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BRYN  MAWR 
ALUMNAE 
BULLETIN 


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THE  JUNIOR  YEAR  IN  FRANCE 


February,  1929 


Vol.  IX 


No.  I 


Entered  as  second-class  matter,  January  1,  1921,  at  the  Post  Office,  Phila.,  Pa.,  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879 

COPYRIGHT.    1929 

ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION   OF   BRYN    MAWR   COLLEGE 


OFFICERS  OF   THE   BRYN    MAWR   ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION 

EXECUTIVE  BOARD 

President Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,  1906 

Vice-President Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  1917 

Recording  Secretary Gerthude  Hearne  Myers,  1919 

Corresponding  Secretary May  Eqan  Stokes,  191 1 

Treasurer Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903 

Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee Dorothy  Straus,  1908 

Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee Caroline  Morrow   Chad  wick-Collins,    1906 

ALUMNAE  SECRETARY  AND  BUSINESS  MANAGER  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Alice   M.    Hawkins,  1907 

EDITOR  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Marjorie  L.  Thompson,   1912 

DISTRICT  COUNCILLORS 

District  I Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913 

District  II Julia  Langdon  Loomis    1895 

District  III Mary  Tyler  Zabriskie,  1919 

District  IV Katharine  Holliday  Daniels,  1918 

District  V Frances  Porter  Adler,  1911 

District  VI Erma  Kingsbacher  3tix,  1906 

District  VII .Helen  Brayton  Barendt*  1903 

ALUMNAE  DIRECTORS 

Ruth  Furnebs  Porter,  1896  Mary  Peirce,  1912 

Frances  Fincke  Hand.  1897  Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey,  1901 

CHAIRMAN  OF   THE   ALUMNAE  FUND 

Dorothy  Straus,  1908 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  ACADEMIC  COMMITTEE 

Pauline  Goldmark,  1896 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  SCHOLARSHIPS  AND  LOAN  FUND  COMMITTEE 

Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907 

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Certain  cliches  illustrate  admirably  the  gradual  change  that  turns  a  chance 
statement  into  folklore.  "Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae  never  write"  is  one  that  instantly 
comes  to  mind.  Probably  in  the  days  when  the  Alumnae  group  was  very  small,  its 
mass  of  production  was  also  small  in  comparison  with  that  which  could  be  attributed 
to  other  colleges.  Another  popular  myth  is  that  the  admirable  and  intensive  drill 
in  English  made  us  all  so  finely  critical  that  we  were  unable  ever  to  look  on  any 
of  our  own  works  and  call  them  good.  And  who  knows;  perhaps  they  weren't. 
Yet  the  fact  remains  that  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae  do  write  as  much  or  perhaps  more 
than  any  other  comparatively  small  group,  on  a  curiously  wide  range  of  subjects,  and 
their  styles  vary  as  definitely  as  their  temperaments.  You  can  with  no  more  truth 
say  that  all  Alumnae  have  a  precious  style  than  you  can  say  that  all  the  people  of 
the  North  are  self-contained  and  that  all  the  people  of  the  South  are  passionate.  And 
yet  as  a  group  we  continue  to  deal  in  these  easy  empty  generalizations.  And  are  we 
very  much  to  blame?  All  of  the  Alumnae  statistics  are  presumably  on  the  Question- 
naires that  are  returned  to  the  Register,  but  that  fact  does  not  fill  the  Alumnae  Book 
Shelf  in  Miss  Reed's  office,  it  does  not  give  the  Bulletin  current  information,  or 
copies  of  the  books  to  put  in  the  hands  of  potential  reviewers.  To  all  of  those 
Alumnae  who  generously  send  copies  of  their  publications,  the  Bulletin  and  the 
Library  give  their  most  grateful  thanks.  To  all  other  Alumnae,  until  such  time  as 
an  Alumnae  Book  fund  shall  be  endowed  by  some  fairy  god-mother,  the  Bulletin 
and  the  Library  together  make  an  earnest  plea:  send  your  publications  as  they  appear 
and  point  out  to  your  publishers  that  they  can  not  afford  to  miss  a  public  as  appre- 
ciative and  interested  as  this  group  of  two  thousand  or  more.  Whatever  we  may 
think  of  the  truth  of  other  generalizations,  there  is  one  that  stands  four  square:  every 
Alumna  is  interested  in  what  every  other  Alumna  is  doing. 


THE  JUNIOR  YEAR  IN  FRANCE 

Five  members  of  the  Class  of  1930  sailed  early  in  July,  1928,  to  spend  a 
Junior  Year  of  twelve  months  in  France.  Upon  their  return  they  will  be  subject 
to  examination  on  the  work  carried  on  abroad  and  the  results  of  these  examinations 
will  be  applied  to  their  regular  records  for  the  A.B.  degree  at  Bryn  Mawr.  In  so 
far  as  the  college  is  concerned,  these  students  are  doing  merely  what  has  been  done 
at  various  times  in  the  past  by  other  students  who  chose  to  absent  themselves  for  a 
part  of  their  undergraduate  careers  and  present  for  examination,  work  done  elsewhere. 
These  Juniors  are,  however,  the  first  to  carry  on  part  of  their  work  for  the  A.B. 
degree  in  France. 

Owing  to  the  great  differences  between  the  French  and  American  university 
systems,  it  had  never  been  thought  wise  to  advise  an  undergraduate  student  to  embark 
on  study  in  France  in  the  hope  of  finding  an  organized  course  that  could  be  applied 
to  the  requirements  of  our  A.B.  degree.  A  young  student,  however  able,  would  have 
been  lost  in  Paris  or  at  one  of  the  provincial  universities  without  other  guidance  than 
her  own  lecture  notes  and  the  card  catalogue  of  a  great  library. 

Since  1923,  however,  the  French  Department  has  been  following  with  growing 
interest  the  experiment  carried  on  by  the  University  of  Delaware,  first  with  a  group 
of  its  own  students  and  then  with  an  intercollegiate  group,  to  supply  American  under- 
graduates in  France  with  the  supplementary  training  that  they  need  in  order  to  profit 
by  what  the  French  Universities  have  to  offer  them. 

The  delicacy  of  the  task  undertaken  by  the  Delaware  Foreign  Study  Plan  can 
scarcely  be  overestimated.  The  first  objective  was  to  bring  the  students  as  fully 
as  possible  under  the  normal  French  educational  system,  and  avoid  as  completely  as 
possible  any  Americanization  of  their  work  in  France.  It  was  also  highly  important 
to  make  these  units  of  American  undergraduates  welcome  guests  at  the  French 
Universities.  The  method  finally  worked  out  under  the  very  wise  direction  of 
Professor  Raymond  W.  Kirkbride,  provides  for  a  preliminary  period,  July  to  October, 
spent  in  Nancy,  where  the  excellent  facilities  of  the  summer  courses  of  the  Uni- 
versity are  applied  to  the  needs  of  the  American  undergraduate  group.  Here  the 
students  attend  formal  lectures  by  university  professors,  and  work  in  small  sections' 
and  individually  with  tutors  especially  trained  to  teach  foreigners.  In  November, 
after  a  two  weeks'  holiday  in  the  Alps,  the  group  is  transferred  to  Paris.  It  is, 
by  this  time,  broken  in  to  French  University  ways  and  much  better  equipped  lin* 
guistically  than  at  the  beginning  of  the  three  months  of  intensive  training  at  Nancy. 
In  Paris,  the  combination  of  formal  lectures  and  tutorial  instruction  is  continued,  the 
tutors  in  Paris  being  professeurs  agreges  de  I'universite,  belonging,  that  is,  to  the 
grade  from  which  American  colleges  are  most  glad  to  recruit  their  French  Depart- 
ments. 

The  successful  development  of  this  plan  during  the  years  between  1923  and 
1927,  together  with  the  admirable  material  arrangements  for  the  accommodation  and 
supervision  of  students,  convinced  the  French  Department  and  the  authorities  of 
the  college  that  here  was  an  opportunity  that  should  no  longer  be  withheld  from 
Bryn  Mawr  students  majoring  in  French.  Our  five  Juniors  were  therefore  enrolled 
in  the  Delaware  group,  which  is  now  officially  sponsored  by  the  Institute  of  Inter- 
national Education. 

(2) 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  3 

This  year's  group  consists  of  sixty-seven  members,  nineteen  men  and  forty-eight 
women,  drawn  from  thirty  colleges.  They  are  picked  from  the  upper  third  of  their 
classes  and  must  be  recommended  by  their  Deans  as  possessing  qualities  that  will 
make  them  creditable  representatives  of  their  country  abroad  and  by  their  French 
Departments  as  having  a  natural  aptitude  for  the  French  language  and  an  adequate 
preparation  for  the  work  to  be  done  in  France.  It  has  been  gratifying  to  hear  that 
in  the  preliminary  test,  given  upon  arrival  in  Nancy,  to  divide  the  group  roughly  into 
an  upper  and  a  lower  division,  the  second  and  fourth  places  were  won  by  two  Bryn 
Mawr  students  and  all  five  of  our  students  were  placed  in  the  upper  division. 

Both  in  Nancy  and  in  Paris  the  students  live  with  French  families,  never  more 
than  two  together,  and  one  of  the  most  difficult  and  successful  accomplishments 
of  the  Delaware  Committee  has  been  to  enlist  the  right  sort  of  French  co-operation 
in  opening  French  homes  to  these  students.  The  general  supervision  of  the  students 
is  entrusted  to  a  Director  and  a  Dean  of  Women,  who  is,  this  year,  a  Bryn  Mawr 
Alumna,  Louise  B.  Dillingham,  1916,  a  former  student  of  the  Sorbonne  and  a  Doctor 
of  Philosophy  of  Bryn  Mawr.  Miss  Dillingham  was  granted  leave  of  absence  from 
her  post  in  the  Wellesley  French  Department  to  accept  this  position  in  Paris. 

With  the  advice  of  the  Director,  the  students  choose  in  Paris  the  courses  for 
which  their  training  and  tastes  adapt  them.  The  resources  of  the  Faculty  of  Letters 
of  the  University  and  the  Ecole  Libre  des  Sciences  Politiques  as  well  as  the  Cours  de 
civilisation  francaise  at  the  Sorbonne  are  at  their  disposal.  The  Delaware  Plan  ar- 
ranges regular  tutorial  instruction  in  connection  with  courses  in  French  Literature, 
History  of  Art,  History  and  Economics.  Examinations,  written  and  oral,  form  part 
of  the  Cours  de  civilisation,  as  administered  by  the  French,  and  a  number  of  pro- 
fessors giving  courses  and  explications  de  textes  in  the  Faculte  des  Lettres  for  which 
no  final  examinations  are  provided,  have  offered  to  give  special  examinations  to  these 
American  students,  in  order  that  a  complete  record  of  their  work  in  Paris  may  be 
available  for  their  colleges  at  home.  The  interest  aroused  in  some  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished members  of  the  University  of  Paris  by  this  experiment  with  a  group  of 
American  undergraduates  is  a  testimony  to  the  wisdom  and  tact  of  the  Delaware 
organization. 

In  addition  to  the  academic  arrangements,  every  attempt  has  been  made  to 
give  the  students  the  widest  possible  experience  of  France  and  the  French.  There 
are  week-end  excursions  and  longer  trips  during  the  holidays  to  be  had  at  very  low 
cost.  On  the  regular  programme  and  included  in  the  regular  expenses  are  some 
twenty  performances  at  the  Opera,  the  Opera  Comique,  the  Comedie  Frangaise,  etc. 
Museums  and  collections  are  visited  under  the  most  favorable  auspices,  the  curators 
themselves  often  serving  as  guides  and  lecturers.  Not  only  the  educational  authorities, 
but  many  organizations  and,  as  the  French  would  say,  personalties,  have  become 
actively  interested  in  making  the  sojourn  in  France  of  these  American  students  both 
agreeable  and  significant. 


4  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

The  cost  of  the  year,  July  to  July,  is  about  $1600,  apportioned  as  follows: 

TABLE  OF  EXPENSES 
Item  Low        Medium        High 

(1)  Board,  room,  heat,  light,  attendance  (a)$550      (b)$660      (c)$770 

(2)  Incidental   expenses,   carfare,   laundry,    etc.    (fixed 

allowance  of  $10  per  month)  110  110  110 

(3)  Tuition   (including  private  tutoring)    200  200  200 

(4)  Textbooks   (for  regular  courses)   50  50  50 

(5)  Operas  and  plays  (arranged  program)   30  30  30 

(6)  Miscellaneous      (including     group     dinners     and 

entertainment) 40  40  40 

(7)  University  Foreign  Study  Fee  r  200  200  200 

(8)  Eastbound  passage  125  125  125 

(9)  Westbound  passage  125  125  125 

Optional  Extras  $1430         $1540         $1650 

Excursions — 

(a)  Alps  (about  7  days)   $45 

(b)  Easter  trip  (about  14  days)  $90 

(c)  One  and  two-day  trips  (6  or  7  days)  $25 

Through  an  arrangement  with  the  Office  National  des  Universites  et  E coles 
Frangaises  and  the  Compagnie  Generale  Transatlantique,  and  also  with  the  Cunard 
and  the  Canadian  Pacific  Steamship  Lines,  all  members  of  Delaware  Foreign  Study 
groups  are  granted  a  rebate  of  30%  on  the  cost  of  ocean  passage.  On  the  one-class 
steamer  this  rebate  reduces  the  price  of  cabin  passage  to  $110,  to  which  must  be 
added  $15  for  tips,  baggage  charges,  and  railroad  fare  between  Havre  and  Paris. 
This  makes  the  total  transportation  cost  from  New  York  to  Paris  $125  each  way, 
or  $250  for  the  round  trip. 

The  "Foreign  Study  Fee"  of  $200  is  charged  by  the  University  of  Delaware 
for  membership  in  the  group.  It  covers  about  half  of  the  "overhead"  expenses,  the 
balance  being  provided  by  a  subsidy  received  from  Mr.  P.  S.  du  Pont,  of  Wilmington. 

Eight  scholarships  of  $300  each  (donated  by  interested  individuals  and  awarded- 
annually  by  the  Institute  of  International  Education)  are  already  open  to  students 
unable  to  meet  the  full  expenses  of  the  year,  and  it  is  very  much  to  be  hoped  that  a 
fund  may  be  established  in  each  college  so  that  no  well-equipped  student  may  be 
deprived  of  the  chance  to  go  to  France  for  lack  of  means. 

The  potential  value  of  the  experience  for  the  individual  student  is  obviously 
incalculable.  To  the  girl  who  expects  to  go  out  of  college  to  teach  French,  no  asset 
is  to  be  compared  to  a  record  of  residence  and  study  in  France.  The  movement  is 
full  of  hope  for  the  future  of  teaching  French  in  this  country.  In  a  far  wider  sense, 
it  is  full  of  hope,  too,  for  a  better  understanding  of  France  by  Americans  and  of 
Americans  by  the  French. 

In  Bryn  Mawr's  special  case,  there  could  be  no  more  timely  moment  for  the 
introduction  of  such  an  experiment.  The  French  Department  hopes,  next  year,  to 
establish  work  for  "honors."  With  the  practice  and  training  of  the  year  in  France, 
the  degree  "with  honors  in  French"  should  connote,  in  addition  to  whatever  general 
intellectual  distinction  we  may  be  able  to  put  into  it,  an  actual  linguistic  achievement 
of  real  value.  Eunice  Morgan  Schenck,  1907. 

Professor  of  French. 


THE  FORMAL  OPENING  OF  GOODHART  HALL 

BY 

THE  PHILADELPHIA  ORCHESTRA 

Leopold  Stokowski,  Conductor 

PROGRAM 

WAGNER  Prelude  to  "Lohengrin" 

LISZT  Concerto  in  E  flat  major,  for  Piano  and  Orchestra 

Horace  Alwyne 
WAGNER  Prelude  and  Love-Death  from  "Tristan  and  Isolde" 

INTERMISSION 

BACH  From  the  Second  Part  of  the  "Christmas  Oratorio" 

1.  Break  forth,  O  beauteous,  heav'nly  light 

2.  Within  yon  gloomy  manger 

3.  Glory  to  God 

4.  With  all  Thy  hosts 

Bryn  Mawr  College  Chorus 
(Chorus  trained  by  Ernest  Willoughby) 

BACH  Toccata  and  Fugue  in  D  Minor 

The  Philadelphia  Orchestra,  under  Stokowski's  baton,  in  the  Marjorie  Walter 
Goodhart  Hall,  that  Hall  crowded  to  its  utmost  capacity,  with  the  entire  student 
body,  the  complete  faculty,  and  friends  of  the  College  occupying  every  available 
seat;  the  mood  one  of  radiant  anticipation,  for  the  pervading  atmosphere  had  in  it 
an  electric  quality,  a  festive  joyousness.  The  great  tarched  roof,  the  unobtrusive  but 
glowing  glint  of  red  that  colored  one's  impression  of  the  great  Hall,  the  pleasant 
light,  the  Orchestra  closely  packed  on  the  stage,  celli  and  violins  across  the  platform 
in  front  of  the  wings,  and  then  tall  of  it  magically  translated  into  the  high  ecstatic 
prelude  from  Lohengrin.  What  a  breathless  moment  it  was,  transcending  all  previous 
experience ! 

Much  went  before  it  to  stimulate  one's  interest  and  enhanced  the  sense  of 
instinctive  foretaste.  President  Park's  gracious  welcome,  a  welcome  so  phrased  that 
all  felt  taken  by  the  hand  and  warmly  urged  into  accord,  the  recognition  of  architect 
and  builder,  of  beautifler  and  developer  of  the  finely  proportioned  auditorium,  the 
tribute  to  our  brilliant  conductor  and  his  men,  all  served  to  heighten  the  mood  of 
eager  confident  expectancy.  The  front  rows  were  occupied  by  the  chorus,  in  classic 
simplicity  of  black  gown  and  white  collar;  their  upturned  faces  sounded  another  note 
of  consecration,  of  dedication,  deepened  that  intangible  quality  of  perfect  rapport 
and  appreciation  in  the  assemblage. 

Stokowski  was  moved  by  this  evidence  of  sensitive  participation  to  give  his  utmost 
in  interpretation  and  guidance.  That  is  his  great  gift,  the  spiritual  renewal,  the 
fresh  approach  to  each  reading;  it  is  as  though  he  opened  his  inmost  being  to  th' 
music,  to  let  it  flow  through  him.  His  own  attunement  to  the  composer  and  his 
achievements,  his  artistic  veneration,  his  flexibility,  his  inexhaustible  capacity  for  re- 


6  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

fining,  for  making  more  exquisite  effects  that  to  some  of  us  had  already  attained 
superlative  expression,  were  never  more  marvelously  demonstrated  than  upon  this 
occasion.  Stokowski's  reading  of  Wagner  is  imbued  with  a  profound  realization  of 
the  dramatic  elements  and  requirements  of  the  operas;  he  feels  the  least  sublety  of 
musical  characterization  as  well  as  the  broadest  assertion;  the  motifs  take  on  un- 
dreamed-of significance,  accents  of  penetrating  poignancy.  Probably  no  two  preludes 
could  have  said  more  to  an  audience  than  the  two  chosen ;  Lohengrin  with  its  heaven- 
scaling  mystical  transport  and  Tristan — Vorspiel  and  Liebestod,  intensely  rapturous. 

Horace  Alwyne  played  the  Liszt  E  Flat  Major  Concerto  with  the  Orchestra 
and  here,  too,  new  laurels  were  added  to  earlier  triumphs.  Mr.  Alwyne  produced 
a  fine  broad  tone,  contrasting  it  with  most  delicate  and  impeccable  runs  and  trills, 
veritable  wizardry  of  pianistic  skill.  Liszt's  hands  were  sometimes  spoken  of  as 
"demoniacal,"  they  were  the  dread  and  envy  of  his  rivals,  in  his  brilliant,  spectacular 
compositions  he  gave  those  hands  incredible  tasks  to  accomplish.  Horace  Alwyne 
would  not  have  disappointed  his  great  master;  he  played  with  fine  freedom,  his 
sonorous  chords  were  endowed  with  dynamic  power,  the  melodic  passages  were  ten- 
derly persuasive  and  the  virtuosity  of  the  performance  left  nothing  to  be  desired. 
He  was  recalled  many  times  and  the  applause  had  more  than  approbation  in  it;  one 
could  read  into  the  clapping  hands  praise  of  all  the  faithful  work  done  in  his  depart- 
ment, promise  of  more  fervent  co-operation.  A  new  height  was  disclosed  in  the 
singing  of  the  chorus  in  the  four  Bach  Chorales  from  the  second  part  of  the 
Christmas  Oratorio;  two  were  sung  a  cappella,  two  with  orchestral  accompaniment 
and  the  performance  elicited  high  and  deserved  praise  from  Mr.  Stokowski.  The 
chorus  was  admirably  trained  by  Mr.  Willoughby;  the  taste  and  intelligence  displayed 
in  the  choice,  the  fine  responsiveness  of  the  fresh  voices,  the  delicate  shading  and 
phrasing,  gave  new  beauty  to  these  perennially  sublime  utterances  of  the  great  master. 

Probably  in  no  one  thing  has  Bach  achieved  more  superbly  than  in  music  written 
for  or  inspired  by  the  church.  His  deep  religious  faith  and  devotional  fervor  pour 
forth  glorified  sound  in  overwhelming  measure  and  the  great  D  Minor  Toccata  and 
Fugue  (Stokowski's  orchestration)  was  in  reality  something  to  make  "gods  to  stoop 
and  men  to  soar."     "The  steadfast  empyrean  shook  throughout." 

An  inspiring,  wonderful  evening  was  this  formal  opening  of  Marjorie  Walter 
Goodhart  Hall,  remaining  in  one's  memory  as  an  undimmed  perfect  expression  of 
beauty.  It  set  a  noble  standard  for  future  endeavor;  it  established  and  emphasized 
the  distinguished  role  which  music  and  the  arts  play  in  the  educational  plan  of  Bryn 
Mawr  College,  furthering  that  education  which  we  like  to  believe  is  the  whole  soul 
set  in  the  direction  of  perfection. 

Alice  H.  Mertz, 
President  of  the  Modern  Club  of  Philadelphia. 

The  Editor  of  the  Bulletin  wishes  to  express  her  gratitude  to  Mrs.  Mertz, 
who,  although  not  an  Alumna  of  the  College,  out  of  friendship  for  the  College 
made  time  to  write  the  delightful  musical  appreciation.  We  all  feel  ourselves  very 
happily  in  her  debt. 

Bryn  Mawr  College  wishes  to  express  its  gratitude  to  Mr.  Leopold  Stokowski 
and  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Philadelphia  Orchestra,  and  also  to  those 
members  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Bryn  Mawr  College  and  to  those  Alumnae  of 
Bryn  Mawr  College  who  made  possible  the  giving  of  this  concert. 


ANNOUNCEMENT 

In  line  with  accepted  magazine  usage  the  Bulletin  is  going  to  bear  on  its 
cover  hereafter  not  the  name  of  the  month  in  which  it  does  appear,  but  that  of  the 
coming  month.  You  will  not  receive  any  January  number,  but  you  will  observe 
that  this  number,  which  in  the  past  would  have  been  the  January  number,  bears 
the  name  "February."  And  so  it  will  go  through  the  year.  There  will  be  the 
same  number  of  Bulletins,  they  will  appear  as  they  have  always  done,  toward  the 
end  of  the  month,  the  Class  Editors  will  still  please  have  their  notes  in  the  Alumnae 
office  the  twentieth  of  each  month,  but  the  Bulletin  will  hereafter  seem  to  be  early 
instead  of  late.  The  next  number,  which  will  carry  the  accounts  of  the  Annual 
Meeting  and  the  Reports,  will  be  out,  we  hope,  before  the  first  of  March  and  will 
be  called  the  March  number.  The  last  number  this  season  will  be  called  the  July 
number  and  the  one  in  the  Fall  that  describes  the  opening  of  College  will  be  called 
the  November  number.  By  that  time  the  Alumnae  will  have  forgotten  that  there 
is  a  change — after  all  it  is  purely  a  matter  of  psychology — and  will  merely  congratu- 
late themselves  on  the  fact  that  the  Bulletin  is  always  on  time. 


NOTICES 


The  College  is  glad  to  announce  that,  owing  to  the  completion  of  Goodhart  Hail 
with  its  greatly  increased  seating  capacity,  all  alumnae  and  former  students  may  now 
have  their  names  placed  on  the  list  of  those  to  whom  notices  of  all  College  events  are 
sent,  by  sending  a  request  to  this  effect  to  the  Director  of  Publicity,  Taylor  Hall. 


The  Bureau  of  Recommendations  of  the  College  wishes  to  remind  the  alumnae 
that  at  this  time  of  year  a  number  of  desirable  opportunities  are  always  listed  in  the 
files  of  the  Dean's  Office. 


ANNUAL  MEETING 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Alumnae  Association  will  be  held  on  Saturday, 
February  2,  1929.  The  morning  session  will  begin  at  11  o'clock  in  the  Music 
Room,  Goodhart  Hall,  and  will  be  concerned  with  the  reports  of  the  standing  com- 
mittees of  the  Association,  and  with  a  discussion  in  regard  to  the  financial  policy  of 
the  Association.  At  1  o'clock  the  meeting  will  adjourn  for  luncheon,  and  the  business 
will  be  continued  informally  in  Pembroke  dining-room  after  President  Park's  speech. 
At  this  afternoon  session,  several  of  the  District  Councillors,  the  Chairman  of  the 
Scholarships  and  Loan  Fund  Committee,  and  the  Undergraduate  member  of  the 
Council  will  repeat  their  reports  as  given  at  the  meeting  of  the  Council  in  New 
Haven  in  November,  and  it  is  hoped  that  there  will  be  general  discussion  of  prob- 
lems of  interest  to  the  College  and  the  Alumnae. 

On  Friday,  February  1st,  at  6.30  P.  M.,  there  will  be  an  informal  Alumnae 
Dinner  in  Rockefeller  Hall,  tickets  for  which  may  be  obtained  from  the  Alumnae 
Office  at  $1.50  apiece.  After  dinner  Georgiana  Goddard  King,  1896,  will  give  an 
illustrated  talk  on  her  recent  travels:  Migrants,  Pilgrims,  and  Tourists. 

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THE  NIGHT  OF  DECEMBER  FOURTH 

We  had  known  that  the  fourth  of  December  was  an  important  date;  and  we 
knew  that  tickets  for  the  concert  were  to  be  had  by  invitation  only.  Leopold 
Stokowski  and  the  Philadelphia  Orchestra  were  to  celebrate  the  formal  opening  of 
Goodhart  Hall  and  to  be,  in  a  sense,  the  President's  gift  to  the  College.  In  the  end, 
we  felt  surprisingly  that  this  was  not  how  it  turned  out. 

The  long-desired  Students'  Building  has  proved  itself  a  delightful  thing,  and 
the  Great  Hall  a  beautiful  one,  spacious  and  seemly.  Whoever  has  spoken  there  at 
Morning  Chapel,  standing  before  the  red  curtain  and  looking  westward  down  under 
the  grave  and  ample  arches  that;  carry  the  strong-pitched  roof,  must  testify  with 
thankfulness  how  much  easier  it  is  for  the  voice  than  Taylor  chapel;  and  musicians, 
as  it  appears,  find  it  a  happy  milieu  for  the  strings.  That  night  the  music  flowed 
out  and  filled  the  expectant  air  with  a  rich  and  fine  loveliness  never  before  divined. 
A  sort  of  gracile  serenity  held  the  impression  through  the  earlier  numbers,  till  the 
Liebestod  itself  seemed  more  exquisite  and  poignant  than  memory  had  recalled,  thus 
felt  through  the  sweet  complications  of  sound  that  hung  like  a  golden  mist  in  the  air. 
Stokowski  himself,  silhouetted  like  a  taller  Ariel  in  the  amber  light,  looked,  still, 
when  he  turned  and  addressed  the  Chorus  and  the  College  at  large,  as  though  ready 
"to  dive  into  the  fire  or  ride  on  the  curl'd  clouds." 

The  temper  of  the  audience  doubtless  had  something  to  do  with  it  all.  This 
night,  if  ever,  should  be  permissible  the  word  gala.  They  came  lapped  in  silks  and 
wreathed  in  smiles.  The  shining  colours,  the  swaying  ear-rings,  the  changing  glances 
of  recognition  and  gratulation,  carpeted  the  hall  as  with  a  flower-bed;  the  sounds 
of  movement  and  of  talk  were  as  though  blown  in  fragrant  puffs  across  and  about 
the  wide  space.  Then  a  sort  of  stir,  a  dwindling  of  sound,  drew  the  Whole  place 
to  focus  on  a  single  point,  a  single  voice  speaking  quietly,  clearly. 

We  all  have  learned  to  watch  for  that  familiar  figure  and  voice,  that  way  of 
speech:  that  conscious  simplicity  now  warmed  with  humour,  then  with  a  deliberate 
homeliness,  humane,  alert,  not  without  tension,  breaking  up  into  wit,  eddying  out 
into  an  understanding  deceptively  mild  or  beguilingly  dry  but  always  unexpectedly 
wise.  Few  perhaps  remember  the  words  spoken  that  evening,  absorbed  as  we  were 
in  the  growing  awareness  that  all  this  enchanted  Concert-night,  so  generously  given, 
so  gladly  acclaimed,  was  transmuted,  none  shall  ever  say  how,  into  something  that 
was  ours  to  offer — the  French  word  is  the  right  one,  hommage! — and  that  we  were 
giving  it  to  the  President. 

Georgiana  Goddard  King,  1896. 


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ALUMNAE  BOOKS 

Prevailing  Winds,  by  Margaret  Ayer  Barnes.     Houghton  Mifflin  Co. 

".  .  .  getting  to  understand  a  little.  That  was  the  fun  of  being  thirty-six. 
That — and  knowing  how  lovely  the  world  could  look." 

This  reviewer  feels  congratulatory — exhilarated  by  Mrs.  Barnes'  lightness  and 
by  the  good  company  she  offers.  She  gets  into  her  stories  the  pride  of  the  pioneers' 
grandchildren  in  Chicago,  whose  making  they  can  realize  vividly,  and  in  the  bleak 
New  England,  where  so  many  of  those  pioneers  had  had  root.  She  hands  on,  too, 
delight  in  the  blue  lake,  the  bright  sunshine,  and  the  wind.  Her  world  is  pleasant 
and  civilized,  and  as  authentic  as  the  defeated  society  of  Mrs.  Wharton's  obsession. 

Mrs.  Barnes  insists  that  tragedy  is  apt  to  look  ridiculous,  over-emphatic,  and 
her  bent  is  to  laugh,  even  when  aware  of  futility  and  sadness.  Lovingness  and  fun 
in  the  "domestic  duck-pond"  can  win  out,  she  is  sure,  over  resurgent  longings  for  the 
passion  that  just  escaped,  tempestuous,  exhausting,  running  "on  the  top  of  the  dis- 
hevelled tide." 

Is  it  a  "prevailing  wind,"  that  the  art  of  writing  is  not  sacred,  but  may  be  used 
light-heartedly  for  relief,  for  creating  privately  one's  own  spirit?  If  one  creates  pub- 
lishable  matter,  so  much  the  better, — and  Mrs.  Barnes  writes  stories  with  substance 
and  form  and  remarkably  good  dialogue.  Has  she,  perhaps,  been  perfecting  her  kind- 
ness, her  relish  of  living  and  of  thinking?  Her  liveableness  and  her  humour  are — 
platitudinously  speaking — her  charm  and  her  limitation.  She  can  give  young  love 
beautifully,  and  then  remark,  lowering  the  pitch: 

"Who  had  ever  done  first  love,  anyway,  as  she  had  felt  it?  Seriously,  solemnly. 
There  was,  of  course,  William  Shakespeare — Romeo  and  Juliet;  but  after  all  a  thirty- 
six-year-old  sense  of  humour  forced  you  to  admit  that  you  and  your  young  man  at 
seventeen  had  presented  more  the  appearance  of  something  by  Booth  Tarkington  than 
those  ill-starred  lovers!" 

Is  this  all  merely  that  "passion  for  understatement,  that  was  Vermont  in  its 
essence,"  shared  with  her  heroine  in  Perpetual  Care? 

Mrs.  Barnes  perhaps  went  through  with  a  period  of  "preciousness" !  This  re- 
viewer sniffs  a  revolting  angel,  and  coming  of  a  "precious"  generation  herself,  often 
feels  like  pulling  on  the  reins.  Why  will  Mrs.  Barnes  (at  what  cost  of  proof  cor- 
recting!) print  "'til"?  Till  and  until  are  alike  good  words.  And  her  fondness  for 
full  stops,  breaking  up  the  comfortable  sentence,  looks  like  a  red  banner.  After  all, 
if  punctuation  has  its  justification  tin  easy  breathing,  too  many  periods  make  the 
reader  feel  he  is  panting  up  hill,  with  a  thumping  heart,  when  really  the  going  is  level 
enough. — And  then,  an  ancient  Reader  in  English  comes  round,  and  acclaims  almost 
any  way  of  liberation.  Edith  Pettit  Borie,  '95. 

Casper  Hauser,  by  Jacob  Wassermann.     Translated  by  Caroline  Newton.     Horace 
Liveright.     New  York,  1928. 

If  one  reads  Casper  Hauser  without  first  reading  the  introduction  written  for 
the  English  edition,  one  is  likely  to  group  it  simply  with  those  amazingly  interesting 
historical  novels,  such  as  Kristin  Lavransdattcr  and  Jew  Siiss,  which  in  the  past  few 
years  have  been  coming  to  us  from  Europe.     Perhaps  if  one  had  the  subtitle  of  the 

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German  Edition,  Die  Tragheit  des  Herzens,  one  would  not  classify  so  easily. 
Certain  it  is,  however,  that  one  needs  some  clue  to  Wassermann's  real  intention.  On 
the  face  of  it  he  seems  to  be  giving  the  facts  of  a  cause  celebre. 

"In  1828  Caspar  Hauser  staggered  into  the  City  of  Niirnberg.  He  was  17  years 
old,  could  barely  walk  and  had  the  vocabulary  and  mentality  of  a  child  of  2.  He 
had  been  imprisoned  since  infancy  and  his  only  phrases  were  'Tell  me  where  the 
letter  belongs'  and  'I  should  like  to  become  a  rider  like  my  father.'  He  had  no 
knowledge  of  his  origin,  and  all  efforts  to  trace  it  directly  failed.  However,  Anselm 
von  Feurbach,  a  famous  criminologist,  in  his  pamphlet,  'An  Example  of  a  Crime 
Against  the  Soul  of  a  Human  Being,'  proved  that  the  foundling  was  'a  legitimate 
prince  of  the  house  of  Baden,  a  brother  of  Queen  Karoline  of  Bavaria,  a  brother  of 
the  Duchess  of  Hamilton,  a  brother  of  the  Queen  of  Sweden,'  and  that  his  condition 
was  the  result  of  an  appalling  court  intrigue.  Time  has  substantiated  Feurbach's 
deductions,  and  in  consequence  of  their  accuracy  Feurbach  was  murdered  and  in  1833 
Caspar  was  also  murdered  through  the  complicity  of  a  degenerate  English  Lord,  Henry 
Stanhope,  Earl  of  Chesterfield.     So  much  for  history." 

Yet  again  and  again,  one  realizes  that  the  quality  of  Wassermann's  indignation, 
his  scorn,  has  something  cosmic  about  it,  that  it  is  not  leveled  merely  at  those  who 
were  associated  with  Casper  Hauser,  and  because  of  stupidity  and  dullness  of  imagina- 
tion quite  literally  tortured  the  boy,  although  as  in  the  case  of  Daumer,  at  least,  this 
was  not  their  intention.  When  one  turns  again  to  the  introduction,  the  whole  temper 
of  the  book  is  explained.  Wassermann,  in  speaking  of  his  struggles  to  weld  together 
his  material,  says:  "One  can  thus  see  that  the  actual  incidents  had  thus  ceased  to  be 
of  primary  importance;  they  could  be  brushed  aside  for  what  solely  charmed  me  in 
the  material :  the  tragedy  of  the  child,  the  general  tragedy  of  the  child,  or  differently 
stated,  the  repeated  recurrence  of  an  innocent  soul,  unspotted  by  the  world,  and  how 
the  world  stupidly  and  uncomprehendingly  ignores  such  a  soul. 

"Naturally,  I  was  obliged  to  retain  the  historical  frame.  The  more  I  steeped 
myself  in  the  actual  psychological  problem,  the  more  carefully  was  I  obliged  to  nar- 
rate the  actual  course  of  events,  although  artistically  speaking  they  were  only  a 
pretext." 

And  therein  lies  the  difficulty.  He  has  been  too  good  a  historian,  and  in  so  being 
has  obscured  his  purpose.  He  intended  to  write  a  parable  and  instead  has  written  a 
historical  novel,  which  judged  as  such,  is  admirable  in  every  way. 

Caroline  Newton  has  brought  to  her  difficult  task  of  translation  sympathy  and 
keen  insight,  and  a  sense  of  the  movement  of  the  prose,  so  that  one  reads  without  any 
feeling  of  struggling  with  the  medium.  At  times  one  is  conscious  of  irritation  at  the 
choice  of  a  word,  but  when  the  story  becomes  drama,  the  reader,  the  translator,  and  the 
author  are  at  one. 


The  Wonderful  Locomotive,  by  Cornelia  Meigs.     The  Macmillan  Company.     New 
York,  1928. 

Because  we  have  not  the  book  itself  to  review,  all  we  can  do  is  to  reprint  the 
publisher's  notice. 

"Lucky  Peter!  He  lived  near  a  roundhouse  and  his  best  friend  was  the  retired 
engineer  of  the  famous  old  locomotive  44.     When  Peter  wasn't  finding  out  about  the 


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new  engines,  he  was  helping  Sven  work  on  the  old  one.  They  were  determined  it 
would  make  its  great  run  across  the  continent  again.  One  day  it  did — with  Peter  at 
the  throttle.  Peter  and  No.  44 :  they  pulled  the  greatest  apple  train  in  the  history  of 
harvests,  in  to  Philadelphia,  they  took  the  circus  on  time  to  Arbela  AND  they  made 
the  record  run  to  San  Francisco. 

Here  is  the  railroad  story  that  all  small  boys  have  been  waiting  for.  And  they 
will  be  glad  to  know  that  Mr.  Hader,  the  illustrator,  has  done  most  of  the  things 
that  Peter  did.  When  we  heard  he  had  taken  engines  in  and  out  of  San  Francisco, 
and  had  many  friends  like  old  Sven,  we  knew  the  pictures  would  be  good. 

Miss  Meigs  has  written  thrilling  tales  of  Indians  and  sea  captains  for  older  boys 
and  girls,  including  Master  Simon  s  Garden  and  As  the  Crow  Flies.  For  younger 
boys  and  girls,  she  has  written  The  Kingdom  of  the  Winding  Road  and  many  delight- 
ful plays." 

Occupied  Haiti,  Edited  by  Emily  Greene  Balch    (1889).     The  Writers  Publishing 
Company,  Inc.,  New  York,  1927. 

To  one  whose  imagination  is  crowded  with  the  sweeping  gestures  of  Vander- 
cook's  Black  Majesty,  (1928),  the  history  of  the  island  of  Haiti  temporarily  loses 
interest  after  the  death,  a  century  ago,  of  its  great  King,  Henri  Christophe.  But 
countries  do  not  die  with  their  despots.  Occupied  Haiti,  a  book  published  a  year 
before  Black  Majesty,  is  so  deeply  concerned  with  events  of  our  own  decade  that 
the  reign  of  Christophe  becomes  only  a  small  link  in  the  long  chain  of  past  upheaval 
and  revolt  that  leads  to  the  state  of  affairs  there  today. 

It  appears  that  in  1925  an  appeal  came  from  Haiti  to  the  Women  s  International 
League  for  Peace  and  Freedom  for  an  investigation  of  conditions  in  that  island,  which 
has  since  1915  been  occupied  by  sailors  and  marines  of  the  United  States.  The 
Women's  International  League  responded  by  selecting  a  Committee  of  United  States 
citizens  to  visit  Haiti.  Accordingly,  in  February,  1926,  five  women  and  one  man, 
all  educators  or  economists,  or  both,  set  sail  to  visit  and  study  the  island.  The  book, 
Occupied  Haiti,  comprises  the  report  of  this  Committee.  Emily  Greene  Balch,  '89, 
represents  herself  as  "its  editor  and  part  author,"  with  extreme  modesty,  since  of  the 
fifteen  chapters  which  make  up  the  book,  she  wrote  seven  entirely  and  collaborated  in 
five  others. 

The  length  of  time  the  Committee  spent  in  Haiti  is  not  stated,  although  its 
brevity  is  indicated  in  the  text.  Its  members  make  no  claim  of  presenting  a  thorough 
study  of  Haitian  problems,  but  believe  their  information  adequate  for  the  type  of 
report  they  present,  and  sufficient  to  lend  weight  to  their  conviction  that  a  full  and 
official  study  of  the  situation  is  imperative.  The  political  history  of  the  island  is 
traced,  as  are  the  facts  leading  up  to  the  American  Occupation;  but  the  meat  of  the 
report  is  found  in  its  exposition  of  present  conditions  under  the  Occupation,  and  in 
constructive  suggestions  for  amelioration  and  eventual  change. 

The  book  is  strongly  sociological  in  its  emphasis.  Separate  chapters  by  individual 
members  deal  concisely  with  the  land  situation,  education,  health  and  sanitation,  the 
courts,  the  relations  between  races,  etc.,  and  lead  up  to  final  "conclusions  and  recom- 
mendations" signed  by  the  committee  as  a  whole.  Agreement  is  there  unanimous 
that  the  American  Occupation  is  fundamentally  wrong,  is  harmful  both  to  the  United 
States  and  to  Haiti,  and  that  it  should  certainly  be  ended.     The  case  against  it  is 


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calmly  stated,  and  credit  is  duly  given  to  American  officials  for  their  good  work,  but 
the  verdict  of  the  Committee  appears  irrevocable. 

Your  reviewer  in  her  ignorance  dares  offer  no  opinion  on  this  verdict.  She 
confesses  that  she  would  like  to  read  the  case  in  favour  of  the  Occupation  equally 
well  stated  by  its  firm  adherents, — and  such  adherents  there  must  be,  since  the  Occu- 
pation is  now  in  its  fourteenth  year.  She  feels,  too,  that  by  reason  of  the  personnel 
of  the  Committee  and  the  organizations  represented  therein,  its  members  would  be 
fundamentally  predisposed  towards  the  liberation  of  Haiti  and  hence  would  naturally 
be  more  deeply  impressed  by  the  failures  of  the  Occupation  than  by  its  good  points. 
Her  memory  races  back  to  Black  Majesty  and  recalls  how  one  Toussaint  l'Ouverture, 
Haitian  patriot  and  governor-general,  first  ravaged  his  island  fighting  for  Spain  and 
then,  in  an  incredible  volte-face,  swept  back  across  the  same  stretches  of  country 
devastating  them  anew,  fighting  against  Spain  for  France.  She  remembers,  too,  ex- 
amples of  the  terrible  interracial  difficulties  among  the  whites  of  French  and  Spanish 
descent,  the  African  blacks  and  the  mulatto  affranchis.  She  wonders  if  peace  and 
the  fruits  of  peace  could  as  yet  possibly  dwell  long  among  these  peoples  without  the 
restraining  arm  of  a  powerful  and  disassociated  neighbour. 

As  Miss  Balch  states  in  the  first  chapter,  "It  is  obvious  that  one's  reaction  to  the 
whole  situation  will  depend  on  one's  basic  political  ideas,  one's  entire  scale  of  human 
values.  .  .  ."  Whatever  the  reactions  produced  upon  the  reader,  Occupied' Haiti 
is  recommended  as  an  able  presentation,  both  moving  and  succinct,  of  a  challenging 

problem-  M.  E.  S.,  1911. 


Poems  for  Peter,  by  Lysbeth  Boyd  Borie.   J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.   Philadelphia,  1928. 

Poems  for  Peter  is  essentially  an  intimate  book;  it  is  full  of  personal  detail  of 
Peter's  home,  and  it  is  amusingly  a  biography  of  the  singularly  delightful  little  boy 
who  characterizes  himself  for  us  again  and  again  in  the  gay  poems  that  make  up  the 
book.  And  yet  this  intimacy  of  domestic  detail  has  in  nearly  every  instance,  by  its 
simplicity  and  candour,  been  transmuted  into  something  in  which  the  reader,  may 
have  a  part  without  any  sense  of  intrusion.  We,  too,  have  shared  Peter's  experiences  - 
although  no  one  caught  for  us  in  dexterous  verse  our  feelings  when  we  had  to  eat 
our  crusts,  or  woke  in  the  night  and  made  transparent  bids  for  attention,  or  had  to 
be  polite  to  relatives,  or  loved  the  sound  of  "Once  upon  a  time,"  or  gloried  in  the 
swift  motion  of'  a  "run  under,"  or  the  feeling  of  sand  and  sun,  or  resented  the 
bitterness  of  sea  water.  These  poems  are  the  better  ones.  The  sensations  are  so 
justly  caught,  the  vocabulary  is  so  nicely  limited,  that  the  sense  of  its  being  Peter 
himself  who  tells  us  these  things  is  very  strong.  This  real  Peter  makes  us  no  longer 
feel  as  if  we  had'  wandered  into  a  strange  home.  Part  and  parcel  of  the  charm 
of  the  poems  is  the  quality  of  the  verse.  As  I  said  before  it  is  dextrous;  it  hasi  a  lilt 
and  unexpectedness  that  gives  an  added  flavour  to  the  humour. 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  13 

"At 
Breakfast  time 
I  heard  them 
Say 

Our  church 
Burnt  up 
The  other 
Day 

Our  church 
Burnt  up 
In  Jenkin 
Town 
My, 

Wasn't  it 
Lucky 
It  didn't 
Burn 
Down! 

It  is  hard  to  choose  among  the  poems  because  they  all  have  a  beguiling  quality 
except  the  very  few  that  seem  to  conform  to  the  pattern  of  the  conventional  "child 
poem."  These  somehow  lack  the  fresh  authenticity  of  the  others.  The  Scissorcuts 
by  Lisl  Hummel  are  the  perfect  complement  for  the  poems  and  are  so  much  a  part 
of  them  that  one  cannot  think  of  the  two  as  separate  entities,  but  together  they 
make  a  little  book  that  has  freshness  and  charm  and  something  very  winning  about 
it,,  although  it  is  unfair  to  compare  it,  as  the  publisher  does,  with  "The  Child's 
Garden  of  Verses."    Christopher  Robin  is  Peter's  true  playmate. 

A   Hymn   on   the  Morning   of   Christ's  Nativity,   by  John   Milton.     Arranged   and 

presented  by  the  Children  of  the  Brush  Hill  School  and  their  teachers.  Published 

by  Walter  H.  Baker  Co.,  Boston. 

Kate  Du  Val  Pitts,  who  had  a  share,  and  one  suspects  rather  a  large  share,  in 
the  "arrangement"  that  puts  the  poem  in  the  form  of  one  of  the  Miracle  Plays,  sent 
with  it  the  following  letter,  which  deserves  a  kind  of  immortality  of  its  own:  "The 
Editor  who  accepted  the  little  thing  wrote  me  that  he  liked  it,  though  he  didn't  think 
it  would  make  money,  'but  there  is  a  certain  demand  for  that  sort  of  thing,'  wrote 
he,  'and  I  think  the  lines  have  distinction,  if  you  will  allow  me  to  say  so.'  " 

The  arrangement  itself  is  charming,  and  the  Notes  on  Production  are  so  careful 
and  so  full,  for  the  setting  of  the  stage,  the  costuming,  the  musical  background, 
and  even  for  correlating  the  children's  other  work  with  the  production  of  the  play, 
that  it  should  prove  itself  invaluable  to  many  a  teacher  of  young  children.  And  as 
the  Editor  justly  remarked,  "the  lines  have  distinction." 

Adventures  in  the  Great  Outdoors,  by  Louise  Schorl  Ehrman.     Printed  for  private 

circulation  by  her  mother,  Mrs.  Frederic  Schorl. 

These  stories,  sketches  and  selections  from  letters  were  gathered,  the  Introduction 
explains,  "with  the  thought  that  many  of  the  friends  of  my  daughter,  Louise  Schorl 
Ehrman,  would  like  to  know  of  her  life  in  the  West,  so  full  of  activity,  so  rich  in 
service.     They  are  not  fiction  but  stories  of  her  own  experiences."     The  fact  that 


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the  book  is  intended  for  private  circulation  indicates  ihow  intimate  these  random  selec- 
tions are,  but  even  to  one  who  never  knew  Mrs.  Ehrman  they  give  a  vivid  picture  of 
one  who  loved  life  in  all  its  aspects,  mountains  and  towns,  people  and  solitudes,  and 
through  many  of  the  sketches  shines  out  a  gay,  intrepid  spirit.  Certainly  this  little 
volume  succeeds  admirably  in  what  it  it  sets  out  to  do. 

Childbirth,  by  William  G.  Lee.     University  of  Chicago  Press,  1928. 

In  the  Introduction,  Dr.  David  S.  Hillis  says:  "The  manuscript  of  this  book 
was  finished  and  the  revision  practically  complete  at  the  time  of  the  death  of  Dr.  Lee. 
It  was  fortunate  that  the  final  work  of  making  it  ready  could  be  done  by  his  wife, 
Mary  A.  M.  Lee  (Maisie  Morgan),  herself  a  graduate  in  medicine,  who  had  watched 
the  development  of  the  work  from  the  beginning  and  to  whom  the  book  would  have 
undoubtedly  have  been  dedicated.  .  .  .  The  author  presents  his  subject}  in  simple 
form,  as  well  adapted  to  the  needs  of  the  beginner  as  to  those  of  the  mature  student. 
Indeed,  a  layman  with  sufficient  interest  in  the  subject  would  find  most  of  the  book 
within  his  grasp." 


RECENT  ALUMNAE  ARTICLES  AND  PAMPHLETS 

Alexander  Hamilton,  One  of  Our  Greatest  American  Statesmen,  by  Isabel  M.  S. 
Whittier,  M.A.,  printed  in  the  Manufacturer,  January,  1928. 

Skill  in  Case  Work,  by  Helen  P.  Kempton,  printed  in  the  Family,  December, 
1928. 

Geological  Reconnaissance  in  the  Piedmont  of  Virginia,  by  Anna  I.  Jonas,  re- 
printed from  the  Bulletin  of  the  Geological  Society  of  America. 

Thomas  Hughes  and  His  American  Rugby,  by  Marguerite  Bartlett  Hamer, 
printed  in  The  North  Carolina  Historical  Review. 

Motoring  Out  from  China,  by  Anna  Louise  Strong,  printed  in  the  September 
Asia. 

The  Absorption  Spectrum  of  Caesium,  by  Irene  Maud  Mathews,  from  the  Pro- 
ceedings of  the  Royal  Society,  1928. 

Arthur  Gorges,  Spenser  s  Alcyon  and  Raleigh's  Friend,  by  Helen  Estabrook 
Sandison,  reprinted  from  the  Publications  of  the  Modern  Language  Association  of 
America. 


AN  INVITATION  FROM  THE  WASHINGTON 
BRYN  MAWR  CLUB 

Lucy  Lombardi  Barber,  the  new  president  of  the  Washington  Bryn  Mawr  Club, 
sends  this  invitation :  "We  are  very  anxious  to  have  all  Bryn  Mawrters,  transient  or 
permanent  in  Washington,  attend  the  meetings.  They  occur  the  second  Monday  of 
each  month  at  the  various  members'  houses  and  are  really  very  pleasant.  The  Wash- 
ington Bryn  Mawr  Club  has,  in  co-operation  with  the  Wellesley  Club,  engaged  the 
distinguished  young  artist,  Augna  Enters,  in  her  Dance  Episodes  for  January  11th, 
and  is  eager  to  fill  the  large  National  Theater  with  loyal  Alumnae  and  their  friends 
for  the  benefit  of  our  scholarship  fund  as  well  as  Wellesley's." 


ON  THE  CAMPUS 

(Reprints  from  the  News.) 

THE  COLLEGE  COUNCIL 

In  chapel  on  Monday  morning,  December  10,  President  Park  spoke  about  the 
College  Council,  that  all-important  body  about  which  so  little  is  known  by  the 
college  itself.  Miss  Park  told  us  how  the  Council  was  started  during  the  latter 
years  of  the  war,  to  arrange  some  way  by  which  students  could  keep  up  in  their 
academic  work  and  their  war  work  at  the  same  time.  When  that  need  was  over 
it  sank  into  obscurity  for  a  while,  but  it  has  again  become  very  important.  There 
were  orginally  eight  members  on  the  committee,  but  it  has  now  grown  to  such 
proportions  that  it  is  made  up  of  the  President  and  Dean  of  the  college,  the  Director 
of  Publication,  the  presidents  of  the  Classes,  of  the  four  Associations,  of  the  Graduate 
Club  and  of  the  Non-Resident  Club,  representatives  of  the  Faculty  and  Wardens, 
the  Director  of  Halls,  the  Director  of  Athletics,  and  the  Editor-in-Chief  of  the 
News.  Thus  information  can  be  referred  to  and  given  by  all  the  organizations 
in  the  college. 

The  Council  has  a  long  and  informal  meeting  once  a  month  at  which  it  discusses 
extremely  varied  subjects.  Changes  have  actually  arisen  from  these  discussions,  for 
in  1923  a  Curriculum  Committee  was  suggested  from  whose  first  report  our  present 
system  of  less  required  work  and  one  major  subject  arose. 

At  present  cuts  and  week-ends  are  being  discussed,  but  the  President  and  the 
Dean  and  the  Faculty  are  holding  back  any  changes  until  after  the  next  meeting  of 
the  Council.  The  changes  in  the  calendar  this  year  are  a  result  of  last  year's 
discussion. 

Miss  Park  then  mentioned  a  few  of  the  other  subjects  that  came  up  last  year. 
Among  them  were  Mental  Hygiene,  Freshman  Week,  a  separate  hall  for  graduate 
students,  all  topics  pertaining  to  Goodhart  Hall,  May  Day,  and  the  College  Budget, 
so  the  Council  will  know  just  where  there  are  financial  limitations,  and  where 
changes  would  actually  be  possible. 

Every  kind  of  student  is  represented  on  the  Council,  Miss  Park  pointed  out, 
every  College  interest  and  the  administration  as  well.  This  body  cannot  legislate, 
however,  but  it  is  in  this  very  lack  of  power  that  its  real  power  lies.  It  gets  definite 
action  from  the  reports  of  its  meetings,  and  though  it  was  created  without  authority, 
and  is  still  without  it,  at  present  it  is  the  core  of  Bryn  Mawr  College. 

This  Council  arbitrates  on  the  conduct  of  the  students,  not  as  right  or  wrong, 
but  in  general,  and  as  to  academic  work.  It  therefore  must  have  a  general  basis  of 
agreement,  not  in  detail,  for  this  would  be  impossible,  but  it  must  agree  as  to  a 
definition  of  college;  that  is  to  say,  who  shall  come  and  what  can  be  expected.  This 
must  be  true,  because  if  the  ends  are  different,  the  means  would  naturally  be  quite 
diverse.  When  the  plane  is  established,  there  is  no  part  of  the  immediate  question 
that  cannot  be  discussed. 

Fortunately  the  Council  has  never  failed  to  arrive  at  a  like  decision  concerning 
what  college  is  for.  President  Park  deprecated  the  fact  that  the  numbers  must 
necessarily  be  so  limited,  but  she  concluded  that  its  work  was  decidedly  fruitful. 

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WORK  IN  THE  LONDON  RECORD  OFFICE 

The  struggles  of  a  period  of  graduate  research  work  in  London  were  briefly 
outlined  by  Julia  Ward,  1923,  in  chapel  on  Friday.  Last  year  Miss  Ward  spent 
her  time  gathering  material  on  the  subject  of  financial  history  in  Richard  the  Third's 
reign. 

"The  first  step  in  a  search  for  information  on  such  an  abstruse  subject  must 
lead  one  to  obtain  a  card  of  admission  to  the  Public  Record  Office,  where  innumerable 
records  are  kept  on  file.  Having  thus  gained  right  of  access  to  the  building  it  is 
necessary  for  you  to  set  about  learning  the  cataloguing  system  in  order  to  find  the 
proper  documents.  This  system  is  extremely  involved,  and  is  additionally  trouble- 
some in  that  numerous  mistakes  in  classification  have  been  made  'here  and  there; 
for  instance,  Richard  the  Third  is  mistaken  for  Richard  the  Second,  and  there  follows 
an  exceedingly  tangled  situation,  where  tax  accounts  are  found  loosely  floating  in  a 
place  where  no  tax  accounts  should  ever  be.  All  Chancery  documents  of  a  not  suffi- 
ciently definite  type  are  classed  together  under  Chancery  Miscellania.  Here  only  a 
Jack  Horner  method  of  search  will  yield  any  results  whatsoever.  And  yet  most  of 
the  time  'when  you  pull  out  a  plum'  it  is  impossible  to  recognize  the  much-needed 
document.  Moreover,  there  is  still  trouble  when  the  manuscript  does  eventually 
come  to  light.  You  find  that  it  is  written  entirely  in  Latin — abbreviated  Latin  in 
fifteenth  century  handwriting — and  your  first  weeks  are  spent  copying  a  maze  of 
dots  and  dashes.  However,  with  the  aid  of  Martin's  Record  Interpreter,  a  book  in 
which  you  can  find  enough  words  to  give  you  a  start,  you  soon  begin  to  gain  actual 
headway. 

"Particularly  for  Bryn  Mawr  students,  all  the  preliminaries  and  work  at  the 
Public  Record  Office  are  made  very  easy.  Last  year  there  were  ten  or  eleven  from 
Bryn  Mawr,  and  this  unusually  high  representation  has  made  our  college  well  known. 
Yet  of  even  more  weight  than  the  fact  that  you  were  a  Bryn  Mawr  student  is  the 
mention  of  Doctor  Gray's  name  as  your  professor.  Immediately  you  become  one  of 
'Doctor  Gray's  young  ladies,'  and  in  all  the  trying  search  for  manuscripts  there  will 
ever  be  obliging  attendants  to  help  you  on  your  way." 


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CLASS  NOTES 


1897 
Class     Editor:     Alice     Cilley     Weist 
Mrs.  Harry  H.  Weist), 
119  East  76th  Street,  New  York. 

The  C.  E.  thanks  all  those  who  have 
answered  her  postal,  is  glad  to  have  so 
much  about  1897  to  report,  and  begs  that 
anyone  who  has  had  no  postal  will  write 
in  just  the  same,  since  a  card  went  to 
every  name  on  Maisie's  list,  but  of  course 
some  addresses  must  have  changed. 

Bessie  Sedgwick  Shaw — "Anne  Law- 
ther  spent  several  days  this  fall  with 
Margaret  Nichols  Smith,  in  East  Orange. 
May  Campbell  and  I  saw  her.  Anne  is 
on  the  State  Board  of  Education  (Iowa), 
and  Vice  President  of  the  National  Asso- 
ciation of  Governing  Boards  of  State 
Universities.  She  ran  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  for  Auditor  of  the  State  of  Iowa. 
Margaret  Nichols  Smith's  educational  in- 
terests are  centered  around  Boston  at 
present;  Delia  Smith  Johnston,  '26,  is 
teaching  in  Brookline — Margaret,  Jr.,  is  a 
Senior  at  Radcliffe — William,  Jr.,  is  a 
Junior  at  Harvard,  and  has  won  a  note- 
worthy Greek  scholarship — Marshall  is  a 
Freshman  at  Harvard.  Mr.  Smith  was 
Harvard,  '95.  Content,  the  youngest,  is 
headed  for  Bryn  Mawr."  No  news  of 
you? 

Ida  E.  GifTord — "My  time  is  divided  be- 
tween caring  for  the  sick  and  digging  in 
my  gardens.  I  do  'landscape  gardening' 
in  a  small  way  on  my  little  strip  of  land 
at  Nonquitt,  Mass.,  and  derive  much 
peace  and  contentment  thereby.  Hoover 
was  my  choice." 

Anna  M.  W.  Pennypacker — "I  was  last 
summer  in  Mexico  with  a  Seminar  group 
at  the  University  Summer  School.  We 
were  making  a  study  of  the  situation  in 
Mexico  and  Central  American  States.  I 
was  for  Norman  Thomas." 

Eliza  B.  Pennypacker — "I  had  an  hour's 
ride  in  an  airplane  in  the  vicinity  of  Phil- 
adelphia, reaching  a  height  of  5,500  feet. 
My  great  interest  is  in  work  with  insane 
women.     I  voted  for  Hoover." 

Mary  Campbell — "I  went  off  to  Oregon 
for  my  holiday,  and  had  a  wonderful  visit 
with  Grace  and  Sydney  and  their  three 
children  in  the  Hood  River  Valley.  Grace, 
Gorham  (16)  and  I  had  a  fine  trip  to 
Victoria  by  boat  up  Puget  Sound.  One 
Sunday  Elizabeth  Norcross  Esterly  and 
her  two  children  (19  and  16)  came  up 
for  the  week-end  at  the  ranch.  I  had 
some  fine  camping  trips,  also.  Voted  for 
Hoover.  E.  Esterly  (in  case  she  has  not 
answered)  is  head  of  the  whole  lower 
school  at  Miss  Catlin's  in  Portland. 


Emma  Cadbury — "It  was  a  great  pleas- 
ure to  have  Rebekah  Chickering  and  her 
sister  here  this  summer,  and  they  saw 
quite  a  little  of  Vienna.  In  September  I 
had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  something  of 
Pauline  and  Josephine  Goldmark,  who 
were  here  collecting  material  about  the 
revolution  of  1848,  in  which  their  father 
took  a  leading  part.  I  met  them  by 
chance  in  AmHof.  As  for  my  summer — 
I  first  went  in  June  to  Russia  for  two 
weeks,  much  shorter  time  than  I  wanted, 
but  extremely  interesting.  Most  of  the 
time  I  spent  in  Moscow,  but  I  also  visited 
Yasuaya  Polyana,  and  slept  in  Tolstoy's 
house,  and  met  his  daughter  Alexandra. 
I  had  to  get  back  to  Warsaw  for  the  In- 
ternational Peace  Congress  at  the  end  of 
June,  and  then  hurry  on  to  London  to 
report  to  the  English  branch  of  our 
Friends'  Service  Committee.  In  August 
I  had  a  delightful  holiday  at  Argentiere  in 
the  Haute  Savoie,  France,  where  I  met  a 
brother  and  his  family  on  their  way  back 
to  China  after  a  year's  furlough.  After 
seeing  them  off  at  Genoa  I  had  a  few 
hours  at  Pisa,  and  came  on  to  Cortina 
d'Ampezzo  for  "two  days  on  my  way  back 
to  Vienna.  I  hope  to  stay  in  Vienna  now 
over  the  winter,  continuing  our  regular, 
but  always  unexpected  work,  which  is  full 
of  interest.  I  may  pay  a  visit  at  home 
sometime  next  year,  but  am  not  sure 
whether  it  will  include  the  Reunion." 
Couldn't  cut  this,  but  the  names  are  awful 
to  spell ! 

1900 

Class  Editor:  Edith  Crane  Lanham 
(Mrs.  Samuel  Tucker  Lanham),  485 
Hampton  Drive,  Spartanburg,  N.  C. 
(For  Helen  MacCoy.) 

Through  misinformation  your  Editor 
reported  in  a  previous  issue  of  the  Bul- 
letin that  Julia  Streeter  Gardner  had 
moved  to  the  middle  West.  She  is  living 
in  Brookline,  Mass. 

Edith  Gregson's  daughter,  Margaret, 
who  was  European  Fellow  in  1928,  is  now 
at  the  University  of  Chicago  working  for 
her  M.A.,  and  she  expects  to  take  her 
year  in  Europe  after  some  experience  in 
teaching. 

Delia  Avery  Perkins  and  her  husband 
sail  on  December  8th  for  Naples,  where 
they  expect  to  spend  six  months. 

Edna  Warkentin  Alden  writes  most  in- 
terestingly of  having  had  a  few  hours' 
visit  from  Lotta  Emory  Dudley  last  win- 
ter, as  the  latter  passed  through  Kansas 
City  on  her  way  to  California.  Edna's 
oldest  son  was  married  last  summer.     She 


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enclosed  a  snapshot  of  her  younger  son, 
Bernhard,  who  is  a  Senior  at  Kansas 
University.  He  is  a  fine  looking  chap, 
sturdy  and  full  of  character. 

Johnny  Kroeber  Mosenthal  was  kind 
enough  to  attend  the  Meeting  of  Class 
Collectors  in  New  York  in  October,  since 
1900's  Collector  had  to  have  a  substitute 
present.  Johnny's  hilarious  letters  are  as 
refreshing  as  the  sight  of  her  used  to  be, 
blank  years  ago. 

A  reward  will  be  paid  for  information 
leading  to  the  discovery  of  Hodgie.  This 
information  will  not  be  used  against  her 
for  extortion. 

1902 
Class  Editor:  Jean  Crawford, 

Ury  House,  Fox  Chase,  Phila.,  Pa. 

Jo  Kieffer  Foltz  writes: 

"1902  has  so  few  items  in  the  Bulletin, 
compared  to  other  classes  that  I've  often 
wondered  whether  we  do  nothing  or  are 
shy — I  hope  it's  the  latter ! 

Now  I'm  not  shy,  but  I  never  seem  to 
do  anything  worth  recording  or  reading 
about,  so  I  preserve  a  discreet  silence, 
which  I'm  breaking  now  because  I  did 
something  this  summer  that  some  mem- 
bers of  the  class  might  like  to  try.  I'm 
not  even  making  it  a  class  experiment. 

My  husband's  health  had  been  wretched, 
and  the  doctor  ordered  a  complete  change. 
So  he  and  I  and  our  two  sons  took  the 
family  car,  a  Chrysler  touring  car,  aged 
four  years — abroad  in  June.  Really  it's 
the  easiest  and  most  delightful  thing  to 
do. 

It  only  costs  $170.00  to  ship  the  car 
there  and  back  (the  $70  is  for  licenses, 
etc.),  and  it's  truly  thrilling  to  get  into  it 
on  the  Plymouth  dock  and  drive  off  to 
explore  the  narrow  winding  t  roads  of 
England  and  put  up  at  the  quaint  little 
inns.  We  had  no  itinerary  and  only  knew 
that  we  planned  to  arrive  in  London  on 
July  7th,  and  Paris  on  August  7th.  After 
crossing  the  channel,  we  crossed  France, 
always  at  our  leisure,  and  making  side 
trips  whenever  anything  looked  worth- 
while. The  country  was  heavenly,  and 
the  weather,  too — we  never  had  our  cur- 
tains up  once,  and  the  people  lovely  to  us. 

If  anyone  thinks  of  going  I'll  gladly  tell 
them  any  little  thing  I  can.  We  had  al- 
most four  of  the  most  gorgeous  months 
any  of  us  ever  spent,  and  so  surprisingly 
cheap.  Imagine  this !  At  one  little  town 
in  France  we  counted  up  our  bill  on  leav- 
ing and  divided  it  by  four  and  found  that 
lovely  rooms,  delicious  food,  wine  and 
garage  amounted  to  $2.12  per  day  per 
person !  And  my  meals  were  carried  up 
for  that,  and  a  stream  gurgling  along  un- 


der my  window  was  thrown  in  free — not 
in  the  window,  you  understand ! 

We  all  came  home  so  enthusiastic  that 
some  friends  of  ours  are  going  to  try  it, 
and  I  thought  some  other  ^.alumna  might 
be  ailing  or  have  an  ailing  husband.  We 
can  recommend  it  for  sick  or  well ! 

A  lot  of  you  would  do  it,  if  I  dared 
thrill  you  with  tales  of  stone-built,  rose- 
covered  villages,  all  owned  by  one  man, 
and  country  churches  off  the  beaten  track 
in  England  and  ox  markets  under  your 
window,  and  in  France  little  chateaux  all 
renovated  to  resume  their  youth  in  the 
Middle  Ages  with  callers  (not  tourists) 
arriving  to  call  while  we  were  alowed  to 
view  its  charms— truly  you  would !  But 
I'm  scared  at  this  long  diatribe — some- 
body else  tell  something  now!" 

1904 
Class  Editor:  Emma  O.  Thompson, 
320  South  42nd  Street,  Phila.,  Pa. 

The  New  Year  brings  several  interest- 
ing letters  from  London.  Cary  sends  the 
following  message,  "I  have  just  received 
the  October  Bulletin,  and  I  feel  moved 
to  write  you  a  brief  note,  in  the  hope  that 
many  others  may  do  the  same. 

Occupation — I  run  my  house,  I  study 
Persian  and  Arabic,  I  look  after  the  chil- 
dren's books  in  a  small  children's  hospital, 
I  am  learning  to  dance  English  Country 
Dances. 

Family — My  son,  Arthur,  nearly  eleven 
years  old,  is  at  a  boarding  school  in 
Shropshire.  My  husband  (who  is  a  busi- 
ness man)  has  recently  published  a  book 
of  stories  about  Persia. 

Travel — One  of  the  pleasant  things 
about  living  in  England  is  that  one  is  so  - 
near  to  many  other  countries.  We  all 
three  visited  Bruges  and  Ghent  at  Eas- 
ter, and  went  to  the  Italian  Lakes  i'n 
August.  We  see  a  good  deal  of  England 
itself  by  motoring  during  week-ends  in 
the  summer  months.  I  have  some  hopes 
of  making  a  short  visit  to  Maine  next 
summer.     With  all  best  wishes, 

Clara  Cary  Edwards." 

Alice  Waldo  was  in  London  in  Septem- 
ber and  saw  Clara  at  that  time,  and  hopes 
to  see  her  again  during  the  Christmas 
holidays. 

A  letter  from  Katharine  Curtis  Pierce 
begins  with  a  paragraph  that  your  editor 
has  not  the  courage  to  omit,  and  the 
statement  concerning  contributions  per- 
haps may  awaken  more  than  one  slumber- 
ing classmate. 

"I  enjoy  our  class  notes  so  much  and 
look  forward  to  them  with  such  pleasure 
that  it  seems  only  fair  that  I  should  con- 
tribute something  to  the  cause.     We  have 


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spent  a  good  many  months  travelling  dur- 
ing the  last  year.  A  year  ago  last  October 
my  two  younger  sons  and  I  went  to  Santa 
Fe  for  three  months,  the  rest  of  the 
family  joining  us  there  for  Christmas.  It 
was  our  first  experience  in  the  West  and 
we  found  it  quite  up  to  the  specifications. 
The  rest  of  the  winter  was  spent  in  New 
York  as  usual.  Last  summer  we  went  to 
Europe  and  the  limits  of  our  trip  were  the 
English  Lakes  on  the  north,  and  the  north 
coast  of  Spain  on  the  south.  We  did,  and 
saw,  a  great  many  interesting  things. 
There  are  few  things  that  are  better  fun 
than  sightseeing  with  an  eleven-year-old 
boy  who  has  studied  a  little  history.  We 
came  home  in  time  for  our  sons  to  start 
at  their  various  institutions  of  learning, 
all  of  them  in  their  first  year.  Curtis  at 
Harvard  Law  School,  Henry  at  Clare 
College,  Cambridge,  and  Ben  at  Red 
House  School,  Groton.  My  husband  and 
I  are  on  our  way  home  to  New  York 
after  spending  the  autumn  at  the  farm  in 
Maine.  Time  does  not  matter  now  that 
all  the  boys  are  away. 

"Adola  Greely  Adams  and  her  husband 
sailed  for  Greece  in  the  early  spring. 
They  were  to  be  gone  six  months.  Adola 
wrote  me  during  the  summer  from  a  little 
place  in  the  Pyrenees  but  the  letter  came 
after  we  had  left  that  part  of  the  world 
and  we  did  not  meet.  With  best  wishes 
to  you  and  the  class." 

Daisy  Ullman  wrote  this  fall  saying 
that  Evelyn  Holliday  Patterson  and  Alice 
Schiedt  Clark  were  with  her  for  luncheon 
in  July  and  that  she  met  Annette  Kelley 
Howard  and  her  mother  at  the  Woman's 
World's  'Fair  in  Chicago  in  the  spring. 
Annette  said  they  were  going  out  to  the 
coast  for  the  summer,  taking  David,  her 
youngest  son,  with  them. 

Daisy  says  that  she  is  losing  weight  and 
is  devoutly  thankful. 

Lucy  Lombardi  Barber  is  President  of 
the  Washington  Bryn  Mawr  Club  this 
year. 

My  last  request  was  so  well  received 
that  I  again  send  you  all  this  message — 
If  you  enjoyed  these  letters,  make  it  pos- 
sible for  us  to  enjoy  your  letter  next 
month. 

1905 
Class  Editor:  Mrs.  Talbot  Aldrich, 
59  Mt.  Vernon  Street,  Boston. 

Edith  Longstreth  Wood  has  been 
abroad  since  July  on  a  traveling  Fellow- 
ship given  by  the  Pennsylvania  Academy 
of  the  Fine  Arts,  where  she  has  been 
working  for  the  last  few  years.  She  spent 
a  month  painting  in  Ireland;  a  long,  leis- 
urely time  in  Sicily  and  Italy,  and  now  is 


in  Paris,  having  criticism  on  her  work, 
before  coming  back  to  the  Academy  in 
January.  She  had  planned  to  go  to 
Greece,  but  tales  of  fever  and  bandits 
deterred    her. 

Emily  Cooper  Johnson  and  Helen  Grif- 
fith set  sail  in  the  autumn  for  a  trip 
around  the  world.  A  beautiful  picture  of 
Coopy  and  Griffy  riding  on  the  fanciest 
elephant  in  India  made  a  gay  Christmas 
card. 

1906 
Class  Editor:  Mrs.  Edward  Sturdevant, 
215  Augur  Avenue, 
Fort  Leavenworth,  Kan. 

Out  of  twelve  postals  sent  out,  the  Class 
Editor  received  two  replies.  Much  as  she 
would  like  to  make  this  column  inter- 
esting, it  is  impossible  to  do  so  without 
YOUR  co-operation.  She  hopes  these 
few  remarks  bring  a  proper  sense  of  sin 
to  certain  parties. 

Mary  Collins  Kellogg  spent  last  sum- 
mer on  an  island  in  Casco  Bay.  This 
winter  she  is  busy  with  the  College  Wom- 
an's Club  of  Schenectady,  of  which  she 
is  President.  Her  children  being  not  yet 
of  college  age,  she  is  planning  to  take 
them  abroad  in  April. 

Ethel  deKoven  Hudson  returned  the 
end  of  November  from  three  months 
abroad  and  ten  thousand  miles  of  motor- 
ing. She  had  a  fascinating,  interesting 
trip  through  France,  Spain  and  England. 

Anna  Elfreth  also  was  in  France  and 
England  last  summer.  She  expects  to  go 
abroad  in  June  to  spend  a  year  in  Eng- 
land, Scotland  and  on  the  Continent.  She 
has  been  teaching  Latin  for  the  past  two 
years  in  the  High  School,  Wilmington, 
Delaware.  Her  address  is  913  Washing- 
ton Street. 

1907 
Class  Editor:  Alice  Hawkins, 

Taylor  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Penna. 

Elma  Daw  Miller,  who  has  been  seen 
or  heard  from  only  at  rare  intervals,  re- 
cently wrote  an  interesting  letter  to  Helen 
Crane,  1909,  whom  she  had  met  a  few 
years  ago  crossing  the  Pacific.  She  is 
now  living  in  Hollywood,  and  the  Class 
will  be  glad  to  know  that  she  is  going  on 
with  her  singing.  She  writes:  "This 
fall  I  have  felt  that  I  have  made  distinct 
strides,  as  besides  singing  frequently  over 
the  radio,  I  was  one  of  a  chorus  of  36 
women  chosen  out  of  700  to  sing  in  the 
first  comic  opera  made  in  sound  pictures, 
The  Desert  Song,  made  by  Warner 
Brothers  with  Vitaphone.  As  nearly  all 
the  singers  were  soloists,  the  singing  was 
great  and  the  sets  and  costumes  really 
beautiful.     Do  go  see  the  picture  when  it 


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comes  out  and  see  if  you  can  find  me — 
I  hardly  think  so.  Sang  mezzo,  which  I 
just  ruined  my  voice  singing  in  the  B.  M. 
Glee  Club  years  ago — but  it  wasn't  placed 
and  I  sang  too  much.  I  don't  know  that 
you  are  at  all  interested  in  the  movies, 
but  of  course  one  is  completely  out  of 
things  who  isn't  here.  However,  this  is 
the  first  time  I  ever  tried  to  crash  the 
gate  at  a  studio,  so  was  much  pleased  to 
have  made  the  grade.  It  is  an  experience 
similar  to  having  been  in  the  original 
Floradora  Sextette.  We  worked  together 
for  seven  weeks  and  everyone  at  the 
studio  seemed  to  like  us,  for  they  had 
never  dealt  with  a  crowd  of  really  good 
singers  before.  The  experiences  were 
many  and  amusing." 

With  Elma  forging  to  the  front  in  the 
movies,  and  Peggy  Barnes'  name  becom- 
ing an  old  story  on  Broadway,  1907's 
fame  has  indeed  spread  from  coast  to 
coast.  Peg's  success  has  now  taken  on 
the  importance  of  a  news  item,  so  that  an 
account  of  the  Age  of  Innocence  has  ap- 
peared elsewhere  in  these  pages.  How- 
ever, watch  this  space  for  advance  infor- 
mation of  future  triumphs.  When  the  play 
opened  at  the-  Empire  Theatre  on  Novem- 
ber 27,  only  about  fifty  tickets  were  to  be 
had  at  public  sale,  and  at  least  fifteen 
of  these  had  been  secured  by  enterprising 
classmates,  among  whom  were  Julie  Ben- 
jamin Howson,  Dorothy  Forster  Miller, 
Ellen  Thayer  and  Eunice  Schenck.  May 
Ballin  and  E.  B.  Wherry  went  to  the  first 
matinee,  which  the  Class  Editor  is  in- 
formed on  excellent  authority  broke  the 
record  of  box  office  receipts  for  the  Em- 
pire. On  the  first  night  Peg  herself,  at- 
tended by  her  distinguished-looking  hus- 
band, was  "cowering"  in  the  balcony.  Be- 
tween the  acts,  while  the  lights  were  still 
dim,  she  started  to  go  out  to  the  lobby 
and  tripped  on  the  stairs.  A  kind  lady 
sitting  on  the  aisle  two  rows  behind  her 
put  out  a  helping  hand,  and  as  the  lights 
went  up,  there  were  Peg  and  Eunice 
clutching  each  other.  The  playwright  let 
out  a  surprised  shriek  reminiscent  of  ath- 
letic field  sidelines. 

Tink  Meigs  has  two  new  books  out, 
which  the  shops  say  were  best  sellers  for 
the  Christmas  trade:  Clearing  Weather 
and  The  Wonderful  Locomotive. 

No  1907  notes  have  appeared  in  this 
column  in  the  last  two  issues  of  the  Bul- 
letin partly  because  the  Class  Editor  in 
her  role  as  Business  Manager  had  to  cut 
down  expense  somehow,  and  it  was  easier 
to  eliminate  her  own  stuff  than  it  was  to 
placate  other  irate  Class  Editors  whose 
efforts  had  not  appeared.  In  addition  she 
felt    that   it  was  not   fair   to    the    other 


classes  to  put  them  to  shame  by  continu- 
ing to  retail  1907's  superior  achievements. 
However,  that  burst  of  enthusiasm  re- 
cently in  regard  to  grandchildren  led  her 
to  do  a  few  statistics  of  another  sort  of 
offspring.  She  is  willing  to  bet  at  long 
odds  that  1907  has  more  members  who 
have  broken  into  print  than  any  other 
class.  Here  is  the  list  so  far  compiled, 
alphabetically  arranged.  If  any  one  has 
been  left  out,  please  complain  loudly. 
Peggy  Barnes,  Margaret  Bailey,  Tony 
Cannon,  Eleanor  Ecob  Sawyer,  Hortense 
Flexner  King,  Alice  Gerstenberg,  Anna 
Haines,  Ruth  Hammit  Kauffman,  Grace 
Hutchins,  Jeannette  Klauder  Spencer, 
Tink  Meigs,  Mabel  O'Sullivan. 

Add  to  these  Elma  in  the  movies ;  Bux, 
who  adorned  the  Keith  Circuit  for  a  time ; 
and  Regina  Christy,  whom  Miss  Madison 
refused  for  seven  years  to  classify  as  Ar- 
tist's   Model,    although    it    was    perfectly 
true;  Gertrude  Hill  and  Adele  Brandeis, 
whose  pictures  as  well  as  their  question- 
naires  entitle   them   to  be   called  artists; 
not  to  mention  our  doctors  and  our  splen- 
did group  of  those  teaching,  and  the  class 
may  well  give  a  complacent  chuckle  when 
the   present-day   undergraduate    talks     so 
scornfully   of    that    "rah    rah    collegiate" 
period  which  was  ours. 
1908 
Class  Editor:  Margaret  Copeland, 
(Mrs.  Nathaniel  H.  Blatchford), 
844  Auburn  Road,  Hubbard  Woods, 
111. 

Agnes  Goldman  Sanborn,  with  a  very 
quaint  and  amusing  card,  announces  the 
"discovery"  of  Sarah  Judith  Sanborn  on 
August  24,  1928. 

Louise  Hyman  Pollak  spent  a  delightful 
month  last  summer  in  Banff. 

Sarah  Sanborne  Weaver  writes  from 
Donna,  Texas,  that  she  is  Vice-Regent  of 
the  D.  A.  R.  Chapter  and  Chairman  of  the 
Valley  Federations  of  Women's  Clubs,  an 
organization  of  1200  women.  At  the  time 
of  her  letter  she  was  expecting  to  desert 
her  six  children  and  go  to  the  Democratic 
Convention. 

1909 
Class  Editor:  Helen  Bond  Crane, 

•  Denbigh  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr. 

The  Class  wishes  to  express  its  sym- 
pathy with  Caroline  Kamm  McKinnon, 
whose  mother  died  last  fall  after  a  long 
illness.  Caroline  herself,  after  a  period 
of  rest,  has  returned  to  her  home  in  Port- 
land, Oregon. 

Just  by  way  of  a  Christmas  card,  Ethel 
Matlson  Heald  comes  out  of  her  long 
silence  to  say  that  she  is  still  living  in 
Omaha,  and  that  some  day  in  the  near 
future,   when    she   can   escape   from   her 


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"three     rising     young     Americans,"     she 
hopes  to  come  back  East  for  a  visit. 

Margaret  Ames  Wright  says:  "For 
news  I'll  just  give  last  year's.  We  spent 
twelve  months  abroad,  my  husband  and  I 
and  our  four  children — two  boys  and  two 
girls,  alternating.  My  husband  writes 
short  stories,  which  gives  us  an  excellent 
excuse  for  traveling.  We  had  a  little 
house  in  England  during  the  summer,  and 
a  large  and  draughty  one  in  Italy  for  the 
winter.  We  had  a  glimpse  of  Shirley 
Putnam  O'Hara  and  her  husband  and  two 
babies;  now,  as  perhaps  you  know,  they 
are  living  in  Paris." 

A  letter  from  Mary  Goodwin  Storrs 
and  family,  dated  October  11th,  just  off 
the  coast  of  India,  reports  that  they* had 
a  delightful  and  interesting  trip  out,  and 
that  the  prospects  for  returning  to  Shao- 
Wu  were  excellent.  "We  have  been  re- 
assured as  to  the  outlook  for  getting 
twenty  cases  of  newly  bought  provisions 
safely  up  the  Min  river.  It  seems  that 
the  bandits  are  much  less  likely  to  be 
regaled  on  our  sugar  and  cereals  than  for 
years  past." 

Jessie  Gilroy  Hall  has  recently  married 
the  German  sculptor,  Heinz  Warneke. 
"We  live  about  half  the  time  in  New 
York,  but  our  permanent  address  is  in 
Paris  (9  Rue  de  Chatillon).  I  myself 
have  become  a  painter  and  was  lucky 
enough  to  exhibit  twice  last  winter  in 
New  York."  So  we  now  number  at  least 
two  painters,  though  no  further  word  can 
be  dragged  out  of  Elise  Donaldson. 

My  typewriter,  following  an  irresistible 
impulse,  was  about  to  sign  off  with 
"Merry  Christmas."  However,  by  the 
time  this  gets  into  print,  the  only  appro- 
priate slogan  will  be,  "Come  to  Alumnae 
Meeting,"  unless  that  event;  too,  will  be 
a  thing  of  the  past. 

1910 
Class  Editor:  Emily  L.  Storer, 

Wardman   Park   Hotel,   Washington, 
D.  C. 

Mary  Ag.  Irvine  announces  "Lots  of 
news.  I  am  on  my  way  around  the 
world,  spending  the  winter  in  the  Phil- 
ippines and  next  summer  in  Europe.  I 
stopped  in  Chicago  with  Frances  and  had 
a  beautiful  time.  Saw  her  three  darling- 
youngsters,  also  Betty  and  her  daughter. 
Spent  the  summer  in  the  Southwest,  main- 
ly New  Mexico,  and  touched  Arizona, 
Utah  and  Colorado,  loveliest  country  I 
ever  saw.  Indian  dances  and  pueblos 
most  interesting.  Saw  Ruth  in  S.  F.,  first 
time  since  she  has  been  married,  and  she's 
the  same  old  Ruth.  She  has  three  lovely 
daughters.     Am   most   impressed   by   the 


tales  of  my  college  friends.  Joe  Petts, 
with  whom  I  have  been  living  the  last  ten 
years,  is  down  at  B.  M.  C,  taking  Miss 
Applebee's  place.  Return  next  fall  to  N.  Y. 
and  Miss  Chapin's.  No  room  for  more. 
I  also  saw  K.  Branson  and  her  attractive 
school." 

Annie  Jones  Roseborough — "We  had  a 
happy  three  months  in  the  mountains. 
Brown  Cabin  would  welcome  any  of  the 
Class  of  1910  who  happen  to  be  in  Estes 
Park.  We  are  again  back  in  Lincoln. 
Mary  Elizabeth  is  in  the  3rd  A  and  Mar- 
garet Annie  in  the  1st  B.  They  are  happy 
and  well,  and  very  active.  Yes,  they  both 
love  music.  Mary  Elizabeth  plays  rather 
well.  Margaret  is  just  beginning  piano. 
Each  day  I  try  to  practice.  Next  Mon- 
day I  am  playing  three  compositions  by 
ultra-modern  German  composers  for 
members  of  our  Musical  Art  Club.  Wish 
you  could  hear  my  husband's  choir  of  52 
voices.  Students  of  the  University. 
Greetings  and  best  wishes  to  all  of  1910." 

Gertrude  Kingsbacher  S  u  n  s  t  e  i  n — 
"About  a  month  ago  I  returned  from  a 
summer's  tour  to  the  Pacific  Coast.  We 
took  our  four  children,  aged  12  to  6  years, 
through  Yellowstone  Park  to  Seattle  and 
Mt.  Rainier,  down  the  Pacific  Coast  to 
San  Francisco  and  Los  Angeles.  Kept 
house  at  the  seashore  for  six  weeks  and 
returned  home  by  way  of  the  Grand  Can- 
yon and  the  Indian  Detour  in  New  Mex- 
ico. A  most  thrilling  adventure  for  all 
of  us.  Now  I  am  enjoying  a  sabbatical 
year  of  rest  from  the  arduous  labors  of 
"bringing  up  a  school"  (to  use  my  small 
daughter's  description  of  me),  which  has 
now,  after  six  years  of  struggle,  grown 
to  man's  estate.  I  still  play  tennis  and 
skate  and  swim,  if  you  must  have  a  record 
of  my  athletics.     Much  love.    Greetings!" 

Frances  Lord  Robbins — "I  feel  as 
though  I  belonged  to  the  vast  middle  west 
American  crew,  for  we  have  left  the  east- 
ern boundary  of  civilization  in  Michigan 
and  ventured  to  unturned  Illinois  prairie 
regions.  Sidney  gave  up  his  parish  in 
Ann  Arbor  in  September  and  he  is  now- 
trying  his  hand  at  teaching  in  Lombard 
College.  It's  a  new  venture  and  I  feel  a 
distinct  change  in  my  contact  with  people. 
It  was  hard  to  leave  all  our  friends  of 
nearly  nine  years,  but  I  think  we  are  find- 
ing an  interesting  new  set  in  this  new 
environment.  The  children  cling  to  their 
old  Michigan  loves,  and  we  may  go  back 
there  for  the  summer.  You  see,  New 
England  gets  farther  and  farther  away  as 
our  family  grows  larger  in  number  and 
years.  Anne  and  John  are  comfortably 
adjusted  to  their  new  school  and  Dick  and 


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Ralph  play  at  home  so  much,  it  makes 
little  difference  what  state  that's  in." 

Lucie  Reichenbach  Taylor — "My  hus- 
band and  I  had  two  lovely  months  abroad 
again  this  summer,  mostly  in  Stratford- 
upon  -  Avon,  hunting  up  data  about 
Shakespearean  festivals  for  us  in  public- 
ity work  for  the  Stratford-upon-Avon 
Festival  Company,  now  playing  in  Can- 
ada and  the  West.  After  absorbing  as 
much  Elizabethan  atmosphere  as  possible 
there,  we  spent  a  week  in  London  making 
new  literary  contacts,  then  had  a  fort- 
night's vacation  motoring  in  Belgium  and 
Holland,  and  another  in  Paris  studying 
the  Russian  Ballet's  new  work,  and  doing 
— well,  all  the  things  one  does  in  Paris 
and  nowhere  else.  The  high  spot  of  the 
tour  was  a  thrilling  airplane  flight  from 
London  to  Brussels  which  left  us  rest- 
lessly air-minded.  In  September  I  had  a 
week-end  in  Philadelphia  with  Mary  Root 
and  a  glimpse  of  the  beautiful  new  Good- 
hart  Hall.  At  present  our  chief  concern 
is  where,  when,  and  whether  to  send  our 
almost-five-year-old  daughter  to  kinder- 
garten— a  problem  that  now  seems  as 
momentous  as  if  it  were  to  be  her  only 
alma  mater." 

Rosalind  Romeyn  Everdell — "I  am  poor 
as  a  church  mouse  at  the  moment  because 
we  have  just  built  ourselves  a  new  house 
on  Shelton  Rock  Road,  Manhasset,  Long 
Island,  and  one  room  in  it  is  completely 
unfurnished !  We  are  expecting  to  move 
in  January  and  at  the  moment  my  eye  is 
attune  to  paint  samples  only !  It  is  hard 
work,  but  all-absorbing  and  great  fun — 
this  building  and  decorating  a  new 
house." 

Kate  Rotan  Drinker  writes:  "My  news 
debt  is,  I  fear,  some  two  years  overdue. 
But  here  goes  to  make  an  honest  woman 
of  me.  Winter  before  last  we  spent  in 
Copenhagen,  where  Cecil  was  taking  ad- 
vantage of  a  sabbatical  year  to  do  some 
special  work  in  physiology.  In  July,  1927, 
after  a  month  in  London,  we  came  home. 
Of  succeeding  events,  the  following  is  a 
brief  summary:  Summer  of  1927,  whoop- 
ing cough  (in  which  I  joined  the  chil- 
dren) ;  winter  of  1927-28,  spent  largely  in 
bed  or  marooned  at  home,  owing  to  a 
digestion  gone  amok;  summer,  1928,  spent 
quietly  at  the  Drinker  farm;  winter  1928- 
29,  began  darkly  with  six  weeks  in  bed, 
owing  to  a  bad  back,  which,  at  present 
writing,  is  still  obstinately  misbehaving. 
Results:  I  am  still  married  and  still  the 
mother  of  two  children,  but  am  no  longer 
that  prideful  object,  a  married  woman 
with  a  paid  occupation." 

Kate  has  since  been  in  the  hospital  hav- 


ing X-rays.  We  all  hope  for  better  news 
soon. 

Charlotte  Simonds  Sage — Charlotte's 
promised  history  hasn't  come,  so  I'd  like 
to  report  that  she  has  a  life-sized  job 
with  carpenters  remaking  her  house  and 
barn  and  five  strenuous  children  to  get  to 
the  three-miles-off  school  and  back  sev- 
eral times  a  day.  She  is  looking  as  young 
and  nice  as  ever,  though,  but  I'm  glad 
she's  a  little  homesick  for  Boston,  be- 
cause we  miss  her  badly. 

Emily  L.  Storer — "My  present  history 
seems  to  be  one  of  never  staying  put. 
I  went  to  Europe  last  summer  to  Czecho- 
slovakia, the  Tyrol  and  Switzerland.  We 
flew  from  Prague  to  Munich,  taking  only 
two  hours  instead  of  the  eleven  hours 
with  many  bad  connections  by  train.  We 
spent  a  week  in  Kandersteg  with  Shirley 
Putnam  O'Hara  and  her  nice  young  fam- 
ily and  another  week  in  Geneva  with  the 
League  of  Nations  and  its  thrilling  meet- 
ings. It  has  been  fun  being  at  home  this 
autumn  and  catching  up  with  my  young 
nieces  and  nephews.  I  am  in  Washington 
now,  and  we  are  leaving  for  Honolulu 
the  end  of  January.  We'll  explore  some 
of  the  Southwest  of  this  country  and  then 
settle  down  for  a  while  in  that  land  of 
color,  which  I  have  always  been  crazy  to 
see." 

Miriam  Hedges  Smith — "Phyllis  and  I 
are  on  a  visit  to  my  sister  in  Mansfield, 
Ohio.  We  expect  to  stay  until  after 
Christmas  and  then  return  to  Laguna 
Beach.  I  hope  eventually  to  come  back 
East  to  live  so  that  Phyllis  may  attend  a 
good  school — That's  my  news." 

1914 
Class  Editor:  Elizabeth  Ayer  Inches 
(Mrs.  Henderson  Inches), 
41  Middlesex  Road,  Chestnut  Hill, 
Mass. 
Helen  Shaw  has  a   fourth  child,  John 
Knox    Crosby,    born    November    23rd — 
weighing  9  pounds,  6  ounces. 

1916 
Class  Editor:  Catherine  S.  Godley, 
768  Ridgeway  Avenue,  Avondale, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Constance    Dowd    has    moved    into    a 
brand  new  apartment  which   is  the  last 
word"  in  efficiency  all  the  way  from  a  dis- 
appearing ironing-board  to  a  plug  for  the 
radio.     Her  new  address  is  3654  Middle- 
ton  Avenue,  Clifton.  Cedy  went  home  for 
Christmas  and  then  to  New  York  for  a 
Camp  Runoia  reunion. 

Margaret  Chase  Locke's  second  daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth  Chase,  was  born  January 
17,  1928.  Jute  says  she  is  blonde,  blue- 
eyed  and  just  now  at  an  impish  age.  She 


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is  much  admired  by  her  sister,  Margaret, 
who  is  four  and  a  half. 

Willie  Savage  Turner  has  a  son,  Con- 
rad, born  November  21st.  He  is  her  fifth 
child  and  all  are  hale  and  hearty. 

1919 
Class  Editor:  Mary  Ramsey  Phelps 
(Mrs.  William  E.  Phelps), 
Guyencourt,  Del. 

Here  is  some  belated  news  about  Ade- 
laide Landon,  who  has  been  studying 
abroad,  and  returned  on  the  Homeric  in 
September.  She  wrote  then:  "First  of 
all  I  want  to  tell  you  about  Tip  and  her 
husband  and  baby.  Tip  and  I  met  on 
the,  boat  going  home  for  Christmas — 
Tourist  3rd — and  came  back  together  in 
January.  About  a  week  ago,  just  before 
I  sailed,  I  paid  a  flying  visit  to  them  in 
England  and  made  the  acquaintance  of 
Mary  Lee,  Jr.,  all  of  a  little  over  two 
months  old.  They  have  rented  the  quaint- 
est old  cottage,  red  brick,  with  timbers 
in  the  ceilings,  a  lovely  old  garden,  etc. 
They  are  out  of  the  army  and  looking 
around  for  something  else.  ...  I  also 
saw  Dorothea  Chambers  Blaisdell  and  her 
husband  in  London  in  the  spring.  He  was 
writing  his  thesis  for  Columbia  on  the 
Ottoman  debt.  They  had  been  touring 
Europe  beginning  with  Constantinople, 
and  as  far  as  I  could  gather  he'd  been 
interviewing  heads  of  banks  and  foreign 
offices  to  get  his  data. 

"I  spent  the  winter  at  Oxford,  or  three 
terms — studying  theology.  I  was  a  spe- 
cial student  at  Mansfield  College — the 
Congregational  College  for  the  ministry — 
where  Dr.  Selbie  has  been  very  good 
about  taking  in  women  students.  There 
were  five  of  us  women  students,  three 
Americans  and  two  English.  I  was  also 
able  to  attend  many  of  the  Oxford  Uni- 
versity lectures  I  wanted  to  and  had  a 
most  interesting  time  in  every  way.  Then 
as  Oxford  ended  in  June  and  the  German 
Universities  continue  till  about  August 
1st,  I  was  able  to  get  in  five  weeks  at  the 
University  of  Gottingen,  which  was  also 
most  interesting  and  enjoyable.  As  I  had 
hardly  looked  at  a  German  book  since 
the  Oral  days,  I  floundered  considerably 
but  managed  to  get  along  without  too 
many  breaks !  Women  as  ministers  seem 
to  have  more  of  a  chance  today  in  Ger- 
many than  do  women  in  the  Anglican 
communion.  It  was  all  most  interesting, 
the  whole  year,  giving  one  insights  into 
and  understanding  of  the  English  and 
German  people  and  of  their  point  of  view, 
methods,  and  culture,  etc.,  etc.,  such  as 
one  can  rarely  acquire  without  living  in 


those  countries.  .  .  .  Now  I  am  about  to 
take  up  the  work  again  at  Grace  Church, 
Broadway  and  10th  Street,  New  York 
City,  better  equipped,  I  hope,  and  readier 
to  give  myself  to  it  more  completely.  This 
year  abroad  has  convinced  me  more  than 
ever  that  the  only  hope,  both  for  indi- 
viduals and  for  civilization,  is  to  be 
founded  on  the  rock  of  unselfishness,  love 
and  service,  in  faith  in  God  as  revealed 
by  Christ,  and  in  his  present  workings  in 
the  world.  I  shall  love  to  see  any  of  '19 
who  come  to  New  York." 

All  honor  to  Adelaide  for  her  achieve- 
ments in  scholarship  and  devotion.  The 
above  notes  are  taken  from  a  letter  which 
she  wrote  to  Peggy  Rhoads  under  the 
impression  that  the  latter  was  still  class 
editor,  and  are  now  passed  on  with  apol- 
ogies for  their  late  appearance.  They 
were  received  in  Tokyo,  where  Peggy 
was  just  concluding  a  most  interesting 
visit  of  three  months."  Of  course  the  last 
weeks  were  the  busiest.  Tokyo  was  in 
gala  array  and  everything  seemed  aus- 
picious for  the  Enthronement.  On  the 
day  of  the  Emperor's  return  to  Tokyo,  as 
the  guns  fired  the  Imperial  salute,  I  sailed 
for  home  on  the  President  Jefferson,  to 
reach  Philadelphia  shortly  before  Christ- 
mas. My  time  in  Japan  was  wonderful. 
I  enjoyed  almost  every  minute.  I  spent 
a  month  in  the  summer  at  Takayama,  a 
beautiful  little  seaside  place  200  miles 
north  of  Tokyo,  near  the  famous  Mat- 
sushima.  Imagine  loitering  in  a  sampan 
among  pine-clad  islands,  or  swimming  in 
a  warm  smooth  sea,  with  the  full  moon 
shining  down  between  the  pines,  and  one 
lantern  watching  on  the  beach.  I  was 
also  fortunate  in  being  able  to  see  many 
of  the  famous  beautiful  places  in  Japan, 
and  to  visit  some  that  were  utterly  un- 
spoiled by  the  West.  For  three  months  I 
made  headquarters  in  Tokyo  and  took 
trips  into  the  country  to  visit* the  centres 
of  Friends'  work.  I  was  privileged  to 
be  entertained  in  many  Japanese  homes, 
and  their  hospitality  was  marvellous.  I 
studied  Japanese  language  and  history  as 
much  as  I  could  during  the  short  and 
interrupted  period,  and  felt  with  Adelaide 
that  I  had  a  new  insight  into  a  culture 
that  is  unique  and  fascinating,  and  which 
is  being,  not  merely  transformed,  I  feel, 
but  in  a  marvellous  way  transmuted  by 
the  impact  of  the  West.  The  civilization 
that  is  being  made  in  Japan  is  not  west- 
ern, although  it  has  been  under  western 
influence;  it  is  going  to  be  just  as  truly 
Japanese  as  was  the  old  feudal  culture, 
and  is  going  to  be  a  real  contribution  to 
the  world." 


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1921 
Class  Editor:  Helen  James  Rogers, 
99  Poplar  Plains  Road, 
Toronto,  Ontario. 

Dr.  Dorothy  Lubin  Heller  is  living  in 
Englewood,  N.  J.,  where  her  husband  is 
practicing  Pediatrics.  Her  son,  David,  is 
almost  two  years  old. 

Alice  Whittier  is  interning  at  the  Chil- 
dren's Memorial  Hospital  in  Chicago. 

Aileen  Weston  has  been  abroad  for  six 
months,  visiting  England,  Scotland,  Spain, 
France  and  Switzerland.  She  attended 
the  School  of  International  Relations  in 
Geneva  for\  a  month,  and  then  visited 
Marie-Louise  Fearey  Piatt  in  her  villa 
near  Monte  Carlo. 

Eleanor  Donnelley  was  married  at  her 
home  in  Lake  Forest  on  December  15th 
to  Calvin  Pardee  Erdman,  Princeton, 
1915.  Darn  was  an  outstandingly  lovely 
bride.  She  wore  the  dress  her  mother 
was  married  in  in  1894,  of  white  brocade 
with  a  long  flowing  skirt,  leg  of  mutton 
sleeves  and  high  boned  collar.  Teddy 
Donnelley  HafTner  was  the  Matron  of 
Honor  and  Luz  Taylor  the  Maid  of 
Honor.  They  wore  dresses  of  green 
satin,  a  shade  deeper  in  colour  than 
those  worn  by  the  three  bridesmaids. 
Darn  plans  to  go  abroad  on  her  honey- 
moon and  on  her  return  to  live  in  Cali- 
fornia. Mr.  Erdman  is  a  professor  of 
Biblical  Literature  at  Occidental  College 
in  California. 

Ellen  Jay  Garrison,  Katharine  Walker 
Bradford  and  Helen  James  Rogers  went 
to  Lake  Forest  for  Darn's  wedding.  Kat 
and  Jimmy  stayed  with  Lydia  Beckwith 
Lee  in  her  new  house,  an  old  house  which 
has  been  remodeled  most  successfully  and 
attractively.  The  interior  shows  Chickie's 
same  deft  hands  and  artistic  talent  which 
were  such  a  boon  to  us  in  our  class  parties 
and  plays.  Chickie  has  two  sons,  John, 
aged  four,  and  Douglas,  aged  two  and 
a  half  years. 

1923 
Class  Editor:  Katharine  L.  Strauss, 
27  E.  69th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Dorothy  Stewart  Pierson  writes:  I  am 
sending  you  a  note  for  the  '23  news.     I 
have  a  daughter,  Frances,  born  June  10th, 
who  has  red  hair  and  blue  eyes  and  is 
a  very   entertaining  being.     She   is    fed 
just  the  way   I  used  to    feed  my  prize- 
winning    Shepherd    puppies,    and    thrives 
the  way  they  did. 

1924 
Class  Editor:  Mildred  Buchanan, 
515  Baird  Ave.,  Merion,  Pa. 
Doris  Hawkins  was  married  on  Dec.  1 
to  Schuyler  Baldwin,  Haverford  '26.  They 
had  a  lovely  wedding  and  Woodie  was 
one  of  the  bridesmaids.     Martha  Fischer 


came  down  from  New  Haven  to  attend 
and  others  of  '24  who  were  there  were 
Dot  Litchfield,  Chuck  Woodworth,  Betzy 
Crowell  Kaltenthaler  and  her  husband 
and  M.  Buchanan.  Thanks  to  this  meet- 
ing we  have  a  few  items  to  put  in  the 
Bulletin  'this  month. 

Speaking  of  Betzy — do  you  all  realize 
that  our  Class  Baby,  Elizabeth  Brooks 
Kaltenthaler,  was  three  years  old  on  the 
8th  of  December?  She  is  adorable  and 
'24  may  well  be  proud  to  claim  her. 

Justine  Wise  Tulin  has  a  son  born 
October  30,  1928.  She  says  he  keeps  her 
very  busy  but  she  is  planning  to  take  the 
Connecticut  Bar  exams  in  a  few  weeks. 
Her  address  is  Mrs.  Leon  Arthur  Tulin, 
966  Prospect  Street,  New  Haven. 

Roberte  Godefroy  has  announced  her 
engagement  to  Dr.  Herve  Chauvel.  He 
has  done  a  great  deal  of  research  work  in 
different  hospitals  and  he  is  the  youngest 
member  of  the  Botanical  Institute  of 
France.  Martha  writes,  "He  comes  from 
a  very  aristocratic  old  family  of  St. 
Brieux,  Brittany,  and  was  Roberte's  pro- 
fessor for  a  short  time  at  the  Pasteur 
Institute.  Roberte  says  she  is  teaching 
him  English  and  he  is  very  eager  to  visit 
the  United  States  and  to  meet  all  her 
American  friends.  She  will  finish  up  all 
her  work  this  year  and  when  they  are 
married  (in  June)  they  plan  to  settle 
down  somewhere  in  France."  Twenty- 
four  certainly  wishes  Roberte  all  happi- 
ness ! 

Mary  Cheston  Tupper  has  a  daughter, 
Charlotte  Elizabeth,  who  was  born  some- 
time in  the  early  summer. 

Mary  Rodney  Brinser  (Mrs.  Donald 
C),  is  living  in  Hillcrest  Court,  _  70th 
Street  and  Broadway,  Jackson  Heights, 
L.  I. 

Elizabeth  Ives,  '24,  is  living  at  home, 
145  East  35th  Street,  New  York  City, 
and  working  in  the  Publicity  Department 
of  F.  B.  Keith's. 

1926 
Class  Editor:  Harriot  Hopkinson, 
70  Beacon  Street,  Boston. 

Sally  McAdoo  was  married  on  Novem- 
ber 8th,  to  Brice  Clagget  of  Washington, 
at  a  very  small  ceremony  at  the  house 
of  a  friend.  They  have  gone  to  England 
for  their  honeymoon,  but  will  be  in  this 
country  for  the  winter,  living  at  George- 
town. 

Another  recent  bride  is  Betty  Taylor, 
who  is  now  (exact  date  of  transition  un- 
known) Mrs.  Thomas  F.  McManus,  and 
living  in  Eastland,  Texas. 

Marjorie  Falk  (Mme.  Marcel  Levy- 
Falk)  may  be  congratulated  at  90  bis 
Avenue  Henri  Martin,  Paris,  on  the  ac- 
quisition of  a  son,  Philip,  late  in  Septem- 
ber. 


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Tweedle  has  returned  from  a  long  stay 
at  a  dude  ranch  somewhere  out  there  west 
of  the  Mississippi,  where  an  excellent 
time  seems  to  have  been  had  by  all.  This 
was  very  likely  not  a  continuation  of  her 
recent  nation-wide  advertising  campaign 
of  White  Rose  Bread;  on  the  other  hand, 
one  never  can  tell  about  E.  G.  T. ;  her 
present  occupation  is  unknown. 

Alice  Long  (Mrs.  John  J.  Goldsmith) 
is  living  at  240  West  End  Avenue,  New 
York.  August  she  spent  touring  Europe, 
principally  Paris  and  Vienna  and  Biar- 
ritz, and  October  she  spent  at  the  un- 
rewarded toil  of  attempt  to  make  New 
York  safe  for  Democracy  and  Al.  In 
this  she  has  the  sincere  sympathy  of  your 
class  editor,  a  fellow  mourner,  and  a 
cordial  invitation  to  move  to  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Betty  Burroughs  reports  that  her  pres- 
ent vocation  is  teaching  English  at  Miss 
Madeira's  at  Washington.  Her  avocation, 
meanwhile,  is  Art,  she  having  begun  this 
summer  at  Mr.  Hawthorne's  school  at 
Provincetown,  Mass.,  continued  at  the 
Grand  Central  School  in  New  York,  and 
is  now  going  on  with  it  in  Washington. 

Grove  is  living  in  Newark,  at  297  Mt. 
Prospect  Avenue,  and  while  her-  husband 
practices  law  in  the  same  office  with  B. 
Pitney's  brothers,  she  has  a  job  teaching 
a  combination  of  History  of  Art  and 
Dramatics,  with  a  little  landscape  garden- 
ing thrown  in  for  practice. 

Charis  has  been  and  is,  abroad.  In 
September  she  was  in  Geneva,  during  the 
Assembly  of  the  League  of  Nations,  and 
at  present  she  is  living  in  London,  her 
address  being  89  Harley  Street.  She  is 
working  in  the  library  of  the  Council  of 
Foreign  Relations. 

Miriam  Lewis  is  at  the  Moravian  Sem- 
inary, at  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  where  she  is 
teaching  French  and  Ancient  History  be- 
tween week-ends  in  New  York. 

Your  correspondent,  H.  H.,  has  re- 
nounced her  ways  of  idleness,  and  is 
working  this  winter  at  the  University 
Film  Foundation,  in  Cambridge.  This  is 
where  movies  of  an  educational  nature 
are  collected,  distributed  and  produced, 
chiefly  for  the  purpose  of  supplementing 
lecture  courses  at  Harvard  and  elsewhere, 
and  where  her  work  consists  of  review- 
ing films,  helping  re-edit  them,  splice  them 
when  broken,  make  maps,  and  do  general 
odd  jobs;  which  is  all  rather  fun.  We 
received  an  eight-foot  python  the  other 
day,  alive  in  a  suitcase,  and  it  was  quite 
an  office  pet  before  it  was  duly  filmed 
and  sent  back  to  New  York.  Very  educa- 
tional. 


