College News, 1940-06-05, Vol. 26, No. 24

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BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940
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Marie Wurster Wins European Fellowship
Dr. Buttrick
Views Problem
Of Faith, Reason
Defines Relations
Of Religious Learning
In History and World War
Goodhart, June 2.�Th% Reveiv
end George A. Buttrick of the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church in New York, spoke at the
Baccalaureate Service. The his-
toric conflict between religion and
learning provided the subject for
his address. His text was taken
from the eighth chapter of Cor-
inthians: "For if any man think-
eth he knoweth anything, he know-
eth nothing yet as he ought to
know, but if any man know God,
the same is known of Him."
Wisdom, said Dr. Buttrick,
should be sought through religion,
which has often been too eager to
defend partial, instead of absolute
truth. "Religion is dedicated to
the whole truth and thus it must
welcome the new psychology, new
eugenics and new probings into
social and economic problems." It
must be looked upon as an agent
for uniting all the parts of spec-
ialized studies, but it is itself nec-
essary in addition to the sum of
these parts.
Continued on Page Four
Helen Baeon is Named for Alternate;
Percentage of Magna Degrees Exceptional
Faculty Prepares
To Work as Loafing
Undergraduates Co
Although summer may mean va-
cation for the student body, for
many of the faculty it means only
a change of scene in which to do
more work.
Mr. Weiss of the philosophy de-
partment will lead a bucolic life in
Vermont for the early part of the
summer, while he works on his
book. In September he will spon-
sor a National Conference on Sci-
ence philosophy and Religion, at
which time he will present a paper
on September 10 on Theology and
Philosophy. In October he will
lecture at the Jewish Thelogical
Seminary in New York.
Continued   on   PaRe   Five
Eager Male Stagline
Enlivens Junior Prom
GARDEN PARTY
Wyndliam Garden, June U.
�Opening the annual Com-
mencement festivities, the
senior garden party drew a
crowd of over one thousand
to Wyndham lawn from four
until seven on Tuesday after-
noon. Receiving the guests,
friends and relatives of those
graduating, and members of
the faculty, were Miss Park
and Mrs. Manning. Refresh-
ments of punch, ice cream,
and cake were served.
On the night of June 1, a glori-
fied gym was the scene of the most
spectacular event of the Bryn
Mawr social season. The Junior
Prom inflate a potential revolution
in Bryn W^JPr^ dances for it
deigned or dapbd to have a gentle-
man stag li^e � and the success
was stupendous. The young ladies,
gay in the newest creations of
1940, were eagerly sought after
and danced zestfully from 9.30 till
2.00 to the music of Alex Bartha's
orchestra.
Miss Park, Mrs. Manning, and
Miss Ward received with the heads
of the dance committee, Madge
Lazo, Helen Macintosh and Alison
Stokes, in* a gymnasium which had
been turned quite miraculously in-
to a garden. Balloons hung in
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Self-Admiring Alumnae Lay Claims to Fame
In Domestic as Well as Intellectual Fields
Fellows  Announced
By President Park;
Runners-Up Praised
At the 55th Commencement Ex-
ercises of Bryn Mawr College,
President   Park   said  that   rather
than being considered in view of
the war in Europe, as such exer-
cises should be thought of as a
symbol of unshakable belief in the
orderly training of the mind and
of a peaceful and reasonable world
which such training has as its
purpose.
After the conferring of the de-
grees, Miss Park announced Marie
Anna Wurster, of Philadelphia, as
the 52nd Bryn Mawr European
Fellow. Miss Wurster was gradu-
ated summa cum laude. Out of
over 3300 A.B.'s of Bryn Mawr,
only 28 have been in this exclusive
class,    said    Miss    Park.
Helen Hazard Bacon, who com-
pleted the work in two majors,
Latin and Greek, was appointed by
the faculty as the alternate
"It would have been easy," said
Miss Park, "to decorate with aca-
demic honors three other students,
Louise Morley, Joy Rosenheim and
Anne Louise Axon, and in leaner
years I should have beamed with
satisfaction over the choice of any
two of them as fellow and  alter-
show further distinctions between! nate- _
herself   and   most   European   feT �P�H��ijng is a list of those who
Dr. IIu SI,ih
Stresses Need
For Clear Vision
MARIE WURSTER
M. Wurster Admits
A Commonplace Life
Complicated By Math
Marie Wurster, the winner of
the European Fellowship, positive-
ly blushed in mentioning what she
considered her prosaic life. She
graduated from the Philadelphia
High School for Girls and she has
never studied abroad. To continue
her     self-condemnation     and     to
By Alice Crowder, '42
"Hey, Mildred, I want to go up
and take my energy food and pain
remover; I'll meet you down here,"
was heard Friday afternoon as
alumnae dribbled in from all parts
of the world for reunions. They
showed no lack of energy, however,
as they hurried from picnic to tea
to dinner to breakfast, from schol-
arship meeting to the showing of
the college . movies, taking com-
mencement activities in their
stride. Faded, moth-eaten banners
flew from windows in the halls
wu-.,^ j�e classes were concen-
trated.
Interviewed at headquarters,
members of the reuning classes
divulged great quantities of inval-
uable information. Each group
readily* agreed that only the super-
lative could be applied to itself
as a class. 1903, the oldest one
of the classes, said openly, "we
are fhe best class that ever came
to Bryn Mawr. We always
thought of ourselves in the super-
lative." They were freshmen for
the first May Day, had the highest
ranking European Fellow and were
the largest class up to the time
they tame.
