College News, 1931-10-07, Vol. 18, No. 01

              The College News
Vol. XVIII, No. 1
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1931
Price: 10 Cent*
Hardenbergh, Moore and Little Describe Their
Respective Sensations During Freshman Week
Upper Classmen Find the Numerous Events as Hectic as the
Freshmen Do�But All Agree That It Is a
Satisfactory Solution to Early Problems.
Miss Donnelly Tells of
Sabbatical Year Abroad
1935  FIND  THE  EXPERIENCE VERY  ENLIGHTENING
(Specially contributed by
Peggy Little, '35)
Still another Freshnfan Week has
gone down in the history\ of Bryn
Mawr College. As usual it was a
week filled with appointments. Each
girl, according to her number, whether
it was two or ninety-two, managed to
see in the course of the week President
Park. Dean Manning, Dr. Wagoner
and Dr. Hewson. Beside that she,
with her ninety-nine classmates, at-
feifflea Various � � - -meetings <jxpisir.iag.
self-government, athletics, the Bryn
Mawr League, and the Undergaduatc
Association. All this was new and
therefore a pleasure, but for the high-
light of the week we might pick out
first. President Park's reception and
second, the picnic and the concert at
Wyndham.
In her talk President Park first told
us how the reception had changed
from a formal and stilted affair to the
present informal welcome. No longer
is it necessary to invent at break-neck
speed a career, nor to explain it in
tremendous voice. We should be
happy   that   the   "Kay   nineties"   have
passed, for now the reception is an
affair to look forward to. We settle
back in our chairs. We learn about
the founding of the college, its history
and growth and even, the scandal it
once created. For the finishing touch
refreshments are served; so 'tis no
wonder we go "on our way rejoicing."
Once again refreshments played their
part in the form of a picnic at Wynd-
ham. There Miss Moore told us about
our cuts, and there Miss Gallaudet
taught us songs or rather gave us a
concert. It was really the" concert that
proved the cream of the program. In
fact we might stop here to raise a loud
shout of thanks for the hospitality
committee. It had already made its
place but this was >the "crowning
glory." We marvelled at the close
harmony. We even marvelled at
"Sophias Philai" over which only the
week before we had laughed loud and
long.
Needless to say Freshman Week
expanded our knowledge greatly. Sun-
day night found us full of confidence.
Monday we were almost unbearable;
but as the tide rushed in, we wilted.
No longer can a Greek song phaze us,
but, alas! the mushy greetings of long-
lost friends!'
terviews began. In Taylor Mrs. Man-
ning and Miss Park were busy greet-
ing the Freshmen and mapping out
their future courses. There mothers
were at a premium because "Freshmen
with mothers" took precedence over
those without getting iuto the inter-
views. It has been said that many
were imported from outlying districts
and even a few aunts were used as
substitutes. In the gym Miss Petts
aiid Dr. Wagoner were examining the.
physical beauty of the Freshmen.'
There, too, the measurements for caps
and gonwns were taken. (How accu-
rate they were, I hate to think, be-
cause the tape measure was broken
and there was much debate^ as to
whether the inch should be added or
subtracted.) In Goodharf Mr. Will-
oughby was discovering the musical
talent among the Freshmen. That
evening the newcomers were carefully
instructed in the rules and regulations
of Self-Governnient by A. Lee.
On Friday the fast pace of inter-
views and examinations continued, and
the day was climaxed by the first meet-
ing of  the class of '35  at which_lhc
first class chairman-, Peggy Little, was
installed by Mangy Collier, the junior
president. This meeting was followed
by another at which Miss Petts spoke
on physical education; Dr. Wagoner on
the health department, and Margy Col-
lier on the athletic association.