JOHN  HANCOCK  SERIES  

THE  FIELD 

of  SOCIAL 

SERVICE 

is  the  place  where 
many  good  gradu- 
ates go. 

A  high  form  of  Social 
Service,  yielding  a  high- 
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The  Saint  Timothy's  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

Founded  September  1882 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head  of  the  School 

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY   E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY,  CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M.,  Bryn  Mawr  College 

Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr  College 

UNIVERSITYgTrLs 

BOARDING  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough    and    successful    Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive  Chicago,  Illinois 


The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  1785) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 

A  country  day   school  for  boys 

Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 


THE  HARTRIDGE  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

50  minutes  from  New  York 

A  country  school  with  beautiful  grounds. 
College   Preparatory  and   General   Courses. 
Over  fifty  girls  in  leading  colleges  today. 
Resident  Department  carefully  restricted. 
Special  attention  to  Music  and  Art. 
Athletics,  Dramatics,  Riding, 

EMELYN  B.  HARTRIDGE,  Vassar,  A.B.,  Principal 

PlaJnfield,  New  Jersey 

ROGERS  HALL 

Thorough  Preparation  for  College  Admission 
Examinations.  Graduate  Courses.  Home  Making, 
Secretarial.  Art.  Two  years  Advanced  Work  for 
High  School  Graduates. 

For  Illustrated  Catalogue  Address  the  Principa 

MRS.  EDITH  CHAPIN  CRAVEN  Bryn  Mawr 

Principal  Lowell,  Mass. 

The  Harcum  School 

BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 

Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  all  leading  colleges 

Musical  Course  prepares  lor  the  Depart- 
ment of  Music  of   Bryn    Mawr   College 
EDITH  H.  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 
L.  MAY  WILLIS,  Principal 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 
Individual  Instruction.    Athletics. 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa. 
Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address:    Bryn  MavOr,  Pa. 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON  COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vassar) 

Principal 


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THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 


GRAY  GABLES 


Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 
One  year  course  for  Board   Examination. 

For  catalog  address: 

Hope  Fisheb,  Ph.D.,   Bancroft   School 

Wobcesteb,  Massachusetts 


MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 
COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses  Junior  High  School 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,  Headmistress 

The  Katharine  Branson  School 

ROSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Francisco 

A  Country  School    College  Preparatory 

Head: 
Katharine   Fleming   Branson,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

1330  19th  St.,  N.  W.  Washington.  D.  C. 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 

Head  Mistress 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 


FERRY    HALL 

A   RESIDENT   AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On   Lake  Michigan,  near   Chicago 

College  Preparatory.  Genera  and  Advanced  Courses, 
Departments  of  Music.  Expression,  and  Art.  Athletics 
and  Swimming  Pool. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 


ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 
(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  courses) 

>  Head  Misireste* 

GREENWICH       -       -       CONNECTICUT 

The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 

(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr,  Mount  Holyoke.  Smith. 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  college*.     Abundant  outdoor  life. 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis. 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON.  A.B. 

HEAD 

THE  LOW  AND  HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

64th  year.    Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN  POINT,  STAMFORD,  CONN. 


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BRIARCLIFF 

Mrs.  Dow's  School  for  Girls 

Margaret  Bell  Merrill,  M.A.,  Principal 
BRIARCLIFF  MANOR  NEW  YORK 

College  Preparatory 
and  General  Academic  Courses 

Post  Graduate  Department 

Music  and  Art  with  New  York 
advantages.     New  Swimming   Pool 

Music  Dept.  Art  Dept. 

Jan   Sickesz        Chas.  W.  Hawthorne,  N.  A. 

Director  Director 


ThePhebeAnna 
Thome  Shool 

UNDER    THE    DIRECTION    OF 

THE 
DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION 


A  progressive  school  preparing 
for  all  colleges.  Open  air  class 
rooms.  Pre-school,  Primary, 
Elementary  and  High  School 
Grades. 


BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 

Agnes  L.  Rogers,  Ph.D.,  Director 
Frances  Browne,  A.B.,  HeadMistress 


Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 


GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  19  miles  from  New  York.     College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.       Music.       Art  and 

Domestic  Science.       Catalogue   on  request.       Box  B. 

MIRIAM   A.   BYTEL,    A.B.,   Radcliffe,    Principal 

BERTHA   GORDON   WOOD,   A.B.,   Bryn    Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


I 


Register   now  for  mid-term 
session   and   save   half    year 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  ol  costume  design  and  illus- 
tration taught  in  shortest  time  com- 
patible with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  for 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
partment disposes  of  student  work. 
Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
Bureau.    Write  for  announcement. 


In  Arnold,  Constable  &  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

1680  Broadway  (near  52nd  St.)  New  Y< 


that  carries  the  vivacity 

of  campus  clothes 

into  the  world 

of  fashion 

beyond. 

SAKS-FIFTH  AVENUE 

FORTY-  NINTH  to  FIFTIETH  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


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1896  1929 

BACK  LOG  CAMP 

THE  ADIRONDACK  MOUNTAINS 
INDIAN  LAKE,  NEW  YORK 

Why  Back  Log  Camp? 

The  heart  of  a  camp  is  the  fire.  In  a  small  camp  it  provides  heat  and  light, 
cooks  the  food,  and  is  the  focus  of  the  evening  palaver  over  the  day's  adven- 
tures. Of  course  in  a  large  camp  like  Back  Log  Camp  the  cooking  is  done  in  a 
regular  kitchen.  But  every  tent  has  a  fireplace,  and  this  fireplace  is  kept 
supplied  with  back  logs.  A  back  log  is  a  large  log  against  which  the  fire  is  built. 
A  back  log  fire  is  not  an  accidental  heap  of  burning  sticks.  It  is  a  scientifically 
constructed  fire  that  focuses  the  heat  and  throws  it  straight  into  your  tent. 

Every  evening  and  on  rainy  or  cold  days  there  is  a  huge  central  public  back 
log  fire  before  an  open  camp.  After  the  twilight  paddle  on  the  Lake,  if  you  feel 
promiscuously  sociable,  you  spend  the  evening  here  or  in  the  newly  built  Lodge 
with  its  reading  lamps  and  great  stone  fireplace.  But  if  you  want  to  be  alone 
or  with  a  small  group  of  intimate  friends,  you  start  your  own  fire,  collect  the 
fellow  philosophers,  and  discourse  of  life  at  large  in  the  flickering,  warming 
light.    And  to  its  dying  glow  you  go  to  sleep. 

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FOR  such  a  building  as  this  new  Chapel, 
only  natural  stone  could  do  full  justice 
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BRYN  MAWR 

ALUMNAE 
BULLETIN 


THE  ANNUAL  MEETING 


March,  1929 


Vol.  IX 


No.  2 


Entered  as  second-class  matter,  January  1.  1921,  at  the  Post  Office.  Phiia..  fa.,  under  Act  of  March  5J  1879 

COPYRIGHT.    1929 

ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION   OF    BRYN    MAWR   COLLEGE 


OFFICERS   OF    THE   BRYN    MAWR  ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION 

EXECUTIVE  BOARD 

President Louise  Fleischmann  Maclat,  1906 

Vice-President Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  1917 

Recording  Secretary Gertrude  Hearne  Myers,  1919 

Corresponding  Secretary Mat  Egan  Stokes,  1911 

Treasurer Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903 

Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee Caroline  Morrow   Chadwick-Collins,    1905 

ALUMNAE  SECRETARY  AND  BUSINESS  MANAGER  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Alice   M.   Hawkins,  1907 

EDITOR  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Marjorie  L.  Thompson,  1912 

DISTRICT  COUNCILLORS 

District  I Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913 

District  II Julia  Langdon  Loomis,  1895 

District  III Mary  Tyler  Zabriskie,  1919 

District  IV Katharine  Holliday  Daniels,  1918 

District  V Frances  Porter  Adler,  1911 

District  VI Erma  Kingsbacher  Stix,  1906 

District  VII Helen  Brayton  Barendt,  1903 

ALUMNAE  DIRECTORS 

Ruth  Furness  Porter,  1896  Mary  Peirce,  1912 

Frances  Fincke  Hand,  1897  Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey,  1901 

CHAIRMAN  OF   THE   ALUMNAE  FUND 

Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  ACADEMIC  COMMITTEE 

Pauline  Goldmark,  1896 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  SCHOLARSHIPS  AND  LOAN  FUND  COMMITTEE 

Margaret  Gilman,  1919J 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  HEALTH  AND  PHYSICAL  EDUCATION 

Dr.  Marjorie  F.  Murray,  1913 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  NOMINATING  COMMITTEE 

Eleanor  Little  Aldrich,  1905 


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EDITORIAL  BOARD 

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Vol.  IX  March,   1929  No.  2 


It  is  difficult  for  the  members  of  the  Alumnae  Association  to  bear  in  mind, 
always,  the  distinction  between  the  function  of  the  Council,  which  is  purely  advisory, 
and  that  of  the  Annual  Meeting,  which  is  legislative.  The  attempt  to  bring  over 
into  the  Annual  Meeting  something  of  the  subject  matter  which  had  made  the 
Council  this  year  particularly  interesting,  was,  for  that  reason,  not  an  unqualified 
success.  The  interest  came,  as  interest  always  must,  from  within.  When  we  come 
prepared  to  take  action  and  to  cast  a  vote  for  or  against  a  given  motion,  material 
on  which  no  action  is  necessary  comes  almost  as  an  interruption  to  a  train  of  thought 
and  we  are  conscious  of  a  slight  impatience.  This  year  the  discussion  on  the 
financial  questions  was  close  and  spirited,  and  each  person  present  felt  that  her 
vote  would  inevitably  have  a  very  definite  effect  in  a  number  of  ways  on  the  future 
development  of  the  College.  When  this  sense  of  responsibility  is  present,  there  is 
no  necessity  for  considering  ways  and  means  to  make  a  meeting  come  alive.  If  in 
the  world  at  large  the  plea  has  gone  out  for  an  informed  electorate,  the  plea  should 
be  no  less  inpassioned  here  in  the  Association.  Each  member  of  the  Association 
should  keep  herself  informed  of  actual  conditions  and  should  not  simply  depend 
on  hearsay.  The  Alumnae  Office  is  tireless  in  its  efforts  to  co-operate,  Class  Col- 
lectors have  very  complete  information,  and  the  Alumnae  Directors  are  the  true 
liaison  officers  between  the  College  and  the  members  of  the  Association.  With  all 
these  channels  of  information,  no  one  need  feel  herself  out  of  touch  in  any  way. 
If  one  reads  the  minutes  carefully,  one  can  see  how  interest  flared  up  when  there 
was  real  work  to  be  done  and  that  the  part  of  the  meeting  that  was  legislative  was 
as  successful  from  the  point  of  view  of  participation  and  interest  as  any  meeting 
could  be.  The  interest  was  a  spontaneous  thing  arising  from  the  situation  itself, 
and  was  not  a  matter  of  device  or  planning;  surely  with  the  growing  importance  of 
the  Association  such  interest  can  be  counted  on  from  year  to  year. 


THE  ANNUAL  MEETING 

The  Meeting,  if  one  can  so  term  the  space  of  twenty-four  hours  that  the 
Alumnae  were  gathered  together,  started  very  auspiciously  in  Rockefeller  Hall  Fri- 
day night.  The  hallway  there  is  a  pleasant  place  with  the  fire  glowing  in  the  grate 
and  the  soft  colours  of  evening  dresses  against  the  light  brown  of  the  woodwork. 
Presently  we  all  trooped  in  to  dinner,  and  for  a  moment  the  writer,  at  least,  found 
herself  caught  back  to  undergraduate  days,  as  one  of  the  maids  who  had  waited  on 
her  then  pulled  out  her  chair  and  eagerly  asked  for  news  of  the  rest  of  the  group. 
Nathalie  McFaden  Blanton,  in  her  graceful  little  speech  of  welcome,  in  which 
she  pictured  the  Alumnae  Association  as  something  to  cling  to  when  one  comes 
wandering  back  to  College,  lest  one  feel  like  a  ghost  in  the  familiar  places,  lamented 
that  not  even  the  old  maids  were  there  any  more,  but  Julia  Maxwell  and  I  nodded 
and  smiled  at  each  other,  and  little  old  Rosa  bobbed  good  will  across  the  room. 

It  seemed  strange  to  move  out  to  the  fire  again  so  that  we  might  have  cigarettes 
with  our  coffee  while  the  dining  room  was  rearranged  with  'the  chairs  in  rows 
for  Georgiana  Goddard  King's  illustrated  lecture  on  Migrants,  Pilgrims,  and  Tour- 
ists. She  led  us  inimitably  from  Paris  down  through  Switzerland  and  Spain,  to 
North  Africa.  The  pictures  and  the  comments  were  delightful,  and  by  some  curious 
flattering  magic,  even  as  she  exhorted  us  never  to  become  tourists,  she  allowed  us 
to  feel  that  we  all  of  us,  potentially  at  least,  were  of  the  chosen  band  of  pilgrims. 

The  next  morning — Saturday — the  formal  meetings  started  in  the  Music  Room 
of  Goodhart  Hall.  Meeting  there  was  frankly  an  experiment.  To  many  it  seemed 
an  eminently  successful  one;  the  smallness  of  the  room  to  them  seemed  to  encourage 
free  and  rather  intimate  discussion.  To  others,  of  whom  the  writer  is  one,  the 
irritating  proportions  of  the  room,  the  constant  and  unavoidable  rustle  of  noise 
made  by  the  many  late  comers,  and  the  extreme  discomfort  of  the  chairs,  made  the 
great  Hall  seem  very  attractive,  and  the  thought  of  space  and  quiet  and  upholstered 
pink  seats  almost  too  tantalizing.  Surely  there  one  could  follow  the  discussion  more 
easily  and  the  discussion  as  can  be  seen  from  the  condensed  minutes,  was  exceed- 
ingly worth  being  followed. 

President  Park's  luncheon  to  the  Alumnae  was  served  as  usual  in  Pembroke. 
This  account  seems  to  concern  itself  exclusively  with  seating  arrangements,  but  no 
one,  I  think,  felt  that  it  made  for  the  easy  pleasant  contacts  which  are  in  a  way 
as  much  a  part  of  the  Annual  Meeting  as  the  business  that  is  transacted,  to  have 
the  chairs  placed  in  long  rows,  one  close  behind  the  other,  so  that  group  conversation 
was  an  impossibility.  However,  when  President  Park  spoke,  and  later  when  the 
business  of  the  meeting  continued,  one  forgot  this  minor  question  of  chairs. 

President  Park  spoke  briefly  on  Academic  matters,  stressing  again  what  the 
introduction — if  one  may  so  refer  to  what  has  always  existed  at  Bryn  Mawr  in 
some  degree — of  Honors  Work  in  the  various  departments  has  meant  to  both  the 
students  and  the  Faculty.  This  really  tremendous  gain  for  the  students  has  shown 
itself  in  the  various  short  cuts  that  they  have  been  able  to  take  in  foreign  univer- 
sities, and  in  the  fact  that  their  attitude  toward  their  work  is  so  mature  that  the 
gap  between  Graduate  and  Undergraduate  methods  practically  does  not  exist.     And 

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it  is  significant  how  many  students  very  quickly  attain  distinction  in  their  chosen 
fields.  In  connection  with  this,  President  Park  read  an  extract  from  a  letter  from 
the  Assistant  Director  of  the  American  Council  on  Education.  He  had  been  col- 
lecting information  about  students  studying  abroad,  and  says: 

"The  first  reply  has  been  received  from  Dr.  Edwin  Deller  of  the  University 
of  London.  It  is  very  clear  from  Dr.  Deller's  report  on  the  American  students 
in  the  University  of  London  from  1925  to  1928  that  American  universities  and 
colleges  have  been  represented  by  first  rate  institutions:  Brown  University,  1;  Bryn 
Mawr  College,  5 ;  University  of  California,  1 ;  University  of  Chicago,  3 ;  Columbia 
University,  7;  Cornell,  1;  Harvard  University,  4;  Johns  Hopkins  University,  1; 
University  of  Minnesota,  2 ;  Princeton  University,  2 ;  Radclifle  College,  1 ;  Smith 
College,  1 ;  Vassal*  College,  1 ;  University  of  Vermont,  1 ;  University  of  Wisconsin, 
1 ;  Yale  University,  1. 

"'The  provost  writes  'in  all  cases  their  work  and  progress  was  satisfactory.'  " 

The  fact  that,  with  the  exception  of  Columbia,  Bryn  Mawr  sent  more  students 
than  did  any  other  college  or  university  shows  very  clearly  what  is  happening.  An- 
other letter  to  put  side  by  side  with  this  is  one  from  Mr.  Capps,  the  Chairman  of 
the  Managing  Committee  of  The  American  School  of  Classical  Studies  at  Athens. 

'"There  is  no  question  in  the  mind  of  any  member  of  the  Managing  Committee 
of  the  high  standing,  I  think  I  may  safely  say  the  unique  standing,  of  Bryn  Mawr 
in  relation  to  the  Athenian  School  at  this  time,  and  personally  I  should  like  very 
much  to  see  the  dominant  position  of  Bryn  Mawr  in  the  field  of  classical  archaeology 
recognized  and,  if  possible,  helped  by  the  election  of  a  successor  to  Professor  Car- 
penter to  membership  in  the  Committee." 

Delightful  as  such  letters  are,  they  bring  home  as  almost  nothing  else  can  the 
ever-present  fact  of  the  continual  problem  of  the  increase  of  Academic  salaries  lest 
Bryn  Mawr  lose  any  of  the  people  who  have  helped  to  put  her  in  the  position  which 
she  undoubtedly  occupies  in  the  Academic  world. 

Then  turning  to  other  aspects  of  the  College,  President  Park  spoke  of  her  own 
hopes  for  making  the  Campus  ever  more  lovely.  She  read  a  letter  from  Margaret 
Henderson  Bailie,  1917,  who  has  done  such  distinguished  work  at  Princeton  and 
in  connection  with  the  planting  around  the  Harkness  Building  at  Yale. 

"I  want  at  first,  at  least,  to  give  very  much  more  of  my  time  on  the  ground 
than  the  College  should  by  any  chance  pay  for.  For  example,  you  spoke  of  sending 
down  the  plans  and  having  the  men  carry  them  out.  Until  I  get  much  more  used 
to  the  men,  and  they  to  me,  I  want  to  use  hardly  any  plans  and  I  should  much 
prefer  to  go  down  to  Bryn  Mawr  and  say,  "put  it  here — and  there — and  there.' 
This  I  know  seems  awfully  inefficient,  but  we  have  all  found  here  that  it  is  the 
way  to  get  things  that  we  really  like.  An  infinite  amount  of  time  can  be  wasted 
on  plans  which  are  not,  after  all,  really  clear  or  satisfactory.  I  don't,  of  course, 
mean  a  general  plan,  or  plans  of  paths  and  roads  which  must,  of  course,  be  drawn 
up.     I  speak  only  of  planting  plans." 

And  last  of  all,  but  certainly  not  least  in  the  hopes  that  it  holds  out  and  in 
the  memories  that  it  calls  up,  President  Park  read  the  following  letter: 

"Dear  Doctor  Park: 

"I  have  not  replied  sooner  to  your  letter  because  I  have  been  for  a  long  time 
out  West  and  have  only  just  returned  to  Philadelphia. 


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"I  enjoyed  more  than  I  can  express  to  yon  the  opening  of  the  auditorium  and 
my  collaboration  with  you  and  the  chorus.  I  was  very  much  struck  by  the  wonderful 
concentration  and  splendid  singing  of  the  chorus  of  such  difficult  works  of  Bach. 
The  whole  Concert  was  a  delight  to  me,  and  I  hope  some  day  we  can  be  working 
together  again. 

"Wishing  Bryn  Mawr  College  still  greater  development  and  growth, 

"Always  sincerely, 

"Leopold  Stokowski." 


All  of  these,  taken  together,  gave  one  a  sense  of  something  vigorous  and  grow- 
ing, something  curiously  alive  in  all  the  various  corporate  parts  of  the  College,  and 
made  the  continued  business  of  the  meeting  and  the  reports  that  followed  have  a 
fresh  significance. 

After  President  Park  had  spoken,  Rosamond  Cross,  1929,  gave  again  the  very 
delightful  paper  which  she  had  presented  at  the  Council.  It  was  significant,  how- 
ever, that  when  Mrs.  Loomis  was  called  on  to  present  her  Report  for  District  II. 
she  said  that  she  felt  that  the  financial  discussion  which  was  still  pending,  left  over 
from  the  morning  session,  was  too  important  to  be  put  ofl  and  that  she  had  rather 
defer  her  Report  until  after  the  discussion  was  finished.  At  that  moment  the  dis- 
tinction between  the  Council  and  the  Annual  Meeting  stood  very  clear  cut.  Our 
concern  was  with  legislative  matters  and  it  was  with  them  that  at  that  moment 
our  interest  lay.  There  was  definite  work  to  be  done  and  it  was  more  absorbing 
than  even  the  most  stimulating  reports.  Once  the  motion  was  carried,  the  Reports 
for  District  II.,  for  District  VI.,  and  for  the  Scholarships  and  Loan  Fund  Com- 
mittee were  given,  and  as  they  had  proved  to  be  at  the  Council  were  extraordinarily 
interesting,  but  they  lost  something  by  not  being  followed  by  the  discussion  which 
they  had  aroused  at  the  earlier  meeting.  Perhaps  we  had  been  meeting  long  enough 
by  that  time.  After  some  resolutions  had  been  passed,  the  meeting  adjourned,  and 
broke  up  into  friendly,  animated  groups,  to  wander  down  across  the  campus  to 
Goodhart  Hall  once  again,  to  talk  and  smoke  and  drink  tea  by  the  roaring  fire  in 
the  Commons  Room,  a  gracious  charming  place  in  the  gathering  dusk.  Another 
Annual  Meeting  slowly  ended  very  pleasantly,  in  much  the  same  way  in  which  it 
had  begun. 

M.  L.  T. 


TWO  ALUMNAE  SPEAK  ABOUT  CHINA 

The  Executive  Committee  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  Chinese  Scholarship  Committee 
arranged  a  supper  at  the  Philadelphia  College  Club,  on  Thursday,  February  21st. 
The  subject  to  be  discussed  was  "An  Educational  Experiment  in  Internationalism." 
The  speakers  were  Jane  Ward,  1905,  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Young  Woman's 
Christian  Association,  Shanghai,  and  Alice  Boring,  1904,  Professor  of  Biology  at 
Yenching  University,   Peking.     Miss  Martha  Thomas  presided. 


ANNUAL  MEETING 

OF  THE 

ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION  OF  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 

SATURDAY,  FEBRUARY  2,  1929 

(There  is  on  file  in  the  Alumnae  Office  a  stenographic  report  of  the  Annual 
Meeting,  giving  in  detail  the  discussion,  amendments,  motions  carried  and  lost,  etc. 
The  following  minutes  are  condensed.) 

MORNING  SESSION  HELD  IN  MUSIC  ROOM,  GOODHART  HALL 

The  meeting  was  called  to  order  at  11.05  A.  M.  by  Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay, 
1906,  President  of  the  Alumnae  Association.  142  members  signed  their  names,  and 
it  is  estimated  tha    at  least  50  others  were  present  at  some  part  of  the  meeting. 

It  was  voted  to  omit  the  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  meeting  of  the  previous 
year.  Mrs.  Maclay  then  presented  the  Report  of  the  Executive  Board,  which  was 
accepted  and  placed  on  file.     The  report  in  full  follows: 


REPORT  OF  THE  EXECUTIVE  BOARD 
FOR  THE  YEAR  1928-29 

The  handicap  of  a  confining  title  and  the  desire  to  continue  her  delightful 
relationship  with  the  members  of  the  Board  are  two  factors  which  determine  for  a 
President  the  content  of  her  Annual  Report.  It  may  be  her  preference  to  write 
poetically  of  the  many  evidences  of  devotion  to  the  College  manifested  by  her 
colleagues,  to  become  lyric  in  appreciation  of  the  courtesies  to  the  Alumnae  by  the 
staff  of  the  College,  or  to  interpret,  in  terms  of  energy,  intelligence  and  good  will, 
the  smooth  running  machinery  of  an  Alumnae  Office;  yet  these  preferences  she  must 
stifle  and  write  prosaically  only  of  the  year's  accomplishment. 

That  it  has  been  peaceful,  pleasant  and  profitable  there  is  no  doubt.  To  this 
the  continuity  in  the  Alumnae  Office  contributed  greatly,  for  though  Florence  Irish 
(1913)  came  to  replace  Mary  Tatnall  (1926)  as  assistant  to  the  Treasurer,  her 
quick  grasp  of  detail  made  an  easy  transition.  Also  owing  to  the  generosity  of  the 
Alumnae,  and  to  the  vigilance  of  Class  Collectors  there  has  been  no  financial  pressure. 
All  the  usual  expenditures  have  been  met  and  payments  to  the  Directors  on  pledges 
for  the  furnishing  of  Goodhart  Hall  are  well  ahead.  It  has  been  a  pleasure  also, 
to  see  the  dream  of  the  students  of  the  nineties  realized,  at  last,  in  the  dedication 
and  use  of  Goodhart  Hall.  The  furnishing,  for  all  intents  and  purposes,  is  now 
completed,  but  our  Chairman  plans  to  make  some  further  additions  when  the  need 
becomes  apparent. 

In  the  meantime,  while  we  realize  that  the  time  is  rapidly  coming  when  Good- 
hart, just  as  Taylor  and   the  Library,  will  be  part  of  the  College  well-being  and 

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so  assimilated  into  its  life  process  that  all  traces  of  its  origin  will  have  vanished,  we 
may  still  at  this  time  delight  in  the  sensation  enjoyed  by  those  Alumnae  who  were 
present  on  the  occasion  of  the  concert  by  the  Philadelphia  Orchestra,  a  sensation 
of  pride  and  satisfaction  in  having  shared  in  giving  the  College,  at  last,  a  means  for 
pleasant  contact  with  the  world,  through  intercourse,  with  the  community. 

Less  altruistic  is  our  pleasure  in  having  in  that  Hall  a  room  which,  when 
desired,  can  be  used  as  an  Alumnae  Room — a  room  used  last  Commencement  and 
greatly  enjoyed.  This  foot-hold  on  the  Campus,  together  with  the  large  new  office  in 
Taylor,  which  Miss  Park  has  so  generously  given  us,  adds  greatly  to  our  comfort 
and  our  working  capacity.  Now  our  Board  has  a  room  in  which  to  meet,  ample 
space  for  records,  and  privacy  for  Alumnae  who  come  with  one  question  or  another. 
It  will  be  invaluable  next  Fall  when  the  Presidents  and  Secretaries  of  the  Alumnae 
Associations  of  six  women's  colleges  meet  here  to  discuss  their  various  problems.  The 
intimacy  of  this  conference  provides  for  this  group  the  same  opportunity  for  dis- 
cussion which  our  Council  meeting  provides  for  us,  and  which  all  those  of  us  who 
attended  the  New  Haven  Council  meeting  in  November,  again  appreciated  so  keenly. 
To  reproduce  for  you  a  little  of  the  Council  we  shall  give  you  the  privilege  of  hear- 
ing the  Councilors  themselves  and  the  undergraduate,  who  will  tell  us  something 
of  the  student  at  College. 

We  shall,  as  usual,  have  the  reports  of  all  Committees,  with  the  exception  of 
the  Publicity  Committee,  which  has  no  report  to  make,  and  the  Committee  on 
Health  and  Physical  Education,  whose  report  already  has  been  printed  in  the 
Bulletin. 

The  Nominating  Committee  also  has  no  report  until  next  year  when  it  will 
present  you  with  a  ballot  for  your  vote.  You  will  perhaps  recall  that  a  change 
in  the  By-laws,  passed  last  year,  will  make  this  a  single  slate,  unless  any  group,  or 
groups  of  fifteen  Alumnae  decide  to  endorse  additional  candidates.  This  is.  a  priv- 
ilege to  be  kept  in  mind,  while  remembering  that  the  Chairman  of  the  Nominating 
Committee,  who  we  are  delighted  to  announce  is  to  be  Eleanor  Little  Aldrich  (1905), 
welcomes  suggestions  from  individuals  as  well,  and  hopes  they  may  be  sent  her  before 
May  of  this  year.  The  newly-appointed  members  to  her  Committee  are  Elizabeth 
Nields  Bancroft  (1898),  Kathleen  Johnston  Morrison  (1921),  and  Frances '  Childs 
(1923).  Margaret  Corwin  (1912)  is  the  only  member  of  the  former  Committee 
still  serving. 

We  regret  to  report  that  owing  to  trouble  with  her  eye-sight  Margaret  Reeve 
Cary  (1907),  has  resigned  as  Chairman  of  the  Scholarships  Committee.  She  will, 
however,  remain  on  the  Committee  as  a  member.  Fortunately  Margaret  Gilman 
(1919),  who  has  already  substituted  very  successfully  for  Mrs.  Cary,  has  agreed 
to  take  the  responsibility  of  being  Chairman  for  two  years,  and  so,  with  Anne 
Todd  (1902)  as  a  new  member,  the  work  of  the  Scholarships  Committee  is  in 
excellent  hands. 

Esther  Lowenthal  (1905)  and  Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey  (1901)  have  replaced 
Eleanor  Fleisher  Riesman  (1903)  and  Grace  Jones  McClure  (1900)  on  the  Aca- 
demic Committee.  These  four  names  connote  such  standards  that  we  wish  our 
appointments  might  all  be  made  by  addition  only. 

On  our  Finance  Committee,  the  terms  of  Julie  Benjamin  Howson  (1907)  and 
Louise  Watson  (1912)  will  soon  end  and  we  shall  miss  them  very  much.  Their 
business  approach  and  excellent  judgment  have  been  most  helpful.     When  Alumnae 


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like  Cornelia  Halsey  Kellogg  (1900),  Cora  Baird  Jeanes  (1896)  and  Eleanor  Mar- 
quand  Forsyth  (1919)  return  to  work  for  the  Alumnae  Association  as  they  have 
by  coming  on  the  Finance  Committee,  we  are  encouraged  to  believe  that  any  one 
who  has  once  served  the  Association  can  be  depended  on  to  serve  whenever  her 
particular  contribution  is  most  needed.  This  is  the  only  bright  thought  we  enter- 
tain in  connection  with  the  ending  of  the  term  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Finance  and  Alumnae  Fund,  for  we  know  it  was  her  devotion  to  Bryn  Mawr 
that  made  her  spare  so  much  of  her  time  from  her  business  for  her  Committee  and 
the  deliberations  of  the  Board,  and  therefore,  we  hope  she  will  return  sooner  or 
later,  again  to  give  Bryn  Mawr  the  benefit  of  her  rare  qualities.  Those  of  us 
who  have  worked  with  Dorothy  Straus  (1908)  have  admired  greatly  her  searching 
honesty,  her  clear-sightedness,  her  constructive  view-point  and  we  have  profited  by 
these  as  much  ast  we  have  enjoyed  watching  her  perfect  blending  of  tenacity  of  pur- 
pose and  evenness  of  temper — a  rare  combination.  At  the  beginning  of  her  term 
she  studied  her  dual  position  as  Chairman  of  Finance  and  Alumnae  Fund  and  care- 
fully reorganized  and  co-ordinated  her  work.  She  shouldered  the  responsibility  of 
raising  the  fund  for  furnishing  Goodhart  Hall — no  small  undertaking  so  soon  after 
the  drive  for  the  Music  Fund,  and  in  spite  of  complications  and  perplexities  she 
leaves  office,  we  are  sure,  satisfied  and  repaid.  She  feels  she  has  done  nothing  but 
reorganize  certain  technicalities  of  the  Alumnae  Fund,  attributing  all  her  success 
to  the  amazing  generosity  of  the  Alumnae,  but  though  we  know  better,  we  will 
not  dispute  this  since  she  is  just  another  evidence  of  this  same  great  generosity  of 
Alumnae.  To  find  for  such  a  Chairman  a  worthy  successor  is  not  always  easy  but 
we  are  glad  to  be  able  to  announce  with  confidence  in  our  choice  and  pleasure  in 
her  acceptance,  the  appointment  of  Caroline  Florence  Lexow  (1908)  as  Chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Finance  and  the  Alumnae  Fund. 

All  those  who  work  for  the  Association  look  forward  with  relief  and  pleasure 
to  the  use  of  a  new  Alumnae  register,  the  need  for  which  has  been  so  great  that 
our  gratitude  to  the  College,  and  particularly  to  the  Director  of  Publications  for 
its  publication  is  unbounded. 

You  will  perhaps  remember  that  at  our  last  Annual  Meeting  we  passed  the 
following  resolution : 

"The  Executive  Board  recommends  that  the  Alumnae  Association  request  the 
Directors  of  the  College  to  designate  $100,000  of  the  $200,000  Endowment  Fund 
of  1920  as  an  initial  endowment  for  the  Marion  Reilly  Chair  of  Mathematics  in 
recognition  of  her  devoted  enthusiasm  for  that  campaign  and  her  enduring  interest 
in  the  academic  growth  and  development  of  the  College." 

This  resolution  was  adopted  and  sent  to  the  College  Directors,  who  warmly 
approved  of  its  tenor,  but  informed  us  that  the  Chair  of  Mathematics  had  been 
previously  named  for  Professor  Charlotte  Angus  Scott.  As  Marion  Reilly  herself,  in 
her  will,  had  left  a  legacy  manifesting  her  interest  in  Physics  it  was  deemed  appro- 
priate to  name  for  her  at  Bryn  Mawr  the  Chair  of  Physics,  which  we  are  glad  to 
report  has  been  done. 

During  the  year,  123  new  members  have  joined  the  Association — 47  were  dropped 
for  non-payment  of  dues,  and  various  other  contingencies  reduced  the  net  gain  to  65. 
A  proportionately  greater  gain  is  evident  in  the  change  of  45  of  our  members  from 
Annual  to  Life  Members — an  excellent  and  helpful  proceeding. 


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Five  of  our  members  have  died,  and  today  for  the  first  time,  the  four  walls 
of  Goodhart  Hall  witness  our  rising  silent  vote  in  commemoration  of  the  Alumnae 
whom  we  have  lost  during  the  year,  and  whose  death  we  now  record  with  sorrow: 

Emily  Westwood  Lewis,   former  graduate  student. 
Mabel  Clark  Huddleston,  1889. 
Louise  Schoff  Ehrman,   1902. 
Laura  Heisler  Lacy,  1918. 
Eleanor  Gabell,  1922. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,  President. 


Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903,  Treasurer  of  the  Association,  presented  her  report 
for  the  year,  which  was  accepted  and  placed  on  file.  This  included  the  official 
auditors'  report  of  the  finances  of  the  Association.  She  then  presented  the  budget 
for  the  year  1929,  which  was  accepted  without  change.  Miss  Brusstar's  report,  the 
auditors'  report,  and  the  budget  for  1929,  as  compared  with  that  adopted  for  1928, 
are  all  printed  in  full. 


REPORT  OF  THE  TREASURER 

While  still  teaching,  I  found  an  Algebra  book  which  had  been  lost  by  one  of 
my  students.  On  opening  the  book  to  discover  the  name  of  the  owner,  I  found  this 
verse : 

"If  there  should  be  another  flood, 
For  refuge,  hither  fly, 
If  all  the  world  should  be  submerged 
This  book  would  still  be  dry." 

People  in  general  place  a  treasurer's  report  in  the  same  category.  As  the  report 
will  be  published  in  full  in  the  Bulletin,  I  will  not  bore  you  with  many  figures, 
but  to  reassure  you  that  your  funds  have  been  properly  safe-guarded,  I  will  read 
you  the  Auditors'  letter  attached  to  their  report.     (See  page  11.) 

The  year  has  been  a  very  satisfactory  one,  from  the  financial  standpoint,  as 
our  general  income  showed  an  increase,  and  our  expenses  a  decrease  over  those  for 
the  preceeding  year.  The  income  from  dues  increased  $305.16;  from  life  member- 
ship funds,  $109.65;  from  the  Bulletin,  $273.86,  and  from  interest  on  bank 
deposits,  $169.73,  making  a  total  increase  in  income  from  these  sources — $858.40. 

Increases  of  $64.62  in  the  expenses  of  publishing  the  Bulletin;  and  of  $290.83 
in  salaries  were  more  than  offset  by  decreases  of  $440.35  in  travelling  and  local 
expenses,  and  of  $616.24  in  emergency  and  miscellaneous  expenses,  including  office 
supplies,    telephone,    postage,    and    printing;   with   the   result   that   the   appropriation 


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necessary  from  the  Alumnae  Fund  was  $1,402.57  less  than  last  year,  and  $3,490.27 
less  than  the  amount  provided  for  in  the  budget. 

In  addition,  the  Life  membership  fund  increased  $2,026.75.  Investment  of  Life 
Membership  funds  increased  $3,112.50. 

Sufficient  income  has  accrued  for  the  Carola  Woerishofler  fund  to  provide  a 
$200  scholarship  to  the  Labor  School  this  summer. 

To  the  $1,000  of  the  regular  President's  Fund,  we  added  $20,  a  special  gift 
from  one  of  the  Alumnae.  You  may  be  interested  to  hear  Miss  Park's  letter  acknowl- 
edging receipt  of  the  cheque  for  this  fund. 


"My  dear  Miss  Brusstar: 

Thank  you  very  much  for  the  cheque  for  $1,000  as  the  Alumnae  contribution 
to  the  President's  Fund.  This  Fund  sometimes  seems  to  me  the  most  completely 
useful  money  that  is  ever  given  to  the  college,  and  every  time  I  put  my  hand  into 
the  bag  and  draw  out  a  sum  which  solves  some  vexing  problem  my  thanks  rise  again 
to  the  Alumnae  Association.     Will  you  convey  to  the  Board  my  great  gratitude? 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

Marion  Park." 


Presentation  of  the  Budget  for  1929 

The  budget  for  1929,  which  is  herewith  presented  for  your  approval,  shows 
few  changes.  The  income  from  Life  Membership  is  increased  on  account  of  ad- 
ditional securities  purchased  with  a  proportionate  decrease  in  the  appropriation  from 
the  Alumnae  Fund. 

Salaries  have  been  increased  $140,  and  in  addition,  a  reserve  fund  of  $150  for 
possible  further  increases  in  salaries  has  been  introduced.  The  expense  account  for 
postage  has  been  decreased  $100  as  the  amount  set  aside  in  previous  years  has  not 
been  used.  The  amount  for  supplies  has  been  increased  $50,  and  that  for  telephone 
and  telegraph  decreased  $50.  On  account  of  our  increased  membership  the  cost  of 
printing  the  Bulletin  has  been  increased  $100.  As  the  I.  C.  S.  A.  Fellowship  will 
be  discontinued,  no  provision  for  it  is  made  in  this  year's  budget.  As  a  result  the 
total  budget  for  the  year  is  $16,980,  a  decrease  of  $10  from  last  year. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  Treasurer. 


BUDGET  FOR  1929 
INCOME 

1928  1929 

Dues   $6,500.00  $6,500.00 

Income  from  Life  Membership  610.00  725.00 

Bulletin  Advertising  1,600.00  1,600.00 

Bank  Interest  '  200.00  200.00 

Grant  from  College  for  Alumnae  Entertainment  300.00  300.00 

Miscellaneous  50.00  50.00 


$9,260.00  $9,375.00 

Appropriation  from  Alumnae  Fund  7,730.00  7,605.00 


Total  $16,990.00  $16,980.00 

DISBURSEMENTS 

Salaries   $6,210.00  $6,350.00 

Operation — 

Postage   $500.00  $400.00 

Printing    550.00  550.00 

Supplies  125.00  175.00 

Telephone  and  Telegraph  150.00  100.00 

Auditors    200.00  200.00 

Office  Equipment  400.00  400.00 

1,925.00~~  1,825.00 

Bulletin — 

Printing    $2,500.00  $2,600.00 

Mailing  275.00  \ 

Miscellaneous  250.00  J 


525.00 


3,025.00  3,125.00 


Travelling — 

Council  $1 ,000.00  $1 ,000.00 

Executives 650.00  650.00 

Committees  300.00  300.00 


1,950.00  1,950.00 


Local  Expenses — 

District  Councillors  $350.00  $350.00 

Regional    Scholarships   Chairmen  250.00  250.00 

Local  Branches  350.00  350.00 


950.00  950.00 

Dues  in  other  Associations  170.00  170.00 

Reserve  Fund  for  possible  increase  of  salaries  150.00 

Questionnaire  to  keep  up  records  400.00  400.00 

I.  C.  S.  A.  Fellowship 300.00 

Increasing  Rhoads  Scholarships  to  $500  each  460.00  460.00 

President  Park's  Fund  1,000.00  1,000.00 

Emergency  Fund  600.00  600.00 

Total    $16,990.00  $16,980.00 

(10) 


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THE  ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION  OF  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 

Report  Upon  Audit  of  Accounts 
For  the  Calendar  Year  1928 

January  21,  1929. 
Miss  Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  Treasurer, 

The  Alumnae  Association  of  Bryn  Mawr  College, 
Bryn  Mawr,  Penna. 

Dear  Madam: 

We  have  audited  the  accounts  of  The  Alumnae  Association  of  Bryn  Mawr 
College  for  the  calendar  year  1928,  and  found  them  to  be  correct. 

We  verified  the  cash  in  the  various  funds  on  deposit  at  the  banks  by  corre- 
spondence with  the  depositories.  The  Pennsylvania  Company  for  Insurances  on 
Lives  and  Granting  Annuities  confirmed  the  securities  called  for  by  the  accounts  as 
being  in  its  custody. 

We  verified  the  income  securities  owned  and  other  receipts  as  recorded  in  the 
,  books  were  found  to  have  been  duly  deposited  in  the  banks. 

Annexed  we  submit  the  following  statements: 

Balance  Sheet,  December  31,  1928. 

General  Income  and  Expense  Account  for  the  Calendar  Year  1928. 

Alumnae  Fund  for  the  Calendar  Year  1928. 

Loan  Fund  Receipts  and  Disbursements  for  the  Calendar  Year  1928. 

Life  Membership  Fund  Receipts  and  Disbursements  for  the  Calendar  Year 

1928. 
Life  Membership  Fund  Securities  Owned,  December  31,  1928,  at  Cost. 
Carola  Woerishofler  Fund  Securities  Owner,  December  31,  1928,  at  Book 

Values. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Lybrand,  Ross  Bros.  &  Montgomery. 

THE  ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION  OF  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 
BALANCE  SHEET,  December  31,  1928 

ASSETS 

Loan  Fund: 

Loans  to  Students: 

Class  of  1923  and  prior $2,473.00 

Classes  since  1923  10,399.77 

$12,872.77 

Cash    1,350.87 

$14,223.64 

Life  Membership  Fund: 

Investments  at  cost,  as  annexed  _ $13,953.23 

Cash    1,023.86 

14,977.09 

Carried  forward  $29,201.73 


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ASSETS— Continued 

Brought  forward  $29,201.73 

Carola  Woerishoffer  Fund : 

Investments  at  book  values,  as  annexed $1,750.00 

Cash 470.18 

2,220.18 

Alumnae  Fund,  Cash  3,614.00 

General  Fund,  Cash 500.00 


$35,534.91 


LIABILITIES 
Loan  Fund: 

Balance,  January  1,  1928  $12,956.22 

Interest  received  during  year  167.42 

Gifts  from  Parents'  Fund  1,000.00 

Gifts  from  Individuals  1 00.00 


$14,223.64 


Life  Membership  Fund : 

Balance,  January  1,  1928  $12,950.34 

Life  Memberships  received  during  year 2,023.00 

Profits  from  Sales  of  Securities 3.75 


14,977.09 

Carola  Woerishoffer  Fund: 

Principal : 

Balance,  January  1,  1928  $1,950.00 

Interest: 

Balance,  January  1,  1928  $159.30 

Amount  received  during  year  110.88 

270.18 

2,220.18 

Alumnae  Fund,  as  annexed 3,614.00 

General  Fund    '500.00 


$35,534.91 

GENERAL  INCOME  AND  EXPENSE  ACCOUNT 

For  the  Calendar  Year  1928 

INCOME 

Dues   '  $6,248.91 

Alumnae  Contributions  for  the  Association  4,239.73 

Alumnae  Bulletin: 

Advertising  $1,935.75 

Miscellaneous  I ncome  24.50 


1,960.25 

Income  from  Life  Membership  Fund  627.39 

Interest  on  Bank  Account 686.69 

Alumnae  Register  35.90 

Gift  from  Bryn  Mawr  College  for  Alumnae  Entertainment 300.00 

"$14,098.87 


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Income,   forward  $14,098.87 

EXPENSES 

Bulletin: 

Printing    $2,539.46 

Salary  of  Editor 540.00 

Mailing  514.96 

$3,594.42 

Salaries: 

Alumnae  Secretary    $2,600.00 

Assistant  to  Alumnae  Secretary  1,571.83 

Bookkeeper  1,560.49 

5,732.32 

Travelling: 

Council  $405.82 

Executives  32 1 .29 

Committees  141.84 

868.95 

Local  Expenses: 

District  Councilors    * $39.83 

Regional  Scholarship  Chairmen  20.06 

Local  Branches    78.75 

138.64 

Emergency  Fund : 

Extra  Clerical  Assistance  $     9.00 

Alumnae  Festivities  161.06 

— 170.06 

President's  Fund    1,000.00 

James  E.  Rhoads  Scholarships  500.00 

I.  C.  S.  A.  Fellowship 300.00 

Postage   298.07 

Printing 386.45 

Office  Supplies  and  Equipment 556.73 

Telephone  and  Telegraph  63.31 

Committee  Expenses  39.50 

Dues  in  Other  Associations 170.00 

Class  Collectors'   Expenses  32.00 

Miscellaneous  248.42 

$14,098.87 


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ALUMNAE  FUND 

For  the  Calendar  Year   1928 

Designated     Undesignated         Totals 

Balances,  January  1,  1928 $23,520.93     $1,148.47  $24,669.40 

Receipts  33,650.78       6,539.66     40,190.44 

$57,171.71     $7,688.13  $64,859.84 

From         On  account  of 
r^.  ,  Designated  Appropriations 

Disbursements :  Receipts      and  Transfers 

Book  Club  $10.30 

Auditorium  of  the  Students'  Building  2,316.36 

Furnishings  for  Goodhart  Hall  31,547.75     $1,099.44 

Katherine       Trowbridge       Perkins,       1916, 

Memorial    247.00 

Mary  Scribner  Palmer  Memorial  4.00 

Theodosia  Haynes  Taylor  Memorial  40.00 

Reunion  Gift,  Class  of  1901 65.50 

Alumnae  Association,  transferred  to  General 

Income  and  Expense  Account  4,239.73 

College   Endowment,    payable    to   J.    Henry 

Scattergood,  Treasurer  of  Bryn   Mawr 

College   500.00 

Local  Branch  Expenses     49.03 

Library  200.00 

Honors   Scholarships  1 ,000.00 

President's  Fund  20.00 

Special  Scholarships 100.00 

Phebe  Anna  Thorne  School  25.00 

Gifts  of  Classes  of  1929  and   1930  for  the 

Goodhart  Hall   Benches  13,159.18 

Book  Shop   Scholarships  984.66 

Regional   Scholarships   5,637.89 


$55,857.64  $5,388.20    61,245.84 

Balance  $3,614.00 

Balances,  December  31,  1928: 
Designated : 

James  E.  Rhoads  Scholarships  $1,166.00 

Faculty  Endowment  50.00 

Class  of  1898  Gift  for  Portrait  of  President  Park...  840.00 

Special  Scholarships  200.00 

Gifts  of  Classes  of  1929  and   1930  for  the  Good- 
hart Hall  Benches  155.00 


$2,411.00 
Undesignated  Funds,  subject  to  appropriation  2,299.93 

$4,710.93 
Advance  Payment  to  J.  Henry  Scattergood,  Treasurer  of 
Bryn   Mawr   College,    for   Furnishings    for   Good- 
hart Hall  1,096.93 


$3,614.00 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  15 

LOAN  FUND 
RECEIPTS  AND  DISBURSEMENTS 

For  the  Calendar  Year  1928 

Balance,  January  1,   1928  $1,532.72 

Receipts : 

Repayment  of  Loans  by  Students  $1,470.73 

Interest  on  Loans  130.14 

Interest  on  Bank  Balances  37.28 

Gift  from  the  Parents'  Fund,  Bryn  Mawr  College 1,000.00 

Gifts  from  Individuals  100.00 

2,738.15 


$4,270.87 
Disbursements: 

Loans  to  Students  2,920.00 


Balance  in  Girard  Trust  Co.,  December  31,   1928  $1,350.87 

LIFE  MEMBERSHIP  FUND 
RECEIPTS  AND  DISBURSEMENTS 

For  the  Calendar  Year  1928 

Balance,  January  1,  1928 $2,109.61 

Receipts: 

Life  Memberships $2,023.00 

Sales  of  Securities 3.75 

2,026.75 

$4,136.36 

Disbursements : 

Purchases  of  Securities 3,1 12.50 


Balance    in    Western    Saving    Fund    Society    of    Philadelphia, 

December  31,  1928 $1,023.86 

LIFE  MEMBERSHIP  FUND 
SECURITIES  OWNED 

December  31,   1928,  at  Cost 

$1,000  Georgia  Power  Co.  l-5s,  1967 $972.50 

1,000  Public  Service  Electric  &  Gas  Co.  l-5s,  1965 1,029.50 

1,000  Southwestern  Power  &  Light  Co.  l-5s,  1943 990.00 

1,000  Ohio  Edison  Co.  l-5s,  1957 990.00 

1,000  Penna.  R.  R.  Co.  5s,  1964 1,040.75 

1,000  Baltimore  &  Ohio  R.  R.  Co.  Genl.  Mtge.  5s,  1995 1,029.50 

500  Indianapolis  Water  Co.  l-5^s,  1953 480.00 

1,000  Penna.  Power  Co.  l-5s,  1956 995.00 

45  shs.  Lehigh  Coal  &  Navigation  Co.,  par  $50 3,513.48 

2,000  New  York  Power  &  Light  Corp  4y2s,  1967 1,912.50 

1,000  Columbia  Gas  &  Electric  5s,  1952 1,000.00 

$13,953.23 


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CAROLA  WOERISHOFFER  FUND 

SECURITIES  OWNED 

December  31,   1928,  at  Book  Values 

51,000  Ohio  State  Telephone  Co.  Cons.  &  Ref.  5s,  1944 $950.00 

1,000  Chicago  Railways  Co.  l-5s,  1927 \ 800.00 


$1,750.00 


Dorothy  Straus,  1908,  presented  the  report  of  the  Alumnae  Fund,  which  was 
accepted  and  placed  on  file.  Miss  Straus  made  a  comparison  between  the  contribu- 
tions received  for  the  Alumnae  Fund  in  1928  with  those  for  1927.  The  report  will 
be  published  later. 

Miss  Straus  then  gave  the  report  of  the  Finance  Committee,  which  is  here 
printed  in  full. 

REPORT  OF  THE  FINANCE  COMMITTEE 

The  Finance  Committee  has  had  three  meetings  since  the  last  annual  meeting 
of  the  Association. 

Margaret  Brusstar,  a  member  of  the  Committee,  was  elected  Treasurer  upon 
the  expiration  of  Ethel  Buckley's  term,  and  Carrie  Chadwick-Collins,  whose  term 
had  likewise  expired,  was  not,  under  the  by-laws,  eligible  for  re-election.  Her  neces- 
sary withdrawal  made  us  realize  how  much  we  needed  the  advice  and  help  of  the 
Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee,  and  in  consequence,  Mrs.  Collins,  as  Chair- 
man of  such  committee,  was  invited  to  be  a  guest  of  the  Finance  Committee  at  all 
of  its  meetings.  We  also  recommended  to  the  Executive  Board  a  change  in  the 
by-laws  making  the  Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee  ipso  facto  a  member  of 
the  Finance  Committee,  precisely  as  the  president  is  a  member. 

The  committee  transacted  the  usual  amount  of  routine  business.  This  included, 
as  always,  the  discussion  of  the  budget  prepared  by  the  Treasurer,  the  approval  of 
appointments  of  collectors  to  fill  vacancies,  made  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Alumnae 
Fund  in  co-operation  with  the  Class  Presidents,  and  the  authorization  of  investments 
and  disbursements. 

In  addition  to  these,  there  came  before  the  Committee  various  old  problems 
heretofore  unsolved,  which  seemed  to  have  reached  a  stage  requiring  prompt  and 
indeed  drastic  remedy.  What  they  are,  those  of  you  who  have  read  the  report  of  the 
Council  in  the  December  Bulletin  will  already  know.  I  shall  not  bore  you  with 
the  long  discussion  contained  in  my  earlier  report,  to  which  the  Council  listened  so 
patiently.  I  should  like  to  attribute  its  patience  to  my  presentation,  but  I  fear  that 
the  real  cause  lay  in  the  charm  and  comfort  of  that  room  where  we  met  in  the 
Faculty  Club  in  New  Haven.  Nor  do  I  mean  to  insinuate  that  this  room  is  less 
attractive,  but  I  do  know  that  the  chairs  are  considerably  harder.  I  shall,  therefore, 
report  to  you  only  the  conclusions  of  the  Council  and  the  recommendations  of  the 
Finance  Committee.  I  might  say  now,  but  I  shall  not  repeat,  that  all  these 
recommendations  have  been  approved  by  the  Executive  Board. 

The  Council  moved,  seconded,  and  carried  that 

the  Finance  Committee  be  requested  to  outline  a  scheme  of  salary 
advances  for  the  salaried  positions  of  the  Association,  to  be  presented 
to  the  Executive  Board  for  such  action  as  it  may  judge  proper. 


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After  due  consideration,  the  Committee  submits  to  you  the  following  recom- 
mendation : 

Owing  to  the  constant  changes  in  the  demands  on  the  Alumnae 
Office,  it  is  almost  impossible  to  formulate  a  salary  policy.  We  are 
convinced  that  regular  increases  for  valuable  services  are  advisable 
whenever  the  income  of  the  Association  justifies  them.  We  therefore 
recommend  that  the  Executive  Board  at  its  spring  meeting  each  year 
consider,  in  connection  with  reappointments,  the  question  of  increas- 
ing the  salaries  of  those  in  the  Alumnae  Office. 

The  next  problem  and  altogether  the  most  serious  one,  one  indeed  which  I  had 
already  mentioned  in  my  report  to  you  last  year,  was  that  of  memorials  and  special 
gifts. 

At  the  Council,  it  was  moved,  seconded,  and  carried  that 

It  is  the  sense  of  the  meeting  that  the  Board  should  continue  to 
stress  the  principle  of  the  single  appeal  represented  by  the  Alumnae 
Fund;  that  they  treat  sympathetically  the  raising  of  memorials  by 
individuals;  that  they  influence  when  possible  the  choice  of  the  object 
for  which  the  memorial  is  raised,  and  when  the  object  is  in  entire 
accord  with  the  most  pressing  needs  of  the  College,  as  outlined  by  the 
Joint  Alumnae  Fund  Committee,  the  memorial  may  be  sponsored  by 
the  Association  and  included  among  the  objects  of  the  Alumnae  Fund. 

Last  month  the  Joint  Alumnae  Fund  Committee  held  its  first  meeting  in  several 
years.  You  will  recall  that  this  committee,  which  consists  of  the  President  and  three 
Directors  of  the  College,  the  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Alumnae  Association, 
the  chairman  of  the  Alumnae  Fund  and  three  other  alumnae  members,  was  organized 
to  consider  the  needs  of  the  College  and  to  recommend  to  the  Association  the  objects 
for  which  funds  should  be  collected. 

During  the  years  1927  and  1928,  it  was  not  necessary  to  call  a  meeting  of  the 
Committee  because  the  Association  had  voted  to  bend  its  energies  entirely  to  the 
collection  of  the  Goodhart  Hall  Furnishings  Fund.  With  the  close  of  1928,  how- 
ever, the  allotted  time  for  the  payment  of  class  pledges  expired  for  those  classes  that 
had  held  their  reunions  in  1926,  and  some  of  them,  I  am  happy  to  report,  have  not 
only  paid  their  pledges  in  full,  but  overpaid.  This  leaves  them  free  to  contribute  for 
other  purposes,  a  situation  that  warranted  the  convocation  of  the  Joint  Fund  Com- 
mittee. I  shall  presently  report  the  recommendations  of  this  Committee  regarding  the 
objectives  and  purposes  of  the  Alumnae  Fund  for  the  year  1929. 

I  desire  now,  however,  to  inform  you  of  its  attitude  on  the  question  of  memorials 
and  special  gifts.  In  a  spirit  of  co-operation  which  indicated  clearly  that  the 
Directors  of  the  College  are  no  less  deeply  interested  in  its  welfare  than  are  the 
alumnae,  the  Joint  Fund  Committee  expressed  its  willingness  to  meet  whenever 
necessary  for  the  purpose  of  considering  proposed  memorials  and  special  gifts,  so 
that  these  may  take  the  form  most  useful  to  the  College.  All  the  alumnae  present  at 
the  meeting  were  unanimous  in  their  belief  that  the  alumnae  desire  always  to  give 
to  the  College  what  it  most  needs,  provided  they  can  ascertain  this  readily  and 
quickly,  and  while  the  impulse  is  still  warm.  We  also  agreed  that  practically  all  of 
the  alumnae  wish  to  contribute  primarily  through  the  Alumnae  Fund. 

After  this  meeting  of  the  Joint  Fund  Committee,  the  Finance  Committee  met 
again,  again  considered  this  problem,  and  as  a  result  of  over  a  year's  serious  con- 


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sideration  by  three  committees,   I  submit  the   following  resolution  of   the   Finance 

Committee : 

We  recommend  the  following  procedure  for  raising  memorial 
funds  and  gifts  be  adopted: 

All  alumnae  interested  in  rajsigg.  memorial  funds  or  special  gifts 
shall  consult  with  the  Finance  Committee,  who  shall  promptly  confer 
with  the  Joint  Alumnae  Fund  Committee  concerning  the  proposed 
object  of  such  gift  or  memorial.  If  this  be  approved  by  the  Joint 
Alumnae  Fund  Committee,  the  proposed  memorial  or  gift  shall  forth- 
with be  placed  on  the  Alumnae  Fund. 

As  you  have  already  been  told  by  the  Treasurer,  the  Association  this  year  has  a 
surplus  which  is  nearly  twice  that  of  last  year,  despite  the  fact  that  the  undesignated 
contributions  were  somewhat  less.  You  will  appreciate  that  this  surplus  indicates  the 
most  careful  use  of  your  funds  and  the  most  zealous  supervision  of  all  expenditures. 
We  can,  I  believe,  safely  assume  that  the  classes  will  promptly  pay  in  their  pledges 
to  the  Goodhart  Hall  Furnishings  Fund,  though  individual  pledges  are  still  $15,000 
short.  The  Finance  Committee  therefore  recommends  the  following  disposition  of 
our  surplus: 

First,  it  has  been  reported  that  the  I.  C.  S.  A.  Fellowship  work  may  be  com- 
pleted this  year.  We  therefore  considered  that  it  was  unnecessary  to  carry  this  item 
in  the  budget.  Inasmuch,  however,  as  some  doubt  still  exists,  we  regard  it  as  advis- 
able to  provide  for  a  possible  call  upon  the  Association,  and  hence  moved,  seconded 
and  carried 

that  the  Committee  recommend  to  the  annual  meeting  that  $299.93 
of  the  surplus  be  kept  as  a  reserve  to  pay  for  the  I.  C.  S.  A.  Fellowship 
if  it  should  be  awarded  again. 

In  the  second  place,  having  an  unexpected  balance  of  substantial  amount,  the 
time  seems  particularly  propitious  to  inaugurate  the  scheme  of  "living  endowment." 
Here,  too,  the  Council  advised  us.     It  was  the  sense  of  its  first  session 

that,  as  the  most  important  need  of  the  College  is  "living  endowment," 
the  Alumnae  Association   be  asked   to   concentrate  its   efforts   for   the 
Alumnae  Fund  for  the  present  on  collecting  an  annual  sum  of  money, 
to  be  given  to  the  College  for  Alumnae  Grants,  that  is,  additions  to 
teaching  salaries. 

While  we  cannot  quite  achieve  Mrs.  Hand's  high  hope  of  grants  in  the  amount 
of  $10,000,  we  have  $2,000  with  which  to  make  a  beginning.  At  the  Joint  Fund 
Committee  meeting  the  alumnae  were  informed  that  there  were  a  number  of  younger 
brilliant  men  and  women  in  the  associate  professor  group  whose  work  warranted 
recognition  which  the  College  budget  did  not  permit.  The  Finance  Committee  there- 
fore passed  the  following  resolution: 

That  the  Committee  recommend  to  the  annual  meeting  that  $2,000 
of  the  surplus  for  the  year  1928  be  given  to  President  Park  to  be 
used  as  and  when  she  in  her  discretion  shall  determine  for  increases 
in  the  salaries  of  Associate  Professors. 

If  you  adopt  this  recommendation,  I  trust  that  we  shall  have  begun  what  will 
be  a  continuous  program  of  aid  to  the  College,  because  you  must  realize  that  once 
given,  we  are  practically  pledged  to  maintain  these  grants.  Salaries  increased  cannot 
later  be  cut  back  to  former  levels. 


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There  remain  the  objectives  of  the  Alumnae  Fund  for  1929.  For  those 
classes  still  indebted  for  Goodhart  Hall  Furnishings,  the  primary  object  must  be  the 
liquidation  of  pledges.  For  the  other  classes  and  those  happy  individuals  who  can 
contribute  to  several  things,  the  Joint  Fund  Committee  suggested  and  we  recommend 
as  objects  of  the  Fund 

1.  Increases  of  academic  salaries; 

2.  Extension  of  Honours  Work; 

3.  Needs  of  the  Library. 

We  further  recommend 

that  contributions  to  the  Fund  be  sent  in  undesignated  and  that  the 
amounts  to  be  allocated  to  each  of  these  objects  be  fixed  by  the  Associa- 
tion at  the  next  annual  meeting  in  accordance  with  the  recommendations 
of  the  Finance  Committee. 

Respectfully  submitted, 
Dated   February   2nd,    1929.  Dorothy   Straus, 

For  the  Finance  Committee. 

After  the  report  had  been  accepted  as  a  whole  and  ordered  placed  on  file,  Mrs. 
Maclay  asked  the  meeting  to  take  up  the  recommendations  one  at  a  time.  The  first 
recommendation  in  regard  to  a  salary  policy  was  accepted  without  comment.  The 
second  one  in  regard  to  raising  memorial  funds  and  gifts  aroused  an  animated  dis- 
cussion. Ethel  Cantlin  Buckley,  1901,  said  that  because  of  the  spirit  in  which 
memorials  are  raised,  she  believed  it  to  be  very  important  that  alumnae  receive 
co-operation  rather  than  dictation  from  the  Finance  Committee  and  from  the  Execu- 
tive Board.  Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907,  speaking  in  favor  of  the  recommendation, 
said  that  she  felt  a  debt  was  due  the  Finance  Committee  for  the  formation  of  this 
clear  resolution,  which,  when  looked  at  unemotionally,  should  not  in  any  way  affect 
the  spontaneity  of  such  gifts  to  the  College.  Josephine  Goldmark,  1898,  said  that  in 
her  opinion  the  wording  of  the  resolution  was  a  trifle  too  peremptory  and  did  not 
quite  reproduce  the  spirit  of  the  recommendation  made  at  the  Council.  Marian 
Macintosh,  1890,  supported  the  Finance  Committee  because  she  thought  that  it  should 
be  made  clear  to  those  interested  in  collecting  funds  for  memorials  or  gifts  that  they  j 
should  consult  the  Finance  Committee  before  actually  starting  to  collect  money. 
Miss  Straus  then  pointed  out  that  one  reason  for  this  recommendation  was  that  it 
was  necessary  to  protect  the  College  from  gifts  which  might  not  be  self-sustaining, 
but  would  be  a  drain  on  College  resources.  Martha  Thomas,  1889,  expressed  her 
approval  both  of  the  wording  of  the  resolution  and  of  the  principle  involved,  adding 
that  her  experience  on  the  Finance  Committee,  and  again  quite  recently  when  she 
had  been  acting  as  Treasurer  for  the  Memorial  for  Harriet  Randolph,  had  convinced 
her  that  it  was  necessary  to  concentrate  under  the  Alumnae  Fund  in  this  way. 
Susan  Walker  FitzGerald,  1893,  said  that  she  agreed  with  Miss  Thomas,  and  felt 
that  the  resolution,  instead  of  being  considered  discouraging,  showed  that  the  best 
way  of  putting  the  whole  force  of  the  Alumnae  Association  behind  any  fund  to  be 
raised  for  the  College  was  to  have  it  as  a  recognized  part  of  the  Alumnae  Fund. 
Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  1917,  also  endorsed  this  approved  method  of  procedure, 
since  it  would  enable  any  one  about  to  start  a  memorial  fund  to  be  certain  that  the 
College  would  welcome  it  at  that  particular  time.  It  was  suggested,  in  view  of  the 
fact  that  several  members  had  desired  to  change  the  wording  of  the  resolution,  while 


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agreeing  with  the  spirit  of  it,  that  the  Finance  Committee  might  be  asked  to  qualify 
it  by  adding  a  preamble.  It  was,  accordingly,  moved,  seconded  and  carried  that  the 
recommendation  of  the  Finance  Committee  in  regard  to  raising  funds  for  memorials 
and  gifts  be  adopted,  and  that  the  Committee  be  instructed  to  append  a  preamble 
embodying  the  sense  of  the  discussion. 

The  recommendation  that  $299.93  of  the  1928  surplus  be  kept  as  a  reserve  to 
pay  for  the  I.  C.  S.  A.  Fellowship  was  adopted.  In  answer  to  a  question,  Mrs.  Chad- 
wick-Collins  explained  that  this  Fellowship  had  been  taken  over  by  the  Association 
as  part  of  the  budgetary  obligation  to  avoid  a  separate  appeal  to  the  Alumnae,  but 
that  the  piece  of  work  for  which  the  Fellowship  was  awarded  is  about  completed, 
and  that  it  will  then  no  longer  be  necessary  for  either  the  Parent  Organization  or 
the  Alumnae  Association  to  continue  their  grants  for  this  purpose. 

The  next  resolution  of  the  Finance  Committee  to  the  effect  that  $2,000  of  the 
1928  surplus  be  given  to  President  Park  to  be  used  for  increases  in  the  salaries  of 
Associate  Professors  was  adopted  after  a  short  discussion.  In  reply  to  a  question, 
Miss  Straus  explained  that,  while  there  is  no  legal  obligation,  this  recommendation 
does  morally  bind  the  Association  to  continue  this  amount  each  year  until  the  College 
receives  a  much  larger  endowment,  since  the  salaries  must  be  maintained  at  the 
increased  level.  Louise  Congdon  Francis,  1900,  speaking  as  a  member  of  the  Joint 
Alumnae  Fund  Committee,  said  that  it  seemed  perfectly  safe  to  commit  the  Associa- 
tion to  so  small  a  sum  as  $2,000,  and  that  it  was  hoped  that  a  much  larger  sum 
could  be  paid  to  the  College  next  year.  Frances  Fincke  Hand,  1897,  also  spoke  for 
the  recommendation,  saying  that  she  hoped  this  would  be  only  the  beginning  of  much 
greater  gifts.  She  said  that  her  only  doubt  was  whether  this  money  ought  not  to  be 
given  to  President  Park  entirely  without  designation,  so  that  she  might  be  free  to 
use  it  for  any  emergency.  The  Chair  replied  that  it  was  the  desire  of  the  Finance 
Committee  to  have  officially  only  undesignated  funds,  but  that  the  designation  of 
this  $2,000  was  made  at  President  Park's  own  request.  Both  Mrs.  Hand  and  Mrs. 
Chadwick-Collins  spoke  with  feeling  of  the  crises  constantly  confronting  President 
Park  in  connection  with  calls  to  members  of  the  faculty  from  institutions  with  greater 
resources.  They  felt  that  the  acuteness  of  the  danger  of  incurring  these  irreparable 
losses  in  the  teaching  staff  might  be  lessened  if  Miss  Park  had  at  her  disposal  an 
emergency  fund,  to  be  used  at  her  discretion  for  salary  increases.  To  this  Miss 
Lowenthal  added  that  since  other  Presidents  had  such  funds,  the  disadvantage  to  our 
President  in  not  having  this  bargaining  power  was  obvious.  She  urged  the  impor- 
tance of  an  emergency  fund. 

When  the  recommendation  of  the  Finance  Committee  in  regard  to  the  objectives 
for  the  Alumnae  Fund  for  1929  was  considered,  a  number  of  varying  opinions  were 
expressed.  Mrs.  Hand  was  strongly  in  favor  of  having  the  Association  promise  tjhe 
sum  of  $4,000  to  President  Park  to  be  used  at  her  discretion  to  increase  academic 
salaries.  Some  of  the  members  present  felt  that  to  promise  so  large  a  sum  in  advance 
would  jeopardize  the  possibility  of  giving  anything  to  the  two  other  named  objects, 
Honours  Work  and  the  Library.  Some  felt  that  the  Association  must  never  give  up 
the  responsibility  of  appropriating  its  own  funds.  Miss  Straus  explained  that,  since 
many  of  the  classes  have  now  completed  the  payment  of  their  pledges  to  Goodhart 
Hall,  there  probably  will  be  available  for  allocation  next  year  a  much  larger  sum 
than  $2,000.  Mrs.  Francis  urged  that  the  recommendation  be  passed,  inasmuch  as 
the  amounts  to  be  allocated  will  depend  upon  the  total  amount  collected.    Miss  Straus 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  21 

reminded  the  Association  that  our  fiscal  year  differs  from  that  of  the  College,  so 
that  it  will  be  possible  for  us  to  ascertain  the  needs  of  the  College  before  we  vote 
on  allocating  the  money  collected  this  year.  The  recommendation  was  then  adopted, 
but  was  later  reconsidered  in  view  of  a  motion  proposed  by  Mrs.  Hand,  embodying 
her  previous  suggestion  of  voting  $4,000  to  President  Park. 

A  long  discussion  followed,  which  was  interrupted  to  allow  Esther  Lowenthal, 
1905,  to  make  a  report  for  the  Academic  Committee  on  Honours  Work  at  Smith 
College  which  will  be  printed  in  the  April  Bulletin.  The  discussion  was  continued 
in  Pembroke  after  President  Park's  speech  to  the  alumnae  at  luncheon. 

The  chief  differences  in  opinion  hinged  on  the  naming  of  a  definite  sum.  Mrs. 
Hand  again  spoke  feelingly  of  the  salary  problem,  and  Mrs.  Chadwick-Collins 
stressed  the  point  that  if  the  Association  went  on  record  now,  Miss  Park  would  be 
free  to  make  commitments  to  the  amount  stated  beginning  September,  1929,  knowing 
that  she  could  depend  upon  the  Association  to  make  good  its  pledge.  Miss  Straus 
again  reminded  the  Association  that  these  three  objectives  had  been  named  not  by  the 
Finance  Committee,  but  by  the  Joint  Alumnae  Fund  Committee,  of  which  President 
Park  and  three  Directors  of  the  College  are  members.  She  said  that  she  did  not  think 
that  the  Alumnae  should  tie  strings  to  the  money  handed  over  to  the  College.  The 
Alumnae  should  be  willing  to  pay  in  their  money  absolutely  free  to  be  allocated 
according  to  the  recommendations  of  those  who  know  most  about  the  needs  of  the 
College.  She  also  made  it  clear  to  the  Association  that  it  was  not  proposed  to  increase 
the  budget  by  adding  this  $4,000  to  the  $1,000  carried  there  for  the  President's 
Fund,  but  that  this  $4,000  is  to  be  taken  from  the  annual  contributions,  which  used 
to  be  called  Class  Collections,  and  which  are  now  called  Alumnae  Fund.  It  was 
finally  moved,  seconded  and  carried 

that  the  Alumnae  Association  pledge  itself  to  a  sum  of  not  less  than 
$4,000  for  1929  as  an  undesignated  gift  to  President  Park  for  aca- 
demic salaries.  This  $4,000  to  be  the  first  charge  on  the  Alumnae  Fund 
after  the  regular  expenses  of  the  Alumnae  Association  have  been  met. 

The  Chair  called  the  attention  of  the  meeting  to  the  fact  that  this  motion  was 
somewhat  in  conflict  with  the  recommendation  of  the  Finance  Committee.  This 
recommendation  was  then  reconsidered,  and  Miss  Straus  suggested  that  it  be  changed 
to  read: 

The  Finance  Committee  recommends  that  the  objects  of  the 
Alumnae  Fund  for  1929  be:  1.  Increases  in  Academic  Salaries; 
2.  Extension  of  Honours  Work;  3.  Needs  of  the  Library.  We  further 
recommend  that  contributions  to  the  Alumnae  Fund  be  sent  in  undesig- 
nated, and  that  the  amounts  over  and  above  this  $4,000  be  \alloca\ted 
to  each  of  these  three  objectives,  and  that  the  proportions  be  fixed  I  by 
the  Association  at  its  next  Annual  Meeting  in  accordance  with  the 
recommendations  of  the  Joint  Alumnae  Fund  Committee  as  to  the  needs 
of  the  College  at  that  time. 

It  was  moved,  seconded,  and  carried  that  the  recommendation  as  thus  worded 
be  adopted. 

Before  the  close  of  the  morning  session,  after  Miss  Lowenthal  had  spoken  for 
the  Academic  Committee,  Mrs.  Hand  had  made  a  report  on  behalf  of  the  Alumnae 
Directors,   using  as   a  basis  of   her   remarks   the   report  prepared   by   Ruth    Furness 


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Porter,   1896,   Senior  Alumnae  Director,   for  the  Council.     She  quoted   the  follow- 
ing from  the  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Directors: 

"The  Directors  of  Bryn  Mawr  College  wish  to  express  their  deep 
appreciation  of  the  abiding  interest  in  and  the  devotion  of  the  Alumnae 
to  the  College,  and  their  thanks  to  the  Alumnae  for  gifts  during  the 
past  year  amounting  to  more  than  $30,000  in  addition  to  their  inval- 
uable contribution  in  assuming  the  financial  responsibility  for  the  fur- 
nishings of  Good-hart  Hall." 

Mrs.  Hand  announced  with  regret  the  resignations  of  Mrs.  Ladd  as  Secretary 
of  the  Board  and  as  Trustee  of  the  College,  and  that  of  Mr.  Arthur  Thomas  as 
Chairman  of  the  Buildings  and  Grounds  Committee. 

It  was  moved,  seconded  and  carried  that  the  following  resolution  be  adopted 
and  a  copy  sent  to  Mr.  Thomas: 

"That  the  Alumnae  Association  of  Bryn  Mawr  College  at  this  its 
first  formal  meeting  in  Goodhart  Hall  recognizes  the  great  service 
Mr.  Arthur  H.  Thomas,,  Chairman  of  the  Building  and  Grounds 
Committee,  has  rendered  Bryn  Mawr  College,  especially  in  connection 
with  the  building  of  Goodhart  Hall,  and  puts  on  record  its  deep  feeling 
of  gratitude." 

It  was  moved,  seconded  and  carried  that  the  following  resolution  be  adopted : 
"The  Alumnae  Association  wishes  to  record  its  recognition  of  the 
long,  intelligent,  and  devoted  service  of  Anna  Rhoads  Ladd  as  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Directors  of  Bryn  Mawr  College. 
As  an  alumna  of  the  College,  as  the  daughter  of  President  Rhoads, 
and  as  the  active  and  respected  Secretary  of  the  Board,  Mrs.  Ladd  is 
so  identified  with  the  College  that  it  will  be  hard  to  think  of  the 
Directors'  Meetings  without  her.  We  extend  to  her  our  best  wishes  for 
her  well  earned  leisure  and  our  grateful  thanks  for  her  devoted  and 
constant  service  to  the  College." 

At  1.15  P.  M.  the  meeting  adjourned  for  luncheon  in  Pembroke  and  continued 
its  business  in  Pembroke  dining-room  after  President  Park  had  addressed  the  Alumnae. 
At  2.45  P.  M.  Mrs.  Maclay  called  the  meeting  to  order  and  offered  a  resolution 
of  thanks  to  President  Park  for  her  hospitality. 

Rosamond  Cross,  of  the  Class  of  1929,  was  then  introduced,  and  gave  a  brief 
talk  on  Undergraduate  Problems.  This  was  largely  a  repetition  of  her  report  as 
given  at  the  Council,  and  was  repeated  by  request  and  received  with  enthusiasm. 

After  the  conclusion  of  the  financial  discussion,  Julia  Langdon  Loomis,  1895, 
Councillor  for  District  II,  gave  a  report  for  her  district,  and  Erma  Kingsbacher  Stix, 
1906,  Councillor  for  District  VI,  reported  for  hers.  Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913, 
Councillor  for  District  I,  was  prevented  by  illness  from  being  present  and  reporting 
for  New  England. 

These  interesting  reports  were  in  great  part  repetitions  of  those  given  at  the 
Council  in  New  Haven,  and  were  repeated  by  request.  They  dealt  largely  with  the 
activities  of  the  Regional  Scholarships  committees,  and  led  logically  to  the  report  of 
the  Scholarships  and  Loan  Fund  Committee,  which  was  given  by  Margaret  Reeve 
Cary,  1907,  retiring  Chairman.    This  report  will  be  printed  in  the  April  Bulletin. 

Miss  Martha  Thomas  then  made  an  announcement  about  the  meeting  of  the 
A.  A.  U.  W.  in  Pittsburgh  on  February  15th,  and  said  that  on  February  28th  the 
local  alumnae  groups  are  giving  at  the  Bellevue-Stratford  in  Philadelphia  a  luncheon 
in  honor  of  Miss  Woolley,  National  President  of  the  A.  A.  U.  W. 


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Before  the  close  of  the  meeting  Mrs.  FitzGerald  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tion, which  was  unanimously  adopted: 

"I  want  to  express  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  wardens  and  to  Miss 
Mitchelson  for  the  hospitality  so  generously  extended  to  the  alumnae 
during  these  days  of  meetings." 
Mrs.    Carey    then    offered    the    following    resolution,    which    was    unanimously 
adopted: 

I  want  to  offer  a  resolution  of  thanks  to  Miss  King  for  her  delightful 
talk  last  evening.    Migrants,  Pilgrims,  and  Tourists  is  a  title  to  con- 
jure with,  and  our  enjoyment  of  every  moment  was  intensified  by  the 
thought  that  Miss  King  is  one  of  us." 
The  meeting  adjourned  at  4.30  P.  M.     After  adjournment,  tea  was  served  in 
the  Common  Room,  Goodhart  Hall. 


ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Councillors  to  be  Elected 
On  the  last  Thursday  in  March  Councillors  are  to  be  elected  for  Districts  III 
and  VI.  For  District  III  (Maryland,  District  of  Columbia,  Virginia,  Tennessee, 
North  Carolina,  South  Carolina,  Georgia,  Florida,  Alabama,  Mississippi,  Louisiana) 
the  only  candidate  nominated  at  this  time  is  Julia  Cochran  Buck,  1920  (Mrs.  George 
Buck),  of  Baltimore.  For  District  VI  (Missouri,  Arkansas,  Kansas,  Texas,  Okla- 
homa, Nebraska,  Colorado,  New  Mexico)  the  candidates  are  Margaret  Nichols 
Hardenbergh,  1905  (Mrs.  Clarence  M.  Hardenbergh),  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
and  Janet  A.  Holmes,   1919,  of  St.  Louis. 


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CLASS  NOTES 


Ph.D.'s 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Parjrish, 


Editor 

Vandalia,  Mo. 

The  editor  of  the  Ph.D.  Notes  would 
be  very  grateful  to  Bryn  Mawr  Ph.D.'s 
if  they  would  send  to  her  the  most  recent 
news  about  themselves  and  their  work  at 
the  earliest  possible  date. 

Margaret  S.  Morriss  writes  from  Pem- 
broke College  in  Brown  University, 
Providence,  R.  I. 

"I  have  been  at  Pembroke  College  in 
Brown  University  for  six  years  this  Feb- 
ruary, and  I  am  planning  to  have  a  half 
year  off  from  February,  1929.  I  expect 
to  travel  in  the  Near  East  and  in  Europe 
for  about  six  months,  going  with  Profes- 
sor Dorothy  Hahn,  Bryn  Mawr,  1899. 

"I  wish  I  had  more  exciting  news  to 
give,  but  that  seems  to  be  the  only  thing 
which  has  happened  to  me  lately." 

1899 

Editor:  May  Schoneman  Sax 
(Mrs.  Percival  Sax), 
6429  Drexel  Road,  Overbrook,  Pa. 
Dear  Emma: 

I  hear  Mollie  is  going  to  Europe  in 
order  to  sail  back  with  Harry,  who  has 
been  over  on  a  short  trip,  so  I  am  send- 
ing you  the  list  of  contributors  to  our 
class  fund,  together  with  the  amounts 
promised  or  paid. 

I  am  also  enclosing  the  names  of  our 
classmates  who  have  not  yet  been  heard 
from  so  that  you  and  Mollie  may  proceed 
accordingly. 

In  reading  over  the  letters  of  some  of 
the  class,  I  am  wondering  if  thirty  years 
out  of  college  causes  carelessness  or 
whether  college  women  cannot  under- 
stand plain  English. 

It  is  apparent  that  the  explanatory 
epistle  which  you  and  Mollie  sent  out 
failed  to  register  in  a  good  many  cases. 

As  usual,  '99  is  active  in  a  variety  of 
ways.  Sara  Straus  Hess  is  trying  to 
raise  $50,000  for  the  Barnard  and  Bryn 
Mawr  Summer  Schools,  and  by  this 
time  she  has  doubtless  succeeded  in  col- 
lecting it  from  philanthropists  other  than 
Bryn  Mawrters. 

Edith  Chapin  Craven  seems  to  be  fill- 
ing all  sorts  of  jobs  with  the  principal- 
ship  of  Rogers  Hall  School  at  Lowell, 
Mass.  She  writes  that  she  is  an  expert 
on  everything  from  removing  the  appen- 
dix to  repairing  drain  pipes,  but  then  I 
suppose  there  is  a  connection  between 
plumbing  and  Surgery. 

Margaret  Hall's  secretary  writes  that 
Margaret  is  traveling  around  the  world 


but  does  not  state  the  time  of  her  return. 
Let  us  hope  she  will  be  back  in  time  for 
the  reunion  in  June. 

Aurie  Thayer  Yoakam  wrote  that  a 
Porto  Rico  hurricane  destroyed  hundreds 
of  trees  on  their  cocoanut  plantation  and 
that  it  will  be  some  time  before  the  dam- 
age will  be  overcome.  She  also  writes 
that  she  and  her  family  expect  event- 
ually to  settle  in  the  New  England  coun- 
try permanently. 

Since  your  last  visit  I  have  been  to  the 
Alumnae  Office  and  arranged  dates  for 
our  reunion  activities.  The  only  thing 
left  is  for  you  to  suggest  a  costume  that 
will  be  both  flattering  and  suitable  for 
the  "very  finest  class"  in  the  reunion 
parade.  Yours  as  always, 

May. 

January  30. 
Dear  May: 

I  was  relieved  to  get  your  letter  and 
to  learn  just  how  much  money  was  on 
hand  either  in  checks  or  pledges  for  the 
curtain  in  Goodhart  Hall.  On  the  whole, 
I  think  we  are  doing  pretty  well,  and  if 
the  remaining  sixteen  members  who  have 
not  been  heard  from  give  as  generously 
as  we  hope  they  will,  I  believe  we  can 
raise  the  full  amount  of  $3,000  by  June. 

Half  the  list  of  names  you  sent  me 
were  immediately  handed  over  to  Mollie, 
and  I  shall  write  appeals  to  the  remaining 
eight  telling  them  just  what  we  need.  I 
can  assure  you  that  I  shall  endeavor  to 
be  neither  "tactless  or  irritating"  in  my 
letters,  but  only  be  my  usual  sweet  self 
and  can't  you  just  see  the  money  rolling 
in! 

Now  do  not  be  worried  by  the  fact 
that  some  of  your  classmates  misread  or 
misunderstood  the  plain  English  which 
was  set  before  them  in  the  first  appeal 
for  funds. 

Were  such  replies  as  you  mention  re- 
ceived only  from  alumnae  of  our  era  I 
might  think  that  some  of  '99  were  suffer- 
ing from  senile  decay,  but  I  assure  you 
that  very  young  alumnae  send  strange  re- 
plies to  the  college. 

On  my  last  visit  to  Bryn  Mawr  I 
dropped  into  the  publicity  office,  where 
I  found  Mrs.  Collins  in  agony  over  the 
way  some  of  the  alumnae  had  filled  out 
her  questionnaires.  For  example,  an 
alumna,  who  was  graduated  recently, 
gave  the  date  of  her  marriage  as  '24  and 
the  birth  of  two  children  as  occurring 
in  '22. 

Can  you  blame  people  for  remarking 
on  the  carelessness  of  the  present  gener- 
ation ! 


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No,  Mollie  did  not  go  to  Europe,  for 
she  waited  over  for  a  second  great  event 
in  Buffie's  household.  Buffie  has  been  tak- 
ing a  course  on  education  at  the  Harvard 
graduate  school  and  wrote  a  thesis  on 
"Essential  Factors  in  the  Environment 
of  the  Pre-School  Girl,"  and  to  prove 
one  of  her  points  has  just  presented  her 
daughter  with  a  nine  (9)  pound  brother 
— Henry  T.  Dunker,  Jr.  Thus  the  world 
do  move. 

Sorry  to  hear  about  the  hurricane  doing 
so  much  damage  to  Aurie's  plantation, 
but  will  Aurie  please  tell  us  why  she  and 
hers  elect  to  live  in  chilly  New  England 
instead  of  basking  under  their  own  palms 
in  Porto  Rico? 

Marion  Ream  Vonsiatsky  is  going 
abroad  with  her  husband  very  shortly  to 
recuperate  from  a  very  trying  ear  oper- 
ation. Do  hope  she  returns  in  time  for 
the  reunion. 

Am  glad  you  have  settled  the  dates  at 
the  alumnae  office  and  hope  the  plans  we 
have  made  can  all  be  carried  out. 

Yes !  I  have  some  ideas  as  to  costumes 
but  I  shall  not  write  them  yet  for  fear 
some  other  reuning  class  might  get  them 
from  the  mails. 

Am  looking  forward  to  your  Troy 
graduates  when  they  come  to  Pittsburgh 
for  their  meeting.  How  proud  you  all 
must  feel  that  Percy,  Sr.,  has  been  made 
a  life  trustee  of  Rensselaer,  but  even  so, 
we  Stevens  folk  will  try  not  to  be  jealous 
and  do  our  best  with  such  a  distinguished 
person. 

Will  let  you  know  how  much  and  how 
rapidly  the  money  comes  in  for  our  cur- 
tain, for  I  know  how  anxious  you  are  to 
have  the  debt  paid.  I  wonder  if  the 
class  realizes  that  the  college  had  to  pay 
cash  for  our  curtain,  and  that  the  longer 
the  delay,  the  more  the  college  will  feel 
it. 

Well,  here's  hoping! 

As  always, 

Guffey. 
1900 
Class  Editor:    Helen  MacCoy, 
Haverford,  Pa. 

Mary  Kirkbride  Peckitt  returned  to 
America  recently  to  visit  her  father  and 
mother.  When  Mary  was  presented  at 
Court  last  spring  by  Lady  Allenby,  she 
wore  all  the  decorations  which  she  had 
received  for  exceptionally  distinguished 
service  in  the  Egyptian  hospitals  during 
the  war. 

Reita  Levering  Brown  has  just  an- 
nounced the  engagement  of  her  daughter 
to  Horatio  Curtis  Wood,  Jr.,  of  Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 


1902 
Class  Editor:  Jean  Crawford, 

Ury  House,  Fox  Chase,  Phila.,  Pa. 
Kate  duVal  Pitts  is  sailing  on  the  S.  S. 
Tuscania  from  New  York,  July  14th,  to 
Havre  and  will  go  via  Paris  to  Noirmou- 
tier,  where  she  will  act  as  student  ad- 
viser at  the  delightful  Art  School  which 
Robert  Fulton  Logan,  the  internationally 
known  painter  and  etcher,  will  conduct 
there  during  July  and  August.  Noir- 
moutier,  near  Pornic,  sounds  like  a  de- 
lightful place,  and  her  whole  undertak- 
ing sounds  most  interesting. 

1903 
Editor:   Gertrude  Dietrich  Smith 
(Mrs.  Herbert  Knox  Smith), 
Farmington,  Conn. 

Myra  Smartt  Kruesi  took  a  very 
prominent  part  in  the  Hoover  campaign 
in  Tennessee.  She  introduced  the  man 
who  introduced  Senator  Borah  when  he 
spoke  at  Elizabethtown. 

Agnes  Sinclair  Vincent  writes :  "Brook- 
line  and  our  little  house  are  proving  to 
be  a  very  happy  and  pleasant  home. 
Aside  from  the  delightful  opportunities 
in  Art  and  Music  and  lectures  we  are 
embracing,  we  found  a  splendid  group  of 
relatives  and  friends  from  Bryn  Mawr, 
Yenching  and  Peking.  Tech  and  Runkle 
Public  School  occupy  the  children. 
Thanksgiving,  we  expect  a  rousing 
house-party  of  Sinclair  and  Woods  nieces 
and   nephews." 

Christina  H.  Garrett  sends  the  follow- 
ing news:  "My  school  has  started  so 
prosperously  again  for  the  winter  that  I 
have  had  the  satisfaction  of  turning  away 
pupils  for  this  winter  and  of  inscribing 
others  for  years  ahead.  If  this  winter 
proves  a  successful  one,  I  think  I  may 
say  that  I  have  'arrived.' "  Christina 
refers  to  her  School  of  History,  17  Rue 
De  Bellechasse   (VII),  Paris. 

1904 
Class  Editor:  Emma  O.  Thompson, 

320  South  42nd  Street,  Phila.,  Pa. 
Hermine  Ehlers  will  be  director  of  a 
girls'  camp,  "Beech  Wood,"  on  Lake  Ala- 
moosook,  Orland,  Maine,  this  summer. 
Her  present  address  is  Friends'  Semi- 
nary, Rutherford  Place,  New  York  City. 

1905 
Class  Editor  Pro  Tan:  Edith  H.  Ashley, 
242  East  19th  Street,  New  York  City. 
On  February  1,  1929,  a  great  loss  be- 
fell the  Class  of  1905  of  Bryn  Mawr  Col- 
lege. Bertha  Seely  Dunlop  died  upon 
this  day,  leaving  in  the  class  a  vacancy 
which  no  one  can  fill,  and  which  will  be 
felt  more  and  more  as  the  days  go  on. 


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The  Class  of  1905  has  ordered  this 
minute  spread  upon  its  records,  and  a 
copy  sent  to  Mr.  Dunlop  and  one  sent  to 
Mrs.   Seely. 

In  the  death  of  Bertha  Seely  Dunlop 
the  Class  of  1905  has  lost  a  much-loved 
friend,  whose  loyalty  and  enthusiasm 
were  never  known   to   fail. 

To  Mr.  Dunlop  and  to  Mrs.  Seely  the 
Class  of  1905  extends  its  deepest  sym- 
pathy. 

Isabel  Lynde  Dammann, 
February  14,   1929.  Secretary. 

A  recent  issue  of  the  New  York  Times 
made  the  following  announcement  re- 
garding the  daughter  of  Gladys  Selig- 
man,  ex.  '05:  "Miss  Katherine  van 
Heukelom,  elder  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Henri  van  Heukelom,  of  52  Rue 
de  Bassano,  Paris,  will  be  married  there 
to  the  Hon.  Charles  Winn,  of  London,  on 
February  9th.  Mr.  Winn  and  his  bride, 
after  their  wedding  trip,  will  live  at 
Nostel  Priory,  Yorkshire." 

At  the  time  of  writing  this  column, 
Eleanor  Little  Aldrich  and  her  husband 
have  all  plans  made  to  sail  from  New 
York  on  January  26th  to  meet  their  son 
in  Cairo  and  take  the  trip  up  the  Nile 
with  him  and  his  friend.  After  that  they 
will  return  home  by  way  of  Marseilles, 
Paris,  and  London — a  three  months'  ab- 
sence altogether.  Edith  Ashley  has  nobly 
consented  to  be  Class  Editor  during  this 
period,  so  please  be  kind  to  her  and  send 
in  as  much  news  as  possible. 

1907 
Class  Editor:   Alice  Hawkins, 
Taylor  Hall, 
Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

The  Chicago  Daily  News  of  December 
20,  1928,  carried  a  whole  page  about  Alice 
Gerstenberg  in  connection  with  The  Play- 
wrights Theatre  of  Chicago,  of  which 
Alice  is  the  "Founder  President."  This 
organization  is  described  as  "A  delight- 
ful and  informal  laboratory  where  the 
plays  of  Chicago  writers  are  tested  and 
commented  on  by  skilled  craftsmen." 
Alice  herself  writes:  "We  are  doing  a 
lot  of  pioneering  out  here  dramatically, 
which  requires  much  time  and  effort, 
brings  progress  but  not  much  remunera- 
tion to  those  trying  to  swing  a  big  thing 
for  the  future."  Accompanying  the 
article  is  a  good-sized  picture  of  Alice 
looking  very  serious  but  charmingly 
youthful.  The  caption  runs:  "Alice 
Gerstenberg,  although  author  of  two  nov- 
els, one  re-published  in  England,  is  best 
known  for  her  play,  'Overtones,'  which 
critics  acclaim  as  a  forerunner  of  modern 
playwriting.     She  was  a  pioneer  in  the 


Little  Theatre  movement,  and  her  30  one- 
act  plays  and  several  long  plays  in  this 
country  and  Europe  number  more  than 
3,000  performances,  not  including  vaude- 
ville productions.  Her  dramatization, 
'Alice  in  Wonderland,'  the  established 
version  on  Broadway,  has  now  been 
added  to  Henry  Jewett's  Repertory  Art 
Theater  in  Boston."  The  italics  are  the 
class  editor's,  who  has  always  said  that 
"The  Great  God  Brown"  reminded  her 
of  "Overtones." 

We  are  glad  to  report  that  Grace 
Hutchins  is  well  again  and  is  back  at 
work  in  New  York.  We  hear  that  she 
is  writing  a  book  about  Silk.  Details 
about  this  and  about  her  job  would  be 
welcomed. 

Lelia  Woodruff  Stokes  is  about  to  go 
off  with  her  husband  and  two  friends  on 
an  exciting  trip  to  Mexico  City  and 
Yucatan;  perhaps  also  to  Havana.  It  is 
always  cheering  to  have  the  mother  of 
five  stepping  out  in  this  care-free 
fashion. 

Bess  Wilson  reports  that  she  has  an 
absolutely  perfect  job.  She  is  called 
Assistant  Instructor  in  the  Department  of 
Pathology  at  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, but  she  spends  her  whole  time 
doing  research  in  Bio-Chemistry  with  all 
the  laboratory  equipment  she  needs  and 
no  questions  asked. 

1908 
Class  Editor:  Margaret  Copeland 
(Mrs.  Nathaniel  H.  Blatchford), 
844  Auburn  Road, 
Hubbard  Woods,  111. 
The  mother  of   Marjorie  Young  Gif- 
ford  died  on  December  11th,  after  a  long 
illness.   Many  members  of  the  class  knew 
her,  and  will  be  sad  to  learn  of  her  death. 

1909 
Class  Editor:  Helen  Bond  Crane, 
Denbigh  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

It  has  been  a  great  shock  to  learn  that 
Gertrude  Congdon  Crampton  died  in  the 
Evanston  Hospital  on  February  6th.  In 
addition  to  the  efficient  management  of 
her  home,  for  many  years  Gertrude  had 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  civic  life  of 
Evanston.  She  was  president  of  the  Par- 
ent-Teacher Association  of  the  Miller 
school,  president  of  the  Central  Council 
of  Mothers'  Club,  member  of  the  Evan- 
ston High  School  board,  and  secretary- 
treasurer  of  the  MacDowell  Club. 

Those  of  us  who  worked  with  her  in 
College  can  appreciate  to  some  extent 
what  her  whole-hearted  interest  must 
have  meant  to  all  the  organizations,  and 
how  much  they  have  lost  by  her  death. 


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The  class  wishes  to  express  through  the 
Bulletin  its  sincere  sympathy  with  all 
her  family  for  their  great  loss.  She 
leaves  a  husband,  three  children  and  three 
sisters — Elizabeth  Congdon  Barron, 
1902;  Dorothy  Congdon  Gates,  1906,  and 
Louise  Congdon  Balmer,  1908. 

1910 
Editor:   Emily  Storer, 
Waltham,  Mass. 

Mary  Boyd  Shipley  Mills  writes  to  the 
class  from  Nanking,  China : 
"Dear  1910: 

"To  our  own  surprise  as  well  as  to  other 
people's,  here  we  are  back  in  Nanking 
after  all.  We  left  Haverford  July  first 
and  after  visiting  in  various  places  on 
our  way  West  finally  sailed  from  Van- 
couver on  the  16th  of  August.  Because 
we  knew  that  no  house  was  yet  ready 
for  us  in  Nanking  and  because  Shanghai 
in  early  September  is  very  hot,  we  got 
off  the  boat  at  Nagasaki  and  went  up  to 
Unzen,  Japan,  for  a  three  weeks'  visit 
with  friends.  For  glorious  beauty,  I  have 
never  seen  anything  to  equal  the  drive 
of  forty  miles  from  Nagasaki  to  Unzen, 
along  great  bluffs  and  high  cliffs  above 
the  sea,  and  the  last  ten  miles  winding 
back  and  forth  on  the  mountain  side 
climbing  steadily,  between  green  rice  ter- 
races edged  with  flaming  red  amaryllis. 
When  we  left  there,  our  two  older  chil- 
dren stayed  behind  to  come  over  to 
Shanghai  and  Nanking  the  middle  of 
October.  We  had  two  strenuous  weeks 
in  Shanghai  shopping  for  our  new  home 
and  finally  reached  Nanking  the  morning 
of  October  6th.  You  can  imagine  our 
feelings  as  we  looked  out  of  the  train 
windows  and  saw  the  Nanking,  to  which 
we  had  said  so  strange  a  farewell 
through  the  porthole  of  an  American 
destroyer  in  March,  1927. 

"The  city  is  little  changed  except  for 
the  ruins  of  the  foreign  houses,  which 
are  rather  numerous  in  our  part  of  the 
city.  I  have  got  almost  used  now  to  pass- 
ing our  old  house  with  its  dark  chimneys 
and  two  or  three  corners  of  wall  still 
standing.  We  now  are  housed  very  com- 
fortably in  one  of  the  buildings  of  our 
girls'  school,  made  over  for  us  into  a 
very  attractive  residence.  These  weeks 
have  been  spent  busily  in  interviewing 
carpenters,  tinsmiths,  tailors,  etc.,  and  in 
getting  done  some  of  the  things  that 
grow  so  automatically  in  America,  but 
we  are  well  settled  now. 

"My  biggest  job  is  teaching  my  chil- 
dren, for  our  American  school  that  we 
had  was  burned  and  the  teachers  scat- 
tered.    When  there  are  more  families  of 


children  here  we  can  again  build  up  a 
school.  The  Calvert  school  course  is  a 
boon;  without  it  I  should  flounder  in  all 
directions.  Even  with  it  I  find  it  hard 
to  teach  second  grade,  first  grade,  and 
kindergarten  all  at  the  same  time,  and  to 
keep  the  other  two  busy  while  I  am 
teaching  one. 

"We  have  had  a  most  cordial  and 
friendly  welcome  from  the  Chinese,  and 
our  Chinese  friends  seem  closer  than 
ever.     We  are  very  happy  to  be  back. 

"Nanking  is  very  much  on  the  map 
these  days,  so  don't  let  any  Bryn  Mawr 
globe  trotter  forget  that  there  is  a  Bryn 
Mawrtyr  here  who  is  always  glad  to 
welcome  a  visitor." 

Jane  Smith  is  living  at  218  Madison 
Avenue,  New  York;  is  Director  of  the 
Bryn  Mawr  Summer  School  for  Women 
Workers  in  Industry,  and  Chairman  of 
a  board  representing  three  affiliated  Sum- 
mer Schools  for  Women  Workers.  This 
movement  for  workers'  resident  schools 
is  developing  rapidly,  and  it  is  hoped  that 
eventually  one  such  school  may  be  estab- 
lished using  empty  college  buildings  in 
each  section  of  the  United  States.  The 
proposed  Vineyard  Shore  School  on  the 
Hudson  expects  to  open  next  fall  with 
a  small  group  of  women  workers  who 
have  attended  one  of  the  Summer 
Schools.  This  new  school  will  offer  an 
eight  months'  course  and  will  experiment 
further  with  methods  of  teaching  for 
adult  industrial  workers,  and  with  teach- 
ers'  training   in   this   field   of   education. 

Lillie  James  sends  the  following  infor- 
mation about  herself:  Principal  of  the 
Hebb's  School  since  1921.  Graduate 
work  in  the  School  of  Education,  Har- 
vard, for  past  three  summers.  President, 
Delaware  Branch  of  the  A.  A.  U.  W., 
1926-1930.  Executive  Committee  of 
Delaware  Conference  on  Cause  and  Cure 
of  War.  Two  graduates  of  this  school, 
Mary  Tatnall  and  Frances  Tatnall,  have 
held  regional  scholarships  to  Bryn  Mawr 
from  Eastern  Pennsylvania  and  Dela- 
ware. In  1927  Frances  Tatnall  received 
the  second  highest  matriculation  average 
for  New  York,  New  Jersey  and  Dela- 
ware. 

1911 
Class  Editor:    Louise  S.  Russell, 
140  East  52nd  Street, 
New  York  City. 
The  class  will  sympathize  with  Mollie 
Kilner  Wheeler  in  the  death  of  her  father 
on  December  29th. 

Ruth  Vickery  Holmes  is  spending  a 
few  weeks  in  New  York  at  14  East  60th 
Street   in   between   trips   south   with   her 


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husband  on  their  boat,  on  which  he  is 
making  experiments  with  apparatus. 
Their  three  children,  who  are  all  away  at 
boarding  school,  spent  the  holidays  with 
their  father  and  mother  at  Stonington, 
Conn. 

Helen  Ott  Campbell  writes  an  inter- 
esting letter  from  Kangkei,  Korea: 
"Your  letter  has  been  tucked  away  in  my 
writing  box  for  months.  It  went  with 
me  to  Pyeng  Yang  in  June  and  off  to 
the  sea  in  July,  but  it  never  got  to  the 
top  of  the  pile.  There  isn't  any  other 
Bryn  Mawrtyr  in  Korea  and  never  has 
been.  There  is  no  fear  of  bandits, 
although  we  are  only  forty  miles  from 
the  Yalu,  and  last  spring  a  band  did 
come  over  from  China  and  shot  up  a 
little  town;  but  the  Japanese  are  strong 
on  law  and  order  and  we  profit  thereby. 
Kangkei  means  "river  bound."  We  have 
rivers  on  three  sides  and  back  of  us  a 
pine-covered  hill  with  the  old  city  wall, 
or  what  is  left  of  it,  to  remind  us  that 
once  upon  a  time  life  in  Korea  was  ex- 
citing. We  are  now  up  above  the  town, 
with  a  glorious  view  of  the  mountains 
and  around  and  far  away.  Also,  we  do 
not  have  to  boil  our  water !  On  the  hot- 
test day  in  summer  it  is  too  cold  to  drink 
when  it  first  comes  from  the  well.  Not 
that  we  have  much  summer.  There  is 
often  killing  frost  before  the  middle  of 
September  and  we've  had  real  snow- 
storms in  May.  Compared  to  many 
places  in  China  we  are  isolated,  for  we 
are  only  160  miles  from  the  railroad 
(with  Baldwin  engines,  too),  and  a  stage 
line  of  Japanized  Fords  makes  the  trip 
in  two  days.  (They  have  three  seats 
with  only  an  excuse  in  the  way  of  up- 
holstery, and  after  a  trip  or  two  their 
insides  and  outsides  are  much  patched 
up).  The  road  is  listed  as  a  "second- 
class  auto  road,"  but  one  is  often  tempted 
to  think  it  has  no  class  at  all.  One  ad- 
vantage in  living  so  far  from  the  world 
is  that  I  can  teach  my  children.  I'd 
never  be  strong-minded  enough  to  do  it 
in  America,  and  it  is  really  the  most  in- 
teresting thing  one  can  do." 

Helen's  friends  will  be  sorry  to  hear 
that  her  last  baby,  a  boy,  died. 

1912 

Class     Editor:      Catherine     Thompson 

Bell  (Mrs.  C.  Kenneth  Bell), 

2700  Chicago  Blvd.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Elizabeth    Pinney    Hunt's    elder    boy, 

Dickson,   who   was   thirteen    in    October, 

entered    the    Second    Form    of    the    Hill 

School   in   September.     Peggy   Garrigues 

Lester   gave  him  a  warm   welcome   and 

Christine    Hammer's    mother    is    near   at 


hand,  so  Pinney  feels  he  is  safe  and 
sound  in  the  bosom  of  1912. 

Joyeux  et  gai  Noel  from  the  S.S. 
Caronia  indicates  that  Mary  Gertrude 
Fendall  is  home  again.  . 

Zelda  Branch,  the  editor  has  heard 
indirectly,  is  at  work  on  a  second  book. 

Helen  Lautz  is  in  Santa  Barbara,  in 
the  studio  of  Edward  Borein,  the  etcher, 
"writing  his  letters,  etc.,  and  in  between 
selling  his  really  delightful  etchings." 
The  studio  is  on  the  famous  "Street  in 
Spain,"  and  Helen  urges  1912  to  direct 
its  steps  thither. 

Peggy  Peck  McEwan  has  a  new  daugh- 
ter, Priscilla  Peck,  born  on  December 
the  5th. 

Dr.  Kay  Shaw  is  back  in  Pittsburgh 
doing  pathology  with  Dr.  Willetts  and 
liking  it  immensely.  On  the  side  she's 
kept  busy  doctoring  the  neighbors  and 
her  family  and  Biddy's  fiance. 

Catherine  Thompson  Bell  has  hung  out 
her  shingle  as  literary  consultant,  manu- 
script adviser,  or  what  you  will.  She 
has  four  clients,  and  more  in  the  offing. 

Louise  Watson  is  President  of  the 
Women's  Bond  Club  this  year.  Louise 
insists  it  isn't  particularly  impressive,  but 
it  certainly  is  very  impressive  to  think 
of  her  introducing  Eminent  Financiers 
at  monthly  meetings.  And  another  nice 
thing  has  happened  to  Louise — ownership 
in  an  old  white  colonial  cottage  with  an 
acre  and  a  quarter  of  ground  and  a 
share  in  a  private  bathing  beach  on  the 
Sound  at  South  Norwalk,  Conn.  Real 
country,  Louise  reports,  and  marvelous 
swimming  and,  since  she's  going  out  this 
year  as  early  as  April,  a  vegetable  gar- 
den and  "more  and  better"  flowers. 

From  her  desk,  conveniently- near  the 
door  of  the  Guaranty  Trust  Company, 
Louise  can  watch  Bryn  Mawr  shopping 
on  Fifth  Avenue.  The  latest,  she  says, 
was  Maysie,  "looking  very  stunning  and 
as  full  of  enthusiasm  for  the  work  she 
is  doing  at  Chicago  for  her  Ph.D.  degree 
as  she  was  when  she  and  Lorle  and  I 
did  Post  Major  Psychology  together." 

Gertrude  Elcock  has  been  made  Chair- 
man of  the  Junior  School  Conference  of 
the  Private  School  Teachers'  Association, 
and  on  January  the  8th  she  presided  at 
a  meeting  that  had  for  its  discussion  the 
imposing  topic,  "The  Laws  of  Learning." 

1914 
Class  Editor:  Elizabeth  Ayer  Inches 
(Mrs.   Henderson   Inches), 
41  Middlesex  Road, 
Chestnut  Hill,  Mass. 
Eleanor  Allen  Mitchell   has  moved  to 
100  Locust  Street,  San  Francisco,  as  her 


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husband  refused  to  commute  from  Berke- 
ley any  more. 

Mary  Coolidge  has  sent  her  Xmas 
cards  from  Munich,  so  we  assume  that 
she  is  studying  there  this   winter. 

The  McCutcheons  now  have  new 
schemes  for  the  Spring.  They  wish  to 
explore  the  source  of  the  Amazon  and 
expect  to  cross  the  Andes  in  aeroplanes. 

Katherine  Angell  lunched  with  Fritz, 
Biz  and  Lib  before  Christmas.  She  is 
one  of  our  busiest  classmates,  for  she 
still  has  a  house,  two  large  children  and 
a  job  to  superintend.  (She  is  still  on 
the  New  Yorker.)  Every  spare  moment 
she  and  Ernest  watch  the  six-day  bicycle 
race.  She  says  it  is  thrilling  and  no  one 
should  miss  it,  especially  after  11  at 
night.  She  is  in  excellent  health  and 
spirits  in  spite  of  her  busy  life. 

Anne  Lindsay  is  sailing  on  her  annual 
trip  to  Paris  on  the  Majestic,  January 
19th. 

1916 
Class  Editor:    Catherine  S.  Godley, 
768  Ridgeway  Avenue, 

Avondale,  Cincinnati,  O. 

Helen  Holmes  Carothers'  husband  left 
right  after  Christmas  for  three  months 
of  work  and  study  in  Vienna. 

Margaret  Engelhard  Phipps,  ex-' 16,  has 
twins,  born  on  November  27th.  The  lit- 
tle boy  is  named  John  and  the  little  girl 
Barbara  Caroline.  Margaret  celebrated 
their  arrival  by  getting  the  flu,  but  she 
is  all  right  now,  though  a  little  bewil- 
dered over  the  size  of  her  family. 

1918 
Class  Editor:  Helen  Walker, 

5516  Everett  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Helen  Walker  has  been  having  a  very 
anxious  time  over  her  brother,  who  is 
slowly  recovering  from  a  serious  opera- 
tion. She  herself  may  have  to  have  a 
couple  of  vertebrae  put  in  place  shortly, 
so  Ruth  Cheney  is  editing  the  notes  for 
this  issue  and  Margaret  Timpson  has 
promised  to  get  out  the  Class  Book  for 
Reunion.  We  hope  Helen  will  be  all 
right  soon  and  able  to  join  us  then. 

