College News, 1920-05-13, Vol. 06, No. 27

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The College News
Volume VI.    No. 27.
BRYN MAWR, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1920
Price 5 Cents
SCHOLARSHIPS   FOR   NEXT   YEAR
ANNOUNCED   ON  MAY  DAY
J. FUxMr Has Hiohsst Jy.lor Grain
Betty Weaver is the winner of the
Mary Helen Ritchie "Sunny Jim" prize;
D. Pitlrin of the George W. Childs essay
prize, and J. Flexner of the Maria L.
Eastman Brooke Hall memorial schol-
arship for the Junior with the highest
average grade. Acting-President Taft
announced these and other prizes and
scholarships in chapel, May Day morn-
ing.
E. Boswell, *21, received the Charles S.
Hinchman scholarship for excellence in
major subjects; H. Bennett, '21, the Eliza-
languages, H. Hill, '21, the Elizabeth S.
Shippen scholarship in science, H. Mac-
Donald, '21, the Mary Anna Longstreth
Senior scholarship, and J. Flexner, '21, and
K. Ward, '21, the Sheelah Kilroy scholar-
ships for excellence in English.
Senior scholarships were awarded to
I. Maginness, P. Ostroff, S. Donaldson:
and special Senior scholarships to R.
Kama, A. Hollingsworth, and M. Thomp-
son.
Junior scholarships were awarded to
L. Wycoff. S. Thurlow, E. Stevenson
H. Jennings, and a special scholarship
to M. Glasner.
Sophomore scholarships were award-
ed to E. Melcher, F. Hughes, M. Law-
rence, R. Beardsley, E. Newbold, and
a special scholarship to  D.  Martin.
Resident fellowships were awarded to
E. Mercer, '19, in Greek; to H. Wood,
in Latin to M. Gilman, '19, in French;
to A. Martin, in politics; to H. Spalding
'19, in social economy, and research, to
C. Baechle; in education, to G. Nelson;
in archaeology, to F. Goldstein, in chem-
istry; to H. Hibbard, in biology, and
the Helen Schaeffer Huff memorial re-
search fellowship in physics or chemis-
try, to H. Gilroy '09.
Graduate scholarships were awarded
to H. Kingsbury. '20, in English;
to F. Uchida, in English composition; to
A. Woods, in community work; to A.
Preston, '20, in philosophy; to L. Sloan
'20, to M. O'Brien, '20, and to L. Bailey
in  psychology.
HOOVER  CONFERENCE  ATTENDED
BY  BRY  N  MAWR  DELEGATES
COLORFUL PAGEANT USHERS IN FIFTH BRYN MAWR MAY-DAY
Rain on Saturday Did Not Prevent Large Attendance on Monday
FOUNDER8 LECTURE ON ELIZABETH
FRYE GIVEN  BY RUFUS JONES
Mr.   Hoover   Sasaki      W.   Worcester.    21,
Reports for B. M. Hoover Clue
Winifred Worcester, '21, and Ann Fra-
zer, '23, represented the Bryn Mawr
Hoover Club at the Conference of Col-
lege Clubs, held May 1 at the Biltmore,
in New York, under auspices of the na-
tional Hoover Republican Club. The
purpose of the meeting, which was at-
tended by delegates from 21 colleges, was
to crystalize sentiment and urge local
work.
Mr. Hoover addressed the meeting on
the issues of the campaign and answered
questions, stressing the importance of
focussing public attention on the read-
justment of agricultural, industrial and
financial conditions in the United States,
and on participation in the I.eaRue of
Nations.
Reports on the experience and plans
of the various college Hoover Clubs
were presented and discussed by dele-
gates; Miss Worcester spoke for Bryn
Mawr. The reports indicated that sen-
timent is already strong for Mr. Hoover
and that he would have a majority, were
a vote taken at this time. The central com-
mittee urged the Hoover clubs to spread
propaganda and suggested variou- meth-
ods.
A merry pageant of four centuries ago
passed through Pembroke Arch last Friday
at 2.30, when the flare of the heralds' trum-
pets announced the approach of Queen Bess
and her Court. Stalwart beefeaters held
back the rabble and made way for the
richly caparisoned horses of Robin Hood
and his band. Following the ox-drawn cart
which carried the garlanded May pole, came
the joyous peasantry. Morris men, shep-
herds, milkmaids, and tumblers, danced and
frolicked to the jingling tunes played by
the bands. Flower-trimmed floats bearing
the gorgeously costumed casts of the plays,
won loud applause  from the spectators.
