College News, 1935-06-05, Vol. 21, No. 25

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VOL. XXI, No. 25
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1935
Copyright HKYX MAWR
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BRYN MAWR GIVES SEVENTY-FOUR A. B. DEGREES
ELIZABETH MONROE IS AWARDED I0ROPEAN FELLOWSHIP
Excellence of Acting
In  Bacchae  Praised
Different   Colors   of   Costumes,
Skillful Flute Playing Give
Beautiful Effect
CHORUS     IS     GRACEFUL
(Especially Contributed by Rhys
Carpenter)
The Bacchae of Euripides gave
Mme. Eva Sikelianos full opportunity
to combine color, movement, and song
into one of those serenely beautiful
effects which have made her Delphic
festivals a pilgrim-spot in reecnt
years. Her sense for color combina-
tion is particularly happy, though the
lurid green of the American spring
was somewhat too intense a back-
ground for her fragile tones. Quite
unforgettable was the brilliant oppo-
sition of the stronger colors in the cos-
tumes of the returning revellers on
one side of the scene against the softer
hues of the less robust chorus on the
other, while the frenzied purple fig-
ure of Agave waved the bodiless head
of the son whom she had slain. The
weather was propitious, except that
Zeus, too freely mentioned during the
play, could not refrain from acknowl-
edging the reference by gently sprink-
ling the close of the second perform-
ance.
Evelyn Thompson, 1935, as the de-
mented, then suddenly sobered and
wretched Agave, took, the honors in
acting, as Gertrude Leighton, 1938,
with her messenger's story of the
death of Pentheus, took the honors for
diction. The otherwise forebearing
audience, which largely filled the semi-
circular grandstand beneath the Old
Wives' Tale Hollow, showed its agree-
ment on the excellence of these two
parts. The male characters were cast
among the great alien world of non-
Bryn Martyrs and included some well-
known Greek scholars effectively dis-
guised. Prof. Shero, as Pentheus, be-
neath tightly curled archaic and very
auburn hair, pointed a splendidly
menacing finger at Dionysos and his
converts and walked more like a
young god than a member of the
Swarthmore faculty. Arnold Post and
Richard Heath, looking enviably aged
with the whitest of toads and the
woolliest of filleted beavcls, so obvious-
ly enjoyed themselves as the seer
Teiresias and the Theban Kadmos that
they readily imparted their pleasure
to others. The magnificently mask-
featured and immobile face of Leonide
Ignatieff as the malignant and self-
righteous god Dionysos, who could
work outrageous havoc among mortals
without staining iis superior divinty,
remain along with Miss Thompson's
staring-eyed revel as the most lasting
Continued  on  Page  Five
Faculty Appointments
Revealed by Miss Park
Goodhart, May 17.�President Park
opened her chapej talk to the stu-
dents on the last day of classes with
the reading of the rules for taking ex-
aminations. She emphasize*! the point
that the examination period is an im-
portant break in the routine work of
the year. During the two weeks set
aside for examinations the student has
a chance to do concentrated work
without interruption. The introduc-
tion of the Comprehensive system in
1937 will make this even more effec-
tive. The college work will arrange
itself in longer blocks of time and a
Continued on  Page Six
Dr. Arigell Discusses
Trends in Education
Tendency to Higher Standards
In Schools, Colleges Praised
By Yale President
BRYN MAWR A PIONEER
Winner of Fellowship
Has Average of 91.9
Cordial Relations With Faculty
Advantage of Small College
Says Math Major
WILL STUDY CHEMISTRY
Training for Nursery School Work
The Nursery Training School of
Boston, the only school in New Eng-
land primarily for the training of
nursery school teachers, announces a
special Summer Session, opening on
July 1 and continuing until August
10. Work at the Summer Session will
be in charge of the Director of the
School, Dr. Abigail Adams Eliot, who
will give three courses: The. Pre-
school Child, Nursery School Theory
and Practice, and Child Study Semi-
nar. A course in Play Materials will
be given by Miss Elizabeth Laurie,
Research Assistant in the Department
of Investigation, Boston Public
Schr-�'� Practice teaching will be
available from June 24 to August 23.
For properly qualified students these
courses are accepted as credit towards
degrees 'at Boston University School
of Education. For information as to
rates and requirements for admission,
please apply to the Secretary, 147
Ruggles Street, Boston, Massachu-
estts.
Dr. Anderson Analyzes
Economic    Alterations
Elizabeth Monroe, winner of the
European Fellowship for 1935-36, has
had a consistently high average
throughout her college career. In her
junior year she divided the Charles
S. Hinchman Memorial Scholarship,
awarded to the student doing the best
work in her major subject, with
Vung-Yuin Ting. Her major is math-
ematics, but she plans to study chem-
istry next year, "if she graduates,"
at Newnham College, Cambridge. Al-
though her plans for the future are
very vague, she said that she would
prefer research work to teaching.
