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BRYN MAWI^ (AND- WAYNE), PA..   WEDNESDAY, 1V&RCH 23 1927
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PRICE,   10 CENTS
R. CORNELIUS WINS
PISTINCTIVE AWARD
Newly Established Fellowship
<   Given  to Julia
Ward.
OTHER   AWARDS   MADE
Still Competing
In the competition for the Edito-
rial Board of the (^>u.EGg News
are M. Grace, 1929, and C. Howe,
E. Rice, C. Peckham, E. Stix.JV.
Bang, of 1930.
.Chief among the Graduate awards an-
nounced last Friday in Chapel by Miss
Park is the Helen and Cecile Robel Fel-
lowship, founded in 1980 and already
-awarded six times, which this year goes1
to Roberta Douglas Cornelius of Lynch-
burg. Virginia. Miss Cornelius graduated
from the Randolph-Macon College and
was awarded her M. A. at the University
of Chicago. From 19ll-:.�fi she was an
instructor and Adjunct and Associate
Professor in English at Randolph-Macon.
.This year she is a Fellow in English at
Bryn   Mawr
Professor Carleton Brown says that
"Miss Cornelius' special faculty lies in
her ability to apply intelligence to the
laborious process of research. She stud-
ies but she also thinks, and when she is
thinking she also perceives. As a result
she seldom has taken a problem in hand
without making some contribution
towards its solution."
The Helene and Cecile Robel Fellow-
ship is very elastic. Of the value of
$1500, it may be held in any center of
-education" or as a traveling fellowship.
It is not necessary that it aid study for a
degree but may be used in any way the
holder may choose with the approval of
the  faculty.
Mrs.   Workman   Leaves  New   Fellow-
ship.
This year the Faculty awards a new
fellowship made possible by the thought-
ful generosity of Fanny Bullock Work-
man and her husband. Dr. W. Hunter
Workman. The Fanny Bullock Work-
man Scholarship Fund of the value of
$30,000 provided for in her will has been
placed at the immediate disposal of Bryn
Mawr College by Dr. \V. Hunter Work-
man. In accordance with the terms of
tne bequest and with the approval of Dr.
Workman, the income of the fund, $1500
will be devoted to a graduate fellowship
awarded annually by the faculty of Bryn
Mawr College and to be held during a
year of study or research abroad. The
holder of the fellowship must be a stu-
dent of proven albility who is working
toward   the   degree  of   Doctor  of   Phil-
DR. WELLS GETS
A FELLOWSHIP
Will Study German Municipal
Government Since
the War.
F. DE LACUNA WINS EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP,
TOPPING ALL RECORDS WITH 304 POINTS
FROM  MEMORIAL FUND
Dr. Roger Hewes WellS^_Associate
Professor of Politics at Bryn Mawr, has
been awarded a Fellowship by the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Founda-
tion. Dr. Wells is one of fifty-three
scholars from all parts of the country
to receive such an award, out of eleven
hundred who were considered. This foun-
dation was established by former Senator
and Mrs. Guggenheim as a memorial to a
son who died- in 1922. The Fellowships
go to students who have demonstrated
unusual capacity for productive scholar-
ship, for use in research on some definite
subject.                                                       '
Municipal Government in the German
Common wealth will be thf topic to which
Dr. Wells intends to devote himself. "I
discovered in giving my seminary on
municipal government." said Dr. Wells
to a representative of the College News.
"that there is no material in English,
available for students, covering the post-
war period in Germany. While much at-
tention is paid to the Federal Govern-
ment, the German cities are noticed only
when they float a new bond issue. The
republican form by which Germany is
now governed has caused a modification
more or less of the municipal govern-
ment."
Dr. Wells will make Berlin his head-
quarters because of its excellent library
facilities, anf! Iiecause he can then. also,
confer with Professor Walther Nordon.
a German authority on the subject. Field
trips will also be necessary because, as in
this country, there is considerable variety
among the different cities. Dr. Wells
plans to spend all of the year 1927-28
abroad.
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RELIGION NORMAL
AND INEVITABLE
First  to   Come   Under Single
Major Rule, 77 Has^tec-
ord in Honor Points.
Other   Faiths   Fast   Adapting
Themselves to Tenets
of Christianity.
STUDY   HIGHEST   FORM
Religion is inevitable, and Christianity
is the greatest religion, is President
Mackenzie's answer to the all-pervading
questions "What is religion?" and "What
do we mean by God?", as he explained
n his address to the college on Sunday.