The procession wound around behind
Merion and Radnor and up Senior Row,
and, swarming over the green, cheered the
May pole as it was raised. Amid loud hur-
rahs Robin Hood led Maid Marian. Eliza-
beth Vincent '23, up to the bower under the
center May pole, and crowned her Queen
of the May. After the ceremony the crowd
scattered over the green, and the May pole
revels began. Shouts of "God save Queen
Bos' and "Long live his excellency, the
Governor of the Commonwealth." turned
attention to Governor Sproul. Saying that
he disliked "to interrupt the revels of the
beefeaters and the bewitching witche--,"
Governor Sproul made a short plea for
practical gratitude towards Bryn Mawr for
all it has done. After his talk, the crowd
dispersed to the different outdoor pla> I.
Rain on Saturday Stops Performance
A hard shower in the middle of the after-
noon sent most of the audience indoors for
tea, but the plays continued uninterrupted.
On Saturday a steady downpour prevented
any celebration except a tea in the gymna-
sium in honor of Mary Roberts Rinehart.
Besides a speech from Mrs. Rinehart, parts
of several plays and a few dances were
given for entertainment, and later in the
afternoon, when the sun came out, a short
performance of Robin Hood took place
behind Radnor.
May Day was repeated on Monday be-
fore a larger crowd than the one Friday,
Betty Scott '23 being crowned Queen in
place of Elizabeth Vincent, who did not
lake part in the pageant on account of the
death of her grandfather, Bishop Vincent.
The dancing on the green continued all
afternoon. There the sweeps with smudged
faces skipped out for their yearly play
under the sun. Milkmaids, with garlanded
pails, coquetted with their swains, and the
Morris men jingled their way to the favor
of peasants and audiences alike.
The tumblers won such applause by their
ceaseless activity and their technique, that
they were not allowed to leave until the
sight of the bear drove them away in
fright. The bear herself was less ferocious
than good-natured, considering the heat,
and undoubtedly a financial success.
The village idiot, never for an instant
forgot her part, and served to fill in all
the quiet gaps. Under a vacant stare, this
year's European Fellow hid her identity so
completely that one solicitous spectator
wondered that such a girl could be kept in
college.
Staged among the spreading maples on
the terrace, which forms a natural stage
above the upper hockey field, "Robin Hood"
was acted with a success even greater than
in other years. The atmosphere of the
green-wood was created in a large part by
the effective and harmonious costuming,
and by the easy and convincing by-play of
"Robin Hood's" men. Dr. Howard Fur-
ness, the noted critic of Shakespearean lit-
erature, declared that "Robin Hood" was
one of the best outdoor performances he
had seen anywhere. The effect of an ever-
moving pageant was given, Dr. Fumess
said, by the fine and spirited acting of the
merry men.
L. Kellogg '20, in the title part, played a
bold and winning outlaw, putting much
grace and personality into her interpreta-
tion. Maid Marian, played by E. Vincent
'23, was ideal both in manner and appear-
ance.
Masques Draw Crowd toICIolsters
Color was the keynote of the two masques
given with the arched side of the Cloisters
U I background. In "A Hue and Cry after
Cupid," Venus, E. Taylor '21, and the three
Graces, in remarkably beautiful costumes,
and attended by light footed Cupids, chil-
dren from the Model School, were espe-
cially applauded. The rich coloring of
Hymen and his train of priestesses in a
frieze across the back, made an effective
contrast to Vulcan and the intense blue
Zodiacs.
"The Masque of Flowers was one of the
high lights of the afternoon," said the Phil-
adelphia Public Ledger. Silenus and his
tram, E. Boswell '21 as Spring, J. Boynton
'20 and H. Zinnscr '20 as Gallus and the
North Wind in brilliant costumes kept the
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Pay Trifcato to Dr. Joseph Taylor
Rufus M. Jones, head of the Board of
Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, gave
the Founders' Lecture on Elizabeth Frye
in Taylor Hall last Tuesday evening.
"Since the alumnae are raising an Eliza-
beth Frye Memorial Fund, it seems par-
ticularly suitable to make her the sub-
ject of my lecture," he said. Once in
four years the college pays tribute to the
memory of Dr. Taylor, the founder of
Bryn   Mawr.