By Saturday everyone was fairly
well settled. All ears were hardened
to the noises on Gulf Road, except
those at 7 A. M. which so rudely
awaken us. Interviews had become
ordinary" occurences.      Upperclassmen
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At Miss Donnelly's own request this
is but a modest"1 announcement of her
return to Bryn Mawr from a sabbatical
year abroad. Miss Donnelly spent
both summers in England working on
eighteenth century literature. She
lived within easy distance of Cam-
bridge and those places which were of
inestimable value to her work. But
as a holiday from her studies, she spent
last winter traveling through the coun-
tries on the Mediterranean. Although
most travelers such as herself seem to
find Kairo and Arabic Egypt most in-
teresting. Miss Donnelly was en-
chanted with the Nubian sands and the
dark mountains, which*appear as pyra-
mids, of the Upper Nile. Since spring
in Greece follows that of Palestine.
Miss Donnelly was fortunate in enjoy-
ing two springs. The remainder of
hfX. holiday included Constantinople, a
trip into Afistria, and Italy. After
completing more work in England this
summer, Miss Donnelly has returned
in time to enjoy fall, the s%ason which
she considers the most pleasant at
Bryn Mawr.
Summer School Gives
Interesting Contacts
Aim   to   Stimulate   Interest   in
Study Rather Than Give
Information.
Miss Park Opens Forty-seventh Academic Year
in Welcoming Returning Professors and 1^35
Justification of the Existence of Liberal Colleges in Today's Chaotic
Financial Situation Is Found in the Sense
of Values They Offer.
THE SERIOUS FACING OF RESPONSIBILITIES URGED
GREAT PROGRESS SHOWN
(Specially contributed by H. Moore, '32)
Last   Wednesday   the doors   of col-
lege were opened to the class of 193�rj~bee� conscious of every move on the
From early morning until late after-
noon Freshmen, some alone and some
with families, came to search the halls
for misnumbered rooms and unknown
roommates. Eight upperclassmen were on
the scene te give them sage advice
and to introduce them to the intrica-
cies of Taylor. All seemed dazed;
upperclassmen with the crowds of new
faces in tilnjliar places, arid Freshmen
WMth Ihe prospect of thousands of in-
terviews. But dinner in Pern helped
to straighten things out'and by 9
o'clock a sufficient calm had settled
over college to make possible parties
in each hall. After names had been
given all around pretzels and ginger
ale were consumed to the tune of "Oh,
do you know ..." or "Have you any
relation in . . .?" By the end of the
evening  everyone  felt  much   more   at
home    having    found    many    mutual
friends.
Thursday  morning the  rush for in-
Self-Government Greets
Freshmen at Reception
The annual reception of the Self-
Government Association for the in-
coming freshman class took place last
Saturday night. President Park,, Dean
Manning, Mrs. Collins and Miss Har-
denbergh, this year's president of the
association, were in the receiving line.
Before the evening's entertainment in
the forn; of the orchestra arrived, Miss
Hardenbergh introduced Miss Park
and Mrs. Collins, who spoke to the
assembled members of Self-Oovern-
ment.
"This is a poor night of a poor week
on which to have to give a short, tell-
ing speech," said Miss Park, who has
campus during these first few very
hectic days that follow the opening of
college. She said she felt like a friend
of hers who made some slight mistake
because of a preoccupied mind, and
remarked, "Oh, I must be crazy." "No,
Miss," answered the old family re-
tainer, "You ain't crazy. You're just
like me; you're mind just coines and
goes." The point has never come,
however, when Miss Park has refused
point blank to speak at the Self-Gov-
ernment reception .because she has a
tremendous liking and respect for the
association as the personification of the
good things in Bryn Mawr, personal
independence and responsibility.
Miss Park referred to herself as an
onlooker, having nothing actual to do
with Self-Government; but by no
means a peaceful onlooker, "one -whu
Specially contributed by
V. Buttcrworth, '32.
"Is there a speaker coming to Dr.