March 20th.   *
In the last hundred years he said, more
fntelligent people have been devoting
their studies to religion than to any other
science; they have used instruments of
precision and have explored the remotest
corners of the world. Out of this amaz-
ing devotion results have come: their
unanimous decision is that religion is a
normal and inevitable function of human
nature.
"Two historic attempts have been made
to establish a society without religion.
The first was the French Revolution, a
very brief interlude; the second is that
of the Russian Communists who spend
their energy in building a machine to
fight the religion whose power they fear.
Many Definitions of Religion.
"Religion is a universal fact�but what
a strange one! It has been variously
defined as the conservation of values,
particularly the highest�the effort of
mankind to preserve the ideal, the beau-
tiful, the good. But religion is*-more
-than that; it needs a more objective defi-
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Study Sociology in
Bowery at Junior Month
"To show students the meaning of
page 87 in sociology in terms of the
bowery, is the purpose of Junior Month,"
sai#Miss Clare Tousely speaking before
the Junior Class on Wednesday, March
16. Miss Tousely is Assistant Director
of the Charity Organization Society, and
has entire charge of instructing the
twelve Juniors from Eastern colleges
who will spend from July 3 to 30 in New
York this summer.
As an illustration of how they study
the sixteen branches of Social work, Miss
tousely told of an investigation into re-
form schools.   First, the group was lec-
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Tickets on Sale
Tickets for The Truth About
Blayds will be on sale Wednesday,
March 30, at the Publicity Office.
No reservations will.be taken be-
fore that date.
Dramatic League Vice
Pres. to Speak on Shaw
Dr. Archibald Henderson, head of the
department of Mathematics at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina and author of
the only biography of George Bernard
Shaw, will speak in Rockefeller Hall,
Thursday evening. March 31st, on Shaw's
drama.                       �
Dr. Henderson's talk will be of two-
fold interest,�as a comparison with Miss
Drew*s talk which stressed Shaw, the
moralist, and also as a background for
the Theatre Guild production of Pygma-
lion which will be given in, Philadelphia
the week beginning April 4th, with the
original  New York cast.
As an authority in the strangely diverse
fields of mathematics and the drama,
Dr. Henderson is indeed an unusual
ngure. He is the author of numerous
works on these as well as other subjects,
including Mark Twain, George Bernard
Shaw.   His   Life and   Works, European
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VARSITY DEFEATS
TEMPLE BY 38-34
Bryn   Mawr   Leads  Through-
out With Temple Follow-
ing in Hot Pursuit.
VARSITY GUARDS SHINE
Youiyg to Lead Self-Government
-Supported by Able Retinue
The Self-Govemment Association has
elected Josephine Young for President,
Virginia Atmore for Vice-President,
Magdalen Hupfel for Senior member and
Alexandra Dalziel for first Junior
member.               '
Miss Young was one of- the class
Chairmen Freshman year as well as
Freshman member of the Self-Govem-
ment Board. Her Sophomore year she
was Vice-President of the class, treas-
urer of the Christian Association, and
Chairman of <he �ophonlbre Dance Com-
mittee. This year she is Junior Class
President and was first Junior member
of the Self-Government Board.
Miss Atmore was Class Song Mistress
and Hall Armotmcer Sophomore year, and
Junior member of the  Self-Government
Board this year.    She  is captain of the
Varsity Archery team.
Miss Hupfel was temporary chairman
and Vice-President of her class Fresh-
man year, member of the Religious Meet-
ings Committee of the Christian Associa-
tion since Freshman year, and Hall Presi-
dent of Pembroke West this year. She
played "Ben" in Icebound and the title
role in pisraeli, and is a member of the
Players.
Miss Dalziel was temporary chairman,
Secretary, and Self-Government member
and member of'the- Religious Meetings
for 1929 last yVar; tris year she is Vice-
President of her^sjaM Self-Government
and member of the Reh'gjpus Meetings
Committee. She has been captain and
manager of class water-polo and played
on the Va'rsity Hockey team last year.
Varsity outpointed Temple, 38-34, in
the basketball game Saturday morning.
Although close the game was not nearly
so thrilling as the Baltimore and Swarth-
more games of the past two weeks: the
playing was not as fast nor the spirit of
rivalry as keen.