1904 modestly claimed to be more
.gentille than some immediate pred-
ecessors, a source of friction with
those classes. 1905 vouched for
the fact that it was "the most re-
markable class that ever entered
college. We have no othertclaim*
to fame except noise," they said
"but we should go thundering
down the ages for having petition-
ed the faculty to abolish orals and
for breaking the banisters in
Denbigh." They were at college
in the days when skirts for basket-
ball were immodestly short if three
inches above the floor, when a girl's
soul was considered hanging
in the balance if the faintest sus-
picion of smoking were attached to
her, when the fad was for ragged
and tattered gowns, when social
engagements with the faculty were
not allowed, when the library was
being built and when Denbigh
burned down. As undergraduates
the members of 1905 were ex-
tremely scornful of returning
alumnae. They thought it unsafe
for all the crippled old creatures
to be hobbling around. "We had
a great deal of gumption and a
fair amount of intelligence," 1906
said.
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lows, she confessed that she gradu-
ates from college without any pre-
tensions of being a child prodigy.
Miss Wurster graduated summa
cum laude with an average of
90.47.
Her major is mathematics. From
writing an honors paper on differ-
ential equations she has learned
that the great complication in-
volved in such a study is that after
solving a problem it is necessary
to prove  that the solution  exists.
Mathematics, , and its so-called
allies at Bryn Mawr, Miss Wur-
ster said, serve a double purpose,
for athletic requirements are more
than fulfilled when you walk daily
from the new Science Building to
the fourth floor of Dalton.
Next year Miss Wurster will
teach mathematics at Baldwin
School. One of-her ulterior mo-
tives is to dissuade those sup-
posedly allergic to the subject.
Her extra-curricular activities at
college have been limited to the
Science Club and the International
Relations Club. At hrst a non-res-
ident, her last two years have been
spent hectically in Rockefeller
Hall. Of college whims she finds
the eternal conversation about food
chocolate sauce.
Notice
Students who are changing
their courses must notify the
Dean's office before Septem-
ber 15. After Commence-
ment notification may be
made by letter to either Mrs.
Manning or Miss Ward. Af-
ter September 15 a fine of
five dollars will be charged
unless a very good reason for
delay can be given.
Ambassador Says
Intellectual Discipline
Is  Important  to  Freedom
Goodhart, June 5.�"All of us
who have to think about interna-
tional problems or about the candi-
dates and issues of the coming
elections are thinking in situations
where the rightness or wrongness
of our thinking may affect the wel-
fare of millions of people," said
His Excellency Dr. Hu-Shih, the
Chinese Ambassador to the United
i States, in his Commencement Ad-
dress.
"It is our sacred duty," he con-
tinued, "to discipline ourselves to
think responsibly." Responsible
thinking, Dr. Hu-Shih said, implies
three elemental requirements: the
first, the duty of verifying our
facts and checking "our evidence;
second, the humility to admit the
possibility of error in our judg-
ments and to guard against bias
and dogmatism; and lastly, a will-
ingness to work out all possible
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receive a!B>- M.A., and  Ph.D. de-
grees from ^ryn Mawr College.
BIOLOGY
Susan Gardrier Miller
New York City
CHEMISTRY
Eleanor  Benditt           Philadelphia
Ingeborg Karla Hinck
New   Jersey
cum laude
Continued on Pace Six
Senior Poll Reveals Collective Nature of '40
As to Teeth, Breakfast, Majors, Marriage
By Agnes Mason. '42
Believing that a poll of the sen-
iors' thoughts and actions should
prove of great value to the under-
graduates, we submit the follow-
ing information for their guid-
ance. Most gratifying news of all
to the student body should be the
fact that out of the whole senior
class only five would not have came
to college if they had known as
much about it as they do now. The
interviewers received such an-
swers to their question "Would
you do it all over again?" as "You
bet, I think it's a picnic," (con-
tributed   by    M.    A.    Sturdevant,
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tritiou. iwakrrw ice creanr-wtth-           _    That's a4imb questioned   one   in   Mvanetd   Mtdievat
inly.
The opposition was based on frus-
tration due to separation from the
male, and upheld the merits of
coeducation. Stick to it, girls.
You'll never regret it.
History and English are the fa-
vorite majors, French, and sociol-
ogy coming second. The majority
held that the comprehensive sys-
tem was good but that the work
could be bctte/organized and even
more comprehensive. (Suckers for
punishment,, the class of 1040).
They were described as "hell but
excellent"   and   "good   but   grue-
European History, were suggested
while a psychology major com-
plained of too many unpleasant
requireds in her department.
Baby German and Freshman
English were the most generally
disliked   courses.
A senior's day begins either at
early or regular breakfast (three
or four ignore the meal entirely)
and ends between midnight and
three A. M. A few go to bed
early because they get "tired as
hell." Bunty Smith had the tem-
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College Council Plans
Play Room for Maids
Wednesday, May 15.�At its last
meeting for this semester, the Col-
lege Council discussed living condi-
tions of the maids and porters and
banking facilities for the campus.
A "cushion fund" was suggested
for the maids and porters. This
plan would provide salary during
illness and would pay for tempo-
rary substitutes. This type of plan
has been successfully used for fac-
ulty and staff members.
Merion cellar, abandoned by the
art club, will serve as a recreation
center for the maids and porters.
Continued on Page Seven
some." One girl, asked about the
comprehensive system, said that
she "never gave them a thought."
Those Who did honors enjoyed
them, but! said they should not be
allowed to encroach on compre-
hensives. One suggested that fhe
seniors should have no courses the
last semester, one . half of this
time to be devoted to honors, the
other to comprehensives. The gen-
eral opinion was that half unit
honors should be abolished as you
have to work just as hard as for
a  whole unit.
Courses    in    Economic    History
and Theory, one in Public Admin-
i