Members  of  1918  will  soon  begin  re- 
ceiving communications  about  Reunion. 
We  must  finish  collecting  our  Reunion 
Gift,  and  there  will  also  be  a  call  for 
Class  Dues  to  pay  for  the  book.  After 
that  unpleasantness  is  over,  there  will  be 
nothing  to  do  but  get  our  railway  tickets 
and  enjoy  ourselves.  Class  Dinner  is 
Saturday  evening,  June  1st,  so  make  your 
plans  now  and  be  sure  to  come.  Ar- 
rangements are  not  yet  complete,  but  I 
have  extracted  promises  from  both  Vir- 
ginia Kneeland  and  Helen  Alexander  that 


.  they  will  try  to  come  and  will  speak. 
When  last  heard  from,  Alec  was  some- 
where in  the  State  of  North  Borneo, 
dressed  in  a  diving  suit;  maybe  she  plans 
to  walk  home. 

1919 
Editor:  Mary  Ramsey  Phelps 
(Mrs.  William  Phelps), 
Guyencourt,  Del. 

There  is  a  most  interesting  article, 
"Benjamin  Franklin,"  by  Isabel  M.  S. 
WThittier,  A.M.,  in  The  Manufacturer  for 
December,  1928,  a  magazine  published 
monthly  by  the  Manufacturers'  Club  of 
Philadelphia.  Isabel  is  to  congratulated 
on  its  wealth  of  information  and  delight- 
fully readable  style. 

Your  editor  is  again  the  beaming  re- 
cipient of  a  nice  long  letter — this  time 
from  Peggy  Rhoads.  She  is  back  from 
her  four  months  in  Japan,  the  first  five 
weeks  of  which  were  spent  in  Takayama, 
a  lovely  seaside  place,  200  miles  north  of 
Tokyo,  then  to  Tokyo  in  September,  and 
trips  from  there  into  the  country  and 
down  to  Kyoto  and  Nara.  "Everything 
was  very  gay  for  the  enthronement"  and 
"I  was  fortunate  in  being  a  guest  in 
many  Japanese  homes,"  sounds  fascin- 
ating and  cosmopolitan.  In  February 
Peggy  expects  to  resume  work  as  secre- 
tary of  the  Mission  Board  of  Friends  of 
Philadelphia  at  304  Arch  Street. 

On  her  way  home  from  Japan  Peggy 
stopped  in  Santa  Fe  and  visited  Beanie 
Dubach,  who  is  very  well  and  planning 
to  do  some  social  work  this  winter. 
Beanie  and  a  friend  are  living  in  an 
adobe  house  they  built  themselves  and 
are  very  proud  of.  She  spent  the  fall 
in  St.  Louis  and  reports  that  "Alice 
Rubelman  Knight  has  a  charming  little 
daughter,"  and  that  Frannie  Allison  has 
become  a  staid  matron,  who  enjoys  living 
in  the  country  because  "it's  good  for  the 
children." 

Gertrude  Hcarne  Myers  has  a  second 
daughter,  Gertrude,  born  October  26th, 
at  St.  Davids. 

Betty  Biddle's  first  daughter,  Nancy 
Hutton  Yarnall,   was  born   in  June. 

I  have  been  having  a  wonderful  south- 
ern vacation,  motoring  to  Atlanta  for 
Thanksgiving.  Then  some  parties  in 
Charleston,  and  lots  of  hunting  deer, 
duck  and  turkey  in  the  wilds  of  the  San- 
tee  River  country  of  South  Carolina. 
We  expect  to  be  home  again  soon  after 
the   middle  of  January. 

Augusta  Blue  came  home  from  France 
for  Christmas. 

Beckie  Reinhardt  Craighill  was  in 
Wilmington   for   Christmas,   and   for  the 


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debut  of  her  young  sister  Margie,  Bryn 
Mawr,  1932. 

1920 
Class  Editor:    Mary  Hardy, 

518  Cathedral  Street,.  Baltimore,  Md. 

Lillian  Davis  Philip  has  a  second  son, 
born  January  9th.  The  Philips  moved 
from  Staten  Island  to  New  York  last 
October,  and  are  living  at  755  Park 
Avenue. 

Louise  Sloan  is  living  in  Boston  this 
winter,  in  an  apartment  at  79  Revere 
Street,  which,  she  says,  possesses  a  com- 
fortable bed  for  visitors.  She  is  work- 
ing in  the  Massachusetts  Eye  and  Ear 
Infirmary  in  the  department  of  Ophthal- 
mology of  the  Harvard  Medical   School. 

K.  Townsend  spent  the  summer  abroad 
and  came  back  on  the  "Majestic"  with 
M.  Hardy's  little  sister,  Clare,  B.M., 
1926.  K.  is  President  of  the  Boston 
Field  Hockey  Association.  She  also  is 
still  teaching  at  the  Boston  School  of 
Physical  Education. 

Madeline  Brown,  M.D.,  has  completed 
her  interneship  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  has 
started  another  one  at  the  Bellevue  Hos- 
pital in  New  York. 

1921 
Editor:    Mrs.  J.  E.  Rogers, 
99  Poplar  Plains  Road, 
Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada. 

Margaret  Ladd  writes  from  home, 
where  she  is  convalescing  from  the  flu, 
that  she  has  a  fellowship  in  psychology 
this  year  in  the  "Institute  for  Child 
Guidance"  in  New  York.  She  gives 
mental  tests  to  problem  children,  and 
attends  six  hours  of  lectures  a  week. 
She  lives  in  a  working-girls'  home  at  94 
MacDougal  Street.  Last  summer  she 
went  abroad  with  her  mother  and  stayed 
most  of  the  time  in  the  Italian  Lake 
District. 

Eileen  Lyons  Donovan  is  living  at  282 
Beacon  Street  and  issues  a  cordial  invi- 
tation to  all  1921  to  drop  in  to  see  her. 
She  and  her  husband  are  making  a  hobby 
of  collecting  first  editions. 

Luz  Taylor  is  working  for  the  Little 
Rock  Junior  League,  and  taking  much 
interest  in  airplanes  as  a  business.  For 
exercise  she  plays  golf  and  basketball, 
the  latter  on  a  team  known  as  the 
"Wheezers." 

In  a  letter  received  in  the  Alumnae 
Office  Luz  writes:  "I  saw  Mary  Porter 
just  about  a  year  ago  when  I  was  en 
route  to  California  through  Houston, 
and  heard  that  she  was  in  Louisville  at 
Derby  time,  but  missed  her  entirely. 
.  .  .  Had  you  been  at  Darn's  wedding 
you  would  have  seen  a  real  Bryn  Mawr 


Reunion — Kath  Bradford,  Jimmie  Rogers, 
Ellen  Garrison,  Rabbit  Harvey,  Phoebe 
Bentley,  Teddy,  etc.  We  even  went  so 
far  as  to  sit  on  the  steps  one  night  and 
sing.  It  was  a  very  lovely  wedding  and 
we  had  a  marvelous  time.  I  only  got 
home  just  before  Christmas.  .  .  .  My 
plans  call  for  Florida  in  March." 

Mag  Taylor  Macintosh  is  living  in 
Haverford  and  is  very  busy  attending 
school  and  reading  meetings  and  college 
lectures,  looking  after  her  four-year-old 
daughter  Gertrude  and  doing  gardening. 
Last  summer  she  and  Westie  went  cruis- 
ing on  the  St.  Lawrence  River  in  a 
twenty-six-foot  boat  with  Mag's  husband 
and  brother.  The  trip  was  such  a  suc- 
cess, that  this  summer  they  are  going  to 
cruise  to  Nova  Scotia  and  Prince  Edward 
Island. 

Henrietta  Baldwin  was  married  on 
February  9th  to  Pierrepont  Sperry  and  is 
living  in  Sunbury,  Pa. 

Mabel  Smith  Cowles  has  a  job  in  New 
Haven,  while  her  husband  is  there  work- 
ing for  his  Ph.D. 

Many  thanks  to  you  who  have  replied 
so  promptly  to  my  letter.  If  you  have 
not  received  a  letter  yet,  it  is  due  to  the 
delay  in  printing  this  year's  college  regis- 
ter. I  have  your  letters  all  stamped  and 
sealed,  and  am  just  waiting  for  your 
latest  address.  I  am  off  for  a  month  in 
Nassau  to  try  and  take  germs  out  of  me. 
I  hope  when  I  return  to  find  answers 
from   every   single  member  of  the   class. 

1922 
Editor:  Serena  Hand  Savage 
(Mrs.  William  Savage), 
29  West  12th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Anita  Dunn  Carpenter  has  a  third 
daughter,  born  November  7th. 

Catherine  Rhett  was  married  on  the 
7th  of  December  to  Mr.  Leslie  Neville 
Wilmot  Woods. 

Lillian  WyckofT  is  teaching  at  the 
Baldwin  School. 

Kay  Gardner  has  gone  to  Florida  for 
the  winter. 

1923 
Editor:   Katharine  Lord  Strauss, 

27  East  69th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Hellie  Wilson  Collins  has  a  daughter, 
Cynthia  E.mily,  born  June  1,  1928.  Hel- 
lie writes  that  Virginia  Miller  visits  her 
often  "and  straightens  out  my  gardening 
difficulties.  She  seems  to  be  doing  in- 
numerable things  equally  well.  I  can  only 
mention  golf,  painting,  landscaping  and 
advertising.  The  last  is  her  true  profes- 
sion, while  her  hobby  is  interior  deco- 
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"Cuckoo  Bradley  has  another  son,  and 
if  he  is  endeavoring  to  live  up  to  the 
endearing  qualities  of  Philip,  Jr.,  at  four 
months,  when  I  saw  him,  he  must  be 
struggling  hard." 

Franny  Matteson  Rathbun  writes: 
"After  eight  weeks  in  Scandinavia  this 
summer,  without  our  daughters,  we  have 
returned  to  a  new  job  in  Dublin,  N.  H. 
Larry  is  busy  with  forests  by  day  and 
maps  by  night.  Betsy  and  Ann  have 
already  enjoyed  some  coasting  and  I 
content  myself  with  getting  settled  in  the 
small  house  we  have  bought  here." 

Bella  Goddard  Mott  is  leading  a  most 
Kiplingesque  life  in  Nagpur,  where  she 
started  a  primary  school  for  girls.  She 
spent  a  vacation  with  a  Persian  Moham- 
medan family  in  Simla  in  October.  And 
last  summer,  to  quote  directly,  "We  tried 
our  first  hill  shooting  in  the  Himalayas 
near  Kulu.  We  went  with  a  Major,  who 
was  more  mountain  goat  than  man,  and 
I  expect  that  our  present  state  is  in  part 
due  to  the  thousands  of  feet  we  scram- 
bled up  and  down  in  a  day.  We  camped 
in  the  snow  and  the  indefatigable  Major 
had  us  up  at  three  in  the  morning  and 
climbing  impossible  passes  in  the  most 
biting  wind  I've  ever  met.  In  the  end, 
John  got  a  red  and  a  black  bear,  both 
shot  within  a  day  of  the  starting  place." 

Helen  Hagen  Stagg  is  in  a  sanitarium 
in  Leysin,  from  which  she  expects  to  be 
discharged  entirely  cured  in  May. 

Dorothy  Stewart  Pierson  says  that  Star 
McDaniel  Heimsath's  son  is  fine.  The 
Heimsaths  have  bought  a  house  in 
Bridgeport,  where  Star  is  teaching  psy- 
chology and  German  at  the  Junior 
College. 

Frannie  Childs  is  Instructor  in  History 
at  Hunter  College.  She  has  two  sections 
in  Mediaeval  History,  and  three  in  the 
History  of  Europe  from  1500-1815. 

Mary  Morsman  Masters  spent  Christ- 
mas in  Omaha  with  her  family  and  has 
now  returned  to  her  sumptuous  new 
apartment  at  117  East  72nd  Street,  New 
York  City. 

Dena  Humphreys  is  acting  with  a  com- 
pany which  is  traveling  through  Canada 
playing  a  Shaw  repertory.  Her  costumes 
for  Candida  are  reported  to  be  pictur- 
esque and  dazzling. 

Helenka  Hoyt  is  engaged  to  Byron 
Stookey,  a  neurological  surgeon  in  New 
York.  Lie  has  studied  in  Geneva,  Vienna 
and  Berlin,  as  well  as  in  this  country. 
During  the  war,  he  was  a  Captain  in 
the  Royal  Army  M.  C.  and  after  1917, 
a  Major  in  the  U.  S.  M.  C.  They  are 
to  be  married  in  May. 


1924 
Class  Editor:  Mrs.  Donald  Wilbur, 
Rosemont,  Pa. 

The  New  York  Times  of  January  14th 
says : 

"Mrs.  Justine  Wise  Tulin,  daughter  of 
Rabbi  Stephen  Wise,  of  New  York  City, 
today  received  word  that  she  had  passed 
the  Connecticut  bar  examinations  and,  as 
a  Connecticut  lawyer,  could  bettter  de- 
vote her  life  to  humanitarian  work. 

"She  took  the  State  examination  two 
weeks  ago  with  twenty-five  other  can- 
didates. She  came  to  New  Haven  three 
years  ago  to  attend  the  Yale  Law  School, 
and  later  was  married  to  Professor  Leon 
Tulin  of  the  faculty.  They  have  one 
child."  1925 

Editor:  Mrs.   Frederic  Conger 
(Blit  Mallet  Conger), 
325  East  72nd  Street,  New  York. 

Well,  here's  some  news !  Peggy  Stew- 
ardson  is  engaged  to  Howard  Blake, 
Princeton,  '24,  and  minister  by  profes- 
sion. They  will  "probably  be  married  in 
April  and  go  abroad  for  awhile."  Noth- 
ing seems  definitely  planned  as  yet  but 
it  is  all  very  exciting  and  quite  a  scoop 
for  us. 

Taki  Fugita  writes  to  Betty  Smith: 
"This  summer  I  went  to  Honolulu  and 
attended  the  Pan-Pacific  Women's  Con- 
ference there  and  met  Martha  Cooke 
then.  I  wished  I  could  have  gone  to  the 
United  States  proper,  too,  but  it  was  im- 
possible. Now  again  I  am  back  in  Japan 
teaching  as  before.  Please  send  my  love 
to  my  Bryn  Mawr  friends." 

And  a  letter  from  Helen  Henshaw, 
6  Douglas  Road,  Schenectady,  described 
a  most  immobile  existence.  "I'm  a  pro- 
fessional musician,  because  I  spend  part 
of  my  time  directing  the  music  in  a 
school,  part  playing  the  organ  and  direct- 
ing a  quartet  in  a  church,  part  working 
for  organ  recitals,  and  part  studying  for 
a  second  degree  in  music.  I'm  crazy 
about  it  all,  too !" 

Our  gay  little  Carrie  is  off  again  to 
St.  Moritz  and  points  skyward,  all  set 
to  ski  with  the  Dolly  sisters  and  King 
Albert,  of  Belgium,  and  well  chaperoned 
by  Pamela  Coyne  Taylor. 

Chissy  has  been  promoted  to  head  of 
stock  in  the  negligee  department  of  R.  H. 
Macy.  She  took  the  job  just  before 
Christmas  and  is  evidently  "skyrocketing 
to  success,"  as  we  say  in  the  movies. 

Baldy  is  doing  research  work  on  rats 
as  well  as  her  course  at  P.  and  S. 

Christine  Stolzenbach  is  teaching 
Spanish  at  Hampden  Institute  and  loves 
her  work. 


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Jeannetta  Schoonover  is  also  holding- 
down  a  teaching  job  in  the  Chemistry 
department   of   Wilson   College. 

And  Blit  Mallett  Conger  is  still  teach- 
ing history  of  Architecture  and  Painting 
at  the  Spence  School  in  New  York. 

1927 
Editor:   Ellenor  Morris, 

Berwyn,  Pa. 

The  editor  wishes  to  offer  deepest 
apologies  for  the  long,  protracted  silence 
and  begs  the  class  to  believe  that  it  has 
been  due  only  to  the  unfortunate  com- 
bination of  the  flu  and  the  Christmas 
rush.  For  all  the  news  which,  remark- 
able to  relate,  has  appeared  unsolicited 
in  the  last  few  weeks,  she  is  extremely 
grateful. 

The  headlines  of  the  month  seem  to 
be  due  to  Louise  Blair,  who  has  just 
married  a  Spanish  artist,  name  uncon- 
tributed;  and  has  had  two  of  her  own 
creations   accepted  by   a   Paris   salon. 

Other  sensations  are  the  engagements 
of  Elizabeth  Winchester  and  Ruth  Rick- 
aby.  Winnie  is  engaged  to  Randolph 
Brandt,  and  writes  that  she  is  to  be  mar- 
ried in  the  spring.  Rick's  fiance  is  Louis 
J.  Darmstadt,  class  of  '27,  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology.  Rick  is  at  pres- 
ent taking  courses  in  Domestic  Science 
and  music  at  Columbia. 

Judy  Lee,  after  studying  Biology  at 
Cambridge  at  the  Harvard  Summer 
School,  is  now  pursuing  a  course  at 
Columbia  pertaining  to  the  science  of 
Forestry. 

Frances  Chrystie  has  a  job  with  the 
new  International  Encyclopedia  in  New 
York,  and  is  writing  biographies. 

Betsy  Gibson  has  been  staying  with 
Frances,  and  is  engaged  in  writing 
"blurbs,"  doing  copy  and  odds  and  ends 
of  advertising  work  for  Dillon  Reed. 

Algy  Whiting  sailed,  with  Angela 
Johnston,  on  the  same  boat  as  the  present 
Mrs.  Tunney,  and  is  now  studying 
archeology  in  Greece. 

K.  Adams,  Judy  Lee,  Quita  Villard, 
Frances  Chrystie,  Jane  Cheney,  Peggy 
Brooks,  Marion  Leary,  Betsy  Gibson, 
Marion  Smith  and  Jane  Sullivan  were  in 
Helen  Stokes'  wedding,  and  according  to 
all  accounts  looked  stunning  in  peach- 
colored  creations. 

Ann  Carey  Thomas  was  recently  mar- 
ried and  is  now  Mrs.  Hazard  Clark. 

Jane  Sullivan  is  giving  a  course  in  the 
appreciation  of  music,  which  is  attended 
by  numerous  alumnae,  among  whom  are 
Helen  Stokes,  Marion  Leary,  Julia  Lee 
and  Frannie  Jay. 

Malvina  Holcombe  was  married  in 
November    to     Mr.     Kenneth     Conarroe 


Trotter.  They  are  living  at  Berkeley 
Court,  Bryn  Mawr  Avenue  and  City 
Line,  Philadelphia. 

Corinne  Chambers  has  a  job  in  Macy's, 
but  is  apparently  living  in  Flushing  and 
commuting. 

Bee  Simcox  is  living  in  New  York, 
and  studying  on  a  joint  Fellowship  at 
the  New  York  School  of  Social  Work, 
after  teaching  last  year  at  a  school  in 
Florida.  Her  schedule  includes  active 
work  for  the  Charity  Organization  Soci- 
ety, as  well  as  lectures  in  the  school. 

Marcia  Carter  has  gone  to  Europe, 
where  she  was  preceded  some  months 
ago  by  Aggie  Pearce  and  Dune. 

Sally  Peet  has  returned  from  Europe 
and  is  taking  secretarial  courses. 

Agnes  Mongan  is  studying  practical 
art,  and  has  a  part-time  job  at  the  Fogg 
Museum. 

The  class  sympathizes  with  Frances 
Curtin  in  the  death  of  her  father  on 
January  2nd. 

Minna  Lee  Jones  is  still  at  the  New 
York  School  of  Social  W^ork,  and  doing 
industrial  research  work  on  a  survey  of 
the  industries  of  Greenwich  Village. 

Gabbie  Sewall  is  enjoying  herself  with 
Junior  League  Dramatics,  and  has  risen 
from  Property  Manager  to  a  member  of 
the  cast. 

Mary  Kennedy  Nelms  has  moved  to 
New  Haven,  where  her  husband  is 
studying  under  Professor  Baker. 

K.  Harris  is  teaching  French  at  the 
Gordon  Roney  School  in  West  Philadel- 
phia. 

Carol  Piatt  is  teaching  English  and 
History  in  the  Katharine  Branson  School 
in  Ross,  California,  and  writes  that  she 
is  having  a  marvelous  time. 

Ginny  Capron  is  studying  History  at 
the   University  of   Minnesota. 

Sara  Pinkerton  is  at  the  Agnes  Irwin 
School   in   Philadelphia   teaching   Latin. 

Mary  Robinson  is  at  the  Union  Theo- 
logical School  in  New  York,  is  very  busy 
and  is  enjoying  herself  immensely. 

Darcy  Kellogg  has  deserted  the  Guar- 
anty Bond  School  and  is  going. to  India 
with  Lee  Austin  and  her  father. 

Crooky  is  going  abroad  in  March  with 
Magdalen  Hupfel,  and  will  take  in  the 
Riviera,  Italy,  Paris,  and  England. 

Ellie  Morris  is  doing  Junior  League 
Work,  and  has  been  helping  refurnish 
the  historical  mansion  which  has  become 
the  new  club  house,  and  is  also  doing 
Girl  Scouting  with  a  troop  near  Bryn 
Mawr.  A  good  deal  of  her  time,  how- 
ever, is  taken  up  with  fox  hunting  and 
training  her  young  horse,  much  more 
amusing   occupations. 


BRIARCLIFF 

Mrs.  Dow's  School  for  Girls 

Margaret  B£ll  Merrill,  M.A.,  Principal 
BRIARCLIFF  MANOR  NEW  YORK 

College  Preparatory 
and  General  Academic  Courses 

Post  Graduate  Department 

Music  and  Art  with  New  York 
advantages.    New  Swimming  Pool 

Music  Dept.  Art  Dept. 

Jan   Sickesz        Chai.  W.  Hawthorne,  N.  A. 

Director  Director 


THE  CAMBRIDGE  SCHOOL 

DOMESTIC      ARCHITECTURE 

LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE 

A  Professional  School  for  College 

Graduates 

The  Academic  Year  for  1929-30  opens 

Monday,  October  7,  1929. 

Summer  School  —  Monday,  July  1, 

through  Saturday,  Augtcst  3. 

Henry  Atherton  Frost  —  Director 

53    Church   Street,   Cambridge,  Mass. 

At  Harvard  Square 

Beech  Wood 

A  Camp  for  Girls 

On  Lake  Alamoosook  near  Bucksport,  Me. 

Water  sports,  athletics  and  other 
camp  interests.     Tutoring. 

Conducted  by 
HERMINE  EHLERS,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

Address:    FRIENDS  SEMINARY 
Rutherford  Place,  New  York  City 

Noirmoutier  Art  Class 

ROBERT  LOGAN,  Painter  and  Etcher 

Forms  a  Summer  Class  for  1929 

Island  of  Noirmoutier  -  La  Vendee,  France 

KATE  DU  VAL  PITTS,  1902,  Student  Adviser 

Write  MRS.  HENRY  PITTS 
1031   Canton  Avenue,   Mattapan,   Massachusetts 


Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 


GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  19  miles  from  New  York.     College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.       Music        Art  and 

Domestic  Science.       Catalogue   on  request.       Box  B 

MIRIAM   A.    BYTEL,    A.B.,    Radcliffe,    Principal 

BERTHA   GORDON    WOOD,    A.B.,    Bryn    Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


I 


INTENSIVE   WINTER  AND 
SUMMER  COURSES 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  of  costume  design  and  illus- 
tration taught  In  shortest  time  com- 
patible with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  for 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
partment disposes  of  student  work. 
Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
Bureau.    Write  for  announcement. 


In  Arnold,  Constable  A  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

1680  Broadway  (near  52nd  St.)  New  Y< 


*J)(Ca?iy  of  the 

AG6£££C9T{I8£ 

that  are  found  at 
Saks-Fifth  Avenue 
are  to  be  found  only  at 

SAKS-FIFTH  AVENUE 

FORTY- NINTH  to  FIFTIETH  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


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THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 


BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 


GRAY  GABLES 

THE  BOARDING  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE 
BANCROFT  SCHOOL  OF  WORCESTER 

Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 
One  year  course  for  Board   Examination. 

For  catalog  address: 

Hope  Fibheb,   Ph.D.,   Bancroft   School 

Worcester,  Massachusetts 


MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 

COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses  Junior  High  School 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,  Headmistress 

The  Katharine  Branson  School 

ROSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Francisco 

A  Country  School    College  Preparatory 

Heads 
Katharine  Fleming   Branson,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

1330  19th  St.,  N.  W.  Washington,  D.  C. 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 
Head  Mistress 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 


CAROLINE  RUUTZ-REES.  Ph.D.  1 
MARY  E.  LOWNDES.  Litt.D 


FERRY    HALL 

A    RESIDENT    AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On   Lake  Michigan,  near  Chicago 

College  Preparatory,  General  and  Advanced  Courses, 
Departments  of  Music.  Expression,  and  Art.  Athletics 
and  Swimming  Pool. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 

ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 
(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  course*) 

|  Head  Mistrusts 

GREENWICH       -       -       CONNECTICUT 

The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 
(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr.  Mount  Holyoke,  Smith. 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  colleges.     Abundant  outdoor  life. 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis. 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON,  A.B. 

HEAD 

THE  LOW  AND  HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

64th  year.    Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN  POINT,  STAMFORD,  CONN. 


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The  Saint  Timothy's  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

Founded  September  1882 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head  of  the  School 

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY    E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY   CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M.,  Bryn  Mawr  College 

Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT.  A.B..  Bryn  Mawr  College 

UNIVERSITYgYrIS 

BOARDING  AND  DAY   SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough    and    successful     Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive  Chicago,  Illinois 

The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  1785) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 

A  country  day    school  for  boys 

Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 

CAMP   MYSTIC 

Miss  Jobe's  salt    water  camp   for  girls 

8-18.  Conducted  by  Mrs.  Carl  Akeley  (Mary 
L.  Jobe).  Halfway,  New  York  and  Boston. 
Land  and   water  sports.     Horseback  riding 

MARY  L  JOBE,  Room  507.  607  Fifth  Ave.,  N.Y.C. 


THE  HARTRIDGE  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

SO  minutes  from  New  Yorh 

A  country  school  with  beautiful  grounds. 
College    Preparatory  and    General    Courses. 
Over  fifty  girls  in  leading  colleges  today. 
Resident  Department  carefully  restricted. 
Special  attention  to  Music  and  Art. 
Athletics,  Dramatics,  Riding. 
EMELYN  B.  HARTRIDGE,  Vassar,  A.B.,  Principal 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey 


iOGERSHAIX 

*v4Modern  School  With  New  England  Tradih'ons 
Thorough  Preparation  for  any  College 
One  Year  Intensive  Review 


H^  ^^m  General  Academic  Course  with  di- 
^&i  ^^Fpioma.  Junior  College  Courses — Home 
Economics,  Secretarial  Training,  Music,  Art,  Dramatic 
Art.  26  Miles  from  Boston  Outdoor  Sports  Riding. 
Gymnasium     Swimming  Pool. 

EDITH   CHAPIN  CRAVEN,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 
201  Rogers  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

The  Harcum  School 

BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 

Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  all  leading  colleges 

Musical  Course  prepares  toi   the  Depart 

ment  of   Music  of    Bryn    Mawr    College 

EDITH  H.  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 

L.  MAY  WILLIS,  Principal 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN   MAWR  COLLEGE 
Individual  Instruction      Athletics 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa. 
Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address      Bryn  MaWr.  Pa 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON   COLLEGE   PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vassar) 

Principal 


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1929 


BACK  LOG  CAMP 

THE  ADIRONDACK  MOUNTAINS 

INDIAN  LAKE,  NEW  YORK 
For  the  Less  Strenuous 

By  no  means  all  of  our  campers  are  strenuous  hikers,  swimmers,  fishermen, 
or  canoeists.  There  is  always  a  certain  amount  of  a  stationary  or  infrequently 
moving  element,  made  up  of  several  sorts  of  people.  First  of  all  are  the  men 
and  women,  with  or  without  relatives,  who,  while  in  no  sense  invalids,  are  yet 
beyond  the  age  of  vigorous  activity.  Though  these  do  not  take  in  all  the  trips, 
they  greatly  enjoy  the  food,  the  society,  and  the  open  air  life  which  Back 
Log  Camp  affords.  Again  there  are  men  and  women  in  active  health  who  find 
the  Camp  a  highly  desirable  place  to  write  or  to  carry  out  a  course  of  reading. 
Finally  there  are  those  who,  exhausted  by  the  winter's  work  or  by  recent 
illness,  find  at  Back  Log  just  the  combination  of  good  food,  good  air,  good  sleep, 
and  good  company  which  sets  them  on  their  feet  again  in  a  remarkably  short  time. 

Some  of  our  campers  go  on  all  the  trips;  some  go  on  many  of  them;  some 
go  infrequently;  and  some  never  go.  This  more  stationary  group  forms  a  sort 
of  Greek  chorus  of  Athenian  elders,  always  ready  with  sympathetic  appreciation 
of  the  tragedies  and  comedies  of  the  energetic  populace. 

Letters  of  inquiry  should  be  addressed  to  Other  references 

Mrs.  Bertha  Brown  Lambert  (Bryn  Mawr,  1904)       Mrs' Anna  "^S^"^^  MaW'1912) 


272  Park  Avenue 
Takoma  Park,  D.  C. 


Dr.  Henry  J.  Cadbury 
(Head  of  Biblical  Dept.,  Bryn  Mawr) 

Haverford,  Penna. 


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April,  1929 


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ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION   OF    BRYN    MAWR    COLLEGE 


OFFICERS  OF    THE   BRYN    MAWR  ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION 

EXECUTIVE  BOARD 

President Louise  Fleischmann  Maclat,  1906 

Vice-President Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  1917 

Recording  Secretary Gertrude  Hearne  Myers,  1919 

Corresponding  Secretary May  Egan  Stokes,  1911 

Treasurer Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903 

Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee Caroline  Morrow   Chadwick-Collins,    1905 

ALUMNAE  SECRETARY  AND  BUSINESS  MANAGER  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Alice  M.  Hawkins,  1907 

EDITOR  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Marjorie  L.  Thompson,  1912 

DISTRICT  COUNCILLORS 

District  I Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913 

District  II Julia  Langdon  Loomis,  1895 

District  III Mary  Tyler  Zabriskie,  1919 

District  IV Katharine  Holliday  Daniels,  1918 

District  V Frances  Porter  Adler,  1911 

District  VI Erma  Kingsbacher  Stix,  1906 

District  VII Helen  Brayton  Barendt,  1903 

ALUMNAE  DIRECTORS 

Ruth  Furness  Porter,  1896  Mary  Peirce,  1912 

Frances  Fincke  Hand.  1897  Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey,  1901 

CHAIRMAN  OF   THE   ALUMNAE  FUND 

Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  ACADEMIC  COMMITTEE 

Pauline  Goldmark,  1896 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  SCHOLARSHIPS  AND  LOAN  FUND  COMMITTEE 

Margaret  Gilman,  1919 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  HEALTH  AND  PHYSICAL  EDUCATION 

Dr.  Marjorie  F.  Murray,  1913 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  NOMINATING  COMMITTEE 

Eleanor  Little  Aldrich,  1905 


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Vol.  IX  APRIL,  1929  No.  3 


This  month  the  Bulletin  is  delighted  to  be  able  to  print  the  article  by  Mary 
Jobe  Akeley  in  which  she  describes,  very  modestly,  her  part  in  the  Akeley-Eastman- 
Pomeroy  African  Hall  Expedition.  The  article  speaks  for  itself,  and  between  the 
lines  one  is  able  to  read  a  chronicle  of  human  courage  and  fortitude,  of  unflagging 
determination  and  forgetfulness  of  self,  that  is  extraordinarily  moving.  It  is  courage 
that  should  be  told  in  song;  perhaps  it  is,  there  in  the  jungle,  for'  all  we  know. 
And  yet  this  is  the  kind  of  thing  that  one  might  find  in  a  Class  Note.  "Mary  Jobe 
Akeley  has  just  returned  from  Africa,  where,  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  she  con- 
tinued his  work,  directing  the  Expedition."  Perhaps  immediately  after  would  come  a 
note  saying  that  so-and-so  had  seen  so-and-so's  new  house  and  that  Kat  had  seen  Gig 
as  she  went  through  New  York.  (The  names  are  not  authentic,  but  they  serve  their 
purpose.)  Naturally,  it  is  not  given  to  every  one  to  do  such  an  outstanding  piece  of 
work  as  directing  an  Expedition,  but  any  month  in  the  Class  Notes  one  can  find  a 
dozen  things  that  have  intrinsic  interest,  and  that  one  longs  to  know  more  about. 
Every  Class  Editor  should  cultivate  the  faculty  of  wonder,  and  make  her  classmates 
tell  "how"  and  "why."  And  yet  all  this  is  not  entirely  the  responsibility  of  the  Class 
Editors.  .  At  this  very  moment  some  of  them  are  urging  classmates  to  write  more 
explicit  articles  to  send  to  the  Bulletin.  And  the  Editor  has  written  to  add  her 
pleas  to  theirs.  The  argument  that  people  would  not  be  interested  is  absolutely  falla- 
cious. Of  course  people  would  be  interested;  how  could  they  fail  to  be  in  any 
account  of  human  endeavor?  Simply  read  through  the  new  Register  and  list  the 
people  that  you  wish  you  knew  more  about.  It  is  much  more  stimulating  than  the 
ordinary  book  on  Occupations  for  Women.  This  is  in  part  due  to  the  fact  that 
some  of  the  activities  recorded  are  not  occupations  for  women.  The  age  of  pioneer- 
ing is  not  dead.    Can  we  make  it  live  again  in  the  pages  of  the  Bulletin? 


COLLECTING  FOR  THE  AKELEY  AFRICAN  HALL 

{Introductory  Note — Mary  L.  Jobe  AkeleyA  M.A.,  F.R.G.S.,  began  her  explorations  in  the 
Selkirks  of  British  Columbia  as  a  graduate  student  at  Bryn  Mawr.  Since  that  time  she  has 
conducted  nine  independent  expeditions  to  the  Northern  Canadian  Rockies.  In  recognition  of 
her  explorations  in  the  region  of  Mt.  Sir  Alexander,  the  Canadian  Geographhic  Board  recently 
named  a  high  peak  of  the  Canadian  Rockies  "Mt.  Jobe"  in  her  honor.  She  made  her  first  expe- 
dition to  Africa  as  a  member  of  the  Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy  African  Hall  Expedition,  con- 
ducted by  her  husband,  Carl  Akeley,  for  the  American  Museum  of  Natural  History  in  New 
York  City.  At  her  husiband's  death,  on  November  17,  1926,  she  became  leader  of  that  expedi- 
tion. Because  of  the  courageous  manner  in  which  she  remained  in  the  field  and  successfully 
carried  the  expedition  program  to  completion,  Albert,  King  of  the  Belgians,  conferred  upon  her 
the  decoration  of  the  Cross  of  the  Knight  of  the  Order  of  the  Crown.) 

Following  our  audience  with  Albert,  King  of  the  Belgians,  in  Brussels  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1926,  M.  Jaspar,  Premier  of  Belgium  and  Minister  of  the  Colonies,  entrusted 
my  husband,  Carl  Akeley,  with  a  scientific  mission  to  the  Pare  National  Albert, 
Kivu,  Belgian  Congo.  At  Mr.  Akeley's  suggestion,  it  was  arranged  that  Dr.  J.  M. 
Derscheid,  Belgian  zoologist,  should  join  us  in  the  autumn  in  Africa  to  assist  with 
the  work  in  the  Congo. 

In  the  intervening  months  we  undertook  to  accomplish  the  work  for  which  the 
Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy  African  Hall  Expedition  had  been  organized — the  collect- 
ing of  materials  for  six  taxidermic  groups  for  African  Hall  (of  the  American 
Museum  of  Natural  History  in  New  York  City) ,  designed  by  my  husband  to  recreate 
and  perpetuate  in  America  the  vanishing  wild  life  of  the  Africa  he  loved. 

Although  climatic  conditions  and  modes  of  travel  differ  greatly  in  British  Colum- 
bia and  in  East  Africa,  my  experiences  on  expeditions  into  the  unexplored  regions  of 
the  Northern  Canadian  Rockies  proved  invaluable  on  my  first  African  journey.  My 
duty,  as  a  member  of  the  expedition,  was  to  act  as  secretary  and  paymaster,  to  employ 
and  manage  our  black  boys,  to  superintend  the  camp  cuisine,  to  assist  with  botanical 
and  entomological  collections,  to  drive  passenger  cars  and  lorries,  and  to  assist 
my  husband  when  he  was  photographing  and  hunting  big  game  for  his  collection.  . 

We  had  seven  months  in  the  field  together.  In  the  Lukenia  Hills,  only  thirty 
miles  from  our  base  in  Nairobi,  we  made  studies  and  collections  for  a  group  of  klip- 
springer.  Then  we  penetrated  to  the  Northern  Frontier  of  Kenya  Colony,  a  few  days' 
trek  from  the  Abyssinian  border,  where  we  amassed  materials  for  a  waterhole  group, 
featuring  the  northern  giraffe.  In  this  country  of  pig  holes  and  thorns  I  wore  out 
the  tires  of  the  small  Chevrolet  and  then  had  to  drive  the  big  lorry  for  all  transpor- 
tation. Traveling  southeast  to  the  junction  of  the  Theba  and  Tana  Rivers  we  hunted 
with  Mr.  George  Eastman  for  the  African  buffalo. 

July  found  us  in  Tanganyika  Territory  where  Mr.  Akeley  collected  specimens 
of  plains  animals  and  fortunately  secured  a  very  rare  group,  a  band  of  wild  dogs. 
Here  in  the  heart  of  the  lion  country  of  Western  Tanganyika  we  had  the  hitherto 
unparalleled  experience  of  finding  and  observing  a  family  of  fourteen  peaceful  lions 
at  home  in  a  hitherto  undisturbed  and  unhunted  donga  or  gully.  A  lion  was  the 
only  trophy  I  ever  wanted  from  Africa,  but  after  driving  the  car  while  Mr.  Akeley 
made  motion  pictures  of  lions  and  being  for  three  weeks  closer  to  them  than  I  had 
ever  dreamed  of  being,  I  felt  that  I  required  nothing  more  concrete  than  the  photo- 

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graphic  record  to  keep  my  memory  fresh.  However,  Mr.  Akeley  insisted  that  I  must 
bring  at  least  one  natural  history  specimen  to  my  little  Camp  Mystic  girls.  Two 
shots,  the  only  ones  I  fired  in  Africa,  secured  for  me  a  very  large  and  beautiful  old 
lion  with  an  impressively  dark  mane. 

The  artists  of  my  husband's  staff  made  background  studies  for  all  the  taxidermic 
groups  I  have  mentioned,  while  Mr.  Akeley  and  his  preparators  recorded  the  data  for 
the  plant  accessories  that  would  be  required  for  the  Museum  groups,  by  taking  photo- 
graphs and  plaster  casts  of  the  various  species  and  by  preserving  specimens  in  formalin. 
Mr.  Akeley  often  remarked  that  in  these  six  months  in  the  field  he  had  accomplished 
more  than  in  any  two  years  previously  spent  in  Africa.  To  secure  one  or  two  groups 
is  usually  considered  a  full  program  for  one  expedition;  we  actually  secured  nine. 
Motor  transportation,  making  it  possible  to  reach  remote  game  fields  in  a  short  time, 
hastened  our  progress,  and  Mr.  Akeley,  in  his  zeal  to  push  forward  the  work  for 
African  Hall,  began  his  search  for  the  game  at  dawn  and  was  often  busy  developing 
his  photographs  until  late  at  night.  These  months  in  the  various  game  fields,  where 
I  was  my  husband's  constant  companion  and  assistant,  were  for  me  a  most  compre- 
hensive and  exceptional  experience  in  Equatorial  Africa. 

At  our  expedition  base  in  Nairobi,  we  at  last  prepared  for  a  nine  hundred  miles 
safari  by  motor  and  on  foot  to  the  region  Mr.  Akeley  considered  the  most  beautiful 
in  all  Africa — the  Kivu  volcanoes  of  the  Belgian  Congo.  Here,  where  Mr.  Akeley 
studied  and  collected  gorillas  in  1921-22,  the  Belgian  Government,  at  his  suggestion, 
had  established  the  first  National  Park  in  Africa.  At  its  heart  was  a  gorilla  sanc- 
tuary of  more  than  two  hundred  square  miles.  The  mission  entrusted  to  Mr.  Akeley 
by  Minister  Jaspar  included  a  survey  of  this  region  and  the  study  of  its  flora  and 
fauna,  especially  the  gorilla.  Here,  also,  plant  accessories  and  a  background  were  to 
be  secured  for  the  gorilla  group  of  African  Hall. 

We  reached  my  husband's  last  camp  on  the  high  slopes  of  Mt.  Mikeno  in  early 
November.  There,  after  a  sudden  illness  of  only  three  days,  brought  on  by  a  year 
of  extreme  overwork,  he  was  called  to  the  Great  Beyond. 

I  found  myself  suddenly  the  leader  of  a  safari  of  three  white  men  and  fifty  to 
three  hundred  black  boys.  They  came  to  me  asking  what  we  were  to  do.  I  could 
see  but  one  answer — to  remain  to  complete  Carl  Akeley's  work  to  the  best  of  our 
ability.  My  first  duties  were  to  prepare  my  husband's  burial  plot  suitably  and  to 
hold  the  camp  together  in  order  that  the  artists  and  museum  preparators  could  con- 
tinue their  work.  Dr.  Derscheid  was  free  to  travel  afield  and  so  the  topographical 
and  geological  survey  of  the  volcanoes  and  the  study  of  live  gorillas  was  carried  on 
by  him. 

In  the  weeks  that  followed,  the  maximum  day-time  temperature  in  our  Mikeno 
camp  at  an  altitude  of  12,000  feet  was  46°  F. ;  at  night  the  mercury  dropped  to 
36°.  When  it  was  not  actually  raining,  a  heavy  mist  fell  or  it  was  cloudy  and  dark. 
Hail  stones  lay  on  the  ground  about  our  tent  for  two  days  following  one  prolonged 
storm.  Heavy  winds  that  almost  constantly  eddied  off  Mt.  Mikeno  and  Mt.  Kari- 
simbi,  drove  dark  clouds  over  us,  loosened  our  tent  pegs  and  almost  blew  our  tents 
down. 

Weather  conditions  such  as  these  greatly  complicated  the  work  in  hand.  The 
nearly  naked  black  boys,  on  whom  we  were  absolutely  dependent  for  water,  firewood, 
and  the  transportation  of  our  camp  and  our  collections,  suffered  acutely  in  the  intense 


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damp  cold.  I  planned  their  work  so  that  groups  of  fifteen  worked  in  shifts  of  two 
hours  each,  while  those  not  working  huddled  by  the  fires  in  their  little  grass  huts. 
They  required  constant  supervision,  so  that  I  was  continually  in  the  open,  wearing 
all  the  woolen  clothes  I  possessed  to  keep  me  warm.  When  occasionally  my  gun- 
boy  or  cook  relieved  me,  I  worked  at  my  records  'in  my  tent  lighted  by  a  lantern 
and  heated  by  a  little  charcoal  brazier. 

Shortage  of  provisions  also  added  to  the  discontent  of  native  helpers.  I  kept 
a  group  of  porters  constantly  in  transit  to  bring  into  our  camp  any  food  that  they 
could  buy  on  the  plains  below.  Even  then  I  was  forced  to  keep  our  black  boys  on 
shamefully  scanty  rations.  One  day  when  there  were  no  beans  nor  rice  in  camp, 
I  had  to  give  them  sixty  pounds  of  our  own  white  flour.  My  gravest  problem  was 
to  keep  these  natives  from  returning  to  their  homes  before  our  survey  could  be  com- 
pleted. I  promised  them  relief  at  the  earliest  possible  moment  and  made  every 
attempt  to  secure  re-enforcements.  They  seemed  to  sympathize  with  the  difficulty  of 
my  position,  and  only  one  deserted.  Our  cook  was  exceptionally  efficient,  but  pre- 
paring food  in  our  main  camp  and  for  the  two  auxiliary  camps  was  extremely  trying 
because  it  was  nearly  impossible  to  keep  the  open  cook  fire  going  in  the  rain. 

Collecting  plant  accessories  amid  such  prodigality  of  vegetation  was  easy  enough, 
but  drying  two  hundred  plaster  casts  of  their  leaves  and  stems  and  making  photo- 
graphs was  a  different  matter.  There  were  only  three  days  between  November 
eighth  and  December  eighteenth  clear  enough  for  photography;  nevertheless,  I  secured 
a  complete  series  of  photographs,  including  stereoscopic  negatives  of  the  plant  acces- 
sories, as  well  as  views  of  the  gorilla's  mountain  home.  I  also  made  a  close  study  of 
gorilla  nests  and  of  their  feeding  grounds  and  collected  one  of  the  nests  entire  for  the 
museum  group. 

After  seven  weeks  in  the  Mt.  Mikeno  camp,  the  artists'  work  was  done,  and  our 
records  and  collections  completed.  We  had  surmounted  Mr.  Akeley's  grave  with  a 
great  slab  of  cement  that  bore  his  name  and  the  date,  and  surrounded  it  with  an 
eight-foot  stockade  of  mahogany  posts  against  the  encroachment  of  the  jungle.  Leav- 
ing his  mortal  body  entombed  in  the  midst  of  the  country  he  loved,  we  relayed  our 
camp  down  the  slippery  trails  and  began  the  long  trek  to  Lake  Hannington.' 

On  the  shores  of  this  volcanic  lake,  where  the  temperature  recorded  in  my  grass 
and  canvas  banda  (shelter)  was  116°,  we  made  our  last  camp  in  Africa.  Here,  in 
accordance  with  my  husband's  plans,  we  obtained  photographs  of  the  great  colonies 
of  pink  flamingoes  and  the  accessory  materials  and  background  studies  for  a  group 
of  greater  kodoo. 

In  fulfillment  of  the  terms  of  Mr.  Akeley's  mission  and  at  the  request  of 
Minister  Jaspar,  I  recently  returned  to  Belgium  to  collaborate  with  Dr.  Derscheid 
in  preparing  a  formal  report  of  the  findings  of  our  expedition.  This  report  was  pre- 
sented to  Albert,  King  of  the  Belgians,  in  the  Palace  in  Brussels  on  October  10, 
1928.  It  includes  additional  information  concerning  the  habits  and  numbers  of  the 
mountain  gorilla  in  the  Pare  National  Albert;  notes  on  other  animal  species  that 
inhabit  the  Pare;  a  catalogue  of  native  and  scientific  names  of  the  flora  found  there; 
a  record  of  rain-fall  and  temperature;  data  necessary  to  complete  the  maps  of  the 
region;  notes  on  local  food  and  water  supply;  and  most  important  of  all,  a  practical 
plan  of  administration  for  the  Pare  National  Albert,  and  for  the  establishment  of 
a  scientific  research  station  therein.  Mary  L.  Jobe  Akeley. 


REPORT  OF  SCHOLARSHIPS  AND  LOAN  FUND 
COMMITTEE,  1928-1929 

The  Regional  Scholarships  activity  of  the  Alumnae  Scholarships  and  Loan  Fund 
Committee  has  been  for  six  years  now  of  ever-increasing  interest  and  importance. 
This  brave  venture  of  alumnae,  begun  so  modestly  in  1921-22  with  the  award  of 
$3,100  for  six  students,  has  in  its  sixth  year  broken  all  previous  records  by  giving  to 
the  College  for  the  Regional  Scholars  from  seven  Districts  and  twelve  local  centers, 
$10,209.  This  is  by  no  means  the  total  sum  of  alumnae  contributions  to  scholar- 
ships in  1928-29,  as  more  than  $2,409  has  been  raised  by  alumnae  for  special  scholar- 
ships and  grants.  Some  of  this  passes  directly  to  students,  recorded  neither  on  College 
nor  Alumnae  Association  books,  and  there  is  undoubtedly  much  of  which  we  never 
even  hear. 

The  following  figures  will  be  of  interest: 

REGIONAL  SCHOLARSHIPS  AWARDED  1928-29 

New  England   $2,700.00 

New  York  1,900.00 

New  Jersey  - 400.00 

Eastern   Pennsylvania   1 , 1 00.00 

Washington    : 500.00 

Baltimore   300.00 

District  IV   (Cincinnati,  etc.) 300.00 

District  VII    (California) 209.00 

District  V  ( Chicago) 1 ,400.00 

District  VI   ( St.  Louis) : 900.00 

Scholarship  from  the  South 500.00 


Total    $10,209.00 

To  the  vision  of  those  who  thought  out  and  originated  the  plan  for  Regional 
Scholars,  to  the  labor,  the  brains,  and  the  love  which  have  gone  into  the  selection  of 
these  students  and  the  raising  of  funds,  the  College  and  all  of  us  who  are  interested 
in  her  advancement  owe  unbounded  gratitude.  We  owe  much  also  to  the  preceding 
Chairman  of  this  Committee  for  her  clear,  far-seeing  methods  of  organization  and 
centralization  of  the  work,  and  to  our  most  efficiently  managed  Alumnae  Office. 
This  is  one  of  those  rare  pieces  of  work  from  which  can  see  results,  and  the  records 
of  our  scholars  have  more  than  repaid  every  effort  they  have  cost. 

In  the  Alumnae  Office  is  a  card  catalogue  of  the  Regional  Scholars,  past  and 
present,  giving  a  record  for  each  scholar  of  the  scholarships,  grants,  and  loans,  she  has 
received,  her  full  academic  record,  and  on  the  back  of  the  card,  her  extra-curriculum 
activities,  the  paid  and  unpaid  positions  she  has  held.  To  this  we  hope  to  add  the 
career  of  each  scholar  after  leaving  college.  From  these  cards  we  find  that  there  have 
been  54  Regional  Scholars,  30  of  whom  are  still  in  College,  22  as  full  Regional  and 
2  as  special  scholars  financed  through  local  committees. 

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6  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

Of  the  24  who  have  left  College,  19  have  graduated,  and  of  these  19,  13  received 
their  degrees  with  distinction,  6  cum  laude,  4  magna  cum  laude,  and  3  summa  cum 
laude.  The  most  important  undergraduate  scholarship,  the  Hinchman,  given  for  dis- 
tinction in  the  student's  special  field,  was  held  for  three  successive  years,  1925-28,  by 
Regional  Scholars,  and  they  already  count  two  Eurqpean  Fellows  among  their  ranks. 
This  distinguished  academic  record  is  backed  by  a  goodly  number  of  extra-curriculum 
activities.  The  Regional  Scholars  now  in  College  have  among  their  number  the 
Lacrosse  Manager,  the  Chairman  of  the  Sunday  Service  Committee  of  the  Bryn 
Mawr  League  (who  is  also  Chairman  of  the  Students'  Employment  Bureau),  the 
Chairman  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  League's  Finance  Committee,  the  Treasurer  of  the 
French  Club,  the  President  of  the  Science  Club  (who  is  also  advertising  manager  of 
the  Lantern),  an  Editor  of  the  Lantern,  and  best  of  all,  the  President  of  the  Self- 
Government  Association,  who  was  also  chosen  by  the  Senior  Class  as  their  repre- 
sentative at  the  Council. 

And  now  we  shall  look  for  a  moment  to  see  what  our  Regional  Scholars  do  after 
leaving  College.  These  records  are,  of  course,  incomplete  but  will  serve  to  show 
that  they  are  still  carrying  on  in  outstanding  ways.  Agnes  Newhall,  1927,  who  was 
awarded  a  Carnegie  Scholarship  in  1927-28  for  study  in  Athens,  won  last  March, 
by  competitive  examination,  the  Fellowship  of  the  Archaeological  Institute,  and  is 
continuing  her  work  in  Athens  this  year.  There  were  eight  competitors  in  this 
examination,  men  and  women.  Miss  Newhall  has  discovered  some  Hellenistic  houses 
in  her  excavations  at  Corinth,  some  fine  terra  cotta  figurines  and  many  minor  objects. 
Mary  Zelia  Pease,  1927,  who  was  also  in  Athens  last  year,  distinguished  herself  by 
winning  second  place  in  the  examinations  of  the  school  at  Athens,  was  awarded  the 
Fellowship  of  the  school,  and  is  going  on  with  her  work  there.  She  has  also  worked 
at  Corinth,  and  she  and  Miss  Newhall  have  walked  and  ridden  over  the  greater  part 
of  Crete.  Elizabeth  Pillsbury,  1927,  studied  mathematics  at  the  Universities  of 
Gottingen  and  Berlin  last  year,  and  this  year  is  continuing  her  work  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  California.  Margaret  Gregson,  last  year's  European  Fellow,  is  working  in 
mathematics  at  the  University  of  Chicago.  Katherine  Sheppard,  1928,  is  doing  grad- 
uate work  in  archaeology  at  Bryn  Mawr,  as  is  Barbara  Sindall,  1926,  who  is  also 
teaching  Latin  at  the  Shipley  School.  Delia  Smith,  1926  (Mrs.  Ames  Johnston),. is 
Academic  and  Playground  teacher  at  Beaver  Country  Day  School  in  Boston;  Yildiz 
Phillips,  1928  (Mrs.  J.  M.  C.  Van  Hulsteyn),  has  a  position  in  the  Classical  Depart- 
ment in  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  as  Assistant  to  the  Curator;  Mary  Tat- 
nall,  1926,  is  Chemical  Research  Assistant  and  Secretary  at  the  Rockefeller  Institute 
in  New  York,  and  Elizabeth  Bethel,  1928,  is  Assistant  Executive  Secretary  at  the 
Madeira  School  in  Washington.  Altogether,  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that  the 
Regional  Committees  have  the  gift  of  choosing  Scholars  who  will  not  only  do  well 
in  college,  but  will  also  do  something  after  College. 

Although  it  is  a  great  temptation  to  dwell  at  length  on  these  splendid  students 
who  have  been  so  wisely  chosen  by  the  local  groups,  some,  at  least,  of  the  human 
interest  in  this  report  is  to  be  found  in  the  routine  work  of  these  local  committees. 

The  New  England  Committee,  of  which  Mrs.  Bradley  Dewey  is  Chairman,  has 
seven  scholars  in  College.  Money  was  raised  by  an  Easter  Flower  sale  and  by  a 
reading  by  Edna  St.  Vincent  Millay.  New  Haven  and  Providence  raised  money 
through  the  activity  of  their  local  groups,  and  the  New  England  Association  raise 


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money  every  year  by  a  letter  sent  to  every  New  England  alumna.  Two  alumnae 
have  carried  one  scholarship  for  all  the  four  years  of  a  student's  college  life.  The 
public  and  private  schools  are  kept  informed  of  the  regional  scholarships  and  New 
England  seems  to  be  an  especially  fertile  field  for  good  material. 

District  II  is,  as  you  know,  subdivided,  and  has  four  local  committees  at  work. 
The  total  number  of  scholars  for  the  district  is  nine. 

The  New  York  Committee,  of  which  Mrs.  Edmund  B.  Wilson  is  chairman, 
has  five  scholars  in  College.  This  committee  has  been  especially  successful  in  raising 
money  by  a  letter  sent  to  all  alumnae.  A  copy  of  this  letter  is  in  the  Alumnae  Office 
and  will  be  of  interest  to  all  local  chairmen.  Money  is  also  raised  by  entertainments 
when  necessary,  and  part  of  the  proceeds  of  the  Jack  Horner  Thrift  Shop  helps  to 
swell  the  fund.  One  alumna  makes  herself  responsible  for  one  scholar  for  her  whole 
college  career. 

Eastern  Pennsylvania,  with  Elizabeth  Maguire,  Chairman,  has  three  scholars 
and  contributes  to  the  Loan  Fund  for  a  fourth,  who  entered  as  a  Regional  Scholar. 
An  effort  has  been  made  to  interest  in  Bryn  Mawr  a  number  of  schools  who  have 
hitherto  sent  no  pupils  here.  Most  of  the  money  is  raised  by  flower  sales  in  the 
spring.  An  informative  letter  sent  to  all  Alumnae  in  this  district  brought  in  prac- 
tically no  return.  Although  many  candidates  are  reported  for  the  coming  year,  this 
committee  is  faced  by  the  fact  that  a  good  many  full-tuition  scholarships  are  offered 
by  the  Board  of  Education  of  Philadelphia,  and  so  many  of  the  most  intellectually 
promising  candidates  do  not  even  apply  for  our  Regional  Scholarships. 

The  New  Jersey  Committee,  with  Mrs.  William  Shaw  as  Chairman,  has  one 
Scholar  in  College.  Various  groups  of  Alumnae  in  the  Northern  part  of  the  State 
have  collected  $1,598  towards  endowing  a  permanent  scholarship  fund  for  New  Jer- 
sey. So  far,  New  Jersey,  south  of  Trenton,  has  shown  little  interest  m  the  work. 
Most  of  the  scholarship  money  is  raised  by  bridge  parties,  though  one  community 
prefers  to  contribute  directly  to  the  fund. 

Western  Pennsylvania,  of  which  Mrs.  John  Henry  is  Chairman,  has  no  scholar 
for  this  year,  but  some  promising  candidates  for  next  year.  They  raise  their  money 
by  benefits,  having  a  large  one  every  two  or  three  years.  As  all  the  work  for  these 
affairs  falls  heavily  on  a  few  people,  they  are  thinking  of  sending  a  written  appeal 
to  their  widely  scattered  Alumnae. 

District  III  is  also  divided  into  centers  about  their  large  cities,  and  has  a  total 
of  three  scholars. 

Baltimore,  of  which  Grace  Branham  is  Chairman,  has  one  scholar  in  College. 
They  have  raised  money  by  a  card  party.  They  find  some  difficulty  in  getting  a  com- 
mittee together,  but  are  working  hard  to  raise  the  standards  of  the  Public  High 
Schools  so  that  they  can  prepare  for  colleges  like  Bryn  Mawr. 

Washington,  with  Elizabeth  Eastman  as  Chairman,  has  one  scholar  in  College. 
Money  is  raised  by  benefits.  This  year,  in  a  joint  effort  with  Wellesley  Alumnae, 
they  had  the  interpretative  dancer,  Agna  Enters,  and  made  $1,200. 

The  South,  with  Mrs.  Ralph  Catterall  as  Chairman,  has  a  special  scholar  this 
year,  and  Richmond  hopes  next  year  to  present  a  scholar  called  the  Virginia  Randolph 
Ellett  Scholar,  in  honor  of  Miss  Ellett. 

District  IV  (Indianapolis,  Cincinnati,  etc.)  has  Mrs.  John  A.  MacDonald  as 
general    scholarships    Chairman,    with    several    local    Chairmen    in    different    centers. 


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They  have  one  undergraduate  scholar,  but  are  also  raising  funds  to  help  a  graduate 
student.  There  are,  in  the  different  cities  of  this  large  district,  some  promising  can- 
didates for  next  year,  but  money  raising  for  a  joint  candidate  from  such  widely 
separated  cities  presents  unusually  difficult  problems. 

In  District  V  (Chicago)  Mrs.  Francis  Howe  Straus  has  been  Chairman  of  this 
Committee,  but  has  just  had  to  resign,  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Kirk  has  been  appointed 
in  her  place.  They  have  three  scholars  in  College.  Money  for  last  year  was  raised 
by  a  lecture,  and  they  plan  a  Marionette  show  for  the  spring.  Interesting  personnel 
work  has  been  done  by  this  Committee  in  connection  with  telling  the  better  students 
in  the  three  upper  classes  of  Grade  A  High  Schools  about  the  Scholarships. 

In  District  VI  (St.  Louis)  Mrs.  Aaron  Rauh  is  Chairman  of  this  Committee, 
and  they  have  two  scholars  in  College,  one  of  whom  is  called  the  Emily  Westwood 
Lewis  Scholar,  in  memory  of  Mrs.  Lewis  who,  for  many  years,  took  such  an  active 
part  in  the  Bryn  Mawr  activities  of  St.  Louis.  Their  money  is  raised  by  letter,  by 
the  efforts  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  Club  of  St.  Louis,  and  by  the  generous  gifts  of  the 
father  of  a  student  now  in  College. 

District  VII  (California)  has  two  Chairmen,  Mrs.  Hillyer  Brown  for  the 
North,  and  Mrs.  A.  M.  Marsh  for  the  South.  This  year,  as  last,  the  Bryn  Mawr 
group  in  southern  California  is  helping  a  graduate  student. 

As  you  will  see  by  comparing  these  District  reports  with  those  of  last  year, 
the  two  principal  problems  are  ways  and  means  of  raising  money,  and  methods  of 
interesting  good  candidates.  In  other  words,  money  and  good  publicity  are  our 
common  needs. 


ACTIVITIES  OF  CENTRAL  SCHOLARSHIPS  COMMITTEE 

The  Central  Scholarships  Committee  has  had  this  year  what  has  practically 
amounted  to  a  dual  chairmanship.  Margaret  Gilman  not  only  helped  Dean  Man- 
ning with  the  student  interviews,  but  acted  as  Chairman  of  the  Scholarships  Com- 
mittee at  the  Council  in  New  Haven  while  the  Chairman  was  in  Europe.  Much 
of  this  report  is  taken  from  Miss  Gilman's  Report  to  the  Council,  and  without  the 
able  assistance  of  Miss  Gilman  and  the  Alumnae  Secretary,  your  Chairman  would 
have  been  unable  to  complete  this  year's  work* 

In  the  spring  our  task,  as  usual,  was  to  make  recommendations  for  combined 
scholastic  ability  and  financial  need.  The  Committee  sent  out  the  usual  question- 
naires to  the  Faculty,  and  either  Miss  Gilman  or  the  Chairman,  with  Dean  Manning, 
interviewed  a  large  number  of  applicants.  In  arranging  all  the  applicants  in  their 
respective  classes,  not  only  according  to  grades  and  honor  points,  but  also  according 
to  numerical  standing  in  the  class,  Dean  Manning  greatly  simplified  our  work  and 
gave  us  more  accurate  standards  of  judgment.  This  enables  us  to  see  at  a  glance  • 
which  students  were  making  the  grade  leading  to  a  Cum  Laude  and  we  followed  the 
principle  that  named  scholarships  should  be  given  only  to  students  whose  academic 
standing  gave  promise  of  their  graduating  Cum  Laude.  Students  of  lower  standing 
are  in  general  to  be  taken  care  of  by  grants  and  loans.  The  relations  of  the  Com- 
mittee with  the  Dean's  Office,  always  close,  have  been  cemented  even  more  firmly 
this  year  by  the  appointment  of  Millicent  Carey,  former  Chairman  of  the  Scholar- 
ships Committeee,  as  Assistant  to  the  Dean. 


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It  will  interest  you  to  know  that  57  students  applied  for  aid;  13  Juniors,  19 
Sophomores,  and  23  Freshmen.  Scholarships,  grants,  or  loans  were  given  to  54  of 
these.  Adding  to  these  the  12  Freshmen  Regional  and  special  scholars,  we  have  66 
students,  or  17.34%  of  the  Student  Body  who  are  this  year  receiving  financial  help. 
Scholarships  amounting  to  $12,675  were  awarded  in  the  spring  of  1928  and  adding 
to  this  the  amount  given  by  the  Regional  Committees,  $10,050  and  3  special  scholar- 
ships and  several  grants  not  from  the  Parents'  Fund  amounting  to  $2,000,  we  have  a 
total  of  $24,725  held  as  Scholarships  during  the  current  year.  Although  the  Alumnae 
Scholarships  and  Loan  Fund  Committee  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  scholarships 
awarded  for  scholastic  ability  only,  it  will  be  of  interest  to  you  to  know  that  these 
scholarships  amounted  to  $1,460.  The  total  amount  given  in  grants  from  the 
Parents'  Fund  was  $4,440,  and  there  were  remissions  in  tuition  amounting  to  $800. 
$2,970  has  been  given  out  as  Loans. 

At  first  sight  it  looks  as  though  the  Committee  had  been  almost  too  generous 
in  alloting  the  grants,  but  when  a  new  experiment  favored  by  the  College  and  by 
the  Alumnae  Scholarships  Committee  has  been  explained,  the  reason  for  the  large 
sum  assigned  in  grants  is  self-evident.  The  College  felt  that  it  wished  to  open  the 
Scholarships  to  a  group  of  students  of  high  academic  standing,  who  are  not,  perhaps, 
in  such  pressing  financial  need  that  they  could  not  return  without  help,  who  are  not 
in  a  position  to  sign  an  elaborate  statement  of  how  much  they  need  and  why,  but 
whose  families  would  greatly  appreciate  aid.  Dean  Manning  conveyed  this  idea  by 
having  two  forms  of  scholarship  application  blanks.  The  plan  went  into  effect  and 
naturally  increased  the  number  asking  for  help,  so  that  the  named  scholarships  went 
only  to  the  more  able  students,  and  the  grants  were  used  by  the  others.  This  whole 
question  of  grants  needs  studying.  The  amount  of  the  Parents'  Fund  fluctuates  from 
year  to  year,  according  to  the  wealth  or  generosity  represented  in  any  given  student 
body  and  seems  to  bear  no  direct  connection  to  increased  cost  of  tuition,  etc. 

Since  1921  the  figures  are  as  follows: 

Contribution  to  Parents'  Fund  for  Excess  Cost  of  Tuition 

1920-21 $1,496.90 

1921-22 2,376.87  Tuition  increased  from  $200  to  $300 

1922-23 3,148.50 

1923-24 5,748.40 

1924-25 3,934.76 

1925-26 2,438.00 

1926-27 3,210.00  Tuition  increased  from  $300  to  $400 

*1927-28 5,596.38 

*1927-28  includes  one  gift  of  $2,084.14  to  cover  four  years,  so  that  real 
total  for  1927-28  is  $4,036.38. 

In  1926  the  Committee  gave  $1,000  in  grants,  in  1927,  $2,350,  and  in  1928, 
$4,400,  so  that  the  amount  awarded  in  grants  is  increasing  far  more  rapidly  than  the 
contributions  from  the  parents  are  increasing.  It  certainly  looks  as  though  we  should 
have  a  year  soon,  when  we  shall  either  have  to  go  out  and  solicit  scholarship  aid 
directly,  or  deny  help  to  a  worthy  student.     In  a  year  when  there  is  a  large  sum 


10  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

given  by  parents,  it  would  seem  wise  to  set  aside  a  little  which  could  be  used  in  a 
lean  year.  This  would  not  accumulate  in  any  sense  as  an  endowment  fund,  but 
would  serve  as  a  "nest  egg"  in  hard  times.  Even  this,  however,  is  not  a  solution  of 
our  problem.  Bryn  Mawr  needs  more  undergraduate  scholarships,  and  we  hope  that 
every  one  will  interest  herself  in  securing  these. 

This  problem,  which  is  likely  to  be  always  with  us,  is  only  one  of  many  facing 
the  Committee  in  the  coming  year.  Following  a  proposal  at  the  Council,  we  are 
trying  to  get  together  in  a  standardized  form,  for  use  by  the  local  committees,  infor- 
mation needed  by  them  in  interesting  and  selecting  candidates.  While  much  of  this 
information  is  in  the  College  Calendar,  they  would  like  data  about  exact  expenses, 
voluntary  expenses,  methods  of  payment  of  scholarship  money,  etc.,  gathered  in  a 
folder  which  could  be  handed  from  one  Chairman  to  another.  For  further  infor- 
mation concerning  the  work  of  the  Alumnae  Scholarships  and  Loan  Fund  Com- 
mittee we  invite  you  to  go  to  the  Alumnae  Office,  consult  the  files,  and  see  for  your- 
selves the  "wheels  go  round." 

LOAN  FUND 

The  financial  report  for  1928  is  as  follows: 
Balance— January  1,  1928 _ $1,532.72 

Receipts : 

Payments  of  loans _ 1,520.73 

Interest  on  loans 130.14 

Interest  on  bank  balances _ 37.28 

Donations  1,100.00 


$4,320.87 
Loans  to  students 2,970.00 


Balance— January  1,  1929 $1,350.87 

The  report  of  the  Loan  Fund  is,  on  the  face  of  it,  somewhat  discouraging.  In 
1926  the  repayments  and  loans  practically  balanced,  but  for  the  last  two  years  the 
repayments  have  fallen  far  below  the  amounts  loaned. 

Repayments  Loans 

1926 $2,938.75  $2,848.00 

1927 _ 1,987.00  2,866.00 

1928 1,520.73  2,970.00 

We  are  very  glad  that  we  are  loaning  more  money  than  ever  before,  but  we  are 
faced  with  the  fact  that  were  it  not  for  President  Park's  generous  donation  of  $1,000 
from  the  Parents'  Fund  for  last  year,  and  her  promise  of  the  same  amount  for  this 
year,  we  should  be  entirely  unable  to  carry  on.  The  outstanding  loans,  January 
1929,  are  $12,872.77,  in  loans  to  54  people.  Of  these  12  are  loans  outstanding  over 
five  years.  Although  very  urgent  letters  have  been  written  to  these  people  few  returns 
have  come  in. 


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What  seems  to  the  Committee  to  be  encouraging,  however,  is  the  way  in  which 
the  new  plan,  begun  in  1926,  under  which  payments  are  distributed  over  the  five 
years,  is  working.  Payments  are  being  made  much  more  regularly,  and  though  no 
conclusion  can  be  drawn  until  the  plan  has  been  in  operation  for  at  least  five  years, 
it  promises  to  be  a  far  more  satisfactory  and  business-like  arrangement  than  the  old 
plan. 

We  are  most  eager  to  place  more  and  more  emphasis  on  the  Loan  Fund  and  less 
and  less  on  grants  from  the  parents'  contributions,  as  the  Parents'  Fund  is  a  most 
uncertain  quantity,  varying  from  year  to  year.  The  number  of  students  in  financial 
need  is  steadily  increasing,  and  this  is  bound  to  be  the  case  as  the  number  of  our 
Regional  Scholars  increases,  because  the  amounts  given  by  the  local  committees  are  in 
nearly  all  cases  insufficient  for  the  total  needs,  and  most  of  our  splendid  regional 
scholars  must  have  recourse  to  grants  or  loans  from  some  source.  The  strain  of 
working  the  way  through  College,  combined  with  the  limited  opportunities  for  doing 
so  at  Bryn  Mawr,  make  the  Committee  lean  increasingly  on  the  Loan  Fund  as  the 
best  way  out.  Other  colleges  are  coming  more  and  more  to  the  view  that  with  the 
exception  of  work  in  the  long  summer  vacations,  it  is  better  for  students  to  piece  out 
their  expenses  by  borrowing  than  to  carry  a  large  amount  of  paid  work  with  their 
studies.     We  need  a  larger  loan  fund;  can  you  help  us? 

Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907,  Chairman. 


ROLL  OF  HONOR 

On  Friday,  March  15th,  President  Park  announced  the  names  of  the  winners  of 
the  European  Fellowships,  and  of  those  members  of  the  present  Senior  Class  who  will 
graduate  with  distinction.  Various  Alumnae  daughters  appeared  on  the  Roll  of 
Honor.  Frances  Elizabeth  Fry,  daughter  of  Hilda  Canan  Fry,  1904,  was  Magna 
cum  Laude.  In  the  Cum  Laude  list  were  Susan  FitzGerald,  daughter  of  Susan 
Walker  FitzGerald,  1893;  Rosamond  Cross,  daughter  of  Dorothea  Farquhar  Cross, 
1900;  and  Beatrice  Shipley,  daughter  of  Caroline  Cadbury  Shipley,  1897.  The 
Regional  Scholars  have  also  made  distinguished  records.  Graduating  Cum  Laude  are 
the  following  students  who  are  either  still  on  Regional  Scholarships  or  who  entered 
college  originally  as  Regional  Scholars:  Elizabeth  Flowland  Linn,  Rosamond  Cross, 
Elizabeth  Cazenove  Gardener  Packard,  Betty  Charter  Freeman,  Grace  Isabel  De 
Roo,  Frances  Louise  Putnam  and  Sarah  Louise  Bradley. 


COUNCILLOR  NOMINATIONS 

The  candidates  for  Councillor  of  District  III  are  Alletta  Van  Reypen  Korff, 
1900,  (Baroness  Serge  Alexander  Korfl),  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  Julia  Cochran 
Buck,  1920,  (Mrs.  George  Buck),  of  Baltimore. 


REPORT  OF  THE  ALUMNAE  FUND 

Funds  Contributed  by  Alumnae  Through  the  Alumnae  Association 

Alumnae  Fund 
Designated 

1.  Faculty    Endowment $      50.00 

2.  Special   Scholarships  300.00 

3.  Rhoads    Scholarship    4.00 

4.  Book  Shop  Scholarships 984.66 

5.  Regional     Scholarships 5,637.89 

6.  Special  Honors  1 ,000.00 

7.  Library 200.00 

8.  Book  Club  10.30 

9.  Portrait  of  President  Park 400.00 

1 0.  President's    Fund   20.00 

11.  Goodhart   Hall    Furnishings 16,057.33 


$24,664.18 
Undesignated   6,539.66 


$31,203.84 


Pledged  in  1925— Collected  1928 

Auditorium  : $1,557.50 

Benches — Goodhart  Hall 

Contributions  from  1929,  1930,  and  1931 7,429.10 

8,986.60 

Total  Collected  $40,190.44 

Through  Mr.  J.  Henry  Scattergood 

Book  Club  $    101.80 

Books    720.00 

Art   Department   43.70 

Special  Lectures  425 .00 

Salary  Gift  243.75 

Graduate  Students 1 50.00 

Professor  Bascom's  Library 500.00 

Grace  Dodge  Division,  Carola  Woerishorler  Dept 3,000.00 

Special  Scholarships  3 ,800.00 

Regional   Scholarships 4,550.00 

Horace  White  Greek  Literature  Prize 50.00 

Mary*Keys  Parker  Memorial  for  the  Music  Dept 1,000.00 

President's  Fund 1,000.00 

Auditorium    1,865.00 

$17,449.25 


$57,639.69 


(12) 


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In  addition,  there  are  outstanding  $465  on  1928  Pledges  and  $4,006.29  have 
been  pledged  for  payment  in  1929  and  1930. 

The  Association  paid  to  the  College  from  its  collections  $52,797.39. 

The  total  number  of  contributions  through  the  Association  this  year  was  1421, 
of  whom  216  were  undergraduates,  1  anonymous  donor,  66  non-members  of  the 
Association,  and  1141  were  members  of  the  Association,  the  last  an  increase  of  143 
over  last  year,  whereas  the  membership  of  the  Association  increased  by  but  65. 


COMPARATIVE  TABLE 

Collected  by  Association  Paid  to  College       Total 

No.  of  Alumnae  Fund  Treasurer 

Contributors  Designated    Undesignated      Balance 

1928        1424        $24,664.18        $6,539.66  $8,986.60      $17,449.25      $57,639.69 

1927        1241  21,395.82  6,790.77  19,942.38        18,390.03        66,519.00 

Alumnae  Fund 

1926 $13,608.87 

1927 28,186.59 

1928 31,203.84 

Funds  Paid  to  the  College  by  the  Association 

1926 $31,642.60 

1927 39,212.83 

1928 52,797.39 

Dated,  February  2,  1929. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Dorothy  Straus,  1908,  Chairman. 


MOVING  WITH  THE  TIMES 

{Reprinted  from  the  College  News) 

Varsity  Dramatics,  with  the  approval  of  the  college  authorities,  has  taken  a 
considerable  step:  as  it  now  appears,  and  as  everyone  hopes,  a  step  forward.  In  its 
next  production  it  will  collaborate  with  the  Theater  Intime  of  Princeton.  This 
means  that  men  can  now  take  the  men's  parts  in  plays  given  at  Bryn  Mawr,  instead 
of  their  being  more  or  less  inadequately  represented  by  girls.  In  order  to  make  this 
arrangement  possible  the  date  of  the  next  Varsity  Dramatics  production  has  been  set 
for  April  13,  the  Saturday  after  vacation,  instead  of  the  date  originally  planned,  which 
was  March  23.  Tryouts  will  begin  at  the  end  of  this  week.  The  play,  which  was 
decided  upon  at  a  meeting  of  the  committee  on  Tuesday  evening,  will  be  "The 
Admirable  Crichton." 


HONORS  WORK  AT  SMITH 

( The  Academic  Committee  presented  no  formal  report,  but  Esther  Lowenthal, 
1905,  a  member  of  the  Committee,  reported  on  Honors  Work  at  Smith  College. 
Honors  Work  at  various  ^colleges  has  been  one  of  the  subjects  of  investigation  by  the 
Committee.  Pauline  Goldmark,  Chairman,  has  written  for  the  Bulletin  this  sum- 
mary of  Miss  Lowenthal's  paper.) 

Realizing  the  keen  interest  in  the  development  of  Honors  Work  at  Bryn  Mawr, 
the  Academic  Committee  continued  its  inquiries  into  such  courses  at  other  col- 
leges and  arranged  to  have  Esther  Lowenthal,  B.M.  '05,  report  at  the  Alumnae  meet- 
ing on  the  results  of  the  honor  system  at  Smith.  We  are  very  fortunate  in  having 
Miss  Lowenthal  give  this  report  as  she,  as  professor  of  Economics  at  Smith,  has  had 
these  students  under  her  direction  since  the  new  plan  was  adopted  in  1921,  and  can 
therefore  speak  from  personal  experience  of  many  years. 

She  is  a  member  of  the  Special  Honors  Committee,  consisting  of  six  representa- 
tives of  the  faculty  of  which  the  president  is  chairman,  which  passes  on  the  eligibility 
of  students,  assigns  them  to  an  advisor  and  generally  supervises  the  working  of  the 
plan. 

To  be  eligible  for  honors  work,  a  Smith  student  must  have  passed  off  all  general 
requirements  and  must  have  an  average  of  credit  at  the  end  of  her  sophomore  year. 
If  she  decides  to  take  the  honors  course,  and  is  accepted  by  the  Honors  Committee, 
she  is  freed  from  all  attendance  at  lectures  and  is  assigned  to  a  general  advisor  from 
the  department  of  her  major  interest.  This  advisor  is  in  charge  of  her  work  for  the 
two  years,  arranging  her  units  of  which  she  will  probably  teach  at  least  one,  and 
supervising  the  semester  in  which  the  long  paper  is  written. 

Miss  Lowenthal's  description  of  the  methods  of  study  was  the  most  interesting 
part  of  her  talk  and  showed  clearly  how  fundamentally  the  plan  differs  from  the 
usual  college  course.  A  student  has  two  instructors  each  semester  in  her  special 
field.  She  has  regular  appointments  with  them  alternate  weeks  or  ofteneras  need 
arises.     She  may  or  may  not  have  the  same  instructors  more  than  one  semester. 

Each  department  selects  a  flexible  series  of  subjects  from  which  a  student's  sub- 
ject is  chosen  after  consultation  between  student  and  instructor.  The  two  years  are 
divided  into  8  units,  two  units  being  equivalent  to  the  full  work  of  one  semester. 
Juniors  and  Seniors  may  work  in  the  same  unit.  Miss  Lowenthal  limits  her  groups 
to  4,  because  she  finds  she  cannot  do  justice  to  more,  and  finds  advantage  in  having 
both  Juniors  and  Seniors  working  together. 

The  first  6  of  these  units  are  distributed  among  the  sub-divisions  of  the  stu- 
dent's chosen  study,  co-ordinated  so  far  as  possible.  There  are  weekly  papers,  one  in 
each  unit,  followed  by  discussion.  The  two  units  of  the  last  semester  of  Senior  year 
are  devoted  to  a  long  paper  on  some  subject  chosen  within  the  student's  field,  and 
to  a  general  review  preparatory  to  an  examination  covering  the  whole  range  of  study 
of  the  last  two  years.  This  paper  and  examination  are  the  basis  of  the  degree,  which 
is  awarded  in  3  grades,  Honors,  High  Honors,  and  Highest  Honors.  Students  who 
do  not  qualify  for  any  of  these  grades  may  be  recommended  for  a  degree  without 
honors, 

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Of  the  many  honors  plans  now  being  tried  at  various  colleges,  the  Smith  plan 
is,  in  Miss  Lowenthal's  opinion,  the  most  radical,  in  that  the  students  drop  class 
work  entirely.  The  gregarious  character  of  the  students  and  their  fear  of  losing 
their  contacts  with  the  undergraduate  body  through  the  comparative  isolation  of  their 
work  accounts  for  the  small  number  of  students  in  Honors,  though  a  number  of 
them  have  held  important  college  positions.  For  1928-29  there  are  42  Honors  Stu- 
dents in  a  student  body  of  just  under  2,000  distributed  as  follows: 

English    _.  8  Science    9 

French  6  (Chemistry    4    and     1     each    in 

Government    1  Astronomy,   Geology,    Physics, 

History   8  and  Zoology) 

Philosophy 2         Psychology 3 

History,   Government  and  Eco-  r:  , 

nomics    5 

Honors  programs  are  also  offered  in  the  following  departments:  Biblical  Literature 
and  Comparative  Religion;  Botany;  Classics;  Economics  and  Sociology;  German; 
Mathematics;  Music;  Spanish,  and  Special  Programs  in  Art,  Education,  and  Italian. 

One  of  the  important  points  emphasized  in  this  talk  is  the  fact  that  honors  work 
has  been  developed  at  Smith  without  increasing  the  size  of  the  faculty.  The  teach- 
ing staff  is  chosen  by  the  various  departments,  an  instructor  usually  teaching  only 
one  semester  during  the  year.  There  is  no  extra  compensation  for  this  work.  The 
various  members  of  the  faculty  have  been  willing  to  undertake  it  out  of  interest  in 
the  plan. 

According  to  Miss  Lowenthal,  it  was  most  significant  that  while  the  amount  of 
subject  matter  covered  may  be  less  than  in  undergraduate  class  work,  the  grasp  of 
subject  matter  is  actually  superior  to  that  in  average  graduate  work.  The  research  is 
the  students'  and  not  the  instructor's,  and  a  more  creative  attitude  towards  it  is  devel- 
oped. Miss  Lowenthal  illustrated  this  point  by  describing  an  inquiry  by  one  of  her 
students  into  government  control  of  coffee  and  potash  prices  in  Brazil.  This  student 
has  been  granted  opportunity  to  go  to  Washington  to  secure  data  from  government 
documents,  and  her  long  paper  on  the  subject  was  so  excellent  that  it  is  now  being 
published  in  a  trade  paper.  Other  students  have  done  work  of  the  same  caliber  and 
have  continued  their  studies  later  in  universities  abroad  using  for  their  doctorates 
subjects  of  research  begun  at  Smith. 

Honors  work  is  a  selective  process.  Miss  Lowenthal  is  enthusiastically  in  favor 
of  it  for  students  of  unusual  ability,  who  are,  in  general,  sacrificed  in  American 
colleges. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

The  Bulletin  wishes  to  express  its  thanks  to  Elizabeth  Gray  Vining  for  a 
copy  of  her  latest  book,  Tangle  Garden,  which  she  has  sent  for  the  Alumnae  Book 
shelf  in  answer  to  a  plea,  printed  in  a  previous  issue,  and  to  Helen  Sandison,  for 
her  article  on  Three  Spenser  illusions,  printed  in  Modern  Language  Notes  for 
March,  1929. 


LETTERS  FROM  ALUMNAE 

Mary  Hardy,  '20,  writes: 

"At  last  a  long  and  interesting  letter  from  Miriam  O'Brien,  who,  besides  being 
the  only  alumna  mentioned  by  name  by  President  Park  in  her  speech  at  the  opening 
of  College  this  year,  has  been  acclaimed  by  the  French  Press  on  August  11th  'la 
meilleure  alpiniste  des  Etats-Unis,'  while  by  September  1st  she  had  become  'la 
meilleure  alpiniste  du  monde!'  To  quote  Miriam's  letter:  'You  will  be  surprised, 
I  know,  to  hear  that  I  spent  the  summer  climbing  mountains.  This  winter  I  am  stay- 
ing in  France  to  get  my  first  taste  of  alpinism  on  skis.  Skiing  as  a  sport  all  by  itself 
always  seemed  to  me  to  need  something  to  pep  it  up,  and  climbing  snow  mountains 
is  just  a  little  tame,  but  put  the  two  together  and  you've  got  something  really  worth 
while.  I  had  two  weeks  at  Christmas  time  learning  the  rudiments  of  alpinisme 
hivernale.  Bad  weather  kept  us  from  trying  anything  big,  but  added  some  thrills 
to  the  smallish  mountains  we  did  do.  .  .  .  Here  in  Paris  I  have  given  two  lectures 
(in  French!)  to  alpine  clubs,  and  another  one  comes  next  Friday  night.  I  have  just 
been  invited  to  lecture  in  New  York  on  January  19th,  but  I  doubt  if  I  make  that. 
And  publications?  Oh,  yes,  lots,  although  I  don't  put  them  down  on  the  question- 
naires I  get  from  the  Alumnae  Office.  A  sample  title  is:  U  Aiguille  de  Roc  du 
Grepon,  Premiere  Ascension,  Annuaire  du  G.H.M.  (Paris)  1923.  Articles  have 
likewise  been  published  in  British,  Italian,  and  American  journals.  ...  I  shall 
not  tell  you  what  I  am  doing  in  Paris  in  between  climbing  and  skiing  trips  because 
you  would  pounce  on  it  as  the  only  important  news,  and  you  would  neglect  my  main 
and  absorbing  occupation!  .  .  .  The  Buick  is  over  here  with  me,  and  has  spent 
most  of  its  time  on  Alpine  passes---it  has  crossed  22  of  them  this  summer — from  the 
Dolomites  to  the  Alpes  Maritimes,  the  Dauphine  Alps,  Haute  Savoie  and  Switzer- 
land.    It  has  traveled  a  good  many  thousand  kilometers  and  has  been  lots  of  fun. 

'Monica  Healea  is  also  with  me,  but  I  don't  see  so  much  of  her  as  I  should  if 
she  were  an  alpinist  or  skier.  I  believe  she  is  studying  Theoretical  Mathematics  and 
Physics,  especially  Quanta  and  things  like  that.  We  did  take  a  trip  at  the  end  of 
October  in  the  Buick  down  through  Provence.  We  made  a  desperate  attempt  to 
come  back  by  the  Route  des  Alps,  but  it  was  hardly  the  season  for  it  (the  route  d?ete, 
not  the  route  d'hiver)  and  we  were  driven  off  two  of  the  passes  by  avalanches. 

'For  two  weeks  in  August  I  was  running  the  Appalachian  Mountain  Club's 
alpine  climbing  party  in  the  Dauphine.  Among  other  things  we  spent  two  days  on 
the  traverse  of  the  Meije  taking  moving  pictures.  .  .  .  Well,  there  you  are.  This 
is  quite  a  long  letter,  but  it  can  be  summed  up  quite  easily  like  this — "Miriam  O'Brien 
is  still  interested  in  climbing  mountains !"  '  " 

Mary  James,  '04,  writes  to  her  Class  Editor :  i 

"Dear  Emma, 

Of  late  I  have  found  such  interesting  reading  in  the  1904  letters  in  the 
Bulletin,  that  I  have  been  meditating  for  some  time  sitting  down  and  writing  you 
a  few  lines  myself,  especially  since  I  want  to  vote,  with  all  my  powers,  for  the  1930 
reunion.  I  hope  to  be  on  furlough  at  that  time,  and  hence  able  to  attend,  whereas 
June,  1929,  is  due  to  find  me  still  right  here  in  Wuchang.    I  hoipe  I  am  not  too 

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late  with  my  vote.  The  Bulletin  containing  Phyllis'  letter  reached  me  only  a  short 
time  ago.  Now  has  come  your  card,  asking  me  directly  for  news  of  myself,  so  I 
am  moved  to  let  more  important  things  go  and  send  you  a  'brief  report.  My  last 
letter  to  you  was  written,  so  far  as  I  can  recollect,  just  after  the  forty-day  siege  of 
Wuchang,  which  ended  the  tenth  of  October,  1926.  Since  then  it  seems  to  have 
become  the  fashion  to  send  me  Christmas  or  New  Year  cards  portraying  full-sail 
ships  ploughing  their  way  through  stormy  seas.  Your  card  is  an  example  of  such, 
though  perhaps  you  did  not  realize  it.  Anyhow,  such  pictures  are  rather  appropriate 
for  our  hospital  these  last  three  years.  I  wonder  whether  you  have  received  my 
printed  Annual  Reports,  sent  you  each  year,  giving  the  history  of  these  exciting  years 
in  detail. 

"When  the  siege  was  lifted  and  we  learned  what  a  square  meal  was  again,  and 
accustomed  ourselves  to  the  absence  of  bullet  showers,  cannonades,  and  air  raids,  we 
soon  found  ourselves  in  the  more  exciting  sea  of  Red  Revolution.  Believe  me,  those 
were  some  days,  that  winter  of  1926-27.  It  was  a  sort  of  combination  of  the  French 
and  the  Russian  Revolutions,  with  the  whole  world  here  turned  upside  down,  and 
all  the  old  values  reversed.  Should  I  attempt  here  to  describe  the  happenings,  the 
Bulletin  would  have  to  get  out  a  Supplement  in  order  to  print  it  all,  and  then  I 
would  probably  get  a  long  refutation  from  Anna  Louise  Strong,  who  wandered 
through  these  parts  in  the  course  of  the  year  and  then  burst  into  print  to  show  how 
overdrawn  most  descriptions  of  the  Revolution  were.  Most  things  written  were 
distorted,  I  grant,  but  truth  often  was  stranger  than  fiction  in  those  days.  I  refer 
you  to  Alice  in  Wonderland  for  a  better  description  than  I  can  give.  When  I 
see  you  I  will  talk  to  you  on  the  subject  till  you  are  bored  to  tears,  for  we  had  a 
major  crisis  about  once  in  two  weeks  right  here  at  the  hospital,  holding  the  insti- 
tution down,  not  to  mention  the  innumerable  minor  excitements.  But  the  old  place 
came  through  intact,  without  either  looting  or  confiscation,  and  is  still  running  along 
in  rather  a  prosperous  way. 

"I  stayed  on  in  Wuchang  until  after  the  Nanking  incident,  the  end  of  March, 
1927.  Then  I  had  to  evacuate  with  the  remaining  foreigners,  and  turned  the  place 
over  to  my  Chinese  staff  to  run.  They  did  it  excellently.  Since  I  did  not  fancy 
kicking  my  heels  together  in  Shanghai,  and  hearing  all  the  mournful  laments  of 
the  crowds  of  refugees  there,  nor  did  I  wish  to  return  home  and  run  the  risk  of 
not  getting  in  on  the  next  act  as  soon  as  the  curtain  began  to  rise,  and  since  my 
home  folks  had  seen  to  it  that  I  had  the  where-with-all  for  a  trip  to  rest  me  after 
my  strenuous  months,  I  cut  loose  from  everyone  I  knew  and  took  a  trip  to  Australia 
and  New  Zealand,  looking  in  on  Singapore  and  Java  on  the  way  back.  I  had  a 
beautiful  time,  with  a  complete  rest,  and  I  heartily  commend  the  friendliness  and 
hospitality  of  our  cousins  in  the  Antipodes.  By  September  of  the  year  I  was  back 
in  Shanghai,  and  ready  to  take  passage  on  the  first  boat  up  River  after  our  Consul 
gave  his  consent. 

"When  I  reached  here  late  in  September  the  Red  regime  was  already  broken, 
with  only  the  misery  of  the  people  to  tell  the  tale  of  what  had  been.  This  misery 
was  being  augmented  by  the  rule  of  an  unscrupulous  militarist,  out  to  get  all  he 
could,  at  the  expense  of  everyone  else,  but  in  November  he  had  to  abdicate,  and 
ever  since  that  things  have  been  better.  For  nearly  a  year  we  have  enjoyed  peace 
in  this  center,  though  the  same  cannot  be  said  of  the  surrounding  country.     How- 


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ever,  we  are  moving  toward  better  days,  even  if  some  excitement  may  yet  lie  between 
us  and  them.  The  Chinese  people  have  too  much  good  sense  to  be  carried  away 
for  long  by  such  extremes  of  doctrine  as  the  Left  Wing  represented,  and  they  will 
work  out  their  own  salvation  if  they  are  given  a  chance. 

"Next  November  I  am  planning  to  start  on  furlough,  and  to  go  around  by  the 
Suez  this  time.  My  young  niece  (recently  graduated  from  Vassar,  not  Bryn  Mawr) 
plans  to  meet  me  somewhere  just  west  of  Suez,  and  together  we  hope  to  ramble 
through  Egypt,  Palestine,  then  up  the  coast  of  Asia  Minor  to  Constantinople  (revo- 
lutions and  finances  permitting),  and  across  into  Europe.  Since  seeing  Harriet 
Wright's  cordial  invitation  to  let  her  play  "Cook"  for  Bryn  Martyrs  in  the  old 
Magyar  capital,  I  am  thinking  of  turning  my  steps  that  way.  Incidentally,  I  will 
be  glad  to  show  the  sights  of  this  place  to  any  of  you  who  come  to  Wu-han  (the 
triple  cities  of  Wuchang,  Hankow  and  Hanyang,  at  the  junction  of  the  Han  River 
with  the  Yang-tse).  I  am  afraid,  though,  that  I  cannot  expect  any  rush  of  guests 
just  yet. 

"Hoping  to  see  many  of  you  in  1930,  and  wishing  you  all  an  interesting  and 

ppy  '  Affectionately  yours, 

Mary  Latimer  James." 

Mary  Alice  Parrish,  Ph.D.,  forwards  the  following  letter: 
"My  dear  Mrs.  Parrish. 

"How  can  I  resist  when  you  put  it  that  way!  You  see,  I  never  was  very  con- 
ventional and  have  gone  on  doing  what  I  wanted  to  do,  finding  out  what  I  wanted 
to  know  and  it  landed  me  in  a  dirty  paper-mill  and  I  did  not  suppose  that  Bryn  Mawr 
would  be  especially  interested  in  that  sort  of  thing.  But  the  farther  I  got  into  it, 
the  more  it  gripped  me  and  left  me  little  time  to  think  of  the  outside  world.  But 
another  change  in  the  wheel  of  Fortune  has  sent  me  here  to  Washington.  The  com- 
pany with  which  I  was  working  is  the  one  which  has  worked  with  the  Bureau  of 
Standards  in  the  improvement  of  the  quality  of  money  paper  and  helped  attract  atten- 
tion to  the  permanence  quality  of  papers  in  general.  About  the  same  time  the  League  of 
Nations  appointed  a  committee  to  co-operate  with  Governments  in  a  study  of  how  to 
insure  the  use  of  permanent  papers  for  permanent  records.  The  next  move  was  from 
the  Rag  Paper  Manufacturers  of  this  country  who  appointed  me  to  direct  the  research 
upon  paper  quality.  At  present  I  am  working  in  the  Bureau  of  Standards,  but  we 
expect  soon  to  enlarge  our  scope,  and  then  I  expect  to  devote  considerable  time  organ- 
izing our  research  developments  as  control  methods  in  the  different  high-grade  mills. 
We  have  some  of  our  mills  in  Wisconsin  but  am  sorry  to  say  that  there  are  none  in 
Missouri,  so  I  do  not  see  how  I  can  get  out  there,  much  as  I  should  like  to  do  so. 

"I  have  not  for  several  years  published  anything  except  controversial  technical 
things  which  always  go  in  Paper  Trade  Journals,  and  I  am  sure  that  no  one  outside 
of  the  field  would  care  for  them. 

"Did  you  know  that  I  no  longer  have  a  home  in  Missouri,  as  after  my  father's 
death  my  mother  came  to  me  in  Massachusetts,  which  is  now  my  real  home.  I  am 
just  boarding  down  ihere  and  expect  to  go  back  there  soon. 

Very  sincerely, 

Jessie  E.  Minor/' 


CLASS  NOTES 


Graduate  Notes 
Editor:  Mrs.  J.  C.  Parrish, 
Vandalia,  Mo. 
Margaret  Mead,  author  of  "Coming  of 
Age  in  Samoa,"  a  study  made  while  hold- 
ing  a    fellowship    in   the    Biological    Sci- 
ences of  the  National  Research  Council, 
is  the  daughter  of  Emily  Fogg,  Fellow  in 
Political  Science  in  1897-8. 

She  is  on  leave  of  absence  as  assistant 
curator  in  Ethnology  of  the  American 
Museum  of  Natural  History  in  New 
York,  and  is  conducting  an  investigation 
among  primitive  peoples  at  Pere,  Manus, 
Admiralty  Islands  in  Mandated  Territory 
of  New  Guinea.  She  is  now  holding  a 
Social  Science  Council  Research  Fellow- 
ship. 

1895 
Class  Editor:  Elizabeth  Bent  Clark 
(Mrs.   Herbert  Clark), 
Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 
Mary  Jeffers  writes :  "I  have  been  lec- 
turing for  the  Extension  Division  of  the 
University  of  California,  and  also  doing 
some  tutoring  as  usual."     She  is   living 
with  Florence  Peebles  at  4241^  Monroe 
Street,    Los   Angeles,    Cal.      Her   list   of 
lecture  subjects  covers  travel,  the  classics, 
readings    from    literature,    and    sketches 
from  Church  History. 
1900 
Class  Editor:  Helen  MacCoy, 
Haverford,  Pa. 
There  were  five  members  of  the  class 
at    the    Alumnae    Meeting:    Ellen    Baltz 
Fultz,     Louise     Congdon     Francis,     Lois 
Farnham  Horn,  Johanna  Kroeber  Mosen- 
thal,  and  Hilda  Loines. 

Edith  Wright  sends  the  following  from 
Paris:  "Winifred  and  I  came  over  early 
in  October  and  have  been  in  Paris  ever 
since,  except  for  a  delightful  week  I  spent 
with  Louise  Norcross  Lucas  at  their 
chateau  near  Dijon.  You  heard  probably 
that  Mrs.  Norcross  died  in  July.  We  de- 
cided to  spend  the  winter  quite  lazily, 
just  going  to  a  few  places.  It  has  been 
lovely  to  be  in  Paris,  and  not  feel  that 
we  had  to  do  sight-seeing  this  time;  the 
things  you  come  on  unexpectedly  are  so 
entertaining.  The  French  are  so  dra- 
matic, too,  that  there  is  almost  always  a 
procession,  or  something,  to  see.  The  one 
on  Armistice  Day  was  of  course  much 
the  most  impressive." 

1901 
Class  Editor:  Jane  Righter, 

Dublin  Road,  Greenwich,  Conn. 
We  all  offer  sympathy  to  Lucia  Holli- 
day  Macbeth  for  the  loss  of  her  mother 


in  January  from  pneumonia.  Lucia  says 
of  her:  "She  was  very  proud  to  be  the 
mother  of  five  Bryn  Mawr  graduates,  and 
had  been  deeply  interested  in  the  College 
ever  since  she  began  to  consider,  thirty- 
five  years  ago,  which  college  should  be 
mine."  Lucia  has  gone  to  Los  Angeles 
to  be  near  her  son  who  is  a  freshman  in 
Leland  Stanford. 

Cranford  Rogers,  18-year-old  son  of 
Grace  Phillips  Rogers,  died  during  the 
Christmas  holidays  in  Boulder,  Colo., 
from  peritonitis,  following  an  operation 
for  appendicitis.  He  was  a  freshman  in 
the  College  of  Arts  and  Science  at  the 
University   of   Colorado. 

The  members  of  1901  extend  to  Grace 
and  her  husband  their  profound  sym- 
pathy for  their  tragic  loss. 

1903 
Class  Editor:  Gertrude  Dietrich  Smith 
(Mrs.  Herbert  Knox  Smith), 
Farmington,  Conn. 
Julia  Pratt  Smith  writes :  Dear  Friends, 
I  have  bought  No.  623  Walnut  Lane, 
Haverford,  Penna.,  phone  number  Ard- 
more  1232.  Ethel  Girdwood  Peirce  lived 
here  before  me  and  gave  me  her  Frank- 
lin stove  which  has  held  all  the  beauty 
in  the  house  for  the  past  two  months.  At 
present  there  is  no  cookstove  except  a 
little  electric  thing  loaned  me  by  Miss 
Maddison  who  is  now  in  Italy,  "address 
unknown."  Alice  Price  spent  last  Fri- 
day and  Saturday  nights  with  me.  We 
went  to  various  things  at  College.  She 
left  this  afternoon  (Sunday,  Feb.  3rd). 
We  cooked  on  the  electric  contrivance 
and  in  the  Franklin.  Part  of  the  time 
two  saucepans  sat  down  warmly  and  com- 
fortably on  the  wood  in  the  grate.  This 
wood  was  torn  out  of  the  house  and  I 
arranged  with  the  builder  to  let  me  have 
it.  There  is  where  Edward  comes  in. 
The  first  time  he  came  in  was  after 
knocking  and  before  waiting  for  an  an- 
swer. I  went  out  to  the  kitchen  and 
there  he  stood.  He  knew  a  widow  who 
was  wondering  whether  she  could  have 
some  wood.  "No,  but  I  want  a  man  to 
work  for  me."  So  Edward  has  come  by 
the  hour.  He  has  carried  and  sawed 
wood,  cleaned,  tidied  and  scrubbed.  As 
for  the  workmen,  there  are  usually  four 
or  five,  not  infrequently  ten  or  eleven. 
I  do  nothing  indoors  while  they  are  here. 
I  sorted  the  woodpile,  throwing  laths, 
boards,  etc.,  as  the  ancients  threw 
spears — shoulder  high.  After  the  car- 
penters go  home,  I  gather  up  shavings 
and  odds  and  ends.  Over  the  weekends 
there  are  always  .very  various  jobs.  This 
week  it  was  smashing  up  the  old  linoleum 


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from  the  kitchen,  carrying  it  from  cellar 
to  yard  and  piling  it  neatly.  The  builder 
has  all  the  junk  taken  away.  I  couldn't 
count  the  number  of  loads  that  have  gone 
already.  Some  of  my  fancy  work  is  done 
with  knitting  needles,  some  with  a  screw 
driver,  and  some  will  be  done  with  the 
pen,  if  conditions  ever  change.  Mean- 
time ideas,  like  household  goods,  are 
packed  away  for  future  use.  Please  par- 
don this  screed,  as  lumbering  as  the  yard, 
as  disconnected  as  the  plumbing,  as 
scrappy  as  a  load  of  junk,  as  miscellan- 
eous as  the  woodpile.  The  laundry  man 
says  "It  begins  to  look  like  a  house." 
What  do  the  women  say  on  the  subject? 
Stop  by  and  see. 

1904 
Class  Editor:  Emma  O.  Thompson, 
320  S.  42nd  Street,  Phila.,  Pa. 

Anne  Buzby  Palmer  has  announced  her 
marriage  to  Bruce  Lloyd.  She  has  prom- 
ised to  write  us  a  letter  someday. 

Ethel  Peck  Lombardi  was  at  Bryn 
Mawr  for  the  Alumnae  meeting  this  Feb- 
ruary, and  stayed  at  the  Inn  for  several 
weeks  visiting  her  daughter,  who  is  a 
Freshman  at  college  this  year. 

Lucy  Lombardi  Barber  came  on  from 
Washington  for  the  Alumnae  meeting. 
Alice  Boring  was  with  us  also.  Alice 
gave  a  very  interesting  talk  at  the  Col- 
lege Club  the  other  evening  at  the 
Chinese  Scholarship  dinner.  Jane  Ward 
spoke,  too.  They  gave  us  a  comprehen- 
sive and  many-sided  picture  of  the  pres- 
ent situation  in  China,  picturing  it  as  it 
presents  itself  to  each  one  of  them  in 
her  separate  field  of  work,  Jane  Ward 
as  the  head  of  the  Young  Women's  Chris- 
tian Association  and  Alice  Boring  as 
Professor  of  Biology  in  the  University 
of   Yenching,    Peking,    China. 

Edith  McMurtrie  won  the  Mary  E. 
Smith  award  at  the  Annual  Exhibition  at 
the  Academy  of  the  Fine  Arts  in  Phila- 
delphia. The  award  is  given  for  the  best 
painting  by  a  Philadelphia  woman.  The 
title  of  Edith's  painting  is  "Harpooning 
Sword  Fish."  She  tells  us  that  her  in- 
spiration came  one  day  when  she  saw 
the  fishermen  off  the  coast  of  Maine, 
near  Orrs  Island  where  her  summer  home 
is. 

Patty  Rockwell  Moorhouse  and  her 
husband  have  been  spending  the  month 
of  February  at  Nassau  in  the  Bahama 
Islands. 

Maud  Elizabeth  Temple  has  an  article 
on  L'Enfer  des  Chicaneurs  by  Louis 
Verin,  an  early  17th  Century  precursor 
of  Pascal,  that  is  soon  to  appear  in  the 
Cambridge  Modern  Language  Review. 


1905 

Class  Editor  pro  tern:  Edith  H.  Ashley, 

242  East  19th  Street,  N.  Y.  C. 

Theo  Bates  is  working  six  days  in  the 
week  (as  she  has  been  for  the  past  two 
years)  for  Bamberger  &  Co.,  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  She  writes,  "My  family 
call  it  'bumming  for  Bams/ — very  appro- 
priate as  most  of  my  work  is  outside, 
flivving  through  my  'District'  in  which  I 
am  'Representative'  from  Milburn  to 
Morristown,  making  lecture  dates  with 
schools  and  clubs,  giving  a  few  lectures 
myself,  putting  on  fashion  shows,  etc., 
etc.  Am  about  to  blossom  forth  in  a 
new  Ford  as  'The  Spirit  of  Summit' 
(S.  O.  S.)  is  On  its  last  shoes!" 

The  class  wishes  to  extend  to  Florence 
Waterbury  its  deepest  sympathy  in  the 
death  of  her  father,  Mr.  John  I.  Water- 
bury,  on  Monday,  March  11th.  Her 
friends  will  always  have  the  happiest 
memories  of  him,  for  he  was  a  man  of 
unusual  charm  and  culture. 

Freddie  Le  Fevre  Bellamy.  Last  sum- 
mer Freddie  took  young  Frederica 
through  Glacier  Park  on  horseback  and 
then  through  the  Yellowstone,  kodaking 
bears  and  such.  Freddy  has  been  both 
producing  and  playing  in  Denver.  She 
helped  with  the  Community  Chest  Pag- 
eant, designing,  writing,  playing  and  also 
bringing  the  amplifier  and  microphones 
into  use  for  musical  settings  and  spoken 
word.  She  designed  and  produced  a 
Christmas  Eve  service,  "Venite  Adore- 
mus"  in  St.  John's  Cathedral,  and  also 
designed  and  directed  the  "Pageant  of 
the  Paladins"  for  the  National  Horse 
Show  last  January.  She  is  now  busy 
putting  on  her  Easter  play  "Forgive  Us 
Our  Trespasses"  at  St.  John's  Cathedral. 

Helen  Read  Fox  is  still  farming  and 
very  busy  this  winter  trying  to  keep  her 
baby  daughter  "well  and  safe." 

Alice  Heulings  writes,  "Helen  Read 
Fox's  baby — ten  months  old — is  adorable, 
and  Helen  as  busy  as  a  bee."  Alice  her- 
self is  working  with  the  Out-Patient  De- 
partment of  the  Penna.  Hospital. 

Elma  Loines.  Dr.  George  Grant  Mc- 
Curdy  of  Yale  was  to  lecture  at  Elma's 
house  on  February  17th  on  the  "Story 
of  Pre-History"  before  the  Brooklyn 
Chapter  of  the  Archeological  Institute  of 
America.  Elma  had  the  privilege  of 
visiting  the  prehistoric  caves  in  the 
Pyrenees  and  the  Dordogue  Valley  with 
Dr.  McCurdy  last  August.  Elma  has 
just  been  at  the  Loines'  Camp  at  Lake 
George  for  the  winter  sports  and  among 
the  friends  with  her  was  Fanny  Cochran 
of  1902.     This  experience,  Elma  writes, 


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made  her  appreciate  some  of  the  prob- 
lems of  the  Ice  Age! 

Esther  Lowenthal  attended  the  recent 
alumnae  meeting  at  Bryn  Mawr  and  made 
a  report  on  The  System  of  Special 
Honors  at  Smith  College. 

Elizabeth  Goodrich  Reckitt  plans  to  go 
to  Santa  Fe  and  parts  of  the  Southwest 
with  her  husband  the  end  of  February. 
She  hopes  to  see  Catherine  Utley  Hill 
and  perhaps  Frances  Hubbard  Flaherty. 
She  and  her  husband  did  the  North  Cape 
Cruise  last  summer. 

Margaret  Fulton  Spencer  is  the  first 
woman  in  Pennsylvania  to  become  a 
registered  architect  by  examination.  Mar- 
garet says  it  makes  her  feel  quite  young 
and  frisky  to  be  taking  exams  again,  and 
as  she  is  the  only  woman  among  1100 
odd  males  she  should  certainly  feel  proud. 

Clara  Porter  Yarnelle's  eldest  daugh- 
ter, Alice,  is  a  freshman  at  Bryn  Mawr 
and  enjoying  it  tremendously. 

1906 
Class  Editor:  Mrs.  Edward  W.  Sturde- 
vant,  215  Augur  Ave., 
Fort  Leavenworth. 

Evidently  1906  has  not  become  hard- 
boiled  with  years  as  they  have  responded 
with  alacrity  to  the  Class  Editor's 
pathetic  plea  for  news.  Miriam  Coffin 
Canaday  started  the  ball  rolling  by  send- 
ing in  the  story  of  her  life  for  the  last 
two  years,  beginning  with  a  trip  to  Banff 
in  July,  1927,  and  ending  with  a  trip  to 
Lake  Placid,  January,  1929.  Part  of 
their  lovely  new  house  burned  down  a 
year  ago  last  June,  and  so  they  went  to 
Europe  while  it  was  being  rebuilt.  When 
she  is  at  home  her  chief  interests  are  the 
League  of  Women  Voters  and  the  A.  A. 
U.  W.,  her  chief  diversions,  gardening 
and  riding.  Her  fourteen-year-old  daugh- 
ter is  at  Dongan  Hall,  Staten  Island, 
hoping  to  be  Bryn  Mawr,  1936. 