Wame's class? When is it? Can we
all come?" These common questions
give the college student some idea of
how information is sought and soaked
up by the hundred students at the
Bryn Mawr Summer Sch6ol for Wom-
en Workers in Industry. To under-
stand the schqol, however, one really
has to see the groups arguing eagerly
as they stream back from Current
Events at Denbigh to lunch in Pem-
broke; to take part in classes, almost
always heated discussions to which
each girl can contribute concrete ex-
perience; to listen to the talk and feel
the warm friendliness of the parties
that spring up every night all over
the two Pembroke's, where girls from
every part of this country and Europe
discuss political and social problems till
late at night�as late as we. perhaps,
but with a realistic grasp that we never
compass.                 ,
The summer school students are re-
cruited by an elaborate series of 50
committees all over the country, who
pick out the leading personalities from
all our widely differing localities. Rus-
sian Jews, dressmakers from New
York and Philadelphia, who have lived
through the revolution, and who sing
some of the most beautiful folk music
in the world; southern mill hands
whose parents were mountaineers:
middle westerners and hundred |>er cent.
Americans from the Pacific coast�
the foremost women from 'all these
industrial groups are brought together
for' two months here, where they gain
an understanding of each other's at-
titudes and problems. The school aims
even more to arouse interest and give
a technique for study than to teach
specific information. In both it has
been eminently successful. Carefully
worked out psychological tests show
that it is not uncommon for girls to
make as much progress in ability to
grasp concepts and express themselves
in eight weeks of the summer school
I -a* in a year of high school.    There i*
Calendar
October 9 or 10: Lantern Night.
October   10:    French   Language
examination at 9:00 A. M.
October 11: Musical Service.
October 17: Banner Night.
often argues, quotes the past and
threatens the future." In reality Miss
Park is very closely connected with
Jfthe association because it is to her
that the surprised parents, the inquisi-
tive reporters, and the outraged minor-
ity of the student body appeal. In the
end there is no power the President
of the college can exert except to com-
plain to the trustees of the college that
the   association   is   irresponsible   and
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In chapel last Tuesday morning
Miss Park introduced BYvu Mawr's
forty-seventh academic year. As well
as welcoming the return of three pro-
fessors who have been^away from the
campus for a year, Miss Park ex-
tended her greeting to the incoming
class of nineteen thirty-five which
numbers exactly one hundred. It is
necessary in times such as these today.
President Park continued, that Bryn
Mawr should justify its opening. Is
a liberal college of any use in the midst
of the financial chaos abroad today?
The answer to this question is that
what the liberal college has to offer
becomes "even more useful and more
important when civilization is halted."
For this reason Miss Park urged that
each student should "shoulder seriously
her responsibility for the college work
this year." President Park's address
in more detail is quoted below:
There are ccrtgin times when it i-
a pleasure to be allowed to speak for
Bryn Mawr and never more so than
at the beginning of the year when as an
earlier comer I can welcome both the
faculty and students who return to an
old stamping ground and those others
to whom in both a mental and physical
sense we are fresh fields and pastures
new. In particular it is a personal as
well as an .official welcome which we-
unitedly give to Professor Donnelly,
Professor Tenneiit and Professor Hart,
all three back after their holiday years.
Professor Tennent has lectured and
carried on research work as Exchange
Professor at the University of Tokyo.
Professor Hart has spent the year as
investigator in charge of the study of
changes in American attitudes and in-
terests   for   President   Hoover's   Coni-
Chinese Scholar Tells
of Purpose in College
Speaking of these freshmen who
enter Bryn Mawr �his fall with a credit
average, Miss Park said in chapeh last
Tuesday�"and only a hair's breadth
below stands the name of the Chinese
scholar of the year, an achievement so
remarkable that I must mention it
even in advance of the freshman sta-
tistics of next week." It is with this
welcome that "Ting" enters Bryn
Mawr.              '
Yung-Yuin Ting's last year of prep-
aration for college was spent at the
Shipley School, whose principals wrote
to the chairman of the, fhinsor Schol-
arship ^Committee saying�"We have
found 'Ting' a delightful member of
the school household. The girls have
become very fond of her and'have en-
joyed having her*here as one of thfir
group." And tfiere is little wonder
that Ting's ever pleasant disposition
should have won her many friends
among her classmates. Her smile i~
always bright and cheerful, and her
manlier charming. In athletics at
Shipley Ting was oil the third "hockey
team and she was an active supporter
of the (ilee Club, winning her the nick-
name of "Ting-a-ling."
