College News, 1931-06-02, Vol. 17, No. 23

              The
ege News
Vol. XVII, No. 23
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE   2, 1931
Price: 10 Cento
Margaret  Shaughnessy  Is  Winner  of  the  European   Fellowship   for  1931
Economics Major Leads Class with Average of 89.075, Cr�hrating Magna
Curtis Institute.
Described by Dean
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Scholarships Given for Ability;
No Degrees and Diplomas
Are Conferred:
\Vith the advent of commencement,
oneyjs tempted to consider everything
which it brings to an end. And we do not
mean the academic year only, but the
pleasures of the college season as well.
Not the least of these was the Bryn
Mawr series, and as we look back, we
find that the concert by the Curtis Insti-
tute was one of the most enjoyable, and
especially interesting as representing the
work of students like ourselves. Dean
Spofford some time ago was kind enough
to grant us an interview, for we as well
as many others, were anxious to learn of
the workings of so great an institution.
We were not a little surprised to find
ourselves opposite the Rittenhouse
Squar* and confronted by four beautiful
buildings of white stone. But when we
had'entered we were taken even further
aback by the spacious room which
greeted us, to all appearances the liv-
ing room of a private home. And there
was not a sound to betray the musician
at work, although in such surroundings.
he must be particularly inspired. The
appeal of craftsmanship through works of
art, also assists the institute in carrying
out its expressed purpose, which is"; to
hand down the tradition of the past
through contemporary masters and to
teach students to build on this heritage
for the future.
The  institute was founded  in   1924 by
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Dr. Johnston Urges
Sins Be Remitted
-r'Tjr-
The Baccalaureate service was held on
Sunday evening. Dr. Johnston, rector
of St. John's Church, Washington, who
was the speaker, took as his text: "Who
so sins ye remit they are/emitted, and
who so sins ye retain they are retained."
Dr. Johnston said that at the risk of
sentimentalizing an impression, he co'Id
not help remembering Bryn Mawr as
the sweetest, most wholesome and one of
the noblest places in the whole land.
Dr. Johnston declared that the ideal
of life which he was seeking is one as-
sociated with the Christian religion. The
words of the text, although variously in-
terpreted, are not words of mystery; their
meaning is obvious and plain. Christ was
no lawgiver; He proclaimed ideals, which
He knew could and ought to be worked
out in life.
These the Christians crystallized into
laws and, for the weak, they are helpful
and so legitimate; they obviate the neces-
sity for search, requiring nothing but
obedience. But "roads make wings un-
necessary," and if they give safety, they
give also prison.
The present text is the religious au-
thority for our "regular confession,"
which has been too much a matter of
personal salvation. The Kingdom of
Christ heretofore has- been lost in other
worldliness. It is for us of the present
age to find Tjut wnat salvation means
more than the saving ef a soul, for our
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Varsity Players Elect
The  committee   of   the   Varsity
players  has   elected,   for  the   next
B. A.'s Conferred On
72 In Class of '31
M. A.'s and Ph. D.'s Also Given
At Close of The 46th
Academic Year.
MR    CRAM    IS    SPEAKER
ELIZABETH BAER
Mrs. Barnes Urges
Creation By Youth
Only   Real   Equality   of   Sexes
Found on Stage; Writer Has
Less Economic Pressure.
year's board the following Execu-
tive   Committee.     This   committee
will, in the fall, select the members
of the Advisory Committee.
President            Betty Young, 1932
Business manager,
Polly Barnitz, 1933
Executive Committee Member,
Janet Marshall, 1933
Executive Committee Member,
Leta Clews, 1933
Mrs. Margaret Ayer Barnes, '07,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the
best nov.el of the year, "Years of
Grace," is taking advantage of her
presence in the East both to attend her
class reunion and to receive the formal
award, of her prize in New York.
Mrs. Barnes insists that no one was
more surprised than she when she was
notified that she was a prize-winner,
and is inclined to look on her entire
literary career, which has lasted for
about four years, with some incredulity.
"The thing that strikes nie." she re-
peats, "is that I was very lucky, and
got all the breaks at the right time. I
really just drifted into writing." She
told how she began writing short
stories for the pleasure it gave her, and
sent one to the Pictorial Review out
of idle curiosity. She received a check
a few days later and promptly had it
framed. Mrs. Barnes has since written
ten short stories, three plays and two
novels.
Mrs. Barnes says that she did not
do anything important while in Bryn
Mawr, except to major for four years
in English which she has always loved.
