College News, 1925-05-06, Vol. 11, No. 25

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The College News
Vol. XI.   No. 25
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY,  0, 1985
Price 10 Cents
DOROTHY BLACKBURN LEE
CHOSEN 25'S SUNNY JIM
Since 1905 It Has   Been  Awarded
in Memory of Mary Helen Ritchie
to the Senior Most Like Her
OTHER PRIZES ALSO ANNOUNCED
"The Mary Helen Ritchie Memorial
Prize has been awarded to Dorothy
Blackburn Lee, of Philadelphia," said
-Miss Park in her..May Day chapel ad-
dress. Of all the announcements the
awarding of this prize, popularly known
as "Sunny Jim," was the most eagerly
awaited and the most enthusiastically re-
ceived.
It is awarded solely on the basis of
character and personality, but the quali-
. fications have gradually changed since it
was first awarded in 1905. In that year
Mary Helen Ritchie, an Alumna and
gcaduatc student of Bryn Mawr and Sec-
retary of the College from 189<�-lit04. died
and the scholarship was established in
her memory to be awarded to the Senior
most like Miss Ritchie. The faculty on
the committee awarding this priie are
supposedly those who knew Miss Ritakic,
* and therefore they have a firm conceal
lion of what this prize stands for. Under-
graduate opinion, on the other hand, has
passed through many phases.
At one time it was regarded as a hard-
hick prize to be given to the Senior who.
having had hardships, had borne them
bravely. Lately it was designated as a
reward for "faithfulness and  efficiency."
Dorothy Lee, '25, was prepared at the
Irwin School in Philadelphia and began
her undergraduate career in Bryn Mawr
as Temporary Class Chairman. She has
been especially interested in athletics dur-
ing all her four years in college. As a
Freshman, she was captain of the first
hockey and jMvimming teams of her class.
In her Sophomore year, she was Secre-
tary of the Athletic Association. She
was a member of the executive board oM
the Athletic Association as Swimming
Captain her Junior 'year and also Vice
President of her class. As a Senior, she
was Varsity Hockey Captain�and Presi-
dent of the Athletic Association.
Delia Nichols Smith. '26, was awarded
the Brooke Hall Memorial Scholarship as
the student who, in the middle of her Jun-
ior year, has the highest honor point rec-
ord. She had 219 honor points on 84
hours, or 194 honor points on "5 hours.
Four other students were also consid-
ered for this scholarship: A. Adams, '26,
who had 188 honor points on 75 hours;
M. Arnold, '26, with 176}4 honor points
on 74yz hours; C. Hardy, '26, with 172J4
honor points on ~V/i hours, and G.
Thomas, '26, with 194 honor points on
88 hours, or 172 points on 75 hours,
v/ Prepared by the High School, East
Orange, New Jersey. D. Smith was the
Matriculation .Scholar for New York,
New Jersey and Delaware in 1922-2:), and
Alumnae Regional Scholar 1922-25. In
her Sophomore year she was the James
E. Rhoads Sophomore scholar, while this
last year she was the James E. Rhoads
Junior scholar and the Elizabeth Duane
("�illcspic scholar in American History.
. Besides the Brooke Hall Memorial
* Scholarship. D. Smith, '�6. was awarded
the Charles S. Hinchman, Memorial
Scholarship for special ability in one or
both group subjects and the New Jersey
Regional Scholarship. Her group is
English and History.
Others receiving scholarships in the
Senior year were as follows: A. Adams,
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"PIRATES" SHOW MORAL BEAUTY,
.SCORNING INTEREST FOR DUTY
Best  Comic  Parts  Are  The Deadly
Foes, Edward and the Pirate King
Glee Club's performance of "The Pirates
of Penzance" at Robert! .Hall, Haverford
College, on last Friday and Saturday eve-
nings, was supreme comedy. Roused by a
familiar and stirring tune in the overture,
the audience caught the magnificent cn-
tlmsias'Hi of the actors for the chortling
joys of Gilbert and Sullivan, and a "rare
good hiiitior" filled the theatre.
Even pictorially considered, the pro-
duction was exciting. A native of Corn-
wall might have protested at the rather
cubistic rocky coast of the First Act;
but what a wild, ragged effect they
achieved! What pathos they gave to the
line, "We lay and wept upon the rocks!'-
The Ruined Chapel was delightfully
Gothic in the eighteenth century sense,
with its trembling pillars and lovely rose
window. It was very skillfully contrived
to create an impression of size and dark
hiding-places.