In the first half Temple's passing and
teamwork were obviously better than
ours, but Huddleston's and Freeman's
really marvelous guarding kept us in the
lead. Their forwards had the ball far
more often than we did but they could
not make use of their opportunities. All
the players on both sides stuck to their
opponents admirably, but our guards
were unquestionably the oustanding
players. The end of the half came and
we led 15-8.           *
The second half consisted of a steady
succession of goals* First one side would
pop the ball in and then the other. And
so they jockeyed to the finish. Temple's
basket ability improved: they crept up to
within one point of us. Lojcres snatched
us out of danger with two long, clean
goals. Then a beautiful looping shot
by Temple. Another. And so it went;
but always we kept slightly in the lead.
When the whistle blew the count was
38-34 in our favor.   The line-up was:
Bryn Mawr � Loines, 22221-22222:
Johnson, 222-2222221; Dean, Walker,
Freeman,   Huddles ton.
Temple�Allen. 2-2; Bender, 22222211-
111111; Beatty, 222-22; Templeton. Rick-
ard, Gunson. Subs.�McCormick, Lom-
bard.
TWO   SUMMAS   IN   1927
Smashing all j>revious scholastic rec-
ords bv a margin of over twenty honor
points, Frederica Ann is Lopez de Leo de
I.aguna was awarded the fortieth Euro-
pean Fellowship of Bryn Mawr College
by President Park on behalf of the Fac-
ulty in Chapel last Friday morning.
The European Fellowship, which pro-
vides for a year of study abroad in any
country and in any university, according
to the holder's. discretion, is awarded
each year to a member of the Senior Class
who "by her college record, by the qual-
ity of her work, her promise of con-
structive ability, intellectual interest and
jjeadiness of purpose shows the fairest
promise as well as the finest perform-
ance." It was founded in 1889 when the
tirst class graduated and has been
awarded ever since.
Former Record 279 Honor Points.
Be hire the honor point system went
into effect, the highest numerical record
was held by Cora. Hardy Jarrett in 1899
with an average of 93.45. Translated
into honor points this would be 258�as
Miss Park pointed out�the same record
held by the third student of the class of
1927. Since 1899 the highest record is
held by Dorothy Burr, 1923, with 279
honor points. This record was almost
equalled in 1926 by Delia Smith, with
278 honor points.
Frederica de Laguna. however, has .104
honor points on 105 hours and 322 honor ^
points if her extra hours of college credit
are reckoned. Throughout her college
career she has obtained no grade below
Credit, and she has only seventeen hours
of Credit in all with the rest High
Credits. Miss Park said that this numer-
ical display was completely unimportant
in comparison with the mental qualities
which lay behind it, "brilliance of mind,
ease and accuracy of attack on her work,
and to back it all and turn it from glitter
to gold, steadiness and unflagging inter-
est."
Since Miss de Laguna was prepared at
the Phebe Anna Thorne School and since
both her mother and her father are pro-
fessors in Philosophy at Bryn Mawr,
Miss de Uguna with her scholastic
achievement has indeed shown herself
"a daughter of the regiment."
Faculty Praises Pillsbury.
Miss Park said that the Faculty in a
special vote Thursday evening directed
her to speak of Miss Margaret Elizabeth
Pillsbury's four years of continuous
work in Mathematics with special appli-
cation  to  Chemistry  which  showed her
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Lantern Elects
The Lantern takes great pleasure
in announcing that Elizabeth Bige-
low and Frances Frenaye, of 1930.
have been elected to the editorial
board
Will Compare English
and French Literatures
M. Cons. Professor of .French at
Princton and formerly Professor at
Bryn Mawr: will give an informal talk
on the relative importance of French
and Knglish Literature in Rockefeller
Hall. Friday afternoon. April 1st. from
5 to 8, under the auspices of the French
Club.
M. Cons left Bryn Mawr to fight in
the French army and served as observa-
tcur throughout the World War. When
he returned. He gave Rryn Mawr a very
interesting and thrilling account of his
experiences. Mme. Cons was also active
in War Work, and organized a home at
Belle Vue, near Paris, where French
soldiers, made homeless as a result of
German invasions, might spend their
leaves and  vacations.
A very eminent scholar specializing in
the literature of the Middle Ages, M.
Cons is believed to have discovered the
author of the farce. I.e. Maitre Pathelin,
who has remained anonymous until now.
M. Cons will come to Bryn Mawr as
an old friend. His visit is a proof of
his unceasing interest and friendship for
this college.                      *