Miss Monroe has been to three
schools altogether, and has never skip-
ped a grade. She went for two years
to kindergarten at the Hathaway-
Brown School in Cleveland. She spent
ten years at the Rye School and fin-
ished with two years at Concord Acad-
emy. She seems to have developed
early the habit of winning honors,
since she won two cups at Rye and a
prize at Concord. In 1928 Miss Mon-
roe was awarded the Judson cup for
school service, and she won the Craw-
ford cup at Rye a year later for the
"highest standards in school activi-
ties." She won one of the scholarship
prizes at Concord, and was given a
book called Physical Optics. Only
now after four years of college work
in scientific fields can she begin to
understand the book!
Miss Monroe's tastes are broad.
When she was fourteen, she determin-
ed on a scientific career, and told her
family that she was going to study
electrical engineering at M. I. T. This
was probably because she had just
made a telegraphic receiving set out
of odd bits of wire and steel. Her
family said nothing, but she later de-
cided to come to Bryn Mawr instead.
In school, which, contrary to the habit
of most children, she always liked, she
enjoyed English very much. French
was perhaps her hardest subject,
though she did finally master it. She
was, however, really poor in penman-
ship, and received the grade x in it.
At college she has had three years
of chemistry and mathematics, two
courses in physics, and two in English
(besides the required courses). Geol-
ogy, more particularly crystallography
and mineralogy, and logic have also
interested her.
Most of the pitfalls of college life
have been avoided by Miss Monroe.
She passed her orals the first time.
In her junior year, however, she did
fail a quiz in her major subject so
badly that the professor kindly never
marked it. She was the only under-
graduate to study with Dr. Noether,
and did honors work with her in the
field of modern  algebra.
Miss  Monroe's chief occupation'NJnl
Goodhart, June 5. � At the Com-
mencement exercises President Angell,
of Yale University, discussing certain
of the Recent Developments in Col-
legiate Education, spoke in-part as
follows:
At the exercises inaugurating the
first President of this institution, an
eminent Yale man, then President of
Johns Hopkins University, delivered
an address which was subsequently
published under the caption, 'Address
at the Opening of Bryn Mawr College
for Ladies.' Few phrases could so
succinctly indicate the amount of
water which has gone over the educa-
tional dam in the fifty years inter-
vening between that occasion and this.
"Bryn Mawr, as is well recognized,
did two daring things at the outset.
In the first place, she tried to set
her standards for entrance and for
graduation as high as any collegiate
institution in the country, declining to
recognize any differential because she
was dealing with girls. And, in the
second place, she opened a division of
graduate studies leading to the higher
degrees, and to foster this program,
she furnished a number of scholar-
ships and fellowships to promising
students. In both of these measures
she was frankly influenced by the ex-
ample of her slightly older neighbor,
.the Johns Hopkins University, where
President Gilman and many members
of his faculty were generous of aid
and advice. She could hardly have
had a more inspiring example. More-
over, from the' ver^beginning, th\;
administration of the College recog-
nized the dependence of its success
upon the securing of absolutely first
rate ability in its faculty. A list of
men and women who have taught at
Bryn Mawr contains an extraordinar-
ily high percentage of the ranking
scholars of their time in the country."
President Angell then went on to
comment upon a number of changes
which have in recent years occurred
in American institutions of higher
education. He mentioned the voca-
tional colleges training men for tech-
nical pursuits of various kinds, par-
ticularly in the several fields of engi-
neering, and also referred to the
schools affording women expert train-
ing as librarian, nurses, secretaries,
social workers, teachers of physical
education, and the science and art
of the various sub-divisions of home
economics.
He then described the objectives of
the so-called progressive colleges with
their highly individualistic methods,
their extreme emphasis on the per-
sonality^ the individual student, and
their disregard of the conventional ob-
jectives and methods of both the lib-
eral and the vocational colleges. At-
tention was drawn to the wide impor-
tation into American colleges in recent
years of modified forms of the Eng-
lish tutorial procedure and with it
the attempt to develop honors resem-
bling somewhat the similar procedure
.    Continued on rage Two
Common Room, May 14.�Professor
Anderson, speaking on Economic In-
ternationalism, described the growth
of the pre-War economic system from
(he international point of view and
discussed the effects of the War and
the economic crisis of today on that
System. It was not the events of the
War or its immediate effects which
were primarily important, but rather
the influence which it has had and will
have on the generations after those
events. The existing system of inter-
national dependence, characterized by
free movement of goods, stability of
Continued  on  Page  Four
Vung-Yuin Ting Wins
Alternate   Fellowship
Holder of Eastman and Chinese
Scholarships, Chemistry Major,
Averages 91.87
PLANS  MEDICAL  CAREER

Contfnunu'-'on  Page Three
Students who are changing
their courses must notify the
Dean's office before September
fifteenth. After Commencement
notification may be made by let-
ter to either Mrs. Manning or
Miss Ward. After September
fifteenth a fine of five dflUars
will be charged unless a very
good reason for delay can "i>e
given,
-li------------------------------------------
Over Half of Class
TakeHonor Degrees
3 Granted Summa Cum Laudes
10 Given Magnas, 29 Cums
21 Distinctions
27 GET HIGHER DEGREES
Vung-Yuin Ting is the alternate
fellow for 1935. She comes all the
way from Shanghai, China, where she
was born and brought up. When she
was seventeen, she set out alone to
cross the Pacific Ocean and the Amer-
ican Continent. Since she arrived on
the Eastern Coast in the summer, she
went to a girls' camp in Andover, Mas-
sachusetts, to learn the ways of Amer*
ican girls. Having perfected herself
in the two arts of playing their
games and of washing dishes as they
did, she came down to Pennsylvania
and entered the Shipley School for a
year. In 1932 she became a member
of the freshman class at Bryn Mawr,
and at once she distinguished herself
by her brilliant scholarship. At the
end of her third year she received the
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Mem-
orial Award for the student holding
the highest rank in the junior class,
and she divided with .Elizabeth Monroe,
the Hinchmau Scholarship given for
the most outstanding work in the
major subject. But, after all her
travels and achievements, she has not
changed the purpose which she has
held since she was a little girl; she
means to be a doctor.
