College News, 1939-06-07, Vol. 25, No. 24

              The college News
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VOL. XXV, No. 24
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1939
PRICE 10 CENTS
G, DOLOWITZ WINS EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP, 90.94
Faculty  Scattering
As College Finishes
Fifteen Professors Plan Summer
Of Hard Work; Four Prefer
Quiet    Holidays
Still scattered about the half-empty
Library a few of the faculty are hold-
ing conferences about backward stu-
dents and last minute papers before
they march through the commence-
ment procession, and hasten away to
do some serious work. Mr. Samuel
Chew, professor of English, is driving
to California with his wife where he
will stay until the second semester of
next year on sabbatical leave. Mr.
Stephen Herben, also of the English
department, and Miss Caroline Rob-
bins, associate professor of History,
are sailing for England. They plan
to work in the British Museum on
their respective subjects.
Mr. Charles Fenwick, professor of
political science, is staying in Bryn
Mawr during June to work on his
book, The Foreign Policy of the
United States. On the side he wilT
also lecture at an Institute of Inter-
national Relations in Lafayette Uni-
versity. In July Mr. Fenwick has
been invited to attend a conference at
Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss a con-
structive program for meeting the
presept world situation. On his return
in August, he will give a further
series of lectures at another Institute
of International Relations in New
England.
The Latin department is perhaps
the most ambitious of all. Miss Lily
Ross Taylor and Mr. Thomas Brough-
ton, with the assistance of Miss Eliza-
beth Ash, graduate student, will
spend the summer in Bryn Mawr
working on an index for Mr. Tenney
Frank's unfinished Economic Survey
of Ancient Rome, in five volumes. Mr.
Broughton, who was an original col-
laborator on the Survey, is writing in
addition several articles for the New
Oxford Classical Dictionary. Miss
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Garden Party
Wyndham Garden, June 6.�
On Tuesday the annual Senior
Garden Party began Commence-
ment festivities. From four un-
til seven Wyndham lawn was
crowded with nearly a thousand
guests, students, faculty and
friends and relatives of those
graduating. Miss Park and
Dean Manning received. ' Re-
freshments of punch, ice cream,
and cake were served.
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Gene Irish Awarded First Alternate:
Taft and Sperry Give Final Addresses
SPERRY  CHOOSES
'LET   ME   NOT   BE
ASHAMED' AS TEXT
Goodhart, June 4.-�Preaching the
Baccalaureate Sermon at the close of
the 54th academic year, Dean Willard
L. Sperry, of the Harvard Divinity,
took as his text, "Let me never be
ashamed."
Dean Sperry described the prob-
lems of courage which confront the
people in' a world of changing con-
ventions. There are three kinds of
courage. The first is to dare, to act
in bad form, the second to be reticent
and unblatant, and the last to have
courage in the face of change.
"Every attempt to translate life in
any one type of culture into the terms
of life in another culture is held up
by mental detours, which have had
to be made to replace conventions
which have been washed out. And
every attempt to translate the life of
the past into the terms of the'present
is confronted by the same necessity.
Deliberate acts of honest imagination
are required for such translation. It
is in something of this spirit that I
am asking you to think, as appropri-
ate to the occasion, of a half dozen
familiar words from the Bible, 'Let
me never be ashamed.'"
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YEARBOOK   DEPARTS
FROflff USUAL TRACK
Pictures   Show   Seniors,
Faculty   With   Habitats
After the whitewashing effusions
on the subject of sweet girl gradu-
ates current in our earliest youth, it
was a relief to find that the 1939
yearbook presented the seniors in the
normal atmosphere of college life. It
deserves applause for. its effort to
record people with their personali-
ties "en deshabille" as well as stream-
lined by the average portrait photo,
and because it makes an excellent
vehicle for the inevitable college gos-
sip that is an intrinsic part of every
yearbook. Unlike the college movie,
its first cousin, the Yearbook was not
created for the mothers of incoming
freshmen, and we find it pleasantly
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Campus Flooded by Commenting Alumnae,
Reunion Marked  by Continuous  Festivity
Eleven classes, ranging from 1889
to 1938, have been actively visiting
the college during the past week. The
reunion was opened on Saturday after-
noon by the annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association. Plans for pic-
nics, suppers, teas and other activities
were made afterwards by the indi-
vidual classes.
As usual, the reunions were planned
so that the groups who returned had
been in college" simultaneously. The
group of twelve 1889ers who made
their headquarters in the Blue Room
at the Deanery was an exception,
however, as they were celebrating
their fiftieth anniversary.
It has always been a matter for
speculation that the alumnae who used
t) grumble in the smoking rooms year
in and year out thpt they would never
come back to a reunion�that thejjj
would rather be seen dead�that it
was all a lot of�are always the
ones seen around campus afterwards.
