self Government Association,
she has looked upon that organization as
one of the achievements of which the vol-
lege has most reason to be proud. Because
she has reliance in the ability of students
to govern themselves, and in their willing-
ness to do so fairly, the Association has
had a power and independence unparalleled
in other women's colleges. There is no
organized activity of the College, however
small, which cannot count upon her atten-
tion and support. Vet the force of her
personal influence she brings steadily to
bear upon what she believes are the best
and most useful aspects of college life.
These she encourages with all her tireless
en^isiasm. The Undergraduate Associa-
tion, the Christian Association, the French
and English and Liberal Clubs, the College
periodicals, owe much of their vigor to her
interest and co-operation.
� President Thomas does not restrict her
influence to organizations. The social life
and amusements of the College interest her
no less. Most especially does she cherish
the picturesque traditions of Lantern Night
and May Day, which in their different ways
symbolize the ideals of Bryn Mawr, and
which, being more permanent than the
buildings of the College, will hear witness
in the future of Miss Thomas' idealism.
Her invariable attendance and careful
criticism of plays sets a high standard for
dramatic production, and it is a disap-
pointed class which finds her place of
honor empty at the rising of the curtain.
Her generous hospitality in the deanery
makes it possible for the' College to hear
many eminent speakers who could not
otherwise be invited to Bryn Mawr.
Senior receptions, looked forward to with
eager anticipation, rank high among the
social events of the year, and afford an
opportunity for the personal acquaintance-
ships with President Thomas, which are
the most delightful privilege of Bryn Mawr
students.
Yet all these particular interests in the
daily lives of her students are but subordi-
nate to her all-important ideal of an inflex-
ibly high academic standard. This stand-
ard of scholarship is linked with an am-
bition to make leaders of Bryn Mawr
women. She teaches leadership. All the
dynamic force of her personality she directs
to this end By precept, by example, by
her confidence and pride in her students
she brings this power to bear upon them
from their first year to their last It is
for this power and inspiration which they,
the students, will always thank her most.
DEAN SMITH RESIGNS TO '
DIRECT SUMMER SCHOOL
Eleanor Bontecou, '13, Doctor df Law,
Appointed as Acting Dean. Two
-   Wardens  Resigning
MISS. HODGES CHOSEN WARDEN
Dean Smith's resignation as Dean of
the College in order to become dire'etor
of the Summer School, was accepted'
with regret at a meeting of the Directors,
on May 19th. Miss Eleanor- Bontecou,
AJB., Bryn Mawr, 1913, has been ap-
pointed Acting Dean for the year 1922-23
to fill out Ucan Smith's unexpired term.
Miss Bontecou, who was the choice
both of 1'rcsulenf Thomas and President-
elect Park, graduated from Bryn Mawr
in. 1913 with a very high grade. Though
her group was Spanish and Latin, she
also took advanced work in Philosophy
and Psychology, and all the writing
courses in College. Miss Bontecou won
the Brooke-Hale Scholarship her Junior
year and was Warden of Denbigh in
1913-1914. She recjtved her Juris Doc-
tor decree in 1917 from the New York
Law School and was admitted to the
Bar in 1919. Since then she has been
a practising attorney and councillor-at-
Taw. During the past year she travelled
abroad and on her return decided to give
up the law for educational work.
Two New Wardens Appointed
Miss Louise Hodges '18, has been
chosen Junior Warden in place of Miss
Shipley, who is going abroad to take
her Ph.D. at the University of London.
Miss Hodges had executive experience
in war work and was Secretary of the
Holton-Arms School in Washington.
Although no one has been definitely
appointed to succeed Miss Bates, resign-
ing, it is rumored, to go to China, Miss
Louise Dillingham '16, is expected to be
Warden of Merion.
DR.  FRANCI8  PEABODY  GIVE3
BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS
Religion is a "Way," Not an Answer to
All Questions .
"We know not whither we arc going.
How can we know the way?" asked Dr.
Francis Peabody, of Cambridge, Mass.,
preaching the baccalaureate sermon in
the gymnasium last Sunday night. "How
can we have a road unless there is some-
where where the road goes? That seems
the very beginning of wisdom.
Dr. Peabody went on to say that
although it is true that the end discovers
the way, very often the end itself can't
be found. " He explained, however, that
this need not worry us, because of Jesus'
assurance that the chd may be found
even if we don't know the way, for the
light of immediate righteousness will
guide us. We must act in view of what
is right for the present. "We do not
know how our industrial conflicts will
end, but the straight way of equity lies
before us."
"What we have to fear is lest we go
the wrong .way. We must think of our
religion, not as an answer to all ques-
tions, but as a way, an approach of mind
and will to the mind and will of God,
by following which life becomes rational." *
1922  GIVES   UP   STEPS   TONIGHT
ACCORDING TO OLD CUSTOM
There will be singing on Senior Steps
this evening, as soon as the entertainment
in the cloisters is ended. The Seniors
will give up the j^ps, according to the old
tradition, and w9< slowly away, singing
their class hymn, while the Juniors take
their place in silence.
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