College News, 1915-03-25, Vol. 01, No. 22

              The College News
Volume I.   No. 22
BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 25, 1915
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
FRIDAY, MARCH M
4.30 P. 11.�Gymnastic Contest.
8 P. u.�Lecture by Paul Douglas under
the auspices of the History Club.
SATURDAY, MARCH 27
10 a. u.�Vocational Conference in the
Chapel.
SUNDAY, MARCH 2�
6 p. H.�Vespers. Speaker, Mias Marie
Spahr, College Settlement, N. Y. C.
8 p. u�Chapel. Preacher, The Rev.
Joseph Ross Stevenson, D.D., Director of the
Princeton Theological Seminary.
MONDAY, MARCH 2�
Basket-ball Practice begins.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31
Easter Vacation begins at one o'clock.
THURSDAY, APRIL �
Easter Vacation ends at 9 a. m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
HRecital of songs "The Songs of Miarka"
by Signora G. Di Vincenso, under the auspices
of the French Club, for the benefit of the
Belgian Relief Fund.
Faculty Tea for the Graduates, Radnor
Hall.
SUNDAY, APRIL 11
8 p. it.�Chapel    Sermon    by    Professor
Edward Steiner.   Professor of Applied Chris-
tianity in Grinnell College, Iowa.
SATURDAY, APRIL 17
Performance of H. M. S. Pinafore by the
members of the Glee Club.
MARGUERITE  DARKOW  WIN8 EURO-
PEAN  FELLOWSHIP
President   Thomas'   Address   in   Chapel
Friday, March 19
OFFICIAL  NOTICE
A scholarship of the value of two hun-
dred dollars has been offered by Miss
Mary Rachel Morris of the Class of 1906,
In memory of her father, Austin Hull
Norris, for a student of ability and prom-
ise to whom scholarship is the chief aim
in College and who comes from a family
where education is thought worth the
sacrifice of comfort and amusement.
The scholarship is to be awarded for
1915-16, but only if a candidate with
these qualifications is found.
ALUMN-C NOTES
Dorothy S. Wolfe, '12, has announced
her engagement to Paul Douglas. Mr.
Douglas is doing graduate work at Colum-
bia University.
Grace Hutchins, '07, who has been
teaching at St. Hilda's, Wuchang, China,
has been appointed Principal of the
school for next year. The school, which
is under the Episcopal Board of Missions,
is one of the largest for girls in China.
The new building holds about three hun-
dred girls, and is well equipped even with
a large gymnasium, the gift of a Bryn
Mawr alumna. Wuchang is a large edu-
cational centre and we have heard ru-
mours that the aim of some of the Alum
nae working there is to found a College
for Women finally, a Chinese Bryn Mawr.
Tracy Mygatt, '08. Is the Field Secre-
tary for the East of the Church Socialist
League.
Jeanette C. Grtfflth, '08, is the Director
sar College. This house is supported by
the students as a club-house for the maids
on the campus.
Charlotte Claflin, '11, has an appoint-
ment as teacher of infant hygiene under
the Child Hygiene Division of the Depart-
ment of Health of Newark. N. J.
Fanny Barber. "09. Is teaching in the
Cathedral School for Girls In Bagnio. Ben
guet. P. I.
Alpine Parker. '11. is Director of Phys-
ical Training at the Friends' School. Bal
11 more.
We have met together in Chapel this
morning to honor those students who
with an ardent and humble heart have
submitted themselves to instruction and
have gained knowledge and the begin-
nings of wisdom. All colleges exist to
give instruction. All students go to col-
lege to gain knowledge. In the hiero-
glyphics sculptured on the earliest Egyp-
tian pyramids, in the inscriptions and
writings of Greece and Rome, In the mon-
asteries and convents of the Middle
Ages, at the courts of the dissolute Ital-
ian princes of the Renaissance youthful
scholars were honored. From the begin-
ning of recorded time until the present
the world has thought it a very great
thing to be successful in youth in gain-
ing knowledge. At Bryn Mawr College
to-day it is really a very great honor in
your graduate work during one or two
years to have proved to your professors
that you are eager for learning and able
to learn. It Is really a very great
achievement to have been able to main-
tain through a college course like ours
at Bryn Mawr day in and day out for
four years a uniformly high level of in-
tellectual work. Such a record cannot be
the result of chance. It does not mean a
spurt of hard work and then periods of
neglectful work. It means steady, faith-
ful work from day to day which in itself
is an extraordinary quality and one quite
apart from inherited intellectual ability.
