College News, 1937-03-02, Vol. 23, No. 16

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VOL. XXIII, No. 16
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937
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BRYN  MAWR  BEGINS  FOUR - POINT  EXPANSION
DISTRIBUTION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY FUI
February, 1937
Science Building ........�..................
Library.................'..................
Wyndham  .................................
Faculty Salaries ............,...............
r Departmental Gifts.........................
Fellowships, Scholarships and Grants.....
Archaeological  Dig  ..........'..............
Books and Lectures ........................
<Joodhart Hall (alterations and reduction of debt)............
Miscellaneous   (Deanery,  May  Day, Bryn   Mawr Camp,  Drive
Expenses, the President's Fund, Tiffany Garden)......
Endowments and Bequests:
Carnegie  Corporation  Fund........'...........    $150,000.00
$344,327.67
167,392.85
8,250.00
687498.81
47,265.00
64,413.21
8,050.00
10,927.22
5,082.34
33,900.00
Sophie Bouchef Fund...
Harriet Randolph Fund.
Madge   Miller   Fund-----
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Jane Brownell  Fund.........*a,
Susan M. Kingsbury Research Institute Assist-
antship    ......-... ."T.....................
Master School of Music Fund.. .v...............
Ella  Riegel  Archaeological  Fund of  December,
1935   .,.........,......................
(Based on present value of stock)
18,002.91
5,000.00
25,000.00
8,000.00
26,695.00
25,090.72
17,000.00
274,788.63
TOTAL.......................................$1,032,895.73,
Construction   to   Begin
In June, Says Mr. Stokes
Mr. Francis J. Stokes, elected last
autumn to head the Buildings and
Grounds Committee of the Board of
Directors and greatly responsible for
the present froject, has kindly sent
the News the following statement of
his personal views:
"The final design of the two-science
building is still under consideration
and revision. While it may be that
the exterior will be of gray brick, that
is not definitely determined. It would
be my expectation that if we are not
disappointed in the estimates of cost,
work,would commence in June, and
that would doubtless mean that it
would be completed early in the sum-
mer of 1938.
"It is my hope that construction of
the new library wing can be com-
menced during this summer. Plans
call for a stone Tudor style of archi-
tecture similar to the present Library
building.
"The matter of increased lighting
facilities is under consideration.
Whether it will be met by the install-
ment of additional facilities or by the
purchase of current from the Public
Service has not yet been determined.
The present inadequacy is so pressing
that a solution must be found as soon
as a satisfactoryjonclusion is arrived
at, as well as the necessary finances.
"Concerning cooperation, I can only
say that this has been so generous
from President Park throughout th*
college that it has put those of us off
the campus on our mettle to fulfill ex-
pectations."
Yet to be Done�
The construction program of
the Board of Directors and
Trustees is ready to move ahead.
But there is much yet to be done
to build the Bryn Mawr of the
future. The following is an in-
complete summary of units in
the project for which funds must
yet be fdund:
(1)    The other $100,000 for
the top two floors for Library
Wing.
(2)  The-two wings for biology
and physics-mathematics. Rough
estimate: $500,000.
(3)   Additional academic ap-
pointments for the sciences, for
art and archaeology, and in-
structors for the new 100 stu-
dents.
(4)   Wyndham debt: $277,000.
(5)     Books for all depart-
ments, particularly for art and"
archaeology.
The above are necessary.    In
addition, the college should like
the new program to include the
"following,  for  which  there  are
no funds at present:
(6)   New lighting for the col-
lege.
(7)' Workshop for art courses
and for stagecraft.
(8)   Squash courts.
(9)   Extension of the college
courses.
(10)  Almost infinite provision
for research work for the fac-
ulty, and for graduates and
undergrad uates.
Horse Cars, Leaks Discombobulate Lives
Of 1903  Pioneers in Newly-Built Hall
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Alumnae Enthusiasm
Gives Student New
Feeling for College
Contact With Campus Through
DeanCfy, Report on Finals
Are Emphasized
MISS PARK'S SPEECH
CLIMAX OF COUNCIL
(Editor's Note: Students and sub-
freshmen beware! Lest you think an
easy road lies ahead, read of your
early sisters' trials and tribulations.
O pioneers!
Contributed in News tryouts.)
All three buildings of the last great
project were begun in the summer of
1903, but it soon became apparent
that Rockefeller, at least, was not
going to be fit for habitation by Oc-
tober. The problem of providing a
home for the incoming students soon
became acute. It was met by taking
over the whole Pennsylvania Railroad
Hotel in ^the village of Bryn Mawr.