To a scholar, of course, lessens are
always of primary importance, and
there were very few months at school
when Ting was not on the honor roll.
"Of course her strong points were
Mathematics and Science." Miss
Brownvll   said   when   I   talked   to   her
one case of a girl who made three
years of high school progress in one
summer here! This is more compre-
hensible when one realizes that the in-
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Resign From Board
The News announces with regret the
resignation from the Editorial Board of
Betty Kindle"berger. '33, and Betsy Jack-
son, '33.      .
this morning. "You see she's j>lan-
ning to be a doctor." A pamphlet of
the Chinese Scholarship Committee
states that Yung-Yuin Ting "Plans to
study medicine, realizing that women
doctors are bitterly needed in China."
And this brings us to what Ting her-
self feels. In answer to my questions
she said. "I find I have very little to
say, and many things I do not know-
how   to   tell."   but   what   she   did   say
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mittee on Social Trends, and Professor
Donnelly has prefaced a summer of
work in England on' her beloved
eighteenth century with a sweeping
circuit through Kgypt and the Near
Kast, Greece and Sicily. Those of us
who missed them every day last year
rejoice that Rryn Mawr is not begin-
ning without them, and venture to say
this although they are perhaps stHl
moving through distant sights and
Svtuwd.f, by- {xaged&c ��d {iyrm:ids.... nnV ..
doiibtedly even now more real to them
than our voices or the committee meet-
ings and'classrooms whose doors fly
open  so promptly to engulf them.
But even for travellers from Java
and Constantinople Bryn Mawr is not
so bad a place to coilic back to! And
in spite of this summerVlittffTTh spite
el the Japanese beetle theoretically
chewing his way from Wyndham to
Radnor, in spite of new water pipes
laid all over the camptis, as you may
sec by the ribbons of infant grass
which now mark the summer's digging.
we look fairly green and fairly trim.
OuT"onTy di-figiirement is�alasT^-the
slashing to a greater width and a
straighter line of our quiet piece of
the Gulph Road, which has kept the
look   of a  country   lane  from�I   dare
s
say�the day when Washington
marched down it till this year. The
college has lost a great oak tree which
grew behind Denbigh, and in the early
mornings the inhabitants of Denbigh
and Merion will probably lose a cen-
tury of sleep between them,, if I may
use the New York Times form of cal-
culation which announced yesterday
that seven hundred years of sleep had
been made up by the people of New
York when Eastern Standard Time
was reinstated by a thirteen-hour
night.
The college opens with full halls,
and in a very difficult year for many
families and many individuals its num-
bers are only slightlv lower than last
year�nine fewer undergraduates and
ten  graduates or perhaps  not  that.
We welcome to our upper reaches
twenty-five resident fellows and twen-
ty-six scholars. The five traveling
fellows whose appointment you ap-
plauded in this hall last March and a
fifth, one of the two Helen Schaeffer
Huff FellotV in Physics, have all gone
off to Europe on 'heir various mis-
sions, and in return five foreign
scholars from Great Britain. France.
Germany, Spain and Poland have
readied   Bryn   Mawr.     The   second  oi
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Musical Service
The first of a series of services in
connection with -the Bryn -Mawr
League will be held on Sunday next.
Oct..her 11. at 7:45 P. M. in the
Music Room;
The program  i- as follow s:
CHOIR:
"Jesu Joy of Man's   Desiring"......Bach
"Now All the Woods Are Sleeping."
Bach
"Where'er  You  Walk"................Handel
"Ave   Yerum"   ..............................Mozart
"Lift  Thine  Kye�"i...........�.Mendelssohn�i
ORGAN. SOLOS:
"Prelude in  G major"......................Bach
Chorale Prelude. "In Dulci Jubilo."
Bach
"Adagio   ContaWIe"   ....................Tartini
"Gagliarda" ....................................Schmnl
"Solemn   Melody"   ........Walford-Davu ~
"Finlandia"    ..................................SibeUus
Prelude de "La.Damoiselle Flue."
Deboaay
Ernest* Willoughby,   Organist   and
Director of the Choir.
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