Dorothy  Congdon  Gates  is  the  busy 
proprietor  of  two  shops  at  La  Jolla, 
where  she  reports  business  is  flourishing. 
Her  son  is  fifteen,  headed  probably  for 
Stanford  or  California  Tech.  She  spent 
her  last  vacation  around  Seattle  and  Vic- 
toria with  Margaret  Vilas  Lyle,  1908. 

Edith  Durand  McColl  reports  that 
though  she  feels  very  far  away  from  her 
old  friends  she  is  enjoying  life  in  Winni- 
peg with  a  congenial  new  group.  She  is 
much  interested  in  the  University 
Women's  Club.  Her  two  oldest  girls  are 
in  high  school,  and  the  little  one,  Frances, 
who  was  ill  the  first  five  years  of  her 
life  is  now  well  and  strong  and  doing- 
well  in  the  sixth  grade. 


Alice  Ropes  Kellogg  is  at  503  Green- 
wood Avenue,  Portland,  Oregon.  With 
her  whole  family  she  spent  last  summer 
motoring  through  California,  Arizona, 
Kansas,  etc.,  to  Bangor  and  back  to  Ore- 
gon by  a  northern  route,  including 
Niagara  Falls.  Her  husband  returned  to 
China  in  September  and  she  hopes  to  go 
back  in  the  summer  of  1930.  Two  of  her 
girls  are  in  high  school,  two  in  the 
grades. 

Early  in  February  Anna  Louise  Strong 
gave  a  lecture  on  the  position  of  women 
in  Soviet  Russia  before  the  Young  Men's 
Hebrew  Association  in  Kansas  City.  The 
Class  Editor  was  very  anxious  to  hear 
her  speak  but  the  condition  of  the  roads 
made  it  impossible.  She  tried  to  reach 
her  over  the  telephone  but  was  equally 
unsuccessful. 

1906  will  be  very  sorry  to  hear  of  the 
death  of  Jessie  Thomas  Bennett's  father, 
Mr.  Isaac  Thomas,  in  December. 

Anna  McClanahan  Grenfell  was  the 
guest  of  honor  at  a  tea  given  in  San 
Francisco  by  the  Bryn  Mawr  Club.  She 
spoke  about  her  husband's  work  in 
Labrador. 

1907 
Class  Editor:  Alice  Hawkins, 

Taylor  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Penna. 
Elizabeth  Pope  Behr  is  much  interested 
in  the  public  schools  of  New  York  City. 
She  has  recently  been  made  a  member 
of  the  Joint  Education  Committee  which 
is  making  a  survey  of  the  situation  and 
is  to  make  recommendations  to  better 
conditions.  This  committee  represents  all 
the  important  women's  organizations  of 
Greater  New  York.  Popie  is  spokesman 
on  this  joint  committee  for  the  Civitas 
Club  of  Brooklyn.  She  is  also  Chairman 
of  the  Nursing  Committee  of  the  Mater- 
nity Centres  for  Brooklyn. 

Priscilla  Haines  is  living  at  home  in 
West  Haven,  Connecticut,  and  is  teach- 
ing French  in  the  High  School  there. 

Mary  Ferguson  is  running  a  Nursery 
School  at  Wynnewood. 

Peggy  Ayer  Barnes  viewed  the  In- 
augural Parade  from  the  roof  of  the 
Capitol  at  Washington,  and  was  among 
the  first  delegation  to  be  received  at  the 
White  House.  Her  husband  was  one  of 
Mr.  Hoover's  chief  assistants  in  the  Food 
Administration. 

The  rumor  about  Grace  Hutchins'  book 
is  true.  It  is  called  "Labor  and  Silk"; 
published  by  the  International  Publish- 
ing Company.  It  is  the  first  book  on  the 
Silk  Industry  from  the  workers'  side.  A 
review  of  it  will  appear  in  a  later  issue 
of  the  Bulletin. 


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1908 
Class    Editor:    Margaret     Copeland 
Blatchford    (Mrs.   N.    H.    Blatch- 
ford,  Jr.), 

844  Auburn  Road,  Hubbard  Woods, 
111. 

Margaret  Vilas  Lyle  (Mrs.  Stanley 
Lyle)  is  living  in  Seattle  at  100  West 
Highland  Drive. 

Fanny  Passmore  Lowe  spent  a  few 
days  in  Chicago,  accompanying  her  hus- 
band on  a  business  trip.  She  showed  her 
friends  in  Winnetka  some  very  good  pic- 
tures of  her  fine-looking  sons.  Speaking 
of  sons,  it  is  reported  that  Hazel  McLane 
Clark  has  a  very  wonderful  son  at  St. 
Paul's  School,  also  that  Louise  Cary 
Rosett  has  a  very  fascinating  son.  Now 
is  the  time  for  other  1908  mothers  to 
speak  up  for  their  wonderful  sons. 
Mothers  of  fascinating  daughters  might, 
too,  have  a  word  to  say.  Don't  let  Hazel 
and  Louise  have  all  the  glory. 

Jeannette  Griffith  has  been  to  Seattle 
and  Chicago  on  a  business  trip. 

Hazel  McLane  Clark  is  now  living  in 
New  York.  She  is  planning  a  motoring 
trip  along  the  Riviera  this  spring. 

Anna  Dunham  Reilly  has  been  on  a 
theatre  spree  to  New  York.  She  went 
to  eight  plays  in  four  days,  and  also  man- 
aged to  see  many  old  friends.  Her  old- 
est son,  John,  Jr.,  has  gone  to  California 
to  visit  Anna's  sister  for  the  rest  of  the 
winter. 

It  is  reported  that  Louise  Congdon 
Balmer  is  managing  a  school  in  La  Jolla, 
Calif.  _ 

Louise  Cary  Rosett  spent  last  summer 
in  Scotland  and  expects  to  go  abroad  this 
summer. 

Marjorie  Young  Gifford's  friends  will 
be  very  sorry  to  hear  of  the  death  of  her 
mother  in  December. 

Margaret  Copeland  Blatchford's  father, 
who  was  a  very  loyal  member  of  the 
Class  of  1908,  died  in  November. 

1909 

Class  Editor:  Helen  Bond  Crane, 
Denbigh  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr. 

The  editor  apologizes  for  having  so 
little  to  report  this  month;  she  had  hoped 
to  collect  some  news  at  the  time  of  the 
Alumnae  Meeting,  but  unfortunately  it 
was  necessary  for  her  to  be  away  from 
college  over  that  particular  week-end. 
However,  as  only  a  very  few  of  1909 
appeared  for  the  meeting,  the  class  notes 
in  this  issue  would  not  have  been  in- 
creased much  if  she  had  been  on  the  spot. 

During  January,  Mary  Nearing  Spring 
suddenly  appeared  on  the  campus  for  a 
few  brief  moments,  in  the  interstices  of 


doing  some  landscape  gardening.  (Pro- 
fuse apologies  if  this  isn't  the  proper 
term.)  Sally  Webb  also  arrived  on  the 
same  day,  and  we  three  had  a  surprised 
meeting  in  Goodhart.  Both  visitors  were 
persuaded  to  stay  for  the  Gabrilowitsch 
concert  that  night,  but  no  longer. 

Dorothy  North,  approached  for  news 
of  herself,  wrote  that  she  was  spending 
some  time  in  Tucson,  Arizona,  with  her 
mother.  She  has  had  some  interesting 
motor  trips  about  the  country,  both  east 
and  west  of  Chicago,  but  they  seem  to 
have  been  flitting  ones. 

The  real  piece  of  news  which  the  editor 
wishes  to  give  to  the  class  at  large  is 
that  the  Glee  Club  is  to  give  Patience, 
on  May  fourth.  Do  save  that  date,  all 
you  who  are  anywhere  within  fair  reach, 
and  let's  have  an  informal  reunion.  Our 
orchestra,  in  the  person  of  Scrap,  should 
surely  be  here;  also  Alta,  who  could  tell 
them  a  thing  or  two  on  production,  not 
to  speak  of  Carlie,  the  perfect  Patience. 
All  maidens  and  heavy  dragoons  will 
doubtless  "yearn"  to  be  supers,  but  even 
though  that  is  denied  us,  we  shall  prob- 
ably be  much  refreshed  by  seeing  and 
hearing  what  is  sure  to  be  a  good  per- 
formance, on  a  stage  big  enough  to  hold 
the  entire  cast  at  once,  without  the  dan- 
ger of  anyone  being  pushed  off  into  space. 

1912 
Class     Editor:     Catharine     Thompson 
Bell   (Mrs.  C.  Kenneth  Bell), 
2700  Chicago  Blvd.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Elizabeth  Faries  Howe  is  directing  the 
Physical  Education  for  Women  at  the 
College  of  the  Ozarks  where  her  husband 
is  Professor  of  History.  .Week-ends, 
Fairy  says,  are  spent  in  trips  and  picnics 
into  the  foothills  and  in  their  new  Ford 
the  Howes  seem  to  have  fully  covered  the 
western  half  of  Arkansas. 

Mary  Peirce  is  making  a  grand  tour 
of  California  and  the  West  and  rounding 
up  1912  en  route.  In  Seattle  she  called 
up  Alice  Brown  Martin.  After  a  trip 
abroad  this  summer  Alice  expects  to  come 
East  and  settle  permanently  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  New  York. 

Mary  also  found  Ada  Forman  teaching 
French  and  phonetics  in  Pasadena. 

Rebecca  Lewis  is  studying  at  Columbia 
this  winter. 

Of  late,  excellent  reviews  of  "Child 
Birth"  by  George  Lee  have  been  appear- 
ing in  the  press.  This  is  a  book  written 
by  the  husband  of  Maysie  Morgan  Lee. 
After  his  death  Maysie  spent  six  months 
getting  it  ready  for  publication,  working 
out  all  the  details,  even  to  the  cuts  and 
line  drawings. 


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Dorothy  Chase  Dale  announces  the 
birth  of  a  young  daughter,  Dorothy  Dale, 
on  November  29th,  1928. 

One  of  the  busiest  and  most  enterpris- 
ing members  of  the  class  is  Margaret 
Thackray  Weems.  Tack  has  formed  a 
company  to  give  instruction  in  the  Weems 
System  of  Navigation  —  the  scheme 
evolved  by  her  husband.  Lindbergh  uses 
it.  Byrd,  who  was  a  classmate  of  Van's 
at  Annapolis,  is  using  apparatus  worked 
out  by  him.  And  Lincoln  Ellsworth,  who 
came  for  one  day  to  investigate,  stayed 
two  months  to  study.  Tack  has  flown, 
she  says,  and  worked  navigation  in  the 
air  just  as  an  experiment.  She  is  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager  of  the  Com- 
pany, which  is  the  only  business  of  its 
kind  at  the  present  time. 

Alice  Stratton  is  now  feeling  very 
much  better  and  teaching  at  Abington 
Memorial  Hospital,  Abington,  Pa. 

Clara  Francis  Dickson  who  has  also 
been  quite  ill  has  now  recovered  and  is 
strenuously  devoted  to  golf  at  the  Coun- 
try Club  adjacent  to  her  house. 

1913 

Class  Editor:  Betty  Fabian  Webster 
(Mrs.  Ronald  Webster), 
905  Greenwood  St.,  Evanston,  111. 

Katharine  Stout  Armstrong  and  family 
have  moved  recently  from  Evanston  to 
Lake  Forest,  where  they  have  bought  a 
beautiful  place  on  the  lake  shore. 

Eleanor  Elmer  Tenney  sailed  for 
Europe  February  23rd.  She  will  motor 
through  France  with  friends  and  expects 
to  be  home  in  six  weeks. 

Alice  Ames  Crothers  and  husband  went 
abroad  in  November,  where  they  expect 
to  remain  for  six  months. 

Marguerite  Bartlett  Hamer  is  still  at 
the  University  of  Tennessee,  in  Knox- 
ville,  where  she  is  assistant  professor  of 
history.  She  is  looking  forward  to  hav- 
ing one  of  her  students  take  graduate 
work  at  Bryn  Mawr  next  year.  She  ex- 
pects to  motor  this  summer  from  Knox- 
ville  to  Detroit. 

Marion  Taylor  Hollander  and  small 
son,  aged  three,  are  spending  the  winter 
at  Carson  City,  Nevada.  Her  address  is 
Box  205.  She  is  very  enthusiastic  about 
the  invigorating  quality  of  the  climate, 
and  the  hospitality  of  the  people. 

All  of  1913  who  had  the  good  fortune 
to  know  Gertrude  Congdon  Crampton, 
1909,  will  be  shocked  to  hear  of  her  sud- 
den death  on  February  5th.  She  took  a 
prominent  part  in  parent-teachers  Coun- 
cils  on   the   high    school   board,    and    in 


musical  affairs  in  Evanston,  and  filled  a 
unique  place  in  the  hearts  of  her  many 
friends. 

1917 

Class  Editor:  Isabella  Stevenson 
Diamond, 
1621  T  St.,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

I  am  particularly  anxious  to  help  Nats 
in  arousing  interest  for  our  reunion  in 
June  by  having  Class  Notes  appear  in 
each  Bulletin  between  now  and  then. 
Ten  pleas  were  dispatched  around  Feb- 
ruary 1.  As  a  reward  I  am  lucky  to 
have  a  long,  interesting  letter  from  Doris 
Bird.  Doris  writes  of  her  three  children, 
Teddy,  almost  six,  who  goes  to  Kinder- 
garten, and  who,  as  Doris  says,  is  getting 
very  grown  up;  Jack,  who  is  nearly  three 
and  a  half,  fat  and  cuddly,  a  friendly, 
lovable  little  fellow  who  attracts  attention 
wherever  he  goes;  the  baby,  Doris,  now 
almost  eighteen  months  old,  who,  her 
mother  says,  finds  more  pins,  needles, 
hairpins,  scissors  and  tacks  than  she  be- 
lieved there  were  in  the  whole  world ! 
After  the  baby  came,  a  larger  house  was 
necessary,  so  the  family  is  now  installed 
at  233  W.  Horter  Street,  Germantown, 
Philadelphia. 

If  anyone  wants  to  help  the  class  pub- 
licity by  volunteering  a  little  news  about 
herself  or  anyone  else  in  the  class  of 
whom  she  knows,  I  shall  be  deeply  grate- 
ful. 

1918 

Class  Editor:  Helen  Walker, 

5516  Everett  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

The  class  extends  its  deepest  sympathy 
to  Adelaide  Shaffer  and  Judith  Hemen- 
way,  who  both  lost  their  husbands  last 
spring;  and  to  Margaret  Timpson,  whose 
father  died  this  fall. 

Judy  is  still  in  Deerfield  with  her  small 
son  and  daughter,  but  has  sold  her  hus- 
band's school  to  one  of  the  teachers,  and 
has  moved  into  a  different  house. 

Buffy:  "I  am  having  my  portrait 
painted  by  a  local  artist  an^l  helping  to 
start  a  Manuscript  Club  for  aspiring 
amateur  writers." 

Irene  Loeb:  "We  have  just  built  a 
really  lovely  place  with  everything  in  it 
we  could  possibly  want  at  7200  Wydown 
Blvd.,  St.  Louis.    The  baby  is  just  fine." 

Peg  Bacon :  "Our  greatest  news  is  the 
arrival  of  a  daughter  on  June  29th.  Her 
three  older  brothers  are  almost  as  pleased 
as  her  parents  at  her  being  a  girl." 

Stairy:  "My  most  exciting  news  is  a 
small    daughter    who    is    now    about    7 


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months  old.  Her  name  is  Sarah  Helen 
Dempwolf." 

Mary  Gardner:  "I  am  again  at  Bryn 
Mawr  as  Instructor  in  Biology  after  a 
summer  at  the  Laboratory  at  Woods 
Hole.  I  am  feeling  quite  antiquated  as 
our  reunion  approaches  and  hope  great 
hordes  of  our  patriotic  class  will  appear 
on  the  campus  in  June." 

Muggins:  "I  am  very  busy  working  at 
Mass.  Institute  of  Technology.  My  hus- 
band and  I  spent  most  of  last  year  in 
California  and  are  saving  up  for  another 
toot." 

Dot  Stevenson:  "We  are  living  in  the 
real  country  but  only  38  minutes  from 
Chicago;  new  address,  Sunset  Ridge 
Farm,  Northbrook,  111.  We  and  Olive 
Bain  and  her  husband  went  to  the  Derby 
together  last  spring." 

Babe  Allen:  "I  have  a  little  girl  three 
years  old  and  a  bouncing  boy  of  four 
months,  and  we  still /  enjoy  living  on  a 
ranch.  I  had  a  stone  removed  from  my 
kidney  last  fall  and  it  laid  me  up  for 
two  months." 

Eleanor  Atherton:  "My  Junior  League 
— Bob,  1  year;  Ned,  3  years,  and  Tom, 
5  years — keep  me  very  absorbed  and  in- 
terested; I  think  boys  must  be  more 
strenuous  and  harder  on  houses  and 
mothers  than  girls  are."  How  about  it 
Peg,  Harriet  and  Ruth? 

Sally  Morton:  "Two  of  my  three 
women  started  school  this  year,  and  the 
youngest  is  a  baby  out  of  a  book,  always 
fat  and  pleasing  and  charming.  I've  fallen 
in  love  with  the  Bryn  Mawr  Club  in  New 
York;  it  is  the  most  delightful  place  to 
eat  in  town,  not  excepting  private  homes." 

Marjorie  MacKenzie:  "Am  off  on  a 
fine  trip;  Christmas  in  London,  New 
Year's  in  Paris,  later  Bordeaux  and  per- 
haps Bayonne  and  Biar.ritz  and  home  by 
the  end  of  January,  when  we  will  be  de- 
lighted to  see  our  small  son  again." 

Alice  Kerr:  "I  haven't  any  news  but 
I  run  into  a  Bryn  Martyr  every  now  and 
then;  if  I  didn't,  I'd  think  I  only  dreamed 
Bryn  Mawr." 

Annette  Gest:  "I  spent  last  summer 
milling  around  British  Columbia  and 
Alberta  with  a  horse  and  lots  of  duffle 
bags.  Had  a  grand  time.  This  winter 
I  am  back  polyglotting  at  Irwin's,  teach- 
ing Spanish,  Italian  and  German." 

Katty  Holliday:  "I  recently  attended 
the  B.  M.  Alumnae  Council  meeting  in 
New  Haven,  being  Councillor  for  District 
IV  and  I  feel  more  informed  about  col- 
lege affairs  than  for  10  years." 

Lucy  Evans:  "Dr.  Chew  and  I  are 
planning    a    sabbatical    year    abroad    in 


1929-30  and  hope  this  time  to  reach  Egypt 
in  our  travels." 

Ruth  Rhoads:  "I  am  Assistant  at  the 
Friends'  Library  in  Germantown  this 
winter." 

Helen  Whitcomb:  "I  have  a  son  about 
a  year  old,  but  he  and  his  sister  are  pro- 
nounced brunettes;  neither  of  them  has 
a  trace  of  red  hair  or  a  suspicion  of  a 
curl !" 

K.  Dufourcq:  "We  like  Hastings  very  ■ 
much  and  we  and  our  children  often  see 
Kitty  Sharpless  and  Andy  and  their  chil- 
dren." 

Rebecca  Rhoads :  "I  hope  to  have  some- 
thing to  show  one  of  these  days  for  a 
laborious  summer  spent  in  the  British 
Museum.  I  also  acted  as  'Pink'  for  my 
college  during  the  Oxford  Summer 
School  for  Women  Teachers  and  Gradu- 
ates, and  spent  a  brief  but  blissful  period 
in  Dresden  and  the  fastness  of  Upper 
Bavaria  and  the  Tyrol." 

Dot  Kuhn:  "Everything  the  same;  no 
news,  but  very  busy." 

Eugenia  Lynch:  "I  am  still  teaching 
Latin  at  Roxborough  High  School  but 
have  moved  to  10  Kathmere  Rd.,  Brook- 
line,  Penna." 

Buttie:  "Did  I  tell  you  that  I  have  a 
second  daughter  now  nearly  iy2  years 
old?" 

Adelaide  Shaffer  is  at  the  Bertrand 
Russell  School  in  England  for  the  sake 
of  her  7-year-old  Frances.  Her  boy, 
about   \y2  years  old,  is  splendid. 

Harriet  Hobbs  reports  that  her  three 
fine  boys  keep  her  very  busy  and  sends 
delightful  photographs  which  we  wish  we 
could  publish. 

Sapphs  was  in  Boston  until  January 
when  the  fleet  went  South  for  the  win- 
ter, but  expects  her  husband  to  go  on 
shore  duty  in  June. 

Ruth  Cheney  deserted  her  family  last 
May  and  week-ended  in  England  with 
her  husband.  They  came  home  on  the 
He  de  France  with  Posy  Fiske  and  her 
husband,  who  had  been  in  i  Africa  and 
France.  The  food  was  fine  and  the  com- 
pany finer,  so  it  was  a  delightful  trip. 
Posy  is  god-mother  to  Ruth's  small 
daughter. 

Veronica  Frazier  Murray  obtained  a 
divorce  from  Cecil  Dinmore  Murray  in 
December.  She  retains  custody  of  the 
two  children,  Michael,  seven,  and  Julia, 
four.  She  is  as  present  practicing  psy- 
choanalysis in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts. 

Louise  Hodges  Crenshaw  and  Dr. 
Crenshaw  are  in  Berlin  where  they  are 
spending  part  of  their  leave  of  absence 
for  the  year. 


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1919 

Class  Editor:  Mary  Morris  Ramsay 
Phelps 

(Mrs.  William  Eliott  Phelps), 
Guyencourt,  Del. 

"A  second  daughter,  Maud  Fuller  Sav- 
age, was  born  February  21,  to  Mrs. 
Howard  J.  Savage  (Frances  Higginson 
Fuller,  1919),  of  Scarsdale,  New  York,  at 
White  Plains." 

Henry  Stambaugh's  address  is  30  East 
10th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Marjorie  Remington  Twitchell's  sum- 
mer  address  is  Setauket,  L.  I. 

1919's  Reunion  will  be  on  Saturday, 
June  1st,  with  Denbigh  for  headquarters. 
It  will  include  a  class  meeting  and  a  pic- 
nic. Please  answer  Mary  Tyler  Zabris- 
kie's  postals  as  soon  as  possible,  so  we 
shall  know  how  many  to  provide  food 
and  costumes  for.  I  have  been  very 
lively,  having  lunch  in  Alexandria  with 
Mary  and  Gordon  in  February,  and  see- 
ing Zav  and  Mary's  two  little  boys  and 
Gordon's  girl,  and  then  in  March  going 
to  Princeton  for  lunch  with  Eleanor  and 
Freddy,  and  meeting  Eleanor's  husband 
and  adorable  little  daughter. 

Marj  Ewen  (Mrs.  Milton  Simpson)  is 
living  at  316  West  97th  Street,  New  York 
City,  and  would  be  very  glad  to  receive 
the  Alumnae  Bulletin  at  that  address. 
She  has  a  daughter,  Grace,  who  is  two 
years  old,  and  a  son  who  was  born  in 
January.  Marj  had  chicken  pox  a  few 
weeks  before,  and  when  the  baby  was 
born  he  had  it,  which  was  quite  unique. 

Hazel  Collins  Hainsworth  and  her 
husband  have  been  in  New  York. 

The  news  is  that  K.  T.  is  coming  to 
reunion,  all  the  way  from  California. 
That  certainly  ought  to  be  an  example 
to  everyone  else. 

1920 
Class  Editor:   Mary   Hardy 

518  Cathedral  St.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Other  foreign  news  relayed  to  the  edi- 
tor, is  that  of  Helene  Zinsser  Loening. 
The  Loenings  have  moved  into  a  new 
house  in  Bremen,  Georg-Groningstrasse 
23 — "the  duckiest  little  house  with  a  gar- 
den, dumbwaiter,  pantry,  open  fireplace, 
and  two  bath-rooms  with  built-in 
showers."  After  a  gay  and  merry  win- 
ter, being  a  combination  of  parties  and 
music  lessons,  dancing  and  French  and 
Spanish,  Zin  spent  the  spring  with  her 
family  who  went  over  to  visit  her,  and 
with  them  she  seems  to  have  "toured" 
Italy  and  Spain  and  Paris  very  thor- 
oughly. Her  "foreign  travel"  ended  in  a 
flourish  by  flying  with  her  husband  from 
Paris  to  Cologne. 


Marian  Frost  Willard  announces  the 
arrival  of  her  second  daughter,  Evelyn 
Allen,  born  the  twelfth  of  last  August. 
Marian's  oldest  daughter,  Elizabeth,  is 
three  years  old. 

On  January  20th  Edith  Stevens  Stev- 
ens's second  son  and  fourth  child  was 
born,  whose  name  is  Benjamin  Hazard. 

1922 
Class  Editor:  Serena  Hand  Savage 
(Mrs.  William  Savage), 
29  West  12th  St.,  New  York  City. 

The  "Register  of  Alumnae  and  Former 
Students"  has  been  published !  We  now 
have  items  of  interest  about  bashful 
maidens  who  are  too  modest  to  send  edi- 
torial news  of  themselves ! 

Ursula  Batchelder  was  married  last 
year  to  Mr.  Raleigh  Webster  Stone,  and 
is  living  in  Chicago. 

Sadie  Baron  is  Resident  Physician  at 
the  Pennsylvania  Hospital  for  Nervous 
and   Mental   Diseases,   in   Philadelphia. 

Ethel  Brown  is  secretary  at  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New 
York. 

Anna  Dom  Lester  has  a  daughter. 

Louise  Ehlers  is  a  stenographer  in  the 
firm  of  Herman  Loewenstein,  New  York 
City. 

Dorothy  Ferguson  is  a  tutor. 

Anne  Gabel  is  head  of  the  English  De- 
partment of  the  Moorestown  Friends' 
School. 

Marian  Garrison  is  head  of  the  Science 
Department  at  Miss  Low's  School,  at 
Briarcliffe,  Manor. 

Malvina  Glasner  Bloom  has  a  daughter 
and  is  now  living  in  Indianapolis. 

Mary  Douglas  Hay  is  associated  with 
J.  P.  Morgan  and  Co. 

Frances  Label  is  head  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Mathematics  and  Director  of 
Curriculum  of  the  Darby  High  School, 
Darby,  Pa. 

Gulielma  Melton  Kamimer  is  living  in 
Gadsden,  S.  C. 

1923 
Class  Editor:  Katharine  L.  Strauss, 
27  -E.  69th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Augusta  Howell  Love  joy,  after  a  brief 
trial  of  the  rural  life  in  Illinois,  has 
moved  to  Detroit,  Michigan,  (address 
1019  Van  Dyke  Avenue),  where  Pat  is 
working  for  the  Detroit  Edison  Company. 
Toward  the  end  of  February  she  is  going 
for  a  visit  to  her  family  to  the  Mid  Pines 
Club  near  Pinehurst. 

Betty  Gray  was  married  to  Mr.  Morgan 
Fisher  Vining,  on  the  31st  of  January. 
They  will  live  at  Chapel  Hill,  North 
Carolina. 


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Margery  Barker  is  living  in  Michigan 
City.  About  once  a  year  she  goes  abroad 
to  buy  books,  and  execute  commissions 
for  rare  books  and  bindings  for  her  book- 
shop. 

D.  M.  and  Phil  Kunhardt  have  returned 
from  their  sojourn  in  England,  having 
lost  fifteen  pounds  apiece  on  the  British 
diet  of  cabbage  and  cabbage. 

Florence  Martin  Chase  has  a  son,  born 
February  8.  He  is  to  be  called  Martin 
Starkweather  Chase. 

1924 
Class    Editor:     Beth    Tuttle    Wilbur 
(Mrs.  Donald  Wilbur), 
Rosemont,  Pa. 

Buck  was  married  on  December  29  to 
F.  Alvin  Bassett  of  Collingwood,  On- 
tario. Howdy  was  Maid  of  Honor  and 
there  were  many  of  '24,  and  of  other 
classes  as  well,  among  the  guests.  The 
one  thing  we  don't  like  about  this  wed- 
ding is  that  Buck  and  Bassie  have  gone 
to  Collingwood  to  live,  and  that  Buck 
will  no  longer  cheer  her  namesakes,  the 
Buccaneers,  to  victory. 

We  hear  that  Marge  Ferguson  Blank 
has  a  daughter,  but  have  been  unable  to 
glean  any  details  except  that  she  must  be 
quite  grown  up  by  this  time.  Please  send 
us  news,  Marge ! 

Al  Anderson  McNeely's  husband  has 
gone  to  Aden,  Arabia,  on  business,  and 
Al  plans  to  leave  sometime  soon  for  a 
Mediterranean  cruise  and  then  to  meet 
him  in  Paris. 

Eliza  Bailey  Wright  also  has  a  daugh- 
ter, her  second  child,  born  last  summer, 
about  which  we'd  like  to  hear  more, 
please. 

Ethel  Tefft  MacAfee,  also  a  daughter, 
Ethel,  Jr.,  born  last  June.  We're  sorry 
for  the  lateness  of  announcing  these 
daughters,  but  the  mothers  are  so  ret- 
icent ! 

Libby  Briggs  is  studying  stage  dancing 
at  the  Ned  Wayburn  School  in  New 
York.  She  is  planning  to  do  specialty 
work  as  soon  as  her  course  is  finished. 

1928 
Class  Editor:  Helen  F.  McKelvey, 
Suffern,  N.  Y. 

The  middle  west  is  holding  its  own 
as  far  as  interesting  things  to  do  are 
concerned,  all  of  which  we  learned  from 
this  most  welcome  letter  from  Bertha 
Ailing: 

"I've  just  been  reading  the  Bulletin 
and  see  you  are  lacking  in  news  of  us 
Chicagoans,  so  here's  a  contribution  that 
may  help  fill  up  space: 


"Ruth  Holloway  is  taking  painting  les- 
sons and  planning  to  have  Sally  Hoeffer 
visit  her  sometime  toward  the  end  of  Jan- 
uary. Hookie  is  valiantly  going  to  the 
Art  Institute  and  having  a  glorious  time 
on  the  side.  Lee  Hollander  came  up 
here  for  a  few  days  this  vacation;  she's 
going  to  Illinois  for  her  M.A.  in  Chem. 
or  something — and  I  took  them  both  (Lee 
and  Hookie)  to  lunch.  Hookie  also  had 
a  swell  dinner  dance  to  which  I  went 
with  great  thrills.  I  saw  Peggy  Haley 
for  one  day  on  her  way  east. 

"I've  been  rehearsing  frantically  the 
past  month  to  be  a  pirate  in  the  Junior 
League  Children's  play  of  'Treasure 
Island'  that  we  give  every  Saturday 
morning  during  January  and  February. 
Can  you  beat  it?  But  it's  lots  of  fun, 
especially  as  I  find  the  treasure  and  then 
die  on  the  stage.  Mother  and  I  are  con- 
templating Europe  in  April,  but  at  pres- 
ent it's  rather  doubtful.  Lenore  Brown- 
ing, after  going  to  a  secretarial  school  all 
summer,  has  got  the  job  she  wanted  at 
the  Carnegie  Institute  in  Pittsburgh.  Also 
Alice  Bonnewitz  is  contemplating  going 
east  for  a  secretarial  course  sometime 
soon.  And  that's  all  the  news  I  know. 
Oh,  yes,  Greggie  went  to  New  Orleans 
for  her  Christmas  vacation  —  pretty 
doggy!" 

Many  thanks  to  Bertha. 

And  here  is  a  little  more  detailed  news 
of  Greggy,  gleaned  from  a  letter  to  Peg 
Barrett.  "I'm  carrying  three  quite  stiff 
courses  in  math,  and  taking  an  art  course 
downtown  Saturday  mornings,  which  is 
an  awful  blight,  but  really  will  mean  a 
lot,  I  know,  when  I  finally  go  abroad. 
I've  been  taking  riding  lessons  and  enjoy- 
ing it  immensely.  My  French  is  coming 
well,  and  I  hope  not  to  be  too  hopeless 
by  June.  I  sit  on  Mademoiselle's  right 
hand  and  even  understand  her  jokes.  But 
alas,  they  lack  the  je  ne  sais  quoi  of 
our  Bryn  Mawrian  jokes." 

Jean  Morganstern  was  married  on  Oc- 
tober 1st  to  Mr.  William  A.  Greenebaum, 
and  is  now  living  in  Bridgeport,  N.  J. 
She  is  busily  keeping  house,  and  with- 
stands all  criticism  from  novices  such  as 
Ginny  Atmore,  who  insulted  her  waffles. 

Ginny  is  making  merry  with  the  mince 
meat,  and  has  been  to  Chicago  on  a  busi- 
ness convention.  She  is  all  puffed  up 
with  pride  over  her  sister  Mollie's 
achievements  as  a  freshman. 

Billy  Rhein  Bird  returned  from  her 
honeymoon  at  the  beginning  of  January, 
and  has  settled  down  at  137  East  29th, 
N.  Y.,  with  her  English  husband  and  a 
charming  apartment. 


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Of  Kate  Hepburn's  marriage  we  can 
say  very  little,  except  that  it  has  taken 
place.  We  would  like  to  know  her  mar- 
ried name  and  address,  please,  so  that 
we  can  send  her  her  wedding  present 
from  the  class.  If  anyone  else  has  got- 
ten married  and  has  not  received  her 
present,  please  let  me  know. 

Al  Bruere  and  Tuttle  were  back  for 
Freshman  Show,  also  Peggy  Hayley,  who 
is  staying  at  the  Barbizon  in  New  York, 
and  Mat  Fowler,  and  ourself.  There  may 
have  been  others,  but  we  were  too  excited 
by  seeing  a  Freshman  Show  in  Goodhart, 
to  notice. 

Elinor  Amram  has  been  flying  from 
literary  course,  to  social  dinners,  and 
even  so  manages  to  get  out  to  college 
tea  once  in  a  while.  There  is  a  rumor 
that  she  may  play  the  part  of  Bunthorne 
in  the  Glee  Club's  performance  of  "Pa- 
tience" this  spring. 

Jo  Young  and  Polly  McElwain  have 
gone  abroad  for  an  indefinite  length  of 
time.  Their  itinerary  was  also  indefinite, 
except  that  Jo  is  going  to  join  Mrs. 
Wright  in  Greece  for  the  Delphic  fes- 
tivals. 

Jean  Huddleston  has  been  giving  Was- 
serman  tests  at  some  laboratory  in  New 
York,  which  she  finds  very  interesting 
work. 

Mary  Fite  graduated  after  midyears, 
and  is  in  New  York  looking  for  some  sort 
of  work  in  connection  with  small  chil- 
dren; her  ideas  sound  most  interesting, 
and  we  hope  we  can  have  something 
definite  to  say  about  her  soon. 

Yildiz  Phillips  Van  Hulsteyn  is  also  a 
housekeeper,  living  in  Kew  Gardens,  Long 
Island.  Marge  Saunders  has  had  a  room 
with  her  this  winter. 

For  advertising  purposes,  we  will  close 
with  the  note  that  we  are  in  the  book 
business.  Our  office  is  on  44th  St.,  and 
we  wish  more  people  would  drop  in  to 
see  us;  you  can't  miss  it,  it  has  Week 
End  Book  Service,  and  Helen  F.  Mc- 
Kelvey  in  gold  letters  all  over  the  door. 
Our  business  address  is  341  Madison 
Ave.,  and  we'd  love  to  sell  you  any  book, 
any  time.  It  is  great  fun,  especially  as 
it  has  been  practically  an  independent 
venture. 

We  hope  these  notes  have  made  up  for 
our  past  neglect,  and  we  wish  everyone 
were  as  big  hearted  as  Bertha,  and  would 
send  us  long  letters  about  all  their  friends. 

In  the  New  York  Tribune  for  Decem- 
ber 9th,  Mary  Dana  announced  her  en- 
gagement to  William  C.  Kopper,  Colum- 
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THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 

FERRY    HALL 

A    RESIDENT    AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On   Lake  Michigan,  near   Chicago 

Junior  College;  High  School  Department:  College 
Preparatory  and  General  Courses.  Special  Departments 
of  Music,  Expression  and  Art. 

Two  new  dormitories,  including  new  dining  room  and 
infirmary,  to  be  opened  September  1929. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 

GRAY  GABLES 

THE  BOARDING  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE 
BANCROFT  SCHOOL  OF  WORCESTER 

Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 
One  year  course  for  Board   Examination. 

For  catalog  address: 

Hope  Fisheb,  Ph.D.,   Bancroft  School 

Wobcesteb,  Massachusetts 

ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 

(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  courses) 

CAROLINE  RUUTZ-REES,  Ph.D.  \  „     .  Mi  . 
MARY  E.  LOWNDES.  Litt.D        /  Heai  M*1""" 

GREENWICH       -       -       CONNECTICUT 

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MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 

COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses               Junior  High  Schoo 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,  Headmistress 

The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

rhe  Katharine  Branson  Schoo! 

IOSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Franciscc 

A  Country  School    College  Preparatory 

Head: 
Catharine   Fleming   Branson,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawi 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 

(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

330  19th  St.,  N.  W.              Washington,  D.  C 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 
Head  Mistress 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR                             PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr.  Mount  Hoiyoke.  Smith. 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  collegea.     Abundant  outdoor  life 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON.  A  B. 

HEAD 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 

THE  LOW  AND  HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

64th  year.     Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN   POINT,  STAMFORD,  CONN. 

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The  Saint  Timothy's  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

Founded  September  1882 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head  of  the  School 

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY   E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY.  CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M.,  Bryn  Mawr  College 

Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr  College 

UNIVERSITYgTrLS 

BOARDING  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough    and    successful    Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive  Chicago,  Illinois 

The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  1785) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 

A  country  day    school  for  boys 

Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 

CAMP   MYSTIC  conTe^Tcut 

Miss  Jobe's  salt  water  camp  for  girls 
8-18.  Conducted  by  Mrs.  Carl  Akeley  (Mary 
L.  Jobe) .  Halfway,  New  York  and  Boston. 
Land  and   water  sports.     Horseback  riding. 

MARY  L  JOBE,  Room  507.  607  Fifth  Ave.,  N.Y.C. 


THE  HARTRIDGE  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

50  minutes  jrom  New  York 

A  country  school  with  beautiful  grounds. 
College    Preparatory  and    General    Courses. 
Over  fifty  girls  in  leading  colleges  today. 
Resident  Department  carefully  restricted. 
Special  attention  to  Music  and  Art. 
Athletics,  Dramatics,  Riding, 
EMELYN  B.  HARTRIDGE,  Vassar,  A.B.,  Principal 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey 


lOGERSHALL 

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B^A  Thorough  Preparation  for  any  College 

■    ^L  One  Year  Intensive  Review 

Bi  lS^<  General  Academic  Course  with  dl- 
^■W  ^^Fploma.  Junior  College  Courses — Home 
Economics,  Secretarial  Training,  Music,  Art,  Dramatic 
Art.  26  Miles  from  Boston.  Outdoor  Sports.  Riding. 
Gymnasium.    Swimming  Pool. 

EDITH  CHAPIN  CRAVEN,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 
201  Rogers  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

The  Harcum  School 

BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 

Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  all  leading  colleges 

Musical  Course  prepares  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  Music  of   Bryn    Mawr   College 
EDITH  H.  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 
L.  MAY  WILLIS,  Principal 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 
Individual  Instruction.     Athletics. 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa. 
Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address:    Bryn  Mawr.  Pa. 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON  COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vwsar) 

Principal 


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BRIARCLIFF 

Mrs.  Dow*s  School  for  Girls 

Margaret  Bell  Merrill,  M.A.,  Principal 
BRIARCLIFF  MANOR  NEW  YORK 

College  Preparatory 
and  General  Academic  Courses 

Post  Graduate  Department 

Music  and  Art  with  New  York 
advantages.    New  Swimming  Pool 

Mu$ic  Dept.  Art  Dept. 

Jan    Sickesz        Chas.  W.  Hawthorne,  N.  A. 

Director  Director 


THE  CAMBRIDGE  SCHOOL 

DOMESTIC     ARCHITECTURE 

LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE 

A  Professional  School  for  College 

Graduates 

The  Academic  Year  for  1929-30  opens 

Monday,  October  7,  1929. 

Henry  Atherton  Frost  —  Director 

53    Church   Street,   Cambridge,  Mass. 

At  Harvard  Square 

Beech  Wood 

A  Camp  for  Girls 

On  Lake  Alamoosook  near  Bucksport,  Me. 

Water  sports,  athletics  and  other 
camp  interests.     Tutoring. 

Conducted  by 

HERMINE  EHLERS,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

Address:    FRIENDS  SEMINARY 

Rutherford  Place,  New  York  City 

ThePhebeAnna 
Thome  School 

Under  the  Direction  of  the 
Department  of  Education 


A  progressive  school  preparing 
for  all  colleges.  Open  air  class 
rooms.  Pre-school,  Primary, 
Elementary  and  High  School 
Grades. 


BRYN   MAWR,  PA. 

Agnes  L.  Rogers,  Ph.D.,  Director 
Frances  Browne,  A.B.,  HeadMistress 


Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 


GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  19  miles  from  New  York.     College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.       Music        Art  and 

Domestic  Science.       Catalogue   on  request.       Box  B 

MIRIAM   A.   BYTEL,    A.B.,    Radcliffe,    Principal 

BERTHA   GORDON   WOOD,    A.B.,    Bryn    Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


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INTENSIVE  WINTER  AND 
SUMMER  COURSES 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  ol  costume  design  and  illus- 
tration taught  In  shortest  time  com- 
patible with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  tor 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
partment disposes  of  student  work. 
Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
Bureau.    Write  for  announcement. 

In  Arnold,  Constable  &  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

1680  Broadway  (near  52nd  St.)  New  York 


Katharine  Qbbs 

A  school  of  unusual  character  with  a  distinctive 
purpose  for  educated  women 
SECRETARIAL   ACADEMIC  EXECUTIVE 


BOSTON 

SOMarlboroStreet 

Resident  and 

Day  School 

NEW  YORK 
247  Park  Avenue 

PROVIDENCE 
155  Angell  Street 


Special    Course    for    College 
Women.       Selected   subjects 
preparing  for  executive  posi- 
tions.      Separate  classrooms 
and  special  instructors. 
One-year  Course  includes  tech- 
nical and  broad  business  train- 
ing preparing  for  positions  of 
a  preferred  character. 
Two-year  Course  includes  six 
college  subjects  for  those  not 
desiring  college,  but  wishing 
cultural  as  well  as  a  business 
education. 
Booklet  on  request 


After  College  What? 

THE   DREXEL   INSTITUTE 
LIBRARY  SCHOOL 

Offers  a  one  year  course  for 
college  graduates,  and  pre- 
pares students  for  all  types 
of  library  service. 

PHILADELPHIA 


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BACK  LOG  CAMP 

THE  ADIRONDACK  MOUNTAINS 

INDIAN  LAKE,  NEW  YORK 

BRING  THE  CHILDREN  TOO 

Is  Back  Log  Camp  a  good  place  for  children?  For  very  young  children- 
No,  not  at  all,  although  we  occasionally  have  them.  But  for  active  boys 
and  girls  of  eight  or  ten  and  over,  whose  parents  want  to  spend  their  vaca- 
tion with  them,  Back  Log  Camp  is  an  ideal  place.  Special  tent  combina- 
tions can  be  made  to  suit  nearly  any  family  arrangement. 

If  you  are  interested  in  teaching  your  children,  or  in  learning  with 
them  or  from  them,  the  arts  of  canoeing,  swimming,  mountain  climbing, 
trail  finding,  or  trout  fishing,  you  will  find  that  we  offer  unusual  facilities. 
The  many  beautiful  picnicking  places  near  and  far  on  the  Lake  offer  pleas- 
ant objectives  for  family  trips.  Our  outlying  camps  give  an  opportunity 
for  small  family  parties  to  spend  the  night  out  in  the  woods  by  themselves. 


Letters  of  inquiry  should  be  addressed  to 

Mrs.  Bertha  Brown  Lambert  (Bryn  Mawr,  1904) 

272  Park  Avenue 

Takoma  Park,  D.  C. 


Other  references 

Mrs.  Anna  Hartshorne  Brown  (Bryn  Mawr,  1912) 

Westtown,  Penna. 

Dr.  Henry  J.  Cadbury 

(Head  of  Biblical  Dept.,  Bryn  Mawr) 

Haverford,  Penna. 


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THE  ALUMNAE  REGISTER 

Do  you  know  WHAT  THE  BRYN  MAWR  ALUMNAE  ARE  DOING? 

Do  you  know  WHAT    PERCENTAGE     OF    BRYN     MAWR    GRADUATES    ARE 

MARRIED,    HOW    MANY    CHILDREN   THEY    HAVE   AND   THE 

OCCUPATIONS  OF  THEIR  HUSBANDS? 
Do  you  know  FROM  WHAT  COLLEGES  AND  UNIVERSITIES  THE  GRADUATE 

SCHOOL  DRAWS  ITS  STUDENTS? 
Do  you  know  THE  LATEST  INFORMATION  ABOUT  YOUR  FRIENDS? 

ALL  OF  THIS  INFORMATION  is  contained  in  the 

REGISTER  OF  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS 

just  published  by  Bryn  Mawr  College. 

Your  application  on  the  attached  slip  will  bring  you  one  immediately. 


1929. 


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Taylor  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

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RADNOR  AND  THE  GRADUATE  SCHOOL 


May,  1929 


Vol.  IX 


No.  4 


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ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION   OF   BRYN    MAWR    COLLEGE 


OFFICERS  OF    THE   BRYN    MAWR   ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION 

EXECUTIVE  BOARD 

President Louise  Fleischmann  Maclat,  1906 

Vice-President Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  1917 

Recording  Secretary Gertrude  Hearne  Myers,  1919 

Corresponding  Secretary May  Egan  Stokes,  1911 

Treasurer Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903 

Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee Caroline  Morrow  Chadwick-Collins,    1905 

ALUMNAE  SECRETARY  AND  BUSINESS  MANAGER  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Alice  M.   Hawkins,  1907 

EDITOR  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Marjorie  L.  Thompson,  1912 

DISTRICT  COUNCILLORS 

District  I Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913 

District  II Julia  Langdon  Loomis    1895 

District  III Alletta  Van  Reypen  Korff,  1900 

District  IV Katharine  Holliday  Daniels,  1918 

District  V Frances  Porter  Adler,  1911 

District  VI Margaret  Nichols  Hardenbergh,  1905 

District  VII Helen  Brayton  Barendt,  1903 

ALUMNAE  DIRECTORS 

Ruth  Furness  Porter,  1896  Mary  Peirce,  1912 

Frances  Fincke  Hand.  1897  Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey,  1901 

CHAIRMAN  OF   THE   ALUMNAE  FUND 

Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  ACADEMIC  COMMITTEE 

Pauline  Goldmark,  1896 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  SCHOLARSHIPS  AND  LOAN  FUND  COMMITTEE 

Margaret  Gilman,  1919 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  HEALTH  AND  PHYSICAL  EDUCATION 

Dr.  Marjorie  F    Murray,  1913 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  NOMINATING  COMMITTEE 

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Vol.  IX  MAY,  1929  No.  4 


Bryn  Mawr  has  always  been  concerned  about  the  Graduate  School.  A  school 
of  its  size  and  importance  in  a  college  as  small  as  Bryn  Mawr  is  almost  unique, 
certainly  among  women's  colleges.  There  has  never  been  any  doubt  of  its  value 
to  the  college  or  of  the  stimulus  that  it  has  given  to  the  teaching,  or  of  the  respect 
that  it  has  inspired  in  the  academic  world.  And  yet  always  there  has  been  a  feeling 
that  it  has  not  worked  out  quite  as  was  hoped  in  the  beginning.  That  association 
between  more  mature  and  younger  students,  that  free  interplay  of  minds  that 
Miss  Thomas  visioned,  has  never  been  a  reality.  Each  group  has;  been  absorbed 
in  its  own  interests.  With  the  new  plan  of  turning  Radnor  into  a  Graduate 
Hall,  with  a  Dean  of  Graduate  students  in  residence,  the  Graduate  School,  no 
longer  so  closely  knit  writh  the  college  may,  paradoxically,  become  more  integrally 
a  part  of  it.  As  a  complete  entity  it  will  take  its  part  in  the  academic  and 
social  scheme  as  it  has  never  before  been  able  to  do  when  it  was  split  into  arbi- 
trary units  in  the  various  halls.  The  appointment  of  Eunice  Morgan  Schenck, 
'07,  as  first  Dean  of  the  Graduate  School,  is  a  particularly  happy  one.  Her  associa- 
tion with  the  Sdhool  has  been  very  close.  For  the  last  three  years  she  has  been 
the  President's  representative  to  the  Graduate  students,  and  is  in  touch  with  the 
authorities  here  and  abroad.  Her  gift  of  generous  enthusiasm  vivifies  the  whole 
project.  The  sacrifice  that  she  is  making  to  stay  at  Bryn  Mawr  is  a  genuine  one, 
and  gives  the  measure  of  her  belief  in  the  new  plan.  Such  belief  is  one  of  the  best 
auguries  for  its  complete  success.  In  the  article  which  is  printed  in  this  number 
of  the  Bulletin,  the  Dean-elect  can  of  course  only  indicate  in  barest  outline  her 
hopes  and  policies,  but  in  working  them  out  she  will  have  the  sympathetic  interest 
of  every  one  connected  with  Bryn  Mawr. 


THE  GRADUATE  SCHOOL  AND  RADNOR 

(On  March  25th  President  Park  announced  in  Chapel  two  important  changes 
in  College  policy.  These  changes  were  both  in  connection  with  the  Graduate  School. 
The  first  was  the  appointment  of  a  Dean  of  the  Graduate  School,  Professor  Eunice 
Morgan  Schenck,  who  for  the  last  three  years,  as  the  President's  Representative,  has 
advised  the  Graduate  students.  The  second  change  is  the  establishment  of  Radnor 
as  a  Graduate  Hall  exclusively.  The  Editors  asked  Professor  Schenck  to  write  some- 
thing about  the  new  plan  which  is  of  the  greatest  interest  to  every  one  connected 
with  Bryn  Mawr.J 

In  the  autumn  of  1929,  graduate  students  returning  to  Bryn  Mawr,  and  those 
coming  for  the  first  time,  will  find  a  hall  of  their  own  waiting  for  them.  'Radnor 
is  to  become  the  Graduate  Hall  of  the  College,  and  the  rooms  hitherto  assigned  to 
graduate  students  in  the  other  halls  will  from  now  on  be  used  by  undergraduates. 
The  number  of  rooms  for  graduate  students  on  the  campus  is  increased  by  ten  and 
the  number  of  undergraduate  rooms  is  maintained.  This  has  been  effected,  on  the 
one  hand,  by  converting  the  large  graduate  clubroom  in  Denbigh  into  rooms  for 
undergraduates,  and  on  the  other,  by  subdividing  the  larger  rooms  in  Radnor  and 
breaking  up  the  single  and  double  suites  into  single  rooms.  Radnor  was  planned 
on  so  generous  a  scale  that  the  bedrooms  of  the  present  suites,  as  well  as  their  studies, 
provide  entirely  satisfactory  single  rooms,  each  one  of  them  having  two  windows 
and  enough  floor  space  to  permit  a  closet  to  be  built  in  cases  where  there  is  none. 

The  new  Radnor  will  accommodate  sixty  graduate  students  of  whom  one  will 
be  named  by  the  President  of  the  College  as  "Senior  Resident"  and  will  act  as 
liaison  officer  between  the  students  and  the  college  authorities.  There  will  be  a 
manager  to  attend  to  the  material  side  of  the  hall.  The  Dean  of  the  Graduate 
School  will  occupy  an  apartment,  to  be  arranged  on  the  ground  floor  of  the  south- 
west wing. 

Radnor  has  always  been  fortunate  in  its  drawing-room  and  large  entrance  hall 
on  the  main  floor,  its  students'  sitting-room  and  large  central  hall  on  the  second 
floor.  These  should  furnish  a  comfortable  and  attractive  setting  for  the  social  life 
of  the  resident  graduate  students  and  give  to  the  non-resident  graduate  students  a 
place  to  come  to  during  any  hours  they  may  wish  to  spend  on  the  campus  outside 
of  the  library  or  laboratory. 

In  their  Denbigh  clubroom,  the  graduate  students  have  always  dispensed  hos- 
pitality at  tea  time  to  faculty  and  undergraduates.  In  the  larger  quarters  of  Radnor 
the  College  will  be  able  to  entertain  both  with  and  for  the  graduate  students  and  is 
fortunate  in  having  a  group  of  neighbors  who,  with  great  generosity,  have  established 
a  fund  for  this  purpose.  Some  of  the  distinguished  scholars  who  come  to  the  College 
to  lecture  can  be  brought,  in  the  future,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Graduate  School, 
and  the  Graduate  Hall  may  be  used  for  the  small  reception,  or  more  happily  still, 
the  intimate  discussion  that  sometimes  follows  a  lecture.  The  hall  teas  of  the  other 
halls,  at  which  class  groups  act  in  turn  as  hostesses  with  the  warden,  might  well  in 
Radnor  be  converted  into  teas  at  which  departments  or  groups  of  departments  would 
like  to  entertain  their  faculty  and  the  advanced  undergraduates  in  their  fields.     It 

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is  thought,  too,  that  the  graduate  students,  with  a  dining-room  and  reception-rooms 
all  their  own,  will  feel  more  like  entertaining  their  friends,  and  the  Dean  of  the 
Graduate  School  will  arrange,  from  time,  to  time  to  entertain  in  the  hall  dining-room, 
people  both  from  within  and  willhout  the  college  whom  the  students  will  enjoy 
meeting  informally. 

Any  such  plans,  however,  are  perfunctory  beside  the  as  yet  intangible  reality 
that  will  be  the  life  which  the  graduate  students  will  work  out  for  themselves.  The 
undergraduates  of  the  country  (have  pretty  satisfactorily  established  a  life  that  suits 
them.  Graduate  students  have  only  in  the  rarest  instances,  as  in  the  Graduate 
College  at  Princeton,  been  given  a  chance  to  carry  out  any  thought  they  might  have 
for  their  community  existence.  The  opening  of  Radnor  as  a  graduate  hall  gives  to 
a  group  of  highly-picked  young  women  scholars  an  opportunity  for  self-determina- 
tion. The  establishment  of  traditions  of  living  within  Radnor  itself  will  be  the 
pioneer  job  of  the  graduate  students  of  1929-1930.  It  will  be  the  task  of  everyone 
in  the  College  to  help  them  establish  the  best  possible  conditions  of  intercourse  between 
Radnor  and  the  rest  of  the  College. 

The  interest  and  significance  of  the  graduate  group  are  very  striking  to  anyone 
who  watches  it  being  collected  year  by  year  from  all  corners  of  this  country  and 
from  the  ends  of  the  earth.  The  process  of  awarding  resident  fellowships  and 
scholarships  for  next  year  left  us  not  only  with  the  usual  waiting  list  on  which  to 
draw,  in  case  any  of  the  successful  candidates  resigned,  but  with  a  waiting-list  topped 
by  fourteen  names  that  until  the  last  moment  were  being  considered  by  their  respective 
departments  as  runners-up  for  the  awards.  In  all  cases  these  fourteen  were  students 
whom  the  Faculty  would  not  only  have  welcomed  to  their  seminaries,  but  whom 
they  would  have  liked  to  honor  with  a  fellowship  or  a  scholarship.  Such  applicants 
are,  of  course,  given  first  choice  of  rooms,  after  the  fellows  and  scholars,  in  case 
they  can  afford  to  come  to  Bryn  Mawr  without  financial  help,  but  the  graduate 
student  is  only  too  often  apt  to  be  faced  with  tlhe  necessity  of  giving  up  studying 
temporarily,  if  a  scholarship  is  not  available.  It  is  a  most  healthy  sign  in  the  Grad- 
uate School  for  a  list  of  this  quality  to  exist. 

The  competition  for  the  scholarships  for  foreign  women  is  still  greater.  Last 
year  the  Faculty  Committee  found  itself  faced  wiflh  the  nearly  hopeless  task  of  making 
five  awards  among  over  fifty  candidates.  All  of  these  students  met  our  academic 
requirements  and  almost  all  were  recommended,  after  a  personal  interview,  by  one 
of  the  foreign  correspondents  of  the  Institute  of  International  Education,  who  now 
co-operate  with  us  in  finding  suitable  candidates  for  our  fellowships.  The  awards 
for  next  year  will  not  be  made  until  May,  but  judging  from  the  number  of  applica- 
tions that  are  already  in,  the  Committee  will  again  have  the  opportunity  to  clhoose 
among  many  excellent  young  women  who,  having  shown  their  ability  in  their  own 
universities,  wish,  like  the  good  migrating  students  of  all  countries  and  of  all  times, 
to  see  new  methods  of  hunting  knowledge. 

With  a  group,  then,  that  promises  to  furnish  academic  distinction  and  variety 
of  experience,  Radnor  will  open  its  first  year  as  a  graduate  hall. 

Eunice  Morgan  Schenck,  1907,  Dean-elect  of  the  Graduate  School. 


CANDIDATES  FOR  THE  OFFICE  OF 
ALUMNAE  DIRECTOR 


SUSAN  FOLLANSBEE  HIBBARD 

Susan  Follansbee  Hibbard  graduated  from  Bryn  Mawr  in  1897.  She  -is  a  well- 
known,  delightful,  public-spirited  citizen  of  Chicago.  Her  activities  have  been  con- 
stant and  performed  with  ease  and  effectiveness. 

She  was  made  Regional  Chairman  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  in  1917  and  as  such 
organized  and  directed  the  work  of  sending  young  women  to  France  to  'serve  in 
the  Canteens  and  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Centers.  She  went  abroad  (herself  to  superintend 
this  undertaking  and  did  a  most  thorough  and  useful  piece  of  work.  She  has  been 
a  member  of  the  National  Board  of  the  League  of  Women  Voters  from  1922-28. 
Her  qualities  of  tact  and  understanding  and  industry  have  made  her  a  most  valued 
member  of  the  Board.  She  is  interested  in  political  education  and  in  international 
understanding.  She  is  one  of  the  few  women  on  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Insti- 
tute of  Pacific  'Relations,  a  Director  of  the  International  Migration  Service,  also  a 
Director  of  the  Wood  row  Wilson  Foundation. 

She  has  always  been  a  devoted  and  interested  alumna  of  Bryn  Mawr  College. 
Her  unusual  executive  ability  and  her  faculty  of  making  people  work  with  her  with 
zeal  and  devotion  make  her  a  valuable  member  of  any  Board. 


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VIRGINIA  KNEELAND  FRANTZ 

Although  she  is  one  of  the  younger  alumnae,  Virginia  Kneeland  Frantz  has 
already  had  a  career  of  some  distinction.  Prepared  by  the  Brearley  School,  in  1915 
she  won  the  Matriculation  Scholarship  for  New  York,  New  Jersey,  and  Delaware. 
In  1918  she  graduated  from  College  second  in  her  class,  with  the  degree  of  magna 
cum  laude. 

As  an  undergraduate,  she  combined  with  her  scholarly  pursuits  many  other 
interests.  Her  ability  as  an  actress  is  remembered  by  those  who  saw  her  as  Beau 
Brummel,  or  as  Lord  Loam  in  Barrie's  Crichton.  More  notably,  as  Chairman  of 
the  College  War  Council  during  the  war,  she  filled  a  position  involving  the  heaviest 
kind  of  administrative  responsibility;  and  again  as  president  of  the  Undergraduate 
Association  she  worked  with  energy  and  initiative  in  behalf  of  the  academic  interests 
of  the  students.  In  recognition  of  the  many-sidedness  of  her  leadership — her  dignity, 
humor,  and  intelligence — she  was  awarded  the  Mary  Helen  Ritchie  Memorial  Prize. 

Her  decision  to  study  medicine,  Mrs.  Frantz  claims,  was  adopted  in  self-defense 
when  Miss  Thomas  questioned  her  as  a  Freshman  concerning  her  plans  for  the 
future.  A  doctor,  ihowever,  she  was  clearly  destined  to  be.  She  was  the  Shippen 
Scholar  in  Science  her  Senior  year,  and  she  is  still  spoken  of  in  Dalton  as  one  of 
the  most  brilliant  students  Bryn  Mawr  has  ever  had.  In  1918,  she  entered  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  Columbia  University,  from  which  she  gradu- 
ated in  1922,  again  second  in  her  class.  In  this  field,  most  difficult  for  women,  her 
ability  has  been  quickly  recognized,  for  she  won  her  interneship  at  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital  in  New  York;  and  she  is  at  present  its  Assistant  Surgical  Pathologist,  and 
Instructor  in  Surgery  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons. 

But  this  is  not  all.  In  1920  she  married  a  fellow  medical  student,  Angus  Mac- 
donald  Frantz,  and  she  now  has  two  children  who  are  renewing  in  a  very  practical 
manner  her  interest  in  school  and  college.  In  every  way,  then,  breadth  of  experience, 
sound  training,  and  distinction  of  mind,  it  seems  that  Mrs.  Frantz  has  much  to 
give  Bryn  Mawr. 

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PROFESSOR  JAMES  H.  BREASTED  LECTURES  AT 
BRYN  MAWR 

The  Mary  Flexner  Lectureship  Foundation,  one  more  gesture  of  friendship 
on  the  part  of  the  Flexner  family  toward  Bryn  Mawr,  means  that  Professor  Breasted, 
Director  of  the  Oriental  Institute  of  the  University  of  Ohicago,  and  one  of  the 
most  eminent  Oriental  scholars  in  the  world,  will  be  at  Bryn  Mawr  for  the  next 
four  weeks,  meeting  the  students,  lecturing  in  the  Seminars,  holding  informal  dis- 
cussions, and  giving  four  lectures  for  the  college  at  large  and  for  the  public.  When 
Miss  Park  spoke  at  the  Council  meeting  last  fall  she  discussed  the  problem  of 
"variety,"  and  cited  the  great  interest  that  outside  lecturers  can.  bring  to  every  one 
within  the  college,  and  the  fact  that  the  very  smallness  of  the  college,  with  its  close 
contacts,  makes  in  the  end  for  an  essential  variety.  In  Professor  Breasted's  visit 
to  Bryn  Mawr  one  sees  the  exemplification.     The  program  follows. 

THE  NEW  CRUSADE 

I. 

Thursday,  April   11th 

THE  PLACE  OF  THE  NEAR  EAST  IN  HUMAN 

DEVELOPMENT 

II. 

Friday,  April  19th 

THE  SCIENTIFIC  RESPONSIBILITY  OF  AMERICA  IN 

THE  NEAR  EAST  AND  THE  SALVAGING  OF 

THE   EVIDENCE 

III. 

Tuesday,  May  7th 

THE  EVIDENCE  AND  MAN'S  CONQUEST 

OF  NATURE 

IV. 

Tuesday,  May  14th 

THE  EVIDENCE  AND  THE  EMERGENCE  OF 

SOCIAL  IDEALISM 


ANNOUNCEMENT 

Miss  Park  has  undergone  an  operation  at  Johns  Hopkins  but  is  doing  very  well; 
in  her  absence  Mrs.  Manning  will  be  Acting-President,  and  Miss  Carey  will  continue 
to  be  Acting-Dean. 


COUNCILLORS  ELECTED 

The  Executive  Board  announces  with  pleasure  the  election  of  Alletta  Van  Reypen 
KorfT,  1900  (Baroness  Serge  Alexander  Korff),  of  Washington,  D.  C,  as  Councillor 
for  District  III;  and  of  Margaret  Nichols  Hardenbergh,  1905  (Mrs.  Clarence  Mor- 
gan Hardenbergh),  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  as  Councillor  for  District  VI. 

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THE  DEAN-ELECT  OF  THE  GRADUATE  SCHOOL 
IS  DECORATED 

Eunice  Morgan  Schenck  has  been  made  an  "Officier  d'Academie"  by  the  French 
Minister  of  Public  Instruction.  This  decoration  is  "destinee  a  reconnaitre  les  services 
de  ceux  qui  contribuent  au  developpement  de  la  culture  francaise." 

THE  ACTING  DEAN  IS  CALLED  TO  THE  BREARLEY  SCHOOL 

Millicent  Carey  has  been  appointed  Head  Mistress  of  the  Brearley  School  in 
New  York,  but  she  does  not  assume  her  new  position  until  October,  1930.  Last 
Spring  she  was  appointed  assistant  to  the  Dean  of  the  College.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  second  semester,  when  Helen  Taft  Manning  was  granted  leave  of  absence, 
she  became  Acting-Dean. 


DEBATE  WITH  SWARTHMORE 

The  debating  team  of  Bryn  Mawr  College  is  meeting  Swarthmore  at  8  o'clock 
on  Thursday  evening,  April  25,  in  Goodhart.  The  affirmative  side -of  the  subject, 
This  house  deplores  the  influence  of  advertising  on  public  welfare,  will  be  upheld 
by  the  Bryn  Mawr  representatives. . 


TEA-DANCE  TO  BE  GIVEN  BEFORE  VARSITY 
DRAMATICS 

"On  Wednesday,  March  20,  the  Undergraduate  Association  held  a  well-attended 
meeting  in  Room  F.  to  discuss  the  question  of  dancing. 

"The  most  important  decision  arrived  at  was  that  a  tea-dance  should  be  held 
on  April  13,  from  four  to  seven  in  the  afternoon,  before  Varsity  Dramatics,  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Undergraduate  Association.  This  will  be  the  first  dance  ever 
held  at  Bryn  Mawr,  but  it  will  be  of  a  very  mild  and  informal  character.  A  sub- 
stantial enough  tea  will  be  served  to  enable  the  guests  to  survive  witihout  dinner, 
it  was  announced.  Rockefeller  Hall  will  be  used  for  the  dancing,  and  an  orchestra 
will  be  provided.  The  total  price  for  play,  supper,  and  dance  for  two  is  six  dollars. 
A  place  will  be  provided  for  the  gentlemen  to  dress  before  the  play.  Girls  are  to 
cut  in,  and  may  attend  without  escort." 

The  preceding  notice  gives  no  indication  of  the  excitement  that  bubbles  on  the 
campus.  The  distinguished  guests  that  have  gathered  from  time  to  time  at  Bryn 
Mawr  have  become  mere  wraiths  compared  to  the  handful  of  undergraduates  from 
Princeton.  One  bears  rumours  of  diplomatic  correspondence  with  a  nearer  college 
than  Princeton  that  was  not  interested,  of  delicate  negotiations,  of  plans  made  and 
unmade,  but  the  tangible  evidence  of  a  new  era  is  the  large  truck,  backed  up  to  the 
stage  entrance  of  Goodhart.  And  on  its  side  is  writ  large  so  that  he  who  runs  may 
also  read,  "Princeton  Students  Express."  Need  one  add  that  the  house  was  sold 
out  almost  within  the  hour  that  the  tickets  for  The  Admirable  Crichton  were  put 
on  sale? 

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THE  ALUMNAE  BOOK  CLUB 

The  way  in  which  the  Library  can  belong  in  an  especial  sense  to  every  Alumna 
is  through  the  Book  Club.  Being  women,  and  therefore  practical,  we  are  all  con- 
crete minded.  The  appeal  of  the  tangible  is  one  that  we  find  hard  to  resist,  although 
we  may  theoretically  feel  otherwise.  This  year  the  Book  Club,  for  one  reason  and 
another,  has  lapsed  a  little,  but  that  is  never  true  of  the  needs  of  the  Library.  Always 
there  are  more  department  books  needed  than  there  is  money  for,  alluring  items  are 
always  appearing  in  Booksellers'  Catalogues  and  should  be  snapped  up  at  once,  were 
the  funds  on  lhand,  and  new  books  are  appearing  in  their  thousands  and  in  their 
tens  of  thousands.  The  dues  for  the  Book  Club  are  a  book  or  the  equivalent  of  a 
book.  Miss  Reed,  the  librarian,  is  only  too  happy  to  make  the  purchase  if  any  one 
wishes  to  send  to  her,  and  it  is  worth  while  remembering  that  she,  because  of  the 
Library  discount,  can  sometimes  stretch  the  price  of  one  book  to  cover  that  of  two. 
In  any  case  one  should  communicate  with  her  about  the  book  or  books  that  one 
proposes  to  give.  The  following  list  is  by  way  tof  suggesting  some  of  the  books 
of  general  interest  that  the  Library  would  like  to  have.  Also  there  is  always  the 
amusing  possibility  of  giving  books  along  one's  own  line  of  interest.  One  member 
of  the  Book  Club  last  year  gave  a  book  on  witchcraft,  and  this  year,  after  a  trip  to 
the  South-west  several  books  on  the  American  Indian,  whidh  already  have  proved 
useful  for  a  new  course  that  is  being  offered  this  year  for  the  first  time.  Certainly 
in  the  course  of  a  year  there  is  some  book  that  one  would  like  to  think  of  as  being 
available  for  the  college  community,  whether  its  interest  is  general  or  highly 
specialized.     Helen  MacCoy,  '00,  is  chairman.     Her  address  is  Haverford,  Pa. 

New  books  selected  from  the  spring  announcements: 

Portrait  of  Ambrose  Bierce,  by  Alphonse  de  Castro.    Century.    $3.50. 

George  Borrow,  by  Samuel  Milton  Elam.     Knopf.     $3.00. 

Mid-Channel,  by  Ludwig  Lewisohn.    Harper.    $3.50. 

Further  Correspondence  of  Samuel  Pepys,  edited  by  J.  R.  Tanner.    Harcourt.    $7.00. 

Generally  Speaking,  by  G.  K.  Chesterton.    Dodd,  Mead.    $2.50. 

The  Oxford  Book  of  Regency  Verse,  1798-1837,  edited  by  H.  S.  Milford.    Oxford 

University.     $3.75. 
The  Good  Estate  of  Poetry,  by  Chauncey  Brewster  Tinker.    Little,  Brown.    $3.50. 
Balloon,  by  Padraic  Colum.     Macmillan.     $2.00. 
Twenty  Plays,  by  Ferenc  Molnar.    Vanguard.    $5.00. 
Dynamo,  by  Eugene  O'Neill.      Liveright.    $2.50. 

The  Older  Woman  in  Industry,  by  Johanna  Lobsenz.    Scribner.    $2.50. 
The  Useful  Art  of  Economics,  by  George  Soule.    Macmillan.    $2.50. 
English  Poor  haw  History,  Part  II.    The  Last  Years,  by  Sidney  and  Beatrice  Webb. 

Longmans,  Green.     $14.00.      (This  has  been  ordered.) 
The  Social  World  of  the  Ants,  by  Auguste  Forel.    Boni.    2  vols.    $15.00. 
The  Sexual  Life  of  Savages,  by  Bronislaw  Malinowski.    Liveright.    2  vols.    $10.00. 
Awake  and  Rehearse,  by  Louis  Bromfield.    Stokes.   $2.50. 
Rome  Haul,  by  Walter  D.  Edmonds.    Little,  Brown.    $2.50. 
Action,  by  C.  E.  Montague.    Doubleday.    $2.50. 

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Memoirs  of  a  Fox-Hunting  Man,  by  Siegfried  Sassoon.     Coward-McCann.     $2.50. 
Dark  Hester,  by  Anne  Douglas  Sedgwick.    Houghton  Mifflin.    $2.50. 
The  True  Heart,  by  Sylvia  Townsend  Warner.    Viking.    $2.50. 
In  the  Land  of  Cockaigne,  by  Heinrich  Mann.    Macaulay.    $2.50. 
The  Snake  Pit,  by  Sigrid  Undset.     Knopf.     $3.00. 
Cavender's  House,  by  Edwin  Arlington  Robinson.    Macmillan.    $1.50. 
The  Heart's  Journey,  by  Siegfried  Sassoon.     Harper.     $2.00. 
Bush-Whacking,  by  Hugh  Clifford.    Harper.    $3.50. 
Normandy,  by  Sisley  Huddleston.    Doubleday.    $3.00. 
On  Mediterranean  Shores,  by  Emil  Ludwig.    Little,  Brown.    $3.50. 
The  Magic  Island,  by  W.  B.  Seabrook.    Harcourt.   $3.50. 
The  Alodern  Temper,  by  J.  W.  Krutch.    Harcourt.     $2.50. 
Adepts  in  Self-Portraiture,  by  Stefan  Zweig.    Viking  Press.    $3.00. 
The  Heart  of  Hawthorne's  Journals,  by  Newton  Arvin.    Houghton  Mifflin.    $3.00. 
Letters  of  the  Empress  Frederick,  edited  by  Frederick  Posonby.    Macmillan.    $8.50. 
The  Letters  of  the  Tsar  to  the  Tsaritza,  1914-1917.  Dodd,  Mead.  $6.00. 
The  Exquisite  Tragedy:    An  Intimate  Life  of  John  Ruskin,  by  Amabel  Williams- 
Ellis.    Doubleday.    $3.50. 
Carlyle — To  Threescore  and  Ten,  by  David  Alex  Wilson.    Dutton.    $6.00. 
Hello  Towns,  by  Sherwood  Anderson.    Liveright.    $3.00. 
Proust,  by  Clive  Bell.    Harcourt.    $1.50. 

Lyrical  Poetry  in  the  Nineteenth  Century,  by  H.  J.  C.  Grierson.    Harcourt.    $1.25. 
Shakespere 's  Silences,  by  Alwin  Thaler.    Harvard  University.   $3.50. 
English  Comedy,  by  Ashley  H.  Thorndike.    Macmillan.    $4.00. 

Wings  Over  Europe,  by  Robert  Nichols  and  Maurice  Browne.    Covici,  Friede.  $2.00. 
Jehovah's  Day,  by  Mary  Borden.   Doubleday.   $2.50. 
Hudson  River  Bracketed,  by  Edith  Wharton.     Appleton.     $2.50. 
Disarmament,  by  Salvador  de  Madariaga.    Coward-McCann.    $5.00. 
America  and  Europe ,  by  Alfred  Zimmern.    Oxford  University.    $3.00. 
A  Preface  to  Morals,  by  Walter  Lippmann.    Macmillan.    $3.00. 
Our  Knowledge  of  the  External  World,  by  Bertrand  Russell.    Norton.    $3.00. 
The  Aims  of  Education  and  Other  Essays,  by  Alfred  North  Whitehead.    Macmillan. 

$2.50. 

The  following  publications  by  the  Pegasus  Press  are  needed  by  the  Art  Depart- 
ment. This  press  aims  to  combine  the  finest  scholarship  with  beautiful  production 
and  offers  tlhe  highest  value  at  prices  which  in  relation  to  the  quality  are  moderate. 

German  Illumination,  by  Adolf  Goldschmidt.    $63.00. 

Vol.  I,      Carolingian  Illumination;  Vol.  II,   Ottoman  Illumination. 

2  volumes,  about  150  pages  of  text,  200  plates. 
Giovanni  Pisano,  by  Adolfo  Venturi.    $42.00. 

The  first  exhaustive  treatise  on  this  famous  sculptor. 

64  pages  of  text,  120  plates. 


RECENT  ALUMNAE  BOOKS 

The  Glorious  Company  (Lives  and  Legends*  of  the  Twelve  and  St.  Paul), 
by  Tracy  D.  Mygatt,  1908,  and  Frances  Witherspoon,  1908.  Harcourt,  Brace  & 
Company.    $3.00. 

Religious  books  usually  fall  into  one  of  two  classes;  they  are  either  piously 
sentimental  or  controversial  in  their  scholarship.  In  neitiher  case  are  they  apt  to 
awaken  much  interest  in  the  lay  reader. 

"The  Glorious  Company,"  already  in  its  second  printing,  falls  into  neither 
category.  It  is  the  result  of  much  study,  much  imagination  and  a  profound  interest 
in  "The  Twelve  and  St.  Paul,"' — not  as  saints  but  as  human  beings,  who  for  twenty 
centuries  have  influenced  the  world  because  for  three  years  they  themselves  were 
deeply  influenced. 

Legend  and  tradition,  which  are  piled  so  high  upon  the  meagre  foundation  of 
authentic  facts  that  have  come  down  to  us,  are  wisely  incorporated  and  are  made 
to  sihow — as  no  mere  statement  could  ever  do — how  the  lives  of  these  men  are 
interwoven  in  our  civilization. 

No  description  of  this  book  can  be  better  than  the  -one  given  in  the  foreword 
by  the  authors — where  they  speak  of  these  thirteen  brief  biographical  essays  as 
"mosaics  of  fact,  inference,  imagination  and  interpretation,"  and  again  as  "partial 
portraits  of  the  heroes  of  tlhe  early  Church,  conceived  in  the  sincere  belief  that  these 
were  dauntless  men  who  led  lives  of  extraordinary  interest  and  value." 

Descriptions  of  the  country-side  of  Palestine,  of  the  lives  and  hardships  of 
the  fishermen,  of  the  Jewish  traveler  and  Roman  rule  are  interwoven,  so  subtly, 
yet  so  vividly,  that  a  background  is  created  against  which  the  men  stand  out  as  living 
human  beings, — strong  in  their  simplicity. 

The  twenty  pages  of  notes  which  close  the  book  add  greatly  to  its  value  for 
they  include  an  informal  bibliography  and  references  to  the  many  conflicting,  if 
fascinating,  legends  and  Apocryphal  accounts  from  which  the  authors  had  to  select 
their  material.  As  the  confusion  of  identities,  the  many  hazy  relationships  and  the 
multiplicity  of  very  early  but  persistent  Church  tradition,  as  well  as  the  absence  of 
any  definite  data  are  made  plain  to  us,  we  cannot  wonder  that  heretofore  some  of 
the  less  well-known  apostles — have  been  very  shadowy  figures.  We  can  only  be 
glad  that  an  interest  in  psychology,  much  study  and  sifting  of  material  with  the 
occasional  use  of  inference  have  brought  forth  thirteen  human  vivid  figures. 

The  type  is  good,  the  paper  good  and  the  unusual  silhouette-like  drawings  by 
Charles  Naef  most  effective  as  illustrations.  It  is  a  book  that  has  received  sweeping 
praise  from  the  churchmen  of  many  creeds,  full  of  inspiration  and  without  a  trace 
of  dogma.  E.  F.  C. 

Tangle  Garden,  by  Elizabeth  Gray  Vinning.     Doubleday,  Doran  &  Co. 

"Tangle  Garden"  is  frankly  a  book  for  young  girls,  and  to  enjoy  its  charmingly 
simple  tale  one  must  approach  it  in  what  is  best  called  a  "Little  Colonel"  frame  of 
mind.  When  Annie  Fellows  Johnston  launched  upon  the  school-girl  world  that  im- 
mortal series  she  unfurled  as  a  banner  to  all  who  should  follow  in  her  literary  foot- 

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steps  that  line  of  Charles  Kingsley's — "Be  good,  sweet  child,  and  let  who  will  be 
clever." 

Mrs.  Vinning  has  followed  nobly  in  this  tradition.  Her  book  is  neither  clever 
nor  sophisticated,  but  it  is  refreshingly  straightforward,  frequently  amusing,  and 
without  question,  good. 

The  plot  is  revealed  in  the  first  sentence,  "Suppose,"  said  Jill  Dale,  tying  an 
apron  over  her  scarlet  frock,  "suppose  somebody  died  and  left  us  a  fortune — somebody 
we'd  never  known  and  wouldn't  feel  sorry  about — what  would  you  do  with  it?"  And 
immediately  we  know  that  an  imminent  fortune  is  suspended  like  a  sword  of  Damocles 
over  the  unsuspecting  heads  of  the  Dale  family,  and  that  the  book  is  going  to  tell  us 
what  they  did  witih  it.  It  is  like  one  of  those  youthful  dreams  in  which  we  have  all 
indulged,  that  favorite  game  of  childhood  entitled  "just  suppose."  Who  has  not 
spent  innumerable  of  these  fortunes  dropped  from  beneficent  skies?  Of  course  one 
always  wakes  to  the  stern  reality  of  things  as  they  are,  but  then  so  do  the  Dales. 
Only  tihey  are  more  fortunate  than  the  rest  of  us  dreamers,  and  manage  to  salvage 
quite  material  benefits  from  the  shipwreck  of  their  miraculous  fortune,  but  this  is 
Anticipating  the  story. 

The  curtain  rises  on  a  scene  set  in  a  somewhat  dilapidated,  but  still  charming 
colonial  mansion,  surrounded  by  an  old-fashioned  garden  which  gives  its  name  to  the 
book.  Here  we  see  the  Dale  family,  Ted,  Jill,  Randy,  Susan,  Beverley,  the  little 
brother,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dale.  Here,  although  considerably  hampered  by  in- 
adequate means,  they  enjoy  a  life  of  home-made  fun  and  simple  jollity.  Ted  and 
Jill,  however,  have  reached  that  unfortunate  age  where  one  begins  to  experience  the 
first  tihroes  of  champagne  tastes  and  a  beer  income.  Ted,  especially  has  social  aspira- 
tions, and  it  is  small  wonder  that  when  the  champagne  income  does  arrive,  it  goes 
inevitably  to  his  head. 

In  fact  each  member  of  the  family  reacts  to  the  change  in  fortune,  and  the  cor- 
responding change  in  the  conditions  of  life,  in  his  or  her  own  characteristic  manner. 
The  younger  children  remain  much  the  same,  the  older  ones  vary  and  change  as  is  to 
be  expected.  Perhaps  the  most  careful  work  has  been  done  on  Jill,  the  real  iheroine 
and  central  figure  of  the  book,  who  passes  through  that  trying  period  of  growing  up, 
and  emerges  triumphant  and  true  to  form. 

In  the  end  when  after  an  incredibly  brief  period  of  only  a  few  montihs,  the  for- 
tune of  the  Dales  has  run  its  course,  and  the  family  finds  it  necessary  to  return  to 
their  old  home  to  live  in  the  old  manner,  they  are  all  rather  glad  to  go  back,  to  wake 
up  and  find  the  glittering  dream  over,  and  all   as  before.  E.   M. 


THE  LILAC 

The  Lilac:  A  Monograph,  by  Susan  Delano  McKelvey,  '06.    MacMillan.    $18. 

Of  late  years  as  gardening  has  become  a  popular  pastime,  printing  presses  have 
been  busy  turning  out  garden  books  which  to  any  real  horticulturist  are  far  more 
irritating  than  helpful.  Publishers,  unwilling  to  limit  their  market,  instruct  authors 
to  touch  lightly  on  many  aspects  of  gardening  rather  than  to  deal  adequately  with 


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any  one  branch.  Therefore,  the  advent  of  "The  Lilac,"  a  thoroughly  scientific  and 
exhaustive  work  on  one  definite  species  is  of  interest  and  encouragement  to  everyone 
seriously  interested  in  gardening.  As  might  be  expected  of  such  a  book  the  reviews 
have  been  many  and  widespread,  and  it  is  significant  that  the  leading  horticultural 
magazine  gave  it  not  only  prominence  but  far  more  actual  space  than  was  ever  before 
accorded  to  a  book  review. 

"The  Lilac"  deals  with  a  plant  much  developed  abroad  although  comparatively 
new  in  the  hybridizing  work  of  this  country  and  is  the  result  of  scientific  observation 
and  intensive  work  in  Canada,  France  and  England  as  well  as  in  this  country,  of 
research  in  herbariums,  and  study  of  books  and  pamphlets  of  four  centuries  and  ten  or 
more  languages,  besides  visits  to  many  well-known  collections  of  living  plants.  More 
than  seven  years  ago,  at  tihe  suggestion  of  Professor  Charles  Sargeant,  head  of  the 
Arnold  Arboretum,  Mrs.  McKelvey  undertook  the  writing  and  preparation  of  this 
"monumental  monograph."  Every  phase  of  her  subject  is  covered,  history,  legend, 
botany,  propagation,  cultivation,  pests  and  diseases;  four  leading  horticulturists  have 
contributed  chapters  on  four  specific  subjects;  the  keys  are  comprehensive  but  clear; 
the  standard  color  dhart  is  included;  the  172  full-page  photographs  were  taken  especi- 
ally for  this  book;  between  four  and  five  hundred  garden  forms  of  lilacs  are  described. 
Anyone  interested  in  lilacs  may  find  within  the  covers  of  this  single  book  all  known 
information  on  the  subject. 

To  have  collected  and  classified  so  much  data  and  to  have  made  it  simple  enough 
to  be  available  to  laymen  and  scientific  enough  to  be  regrded  as  authoritative  by  lead- 
ing botanists  is  an  achievement  possible  only  to  a  highly  trained  mind,  keenly  inter- 
ested in  the  subject  and  aware  of  the  diverse  public  by  which  such  a  book  would  be 
welcomed. 

It  it  necessarily  a  large  book,  heavy  because  of  the  half-tone  photographs,  with 
excellent  clear  type  on  hig/h-grade  paper  and  in  comparison  with  books  on  similar 
subjects  decidedly  inexpensive.  E.  F.  C. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

The  Library  and  the  Bulletin  are  both  very  grateful  for  The  Bookman's 
Manual,  by  Bessie  Graham,  '02,  which  she  has  generously  sent  to  the  Alumnae  Book- 
shelf. The  author  says:  "Bookselling  is  an  ancient  calling  and  an  interesting  busi- 
ness for  which  increased  training  is  needed  if  our  present  day  is  to  be  served  ade- 
quately in  its  rapidly  growing  need  of  books.  In  the  field  of  bookselling  education 
this  volume  is  offered  as  a  modest  experiment."  The  Manual,  no  longer  really  an 
experiment,  is  a  recognized  part  of  the  equipment  of  nearly  all  Book  Shops. 


LETTERS  FROM  ALUMNAE 

Abigail  Camp  Dimon,   '96,  sent  the  following  letter,  which  is  quoted   in  part, 
to  the  Alumnae  Secretary: 

March    16,    1929. 

It  was  good  to  get  your  letter  while  I  was  in  Jerusalem,  but  the  request  for 
a  few  words  on  Cape  to  Cairo  almost  spoiled  my  pleasure  in  it. 


I  have  swung  around  quite  a  circle  since  leaving  Cairo,  and  had  some  escapes 
from  tourists  which  have  kept  up  my  spirits  which  are  quite  easily  dashed  by  other 
travellers,  because  they  seem  so  competent  and  I  feel  so  casual.  I  went  to  Bagdad, 
which  was  wonderful — romantic,  queer,  and  oriental.  Then  strayed  out  into  the 
wilderness  for  three  and  one  half  days  to  see  Ur  and  had  one  of  the  most  pleasant 
and  interesting  jaunts  of  all.  Then  a  ride  across  the  desert  to  Damascus  and  a 
very  touristy  time  in  motor  cars  with  a  dragoman  to  Baalbeck,  and  down  to  Jeru- 
salem via  Tiberias  and  Nazareth.  This  bit  was  lovely  and  interesting,  but  every 
one  (by  thousands)  does  exactly  the  same  thing  and  also  exactly  the  same  things  and 
are  told  exactly  the  same  things — one  might  almost  as  well  be  on  a  cruise.  I  got 
away  from  my  dragoman  in  Jerusalem  and  almost  shut  my  eyes,  I  was  so  sick  of  being 
good,  but  did  wander  aimlessly  about  and  see  a  little.  Then  I  went  down  to  Petra, 
a  week's  trip,  whiclh  was  another  lovely  experience  but  not  so  rare  as  Ur  because  Cook 
took  such  good  care  of  our  every  moment.  I  do  not  know  why  he  let  me  wander  off 
all  by  myself  to  Ur  where  I  didn't  see  a  wThite  man  at  all  except  the  Woolleys,  but  am 
thankful  for  his  unusual  negligence. 

Then  I  made  my  way  up  to  Beirut  where  I  had  a  fine  time  seeing  Kate  Cham- 
bers Seelye.  She  has  four  lovely  children,  girls  of  four,  ten  and  twelve,  and  a  boy  of 
seven,  and  all  are  healthy,  happy  and  very  intelligent.  Kate  is  busy  every  minute 
with  family  and  outside  activities.  The  progress  of  women  in  Syria,  or  at  least 
Beirut,  I  am  sure,  depends  very  much  on  iher.  She  was  starting  for  Constantinople 
while  I  was  there,  to  sell  Near  East  handiwork  on  a  cruise  boat,  which  I  am  sure 
is  not  an  easy  or  very  pleasant  job.  I  am  now  on  a  Lloyd  Triestino  freight  steamer 
bound  for  Athens.  Every  day  we  spend  at  a  different  port  and  it  is  really  a  lovely 
trip.  I  have  landed  and  explored  places  I  never  heard  of  before — Alexandretta  in 
Syria;  Mersine  and  Adalia  in  Turkey;  and  three  stops  in  Cyprus  which  were  lovely 
and  gave  a  cihance  for  a  day's  motoring.  Now  we  have  Rhodes,  Athens,  and  Brindisi 
to  visit  before  we  get  to  Venice.  There  are  about  twenty  passengers  and  quite  a 
good  lot,  and  we  are  already  three  days  behind  schedule. 

I  expect  to  join  Anna  Hoag  and  the  Hoyts  again  in  Italy  for  a  while  and 
then  will  have  to  think  about  coming  home.  There  seems  to  be  some  kind  of  a  '96 
reunion  on  hand  but  I  haven't  heard  much  about  it,  and  don't  know  wrhen  it  is,  so 
I  don't  know  whether  I  can  get  there  or  not. 


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CAPE  TO  CAIRO 

It  is  only  very  recently  that  it  has  become  possfble  to  make  the  journey  through 
Africa  from  the  Gape  to  Cairo  without  hundreds  of  miles  of  safari  on  foot.  With 
the  opening  of  an  easy,  comfortable  route  the  appeal  of  the  huge,  mysterious  con- 
tinent is  now  heard  by  a  small  but  increasing  number  of  travellers.  Somehow  or 
other  the  call  reached  me  in  my  remote  home  and  last  August  I  started  off,  not 
knowing  w*hat  I  might  encounter,  and,  to  my  surprise,  even  alone  on  my  adventure. 

I  sailed  from  Southampton  for  Capetown,  a  three  weeks'  voyage,  on  August 
24th,  on  a  large  mail  steamer  of  the  Union  Castle  Line.  We  changed  seasons  on 
the  way  and  reached  the  Cape  in  early  spring.  Six  weeks  or  so  were  spent  in  making 
leisurely  progress  through  South  Africa  and  Rhodesia  wTith  detours  and  stops  at 
various  points  of  interest  or  entertainment.  Mudh  as  I  enjoyed  this  part  it  was 
not  what  I  had  come  so  far  to  see.  It  was  reminiscent  of  much  of  our  own  West 
and  Southwest,  both  in  the  rapid  growth  of  the  towns  and  in  the  sage  brush  and 
contours  of  the  country.  South  African  people  were  travelling  on  the  comfortable, 
well-appointed  trains  to  view  the  beauties  of  their  own  land,  which  culminated  in 
the  wonderful  Victoria  Falls,  a  visit  to  which  is  as  much  part  of  the  South  African's 
programme  as  Niagara  is  of  tours.  I  believe  everyone  asked  me  how  Victoria  Falls 
compared  with  Niagara,  and  the  only  answer  I  felt  capable  of  making  was  that  of 
course  it  is  three  times  as  high  and  a  mile  and  a  quarter  wide,  and  very  beautiful. 

As  soon  as  I  passed  Victoria  Falls  on  my  way  northward  the  stream  of  tourists 
ran  dry  and  my  fellow  travellers  became  people  going  from  place  to  place  for  local 
reasons.  Here,  and  all  through  the  South  and  Central  Africa,  the  most  striking 
feature  of  travel  was  the  throngs  of  negro  natives  who  use  the  trains.  At  every 
station  there  were  crowds  of  more  or  less  fantastically-clad  blacks,  carrying  on  their 
heads  all  their  household  or  personal  goods  wrapped  in  a  cotton  cloth  or  tossed  into 
a  basket,  patiently  waiting  till  a  train  came  along,  and  then  hurrying  in  and  bestow- 
ing themselves  like  sardines  in  their  third-class  compartments.  The  "modern" 
African  native  has  developed  conventions  in  dress  which  are  surprising  to  our  western 
eyes  but  quite  reasonable  to  theirs.  They  look  as  if  tlhey  had  adopted  European 
clothes  with  the  idea  that  they  have  thereby  exorcised  the  devil  of  shame,  and  that 
the-  spell  is  equally  effective  wlhether  the  garments  are  wlorn  inside  out  or  upside 
down  or  jauntily  hung  to  one  shoulder.  Often  would  I  spy  a  naked  Zulu  or  Basuto 
looking  out  of  a  train  window  and  wait  eagerly  to  see  him  alight  only  to  find  that 
he  had  wrapped  himself  comfortably  in  a  large  enveloping  blanket  for  his  public 
appearance.  It  was  not  until  Rhodesia  that  I  saw  a  few  full-sized  negroes  mingling 
nonchalantly  with  mixed  crowds,  clothed  only  with  a  fringed  girdle.  Later,  in 
Central  Africa,  the  girdle  grew  smaller  and  sometimes  disappeared,  while  in  the 
Sudan  one  tribe  was  clothed  simply  and  inexpensively  in  ashes. 

Railroads  took  me  from  Cape  Town  to  Bukama,  a  small  town  in  the  Belgian 
Congo,  where  I  embarked  on  a  river  steamer  for  a  four  days'  trip  down  the  Lualaba 
River,  one  of  the  main  confluents  of  the  Congo.  Our  stern-paddle  boat  made  its  way 
through  a  territory  tihinly  peopled  with  blacks  and  swarming  with  birds — small,  beau- 
tifully colored  ones,  black  storks,  fish  eagles,  vultures,  pelicans,  ducks,  white  tick  birds, 

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and  many  others  whose  names  we  did  not  know.  We  saw  plenty  of  crocodiles, 
monkeys  here  and  there  in  the  trees,  and  large  herds  of  antelopes  on  the  plains.  Our 
stops  were  at  small  trading  posts,  where  the  natives  were  eternally  entertaining  in 
their  costumes,  customs  and  actions. 

By  railroad  and  lake  steamer  I  reached  and  crossed  Lake  Tanganyika,  one  of  the 
beautiful  lakes  of  the  world,  long,  deep  and  narrow,  of  clear  blue  color  and  surrounded 
by  mountains,  and  travelled  to  Lake  Victoria,  where  I  embarked  on  another  lake 
steamer  for  a  two  days'  ride  to  Kisumu  in  Kenya  Colony.  For  four  days  at  this  time 
I  saw  no  other  white  woman,  an  experience  I  repeated  for  another  four  days  from 
Jinja  on  Lake  Victoria  to  Rijaf  on  the  White  Nile.  These  unfeminine  bits  were 
among  the  pleasantest  of  the  whole  journey. 

I  marked  time  in  Kenya  and  Uganda  for  a  month  after  landing  at  Kisumu,  stay- 
ing at  Nairobi,  Jinja  and  Kampala  and  taking  two  short  motor  trips.  The  first  was 
a  six-day  safari  into  the  Tanganyika  game  country  to  see  what  I  could:  ostrich,  wart 
hogs,  hyenas,  jackals,  plenty  of  giraffe,  great  herds  of  zebra,  numberless  kinds  of 
gazelles,  bucks  and  antelopes,  all  grazing  and  sporting  peacefully  on  the  great  plains  of 
the  Rift  Valley  and  Tanganyika.  The  other  was  to  the  Ruwenzori  mountains,  which 
disappointed  me  by  veiling  their  heights  in  clouds.  I  consoled  myself  by  going  out  to 
see  elephants,  pushing  through  the  twelve-foot  elephant  grass  with  a  white  'hunter  and 
native  tracker.  To  the  chagrin  of  my  guides,  the  elephants,  though  we  could  hear 
them  calling  and  stamping  in  the  distance,  did  not  oome  out  from  the  thicket  where 
they  were  hidden.     I  saw  many  elephants  later,  however,  on  the  upper  Nile. 

After  leaving  Uganda  I  felt  as  if  Africa  had  been  conquered,  though  there  were 
still  nearly  three  thousand  miles  of  travel  by  rail,  boat  and  lorry  down  the  Nile,  and 
they  were  far  from  the  least  interesting  part  of  the  trip.  Slipping  down  through  the 
Sudan  through  days  of  elephant  grass  and  sudd  followed  by  a  long  sandy  stretch  with 
occasional  native  towns  and  government  posts;  passing  native  villages  with  bazaars 
and  markets  ever  changing  with  the  character  of  the  country  but  even  more  rude  and 
primitive  than  those  in  Central  Africa;  viewing  elephants  and  watching  the  eager 
sportsman  trying  to  exterminate  the  "crocs";  and  seeing  with  interest  and  delight  the 
Sudanese  native  following  witJh  hoe  and  seed  the  Nile  receding  day  by  day,  all  gave  a 
vivid  sense  of  the  sweep  and  variety  of  the  mighty  river  and  after  eight  days  brought 
us  to  the  confluence  of  the  White  and  Blue  Niles  at  Khartoum,  whence  it  was  an  easy 
journey  to  Wadi  Haifa,  Assuan,  Luxor  and  Cairo. 

The  long  and  varied  panorama  that  passed  before  me  will  leave  as  its  lasting  im- 
pression not  a  series  of  sights,  not  a  list  of  things  accomplished,  but  a  sense  of  vast- 
ness,  of  rich  possibility,  of  the  world  as  it  came  from  its  Creator's  hand,  peopled  by 
animals  too  wild  to  be  ferocious  and  native  men  oppressed  and  bewildered  by  the 
overpowering  white  intruders  but  submissive  and  not  unhappy  under  their  control, 
with  a  handful  of  white  men  trying  to  mold  it  all  to  their  own  ideas  and  projects. 
In  a  dozen  years  the  development  of  social  and  economic  possibilities  and  transporta- 
tion facilities  will  'have  wrought  great  changes  and  I  am  glad  to  have  seen  Africa  now 
before  the  direction  of  the  future  story  of  the  great  continent  has  been  too  clearly 
indicated. 


CLASSES  HOLDING  REUNIONS 


CLASS 

HEADQUARTERS 

1889 

1896 

Pembroke  East 

1897 

Pembroke  West 

1898 

Radnor 

1899 

Pembroke  West 

1900 

Wyndham 

1916 

Rockefeller 

1917 

Merion 

1918 

Pembroke  East 

1919 

Denbigh 

1927 

Rockefeller 

1928 

Radnor 

MANAGERS 


•Emma  Linburg  Tobin 
Mary  M.  Campbell 
Rebecca  Foulke  Cregar 
Emma  Gufley  Miller 
Helen  MacCoy 
Rebecca  Fordyce  Gayton 
Natalie  McFaden  Blanton 
Evelyn  Babbitt  Hastings 
Gordon  Woodbury  Dunn 
Lucy  T.  Shoe 
Virginia  Atmore 

All  reuning  classes  are  having  Class  Suppers  or  Class  Picnics  on  Saturday  eve- 
ning, June  1st,  except  1889,  who  are  to  have  a  Class  Luncheon  at  the  Deanery  on 
Tuesday,  June  4th;  1899,  wlho  are  having  a  Class  Luncheon  at  the  Inn  and  a  Class 
Supper  at  Gertrude  Ely's  on  Tuesday;  and  1900,  who  are  also  having  their  Class 
Supper  on  Tuesday. 

The  Classes  of  1896,  1897,  1898,  1899  and  1900  are  planning  a  Joint  Luncheon 
on  Monday,  June  3rd;  and  the  Classes  of  1916,  1917,  1918  and  1919  are  to  have  a 
picnic  together  at  noon,  and  are  giving  later  in  the  day  a  tea  to  those  members  of  the 
Faculty  who  were  in  College  during  their  undergraduate  days. 

.  The  Alumnae  Supper  will  be  held  on  the  evening  of  Monday,  June  3rd.     Emma 
Guffey  Miller,  1899,  (Mrs.  Carroll  Miller),  is  to  be  toastmistress. 

Baccalaureate  Sermon  will  be  preached  in  Goodhart  Hall  on  Sunday  evening, 
June  2nd,  by  Dr.  Charles  E.  Park,  Pastor  of  the  First  Church,  Boston. 

Note. — One  day  has  been  dropped  from  Commencement  Week,  and  therefore 
Garden  Party  is  on  Tuesday  and  Commencement  on  Wednesday. 

Commencement — Wednesday,  June  5th,  at  11  A.  M. — The  address'  will  be 
delivered  by  Ralph  Adams  Cram,  consulting  architect  of  the  College. 


AN  OPEN  LETTER 

April  9,  1929. 
Dear  Alumnae: 

The  Fire  Captains  and  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Self-Government  Association 
wish  to  draw  your  attention  to  the  fact  that  smoking  in  the  halls  is  permitted  only 
in  the  smoking  rooms  and  "show  cases."  In  view  of  the  presence  of  undergraduates 
during  alumnae  week,  and  of  the  severe  fire  risks,  we  know  tihat  you  will  co-ioperate 
with  us,  in  abiding  by  this  regulation. 
Sincerely, 
Nancy  H.  Woodward,  Fire  Captain, 

Olivia  Phelps  Stokes,  President  of  Self-Government  Association. 
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CLASS  NOTES 


1892 
Class  Editor:  Edith  Wetherill  Ives 
(Mrs.  Frederick  M.  Ives), 
145  East  35th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Helen  Clements  Kirk  will  spend  the 
summer  traveling  with  her  'husband,  first 
to  South  America  and  then  to  Europe  to 
attend  dental  conferences  to  which  Dr. 
Kirk  is  a  delegate.  Their  youngest  daugh- 
ter, Barbara,  now  an  undergraduate  at 
Bryn  Mawr,  will  accompany  ihem. 

Helen  Robins  writes  from  Siena,  March 
3d:  "I  have  no  official  news  for  you,  as 
my  life  here  is  too  simple  to  chronicle 
for  such  a  'best  seller'  as  the  Alumnae 
Bulletin.  As  a  housekeeper  you  might 
appreciate  my  domestic  experiences — 
most  of  my  traveling  friends  refuse  to 
recognize  me  in  my  new  occupation  and 
to  take  me  seriously  in  it.  They  write 
me  cordially  from  all  corners  of  Italy, 
'Now  do  close  the  house  and  come  here 
to  spend  a  week  with  me,'  but  they  never 
suggest  what  I  should  do  with  the  cook 
who,  I  have  to  assure  them,  is  as  precious 
in  Siena  as  at  home.  I  speak  feelingly, 
having  recently  made  a  change.  During 
the  interregnum  I  did  close  the  house  and 
go  to  visit  friends  in  Fiesole,  and  there  I 
was  overtaken  by  the  heavy  snowstorm 
which  amazed  all  Italy  last  month,  and 
was  'snow  bound'  for  several  days.  You 
cannot  think  how  odd  it  was  to  look  down 
on  Florence  snow  covered,  with  the  Arno 
frozen.  The  cold  was  intense.  I  am 
glad  to  say  that  it  is  a  little  milder  now, 
though  still  very  cold.  Of  course,  I  have 
time  for  much  more  than  housekeeping — 
there  is  a  great  deal  to  read  in  Italian, 
and  friends  at  home  have  been  most 
thoughtful  about  sending  me  books,  and  I 
get  the  Sunday  editions  of  the  New  York 
Times  and  the  Philadelphia  Ledger,  so 
you  see  I  always  know  the  worst !" 

The  editor  considers  this  distinctly 
worthy  of  a  best  seller. 

1898 

Class  Editor:  Edith   Schoff  Boericke 
(Mrs.  John  J.  Boericke), 
Merion  Station,  Pa. 
31st  REUNION  IN  JUNE,  1929 
Please  come,  everybody !     Our  reunion 
will  open  with  Marion  Park's  dinner  for 
us  at  her  house  on  Saturday  evening,  June 
1st,  at  7  o'clock;  and  there  will  be  many 
interesting  and  delightful  gatherings  dur- 
ing   the    three    or    four    days    following. 
Please  send  word  to  Rebecca  Foulke  Cre- 
gar    (Mrs.   Ninian  Cregar)    whether  you 
will  come,  and  bring  or  send  photographs 


of  yourselves,  your  husbands,  and  your 
children.  If  you  cannot  come,  Rebecca 
will  be  personally  responsible  for  the 
photographs,  and  return  them  after  the 
reunion.  You  will  receive  more  details 
later.     Please  come  ! 

'98  will  be  very  sorry  to  hear  that  Mrs. 
Henry  Gannett,  Alice's  mother,  died  on 
February  6th,  nearly  79  years  old.  She 
was  keen  mentally  and  retained  her  vivid 
interest  in  people  and  movements  till  the 
end.  Although  she  came  to  Cleveland 
when  she  was  over  65,  she  made  a  real 
place  for  herself  there.  Alice  was  in 
Mexico  last  July  with  the  Hubert  Herring 
Seminar  and  had  a  most  interesting  time. 

Helen  Holman  Durham's  21-year-old 
son  is  now  established  in  his  niche  of  the 
business  world,  and  her  daughter  expects 
to  enter  Bryn  Mawr  in  the   fall. 

Mary  Bookstaver  Knoblauch  and  her 
husband  have  just  returned  from  a  trip 
to  Africa,  "where  donkeys  and  women 
are  much  worse  off  than  they  are  here." 

Hannah  Carpenter  is  taking  painting 
lessons  in  Boston,  and  rinding  the  process 
full  of  joy. 

Anna  Fry  is  President  of  the  Girls' 
Friendly  Society  in  the  Diocese  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  is  very  busy. 

Blanche  Harnish  Stein  has  a  grand- 
daughter, Priscilla  Ann  Stein,  born  June 
26,   1928,  in  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Annie  Beals  Parker's  daughter  is  to  be 
married  on  June  14th. 

Anna  Dean  Wilbur  has  a  son  and  a 
daughter  married,  and  also  has  a  grand- 
child. 

Martha  Tracy,  formerly  at  Hannah 
Penn  House,  17th  and  Locust  Streets, 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  has  moved  to  Alden 
Park  Manor,  Germantown,  where  her  sis- 
ter Emily  is  living  with  her. 

Edith  Schoff  Boericke  and  her  husband 
and  daughter  went  on  the  North  Cape 
cruise  last  summer,  visiting  Iceland,  Nor- 
way, Sweden,  Esthonia,  Finland,  Den- 
mark, and  completing  the  trip  with  18 
days  in  England,  Scotland  and  Wales. 

"18  Hesketh  Street,  Chevy  Chase,  Md. 

"April   1,   1929. 
"My  dear  Edith: 

"Your  letter  must  have  come  some  time 
ago,  if  the  date  is  right,  and  should  have 
been  answered,  but  seven  months  of  loaf- 
ing seems  to  have  made  me  lazy.  Last 
July  I  started  off  on  a  wide  swing  around 
this  country,  determined  to  see  all  of  my 
widely  separated  friends,  lots  of  scenery 
and  some  cities.    I  went  first  to  Wilmette, 


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IS 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 


111.,  where  I  spent  a  week  in  getting  fa- 
miliar with  that  corner  of  Lake  Superior, 
and  then  went  to  a  little  place  in  Wiscon- 
sin on  a  lovely  chain  of  five  lakes  for 
another  week.  Heat  pursued  me  -and  I 
crossed  the  Rockies  on  an  open  observa- 
tion car,  in  a  temperature  of  98,  with 
snowy  peaks  all  around  to  mock  our  mis- 
ery. Three  days  in  Vancouver  was 
enough,  and  I  took  the  boat  for  Victoria, 
which  is  a  most  lovely  island.  I  see  the 
typewriter  has  made  me  forget  Lake 
Louise,  where  I  spent  four  days  in  per- 
fect peace,  just  watching  the  glacier  and 
the  lake. 

"Victoria  is  a  heaven  for  gardeners, 
and  the  hotel  has  a  fine  garden  of  its  own, 
where  I  decided  to  stay  when  the  papers 
recorded  a  temperature  of  112  in  Seattle, 
my  next  stop.  So  I  spent  several  lazy 
days  in  looking  at  fiords,  fisheries  and 
flowers,  before  going  on.  There  were  so 
many  forest  fires  near  Seattle  that  Mt. 
Rainier  wasn't  even  a  ghost,  and  I  could 
only  make  the  trip  around  Mt.  Hood  and 
up  the  Columbia  River,  before  I  went  on 
to  San  Francisco,  where  I  spent  several 
days  shivering  blissfully,  and  enjoying  a 
visit  with  Elizabeth  Lyders.  Then  I 
struck  east  to  Nevada,  where  I  spent 
three  weeks  with  my  sister,  broiling  by 
day  and  freezing  by  night.  Then  back  to 
San  Francisco,  where  my  son  met  me, 
and  we  went  on  together  after  seeing  the 
sights  there.  He  was  much  interested  in 
following  the  trail  of  the  old  Missions, 
and  so  we  visited  them  all  down  the  coast, 
ending  at  San  Diego,  with  a  quick  run- 
over  to  Tia  Juana,  where  we  did  not 
gamble  or  get  drunk !  A  cousin  and  sev- 
eral friends  in  San  Diego  made  our  stay 
very  pleasant,  and  the  hotels  all  along  the 
coast  are  very  comfortable.  In  Los  An- 
geles, Florence  Vickers,  '98,  showed  us 
everything  there  was  to  be  seen,  and  we 
spent  one  afternoon  in  trying  to  locate 
Katherine  Bunnell,  but  had  to  give  it  up 
in  the  end.  I  was  very  much  shocked  to 
learn,  in  January,  that  Florence  Vickers 
had  died  in  her  sleep. 