This structure, Summit Grove, since
torn down, then stood in a park be-
tween Summit Grove Avenue and
Railroad Avenue. It had, in its day,
been a country resort for the Phila-
delphians. In 1903, it was aged,
ramshackle and a fire-trap. Mrs.
Marion Paris Smith, present Profes-
sor of Economics, who was then the
warden, lived in constant fear of con-
flagration".                         ,
The worst problem, however, proved
to be that of transportation. A bus,
drawn by two horses and hung with
black oil-cloth curtains to insure
privacy, left Taylor Hall at ten min-
utes-past each hour, and departed
from Summit Grove at ten minutes
before. Students living in Summit
Grove were given passes; other un-
dergraduates had to pay five cents
apiece. Even with this convenience,
there were minor tragedies when stu-
dents failed to catch the bus.
By the end of the spring vacation,
Rockefeller Hall was declared^ to be
ready for occupancy. The whole hall
had been finished in cypress-wood of
an exquisite creamy-tan, especially
cut in one of Mr. Rockefeller's
swamps. A.few details had not been
completed�the plumbing had not been
tested, the walls had not been papered,
and shades for the windows had yet
Continued on Page Two
(Especially contributed by Lucy
Huxley, President of the Class of 1937
and Undergraduate Rejrresentative at
the Alumnae Council.)
The realization of the feeling of the
Alumnae toward the college and the
recognition of the amount of work
they accomplish in a year was a rev-
elation to .an undergraduate attending
the Alumnae Council in Washington
last Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Their enthusiasm and interest in all
the activities on the campus far sur-
passes any similar exhibition among
the graduate and undergraduate stu-
dents. Their one idea as members of
the Alumnae Association is to keep
Bryn Mawr at the top of the ladder,
and they are willing to do any amount
of work to help the college maintain
its position. It is hard for most of
us who are still undergraduates to
realize just how much the college
means to the alumnae, but if any stu-
dent had seen the effect made upon
them by the announcements in Miss
Park's speech and Mrs. Slade's re-
port on the Fiftieth Anniversary
Fund, she would have understood why
they are willing to devote so much
time and energy to the various col-
lege projects. Everyone was dis-
tressed that Miss Park could not be
there herself to deliver the very im-
portant announcements in her speech
Friday night, but a severe case of
the flu prevented her from attending.
Meeting Opens Informally
The meeting was opened formally
Thursday afternoon by Ida Laucr
Darrow, 1921, the new president of
the Alumnae Association. Sherry
Matteson, '36, also representing the
"Undergraduate Point of View," made
an excellent appeal for a closer asso-
ciation between the alumnae and the
undergraduates and explained how
the activities at the "Deanery are doing
much to bind these two groups closer
together. Mary S. Sweeney, speaking
for the graduate school, described the
growing feeling among the graduate
students that they are a class and not
individuals. The incorporation of
Radnor into a hall solely for gradu-
ate students has done much to cement
this feeling.
Dean Manning Tells of Change
Dean Manning, 1916, representing
the faculty of the college, spoke oi
the many changes in the college cur-
riculum. The expansion of the col-
lege in its history of fifty-one years
has presented very definite problems,
as has the expansion in the number
of fields of study and in the cm*�y-
tion of education. The need has arisen
for connecting the class work with the
world outside. She traced the aca-
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MR. RHOAfcS EXPRESSES
DIRECTORS' APPROVAL
It is peculiarly appropriate that as
Bryn Mawr starts its second fifty
years, the President of the Board of
Trustees should be the son of the col-
lege's first president. Mr. Charles
Rhoads has sent The News the fol-
lowing statement:
"The directors are exceedingly glad
that at last the college has been able
to make a start on a program that
has been so long delayed. While we
cannot carry out all our dreams at
this moment, we expect to be able to
make a beginning this spring and we
believe that, the beginning once made,
the approval of those who are inter-
ested in the college will help us carry
through the program to its comple-
tion."                 Charles J. Rhoads.
Stakes on Hockey Field Mark
Site of New Science Building
Directors    Approve    Increase    in    Faculty    Salaries,    Pensions;
Calls for Addition of 100 Students; Provisions Made
For New Wing of Library
MRS.  COLLINS   APPOINTED   A   DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE
Qoodhart, March  .'.'.�As culmination  of three years of  intensive
and difficult planning by the Board of Directors, and generous giving
by all connected with or interested in Bryn Mawr. .Miss Park made the
definite announcement to the students and faenlty in chapel this morn-
ing of the first great construction and expansion program whicn the
college" lias undertaken in over thirty years.