If to mental gifts these qualities of faith-
fulness, perseverance, self-denial are
added the combination makes a wonder-
ful equipment for your future lives. It en-
sures not only success in what ever you
undertake, but something much better
than mere success�a life of the highest
kind of usefulness. When we award
prizes for distinguished academic work,
we sometimes forget that we are honor-
ing not only the ability to study, but also
other qualities that make successful stu-
dents. The more I-watch the after lives
of graduates of Bryn Mawr and of other
colleges, the more I have come to believe
that academic standing in college Is a
very good proof of the possession of those
qualities which make men and women in-
fluential in the community. It is improb-
able that you will be among the first ten
honor students of our Bryn Mawr gradu-
ating classes unless you possess qualities
which will be of great importance to you
after leaving college. A careless, neglect-
ful student is not apt to be a very trust-
worthy or faithful sort of person. It Is
barely possible that such a student may
have a change of heart after leaving Bryn
Mawr College, but it is not probable. Col-
lege students have already begun to mani-
fest certain characteristics that will go
with them through life. Of course, we must
remember that the race Is not always to
the swift. A student who learns easily
, may be out-distanced in the long run by
i other less intellectually gifted compel 1-
j tors, but such a student rarely wins our
European Fellowships which are tests of
! staying-power and hard work as well as
j of Intellectual ability.
Competitions like those for our Euro-
pean Fellowships seem to me very use-
ful. They teach us to honor ability when
we find it, to feel pleasure In each oth-
er's achievements, and to admire ability
and scholarly excellence. It is one of the
! most delightful consequences of the past
' ages of the repression, and perhaps I may
add the oppression, of women, that wom-
en as a clasB have learned to stand to-
gether and to rejoice in the most gener-
ous way in one another's successes. All
oppressed classes of the community learn
this class solidarity. Jews, even at pres-
ent, combine to assist one another. In
like manner, as women you will, I believe,
be able to rely on the assistance ana gen-
erous praises of other women in your
scholarly work.
The trend of modern education is to
honor distinguished intellectual merit.
It 1b because democracy has not yet
learned to honor public service that we
have not developed great public servants.
According to Milton the love of fame is
the "last infirmity of noble minds," but It
is a question whether a desire for true
fame is not one of the highest of human
enthusiasms. Let us then unite in prais-
ing and honoring to-day our European
Fellows who are Just entering on their
career as students and, we hope, as schol-
ars.
"The faculty makes the following nomi-
nations to the Board of Directors for the
award of the European fellowships, the
gift of the College:
"For the Mary E. Garrett European
Fellowship awarded to a graduate stu-
dent In her second year of work at Bryn
Mawr for the doctor's degree, who seems
to the faculty to give most promise of
success in scholarship and research:
Charlotte D'Evelyn, B. L. 1911, Mills Col-
lege, of San Francisco, specializing in
English Philology. Miss D'Evelyn came
to Bryn Mawr from Mills College where
she had been trained by a Doctor of
Philosophy of Bryn Mawr College, Pro-
fessor Hope Trover to whom she does
great credit. From 1913-15 she has been
a Scholar in English at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege. Her dissertation which is well
under way will necessitate her going
abroad to complete it probably in the
Bodleian Library at Oxford.
"The Mary E. Garrett Fellowship has
been given 21 times:�in Classics, 6
times; in English, 3; in Mathematics, 3;
In Romance Languages, 2; in Biology, 2;
In Semitic Languages, 1; in History, 1;
in Archaeology, 1; in Physics, 1; in Chem-
istry. 1. Of our 21 Mary E. Garrett
Fellowships 11 are at work in colleges
either teaching or in administrative
work; 4 are teaching in schools; 1 is a
curator of a museum, 2 are studying and
only 2 have no occupation (I really
wonder if they have no occupation).