"From  Los  Angeles  we  went  to  the 
Grand  Canyon,  Albuquerque,  El  Paso, 
and  to  the  ranch  which  we  still  hold  in 
Texas.  We  covered  in  four  hours,  by  car, 
the  trail  which  took  my  grandfather  two 
weeks,  sixty  years  ago.  From  Dallas  I 
came  on  home  and  the  boy  stopped  in 
New  Orleans  and  Chattanooga.  I  found 
my  husband  determined  to  have  a  real 
vacation,  and  after  discussing  various 
plans  we  decided  on  Spain  and  Morocco, 
and  in  just  three  weeks,  having  got  my 
house  in  order  so  that  three  boys  could 


live  in  it  while  we  were  away,  we  sailed 
October  26  for  Cadiz.  After  a  week  in 
Granada  and  Malaga,  we  crossed  to  Tan- 
gier, and  so  to  French  Morocco,  where  I 
wish  that  we  had  stayed,  for  it  is  a  most 
wonderful  and  exciting  land  and  also  a 
fine  climate.  We  saw  Rabat,  Casa,  Mara- 
kesch,  Meknes  Volubulis,  Moulay  Idris 
and  Fez,  the  Atlas,  the  Riff,  and  the 
desert,  to  say  nothing  of  camels,  donkeys, 
palms,  Arabs,  and  Roman  ruins,  and  were 
entertained  by  an  Arab  in  very  fine  native 
house,  with  dinner  and  Arab  tea,  and  al- 
together had  the  time  of  our  lives.  We 
should  have  stayed  in  Morocco,  but  hav- 
ing made  our  plans  to  see  Spain,  we  felt 
bound  to  do  so,  and  spent  two  months  in 
cold  and  misery,  slightly  alleviated  by 
what  we  saw,  but  not  much.  A  week  in 
Majorca  was  a  bright  spot  in  the  gloom, 
and  we  shed  our  winter  coats,  at  least  at 
night,  when  we  went  to  bed,  which  we 
could  never  do  in  Spain !  Spain  is  a  very 
rough  land  and  the  scenery  was  very  fine, 
if  you  could  only  stop  shivering  long 
enough  to  enjoy  it.  We  couldn't.  We 
sailed  from  Barcelona  December  26,  and 
had  a  peaceful  time  as  far  as  Cadiz,  stop- 
ping at  Valencia  on  the  way. 

"We  sailed  out  of  Cadiz  harbor  in  the 
teeth  of  a  westerly  gale,  and,  except  that 
the  direction  of  the  wind  changed  from 
time  to  time,  we  kept  that  gale  till  we 
landed  in  New  York  thirteen  days  later. 
As  I  am  one  of  those  fortunate  people 
who  never  get  sick  (  ?),  I  was  so  bruised 
and  beaten  that  the  bruises  were  two  and 
three  deep  in  places. 

"Well,  it's  all  over  now,  and  I  am  very 
busy  gardening,  and  have  begun  to  think 
with  pleasure  of  the  trip.  However,  I 
feel  that  I  should  like  to  stay  at  home  for 
a  while,  and  so  have  not  made  up  my 
mind  about  the  reunion.  This  is  a  very 
long  letter  and,  being  new  at  it,  Fve  typed 
it  very  badly,  but  anything  is  better  than 
my  long  hand. 

"Very  sincerely, 
"Elizabeth  Holstein  Buckingham." 

1899 

March  27th,  1929. 
Dear  Mollie: 

Reunion  plans  are  coming  on  apace, 
and  everything  looks  fine  for  the  very 
best  reunion  of  the  very  finest  class"  in 
June. 

Presently  every  member  will  receive  a 
letter  with  full  "explanationments"  con- 
cerning the  time,  the  place  and  the  attrac- 
tions, so  that  none  need  make  the  mistake 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 


of  going  back  to  college  next  year  instead 
of  this. 

The  reunion  committee  consists  of  May 
No.  1,  May  No.  2,  Elsie,  Katie  Mid, 
Callie,  Alice,  Madeline,  Gertrude,  and 
Peckham.  Now  if  the  Alumna  who  com- 
plains to  the  Bulletin  periodically  about 
not  liking  first  names  or  nicknames  used 
in  the  class  notes  will  only  consult  the 
new  Register,  she  can  find  out  exactly 
who  the  above-mentioned  are,  as  this  Reg- 
ister is  a  Bryn  Mawr  encyclopaedia,  di- 
rectory and  Who's  Who  all  in  one. 

How  is  the  new  grandson  progressing 
and  has  his  mother  snatched  any  more 
high  credits  in  her  Harvard  graduate 
course?  We  all  expect  this  child  to  be  a 
college  president,  at  least. 

'99  still  keeps  going  forward,  so  if  it 
isn't  one  of  ours,  it  is  one  of  us  who  gets 
big  headlines. 

The  latest  is  Callie,  who  after  ten  years 
as  fashion  and  advertising  manager  for 
the  Mallinson  Silk  Company,  has  gone 
into  business  for  herself.  She  has  formed 
a  partnership  with  Virginia  Chandler 
Hall,  under  the  name  of  Lewis  and  Hall, 
as  stylist  experts.  They  will  furnish  man- 
ufacturers, advertising  agents  and  all 
comers  with  the  latest  ideas  as  to  style, 
fabrics,  colors,  merchandising  and  dec- 
oration, giving  advance  information  direct 
from  the  continent,  with  which  they  are 
in  constant  touch  by  frequent  trips  and 
cable.  They  will  plan  and  direct  fashion 
shows,  lectures  and  displays,  and  offer  a 
continuous  fashion  service  in  all  lines. 

This  is  such  a  new  and  wonderful  idea 
that  the  staid  New  York  Evening  Post 
devoted  almost  a  page  to  our  enterprising 
Callie  and  her  new  partner. 

'99  has  always  felt  a  bit  fearful  about 
its  wearing  apparel  when  Callie  was 
around,  but  this  year  we  must  come  to 
reunion  not  only  with  the  proper  raiment, 
but  the  exact  color  as  to  age,  figure,  and 
pocketbook.  Why  not  have  Callie  judge 
us,  and  the  most  perfectly  dressed  will  re- 
ceive a  handsome  prize,  which  this  firm 
of  fashion  experts  should  donate.  That 
idea,  I  know,  will  be  worth  a  lot  of  money 
to  them.  Well,  knowing  Callie's  success 
in  her  past  positions,  it  is  a  safe  bet  she 
will  make  good  in  this  new  venture. 

A  bit  of  news  from  Margaret  Hall  via 
a  postcard  to  Peckham  has  just  come  to 
light.  When  last  heard  from  Margaret 
was  in  Egypt,  and  in  Cairo  had  met  Miss 
Thomas.  Margaret  did  not  mention  what 
they  had  talked  about,  but  I  know  it  had 
to  do  with  the  Elder  Edda. 

I  do  hope  Margaret  and  Marion  and 
all  other  traveling  '99ers  will  be  home  by 


June.  The  tombs  of  the  French  kings  and 
the  Pharaohs  will  keep,  while  our  thirtieth 
reunion  will   not. 

How  much  money  did  you  receive  from 
your  last  appeal  for  our  reunion  gift? 
Had  two  replies  from  the  eight  letters  I 
wrote,  but  both  gave  generously,  so  am 
hoping  the  others  will  do  likewise.  If 
only  all  the  class  realized  the  beauty  of 
the  curtain  as  well  as  the  need  for  pay- 
ment, I  know  we  should  have  on  over- 
subscription. Now  what  is  your  idea  of 
making  the  tardy  ones  see  it? 

Yours  as  always  for  "the  very  finest 
class." 

GUFFEY, 

Chairman. 

Framingham  Centre,  Mass. 
April  5,  1929. 
Dear  Guff: 

Glad  to  receive  your  letter  and  know 
reunion  plans  are  perfected.  Won't  it  be 
great  ? 

Sorry  I  have  not  been  able  to  do  more, 
but  am  so  busy  with  all  my  adorable 
grandchildren  that  I  can  think  of  little 
else,  but  I'll  be  on  hand  for  reunion  and 
look  forward  to  having  a  big  crowd  back. 

Won't  it  be  fun  comparing  notes,  but 
especially  grandchildren,  or  am  I  the  only 
grandmother? 

I  have  no  idea  how  much  my  tardy  list 
sent  in,  as  I  told  them  to  send  their 
pledges  direct  to  the  Alumnae  office,  but 
if  you  will  send  me  the  names  of  those 
not  heard  from,  I'll  try  my  best  persuasive 
powers. 

By  the  way,  Mary  Churchill  need  no 
longer  be  considered  among  the  "address 
unknown"  group ;  she  is  living  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  I'll  try  to  persuade  her  to 
come  back  to  reunion,  as  I  do  not  think 
she  has  ever  been  back  since  we  left,  and 
she  should  see  us  once  again,  if  only  to 
see  how  much  most  of  us  have  improved. 

Isn't  Callie  a  marvel.  Think  what  the 
rest  of  '99  might  be  if  we  all  had  her 
ability  and  "pep." 

I  hear  Dorothy's  daughter  is  studying 
at  the  American  Laboratory  Theatre 
School  in  New  York  and  that  Edith  Cha- 
pin's  son  is  preparing  for  the  concert 
stage. 

Plenty  of  ability  in  the  younger  gen- 
eration ! 

Now  let  me  know  what  more  you  want 
me  to  do,  provided  I  can  do  it.  And 
here's  hoping  for  the  best  reunion  ever 
for  dear  old  '99. 

As   ever, 

»  Moll. 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 


1900 
Class  Editor:  Helen  MacCoy, 
Haverford,  Penna. 

The  superb  Spring  Opening  of  the 
Class  of  1900  will  be  held  June  1-5  of  this 
year  at  Wyndham,  and  all  over  the  cam- 
pus in  general.  We  are  very  young  and 
sprightly,  and  expect  to  have  a  "wild 
time."  Let  us  now  most  fervently  wel- 
come our  Seniors,  Juniors  and  Sopho- 
mores to  help  us  celebrate.  Can  it  be 
thirty-two  years  since  we  parted  with  ex- 
citement and  exertion,  "helping"  '97  in 
their  last  obsequies  of  tree  planting,  and 
sang  mournfully  as  if  it  were  the  end  of 
the  world?  And  is  it  all  that  time  since 
the  most  bloody  cap  and  gown  "rush" 
nearly  estranged  '99  from  us  forever? 
No — it  just  isn't  all  those  years  ago — 32 
last  fall — since  dear  '98  gave  us  a  political 
rally  with  peanuts  and  a  hurdy  gurdy  and 
Marion  Park  "being"  the  silver  tongued 
orator  from  his  home  beside  the  Platte, 
haranguing  us  for  free  silver. 

It  is  a  joyous  thought  that  we  can 
still  meet  on  that  very  campus  and  con- 
jure up  those  funny  young  selves. 

And  so — until  June  ! 

1904 
Class  Editor:  Emma  O.  Thompson, 
320  South  42nd  Street, 
Philadelphia,   Pa. 
Peggy   Hulse,    the    first    1904   daughter 
to  graduate    from   Bryn   Mawr,   is   doing 
graduate  work  in  History  at  Columbia. 

1905 
Class  Editor  pro  tern:  Edith  H.  Ashley, 
242  East  19th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Helen  Kempton  is  sailing  the  end  of 
March  for  a  three  months'  European  trip. 

Frances  Hubbard  Flaherty  is  working 
with  her  husband  in  Santa  Fe,  New  Mex- 
ico, on  motion  pictures  of  Pueblo  Indian 
life. 

Carla  Denison  Swan  writes:  "I  don't 
know  of  any  news  that  would  (or  should, 
it  seems  to  me)  interest  the  class  more 
than  the  fact  that  our  class  baby,  Carla, 
Jr.,  is  to  be  graduated  from  B.  M.  C.  in 
June !  Now  laugh  that  off,  those  of  us 
who  are  still  feeling  youngish.  Of  course, 
I  am  going  on  to  give  her  the  glad  hand 
and  I  hope  that  there  will  be  many  of 
her  1905  aunts  to  join  me  on  that  festive 
occasion  in  Goodhart.  Think  of  our  Stu- 
dent Building  that  we  worked  so  hard 
for  with  grocery  shops,  etc.,  being  done 
at  last  in  time  to  launch  our  child  into 
the  world.    As  ever,  Curly  Swan." 

Anna  Allison  McCoy  has  written  that 
her  mother,  who,  Anna  says,  was  always 


an  interested  reader  of  1905's  class  notes, 
died  on  January  25th,  1929.  I  am  sure  all 
1905  extends  sympathy  to  Anna  in  her 
loss. 

Edith  Longstreth  Wood.  A  postal  from 
Edith  says :  "Having  been  abroad  travel- 
ing since  June,  1928,  I  had  planned  to 
spend  the  winter  months  working  at 
painting  in  Paris,  but  soon  after  arriv- 
ing there  the  'flu'  appeared  and  that  pre- 
cious time  has  gone  in  the  American  Hos- 
pital and  recuperating,  mostly  without 
winter  sports,  in  Switzerland,  and  now,  in 
March,  we  start  home,  tail  between  legs." 

Nathalie  Fairbanks  Bell  is  president  of 
the  Vocational  Society  for  Shut-Ins  in 
Chicago.  During  the  evenings  she  is  busy 
at  present  in  rehearsing  a  revival  of  "The 
Old  Homestead"  with  a  mixed  quartette 
of  farmers  and  haymakers ! 

1906 
Class  Editor:  Mrs.  Edward  Sturdevant, 
215  Augur  Ave.,  Fort  Leavenworth. 

Alice  Colgan  Boomsliter  spent  her  last 
summer  vacation  building  two  apartments 
which  the  tenants  have  pronounced  the 
most  desirable  in  Morgantown.  Her  old- 
est girl,  Alice,  has  won  a  scholarship  at 
Mt.  Holyoke,  and  hopes  to  go  there  next 
year.  Peggy  is  a  junior  in  High  School, 
with  an  eye  on  Bryn  Mawr  and  a  law 
course.  Paul,  aged  thirteen,  fiddles  and 
reads.  Alice  herself  is  educational  secre- 
tary for  the  Council  of  Social  Agencies 
and  handles  the  publicity  for  the  League 
of  Women  Voters.  Ida  Garrett  Murphy 
and  Helen  Wyeth  Pierce  visited  her  last 
June. 

Phoebe  Crosby  Allnutt  spent  two 
months  in  Paris  the  summer  before  last, 
and  two  weeks  in  New  Hampshire  last 
summer.  Her  latest  interest  is  a  Nursery 
School  in  which  the  youngest  pupil  is 
fourteen  months !  She  does  not  think, 
however,  that  everyone  of  that  age  should 
go  to  school. 

Lucia  Ford  Rutter  is  still  enjoying  hef 
lovely  place,   Pine   Forge. 

Ida  Garrett  Murphy  has  been  chairman 
of  her  Township  League  of  Women 
Voters,  her  chief  additional  problems  be- 
ing concerned  with  feeding,  clothing  and 
educating  the  young.  Her  two  older  chil- 
dren were  at  camps  in  Maine  last  sum- 
mer, and  it  was  during  this  intermission 
that  she  took  her  youngest  and  Helen 
Wyeth  Pierce  and  motored  to  West  Vir- 
ginia, where  she  found  "the  worst  roads 
and  the  most  beautiful  mountain  scenery 
in  the  country." 

Beth  Harrington  Brooks  spent  Wash- 
ington's Birthday  in  Maine  with  a  house 


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party  of  thirty,  parents  and  children.  The 
snow  was  three  feet  deep,  ideal  for  ski- 
ing and  snowshoeing.  Her  oldest  boy  is 
at  Milton  Academy,  the  other  children  at 
Shady  Hill  School  in  Cambridge.  She 
had  the  pleasure  of  taking  Irma  Kings- 
bacher  Stix  over  Shady  Hill  and  Beaver 
Country  Day  School,  and  found  her  ex- 
tremely well  informed  on  Progressive  Ed- 
ucation. 

Helen  Haughwout  Putnam's  Bill  is  a 
freshman  at  Harvard.  Much  as  he  en- 
joyed his  winter  at  Oxford,  there  is  no 
college  like  Harvard. 

Jessie  Hewitt  spends  her  summers 
usually  at  Marblehead,  but  last  summer 
she  motored  through  England,  Scotland 
and  Wales,  and  this  summer  she  is  going 
to  California. 

Helen  Jones  Williams  writes  that  her 
chief  occupation  at  present  is  keeping 
pace  with  a  very  active  6-year-old  daugh- 
ter. Anne  Long  Flanagan  paid  her  a  sur- 
prise visit  last  summer.  Anne  has  a  new 
home  in  Cynwyd,  where  she  is  very 
happy. 

Though  she  considers  it  "too  trivial  to 
print,"  it  seems  unlikely  that  Josephine 
Katzenstein  Blancke's  classmates  will 
agree  with  her  when  they  hear  that  her 
latest  adventure  was  with  a  burglar  who 
entered  her  room  at  4  A.  M.  and  stole 
her  engagement  ring;  she  saw  him  and 
heard  him  "leap  from  the  second  floor  to 
the  first  like  a  cat." 

See  what  a  splendid  budget  is  here, 
1906.    Keep  it  up! 

1908 
Class  Editor:  Margaret   Copeland 

B  LATCH  FORD 

(Mrs.  Nathaniel  H.  Blatchford), 

844  Auburn  Road, 

Hubbard  Woods,  111. 
1908  will  be  proud  to  hear  of  the  very 
fine  book  written  by  two  of  its  members, 
Tracy  Mygatt  and  Frances  Witherspoon. 
The  book  is  called  "The  Glorious  Com- 
pany of  the  Apostles"  and  contains  strik- 
ing biographies  of  the  Twelve  Apostles 
and  St.  Paul.  The  Washington  Post  de- 
clares "The  world  had  to  wait  nearly 
2000  years  to  get  a  readable  account  of 
the  lives  of  the  Apostles.  Such  a  book 
is  now  available  in  The  Glorious  Com- 
pany.' "  The  New  York  Times  also  de- 
votes a  long  article  to  description  of  the 
book,  calling  it  a  "resurrection  of  the 
luminous  dead." 

Marjorie  Young  Gifford  gave  two  very 
interesting  lectures  in  March  at  the  New 
York  Bryn  Mawr  Club.  Her  subject  was 
"Human  Material  in  Current  Fiction"  and 


was  a  review  of  present-day  "best  sellers,' 
native  and  foreign,  stressing  the  enor- 
mous vitality  expressed  in  fiction  today. 
It  makes  those  of  us  who  could  not  hear 
her  very  envious  to  read  the  account  of 
one  of  our  classmates  who  enjoyed  "not 
only  the  subject  matter,"  but  "just  look- 
ing at  Marjorie  and  hearing  her  lovely 
voice  and  accent." 

Molly  Kingsley  Best  reports  herself  as 
not  doing  anything  important  enough  for 
the  Bulletin,  but  I  know  her  friends  are 
all  interested  to  hear  that  she  is  "doing 
a  little  club  work,  a  little  school  work,  a 
little  writing,  a  little  housework,  quite  a 
bit  of  homemaking,  but  nothing  wonder- 
ful, alas;  my  doctor  husband  and  three 
boys  keep  me  occupied." 

1910 
Class  Editor:  Emily  Storer, 

Beaver  Street,  Waltham,  Mass. 

I  have  been  in  Washington  all  winter 
and  hoped  that  some  of  the  class  would 
turn  up  for  the  Inauguration  at  least. 

I  hear  that  Janet  did  come  on  for  it — 
also  from  a  big  scientist  that  Janet  is 
famous  and  that  her  book  on  "Lighting 
and  Public  Health"  is  used  extensively, 
also  that  her  ultra-violet  light  experi- 
ments on  white  mice  at  Johns  Hopkins 
are  making  her  more  famous. 

The  last  news  about  Charlotte  was  that 
young  Mattie  had  the  measles,  and  there 
were  four  others  to  go.  She  had  never 
had  them  herself,  the  oil  burner  had 
burst,  and  the  cook  had  to  have  an  opera- 
tion !  Charlotte  always  does  things  thor- 
oughly. Her  address  is  South  Dartmouth, 
Mass. 

Florence  Wilbur  Wyckoff  writes  from 
810  Ashland  Ave.,  Niagara  Falls,  that 
her  five  children  range  from  ten  to  two, 
and  take  most  of  her  time  and  strength. 
The  two  oldest  are  swimming  in  the 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  and  learning  to  skate  on  ice. 
The  third  had  a  hernia  operation  .  .  . 
"My  husband  is  much  interested  in  the 
higher  education  for  foremen  in  industry 
and  teaches  seA-eral  groups  at  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  etc.,  though  his  regular  job  is  a 
metallurgical  engineer.  We  have  a  splen- 
did Women's  College  Club  here  with 
monthly  meetings,  social  and  educational. 
There  are  three  Bryn  Mawr  members." 

Kate  Rotan  Drinker  writes:  "Dull  news 
this  time,  Emily.  A  winter  in  bed,  with 
a  tonsilectomy  thrown  in,  as  prelude  to 
a  spinal  fixation  operation  in  early  Feb- 
ruary. Then  more  bed,  and  still  more, 
this  time  with  a  plaster  cast  to  vary  the 
monotony.  Which  brings  the  story  up  to 
date.     But  I  am  now  promised,  if  I  wait 


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long  enough  and  patiently  enough,  a  fool- 
proof back — so  here's  hoping" !  Mean- 
while, affectionate  greetings  to  1910."  We 
are  dreadfully  sorry  to  hear  Kate's  news 
and  are  living  in  hopes  of  the  speedy 
arrival  of  her  fool-proof  back. 

1911 
Class  Editor:   Louise   S.   Russell, 

140  East  52  Street,  New  York  City. 

Dorothy  Coffin  Greeley  has  a  daughter, 
Dorothy,  born  on  January  30.  Dorothy 
has  been  very  ill  with  a  ruptured  appen- 
dix which  had  to  be  removed,  but  is  now 
better. 

Helen  Henderson  Greene  writes  that 
she  and  her  whole  family  were  quite  sick 
with  bronchitis  for  several  weeks  shortly 
after  Christmas.  They  recovered  in  time 
to  move  to  Atlanta  the  last  of  January, 
and  then  Helen  had  an  attack  of  toxemia, 
which  she  is  just  getting  over.  Her  ad- 
dress is  36  South  Prado-Ansley  Park, 
Atlanta,  Georgia. 

1912 
Class  Editor:  Catharine  Thompson 
Bell   (Mrs.  C.  Kenneth  Bell), 
2700  Detroit  Blvd.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Agnes  Morrow  is  "helping  to  run  the 
most  famous  rural  health  organization  in 
the  country" — name  not  specified.  But 
it's  in  Monmouth  County  which  Agnes 
covers  pretty  thoroughly  in  her  car.  Out- 
side of  business,  she  enjoys  the  ocean  and 
her  famous  Devil  dog.  Since  her  hard- 
est work,  of  course,  comes  in  summer, 
she  is  taking  her  vacation  now  and  has 
skipped  oft"  on  a  twenty-three  day  cruise 
to  the  less-known  West  Indies,  ending  up 
at  Trinidad. 

Margaret  Fabian  Saunders  and  her 
husband  are  spending  the  winter  in 
Kingston.  At  Christmas  came  a  vacation 
trip  to  Evanston  where,  says  Poky,  "we 
were  fortunate  enough  to  be  able  to  adopt 
a  tiny  little  boy  from  'The  Cradle.' " 
Poky  warns  of  parental  prejudice  but  I'm 
sure  one  can  take  as  fact  her  further 
report  that  young  William  Benton  "is 
growing  beautifully  and  becoming  quite 
handsome." 

Rebecca  Lewis  has  just  completed  her 
M.A.  at  Columbia.  Her  thesis,  I  have 
gleaned,  was  on  "Maurice  Sceve,  the  head 
of  the  Lyonese  School  in  the  Sixteenth 
Century.  He  was  a  most  erudite  poet 
who  wrote  in  symbols  and  allegory"  an.d 
our  Rebecca  connected  him  up  with  mod- 
ern French  symbolism.  Honest  congratu- 
lations are  due  for  it's  been  an  immense 
amount  of  work  snatched  from  her  press- 
ing household  cares. 


1913 

Class  Editor:  Betty  Fabian  Webster 
(Mrs.  Ronald  Webster), 
905  Greenwood  St.,  Evanston,  111. 
The    class    wishes    to    express    through 
the   Bulletin   its   sympathy  with   Helen 
Wilson    Cresson    in    the    death    of    her 
father,    Mr.    Coffin    Colbert    Wilson,    on 
January  23rd.     Mr.  Wilson  was  president 
of    the    Philadelphia,    Germantown,    and 
Norristown  railroad. 

1916 
Class  Editor:   Catherine  S.   Godley, 
768  Ridgeway  Avenue,  Avondale, 
Cincinnati,   Ohio. 
Dear  1916: 

Who  is  ready  for  our  (technical)  15th 
Reunion  this  June?  All  who  can  and 
have  not  sent  in  a  contribution  for  our 
Reunion  Gift,  please  do  so — send  it  to 
Helen  Riegel  Oliver  and  she  will  be  more 
than  grateful.  Next,  watch  for  notices 
about  Reunion  that  will  appear  shortly 
and  answer  promptly.  Let's  make  it  a 
large  and  hilarious  get-together  for  we 
won't  have  another  chance  for  another 
five  years.    Will  see  you  all  soon. 

Your  same  Con. 

Georgette  Moses  Gell  and  her  husband 
sailed  for  England  the  latter  part  of  De- 
cember and  arrived  in  London  just  in 
time  for  the  coldest  weather  that  had 
been  had  in  forty  years.  They  expect  to 
stay  there  until  the  middle  of  April  and 
then  go  to  Paris,  Berlin  and  Vienna, 
reaching  their  goal,  Zagreb,  Jugoslavia, 
sometime  this  summer.  Georgette  writes  : 
"I  am  quite  thrilled  with  the  idea  of  going- 
there  as  it  offers  such  opportunity  for 
colorful  peasant  life  and  I  am  sure  I 
shall  find  plenty  to  inspire  me  to  paint." 
While  in  London  they  are  spending  week- 
ends at  such  places  of  great  interest  as 
Cambridge,  Oxford,  and  Stratford. 

Agnes  Grabau  has  adopted  a  little  girl 
nine  months  old.  These  are  sparse  facts 
but  the  best  the  class  editor  could  do. 

Dorothy  Packard  Holt  put  in  a 
wretched  winter  with  that  arch  enemy, 
the  flu.  Her  husband,  two  children  and 
the  maid,  all  had  it  at  once  just  before 
Christmas.  Early  in  January  Caroline 
and  Jane  came  down  with  a  second  and 
severe  attack  and  Dot  followed  them, 
barely  escaping  pneumonia.  But  Dot 
writes  in  cheerful  vein  and  expresses  the 
hope  that  she  will  be  at  Reunion. 

Margaret  Russell  Kellen's  two  little 
girls  had  scarlet  fever  in  March,  the  re- 
sult of  an  epidemic  in  Plymouth.  For- 
tunately the  cases  were  light. 


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1917 
Class  Editor:  Isabella  Stevenson  Dia- 
mond,  1621  T  Street,  N.  W. 
Washington,   D.   C. 
Alice  Beardwood  writes   from  8,  Nor- 
ham    Road,    Oxford,    England,    that    she 
has  been  working  there  at  the  University 
for  the  past  two  years  at  mediaeval  his- 
tory.    She  returns  to  America  this  sum- 
mer, but  she's  afraid  she  will  not  be  in 
time  for  our  reunion. 

Dear   1917: 

It  is  very  exciting  to  be  your  reunion 
manager.  It  makes  events  of  the  post- 
man's visits,  for  he  often  now  has  letters 
for  me  from  friends  of  the  long  ago  who 
haven't  been  any  more  faithful  in  writing 
than  I  have.  More  than  that,  the  letters 
often  say  the  writer  will  meet  me  on  the 
campus  on  the  first  day  of  June,  and  when 
they  say  that,  the  day  is  utterly  made.  I 
am  quoting  from  some  of  these  letters 
for  you. 

Con: — "I've  just  come  up  from  Sicily, 
where  we  drove  all  about  the  island  to 
all  the  Greek  temples,  where  the  almond 
trees  were  in  bloom  and  calendulas  and 
narcissi  were  thick  along  the  roadside." 

Dooles : — "The  fact  that  you  actually 
knew  my  address  touched  me  to  the  point 
of  answering  your  note  of  this  morning. 
I  shall  try  to  get  hold  of  my  photographs 
of  1917  for  the  dinner.  I  should  like  to 
ask  the  class  here  for  tea.  Bryn  Mawr 
is  a  dream  of  beauty  just  now." 

Caroline : — "Was  so  glad  to  get  the  re- 
union letter  and  I  surely  am  coming.  I'll 
do  anything  I  can  to  help  you,  and  am 
all  enthusiastic." 

Hel: — "I  expect  I'd  better  accept  the 
costume  job  to  square  myself  for  my  de- 
lay in  answering  your  letter  in  the  hope 
that  Eloise  and  Hildegarde  and  Ruth  can 
help  in  the  construction.  Here  at  Kings- 
ley  House  we  put  on  our  annual  May 
Day  Festival  on  May  18th,  several  hun- 
dred to  be  costumed  by  that  date,  and 
when  it  is  over  I  shall  be  costume  mad." 

Romaine : — "This  is  to  let  you  you  know 
that  Evy  Randall  and  I  are  going  to  be 
rash  enough  to  go  back  to  reunion.  As 
we  have  not  been  back  since  1915,  we 
are  feeling  a  little  timid  about  it." 

Fran  Curtin: — "I  shall  certainly  be 
there,  and  it  will  be  marvelous  to  see  you 
all  again." 

Scat: — "I  am  saving  the  dates  and 
looking  forward.    Cheerio." 

Hodge : — "Always  providing  that  Moth- 
er can  take  the  tribe  for  the  first  week 
in  June,  I  shall  be  at  reunion  with  bells 


Olga: — "This  is  to  accept  your  invita- 
tion to  reunion.  I  am  quite  sure  it  will 
be  a  fine  one,  and  I  am  looking  forward 
to  it." 

Con  Wilcox : — "We  really  do  happen  to 
plan  to  be  in  America  just  about  the  time 
of  reunion,  and  I  hope  I'll  be  able  to 
come.  I  am  bringing  over  my  baby  daugh- 
ter (aged  one  year)  and  my  Italian  sister- 
in-law  is  coming  with  us  this  time,  so 
complete  with  British  nurse  we  make 
quite  a  varied  caravan.  Do  not  be 
alarmed — I  shall  come  alone  to  reunion !" 

Anne  Davis,  Louise  Collins  (who  is 
on  her  way  home  from  Pernambuco, 
where  her  husband  is  U.  S.  Consul),  Dor- 
othy MacDonald,  Greenie,  Thale,  Dor 
Shipley  are  all  coming,  and  I  hope  a  great 
many  more  who  have  not  yet  written. 
The  great  day  is  almost  upon  us,  so  hurry 
up  and  say  you  will  be  with  us,  all  of  you 
Ten-o-'Clock  Scholars.  'Come  with  a 
whoop,  come  with  a  call,  come  with  a 
good  will,'  says  Mother  Goose.  In  the 
old  days,  before  I  was  a  mother,  I  would 
have  said,  'Go  on,  mighty  Seventeen,  we'll 
never  give  way,  the  Red  is  on  the  war- 
path for  glory  today.'  The  spirit  is  the 
same,  though  the  words  are  different ! 

Affectionately  your  friend, 

Nats. 

1918 
Class  Editor:  Helen  Walker, 

5516  Everett  Ave.,  Chicago. 
Dear  Helen: 

Your  card  asking  for  my  news  reached 
me  in  Singapore  and  I  am  only  too 
pleased  to  say  hello  to  '18.  But  where  to 
start?  I  seem  to  be  in  more  or  less  of 
a  travel  daze,  but  it  would  appear  that 
I  am  on  my  way  around  the  world  and 
that  I  have  almost  reached  the  last  lap. 
All  of  which  isn't  so  vague  as  I  feel ! 

In  other  words  I  was  never  made  to 
be  a  tourist.  The  past  month  or  so  I  have 
turned  into  one;  the  first  part  of  the  trip 
was  more  leisurely  inasmuch  as  I  settled 
down  quite  blissfully  and  enjoyed  myself. 
But  since  leaving  the  Philippines  life  has 
been  pretty  much  of  a  rush.  A  week  for 
China — breath !  A  few  clays  for  French 
Indo-China — breath  !  breath  !  Four  days 
in  Singapore  —  Sniff!  Snort!  On  to 
India,  Colombo,  and  now  a  bit  of  Africa. 
Tonight  I  motor  from  Suez  across  the 
moonlit  desert  to  Cairo ;  tomorrow  the 
pyramids  and  Sphinx.  More  rush  .  .  . 
to  the  train,  catch  this  same  boat  at  Port 
Said.     Now  you  have  my  pitiful  tale. 

Have  had  some  entertaining  adven- 
tures. I  think  '18  would  have  been 
amused  when   I  broke   into  the  palace  of 


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H.  H.  the  Sultan  of  Johorc  while  the 
armed  guards  marched  below  innocent  as 
babes.  Since  robbery  was  not  my  motive 
I  probably  should  have  escaped  the  guil- 
lotine had  I  been  caught  and  got  off  with 
life  imprisonment.  A  disappointing  ad- 
venture .  .  .  saw  not  a  single  member  of 
the  harem.  Good  Queen  Victoria's  photo- 
graph sat  on  a  table  and  there  were  dance 
cards  proclaiming  that  "I  Want  to  be 
Alone  with  Mary  Brown,"  and  "My  In- 
spiration is  You"  were  to  be  played  that 
night.  We  hear  the  Sulton  wants  to  go 
to  America  next  month.     Beware  ! 

As  there  probably  isn't  room  for  even 
this  much  chatter  I'd  better  say  farewell, 
but  it  does  seem  a  shame  not  to  mention 
the  monkeys  that  came  toppling  out  of 
the  trees  in  Singapore,  the  tiger  cubs  I 
played  with  near  Siam,  the  good  time  I 
had  in  Borneo,  and  the  fact  that  some 
day  I  simply  must  go  back  to  India  where 
there  are  butlers,  sweepers  and  dog  boys 
to  be  had  for  the  proverbial  song,  and 
where  tales  of  tigers  and  elephants — to 
say  nothing  of  cobras  and  spooks — arc 
washed  down  with  the  morning  coffee. 
But  best  of  all,  I'm  looking  forward  to 
seeing  THE  CLASS  at  reunion. 

With  all  sorts  of  good  luck  and  in 
anticipation  for  our  bang-up  celebration 
in  June, 

Helen  Alexander. 

P.  S. — Congratulations  to  '18  on  buying 
the  lamps  for  the  Common  room ! 

1919 
Class  Editor:  Mary  Morris  Ramsay 

Phelps  (Mrs.  William  Eliott  Phelps), 
Guyencourt,  Delaware. 

Dorothy  Peters  Eis  and  her  husband 
and  children  have  been  in  Olean  Springs, 
Mississippi,  since  December.  They  are 
motoring  home  to  Michigan  by  way  of 
Florida. 

1920 
Class  Editor:  Mary  Hardy, 

518  Cathedral  Street,  Baltimore,  Md. 

K.  Cauldwell  Scott  has  a  second  daugh- 
ter, Janet  McPherson,  who  was  born  on 
October  8th,  at  Nyack  amid  a  "domestic 
revolution."  For,  K.  writes,  she  was  try- 
ing to  move  down  from  Buffalo,  find  a 
house  to  live  in,  collect  all  her  furniture 
from  Mexico,  Canada,  New  York,  Balti- 
more, Nyack  and  Buffalo,  when  Janet 
arrived  to  interrupt  things  a  good  deal. 
The  Scotts  are  now  settled,  more  or  less 
permanently,  at  6  Corsa  Terrace,  Ridge- 
wood,  New  Jersey. 

Dorothy  Rogers  Lyman  and  her  hus- 
band,   after   a    sojourn    in   Florida,    have 


returned  to  New  York,  where  Dr.  Lyman 
has  opened  his  office  for  the  practice  of 
Medicine,  at  114  East  54th  Street. 

A  good  long  letter  from  Virginia  Park 
Shook  brought  news  of  herself  and  her 
two  sons.  The  elder,  Jack,  will  be  six  in 
May,  and  Dick  will  be  five  in  June.  So 
sorry  the  cunning  snap-shot  of  Ginger 
and  the  boys  can't  be  reproduced.  No  one 
would  have  any  trouble  identifying  them 
as  Ginger's  sons ! 

Mary  Hoag  Lawrence  writes  that  they 
still  live  in  Groton,  in  the  same  house 
they  first  moved  into  five  years  ago. 
Mary's  "extra-domesticity"  occupations 
sound  very  strenuous.  She  is  President 
of  the  Groton  Woman's  Club,  a  club  of 
two  hundred  women  of  all  creeds  and 
classes,  and  she  is  also  a  Trustee  of  the 
Lowthorpe  School  of  Landscape  Archi- 
tecture. 

Martha  Chase,  Mary  Hoag  writes,  is 
enthralled  by  a  course  in  Interior  Decor- 
ating, which  she  is  studying  in  Boston 
this  year. 

1921 
Class  Editor:  Mrs.  J.  E.  Rogers, 
99  Poplar  Plains  Road, 
Toronto,   Ont,   Canada. 

The  members  of  the  Class  of  1921  wish 
to  extend  their  sincere  sympathy  to 
Eleanor  Donnelley  Erdman,  whose  father, 
Mr.  R.  H.  Donnelley,  died  on  February 
25,  1929. 

Kash  Woodward,  M.D.,  opened  her  of- 
fice in  Worcester  last  November.  We 
are  proud  of  our  practicing  classmate  and 
wish  her  great  success  as  a  child  special- 
ist. She  writes  that  her  chief  hobby  is 
singing  (much  to  the  regret  of  the  neigh- 
bors), and  that  she  gets  her  exercise 
riding  around  in  her  Ford,  playing  golf, 
tennis,  basketball,  and  by  skiing.  Our 
swimming  star  underlines  the  fact  that 
she  never  swims  anymore. 

Mary  Baldwin  Goddard  has  entered  the 
ranks  of  those  interested  in  Nursery 
Schools.  She  plans  to  send  her  16  months 
old  daughter,  Mary  Frances,  to  one  this 
fall.  When  visiting  at  the  Home  School, 
Mary  was  told  that  Priscilla  Bradford 
was  an  extremely  bright  child.  Three 
cheers  for  1921's  class  baby.  Mary  moved 
her  household  five  times  last  year  and  is 
looking  forward  to  a  year  abroad  as  soon 
as  her  present  lease  is  up. 

Jane  Brown  has  a  job  in  the  Spring- 
field Welfare  Association  as  Visitor.  Her 
last  vacation  she  went  to  England  for  a 
while,  then  on  to  Paris  where  she  at- 
tended the  International  Conference  of 
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Laura  Ward  Sweany,  whose  -husband  is 
a  Graduate  of  West  Point,  has  moved 
from  Fort  Sill,  Okla.,  to  Schoficld  Bar- 
racks, Hawaii.  Before  sailing  Laura  and 
family  spent  three  months  motoring  on 
to  New  York,  then  west  again  to  Wash- 
ington State  and  California.  Laura  has 
a  three-year-old  daughter,  Jean  Carol, 
but  finds  time  to  play  tennis,  golf,  swim, 
to  weave  on  a  hand  loom  and  to  paint 
portraits. 

Katharine  Ward  was  married  July  25, 
1928,  to  Robert  Seitz,  Yale,  1919.  She 
is  living  in  New  Haven  and  teaching  at 
Miss  Foote's  School. 

Aileen  Weston  has  a  job  as  Volunteer 
Secretary  for  the  League  of  Nations  As- 
sociation. She  is  studying  French  and 
Spanish  on  the  side. 

Cecile  Bolton  Hewson  is  teaching  Gen- 
eral Mathematics  at  the  Charlottesville 
High  School  which  is  a  practice  school 
for  the  University,  and  making  a  statis- 
tical study  of  transfer  of  training  in  High 
School  subjects.  She  also  works  in  her 
garden,  plays  golf,  hunts  partridges,  and 
trains  dogs. 

Elizabeth  Mills  Persem  lives  in  Buffalo 
in  the  winters  and  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  in  the 
summers.  She  has  seven  dogs  and  spends 
her  spare  time  exercising  them. 

Jean  Flexner  is  trying  the  experiment 
of  keeping  her  maiden  name.  At  present 
she  has  two  part-time  jobs;  teaching 
Economics  at  Ohio  State  University,  and 
doing  research  on  population  problems. 
The  latter  involves  excursions  into  the 
field  of  birth  rates,  primitive  religions, 
mythology,  and  future  fuel  supplies.  Jean 
completed  all  the  requirements  for  her 
Ph.D.  at  the  Robert  Brookings  School  in 
Washington.  Her  husband,  Paul  Lewin- 
son,  got  his  degree  there  two  years  ago 
and  has  just  been  awarded  a  Social  Sci- 
ence Research  Fellowship  on  which  he 
plans  to  complete  a  book  called  "Race, 
Class  and  Party,"  a  history  of  negro  suf- 
frage and  white  politics  in  the  South. 
Jean  and  her  husband  go  in  for  scientific 
housekeeping  and  are  prepared  to  give 
half  hour  courses  on  Economic  Interior 
Decorating  and  Marketing.  In  their  home 
they  offer  a  choice  or  a  mixture  of  Ger- 
man, Armenian,  Italian  and  French 
cooking.  Their  vacations  are  spent  camp- 
ing with  tent,  canoe,  and  typewriter  as 
equipment. 

Helen  Rubel  has  a  job  observing  at  the 
Aubrey  Nursery  School  at  Germantown. 
Her  spare  time  is  used  in  reading  and 
traveling. 

Flossy  Billstein  Whitman  has  a  22 
months  old   daughter,   Eleanor  Lee,   who 


is  already  attending  a  nursery  school  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.  Flossy  is  interested  in 
corrective  training  for  cross-eyed  chil- 
dren and  is  getting  exercise  by  gardening. 

Elizabeth  Matteson  Farnsworth  writes 
a  newsy  letter  of  her  doings.  She  went 
to  England  in  1927  on  her  honeymoon, 
caught  flu  on  the  homeward  trip  and  had 
to  be  removed  from  the  steamer  via 
stretcher  and  ambulance.  She  is  living 
in  Providence  in  a  house  of  her  own,  has 
a  9  months  old  son  who  is  being  brought 
up  scientifically  and  is  getting  her  exer- 
cise by  running  up  and  down  stairs.  Her 
husband  is  in  the  cotton  cloth  business 
and  is  keenly  interested  in  amateur  dra- 
matics as  is  Matt  herself. 

Frances  Jones  Tytus  lives  in  Columbus, 
Ohio,  and  spends  her  vacations  in  Florida 
and  Michigan.  She  is  keen  about  horses 
and  rides  and  jumps  them  all  year  round. 
Her  other  hobbies  are  golf  and  bridge. 
She  has  two  boys  and  one  girl ;  John  7, 
Alice  Joan  4,  and  William  ll/2  years  old. 

Roxanna  Murphy  Beebe-Center  is  liv- 
ing in  Cambridge,  Mass.  Her  husband 
got  his  A.B.  and  Ph.D.  from  Harvard 
and  writes  books  which  Roxanna  types 
for  him.  She  is  also  doing  some  experi- 
menting in  Psychology. 

Mary  McClennen  Knollenberg  is  living 
in  New  York  City.  She  has  a  4-year-old 
son  named  Bernhard  Walter.  Her  vaca- 
tions are  spent  in  Europe  or  on  Cape 
Cod.  In  her  spare  time  she  indulges  in 
dancing. 

Biffy  Worcester  Stevenson  lives  in 
Croton-on-Hudson.  Her  son  Eric  is  2l/2 
years  old.  She  says  she  never  exercises, 
but  has  lost  35  lbs.,  which,  I  believe,  is 
the  class  record  for  reducing. 

1922 

Class   Editor:   Serena   Hand   Savage 
(Mrs.  William  L.  Savage), 
29  West  12th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Emily  Burns  Brown  has  just  been  in 
New  York  en  route  to  Spain. 

Eleanor  Brush  Cochran  has  also  bright- 
ened our  city  by  a  flying  visit. 

Dorothy  Wells  is  living  in  Los  Angeles. 

Martha  Tucker  was  married  last  year 
to  Mustapha  Husni  Bey.  Her  address  is 
c/o  the  University  of  Cairo,  Cairo,  Egypt. 

It  may  interest  1922  to  know  that  "The 
Lady  from  the  Sea,"  our  famous  Senior 
Play,  has  just  been  produced  in  New 
York.  The  comment  of  the  N.  Y.  Times, 
we  feel  is  significant:  "'The  Lady  from 
the  Sea'  requires  persuasive  magic. 
Played  literally,  it  is  a  confusing  drama, 
and  a  dull  one !" 


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1923 
Class  Editor:  Katharine  Lord  Strauss, 
27  E.  69th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Harriet  Scribner  Abbott  has  a  second 
child,  Harriet  Alice,  born  on  March  4th. 

Laura  Crease  Bunch  is  continuing  her 
work  at  the  Guaranty  Trust  in  the  In- 
vestment Advisory  Department.  This 
means  that  the  Stock  Market  leaps  and 
ducks  at  Laura  Crease's  whim. 

Wang  Spalding  has  returned  from  a 
flying  trip  to  Europe  where  she  bought 
furniture  for  her  new  house.  Rumor  hath 
it  that  she  concealed  several  tables  and 
chairs  about  her  person  and  completely 
diddled  the   Customs. 

Pudd'n  Rice  returned  on  March  15th 
from  an  extensive  trip  through  Jugo- 
slavia, where  she  visited  the  Rhys  Car- 
penters in  Athens,  and  included  Sicily, 
Italy,  France  and  way-stations. 

Dusty  forwards  a  letter  from  Margaret 
Hussey  from  which  we  quote. 

"My  life  history  since  last  we  met 
many  years  ago — four  at  least — has  been 
composed  of  many  and  varied  activities 
along  the  same  lines.  Just  at  present  I 
am  in  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  as  full- 
time  Girl  Scout  Director  with  a  nice 
office  all  my  own,  pleasant  people  to  work 
with  and  as  much  time  to  myself  as  my 
conscience  will  allow  me  to  take.  My 
summers  have  all  been  spent  at  camp  and 
this  year  when  I  planned  to  take  a  com- 
plete change,  I  find  I'm  to  be  head  of  a 
new  camp  the  State  is  starting  for  12^- 
13^-year-old  scouts.     So  it  goes !" 

Pick  McAneny  Loud  is  running  a  shop 
at  205  East  68  Street,  N.  Y.  C,  which 
rejoices  in  the  pungent  name  of  Bitter 
&  Loud. 

The  following  chronicle  is  plagiarized 
direct  from  a  most  satisfactory  letter  of 
Roz   Raley's: 

"I  was  married  two  months  ago  (Jan- 
uary 19th  to  be  exact)  to  Donald  Pierce 
Braley,  A.B.,  Clarkson  Tech.  '21,  and 
M.A.,  Harvard  Business  School,  '23.  Helen 
George  and  Ruth  Geyer  Hocker  were  my 
bridesmaids.  I'm  living  as  you  see  in 
Lititz,  which  is  a  little  Pennsylvania- 
Dutch  town  near  Lancaster. 

"I'm  terribly  happy — Don  is  just  per- 
fect— and  I  heartily  recommend  married 
life  to  all  the  other  members  of  '23. 

"In  case  you  haven't  heard,  Jinks 
Brokaw  Collins  was  in  a  serious  motor 
accident  in  Florida  about  three  weeks  ago 
and  had  her  skull  practured  in  two  places 
and  her  arm  broken.  She's  getting  along 
fine  now  though. 

"That's  all  the  news  I  know  except 
that  Helen  George   is  taking  a  business 


course  in  Richmond.  Julia  Ward  is 
Warden  of  Rock,  again  this  year  and 
Ruth  Geyer  Hocker's  two  little  boys  are 
the  smartest,  dearest  children  I've  ever 
seen.  By  the  way,  Ruth  and  her  husband 
are  moving  in  April  from  Harrisburg  to 
Johnstown,  Pennsylvania. 

"Paddy  Hay  Schlipf  has  a  darling  red- 
haired  baby  boy  and  has  just  built  a  new 
house  near  her  mother  and  father's  in 
Springfield,  Illinois." 

H.H.C.  Roz  ! 

1924 
Class  Editor:  Beth   Tuttle  Wilbur 
(Mrs.  Donald  Wilbur), 
Bryn  Mawr,  Penna. 

Pamela  Coyne  was  married  to  Mr. 
Francis  H.  Taylor  on  November  third  in 
New  York,  and  is  now  living  at  1928 
Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia. 

Marie  Louise  Freeman  has  been  study- 
ing art  in  New  York  for  the  past  few 
months,  but  has  given  it  up  temporarily 
in  favor  of  a  trip  to  Arizona  with  her 
family. 

Sue  Leewitz  has  come  over  from  Paris, 
where  she  is  living,  and  is  planning  to 
stay  until  June.  When  last  seen  she  was 
staying  with  Al  Anderson  McNeely  in 
Bryn  Mawr. 

We  hear  that  Marion  Russell  is  now 
Mrs.  Frank  Morris.  Can  you  tell  us  any 
more  news  about  yourself  than  that, 
Russ  ? 

Please  note  editor's  change  of  address 
from  Rosemont  to  Bryn  Mawr.  The  con- 
tributions to  the  Bulletin  are  so  few 
and  far  between  that  we  don't  want  any 
to  get  mislaid. 

1925 
Class  Editor:  Elizabeth   Mallett 
Conger    (Mrs.   Frederic  Conger), 
325  East  72nd  St.,  New  York  City. 

Now  for  our  spring  brides !  Peggy 
Stewardson  was  married  to  Howard 
Blake  on  April  12th.  Of  course  it  was  a 
lovely  wedding.  Peg's  sister  Rosamond, 
as  maid  of  honor,  wore  two  shades  of 
orchid  and  Nan  Hough  and  Chissy  wore 
lovely  chiffon  dresses  of  two  shades  of 
blue.     Peggy  was  a  most  charming  bride. 

Kay  Mordock  Adams  writes  in  a  de- 
lightful letter  that  she  has  a  little  daugh- 
ter, Katharine,  born  on  January  nine- 
teenth. Her  two-year-old  son,  Douglass, 
sounds  most  beguiling,  light  hair,  rosy 
cheeks  and  the  physique  of  a  potential 
football  player.  Why  do  people  have  to 
live  so  far  away?  (Kay's  address,  by 
the  way,  is  235  El  Camino  Del  Mar,  San 
Francisco.)  We  know  how  to  read 
French  and  German  at  sight  so  we  bet 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 


that  address  means  something  like  this: 
235  (that's  easy — same  in  every  country) 
El  ("the"  or  "a"  an  indefinite  article) 
Camino  ("street"  or  "room")  del  Mar 
(something  to  do  with  the  sea  or  just 
wet.)  See,  it's  easy  when  you  get  the 
hang  of  it  and  no  end  useful. 

H.  D.  Potts  has  been  appointed  interne 
at  the  Philadelphia  General  Hospital 
next  year.  She  finishes  her  four  years 
at   P.   and   S.   this   spring. 

Nana  Bonnell  Davenport  and  her  hus- 
band are  going  to  live  in  New  York  after 
all !  Their  address  is  71  Washington 
Square,  South. 

1926 
Class   Editor:    Harriot    Hopkinson, 
70  Beacon  St.*  Boston. 

To  begin  with  engagements,  which  are 
always  of  course  the  most  important,  we 
have  Sophie  Sturm's,  which  is  just  an- 
nounced, to  Kenneth  Brown,  a  graduate 
of  Yale,  and  now  living  in  New  York. 
Plans  for  the  wedding  date,  we  hear,  are 
not  yet  definite. 

There  don't  seem  to  be  any  other  en- 
gagements just  at  the  moment,  at  least 
none  reported  here.  Is  '27  getting  ahead 
of  us? 

Nicky  (Mrs.  Lincoln  Fitzell)  has  a 
baby  named  Jean,  born  in  January,  and 
called  on  very  formally  by  M.  Parker 
and  H.  Hopkinson  when  it  was  two  weeks 
old.  The  Fitzells  are  living  in  Cambridge 
this  year,  where  he  is  studying  literature 
at  Harvard. 

Clare  is  at  the  Bryn  Mawr  School  in 
Baltimore,  where  she  is  head  of  the 
Science  Department,  which  she  says  is 
very  hard,  but  very  interesting. 

Miggy  Arnold  is  studying  at  the 
Museum  School   in  Boston. 

Peg  Harris  is  studying  law  at  Penn. 

K.  Morse  is  reported  to  have  been 
seen  around  Overbrook,  in  company  with 
Linns,  but  any  other  winter  occupation 
of  hers  is  unknown  here.  As  for  the 
aforementioned  Linns,  Benjy  is  studying 
in  the  graduate  school  at  B.  M.,  and  Algy 
is  believed  to  be  teaching  English  and 
Math  to  little  children. 

It  was  most  exciting  to  get  a  letter  the 
other  day,  with  a  little  blue  Japanese 
stamp  on  it,  and  to  find  it  was  from  Bud 
Borton,  nee  Wilbur.  She  is  full  of  assur- 
ances that  neither  she  nor  her  husband 
is  a  missionary,  but  are  representing  the 
Friends  Service  Committee  in  the  Orient, 
with  a  chief  interest  in  international  rela- 
tions. We  must  all  go  out  there  and 
visit,  for  they  have  a  guest  room,  as  well 
as  a  Buddhist  temple  in  their  back  yard. 


Remember  the  address,  14  Daimachi, 
Mita,  Shiba,  Tokyo,  Japan. 

Deirdre  is  working  very  hard  with  The 
Foundation  Company.  The  importance  of 
her  position  can  only  be  deduced  from 
the  fact  that  she  writes  personal  letters 
on  the  office  stationery. 

Helen  Coolidge  is  a  great  boon  to  this 
department,  because  she  never  does  any- 
thing for  too  long,  and  can  almost  always 
come  under  the  heading  of  News.  Just 
now  she  is  sleeping  by  day,  and  by  night 
writing  all  the  fascinating  little  bits  of 
society  gwssip  we  all  read  in  the  Boston 
American. 

This  is  about  all  we  know.  Isn't  it 
astonishing  how  many  people  seem  to 
be  easily  able  to  resist  the  temptation  to 
rush  into  print?  We  cannot  sympathize 
with  such  reticence.  Pray  tell  on  each 
other,  if  not  on  yourselves;  anything  is 
ethical  to  an  editor. 

1928 

Edit  or:   Helen   McKelvey, 

341  Madison  Avenue,  New  York. 

With  the  co-operation  of  Ginny  Atmore 
we  were  able  to  glean  quite  a  number  of 
brief  notes.    She  sends  the  following: 

"Bertha  Ailing  wrote  that  she  will  not 
be  at  reunion,  as  she  is  going  over  soon 
to  Germany  and  other  points  in  Europe. 
Next  year  she  is  going  to  try  for  a  job 
at  the  new  Sak's,  in  Chicago.  That's  about 
all  from  her. 

"Al  Bruere  writes  that  she  is  working 
in  a  more  or  less  normal  way,  and  she 
saw  Billy  Rhein  Bird  at  the  F.  P.  A. 
luncheon,  'but  mostly  life  is  one  day  after 
the  other.' 

"Cay  Field  Cherry  says  that  she  is  still 
willing  to  cook,  fixing  up  her  home,  'inci- 
dentally she  has  4  or  5  extra  beds  in  each 
of  which  she  plans  to  sleep  4  or  5  people, 
if  we  ever  come  to  Albany,'  and  in  her 
spare  time  she  is  doing  Red  Cross  Motor 
Corps  and  scenery  work  for  the  Albany 
Players. 

"Mary  Johnston  is  to  be  married  on 
May  4th. 

"Alice  Palache  had  her  appendix  out 
and  says  that  she  has  missed  so  much 
time  from  her  job  that  she  can  do  noth- 
ing more  for  a  year. 

"Babs  Rose  says  that  Betty  Brown  mar- 
ried Fred  Field ;  T  think  the  middle  name 
is  Vanderbilt,  or  Van  Renssaluer,  or  per- 
haps even  Fish.'  She  can  be  reached  at 
645  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York. 

"Barby  Lyons  Dreier  and  Yildiz  Van 
Hulsteyn  are  racing  for  Class  Baby. 

"Edith  Morgan  Whitaker  will  live  in 
the  East  next  year." 


The  Saint  Timothy's  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

Founded  September  1882 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head  of  the  School 

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY   E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  1785) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 

A  country  day    school  for  boys 

Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 

UNIVERSITYSiTiS 

BOARDING  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough    and    successful    Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive Chicago,  Illinois 

Oarrison  Forest 
A  Modern  Country  School  in  the 
Green  Spring  Valley  near   Balti- 
more.   Excellent  Equipment.     All  Sports. 
Special  Emphasis  on    Horseback  Riding. 

Garrison  Forest  Girls  who  are  going  to  college 
are  thoroughly  prepared  for  any  institution. 

Other  girls  take  courses  with  special  emphasis 
on  Music  and  Art.  Younger  girls  live  in  a 
separate  Junior  House. 


Mild  Climate.     Nation-wide  Clientel 


Principals 

MISS  JEAN  G.  MARSHALL 

MISS  NANCY  OFFUTT, 

Bryn  Mawr,  ex  '20 

Box  B,  Garrison,  Maryland 


The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY,    CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 

Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT,  A.B., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


OGERSHAIX 

'^Modern  School  with  New  England  Traditions 


JB  ^mV  General  Academic  Course  with  di- 
rfflb  ^H^ploma.  Junior  College  Courses — Home 
Economics,  Secretarial  Training,  Music,  Art,  Dramatic 
Art.  26  Miles  from  Boston.  Outdoor  Sports.  Riding. 
Gymnasium.    Swimming  Pool. 

EDITH  CHAPIN  CRAVEN,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 
201  Rogers  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

/iarcuav  scm>h 

BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mavvr  and 

mmti  a11  leading  col!eses 

Musical  Course  prepares  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  Music  of  Bryn  Mawr  College 
L.  MAY  WILLIS,  Principal 
EDITH  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 
Individual  Instruction.     Athletics. 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa. 
Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address:    Bryn  Mawr.  Pa. 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON  COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vastar) 

Principal 


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THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 


BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 


GRAY  GABLES 

THE  BOARDING  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE 
BANCROFT  SCHOOL  OF  WORCESTER 

Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 
One  year  course  for  Board  Examination. 

For  catalog  address: 

Hope  Fisheb,   Ph.D.,   Bancroft   School 

Worcester,  Massachusetts 


MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 
COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses  Junior  High  School 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,  Headmistress 

The  Katharine  Branson  School 

ROSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Francisco 

A  Country  School    College  Preparatory 

Heads 

Katharine   Fleming   Branson,  A.B.,   Bryn  Mawr 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

1330  19th  St.,  N.  W.  Washington.  D.  C. 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 

Head  Mistress 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 
Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 


FERRY    HALL 

A   RESIDENT   AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On   Lake  Michigan,  near   Chicago 

Junior  College;  High  School  Department:  College 
Preparatory  and  General  Courses.  Special  Departments 
of  Music,  Expression  and  Art. 

Two  new  dormitories,  including  new  dining  room  and 
infirmary,  to  be  opened  September  1929. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 

ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 

(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  courses) 

CAROLINE  RUUTZ-REES.  Ph.D.  \  „     .  M]  , 
MARY  E.  LOWNDES.  Litt.D        J  HiaJ  MMrtuu 


GREENWICH 


CONNECTICUT 


The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 

(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr.  Mount  Holyoke.  Smith, 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  college*.     Abundant  outdoor  life. 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis. 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON,  A.B. 

HEAD 

THE  LOW  AND  HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

64th  year.    Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN  POINT,  STAMFORD,  CONN. 


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BRIARCLIFF 

Mrs.  Dow's  School  for  Girls 

Margaret  Bell  Merrill,  M.  A.,  Principal 
BRIARCLIFF  MANOR  NEW  YORK 

College  Preparatory 
and  General  Academic  Courses 

Post  Graduate  Department 

Music  and  Art  with  New  York 
advantages.    New  Swimming  Pool 


Music  Dept. 

Jan    Sickest 

Director 


Art  Dept. 
Cha«.  W.  Hawthorne,  N.  A. 

Director 


THE  CAMBRIDGE  SCHOOL 

DOMESTIC      ARCHITECTURE 

LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE 

A  Professional  School  for  College 

Graduates 

The  Academic  Year  for  1929-30  opens 

Monday,  October  7,  1929. 

Henry  Atherton  Frost  —  Director 

53    Church   Street,   Cambridge,  Mass. 

At  Harvard  Square 


All  the  smart  world 
walks  in 

Sak^-Fifth  Avenue 

created  by  'Paris 
or 

SAKS-FIFTH  AVENUE 

FORTY-  NINTH  to  FIFTIETH  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 

GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  19  miles  from  New  York.     College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.       Music        Art  and 

Domestic  Science.       Catalogue   on  request.       Box  B. 

MIRIAM   A.   BYTEL,    A.B.,   Radcliffe,    Principal 

BERTHA   GORDON   WOOD,   A.B.,    Bryn   Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


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INTENSIVE  WINTER  AND 
SUMMER  COURSES 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  ol  costume  design  and  Illus- 
tration taught  In  shortest  time  com- 
patible with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  for 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
partment disposes  of  student  work. 
Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
Bureau.    Write  for  announcement. 


In  Arnold,  Constable  &  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

1680  Broadway  (near  52nd  St.)  New  Y< 


Katharine  Gibbs 

A  school  of  unusual  character  with  a  distinctive 
purpose  for  educated  women 
SECRETARIAL   ACADEMIC  EXECUTIVE 
BOSTON  Special    Course    for     College 

....  .,  c,  ,  Women.  Selected  subjects 
UOMarlboroMreet  preparing  for  executive  posi- 
tions. Separate  classrooms 
and  special  instructors. 
One-year  Course  includes  tech- 
nical and  broad  business  train- 
ing preparing  for  positions  of 
a  preferred  character. 
Two-year  Course  includes  six 
college  subjects  for  those  not 
PROVIDENCE  desiring  college,  but  wishing 

cultural  as  well  as  a  business 
155  Angell  Street       education. 

Booklet  on  request 


Resident  and 
Day  School 


NEW  YORK 
247  Park  Avenue 


After  College  What? 

THE   DREXEL   INSTITUTE 
LIBRARY  SCHOOL 

Offers  a  one  year  course  for 
college  graduates,  and  pre- 
pares students  for  all  types 
of  library  service. 

PHILADELPHIA 


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The  Phebe  Anna 
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Under  the  Direction  of  the 
Department  of  Education 


A  progressive  school  preparing 
for  all  colleges.  Open  air  class 
rooms.  Pre-school,  Primary, 
Elementary  and  High  School 
Grades. 


BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 

Agnes  L.  Rogers,  Ph.D.,  Director 
Frances  Browne,  A.B.,  HeadMistress 


THE  HARTRIDGE  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

SO  minutes  from  New  York 

A  country  school  with  beautiful  grounds. 
College   Preparatory  and    General    Courses. 
Over  fifty  girls  in  leading  colleges  today. 
Resident  Department  carefully  restricted. 
Special  attention  to  Music  and  Art. 
Athletics,  Dramatics,  Riding, 

EMELYN  B.  HARTRIDGE,  Vassar,  A.B.,  Principal 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey 


JOHN  HANCOCK  SERIES 

EVERY  WOMAN 

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appreciates  what  Ben  Franklin 

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Expenses    1001  \~  Misery 

T^"0  home  can  be  a  happy  home 
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than  income.  No  woman  likes  to 
run  behind  in  her  expenses  and 
generally  it  isn't  her  fault.  It  is 
simply  because  money  has  to  be 
spent  that  wasn't  planned  for. 

Here  is  a  "life  saver" — 
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Beech  Wood 

A  Camp  for  Girls 

On  Lake  Alamoosook  near  Bucksport,  Me. 

Water  sports,  athletics  and  other 
camp  interests.     Tutoring. 

Conducted  by 

HERMINE  EHLERS,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

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Rutherford  Place,  New  York  City 

CAMP   MYSTIC      coNmnyescttTcut 

Miss  Jobe's  salt  water  camp  for  girls 
8-18.  Conducted  by  Mrs.  Carl  Akeley  (Mary 
L.  Jobe).  Halfway,  New  York  and  Boston. 
Land  and    water  sports.     Horseback  riding. 

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BACK  LOG  CAMP 

THE  ADIRONDACK  MOUNTAINS 
INDIAN  LAKE,  NEW  YORK 

QUESTIONNAIRE 

Where  is  Indian  Lake? 

In  a  wild  part  of  the  Adirondack  Mountains,  one  hundred  and  forty 
miles  from  Albany. 

Who  runs  Back  Log  Camp? 

A  large  family  of  Philadelphia  Quakers :  Browns,  Cadburys,  Lamberts. 

Who  goes  to  it? 

Doctors,  lawyers,  merchants,  teachers,  social  workers,  ministers,  with 
their  wives,  husbands,  children,  and  friends. 

What  do  they  do  there? 

Eat,  sleep,  talk,  rest,  read,  write,  walk,  swim,  boat,  fish,  climb  moun- 
tains, see  beaver  and  deer,  botanize,  and  go  birding. 

Is  the  food  good? 

Absolutely. 

What  had  I  better  do  about  it? 

Write  at  once  for  descriptive  literature. 

Letters  of  inquiry  should  be  addressed  to  Other  references 

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Takoma  Park,  D.  C.  (Head  of  Biblical  Dept.,  Bryn  Mawr) 

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THE  ALUMNAE  REGISTER 

Do  you  know  WHAT  THE  BRYN  MAWR  ALUMNAE  ARE  DOING? 

Do  you  know  WHAT    PERCENTAGE     OF     BRYN     MAWR    GRADUATES    ARE 

MARR  ED,    HOW    MANY    CHILDREN    THEY    HAVE    AND   THE 

OCCUPATIONS  OF  THEIR  HUSBANDS? 
Do  you  know  FROM  WHAT  COLLEGES  AND  UNIVERSITIES  THE  GRADUATE 

SCHOOL  DRAWS  ITS  STUDENTS? 
Do  you  know  THE  LATEST  INFORMATION  ABOUT  YOUR  FRIENDS? 

ALL  OF  THIS  INFORMATION   is  contained  in  the 

REGISTER  OF  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS 
just  published  by  Bryn  Mawr  College. 

Your  application  on  the  attached  slip  will  bring  you  one  immediately. 


Name 

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Taylor  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Please  find  enclosed  $ for 


of  the  Alumnae  Register  at  two  dollars  each. 

Cheques   should  be  made  payable  to  Bryn  Mawr   College. 


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In  the  Godey's  Magazine  for  May,  1895,  there  is  an  article,  reprinted  in  part 
in  this  issue  of  the  Bulletin,  on  "work  and  recreation  at  one  of  the  leading  colleges 
for  women"  by  Madeline  Abbott  Bushnell,  1893.  Having  first  read  in  the  same 
magazine  a  fashion  note  which  started :  "The  sweet  simplicity  of  white  muslin  is 
insisted  upon  for  graduation  gowns  ....  The  waists  usually  hook  in  the  back  and 
have  full  fronts  drooping  slightly  on  the  belt  ....  A  smooth  collar  of  white  satin 
three  inches  wide  has  a  narrow  turn-over  collar  of  the  muslin  edged  with  lace  .... 
The  waist  is  encircled  with  a  sash  of  white  satin  ribbon,  tied  in  a  bow  and  loops  at 
the  back,  the  ends  reaching  to  the  hem  of  the  skirt  which  is  about  five  yards  wide, 
and  hangs  from  the  belt  over  a  silk  foundation  about  four  yards  wide,  well  gored," — 
I  turned  to  the  article  on  Bryn  Mawr,  expecting  to  find  an  account  just  as  far 
removed  from  our  habits  of  present  day  thought  and  manners,  but  the  founders  of 
the  college  had  built  too  well  for  that.  Essentially  the  college  then  was  as  the 
college  is  today.  The  accounts  of  student  activities  have  a  suggestion  of  the  "sweet 
simplicity  of  white  muslin"  about  them,  but  the  intellectual  foundations  of  the 
college  suggest  nothing  "four  yards  wide,  well  gored."  One  is  amazed  to  realize 
how  inevitable  and  natural  the  development  of  the  college  has  been.  It  has  wisely 
adapted  itself  to  changing  conditions,  it  has  added  here  and  taken  away  there,  it  has 
enlarged  and  enriched  the  curriculum,  it  has  established  more  varied  intellectual 
contacts,  but  never  has  it  had  to  go  back  and  undo  things  already  done,  or  radically 
change  the  whole  trend  of  its  affairs.  At  a  time  when  fashions  in  women's  education 
had  the  same  stiffness  and  restricting  qualities  as  the  fashions  in  their  clothes,  Bryn 
Mawr  managed  to  have  a  quality  that  was  of  no  period. 


BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 

(Reprinted  from  Godey's  Magazine  of  May,  1895) 

By  Madeline  Vaughan  Abbott 

The  ordinary  visitor,  who  comes  to  Bryn  Mawr  College  only  by  way  of  the 
train  from  Philadelphia,  will  always  question  the  fitness  of  the  name  to  the  place, 
and  will  wonder  where  those  early  Welsh  settlers  found  the  "high  hill"  which  has 
left  its  name  to  the  station  and  to  the  college.  It  is  not  until  this  visitor  is  fairly 
in  the  centre  of  the  college  campusi  that  he  can  see  how  the  country  falls  away 
toward  the  west  and  north  into  lowlands,  and  that  the  college  buildings  crown  the 
crest  of  a  hill.  From  the  west,  one  can  obtain  a  clear  impression  of  the  rolling, 
wooded  country  that  makes  Bryn  Mawr  one  of  the  most  beautiful  of  the  Philadelphia 
suburbs;  and  from  the  west,  too,  can  be  gained  the  most  satisfactory  view  of  the 
gray  stone  buildings  of  the  college  halls,  brightened  by  the  touch  of  color  in  the  red 
brick  gymnasium  and  by  the  picturesque  houses  of  the  faculty. 

From  the  Bryn  Mawr  station  a  boardwalk,  which  sometimes  proves  full  of 
pitfalls  for  the  unsuspecting  stranger,  leads  along  a  level  road,  past  attractive  houses, 
and  up  a  gentle  slope,  to  the  beginning  of  the  college  grounds,  scarcely  more  than 
five  minutes  from  the  station.  If  you  are  of  an  exploring  turn  of  mind,  leave  the 
boardwalk  where  it  turns  into  the  college  grounds,  at  the  sign  "Private  Road,"  and 
go  up  the  side  street  to  the  state  entrance  of  the  college  under  the  tower  of  Pem- 
broke Hall,  and  you  will  find  reward  for  the  somewhat  longer  walk  in  the  prospect 
of  distant  hillsides  framed  in  the  stone  archway.     On  either  side  of  the  tower  stretch 


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BRYN    MAWR   BULLETIN  3 

the  east  and  west  wings  of  Pembroke  Hall,  and  beyond,  the  driveway  passes  Taylor 
Hall  and  winds  between  Denbigh  and  Merion,  and  then  beyond  Radnor  Hall  sweeps 
around  the  campus  and  joins  itself  again  in  front  of  Taylor  Hall. 

Dr.  Taylor  was  wiser  than  other  people  thought  when  he  chose  the  site  for  the 
college  that  he  founded;  and  now  that  the  ground  has  been  improved  and  careful 
landscape-gardening  has  smoothed  away  the  original  roughness  it  seems  that  no  other 
site  could  have  been  half  so  fit.  Although  Wellesley  is  richer  in  the  stretch  of  her 
acres  and  her  far-famed  lake,  and  the  Bryn  Mawr  campus  cannot  yet  boast  of  the 
stately  trees  that  add  so  much  to  the  beauty  of  Smith,  we  are  proud  of  our  west- 
ward prospect,  and  glory  in  our  valleys  and  hillsides  and  in  our  sunsets. 

The  real  beauty  of  Bryn  Mawr  is  best  seen  in  the  early  spring-time,  when 
the  cherry  trees  on  the  lawn  and  the  dogwood  in  the  shrubbery  are  in  bloom,  and 
the  whole  air  is  filled  with  the  sounds  and  scents  of  coming  summer.  It  is  then, 
too,  that  the  college  life  of  the  year  seems  most  unified  in  the  Bryn  Mawr  spirit; 
for  then  the  freshmen  are  no  longer  strangers,  and  the  near  departure  of  the  seniors 
makes  all  feel  how  strong,  in  spite  of  differences  of  birthplace  and  early  training,  is 
the  bond  made  by  a  common  life  for  a  common  purpose. 

Bryn  Mawr  College  was  founded  by  Dr.  Joseph  W.  Taylor,  of  Burlington, 
N.  J.,  a  physician,  merchant,  and  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  who  purposed 
founding  an  institution  of  learning  which  should  offer  to  young  women  the  same 
advantages  so  freely  offered  to  young  men  in  colleges.  The  charter  of  the  college, 
with  the  power  to  confer  degrees,  was  granted  in  the  year  1880,  and  in  the  autumn 
of  that  year  work  was  begun  on  an  academic  building  which  was  to  be  the  first  of 
a  future  group. 

Before  this  building  was  finished,  however,  Dr.  Taylor  died,  and  left  the  work 
which  had  been  so  near  to  his  heart  to  be  finished  by  the  friends  whom  he  named 
in  his  will  as  the  trustees  of  the  endowment  fund.  Under  the  direction  of  these 
trustees,  the  work  was  carried  on  according  to  the  plans  and  purposes  of  the 
founder.  A  gymnasium  was  added  to  the  original  buildings,  and  later,  residence 
halls  and  a  science  hall  were  built  to  meet  the  need  of  the  increasing  number  of 
students.  Today,  instead  of  the  two  halls  with  which  the  college  opened  in  1885, 
there  are  seven;  and  the  thirty  students  of  the  first  year  have  increased  to  the  two 
hundred  and  seventy  of  the  tenth. 

The  academic  building,  which  was  the  first  to  be  finished,  was  named  after 
the  founder,  and  above  the  side  windows  in  the  chapel,  on  the  second  floor  of  Taylor 
Hall,  are  stone  tablets,  whose  simple  inscriptions  in  memory  of  Dr.  Taylor  are 
supplemented  by  the  college  buildings,  which  are  the  best  expression  of  the  bounty 
and  service  of  the  founder's  plan.  Besides  the  chapel,  Taylor  Hall  contains  half 
a  dozen  lecture  rooms,  four  or  five  seminary  rooms  for  small  classes  in  advanced 
work,  the  reading-rooms  and  reference  libraries  of  the  various  departments,  and 
the  general  college  library. 

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Besides  Taylor  and  Dalton  Halls,  there  are  five  halls  of  residence — Merion, 
Radnor,  Denbigh,  Pembroke  East  and  Pembroke  West,  all  named  after  Welsh 
counties.  Each  hall,  with  the  exception  of  Pembroke  East  and  West,  which  have 
a  common  dining  room  in  the  connecting  tower,  has  its  own  dining  room,  and  the 
domestic  arrangements  of  the  different  halls  are  quite  distinct. 


4  BRYN    MAWR   BULLETIN 

Each  hall  accommodates  sixty  students,  and  the  rooms  occupied  by  the  students 
are  of  three  kinds — single  rooms;  sets  of  three  rooms,  comprising  each  two  bed- 
rooms and  a  study,  to  be  occupied  by  two  students;  and  single  suites,  comprising 
bed-room  and  study,  for  one  student.  All  the  larger  single  rooms  and  all  the 
studies  have  open  fire-places,  as  an  added  touch  of' comfort;  and  on  a  cold  winter 
day  I  know  no  more  attractive  place  to  linger  than  a  college  study  with  the  open 
coal-fire  glowing  warm  and  bright,  and  the  tea-table  drawn  up  into  a  cozy  corner. 

In  each  hall  is  a  resident  mistress  who  is  the  head  of  the  household,  and  ready 
at  all  times  to  fulfil  any  of  the  miscellaneous  duties  of  such  a  position.  Over  the 
individual  conduct  of  the  students,  in  so  far  as  it  does  not  affect  the  actual  running 
of  the  house,  the  mistress  has  no  control.  The  students  are  free  to  come  and  go 
as  they  like,  for  the  college  authorities  felt  from  the  beginning  that  if  the  girls  were 
mature  enough  to  enter  on  a  life  of  advanced  study,  they  were  old  enough  to  be 
treated  as  women  of  discretion  and  good  sense. 

In  the  early  days  of  the  college,  public  opinion  was  most  potent  to  regulate 
the  routine  of  college  life  and  to  reduce  friction;  but,  as  the  college  grew  in  size 
and  numbers,  it  was  found  necessary  to  have  a  more  formal  code  of  manners  and 
morals,  that  would  express  in  definite  form  the  rulings  of  precedent  and  tradition, 
and  the  students  were  given  permission  to  organize  themselves  into  a  society  for 
self-government.  The  legal  name  of  this  society  is  the  Bryn  Mawr  Students'  Asso- 
ciation for  Self-Government,  and  the  Association  has  been  granted  a  charter  from 
the  trustees  with  full  power  to  legislate  in  all  affairs  of  college  life  that  are  not 
purely  academic,  or  concerned  solely  with  the  domestic  arrangements  of  the  halls. 

For  the  three  years  that  the  Self-Government  Association  has  been  in  power, 
it  has  been  uniformly  successful,  and  has  proved  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  author- 
ities that  the  students  are  still  capable  of  governing  themselves.  The  meetings  of 
the  association  are  held  at  irregular  intervals,  and  can  be  called  at  any  time  at  the 
request  of  ten  members.  By  the  Association  are  decided  all  questions  of  student 
etiquette,  matters  of  chaperonage,  of  college  entertainments,  of  the  conduct  of  the 
students  at  college  and  abroad.  The  motto  seems  to  be  Individual  Liberty  and  the 
Good  Name  of  Bryn  Mawr. 

The  Bryn  Mawr  rooms  never  see  quite  such  wild  scenes  as  are  reported  to 
me  by  friends  of  Harvard  and  Yale  and  Princeton,  but  they  have  been  the  scene 
of  many  a  mild  revel  and  merry  party,  and  they  hold  just  as  serious  meetings  over 
class  and  college  matters,  and  even  over  athletics,  for  Bryn  Mawr  believes  in  brawn 
as  well  as  brain. 

The  principal  features  of  Bryn  Mawr  social  life  are  teas  and  of  these  there 
are  two  sorts,  "tea"  and  "a  tea."  To  the  uninitiated  the  difference  is  slight,  but  it 
exists  nevertheless. 

"Tea"  may  be  had  any  hour  of  the  day  or  night,  for  at  Bryn  Mawr  that  most 
comforting  institution  of  life  has  developed  into  morning  and  evening  tea  as  well 
as  afternoon,  in  a  spirit  that  had  expression  in  that  saying  from  "Alice  in  Wonder- 
land" embroidered  on  the  tea  cloth  of  one  of  the  most  popular  "tea"  rooms:  "It  is 
always  tea-time,  and  there  is  no  time  to  wash  the  dishes  between  whiles."  As  the 
only  conditions  for  "tea"  are  two  congenial  souls  and  the  wherewithal  to  manu- 
facture the  beverage,  and  as  the  motto  of  Bryn  Mawr  life  is  "What  you  haven't, 
borrow  from  your  neighbor,"  "tea"  is  always  possible. 


BRYN    MAWR    BULLETIN  5 

I  shall  never  forget  the  many  pleasant  hours  spent  with  one  of  my  friends, 
who  had  a  cozy  room  under  the  eaves  of  Merion  Hall,  and  who  made  tea  regularly 
every  morning  after  the  eleven  o'clock  lectures  and  served  us  with  the  unwonted 
luxury  of  real  cream.  After  the  tea-pot  was  emptied  and  the  alcohol  burned  from 
the  lamp  beneath  the  kettle,  we  used  to  spend  the  time  till  luncheon  talking  of 
things  that  were  not  Greek  nor  mathematics,  or  reading  to  each  other  what  we 
loved  best  in  the  bookcase  that  stood  conveniently  near  the  comfortable  couch.  It 
may  not  have  been  the  most  profitable  way  of  spending  spare  hours,  but  it  was 
pleasant;  and  now,  when  I  open  a  copy  of  Lanier  or  of  Marston,  or  of  Browning, 
or  wander  through  the  verses  of  Omar  Khayyam,  I  see  again  that  long,  low,  cozy 
room  where  I  first  learned  to  love  them. 


A  COLLEGE  ROOM 


So  fond  are  my  recollections  of  "tea"  that  all  charms  of-  "a  tea"  fade  beside 
them.  For  "a  tea"  -means  some  formality,  all  that  is  possible  in  college,  and  an 
elaborate  preparation  for  food  that  sometimes  reaches  the  heights  of  salads  and 
ices.  One  is  always  invited  especially  to  "a  tea",  and  if  the  hostess  wishes  to  be 
very  fashionable,  she  sends  out  her  invitations  as  early  as  three  days  beforehand. 
The  excuses  for  "a  tea"  are  manifold — a  welcome  to  the  freshmen,  a  visiting  relative, 
a  friend  from  town,  a  birthday,  a  holiday,  a  box  from  home,  an  unwary  young 
man  who  comes  to  call  and  finds  himself  the  guest  at  a  tea  and  the  only  man 
among  perhaps  thirty  girls.  The  tea-table,  next  to  the  window  seat  and  the  study 
table,  is  the  prominent  article  in  a  college  room,  and  proves  the  popular  belief  that 
studying  is  hungry  work. 


6  BRYN    MAWR    BULLETIN 

Besides  teas,  college  playtime  is  occupied  with  entertainments,  given  usually  by 
the  different  classes,  with  basketball,  tennis,  golf,  and,  indeed,  all  out-door  sports. 
In  the  early  autumn  the  sophomores  welcome  the  freshmen  with  more  or  less  elab- 
orate entertainment  and  at  this  time  takes  place  the  ceremony  of  the  Presentation 
of  Lanterns  at  which  to  each  member  of  the  freshman  class  is  presented  a  lantern, 
the  college  symbol,  to  light  her  on  her  way  through  college.  One  of  these  enter- 
tainments took  the  form  of  a  parody  of  the  story  of  Siegfried,  in  which  Brynhilda 
slew  the  Dragon  of  Public  Opinion  with  the  pen,  which  is  mightier  than  the  sword, 
and  released  Siegfried,  rolled  a  huge  diploma,  from  his  enchanted  sleep;  and  the 
lanterns  were  presented  to  the  freshmen  by  a  chorus  of  the  Valkyrs  grouped  in  the 
hall  of  Walhalla. 

As  soon  as  possible  after  the  sophomore  entertainment  the  freshmen  return 
the  compliment  with  something  of  a  less  ambitious  nature,  but  try  their  best  to 
respond  to  all  the  sophomore  jests  and  gibes.  Later  in  the  year  the  juniors  dis- 
tinguish themselves  by  a  farewell  supper  to  the  seniors,  at  which  toasts  are  made 
and  songs  sung,  and  the  remains  of  the  feast  are  handed  through  the  windows  to 
the  lower  classmen  without,  who  have  climbed  on  tables  and  chairs  to  see  the  fun 
and  have  serenaded  their  elders  until  they  are  hoarse. 

The  last  general  social  event  of  the  college  year  is  the  college  breakfast,  which 
is  given  by  all  the  college  in  honor  of  the  seniors.  Long  tables  are  spread  in  the 
gymnasium,  and  once  in  the  year,  on  the  day  before  commencement,  all  the  students 
sit  down  at  table  together. 

Commencement  day  itself  is  very  simply  kept  at  Bryn  Mawr.  The  day  is 
always  the  first  Thursday  in  June,  and  the  festivities  begin  the  evening  before  with 
the  reception  given  by  the  senior  class  to  their  friends.  The  commencement  exer- 
cises are  very  simple  and  the  seniors  take  no  active  part  in  them.  The  principal 
features  are  the  entrance  in  procession  of  the  students  of  the  college  in  cap  and 
gown,  and  the  address  by  some  speaker  of  note.  Although  the  seniors  are  the 
principal  figures  of  the  day,  the  alumnae  of  the  college  have  their  share  of  it  also, 
for  on  the  morning  of  commencement  is  held  one  of  the  two  regular  meetings  of 
the  Alumnae  Association,  and  in  the  evening  is  the  annual  alumnae  supper,  at  which 
the  seniors  are  formally  welcomed  into  the  Association. 

The  only  honors  conferred  by  the  College  upon  any  member  of  the  senior 
class  with  the  exception  of  the  possible  award  of  resident  fellowships,  are  the 
award  of  the  George  W.  Childs  Essay  Prize,  and  the  Bryn  Mawr  European  Fellow- 
ship. This  fellowship  is  awarded  to  a  member  of  the  graduating  class  on  the  score 
of  excellence  in  scholarship,  and  the  value  of  it  is  to  be  used  to  defray  the  expense 
of  a  year's  study  at  some  foreign  university. 

In  spite  of  occasional  severe  storms  and  the  high  winds  that  have  won  for  Bryn 
Mawr  the  nickname  of  "Windy  Ilium,"  the  comparatively  mild  climate  of  South- 
eastern Pennsylvania  makes  it  possible  for  out-door  sports  to  be  carried  on  late  into 
the  autumn  and  begun  early  in  the  spring.  At  present  one  of  the  requirements  for 
all  resident  candidates  for  a  degree  is  an  amount  of  outdoor  exercise  averaging  each 
month  four  hours  a  week.  Of  this  time  one  hour  must  be  spent  in  the  gymnasium 
at  systematic  work  under  the  direction  of  the  gymnasium  director,  and  the  other 
three  may  be  spent,  at  the  choice  of  the  student,  either  in  the  gymnasium  or  in  any 
active  out-door  exercise  that  is  approved  by  the  director. 


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In  the  autumn  and  spring  basketball  and  tennis  arouse  the  most  enthusiasm, 
although  golf  has  a  few  devotees;  and  iri  the  winter  there  are  long  walks  across 
country,  and,  when  the  weather  provides  it,  skating  and  "bobbing." 

On  any  afternoon  about  four  o'clock,  after  laboratory  and  afternoon  lectures 
are  over,  the  visitor  to  the  college  will  see  a  large  proportion  of  the  students 
swarming  out  of  the  halls,  ready  for  basketball  or  tennis,  or  a  long  tramp,  or  with 
their  skates  in  hand,  all  starting  for  the  exercise  or  recreation  that  will  send  them 
in  two  hours  later  starving  for  dinner  and  with  heads  clear  for  an  evening's  work. 

I  have  often  been  asked  what  proportion  of  girls  break  down  in  college.  To 
this  question  I  can  only  say  that  the  college  life  furnishes  ample  opportunity  for 
physical  development,  as  well  as  for  mental,  and  that  invariably,  except  in  case  of 
accident,  the  student  who  has  to  give  up  work  on  account  of  her  health,  has  worn 
herself  out  before  entering  by  too  hurried  preparation,  or  has  failed  to  live  her  col- 
lege life  rationally  and  regularly. 

Although  there  is  no  schedule  of  hours  set  by  the  College  beyond  those  of 
recitations  and  meal  times,  most  of  the  students  work  from  eight  or  nine  to  one  in 
the  morning,  from  two  to  four  in  the  afternoon,  and  from  half  past  seven  to  half 
past  nine  in  the  evening;  and  these  are  quiet  hours  established  by  the  Self-Govern- 
ment  Association.  Eight  hours  a  day,  including  recitations,  is  the  average  working 
time,  although,  of  course,  some  students  spend  less  and  some  much  more;  but  no 
undergraduate  student  is  allowed  to  have  more  than  fifteen  hours  a  week  of  recita- 
tions and  lectures. 

The  college  day  begins  regularly  with  morning  chapel,  at  nine  o'clock — although 
there  are  two  or  three  eight  o'clock  classes,  and  the  work  continues  through  the 
day.  The  majority  of  the  classes  are  held  in  the  morning,  but  there  is  always 
laboratory  work  in  the  afternoon,  and  small  advanced  classes  meet  in  the  afternoon 
or  evening  for  the  convenience  of  the  professor  or  students. 

The  work,  so  far  as  possible,  is  conducted  by  means  of  lectures,  supplemented 
by  outside  reading  and  occasional  quizzes,  written  and  oral.  In  the  German  and 
French  courses,  and  in  the  graduate.  Latin  exercises,  the  lectures  are  delivered  in 
the  language  of  the  course,  and  the  students  are  given  an  opportunity  to  gain  a 
speaking  as  well  as  reading  and  writing  knowledge.  Besides  German,  French,  and 
Latin,  the  College  offers  full  graduate  and  undergraduate  courses  in  Greek,  English 
history  and  political  economy,  philosophy,  mathematics,  physics,  chemistry,  and  biology, 
and  partial  courses  in  Sanskrit  and  biblical  literature,  Hebrew,  Spanish,  Italian, 
and  the  Slavonic  languages. 


The  final  requirement  of  all  candidates  for  a  degree  is  the  oral  examination  in 
German  and  French;  and  no  students  will  be  graduated  who  do  not  possess  a  read- 
ing knowledge  of  these  languages.  The  Senior  Orals,  as  they  are  called,  are  usually 
held  in  the  last  semester  of  the  senior  year,  and  for  weeks,  even  months  beforehand, 
the  seniors  inflict  their  friends  with  forebodings  of  these  examinations,  and  spend 
all  their  spare  time  over  little  red  dictionaries  and  German  and  French  books,  and 
do  their  best  to  learn  long  lists  of  impossible  words  to  increase  their  vocabularies. 

Besides  the  A.B.  degree,  the  College  confers  the  A.M.  degree  on  its  own 
graduates  only,  and  the  Ph.D.  degree  upon  graduates  of  Bryn  Mawr  College  and 


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of  other  colleges  and  universities  in  good  and  regular  standing;  and  the  good  of 
the  graduate  department,  as  of  the  undergraduate,  is  consulted  in  the  choice  of  pro- 
fessors and  of  instructors.  The  requirements  for  the  Ph.D.  degree  are  three  years' 
study  in  allied  major  and  minor  subjects,  and  in  addition  a  thesis,  and  of  the  three 
years,  two  at  least  must  be  spent  at  Bryn  Mawr  College.  In  the  nine  years  that 
Bryn  Mawr  has  been  established  she  has  conferred  the  degree  of  A.B.  upon  one 
hundred  candidates,  that  of  A.M.  upon  seven,  and  that  of  Ph.D.  upon  five. 


Bryn  Mawr  is,  I  believe,  the  only  college  exclusively  for  women  that  has  a 
carefully-organized  graduate  department;  and  the  Graduate  Club,  formed  to  promote 
social  relations  and  a  knowledge  of  graduate  work  in  other  colleges,  has  been  a 
great  factor  during  the  year  of  its  existence  in  unifying  the  graduate  department  of 
the  College. 

The  Bryn  Mawr  energy,  which  is  shown  in  play  and  in  work,  is  not  wanting 
in  the  religious  life  of  the  college;  and  it  is  a  source  of  deep  satisfaction  to  those 
of  us  who  know  the  real  state  of  spiritual  thought,  that  we  can  deny,  heartily  and 
truthfully,  the  charges  of  carelessness  in  all  religious  matters  which  are  so  often 
brought  against  the  College.  It  was  the  earnest  desire  of  the  founder  that  an 
earnest,  quiet,  and  practical  Christianity  should  pervade  the  College,  and  this  wish 
is  being  carried  out  by  the  students  themselves.  Although  the  founder  of  the  col- 
lege, the  trustees,  and  some  of  the  faculty  are  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
no  demand  it  made  of  the  students  to  meet  the  requirements  of  this  society. 

Every  morning  except  on  Saturday  and  Sunday,  there  is  a  brief  and  simple 
service  in  the  chapel,  and  on  Wednesday  evening,  there  is  a  somewhat  longer,  but 
equally  simple  service  at  half-past  seven.  The  presence  of  the  students  at  these 
services  is  asked  but  not  required.  Attendance  at  church  on  Sunday  is  also  not 
compulsory,  but  the  numbers  of  students  to  be  seen  at  the  services  of  the  various 
churches  in  the  town  show  the  spirit  of  the  students. 

The  missionary  and  temperance  societies,  the  early  Sunday  morning  service,  and 
the  Christian  Union,  all  have  their  earnest  supporters,  but  perhaps  the  most  estab- 
lished expression  of  the  religious  feelingj  of  the  students  is  found  in  the  Sunday 
evening  meetings.  These  meetings  are  held  in  the  gymnasium  and  are  conducted 
entirely  by  the  students.  The  meetings  are  in  charge  of  a  committee  who  select 
a  leader  for  each  meeting,  and  the  service  is  very  simple,  with  one  or  two  prayers, 
plenty  of  singing,  a  short  address  from  the  leader  on  some  biblical  topic  or  text, 
and  an  opportunity  for  anyone  else  to  add  her  word.  Anyone  who  could  be  present 
at  one  of  these  meetings  would  see  that  the  earnestness  was  not  wanting;  and  in 
the  every-day  life  of  the  College  are  many  instances  of  the  practical  Christianity, 
that  after  all  is  the  test.  It  has  been  said  that  college  life  is  a  selfish  one,  and  it 
may  be  so,  but  it  is  not  possible  to  overlook  the  innumerable,  unvaunted,  little  kind- 
nesses that  make  up  the  sum  of  the  day's  happiness. 

Bryn  Mawr  College  has  doubtless  made  many  mistakes  in  the  ten  years  of  her 
life,  and  perhaps  has  justly  laid  herself  open  to  severe  criticism,  but  she  has  tried 
toi  be  honest  in  her  work,  and  to  open  to  women  another  opportunity  to  gain  the 
greatest  and  best  of  intellectual  life.  The  future  alone  will  show  whether  the  desire 
of  the  founder  is  fulfilled,  and  whether  the  "institution  of  learning"  which  he  founded 
is  made  a  recognized  power  for  good. 


HEALTH  AND  HYGIENE  AT  BRYN  MAWR 

Somewhat  removed  from  the  centre  of  the  more  active  and  noisier  campus  life 
in  a  spot  selected,  I  am  sure,  for  its  beauty  and  quiet,  is  the  college  Infirmary,  a 
building  which  is  a  constant  reminder  of  the- interest  of  Bryn  Mawr  alumnae  in  the 
health  and  hygiene  of  college  students.  The  building  is  attractive,  artistic,  well- 
equipped,  on  the  whole,  to  accomplish  its  purpose  and  capable  of  arousing  in  those 
who  work  in  it  a  feeling  of  affection  and  contentment  in  spite  of  certain  troublesome 
idiosyncrasies.  Its  gray  walls  covered  with  ivy,  its  oneness  with  the  hillside  around 
it,  its  delightful  sun  room  and  porches,  its  completely  equipped  isolation  wards 
for  the  treatment  of  contagious  diseases,  are  admirable  features.  Its  single  stair- 
way, innumerable  doors  apparently  leading  nowhere,  its  dearth  of  closets  and  scarcity 
of  bathrooms,  its  long  corridors  and  sharp  turns  that  forbid  the  passage  of  a 
stretcher,  doorways  that  will  not  accommodate  the  beds  that  have  been  equipped 
with  casters  so  that  they  can  be  rolled  out  on  to  the  flat  sun-bathed  roofs;  these 
are  the  traits  that  evoke  impatience,  fatigue,  ingenuity  and  such  an  amused  tolerance 
as  one  would  develop  toward  the  endearing  shortcomings  of  a  unique  and  individual- 
istic friend.  Infinitely  more  important  than  these  details,  however,  is  the  fact  that 
the  Infirmary  exists;  that  the  college  maintains  the  building  and  its  staff  of  three 
day  nurses  and  (next  year)  a  night  nurse,  a  part-time  technician,  a  full-time  asso- 
ciate physician,  an  active  experienced  physician-in-chief  who  constantly  serves  the 
college  as  consultant,  a  psychiatrist,  to  guard  the  health  of  a  student  body  numbering 
all  told,  less  than  five  hundred  students. 

Obviously,  the  expense  of  such  an  equipment  is  great  and  as  a  matter  of  fact 
the  department  is  not  self-supporting  in  spite  of  a  high  Infirmary  fee  charged  each 
student  every  year  and  a  high  daily  rate  for  Infirmary  care  beyond  what  the  fee 
entitles  her  to. 

It  is  the  privilege  and  duty  of  the  college  and  the  alumnae  to  inquire  whether 
or  not  the  greatest  possible  service  is  rendered  the  students  and  the  college  com- 
munity by  this  expensive  department.  What  does  the  health  department  do  to  justify 
its  existence  and  what  are  its  potentialities  for  further  service?  The  work  as  a 
whole  falls  under  two  general  headings:  medical  (treatment  and  prophylaxis)  and 
educational. 

The  Infirmary  aspires  to  be  the  health  centre  of  the  college  community.  Its 
greatest  point  of  contact  with  the  community  is  through  the  medical  dispensary  which 
is  open  practically  all  day.  The  associate  physician  is  in  her  office  from  8.30  to 
12.30  in  the  morning  and  from  3.30  to  5.30  P.  M.  daily.  Students,  wardens,  and 
resident  employees,  may  apply  for  medical  treatment  or  service  during  these  hours. 
Such  office  visits  average  about  4000  during  the  academic  year. 

Admission  to  the  Infirmary  for  treatment  is  usually  through  the  dispensary, 
though  frequently  at  irregular  hours,  as  the  occasion  demands.  The  total  admissions 
for  the  year  average  about  250  to  300  cases,  most  of  them  minor  ills,  some  more 
complicated,  a  few  serious.  The  average  stay  in  the  Infirmary  is  about  four  days. 
It  is  fairly  common  to  have  the  same  student  admitted  a  great  number  of  times. 
It  is  not  very  rare  to  have  students  graduate  without  ever  having  been  admitted  to 
the  Infirmary. 

(9) 


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The  medical  office  asks  to  be  informed  of  all  medical  treatment  the  students  may 
be  receiving  under  the  supervision  of  home  physicians  or  specialists.  In  such  cases, 
it  is  often  possible  to  co-operate  with  great  saving  of  the  student's  time;  for  instance, 
vaccine  treatments,  surgical  dressings,  iron  or  arsenic  injections  and  so  forth,  are 
given  routinely  in  the  dispensary,  following  the,  instructions  of  home  physicians. 
Only  by  knowing  of  the  necessity  for  treatment  can  this  office  be  fully  appreciative 
of  any  physical  handicaps  under  which  students  may  be  laboring.  A  medical  inter- 
pretation of  infirmities  that  make  a  lightened  schedule  advisable  is  often  necessary 
to  gain  proper  consideration  for  the  student. 

Routine  physical  examination  of  all  students  every  year,  the  supervision  of 
students  with  physical  equipment  below  the  average,  of  convalescent  patients,  restric- 
tion of  athletic  activities,  examination  of  household  employees,  checking  of  menus, 
investigation  of  milk  and  water  supply,  quarantine  regulations,  are  additional  duties 
of  the  medical  office. 

Such  a  report  indicates  that  the  medical  facilities  of  the  health  department 
are  utilized  by  the  community.  Greater  use  of  our  medical  and  surgical  dispensary 
might  be  made  by  home  physicians.  I  have  known  home  physicians  who  insisted  that 
a  student  go  into  Philadelphia  daily  to  an  eminent  surgeon  for  simple  surgical  dress- 
ings such  as  internes  do  routinely  in  the  hospitals.  This  sort  of  thing  would  be 
less  likely  if  the  medical  facilities  of  the  college  were  better  known. 

From  the  educational  standpoint,  however,  the  resources  of  the  department  are, 
I  hesitate  to  say  wasted,  but  at  least  undeveloped.  It  is  of  course  always  a  mooted 
question  how  much  hygiene  and  preventive  medicine  should  be  taught  in  an  academic 
college.  My  conviction  is,  the  more  academic  the  school,  the  greater  the  need  for 
emphasis  upon  the  needs  and  care  of  the  body,  not  as  an  end  in  itself,  but  to  gain 
freedom  whenever  possible  from  the  physical  and  emotional  deterrents  to  achieve- 
ment and  success. 

Hygiene,  as  a  general  course  in  the  academic  college,  must  of  necessity  be 
informative,  scientific  but  non-technical,  with  emphasis  always  on  the  normal  body 
and  mind,  practical,  planned  to  give  all  students  a  working  knowledge  of  the  tools 
at  hand  for  the  prevention  of  disease  and  the  maintenance  of  health.  It  should  form 
a  basis  for  appreciation  of  the  achievements  and  progress  of  scientific  medicine,  an 
appreciation  which  can  be  as  stirring  to  the  imagination  and  as  inspiring  as  a  study 
of  the  achievements  of  man  in  other  fields  of  endeavor. 

The  history  of  the  teaching  of  Hygiene  at  Bryn  Mawr  indicates  an  increasing 
realization  of  the  wisdom  of  including  instruction  in  Hygiene  in  the  college  cur- 
riculum. From  year  to  year  greater  opportunity  for  effective  teaching  has  been 
provided.  At  present  the  arrangement  is,  I  believe,  better  than  at  any  time  in  the 
past  but  it  is  still  unsatisfactory.  Hygiene  at  present  is  considered  a  part  of  the 
program  of  physical  education  and  the  students  have  been  required  to  pass  examina- 
tions in  its  several  branches.  A  course  of  13  hours  in  Body  Mechanics  has  been 
given  to  Freshmen  by  Miss  Petts,  Director  of  Physical  Education.  A  course  of 
eight  lectures  in  general  hygiene  to  the  sophomores  by  Dr.  Wagoner;  and  five 
lectures  in  mental  hygiene  by  outside  speakers.  The  chief  obstacles  to  the  success  of 
the  program  as  it  stands  seem  to  be  as  follows: 

First,  that  although  the  courses  are  required  and  examinations  given,  they  are 
considered  extra-curriculum  subjects  and  no  credit  given  for  them. 


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Second,  the  instructors  in  the  sciences  of  Body  Mechanics,  Personal  Hygiene, 
Public  Health  and  Preventive  Medicine,  have  no  academic  standing. 

Third j  the  time  granted  for  these  courses  is  insufficient  to  cover  the  subject 
material  adequately. 

Filling  a  crowded  college  curriculum  with  required  courses  considered  by  various 
educators  as  indispensable  to  a  well-rounded  education,  is  a  thankless  job  at  best, 
from  the  students'  standpoint.  Requiring  courses  and  giving  no  credit  for  them  adds 
insult  to  injury  and  the  grudge  is  transferred  to  the  subject  itself.  Failing  to  give 
instructors  in  this  field  academic  appointments  detracts  from  the  dignity  of  the 
Department  and  puts  a  greater  burden  upon  those  who  are  endeavoring  to  develop 
its  educational  phase.  The  time  allotted  the  Hygiene  course  should  be  increased 
from  18  hours  as  will  be  given  next  year,  to  two  hours  a  week  throughout  the 
sophomore  year — a  total  of  about  50  hours.  If  it  is  granted  that  Hygiene  should 
be  taught  college  students,  enough  time  should  be  given  for  teaching  in  sufficient 
detail  to  insure  interest  and  a  grasp  of  the  subject. 

We  expect  much  of  college  students  in  the  way  of  sensible  behavior.  We  forget 
that  much  of  their  knowledge  of  physical  and  mental  hygiene  is  in  the  nature  of 
parental  precepts  against  which  unfortunately  they  may  be  rebelling,  or  which  they 
may  be  questioning,  or  possibly  simply  waiving  temporarily  while  the  more  exciting 
phases  of  college  life  consume  all  time  and  energy.  However  sound  the  parental 
admonitions  may  be,  college  students  need  a  new  basis  upon  which  to  build  up 
their  own  principles  of  living,  self-conceived  from  new  scientific  knowledge  and 
self-applied. 

The  practical  results  of  the  teaching  of  hygiene  always  repay  the  efforts  ex- 
pended, often  not  as  immediately  as  one  would  like,  but  frequently  in  an  unexpectedly 
far-reaching  manner.  The  only  discipline  worth  developing  is  self-discipline  and  it 
is  the  aim  of  the  Health  Department  to  create  in  students  the  desire  and  ability  to 
govern  themselves  in  matters  of  health  and  hygiene  as  they  do  socially  and  civilly. 

Emotional  guidance  and  training  as  a  protection  against  the  development  of 
neurotic  tendencies  and  social  maladjustment  are  receiving  much  attention  in  the 
field  of  education  at  present.  Medicine  has  a  great  responsibility  in  this  direction 
which  it  cannot  escape  if  it  would.  The  physical  components  of  emotional  dis- 
turbances bring  many  students  to  the  dispensary.  Giving  these  students  insight  into 
the  nature  of  their  malady,  be  it  insomnia,  excessive  smoking,  irritability  or  nervous- 
ness, indigestion,  palpitation  of  the  heart,  or  what  not,  as  well  as  constructive  advice 
as  to  how  to  deal  with  it,  is  one  of  the  ways  in  which  the  Health  Department  con- 
tributes to  mental  hygiene.  That  it  has  a  monopoly  over  the  factors  tending  to 
create  wholesome  mental  states  and  a  satisfactory  adjustment  to  life,  is  of  course 
as  ridiculous  as  the  notion  that  mental  hygiene  is  some  sort  of  concentrated  pill 
which  can  be  administered  in  one  interview  or  even  in  five  doses  of  one  lecture  each. 
How  to  teach  the  principles  of  mental  hygiene  effectively  and  help  students 
apply  them  are  problems  to  which  the  Health  Department  is  giving  much  thought. 
The  observations  of  a  student  writing  on  this  subject  in  an  examination  in  hygiene 
are  delightfully  in  point:  "The  objection  has  been  put  forward  in  regard  to  under- 
taking mental  hygiene  in  college  or  anywhere  that  the  victims,  so  to  speak,  are  aware 
of  it  and  it  is  therefore  harmful  because  it  leads  to  introspection.  This,  it  seems  to 
me,  is  a  foolish  objection  since  the  people  who   have  a  healthy  objectivity  already 


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either  pay  no  attention  or  have  a  good  time  applying  the  principles  to  their  friends. 
Those  who  are  given  already  to  introspection  had  better  be  given  some  knowledge 
to  judge  themselves  and  their  queer  twists  than  go  on  in  a  fog.  Certainly  there 
is  narrow  subjectivity,  usually  accompanied  by  egotism  of  a  defensive  hurt  sort,  in 
college — everywhere  in  fact,  but  how  to  approach  it  is  a  difficult  matter.  Those 
who  need  such  discussion  most  are  often  left  out  of  it  in  the  general  pow-wows. 
The  best,  in  fact,  the  only  way  to  reach  them  without  offense  is  through  a  lecture 
course  on  the  subject." 

A  lecture  course  was  tried  this  year.  Five  well-qualified  psychiatrists  gave  talks 
on  topics  included  under  the  heading  Mental  Hygiene.  Next  year,  Dr.  Earl  Bond, 
Director  of  the  new  Institute  for  Mental  Hygiene  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital, 
has  consented  to  give  the  series  himself,  giving  greater  continuity  to  the  course  and 
a  greater  opportunity  for  developing  topics  of  local  and  contemporary  importance. 
It  is  hoped  that  these  lectures  will  inform  students  as  to  what  constitutes  a  mental 
hygiene  problem  and  what  are  the  symptoms  of  maladjustment.  Given  an  increas- 
ing insight  into  personality  difficulties  it  is  hoped  that  students  will  learn  to  seek 
advice  in  respect  to  them  in  proper  channels.  Medical  interviews  in  mental  hygiene 
problems  are  part  of  the  Student  Health  Service.  The  associate  physician  works 
in  consultation  with  Dr.  Bond  and  under  his  supervision. 

To  the  alumnae  then,  I  am  anxious  to  express  on  behalf  of  the  Infirmary  staff 
gratitude  and  appreciation  of  their  great  part  in  developing  the  Student  Health 
Service  at  Bryn  Mawr.  I  am  equally  anxious  to  interest  them  in  the  further  de- 
velopment of  its  educational  possibilities  and  the  creation  of  a  Department  so  organ- 
ized that  it  will  be  more  likely  to  succeed  in  producing  college  graduates  able  and 
anxious  to  guard  their  physical  and  mental  well-being;  and,  at  the  same  time,  a 
Department  offering  opportunity  for  constructive  creative  work  on  the  part  of  those 
serving  it. 

Marjorie  Jefferies  Wagoner,  1918,  Associate  Physician. 


ANNOUNCEMENT 

President  Park  is  making  a  very  rapid   and  successful   recovery.      She   is  back 
again  in  her  own  house  but  it  not  taking  any  part  as  yet  in  College  affairs. 


the  next  council  meeting 

The  Alumnae  Council  will  meet  in  November  in  New  York  City  where  the 
sessions  will  be  in  charge  of  Julia  Langdon  Loomis,  1895,  Councillor  for  District  II. 


CHANGE  IN  COMMENCEMENT  SPEAKER 

Due  to  the  fact  that  Mr.  Ralph  Adams  Cram  has  been  unavoidably  detained  in 
Europe,  the  Commencement  Address  will  be  delivered  by  Professor  James  H.  Breasted, 
Director  of  the  Oriental  Institute  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  who  will  speak  on 
"The  Origins  of  Social  Idealism." 


DR  SCHENCK  GIVEN  OVATION;  RECEIVES  DIPLOMA 

FOR  WORK 

(Reprinted  from   The  College  News) 

On  Monday  afternoon,  April  29,  the  French  Club  entertained  at  tea  in  honor 
of  Dr.  Eunice  Morgan  Schenck,  who  has  been  made  an  "officier  d'Academie."  The 
tea,  which  was  followed  by  the  ceremony  of  presenting  the  diploma  and  a  medal, 
was  given  to  Dr.  Schenck  by  the  members,  of  the  French  Club. 

Mile.  Parde*  was  the  first  to  speak  and  welcomed  the  French  consul  of  Phila- 
delphia, Mr.  Weiller,  who  was  present  in  honor  of  the  occasion.  She  congratulated 
Dr.  Schenck  on  the  well-merited  acknowledgment  she  was  receiving  for  her  work 
in  acquainting  the  students  at  Bryn  Mawr  with  the  French  language  and  literature. 
She  expressed  her  great  pleasure  in  collaborating  with  such  an  intelligent  and  inter- 
ested French  scholar,  and  her  pride  in  the  honor  paid  her  friend. 

Mile.  Parde  was  followed  by  Mr.  Weiller,  who  said  he  had  had  the  pleasure 
of  collaborating  with  Dr.  Schenck  frequently  and  wished  to  voice  his  gratitude  for 
the  great  service  she  had  rendered  France  by  helping  American  students  to  understand 
and  love  his  country.  He  mentioned  the  union  which  sentiment  has  always  made 
between  the  two  countries.  When  America  was  young,  France  helped  her  in  her 
struggle  for  liberty,  and  in  the  Great  War  America  returned  the  service  in  a  spirit  of 
love  and  friendship.  Dr.  Schenck  is  one  of  those  who  are  helping  to  bind  America 
and  France  still  more  closely  together.  Then  Mr.  Weiller  presented  to  Dr.  Schenck 
the  diploma  granted  by  Monsieur  le  Ministre  d'Instruction  et  des  Beaux  Arts.  Mrs. 
Schenck  pinned  the  medal,  known  as  "palmes  academique,"  on  her  daughter's  dress. 