Then therejs usually a marked dearth
of the "Of course, I'll be back" type.
The class spirit of 1901 rose to
dramatic heights on Saturday when
they presented Adam and Eve in the
Deanery Garden. In 1897 (before
the Denbigh fireJthey gave a play
as Freshmen on the Denbigh staircase.
The one given Saturday was a repeat
performance, with an altered cast,
slightly inferior only from want of
rehearsals, and a more appropriate
setting. Adam was played by Fannie
Woods, Eve by Helen Converse
Thorpe. There were Archangels, An-
gels, Imps and Satans in the cast
and a very capable and mellow chorus.
The stage effects included false mus-
taches, Herald Tribune angel wings',
and writhing coils of ivy.
Ah* encounter with some members
of the class of 1901 proved enlight-
ening. When asked her opinion of
Rhoads, one answered that she
thought it wa* "very lovely, but if
you want a little constructive criti-
cism I think if they took those curley-
cue gadgets off the ends of things
there would be much more, room for
something like drawers." A second
alumna said: "But there's not enough
room to live in. It's all very well
to go in for spacious furniture, but
there's no room to walk around in."
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GRACE   BKLLE   DOLOWITZ
WINNER PLANS
FUTURE CAREER
IN EDUCATION
Grace Dolowitz, winner^of the Eu-
ropean Fellowship*, has always lived
in New York though by chance -she
was born in Long Branch, New Jer-
sey, where her family were spending
their summer vacation. A major in
French, she is also interested in
music and writing though she insists
that both of these pursuits are merely
for her*owfi pleasure. In college her
average has stayed consistently above
90 except in the second semester of
freshman year when it dropped to a
mere 89.
Miss Dolowitz graduated from the
Packer Institute in Brooklyn where
she was humor editor of the magazine
and actress in many of the school
plays. Her interest in French be-
gan at home, however, because her
mother disapproved of high school
language teaching methods and em-
ployed a French governess and French
maids to bring up the children. Fresh-
man year she planned to major in
English, but the required English
course changed her^mind.
In her junior year, Miss Dolowitz
studied in Tours and Paris with four
other-Bryn Mawr French majors as
members of the Delaware Group. Her
work for the Sorbonne diplome con-
sisted chiefly of a long paper on
parcel Proust's Idea of Happiness.
On the side, she acted in L'Ecole des
Femmes, a production of the Group
which was attended by a great many
bearded  Sorbonne  professors.
At Tours, Miss Dolowitz enjoyed the
bicycling, the chateaux, and the gen-
eral environs, but found the city dull.
Paris was much__better; she lived
with a charming family and enjoyed
walking around the streets to see the
city. During Easter vacation some of
the Group toured vaguely around
Italy in a bus. "I thought Italy was
wonderful," she said, "but maybe it
was just because I had finished my
Proust paper and needed the change."
She  "found   the   French -a   rather
serious   race,  though  she  had   many
amusing experiences with them.    One
day on  the subway,  two Frenchmen
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Notice
Students who are changing
their courses must notify the
Dean's office before September
15. After Commencement noti-
fication may be made by letter
to Mrs. Manning. After Sep-
tember 15 a fine of five dollars
will be charged unless a very
good reason for delay can be
given.                      -$*
MR.  TAFT  ASSERTS
SPIRITUAL   VALUES
VITAL TO SECURITY
Goodhart Hall, June 7.�"I submit
that the effort in Russia to build a
state capitalism without belief in God
is what produces the cruelty to man
and the disregard of personality that
most observers report," stated Charles
Phelps Taft, LL.D., in his address to
the graduating class of 1939. Mr.
Taft discussed aspects of the search
for   security   today,   developing   his
92  Receive  Degrees
Of Bachelor of Arts
7 Magna Cum Laudes, 25 M. A.'s,
10 Doctors of Philosophy
Conferred
^
Goodhart, June 7.�Closing the 54th
academic year, Miss Park announced
the selection of Grace Dolowitz as the
Bryn Mawr European Fellow for next
year. The Bachelor of Arts degree
was received by 92 members of the
graduating class, 7 magna cum laude
and 5W-t><�i laude. To graduate stu-
dents at Bryn Mawr 35 doctorates
and  Master's degrees were awarded.
As the announcement was made,
Miss Dolowitz, who was graduated
minima cum laude, with distinction in
opinion   that   spiritual   values   stand
before simple economic safety in the I French, rose to take her place on the
individual's search for security.            platform with the other scholars and
The ChristiaA religion as preached fellows of Bryn Mawr. Gene Roberts
by Christ, and later the Puritans and [Irish, graduated magna cum laude,
Methodists, has emphasized the worth!w'th distinction in physics, was named
and   equality   of   every   man   before as alternate for the fellowship.