She feels that tlve greatest value of the
English courses of the time was the
enormous solid bulk reading which
they presented to the student. She ob-
tained no technical training in writing
at college and was left with the feeling
that the_.�reative end was submerged
in the critical. Since no impression
was given that literature is a proces-
sion, the inference that th*' last word
in literature had been written offered
no stimulus. A firm foundation of the
classics is a virtue nut youth should be
encouraged, not made to feel young
and inadequate. How the young au-
thors of today have obtained such a
mature point of view is a puzzle to Mrs.
Barnes, who has always said that she
could not have started writing earlier
than "she did. "because she would not
have felt capable.
Mrs. Barnes does not think that a
woman who is trying to manage a
house and three sons can adopt regu-
lar habits of work. She is a slow writer
and makes constant revisions. Often
she spendo from breakfast until dinner
at her desk,' or works after an eve-
ning^ entertainment until daylight if
things are shaping as she wants them.
On other days she does no work at
all. Mrs. Barnes believes that women
h?ve a supreme advantage over men
in artistic Jines because tMey are rarely
in a position where it is necessary to
sacrifice their own standards to eco-
nomic necessities. A woman who is
settled and nas financial support or is
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The commencement exercises of the
forty-sixth academic year of Bryn Mawr
College held on June 3 combined the
usual ceremonies and speeches with the
announcement of the honors awarded for
distinguished work. The speaker, Mr.
Ralph Adams Cram, Litt. D., LL.D., of
Boston, chose "The Educational Value of
Beauty" as his subject. Mr. Cram was
consulting architect of Bryn Mawr,
Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, and is
the author of many books on architecture.
Margaret Shaughnessy, of Framingham,
Mass., was awarded the European Fel-
lowship. The recipients of degrees and
certificates were then read:
The recipients of the Bachelor of Arts
Degree are as- follows^-------------------.��
Biology
Dorothy Wilemina Asher, cum laude
with  distinction  in  biology.
Enid Appo Cook, cum laude.
Margaret Dean Findley, with dis-
tinction in biology.
Martha Jefferson Taylor, cum laude,
with distinction in biology.
Chemistry
Carolyn Bftllock Beecher.
Helen   Louise  Snyder,   magna  cum
laude with distinction in chemistry.
Classical Archaeology
Kathleen Cone, with distinction in
Classical Archaeology.
Barbara Kirk, cum laude.
Ruth Levy.
Caroline Huston Thompson, magna
cum laude with distinction in Classical
Archaeology.
Economics
Isabel Hamilton Benham, with dis-
tinction in  Economics.
Virginia Burdick, cum laude, with
distinction in Economics.
Frances Haswell Robinson, with dis-
tinction in Economics.
Margaret Shaughnessy, magna cum
laude with distinction in Economics.
Ethel Picard Sussman, with distinc-
tion injEconomics.
� Economics and Politics
Katherine Wise Bowler.
Elizabeth Lawson Cook, cum laude.
with distinction in Economics.
Anne Beverley George.
Dorothy Susan Mead.
Celeste Walker Page.
English
Angelyn Louise Burrows, with dis-
tinction in   English.
Celia Gause Darlington, magna cum
laude,  with distinction in  English.
Mary Polk Drake.
Bertha Brossman  Faust, cum laude,
Foreign Bryn Mawr
Grads Interviewed
Contrast    Is    Drawn    Between
Universities of Europe
and America.
CO-EDUCATION FAVORED
MARGARET SHAUGHNESSY
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Theresa Helburn, '08,
Grants Interview
Tells  of  Her   Career   Both
College   and   in   the
Theatrical World.
in
Miss Theresa Helburn, '08, of the
Theater   Guild   Board   of   Managers,   is
one bf the most interesting of the alumnae
who have returned this jrear, not only
because of her importance on Broadway,
but because she held almost every posi-
tion of importance while she was in' col-
lege. In her senior year, she was on
the basketball and hockey teams, was
on the Lantern Board, ran a somewhat
less literary publication, the T'w'p'ny;
fiob, managed all the plays which were
giyen, and carried several English
courses, all of which involved a great
deal of writing. The result was a break-
down. She managed, however, to achieve
two prizes in that year; a gold watch in
a hunting case for the George W. Child's
essay prize for a composition written
to complete her English major, and a
set of Shakespeare which she received as
the first holder of the*"Sunny Jim" award
for high courage, steadfastness, loyalty
and cheerfulness.
