College News, 1915-05-06, Vol. 01, No. 26

              The College News
Volume I.    No. 26
BRYN MAWR, PA., MAY 6, 1915
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
FRIDAY,  MAY 7
8.00 P. M.�Lecture by Professor Charles
Upson Cla.k on "Spanish Painters."
SATURDAY, MAY 8
0.00 a. M.�Fourth Senior Orals in French
and German.
8.00 p. u.�Senior Play.
SUNDAY, MAY 9
6.00 p. m.�Vespers. Speaker, Miss Kel-
sey, of the Volunteer Student Movement.
8.00 p. u.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
John Hayne* Holmes, of the Church of the
Messiah, New York.
FRIDAY,  MAY 14
6.00 p. m.�Junior   Supper  in   Rockefeller
Hall.
8.30 p. m.�Final Debate, 1915 vs. 1917.
SATURDAY, MAY IS
8.00 p.m.�Graduate Reception to the
Faculty.
8.00 P. m�Lecture by Miss Dora KsSM
on "Studying the Alaskan Glaciers."
SUNDAY, MAY 16
6.00 p. m.�Vespers.    Speaker, C. Kellen.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
Washington Gladden, Pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio.
MAY-DAY  HONOURS ANNOUNCED
President Thomas'  Speech
ATHLETIC  ASSOCIATION   ELECTIONS
M.   Branson   New   President�Other   Offi-
cers Elected
At the Athletic Association elections
on Monday night M. Branson was elected
President for the coming year. This elec-
tion did not come as a surprise, for she
has been on the board for the past two
years, and has been one of 1916's best
athletes. T. Howell, 1918, is the new vice-
president and treasurer, and M. Thomp-
son the new secretary. F. Kellogg re-
mains on the board in the new capacity
of indoor manager, while M. Scattergood
is outdoor manager. The College cheer
leader was elected at the same time, L.
Goodnow now taking the place which has
been so well filled by I. Smith.
1918 WINS THE TRACK  MEET
H. Harris Individual Champion
In the final track meet last Saturday.
1918 kept Its lead of the week before,
and won the meet with a total of sixty
points. The Sophomores, with a total
of fifty-two, were the only close rivals,
tlia Seniors gaining but eighteen points,
and the Juniors ten. H. Harris, 1917, won
the individual championship having thirty
points; S. Smith, 1915. getting second
place, and M. Scattergood. 1917, third.
The record In the hurl-ball was again
broken, M. Scattergood. 1917, throwing
one foot, seven inches farther in the
second meet than did M Thompson, 1917.
in the first one. In every other event
first place remained the same. Second
and third places, however, were often
considerably shifted. In the running high
jump for instance, L. Garfleld, 1916. sur-
rendered second place to M. Mackenzie,
1918. and tied for third place with V.
Litchfield, 1917. Nineteen seventeen won
every place in the running broad jump:
I lleminway. receiving first: N. Mc
Paden. second, and II Harris, third.
The last and most exciting event of the
meet was the finish of flie class relay,
run between 1917 and 1918. the winners
of the previous heats This was won by
the Freshmen, and with It the meet.
We meet in Chapel to-day to continue
your celebration of May Day by the an-
nouncement of Faculty May Day honors.
But let us first think for a moment of
the celebration of May Day. As far as
we know It was celebrated In a rather
modest way In ancient Rome by a pro-
cession on May* Day to the grotto of the
nymph Egerla. The real celebration of
May Day began with the Northern Teu-
tonic peoples to whom the first of May
symbolized the passing of the cold, in-
tense winter and the coming of the short
and wonderful spring and summer of the
North. The mediaeval May Day games
and revels, the worship of the old Teu-
tonic goddess of love, the dragon slain by
the Slegmund Beowulf and other Teu-
tonic heroes of myth and saga all seem
to belong to the coming of summer. In
the revival of the May Day games that
are now taking place everywhere, es-
pecially in the United States, I wish you
to realize that, so far as I know, the
Bryn Mawr students were the first to
celebrate May Day. Your Bryn Mawr
May Day revels were the first of the
many revivals of this old custom. In-
deed in a sense the tower of Rockefeller
Hall was planned so that the College
students could follow the custom of Mag-
dalen College, Oxford, and Bing to the
sun on the first of May. It Is carved on
both sides with our coat of arms. It Is
diapered with Bryn Mawr daisies; the
Bryn Mawr owls of Athene perch over It
and make it the gate of the Bryn Mawr
I goddess of wisdom by which all her
daughters enter and depart. I think that
you have heard me say that the first ar-
chitect of the College, Walter Cope, drew
and redrew this tower six times before
he and I were satisfied that it was ex-
actly right. When it was finished the
Seniors of the Class of 1904 sang from
i the top of the tower, on the first of May
the old Magdalen College chaunt which
has been sung ever since on May Day by
each successive Senior Class and never
more beautifully than by the Class of
1916.
