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College News
VOL. XIV.:   No. 18
BRYN MAWR   (AND* WAYNE). PA..   WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928
PRICE,   10" CENTS
ROSAMOND CROSS
HEADS SELF-60V.
Large    Majorities    Elect   Fry
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Board.
UNANIMOUS FOR CROSS
Nominated by the unanimous vote of
her class, Rosamond Cross, '29, was
elected President of the Self-Government
Association on March 14. by a vote which
was also practically unanimous. The
nomination by the whole college which
usually precedes the final choice showed
such, an overwhelming majority for Miss
Cross that it was automatically declared
to constitute an election.
Frances Elizabeth Fry, '29, will be next
year's Vice President, as a result of last.
. week's elections, and Barbara Channing
will be the first Senior Member. All
three were on the Board this year, but
will be formally installed in their new
positions, and will take over the reins of
government from the hands of its pres-
ent leaders some time before April 5,
�after the Junior and Sophomore mem-
bers of the new Board have been elected.
Miss Cross's college record shows an
extraordinary and ever broadening range
of activities, even for a President of Self-
Government. Starting in her Freshman
year as a member tof the Employment
Committee of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation, a position which she still retains,
she became_jn her Sophomore year a
member of the Vocational Committee of
Undergrad, of the Maid's Committee of
C. A� of the Business Board of the Col-
lege N^s, and the captain of 1929's sec-
ond hockey team. Now in Mr Junior
year she has held places oh three more
<��. .'-'.'Hfefi^UiM^pior Committee for the
Freshmen, the Membership Committee of
C. A. and the Curriculum Committee. She
is also class Vice President, besides being
still on the Business Board of the News,
First  Junior   Member   of   Self-Govern-
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Junior8, Attention!
Bryn Mawr's Junior Month
Representative for this July will
be chosen by April 13. .If you are
'at all interested be sure i >iee
Mrs. M. P. Smith and M�
Saunders, '28, about it.
SMITH CLOSE ON
HOOVER'S HEELS
Straw Vote frdm College for
U.    S.   President   Shows
Interesting Results.
338 BALLOTS ARE CAST
Hoist Black Sail
Varsity   Crushed   By   Superior
Swarthmore Basketball
Champions.
Varsity was played to a standstill by
the champion Swarthmore team in the
last game of the season. There can be
no crying over this spilt milk. In defeat
the team was far better than in its vari-
ous preceding victories. On Saturday it
was a team, a fighting, co-ordinated
team. Up till the last quarter we gave
the champions an even battle. Then we
cracked�and the final score was 51-28.
Everybody on our team played splen-
didly up to the unfortunate final let-
down. Loines and Humphries were both
well in tune with the basket and with
each other. Poe and Baer played a fast
interference game, and by their clever
use of back passes to the forwards and
guards, made the center position of
strategic importance to the team. Free-
man and Blanchard put up consistently
strenuous defense work and their Vinter-
ceptions were at times almost miracu-
lous. Let us hand out laurel wreaths
with the utmost impartiality and gener-
osity of spirit. They are all deserved.
And the last quarter was merely unfor-
tunate and unmentionable. Our earlier
games, more or less soft and .slow, had
not fitted us to keep to a high pitch of
fighting efficiency for the full length of
a fast game.
The Swarthmore team looked like a
champion from the start. Their team-
work, their goal-shooting, went as
smoothly as well-oiled clockwork. The
play of their captain was the high-light
of the game: once under the basket she
was absolutely infallible. The line-up
was:            ,
Bryn Mawr: Loines, '28; Baer, 11J
Poe, '29; Blanchard, '31; Freeman, '29;
Hymphreys, '31.
SwaTthmore: Jolls, Rickards, Sieger,
Walton, Salmon, Fetter.
The results of the straw vote for the
President which the News carried on last
Thursday and Friday under the auspices
of The Independent, are printed below.
The interesting thing about them is that
the vote for Smith is out of all propor-
tion to the number of Democrats that
previous censuses have shown to be in
Bryn Mawr. The total vote is. thought
to be rather high considering the gen-
eral indifference of the college."
5                Republicans.
Hoover   ...............___ 114
Hughes   ..................    21
Lowden  ...............:...      7
' Coolidge..................    11
Dawes....................    13
Borah   ...........�.----...      1
Curtis   ___;...............      1
.  Willis   .....................     1
Longworth...............     1
r
Total   ......<777........ 170
�   Democrats.