The gift of 1,000,600 dollars made to the college by the Alumnae
Association has at last made it possible not onlv to answer the needs
which have pressed hardest upon the college in the last few years, but
also to extend and strengthen-its interests aud resources.
Definite plans for the erection of the science building and provi-
sions for the Library wing, drawn up by a special investigation com-
mittee, and approved at  a special  meeting of the   Hoard of Trustees
and Directors, are now ready to put
Four-Point Program
The four major points of the
new construction and expansion
program voted by the Board of
Trustees and Directors are:
I�The erection, commencing
immediately, of a two-story sci-
ence building to house geology
and chemistry.
II�The erection of a wing to
the   Library  to  house  art and
archaeology.  At least two floors �
and a basement to be begun as
soon as possible.
Ill�The acquisition from col-
lege funds as an investment for
a new dormitory to house 100
new students and an ultimate
increase of the charge for tui-
tion to 600 dollars (the Vassar
figure), thus providing an ex-
tra income of 60,000 dollars a
year for faculty "salaries and
pensions.
IV�The appointment of a
new officer of the administra-
tion to represent the college in
attempts to make its work
known and to interest its old
and potential friends in its
plans and needs.
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Dean Favors Increase
In Quota of Students
Feels    Average   of    Four   Students
In  Each  Major  Too  Low
Mrs. Manning, in discussing the
academic aspects of the new construc-
tion program, made the following
statements:
"As far as^nore students">-are con-
cerned I am in favor of the new pro-
gram because the number of students
and the number^of departments at the
present time are entirely out of pro-
portion. We have added three depart-
ments since we last increased ^ the
number of students. The average for
each- major department-is four stu-
dents, which is-entifcly'too low. With
present facilities, the interest in.arts
and music, and the social economy ma-
jor under discussion there should be
more students to -strike the best
average. Uneconomical as it is now,
our present equipment could take care
of 500 students with a few more in-
structors for the freshmen.
We   will   probably   have   to   make
enough appointments of younger men
so that elder members can be released
more for their major students.
Continued on Page Three
Don't   Forget!
ANDRES SEGOVIA
in
Goodhart, Tonight at 8.30
Sec This Week'! New Yorker
into execution.                     ��
Two additional recommendations
made by the committee were also ap-
proved by the directors; one designed
to effect the long-desired increase in
faculty salaries and pensions; and
one to explain And further the.inter-
ests of the college in the broad field of
its present and potential contacts.
The former will call for the addition
of one hundred students and the con*
struction of a new hall of residence,
the income from, which will be turned
to this purpose^whereas the latter
recommendation has already been put
into effect by the appointment of Caro-
line Chadwick-Collins as a Director at
Large.
Measurements for the science build-
ing, which will contain two sciences
and provide for the later addition of
wings to house biology, physics and
mathematics, have already been
staked out on its site on the upper
hockey field, and it is hoped that the
building will be ready for occupancy
in the fall of 1938. Definite plans
have been made for the construction
of at least the basement and first two
floors of the Library wing, the third
and fourth floors to be added when
sufficient funds are available.
Miss Park's speech follows:
Put together, the results of the
Alumnae Drive form an astonishing
total of new interests made possible
and old interests strengthened. Today
I cannot present to you all the widely
varied additions to our resources, but
I shall make known the immediate
program of the college for those spe-
cific needs incessantly before us in
the last few years: increased faculty
salaries and pensions, new quarters
for the Departments of the History of
Art and Archaeology, more stack room
in the Library. The directors are
ready to state su8h a program, and
no student can fail to be interested in
its bare outline. Details, additions,
subtractions, must later change and
amplify the first statement.
The Background of Our Decisions
. The. .directors.. .ot._thfi... college, saw
that in years when the supporters of
most causes, not only educational but
scientific and social as well, had given
themselves over at worst to despair,
Continued on Page Six
TYPE SPECIMEN BOOKS     *
PRESENTED TO LIBRARY
Lovers of fine printing and all who
are interested in typography wuT*be
glad to knrtw that through the gen-
erosity of Mr. Wilfred Bancroft and
Mr. T. Frank Morgan, of the Lanston
Monotype Company, the Library has
been presented with the type specimen
books of that organization. These
contain examples of hundreds of vari-
ous faces, including some fifteen de-
signed for the Monotype Company by
Goudy, usually acknowledged as the^
greatest and most versatile artist in
the history of type-design.