Elizabeth Frye was marked by beauty
and grace, and had notable gifts of mind.
William Savory, of Philadelphia, speak-
ing in meeting one day, made a deep im-
pression on her. From that day she
abandoned her gaiety and became a se-
rious Quaker, turning from a sceptic to
a firm believer. As she herself says 30
years later: "William Savory was the
casting die in my life."
On a visit to London, Elizabeth Frye
went to Newgate Prison and was moved
by the conditions she found there. She
began her great work by visiting the
poor, adopting a girt, and training chil-
dren, "Betsy's imps" as her sisters call-
ed them. Soon after, she married Joseph
Frye after a great mental struggle, for
her "most anxious wish was not to hin-
der her spiritual welfare."
She sought the "thorny path," and in
1803 she began her work of reform among
the women prisoners in Newgate. She
founded a school for the children in
Newgate, and a Society of Friends for
the improvement of the women. Her
success was great, and the woman's ward
which had been known as "the hell above
earth," became a model of propriety.
Later her field of work widened, touch-
ing all conditions. She even induced the
government to the transportation of
prisoners to New South Wales. As a
result her fame was widespread and she
exerted a beneficial influence on the Eu-
ropean rulers. But it is for her work
among the women of Newgate that she
received  her greatest  name.
MENDELSSOHN CLUB TO GIVE
CONCERT FOR ENDOWMENT FUND
ENDOWMENT OVER A MILLION
SAYS MRS. SLADE AT LUNCHEON
Totals $1,000,000.    Prizes Offered to Dis-
trict ana" Class Leadina
"The first million mark of the Endow-
ment has been passed," announced Mrs.
I.ouis Slade, National Chairman of the
Endowment, at luncheon in the gymna-
sium on Monday, "with a total of $1,-
100,000."
Mrs. Slade spoke of the inspiration of
the late Theodore Gail, "who gave the
committee courage to go ahead," of the
generosity of Bryn Mawr alumnae, and
stressed the need of making the general
public realize that the college is a nation-
al   asset   which   they   must   support
Two prizes of $1000 each have been
offered by the National Committee to
Endowment workers: one, the quota
prize, to be credited to the district that
first reaches its quota: and the other, the
class prize, to be added to the total of
the class raising the largest amount
MAY  DAY  NETS ABOUT  $5000
Over   Six   Thomaad   at   Fete.     Expeoset
Have Not Yet  Boea   Estimated
"Clear profit of at least $5,000 may
probably be safely estimated from May
Day," reports Mrs. Rhys Carpenter (El-
eanor Hill '16) May Day business manager.
"By count of the contents of the ticket col-
lectors' boxes at the admission gate
6,324 admissions to May Day were
shown."
"The money value represented by these
tickets represented at the gate of May
7th and 10th is $16,783. Of this sum
$3,876 was taken in by sales at the &ate
The remainder ($12,907) is due to ad-
vance sales by approximately 70 local
committees of alumnae throughout the
country, and by the May Day Office it
Bryn Mawr It is impossible as yet to
total all the items of expense connected
with the performance
"As the final financial statement will
probably not be ready until after June
1st. it will be announced by the lonip-
troller. and published in the Alumnae
Quarterly "
UaaoDoajpealed   Choral   Mask?   Is   Sandal
Study of Clab
The Mendelssohn Club, of Philadel-
phia, conducted by N. Lindsay Norden.
will give a concert in the cloisters Sat-
urday at eight fifteen, for the benefit of
the Endowment Fund. Mrs. May Ebrey
Hotz will be the soloist. Tickets are one
and two dollars; for the college, fifty
cents and one dollar.
The Mendelssohn Club has devoted its
efforts chiefly to the study and rendi-
tion of a cappella chorus. Most of
the singing is done unaccompanied, "the
time test of lyric capacity." said the Pub-
lic Ledger of April twenty-ninth, highly
commending the club for its concert giv-
en  the twenty-eighth
N. Lindsay Norden, the conductor of
the club, a former director of the Eolian
Choir, of Brooklyn, is called by the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle "an admirable
leader, who has given the chorus indi-
viduality so that it sings as with a single
personal voice," as well as a "composer
of delicate musical feeling and  skill."
Among the numbers on the program
to be given in Bryn Mawr is "De Sheep-
fol," an eight-part chorus for mixed
voices, which won the prize of one hun-
dred dollars given by the club last fall.
The club is now at the end of its forty-
fifth season