Dr.  Schenck  responded  to  her  ovation  in  attributing  much  of  her  success  to 
the  collaboration  of  her  intelligent  and  devoted  colleagues,  and  ended  with  an 
expression  of  her  great  pride  in  the  honor  which  she  had  received. 


THE  ALUMNAE  ROOM 

A  transformation  has  taken  place  on  the  top  floor  of  Taylor.  The  magic  was 
made  possible  through  the  generosity  of  two  of  the  alumnae,  and  the  energy  and 
taste  of  the  Alumnae  Secretary.  One  sees  the  office  as  usual  at  the  top  of  the 
stairs,  but  once  inside  the  door  one  goes  down  a  little  corridor  that  leads  into 
what  used  to  be  the  Economics  room.  Now  it  has  become  a  strangely  restful  and 
gracious  place,  whose  preposterous  height  of  ceiling  has  been  made  somehow  part  of 
its  charm.  Thin  gold-coloured  curtains  hang  at  the  windows,  the  soft  deep  brown  of 
the  rug  tones  admirably  with  the  maple  table  and  the  Windsor  chairs,  drawn  around 
it.  Chintz-covered  easy  chairs  and  cushioned  window-seats  take  away  any  hint  of 
austerity.  Over  the  mantel  hangs  a  section  of  the  frieze  from  the  Mausoleum  of 
Halicarnassus  which  used  to  be  in  the  Chapel,  but  which  now  adds  its  beauty  and 
dignity  to  the  lofty,  quiet  room  that  has  been  created.  It  is  very  satisfying  there.  In 
the  north  window  where  the  sill  is  so  high  that  there  is  no  glimpse  of  the  hills,  is  a 
long  box  of  ferns.  The  business-like  touch  is  given  by  the  Secretary's  own  desk, 
broad  and  solid  and  very  dignified,  but  in  wood  and  tone  in  harmony  with  the  rest 
of  the  room.  But  most  significant  of  all  is  the  new  atmosphere  of  restfulness.  Space 
and  beauty  seem  to  have  a  very  definite  relation  to  the  ease  and  quickness  with  which 
business  can  be  transacted.  Alumnae  returning  to  college,  either  in  the  middle  of 
the  year,  or  at  reunion  time,  will  find  a  very  welcoming  and  charming  place  all 
their  own. 

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MAY  DAY  AWARDS 


,May  first  dawned  with  the  usual  drizzle,  but  however  wet  the  grass  must 
have  been,  the  spirits  of  the  gambolers  on  the  green  appeared  undampened,  and 
the  class  Maypoles  were  wound  in  fine  style.  May  baskets  and  songs  were  offered 
at  the  President's  house,  and  an  especially  rousing  cheer  went  up  when  Miss  Park 
herself  came  to  the  window  to  express  her  thanks. 

Dean  Manning  presided  at  chapel,  which  was  held  in  the  Auditorium  of  Good- 
hart  Hall.  The  student  body,  clad  in  white,  with  the  sashes  of  the  Class  colours, 
made  a  brave  showing  in  the  gay  pink  velvet  chairs.  Among  the  many  announce- 
ments the  following  will  be  of  especial  interest  to  readers  of  the  Bulletin. 


Scholarship 

New  England  Regional 

and 
Shippen-Science 

Kilroy-English 

New  England  Regional 

and 
Mary  E.  Stevens 

E.  Penna.  &  Del.  Regional 

and 
Anna  Powers 


Daughter  Mother 

Dorothea  Cross,   1930  Dorothea  Farquhar,  1900 

Constance  Hand,  1930  Frances  Fincke,   1897 

Celia  Darlington,  1931  Rebecca  Mattson,  1896 

Frances  Tatnall,    1931  Frances   Swift,    1895 


As  may  be  seen  the  Regional  Scholars  continue  to  give  a  good  account  of 
themselves.  In  addition  to  those  mentioned  above,  awards  were  made  to  three  of 
the  Freshmen  Regional  Scholars.  Alice  Rider  from  New  England  and  Anne  Bur- 
nett from  St.  Louis,  were  both  given  Bookshop  Scholarships.  Margaret  Bradley, 
sent  by  the  Chicago  Committee,  has  won  the  Hopkins  Music  Scholarship.  Virginia 
Burdick,  1931,  who  entered  as  a  Regional  Scholar  from  New  England,  has  been 
awarded  the  Constance  Lewis  Memorial   Scholarship. 

At  the  close  of  the  announcement  of  undergraduate  honours,  Dean  Manning 
read  a  list  of  the  students  whose  work  seems  to  indicate  that  they  will  graduate  cum 
laude.  Among  those,  in  addition  to  all  the  scholarships  holders  already  mentioned 
are  Phyllis  Wiegand  and  Dorothea  Perkins,  Regional  Scholars  from  New  York,  and 
Lucy  Sanborn  and  Agnes  Knopf  from  New  England.  Additional  Alumnae  Daugh- 
ters on  the  Roll  of  Honour  are:  Martha  Gellhorn,  1930,  daughter  of  Edna 
Fischell,  1900;  Elizabeth  Stix,  1930,  daughter  of  Erma  Kingsbacher,  1906;  Helen 
Bell,  1931,  daughter  of  Natalie  Fairbank,  1905;  Alice  Hardenbergh,  1932,  daughter 
of  Margaret  Nichols,  1905;  and  Harriet  Moore,  1932,  daughter  of  Caroline 
Daniels,  1901. 

Announcement  was  made  that  a  new  Scholarship  had  just  been  given  to  the 
College  by  the  classmates  and  other  friends  of  Leila  Houghteling  of  the  Class  of 
1911,   to  be  called   the  Leila  Houghteling  Memorial   Scholarship.     This   is   to   be 

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awarded,  probably  every  three  years,  by  the  Alumnae  Scholarships  Committee,  to 
a  member  of  the  sophomore  class  who  is  of  good  academic  standing,  and  who  shows 
such  qualities  of  leadership  and  character  that  she  may  be  considered  a  valuable 
member  of  the  College  community.  At  the  discretion  of  the  Committee  this  scholar- 
ship will  be  held  for  three  years.  The  first  holder  of  the  Leila  Houghteling  Scholar- 
ship is  to  be  Charlotte  Tyler,  1932,  a  sister  of  Mary  Tyler  Zabriskie,  1919,  and 
of  Margaret  Tyler  Paul,  1922. 

The  following  alumnae  have  won  fellowships  or  graduate  scholarships  for  the 
year  1929-30: 

Esther  L.  'Rhoads,  1924  Mary  E.  Garrett  European  Fellowship. 

Virginia  Grace,  1922  Resident  Fellowship  in  Archaeology. 

Grace  Rhoads,  1922  Resident  Fellowship  in  Economics  and  Politics. 

Elizabeth  Henderson,  1924  Resident  Fellowship  in  History. 

Ruth  Peters,   1928  Graduate  Scholarship  in  Archaeology. 

Katharine  Shepard,   1928  Graduate  Scholarship  in  Archaeology. 


THE  WOMEN'S  UNIVERSITY  GLEE  CLUB 

To  the  Editor,  the  Alumnae  Bulletin: 

Elizabeth  Baldwin,  '14,  (Mrs  Philip  Stimson)  ;  Katherine  Conner,  '24;  Chris- 
tine Hayes,  '28;  Evelyn  Holt,  '09,  (Mrs.  Holt  Lowry)  ;  Margaret  Morton,  '21, 
(Mrs.  James  Creese);  Estelle  Neville,  '24;  Catherine  Robinson,  '20;  Mary  Robin- 
son, '27;  Dorothy  Stewart,  '23,  (Mrs.  Richard  N.  Pierson)  ;  Suzette  Stuart,  '07; 
and  Carlotta  Welles,  '12,  (Mrs.  J.  Elmer  Briggs),  have  been  members  this  year  of 
The  Women's  University  Glee  Club  which  gave  its  twelfth  concert  in  the  Town 
Hall,  New  York,  on  May  first,  to  a  large  and  enthusiastic  audience. 

These  members  of  the  Club  want  to  say  to  all  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae  in  New 
York  who  like  to  sing,  that  if  they  wish  to  have  a  grand  time  exercising  their  lungs 
one  evening  a  week  through  the  winter  under  an  inspiring  conductor,  they  should 
join  the  Club. 

Note:  The  Women's  University  Glee  Club,  led  by  Gerald  Reynolds,  was 
founded  in  1922.  It  has  just  over  100  members,  and  sings  two  concerts  each  season, 
rehearsing  one  evening  a  week.  Dues  are  $15.00  a  year.  The  work  it  accomplishes 
is  important  and  really  good.  Tryouts  are  held  in  early  October  and  in  January. 
For  more  information  write  to  Mrs.  C.  Burns  Craig,  Chairman  Membership  Com- 
mittee, 129  East  69th  St.,  New  York  City,  or  Mary  Robinson,  '27,  99  Claremont 
Ave.,  New  York  City,  or  Mrs.  James  Creese,  '21,  1  Lexington  Ave.,  New  York 
City,  who  are  the  Bryn  Mawr  members  of  the  board. 


ALUMNAE  BOOKS 

Labor  and  Silk,  by  Grace  Hutchins,  1907.    International  Publishers.    $2.00. 

The  "nightmare"  of  the  worker  in  the  silk  industry  has  been  interestingly 
described  by  Miss;  Hutchins,  Bryn  Mawr,  1907,  in  her  recent  book,  Labor  and  Silk. 
"The  crashing,  shattering  noise  of  the  looms,"  the  fumes  and  poisons  of  the  dye- 
house,  long  hours,  low  wages,  and  child  labor  form  a  forceful  indictment  against 
an  industry  which  has  been  growing  prosperous  and  powerful  in  the  last  ten  years. 
Miss  Hutchins  adds  together  the  different  abuses,  and  balances  them  against  the 
secrecy,  paternalism  and  autocratic  control  of  the  employer,  diluted  in  some  cases 
by  an  uncertain  charity. 

The  illustrations  and  incidents  cited  in  this  book  are  most  convincing.  It  is 
evident  that  Miss  Hutchins  has  a  thorough  first-hand  knowledge  of  the  industry 
both  in  America  and  in  other  countries.  It  is  no  less  obvious  that  she  criticizes  the 
industry  in  particular  and  the  system  under  which  it  has  grown  up.  She  is  pleading 
the  cause  of  the  workers  and  she  makes  it  clear  that  they  need  a  defender.  She 
offers  suggestions  as  to  how  organization  should  be  undertaken  in  the  present  and 
urges  that  all  efforts  must  fall  far  short  unless  the  more  fundamental  changes  in 
the  control  of  production  are  undertaken.  Because  of  this  admitted  bias  there  is 
less  stress  on  the  manner  in  which  slow  progress  can  be  carried  out.  There  is  com- 
paratively little  light  thrown  on  how  to  handle  the  present  situation,  and  very  little 
to  help  those  who  might  work  for  immediate  changes.  The  student  of  labor  strategy 
is  somewhat  disappointed  in  the  lack  of  interpretation  of  present  union  tactics. 

As  a  background  for  the  outstanding  instances  of  oppression,  Miss  Hutchins 
has  pictured  the  actual  conditions  of  certain  of  the  large  concerns.  She  has  tried 
to  investigate  the  financial  situations  of  the  main  companies  in  order  to  contrast 
profits  with  wages.  Here  she  has  met  with  obstacles  since  many  of  the  important 
companies  do  not  publish  balance  sheets.  She  has  gathered  together  what  facts 
are  available,  indicating  in  the  case  of  New  Bedford  that  dividends  have  been  paid 
while  wages  were  cut,  in  the  case  of  Mallinson  high  profits  and  high  salaries,  in  the 
instances  of  Cortecelli,  Cheney  and  others,  evident  signs  of  prosperity.  She  arrives 
at  the  conclusion  that  the  industry  is  moving  forward  with  reasonable  prosperity 
despite  the  claims  that  lower  wages  were  necessary.  Although  many  of  the  smaller 
firms  are  on  the  verge  of  bankruptcy,  those  that  dominate  production,  give,  as  she 
describes  them,  a  sleek  appearance  which  in  no  way  justifies  their  labor  policy. 

The  value  of  the  book  lies  to  a  considerable  extent  in  the  particular  instances 
cited  and  the  "close-ups"  which  are  a  characteristic  of  her  manner  of  treatment. 
In  general  the  discussion  is  carried  along  by  the  use  of  cases,  though  there  is  sum- 
mary of  statistical  form  of  the  growth  of  the  industry  and  other  measurable  facts. 
It  is  the  more  vivid  statement  of  instances  which  carry  conviction,  however,  rather 
than  the  generalization.  As  a  result  of  this  method  of  treament  the  book  is  broken 
up  into  small  sections,  the  transitions  are  abrupt  and  the  interruptions  frequent.  This 
precludes  monotony  on  the  one  hand,  but  it  interferes  with  a  cumulative  effect.  One 
gets  no  sense  of  a  sure  and  steady  progress  from  one  point  of  analysis  to  another, 

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but  rather  a  series  of  snapshots  which  illustrate  the  conclusion,  evident  in  the  early 
pages,  that  the  worker  has  been  exploited  shamelessly. 

The  accounts  of  the  strikes,  many  of  them  stirring  and  dramatic,  police  club- 
bing, picketing  and  violence,  form  a  narrative  of  bitter  struggle,  particuarly  in  Pat- 
erson,  iNew  Jersey.  The  account  fails  somewhat  on  the  side  of  criticism  of  strategy 
and  appraisal  of  results.  There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that  every  bit  of  evidence 
here  given  is  of  value  to  those  who  fear  that"  the  increase  of  welfare  capitalism  is 
bewildering  the  worker  and  staying  the  progress  of  real  industrial  equality.  It  is 
possible  that  Miss  Hutchins  will  go  further  in  her  interpretation  of  union  policies 
in  some  later  article  or  book.  It  is  evident  that  she  has  a  real  knowledge  of  her 
material  and  could  contribute  much  to  this  question. 

Silk  has  made  remarkable  progress.  Raw  silk  has  been  first  or  second  in  the 
value  of  American  imports  for  the  last  ten  years.  The  improved  technique  of 
machine  production  and  the  development  of  artificial  silk  have  been  accompanied 
by  large  increases  in  consumption.  Rapid  development  such  as  this  is  usually  accom- 
panied by  exploitation.  The  silk  industry  has  a  "larger  percentage  of  workers  under 
sixteen  than  in  any  other  manufacturing  or  mechanical  industry."  It  is  well  to 
contrast  prosperity  and  oppression.  The  facts  which  Miss  Hutchins  presents  are 
worthy  of  careful  consideration. 

Eleanor  Lansing  Dulles,  1917. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

The  latest  addition  to  the  Alumnae  Book  Shelf  is  Labor  and  Silk,  by  Grace 
Hutchins,  1907,  the  International  Publishers  Co.,  New  York.  Fannie  Teller,  1918, 
sent  a  pamphlet,  reprinted  from  Hospital  Social  Service,  XIX,  1929,  entitled  A 
Case  Record.  Marguerite  Bartlett  Hamer,  1913,  sent  a  pamphlet,  reprinted  from 
the  Georgia  Historical  Quarterly,  March,  1929,  on  Edmund  Gray  and  His  Settle- 
ment at  New  Hanover. 


LETTERS  FROM  ALUMNAE 

Elizabeth  Mallett  Conger,  1925,  writes  as  follows: 

Ah  Ha!  So  the  good  old  Bulletin  has  gone  adventurous!  Domesticity  is  no 
longer  at  a  premium,  eh?  Well,  that's  all  right.  We  must  admit  that,  as  glamorous 
news,  just  plain  addresses  were  beginning  to  pall.  We  thought  we  couldn't  bear 
another  freshly  painted  house  in  our  class  and  we  frankly  preferred  Bad  Girl  to  25 's 
pink  and  blue  version  of  life.  But  when  it  comes  to  adventure,  we  can  say 
"Goddam"  and  spit  a  curve  in  the  wind  with  the  best  of  them.  Kay  Fowler,  who  is 
getting  her  Ph.D.  in  Geology  at  Columbia  this  spring,  has  written  of  her  jaunt 
West  with  a  Ford,  a  Colt,  a  razor  blade  and  potassium  permanganate  (vs.  rattle- 
snakes.)    "Read  it  for  yourself.     It's  a  human  document." 

Dear  Blit:  My  long  silence  doesn't  mean  that  I  have  forgotten  '25,  but  that 
I  have  been  too  busy  using  my  little  hammer  on  rocks  in  so  many  different  states 


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since  I  left  Bryn  Mawr,  that  my  words  have  been  confined  to  theses  rather  than 
friends.  My  first  individual  field  work  three  summers  ago  almost  ended  in  disaster. 
While  mapping  in  Glacier  Park  with  a  small  group  from  Northwestern  University, 
I  was  sent  out  to  explore  in  an  unknown  section,  and  got  caught  in  a  forest 
fire.  My  experience  as  Fire  Captain  should  have  been  of  use  to  me,  but  there  were 
no  fire  escapes  except  an  icy  lake.  I  reached  the  shore,  somehow  avoiding  the 
blazing  branches  that  fell  around  me,  and  spent  an  uncomfortable  four  hours  pour- 
ing water  over  my  flannel  shirt,  and  breathing  smoky  air  through  my  wet  bandana. 
Rescuers  were  meantime  combing  the  lake  shore  from  a  motor  boat,  but  refused 
to  come  near,  until,  just  as  darkness  was  forcing  them  to  give  me  up,  they  spied  my 
frantic  waving.  (Not  daring  to  come  too  close  to  the  sparks,  they  signaled  that  I 
was  to  swim.)  Jumping  into  the  waves,  high  boots  and  all,  and  still  clinging  to  my 
precious  notebook  and  hammer,  I  was  finally  dragged  aboard  in  a  half-drowned 
condition. 

After  that  experience  I  spent  the  next  summer  in  more  barren  country  in 
Wyoming,  Colorado,  and  Utah,  joining  with  a  group  from  the  University  of 
Wyoming  on  an  auto-camping  trip  to  Bryce  Canyon,  North  Rim  of  the  Grand 
Canyon,  and  Lion  Park.  I  was  on  the  lookout  for  a  suitable  thesis  area,  since  I 
was  through  with  library  theses  after  doing  an  "indoor"  one  at  Wisconsin.  I  finally 
chose  Wyoming,  not  because  I  like  Wyoming  better  than  any  other  state,  but  because 
I  found  a  fairly  accessible  territory  forty  miles  by  twelve  miles  containing  some 
rocks  which  interested  me,  and  which  had  never  been  mapped  or  studied  before. 
After  acquiring  a  second-hand  Ford,  I  persuaded  Baldie  to  drive  out  with  me  on  her 
way  to  "sightsee"  in  some  of  the  Western  Parks.  We  almost  finished  ourselves 
and  the  flivver  by  skidding  in  gravel  somewhere  in  Iowa,  but  reassembled  the  pieces 
and  continued  westward.  After  Baldie  was  safely  on  a  train  in  Laramie,  I  hit  for 
the  Laramie  mountains  in  the  southeastern  part  of  Wyoming,  and  spent  the  summer 
dodging  rattlesnakes  and  range  cattle  as  well  as  horses — all  of  which  proved  more 
curious  than  dangerous,  so  that  I  had  no  need  of  using  my  Colt  automatic  except 
once,  to  scare  away  a  bob-cat  that  disturbed  my  sleep. 

My  work  consisted  in  walking  about  fifteen  miles  a  day,  returning  to  the 
Flivver  and  tepee  tent  to  cook  a  belated  supper,  somehow  timing  my  evening  meal 
to  coincide  with  the  thunderstorm  which  usually  came  up  just  as  I  was  scouring 
around  for  sage  brush  for  a  fire.  Life  was  far  from  monotonous,  for  I  broke  camp 
every  few  days,  had  troubles  with  the  Flivver,  and  was  more  than  busy  with  note- 
taking  and  mapping. 

I  adopted  a  bedraggled  collie  whom  I  discovered  in  a  half-starved  condition  in 
Laramie  one  day  when  getting  my  weekly  supplies,  and  found  him  most  useful  as 
a  companion,  protection,  and  garbage  can.  He  bumped  around  on  the  back  seat 
for  the  two  thousand  miles  return  trip,  quite  enjoying  seeing  the  world,  but  has 
now  settled  down  to  a  sedate  Eastern  life,  while  I  am  here  at  Columbia  struggling 
with  the  final  polishings  of  thesis,  getting  impatient  to  hit  the  trail  again  for  more 
knowledge  and  adventure. 

Kay  Fowler,  1925. 

From  India  comes  the  following  sketch: 

Once  upon  a  time,  about  ten  years  ago,  there  were  two  little  girls  in  Kinder- 
garten together.     One  was  delicate  and  pale  with  great  dark  eyes,   and  soft  black 


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curls.     She  was  very  quiet  and  shy,  and  was  always  dressed  in  silk  and  lace.     The 
other  was  fat  and  pink,  with  yellow  curls,  and  she  was  very  lively. 

The  first  little  girl  was  Sita,  the  daughter  of  an  Indian  chief,  and  the  other 
was  our  little  Melanie.  The  two  children  were  great  friends.  When  they  were 
about  ten  years  old,  Sita  was  having  her  wedding  at  Pindar.  She  was  marrying 
the  heir-apparent,  and  it  was  a  great  day  for  her  family,  because  the  Raja  of  Pindar 
was  paying  a  tremendous  price  for  the  little  girl  for  his  son.  She  was  unusually 
fair  and  beautiful  and  a  fair  skin  in  this  country  has  a  very  high  market  value. 

Our  little  girl,  at  this  time,  was  in  school,  in  the  hills  of  South  India,  having  a 
good  time  with  all  the  other  children,  swimming  in  the  lake,  going  on  long  hikes, 
having  Hallowe'en  parties  and  all  sorts  of  fun. 

Ever  since  those  by-gone  days  I  have  been  interested  in  watching  the  affairs  of 
the  Pindar  State,  and  there  have  been  plenty  to  watch.  All  sorts  of  affairs — mur- 
ders, deposings,  weddings  with  Miss  Fancy  Frillers,  and  scandals  galore.  They  seem 
to  be  a  particularly  notorious  lot. 

Sita's  father-in-law  is  now  the  Ex-Raja  of  Pindar  and  her  young  husband  is 
the  Raja.  As  a  rule,  native  princes  are  allowed  to  live  out  their  checkered  careers 
in  peace  and  power.  Their  subjects  are  long-suffering;  also  the  British  Government. 
However,  there  are  times  when  even  the  tolerance  of  the  Government  is  tried 
beyond  endurance  and  then  a  Raja  becomes  an  Ex-Raja,  and  his  son,  if  he  has  one, 
not  too  bad,  succeeds  him. 

The  present  Ex-Raja  of  Pindar  received  his  Ex  only  for  a  few  injudicious 
murders.  It  takes  far  less,  I  am  sure,  to  depose  a  Raja  now  than  it  did  years 
ago.  Moral  standards  do  seem  to  be  rising,  even  in  native  states.  In  the  old 
days,  plain,  ordinary  crimes,  such  as  murder,  etc.,  were  passed  by  un-noticed.  Only 
something  unduly  terrible  and  spectacular  caught  the  attention  of  Government. 

Such  was  the  case  regarding  our  little  friend's  grand-father-in-law,  who  also 
became  an  Ex-Raja.  He  was  watching  a  circus  one  day  (so  the  story  runs)  and 
became  exceedingly  bored.  Native  princes  do.  Ennui  is  one  of  their  greatest  prob- 
lems. What  to  do!  A  bright  idea  struck  him — it  would  be  an  excellent  joke.  He'd 
just  order  the  trapeze  ropes  cut  where  the  acrobats  were  performing.  He  did  so 
and  the  careers  of  the  acrobats  came  to  an  end,  as  did  also  his  own — as  a  Raja, 
that  is.  He  was  speedily  reprimanded  by  the  Viceroy  and  given  an  "Ex."  He 
did  not  like  being  deposed  at  all  and  felt  very  bitterly  on  the  subject. 

A  few  years  later,  when  Lord  Curzon  and  Lord  Kitchener  had  their  famous 
differences,  and  the  latter  was  upheld,  the  Viceroy  felt  forced  to  resign.  As  he  was 
sailing  from  India,  among  his  many  telegrams  of  farewell,  there  was  one  which 
read  as  follows:  "To  the  Ex-Viceroy  of  India,  from  the  Ex-Raja  of  Pindar: 
Sympathy." 

The  present  young  Raja,  they  say,  is  a  chip  of  all  the  old  blocks  before  him, 
so  his  chances  of  receiving  his  "Ex"  seem  good,  and  some  day  our  little  friend,  Sita, 
may  be  the  Ex-Rani  of  Pindar.  We  might  send  her  a  message  of  sympathy  then, 
or  even  now,  but  the  sort  of  sympathy  we  feel  for  her  is  not  the  sort  that  she 
would  understand  quite  so  easily  as  that  expressed  by  her  old  grand-father-in-law  to 
the  Ex-Viceroy. 

Melanie  Atherton  Updegraff,  1908. 


CLASS  NOTES 


1894 
Class  Editor:  Abby  Brayton  Durfee 
(Mrs.   Randall  N.   Durfee), 
Fall  River,   Mass. 
Emma    Bailey   Speer   had   a   delightful 
visit   this   spring   at   the   home   of   Eliza- 
beth Hench's  sister  in  Laurel,  Miss. 

Laurette  Potts  Pease's  daughter,  Mary 
Zelia,  '27,  has  been  awarded  a  second 
scholarship  for  further  study  at  the 
American  School  in  Athens,  Greece. 

Blanche  Follansbee  Caldwell's  address 
is  P.  O.  Box  571,  Santa  Barbara,  Calif. 

Fay  MacCracken  Stockwell  is  now  at 
1031  Clinton  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Abby  Brayton  Durfee  plans  to  sail  on 
the  "Augustus,"  June  1st,  for  Italy,  tak- 
ing with  her  Mary,  '30,  and  meeting  her 
other  daughter,  Caroline,  who  is  study- 
ing in  Geneva  at  the  Ecole  des  Beaux 
Arts.  She  would  love  to  hear  from  any 
'94,  and  do  send  some  news,  so  the 
autumn  Bulletins  will  have  the  summer 
reports  of  everyone. 

Mary  Breed  has  resigned  her  position 
as  Director  of  the  Margaret  Morrison 
Carnegie  College,  and  will  retire  on  July 
1st  from  active  educational  work.  She 
will  continue  to  spend  the  greater  part 
of  the  year  with  her  mother  at  their  home 
in  Pittsburgh. 

1898 
Class  Editor:  Edith  G.  Boericke 
(Mrs.  John  J.   Boericke), 
Merion  Station,  Pa. 
Marion    Park    is    recovering    from    an 
operation  and  is  back  in  Bryn  Mawr. 

Alice  Hammond  writes  that  she  is  be- 
tween two  events  of  professional  interest 
to  her,  one,  her  summer  of  study  at  the 
American  Academy  in  Rome  in  1927, 
where  there  was  quite  a  group  of  Bryn 
Mawrters,  and  her  hope  of  celebrating 
the  Bimillenium  Vergilianum  in  1930  by 
going  on  a  Vergil  Cruise.  She  hopes  to 
go  back  from  our  reunion  to  spend  the 
summer  in  California  with  Catharine 
Bunnell   Mitchell. 

Louise  Warren  writes:  "Your  note  of 
March  15th  greeted  me  on  my  return 
April  9  from  an  Italian  winter  with  side 
trips  to  Vienna  and  Dalmatia,  where  we 
missed  the  fearful  weather  they  had  later, 
but  had  much  more  cold  than  we  wanted. 
Hope  to  come  to  reunion  in  June." 

Can  anyone  tell  us  where  Margie  De- 
Armond  or  Margaret  Coughlin  are? 

Grace  Clarke  Wright  has  just  sailed  to 
Spain  with  her  husband,  but  will  return 
in  time  for  reunion. 


Frances  Brooks  Ackermann's  oldest 
daughter  was  married  in  September,  1927. 

Edith  Schoff  Boericke's  daughter  grad- 
uates from  Miss  Wright's  School  early  in 
June,  and  her  oldest  son  from  Cornell  a 
little  later.  Her  second  son  was  the  only 
Sophomore  this  year  at  Cornell  to  be 
elected  to  Al  Djebar,  the  Honorary  So- 
ciety in  Chemistry. 

All  of  '98  who  can  come  are  looking 
forward  to   reunion  in  June. 

1901 
Class  Editor:  Jane  Righter, 

Dublin  Road,  Greenwich,  Conn. 

We  record  with  sorrow  and  regret  the 
loss  of  another  classmate,  Anne  Gerhard 
Maris,  on  April  9th,  in  Philadelphia.  Save 
for  some  family  heirlooms,  Anne  has 
willed  all  of  her  estate  eventually  to  local 
charities. 

1904 
Class  Editor:  Emma  O.  Thompson, 
320  S.  42nd  Street,  Philadelphia. 

I  have  been  striving  to  gather  news 
that  would  give  you  real  pleasure,  this 
June,  '29,  whisper  it,  our  quarter  of  a 
century  mark.  If  we  could  meet  this 
spring  we  would  all  look  exactly  as  we 
did  when  we  were  in  college — to  each 
other,  perhaps  not  to  our  undergraduate 
daughters. 

I  asked  Patty  to  let  us  have  word  from 
her,  with  the   following  result: 

"111  Wister  Road,  Ardmore,  Pa., 

"April  28th,  1929. 
"My  dear  Classmates : 

"It  is  good  to  have  this  opportunity  of 
getting  in  touch  with  all  the  members  of 
1904. 

"As  you  all  know,  the  class  voted  50-2 
in  favor  of  holding  our  reunion  in  1930 
instead  of  1929,  and  one  of  these  two 
said  that  the  date  was  really  immaterial 
to  her. 

"It  was  unfortunate  that  we  were  un- 
able to  get  in  touch  with  all  our  members 
in  foreign  countries,  but  there  was  no 
doubt  as  to  which  date  the  majority  pre- 
ferred, and  I  have  heard  from  a  good 
many  distant  members  who  say  that  they 
plan  sabbatical  years  or  trips  home  in 
1930.  Among  these  are  Mary  James  and 
Harriet  Southerland  Wright. 

"We  must  start  making  our  reunion  plans 
right  away.  I  am  hoping  soon  to  have  a 
tea  for  Alice  Boring,  at  which  the,  Phila- 
delphia girls  can  appoint  committees  to 
prepare  for  the  great  event.  Any  sugges- 
tions as  to  costumes,  sorts  of  entertain- 


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ments,  and  so  forth,  will  be  very  welcome. 
As  1901,  '02  and  '03  will  be  reuning  with 
us,  perhaps  some  joint  party  can  be 
arranged. 

"Through  the  noble  efforts  of  our  class 
collector  our  Goodhart  pledge  has  been 
completed,  and  we  can  face  the  college 
with  a  clear  conscience — at  least,  the  • 
seven  underwriters  of  the  pledge  can 
breathe  freely  once  more. 

"It  would  be  very  lovely  if  we  could 
have  an  informal  reunion  to  celebrate  our 
twenty-fifth  anniversary.  Perhaps  some- 
thing can  be  done,  but  the  really  impor- 
tant thing  is  for  every  member  of  1904, 
wherever  she  may  be  or  whatever  she 
may  be  or  whatever  she  may  be  doing,  to 
plan  to  be  in  Bryn  Mawr  without  fail,  in 
June,  1930.  We  will  consort  with  all  our 
good  old  friends  of  1901,  '02  and  '03, 
learn  all  the  things  about  each  other 
which  we  have  been  longing  to  hear,  and 
altogether  have  the  time  of  our  lives. 
"Faithfully   yours, 

"Patty  Moorhouse." 

Alice  Boring  has  been  enjoying  her 
sabbatical  year  in  Philadelphia  spending 
the  time  with  her  sister  Lydia  and  see- 
ing old  friends  and  old  haunts.  She  gives 
us  a  glimpse  into  the  present: 

"Dear  1904: 

"This  year  in  America  has  included 
some  pleasant  visits  with  Bryn  Mawrtyrs. 
In  December  I  spent  a  week  with  Bert 
Brown  and  her  husband  in  Washington, 
while  I  was  working  at  the  National  Mu- 
seum. They  have  built  their  own  com- 
fortable house  in  one  of  the  suburbs. 
After  I  left,  Bert  took  her  father  down 
to  Florida,  where  he  owns  a  house  in 
some  secluded  spot,  where  the  Brown 
family  can  enjoy  outdoor  life  in  winter 
just  as  they  do  in  the  Adirondacks  in 
summer. 

"In  the  spring  vacation  I  made  a  tour  of 
the  New  England  colleges,  visiting  friends 
and  inspecting  Biology  Departments.  At 
Smith  College  I  stayed  with  Margaret 
Scott.  Edna  Shearer  and  Esther  Lowen- 
thal,  her  housemates,  were  both  away  on 
a  trip  to  New  Mexico,  recuperating  from 
the  flu.  Their  apartment  is  delightful, 
occupying  the  entire  third  floor  of  an 
old  house  on  a  hillside  in  Northampton, 
with  mountain  views  in  all  directions. 
The  rooms  are  large  and  charmingly  fur- 
nished, so  that  with  a  model  maid  these 
three  American  college  faculty  women 
seem  almost  as  comfortable  as  I  am  in 
China. 

"At  Mt.  Holyoke  College  I  was  so  busy 
with  Biology  that  the  only  Bryn  Mawrtyr 


I  encountered  was  Ellie  Ellis,  1901,  who 
was  engaged  in  the  interesting  task  of 
planning  the  League  of  Nations  meeting 
which  a  group  of  students  from  various 
colleges  were  staging  the  next  week. 

"At  Wellesley  I  had  dinner  with  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Henry  Mussey,  whose  Forum 
suppers  used  to  be  a  great  attraction  on 
Sunday  nights  in  our  day  at  Bryn  Mawr. 
He  is  again  giving  up  teaching  sociology 
to  become  Managing  Editor  of  the  Nation 
at  the  end  of  the  academic  year.  Welles- 
ley  regrets  losing  him  as  much  as  Bryn 
Mawr  once  did. 

"I  sail  from  Seattle  for  China  on 
August  10th,  and  my  address  for  the  next 
five  years  will  again  be  Yenching  Univer- 
sity, Peking,  China.  I  am  sorry  that  re- 
union does  not  come  this  year,  but  you 
will  have  Mary  James  with  you  next  year 
to  represent  China,  and  she  has  had  more 
thrilling  experiences  than  I  have. 
"Cordially, 

"Alice  M.  Boring." 

Several  of  the  class  are  planning  to 
spend  the  summer  abroad.  Emma  Fries 
sails  May  4th  on  the  Italian  steamer 
"Vulcania"  for  Naples  and  plans  to  enjoy 
the  early  summer  in  Italy.  Rebecca  Ball 
will  also  cross  on  the  "Vulcania,"  but 
she  saids  to  Italy  in  June.  Leslie  Clark 
leaves  in  July  for  San  Francisco  and  sails 
to  Japan  and  China.  She  plans  to  spend 
a  year  traveling  in  the  Orient  and  will 
circle  the  globe  before  she  returns.  No 
doubt  many  others  are  going  to  interest- 
ing places,  but  they  have  not  sent  any 
message  to  you. 

1907 
Class  Editor:  Alice  Hawkins, 

Taylor  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Penna. 

The  class  will  be  grieved  to  hear  of 
the  death  of  Peggy  Putnam  Morse  (Mrs. 
Max  Withrow  Morse),  who  died  in  the 
Jefferson  Hospital  in  Philadelphia,  on 
May  12th,  after  an  illness  of  many 
months.  She  leaves  three  children.  The 
class  wishes  to  express  its  sympathy  to 
Dr.  Morse  and  to  her  family. 

As  has  been  true  so  often  of  late,  the 
doings  of  1907  have  figured  in  the  news 
columns  to  such  an  extent  that  it  'seemed 
old  stuff  to  repeat  them  in  the  Bulletin, 
but  in  case  you  may  have  missed  these 
items  elsewhere,  please  note: 

Margaret  Bailey  has  a  poem  in  the  May 
Harpers.  We  understand  that  she  has 
forsaken  prose  and  intends  to  use  verse 
entirely  as  her  medium  hereafter,  and 
that  this  is  only  one  of  many  poems  which 
are  to  appear  shortly  in  the  leading 
magazines. 


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The  New  York  World  is  our  authority 
for  the  statement  that  Jane  Cowl  is  now 
rehearsing  a  play  called  "Jennie,"  the 
joint  work  of  Margaret  Ayer  Barnes  and 
Edward  Sheldon,  and  expects  to  open  in 
Boston  this  spring. 

Grace  Hutchins'  book,  "Labor  and 
Silk,"  has  been  published,  and  is  reviewed 
elsewhere  in  this  issue.  Eleanor  Dulles, 
1917,  says  that  she  intends  to  use  this  as 
a  text  book  for  her  students  in  the  Social 
Economy  Department. 

The  real  event  of  the  season  was  the 
ceremony  when  Eunice  was  decorated  by 
the  French  Government,  described  in  de- 
tail elsewhere.    In  spite  of  the  efforts  of 
the   French   Club   to   have   a   young   and 
exclusive   audience,   one   or   two   contem- 
poraries of  the  star  managed  to  be  pres- 
ent.    It  was  a  truly  impressive  and  mov- 
ing occasion.    The   beautifully   expressed 
tributes    of    Mile.    Parde,    who   has    been 
Eunice's   colleague    for  many   years,   and 
of  M.  Weiller,  the  French  consul  in  Phil- 
adelphia,  the   imposing   diploma   and   the 
graceful  little  decoration  itself — all  helped 
to  make  the  day  memorable,  and  the  de- 
lightful idea  of  having  Mrs.  Schenck  pin 
the  medal  on  Eunice's  dress  added  a  truly 
Gallic  touch.    The   Editor,   who   was,   of 
course,   educated  to  recognize  the  mean- 
ing   by    the    sound    as    well    as    to    read 
French  at  sight,  may  have  been  mistaken, 
but   she   certainly  understood  the   Consul 
to  say  that  alongside  of  Eunice's  Amer- 
ican   heart    there    beats    also     a     French 
heart.    The  anatomical  picture   presented 
may  seem  odd  at  first,  but  all  who  know 
Eunice's  devotion  to  her  work  will  agree 
with    the    thought.     Double-hearted    she 
may  be,  but  not  two-faced.  As  we  listened 
proudly,    a    memory    came    back     of    an 
autumn  evening  in  1906,  when  the  pres- 
ent head  of  the  French  Department  gen- 
erously offered  to  read  French  with  us  as 
a  preparation  for  the  Orals.  Sitting  cross- 
legged  on  her  bed  in  East,  we  stumbled 
through  the  suggested  passages,  fully  con- 
scious of  our  inferiority  and  of  our  privi- 
lege.   No  interruptions  were  made,  either 
to  help  or  to  hinder  progress,  but  at  the 
end    our    mentor     dismissed     us     saying, 
"Well,   you'll   probably   get   through,    but 
your  accent  is  terrible."     M.  Foulet  and 
his  compatriots  have  never  been  so  frank, 
but   several   times   in   later   years,   as   we 
were  talking  fluently  to  a   cabman  or  a 
shopkeeper,  a  look  in  their  eyes  reminded 
us  of  that  scene.    Anyhow,  we  were  aw- 
fully set  up  at  being  present  at  this  affair, 
and  knew  just  what  Eunice  means  when 
she  closed  her  enchanting  little  speech  of 
thanks  by  saying,  "Je  suis  fiere  et  ravie." 


1908 
Class  Editor:  Margaret  Copeland 

B  LATCH  FORD 

(Mrs.   Nathaniel   H.   Blatchford), 
844  Auburn  Rd.,  Hubbard  Woods,  111. 

Here's  news  from  Melanie  at  Nipani, 
Belgaum  District!  She  writes:  "We 
live  in  a  place  that  is  5  miles  from  any 
other  European  (white  people).  We  have 
four  children,  three  girls,  one  boy  (we 
lost  an  older  little  boy).  The  eldest  in 
the  family  is  Melanie,  13,  and  the  young- 
est Richard,  5  months.  The  two  older 
children  are  in  a  boarding  school  in  the 
hills. 

"We  come  home  in  1930.  Then  I  hope 
my  very  bad  eyes  and  inefficient  liver  will 
be  so  bucked  up  that  I  can  really  tell 
people  the  interesting  things  about  our 
work  in  Nipani." 

Melanie  enclosed  some  delightful 
sketches  she  had  written  for  a  paper  in 
India.  The  one  printed  under  "Letters 
from  Alumnae"  brings  home  to  us,  in  the 
comparison  of  little  Melanie's  childhood 
with  that  of  an  Indian  child  friend,  the 
wholly  foreign  conditions  of  life  with 
which  she  is  surrounded. 

Alice  Sachs  Plaut  has  gone  abroad  to 
pick  up  her  eldest  son,  who  graduated 
from  Taft  School  and  has  been  studying 
in  Dresden  all  winter.  They  are  now  in 
Italy.  Alice's  daughter  is  at  Miss  Bald- 
win's, preparing  for  Bryn  Mawr. 

Louise  Hyman  Pollak  is  planning  a 
trip  with  her  family  to  Iceland,  Norway 
and  Sweden. 

Elizabeth  Foster  writes:  I  am  still  at 
Smith.  This  year  I've  left  the  dormitory 
where  I  have  been  living  for  nine  years, 
and  am  keeping  house  with  'a  friend  of 
mine  in  a  nice  little  apartment  with  all 
the  modern  conveniences  and  a  magnifi- 
cent view.  Keeping  house,  riding  horse- 
back and  driving  a  Ford  keep  me  in  a 
chronic  state  of  bankruptcy.  However,  I 
enjoy  them.  Incidentally,  I  still  teach 
Spanish  and  enjoy  that,  too." 


1909 

Class  Editor:  Helen  Bond  Crane, 
Denbigh  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Penna. 

We  really  did  succeed  in  having  an  in- 
formal reunion  over  the  week-end  of  May 
4th,  when  the  Glee  Club  gave  its  per- 
formance of  Patience.  Those  who  came 
back  for  it  were  Fannie  Barber  Berry, 
Scrap  Ecob,  Sally  Jacobs,  Dorothy  Child, 
May  Putnam,  Gene  Miltenberger  Ustick, 
Sally  Webb  and  Anne  Whitney.     Anna 


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Piatt  also  appeared,  but  as  she  was 
with  a  friend  and  a  parent,  she  spent 
only  part  of  her  time  with  us.  We 
had  our  class  baby  to  tea,  dined  at 
the  Inn,  and  then  proceeded  to  the  per- 
formance, where  we  were  joined '  by 
Frances  Ferris  and  Bertha  Ehlers,  the 
latter  with  her  sub-Freshman  niece,  who 
expects  to  be  here  next  year.  Frances 
Browne  was  also  in  the  audience,  near 
us,  but  with  some  guests  of  her  own.  We 
were  undoubtedly  the  most  enthusiastic 
group  in  a  highly  appreciative  audience, 
but  judiciously  refrained  from  joining  in 
the  choruses. 

In  odd  moments  on  Saturday  and  Sun- 
day we  had  time  for  talk  and  tea  and  sit- 
ting on  the  campus — when  the  rain  held 
off.  Never  before  have  we  realized  how 
much  1909  is  responsible  for  the  health 
of  these  United  States!  Platty  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Women's  Medical  Association 
of.  New  York  City,  and  is  enthusiastic 
over  the  prospects  of  a  new  hospital  to 
be  built  by  the  organization  on  Central 
Park  West,  staffed  by  both  men  and  wom- 
en physicians. 

D.  Child  is  special  assistant  in  the  divi- 
sion of  medical  inspection  of  schools  in 
Philadelphia;  she  has  recently  added  to 
her  labors  the  job  of  supervising  96  school 
nurses  in  the  city. 

May  Putnam  is  medical  adviser  for  the 
New  York  Commission  on  Ventilation,  in 
Schools,  we  think;  at  any  rate,  she  has 
been  making  special  examinations  of  chil- 
dren in  a  study  of  colds,  their  cause  and 
cure.  We  move  that  she  sends  us  all 
copies  of  her  findings ! 

Anne  Whitney  keeps  a-climbin'  in  her 
job.  She  is  now  Educational  Director  of 
Health  Education  for  the  American  Child 
Health  Association.  This  organization 
has  been  making  a  study  of  school  health 
work  in  seventy  cities,  and  one  of  Anne's 
jobs  is  to  take  the  result  of  all  this  re- 
search and  make  it  available  for  use  in 
specific  schools.  She  moves  in  high  po- 
litical circles,  which,  however,  are  not  to 
be  mentioned  in  print.  Incidentally  she 
has  just  come  back  from  a  trip  to  Ber- 
muda, with  a  most  becoming  coat  of  tan. 
Scrap  was  in  her  usual  good  form  and 
regaled  us  with  new  tales  of  her  experi- 
ences as  a  lecturer  in  mental  hygiene  for 
the  State  Charities  Aid  Association  in 
New  York.  She  also  told  us  that  Eleanor 
Clifton  is  in  the  child-placing  department 
of  the  same  organization  and  is  very  keen 
about  her  work. 

The  class  wishes  to  express  its  sym- 
pathy with  Catherine  Goodale  Warren, 
whose  father  died  in  New  York  in  April. 


1910 
Class  Editor:  Emily  L.  Storer, 

Beaver   Street,  Waltham,   Mass. 

Katherine  Liddell  had  some  of  her  work 
exhibited  at  the  New  York  Society  of 
Women  Artists  in  February  and  March. 

Emily  Storer  had  a  delightful  visit  from 
Jane  when  she  came  to  Washington  to 
attend  the  Workers'  Education  Confer- 
ence in  March. 

Juliet  Lit  Stern  writes:  "Dear  1910: 
Last  August  my  husband  bought  the 
Philadelphia  Record,  at  which  time  I  took 
over  the  Literary  Editorship,  and  since 
then  have  been  busily  trying  to  build  up 
a  timely,  readable,  stimulating,  character- 
ful Book  Page. 

"Members  of  the  faculty  of  Bryn  Mawr 
and  all  the  other  colleges  around  here, 
including  Haverford,  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  Swarthmore  and  Drexel, 
contribute  regularly  to  the  page  and  cover 
all  our  books  dealing  with  special  topics. 
We  are  trying  to  review  all  important 
books  the  very  week  they  appear,  and  we 
have  many  of  the  lighter  works  of  fiction 
reviewed   in   rhyme. 

"If  any  of  1910  would  like  a  copy  of 
the  Book  Page,  I  shall  be  glad  to  send 
it  on.  If  any  of  you  would  like  to  try 
your  hand  at  reviewing,  I  am  always 
looking  for  brilliant  additions  to  my  staff. 

"As  for  the  rest  of  my  life,  I  spend 
almost  every  minute  playing  with  my 
baby.  Little  Meredith  is  a  year  and  a  half 
old  and  is  an  adorable  little,  curly  haired, 
blue-eyed  sunbeam.  Little  Jill  is  13  and 
still  determined  to  be  an  actress.  Tom  is 
19  and  is  at  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  his  first  concern  seems  to  be 
making  the  track  team. 

"I  have  enjoyed  having  lunch  with 
Kirkie  several  times,  and  would  love  to 
see  other  members  of  1910  when  they 
happen  to  be  in  Philadelphia,  either  at  my 
office,  Walnut  2300,  or  my  home  in  Had- 
donfield,  Haddonfield  267." 

1911 
Class  Editor:  Louise  S.  Russell, 

140  East  52nd  Street,  New  York  City.' 

The  friends  of  Anna  Stearns  will  be 
sorry  to  hear  of  the  death  of  her  mother, 
which  occurred  in  February. 

Helen  Emerson  Chase  and  her  husband 
took  their  annual  winter  sports  trip  the 
latter  part  of  January  up  to  Pinkham 
Notch.  In  February  Helen  spent  some 
time  with  Anna  Stearns  in  Nashua,  after 
the  death  of  Anna's  mother. 

Marion  Scott  Soames  and  her  daughter 
are  spending  a  few  weeks  in  Chicago  with 
Marion's  family. 


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1914 
Class  Editor:  Elizabeth  Ayer  Inches 
(Mrs.  Henderson  Inches), 
41  Middlesex  Rd.,  Chestnut  Hill.,  Mass. 

Elizabeth  Reynolds  Hapgood  leaves  in 
April  for  several  years  abroad,  so  that 
her  three  children  will  learn  French  and 
German  and  also  appreciate  nationalities 
other  than  their  own. 

Katharine  Dodd  is  Assistant  Professor 
of  Pediatrics  in  Vanderbilt  Hospital, 
Nashville,  Tenn.  Besides,  she  runs  the 
dispensary,  oversees  the  wards  and 
teaches  Southern  boys  all  day  and  evening 
to  care  for  babies.  She  shares  a  house 
in  winter  with  the  social  worker  and  finds 
herself  excellent  as  a  furnace  man.  In 
summer  they  share  a  camp  beside  a  muddy 
stream  where  they  enjoy  (?)  swimming. 
It  certainly  sounds  strenuous,  and  K.  says 
she  likes  the  South. 

Emily  Brownback  was  married  on  April 
8th  to  Walter  Olcott  Smith  in  St.  Peters- 
burg, Fla. 

Mary  Haines  says  she  is  supposed  to 
be  a  lady  of  leisure,  but  that  she  can't 
find  the  leisure.  She  cares  for  her  Sy2- 
year-old  nephew  through  the  week  so 
that  he  can  attend  the  Friends'  School  in 
Moorestown,  N.  J. 

Ida  Pritchett  has  a  leave  of  absence 
from  the  Rockefeller  Institute  for  next 
year  and  expects  to  spend  the  winter  in 
Haverford.  She  says  that  Cad  appeared 
in  New  York  for  a  textile  conference, 
stayed  at  the  Cosmopolitan  Club  and  pro- 
ceeded to  buy  out  the  town  when  not  at 
the  theatre.  She  is  still  enthusiastic  about 
her  shop  in  Keene,  N.  H. 

Dorothy  Skerrett  sounds  much  inter- 
ested in  her  job.  She  manages  the  only 
Woman's  Board  Room  in  Philadelphia, 
and  since  September  they  have  outgrown 
their  original  room  and  taken  a  whole 
floor.  She  is  anxious  to  help  anyone  to 
make  investments.  Her  address  is  c/o  de 
St.  Phalle  &  Co.,  1604  Walnut  Street. 

Frank  Capel  Smith  reports  that  her 
household  is  very  large,  for  besides  her 
two  children  she  has  two  horses,  a  pony 
and  many  cats.  She  went  to  England  in 
September  and  hopes  to  go  in  May. 

Margaret  Richmond  MacMullen  writes 
that  she  is  grayer  and  leaner  than  she 
used  to  be,  and  that  in  addition  to  the 
customary  husband  she  has  two  small 
boys,  aged  4  and  1,  named  Sandy  and 
Ramsey. 

Catherine  Carr  moved  into  her  new 
house  in  November,  the  third  in  a  year, 
in  Biltmore  Forest,  N.  C.  She  sounds 
very  domestic  with  her  new  garden,  her 
chow  puppy,  and  last,  but  not  least,  her 
small   son. 


Isabel  Benedict  is  still  working  at  the 
Bell  Telephone  Laboratories  in  New 
York.  She  works  long  hours  and  has  165 
girls  and  40  boys  to  supervise. 

1915 
Class  Editor:  Emily  Noyes  Knight 
(Mrs.  Clinton  Prescott  Knight), 
97  Angell  Street,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Word   has   just   been   received   of   the 
death  of  Elizabeth  Wolf  Blitzen  at  Roch- 
ester, Minn.,   on  January  30,   1929.    She 
had  done  valuable  work  in  the  Depart- 
ment  of   Pathology,    University   of    Chi- 
cago,   and    more    recently   had   been    en- 
gaged  in   research   work  at  the   Michael 
Reese     Hospital,     Chicago.      The     class 
wishes  to  extend  its  sympathy  to  her  hus- 
band and  family. 

1916 
Class  Editor:  Catherine  S.  Godley, 
768  Ridgeway  Avenue,  Avondale, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Larie  Klein  Boas  came  out  of  the  West 
in  April,  and  her  first  stop  was  in  Cin- 
cinnati to  visit  Charlotte  Westheimer  To- 
bias. Charlotte,  like  the  lady  she  is, 
shared  her  with  her  classmates  and  con- 
temporaries and  we  found  her  the  same 
old  Larie,  only  more  so,  much  more  so. 
In  her  brief  stay  she  shook  us  out  of  our 
staid  and  sober  state  into  a  riot  of  mirth, 
and  we  recommend  her  as  the  best  spring 
tonic  on  the  market.  We  tried  our  hardest 
to  persuade  her  to  stay  East  until  reunion, 
but  we  had  a  husband  and  a  son  on  the 
Pacific  Coast  pulling  against  us. 

Elizabeth  Brakeley,  M.  D.,  put  out  her 
sign  at  16  Forest  Street,  Montclair,  N.  J., 
on  Lincoln's  Birthday.  She  finished  her 
interneship  at  Bellevue  Hospital  in  May 
of  1928,  took  a  last  fling  in  Europe  in  the 
summer  and  came  back  to  a  temporary 
job  in  the  public  schools  of  Pelham,  N.  Y., 
while  making  up  her  mind  where  to  settle. 
She  now  has  an  apartment  in  Montclair, 
where  she  combines  office  and  housekeep- 
ing, and  although  her  practice  is  not  yet 
so  extensive  that  it  will  keep  her  from 
reunion,  she  has  done  better  than  she  ex- 
pected. She  is  doing  general  practice, 
although  she  is  making  a  particular  point 
of  pediatrics,  in  which  she  had  a  special 
interneship  at  Bellevue.  She  works  in 
two  clinics  in  the  Montclair  Hospital  and 
two  in  New  York,  but  she  still  has  so 
much  time  on  her  hands  that  she  has  taken 
to  dressmaking,  cooking,  and  painting  the 
furniture.  We  wonder  how  many  hours 
Brakeley  calls  a  day ! 

Joanna  Ross  Chism  and  her  family  are 
going  East  for  a  visit  in  May.  This  is 
very  opportune,   for  Jo   will  be  able  to 


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take  in  at  least  a  part  of  reunion.  Her 
two  sons  are  now  3  and  8,  and  she  still 
lives  in  Webster  Groves,  a  pleasant  sub- 
urb of  St.  Louis. 

The  class  extends  its  sincere  sympathy 
to  Caroline  Crowell,  whose  father  died  in 
March.  Caroline  went  home  for  a 
month's  leave  of  absence  at  that  time. 
She  has  been  physician  to  the  women 
students  at  the  University  of  Texas  for 
three  years. 

1919 
Class  Editor:  Mary  Morris  Ramsay 
Phelps  (Mrs.  William  Eliott  Phelps) 
Guyencourt,  Del. 

Edith  Rondinella  announced  her  en- 
gagement to  Dr.  Jay  Bessen  Rudolphy  on 
April  2nd.  Dr.  Rudolphy  is  an  eye 
specialist  in  Philadelphia.  He  received 
his  M.  D.  at  Columbia  and  then  did  his 
graduate  work  in  ophthalmology  at  the 
medical  school  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania. Edith  is  teaching  History  of 
Music  at  the  Agnes  Irwin  School  and 
studying  piano  with  Mr.  Alwyne  at  Bryn 
Mawr.  She  now  has  a  manager  for  her 
lecture  recitals. 

Elizabeth  Hurlock  is  still  teaching  at 
Columbia  and  has  just  completed  a  book 
which  is  on  the  press  at  present.  The 
subject  is  the  Psychology  of  Fashion. 

Emily  Matz  Boyd  writes  that  her  fam- 
ily are  all  thriving  after  having  had  a 
siege  of  flu  at  Christmas  time.  Her  twin 
boys  keep  things  lively  helping  each  other 
to  get  into  mischief. 

Announcement  has  been  made  of  the 
engagement  of  Adelaide  Landon  to  the 
Rev.  C.  H.  Roddy,  Pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  North  Arlington, 
N.  J.  Mr.  Roddy  is  a  graduate  of  Yale 
in  the  class  of  1922,  and  of  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary. 

1920 
Class  Editor:  Mary  Hardy, 

518  Cathedral  Street,  Baltimore,  Md. 

The  class  wishes  to  extend  to  Dorothy 
Griggs  Murray  its  deepest  sympathy  in 
the  death  of  her  husband,  Francis  King 
Murray. 

Miriam  Brown  Hibbitts  announces  the 
arrival  of  a  son,  Josiah  Benjamin,  III, 
on  the  26th  of  March,  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Teresa  James  Morris  writes  that  she  is 
still  alive  and  living  in  Washington,  but 
that  she  has  no  news. 

Lois  Kellogg  Jessup,  after  a  summer 
abroad  with  her  husband  and  2-year-old 
son  and  his  nurse,  returned  to  their  house 
in  Croton  for  the  winter.  Lois  started  and 
runs  a  nursery  school,  which  is  connected 
with  the  Hessian  Hill  School,  a  country 


school  in  Croton.  To  make  her  experi- 
ment a  complete  one,  she  has  had  living 
with  her  this  winter  two  other  2-year-olds, 
one  a  boy  and  the  other  a  girl.  The  Jes- 
sups  are  planning  another  summer  in 
France,  Central  Europe  and  Holland, 
where  Mr.  Jessup,  who  has  just  been 
abroad  with  Mr.  Elihu  Root,  will  give  a 
series  of  lectures  in  July  at  the  Hague. 

This  is  to  inform  you  that  my  office  as 
Class  Editor  expires  with  this  contribu- 
tion, and  that  Margaret  Ballou  Hitchcock 
(Mrs.  David  I.)  succeeds  me,  or,  rather, 
resumes  the  job  that  was  temporarily 
thrust  into  my  hands. 

Millicent  Carey  has  accepted  the  post 
of  Head  Mistress  of  the  Brearley  School, 
in  New  York.  She  will  not  go  to  the 
Brearley  until  the  autumn  of  1930,  as 
next  year  she  will  be  Acting  Dean  at 
Bryn  Mawr. 

Nancy  Offutt  will  also  be  a  Head  Mis- 
tress, taking  up  her  "job"  next  winter. 
Her  school  is  the  Garrison  Forest  School 
for  Girls,  a  boarding  and  country  day- 
school  a  few  miles  outside  of  Baltimore. 
This  winter  Nancy  has  been  teaching  the 
fourth  primary  class  at  the  Bryn  Mawr 
School. 

Mary  Hardy  has  been  working  and  will 
continue  to  work  next  year,  under  the 
J.  J.  Abel  Fund  for  the  Investigation  of 
Common  Colds,  at  Johns  Hopkins  School 
of  Hygiene  and  Public  Health.  As  a  re- 
tiring Class  Editor  she  wishes  to  extend 
her  thanks  to  everyone  who  has  sent  news 
for  the  Bulleitn,  and  to  urge  everyone 
and  more  than  everyone  to  continue  send- 
ing news  to  Margaret  Ballou  Hitchcock, 
who  will  resume  the  editorship  for  next 
year.  Ballou's  mailing  name  and  address 
are:  Mrs.  David  I.  Hitchcock,  45  Mill 
Road,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

1921 

Class  Editor:  Mrs.  J.  E.  Rogers, 

99  Poplar  Plains  Road,  Toronto, 
Ontario,    Canada. 

Jean  Spurney,  or  Jean  Inness,  as  she 
is  known  on  the  stage,  was  married  De- 
cember, 1927,  to  Victor  Jory,  her  leading 
man,  in  Denver.  Jean  has  been  the  lead- 
ing woman  in  stocks  for  three  years  now, 
playing  mostly  in  the  middle  west.  The 
plays  in  which  she  is  now  acting  are  "The 
Last  of  Mrs.  Cheney,"  "The  Green  Hat" 
and  "The  Scarlet  Woman."  She  and  her 
husband  like  to  play  all  winter  in  stocks 
and  then  take  a  long  vacation  in  the  sum- 
mer. In  another  year  they  hope  to  have 
their  own  company  in  some  Western 
town. 

Silvine  Marbury  Harrold,  who  is  living 
in  Macon,  Ga.,  writes  that  she  is  becom- 


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ing  thoroughly  Georgian.  Her  daughter, 
Silvine,  was  born  on  December  17,  1928. 

Francesca  Moffat  Frazier  has  two 
sons :  Gordon,  aged  6,  and  Donald,  4.  Her 
hobbies  are  archaeology,  horses  and 
people. 

Sidney  Donaldson  has  been  sick  for 
several  months.  We  hope  to  hear  of  her 
complete  recovery  soon. 

Helen  Bennett  is  a  concert  dancer  and 
has  a  ballet  school  of  100  pupils  in  Pitts- 
burgh. She  is  very  interested  in  every- 
thing connected  with  the  stage  and  does 
a  good  deal  of  costume  designing. 

Ida  Lauer  Darrow's  second  daughter, 
Constance,  was  born  in  March.  Ida  spends 
her  spare  time  working  in  her  garden  and 
for  the  College  Club. 

Agnes  Hollingsworth  Spaeth  does  her 
own  housework  and  takes  complete  charge 
of  her  two  sons,  David,  Al/2,  and  Stanley, 
2y2.  Her  husband  is  working  for  his 
M.  A.  at  Penn. 

Helen  Hill  Miller  has  been  living  since 
her  marriage  in  1927  in  Geneva,  Switzer- 
land. She  writes  book  reviews  and  ar- 
ticles for  the  Nation,  Survey,  Saturday 
Review  of  Literature,  and  is  a  member 
of  "Amer.  Labor  Publishing  Associates." 
This  month  the  Atlantic  is  publishing  part 
of  a  book  of  her  essays.  Last  spring 
Helen  made  a  flying  trip  home  to  receive 
her  Ph.D.  in  Political  Science  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago.  She  plans  to  come 
back  to  this  country  permanently  in  an- 
other year.  This  summer  she  and  her 
husband  are  traveling  over  Europe  get- 
ting material  for  a  book  which  they  are 
planning  to  write  together. 

Eugenia  Sheppard  Black  is  as  petite  as 
ever,  weighing  only  90  pounds.  She  has 
an  18-months-old  son,  Samuel  L.  Black, 
3rd.  Her  husband  is  a  lawyer  in  Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 

Ann  Taylor  is  living  in  Greenwich  and 
teaching  in  the  Senior  English  Depart- 
ment at  Rosemary.  She  writes  that  she 
has  tried  rigorous  dieting  and  plays 
squash  and  tennis,  but  does  not  lose 
weight.  Her  hobby  is  international  affairs. 

Nancy  Porter  Straus  is  living  in  Win- 
netka.  Her  husband  is  Assistant  City  Edi- 
tor on  the  Chicago  Evening  Post,  and 
writes  Chicago  news  for  the  New  York 
Evening  Post.  She  has  two  daughters, 
Lucy,  aged  3,  who  attends  nursery  school, 
and  Margaret,  aged  1.  This  winter  Nancy 
and  her  husband  took  a  5  weeks'  vacation 
in  the  Caribbean.  They  arrived  in  Gua- 
temala while  a  revolution  was  going  on 
and  found  sightseeing  difficult  but  excit- 
ing. One  day  while  motoring  on  a  very 
poor,  narrow  road  to  Atitlan  Lake,  which 


is  up  some  10,000  feet,  they  were  told 
that  100  men  had  just  been  killed  there 
by  bandits.  The  chauffeur  got  panicky, 
but  was  made  to  go  on.  This  story  later 
boiled  down  to  one  automobile  which  had 
been  'held  up  the  night  before  by  bandits 
and  for  whom  100  soldiers  were  search- 
ing the  mountains. 

Marion  Walton  Putnam,  who  is  living 
at  71  West  12th  St.,  New  York,  has  a 
son,  born  April  1st. 

1922 
Class  Editor:  Serena  Hand  Savage 
(Mrs.  Wm.  L.  Savage), 
29  W.  12th  Street,  New  York  City. 
Missy  Crosby  has  varied  her  career  in 
Vienna  by  an  excursion  into  Greece. 

Liz  Hall  has  a  new  job  as  secretary  to 
an  architect  in  New  York. 

Jeannette  Palache  has  been  spending  the 
winter  in  Carmel,  Calif. 

Marion  Rawson  has  sailed  for  Greece 
to   do   archaeology. 

Julia  Shearer  is  farming  in  Virginia. 

1923 
Class  Editor:  Katharine  Lord  Strauss, 
Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island. 

Aggie  Clement  Robinson  has  a  second 
daughter,  Ellen  Farr,  about  three  months 
old. 

Louise  Affelder  has  announced  her  "en- 
gagement to  a  Baltimore  attorney,  Eman- 
uel Davidore,  who  is  also  interested  in  the 
Little  Movie  movement  (Fifth  Avenue 
and  Carnegie  Playhouses  in  New  York, 
etc.)  He  is  32,  and  a  graduate  of  George 
Washington  University,  and  lots  more 
things,  which  I  won't  describe  now.  We 
have  no  definite  plans  as  yet " 

Dusty  Rhoads  is  engaged  to  Walter  H. 
Houghton,  a  graduate  of  Yale,  now  in- 
structor at  Andover  School,  Massachu- 
setts. They  plan  to  be  married  in  June  of 
1930.  Dusty  has  won  the  Mary  E.  Garrett 
Fellowship  for  European  travel. 

Bella  Goddard  Mott  has  returned  from 
India  to  spend  the  summer  in  this 
country. 

Dena  Humphreys  is  back  from  a  very 
successful  tour  of  Canada,  playing  leading 
roles  in  "Candida,"  "You  Can  Never 
Tell,"  "Fanny's  First  Play,"  and  "John 
Bull's  Other  Island."  She  sails  for 
Europe  on  the  15th  of  May. 

1924 
Class  Editor:  Beth  Tuttle  Wilbur 
(Mrs.   Donald  Wilbur), 
Bryn  Mawr,   Penna. 
Betty  Ives,  who  is  now  living  at  home, 
145   E.   35th   Street,   New  York,   has  re- 


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cently  returned  from  a  three  weeks'  stay- 
in  Bermuda. 

Doris  Hawkins  Baldwin  writes  from 
the  Hotel  Carlton,  Binghamton,  N."  Y., 
where  she  is  living:  "We  haven't  done 
anything  famous  nor  exciting,  but  enjoy 
everything.  The  church  choir  thought  we 
could  sing — and  so  we're  doing  that  and 
liking  it.  There's,  of  course,  a  bridge 
club,  and  a  rather  active  College  Club, 
which  is  putting  on  a  convention  in  May 
for  the  district." 

The  following  letter  from  Bing  will  fill 
in  a  great  gap  for  most  of  us:  "In  com- 
pany with  most  of  '24  I  seem  to  have  been 
a  bit  reticent  as  to  my  whereabouts  since 
going  out  into  the  wide,  wide  world.  In 
the  first  place,  I  got  me  a  job  on  the 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Democrat  and  Chron- 
icle, and  for  nearly  three  years  covered 
everything  from  orphans'  outings  to  sui- 
cides, with  movie  reviewing  as  a  side- 
line. Meanwhile  I  dashed  around  the 
country  to  horse  shows,  riding  and  re- 
porting them  for  my  paper  and  various 
magazines,  and  in  the  fall  spent  my  morn- 
ings fox  hunting  in  the  Genesee  Valley. 
My  working  hours  were  2  P.  M.  till  I 
was  through,  generally  after  midnight. 

"Winter  before  last  I  gave  up  all  this 
to  get  married  to  Philip  A.  Hevenor,  and 
we  moved  to  Dayton,  O.  We  now  have 
a  7-months-old  boy,  Richard  Kerry,  and 
have  again  moved,  this  time  to  Indian- 
apolis. 

"Wish  I  could  give,  you  more  news,  but 
I  haven't  seen  or  heard  from  anybody  in 
many  moons.  Kay  Brauns  was  married 
last  spring  to  Rolf  M.  Eskil,  and  went  to 
Carmel-by-the-Sea,  California,  to  live." 

Found!  The  perfect  mother!  She 
doesn't  hide  her  baby  under  a  bushel ! 
Elsa  Molitor  Vanderbilt  had  a  daughter 
born  on  April  19th,  and  the  very  next 
mail  brought  news  thereof.  Elsa  and 
Spence  are  living  at  2415  Robinwood  Ave- 
nue, Toledo,  with  Elsa  Molitor,  Jr.,  and 
urge  any  of  '24  in  the  neighborhood  to 
come  and  see  them. 

Dorothy  Litchfield,  who  is  librarian  at 
the  Botanical  Library  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  has  been  working  after 
hours  with  a  committee  of  the  four  Gar- 
den Clubs  of  Philadelphia  over  an  exhi- 
bition of  Herbals  and  old  Garden  Books, 
arranged  in  honor  of  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  Garden  Clubs  of  America  at  the 
Free  Library  of  Philadelphia.  Emily  Fox 
Cheston,  1908,  one  of  the  committee,  is 
emphatic  in  praise  of  her  knowledge  and 
ability  and  untiring  work. 


1928 
Class  Editor:  Helen  McKelvey 
341  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York. 

"Gaillard  and  Lib  Rhett  were  traveling 
about  Italy  and  the  Riviera  together,  hav- 
ing run  across  each  other  in  Rome,  but  I 
think  they  have  split  now  and  Lib  is  show- 
ing C.  Smith  and  Bozo,  Florence,  while 
Gaillard  is  having  tea  with  the  Youngs 
in  Paris. 

"Joe  and  Polly  are  still  abroad. 

"A  long  note  came  from  Hope  Yandell, 
saying  that  though  she  couldn't  possibly 
come  to  reunion,  she  would  furnish  news. 
Here  it  is: 

"Kate  Hepburn  is  now  Mrs.  Ludlow 
Ogden  Smith  and  is  still  understudying 
Hope  Williams.  She  is  living  at  146  East 
39th  Street,  New  York. 

"Peggy  Miller  is  doing  extremely  well 
with  her  art  and  is  going  on  with  it 
seriously. 

"Anne  Petrasch  was  married  to  Blythe 
Emmons  on  February  9th  and  is  living  in 
New  York. 

"Cal  Crosby  went  to  Vienna  with  Betty 
Brown  in  January  and  is  now  somewhere. 

"Hope  has  been  in  Mexico  for  two 
months  and  has  just  returned  from  the 
Revolution  to  Greenwich  after  several 
adventures. 

"Sylvia  Brewster  was  married  to  Lt. 
Edward  Frederick  Maude,  of  the  Royal 
Horse  Artillery,  and  has  now  gone  to 
India  with  him." 

Helen  Hook  paid  us  a  fleeting  visit  on 
her  way,  as  far  as  we  could  gather,  from 
Chicago  to  Chicago.  She  had  been  in 
Bryn  Mawr  for  the  week-end,  and  was 
altogether  having  a  gay  time.  Her  tales 
of  Art  School  in  Chicago  were  most 
amusing. 

Mary  Fite  has  been  working  in  the  toy 
department  of  Macy's,  and  lunched  occa- 
sionally with  Mat  Fowler,  also  of  Macy's. 
Mary  was  planning,  when  last  we  saw 
her,  to  share  an  apartment  with  Marg 
Saunders  and  Emma  Gillinder.  Marg  is 
still  doing  social  service  work,  and  Emma 
has  a  wonderful  job,  requiring  a  reading 
knowledge  of  French  and  German  (show- 
ing that  there  is  some  good  in  orals  after 
all). 

Our  book  business  is  as  much  fun  as 
ever.  Lately  I  have  been  making  speeches 
on  modern  novels  before  local  women's 
clubs;  I  look  back  gratefully  to  oral  re- 
ports every  time  I  find  myself  standing 
before  groups  of  women. 

Every  one  is  hoping  to  see  every  one 
at  reunion.  Let's  all  appear  in  Whoopee 
socks  and  make  it  a  good  time. 


The  Saint  Timothys  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

FrnnJcJ  Stpttmia  ISS2 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head  of  the  School       

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY   E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  1785) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 

A  country  day    school  for  boys 

MODERN  AND  WELL  EQUIPPED 
Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 

UNIVERSITYgTrls 

BOARDING  AND  DAY   SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough    and    successful    Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive  Chicago,  Illinois 

THE  HARTRIDGE   SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

SO  minutes  from  New  York 

A  country  school  with  beautiful  grounds. 
College   Preparatory  and   General    Courses. 
Over  fifty  girls  in  leading  colleges  today. 
Resident  Department  carefully  restricted. 
Special  attention  to  Music  and  Art. 
Athletics,  Dramatics,  Riding, 

EMELYN  B.  HARTRIDGE,  Vassar,  A.B.,  Principal 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey 


The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY,    CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT,  A.B., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


lOGEHSHAlX 

"v4Modcrn  School  with  New  England  Traditions 


H  Jp^iMo< 

H    Ttm  r         Thorough  Preparation  for  any  College 
H    ^alk  One  Year  Intensive  Review 

JraL  ^»rf  General  Academic  Course  with  dl- 
JHb  ^^^ploma.  Junior  College  Courses — Home 
Economics,  Secretarial  Training,  Music,  Art,  Dramatic 
Art.  26  Miles  from  Boston.  Outdoor  Sports.  Riding. 
Gymnasium.    Swimming  Pool. 

EDITH   CHAPIN  CRAVEN,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 
201  Rogers  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

HARCUM  SCH^L 

BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and 
all  leading  colleges 

Musical  Course  prepares  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  Music  of  Bryn  Mawr  College 
L.  MAY  WILLIS,  Principal 
EDITH  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 

Individual  Instruction.    Athletics. 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa. 

Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address:    Bryn  Mawr.  Pa. 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON  COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vassar) 

Principal 


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THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 


GRAY  GABLES 

THE  BOARDING  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE 
BANCROFT  SCHOOL  OF  WORCESTER 

Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 
One  year  course  for  Board   Examination. 

For  catalog  address: 

Hope  Fisheb,   Ph.D.,   Bancroft   School 

Woecesteb,  Massachusetts 


MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 

COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses  Junior  High  School 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,  Headmistress 

The  Katharine  Branson  School 

ROSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Francisco 

A  Country  School    College  Preparatory 

Head: 
Katharine   Fleming   Branson,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

1330  19th  St.,  N.  W.  Washington,  D.  C. 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 
Head  Mistress 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 


CAROLINE  RUUTZ-REES.  Ph.D.  \ 
MARY  E.  LOWNDES.  Litt.D 


FERRY    HALL 

A    RESIDENT    AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On   Lake  Michigan,  near   Chicago 

Junior  College;  High  School  Department:  College 
Preparatory  and  General  Courses.  Special  Departments 
of  Music.  Expression  and  Art. 

Two  new  dormitories,  including  new  dining  room  and 
infirmary,  to  be  opened  September  1929. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 

ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 
(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  courses) 

>  Head  Mistresses 

GREENWICH       -       -       CONNECTICUT 

The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 
(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr.  Mount  Holyoke.  Smith. 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  college*.     Abundant  outdoor  life. 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis. 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON,  A.B. 

HEAD 

THE  LOW  AND  HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

64th  year.    Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN  POINT,  STAMFORD,  CONN. 


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^    W      A  Modern  Country  School  in  the 
Green  Spring  Valley  near   Balti- 
more.   Excellent  Equipment.    All  Sports. 
Special   Emphasis  on    Horseback  Riding. 

Garrison  Forest  Girls  who  are  going  to  college 
are  thoroughly  prepared  for  any  institution. 

Other  girls  take  courses  with  special  emphasis 
on  Music  and  Art.  Younger  girls  live  in  a 
separate  Junior  House. 

Mild  Climate.     Nation-wide  Clientele* 


Principals 

MISS  JEAN  G.  MARSHALL 

MISS  NANCY  OFFUTT, 

Bryn  Mawr,  ex  '20 

Box  B,  Garrison,  Maryland 


THE  CAMBRIDGE  SCHOOL 

DOMESTIC      ARCHITECTURE 

LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE 

A  Professional  School  for  College 

Graduates 

The  Academic  Year  for  1929-30  opens 

Monday,  October  7,  1929. 

Henry  Atherton  Frost  —  Director 

53    Church   Street,   Cambridge,  Mass. 

At  Harvard  Square 


BRIARCLIFF 

Mrs.  Dow's  School  for  Girls 

Margaret  Bell  Merrill,  M.A.,  Principal 
BRIARCLIFF  MANOR  NEW  YORK 

College  Preparatory 
and  General  Academic  Courses 

Post  Graduate  Department 

Music  and  Art  with  New  York 
advantages.    New  Swimming  Pool 


Music  Dept. 
Jan   Sickesz 


Art  Dept. 
Chas.  W.  Hawthorne,  N.  A. 

Director 


BEECH     WOOD 

A  CAMP  FOR  GIRLS 

On  Lake  Alamoosook  near  Bucksport,  Me. 

Water  sports,  athletics  and  other 

camp  interests.    Tutoring. 

Conducted  by 

HERMINE  EHLERS,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

Address:  FRIENDS  SEMINARY,  Rutherford  Place,  N.  Y.  City 


CAMP   MYSTIC 


MYSTIC 
CONNECTICUT 

Miss  Jobe's  salt  water  camp  for  girls 
8-18.  Conducted  by  Mrs.  Carl  Akeley  (Mary 
L.  Jobe).  Halfway,  New  York  and  Boston. 
Land  and   water  sports.     Horseback  riding. 

MARY  L  JOBE,  Room  507.     607  Fifth  Ave.,  N.Y.C. 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


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INTENSIVE  WINTER  AND 
SUMMER  COURSES 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  of  costume  design  and  illus- 
tration taught  in  shortest  time  com- 
patible with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  for 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
partment disposes  of  student  work. 
Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
Bureau.    Write  for  announcement. 


In  Arnold,  Constable  &  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

1680  Broadway  (near  52nd  St.)  New  Y< 


Katharine  Gibbs 

A  school  of  unusual  character  with  a  distinctive 
■pur-pose  for  educated  women 
SECRETARIAL   ACADEMIC  EXECUTIVE 
BOSTON 


90  Marlboro  Street 
Resident  and 
Day  School 

NEW  YORK 
247  Park  Avenue 

PROVIDENCE 
155  Angell  Street 


Special  Course  for  College 
Women.  Selected  subjects 
preparing  for  executive  posi- 
tions. Separate  classrooms 
and  special  instructors. 
One-year  Course  includes  tech- 
nical and  broad  business  train- 
ing preparing  for  positions  of 
a  preferred  character. 
Two-year  Course,  for  prepara- 
tory and  high  school  gradu- 
ates. First  year  includes  six 
college  subjects.  Second  year 
intensive  secretarial  training 
Booklet  on  request 


After  College  What? 

THE   DREXEL   INSTITUTE 
LIBRARY  SCHOOL 

Offers  a  one  year  course  for 
college  graduates,  and  pre- 
pares students  for  all  types 
of  library  service. 

PHILADELPHIA 


Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 

GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  19  miles  from  New  York.     College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.       Music        Art  and 

Domestic  Science.       Catalogue   on  request.       Box  B. 

MIRIAM   A.   BYTEL,    A.B.,   Radcliffe,    Principal 

BERTHA  GORDON   WOOD,   A.B.,    Bryn   Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


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The  Phebe  Anna  Thorne  School 

Under  the  Direction  of    the  Department 
of  Education 


A  progressive  school  preparing  for  all  colleges. 

Open  air  class  rooms. 

Pre-school,  Primary,  Elementary    and  High 
School  Grades. 


BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 

AGNES  L.  ROGERS,  Ph.D.,  Director 
FRANCES  BROWNE,  A.B.,  Head  Mistress 


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new  book  contains  what  everyone 
wants  to  know,  needs  to  know,  and 
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Wherever  Bridge  is 
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of  every  10  teachers 
use  his  system  ^  He 
originated  the  present 
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PUBLISHERS  PHILADELPHIA 


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4   golden  days  that  cost 
you  nothing! 

Cross  by  oneof  Canard's  seventeen  Cabin 
steamers  .  .  .  the  largest  Cabin  Fleet 
afloat ...  2  extra  days  over,  2  extra  days 
back  . .  .  days  of  invigorating  ocean  air 
that  builds  up  bodies  .  .  .  smoothes 
wrinkles  and  reddens  cheeks.  More  rest, 
more  "tonic",  more  leisure,  more  recre- 
ation, animating  contact  with  congenial 
companions,  and  not  one  whit  less  of 
wholesome  gayety.  For  $145  up ...  a  bed 
or  a  berth  in  a  charming  stateroom, 
flawless  service,  delicious  meals,  Morn- 
ing Broth,  Afternoon  Tea,  Deck  Games, 
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OFFICERS  OF   THE   BRYN    MAWR  ALUMNAE   ASSOCIATION 

EXECUTIVE  BOARD 

President Louise  Fleischmann  Maclat,  1906 

Vice-President Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  1917 

Recording  Secretary Gertrude  Hearne  Myers,  1919 

Corresponding  Secretary Mat  Egan  Stokes,  1911 

Treasurer Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903 

Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee Caroline  Morrow   Chadwick-Collins,    1905 

ALUMNAE  SECRETARY  AND  BUSINESS  MANAGER  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Alice   M.   Hawkins,  1907 

EDITOR  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Marjorie  L.  Thompson,  1912 

DISTRICT  COUNCILLORS 

District  I Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913 

District  II Julia  Langdon  Loomis.  1895 

District  III Alletta  Van  Reypen  Korff,  1900 

District  IV Katharine  Holliday  Daniels,  1918 

District  V Frances  Porter  Adler,  1911 

District  VI Margaret  Nichols  Hardenbergh,  1905 

District  VII Helen  Brayton  Barendt,  1903 

ALUMNAE  DIRECTORS 

Ruth  Furness  Porter,  1896  Mary  Peirce,  1912 

Frances  Fincke  Hand.  1897  Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey,  1901 

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Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  ACADEMIC  COMMITTEE 

Pauline  Goldmark,  1896 

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In  view  of  the  interest  that  is  centered  on  the  Graduate  School  just  at  this 
time,  all  announcements  about  the  graduate  scholars  have  a  very  especial  interest. 
The  fact  that  a  college  of  the  size  of  Bryn  Mawr  should  have  ten  candidates  for  the 
Doctor's  Degree,  is,  when  one  stops  to  think  of  it,  an  extraordinary  achievement.  The 
subjects  of  the  theses  themselves  also  reveal  something  of  the  scope  of  the  school: 
Francisco  Ribalta  and  his  School;  Higher  Benzologues  of  Phenanthrenequinone  and 
Anthraquinone;  Skill  and  Specialization:  A  Comparative  Study  of  Four  Manufactur- 
ing Plants  in  the  Metal  Trades  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania;  Mothers'  Assistance  in 
Philadelphia:  Actual  and  Potential  Costs;  The  British  Administration  of  the  Southern 
Indians,  1756-1783 ;  The  Dating  and  Localization  of  the  "Proverbs  of  Alfred/'  The 
Great  Duke  of  Florence;  Whewell's  Philosophy  of  Induction;  The  delation  of 
Carlyle  to  Kant  and  Fichte;  The  Colonial  Agency  in  Pennsylvania.  The  giving  of. 
such  a  list  as  this  in  this  space  is  only  justified  if  the  Alumnae  deduce  something 
from  it  for  themselves.  In  her  Alumnae  Supper  speech,  Eunice  Schenck,  Dean- 
elect  of  the  School,  urged  that  each  Alumna  should  have  a  sense  of  responsibility 
about  interesting  able  students  in  the  Graduate  work  at  Bryn  Mawr.  The  Alumnae 
have  been  so  successful  in  attracting  the  most  desirable  type  of  Undergraduate 
students  by  means  of  the  work  of  the  Regional  Scholarship  Committees,  that  one 
feels  no  doubt  of  the  success  that  they  would  have  in  interesting  more  advanced 
students.  The  school  has  always  been  well  known  abroad,  and  each  year,  when 
the  Foreign  Students  holding  Bryn  Mawr  Fellowships  return  to  their  own  countries, 
they  spread  information  about  it.  Here  we  seem  to  take  it  more  for  granted  and 
the  able  student  does  not  so  frequently  try  to  interest  other  students  in  her  own 
field.  Hence  the  Alumnae,  scattered  up  and  down  the  country,  find  yet  another 
activity  open  to  them. 


THE  ORIGINS  OF  SOCIAL  IDEALISMS 


COMMENCEMENT  ADDRESS 
By  Professor  James  H.  Breasted 

It  is  narrated  of  the  philosopher  Haeckel  that  some  one  once  put  to  him  this 
unusually  suggestive  question : 

"If  in  some  way  you  could  be  unfailingly  assured  of  a  truthful  answer  to  any 
question  of  the  many  you  might  wish  to  have  answered,  what  question  would  you 
ask?" 

Haeckel  remained  for  some  moments  absorbed  in  thought,  and  then  he  said, 
"The  question  I  would  most  like  to  see  answered  is  this:  'Is  the  Universe  friendly  f '" 
Here  was  a  great  biologist  of  philosophic  leanings  revealing  himself  all  at  once  as  a 
very  human  soul  environed  in  an  illimitable  universe  looking  out  upon  it  all  with  a 
chilling  sense  of  loneliness,  oppressed  with  a  stifling  realization  of  being  helplessly 
enmeshed  in  its  cruel  inexorabilities,  and  involuntarily  asking  the  wistful  question' 
"Is  the  Universe  friendly?" 

It  should  be  noted  at  once  that  the  man  who  raised  this  question  was  a  natural 
scientist — a  biologist  and  paleontologist, — acquainted  with  the  history  of  life  on  our 
planet  from  its  earliest  and  lowliest  forms  through  stage  after  stage  of  advancement 
until  the  appearance  of  physical  man,  but  obviously  little  acquainted  with  the  experi- 
ence of  man  since  his  physical  form  emerged  so  many  ages  ago.  For  Professor  Haeckel 
accepts  the  word  friendly  as  a  matter  of  course,  just  as  the  natural  scientist  accepts 
matter  as  a  given  factor,  for  which  he  is  not  called  upon  to  account.  But  the  word 
friendly  is  not  a  matter  of  course.  Its  very  appearance  in  Professor  Haeckel's  question 
really  answers  the  question  itself,  and  he  should  be  called  upon  to  account  for  the 
word.  Hence,  if  Professor  Haeckel  had  not  long  since  passed  on,  it  would  have  been 
interesting  to  ask  him  another  question:  "Where  did  you  get  that  word  friendly?" 

His  only  response  would  obviously  have  been:  "Why,  it  is  a  word  common  to 
all  the  modern  languages  of  civilization."  But  language  is  far  more  than  merely 
a  vehicle  for  the  expression  of  thought.  It  is  a  vehicle  built  up  out  of  man's  experi- 
ence, and  therefore,  historically  speaking,  language  is  a  record  of  human  experience 
and  human  experience,  has  of  course  a  vast  number  of  aspects,  social,  industrial, 
scientific,  mechanical,  artistic,  religious  or  governmental.  Turning,  for  example,  to 
an  important  aspect  of  our  mechanical  experience,  we  find  that  the  words:  "garage," 
"chauffeur,"  "chassis,"  "tonneau,"  and  the  like,  form  a  little  group  which  began  to 
be  common  in  English  speech  about  a  generation  ago.  The  appearance  and  the 
foreign  source  of  this  little  group  of  words  will  for  thousands  of  years  continue  to 
demonstrate  two  historical  facts  in  our  experience:  first,  the  introduction  of  the 
automobile  late  in  the  nineteenth  century  and  second,  its  origin  and  earliest  use  as  a 
practical  device  in  France. 

If  we  push  further  back  in  human  life  we  find  that  at  some  time  before  500  B.  C. 
the  word  "byblos"  appeared  in  Europe,  and  entered  Greek  speech  as  the  word  for 
"papyrus  paper.!'  The  earliest  emergence  of  this  work  in  Greek,  probably  several 
centuries  before  500  B.  C,  is  indication  of  the  first  introduction  of  paper  into  Europe; 
and  its  non-Greek,  foreign  name  (from  which  came  our  word  "Bible")   is  an  unmis- 

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takable  evidence  that  the  immediate  source  of  the  earliest  paper  in  Europe  was  the 
Phoenician  city  of  Byblos  on  the  north  Syrian  coast. 

Buried  thus  in  the  constituents  of  language  we  find  the  evidence  for  the  intro- 
duction of  two  very  tangible  human  devices:  the  automobile  introduced  among  us 
in  our  own  time,  and  papyrus  paper  introduced  into  Europe  over  twenty-five  hundred 
years  ago.  Now  what  is  true  of  these  two  words  for  new  mechanical  devices  is 
equally  true  of  the  less  tangible  qualities  of  advancing  human  life  as  it  rose  from 
savagery  or  barbarism  to  the  attainment  of  those  inner  values  which  would  give 
rise  to  such  words  as  friend,  frie?idly,  friendliness.  If  so,  then  when  Professor  Haeckel 
asks  his  question:  "Is  the  Universe  friendly?",  he  has  overlooked  the  significance  of 
the  very  existence  of  the  word  friendly.  An  examination  of  the  records  of  the 
Ancient  Near  East  discloses  in  its  speech  and  its  history  the  emergency  and  early 
development  of  those  humane  qualities  suggested  by  the  word  "friendly." 

Let  us  see  whether  we  are  taking  an  unfair  advantage  of  Professor  Haeckel  in 
that  we  are  giving  him  no  opportunity  for  rejoinder.  The  most  effective  rejoinder  he 
could  make  would  seem  to  be  along  this  line:  "How  does  your  historic  use  of  the 
word  friendly  answer  my  original  question?  Granted  that  the  existence  of  this 
word  is  historic  evidence,  demonstrating  that  human  experience  has  developed  friend- 
liness, you  are  talking  of  human  experience;  whereas  I  asked  my  question  about 
the  universe.     What  has  human  experience  to  do  with  the  universe?" 

That  is  a  fair  question  to  which  our  modern  philosophers  have  long  since  fur- 
nished what  they  consider  a  satisfactory  reply.  It  is  nevertheless  a  question  to 
which  only  the  historian  is  entitled  to  reply,  for  it  is  historical  investigation  alone 
which  can  furnish  the  final  answer.  The  stoiy  of  human  beginnings  as  recently 
disclosed  by  research  in  the  Ancient  Near  East,  is  showing  quite  clearly  that  human 
experience,  not  philosophically  speaking,  but  historically  speaking,  is  the  latest  stage 
of  the  history  of  the  universe.  Human  experience  is  therefore  the  outcome  of  the 
history  of  the  universe,  as  far  as  it  is  discernible  to  us. 

*       *       * 

*  *  *  Like  a  great  social  laboratory  with  its  human  life  reaching  back 
into  those  remote  secular  processes  which  have  formed  the  present  surface  of  the 
globe,  the  Nile  Valley  is  the  only  arena  where  the  struggle  of  the  advancing  life  of 
man  may  be  surveyed  from  the  appearance  of  physical  man,  through  all  the  succeed- 
ing conquests  of  his  rising  career  until  we  see  him  catching  the  vision  of  human 
brotherhood  and  friendliness. 

Professor  Haeckel's  objection  then  (if  we  may  assume  that  he  would  have  made 
it),  that  human  experience  is  not  a  stage  of  the  development  of  the  universe,  receives 
for  the  first  time  a  historical  refutation  in  early  Egypt.  We  are  now  to  undertake 
the  examination  of  a  milestone  or  two  marking  the  long  road  by  which  man  has 
passed  from  his  conquest  of  the  material  world  to  the  amazing  discovery  of  inner 
values,  the  victory  over  self  and  the  vision  of  social  responsibility.  As  we  trace 
this  development  we  should  realize  that  we  are  following  a  process  which  not  only 
belongs  to  the  history  of  the  universe,  but  is  furthermore  the  most  tremendous 
transformation  in  that  history  in  so  far  as  it  is  known  to  us. 

About  3000  B.  C.  the  former  hunters  of  Northeast  Africa  had  left  the  Stone 
Age  far  behind.  A  thousand  years  earlier,  they  had  discovered  metal,  and  the 
response  of  a  gifted  people  to  this  priceless  possession  was  an  advance  along  the  whole 
front  of  material  conquest.     Their  gods  were  gods  of  physical  forces  in  the  visible 


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world  and  their  conception  of  life  here  and  hereafter  was  purely  materialistic.  Their 
whole  life  here  moved  in  a  world  of  material  things,  and  they  pictured  life  here- 
after in  the  same  terms.  If  they  could  preserve  the  body  of  the  dead  indefinitely 
long,  and  ensure  it  an  unceasing  supply  of  food,  drink,  and  clothing,  they  believed 
that  the  life  of  the  dead  might  go  on  forever.  Hence  embalmment,  and  the  protection 
of  the  embalmed  body  in  a  seemingly  indestructible  tomb  of  mighty  blocks  of  masonry. 
Proudly  conscious  of  their  newly-gained  and  sovereign  command  over  the  material 
resources  of  their  valley  home,  they  transformed  the  very  rock-ribbed  hills  them- 
selves into  mountainous  tombs  for  their  royal  dead.  The  pyramids,  the  greatest 
feats  of  architecture  and  engineering  ever  achieved  by  ancient  man,  are  simply  royal 
tombs.  They  are  a  colossal  expression  of  a  supreme  endeavor  to  ensure  survival 
after  death  by  the  agencies  of  sheer  physical  force.  As  we  look  upon  them  today 
they  disclose  to  us  in  gigantic  terms  the  titanic  struggle  of  an  ancient  society  to 
ensure  the  survival  of  the  king's  physical  body  by  enveloping  it  in  a  vast  and  im- 
perishable husk  of  masonry. 

Beginning  after  3000  B.  C.  the  struggle  with  the  irresistible  force  of  physical 
decay  went  on  for  more  than  a  thousand  years.  Not  long  after  2000  B.  C.  the 
men  of  four  thousand  years  ago  looked  over  upon  them  as  we  do  today,  and  beheld 
a  rampart  of  pyramids  sweeping  along  the  margin  of  the  Sahara  for  sixty  miles. 
There  they  stretched  like  a  line  of  silent  outposts  on  the  frontiers  of  death.  Robbed 
and  plundered  by  man,  wrecked  and  desolated  by  the  ravages  of  time,  they  were  a 
colossal  demonstration  of  the  futility  of  reliance  on  material  agencies  for  the  attain- 
ment of  survival  after  death.  The  pyramids  stand  today  as  the  imposing  wreckage 
surviving  from  the  first  great  age  of  material  achievement, — the  earliest  demonstra- 
tion of  the  bankruptcy  of  materialism. 

Looking  back  upon  the  Pyramid  Builders  of  a  thousand  years  earlier,  as  we  look 
back  upon  the  age  of  Charlemagne,  the  Egyptians  of  2000  B.  C.  were  the  first  men 
to  catch  the  brooding  melancholy  that  hangs  like  a  sombre  cloud  over  the  decaying 
monuments  of  a  long  bygone  age, — the  first  men  to  be  conscious  of  a  distant  past. 
In  the  earliest-known  age  of  disillusionment,  therefore,  the  Egyptians  themselves 
looked  out  upon  the  vast  pyramid  cemetery  and  voiced  the  chilling  sense  of  scepticism 
that  doubted  all,  in  an  extraordinary  song,  which  we  call  the  "Song  of  the  Harper" 
and  which  they  sang  at  their  feasts.  Here  is  the  earliest  picture  of  disillusioned  man 
facing  death  with  the  admonition,  "Eat,  drink  and  be  merry,  for  tomorrow  we  die." 

Still  deeper  is  the  despair  of  a  nameless  sufferer,  an  unjustly  afflicted  soul,  an 
Egyptian  Job,  fifteen  hundred  years  older  than  the  Hebrew  Job.  He  has  lost  family, 
friends  and  wealth,  and  afflicted  by  disease,  he  finds  himself  unjustly  an  outcast  from 
society,  which  he  scathingly  condemns  as  universally  corrupt.  Under  these  circum- 
stances life  is  impossible  and  death  preferable.  In  a  papyrus  preserved  at  Berlin 
we  read  this  misanthrope's  long  dialogue  with  his  own  soul  whom  at  last  he  per- 
suades to  undertake  the  great  adventure  of  death. 


For  ages  man  had  undauntedly  faced  the  adverse  forces  of  the  physical  world 
and  he  had  marched  on  to  make  triumphant  conquest  of  that  world.  Suddenly  he 
was  no  longer  opposing  the  adversary  from  without;  man's  whole  future  was  trans- 
formed as  he  thus  became  aware  of  himself  as  his  worst  enemy,  the  adversary  from 
within,  the  unworthiness  of  man  himself.     That  fundamental  transformation  took 


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place  about  2000  B.  C,  some  four  thousand  years  ago.  It  was  the  earliest  intellectual 
and  spiritual  revolution  of  which  we  have  any  record,  and  it  is  revealed  to  us  in 
a  series  of  unique  documents  of  absorbing  human  interest. 

The  first  of  these  documents  is  nothing  less  than  the  somber  musings  of  the 
king  himself,  Amenemhet  I.,  one  of  the  ablest  sovereigns  of  the  Ancient  East,  as  he 
gives  instruction  to  his  son,  the  crown  prince,  the  future  ruler  of  Egypt.  In 
unrelieved  pessimism  regarding  men  he  charges  his  son  to  trust  no  man  and  never 
to  make  a  friend. 

This  spirit  of  gloomy  pessimism  pervades  the  writings  of  a  whole  group  of 
these  earliest  known  social  thinkers.  One  of  them,  in  a  long  denunciation  of  social 
and  official  corruption,  says:  "Righteousness  is  cast  out;  iniquity  is  in  the  midst  of 
the  council-hall."  That  was  not  said  in  Chicago  or  Philadelphia  in  1900  A.  D. 
It  was  uttered  by  a  social  thinker  on  the  Nile  about  1900  B.  C. ! 

They  all  paint  the  same  dark  picture  of  social  and  official  corruption  and  for 
the  first  time  in  human  history  we  hear  men  denouncing  social  injustice.  "Nobody 
is  free  from  evil ;  all  men  alike  do  it.  The  poor  man  has  no  strength  to  save 

himself  from  him  who  is  stronger  than  he."  Thus  four  thousand  years  ago  arose 
the  first  cry  for  social  justice. 

*       *       *       * 

So  began  the  Age  of  Conscience  and  Character,  the  outgrowth  of  man's 
earliest  social  experience,  over  a  thousand  years  before  the  advent  of  what  the 
theologians  of  by-gone  days  called  the  Age  of  Revelation. 

From  that  dim  and  distant  day  when  a  human  creature  struck  out  the  first 
flint  implement  through  all  the  ages  until  now  when  he  belts  the  globe  with  the 
radio  or  annihilates  whole  cities  with  poison  gas  bombs  from  the  sky,  man's  dominat- 
ing aim  has  made  the  course  of  human  life  prevailingly  a  career  of  material  conquest. 
For  several  hundred  thousand  years  this  Age  of  Material  Conquest  has  gone  on  and 
still  goes  on.  But  yesterday,  as  it  were  through  the  dust  of  an  engrossing  conflict, 
our  Father  Man  began  to  catch  the  veiled  glory  of  the  moral  vison,  and  to  hear  a 
new  voice  within  responding  to  a  thousand  promptings,  old  and  new.  It  was  inter- 
fused of  love  of  home,  of  wife  and  children,  of  love  of  friends  and  love  of  neighbors, 
of  love  of  the  poor  and  lonely  and  oppressed,  of  love  of  State  and  nation;  and  all 
these  which  were  new  mingling  with  an  older  reverence,  the  love  of  cloud  and  hill- 
top, of  forest  and  stream,  of  earth  and  sea  and  sky. 

Thus  the  old  nature-gods  were  shifted  into  a  new  world  of  Social  forces  and 
were  thus  fused  into  one  with  a  god  of  human  needs  and  human  aspirations,  a 
Universal  Father  in  whom  man  began  to  see  all  the  highest  values  that  his  own 
social  experience  had  revealed  to  him. 

What  is  the  significance  of  all  this  for  us  of  today,  for  you  young  women  who, 
in  the  traditional  phrase  of  Commencement  addresses,  are  "about  to  assume  the 
serious  responsibilities  of  life"?  To  this  question  I  think  the  answer  is  obvious.  We 
are  the  first  generation  of  men  and  women  who  are  able  to  look  back  and  survey 
the  vast  length  of  the  entire  human  career.  Ours  are  the  first  minds,  therefore,  so 
placed  as  to  realize  that  the  emergence  of  conscience  and  a  sense  of  social  responsi- 
bility after  3000  B.  C.  was  an  event  of  yesterday.  That  event  marked  our  Father 
Man's  approach  to  the  frontiers  of  a  new  country. 


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The  devastating  spiritual  depression  caused  by  the  World  War  has  sadly  darkened 
the  youth  of  the  world  and  destroyed  the  old  values  without  putting  anything  positive 
in  their  place.  I  believe  that  this  unhappy  result  will  fade,  transformed  by  new 
courage  and  new  vision,  when  we  gain  knowledge  of  the  facts  which  will  enable  us, 
as  it  were,  to  stand  on  a  high  place  and  view  the  human  career  as  a  whole. 

I  remember  one  day  not  long  after  the  Armistice  of  1918,  that  I  was  sitting 
with  the  Governor  of  Palestine,  Sir  Herbert  Samuels,  in  the  beautiful  gardens  of 
the  British  Residency  on  the  Mount  of  Olives.  Behind  us  toward  the  setting  sun, 
lay  Jerusalem,  the  Holy  City,  while  before  us  was  the  tremendous  rift  of  the  Jordan 
Valley  and  the  Dead  Sea,  with  the  blue  and  purple  mountains  of  Moab  behind 
them.  The  depression  of  the  mighty  chasm  before  us  had  recently  been  vividly 
illustrated  to  me  by  a  tale  which  Lord  Allenby  had  told  me  of  his  campaign  in 
Palestine.     He  sent  a  dispatch  to  the  War  Office  one  day,  which  read : 

"This  morning  our  bombing  planes,  flying  six  hundred  feet  below  the  sea,  bombed 
the  Turkish  positions  in  the  Jordan  Valley."  Seven  hundred  feel  below  these  planes 
were  the  mouth  of  Jordan  and  the  surface  of  the  Dead  Sea.  That  is  the  surface 
of  the  Dead  Sea  is  thirteen!  hundred  feet  below  sea  level,  and  its  bottom  is  thirteen 
hundred  feet  below  the  surface  of  its  salt  waters.  With  its  bottom,  therefore, 
twenty-six  hundred  feet  below  sea  level,  it  is  the  lowest  chasm  in  the  surface  of 
our  globe.  Viewed  from  the  summit  of  the  Mount  of  Olives,  it  is  an  appalling 
picture  of  the  inexorable  forces  which  wrought  it,  as  if  some  giant  hand,  thrusting 
in  its  titanic  fingers,  had  rent  the  very  earth  in  twain — a  fearful  demonstration  of 
the  operations  of  that  Universe  to  which  Professor  Haeckel  would  have  addressed  his 
question.  But  as  Sir  Herbert  Samuels  and  I  sat  contemplating  this  terrific  result 
of  the  forces  of  nature,  we  looked  just  a  few  miles  north  and  there,  nestling  on  the 
slopes  of  the  Judean  hills  we  saw  the  little  village  of  Anath,  the  birth-place  of 
the  prophet  Jeremiah  who  had  looked  down  on  this  same  tremendous  exhibition 
of  natural  laws  and  yet  had  said  of  human  life:  "I  will  write  my  laws  upon  the 
table  of  the  heart."  Involuntarily  our  thoughts  moved  a  few  miles  further  north- 
ward to  the  village  of  Nazareth,  the  boyhood  home  of  the  Prince  of  Peace.  It  looks 
down  from  the  Galilean  hills  upon  the  Plain  of  Armageddon,  the  battlefield  of  the 
ages.  As  Jeremiah  looked  down  from  his  little  village  upon  the  eruptive  forces 
of  nature  and  still  clung  to  his  faith  in  the  inner  values,  so  the  youthful  prophet 
of  Nazareth,  having  grown  up  with  the  traditional  scene  of  the  brutal  forces  of 
human  conquest  daily  before  his  eyes,  nevertheless  clung  to  his  vision  of  the  new 
kingdom  within.  Today  in  the  lands  of  the  Ancient  East  we  too  look  out  upon 
the  works  of  Nature  and  the  works  of  man,  and  in  a  New  Crusade  of  scientific 
endeavor,  we  are  striving  to  recover  the  story  of  both. 

But  already  we  have  discerned  enough  to  realize  that  they  are  one,  that  the 
processes  of  nature  and  the  unfolding  life  of  man  are  but  chapters  of  the  same  great 
story;  and  looking  down  into  that  appalling  chasm  of  the  Dead  Sea  which  so  terribly 
confronts  us  with  Professor  Haeckel's  question,  as  the  final  answer  to  that  wistful 
question,  we  can  point  to  human  experience  and  to  the  hills  of  Nazareth. 


MISS  PARK'S  COMMENCEMENT  ADDRESS 


With  seven  years  of  Bryn  Mawr  behind  me  and  a  year  of  absence  ahead,  my 
mind  boils  with  easy  reminiscence  and  equally  easy  prophecy,  but  to  this  audience 
I  owe  something  more  real.  It  has,  I  think,  a  right  to  know  very  briefly  my  seven- 
year-old  impression  of  Bryn  Mawr's  policy.     *     *     *     * 

President  Rhoads'  college  of  1885  was  born  into  a  different  America.  To  the 
minds  of  the  great  body  of  intelligent  men  and  women  two  things  in  which  the 
human  race  has  been  immemorially  confident  still  formed  its  framework, — first,  a 
belief  that  man  had  a  sure  and  comprehensible  relation  to  great  spiritual  forces, 
and  second,  an  underlying  respect  for  "the  landmark," — for  the  tradition,  the  experi- 
ence of  the  past.  These  two  confidences  were  only  confirmed  by  scientific  discoveries 
apparently  encouraging  a  faith  that  the  human  mind  could  grasp  the  knowledge  of 
the  universe,  and  could  codify  successively,  even  though  the  succession  might  be 
endless,  its  laws.  It  had,  therefore,  definite  goals  religiously,  politically,  socially, 
and  the  individual  could  lead  or  could  follow  in  the  progress  toward  them.  In 
this  America,  about  fifty  years  ago,  a  few  people  were  beginning  to  see  that  a 
weakness  lay  in  the  exclusion  of  women  from  political  and  intellectual  affairs;  they 
determined  that  women  should  play  a  part  with  men,  as  intelligent,  as  constructive, 
as  responsible,  and  to  that  movement  in  America  the  founding  of  Bryn  Mawr  College 
made  an  acknowledged  contribution.  Once  it  was  established  the  college  was  definite, 
vigorous,  excellent  in  meeting  the  demands  of  that  American  community.  In  its 
four  years'  go  at  the  problem  it  tried  to  train  the  minds  of  its  students  well,  to  make 
sure  they  could  discriminate  between  good,  better,  and  best,  that  they  could  put 
ideas  into  effect.  It  presumed  the  interested  student  and  put  into  her  hand  the 
sharpened  spearpoint.  She  built  her  house,  not  on  the  sands  of  a  loose  elective  system, 
but  the  rock  of  a  curriculum  practically  required  but  with  her  major  interests  fully 
represented.  To  a  degree  she  became  hardened  to  combat,  through  the  practice  of 
constant  testing  and  the  unremitting  standard  in  every  detail  of  routine  which  barely 
recognized  human  failings!  The  student  came  out  from  Bryn  Mawr  with  every 
reason  for  self  confidence.  The  friendly  critic  said  that  she  knew  a  difficulty  when 
she  saw  it  and  could  tackle  it ;  the  unfriendly  critic,  that  she  liked  to  boss. 

For  an  increasing  number  of  Americans  the  world  now  is  a  changed  one.  The 
change  has  come  so  suddenly  that  we  sometimes  feel  as  though  we  had  lived  our 
busy  lives  in  a  sleep  and  waked  to  find  old  attitudes  gone.  Beliefs  have  changed 
into  disbeliefs,  assurances  into  doubts,  the  steady  direction  of  life  into  hesitation.  If 
we  wandered  early  in  a  labyrinth,  it  had  an  architect,  so  to  speak,  and  find  it  or  not, 
a  clue  existed.  Now  we  feel  ourselves  in  the  region  cloud  which  essentially  has  no 
boundaries,  no  orderliness,  no  intelligible  goals,  "no  object  worth  our  constancy." 
Yet  in  all  our  confusion  most  of  us  honest  and  commonplace  individuals  ardently 
desire  to  live  well,  if  not  in  harmony  with  the  universe,  at  least  in  harmony  with 
what  makes  for  human  happiness.  The  present  generation  are  without  our  baffling 
sense  of  change;  they  are  born  with  the  same  range  of  indifference,  mere  curiosity 
as  fo  the  outcome,  or  cautious  but  resolute  feeling  of  the  way  toward  it. 

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8  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

Now  in  a  world  whose  progress  seemed  almost  visible,  to  be  .mentioned  in 
Thanksgiving  proclamations  and  summed  up  in  newspaper  editorials,  a  college  could 
have  an  accurate  aim,  and  Bryn  Mawr  had,  its  record  shows,  an  extraordinarily 
accurate  one.  The  world  around  the  college  has  changed,  the  America  from  which 
its  freshmen  come,  into  which  its  graduates  go.  Do  the  gradual  readjustments  the 
college  has  made  in  forty  years  go  as  far  as  is  wise?  Certainly  no  one  of  our  old 
sources  of  strength  can  be  abandoned,  soundness  of  training,  standard  of  excellence, 
vigorous  practicality,  but  to  those  qualities  of  an  older  Bryn  Mawr  we  must  add 
I  believe,  in  order  to  make  ready  for  a  far  less  assured  world,  a  world  that  seeks 
rather  than  knows  its  goal,  something  more,  something  that  develops  the  genuinely 
exploring  mind.  My  generation  in  part,  the  next  perhaps  wholly,  must  be  content 
to  work  in  the  field  and  laboratory,  to  search,  to  test,  and  to  wander  and  recover. 
That  the  merely  well-trained,  well-stocked  mind  can  ipso  facto  adapt  itself  to  any 
new  condition  is  no  longer  entirely  convincing.  Knowledge  has  become  too  com- 
plicated, a  picture  of  the  world  no  longer  forms  itself  easily.  Back  of  the  curriculum, 
back  of  the  whole  plan  of  the  college,  must  lie  the  ideal  not  only  of  the  well-trained 
mind  but  specifically  of  the  mind  well  trained  to  experiment. 