The costumes, too, deserve great praise
for their brilliant but harmonious color
scheme, their appropriate styles, and the
convincing properties with which they
were equipped, real Gordon Dry bottles,
handsome pistols, and  wicked knives.
The performance itself was excellent.
ill spite of a lack of good, trained voices.
There was every evidence of line training
and thorough drilling in the work of both
choruses   and    principals.     With   a    few
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MAY DAY IS CELEBRATED
"�   IN TRADITIONAL MANNER
1926's May  Pole  Most  Successfully
Wound of All on the Green   -
"Hark!   Hark!  the  lark at  heavens  gale
sings
And Phoebus 'gins to arise!"
;tii'l the rest of it waked the "good
Shakespeare-fearing" Seniors on May
first to the delightful surprise of May
baskets at their doors. Turning Oxonian
for a brief moment' (.only a moment, for
$200 A MINUTE! OVER
THE TOP OF THE QUOTA
�'   '      *
Meeting of Alumnae Leaders With
Undergraduates Brings Pledges
to Swell Endowment
ALUMNAE  SET   STANDARD
undergraduates of Bryn Mawr, gathered
such is not natural to Bryn MawrT they"' u The gymnasium ~H�-M*�.-l,ouiB Slade;
sang to Phoebus and his horses on Rocke-
feller Tower as if it were Magdalen. De-
scending to breakfast with a Hunting
Song, they paused while Valinda Hill,
Sophomore President, crowned Caroline
Remak, .Senior President, Queen of the
May. In fact, one of the most Eliza-
bethan touches of the morning was the
magnificent carelessness with which Miss
Remak wore her wreath in the academic
gloom of Taylor.
Though perhaps the most Elizabethan
tendency of the undergraduates today is a
certain frankness and vividness of speech,
May Day celebrations were in good Eng-
lish Tradition. Vigorous dancing about
May Poles, rolling of hoops (involving the
consummation of many interesting rela-
tionships), and a great many songs about
the spring, the "hide cuckoo," and rising
early in the morning, changed the modern
efficiency of the working day campus to
a delightful Anglo-Saxon rowdiness. Ton
often is this missing from our blighted,
intellectual youth!
RIGHTS OF MEN MUST REPLACE
OLD THEORY OF INDIVIDUALISM
Dr. Holmes Finds God in the Spirit of
Humanity, the Group Mind
"Democracy is in a period of transition
from the old theory of the Rights of
Man to the new theory of the Rights of
Men; from a reign of 'liberty' to a reign
of 'law'," said Dr. John Haynes Holmes,
lecturing in chapel last Sunday evening.
In the middle of the eighteenth century
democracy entered the world. The idea
upon which it was then based was taken
from Rousseau's interpretation of history,
from the notion that each man is pri-
marily interested in protecting his own
rights, and that in order to do so men
formed a social contract. Rousseau's
reading of history was entirely fallacious
and unscholarly from beginning to end.
This old idea of liberty may be summed
up as being* the right of the hnjrfidual to
live out his desires, attributes, and quali-
ties free from outside intrusion.
We are now beginningto see that such
liberty is impossible when men live to-
gether. Moreover though a Robinson
Crusoe on a desert island could have all
the rights of man, h</|would never think
of them. It is only when we have to ad-
just our lives to the lives of other men
that we think of liberty as an aim. At
that moment, too. limitations and restric-
tions are necessarily put on our rights.
We can no longer enjoy liberty on our
own terms. We must enjoy liberty on
the terms imposed by other people. In
days gone by, when a man wanted more
rights, he used to move out to the frontier.
Because there is no longer a frontier,
people have grown restless. There will
be popular revolt until w.e .learn to think
of democracy in terms of the will of all
of us.
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MERION TENNIS TEAM
DEFEATS BRYN MAWR
Charis   Denison   Wins Match  While
Four Others Lose
The Merion Cricket Club, winning four
out of five matches, easily walked away
with the honors in the tennis played
against  Varsity on   Saturday,  May 2.