God, and, said Mr. Taft, "democracy
can only exist while we look on each
man, woman, and child as a person,
who in some degree can make his
contribution to the comnjon good.
Each must have a life to lead, his
own, not somebody else's plan for
him."   -
To Miss Irish also w�nt one of the
two new awards announced by Miss
Park, the Charlotte Angas Scott Prize
in Mathematics. This prize, given
in memory of former Professor Char-
lotte^Scott, js awarded by the head of
the Mathematics Department to a"
senior majoring in mathematics whose
work   has   shown   "diligence,   intelli-
In answer to the often posed ques-
tion: "Is the religion of Christ rele-jgence and promise."
vant today?" Mr. Taft concluded his      The   second   award,
a   scholarship
address to the class of 1939. He said
that the Christian religion is a "gos-
pel of perfection, perfection in your
own life, and perfection for your com-
munity from class to world stage.
If you look at that glorious teach-
ing as a vision to achieve, a plan to
work on, a goal and purpose or your
own life�not as a set of laws or a
moral code�it has a fascination that
is deathless ^from generation to gen-
eration."
Overemphasis  on  Economic  Values
"Don't think I am attacking the
ideal of the fu'.l dinner pail and the
solid house. Neither am I suggest-
ing that we abandon the attempt to
solve economic problems�I simply
raise the question of whether we do
not need spme other standard of val-
ues while we push along the high-
way.
"Very likely you may suggest that
of course you believe in religion and
spiritual values, but that they can-
not live in the slums and on relief
wd in sweat shops" Therefore, you
say, we must first attack these in-
equalities and injustices. It is to
some degree a matter of emphasis,
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given by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hislop
and Mrs. Frederic W. Crawford in
memory of Jeanne Crawford Hislop
of the class of 1940, was awarded to
Virginia Center Nichols, '4i, of New
York City. This scholarship is to be
given annually for twenty-five years
a: the discretion of the president and
faculty to a member of the sopho-
more class.
Following is a list of those who
receive A.B., M.A., Ph.D. degrees from
Bryn Mawr College.
BIOLOGY
Ethel Alberta Shepherd Dana
New York
Catherine Dallett Hemphill          e
Maryland
Mary Tyrrell Ritchie                Illinois
CHEMISTRY
Denise Debry                       New York
Catherine Christine Eide
magna cum laude                      Ohio
(with distinction in chemistry)
Dorothea Reinwald Heyl
magna cum laude        Pennsylvania
(with distinction in chemistry)
Dorothea Radley Peck
magna cum laude             New York
f    (with distinction in chemistry)
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Senior Survey Shows Six Brides To Be,
Majority Plan Summer of Recuperation
Before the seniors cease to be nor-
mal individuals and enter the odd re-
mote worlds of graduates and alum-
nae, we thought some statistics, as to
plans, marriage, and majors, would
appeal to their public.
Out of the 82 seniors interviewed
over 50 are going to spend the sum-
mer in "relaxing hard." But ap-
parently some few hardy individuals
still have energy despite comprehen-
sives. Jean Morrill (an English
major) will be doing settlement wotk
in St. Louis, Agnes Spencer (eco-
nomics) hopes to be with some trade
union, Sarah S&eigs" (history of art)
has been asked to work with the
Weston Theatre group in Vermont,
Jane Braucher and Eleanor Taft (so-
cial economy major's) are to work
with the International Labor Office in
Geneva and Elizabeth Aiken (eco-
nomics) is an assistant at the Hudson
Shore Labor School. Besides this
there is a Rhoads contingent driving
out to Alice Biddle's wedding and a
small group who plan to spend the
summer in learning how to copk.  \
Before bothering with the winter
plans ofvthe more ordinary individuals,
one particular group deserves a very
special and careful analysis�the six
that admit they are marrying this
summer and the one that is doubtful
yet says "probably this summer."
What are the characteristics of this
group? Their majors: Biddle and
Ann Rauch, philosophy, Denise Debry
and Ruth Stoddard, chemistry; Alys
Welsh and the indefinite Adel Clement,
history of art, and one lone Latin
major, Amanda Gehman. No history,
English or French majors, notice.
But to go deeper into the analysis
of this group�only one wears glasses
and al( have their wisdom teeth.
Still- more significant perhaps, Stod-
dard and Biddle went to the German
orals several times, Debry to the
French oral more than once and Welsh
is violent against either German or
French or even hygiene. The prin-
cipal outside activities of this group
nre either weekends or, if the trip is
too long, art club and philosophy club.
To belong to this group, major in
philosophy, chemistry, history of art,
or, if absolutely necessary, risk Latin;
take on* your glasses and sprout wis-
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