Now  how  practically  can  this  be  carried  out?  I  believe  that  the  technique  of 
the  so-called  honours  work  points  the  way  to  the  solution  for  the  college  curriculum. 
In  the  honours  work  we  find  almost  invariably  the  curiosity,  the  independence,  the 
willingness  to  do  tedious  things  in  order  to  learn  interesting  things,  which  the  new 
world  seeks.  And  I  have  come  to  believe  these  attitudes  so  necessary  throughout 
all  college  work  that  to  disregard  their  cultivation  is  fatal  to  the  individual  and 
to  the  institution.  The  technique  of  honours  work  can  certainly  not  wisely  be  applied 
to  the  conduct  of  many  elementary  and  foundation  courses,  but  equally  certainly  it 
can  be  put  in  operation  in  many  courses  which  do  not  fall  officially  within  its  range, 
and  certainly  also  it  can  apply  to  the  plan  of  the  whole  curriculum.  Like  the  honours 
courses  the  curriculum  as  a  whole  should  rest  on  a  close  understanding  and  co-opera- 
tion between  teacher  and  student,  on  a  serious  (which  is  not  a  priggish)  purpose  on 
either  side  to  arrive  at  some  genuine  intellectual  result.  It  demands  that  teacher 
and  student  alike  work  in  accord  with  a  plan  which  they  understand;  a  plan  which 
is  capable  of  adjustment.  Ideally,  I  think  a  looser  general  arrangement  as  to  required 
subjects  and  required  hours  as  a  background  for  a  compact  between  the  excellent 
teacher  working  intelligently  with  the  excellent  student  to  arrive  at  some  little 
mastery  of  a  field  and  method,  all  under  the  oversight  of  an  alert  Curriculum  Com- 
mittee, would  see  us  on  our  way.  I  welcome  the  fresh  impetus  given  to  the  graduate 
school  by  the  appointment  of  a  Dean  and  by  the  new  arrangement  for  residence,  for 
its  own  sake.  My  confidence  in  Miss  Schenck's  guidance  of  the  future  of  the 
school  is  high.  But  secondarily  I  rejoice  to  have  strengthened  in  the  college  that 
intellectual  work  which  brings  and  keeps  able  teachers  and  which  keeps  fresh  in 
practice  the  methods  of  research  and  exploration  which  mutatis  mutandis  can  be 
applied  to  lower  ranges  of  the  same  field. 

I  believe  that  department  barriers  in  the  use  of  material  must  come  down,  and 
that  contact  in  the  great  current  of  American  life  can  never  be  dropped. 


GIFTS  TO  THE  COLLEGE 

The  gifts  to  the  college  through  the  year  are,  as  always,  interestingly  varied. 
"Toward  Goodhart  Hall  something  more  than  $80,000  has  been  paid  in,  $40,000 
by  Mr.  Howard  Goodhart  and  his  father,  and  a  second  $40,000  by  Alumnae  for 
the  most  part,  with  a  smaller  amount  from  Undergraduates  and  friends  of  the 
college."  Mr.  Goodhart  also  gave  two  rare  tapestries,  one  of  which  hangs  in  the 
foyer  and  the  other  in  the  Common  Room.  A  check  from  an  Alumna  made  pos- 
sible the  permanent  stage-set,  which  was  first  used  for  "the  concert  of  the  Philadel- 
phia Orchestra,  one  of  the  great  gifts  of  the  year  from  Mr.  Stokowski,  the  Orchestra 
board,  and  several  of  the  Directors  and  Alumnae  of  the  College." 

Miss  Park  then  said:  "The  all  too  small  appropriation  for  the  library,  $12,000, 
has  been  increased  by  gifts  for  books  amounting  to  $1,600,  including  a  sum  from 
a  classmate  in  memory  of  Marion  Reilly,  and  by  Marion  Reilly's  own  bequest  one 
thousand  dollars  comes  to  each  of  the  Departments  of  Physics  and  Mathematics. 

"For  scholarships,  graduate  and  undergraduate,  the  generous  gifts  of  the  past 
must  be  extended  by  a  large  appropriation  for  the  college  income,  $35,000,  which 
hits  the  budget  hard!  The  graduate  stipends  must  never  drop  but  I  constantly  hope 
that  the  annual  college  appropriation  may  be  lessened  by  the  giving  of  resident  or 
foreign  fellowships  as  memorials  bearing  the  name  of  someone  interested  in  some 
special  field  or  study,  or  in  advanced  work  for  women  in  general,  or  in  the  safe, 
if  slow,  way  of  building  up  international  relations  through  interchange  of  scholars. 
And  with  the  new  rights,  dignities,  and  privileges  of  the  graduate  school  I  trust  such 
a  gift  may  suggest  itself  to  someone.  The  ever  anxious  problem  of  undergraduate 
scholarships  is  also  met  in  several  ways.  Fewer  are  included  in  the  yearly  budget, 
many  more  memorial  scholarships  exist,  and  from  two  sources  come  yearly  sums, 
essentially  steady  though  occasionally  inconveniently  irregular  in  amount.  The  mag- 
nificent Regional  Scholarships  given  by  the  Alumnae  of  various  districts  amount 
altogether  this  year  to  about  $10,000 — and  the  gifts  of  fifteen  parents  of  students 
who  have  paid  the  college  all  or  part  of  the  full  cost  of  their  daughters'  tuition,  more 
than  half  of  which  the  college  carries  from  its  own  funds,  reach  more  than  $5,000, 
a  fund  to  be  used  in  grants  to  students  next  year.  The  devoted  Chinese  Scholarship 
Committee,  which  since  1918  has  sent  a  Chinese  student  to  Bryn  Mawr,  has  this 
year  turned  over  to  the  college  $21,000  as  the  endowment  fund  for  such  a  scholar- 
ship in  the  future.  Two  new  scholarships  have  been  given.  The  Alumnae  Association 
of  the  Kirk  School  in  appreciation  of  Miss  Abby  and  Miss  Sophie  Kirk,  the  heads 
of  the  school,  are  founding  a  scholarship  of  $100  to  be  awarded  annually  for  the 
freshman  year  at  Bryn  Mawr  College  to  a  student  entering  from  the  school.  The 
award  is  to  be  made  on  the  recommendation  of  the  Misses  Kirk  to  a  candidate  who, 
in  her  college  preparation,  has  shown  scholastic  ability,  character,  and  backbone,  and 
who  is  also  in  need  of  financial  assistance.  Every  alumna  of  Bryn  Mawr  will 
rejoice  in  having  the  names  of  these  two,  the  friends  of  us  all,  personally  connected 
with  the  Bryn  Mawr  they  love. 

"Ten  thousand  dollars  as  an  endowment  for  a  second  scholarship  is  given  by 
the  family  of  Leila  Houghteling  of  the  Class  of  1911  together  with  a  group  of 
her  contemporaries  in  college.    The  Leila  Houghteling  Memorial  Scholar,  a  member 

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of  the  freshman  class,  is  to  hold  the  scholarship  for  her  remaining  three  years  and 
in  choosing  her  the  givers  hope  we  may  find  a  girl  who  has  a  certain  likeness  to 
Leila  Houghteling  herself,  something  of  her  steadiness  and  sanity,  her  easy  leader- 
ship, her  hatred  of  privilege  and  injustice,  her  faith  which  clothed  itself  so  readily 
in  works.     This  scholarship  is  a  rich  addition  to  our  list. 

"The  Carola  WoerishofTer  Department  has  been  given  by  Mrs.  Anna  Woeris- 
hofFer  and  by  five  alumnae  of  the  college  for  annual  expenses  more  than  $5,000; 
and  a  second  $5,000  has  been  given  for  a  special  piece  of  research.  To  the  President's 
Fund  the  alumnae  have  given  $1,300,  and  never  was  spending  money  more  appreciated. 

"But  the  gifts  that  have  brought  me  the  most  personal  pleasure  because  they 
reach  the  core  of  Bryn  Mawr's  problem,  are  those  which  affect  the  coming  and 
staying  of  the  good  teacher  and  the  coming  and  staying  of  the  good  student,  the 
endowments  to  make  possible  the  increase  of  the  teacher's  salary  and  the  arrange- 
ment of  hours  of  instruction  for  the  specially  interested  student.  Gifts  endowing 
four  annual  grants  of  $1,000  each  to  full  professors  and  additional  instruction  in  the 
Departments  of  English  and  History  allowing  .time  for  honours  work  were  announced 
last  June.  One  similar  grant,  that  given  first  of  all,  by  Mary  Hill  Swope,  I  allowed 
to  remain  as  a  nest  egg.  I  should  now  like  to  announce  that  the  Mary  Hill  Swope 
grant  of  $1,000  annually  is  made  to  Professor  Chew  of  the  Department  of  English. 
A  gift  of  $50,000  in  honour  of  their  fiftieth  wedding  anniversary  from  Julius  and 
Sarah  Goldman  of  New  York,  parents  of  three  alumnae  of  the  college,  enables  me 
to  create  two  more  grants  which  will  carry  the  names  of  the  donors.  These  will  be 
given  to  Professor  Leuba  of  the  Department  of  Psychology  and  on  his  return  to 
Bryn  Mawr  to  Professor  Carpenter  of  the  Department  of  Archaeology.  I  have 
already  mentioned  gifts  from  the  alumnae  for  Goodhart  Hall,  for  the  Regional 
Scholarships,  for  the  President's  Fund.  They  inaugurate  in  the  coming  year  a  note- 
worthy policy.  From  their  annual  Alumnae  Fund  they  offer  to  the  college  a  sum 
which  gives  Professor  Schenck,  the  new  Dean  of  the  Graduate  School,  an  annual 
grant  of  $1,000,  which  adds  hours  of  instruction  in  French  sufficient  to  free  her  time 
from  department  routine  so  that  she  can  assume  the  deanship  of  the  Graduate  School 
and  still  continue  as  active  head  of  her  department,  and  opens  honours  courses  in 
French  in  October.  But  they  go  on  to  make  possible  another  step  in  the  long  pro- 
gramme I  have  set  for  Bryn  Mawr.  They  have  recognized  the  priceless  value  of  the 
able  associate  professor,  young,  strong,  and  willing,  full  of  meat  and  keen  to  make 
his  name.  Through  an  annual  gift  from  them,  with  one  special  gift  added,  and  with 
an  additional  readjustment  of  college  funds,  it  has  been  found  possible  permanently  to 
increase  the  maximum  associate  professors'  salary  and  immediately  to  bring  a  number 
of  salaries  to  that  maximum  or  nearer  it. 

"For  the  coming  year  twenty-five  resident  graduate  scholarships  have  been 
awarded  and  twenty  resident  fellowships.  Out  of  more  than  fifty  applications,  many 
of  them  countersigned  by  the  Institute  of  International  Education,  from  South  Amer- 
ica, India,  South  Africa  as  well  as  from  many  European  countries,  five  scholarships 
for  foreign  women  have  been  awarded — to  a  Swiss  who  will  present  herself  for 
the  doctorate  in  Latin,  an  Austrian  who  comes  to  study  Spanish  Art  under  Professor 
King,  an  Agregee  of  the  Lycee  at  Sevres  and  a  student  from  the  University  of 
Berlin  both  to  work  in  English,  and  a  Scotch  woman  from  St.  Andrews  University 
and  Girton  College,  Cambridge,  to  sample  Bryn  Mawr  Classics  and  Philosophy. 

"The  four  Bryn  Mawr  fellowships,  which  yearly  send  hand-picked  students  from 


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its  graduate  school  to  Europe  for  study,  go  to  Ruth  Hofrichter,  who  will  work  in 
German  Philology  at  the  University  of  Munich;  to  Ruth  Fairman,  who  will  work 
in  Latin  at  the  University  of  Munich;  to  Katharine  Jeflers,  who  will  do  research 
in  Biology  at  the  University  of  Berlin;  and  to  Esther  Rhoads,  who  will  work  on 
Balzac  material  in  Paris.  Special  travelling  fellowships  given  through  the  college 
will  send  Mary  Katharine  Woodworth  to  London  University,  Margaret  Rawlings 
to  Cornell,  and  Margaretta  Salinger  to  see  the  world  of  European  museums  and 
collections.  Outside  honours  falling  to  the  graduate  school  can  not  be  officially 
announced  by  Bryn  Mawr,  but  I  can  not  forbear  reporting  that  Lucy  Shoe  has 
won  one  of  three  competitive  fellowships  of  the  American  School  at  Athens  in  a 
competition  open  to  men  and  women  of  a  wide  range  of  American  colleges  and 
universities.  Gertrude  Malz,  who  will  also  study  at  the  American  School  at  Athens, 
has  fellowships  given  her  by  Swarthmore,  where  she  was  an  undergraduate,  and  the 
University  of  Wisconsin,  where  she  was  a  graduate  student.  Edith  Katharine  Cum- 
ings  has  been  awarded  a  scholarship  by  the  Institute  of  International  Education  for 
study  at  the  Sorbonne,  with  residence  at  the  Maison  des  Etudiantes.  Dorothy 
WyckofI,  last  year's  Workman  Fellow  who  has  studied  geology  at  the  University 
of  Oslo  this  winter,  is  the  only  woman  to  be  given  a  fellowship  by  the  American 
Scandinavian  Foundation,  and  consequently  will  keep  Bryn  Mawr  warm  to  the 
north  another  winter,  for  this  summer  we  are  protected  by  Frederica  de  Laguna, 
European  Fellow  of  1927,  who  goes  to  Northern  Greenland  on  the  invitation  of 
Dr.  Matthiesen,  Danish  expert  on  Esquimaux  Archaeology,  to  excavate  a  primitive 
Esquimaux  kitchen   midden. 

"The  European  Fellow  from  the  present  senior  class  is  Barbara  Channing,  one 
of  the  fourteen  graduates  of  Bryn  Mawr  College  out  of*  twenty-four  hundred  pos- 
sibilities who  have  taken  the  Bryn  Mawr  degree  summa  cum  laude.  And  I  am 
empowered  to  announce  this  morning  that  a  gift  of  $1,000  has  been  given  to  Bryn 
Mawr  for  a  travelling  fellowship  for  a  member  of  the  senior  class  and  is  awarded 
to  Frances  Elizabeth  Fry  who  graduates  with  distinction  in  History. 

And  so  for  many  students,  and  for  Bryn  Mawr  itself,  open  fresh  fields  and 
pastures  new.  The  vigorous  graduate  experiment  under  way,  the  demand  for  admis- 
sion to  the  entering  class,  surpassing  anything  we  have  ever  known  before,  the  faith 
and  the  works  of  the  graduates  of  the  college — all  these  will  stir  the  laborers  in  the 
vineyards,  now  perhaps  a  little  hot  and  weary,  to  new  vigor  and  new  delight." 


PRESIDENT  PARK  ANNOUNCES  ADDITIONAL 
GRANT 

President  Park  has  great  pleasure  in  announcing  that  an  anonymous  gift  of 
one  thousand  dollars  a  year  until  1935  has  been  promised  her  to  be  called  the  Lucy 
Martin  Donnelly  Grant.  It  is  given  to  Professor  Lucy  Martin  Donnelly  of  the 
English  Department  in  recognition  of  her  many  years  of  invaluable  service  to  her 
department  and  to  the  college. 


THE  ALUMNAE  SUPPER 

Before  turning  the  evening  over  to  the  toast-mistress,  Mrs.  Maclay  read  a 
cablegram  just  received  from  Venice:  "To  the  ever  loyal  Alumnae  from  their  Presi- 
dent Emeritus  seeing  the  world  at  seventy-two." 

Emma  Guffey  Miller,  1899,  turned  the  annual  Supper  into  a  delightful  gather- 
ing of  eminent  Victorians.     She  started  the  Supper  by  saying: 

"Recently  when  reading  the  list  of  classes  holding  reunions  this  year,  I  was 
struck  by  the  fact  that  with  two  exceptions,  '27  and  '28,  the  others  all  belonged  to 
the  same  age,  the  Victorian,  and  might  be  classified  in  the  three  distinct  periods 
used  to  describe  that  era,  as  Early  Victorians,  Mid-Victorians  and  Later  Victorians 
of  Bryn  Mawr. 

"Of  course  I  realize  that  certain  classes  represented  here  tonight  hotly  resent 
such  a  classification,  but  I  am  confident  that  future  English  historians  will  say  that 
the  Victorian  age  lasted  through  the  World  War,  and  therefore  we  are  justified 
in  using  this  classification  for  the  classes  of  Bryn  Mawr  from  '89  to  1920." 

Margaret  Thomas  Carey,  of  the  Class  of  1889,  spoke  for  the  early  Victorians. 
She  had  nobly  flung  herself  into  the  breach  at  the  last  moment,  and  by  the  gaiety 
and  humour  of  her  speech  laid  her  audience  in  ruins  of  laughter.  Obviously  the 
connotation  of  the  phrase  "Early  Victorian"  is  not  in  the  case  of  '89  what  it  is 
commonly  supposed  to  be.  We  shall  not  soon  forget  her  spirited  account  of  the  play 
of  Adam  and  Eve,  or  of  the  horrified  firmness  of  the  young  Dean. 

Enlarging  on  her  theme  of  the  Victorians,  Mrs.  Miller  then  went  on  to  say  that 
"to  those  of  us  who  acknowledge  half  a  century,  the  history  of  England  means  the 
last  days  of  Queen  Victoria  and  the  years  of  the  World  War. 

"After  the  World  War  the  face  of  the  globe  not  only  changed,  but  the  ideas, 
customs  and  intentions  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  the  world  over,  seemed  to  take  on  a 
different  hue  due,  I  suppose,  to  the  mingling  of  the  old  colors  with  the  new. 

"That  is  why  classes  which  were  in  college  just  preceding  and  during  the  World 
War  seem  a  part  of  the  past  age  as  well  as  the  van  of  another.  If  the  classes 
from  '89  to  '95  constitute  the  Peels  and  the  Palmerstons  of  Bryn  Mawr;  and  those 
from  '95  to  1905  represent  the  Disraelis  and  the  Gladstones,  then  those  from  1905 
to  1920  portray  the  Baldwins  and  the  MacDonalds  whose  political  youth  began  in  the 
later  nineties  and  whose  climax  is  now  before  us."  It  was  for  these  late  Victorians 
that  Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  '17,  spoke. 

THE  LAST  OF  THE  VICTORIANS 

"Last  of  the  Victorians — melancholy  sound !  The  last  of  the  Fathers,  the  last  of 
the  Goths,  the  last  of  the  Greeks,  the  last  of  the  Knights,  the  last  of  the  Mohicans, 
the  last  of  the  Romans,  the  last  of  the  Tribunes,  the  last  of  the  troubadours, — sole 
survivors  of  departed  days,  final  bursts  of  brilliance  before  sunset. 

"Is  it  possible  that  my  Class  of  1917  was  the  last  of  the  Victorians?  The  thought 
was  a  surprise.  But  hard  thinking  brings  many  hard  convictions  and  I  am  prepared 
to  prove  that  we  were  heroes  making  a  last  stand  for  a  dying  civilization.  For  in 
all  our  College  life  in  1917,  it  seems  to  me  now,  we  were  holding  forts,  blazing  no 

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new  trails.  (If  I  lengthen  a  line  or  stiffen  a  stay  in  my  picture,  put  it  down  to 
the  exigencies  of  the  moment — there  are  many  exigencies  in  an  after-dinner  speech.) 

"We  were  holding  forts.  The  Christian  Association  was  continuing  in  the 
strength  of  the  union  effected  years  before  when  Liberals  and  Conservatives  buried 
hatchets  to  the  tune  of  'Onward  Christian  Soldiers.'  It  was  concerned  not  with 
restatements  of  purpose  and  reorganizations  but  with  getting  work  done,  and  unhesi- 
tatingly took  over  the  support  of  everything  that  offered  from  a  settlement  to  a 
war  village.  We  refused  to  let  morning  chapel  go,  though  Dr.  Barton  spoke  to 
pale  chairs  and  Con  Hall,  chief  mute,  stern  daughter  of  the  voice  of  Duty,  alone 
helped  the  choir  sing  the  hymn.  We  clung  to  the  formal  Sunday  evening  service, 
though  the  faithful  few  must  needs  rush  panting  through  abandoned  halls  to  tumble 
sinners  from  their  study  chairs  lest  the  minister  remember  an  empty  chapel. 

"Our  Self  Government  Association  also  was  inherited  and  its  rules  for  years 
had  stood  unchanged.  Cubebs  alone  were  allowed  on  our  stages,  and  talcum  powder 
pipes.  (That  talcum  powder  pipe!  you  remember  Jinx  inhaled  by  mistake.  'Sub- 
stitutes are  dangerous.')  More  than  one  student  was  sacrificed  to  the  time-honored 
belief  that  Milady  Nicotine  was  no  lady.  In  those  days  there  was  more  than  a 
'cough  in  a  carload' — there  was  an  explosion  in  a  package.  Heated  meetings  rocked 
the  campus  with  their  fury,  and  cries  of  'tyranny,'  'dishonesty,'  'espionage,'  rent  the 
air,  but  unshaken  the  conservatives  held  their  ground  and  staved  off  this  and  every 
other  encroachment  of  the  dreaded  modernism. 

"Our  chaperon  rules  were  stuffy  and  drove  so  many  of  our  Big  Beautifuls  so 
often  beyond  the  twenty-five  mile  limit  that  the  Powers  said  'No  more  Cuts'  and  we 
said  'Death  but  not  the  dishonor  of  a  change'  and  the  Undergraduate  Association 
was  precipitated  into  turmoil.  Who  remembers  the  tense  night  when  President 
Thomas,  arrayed  in  black  lace  and  a  conviction  of  right  on  one  side  and  the  then- 
undergraduate  Helen  Taft,  clad  in  blue  jersey  and  an  equal  conviction  of  right  on 
the  other  side,  met  in  open  combat  on  the  lists  of  Taylor?  Can  you  question  that 
you  looked  upon  a  battle  of  the  giants?  Can  you  doubt  that  great  souls  trod  the 
boards  of  our  late  Victorian  stage?  For  the  most  part  our  Undergraduate  Associa- 
tion was  unruffled.  Our  little  'Big  May  Day'  was  inherited,  likewise  the  rain  that 
fell  upon  it.  In  our  spare  moments  we  sold  shoe  polish  on  commission  for  the 
benefit  of  the  nebulous  Students  Building,  which. was  too  far  away  for  us  to  feel 
"the  poosh  of  the  flesh  or  the  teeckle  and  teengle  of  the  esthetic  expeerience  of  her 
towers." 

"To  that  eminent  Victorian,  Dr.  Arnold,  has  been  ascribed  the  honor  of  being 
the  founder  of  the  worship  of  athletics.  We  were  his  true  children.  Everybody 
played  everything.  We  had  to.  We  made  first  team  if  we  could;  if  not,  second; 
if  not,  third;  if  not,  fourth;  if  not,  fifth.  If  we  hadn't  we  would  have  been  called 
names  far  worse  than  Miss  Applebee's  'cock-roach'  and  'mashed  potato'  by  our  loving 
class-mates.  And  if  we  had  weak  legs  or  a  broken  back  and  couldn't  run,  we  were 
made  to  sit  on  the  bank  and  shriek  and  cheer  our  little  friends  to  victory  against 
their  foes,  hating  even  our  sister  class  with  lusty  hate.  The  most  triumphant 
moment  of  our  life  was  the  moment  on  the  Gym  tower  when  we  untied  another 
class's  banner  and  dropped  it  down  into  their  tear-dimmed  faces  and  strung  ours  up 
in  its  stead.  Varsity  costumes  were  handsome  and  we  were  glad  of  the  honor,  but 
class  games  were  the  real  thing.    The  individual  was  offered  on  the  altar  of  class. 

"So  much  for  our  collective  life.     What  of  our  personal  dress  and  way  of  life? 


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We  were  not  Gibson  Girls.  We  were  not  flappers.  If  we  were  far  from  the  mutton- 
leg  sleeves  and  dust-sweeping  ruffles  of  the  gay  nineties  so  also  were  we  far  from 
bobbed  hair  and  bare  legs.  There  was  no  bobbed  hair,  and  no  bare  legs  except  in 
bed  or  bath.  By  Senior  year  our  skirts  were  shorter  and  we  could  run  for  the 
two-fifteen  without  danger  of  coming  a  cropper,  but  I  am  sure  there  were  some 
trains  missed  during  our  career  because  of  the  elegant  draped  broadcloth  hobble 
skirts  that  flourished  for  a  little  day.  We  may  not  have  had  wasp  waists  but  I 
am  sure  we  wore  whale-bone  garments  except  on  the  hockey  field,  and  I  have  known 
Miss  Applebee  to  poke  an  inquiring  finger  into  one's  ribs  as  if  she  feared  to  find 
them  there.  We  did  not  wear  large  creations  of  feathers  and  flowers  and  lace  upon 
our  heads,  but  hats  were  still  hats  and  we  needed  hat-pins  though  of  an  emasculated 
sort.  Bathing  suits  were  bathing  suits.  Ah,  no!  not  as  in  the  good  old  ruffled 
bound  and  braided  days,  but  the  tail  came  well  down  for  a  skirt  and  there  were  cap 
sleeves  and  the  trousers  reached  to  the  knee.  I  am  quite  sure  we  were  characterized 
by  a  becoming  modesty.  Men  were  not  allowed  at  our  plays.  Sometimes  we  chafed 
at  this.  Lord  Goring  was  heard  to  remark  as  she  admired  her  'figger'  in  Mr. 
Granger's  trousers,  'I  think  they  might  let  fathers  come,  married  fathers,  at  least!' 
We  played  tennis  in  full  skirts  that  reached  an  inch  or  two  above  high  sneakers  and 
when  we  were  done  we  put  on  hand-knit  coat  sweaters  that  had  as  much  fit  as  you 
would  expect  in  the  first  parents  of  the  army  sweaters.  We  played  hockey  in  gored 
skirts  of  corduroy  and  were  proud  when  the  nap  wore  off.  If  any  layer  of  the 
present  hockey  costume  wears  off  it  is  probably  cause  for  consternation  and  a  screen. 
We  ran  our  races  in  full  bloomers,  and  to  throw  the  javelin  put  on  our  skirts  again. 
Hockey  skirts  were  allowed  in  the  dining  rooms  only  on  Saturdays,  bloomers  never. 
I  suppose  our  most  characteristic  costume  was  the  demure  ruffled  shirt  waist  and  the 
pearl-buttoned  skirt  belted  at  the  natural  waist  line,  flaring  at  the  ankles,  the  whole 
set  off  with  the  inevitable  pastel  coat  sweater. 

"I  do  not  think;  our  souls  were  dead  as  to  the  Arts,  but  Mr.  Stokowski  would 
never  have  complimented  the  singing  of  our  glee  club,  and  the  choir  was  paid,  I 
suspect,  more  for  their  trouble  in  regularly  snatching  on  caps  and  gowns  than  for 
the  music  they  made.  We  had  no  art  class  though  we  certainly  had  artists.  Our 
furniture  merited  no  attention  and  received  little.  If  we  did  not  have  artificial 
flowers  in  glass  cases,  or  little  mats  and  antimacassars,  we  did  not  have  maple  day 
beds  and  early  American  chairs.  'Students  Third'  travel  Was  not  in  vogue  and  we 
did  not  know  the  world  at  first  hand.  We  were  still  psychologically  unselfconscious. 
We  knew  of  Freud,  but  Dr.  Leuba  seemed  less  concerned  with  him  than  with  the 
monkey  and  lock  problem.  There  was  no  mental  hygiene  department,  and  we  were 
without  the  healthy  idea  that  our  behavior  might  be  abnormal  and  need  correcting. 
We  were  too  busy  to  think. 

"Perhaps  it  is  in  our  feverish  busy  ways  that  we  see  best  our  relation  to  the 
moderns.  We  were  women  of  affairs,  Florence  Nightingales  of  the  Strachey  pic- 
ture, at  work  from  early  morn  till  late  at  night,  on  Committees  and  Interviews, 
Commissions  and  Investigations,  from  the  library  to  the  Gym,  to  Taylor  to  Radnor 
and  back  again,  to  Philadelphia,  New  York  and  all  points  north,  never  at  rest, 
always  in  a  hurry.  Speed  was  upon  us.  Electric  engines  were  put  on  the  Main 
Line  tracks.  Fords  were  plentiful  though  they  were  still  of  the  all-black  touring 
car  variety  and  had  to  be  cranked  at  intervals.  An  aeroplane  (whose  owner  later 
won  international  fame)   flew  over  us  each  afternoon  to  dip  and  salute  our  Carrie. 


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We  considered  a  greased  pole  from  the  fourth  floor  of  Merion  to  the  dining  room 
door. 

"Perhaps  the  germs  of  all  modern  developments  were  there.  White  stockings 
presaged  the  nude,  knitting  the  return  to  handicrafts,  Libby's  posing  for  Emmy  the 
beginning  of  the  art  class;  the  increasing  squeaks  of  the  maple  organ  in  Taylor,  the 
groans  of  travail  that  gave  birth  to  the  organ  in  Goodhart;  our  grumbling  the  seed 
of  your  reforms ;  our  death  at  orals  your  release  from  death.  Evidences  of  independent 
thinkers  there  were  in  plenty.  Some  bolshevism  raised  its  ugly  head  in  Freshman 
year  when  the  bell  rope  of  Taylor  was  cut  and  the  curfew  did  not  ring  that  night, 
when  Jove  and  Socrates  were  given  red  noses  and  tam-o-shanters.  (This  was  put 
into  an  audacious  song  which  the  censor's  heavy  hand  may  have  prevented  your  hear- 
ing.) Communism  there  must  have  been,  for  President  Thomas  found  it  necessary 
to  institute  an  anti-borrowing  club  to  curb  the  whaMs-mine-is-thine  point  of  view 
that  was  besetting  Rock. 

"But  the  other  germs  of  modernism  you  must  seek  for  yourself — perhaps  with 
a  microscope.  Time  flies  and  I  must  face  the  war  and  the  end  of  an  era  as  abruptly 
as  it  faced  us  in  reality  that  spring  day  in  1917.  Twelve  years  have  passed  and  we 
are  changed.  Time  wrought  a  miracle.  The  last  of  the  Victorians  feel  closer  to  the 
new  age  than  to  their  own.  In,  spite  of  the  laughing  memories  my  class-mates  have 
revived  at  this  reunion,  I  speak  not  in  praise  of  the  past  but  of  the  present. 

'I  play  for  seasons,  not  eternities, 
Says  nature  laughing  on  her  way.    So  must 
All  those  whose  stake  is  nothing  more  than  dust.' 
1917,  last  of  the  Victorians,  gladly  greets  the  true  apostles  of  this  brave  new  day." 

Helen  Fairchild  McKelvey,  '28,  then  took  as  her  topic:  "What  were  the  Vic- 
torians?" Somehow  she  managed  to  bridge  the  gap  between  the  specific  answer  to 
that  question,  and  the  amusing  group  of  parodies  that  one  felt  were  not  the 
answer.  It  does  not  do,  however,  to  follow  a  train  of  thought  too  closely  at 
Alumnae  Supper.  She  read  extracts  from  a  book  by  E.  W.  Seabrook,  whose  ob- 
servations of  native  customs  among  savage  tribes  is  unusually  sympathetic.  The 
book  is  called  "The  Magic  Campus"  and  tells  of  his  visits  among  the  Bryn  Mawrians, 
and  how  he  witnessed  some  of  their  sacred  customs. 

"It  was  through  my  house  girl,  Smith  (all  the  Bryn  Mawrians  have  odd  names, 
usually  derived  from  ancestral  gods, — names  like  Jonesy,  Johnson,  Peters,  etc.)  that 
I  was  allowed  to  take  part  in  the  ceremonial  sacred  bon-fire  rites,  which  are  held 
twice  yearly.  These  are  offerings  to  the  vegetation  deities,  and  are  held  in  Spring 
and  Fall.  One  it  was  my  privilege  to  attend.  Early  in  the  evening  set  aside  for 
the  ceremony,  the  Bryn  Mawrians  began  a  furtive  and  restless  activity.  There  was 
an  undercurrent  of  suppressed  excitement,  a  speculation  as  to  whether  the  god  would 
manifest  himself,  whispers  of  'Do  they  know?'  'Have  they  got  it?'  The  air  was 
electric  with  suspense.  Certain  of  the  youngest  members  of  the  tribe  draped  them- 
selves in  strange  garments  composed  of  bright-coloured  rags.  Then  from  the  distance 
came  the  muffled  beat  of  a  drum,  sounding  its  eerie  note  across  the  dark  village,  or 
campus,  as  it  is  called  in,  their  language.  The  music  grew;  torch-bearers  took  their 
places,  and  then  began  the  wild  chanting  or  singing,  over  and  over,  of  the  hymns 
to  the  gods.  Throwing  themselves  wildly  about  the  torch-bearers,  the  crowd  seemed 
seized  by  a  demon,  which  swept  them  away  in  an  orgy  of  frenzy.     I  understand  that 


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the  Spring  Festival,  at  which  the  bonfire  is  actually  lighted  and  into  which  offerings 
are  thrown — all  first  fruits — is  an  even  more  spectacular  exhibition  of  auto-intoxica- 
tion. Some  of  the  natives  reach  such  a  pitch  that  they  throw  their  very  garments 
to  the  gods  to  be  devoured  by  the  flames."  Thej  account  of  the  very  esoteric  rite  of 
"Eying  the  Sheepskin"  Miss  McKelvey  improvised  then  and  there  and  so  it  is  lost 
to  us. 

Millicent  Carey  and  Eunice  Schenck,  acting  Dean,  and  Dean-elect,  then  spoke 
for  the  college,  giving  the  Alumnae,  by  their  discussion  of  Honors  Work  and  of 
the  new  plan  for  the  Graduate  School,  a  sense  of  being  again  closely  in  touch  with 
what  was  happening  in  the  college. 

Finally  Mrs.  Miller  herself  spoke  for  the  Mid  Victorians,  touching  on  various 
of  the  characteristics  of  the  period: 

"Ours  was  a  parental  age,  for  fathers  and  mothers  kept  in  such  close  touch 
with  the  college  that  once,  when  a  charming  graduate  from  England  declared  that 
young  people  of  sixteen  should  be  given  latch  keys,  so  shocked  were  the  parents  that 
a  few  days  later  Miss  Thomas  had  to  explain  in  chapel  that  latch  key  had  merely 
been  used  in  an  allegorical  sense. 

"Ours  was  a  misunderstood  age  for  though  it  was  all  right  for  Merion,  Radnor 
and  Pembroke  to  have  mistresses  but  when  Rockefeller  acquired  one,  the  name  was 
changed  to  Warden. 

"When  the  Boston  Public  Library  was  opened,  the  Knights  of  the  Holy  Grail 
descended  on  Bryn  Mawr  in  great  numbers." 

She  closed  with  a  sincere  tribute  to  President  Park,  whom  she  claimed  proudly 
as  the  greatest  Mid-Victorian.  "Thou  Gracious  Inspiration"  was  sung  with  more 
vigor  than  usual,  and  a  very  pleasant  and  amusing  supper  was  at  an  end. 


HONORARY  DEGREE  CONFERRED  ON  MISS  PARK 

In  recognition  of  "the  fine  tact  and  educational  wisdom"  with  which  she  has 
"carried  forward  in  new  and  progressive  ways  the  work  of  a  great  college,"  Swarth- 
more  conferred  on  President  Park  this  June,  at  their  Commencement,  the  Degree 
of  Doctor  of  Laws. 


ANNOUNCEMENT 

As  a  result  of  the  ballots  cast,  Virginia  Kneeland  Frantz,  1918,  (Mrs.  Angus 
MacDcnald  Frantz)  of  New  York  City,  has  been  nominated  to  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  College  as  an  Alumnae  Director.  Mrs.  Frantz  will  take  the  place  of  Ruth 
Furness  Porter,  1896,  (Mrs.  James  F.  Porter)  of  Chicago,  and  will  serve  until  1934. 


NOTICE 


The  plans  for  the  Garden  at  Wyndham  are  progressing,  and  will  probably  be 
given  more  in  detail  in  one  of  the  Fall  numbers  of  the  Bulletin.  A  cutting  garden 
for  the  wardens,  so  that  they  may  have  Spring  and  Fall  flowers  to  decorate  the 
Halls,  is  also  being  established. 


ALUMNAE  ATHLETICS 

The  alumnae  athletic  activities  may  be  said  to  have  begun  with  the  Parade 
which  started  from  Pembroke  Arch  some  time  after  ten  on  Monday  morning,  June 
third.  When  the  familiar  strains  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  band  were  heard  about  9.45, 
a  commotion  equal  to  that  of  May  Day  itself  arose  in  most  of  the  reunion  head- 
quarters. Costumes  were  constructed,  torn  asunder,  and  rehabilitated  in  the  twinkling 
of  an  eye.  The  Class  of  1917  discarded  those  already  prepared  for  them,  and 
hastily  collected  a  few  ideas,  plus  red  sashes  and  daggers,  and  breathlessly  joined  the 
procession  as  Vandals.  The  Class  of  1928  were  obliged  to  grab  their  costumes 
from  the  delivery  truck,  and  then  donned  them  in  the  road  to  the  edification  of  all 
by-standers. 

All  these  well-meant  efforts  were  in  vain,  however,  because  no  one  else  was  in 
the  running  after  the  judges  had  taken  one  look  at  '97's  red  curls  and  red-checked 
gingham  smocks.  The  prize  was  awarded  to  them,  with  no  dissenting  voice,  when 
all  gathered  in  the  gymnasium  after  the  Parade.  There  many  hoary  songs  enter- 
.  tained  both  the  alumnae  and  the  undergraduates,  and  after  the  athletic  awards  for 
the  past  year  had  been  made  by  Helen  Taylor,  1930,  President  of  the  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation, the  annual  Alumnae- Varsity  Basketball  game  was  played.  This  resulted  in 
a  victory  for  the  Varsity  by  the  score  of  38  to  10.  The  game  was  fast  and  interesting 
to  watch.  Those  playing  on  the  Alumnae  team  were  Helen  Alexander,  1918;  Eliza- 
beth Lanier  Boiling,  1919;  Jeannette  Peabody  Cannon,  1919;  Janet  Seeley,  1927; 
Alice  Bruere,  1928;  and  Jean  Huddleston,  1928. 

Monday  afternoon  the  Varsity  again  beat  the  Alumnae,  this  time  at  Water 
Polo,  by  the  very  respectable  score  of  7  to  4.  The  Alumnae  team  consisted  of  Janet 
Seeley,  1927,  and  of  Helen  Tuttle,  Catherine  Field  Cherry,  Mary  Gaillard,  Alice 
Bruere,  and  Jean  Huddleston,  all  of  1928. 

On  Tuesday  morning  the  Varsity  triumphed  over  the  Alumnae  at  tennis  by 
four  matches  to  one.  Millicent  Carey,  1920,  won  her  match  in  singles,  but  lost  in 
doubles  when  playing  with  Mary  Gardiner,  1918.  Jean  Clark  Fouilhoux,  1899, 
Susan  Follansbee  Hibbard,  1897,  and  Bertha  Greenough,  1917,  were  all  defeated 
by  members  of  the  Varsity  team. 

Although  victory  steadfastly  eluded  the  alumnae  athletes,  they  seemed  to  enjoy 
themselves,  and  vastly  diverted  their  friends  on  the  sidelines  by  their  agile  antics. 
As  usual,  an  added  note  of  hilarity  was  added  by  the  appearance  of  the  traditional 
alumnae  basketball  costumes,  with  their  chaste  linen  long  gored  skirts  and  very  full 
bloomers.  Janet  Seeley,  as  Manager  of  Games,  was  indefatigable  both  as  an  executive 
and  as  a  participant  in  alumnae  athletics. 


NOTICE 


At  the  last  class  meeting  held  in  Denbigh  on  June  3rd,  the  following  perma- 
nent class  officers  were  elected:  Rosamond  Cross,  President;  Katharine  Collins, 
Secretary;  Elizabeth  Ufford,  Treasurer.  Ruth  Biddle  was  appointed  as  Class 
Collector.  Nancy  Woodward  was  chosen  to  represent  the  Class  at  the  meeting  of 
the  Alumnae  Council  in  New  York  in  November.  Elizabeth  H.  Linn,  1357  E.  56th 
Street,  Chicago,  111.,  is  Class  Editor. 

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CLASS  NOTES 


Class  Editor:  Sophia  Weygandt  Harris. 

The  first  class  of  Bryn  Mawr  College, 
through  the  courtesy  of  its  one-time 
Dean,  had  luncheon  on  the  porch  of  the 
Deanery,  Tuesday,  June  4th,  to  celebrate 
its  fortieth  anniversary. 

Fourteen  of  the  class  came  to  the  re- 
union— Catharine  Bean  Cox,  on  her  way 
from  Europe  to  her  home  in  Honolulu; 
Emily  Balch  and  Alice  Anthony;  Mary 
Blanchard,  Elizabeth  Blanchard  Beech, 
Margaret  Thomas  Carey,  and  Zoe  Carey 
Thomas,  in  addition  to  those  that  live 
near  Bryn  Mawr,  made  up  the  number. 
The  nearby  ones  were:  Anna  Rhoads 
Ladd,  Martha  Thomas,  Sophia  Weygandt 
Harris,  Julia  Cope  Collins,  Caroline  Law- 
rence, Leah  Goff  Johnson,  and  Gertrude 
Allinson  Taylor. 

It  was  an  interesting  and  satisfactory 
occasion  and  those  there  decided  the  only 
improvement  would  have  been  the  pres- 
ence of  the  absent  members  of  the  class 
and  the  presence  of  their  old  teachers. 

Each  and  every  one  was  so  glad  to  see 
the  others,  that  it  was  unanimously  de- 
cided to  meet  again  in  three,  and  in  four 
years.  This  is  recorded  here  in  the  hope 
that  some  of  the  absent  '89ers  may  read 
and  plan  to  come  back  to  College  on  those 
dates.  Supper  together  at  a  tea  room, 
the  distance  of  a  pleasant  drive  ended  a 
day,  called  by  all  "good." 

1896 
REUNION  OF  CLASS  OF  '96 
Class  Editor:  Mary  Jewett, 
Pleasantville,  N.  Y. 

From  East,  West,  North  and  South, 
thirty-three  members  of  the  Class  of  '96 
met  in  the  hollow  back  of  Radnor  on  the 
cool  green  afternoon  of  June  1st.  Besides 
the  drama  and  excitement  of  meeting  each 
other,  we  enjoyed  keenly  seeing  photo- 
graphs of  the  class's  family  life,  pictures 
of  houses  and  husbands,  children  and 
grandchildren. 

In  the  evening  we  sat  in  Elizabeth 
Kirkbride's  and  Emma  Linburg  Tobin's 
room  and  had  some  fascinating  glimpses 
of  Abba  Dimon's  travels  in  Africa,  of 
Elsa  Bowman's  night  in  a  tent  within 
stone's  throw  of  hyenas  and  lions,  of 
Lydia  Boring's  remarkable  journey 
through  Siberia,  of  a  wonderful  and  pic- 
turesque Franco-American  story  told  to 
Ruth  Furness  Porter  at  El  Golea,  of  Effie 
Whittredge's  international  adventures 
with  her  nephew  in  Italy,  of  Elizabeth 


Hopkins  Johnson's  flight  over  the  Grand 
Canyon  of  the  Colorado,  of  Anna  Scatter- 
good  Hoag's  call  from  Miss  M.  Carey 
Thomas  at  her  camp  near  the  Pyramids, 
and  of  Pauline  Goldmark's  trip  to  Vienna, 
accompanied  by  her  sister  Josephine,  to 
study  archives  connected  with  her  father 
and  the  revolution  of  '48. 

Edith  Wyatt  described  the  adventures 
of  Gilbert  Imlay,  the  author  of  the  first 
American  novel,  about  whom  she  has 
written  an  article  soon  to  appear  in  the 
Atlantic. 

The  domestic  tales  of  our  classmates 
were  so  exciting  that  only  a  few  of  us 
slept  well  that  night.  We  were  further 
stimulated  on  the  next  morning  by  driving 
over  the  Conestoga  Road — the  old  west- 
ward, pioneer  road — to  Cora  Baird 
Jeanes'  stone  house  with  its  setting  of 
stone-walled  garden  of  iris,  lavender,  and 
"Pink  Radiance"  and  Claude  de  Pernet 
roses,  where  we  found  Helen  Haines 
Greening  and  Mary  Brown  Waite,  and 
lunched  and  gossiped  and  applauded  our 
President's  feat  of  standing  on  her 
head  and  saw  Cora's  beautiful  grand- 
children. 

Later  we  drove  on  to  the  historic  house 
of  Mary  Boude  Woolman,  the  headquar- 
ters of  General  du  Portail,  the  engineer 
of  the  Valley  Forge  encampment,  a  house 
built  in  1732  with  the  huge  fireplaces, 
beamed  ceiling  and  exquisitely  grooved 
woodwork,  and  all  the  charm  and  romance 
of  the  great  American  period  this  lovely 
old  place  seems  to  express.  Mary  enter- 
tained us  by  an  outdoor  supper  at  her 
fragrant  pine-wood  cabin  on  the  wooded 
slope  of  Valley  Creek,  and  we  drove  back 
through  the  twilight  to  the  baccalaureate 
address  in  wonderful  Goodhart  Hall. 

In  these  first  two  days,  too,  some  of  us 
heard  the  interesting  story  of  Harriet 
Brownell's  adventures  at  the  Pyramids 
and  saw  the  fascinating  importations 
Leonie  Gilmour  has  brought  from  Japan, 
and  met  three  husbands,  Mr.  Henry  Wool- 
man,  Mr.  Rufus  Jones,  and  Mr.  Gerard 
Swope;  Rebecca  Mattson's  daughter,  a 
student  at  Bryn  Mawr;  Marian  White- 
head's son,  Clarissa  Smith  Dey's  Louise, 
and  the  daughter  and  two  sons  of  Mary 
Hill  Swope. 

Monday's  luncheon  with  '97,  '98,  '99 
and  '00  on  the  sunny  slope  of  Wyndham's 
lawn  was  a  new  and  very  interesting  way 
of  meeting  and  greeting  the  classes  we 
knew  best  in  college.  There  was  no  for- 
mality, but  groups  of  friends  gathered 
about   the   small   tables   and   were    aug- 


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merited  from  time  to  time  by  fresh  ar- 
rivals, or  friends  wandered  about  seeking 
other  friends. 

Reluctantly  leaving  this  beautiful  addi- 
tion to  the  college  of  our  days,  12  of  us 
motored  to  Hilda  Justice's  new  home  in 
Chestnut  Hill,  driving  for  miles  along  the 
cool  and  wooded  Wissahickon  to  find  the 
house  and  terraced  garden  looking  as  if 
it  had  stood  for  years  in  its  beautiful  set- 
ting, so  hard  had  loving  hands  worked  to 
its  completion. 

Evening  found  us  with  depleted  num- 
bers seated  in  the  gymnasium  to  listen  to 
Emma  Guffey  Miller  as  toastmaster  lead 
our  thoughts  and  laughter  among  the 
memories  of  the  "Victorian  Days"  of 
Bryn  Mawr.  Some  of  us  stayed  on  for 
the  Garden  Party  and  Commencement, 
but  our  real  reunion  was  over  and  thirty- 
eight  had  been  with  us  at  some  time  or 
other.  They  were  Anna  Green  Annan, 
Lydia  Boring,  Elsa  Bowman,  Harriet 
Brownell,  Katherine  Cook,  Rebecca  Matt- 
son  Darlington,  Clarissa  Smith  Dey, 
Abba  Dimon,  Clara  Farr,  Leonie  Gilmour, 
Pauline  Goldmark,  Marian  Whitehead 
Grafton,  Gertrude  Heritage  Green,  Helen 
Haines  Greening,  Anna  Scattergood 
Hoag,  Mary  Hopkins,  Cora  Baird  Jeanes, 
Mary  Jewett,  Elizabeth  Hopkins  Johnson, 
Elizabeth  Cadbury  Jones,  Hilda  Justice, 
Florence  King,  Georgiana  King,  Eliza- 
beth Kirkbride,  Charlotte  McLean,  Mary 
Mendinhall  Mullin,  Tirzah  Nichols,  Edith 
Peters,  Ruth  Furness  Porter,  Hannah 
Cadbury  Pyle,  Mary  Hill  Swope,  Emma 
Linburg  Tobin,  Mary  Brown  Waite, 
Sophie  Reynolds  Wakeman,  Grace  Bald- 
win White,  Effie  Whittredge,  Mary  Boude 
Woolman  and  Edith  Wyatt. 

This  is  not  half  of  what  we  heard,  saw 
and  felt.  This  record  cannot  give  the 
shadows  of  our  meeting  after  thirty-three 
years  and  this  is  not  the  place  for  men- 
tioning our  losses — though  those  who 
were  absent  were  part  of  the  deeper  mem- 
ories and  unspoken  poetry  of  our  days 
together — days  we  shall  always  remem- 
ber. 

Among  the  messages  from  absent  mem- 
bers was  a  cablegram  from  Masa  Dogura 
Uchida — "Sorry  cannot  attend  '96  Re- 
union.   Love  to  all.    Masa." 

1897 
Class  Editor:  Alice  Cilley  Weist 
(Mrs.  Harry  H.  Weist), 
174  East  71st  Street,  New  York  City. 
Corinna  Putnam  Smith  was  the  speaker 
at  a  meeting  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  Club  of 
Boston  on  the  evening  of  Monday,  April 
22nd,  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Bel- 
knap, of  112  Beacon  Street.   Susan  Walk- 


er FitzGerald,  '93,  President  of  the  club, 
introduced  Cron,  who  gave  a  vivid  and 
illuminating  talk  on  "The  Egypt  of  To- 
day," listened  to  by  a  goodly  number  of 
'97  and  others. 

Elizabeth  Higginson  Jackson  is  making- 
six  sets  of  summer  plans  (practically)  to 
take  care  of  her  four  delightful  children, 
her  husband,  and  herself,  though  she  will 
undoubtedly  go  wherever  Jim,  her  young- 
est, goes. 

Beth  Caldwell  Fountain  says  she  enjoys 
being  on  the  board  of  the  Henry  Street 
Settlement,  because  she  sees  Mary  Hill 
Swope,  '96,  thus. 

Caroline  Gait  is  very  important  in 
Archeological  circles,  being  on  the  Com- 
mittee of  Management  of  the  Classical 
School    (American)    at   Athens. 

Mary  Campbell's  father  has  been  very 
ill,  but  is  much  better,  over  which  every 
one  rejoices. 

Clara  Vail  Brooks  took  her  husband 
and  three  children  to  Arizona  again  this 
spring.  She  has  been  enlarging  her  Ards- 
ley  house. 

Reunion  will  be  reported  by  some  one 
who  can  stay  through  the  whole  affair. 

REUNION 

These  reunions  are  an  extraordinary 
experience,  aren't  they?  To  be  permitted 
to  sit  and  recall  the  most  vivid  days  of 
one's  life  with  the  very  people  who  still 
most  enjoy  those  same  memories  is  ex- 
hilarating. With  '96  on  one  side  and  '98 
on  the  other,  '97  was  surrounded  by 
friendly  faces.  The  plan  of  having  sev- 
eral classes  hold  reunions  at  the  same  time 
is  a  delightful  success. 

As  'you  know  very  well,  not  one  of  us 
would  think  of  doing  a  thing  without  con- 
sulting Maysie,  and  therefore  led  by  our 
beloved  President  we  went  from  one  fes- 
tivity to  another.  The  supper  at  Wynd- 
ham  sent  us  back  to  Freshman  year. 
Maysie  and  Clara  Brooks — Mary  Fay  and 
Beth  Angel  gave  the  chorus  of  "Tea ! 
Tea  !  All  the  students  say — Won't  you 
drink  it  up,  dear !" 

One  could  taste  the  potted  ham  and 
water  crackers  of  our  first  parties — 
where,  so  Maysie  remarked — she  enter- 
tained 47  people  for  $1.50.  Many  thanks 
to  Freddy  and  Sue  Blake  for  that  pleas- 
ant meal.  Frances  Hand  was  cheered 
when  Maysie  said  that  Frances  had  col- 
lected $1300  from  17  people  and  expected 
some  money  still. 

Later  on  at  Gertrude  Ely's,  Sue  Hib- 
bard  told  us  about  the  Wyndham  Garden, 
which  is  to  be  beautiful  in  memory  of 
Katrina.    Sue   is   Treasurer   and   is   per- 


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mitting  us  all  to  give  something — however 
little — towards  this  fund. 

The  next  day  we  lunched  at  the  Old 
Forge  Inn — another  inspiration  of  Fred- 
dy's, and  through  Mary  Converse  saw  the 
Old  Anthony  Wayne  House  on  the  way 
home. 

All  the  time  our  excitement  and  pleas- 
ure mounted  until  the  climax  came  on 
Monday  morning,  and  out  of  Pembroke 
West  we  marched  in  red  and  white 
checked  dusters,  with  red  berets  on  our 
heads,  and  red  curls  bobbing  over  our 
ears.  It  was  then  that  '97  lost  its  head 
and  returned  to  its  cheerful  and  idiotic 
youth,  for  we  just  couldn't  get  over  those 
checks  and  marched  behind  the  '97  ban- 
ner singing  lustily,  as  we  came  along  the 
private  road.  (O,  you  people  who  took 
the  photographs,  please  don't  forget  to 
let  us  see  them ! 

In  all  this  warm  current  of  enthusiasm 
we  hardly  did  more  than  expand,  but  I 
did  assemble  a  few  facts  with  the  aid  of 
Margaret  Nichols  Smith.  In  the  first 
place  we  nearly  have  1J/2  children  apiece, 
since  '97  has  54 — to  carry  on.  And  we  all 
seem  to  have  some  interesting  enterprise 
on  hand.  Anna  Pennypacker  has  studied 
nursing  and  so  has  Ida  Gifford.  Annie 
Thomas  is  a  physician  of  the  Women's 
Medical  College.  Clara  Landsberg  is  go- 
ing to  the  International  Peace  Conference 
at  Prague.  Corinna  is  organizing  wom- 
en's clubs  in  every  state  of  the  Union  to 
help  the  Indians.  Margaret  Nichols  Smith 
is  Adviser  of  Mothers'  Clubs  in  the 
Oranges.  Sue  Hibbard  has  been  one  of 
the  Regional  Directors  of  the  League  of 
Women  Voters.  Cornelia  Greene  King  is 
going  to  Spain,  and  Alice  Weist  to  Italy. 
Anne  Lawther  has  just  had  eight  weeks 
in  Europe  and  is  still  lame  from  an  acci- 
dent which  occurred  in  England.  We  all 
know  that  Frances  Hand  is  a  Trustee  of 
the  Brearley,  a  Director  at  Bryn  Mawr 
and  has  a  child  graduating  this  year  at 
Bryn  Mawr.  Freddy  is  retiring  as  a  war- 
den. She  has  welcomed  us  back  so  often 
she  will  be  greatly  missed.  Bertha  Rem- 
baugh  is  practicing  law.  As  for  Bessie — 
I  can't  suggest  her  career  better  than  to 
tell  you  that  when  Maysie  thought  the 
P.  W.  bath  tub  was  grimy  one  morning, 
Bessie  offered  the  College  a  new  one  that 
same  afternoon. 

It  is  refreshing  even  to  think  of  all  the 
nice  things  '97  is  doing. 

So  begin  to  get  ready  for  the  1933 
Reunion,  '97.  It  can't  be  better  than  this 
one,  but  it  may  be  as  satisfactory  if  we 
all  get  together  again. 

Marion  Taber. 


Written  on  the  occasion  of  our  thirty- 
second  reunion  at  Wyndham. 

The  golden  sunlight  shining  on  the  grass, 
A  sunlit  vista  bound  by  memories 
That  flit  as  wind-rocked  shadows  pass 
From  tree  to  tree, 
Or  dance  with  sunbeams  sifted  through 

the  leaves 
Among  the  gentle  foldings  of  the  hills. 
More  rich  we  come  for  this  one  treasured 

thought, 
A  golden  vista  crowned  by  vision 
Of  miracles  the  years  have  wrought 
From  Spring  to  Spring 
In   stone    and   tree   and   in    each   others' 

minds 
Along  the  climbing  of  the  hills  of  time. 
S.  A.  B. 


Class  Editor:  Edith  Schoff  Boericke 
(Mrs.  John  T.  Boericke), 
Merion  Station,  Pa. 

Our  31st  Reunion  is  past,  but  what  a 
wonderful  success  it  was  under  the  capa- 
ble and  delightful  management  of  Rebec- 
ca Foulke  Cregar.  Everything  went  so 
smoothly,  with  plans  carried  out  perfectly, 
even  to  the  cars  to  carry  us  from  Bryn 
Mawr  to  Radnor,  to  Merion,  and  to  Hav- 
erford,  and  always  in  plenty  of  time,  and 
without  a  thought  on  the  part  of  the 
guests  from  a  distance.  Twenty-five  were 
present  out  of  our  class  of  49  on  Satur- 
day night  at  the  very  delightful  dinner 
that  Marion  Park  gave  us  at  her  home. 
After  the  delectable  feast  at  little  tables 
on  the  terrace,  we  went  inside  for  a  .roll 
call,  where  each  told  something  of  herself 
or  of  one  not  present.  When  Marion's 
name  was  read,  a  beautiful  pigskin  zipper 
bag  full  of  peonies  was  presented  to  her 
as  a  gift  from  the  class,  and  she  made  a 
most  gracious  speech  of  thanks.  Then 
followed  pictures  of  us  taken  at  various 
times  during  the  last  thirty-one  years,  and 
they  were  greeted  with  much  laughter. 

Sunday  noon  found  us  gathered  at  Re- 
becca Foulke  Cregar's  "Happy  Hill"  in 
Radnor  for  an  outdoor  picnic,  but  what  a 
glorified  picnic !  There  were  two  built-up 
fireplaces  with  iron  bars  built  in  for  broil- 
ing chops.  Huge  kettles  of  soup  and  peas 
and  potatoes  were  being  kept  warm  on 
them.  A  juicy  boiled  ham  invited  some 
one  to  slice  it,  and  ice  cream  and  coffee 
followed.  The  most  unusual  part  was 
having  husbands  and  children  present  to 
enjoy    it    with    us — nine    husbands,    nine 


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children,  and  one  grandchild  of  Anna 
Dean  Wilbur,  a  fascinating  little  fair- 
haired  girl  of  two. 

Several  went  to  the  baccalaureate  ser- 
mon that  evening. 

Monday  was  still  a  busier  day,  begin- 
ning witth  the  procession  where  '98 
dressed  in  dark  blue  smocks  and  carried 
long  paint  brushes  and  palettes  bearing 
the  label,  "President  Park's  Portrait 
Painters."  This  chalked  label  led  a  re- 
porter to  call  us  "demure  'little  girls'  in 
blue  smocks  carrying  slates."  We  joined 
'96,  '97,  '99  and  1900  for  a  very  enjoyable 
luncheon  on  the  grass  in  front  of  Wynd- 
ham,  where  we  saw  many  old  friends  and 
recognized  some  of  them  immediately. 
Then  we  were  taken  in  several  cars  to 
Edith  Schofr  Boericke's  rose  garden  and 
to  see  her  nieces  from  Japan  give  two 
charming  Japanese  dances  in  costume. 
Back  to  Bryn  Mawr  again  for  the  Alum- 
nae Banquet  that  evening.  Tuesday 
Esther  Willits  Thomas  had  a  lovely  lunch- 
eon for  us,  and  Wednesday  those  who 
were  still  here  went  to  Commencement. 
All  who  came  enjoyed  it  thoroughly. 

Those  present  were:  Isabel  Andrews, 
Mary  Bright,  Frances  Brooks  Acker- 
mann,  Jennie  Browne,  Grace  Clark 
Wright,  Anna  Dean  Wilbur,  Rebecca 
Foulke  Cregar,  Anna  Fry,  Alice  Gannett, 
Mary  Githens,  Josephine  Goldmark,  Anna 
Haas,  Blanche  Harnish  Stein,  Elizabeth 
Holstein  Buckingham,  Elizabeth  Nields 
Bancroft,  Ullericka  Oberge,  Marion  Park, 
Sarah  Ridgway  Bruce,  Edith  Schoff 
Boericke,  Mary  Sheppard,  Martha  Tracy, 
Louise  Warren,  Esther  Willits  Thomas, 
Helen  Williams  Woodall,   Bertha  Wood. 

At  the  Alumnae  Banquet  Elizabeth 
Nields  Bancroft  announced  that  we  had 
sufficient  money  collected  or  promised,  to 
have  Marion  Park's  portrait  painted  as 
soon  as  she  is  ready.  This  will  be  pre- 
sented to  Bryn  Mawr  College  from  the 
Class  of  1898. 

1899 
Class  Editor:  Ellen  P.  Kilpatrick, 

1027  St.  Paul  Street,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Dear  '99: 

It  is  hard  for  a  new  and  untried  Class 
Editor  to  have  for  her  first  assignment 
the  writing  up  of  a  wonderful  reunion. 
We  should  like  to  make  all  the  stay-at- 
homes  green  with  envy — they  would  be 
if  they  knew  what  a  joyous  occasion  our 
thirtieth  reunion  was  and  would  deter- 
mine that,  come  what  might,  they  would 
.  never  miss  another.  The  weather  was 
heavenly  and  the  campus  was  never 
lovelier.     Besides  twenty-six  of  our  own 


class  there  were  goodly  numbers  of  '96, 
'97,  '98  and  '00.  We  saw  people  we  had 
not  seen  for  twenty  or  thirty  years  and, 
after  the  first  shock  of  seeing  white  hair 
instead  of  a  more  youthful  color,  we 
found  that  that  was  the  only  change; 
otherwise  they  were  the  same. 

It  was  a  bitter  blow  to  everyone  not 
to  be  able  to  carry  out  the  grand  plan 
of  the  committee.  The  clothes  of  the 
Gay  Nineties  were  all  ready  to  be  worn 
and  the  carriages  had  all  been  engaged, 
but  not  a  horse  could  be  found  to  draw 
them.  Polo  ponies  there  were  in  plenty 
and  riding  horses,  but  driving  horses  ap- 
parently do  not  exist  any  more.  The  de- 
cision was  not  made  until  the  very  last 
minute,  and  then  our  Class  Costumer, 
Callie  Lewis,  in  response  to  a  telegram, 
with  all  the  wholesale  houses  in  New 
York  closed  for  Decoration  Day,  man- 
aged to  get  Japanese  parasols  and  fans 
for  us  which  arrived  at  our  headquarters 
on  Sunday  afternoon,  exactly  forty-eight 
hours  after  she  got  the  telegram.  We 
did  not  make  our  usual  sensation  in  the 
Alumnae  Parade  Monday  morning,  but 
at  least  we  had  something  resembling  a 
costume  for  the  occasion. 

You  all  know  what  a  perfect  program 
had  been  planned  by  our  Reunion  Com- 
mittee, consisting  of  Emma  Miller,  May 
Sax,  Gertrude  Ely,  Callie  Lewis  and 
Elsie  Andrews,  so  all  we  need  say  is  that 
everything  moved  without  a  hitch.  The 
luncheon  on  the  lawn  back  of  Wyndham 
with  the  four  other  classes  of  our  day 
and  generation  was  a  most  lovely  party. 
So  was  the  trip  to  the  new  Art  Museum 
and  the  tea  at  May  Sax's,  where  we  had 
the  great  pleasure  of  seeing  her  mother 
and  her  charming  children,  Jimmie,  and 
little  five-year-old  Mary. 

At  the  Alumnae  Supper  on  Monday 
evening  our  own  Guffey  covered  herself 
with  glory  as  Toastmaster. 

Tuesday  morning  we  had  our  regular 
reunion  class  meeting,  presided  over  by 
Callie  as  Vice-President.  Mollie  Denni- 
son  could  not  come  at  the  last  minute  on 
account  of  the  serious  illness  of  our 
Class  Baby  and  we  had  been  most  anxious 
until  that  morning  when  Mollie  wired 
that  she  seemed  to  be  out  of  danger  and 
on  the  road  to  recovery,  so  we  all  re- 
joiced with  her  at  the  good  news.  May 
Sax  reported  that  the  money  for  the 
curtain,  our  gift  to  Goodhart  Hall,  had 
all  been  subscribed,  with  enough  addi- 
tional to  pay  the  College  interest  on  the 
money  advanced  to  pay  the  bill. 

The  meeting  adjourned  for  luncheon  on 
the  veranda  of  the  College  Inn.  We  had 
hoped  to  have  Joy  Dickerman  and  Rose- 


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mary  Morrison  as  our  guests  of  honor  but 
they  could  not  come.  Emma  read  letters 
from  some  of  our  absent  members,  all  of 
whom  had  good  alibis.  There  were  ap- 
propriate (?)  gifts  for  everyone,  pre- 
sented with  a  few  well-chosen  words  by 
Callie  Lewis. 

Then  we  realised  that  though  our 
hearts  were  young  and  our  spirits  gay, 
our  bodies  were  a  bit  weary  and  most  of 
the  class  assumed  a  more  or  less  hori- 
zontal position  until  time  to  dress  for  the 
Garden  Party.  It  was  a  lovely  Garden 
Party  and  we  all  enjoyed  it,  but  the  best 
was  still  to  come  and  that  was  our  class 
dinner  as  Gertrude  Ely's  guests  in  her 
charming  walled  garden.  Gertrude  re- 
ceived us  in  a  blue  "Liberty"  creation  of 
the  early  nineteen  hundreds,  with  a  short 
waist  and  a  long  trailing  skirt,  a  thing  of 
beauty  in  itself  and  most  becoming.  Af- 
ter a  delicious  dinner  there  were  charades 
on  names  of  college  celebrities.  Those 
who  took  part  and  who  showed  marked 
histrionic  ability  were  G.  Ely,  E.  GufTey, 
D.  Fronheiser,  E.  Hooper,  M.  Palmer, 
Aurie  Thayer,  C.  Nichols,  M.  Towle  and 
M.  Hoyt.  The  class  editor  "also  ran." 
We  could  hardly  tear  ourselves  away,  but 
finally  had  pity  on  our  hostess  and  left 
after  a  wonderful  party  which  was  a  fit- 
ting close  to  a  wonderful  reunion. 

Those  who  were  back  were:  GufTey, 
Schoneman,  Ely,  Andrews,  C.  Brown, 
Boyer,  Clarke,  Davis,  Fronheiser,  Hall, 
Hooper,  Hoyt,  Jeffers,  Kilpatrick,  Lever- 
ing, Middendorf,  Nichols,  Palmer,  Peck- 
ham,  Ream,  Scudder,  Sipe,  Stirling,  Thay- 
er, Towle  and  Walker. 

Eighteen  others  had  excellent  reasons 
for  not  being  back.  What  is  the  matter 
with  the  remaining  sixteen? 


1900 

Class  Editor:  Helen  MacCoy, 
Haverford,  Pa. 
The  Class  of  1900  had  a  most  success- 
ful Reunion.  There  were  present:  Edna 
Floersheim  Bamberger,  Reita  Levering 
Brown,  Daisy  Browne,  Grace  Campbell 
Babson,  Frances  Ruth  Crawford,  Doro- 
thea Farquhar  Cross,  Evelyn  Hills  Dav- 
enport, Susan  Dewees,  Helena  Emerson, 
Edith  Fell,  Elise  Dean  Findley,  Louise 
Congdon  Francis,  Ellen  Baltz  Fultz,  Julia 
Streeter  Gardner,  Lois  Farnham  Horn, 
Aletta  Van  Reypen  KorfT,  Mary  Kilpat- 
rick, Cornelia  Halsey  Kellogg,  Marie  Si- 
chel  Linburn,  Helen  MacCoy,  Marian 
Hickman  Quattrone,  R  e  n  e  e  Mitchell 
Righter,  Ruth  Rockwopd,  Myra  Frank 
Rosenau,   Margaretta  Morris   Scott,  Amy 


Sharplcss,  Clara  Seymour  St.  John,  Jessie 
Tatlock,  Edith  Wright. 

The  Joint  Luncheon  was  held  on  the 
porch  and  lawn  of  Wyndham,  with  '96, 
'97,  '98  and  '99  on  Monday,  June  3rd. 
The  Class  had  a  tea  that  afternoon  just 
for  themselves  and  Marion  Parris  Smith, 
who  talked  to  them  about  the  changes  in 
college  since  their  era.  This  was  a  par- 
ticularly interesting  and  delightful  occa- 
sion and  they  are  very  grateful  for  the 
time  and  kindness  given  them  by  Marion 
Smith.  On  Tuesday  was  held  a  class  pic- 
nic, where  Grace  Babson  told  about  her 
apple  orchards  and.  Ruth  Rockwood  about 
her  library  work,  its  growth  and  scope; 
on  that  night  was  the  class  dinner  in 
Wyndham  with  toasts  by  Dorothea  Cross, 
Myra  Rosenau  and  Marie  Sichel.  After 
the  dinner  a  play  was  given  by  Nina 
Kellogg,  Ellen  Baltz,  Renee  Mitchell, 
Mary  Kilpatrick  and  Helen  MacCoy 
called  "The  Bathroom  Door."  The  audi- 
ence sat  on  the  stairs  and  was  most  en- 
thusiastic. The  weather  was  sunny  and 
cool  all  the  time  and  all  the  omens  were 
propitious. 

1904 

Class  Editor:  Emma  Q.  Thompson, 
340  S.  42nd  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

The  most  interesting  news  concerns  our 
"Class  Baby,"  Frances  Elizabeth  Fry, 
who  graduated  with  the  Class  of  '29  re- 
ceiving her  degree  "Magna  Cum  Laude" 
and  a  Fellowship  in  History.  She  sailed 
June  8th,  on  .the  Vollendam  for  England, 
where  she  will  spend  the  summer  with  her 
father's  sister.  She  will  use  the  Fellow- 
ship next  winter  studying  at-  a  Foreign 
University.  Betty  was  delighted  with  the 
watch  that  we,  the  class,  gave  her  as  a 
garduation  present.  It  is  a  tiny  Swiss 
watch  and  I  am  sure  you  would  all  think 
it  as  pretty  and  useful  as  the  Committee 
did. 

Patty  gave  a  tea  at  the  College  Club 
for  Alice  Boring  in  May,  a  number  of  the 
Philadelphia  members  of  '04  enjoyed  the 
afternoon  together.  At  present  Leslie 
Clark  is  visiting  Patty. 

Agnes  Gillinder  Carson  could  not  come 
to  Patty's  tea  because  she  went  down  to 
Hood  College  in  Maryland  to  help  her 
daughter  Martha  celebrate  May  Day. 

Marion  Knox  Palmer,  Buz's  eldest 
daughter  graduated  from  the  University 
of  Maryland  in  the  class  of  '29.  She  com- 
pleted her  College  work  in  three  years. 

Hilda's  married  daughter,  Amelie  Vau- 
clain  Tatnall,  was  at  the  Garden  Party 
celebrating  with  her  class. 

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Hospital,  Wuchang,  has  just  reached  me. 
Mary  James  is  again  enjoying  her  busy 
life  in  her  beloved  hospital.  It  is  sad  to 
know  that  Evelyn  Holliday  Patterson  has 
lost  her  mother.  Mrs.  Holliday  was  a 
good  friend  whom  many  of  the  class 
knew,  and  I  know  they  desire  to  express 
their   sympathy  to  Evelyn. 

This  is  the  year  we  should  be  together 
to  renew  old  friendships,  but  we  hesitate 
to  admit  the  truth,  and  for  one  more  year 
we  prefer  to  enjoy  delusions.  Since  we 
were  all  brought  up  in  the  good  old- 
fashioned  way,  i.  e.,  on  statistics,  I  have 
gathered  a  few  to  refresh  you.  Can  you 
recall  the  healthy,  happy,  hopeful  Fresh- 
men saddened  by  the  Chapel  speeches 
sounding  forth  the  victorious  17  per  cent 
— wondering  who  were  predestined  for 
matrimony?  Do  you  realize  that  the  fa- 
mous 17  per  cent  cast  no  spell  upon  us, 
for  57  of  the  class  have  married  and  only 
39  are  single?  Our  ranks  are  broken  by 
the  loss  of  only  six  beloved  classmates, 
few  indeed  during  the  twenty-nine  years 
we  have  been  friends.  Our  children  do 
us  great  credit.  We  number  about  one 
hundred;  six  have  already  entered  Bryn 
Mawr;  one,  Peggy  Reynolds  Hulse's 
daughter,  is  an  alumna;  another,  Betty 
Fry,  our  class  baby,  graduates  this  June; 
another  daughter  of  Marjorie  Canan's  is 
in  college.  You  recall  that  Sue  Swindell's 
Sophomore  daughter  was  "Queen  of  the 
May"  last  year.  Ethel  Peck  Lombardi 
and  Eleanor  Bliss  Knopf  both  have 
daughters  in  the  Freshman  class.  Two  of 
our  class  married  during  the  past  year, 
Buz  and  Jane. 

We  are  widely  scattered — one  in  Japan, 
three  in  China,  one  in  Armenia,  one  in 
Budapest,  one  in  London,  the  rest  of  us 
stay  at  home,  home  from  Bangor,  Maine, 
to  Portland,  Oregon  ,  via  Sault-Saint 
Marie  and  Texas,  but  few  of  us  favor 
the  South.  Most  are  energetic  North- 
erners. Are  we  occupied?  Yes;  listen: 
Twenty-three  teach,  four  in  colleges,  two 
teachers  of  art  or,  rather,  artists,  dec- 
orate our  shield,  two  authoresses,  one 
doctor,  one  psychiatric  worker  are  among 
us. 

I  write  you  every  month;  won't  you 
write  to  me,  so  that  the  class  may  have 
news  from  a  wider  group? 

1905 
Class  Editor  pro  tern:  Edith  H.  Ashley, 
242  East  19th  Street,  New  York  City. 
Alice  Day  McLaren  and  her  husband 
have  just  started  on  a  second  motor  trip 
across  the  continent.  This  time  they  ex- 
pect to  leave  the  car  in  California  and 


continue  around  the  world,  touching  all 
the  high  spots  and  being  away  at  least 
a  year. 

Jane  Ward  is  in  New  York,  taking  a 
course  at  the  New  York  School  of  Social 
Work. 

When  this  number  of  the  Bulletin 
reaches  the  class,  your  bona  fide  editor 
will  be  back  on  the  job  again.  Eleanor 
writes  that  they  have  had  a  delightful 
trip,  met  Bailey  successfully  in  Egypt, 
and  the  only  complaint  seems  to  be  that 
it  was  all  too  short.  Lit  had  lunch  with 
Helen  Kempton  in  Paris  and  also  a 
glimpse  of  Margaret  Thurston  Holt. 


1906 

Class  Editor:  Mrs.  Edward  W.  Sturde- 
vant, 

215  Augur  Ave.,   Fort  Leavenworth, 
Kan. 

Helen  Gibbons  writes  from  Paris  that 
Lloyd  is  graduating  from  the  Taft  School 
fourth  in  his  class.  He  hopes  to  go  to 
Princeton  next  year  where  he  is  planning 
to  room  with  Katharine  Fullerton 
Gerould's  son,  Christopher.  Mimi  is  in 
the  first  year  of  Jacques  Dalcroze's  pro- 
fessional course,  and  Christine  has  been 
studying  singing,  piano  and  Italian.  Her- 
bert is  busy  on  a  new  book.  They  will 
spend  the  summer  all  together  at  Pornic, 
near  St.  Nazaire. 

Augusta  French  Wallace's  daughter, 
Augusta,  graduates  from  Margaret  Hall, 
Versailles,  Kentucky,  on  the  third  of 
June. 

Beth  Harrington  Brooks  with  her  two 
older  boys  spent  four  .days  of  the  Spring 
vacation  in  Washington,  saw  all  the 
sights,  even  shook  hands  with  the  Presi- 
dent. They  visited  Adelaide  Neall  on  the 
way  down,  and  Beth  talked  to  Lucia  on 
the  telephone.  Lucia's  daughter,  Eliza- 
beth, was  just  recovering  from  an  opera- 
tion for  appendicitis. 

Alice  Lauterbach  Flint's  latest  adven- 
ture was  a  trip  to  New  York  with  her 
four-year-old  daughter,  from  which  she 
returned  in  fine  shape  but  her  mother  ex- 
hausted. While  there  Alice  saw  Louise 
Maclay  and  her  two  lovely  children. 
Laura  Boyer  is  planning  a  trip  abroad 
this  summer.  Alice  will  spend  the  sum- 
mer in  Marshfield. 

By  some  mistake  Anne  Long  Flana- 
gan's correct  address  was  left  out  of  the 
Register.  It  is:  Mrs.  Arthur  Flanagan, 
11  East  Newfield  Way,  Bala-Cynwyd,  Pa. 

Mary  Lee  sees  a  great  deal  of  Jose- 
phine Katzenstein  Blancke,  as  they  teach 
in   the   same   school.     Josephine   has   en- 


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deared  herself  to  the  students  by  her  ex- 
cellent teaching  and  her  rare  combination 
of  justice  and  kindness.  Mary  is  plan- 
ning to  spend  most  of  the  summer  in  New 
Haven,  where  she  will  see  Nan  Pratt  and 
Mary  Withington. 

Ruth  McNaughton  in  the  Winter 
teaches  at  the  Unquowa  School,  Fairfield, 
Conn.,  while  in  summer  she  is  still  in 
charge  of  the  Fresh  Air  work  at  Hudson 
Guild,  New  York. 

Marion  Mudge  Prichard's  daughter, 
Katherine,  is  to  be  married  in  October, 
and  will  live  in  Marblehead,  in  her 
great-grandmother's  old-fashioned  house. 
Charles,  her  oldest  boy,  is  in  Tech,  and  is 
to  be  married  next  year. 

Mary  Quimby  Shumway  is  still  tutor- 
ing at  Bryn  Mawr  and  teaching  at  the 
Kirk  School.  Her  husband  will  be  teach- 
ing at  Columbia  this  summer,  so  they  plan 
to  spend  July  and  August  at  Sound  Beach, 
with  possibly  a  motor  trip  to  Gloucester, 
Mass.,  in  September. 

Caroline  Richards  McKnight  is  still  on 
her  lemon  ranch  in  Chula  Vista  and 
hasn't  been  farther  East  than  Chicago 
since  1907.  Her  two  boys  are  in  their 
sophomore  year  in  High  School,  and  very 
athletically  inclined,  having  won  sweaters 
in  basketball  and  cups  and  prizes  in  golf. 
She  herself  is  inclined  to  less  strenuous 
pastimes,  such  as  BRIDGE. 

1906  can  now  boast  of  another  PH.D., 
Maria  Smith  took  her  degree  in  Indo- 
European  Philology  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  last  year.  Congratulations, 
Maria !  In  the  winter  she  is  Instructor  in 
Latin  at  Temple  University,  and  in  the 
summer  she  helps  to  run  the  Marionette 
Tea  Room  at  Lake  George.  Her  hobby  is 
Zoroastrian  literature. 

Kitty  Stone  Grant  has  three  daughters 
all  preparing  for  Bryn  Mawr,  a  proud 
record!  Mary  Elizabeth  graduates  from 
Miss  Madeira's  on  June  4th,  Katrina  is  at 
Rosemary,  Jean  Anne  is  going  to  Emma 
Willard  in  the  Fall.  Her  boy,  George,  is 
at  Mohonk  School.  Kitty  herself  is  in 
Saginaw. 

Helen  Wyeth  Pierce  is  occupied  in 
training  two  choruses,  playing  a  Church 
organ,  and  private  music,  to  say  nothing 
of  her  housekeeping  and  gardening.  One 
of  her  choruses  has  just  won  a  prize  in  a 
State  contest.  She  sees  Mary  Lee,  Peggy 
Coyle  Rahilly  and  Ida  Murphy  at  least 
once  a  month.  They  were  all  to  have  a 
twilight  supper  in  her  garden. 

Louise  Cruice  Sturdevant  is  going  to 
spend  the  summer  in  Nantucket.  Her 
husband  has  been  ordered  to  Quantico, 
where  they  will  go  in  September. 


1909 
Class  Editor:  Helen  Bond  Crane, 
Denbigh  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Sally  Jacobs  is  an  impressive  head  mis- 
tress; the  Seiler  School  is  flourishing, 
and  Sally  has  just  acquired  thirty  acres 
of  land  for  recreational  purposes.  She  re- 
ports having  seen  a  picture  of  Elise  Don- 
aldson's on  exhibition  at  the  Philadelphia 
Academy  of  Fine  Arts  this  spring. 

Gene  Ustick  had  had  a  card  from 
Pleasaunce,  indicating  that  Pleas  is  living 
at  Northway,  Golders  Green,  London,  but 
giving  no  further  news  of  herself. 

Shirley  is  living  outside  of  Paris  with 
her  two  children,  while  her  husband  is 
having  most  successful  exhibitions  of  his 
pictures  in  London.  He  expects  to  go  to 
Russia  this  summer  and  continue  his 
painting. 

Lillian  Laser  Strauss  could  not  join  us, 
as  she  has  been  ill  since  she  returned 
from  Europe  in  February. 

D.  I.  Smith  Chamberlin  wrote  that  she 
wished  she  might  be  collected  for  Pa- 
tience, but  that  the  best  she  could  do 
would  be  to  attend  the  Chicago  dinner  for 
the  "Seven  College  Presidents."  She  ex- 
pects to  take  the  three  children  to  Asquam 
Lake,  Holderness,  N.  H.  for  the  summer. 
Meanwhile  her  husband  will  be  traveling 
to  South  Africa  to  attend  the  Interna- 
tional Geological  Congress. 

1910 
Editor:  Emily  L.  Storer, 
Waltham,  Mass. 

Rosalind  Romeyn  Everdell  writes :  "In- 
deed, I  have  a  lot  of  news  for  you,  for 
we  have  built  and  moved  into  a  new 
house,  and  we  are  wrapped  up  in  the  in- 
terior and  exterior  decoration  of  the 
same.  It  is  a  brick  house  painted  white 
with  a  slate  roof  and  casement  windows 
in  the  English  style  on  the  outside,  but 
Everdell  on  the  inside!  We  all  love  it 
and  are  busy  now  with  planting  of  all 
kinds.  I  ordered  my  flower  beds  dug 
eight  feet  deep!!  but  fortunately  discov- 
ered my  mistake  before  the  garden  wall 
and  house  caved  into  them.  Live  and 
learn.  You  see  I  had  never  even  seen  a 
spring  in  the  country  until  I  went  to 
B.  M.  C.  I  do  so  wish  all  1910ers  would 
stop  and  see  us — we  are  only  20  miles 
from  46th  St.  and  Park  Ave.  Much  love 
to  all." 

Frances  Hearne  Brown:  "My  husband, 
children  and  pets  are  the  same.  My  two 
oldest  are  Sophomore  and  Freshman  at 
the  interesting  North  Shore  Country  Day 
School   here   in   Winnetka   and   my   two 


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youngest  in  the  famed  Winnetka  public 
school  system.  I'm  President  of  the 
Parent-Teacher  Association  of  the  Public 
Schools  for  another  year — so  shall  con- 
tinue to  be  busy.  We  have  just  had  here 
in  Chicago  the  meeting  of  the  Alumnae 
of  seven  colleges  which  was  very  stimulat- 
ing and  enjoyable.  Annette  is  beginning 
to  take  practice  College  Board  examina- 
tions and  hopes  to  be  B.M.  1935."  Good 
for  our  class  baby  and  great  great  great 
grand  niece! 

Charlotte  Simonds  Sage:  "We're  all 
fine  even  if  Nattie,  Jr.,  is  still  in  the  hos- 
pital. It  is  seven  weeks  and  we  are 
thoroughly  tired  of  it,  but  he  ought  to  be 
home  soon  (he  was  frightfully  sick  after 
a  ruptured  appendix).  The  rest  of  us 
flourish  and  the  house  is  getting  to  look 
like  something." 


1912 

Class     Editor:     Catharine     Thompson 
Bell   (Mrs.  C.  Kenneth  Bell), 
2700  Chicago  Blvd.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

The  class  wishes  to  express  through  the 
Bulletin  its  sympathy  with  Cynthia 
Stevens  in  the  death  of  her  sister,  Sarah 
Eccleston  Stevens. 

Gladys  Edgerton  had  an  article  in  "The 
New  Adelphi,"  Dec.  28-Feb.  29  number, 
entitled  "Christmas  Eve"  with  sub-title, 
"A  Sketch  of  1899."  Since  no  less  than 
Mr.  Santayana  and  J.  D.  Beresford  are 
among  Edgie's  fellow  contributors,  we  are 
really  very  much  thrilled. 

Elizabeth  Faries  Howe  announces  the 
birth  of  her  youngest  son,  James  Lynn 
Howe,  on  February  13. 

Florence  Glenn  Zipf  took  almost  all  the 
prizes  in  sight  with  her  tulips  at  a  Bryn 
Mawr  Flower  Show. 

Marjorie  Thompson  and  Mary  Peirce 
have  been  amusing  themselves  with  a 
course  in  "Floriculture"  at  the  Ambler 
School  of  Horticulture.  Amusing  is  just 
the  word,  Mary  says,  for  there  is  some- 
thing quite  ridiculous  in  paying  for  the 
privilege  of  weeding  some  one  else's  gar- 
den. She  admits  acquiring  valuable  infor- 
mation between  weeds.  Of  course  that's 
just  one  of  Mary's  activities.  She's  taken 
on  the  chairmanship  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee of  the  Philadelphia  Chamber  String 
Simfonietta  and  is  pushing  the  annual  bulb 
sale  for  the  Woman's  Club  Scholarship 
Fund.  Marjorie,  too,  we  hear  is  doing 
pottery  at  the  School  of  Industrial  Art. 
She  had  two  really  lovely  pots  in  their 
Exhibit. 


1913 
Class  Editor:  Betty  Fabian  Webster, 
(Mrs.  Ronald  Webster), 
905   Greenwood  Blvd.,  Evanston,  111. 

Margaret  Scruggs  Carruth  writes  from 
Dallas:  "Come  on  and  go  to  Norway 
with  me  this  summer,  Mother,  Dad  and  I 
leave  here  the  18th  of  May,  sailing  on 
the  "Empress  of  Australia"  from  Quebec, 
and  after  briefly  touring  Southern  and 
Western  England  and  Wales,  up  into 
Southern  Scotland,  will  sail  from  New- 
castle on  the  "Prince  Olav"  the  middle  of 
June  to  visit  the  fjords  of  Norway  and 
see  the  land  of  the  Midnight  Sun.  Later 
we  will  go  to  Germany  and  Austria, 
Budapest,  Vienna  and  Lucerne.  We'll  fly 
over  from  Brussels  to  London,  and  see  a 
bit  of  the  Shakespeare  and  Dickens  coun- 
try before  coming  home.  Doesn't  it  sound 
alluring? 

"Every  time  I'm  anywhere  near  B.  M., 
I  get  a  tremendous  urge  to  try  to  get  in 
touch  with  the  girls.  I've  just  come  back 
from  a  fascinating  visit  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  where  all  sorts  of  interesting  things 
happened.  I  met  a  girl  there  who  lived 
in  Trenton  and  knew  the  Buchanans." 

I  am  sorry  to  miss  Margaret's  boat  by 
a  few  days.  Ronald,  the  children  and  I 
are  sailing  May  15  from  Montreal  for 
France.  We  are  taking  a  car  and  expect 
to  stay  perhaps  a  year.  We  have  no  defi- 
nite plans  beyond  a  stay  at  the  seashore 
in  the  St.  Jean  de  Luz  region  this  sum- 
mer, and  possibly  Grenoble,  because  of 
schools  and  the  University,  next  winter. 
If  any  of  you  are  going  over,  please  let 
me  know,  care  of  the  American  Express 
Co.,  7  Rue  Scribe,  Paris. 

My  best  wishes  go  with  the  next  class 
editor,  and  a  hope  that  she  may  have  a 
large  correspondence. 

The  class  wishes  to  extend  its  deepest 
sympathy  to  Grace  Bartholomew  Clayton 
in  the  loss  of  her  husband.  He  was  ill 
only  a  short  time,  dying  in  April  of 
streptococcic  pneumonia. 

1916 
Editor:  Catherine  S.  Godley, 
768  Ridgeway  Avenue, 
Avondale,  Cincinnati,   Ohio. 
Mr.    Van    der    Water,    who    condemns 
men's  class  reunions  in  the  June  Harpers, 
really  should  have  seen  ours.     I  will  ad- 
mit that  there  are  a  few  points  of  simi- 
larity and   that   we   did   say,   "Gosh,   it's 
good  to  see  you  again.     Married?    Any 
kids?"   But  did  our  conversation  languish 
at  this  point?     Oh,  no,  that  was  only  the 
signal  for  the  start  of  all-day  debates  on 
Are  Progressive   Schools  Progressive  or 


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Expensive,  Shall  we  Spank  the  Baby  or 
Feed  Him  Spinach,  Is  Life  Richer  or 
Fuller,  if  so,  of  What.  Al  Van  Horn, 
our  toastmistress,  led  the  Parent  Group 
discussions,  cleverly  drawing  out  each 
parent  to  tell  significant  details  and  to 
show  pictures  of  off-spring. 

Not  one  of  us  broke  any  furniture  or 
got  arrested  and  nobody  brought  even  a 
pocket  flask,  at  least  nobody  showed  me 
any  although  Mr.  Ad  Werner  Vorys  was 
worried  for  fear  Ad  would  be  quite  out 
of  it  unless  she  brought  a  little  snort. 

We  really  didn't  sing  shoulder-to- 
shoulder  about  the  battle  of  life,  we  were 
too  busy  taking  sun-baths.  The  new  col- 
lege rule  that  you  can't  take  your  dress 
off  on  upper  campus  unless  you  are  25 
feet  above  ground  rather  cramped  our 
style,  but  our  absent  members  will  be  de- 
lighted to  hear  that  as  we  sprawled  upon 
the  grass  in  our  shorts  and  bare  legs,  we 
were  taken  for  Model  School  children. 

Our  manager,  R.  Fordyce  Gayton, 
member  emeritus  of  the  Grand  Jury,  man- 
aged us  as  efficiently  as  she  handles  her 
red-headed  child.  H.  Riegel  Oliver  put 
the  Paris  touch  to  our  smock  and  beret 
costumes  with  many  colored  painters' 
palettes  and  16's  made  of  adhesive  plaster. 
Our  Permanent  President,  C.  Kellen 
Branham,  fulfilled  her  official  duties  by 
running  our  tubs  each  morning  and  hold- 
ing open  the  dining  room  door  while  we 
ran  down  the  hall.  C.  McKeefrey  Usis, 
who  donned  a  new  dress  three  times  each 
day,  appeared  at  Baccalaureate  sermon 
with  hat,  fur  and  gloves  instead  of  the 
customary  tennis  shoes.  She  has  moved 
13  times  in  8  years  so  is  used  to  changes. 
A.  Burt,  who  agrees  with  Mr.  Van  der 
Water  about  prancing  through  the  parade 
in  bizarre  raiment,  repressed  her  true 
temperament  and  followed  the  mob.  Jute 
Chase  Locke  and  M.  Dodd  Sangree  were 
slightly  delayed  by  some  of  their  six 
daughters  but  arrived  smiling  as  usual. 
Buckie  Kirk  Hollingsworth  has  an  artist 
husband  and  a  city-bred  child  who  has 
never  seen  a  blade  of  grass.  Bobby  Rob- 
ertson brought  news  of  our  foreign  mem- 
bers. Betty  Holliday  Hitz  also  told  of 
how  to  handle  a  red-headed  child.  J. 
Greenewald  Gordon  likewise  boasts  of  a 
red-headed  child.  Among  those  present 
was  Kith  Godley,  who  boasts  of  no  child 
red-headed  or  otherwise.  Juliet  Branham 
Williams  seems  to  have  three  children 
under  four  years  of  age.  Annis  Thomp- 
son has  seven  assistants. 

M.  Kleps  invited  us  all  to  visit  the 
Holmquist  School.  V.  de.  Macedo  Raacke 
told  of  keeping  house  and  teaching  at  the 
same  time.     Ruth  Lautz  is  still  a  statisti- 


cian. H.  Tyson  took  one  look  at  us  and 
fled  before  class  supper.  Anna  Lee  had 
to  leave  our  Baby  Clinic  for  her  High 
School.  Eva  Bryne  is  taking  a  corre- 
spondence course  and'  thinks  but  is  not 
sure  tljat  she  has  a  Ph.D.  J.  Ross  Chism 
came  all  the  way  from  St.  Louis  to  our 
midst.  Emilie  Wagner  Baird  left  her  chil- 
dren to  help  transport  her  old  classmates. 
Jute  and  Anna  Lee  were  also  very  handy 
with  their  cars. 

Advertisement:  Dr.  Eliz.  Brakeley,  D. 
D.  T.,  Specializes  in  Children's  Disease 
but  will  take  Others.  Drunks  peremptor- 
ily cared  for.  D.  O.  A.  Patients  charged 
according  to  What  they  have.  Telephone 
calls  five  dollars  extra. 

Cre  Garfield  Comer  is  compiling  sta- 
tistics of  Who's  Who  and  Why  and  if  you 
want  to  know  anything  that  is  omitted 
herein  ASK  MRS.  COMER.  Cedy. 

1917 
Editor:  Bertha  Greenough, 

203  Blackstone  Blvd.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Even  the  weather  conspired  to  make 
1917's  biggest  and  best  reunion  a  success, 
for  the  sun  was  shining  as  we  gathered 
on  Saturday,  June  1st,  and  continued 
throughout  our  three  days  of  festivities. 
It  was  almost  emblematic  of  the  warm  de- 
light we  all  felt  at  the  realization  that 
our  class  spirit  was  still  a  very  strong  and 
binding  emotion,  and  at  the  opportunity 
of  seeing  each  other,  and  picking  up  again 
all  the  dropped  threads.  As  a  result  of 
Nat's  enthusiastic  management  thirty- 
eight  of  us  gathered  for  the  class  dinner. 
Blodgie  as  toastmistress  in  a  patriotic  red 
dress,  was  as  sparkling  as  the  electricity 
in  which  she  does  such  brilliant  research 
work.  The  main  speeches  were  made  by 
Nats,  Caroline,  Carrie  Shaw,  and  Dooles, 
but  all  of  us  joined  in  with  impromptu 
talks  giving  what  news  we  could  of  those 
who  were  not  present,  over  coffee  and 
cigarettes  in  the  living  room.  We  gos- 
sipped  until  the  early  hours,  and  discussed 
almost  everything  from  the  raising  of 
babies  to  social  customs  in  Italy. 

Sunday  was  a  perfectly  glorious  day, 
and  in  an  imposing  procession  of  seven 
cars  we  all  drove  out  to  Dorothy  Ship- 
ley's beautiful  home  where  we  had  a  great 
time  lunching  outdoors,  getting  delicious- 
ly  sunburned  and  merry  sitting  on  the 
porch,  and  walking  under  the  trees 
through  the  lovely  garden.  After  an  in- 
spiring class  meeting  at  which  much  busi- 
ness was  done  and  Caroline  read  a  fine 
letter  from  Con  Hall  telling  of  the  sab- 
batical year  she  is  spending  in  Italy,  we 
adjourned  to  the  College  Inn  for  supper, 
and  later  to  the  Baccalaureate  Sermon  in 


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Goodhart   Hall,   which   many   of  us   had 
never  seen. 

Both  Sunday  night  and  Monday  morn- 
ing were  spent  in  a  mad  scramble  to  get 
our  costumes  ready.  We  carried  on  our 
tradition  of  being  the  Vandal  class,  and 
turned  out  at  the  Alumnae  parade  as  bold, 
bad  pirates,  in  which  dresses  with  red 
bandanas  and  sashes,  and  enormous  hoop 
earrings  and  wicked-looking  crimson 
dirks,  to  say  nothing  of  red-bordered 
socks,  1917  certainly  proved  it  hadn't  lost 
its  pristine  pep  by  the  way  it  marched  in 
the  procession  to  the  gym  and  sang  our 
scandalous  Vandal  song,  and  helped  cheer 
the  athletic  awards  and  the  basketball 
game  which  followed. 

This  alumnae  day  was  certainly  crowded 
with  events,  a  picnic  in  Wyndham  Garden 
with  1916,  '18  and  '19,  a  Tea  for  the 
Seniors  in  the  charming  Common  Room 
of  Goodhart  Hall,  and  another  in  Merion 
for  the  members  of  the  faculty  who  knew 
us  in  college,  and  Alumnae  Supper  in  the 
gym  at  night,  and  always  throughout  our 
three  days  were  the  good  talks,  and  the 
questions  asked  and  answered,  and  the 
really  thrilling  explorations  into  the  va- 
ried busy  spheres  we  are  each  living  in. 
I  don't  think  a  single  member  of  our  class 
was  forgotten  in  the  interested  enquiries, 
and  the  only  way  it  could  possibly  have 
been  a  better  reunion  would  have  been  to 
have  everyone  actually  present  instead  of 
just  in  our  thoughts.  Well,  we're  still 
going  on,  mighty  '17,  and  with  memories 
like  this  behind  us,  we'll  certainly  never 
give  way ! 

We  had  a  grand  reunion  with  the  fol- 
lowing people: 

Mary  Andrews  is  living  in  Englewood, 
and  she  brought  with  her  two  darling 
pictures  of  her  nine  and  six-year-old 
daughters. 

Blodgie  left  her  research  job  with  Gen- 
eral Electric  Company  long  enough  to  be 
our  toastmaster. 

Doris  Bird  nobly  deserted  her  husband 

and  three  children  for  the  entire  reunion. 

Louise    Collins    was    on    a    short    trip 

home    from    Pernambuco,    Brazil,    where 

her  husband  is  the  American  Consul. 

Mary  Frances  Colter  came  all  the  way 
from  Cincinnati.  She  is  married  and  has 
two  boys. 

We  were  awfully  glad  to  have  Fran 
Curtin  back  from  West  Virginia,  but 
were  sorry  she  didn't  bring  any  snap- 
shots of  her  three  children. 

Anne  Davis  Swift  motored  over  from 
Princeton. 

Izzie  Diamond  dashed  up  from  her 
government  job  in  Washington  for  dinner 
Saturday  night. 


Dooles  having  obtained  her  Ph.D.  from 
Harvard  and  published  a  most  valuable 
book  on  the  French  franc,  is  living  at 
Yarrow  and  teaching  at  Bryn  Mawr 
where  she  expects  to  be  found  next  year. 
Skipper  Emerson  Gardner  was  able  to 
desert  her  small  daughter  in  Washing- 
ton and  get  away  from  the  clinics  she  is 
holding  there,  for  the  weekend. 

Betty  Faulkner  Lacy  had  a  glorious 
time  in  purope  with  her  husband  last 
fall,  and  was  thrilled  to  get  back  to  her 
four  children,  of  whom  she  had  a  lovely 
picture  with  her. 

Mary  Glenn  is  teaching  in  a  school  in 
Pennsylvania. 

Jane  Grace  McPhedran  came  over  from 
Germantown  where  she  has  been  living 
for  several  years. 

Mary  Hodge  Urban  brought  her  three 
children  down  from  New  Haven  to  stay 
with  her  family  so  that  she  could  reune 
with  us.  She  did  some  admirable  work 
in  painting  cutlasses  red  for  our  vandal- 
istic  costumes. 

Nell  Hammill  Gorman  was  there  look- 
ing very  slender. 

Frances  Johnson  was  able  to  get  away 
from  Rockford  College  where  she  is  pro- 
fessor of  mathematics  and  physics.  She 
taught  in  Constantinople  for  three  years 
and  this  summer  is  planning  to  do  some 
interesting  research  in  Rochester. 

Nats  McFaden  Blanton  was  the  most 
wonderful  reunion  manager  imaginable. 
We  were  all  very  proud  of  her  at  the 
Alumnae  Banquet  when  she  spoke  on 
"The  Last  of  the  Victorians."  As  you 
probably  know  she  married  a  doctor,  has 
four  children  and  is  still  living  in  Rich- 
mond, Virginia. 

Marian  Rhoads  is  working  in  the  ad- 
vertising department  of  Ginn  and  Co., 
in  Boston. 

Ruth  Richards  Magin  drove  over  from 
Collingswood,  New  Jersey,  where  she  is 
living. 

Dor  Shipley  White  spent  a  large  part 
of  the  time  with  us  on  the  campus.  She 
also  entertained  us  most  royally  at  her 
delightful  house  in  Penllyn.  It  was  a 
great  joy  to  all  of  us  to  meet  her  charm- 
ing husband  and  see  her  two  darling 
children. 

Carrie  Shaw  Tatom  was  the  life  of  the 
party  with  her  ready  repartee.  She  is  in 
the  office  of  Hornblower  and  Weeks  in 
Pittsburgh  where  she  has  been  for  two 
years. 

Caroline  Stevens  Rogers  was  back 
looking  as  lovely  as  ever.  She  and  a 
friend  of  hers  have  started  a  combined 
kindergarten  and  nursery  school  for 
about    ten    children    in    Newton    Centre 


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where  she  lives.  One  of  her  own  three 
is  in  this  school. 

Lid  Steuart  dashed  up  from  Virginia 
where  she  is  doing  public  health  work, 
and  living  on  Dunsale  Mountain. 

Scat  was  there  in  full  force  in  her 
bobbed  hair.  She  has  an  extremely  in- 
teresting job  with  the  American  Federa- 
tion of  Labor  in  Washington. 

Olga  Tattersfield  came  out  and  spent 
the  weekend  in  Merion  with  us.  She  is 
doing  social  work. 

Marion  Tuttle  was  able  to  leave  her 
job  at  Wheaton  College  where  she  is 
teaching  English  and  to  be  with  us  for  the 
entire  reunion. 

Millie  Willard  Gardiner  came  over  to 
our  class  dinner.  It  was  great  to  see  her 
again  still  psychologically  enthusiastic. 
She  has  a  darling  son  only  a  few  months 
old.  She  tells  us  that  she  has  not  yet 
tried  mental  tests  on  it. 

Mart  Willett  is  working  in  Boston  in 
the  Girl  Scout  Headquarters. 

Sunday  night  Con  Wilcox  Pignatelli  ar- 
rived. After  Baccalaureate  she  enter- 
tained quite  a  group  of  us  in  the  front 
smoking  room  in  Merion  with  tales  of  the 
life  of  an  Italian  Princess  in  Florence. 

It  was  nice  to  see  Mary  Worley  Strick- 
land looking  very  well. 

Thalia  Smith  Dole,  looking  as  young 
and  charming  as  when  she  was  in  college, 
although  she  has  a  daughter  who  is  al- 
most ten,  was  with  us  for  the  entire  re- 
union. She  deserted  her  husband  and  his 
1200  chickens  and  brought  with  her  tales 
of  her  delightful  house  near  Pittsfield, 
Mass. 

Reba  Joachim  is  working  in  a  lawyer's 
office  in  Philadelphia. 

The  following  news  about  absent  mem- 
bers was  gleaned  by  the  new  editor: 

Mollie  Boyd,  who  is  married  and  living 
in  New  York,  disappointed  us  all  by  not 
arriving  at  the  class  dinner. 

Giddle  Bryant  is  running  a  tea  room  in 
New  Haven  in  the  winter.  In  the  sum- 
mer she  is  running  a  camp  and  tea  room 
at  Smugglers'  Notch  in  Stowe,  Vermont, 
where  she  would  be  delighted  to  see  any 
of  '17.  m 

Heloise  Carroll  Handcock  is  running  a 
gift  shop  called  The  Red  Quill  in  Pitts- 
burgh. 

Caddy  Casselberry  Templeton  spent  this 
winter  in  a  hospital  and  then  in  Florida 
recovering  from  a  severe  motor  accident. 
It  was  reported  that  she  was  the  loveliest 
looking  invalid  in  any  hospital. 

Lucia  Chase  Ewing  has  just  returned 
from  a.  trip  to  Europe  with  her  husband 
after  celebrating  the  arrival  a  few  months 
ago  of  her  son. 


Anna  Coulter  Parsons  has  a  daughter, 
Nancy  Anne,  born  in  May. 

Con  Hall  has  been  having  a  sabbatical 
in  Europe.  At  last  accounts  she  was  in 
Florence  having  a  marvelous  time. 

Hel'  Harris  is  the  head  of  Kingsley 
House  in  Pittsburgh. 

Margaret  Henderson  Bailie  is  the  land- 
scape architect  for  the  college. 

Margaret  Hoff  Zimmerman  was  unable 
to  get  away  from  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C, 
where  her  husband  is  teaching.  We  un- 
derstand, however,  that  Erika  stands  at 
the  head  of  her  class. 

Sally  Hinde  was  in  bed  with  the 
measles  in  May! 

The  following  excerpt  from  Sylvia  Jel- 
liffe  Stragnell's  letter  may  be  of  interest: 

"The  major  occupation,  next  to  running 
the  house  and  the  kids,  seems  to  be  feed- 
ing livestock.  Barbara,  my  seven-year- 
old,  really  does  all  the  work  herself,  but  I 
have  to  hang  around  to  pluck  her  out 
from  under  the  horses'  hoofs,  or  inter- 
pose myself  in  time  if  Rascal,  our  husky 
ram,  gets  playful.  We  have  two  ponies 
and  a  colt,  four  sheep  and  two  lambs, 
chickens,  pigeons,  ducks,  full  size,  and 
countless  baby  chicks  and  ducklings  that 
have  to  be  taken  out  each  day  for  an  air- 
ing. To  say  nothing  of  the  spring  batch 
of  puppies.  Robert,  the  five-year-old, 
manages  the  ducks  and  Barbara  has  be- 
come quite  proficient  in  counting  her 
chickens  before  they  are  hatched." 

Ginger  Litchfield  was  seen  by  a  few 
members  of  the  class  en  route  from  Cali- 
fornia to  Europe  via  Philadelphia  just 
about  reunion  time. 

Eleanora  Wilson  Peacock,  who  is  living 
in  Cynwyd,  brought  her  three  children 
over  to  see  us  Sunday  afternoon,  but.  un- 
fortunately could  locate  nobody.  We  did 
get  a  glimpse  of  her  on  Monday,  looking 
as  young  and  charming  as  ever. 

Tommy  Wahl  Barber  is  now  stationed 
at  Fort  Sheridan  outside  Chicago.  She 
writes  that  Gertie  Malone  is  in  the  Phil- 
ippines. 

Monica  O'Shea  sailed  for  Europe  the 
end  of  May. 

The  editor,  on  her  way  back  from  re- 
union stopped  at  Manhasset,  Long  Island, 
for  dinner  with  Lovey  Brown  Lamarche 
and  her  husband  in  their  cunning  house. 
She  has  an  adorable  son  fifteen  months 
old. 

1918 
Editor:  Helen  Edward  Walker, 

5515  Everett  Ave.,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
1918's  class   dinner  was  held  at   eight 
o'clock,  Saturday,  June   1st,  in  Denbigh, 
with    Sydney    Belyille    Coale    as   a   very 


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charming  toastmistress.  It  was  a  most 
successful  affair,  the  largest  dinner  on  the 
campus,  49  of  the  class  being  present.  Be- 
ginning by  candle-light,  due  to  a  blown- 
out  fuse,  our  spirits  rose  with  the  lights. 
Speeches  were  made  by  Mary  Gardiner, 
who  gave  side-lights  on  the  New  Regime ; 
Marjorie  Strauss  spoke  on  "Women  in 
Medicine"  most  interestingly;  Lucy  Evans 
Chew  was  most  entertaining  on  the  sub- 
ject of  "Sales  Resistance  Stiffens,  or  the 
Shrewing  of  the  Tame";  Helen  Butter- 
field  Williams,  the  mother  of  the  Class 
baby,  spoke  about  "our  child";  Helen 
Alexander  told  of  her  experience  in  odd 
spots  of  the  globe;  Helen  Walker  spoke 
on  the  Trials  of  a  Secretary;  and  Ruth 
Cheney  Streeter,  our  President,  made  the 
closing  speech,  after  which  1916  appro- 
priately appeared  outside  the  windows. 
Following  the  exchange  of  Junior  Fresh- 
man songs,  cheers  and  civilities,  the  din- 
ner was  brought  to  an  end. 

1919 
Class    Editor:    Mary    Morris    Ramsay 
Phelps   (Mrs.  William  Phelps), 
Guyencourt,  Del. 

TENTH  REUNION 

1919's  Class  Reunion  started  properly 
with  a  class  meeting.  Modernistic  dis- 
sonances of  all  the  village  fire  engines 
joined  to  the  siren  on  the  power  house 
drowned  out  Gordon's  well-bred  knuckled 
rappings  and  we  fled.  When  we  returned 
Helen  Huntting  and  her  five  months 
daughter  proved  as  seductive  as  fire  en- 
gines. Something  was  said  about  class 
dues  or  alumnae  funds  or  scholarships  or 
something.  Frannie  Day  seemed  to  know 
all  about  it  so  we  gladly  left  it  at  that, 
and  talked  about  how  young  we  looked. 

Followed  a  picnic  in  the  hollow,  the 
happiest  inspiration  ever  to  brighten  the 
brain  of  a  reunion  director.  Clad  in  our 
delightful  and  practical  green  sleeveless 
tennis  frocks,  lolling  on  the  grass,  eating 
a  wonderful  picnic,  reading  our  "Green 
Shirt"  (full  of  our  own  wit  and  our 
husbands'),  singing  when  we  felt  like  it, 
and  talking  ! 

Others  may  chase  the  errant  pea  at 
banquets — may  we  always  picnic ! 

We  had  the  great  pleasure  of  having 
K.  T.  give  part  of  her  San  Francisco 
concert  in  Goodhart,  and  Sunday  morning 
Adelaide  Landon  held  a  lovely  service 
there  for  us.  Gertie  Hearne  had  us  all 
to  tea  in  her  garden  where  we  saw  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hearne  again,  and  met  her 
husband  and  children.  Besides  hers  and 
Helen's  we  also  saw  Liebe  Lanier's 
Frances    Branson's    and    Frannie    Day's 


children.  From  those  we  saw  and  from 
the  snapshots,  it  was  self-evident  that  in 
quality  and  quantity  of  progeny  1919  sets 
the  pace. 