The medical profession is a tradi-
tion in Miss Ting's family; it was in-
evitable that she should choose the
same calling. Accordingly, by the
time she was nine years old, she had
definitely resolved to become a physi-
cian. Her aunt, the Director of the
Woman's Hospital in Tien-Tsien, was
well acquainted with the colleges of
America, and she recommended Bryn
Mawr to Vung-Yuin not only for the
intellectual instruction offered, but
also for its training in fine living. For
her more specialized study in medical
school, Miss Ting chose the Univer-
sity of Michigan, and now she has
won a scholarship to be held there
for the next four years. When she
has at last gained the degree of Doc-
tor of Medicine, she will return to
China to assist her aunt in the Tien-
Tsien hospital. Her work will be that
of a general practitioner in the dis-
eases of women and children. In
China there is not so much need for
doctors trained in highly specialized
lines as for men and women who can
help all sickness wherever they meet
it. The great population there has
more than its share of illnesses and
less than its share of provisions
against illness. While the United
States has one hospital for every
18,000 people, vast China has only
one for every 800,000. Miss Ting will
not merely be following the profes-
sion she loves most when she returns
to her home as a full-fledged physi-
cian; she will be helping in a vitally
�cessary work.
Continued on Page Three
Goodhart Hall, June 5�Forty-two
Seniors out of a class of seventy-four
are receiving their degrees with dis-
tinction at the Commencement Exer-
cises which bring to a close the
Fiftieth academic year of the college.
There are three receiving the degree
summa cum laude, ten magna cum
laude, and twenty-nine cum laude.
The following is the list of graduate
students receiving M. A.'s and
Ph.D.'s and of the graduating class
of 1935 who are today receiving
their Bachelor of Arts degrees from
Bryn Mawr College.
BIOLOGY
Margaret Gella Berolzheimer
New York
Nancy Leslie Rutherford Bucher
Maryland
magna   cum   laude  and with
distinction   in   Biology
Betty Faeth                            Missouri
cum   lundc   and ,with   distinctio>i
in   Biology
Sarah Elizabeth Flanders   New York
Ethel Arnold Glancy      Pennsylvania
magna cum  laude
CHEMISTRY
Alberta Anne Howard    Pennsylvania
cum landc
Margaret  Elizabeth Laird
Pennsylvania
New  York
Barbara  Lewis
ciim   laude
Mildred Marlin Smith    Pennsylvania
aim   lundc   and   with   distinction
in Chemistry
Vung Yuin Ting                        China
summa cum laude
CLASSICAL   ARCHAEOLOGY
Elizabeth  Mann  Chamberlayne
Virginia
cum lande
Jean Cornelia Porter        New Jersey
Mary Maynard Riggs          New York
ECONOMICS
Mary Buchanan Bedinger
Pennsylvania
Catherine  Little            Massachusetts
cum laude and with distinction
in Economics
Diana Tate-Smith                New York
magna cum  laude and  with  distinc-
tion in Economics
Helen Catharine Whitney    New York
POLITICS
Ruth  Josephine   Davy          Maryland
Priscilla Howe                     New York
ENGLISH
Gertrude Van Vranken Franchot
Massachusetts
magna   cum   laude   and   with  distinc-
tion   in   English
Elizabeth Lord                          Illinois
Elizabeth Mather                      Illinois
Katherine  Mary  McClatchy
Pennsylvania
cum   laude   and   with   distinction
in  English
Geraldine  Emeline  Rhoads
New Jersey
cum   laude   and   with   distinction
in English
Evelyn Hastings Thompson
Massachusetts
cum   laude   ami   with   distinction
in   English
FRENCH
Catherine Adams Bill  (in absentia)
Ohio
magna   cum   laude   and   with   distinc-
tion   in   French
Anne  Cassel   Holloway         Maryland
cum laude
Mary   Pauline  Jones      Pennsylvania
summa   cum   laude  and   with  distinc-
tion   in   French
Continued on Page Three