Smith  ................,.-� -   �-<���
Ritchie...................    18
Walsh  (of Montana)  .....     9
Reed (of Missouri)  .......     2
Young, O. D..............�'-&
MARGARET GREGSON, HAND PICKED OF
CORN-BELT, IS MADE EUROPEAN FELLOW
Total .....:.............  128
Faculty.
Hoover  ...................    14
Smith   ....................    13
Ritchie   .....'.
Young, O. D.
Dawes .......
Borah   ........
Lowden   ......
Walsh   .......
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Sermon on Mount Gives
Common Rights Principle
"The temple of human relationships
will never be shaken," declared Dr. Barr
last Sunday evening, "if it is founded
S* i \ ~t *^%^fre *:t<*'bimof Jeyis
. Christ. But everything flc^ws on the
foundation. When the great earthquake
of 190C shook San Francisco to its
depths, the eighteen-story Spreckles
building, \yith its very small foundation,
did not fall, though it swayed so far that
the center of gravity was carried far.
beyond the base. The builders had dug
below the shifting sands of the city,
blasted wells in the rock and laid their
foundations there, filling the space with
cement. And it did not fall, because it
was   founded  upon   a   rock."
The parallel can be traced in our spir-
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Glorious Grads!
Fellowships Awarded for Travel
and Further
Study.
Total
..........
40
Grand Total  ............338
Scope and Variety of
C. I. E. Delegation
\yThis is the third year of the C. I. E.
American Student Delegation and it is
now well established as the most inter-
esting way for the American student
to see Europe. In every foreign country
members of the National. Student Fed-
eration of that country act as guides.
Private entertaining (a ball and a garden
party have already been planned this
year- in honor of the American student
visitors) and contacts "'with European
leaders of the day make possible an in-
timacy with European life that can be
gotten  in no other way.
In planning these tours, variety with
unity was the aim. With a brief time in
London. Geneva and Paris for every
visitor, attention is concentrated in each
tour on one geographical area or orie
phase of culture. The student of lan-
guage, of history, of economics, op art,
of political science, will find in some one
itinerary an opportunity for applying his
special knowledge, while he who wants
only a' more general understanding of
European life will be satisfied by short
periods in  widely different places.
Tours A and B are for the latter and
for those whose time is limited. The
first, five weeks only, includes glimpses of
both rural and urban England, Geneva
with its international contacts, and a fort-
night divided between Paris and the
charms of southern France. Tour B con-
centrates on  six  cities,  famous  centers
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1929 Wins
Bryant  and  Guiterman   Secure
Cups for Achievements
in Two Meets.
Vociferous crowds thronging to the
first interclass swimming meet of the
year were not granted the satisfaction'
of broken records and consequent high
excitement. B. Bryant's phenomenal
catch-up in the last lap of the relay was
the high-light of the meet for the spec-
tators. Other features were Frothing-
ham's fifty-five-foot plunge, Field's win
in the breast stroke, and Guiterman's
diving.
The second swimming meer**bn Satur-
day, MaTch 17, provfd even less inter-
esting than the first; even the scores
were lower. The one excitement was
M. Frothingham's plunge, which came
within three feet of the record estab-
lished in 1925. The diving was not ex-
ceptional, and neither Bryant nor Tuttlc
did as well re' last week. 1928 was han-
dicapped without Field or Gaillard, and
1931 without Waples. No records were
broken or approached.
The victory for the two meets went to
1929 with twenty-three points, winning
first place in both the sixty-foot free
style race, the hundred and twenty-foot,
and relay, and second in back stroke and
diving. The Seniors made a close sec-
ond, however, culling their twenty-two
points from the breast stroke and div-
ing. 1931 proved supreme in the plunge,
and 1930 in the back stroke.
The   cup   for   the   highest   individual
score went to B. Bryant, *29, with eleven
points, her runner-ap being H.  Guiter-
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First among the Graduate awards an-
nounced   iu cl�u>el. on .Fridav   hv^.Miss.
Park was the Helene and Cecil Rubel"
Foundation Fellowship, founded in 1920
and already awarded seven times; it goes
this year to Helen Lcnore Muchnic. Miss
Muchnic graduated from Vassar College
in 192.">, and was awarded her M. A. in/
1927 at Bryn Mawr. From 1925-27 she
was a scholar in English at Bryn Mawr,
and in 1927-28 she is a graduate student
and part time Reader in English.
Miss Muchnic is recommended by her
department as a student of industry,
patience and genuine learning, with brilli-
ance and the magic gift of form.