Beatrice Pitney, '27, playing nupiber
one on the Varsity team, was briskly de-
feated 6-:i, (i-4, by Miss Anne Townsend.
who holds the thirteenth place in the na-
tional woman's ranking. During the lirst
set B. Pitney seemed unable to adjust
herself to the slashing, infallible gi/lue of
her opponent. In the second set the
match was less one-sided. The Bryn
Mawr player was able to gain the offen-
sive f6r a short time, winning three of
Miss Townsend's serves by hard drives
down the sidelines, and passing her many
times at the net.
Playing with dynamic force and energy,
match, Mrs. John Bell defeated D. O'Shca.
:.'�). 10-8, ti-1 In the first set it was nip
and tuck. Mrs. Bell played pretty shots,
but D. O'Shca. although she seldom moved,
placed beautiful!) and thus outwitted her
Opponent From the beginning of the sec-
ond set D. O'Shca lost steadily as Mrs. Bell
atta ked with more and more strength.
In a long and comparatively slow
match Mrs. John Bell defeated Deidrc
O'Shea. '�-!(>, 1"-*. '">-l. In the first set it
was nip and tuck. Mrs. Bell played
pretty shots, hut D. O'Shea. although she
seldom moved, placed beautifully and thus
outwitted her opponent. Front the Jjc-
ginning of the second set D. O'Shea lost
steadily as Mrs. Bell attacked with more
and more strength.
Charis Denison. ':;�;. who defeated Mrs.
Watts 7-5. 7-5. was the only member of
the  Bryn   Mawr team  who   succeeded in
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At T .:t�t on Monday evening Angela
Johnston, '26, President of the Under-
graduate     Association,     introduced     the
chairman of the successful 1U20 $2,000,0(1(1
Endowment Drive to raise professors' sal-
aries, and of the 1985 $400,000 Fund to
give the college an auditorium and a
music department. At 8.48 the under-
graduates had pledged $:u.ooo, $4000
more than the quota promised in Feb-
ruary.    Almost $200 a minute!                 *j.
Standing before a wildly applauding
audience. Mrs. Slade told the story of
the 1920 Drive, when other colleges set-
t ng out for their own funds, looked to
Bryn Mawr to lead the way.
"With two million dollars in our
hands," said Mrs. Slade, "the Trustees
rcai/cd the power of the Alumnae. Then
we said we wanted music at Bryn Mawr.
We got it; but the time came wl)en we
saw we could no longer merely hold
out our empty hands every year to sup-
port the Department. 1 came to Miss
Park and asked her if music was really
wanted here. She said to me: 'Since we
have had music, it is as if we had been
in a dark place and suddenly someone had
opened a window and let in the sunlight.'
So we started the Drive."
Mrs. Slade went on to describe the sac-
rifices  Alumnae all over the country are
making   for  the   fund,  even  though   they
will   perhaps   never   even   see   the   audi
torium.
"An Alumna who is earning $1000 a
year is giving us $100. Others are pledg-
ing small monthly amounts for the next
two years. �
"Hut on the first of May," continued
Mrs. Slade, "we found ourselves with ex-
.actly one-half our amount raised. Today
we have $808,000; that means we must
git $50,000 a week for four weeks. But
1  know we will succeed!"
The same sure confidence ill the friends
of the college was expressed in Mrs. Car-
rol Millers speech. When the final day
of the spring offensive- comes, according
to Mrs. Miller, Bryn Mawr's leading
Alumna in politics. President Park, will '
stand on the steps of Taylor Hall and like
Queen Victoria in the Pennsylvania
Dutchman's campaign speech, exclaim
with surprise: "Mein Gott! What a quota
that was!"                                                       *
Mrs. Durfee, of Boston, spoke for the
workers there. Then Mrs. Chadwick
Collins'. Head of Publicity, gave the fig-
ures of the undergraduate contributions
to date, including $18.20 from the I.omas
l.ee-Saunders Bicycle Co. and $100 from
the sale of sandwiches. She explained
that the estimate of $400,000 did not take
nto consideration the cost of furnishing -
I he building. She called upon the under-
graduates present to pledge the $'JOO0
still needed for their sum a- gallantly as
they bad stood by the crisis of May Day.
While applause and singing rang
through Ahe gymnasium, collectors rushed
about gathering in pledge- lor cash sum-.
for $4 a month or $2 a month for two
years.     Frantic arithmetic  followed.
��$27 000."     announced     the     chairman.
Make it a good round number."
Another   rush   for   pledge   -lips.     Miss
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