The May-Day honours to be announced
to-day are the awards of the sixteen resi-
dent fellowships of $525 each, the ten
Mary E. Garrett British, German and
French foreign scholarships of $400 each,
the twenty Mary E. Garrett graduate
scholarships of $200 each, the fifty under-
graduate scholarships and the under-
graduate prizes.
The Helen Schaeffer Huff Memorial
Resident Research Fellowship of $750 has
not yet been awarded and will be an-
nounced later. The students In physics
have been taught this year by Dr. Janet
Howell. former Helen Schaeffer Huff
Memorial Research Fellow, who has been
awarded this year the Sarah Berliner Re-
search Prize Fellowship of $1000. Our
Helen Schaeffer Huff Fellow of this year.
Dr Vernette Gibbons has just been ap-
pointed Professor of Physics In Mills
College.
Resident Fellowships
Of the sixteen Resident Fellowships
nine have been awarded and seven will
be awarded later when additional infor-
mation has been received. Three of the
nine Fellowships that have been awarded
have been awarded to students now study-
ing in our graduate school, which is a
ver> much smaller number than usual, but
three  of  our   present   fellows   hare  re-
ceived Honourary Fellowships combined
with graduate scholarships. The nine
Resident Fellowships have been awarded
to students from nine.different colleges
and universities:
Greek: Agnes Carr Vaughan, of
Tampa, Florida; B.A., Galloway College,
1907; M.A., University of Michigan. 1910;
Associate in Greek and Latin, Hardln Col-
lege, Mexico. Missouri. 1911-15.
Latin: Elizabeth l-ouise Davis, of Jef-
ferson vllle, Indiana; A.B., University of
Indiana, 1910; A.M.. University of In-
diana. 1914.
English: Mary Elizabeth Barnlcle. of
Providence, Rhode Island: A.B.. Brown
University. .1913; Graduate Scholar In
English. Bryn Mawr College. 1913-16.
German: Ruth Perkins, of Ablngton.
Massachusetts; B.A., Wellesley College,
1912; M.\, Radcllffe College, 1913; Grad-
uate Scholar in German, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1914-16.
Romance Languages: Gretchen Todd,
of Mllburn. New Jersey; B.A.. 8mlth Col-
lege. 1913; Student in Madrid. Spain.
1914-15.
Economics: Dorothy Miles Brown, of
East Lansing, Michigan; A.B., University
of Michigan. 1911; M.A.. University of
Michigan, 1914. Susan B. Anthony Me-
morial Scholar and Scholar In Economics.
Bryn   Mawr College.  1914-15.
Psychology: Cora Louise Frledllne. of
Lincoln. Nebraska: A.B.. University of
Nebraska. 1913; MA. University of Ne-
braska. 1916.
Chemistry: Mary Van Rensselaer
Buell, of Madison, Wisconsin; B.A.. Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, 1914: M.A.. Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, 1915.
Geology: Helen Morningstar, of Co-
lumbus. Ohio; B.A., Ohio State Univer-
sity,  1913;   M.A.. 1916.
Awards are deferred for the Resident
Fellowships in Semitic Languages. His-
tory, Archaeology, Mathematics, Physics,
Biology, and in the Carola Woerishoffer
Department of Social Economy.
Foreign Scholarships
Jane Marion Earle. of Leeds, England:
Newnbam College. Cambridge, 1907-10;
Mathematlc Tripes, Pt. I. 1908, ClasB II:
PL II, 1910. Class II. Training College
for Women, Cambridge, 1910-11; Teacher
of Mathematics In the Leeds Girls' High
sdiool, Leeds, 1911-15. Subject., Mathe-
matics.
Gwen Ann Jones, of BalA-Merioneth,
Wales: B.A., University of College of
Wales. 1909: M.A., 1914; Teacher in the
Girls' Intermediate School. Pontypool,
1910-15.     Subject,   English   Literature.
Mary Rhys, of Blandford, Dorset, Eng-
land;   Glasgow   University,   1910-15;   will
take the -English Honours' examinations
In September, 1915. Subject. English
Literature.
(xtavla Flfrida Saunders, of Mayfleld.