The Helene and Cecil RubcMfounda-
tion Fellowship is very clastic. It is of
the value of $1500 and may be held in
any   center   of   education,   or   may,   in
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Graduate .and   Undegraduate
Honors   Made   Public
. Chapel.
in
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Mukerji on Return Visit
Talks to News Reporters
"Indians would prefer to have a-Tory
Government in power in England than a
Liberal one," said Dhan Ghopal Mukerji
to a News representative last week. "The
Tories will fight and you can tell where
they stand; Liberal or Labor govern-
ments compromise and promise and don't
keep their promises until the situation
gets so bad that it takes force to cope
with   it."
Mr. Mukerji made several other in-
teresting statements such as that the
Hindus and the Jews exploit the "gullible
Christians" with their desire for "soul
searching" by psychoanalysis and other
devices. Mr. Mukerji mentioned the fact
that the prescription of colors suited to
personality might be exploited in a similar
fashion.
On the subject of Miss Mayo, Mr.
Mukerji was more or less reticent. He
did say that Mother India was so broad
that it made it easy to refute; that if
Miss Mayo had "been more restrained, in
for instance her use of "all" for "some,"
she would have made a better case. "Miss
Mayo has roused India so thoroughly
with her book that I think it is safe to
say the Simon Commission would not
have met such tremendous opposition if
it had not been written." "7
Mr.  Mukerji  said that the, European
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1928     HAS      ITS     DAY
The forty-first European Fellowship
of Bryn Mawr College was awarded
secretly ^ by special delivery letter on
Thursday night and publicly .by Miss
Park in chapel on Friday morning to
Margaret Gregson, who has 270J4 honor
points, and 278)4, if her extra hours of
college credit are counted.
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 the member of the Senior
Class who "by her college record, by
the quality of her work, her promise of
constructive ability, intellectual, interest
and steadiness of purpose shows the fair-
est promise as well as the'finest perform-
ance." It-was founded in 1889 when the
first class graduated and has been award-
ed  every year since.
Miss Gregson, who majored in Mathe-
matics* was recommended by the Depart-
ment as having offered solid and intelli-.
gent work, as having the' power of
presentation ,and the^eholastic conscience
which is the chief cornerstone of valu-
able work.                                            ,   �
"She possesses two qualities which en-
dear her to the hearts of the alumnae,"
said Miss Park. "She is the daughter
of Edith Goodell Gregson, class of 1900,
and Regional Scholar of the Chicago dis-
trict, which proves that site was hand-
picked by the alumnae of the corn belt."
.            The Upper Ten.
per Ten" of the class of 1928
�d by Miss Park in the
order of honor points as follows: Mar-
garet Gregson* 270J4 or 278J4 on 109
hours; Ruth Margaret Peters, 242 or 243
on 106 hours; Jean Louise Fes'ler, 230J4
or 233J4 on 110 hours; Catherine Field,
226; Carolyn Elizabeth Asplund, 217;
Esther Virginia Dikeman, 216 or 217 on
106  hours;  Margaret Perry, 214; Eliza-
beth Maxwell Carroll  Chestnut, 213J4;'
Margaret Cameron Coss, 206 or 208 on
107  hours, and Jean Morgenste^n, 206.
The upper half of the class was then
announced in order of their honor points.
Those graduating Summa-�um Laude:
Margaret Gregson.
Graduating Summa Cum \ Laude:
Ruth Margaret Peters, Jcan\ Louise
Feslcr, Catherine Field.
Those graduating Cum Laude: Carolyn
Elizabeth Asplund, Esther Virginia Dike-
man, Margaret Perry, Elizabeth Maxwell
Carroll Chestnut, Margaret Cameron
Coss, Jean Hannah Morgenstern, Mar-
garetta Mathilda Salinger, Laura Mar-
garet Haley, Christine MacEwan Hayes,.
Elizabeth Bethel, Katharine Shepard,
Frances Louise Putman, Josephine
Young, Sara Beddoe, -Walker, Mary
Emlcn Okie, Elinor Beulah Amram,.
Louise Fulton Gutker, Alice Helen
Palache, Marion Howard Smith, Virginia
Atmore. Margaret Hartley Hulse and
Cornelia Hrucrc Rose, Jr.
Business Opening.
Mr. Henry Wise Miller is to speak in
chapel on Friday morning, March 23, on
"Business Openings for College
Women." Chapel will begin at 8.45 that
morning instead of 8.50.
Mr. Miller will also speak to Mrs. M.
P. Smith's class in F.conomics, Room A.
at ten o'clock that morning on 'The
Political Economy of Wall Street." All
students who are free at ten are invited
to attend.
Bates Drive
The drive for money to carry on Bates
House is on this week. The committee
wishes to urge everyone to help, so that *
the experience of last year may not be
repeated. Members of the committee will
he under Juno every day this week.
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