Fourteen have received their Ph.D. de-
grees.                                                       }
"For the President's European Fellow-
ship the faculty has nominated Caroline
Austin Duror, specializing in Geology,
Barnard College, B.S. 1914; Scholar In
Geology, Bryn Mawr College, 1914-15.
She Is only 21 years old. She too has
studied under a Bryn Mawr graduate,
Professor Ida Ogilvie, Bryn Mawr, 1900.
Professor Bascom tells me that all the
women geologists now working in the
United States have studied in the Bryn
Mawr department of geology for one or
more years. Miss Duror will continue
the good tradition.
"The President's European Fellowship
awarded after one year's work in the
graduate school of Bryn Mawr to a wo-
man Intending to take her doctor's de-
gree has been conferred 18 times: 4 in
Philosophy. 4 in Biology. 2 in German. 2
in Physics. 1 in Classics, 1 in French. 1
in History. 1 In Economics, 1 in Mathe-
matics. 1 in Chemistry It has never
been awarded in geology, the subject in
which it has been given this year. Of
these  19. 8  are  teaching  in  colleges,  4
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BEAUTIFUL    COLORED    PLATE8   OF
GREEK   AND   ROMAN   LIFE
Bought Out of the Fletcher Bequest
The department of archaeology has
acquired an interesting series of colored
plates illustrative of ancient Greek and
Roman life. These are now on exhibi-
tion on the screens of the Art Reading
Room, where it is hoped that not merely
those who are interested in the classics,
but also the race of those who nourish
an "instinctive distrust for all antiqui-
ties" will use the occasion to alter or con-
firm their impressions.
The subjects illustrated are very var-
ious. One plate is devoted to ancient
ships, and illustrates the Egyptian Nile
boat, the ship of the Homeric age, of the
later Greek traders, the narrow three-
banked war-galleys, and the types in the
Roman navy and merchant marine. On
the early Greek vessels It is interesting
to mark a curious animism which thinks
of ships as animals and gives them eyes
with which to see their way, or carves
the bow at the water-line Into a great
boar's head. It is to the remnant of this
feeling that our own ships owe their fig-
ure-heads and the rare distinction of
feminine gender. The eyes still survive
on Mediterranean ships to-day.
Two other plates Illustrate the Greek
and Roman dwelling, with its Mediter-
ranean instinct for a central court and a
carelessness for exterior appearance
which still characterize Italian palazzi
and the houses of modern Turkey.
Two plates, illustrative of the ancient
theatre, may make more vivid the ma-
terial conditions of ancient drama. A
play acted in the open, before a large and
1 distant audience, makes mask and pad-
ding natural. In excluding minute dis-
play of emotion through facial expres-
sion and subtlety of pose. It forces Itself
to be hieratic, to maintain the broadness
of gesture and restraint of action which
makes Greek tragedy so different from
modern play-house drama.
A set of seven plates Illustrates mili-
tary antiquities. One exhibits the Greek
soldiery, from the pre-Homerlc warrior of
the Mycenaean age, with horned helmet
and double shield, to the type that fought
at Marathon or, one hundred and fifty
years later, followed Alexander Into In-
dia. Two plates show the types and
armour of the Roman war-system. Ill
other plates, the weapons and siege-ma-
chines, the camps and frontier defences,
are shown In detail. Perhaps it is not
without interest in these days to learn
the means by which a Roman general,
without gun-powder or other explosive,
could capture the strongest walled towns
by actual battery.
But the most attractive of the plates
are perhaps those which illustrate an-
cient costume. For the Greeks, clothing
was not the artificial limb-casing, the
tailor-made "bird-skin with changeable
feathers." which the modern type tends to
produce. Instead of being rigid and un-
adaptable. It was fluent and ever-differ-
ent, so that merely to wear one's clothes
was in Itself an art.�an art which in-
volved Its own constant exercise and
adaptation. It was a poignant scoff which
Sappho uttered when she wrote.
\\ hat country maid in robe arrayed
With snares thy sense enrank
Who hath not shift, her gown to In
With grace about he,r ankles?"
Nothing could illustrate the srtistfc �!�
tnent In Greek life more vividly than the
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