College News, 1920-06-02, Vol. 06, No. 29

              COMMENCEMENT NUMBER
The College News
Volume VI.    No. 2*.
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2,  1920
Price 10 Cents
1920
ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS
GIVEN OUT TUESDAY
Five Yellow Ties Awarded
Athletic Day, held yesterday, began
with a parade of the alumnae in class
colors and costumes, which started from
Pembroke Arch at 9.30 and inarched to
the lower hockey field. After the Varsity-
Alumnx basketball game which araj WOO
by Varsity with a score of 39-4, K.
Cope, '21, president of the Athletic As-
sociation, announced the championships
and gave out the cups and yellow ties.
Five yellow ties were awarded this
year, two of them to new stars. As two
of the winners are Seniors, there will be
only three on the campus next year. Yel-
low ties are given for good all-round
athletic ability, or exceptional ability in
one sport, combined with spirit of good
sportmanship. Those receiving ties were:
M. it Carey, '20, B. Weaver. "20, E.
Cope, "21, E. Taylor. '21, and A. Nicoll,
'22.
1920 won the � first team basketball
lantern, second team hockey cup, and
third team, tennis cup. The Juniors took
the first team cups in hockey, water polo,
and the shield for first team apparatus,
the second team, cup- for water polo,
and tennis, and the third team, cups for
hockey and water polo. The cup for the
swimming meet also went to 1921, and
the cups for individual swimming champ-
ion, K. Woodward, and individual appara-
tus champion, E. Cecil. 1922 received
the third team basketball cup. 1923 was
awarded cups for first team tennis, and
second team basketball H. Rice. '2:1. was
given the tennis cup for individual champ-
ionship
Former Athletic presidents who
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ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT OF
ACTING-PRESIDENT TAFT
Will Be Married in July
Acting-President Taft has announced
I her engagement to Mr. Frederick Man-
I ning, Instructor in History at Yale. The
! wedding will take place at Murray Bay,
I ex-President Taft's summer home some
i time in July.
At a recent meeting of the Faculty the
following motion of thanks was passed:
"On motion it was voted: The Fac-
ulty of Bryn Mawr College hereby ex-
press their recognition of the services
which Acting-President Helen Herron
Taft has rendered to the college at a crit-
ical period of its history, and record their
appreciation of the spirit of co-operation
which she has unfailingly shown in her
relations with them."�Extract from the
M.mites of May 27,  1920.
Alumnae Hold Reunion Suppers
"Twentj Vears After" i- the badge worn
by the Class of 1900, which has conic back
thirty-six Itrong for their reunion. The
Clasi Supper mi held in Rockefeller.
Edna Piachel GeUhani was toastmistrai
Mrs. Louise Congdon Francis, the Presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association, i- a mem-
ber of the cla--
The Class Baby, the daughter of M
Frank Roscnau, i- taking her cntrauo i \
animations  thi-  spring
Red streamers on their class tree an-
nounced the reunion of IMS. Thirt>-two
wire pre-ent at the Cla-- Supper in Den-
bigh on Monday, Chria Denboo Svaa
was tin- iiiQilndimII
Dean Swdth wa- inaslasialrcsi at thi I9IQ
data Sapper hi Denbigh but Saturday, and
kepi  the  class  amused  with exti
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DR. PAUL SHOREY TO MAKE
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Five Ph. D.'s Will Be Conferred
"The Things That Are More Excel-
lent" will be the subject of the com-
mencement address, given by Dr. Paul
Shorey, Professor of Greek at the Uni-
versity of Chicago. He has been head
of his department at Chicago since 1896
Dr. Shorey was President of the Amer-
ican Philology Association in 1910, and
an Associate Director of the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens,
11101-2. Since 1908 he has been managing
editor of Classical Philology. He was Pro-
fessor of Greek at  Bryn Mawr, 1885-92.
Among the books Dr. Shorey has pub-
lished is "The Assault on Humanism,"
a plea for the classical education. He
has recently published articles in the At-
lantic Monthly upholding the study of
Greek and Latin in schools and colleges,
and is the great opponent of Dr. Simon
Flexner, who would abolish all compul-
sory study  of the  humanities.
The Commencement exercises will
open at eleven, as soon as the academic
procession has entered the gymnasium.
Introductory remarks by Acting-Presi-
dent Taft will precede the conferring of
degrees, the awarding of scholarships
fellowships and prizes. Dr. Barton, the
college chaplain, will lead the prayer.
Five graduate students are candidates
for the degree of doctor of philosophy.
Louise Adams, Beatrice Allard. Agnes
Byrnes. Gwendolyn Hughes and Bird
Turner.
Marie I.itzinger, of Bedford, Pa., is
European   Fellow   for                   with  the
grade of 88 9205, the highest average m
the Senior Class B. Weaver is the win-
ner of the Mary Helen Richie "Sunny
Jim" price awarded, lo � Senior, prefer*
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R0CKFELLER FOUNDATION GIVE
ENDOWMENT $500,000
Class Total of $1,865,920
The Rockefeller Foundation gave $500,-
000 to the Endowment Fund last Saturday,
with the reservation that $1,500,000 be
raised by the Executive Committee. This
gift brought the national total to $1,865,920
on Tuesday. District ten and four art al-
ready over the top.
For the Rhoads Chair. $.'.'.4"1 JO ha- been
raised; the Elizabeth Pry Chair $1.1.106.00;
for the Scattergood Memorial, $50,000.00;
for the Juliei Baldwin Memorial. $30,000.00;
for the Marian Goodhatl Memorial. $200,-
000.00; for the Pens Foundation. $158,-
000.00; and for the Victory Chair. $11.-
000.00.
Every sign points the w.u to a whirlwind
winding up of the campaign on Commence-
ment Day Anticipating the -ucee� of the
drive, the Alumnae AatoriafJon l.i-t week
sent a request to the board of mi-tecs of
the college ashing them to raise the nhvita
of the  faculty beginning next  autumn.
Shipley School has raised $8539 for
the Endowment, not counting receipts
from the sale of buttons, which have not
come in. A lawn fete on Saturday, May
22. yielded $1200 of the amount, and sale
of May Day tickets $1933. Three hun-
dred and ninety dollars is pledged to the
William Penn Chair.
President Thomas Visits Beirut Protestant
College
Prr-ident Thomas -topped at the Protes-
tant   College   in   Beirut   daring   her  recent
trip through Svru. and wa- entertained by-
Kate   Chambers   SceUe   'II      Mi-    S
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