Sussex, England: St. Andrews I'niverslty,
1910-14; M.\, with Honours in Modern
Languages. 1914; Assistant in German. St.
Andrews University, 1914-1'. Subject.
French.
On account of the war no French or
German Scholarships have been awarded
but as I came over the postman handed
me a large envelope from the German
Consul, containing the nominations of
the Prussian Minister of Education to the
Faculty of Bryn Mawr College for two
Ceiman scholars Iriede lloehne. a stu
dent of the I'niverslties of Berlin and
Jena, subject English I'hilology: and
Maria Alexander Stappert. a student of
Universities of Bown and Muenster
Subject. Physics Both of these students
have applied in the hope of being able
to reach Bryn Mawr In the autumn.
Two   Seniors  Win  Graduate  Scholarship
Of the Mary E. Garrett graduate scholar-
ships fourteen have been awarded and
six reserved for further information.
Of the fourteen awarded, two have been
given to members of tbe present Senior
Class; five to graduate students who are
now studying In the College, of whom
three have been appointed Honourary
Fellows, as follows:
Latin: Alice Hill Byrne, of Lancaster.
Pennsylvania; A.B., Wellesley College.
1908: Graduate student In Greek and
Latin. Bryn Mawr College. 1908-10,
1911-12; Graduate Scholar, 1910-11.
1914-15.
English: Elizabeth Beatrice Daw, of
S potts wood. New Jersey: A.B.. Vassar
College, 1909; A.M., University of Penn-
sylvania. 1910; Reader In English. Bryn
Mawr College. 1911-14; Fellow in English.
1914-16.   Honourary Fellow. 1915-16.
Mary B. Kolars. of LaSueur Center.
Minnesota: B.A., University of Minne-
sota. 1913; Columbia University School of
Journalism, 1913-15.
Elizabeth Darlington Adams, of New
London. Connecticut; A.B., Vassar'Col-
lege, 1915.
Romance Languages: Alice Phllena
Felicia Hubbard, of Cedar Crest, Belton,
Texas; B.S.. University of Texas, 1900:
M.A., University of Texas, 1902; Graduate
Student. Bryn Mawr College. 1913-14;
Fellow In Romance Languages. Bryn
Mawr College. 1914-15. Honourary Fel-
low. 1915-16.
Biblical Literature and Semitic Lan-
guages: Beatrice A Hard, of Boston, Mas
sachusetts: A.B., Mt. Holyoke College.
1916.
History: Margaret Woodbury. of Co-
lumbus. Ohio; A.B.. Ohio State Univer-
sity. 1915.
Psychology: Edith Rebecca Macauley,
of Medina. New York; A.B.. University
of Michigan. 1915.
Anna Sophie Rogers, of Urbana. Il-
linois; A.M. University of Illinois. 1911:
A.M.. 1914.
Education: Vera Tritlpoe, of Fortvllle.
Indiana: A.B.. DePauw University, 1912;
Graduate Student, Bryn Mawr College,
1914-16.
Mildred Lewis Justice, of Ardraore.
Pennsylvania, a member of the Senior
(lass of Bryn Mawr College.
Mathemettos:          Marguerite      Jennie
Breckenridge, of West Brownsville. Penn-
sylvania: A.M.. Grove City College, 1913.
Physics: Lucia Helen Smith, of New
York City; A.B., Vassar College. 1915.
chemistry Elsie Tobln. of Brooklyn,
New York; B.S.. Barnard College. 1915.
Jessie Elizabeth Minor, of Springfield.
Missouri; MS Drury College. 1904; Grad-
uate student. University of Pennsylvania.
1908-Ki; Scholar In Chemistry. Bryn Mawr
College.   1914-16.
Geology Eula Davis McEwan, of
Hlootnlngton. Indiana: All.. Indiana Uni-
versity. 1913; A.M.. Indiana University.
1914.
Biology Helen Frances Harvey, of
Oberlln. Ohio: A.B.. Oberlin College.
1916.
Elizabeth Robinson, of Fort Collins.
Colorado; B. A.. University of Colorado.
1913:  BE.. University of Colorado. 1914
Susan B. Anthony Memorial Scholar:
Katharine Maynadler Street, of Cumber
land. Maryland, a member of the Senior
Class of Mryn Mawr College.
I am told by Professor Marion Parrls
Smith, that Miss Street Is going to study
women as bankers It is a condition of
the Susan B. Anthony Scholar that the
holder must study some phase of women's
work In economics or politics
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