She was very interested in the drama
at a time when contemporary plays were
not allowed on the college library
shelves, and scandalized the English de-
partment by writing her Sophomore es-
say on Arthur Wing Pinero. "I had to
go into the Philadelphia Library to get
any material on him," she added. As an
actress she always played the low come-
dian in the Shakespeare plays or took
the part of the villain. In Miss Hel-
burn's college days, the tradition of the
intellectual woman was cherished�one of
the symptoms was the Pedants' Club,
which the present Mrs. Barnes founded.
"We were more serious in those days. I
understand  that   the  younger   generation
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Schedule Changed
It has been decided to make a general change in the
laboratory .schedule next year, so that the First Year Biology
and �irJiI_Year Physics, .vi^ll. meet on--Monday _and:T�uesday
afternoons, and the First Year Chemistry and First Year
Geology on Thursday and Friday. The Second Year Chemistry
will then meet on Monday and Tuesday, and the Second Year
Biology and Second Year Physics on Thursday and Friday.
It is hoped that this general shift will not result in any conflicts
in   courses   already   arranged,   but   if   there   should   be   any
difficulties  they should  be   reported  as   soon   as  possible   to
the Dean's .Office.
For the year 1932-33 one change in the morning lecture
schedule has already been decided upon and should be noted
by all under-classmen. The First Year History and Apprecia-
tion of Music is to be moved from Group G to Group E, and
will meet Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at i-lc-wn.
One or two other changes in the morning lecture schedule
are being discussed, and if they are decided upon they will
be announced in the fall', to take effect iii 1932-33.
"Why did you come to Bryn Mawr?
Are you glad that you did? How do
you find it different from the university
you left?" These are the questions that
the News has been asking up and down
the halls of Radnor. The answers have
been illuminating and varied. On one
point alone has unanimity been found.
No Qne is sorry for having come.
Molly Allen came Jiere from the Lon-
don School of Economics, ill England,
more or less by accident. Having heard
a good deal about Bryn Mawr from a
friend who had been here, she applied*,
rather casually, for a fellowship and
promptly forgot all about the matter.
The announcement of the award came as
a very pleasant shock. It was celebrated
by the way, with a bottle of wine. Being
in America and at Bryn Mawr she has
found on the whole very pleasant.    ,
Probably the best way to show the
differences between Bryn Mawr and the
London School of Economics is to de-
scribe the latter. One must remember
first of all that it is a specialized school
and not at all typical of English uni-
versities. It has about 2000 students
altogether, including graduates, day and
evening students, old and young, men
and girls. They come from about forty
different countries (a large number crae
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Prof. Kingsbury Aids
Prohibition Research
On May 26, Tuesday a week- ago,
Professor Susan M. Kingsbury, of the
Department of Social Economy, Bryn
Mawr College, attended in Washington
the first meeting of the Prohibition Bu-
reau Advisory Research Council, a'
group formed by the Division of Re-
search and Public Information of the
Bureau of Prohibition in the Department
of Justice. Miss Kingsbury is the only
woman member of the council, which is
composed of representatives of ten grad-
uate schools of American universities.
The body will serve under the Federal
Department of Justice as an advisor to
the Bureau of Prohibition in its own
research and investigation, and secondly
it will serve as a body to co-ordinate
research by the Bureau and research in
American graduate schools. In the words
of the Chief pf the Division of Research
and Public Information, Mr. E. P. San-
ford, it will hope to adopt "a standard
plan of subjects of research to be fol-
lowed in universities." "A number of n
studies in one subject carried out in
various localities and ultimately sub-
mitted t'withe Bureau for co-ordination
and compilation will give a wider horizon
and larger background than can be se-
cured in any other way. ... It is to be
ho|ied that the Bureau may be able to
publish outstanding theses submitted by"~ -.�
graduate students as an indication of
the Bureau's appreciation of careful,
scholarly work . . . The utmost academic
freedom is to lie given directors of re-
search and those graduate students who
elect to investigate the subjects suggested
by the Council. iXo special objective is    -
asked for. It is fact* that are wanted.'
The meeting in Washington lasted all
day. It discussed subjects and^fiethods
for college research work to discover
the social changes resulting from pro-
hibition and the MRUaiflptiofl of alcohol.
Each worker of the Council ia to sug-
ncst more suhjects and methods About
thirty unrepresented universities also
have already suggested topics. The work
may   be  done   in  college   departments   of
Social Economy, psychology, physiology,
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