Baccalaureate,  the  parade,  the  picnic 
with  '16,  '17  and  '18,  tea  with  the  faculty, 
alumnae  supper,  can  only  be  catalogued, 
not  described.  Nor  can  we  do  more  than 
mention  hours  of  talk — keen,  stimulating, 
exciting  talk — hours  of  laughter,  hours  of 
library  browsing,  friendships  grown 
stronger,  personalities  grown  bigger.  At 
least  one  doubting  diffident  reuner  was 
changed  to  one  who  will  never  miss  an- 
other— who  has  once  more  "followed  the 
gleam"  and  will  be  happier  always  for 
the  inspiration  renewed  and  for  Bryn 
Mawr. 

Marjorie  Martin  Johnson. 

1920 
Class  Editor:  Mary  Hardy, 

518  Cathedral  St.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Alice    Harrison    Scott    has    a    second 
daughter,  who  was  born  in  Baltimore  on 
the   13th  of  April.     The  baby's  name   is 
Caroline  Preston  Thorton  Scott. 

1921 
Editor:  Mr.  J.  E.  Rogers, 

99    Poplar    Plains    Road,    Toronto, 
Ontario,  Canada. 

Nora  Newell  Burry's  second  son  was 
born  on  March  27th.  He  has  red  hair 
and  will  probably  be  named  Michael. 
Nora  has  taken  another  house  in  Beth- 
esda,  Maryland,  for  the  summer  but  plans 
in  the  fall  to  move  back  to  Lake  Forest. 

Dot  Klenke  has  been  practicing  medi- 
cine since  last  summer.  She  specialized 
during  her  Interneship  in  Neurology  and 
in  Neurosurgery  and  now  plans  to  do  only 
the  latter,  which  means  operating  on  the 
brain  spinal  cord  and  nerves.  She  is  As- 
sistant Visiting  Surgeon  in  the  Neurolog- 
ical Departments  of  Bellevue  Hospital,  of 
the  Neurological  Institute,  and  of  the 
Hospital  for  Ruptured  and  Crippled.  She 
is  Assistant  Neurological  Surgeon  at  the 
Post  Graduate  Hospital  and  Instructor  in 
Neuro-anatomy  at  Columbia  and  in  Neu- 
rology at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons.  All  of  which  sounds  like  a 
brilliant  record  and  achievement. 

Passya  Ostroff  Reefer  and  her  husband 
are  back  in  White  Plains  after  a  seven 
weeks'  trip  to  the  Coast.  The  Reefers 
have  three  adopted  daughters  aged  9,  12 
and  16.  Passya  writes  that  Bickie  lives 
in  the  winter  in  a  delightful  studio  over 
an  old  wagon  house  on  a  Wynnewood 
estate  and  in  the  summer  in  a  woodsy 
cabin  nearby. 


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Victoria  Evans  Knutson's  twins,  a  boy 
and  a  girl,  were  born  in  March.  She  now 
has  three  children  under  three  years  of 
age. 

Margaret  Morton  Creese  supplied  us 
with  this  last  item  and  also  gave  us  wel- 
come news  of  herself  and  family.  She  is 
a  member  of  the  Women's  University 
Glee  Club  of  100  voices  which  gives  two 
concerts  yearly  in  New  York  City.  Her 
son  Jimmie  at  the  age  of  two  knows  half 
his  alphabet  and  can  count  up  to  five. 
Her  husband  is  a  Trustee  of  the  Amer- 
ican-Scandinavian Foundation  and  Vice 
President  and  Treasurer  of  Stevens  Insti- 
tute. 

Lilley  Ireson  Pickard  writes  us  from 
"The  Old  Backbone,"  Charlwood,  Surrey, 
where  she  and  her  husband  have  been  liv- 
ing for  the  past  two  years.  They  have  a 
15th  Century  house  surrounded  by  3 y2 
acres  which  are  devoted  to  livestock,  gar- 
dens, pools  and  a  tennis  court.  The  Pick- 
ards  make  frequent  trips  to  the  Continent 
and  will  come  over  here  in  July  for  six 
weeks.  She  wishes  me  to  announce  that 
she  would  be  delighted  to  see  any  mem- 
bers of  the  Class  who  are  in  England. 

Jane  Lattimer  Stevens  has  a  second  son 
born  in  April.  George,  her  eldest,  will  be 
three  in  July. 

Thelma  Williams  Kleinau  has  moved  to 
Chattanooga  with  her  family  of  two  sons, 
aged  four  years  and  eight  months,  re- 
spectively, and  her  one  daughter,  three 
years  old.  She  acts  as  chief  bottle  wash- 
er and  nurse  but  still  finds  time  to  do  a 
lot  of  reading  and  to  "tend  the  army." 
Smart  girl. 

Dot  McBride  says  she  is  pounding  a 
typewriter  into  passive  submission  and  do- 
ing a  certain  amount  of  shorthand,  get- 
ting a  great  kick  when  she  can  read  her 
own  notes. 

Beatrice  Spinelli  is  teaching  English 
and  coaching  Dramatics  at  the  Overbrook 
High  School.  Her  pupils  have  just  pre- 
sented "Come  Out  of  the  Kitchen." 

Julia  Peyton  Phillips  has  just  moved  to 
Otter  Rock  Drive,  Greenwich,  and  wishes 
me  to  broadcast  that  she'd  receive  with 
open  arms  and  a  grand  new  car  all  mem- 
bers of  the  class  who  happen  to  be  in  her 
neighborhood. 

Marjorie  Warren  Whitman  is  living  in 
Needham,  Mass.  She  has  a  five-year 
daughter  and  two  sons,  aged  two  and 
three  years. 

Eleanor  Collins  is  working  in  a  Settle- 
ment House  in  Wilmington.  Last  sum- 
mer she  took  a  Kindergarten  Course  at 
Teachers  College. 

Betty  Llewellyn  Warner,  who  lives  in 
Winnetka,  has  a  seven-year-old  daughter 


named  Barbara  and  a  five-year-old  son 
Silas.  She  is  taking  French  and  English 
Courses  by  correspondence  from  Colum- 
bia. 

Ruth  Karns  Chapman  has  a  four-year- 
old  daughter  named  Coreene. 

Dorothy  Walter  Baruch  has  already 
had  published  two  very  well-written  chil- 
dren's books.  Her  third  one  is  being 
brought  out  this  fall  by  Harpers. 

Helen  Weist  is  Director  of  extra- 
curricular Activities  at  the  Dalton  School 
in  New  York  City. 

1922 

Class  Editor:  Serena  Hand  Savage, 
(Mrs.  William  L.  Savage), 
29  W.  12th  St.,  New  York. 

Cornelia  Baird  Voorhis  has  been  mak- 
ing a  flying  trip  to  Denver  and  Chicago 
with  her  husband  whose  business  makes  a 
transcontinental  traveller  of  him. 

Curtis  Bennett  writes  of  her  engage- 
ment to  the  Rev.  John  R.  McGrory,  rec- 
tor of  St.  Bartholomew's  Episcopal 
Church,  Wissinoming,  Philadelphia.  He 
is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania and  the  Philadelphia  Divinity 
School  of  1921.  Curtis  also  adds  that  she 
saw  Vinton  Liddell  Pickens  at  Varsity 
Dramatics  this  spring,  and  had  heard 
from  Henrietta  Jennings,  who  is  "happy 
and  hecticly  busy  as  the  Economics  De- 
partment of  Wilson  College."  Henrietta 
is  going  abroad  for  the  summer. 

Ikey  Coleman  is  leaving  her  Cooper 
Union  responsibilities  and  is  sailing  for  a 
summer  in  Europe. 

Liz  Hall  has  left  the  Charity  Organiza- 
tion Society  and  is  now  secretary  to  an 
architect. 

A  delightful  letter  from  Octavia  How- 
ard Price  describing  her  community  at 
Shantung  Christian  University.  She  says : 
"Because  we  are  such  a  large  community 
there  is  a  great  deal  of  social  life,  and 
many  clubs  have  been  organized,  literary, 
choral,  folk-dancing,  dramatic,  etc. — I 
used  to  think  there  would  be  nothing  to 
take  a  missionary's  time  but  the  routine 
of  his  work,  but  life  is  just  as  difficult  to 
live  in  the  mission  field  as  at  home." 

Peggy  Kennard  is  going  to  do  some 
substituting  for  an  interne  in  the  Bellevue 
Hospital  Tuberculosis  service  for  a  short 
period  this  summer.  She  is  going  to  Alas- 
ka on  her  vacation. 

Katherine  Peek  is  going  to  work  in 
New  York  for  a  short  time  this  sum- 
mer, doing  research  in  libraries  for  her 
Ph.D.  thesis. 

Harriet  Stevens  Robey  has  a  third  son. 

Jane  Yeatman  Savage  has  a  daughter 


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born  May  30th,  she  now  has  a  boy  and 
two  girls. 

Cornelia  Skinner  Blodget  is  going  to 
have  a  series  of  monologue  recitals  in 
London  this  summer  at  one  of  the  large 
theatres. 


1923 

Editor:  Katharine  Lord  Strauss, 
Oyster  Bay,  New  York. 

Our  Class  Baby  has  a  brother !  On 
May  9th  Ann  Fraser  Brewer  presented 
her  two  daughters  with  a  brother,  Michael 
Brewer. 

Helenka  Hoyt  was  married  on  May 
11th  to  Dr.  Byron  Stookey  at  Rowayton, 
Conn.  A  unique  feature  was  the  fact 
that  the  bride  had  written  the  marriage 
service  herself.  The  wedding  breakfast 
was  served  on  the  lawn,  where  hundreds 
of  spring  flowers  had  bloomed  especially 
for  the  occasion.  Helenka  wore  a  dress 
of  silver  brocade  and  her  grandmother's 
wedding  veil.  She  and  Byron  afterwards 
made  a  dramatic  departure  on  a  launch 
which  plunged  through  a  rather  high  sea 
on  Long  Island  Sound.  Hi  Price  and 
Kay  Strauss  were  bridesmaids,  and  '23 
was  further  represented  by  Franny 
Childs,  Dos  Stewart  Pierson,  D.  M.  Kun- 
hardt,  and  Flippit  Martin  Chase. 

Flippit  and  her  husband  have  just  gone 
to  California,  taking  their  daughter,  Ann, 
to  visit  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin. 

Nancy  FitzGerald  is  still  working  at 
Fogg  Museum,  but  is  going  abroad  in  July 
on  the  Shady  Hill  Research  Fellowship. 
On  the  side  she  still  raises  dogs — Minia- 
ture Schnauzers — and  has  been  winning 
prizes  steadily  with  them. 

Nancy  reports  that  the  New  England 
Association  of  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae  re- 
cently had  their  annual  luncheon  at  which 
Miss  Schenck  spoke.  Among  those  pres- 
ent were  Cucu  Bradley  Stevens  and  Mari- 
on Lawrence.  The  latter  has  had  several 
articles  published  in  the  Art  Bulletin,  on 
Early  Christian  Sarcophagi,  on  which 
subject  she  is  considered  an  authority. 

Delphine  Fitz  hopes  to  get  her  Ph.D. 
in  June. 

Dina  Worcester  left  on  the  12th  of  May 
for  a  year's  medical  interneship  at  Johns 
Hopkins. 

Readers  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  D.  M. 
will  resume  the  editorship  of  '23's  column 
in  the  Bulletin  next  autumn.  Notes 
should  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Philip  B.  Kun- 
hardt,  Mt.  Kemble  Avenue,  Morristown, 
New  Jersey. 


1924 
Class    Editor:     Beth     Tuttle    Wilbur 
(Mrs.  Donald  Wilbur), 
Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Dog  Conner  was  married  in  the  early 
spring  to  Anthony  Hicks  Brackett  we 
learn  from  the  Times  Rotogravure.  We'd 
like  very  much  to  hear  the  details  and 
any  other  doings  of  interest  that  Dog 
has  been  indulging  in. 

Jean  Palmer  is  now  secretary  to  Em 
Anderson,  '22,  who  is,  in  turn,  secretary 
of  the  Junior  League  in  the  Bryn  Mawr 
Club  of  New  York. 

Betty  Hale,  whose  engagement  to  Bob 
Laidlaw  has  been  announced,  graduated 
from  the  School  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  May  and  will  begin  her  interne- 
ship  at  the  Bellevue  Hospital  in  the  fall. 

Chuck  Woodworth  has  been  awarded  a 
European  Fellowship  in  the  Graduate 
School  at  B.  M.  and  will  sail  sometime  in 
July  to  study  either  at  Oxford,  or  the 
University  of  London. 

We  learn  from  the  Alumnae  Register, 
recently  published,  that  a  great  many  of 
'24  have  been  putting  things  over  on  the 
editor  and  on  their  class  by  having  in- 
numerable interesting  jobs,  husbands, 
children,  and  what  not,  and  remaining 
perfectly  mum  about  them.  Please  re- 
member that  if  the  Alumnae  notes  are 
several  years  old  and  common  parlance 
before  published,  it's  nobody's  fault — but 
everybody's. 

1925 
Class  Editor:  Blit  Mallett  Conger 
(Mrs.  Frederic  Conger), 
325  E.  72d  St.,  New  York  City. 

Dot  Lee  Haslam  has  a  son  born  May 
7th.  He  will  be  named  for  Greville. 
Nana  Bonnell  Davenport  says  he  is  a  fine 
baby  with  lots  of  hair. 

On  May  31st  Betty  Voorhees  was 
married  to  Charles  K.  Kimball.  Betty 
Philbrick,  '23,  and  Carry  Remak  were 
bridesmaids.  Mr.  Kimball  went  to  Prince- 
ton and  the  Law  School  of  Washington, 
St.  Louis.  After  the  wedding  trip  Betty's 
new  address  will  be  447  E.  57th  St.,  New 
York. 

And  more  spring  brides !  Beth  Comer 
writes:  "I  announced  my  engagement 
when  I  was  at  home  at  Easter.  His  name 
is  Richard  Walther  Rapp.  He  was  born 
in  Strassburg  and  has  had  quite  a  hectic 
time  with  the  matter  of  his  nationality. 
The  United  States  insisting  that  he  is 
French,  while  really  he  is  German  to  the 
core.  Richard  has  solved  the  problem  by 
becoming  American.  He  is  an  artist  by 
profession." 


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This  summer  Beth  will  travel  with  her 
father  in  the  mountains  of  Germany  look- 
ing at  glass  factories,  and  next  winter  she 
will  have  a  position  co-ordinating  the 
Economics,  History  and  Government  of 
the  Boston  Branch  of  the  Katharine 
Gibbs  School  of  Secretarial  Training  for 
Educated  Women.  She  will  be  married 
next  June. 

Tibby  Lawrence  as  usual  is  bringing 
glory  to  '25.  She  has  won  a  Carnegie 
European  Scholarship  at  Barnard  and 
will  study  art  in  Paris  next  winter — (I 
think). 

And  Kathy  McBride  will  be  Warden  of 
Wyndham  and  do  graduate  work  in 
Psych. 

Briggy  and  Clarence  Leuba  and  Rich- 
ard and  Roger  will  also  ornament  the 
campus  next  winter  when  Clarence  will 
teach  some  of  the  Psych. 

Chissy  has  been  made  head  of  stock  in 
the  bathing  suit  department  of  Macy's — 
and  this  being  the  rush  season,  has  about 
120  young  things  under  her  to  break  in. 

And  now  for  the  European  exodus — 
Nan  Hough  (with  six  weeks  vacation 
from  Ginn  &  Co.)  and  Sue  Carey  and 
Crit  Coney  will  tramp  and  bicycle  through 
England  in  July  and  August. 

Adelaide  Eicks  and  Caroline  Quarles 
are  already  gallivanting  abroad. 

And  Blit  and  Fred  Conger  start  for 
England  in  August.  But  by  the  way,  you 
probably  saw  in  '28's  class  notes  that 
Bobby  Loines  Dreier  and  Yildiz  Phillips 
Van  Hulsteyn  are  racing  for  Class  Baby. 
Well  that's  very  exciting  because  Bobby 
is  our  niece  and  so  here  we  are — Fred 
and  Blit — racing  against  untold  odds 
(who  knows  how  many  Aunts  and  Uncles 
Yildiz  has?)  to  be  Class  Great  Uncle  and 
Great  Aunt.  I  tell  you  the  responsibilities 
certainly  begin  young  nowadays. 

1927 
Class  Editor:  Ellenor  Morris, 
Berwyn,  Pa. 
Being  an   unofficial   gathering,   the   re- 
union was  not  attended  by  many  of  the 
class,    which    was    unfortunate    as    Lucy 
Shoe  made  a  very  efficient  manager  and 
could  have  handled  hordes. 
.  A  picnic  was  held  on  Saturday  night, 
and   was   attended   by   Valinda    Hill    Du 
Bose,   who   contributed   a   very   excellent 
cake  (just  think  what  married  life  can  do 
for  one!);  and  by  Sara  Pinkerton,  Mad 
Pierce  Lemmon,  Billy  Holcombe  Trotter, 
Florence  Day,  Hazel  Fitz,  Helen  Klopfer, 
Gertrude   Richman,    Elise   Nachman   and 
Lucy. 

The  class  wishes  to  extend  to  Ellen 
Haines  its  deepest  sympathy  on  the  death 


of  her  brother.  He  was  carried  over  a 
dam  in  a  stream  near  Richmond,  where 
he  was  at  school,  and  drowned.  Ellen  has 
been  studying  medicine  this  winter  in 
Philadelphia. 

Eleanor  Wooley  is  married  to  Cedric 
Fowler,  a  Canadian,  who  is  living  in  New 
York  and  writing  a  book  which,  according 
to  Minna  Lee  Jones,  will  certainly  be 
banned. 

On  April  20th  Winnie  Winchester  was 
married  to  Randolph  Brandt.  Among  the 
bridesmaids  were  Ursula  Squier  Reimers, 
Ruth  Rickaby  and  Eliza  Boyd. 

It  was  doubtless  a  fine  rehearsal  for 
Rick,  who  on  May  18th  became  Mrs. 
Louis  J.  Damstadt,  with  a  wedding  recep- 
tion a,t  Sherry's  as  Winnie  had. 

Marion  Leary  is  married  to  Godfrey 
Twachtman  and  K.  Simonds  is  engaged 
to  Lovell  Thompson.  Unfortunately  no 
further  details  on  either  of  these  events 
have  penetrated  to  the  class  editor.  This 
is  considered  particularly  cruel  in  the  case 
of  the  latter  considering  the  volume  of 
correspondence  which  used  to  pass  be- 
tween our  two  pens  during  the  hours 
spent  on  Europe  since  1870. 

Connie  Jones  is  teaching  at  Baldwins, 
and  appears  regularly  at  the  functions  in 
Goodhart. 

Nan  Bowman  is  still  at  Medical  School 
in  Pittsburgh,  although  she  was  very  ill 
this  winter.  Reports  vary  as  to  the  exact 
malady,  but  so  far  the  three  favorites  are 
appendicitis,  pneumonia  and  typhoid 
fever.  She  is  going  on  a  tour  of  Central 
Europe  this  summer  with  Jinny  Atmore 
and  a  number  of  others. 

Jan  is  going  to  Summer  School  at 
Columbia  to  take  courses  in  physical 
education,  and  will  return  in  the  fall  as 
an  important  member  of  Bryn  Mawr's 
athletic  staff. 

And  speaking  of  returns  to  the  campus 
— a  few  weeks  ago  a  member  of  '27  was 
seated  before  Miss  King  in  her  all  too 
familiar  study  listening  to  the  prospective 
duties  of  a  reader  for  the  first-year  class 
in  history  of  art.  At  the  end  of  which 
she  murmured: 

"Is  the  position  like  Miss  Barber's?" 
"No,  Miss  Morris,  like  Miss  Ling's!" 
Thereupon  that  trembling  aspirant  sank 
gracefully,  if  only  mentally,  through  the 
floor  of  the  lib,  but  has  nevertheless  ac- 
cepted the  position. 

Jessie  Hendrick  is  still  studying  law  at 
Oxford,  where  she  is  to  take  her  final 
exams  this  spring.  She  writes,  "we  are 
still  dining  at  the  Middle  Temple  every 
term,  but  won't  have  qualified  for  the 
English  bar  until  about  next  Christmas, 
and  then  only  if  we  successfully  pass  our 


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final  bar  exam  which  unfortunately  are 
quite  apart  from  the  University  exams, 
and  even  include  different  subjects.  The 
Temple  is  a  great  thrill,  studying  in  the 
library  and  lunching  in  the  little  shops 
near  the  courts.  This  winter,  I  had  some 
rather  interesting  visits  to  local  assizes, 
and  to  the  Law  Courts  on  Fleet  Street, 
and  one  day  I  heard  a  murder  trial  from 
beginning  to  end." 

Dot  Irwin  Headley  has  a  little  boy 
born  on  the  first  of  June.  He  arrived 
just  in  time  for  reunion,  but  for  some 
strange  reason  his  mother  did  not  see  fit 
to  bring  him  to  the  picnic. 

Freddie  deLaguna  is  going  on  an  ex- 
pedition to  Greenland  this  summer  to  help 
excavate  a  prehistoric  Eskimo  kitchen- 
midden.  Thus  ako  our  intellectuals  go 
domestic ! 

Agnes  Newhall  has  been  awarded  a 
Special  Fellowship  at  the  School  of 
Athens,  and  Lucy  Shoe  has  won  in  com- 
petitive examinations  another  of  their 
fellowships.  They  will  be  there  together 
next  year.  Tommy  Wyckoff",  by  the  way, 
is  official  artist  and  photographer  at  the 
same  school. 

Mary  Zelia  Pease  has  a  scholarship  at 
Yale. 

Ellen  Haines  is  going  to  be  the  nurse 
at  Bates  House  this  summer. 

"Gabbie"  Sewall  is  at  home  in  Port- 
land, Oregon,  very  much  engrossed  with 
Junior  League  activities,  and  the  scenery 
end  of  a  theatre  guild — the  Portland  Civic 
Players. 


1928 

Class  Editor:  Helen  McKelvey, 
341  Madison  Ave.,  New  York. 

REUNION 

Christobel  Robin  is  going  to  College, 

A  wee  little  slip  of  a  lass, 
She  hopes  to  acquire  superflous  knowledge 

By  lying  in  her  shirt  on  the  grass. 
Christobel     Robin     can't     walk     without 
hopping, 

She  blames  that  on  May  Day  here, 
She    wears    a    band    and    won't    wear    a 
stocking, 

She's  just  gone  collegiate,  I  fear. 

This  was  one  of  Puppie's  comments  in 
her  delightful  speech  at  Alumnae  Ban- 
quet. Twenty-eight  of  1928  met  very 
informally  and  successfully  in  Radnor. 
Our  reunion  began  with  supper  in  the 
Common  Room  on  Saturday,  where  we 
voted  to  meet  in  Denbigh  next  year,  and 
in  Goodhart  for  dinner  forever  and  ever. 
Sunday  was  scattered,   some  to   Ginny's 


for  supper  (Ginny  was  a  perfect  reunion 
manager),  and  others  to  the  surrounding 
country. 

Our  Alice-in-Wonderland  Pinafores 
drove  Peg  Haley  and  Tuttle  to  send 
frantic  calls  to  Philadelphia,  and  then 
didn't  come  till  the  music  played  on  Mon- 
day morning.  We  flung  them  over  our 
print  dresses  and  flowing  hair  and 
marched  off  with  Kay  carrying  a  large 
yellow  cat  washed  in  Lux.  It  behaved 
very  well  until  the  band  began  to  play 
and  then  became  convulsive. 

'98  was  very  kind  to  us  on  Monday 
evening  after  we  had  given  up  hope  of 
food,  they  fed  us  chicken,  cakes,  and 
lumos  of  sugar  from  their  end  of  the 
table. 

Puppie  covered  herself  with  glory  in 
Doetry  and  prose: 

What  is  the  matter  with  Mary  Jane? 
She  has  no  exams  and  she  hasn't  a  pain. 
There's  lovely  stewed  peaches  for  dinner 

again — 
What  is  the  matter  with  Mary  Jane? 

Quite  a  few  more  came  in  for  the  Ban- 
quet and  Garden  Party,  and  so  as  Ginny 
said,  we  got  collegiate  after  all. 

Peggy  Hess  has  been  reporting  for  the 
Evening  World,  and  has  her  name  signed 
to  long  interviews  with  celebrities.  The 
last  one  we  saw  was  a  most  amusing 
write-up  of  Marion  Tally's  departure 
from  opera. 

Jo  Stetson  dropped  in  on  her  way  to 
lunch  with  Stewy.  We  like  having  people 
drop  in  here,  as  we  have  said  before,  and 
want  to  encourage  every  one  to  do  so. 
It's  only  a  step  from  the  Grand  Central 
Station — Week  End  Book  Service,  341 
Madison  Avenue ;  now  don't  forget  it ! 

Edith  Morgan  Whitaker  writes  from 
Leland  Stanford,  Calif.,  that  she  likes  the 
West  very  much,  but  will  be  glad  to  be 
East  again  next  year,  as  is  their  present 
plan. 

Our  book  business  is  as  much  fun  as 
ever.  Lately  I  have  been  making  speeches 
on  modern  novels  before  local  women's 
clubs;  I  look  back  gracefully  to  oral  re- 
ports every  time  I  find  myself  standing 
before  groups  of  women. 


CAMP   MYSTIC 

Miss  Jobe's  salt  water  camp  for  girls 
8-18  Conducted  by  Mrs  Carl  Akeley  < Mary 
L.  Jobe) .  Halfway,  New  York  and  Boston. 
Land  and   water  sports.     Horseback  riding. 

MARY  L  JOBE,  Room  507.     607  Fifth  Ave.,  N.Y.C. 


The  Saint  Timothys  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

Founded  September  1882 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head   of  the  School 

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY   E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  1785) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 

A  country  day    school  for  boys 

MODERN  AND  WELL  EQUIPPED 
Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 

UNIVERSITYgTrLS 

BOARDING  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough    and    successful    Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive  Chicago,  Illinois 

THE  HARTRIDGE   SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

SO  minutes  from  New  York 

A  country  school  with  beautiful  grounds. 
College   Preparatory  and   General   Courses. 
Over  fifty  girls  in  leading  colleges  today. 
Resident  Department  carefully  restricted. 
Special  attention  to  Music  and  Art. 
Athletics,  Dramatics,  Riding, 

EMELYN  B.  HARTRIDGE,  Vassar,  A.B.,  Principal 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey 


The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY,    CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT,  A.B. 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


mdrAHi 


OGERSHALI, 

TlModern  School  with  New  England  Traditions 

OT^HL  r  Thorough  Preparation  for  any  College 

B    ^Ml  One  Year  Intensive  Review 

■H  ^B^^  Oeneral  Academic  Course  with  di- 
^Bh  ^^^ploma.  Junior  College  Courses — Home 
kcuiiomics,  secretarial  Training,  Music,  Art,  Dramatic 
Art.  26  Miles  from  Boston  Outdoor  Sports.  Riding. 
Gymnasium.    Swimming  Pool. 

EDITH  CHAPIN  CRAVEN,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 
201  Rogers  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

/1ARCUAV  SCHQ)L 

BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mavwr  and 
all  leading  colleges 

Musical  Course  prepares  tor  the  Depart- 
ment of  Music  of  Bryn  Mawr  College 
L.  MAY  WILLIS,  Principal 
EDITH  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School  . 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 

Individual  Instruction.    Athletics. 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa 

Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address:    Bryn  MaWr,  Pa. 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON  COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vassar) 

Principal 


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THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 


GRAY  GABLES 


Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 
One   year  course  for  Board   Examination. 

For  catalog  address: 

Hope  Fisher,   Ph.D.,   Bancroft   School 

Worcester,  Massachusetts 


MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 
COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses  Junior  High  School 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,  Headmistress 

The  Katharine  Branson  School 

ROSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Francisco 

A  Country  School    College  Preparatory 

Head: 
Katharine   Fleming   Branson,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

1330  19th  St.,  N.  W.  Washington,  D.  C. 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 

Head  Mistress 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 
Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 


FERRY    HALL 

A    RESIDENT    AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On   Lake  Michigan,  near   Chicago 

Junior  College;  High  School  Department:  College 
Preparatory  and  General  Courses.  Special  Departments 
of  Music.  Expression  and  Art. 

Two  new  dormitories,  including  new  dining  room  and 
infirmary,  to  be  opened  September  1929. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 

ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 
(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  courses) 

J  Heed  Mistresses 

GREENWICH       -       -        CONNECTICUT 

The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 

(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr.  Mount  Holyoke.  Smith. 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  colleges.     Abundant  outdoor  life. 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis. 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON,  A.B. 

HEAD 

THE  LOW  AND  HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

64th  year.     Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN  POINT,  STAMFORD,  CONN. 


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'  carrison  forest 


^    pr      A  Modern  Country  School  in  the 
Green  Spring  Valley  near   Balti- 
more.   Excellent  Equipment.    All  Sports. 
Special  Emphasis  on    Horseback  Riding. 

Garrison  Forest  Girls  who  are  going  to  college 
are  thoroughly  prepared  for  any  institution. 

Other  girls  take  courses  with  special  emphasis 
on  Music  and  Art.  Younger  girls  live  in  a 
separate  Junior  House. 

Mild  Climate.    Nation-wide  Clientele. 


Principals 

MISS  JEAN  G.  MARSHALL 

MISS  NANCY  OFFUTT, 

Bryn  Mawr,  ex  '20 

Box  B,  Garrison,  Maryland 


THE  CAMBRIDGE  SCHOOL 

DOMESTIC     ARCHITECTURE 

LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE 

A  Professional  School  for  College 

Graduates 

The  Academic  Year  for  1929-30  opens 

Monday,  October  7,  1929. 

Henry  Atherton  Frost  —  Director 

53    Church   Street,   Cambridge,  Mass. 

At  Harvard  Square 


Helen   F.  McKelvey 

Bryn  Mawr,  1928 

AND 

Caroline  Schauffler 

Smith,  1928 
wish  to  remind  you  that 

BOOKS 

Are  the  perfect  all-year  round  gift 
for  your  friends  and  yourself. 

We  deliver  to  any  steamer  sailing 
from  the  port  of  New  York. 

Our  de  luxe  wrapping  makes  gifts 
from  the  Week  End  Book  Service 
a  special  treat. 

Books  mailed  anywhere  with  no 
extra  charge  for  postage. 

WEEK  END  BOOK  SERVICE 

341  Madison  Avenue,  New  York 

TELEPHONE:  Lexington  7484 


Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 


GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  19  miles  from  New  York.     College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.      Music       Art  and 

Domestic  Science.      Catalogue  on  request.      Box  B. 

MIRIAM   A.   BYTEL,    A.B.,   Radcliffe,   Principal 

BERTHA   GORDON   WOOD,   A.B.,   Bryn   Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


I 


INTENSIVE  WINTER  AND 
SUMMER  COURSES 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  of  costume  design  and  illus- 
tration taught  In  shortest  time  com- 
patible with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  for 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
partment disposes  of  student  work. 
Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
Bureau.    Write  for  announcement. 


In  Arnold,  Constable  &,  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

1680  Broadway  (near  52nd  St.)  New  Y< 


Katharine  Qbbs 

A  school  of  unusual  character  with  a  distinctive 
purpose  for  educated  women 
SECRETARIAL   ACADEMIC  EXECUTIVE 
BOSTON 


90  Marlboro  Street 
Resident  and 
Day  School 

NEW  YORK 
247  Park  Avenue 

PROVIDENCE 
155  Angeli  Street 


Special  Course  for  College 
Women.  Selected  subjects 
preparing  for  executive  posi- 
tions. Separate  classrooms 
and  special  instructors. 
One-year  Course  includes  tech- 
nical and  broad businesstrain- 
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What  Miss  Park  will  say  to  the  entering  Freshmen,  that  chosen  band,  we  do 
not  yet  know  at  the  time  this  goes  to  print.  Certainly  it  will  be  something  that  is 
pertinent  to  their  life  in  the  college,  and  something  that  will  give  them  a  conception 
of  the  cultural  pattern  of  which  they  are  to  form  a  part.  Religion  in  School  and 
College,  an  address  given  almost  a  year  ago  by  Rufus  Jones  before  the  Association 
of  Colleges  and  Secondary  Schools,  makes  one  stop  to  think  about  this  pattern.  No 
one  with  even  the  slightest  knowledge  of  Anthropology  can  fail  to  realize  how  closely 
the  thread  of  the  inner  life,  call  it  spiritual,  religious,  philosophic, — what  you  will,  is 
woven  into  the  group  life.  The  college  has  always  felt  that  its  concern  witih  the 
inner  life  was  primarily  on  the  intellectual  side,  that  the  young  student  "more  par- 
ticularly needs  interpretations  of  great  literature  and  interpretations  of  the  universe 
and  of  life  that  will  carry  him  beyond  the  visible  and  the  tangible  and  will  make 
unseen  realities  real  to  him."  Some  of  us  interpreted  these  realities  in  one  term,  some 
in  another,  we  put  our  faith  in  organization,  and  had  what  was  quite  literally  a 
passion  for  good  works.  That  was  the  general  outline  of  the  pattern  that  we  wove 
for  ourselves.  But  our  pattern  is  evidently  not  the  one  best  suited  to  the  present 
college  generation.  When  the  undergraduates  last  year  reorganized  the  Christian  asso- 
ciation their  desire  was  not  merely  to  change  the  old  but  to  change  it  into  something 
that  would  meet  their  needs  and  would  help  to  complete  their  lives.  One  cannot  help 
wishing  that  the  Address  could  have  been  made  to  the  students  as  well  as  to  the 
faculties.  One  may  or  may  not  like  the  pattern,  but  the  thing  that  is  important  is 
that  when  it  is  made  by  the  students  themselves,  it  is  an  essential  part  of  the  whole 
design  of  the  group  life. 


RELIGION  IN  SCHOOL  AND  COLLEGE  TODAY* 

Reprinted  from  Independent  Education,  December,  1928 
By  Rufus  M.  Jones 

The  Jewish  Talmud  tells  us  that  one  of  the  Pharaohs  of  Egypt  once  had  a  strange 
dream.  He  was  seated  on  his  throne  and,  lifting  up  his  eyes,  he  saw  two  fingers 
come  out  of  the  darkness.  Between  these  fingers  there  shone  a  rod  longer  than  a 
sunbeam.  From  this  rod  there  hung  the  two  pans  of  a  pair  of  weighing  scales;  one, 
which  was  below,  was  of  gold  and  vast  as  a  continent.  The  other,  which  was  high 
up,  was  of  plaited  straw  and  little  as  a  bird's  nest.  On  the  pan  of  gold  he  saw  what 
looked  like  a  river;  and  going  up  from  this  river  were  harvests  and  harvesters,  warriors 
and  chariots,  cities  and  pyramids,  kings  and  queens.  Then  he  saw  a  little  child  put 
on  the  pan  of  straw  and,  behold !  the  pan  of  gold  with  the  river  and  the  harvests  and 
the  cities  and  pyramids  and  kings  and  queens  rose  as  the  balance-pan  with  the  little 
child  in  it  pulled  them  down.  This  vision  might  mean  many  things.  To  the  pious 
talmudist  the  little  child  no  doubt  was  Moses,  but  here  in  America,  where  little  babies 
who  are  to  be  great  prophets  are  not  often  set  afloat  in  arks  of  bulrushes,  it  may  stand 
for  something  else. 

The  pan  of  gold  as  big  as  a  continent,  filled  with  commerce  and  wealth,  with 
success  and  prosperity,  may  well  stand  for  the  triumph  of  our  present  type  of  educa- 
tion, occupied  as  it  is  with  the  conquest  of  the  outside  world  in  which  we  live  and 
work  and  prosper.  The  other  little  bird's  nest  pan,  hung  high  in  the  air  and  almost 
empty,  waiting  for  the  child  to  arrive  and  shift  the  balance,  will  then  represent  the 
coming  type  of  education,  which  will  be  more  concerned  to  fashion  the  moral  and 
spiritual  character  of  those  who  fill  our  schools  and  colleges  than  merely  to  discover 
and  to  know  the  facts  of  a  world  in  space. 

It  is  obvious  to  most  thoughtful  observers  that  the  rightly  fashioned,  home  is  the 
best  nursery  of  religion  that  there  is.  The  spiritual  gains  of  the  race  can  be- trans- 
mitted from  the  family-group  to  the  new-born  child  more  easily  and  more  naturally 
in  the  small  social  circle  of  the  home  than  anywhere  else.  But  the  first  requisite  for 
this  important  business  is  the  actual  existence  of  such  rightly-fashioned  homes.  There 
are  some  such  centers  of  life  but  they  are  none  too  common  in  our  busy  and  material 
world.  The  big  pan  with  its  secular  content  too  often  tilts  downward  and  lifts  the 
little  child  in  the  bird's  nest  above  the  reach  of  the  kind  of  nurture  that  he  needs  for 
the  formation  of  a  well-organized  moral  and  spiritual  character. 

Then,  too,  even  when  this  sort  of  nurture  is  furnished  in  the  home,  the  child 
often  finds  the  method  and  atmosphere,  and  especially  the  emphasis,,  so  wholly  different 
in  school  that  there  soon  arises  within  him  a  stern  collision  between  the  new  stage  of 
culture  and  the  faith  and  ideals  which  the  home  had  slowly  built  up  in  him.  To  a 
certain  extent  this  collision,  which  comes  with  growth  and  expansion,  is  inevitable, 
and  perhaps  desirable,  but  it  is  more  disastrous  under  our  present  educational  system 
than  it  legitimately  ought  to  be. 

I  will  say  in  passing  that  the  Church  and  the  Sunday  School  ought  to  become 
much  more  effective  than  they  now  are  in  what  we  call  the  culture  of  the  spirit, 
and  the  formation  of  character.     But  the  failure  at  that  crucial  point  is  hardly  less 

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BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  3 

tragic  than  the  failure  in  the  present-day  home.  Even  if  the  Church  and  the  Sunday 
School,  however,  were  a  hundred  times  as  successful  as  they  now  are  in  building  the 
inner  life  of  their  young  people,  we  should  still  have  a  serious  collision  of  emphasis 
and  of  method  between  our  systems  of  secular  education  and  our  centers  of  religious 
culture. 

I  am  bold  to  maintain  that  religious  centers  operating  one  day  in  the  week  will 
always  be  at  a  disadvantage  in  competition  with  forces  working  all  the  other  days, 
and  will  usually  be  more  or  less  annulled  by  the  careful,  systematic  methods  which 
mould  and  organize  the  mind.  I  see  no  sound  hope  for  a  deep  and  genuine  culture 
of  the  religious  spirit  in  our  children  and  our  young  people  unless  that  business  is 
made  a  serious  part  of  the  entire  educational  process  from  the  kindergarten  days  to 
the  end  of  the  college  period. 

I  am,  of  course,  not  thinking  in  the  very  least  degree  in  terms  of  sectarian  or 
denominational  religion.  That  is  certainly  not  a  function  of  general  educational 
culture.  My  old  Harvard  friend,  Professor  Charles  Carroll  Everett,  heard  when 
he  was  a  little  boy  that  there  was  to  be  an  eclipse  of  the  sun,  and  with  a  Scottish 
zeal  he  sold  tickets  to  his  boy  friends  for  ten  cents  apiece  to  see  the  eclipse  in  the 
back  yard  of  the  Everett  home.  The  boys  came  and  paid  their  good  money  for  the 
tickets,  but  soon  found  to  their  surprise  that  they  could  have  seen  the  eclipse  just  as 
well  outside  the  fence  as  inside  it! 

The  fundamentals  of  religion,  the  spiritualizing  process  of  the  religious  attitude, 
is  what  inherently  belongs  to  any  genuine  culture,  and  the  peculiar  aspects  that  attach 
to  the  specific  denominational  group  can  be  left,  and  should  be  left,  to  the  care  of 
each  such  branch  of  organized  religion.  We  are  concerned  as  educators  only  with 
those  aspects  of  religion  which  belong  essentially  to  all  genuine  human  culture  and 
which  have  to  do  with  the  formation  of  personal  life  and  character. 

These  basic  aspects  of  the  spiritual  life  should  be  an  inherent  part  of  everyday 
culture  in  school  and  college.  One  reason  for  the  widespread  loss  of  interest  in  chapel 
exercises,  amounting  in  some  institutions  almost  to  a  revolt  against  them,  is  the  fact 
that  they  often  seem  "foreign"  to  the  occupations  and  concerns  of  the  rest  of  the  day 
or  of  the  rest  of  the  week,  something  of  another  order  injected,  as  it  were,  into  the 
student's  life  from  the  outside.  He  fails  in  many  cases  to  see  the  worth  of  the  chapel 
exercise  or  its  function  in  his  settled  plan  of  life.  There  is  no  quick  or  easy  remedy 
for  the  existing  situation.  More  impressive  chapels,  more  effective  chaplains,  will  do 
something  temporarily  to  change  the  attitude,  but  the  ultimate  solution  lies  deeper. 
It  involves  the  creation  of  a  profounder  spiritual  culture  of  the  entire  life  of  the  child 
and  the  youth  through  all  the  grades  of  his  education,  and  a  much  clearer  recognition 
of  the  fact  that  the  potential  spiritual  nature  of  a  child  is  one  of  the  most  precious 
assets  that  has  been  committed  to  our  keeping. 

Our  present  education  is  comparatively  far  too  heavily  weighted  with  the 
material  and  secular  interests  of  life.  It  is,  of  course,  perfectly  natural  that  it  should 
be  so.  The  world  crowds  in  on  us.  It  bombards  us  through  every  sense.  We  are 
abundantly  supplied  with  instincts  and  emotions  that  urge  us  to  get  adjusted  to  our 
physical  environment.  In  fact,  our  very  survival  depends  on  such  adjustment.  Educa- 
tion has,  therefore,  naturally  taken  the  line  of  least  resistance.  It  has  endeavored  to 
achieve  a  mastery  over  the  forces  and  energies  of  nature,  to  discover  and  formulate 
the  laws  of  the  visible  universe.  Stars  and  plants,  birds  and  beasts,  tides  and  weather 
are  interesting  things  and  they  rightly  get  into  the  focus  of  attention  in  early  training. 


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There  is  a  fascination  about  the  inevitable  character  of  mathematical  numbers,  and 
the  processes  of  mathematics  underlie  all  our  co-operative  efforts  to  explain  our  facts 
and  to  live  together  in  a  common  world,  so  that  we  are  bound  to  learn  how  to  add, 
subtract,  multiply  and  divide.  Education  naturally  follows  the  main  lines  of  human 
interest  and  these  lines  of  interest  are  tied  up  with  the  visible,  the  tangible,  and  with 
the  practical.  We  have  done  what  was  easiest  to  do  in  our  educational  achievements, 
and  we  have  built  our  general  systems  of  education  to  fit  the  obvious  instinctive  drives 
of  the  race. 

But  now  we  know,  or  at  least  some  of  us  do,  that  we  have  been  making  very 
incomplete  persons,  one-sided  and  warped  individuals,  even  where  they  have  not  been 
dwarfed  and  stunted,  as  they  sometimes  have  been,  and,  what  is  perhaps  more 
ominous,  we  have  been  unconsciously  shaping  a  cultural  civilization  that  is  loaded 
with  dangers  and  that  is  pointed  toward  imminent  disasters.  We  have  unearthed 
tremendous  secrets  of  life  and  death.  We  know  how  to  control  birth  processes  and 
how  to  kill  at  a  distance  in  ways  that  baffle  pursuit  and  discovery.  Our  wars  are  no 
longer  training  grounds  for  heroism  and  chivalry.  They  have  become  nightmares  of 
horror,  and  they  threaten  to  bring  the  actual  collapse  of  civilization  in  their  train. 

The  capacity  to  use  the  forces  of  control  and  the  enginery  of  destruction  are  not 
confined  to  scientific  laboratories ;  they  have  filtered  down  and  have  become  the  prop- 
erty of  the  rank  and  file  of  our  people.  The  common  man  of  the  street  has  them  to 
use,  but  he  is  not  morally  trained  to  use  them.  We  have  flung  wide  open  the  doors 
of  freedom  to  persons  of  every  class  and  every  walk  of  life.  We  are  living  in  an  age 
marked  by  the  invasion  of  the  common  man,  not  to  speak  of  the  common  woman,  into 
the  possession  of  every  right  and  the  enjoyment  of  every  privilege  that  once  belonged 
only  to  the  aristocrats  and  the  elites  of  society.  We  have  "leveled  up"  in  the  domain 
of  rights  and  privileges,  but  we  have  done  very  little  to  supply  moral  discipline  and 
spiritual  insight  to  the  masses  or  even  to  those  who  hold  the  leadership  of  the  world. 
We  have  not  raised  in  any  corresponding  way  the  moral  and  spiritual  side  of  life 
without  which  the  world  cannot  be  made  safe  for  democracy,  or  for  any  other  issues 
of  responsibility. 

There  are  two  characteristically  different  types  of  education.  One  of  them 
puts  the  emphasis  on  information ;  the  other  puts  the  main  emphasis  on  the  formation 
of  life  and  character.  The  two  types  cannot,  of  course,  be  sharply  divided  asunder, 
but  the  aim  and  focus  in  the  one  case  will  be  quite  unlike  the  aim  and  focus  in  the 
other.  Our  educational  systems  for  the  last  hundred  years  have  been  primarily 
concerned  with  information,  instruction  in  reference  to  objective  facts,  and  with  prac- 
tical results.  They  have  been  keyed  to  produce  persons  who  could  find  the  resources 
of  nature  and  who  could  do  the  things  that  needed  to  be  done  in  our  world.  This 
educational  policy  has  been  subtly  and  unconsciously  preparing  the  way  for  the  theory 
that  man's  specific  "behavior"  is  the  matter  of  real  importance  about  him.  His  interior 
life  is  more  or  less  negligible  and  may  be  shelved  without  being  seriously  missed. 
The  emphasis  in  education  has  been  acutely,  even  thumpingly,  objective  and  scientific. 
The  laboratories  have  been  busy  with  the  conquest  and  control  of  the  external  world. 
They  have  "cashed  in"  immense  results 

Meantime,  the  little  child  in  the  bird's  nest  pan  of  our  educational  scales  is  high 
up  in  the  air  and  almost  overlooked  in  our  busy  absorption  with  tangible  and  practical 
things.  We  have  hardly  realized  in  any  proper  degree  that  genuine  culture  involves 
the  training  and  development  of  all  those  aspects  and  attitudes  of  the  inner  life  which 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  5 

are  essential  to  religion,  and  we  have  in  any  case  neglected  to  create  any  adequate 
technique  for  this  fundamental  type  of  education.  Compare,  for  instance,  the  marvelous 
laboratory  equipment,  and  the  elaborate,  and  at  the  same  time  accurate,  technique, 
provided  for  the  study  of  the  atomic  structure  of  matter  as  over  against  the  feeble 
preparation  which  any  institution,  of  any  grade  whatever,  makes  to  insure  the  forma- 
tion and  development  of  moral  insight  or  the  training  and  discipline  of  a  rightly 
fashioned  will,  or  the  appreciation  of  those  spiritual  values  of  life  which  are  essential 
to  religion. 

Up  to  a  certain  point,  I  am  in  sympathy  with  the  "behaviorists."  They  have  at 
least  insisted  that  behavior  is  a  very  important  feature  of  life  and  that  it  is  something 
which  can  be  systematically  and  scientifically  trained.  They  declare,  and  to  a  certain 
extent  they  prove,  that  the  lives  of  little  children  can  be  remoulded  and  refashioned 
by  principles  and  methods  which  they  have  discovered  in  their  laboratories  and  have 
demonstrated  in  actual  practice.  Primitive  fears  and  hampering  complexes  can, 
within  limits,  be  either  eliminated  or  at  least  so  transformed  and  sublimated  that  they 
will  become  constructive  forces  rather  than  "defeative"  ones.  What  we  usually  call 
"disposition"  can  be  profoundly  altered  and  can  be  taken  from  the  devil's  column 
of  liabilities  and  carried  over  to  the  column  of  assets  on  the  angel's  side  of  the  account. 
I  am  willing  to  be  included  in  the  behaviorist  ranks  so  far  as  they  can  help  in  this 
laudable  educational  adventure. 

I  part  from  them  when  we  come  to  an  interpretation  of  the  deeper,  inner  nature 
of  the  self.  I  see  no  way  to  talk  intelligently  about  any  realities  of  intrinsic  value 
by  which  we  can  live,  and  actually  do  live,  unless  we  presuppose  a  spiritual  nature 
within  us  of  a  wholly  different  order  from  physiological  brain  paths,  or  neural  processes, 
or  muscle-jerks,  or  gland-secretions.  I  take  no  stand  for  the  old-fashioned  concept 
of  an  abstract  soul-entity,  operating  at  the  peak  of  the  pineal  gland,  or  in  some  other 
mysterious  region  of  the  brain.  I  insist  only  that  there  is  some  abiding  reality  essential 
to  us,  that  dominates,  organizes,  and  integrates  all  human  experience,  that  anticipates, 
sorts  and  selects  all  our  events  and  happenings  and  that  controls  conduct  in  the  light 
of,  and  for  the  sake  of,  ideal  ends,  and  that  makes  us  unique  and  creative  beings. 

The  inadequacy  of  medieval  theories  of  the  soul  have  naturally  produced  a  revolt 
from  the  crude  conceptions  of  it,  as  the  inadequacy  of  the  Ptolemaic  theory  of  the 
heavens  produced  the  Copernical  revolt  from  it.  The  only  difference  is  that  in  the 
latter  case  scientists  took  pains  to  form  a  new  theory  of  planetary  revolutions  which 
fits  all  the  facts,  whereas  in  the  former  case  we  have  thrown  overboard  an  antiquated 
theory  of  the  soul  without  taking  much  pains  to  reconstruct  the  inner  life  of  man 
in  the  light  of  all  the  facts  of  experience.  We  are  consequently  floundering  about  with 
inadequate  psychological  foundations  and  with  pitiably  slender  technique  for  the 
culture  of  the  human  spirit. 

The  educational  achievement  which  we  need  most  at  the  present  moment  is,  I 
think,  a  truer  comprehension  of  the  immense  potential  spiritual  nature  of  the  child. 
If  we  assume  that  his  behavior  is  all  that  matters,  or  if  we  are  bent  solely  on  preparing 
him  to  be  an  efficient  instrument  or  tool  for  the  work  of  a  material  civilization,  our 
entire  educational  method  will  be  very  different  from  the  one  we  should  propose  if  we 
approached  our  problem  with  a  vivid  sense  that  we  were  engaged  in  the  creative  work 
of  developing  a  person  with  inexhaustible  capacities  for  the  appreciation  and  enjoyment 
of  beauty,  truth,  love  and  goodness,  and  for  fellowship  with  a  Great  Companion  who 
is  the  source  of  these  inward  riches  of  life.    I  want  to  sec  educators  turn  to  this  task 


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with  the  same  seriousness  of  intention  that  has  characterized  the  investigation  of 
the  nature  of  the  atom!  Then  it  will  be  conquered! 

We  already  know  enough  to  be  sure  that  there  is  vast  sub-soil  wealth  within  the 
inner  deeps  below  the  surface  currents  of  the  mind.  All  our  thoughts  and  feelings  and 
decisions  spring  from  the  submerged  life  within  us  and  any  methods  and  processes 
that  fertilize  and  enrich  this  sub-soil  of  the  soul  are  of  great  importance  for  spiritual 
culture.  It  is  a  well-tested  fact  that  short  periods  of  hush  and  silent  meditation 
increase  the  interior  depth  and  generate  strength  and  power.  I  am  convinced  that  we 
could  learn  much  in  this  direction  from  the  methods  of  quiet  meditation  which  form 
an  essential  part  of  the  earliest  education  of  little  children  in  India.  The  practice 
ministers  both  to  physical  and  to  spiritual  health. 

Religion  is  born  in  its  elemental  stages  out  of  attitudes  of  surprise,  wonder,  awe, 
reverence  and  those  unanalyzable  intimations  of  a  Larger  Life  impinging  on  our  own, 
which  almost  all  children  experience.  Professor  Rudolf  Otto  in  his  unique  study  of 
religion  points  out  what  he  calls  "the  consciousness  of  the  numinous"  is  as  funda- 
mental and  as  unique  an  experience  as  is  beauty,  or  love.  It  is,  he  says,  a  hushed  and 
trembling  attitude  of  the  soul,  often  attended  with  the  consciousness  of  something 
overbrimming  and  inflooding,  which  gives  a  sense  of  divine  presence.  Everything  in 
early  education  which  cultivates  the  sense  of  wonder,  everything  that  stimulates  and 
trains  imagination,  helps  forward  the  processes  of  life  that  feed  these  unique  traits 
of  the  soul. 

In  the  later  and  more  developed  stages  of  education,  a  young  student  more  par- 
ticularly needs  interpretations  of  great  literature  and  interpretations  of  the  universe 
and  of  life  that  will  carry  him  beyond  the  visible  and  the  tangible  and  will  make 
unseen  realities  real  to  him.  The  cultivation  of  his  appreciation  of  music  and  art, 
and  of  beauty  in  life  and  nature,  will  minister  directly  to  the  formation  of  a  sense 
of  the  reality  of  spiritual  values.  The  moment  ihe  asks  himself  what  is  the  ground  of 
any  intrinsic  value  which  he  had  learned  to  appreciate,  he  is  pretty  sure  to  be  carried 
back  to  some  underlying  and  transcending  Reality. 

Finally,  in  his  wisely  directed  attempts  to  fathom  the  mysteries  of  life  and  death, 
to  interpret  the  august  authority  of  conscience  and  moral  obligation,  to  explain  the 
spiritual  grandeur  of  the  personality  and  mission  of  Christ  and  to  account  for  the 
unfolding  and  progressive  character  of  this  evolving  world,  he  is  bound  to  reach  out 
beyond  his  tiny,  finite  self  and  to  make  his  connections  with  that  deeper  world  within 
the  world  we  see,  with  which  his  own  spiritual  nature  is  kindred. 


*  Address  given  at  the  recent  Annual  Convention  of  the  Association  of  Colleges  and  Sec- 
ondary Schools  of  the  Middle  States  and  Maryland,  held  at  Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 


NOTICE 


The  slight  change  in  the  date  of  publication  announced  last  year  has  made 
necessary  this  extra  copy  in  order  to  fulfill  our  obligations  to  our  subscribers  and  to 
our  advertisers.  Hereafter  the  first  number  to  appear  in  the  Fall  will  be  the  Novem- 
ber number.  Because  this  number  has  been  done  on  rather  short  notice,  there  are 
various  articles  which  ought  by  rights  to  have  appeared  in  it  but  which,  for  one 
reason  or  another,  have  been  of  necessity  held  over  for  the  November  number. 


ANNOUNCEMENTS 

President  Park,  looking  remarkably  well  and  rested,  has  returned  from  a  summer 
spent  in  Nova  Scotia.  She  plans  to  sail  for  Egypt  on  November  30th  with  Katharine 
Lord,  '01,  and  does  not  expect  to  return  to  Bryn  Mawr  until  the  following  Sep- 
tember. Dean  Manning,  who  has  been  spending  the  summer  working  in  the  record 
office  in  London,  is  back  at  Bryn  Mawr  but  she  will  continue  to  be  on  leave  of  absence, 
in  order  to  work  on  her  book,  until  President  Park  sails.  After  November  30th  Dean 
Manning  will  be  for  the  rest  of  the  year  Acting  President.  Millicent  Carey,  '20,  who 
was  Acting  Dean  for  the  second  semester  of  last  year  will  be  the  Acting  Dean  this  year. 


ALUMNAE  GIFTS  TO  BRYN  MAWR 

Two  legacies  have  been  received  by  Bryn  Mawr  College  this  summer  which  are 
of  special  interest  not  on  account  of  the  sums  of  money  involved  but  on  account  of 
what  they  connote.  One  is  a  bequest  of  ten  thousand  dollars  to  be  used  to  establish 
two  scholarships  by  Mrs.  Eva  Ramsay  Hunt,  the  mother  of  Evelyn  Hunt,  of  the  class 
of  1898,  who  died  in  1916.  These  scholarships  are  to  be  named  in  memory  of  her 
daughter.  Wishing  to  honor  her  son's  name,  Mrs.  Hunt  made  a  like  grant  to  the 
University  Hospital,  but  for  her  daughter  she  chose  her  college. 

The  other  is  a  legacy  from  Mary  E.  Trueman,  of  the  class  of  1905.  After  making 
two  bequests  of  five  thousands  dollars  each  to  two  religious  institutions  she  divided  the 
residue  of  her  twenty-one-thousand-dollar  estate  into  five  parts  and  left  two  parts  to 
her  church  and  three  parts  to  Bryn  Mawr  College  for  the  Department  of  English 
or  History. 

Such  legacies  as  well  as  the  many  other  gifts  made  to  Bryn  Mawr  show  that  the 
Alumnae  and  those  close  to  them  realize  the  great  need  of  the  college  for  money. 
They  show,  too,  the  place  which  Bryn  Mawr  holds  in  their  hearts. 


Florence  C.  Irish,  1913,  has  resigned  her  position  in  the  Alumnae  Office  to  teach 
history  at  the  Agnes  Irwin  School  in  Philadelphia.  She  worked  for  the  Association 
only  one  year,  but  her  brief  connection  with  the  office  was  sufficient  to  make  her 
absence  keenly  felt.    We  wish  her  success  in  her  new  work. 

NEW  COUNCILLOR 

The  Executive  Board  announces  regretfully  the  resignation  of  Margaret  Nichols 
Hardenbergh,  1905,  as  Councillor  for  District  VI.  Mrs.  Hardenbergh  is  moving 
very  unexpectedly  from  Kansas  City  to  Minneapolis,  and  will  no  longer  be  a  resident 
of  District  VI.  The  Board  has  appointed  as  her  successor  Edna  Warkentin  Alden, 
1900,  (Mrs.  Maurice  L.  Alden)  of  Kansas  City.  Mrs.  Alden  has  been  active  in 
organization  work  for  the  American  Association  of  University  Women. 


COUNCIL  MEETING 

The  Alumnae  Council  will  meet  in  New  York  City  on  November  20th,  21st 
and  22nd.  Julia  Langdon  Loomis,  1895  (Mrs.  Edward  E.  Loomis),  Councillor  for 
District  II,  will  be  in  charge. 

(7) 


ELECTION  OF  OFFICERS 

It  will  be  remembered  that  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Association  held  on 
February  4,  1928,  a  change  in  the  By-laws  was  adopted  in  regard  to  the  method  of 
preparing  a  ballot  for  the  officers  of  the  Association.  Article  X,  Section  8  (b)  now 
reads : 

Section  8  (b).  The  Nominating  Committee  shall  biennially  prepare  a  ballot 
presenting  one  or  more  nominations  for  each  officer  of  the  Association.  This  ballot 
shall  be  published  in  the  October  issue  of  the  Alumnae  Bulletin.  Additional 
nominations  may  be  made  for  any  office,  provided  that  each  nomination  be  signed  by 
fifteen  members  of  the  Association  and  be  accompanied  by  the  written  consent  of 
the  Nominee.  All  nominations  must  be  filed  with  the  Recording  Secretary  by  Decem- 
ber first,  preceding  the  Annual  Meeting. 

In  accordance  with  this  procedure,  Mrs.  Talbot  Aldrich,  the  Chairman  of  the 
Nominating  Committee,  has  presented  to  the  Executive  Board  the  following  ballot  as 
prepared  by  the  Nominating  Committee.  The  Executive  Board  has  accepted  the 
ballot,  and  here  presents  it  for  the  consideration  of  the  Association. 


PRESIDENT 

Anne  Kidder  Wilson,  1903 

(Mrs.  Edmund  B.  Wilson) 

New  York  City 


VICE-PRESIDENT 

Gordon  Woodbury  Dunn,   1919 

(Mrs.  Frederick  S.  Dunn) 

Washington,  D.  C. 

RECORDING  SECRETARY 

Gertrude  Hearne  Myers,  1919 

(Mrs.  Charles  Myers) 

St.  Davids,  Pennsylvania 

CORRESPONDING  SECRETARY 

May  Egan  Stokes,  1911 

(Mrs.  J.  Stogdell  Stokes) 

Huntingdon  Valley,  Pennsylvania 

TREASURER 

Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903 
Bryn  Mawr,   Pennsylvania 

(8) 


OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES  OF  THE  BRYN  MAWR 
ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION,  1929 

EXECUTIVE  BOARD 

President — Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,   1906  1926-30 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 
Vice-President— Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  1917  1928-30 

(Mrs.  Wyndham  B.  Blanton) 
Corresponding  Secretary — May  Egan  Stokes,  1911  1928-30 

(Mrs.  J.  Stogdell  Stokes) 
Recording  Secretary — Gertrude  Hearne  Myers,  1919 1928-30 

(Mrs.  Charles  Myers) 

Treasurer— Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903  1928-30 

Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee — Florence  Lexow,  1908 1929-32 

Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee — Caroline  Morrow  Chadwick- 
Collins,  1905  (Mrs.  J.  Chadwick-Collins) 

ALUMNAE  SECRETARY 

Alice  M.  Hawkins,  1907 

EDITOR  OF  THE  BULLETIN 
Marjorie  L.  Thompson,  1912 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  ALUMNAE  FUND 

Florence  Lexow,  1908  1929-32 

DISTRICT  COUNCILLORS 

District  I— Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913  1928-31 

(Mrs.  Robert  M.  Lewis) 
District  II— Julia  Langdon  Loomis,  1895  1927-30 

(Mrs.  Edward  E.  Loomis) 
District  III— Alletta  Van  Reypen  Korff,  1900 1929-32 

(Baroness  Serge  Alexander  Korff) 
District  IV— Katharine  Holliday  Daniels,  1918  1928-31 

(Mrs.  Joseph  J.  Daniels) 
District  V— Frances  Porter  Adler,  1911  1927-30 

(Mrs.  Herman  Adler) 
District  VI— Edna  Warkentin  Alden,  1900  1929-32 

(Mrs.  Maurice  L.  Alden) 
District  VII— Helen  Brayton  Barendt,  1903  1928-31 

(Mrs.  Arthur  H.  Barendt) 
(9) 


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ALUMNAE  DIRECTORS 

Ruth  Furness  Porter,  18%  (Retiring  Director)  1925-29 

(Mrs.  James  F.  Porter) 
Frances  Fincke  Hand,  1897  '. 1925-30 

(Mrs.  Learned  Hand) 

Mary  Peirce,  1912  1926-31 

Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907  .". 1927-32 

(Mrs.  C.  Reed  Cary) 
Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey,  1901  _ 1928-33 

(Mrs.  Dexter  Otey) 
Virginia  Kneeland  Frantz,  1918  (Director-elect) 1929-34 

(Mrs.  Angus  Macdonald  Frantz) 

STANDING  COMMITTEES 

Academic  Committee 

Pauline  Goldmark,  1896,  Chairman  1927-32 

Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,   1906  ex-officio 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 
Marion  Parris  Smith,  1901  1927-30 

(Mrs.  William  Roy  Smith) 
Virginia  McKenney  Claiborne,   1908  1927-30 

(Mrs.  Robert  Claiborne) 
Gordon  Woodbury  Dunn,  1919  1927-32 

(Mrs.  Frederick  Dunn) 

Frances  Browne,  1909  1927-32 

Esther  Lowenthal,  1905 1928-31 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey,  1901  1928-31 

(Mrs.  Dexter  Otey) 

Finance  Committee 

Florence  Lexow,  1908,  Chairman 1929-32 

Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,  1 906  ex-officio 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 

Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1 903  ex-officio 

Caroline  Morrow  Chadwick-Collins,  1905  ex-officio 

(Mrs.  J.  Chadwick-Collins) 

Florence  King,  1896 1927-30 

Cornelia  Halsey  Kellogg,  1900  1928-31 

(Mrs.  Frederic  R.  Kellogg) 
Cora  Baird  Jeanes,  1896  1928-31 

(Mrs.  Henry  S.  Jeanes) 
Eleanor  Marquand  Forsyth,  1919  1929-32 

(Mrs.  George  Forsyth) 


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Scholarships  Committee 

Margaret  Gilman,  1919,  Chairman 1928-33 

Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,  1906  ex-officio 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 

Frances  Arnold,   1897  1925-30 

Emma  O.  Thompson,  1904  1927-32 

Margaret  Reeve  Gary,  1907  1928-33 

(Mrs.  C.  Reed  Cary) 
Anne  H.  Todd,   1902  1929-34 

Committee  on  Health  and  Physical  Education 

Dr.  Marjorie  Murray,  1913,  Chairman  1926-31 

Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,   1906  ex-officio 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 
Marion  Moseley  Sniffen,  1919  1927-32 

(Mrs.  Stewart  B.  Sniff  en) 

Ida  W.  Pritchett,  1914  1927-32 

Mary  Hardy,   1920  1929-34 

Gertrude  Emery,  1915  1929-34 

Publicity  Committee 

Caroline  Morrow  Chadwick-Collins,  1905,  Chairman 

(Mrs.  J.  Chadwick-Collins) 
Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,  1 906  ex-officio 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 

Alice  M.  Hawkins,  1907  ex-officio 

Adelaide  W.  Neall,  1906 _ 1925-31 

Elizabeth  Bent  Clark,  1895 1927-33 

(Mrs.  Herbert  Lincoln  Clark) 

N ominating  Committee 

Eleanor  Little  Aldrich,  1905,  Chairman 1928-32 

(Mrs.  Talbot  Aldrich) 
Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,  1906 ex-officio 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 

Margaret  Corwin,  1912 1926-30 

Kathleen  Johnston  Morrison,  1921 1928-32 

(Mrs.  Theodore  Morrison) 

Frances  Childs,  1923  1929-33 

Elizabeth  Nields  Bancroft,  1898  „ „ 1929-33 

(Mrs.  Wilfred  T.  Bancroft) 


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Furnishing  Committee 

Edith  Pettit  Borie,  1&95,  Chairman  1926 

(Mrs.  Adolphe  Borie) 

Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,  1906  , ex-officio 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 
Eleanor  Marquand  Forsyth,  1919  1926 

(Mrs.  George  Forsyth) 
Frances  Fincke  Hand,  1897  1927 

(Mrs.  Learned  Hand) 
Elizabeth  Bent  Clark,  1895 1927 

(Mrs.  Herbert  Lincoln  Clark) 

BULLETIN  BOARD 

Marjorie  L.  Thompson,  1912,  Editor 

Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,   1906  ex-officio 

(Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay) 

Alice  M.  Hawkins,  1 907  ex-officio 

Caroline  Morrow  Chad  wick-Collins,  1905 

(Mrs.  J.  Chad  wick-Collins) 
May  Egan  Stokes,  1911 

(Mrs.  J.  Stogdell  Stokes) 
Emily  Fox  Cheston,  1908 

(Mrs.  Edward  M.  Cheston) 
Ellenor  Morris,  1927 
Emily  Kimbrough  Wrench,  1921 

(Mrs.  John  Wrench) 
Elinor  Amram,  1928 


CONFERENCE  OF  ALUMNAE  PRESIDENTS  AND 
SECRETARIES 

On  October  31st  a  three-day  conference  of  Alumnae  Presidents  and  Secretaries 
is  to  be  held  at  Bryn  Mawr.  The  Presidents  and  Secretaries  of  the  Alumnae  Associa- 
tions of  Mount  Holyoke,  Radcliffe,  Smith,  Vassar  and  Wellesley  have  accepted  the 
invitation  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae  Association.  They  will  be  entertained  by  the 
College  and  by  the  local  alumnae.  The  business  meeting  will  deal  with  subjects 
which  are  of  common  interest  to  the  six  colleges  for  women  represented  at  the  con- 
ference. 


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1890 

Katharine  Morris  Shipley  graduated  with  the  Class  of  1890  and  was  awarded 
the  European  Fellowship  of  that  year.  She  entered  College  with  the  first  class  in 
1885  and  was  so  identified  with  it  that  she  asked  to  be  included  in  '89's  fortieth 
reunion  last  June.  When  the  day  came,  she  was  too  ill  to  be  present  and  she  passed 
away  a  week  later,  June  11,  1929. 

Katharine  Shipley  spent  the  year  1890-91  studying  in  the  University  of  Leipzig, 
Germany,  and  in  the  Sorbonne,  Paris.  In  1894  with  her  two  sisters,  Miss  Hannah 
L.  Shipley  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Shipley,  she  founded  the  Shipley  School  and  with  them 
continued  to  develop  it  until  1916,  when  it  passed  into  the  hands  of  their  niece,  Alice 
Howland,  Bryn  Mawr,  1905,  and  Eleanor  Brownell,  Class  of  '97.  The  school  con- 
tinues to  bear  the  name,  The  Shipley  School,  and  is  a  living  reminder  of  the  educa- 
tional interests  of  its  founders.  In  later  years,  Katharine  Shipley  traveled  and  lived 
in  places  that  enabled  her  to  keep  in  close  touch  with  her  sisters.  Several  winters 
were  spent  at  Chapel  Hill,  where  she  attended  lectures  at  the  University  of  North 
Carolina. 

The  Classes  of  1889  and  1890  are  one  in  their  deep  appreciation  of  her  life 
and  attainments. 


Ume  Tsuda,  who  died  August  16  at  Kamakura,  Japan,  was  a  great  teacher,  a 
great  organizer  and  a  power  in  the  education  of  women.  The  work  she  did  was 
unique,  for  it  implied  not  only  the  success  of  an  institution,  but  the  development  of 
the  women  of  a  country  in  which  their  whole  status  was  undergoing  a  change. 

She  began  early  as  a  pioneer,  coming  here  at  seven  years  old,  with  a  small  group 
of  girls,  the  first  Japanese  of  their  sex  to  be  educated  in  America.  She  remained  here 
for  ten  years,  then  returned  to  Japan,  where  she  later  became  teacher  of  English  in 
the  Peeresses'  School.  In  1889  she  obtained  a  four  years'  leave  of  absence  from  the 
school  for  the  purpose  of  study  and  entered  Bryn  Mawr  as  a  special  student  in 
philosophy  and  biology,  doing  some  investigation  with  Dr.  Morgan.  While  at  college, 
1889-92,  she  interested  some  American  friends  in  founding  the  Japanese  scholarship 
which  has  sent  so  many  excellent  Japanese  students  to  Bryn  Mawr.  Her  last  year 
over  here  was  devoted,  by  appointment  of  the  Japanese  government,  to  an  investigation 
of  American  schools. 

In  1899  Ume  Tsuda  resigned  from  the  Peeresses'  School  to  establish  a  school  of 
her  own  for  the  teaching  of  English.  A  committee  was  formed  over  here  for  its 
support  which  is  still  active.  There  is  no  space  here  to  tell  of  the  work  of  the  school 
which  is  now  Tsuda  College,  with  one  of  the  Japanese  scholars  of  Bryn  Mawr  as 
president,  Ai  Hoshino,  1912.  Ume  Tsuda's  robust  health  had  given  way  and  for 
some  years  she  had  lived  an  invalid  life,  but  she  was  still  a  power  and  a  personality, 
the  recipient  of  many  honors  from  the  Japanese  Government,  of  the  deep  gratitude 
of  her  students  and  fellow-workers,  and  the  affection  of  many  friends  in  the  college 
which  she  loved  as  her  Alma  Mater.  For  she  had  worked  and  lived,  not  only  with 
energy  but  with  heart  and  soul.  She  was  a  woman  of  great  charm  and  spontaneity; 
her  conversation  was  delightful,  her  English  of  the  purest,  without  a  trace  of  foreign 
accent  or  idiom. 


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CLASS  NOTES 


Ph.  D's 
Editor:    Mary  Alice  Hanna  Parrish 
(Mrs.  J.  C.  Parrish) 
Vandalia,  Mo. 

Rosemary  Hall, 
Greenwich,  Connecticut. 
May  19,  1929. 

My  dear  Mrs.  Parrish: 

As  regards  news  of  myself  for  the  Ph. 
D.  notes,  I  don't  believe  I  have  written 
you  that  I  read  a  paper  on  December  27, 
1928,  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Lin- 
guistic Society  of  America  in  New  York 
City.  The  title  of  the  paper  was  "The 
Diathesis  of  the  So-called  Aorist  Passive 
with  th  Suffix."  Diathesis,  by  the  way,  is 
the  Greek  (and  German)  technical  term 
for  the  "voice"  of  a  verb.  My  thesis  was 
that  the  so-called  Aorist  Passive  in  Greek, 
especially  of  the  earlier  period,  is  not 
really  passive  at  all,  but  "middle,"  or  re- 
flexive. The  paper  was  discussed  and  my 
theory,  I  am  glad  to  say,  concurred  in,  by 
no  less  a  person  than  Professor  G.  M. 
Boiling,  who  is,  I  suppose,  our  leading 
American  scholar  in  the  language  of  the 
Homeric  poems.  What  added  to  the  inter- 
est in  this  Christmas  meeting  was  the  fact 
that  it  was  held  in  conjunction  with  the 
convention  of  the  American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  which 
brought  to  New  York  distinguished  men 
of  science  from  all  over  this  country  and 
also  from  Europe.  The  meeting  at  which 
I  read  my  paper,  for  instance,  was  held 
at  the  Columbia  School  of  Mines!  This 
brought  home  to  us  very  concretely  that 
linguistics  is  now  recognized  as  a  science, 
as  much  as  chemistry  or  biology. 

On  April  19,  1929,  at  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Classical  Association  of  New 
England  at  Boston  University  I  read  a 
paper  on  "Latin  Syntax  Illustrated  from 
English  Poetry." 

With  kind  regards, 

Sincerely  yours, 
Edith  Frances  Claflin. 

P.  S. — If  you  want  some  really  per- 
sonal news — the  other  day  on  Rosemary 
athletic  field  I  shot  an  arrow  sixty-three 
yards! — an  unusual  feat,  I  am  told,  for  a 
beginner  in  archery.  Doubtless  this  news 
is  not  serious  enough  for  the  Ph.  D.  notes, 
but  it  cannot  be  denied  that  it  is  classical. 
In  fact,  I  think  Homer  helped  me  with  his 
accurate  description  of  how  Pandaros 
handled  his  bow  and  arrow  when  he  shot 
Menelaos  (See  Iliad,  Book  IV,  116-126). 


1890 

Word  has  been  received  of  the  death 
of  Margaret  Patterson  Campbell  (Mrs. 
Richard  C  Campbell)  of  Denver,  Colo.,  in 
June.  imiiiywiMu 

1896 
Class  Editor:  Abigail  Camp  Dimon 
1411  Genesee  Street,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Katharine  Cook  has  been  granted  a  sab- 
batical year  from  Miss  Chapin's  School, 
and  on  June  26th  sailed  on  the  Dollar 
Line  steamer,  President  Wilson,  for  the 
first  stage  of  a  leisurely  trip  around  the 
world  with  her  friend  Leslie  Hopkinson, 
of  Cambridge.  She  writes  enthusiastical- 
ly that  the  Panama  Canal  was  not  only  in- 
teresting, but  comfortably  cool,  and  that 
they  reached  Hawaii  at  the  time  of  erup- 
tions of  the  volcano  of  Kileuea. 

Anna  Scattergood  Hoag  was  traveling 
from  January  to  April  in  Egypt  and  Italy 
with  Florence  Hoyt,  '97,  and  her  sister 
Margaret.  They  were  joined  in  Italy  by 
Abba  Dimon  and  Emma  Cadbury,  '97.  A 
daughter,  Katharine  Van  Alen,  was  born 
to  Anna's  son,  Gilbert,  on  June  7th,  and 
Garrett,  her  second  son,  is  successfully 
studying  law  at  Yale  in  the  winters  and 
conducting  a  hotel  in  Saybrook,  Conn., 
in  the  summers.  Anna  spent  six  weeks 
this  summer  at  Eaglesmere. 

Faith  Mathewson  Huizinga  spent  last 
winter,  as  she  usually  does,  in  Paris  with 
her  daughter  "Kim."  She  writes,  "Last 
winter  we  had  an  unusually  interesting 
time.  .  .  .  Through  a  Dutch  anthro- 
pologist we  knew,  we  joined  an  Interna- 
tional Club  where  we  had  dinner  once  a 
week,  and  where  we  met  the  Count  and 
Countess  Karolyi  Rappaport,  ex-Premier 
Nitti,  Mme.  Nitti,  M.  Barbusse,  and  many 
other  famous  people.  We  went  to  studio 
teas  where  we  met  sculptors  and  artists, 
among  them  M.  Aronson,  the  sculptor, 
and  Mme.  Lucie  Madrus.  Kim  and  I  had 
a  delightful  afternoon  in  the  wonderful 
home  of  M.  Van  Dangen,  the  painter.  We 
also  went  to  receptions  in  the  homes  of 
some  of  the  old  French  aristocrats,  like 
Mme.  Menard-Dorian.  It  was  a  very  de- 
lightful experience.  We  got  to  know  the 
American  Indian,  White  Horse  Chief,  107 
years  old,  and  went  to  his  birthday  party 
January  1st.  Dr.  Molus,  an  anthropolo- 
gist, is  especially  interested  in  the  mixed 
races  and  he  went  to  many  inter-racial 
parties  and  many  negro  festivities,  social- 
ly high  and  low." 

Elizabeth     Kirkbride     retired     in     the 


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BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 


spring  from  the  presidency  of  the  College 
Club  of  Philadelphia,  which  she  had  held 
for  twenty  years.  The  only  active  public 
position  she  now  holds  is  that  of  Sectional 
Director  for  the  North  Atlantic  Section 
of  the  American  Association  of  Univer- 
sity Women. 

Hannah  Cadbury  Pyle's  husband,  Rob- 
ert Pyle,  is  one  of  the  nine  members  of 
the  National  Arboretum  Advisory  Coun- 
cil. This  council  is  to  confer  with  a  com- 
mittee of  five  from  the  Department  of 
Agriculture  in  regard  to  establishing  a 
national  arboretum. 

Caroline  McCormick  Slade  was  one  of 
twenty-five  members  of  the  National 
League  of  Women  Voters  to  attend  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  Congress  of  the 
International  Alliance  of  Women  for 
Suffrage  and  Equal  Citizenship  opening  in 
Berlin  on  June  17th.  She  made  the  pres- 
entation of  forty-three  flags,  one  for  each 
nation  in  the  Alliance,  on  behalf  of  the 
Leslie  Woman  Suffrage  Commission  of 
the  United  States.  "In  the  old  days,"  says 
the  Woman's  Journal,  "when  the  Con- 
gress convened,  the  nation  which  had  a 
victory  to  celebrate  came  forward  bearing 
its  flag  to  receive  the  homage  of  the  com- 
rades in  battle.  But  this  time  it  was  the 
nations  of  the  world  which  were  to  be 
honored.  And  as  Mrs.  Slade  finished  her 
speech  the  orchestra  struck  up  a  soul- 
stirring  march  and  from  the  back  of  the 
hall  there  came  two  long  lines  of  girls  in 
pale  yellow  frocks  .  .  .  holding  the 
flags."  In  connection  with  the  Congress 
there  was  held  at  the  Workers'  Theatre  in 
Berlin  a  peace  demonstration  at  which 
Caroline  Slade  was  one  of  the  representa- 
tive women  speaking  for  their  countries. 

Stella  Bass  Tilt,  who  was  unable  to  at- 
tend the  reunion,  writes:  "Last  year  I 
built  a  little  house  in  Santa  Barbara  and 
I  use  it  as  a  haven  and  escape  when  life 
gets  too  hectic  or  dull  at  home.  I  can 
cook  and  scrub  or  loaf  to  my  heart's  con- 
tent and  the  children,  when  invited,  have 
to  help  me  do  it.  Katharine  with  four 
children  and  Ned  with  a  Joseph  II  who 
will  shortly  have  his  first  birthday,  live 
close  by  us  in  Pasadena,  and  Judy,  an 
amusing  and  delightful  person,  is  at  home 
and  we  have  many  good  times  together. 
Last  year,  when  Mr.  Tilt  was  85  he 
started  an  art  gallery  of  old  and  modern 
paintings  and  he  spends  all  his  time  buy- 
ing and  selling  and  trading  and  seems  to 
have  a  grand  time  doing  it." 

Two  poems  by  Edith  Wyatt  have  ap- 
peared within  the  past  year:  one  on 
Amundsen  in  the  North  American  Review 
for  October,  1928,  and  "Peace  Pipe,"  in 
the   Saturday  Evening  Post  for  August 


10,  1929.  Edith  has  written,  but  not  yet 
published,  a  critical  article  on  Prescott, 
and  one  on  Gilbert  Imlay,  the  author  of 
the  first  American  novel  and  one-time 
lover  of  Mary  Wollstonecraft.  One  of 
Edith's  "poems,  "To  F.  W.,"  was  trans- 
lated into  French  by  Eugene  Jolas  and 
included  in  his  "Anthologie  de  la  Neuvelle 
Poesie  Americaine." 

Among  members  of  '96  traveling  abroad 
this  summer  were  Josephine  Holman 
Boross,  Elizabeth  Cadbury  Jones,  Emma 
Linburg  Tobin  and  Clara  Colton  Worth- 
ington. 

1900 

Editor:  Louise  Congdon  Francis 
(Mrs.  Richard  S.  Francis) 
Haverford,  Pa. 

The  new  Class  Editor  journeyed  to 
Maine  and  back  this  summer  by  automo- 
bile, and  visited  members  of  the  class  on 
both  trips.  In  the  course  of  the  summer 
she  gleaned  the  following  bits  of  news. 
What  have  the  rest  of  you  gleaned? 

Dorothea  Cross  was  found  efficiently 
holding  down  an  overtime  job  with  the 
help  of  Rosamond,  Bryn  Mawr,  1929, 
while  Dorothea,  1930,  was  at  the  Bryn 
Mawr  Summer  School. 

Cornelia  Kellogg  was  also  discovered 
running  a  delightful  and  complicated 
household  most  graciously.  Darcy,  B.  M., 
1927,  was  at  home  after  a  trip  to  India, 
and  little  Cornelia,  a  prospective  Bryn 
Mawrtyr,  was  so  like  her  mother  it  was 
hard  to  tell  them  apart. 

Jessie  Tatlock  was  part  of  the  summer 
in  her  cottage  at  South  West  Harbor,  and 
part  of  the  time  at  the  Harvard  Summer 
School.  She  is  specializing  in  Medieval 
History,  chiefly  in  Sicily.  This  winter  she 
expects  to  be  in  Cambridge  until  Christ- 
mas and  then  go  to  Naples  and  Sicily  to 
study  archives.  She  is  perfecting  her 
Italian. 

Constance  Rulison  is  in  this  country  and 
in  August  was  at  Annisquam,  Mass.,  with 
her  sister,  Mrs.  Coleman. 

After  the  reunion  Grace  Babson  re- 
turned to  Oregon  by  the  Panama  Canal 
with  her  daughter  Mary  and  her  son 
Graham.  At  that  time  Graham  was  plan- 
ning to  go  this  fall  to  Leland-Stanford. 
Did  he  go? 

Mary  Kilpatrick  and  her  brother  and 
Ellen,  '99,  spent  the  summer  at  Ogunquit, 
Maine.  Mary  has  become  an  art  student 
and  after  a  summer  of  diligent  and  happy 
work  produced  what  her  instructor  called 
"the  perfect  procharde  for  a  beginner." 
As  Jessie  became  a  college  professor 
"after  some  years,"  so  we  expect  Mary  to 
become  our  most  distinguished  artist. 


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Julia  Gardner  spent  the  summer  mostly 
in  Brookline  while  all  four  of  her  children 
went  to  various  camps  in  various  capaci- 
ties. Her  daughter  Rosamond,  B.  M., 
1930,  is  to  be  married  this  fall  to  Ensign 
John  William  Schmidt,  Annapolis,  1927. 

Louise  Francis'  son  Richard  is  a  fresh- 
man at  Harvard.  Where  are  all  the  other 
1900  boys  and  girls  at  college? 

Alletta  KorfY's  daughter  Barbara  is  a 
freshman  at  Bryn  Mawr. 

Edna  Gellhorn  spent  the  summer  in 
Germany  with  her  husband.  Her  daugh- 
ter Martha,  1930,  has  left  college  and  has 
a  job  with  The  New  Republic. 

1905 

Class  Editor:   Eleanor  Little  Aldrich 
(Mrs.  Talbot  Aldrich) 
59  Mount  Vernon  Street 
Boston,  Massachusetts. 

.  We  have  learned  with  sorrow  of  the 
death  of  our  class-mate,  Mary  Emmoline 
Trueman,  which  occurred  in  July. 

Helen  Kempton  is  to  live  at  the  New 
York  Bryn  Mawr  Club  this  winter. 

Alice  Day  McLaren  and  her  husband 
have  been  in  Santa  Barbara  all  summer 
and  plan  to  stay  through  the  autumn. 

Katharine  Fowler  Pettit  was  called 
home  from  her  trip  to  California  in  July 
by  the  sudden  death  of  her  mother.  The 
Pettits  have  just  moved  into  another 
apartment  next  door  to  their  former  one. 
Her  address  now.  is  30  Jones  Street,  New 
York. 

Caroline  Chadwick-Collins  and  her  fam- 
ily spent  her  vacation  in  a  cottage  rented 
from  Alice  Jaynes  Tyler  on  the  latter's 
farm  at  Wakefield,  Rhode  Island.  Eloise 
and  Mary  Tyler  became  great  chums. 

Jane  Ward  was  in  New  York  last  year, 
taking  a  course  at  the  New  York  School 
of  Social  Work. 

When  this  number  of  the  Bulletin 
reaches  the  class,  your  bona  fide  editor 
will  be  back  on  the  job  again.  Eleanor 
writes  that  they  have  had  a  delightful 
trip,  met  Bailey  successfully  in  Egypt, 
and  the  only  complaint  seems  to  be  that 
it  was  all  too  short.  Lit  had  lunch  with 
Helen  Kempton  in  Paris  and  also  a 
glimpse  of  Margaret  Thurston  Holt. 

1907 
Class  Editor:    Alice  Hawkins 

Taylor  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr,  Penna. 

Berniece  Stewart  Mackenzie  was  mar- 
ried in  August  to  David  A.  L'Esperance. 
They  went  to  Vancouver  on  their  honey- 
moon, and  expect  to  live  in  Los  Angeles. 
Her  younger  son  is  now  a  sophomore  at 
Leland-Stanford. 


Antoinette  Cannon  took  advantage  of 
the  fact  that  the  National  Association  of 
Social  Workers  met  in  San  Francisco,  to 
combine  business  with  pleasure,  and  was 
able  to  attend  the  convention,  have  an 
extensive  and  extended  vacation,  and  all 
in  time  to  return  to  New  York  to  go  on 
with  her  teaching  at  the  second  term  of 
the  summer  session  of  the  School  of  So- 
cial Work. 

Katharine  Harley  is  now  Secretary  and 
•  Registrar  of  the  Woman's  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Pennsylvania. 

Mabel  O'Sullivan  spent  the  greater 
part  of  her  summer  at  Orono,  Maine, 
where  she  was  teaching  English  at  the 
Summer  School  of  the  University  of 
Maine. 

Hortense  Flexner  King  will  again  give 
courses  in  Poetry  at  the  College  this  year. 
I  wonder  if  the  class  realizes  that  those 
delightful  drawings  that  appear  practical- 
ly every  week  in  the  Saturday  Evening 
Post,  illustrating  articles  by  Don  Marquis, 
Will  Rogers,  and  other  humorists,  are  the 
work  of  Hortense's  distinguished'  husband, 
Wyncie  King.  His  studio  on  the  top  floor 
of  the  College  Inn  is  a  favorite  meeting 
place  for  undergraduates.  When  he  had 
the  grip  last  winter,  Hortense  had  great 
difficulty  protecting  him  from  the  bedside 
attentions  of  his  young  friends. 

Peggy  Barnes'  latest  play,  "Jenny," 
made  a  great  hit  in  Boston  in  June  with 
Jane  Cowl  as  the  star.  After  reading  the 
enthusiastic  reviews  of  the  opening  per- 
formance, Katharine  Cornell  telegraphed 
Peg:  "May  I  play  in  your  next  success?" 
"Jenny"  has  been  running  in  Detroit  and 
Pittsburgh  in  September,  and  is  slated  to 
reach  Broadway  early  in  October.  Miss 
Cornell  expects  to  take  "The  Age  of  Inno- 
cence" on  the  road  this  autumn.  Harriot 
Houghteling  Curtis  attended  the  opening 
night  of  "Jenny"  with  her  husband  and 
Margaret  Augur. 

Esther  Williams  Apthorp  and  her 
brother  have  recently  been  given  a  small 
island  off  the  coast  of  Maine,  near  Haven. 
Esther  and  her  husband  spent  an  exciting 
vacation  looking  over  their  new  posses- 
sion, and  plan  to  build  a  camp  there  for 
future  holidays. 

The  editor  spent  her  vacation  driving 
around  New  England  in  her  recently  ac- 
quired Ford.  She  and  May  Ballin  made  a 
grand  tour  of  Cape  Cod,  stopping  in  to 
see  Edna  Brown  Wherry,  at  West  Fal- 
mouth, where  her  husband  has  been  con- 
valescing after  a  serious  illness  which  has 
kept  him  away  from  his  law  office  since 
March.  Later  the  editor  called  upon  Mar- 
garet Augur  at  Bradford  Academy  to 
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"Mamie,"  Peggy  Putnam  Morse's  eldest 
child,  who  is  to  go  there  to  school  this 
year  under  Augur's  wing. 

Minnie  List  Chalf ant's  daughter  Elea- 
nor is  the  Freshman  Regional  Scholar 
from  Pittsburgh  this  year.  Another  mem- 
ber of  the  class  of  1933,  Bryn  Mawr,  is 
Bux's  niece,  daughter  of  her  sister,  Caro 
Buxton  Edwards,   '01. 

1908 
Editor:  Margaret  Copeland  Blatchford  , 
(Mrs.  Nathaniel  Blatchford) 
3  Kent  Road,  Hubbard  Woods,  111. 

It  is  indeed  good  to  have  news  of  Made- 
line Fauvre  Wiles.  She  writes,  "I  am 
more  than  busy  just  now  preparing  to 
spend  my  vacation  in  a  hasty  trip  to  Spain 
and  France. 

"We  had  moved  to  Boston  just  before 
Mr.  Wiles  passed  away.  Then  after  that 
I  didn't  want  to  go  back  to  Hingham  to 
live,  so  decided  it  would  be  easier  if  I 
busied  myself  with  a  'job/  so  I  have  been 
managing  a  little  department  store  in 
Newton !  It's  a  lot  of  work  but  really  it 
has  been  loads  of  fun.  I  have  been  at  it 
nearly  a  year  now  and  my  employers  are 
giving  me  a  six  weeks'  vacation.  You  may 
believe  me  I  am  going  to  enjoy  it." 

Emily  Fox  Cheston,  in  the  midst  of  the 
"whirl"  in  which  Rosie  reports  her  to  be 
living,  read  a  paper  on  "Philadelphia 
Gardens"  at  a  meeting  of  all  the  garden 
clubs  of  Illinois  held  in  Lake  Forest,  in 
August.  After  the  paper,  she  whirled  up 
to  visit  Margaret  Copeland  Blatchford  in 
the  north  woods  of  Wisconsin. 

The  editor  wishes  to  correct  a  mistake 
in  the  notes  of  a  few  months  ago  which 
stated  that  Melani  Updegraff  lived  "five 
miles  from  civilization."  It  should  have 
read  "twenty-five  miles  from  civiliza- 
tion." Melanie  expects  to  come  to  this 
country  in  the  spring  of  1930  and  will 
certainly  be  warmly  welcomed  by  her 
classmates. 

For  the  following  notes,  most  hearty 
thanks  are  due  Rosie  Marsh  Payton,  who 
sends  them  from  a  lovely  island  in  the 
Muskokas  where  she  is  visiting  her 
mother  and  father: 

Ethel  Vick — "We  decided  on  Spain  in- 
stead of  Italy  and  had  a  fascinating  win- 
ter with  a  short  time  in  Paris,  then 
Madrid,  Escorial,  Toledo,  and  a  month  in 
Seville  arriving  in  time  for  Holy  Week." 

D.  Straus  was  a  delegate  for  the  Na- 
tional League  of  Women  Voters  to  the 
Congress  for  the  International  Alliance 
for  Suffrage  and  Equal  Citizenship  held 
in  Berlin  in  June. 

Florence  Lexow  is  still  President  of  the 
Women's  University  Club  and  is  also  D. 


Straus'  successor  as  Alumnae  Fund  Chair- 
man. 

Agnes  Goldman  Sanborn  is  very  much 
interested  in  the  problem  of  child  raising, 
though  not  entirely  to  the  exclusion  of 
her  bacteriological  work. 

Lou  Hyman  Pollak  is  spending  the  sum- 
mer traveling  in  Scandinavia  accompanied 
by  her  mother,  one  husband  and  three 
children. 

Jackie  Morris  is  quite  happy  and  con- 
tented "feeding  and  swimming  the  fam- 
ily" at  their  camp  at  Manset,  Maine. 

Caroline  McCook  Morgan  is  spending 
some  time  at  Wildwood  Crest  before  re- 
turning to  Southern  Pines,  North  Caro- 
lina. 

Cad  writes  that  she  is  very  busy  "bend- 
ing her  young  twigs"  and  is  ready  for  an- 
other reunion  any  time. 

Mary  Cockrell  Cockrell  motored  with 
her  husband  and  three  daughters  to 
Boulder,  Colorado,  from  Dallas  in  July. 

Margaret  Maynard  has  a  new  Ford. 
She  and  her  mother  are  touring  Canada 
therein  in  September! 

Louise  Pettibone  Smith  sailed  for  Ger- 
many in  June  for  a  year's  study  and 
travel. 

Margaret  Duncan  Miller's  husband  is 
doing  educational  work  among  the  In- 
dians at  Billings,  Montana.  Margaret 
writes  that  she  is  pretty  well  occupied 
with  her  own  four  "Indians"  and  that  the 
work  is  decidedly  "educational" — mostly 
to  her! 

Linda  Schaefer  Castle's  daughter  Gwen- 
dolyn will  probably  enter  Bryn  Mawr  in 
two  years  and  then  Linda  will  feel  more 
tied  than  ever  to  her  Alma  Mater.  She 
sends  lots  of  good  wishes  to  the  class  and 
ends  with  "Aloha." 

Ann  (Ann  wishes  the  abbreviated  and 
modern  form)  Carrere  deserted  her 
fascinating  Georgetown  house  and  garden 
and  also  her  profession  of  landscaping 
for  a  short  time  this  summer  and  took  a 
five  weeks'  vacation  in  England. 

Lucy  Carner  is  awfully  important  in 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  circles,  though  she  won't  ad- 
mit it.  During  a  recent  conference  in 
Pittsburgh  her  picture  was  on  the  front 
page  of  the  newspaper ! 

Helen  Schmidt  has  discontinued  her 
Tea  Room  and  Candy  Shop  in  one  of  the 
office  buildings  of  Pittsburgh.  By  fall  no 
doubt  Schmidtie  will  have  another  iron  in 
the  fire,  for  she  has  made  a  very  en- 
viable business  record. 

Nan  Welles  Brown  writes  welcome 
news:  "Before  the  end  of  1929,  there  is 
a  strong  probability  that  this  Brown  fam- 
ily will  have  moved  to  the  United  States, 
somewhere   in   the    Rocky   Mountain   re- 


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gion."  She  and  Mr.  Brown  and  the  four 
little  girls  are  still  in  Paris,  but  as  always 
spent  some  time  this  summer  at  Bourre, 
Cher  et  Loir,  where  her  parents  have  had 
a  summer  home  for  years. 

Rose  writes  of  herself:  "Do  come 
through  Pittsburgh  on  your  way  to  any- 
where next  time  you  travel  arfd  come  and 
see  me.  I  have  a  really  fascinating  city 
apartment — high  up  on  the  side  of  a  hill 
like  a  cave  dweller — with  a  view  of  miles 
in  three  directions.  We  watch  the  much- 
advertised  'Cathedral  of  Learning'  mount 
its  forty  stories  to  the  sky  and  we  often 
mistake  the  riveters  on  it  for  the  wood- 
peckers in  our  pear  tree !" 

1909 
Editor:   Helen  Bond  Cra-ne 
Denbigh  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr. 

The  summer  has  been  a  most  productive 
season  for  news.  Pleasaunce  writes  from 
London:  "I  find  that  a  year  is  about  the 
limit,  for  me,  of  comfortable  silence  to- 
ward a  class  editor.  After  that  I  begin  to 
feel  uncomfortable — so  much  so,  as  time 
goes  on,  that  I  take  up  my  pen  as  the  only 
means  of  escape.  Our  season  at  Wood- 
brooke  (an  educational  settlement  near 
Birmingham,  backed  by  the  Society  of 
Friends  and  patronized  by  fifty  students 
of  some  fifteen  nationalities)  came  to  an 
end  over  a  year  ago,  and  we  spent  last 
summer  in  London,  rooming  on  one  of 
the  green  squares  of  Bloomsbury.  Time 
was  largely  devoted  to  tennis  and  to 
tentative  investigations  of  the  regulations 
governing  employment  of  foreigners  in 
England.  Last  winter  we  took  a  little 
house  in  the  'Garden  Suburb'  near  Hamp- 
stead  Heath,  whence  my  husband  com- 
muted to  work  and  I  enlisted  in  the  drab 
and  serried  ranks  of  alumnae  housekeep- 
ers. The  visible  high  spots  of  my  job 
were  when  I  learned  to  cook  'spatzle,'  and 
again  during  the  'Great  Frost'  of  Febru- 
ary, when  I  tackled  freezing  water  pipes 
by  day  and  by  night  slept  with  one  ear 
cocked  for  any  cessation  of  the  trickling 
refill  to  the  cistern,  which,  we  were  told, 
might  end  in  a  boiler  explosion.  We  came 
through  with  very  slight  damage — for- 
tunately, as  there  were  500  suburbanites 
ahead  of  us  on  the  plumber's  waiting 
list !"  She  does  not  know  just  how  much 
longer  they  will  be  in  England,  but  gives 
her  address  as  Friends'  House,  Euston 
Road,  London  N.  W.  1. 

In  spite  of  her  reference  to  Bulletin 
News  as  "Those  avidly  read  but  grudging- 
ly written  bits  of  information,"  Mary 
Herr  sends  a  long  and  delightful  letter, 
which  we  regretfully  cut,  about  her  trip 
abroad.    She  and  Cynthia  sailed  in  De- 


cember: "Cynthia  took  over  a  little  car 
into  which  we  packed  ourselves  at  Cher- 
bourg and  set  off  in  the  rain  for  Bayeux. 
From  there  we  wandered  about  leisurely 
for  four  blessed  but  very  cold  months," 
over  a  good  deal  of  southern  France,  in- 
cluding "those  thrilling  prehistoric  caves 
(and  I  heartily  recommend  the  Dordogne 
region — very  beautiful  and,  in  winter  at 
any  rate,  quite  untouristed).  Then  St. 
Jean  de  Luz,  where  Cynthia  played  golf 
and  I  also  ran."  After  more  of  France 
and  some  of  Italy  they  went  to  England 
for  a  month,  "where  we  pretty  w7ell  went 
from  top  to  toe  (or  the  other  way  round) 
and  played  golf  again  at  N.  Berwick  and 
St.  Andrew's  (shades  of  all  blessed  golf- 
ers!). It  was  marvelous,  but  just  as  well 
for  me  that  it  was  out  of  season."  She 
also  spent  a  week  in  Brittany  with  Shir- 
ley, whose  family  flourish  greatly.  Her 
husband  carried  out  his  plan  of  going  to 
Russia  to  paint,  and  Shirley  expected  to 
spend  some  time  in  Switzerland  with  her 
sister  Brenda  and  Maisie  Put.  Since  her 
return  Mary  has  accepted  the  position  of 
Executive  Secretary  at  the  Girls'  Latin 
School  in  Chicago. 

Cynthia,  after  getting  back  from  Eu- 
rope, parted  with  her  appendix,  made  a 
speedy  recovery,  returned  to  her  golf,  and 
is  taking  a  position  this  fall  in  the  de- 
partment of  Physical  Education  at  the 
University  of  Wisconsin. 

Frances  Ferris  sailed  in  July,  expecting 
to  spend  most  of  her  sabbatical  year 
abroad.  She  attended  the  International 
Progressive  Education  Congress  at  El- 
sinore,  expected  to  go  from  there  to  Rus- 
sia, and  later  to  spend  several  months 
studying  in  Geneva.  Her  address  is  c/o 
Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.,  123  Pall  Mall,  Lon- 
don. 

Frances  Browne  sailed  on  the  Samaria 
October  11,  for  the  beginning  of  her  sab- 
batical year.  She  expects  to  visit  Euro- 
pean schools,  especially  in  England, 
Germany  and  Austria.  She  is  going  with 
her  sister  Norvelle  and  a  friend;  they  ex- 
pect to  be  in  Italy  later  on,  and  may  also 
go  to  Greece.  Her  address,  too  is  c/o 
Brown,  Shipley  &  Co. 

When  last  heard  from,  Lacy  was  in 
Santa  Fe,  having  a  very  gay  time  indeed. 
A  newspaper,  reporting  the  projected  pro- 
duction of  "Cake,"  by  the  Santa  Fe  Play- 
ers, directed  by  the  author,  Witter  Bynner, 
says  in  part: 

"The  long  and  difficult  role  of  The  Lady 
is  taken  by  Miss  Lacy  Van  Wagenen,  a 
summer  visitor  here  from  New  York. 
Those  who  have  attended  rehearsals  say 
that  Miss  Van  Wagenen's  interpretation 
of  The  Lady  who  wanted  to  eat  her  cake 


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and  keep  it  too,  is  better  than  the  profes- 
sional actress  who  took  this  lead  when 
the  play  was  produced  in  Pasadena  and 
San  Francisco." 

Lacy  expected  to  join  Kate  Branson 
later  in  California. 

Speaking  personally  as  well  as  editorial- 
ly, we  have  had  a  great  summer.  After 
visiting  Lydia  Sharpless  Perry,  '08,  in 
Rhode  Island,  and  coming  across  B.  M. 
people  of  many  different  eras,  we  went  to 
see  Sally  Webb  in  Maine.  We  drove  up 
to  see  Anna  Piatt,  who  has  a  most  charm- 
ing old  farm  house  at  Friendship,  swam 
in  her  cove,  and  went  out  in  her  stunning 
motor  boat;  later  we  spent  several  days 
with  Mary  Case,  '08,  in  Paris  Hill.  After 
that  we  went  to  Annisquam,  Mass.,  and 
stayed  with  Gene  Miltenberger  Ustick. 
One  day  we  coralled  for  tea  Frances 
Browne,  Miss  Swindler  and  Margaret 
Morison,  '07,  all  of  whom  we  discovered 
in  the  vicinity. 

Efforts  to  see  Mary  Allen  have  resulted 
so  far  in  the  information  that  she  is  mov- 
ing to  a  new  apartment  at  52  Garden 
Street,  Cambridge.  Later  we  hope  to  find 
out  her  present  occupation. 

The  class  extends  its  sincere  sympathy 
to  Dorothy  North,  whose  mother  died 
early  in  September,  after  a  long  period 
of  illness.  We  have  heard  nothing  of 
Dorothy's  plans,  but  so  far  as  we  know 
she  is  still  at  60  Scott  Street,  Chicago. 

Sally  Jacobs  is  an  impressive  head  mis- 
tress; the  Seiler  School  is  flourishing, 
and  Sally  has  just  acquired  thirty  acres 
of  land  for  recreational  purposes.  She  re- 
ports having  seen  a  picture  of  Elise  Don- 
aldson's on  exhibition  at  the  Philadelphia 
Academy  of  Fine  Arts  this  spring. 

Lillian  Laser  Strauss  could  not  join  us, 
as  she  had  been  ill  since  she  returned 
from  Europe  in  February;  she  hopes  to 
see  some  of  us  later  this  spring. 

D.  I.  Smith  Chamberlain  wrote  that  she 
wished  she  might  be  collected  for  Pa- 
tience, but  that  the  best  she  could  do 
would  be  to  attend  the  Chicago  dinner  for 
the  "Seven  College  Presidents."  She  ex- 
pects to  take  the  three  children  to  Asquam 
Lake,  Holderness,  N.  H.,  for  the  summer. 
Meanwhile  her  husband  will  be  traveling 
to  South  Africa  to  attend  the  Interna- 
tional Geological  Congress. 

1912 

Class  Editor:  Catharine  Thompson  Bell 
(Mrs.  C.  Kenneth  Bell) 
2700  Chicago  Blvd.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Carlotta   Welles   Briggs    (Mrs.    James 
Elmer   Briggs,   Jr.),   has    a    son,    James 
Welles  B.  Briggs,  born  August  19th. 


Carlotta's  husband,  who  is  with  the 
National  City  Bank,  has  been  transferred 
to  Paris.  They  will  sail  November  1st. 
Until  then  her  address  is  Wilson's  Point, 
South  'Norwalk,  Conn. 

1913 

Class  Editor:  Betty  Fabian  Webster, 
(Mrs.  Ronald  Webster), 
905  Greenwood  Blvd.,  Evanston,  111. 

Margaret  Scruggs  Carruth  writes  from 
Dallas:  "Come  on  and  go  to  Norway 
with  me  this  summer.  Mother,  Dad  and  I 
leave  here  the  18th  of  May,  sailing  on 
the  'Empress  of  Australia'  from  Quebec, 
and  after  briefly  touring  Southern  and 
Western  England  and  Wales,  up  into 
Southern  Scotland,  will  sail  from  New- 
castle on  the  'Prince  Olav'  the  middle  of 
June  to  visit  the  fjords  of  Norway  and 
see  the  Land  of  the  Midnight  Sun.  Later 
we  will  go  to  Germany  and  Austria, 
Budapest,  Vienna  and  Lucerne.  We'll  fly 
over  from  Brussels  to  London,  and  see  a 
bit  of  the  Shakespeare  and  Dickens  coun- 
try before  coming  home.  Doesn't  it  sound 
alluring? 

"Every  time  I'm  anywhere  near  B.  M., 
I  get  a  tremendous  urge  to  try  to  get  in 
touch  with  the  girls.  Eve  just  come  back 
from  a  fascinating  visit  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  where  all  sorts  of  interesting 
things  happened.  I  met  a  girl  there  who 
lived  in  Trenton  and  knew  the  Buchan- 
ans." 

I  was  sorry  to  miss  Margaret's  boat  by 
a  few  days.  Ronald,  the  children  and  I, 
sailed  May  15  from  Montreal  for 
France.  We  are  taking  a  car  and  expect 
to  stay  perhaps  a  year.  We  have  no  defi- 
nite plans  beyond  a  stay  at  the  seashore 
in  the  St.  Jean  de  Luz  region  this  sum- 
mer, and  possibly  Grenoble,  because  of 
schools  and  the  University,  next  winter. 
If  any  of  you  are  going  over,  please  let 
me  know,  care  of  the  American  Express 
Co.,  7  Rue  Scribe,  Paris. 

My  best  wishes  go  with  the  next  class 
editor,  and  a  hope  that  she  may  have  a 
large  correspondence. 

The  class  wishes  to  extend  its  deepest 
sympathy  to  Grace  Bartholomew  Clayton 
in  the  loss  of  her  husband.  He  was  ill 
only  a  short  time,  dying  in  April  of 
streptococcic  pneumonia. 

1917 
Editor:    Bertha  C.  Greenough 

203  Blackstone  Blvd.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Amie  Dixon's  mother,  Mrs.  Henrietta 

F.  Dixon,  was  married  on  August  15th  to 

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miniature  painter,  at  Amie's  house  in  East 
Orange,  N.  J. 

The  class  editor  regrets  exceedingly  to 
have  to  announce  that  all  the  1917  records 
in  her  possession  were  burned  in  a  dis- 
astrous fire  which  swept  the  second  floor 
of  her  house  in  Providence  on  the  seventh 
of  August.  Among  them  was  a  delightful 
letter  to  the  class  from  Erika  Zimmerman 
which  would  have  been  printed  in  full  in 
the  October  issue  of  the  Bulletin.  It  ar- 
rived shortly  after  reunion. 

1919 
Editor:  Marjorie  Remington  Twitchell 
(Mrs.  Pierrepont  Twitchell) 
Setauket,  L.  I.,  N.  Y. 

The  class  extends  its  deepest  sympathy 
to  the  husband  and  family  of  Adelaide 
Landon,  whose  tragic  death  on  her  honey- 
moon is  a  source  of  great  grief  to  us  all. 
Her  beautiful  spiritual  development  in  the 
past  ten  years  was  manifested  to  us  at 
reunion,  and  we  shall  always  remember 
the  radiance  that  seemed  to  emanate  from 
her.  She  was  married  on  June  21st  to 
Rev.  Clyde  H.  Roddy.  She  was  stricken 
with  meningitis  and  died  at  Vancouver  in 

August.  TTftTMm-l 

Fritz  Beatty  is  going  to  teach  English 
Literature  to  freshmen  and  sophomores 
at  Hunter  College  for  Women  in  New 
York  City  this  winter.  She  expects  also, 
to  study  for  her  Ph.  D.  at  Columbia.  Her 
address  is  to  be  145  East  32nd  Street,  New 
York  City. 

Dorothea  Chambers  Blaisdell  spent  the 
summer  at  Winsted,  Conn.  Her  hus- 
band is  working  at  Columbia  on  his  thesis 
on  the  Ottoman  debt. 

Chuck  Coombs  Evans  is  back  at  20 
Wayside  Lane,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y.,  after 
having  rented  it  and  spent  last  winter  in 
Bronxville.  Augusta  Blue  visited  her  on 
her  return  from  Paris  last  spring.  Franny 
Day  Lukens  after  reunion  motored  with 
her  mother  and  some  friends  through  the 
Shenandoah  Valley  to  Charlottesville.  She 
spent  a  night  with  Marion  Moseley  Snif- 
fen  in  Baltimore  on  her  return  trip.  The 
rest  of  the  summer  she  spent  in  Vermont, 
fifteen  miles  from  where  Marjorie  Martin 
Johnson  spends  the  summers. 

Beany  Dubach  last  spring  gathered 
statistics  for  the  Kansas  City  Provident 
Association  about  the  experience  her  so- 
cial service  agency  had  "with  the  automo- 
bile tourists"  or  "gasoline  hoboes,"  who 
give  out  of  gas  and  food  on  their  door- 
step and  demand  to  be  financed  so  that 
they  can  continue  their  trip. 

"You  would  be  surprised  how  many 
families   with   six   or   eight   children   get 


blithely  into  a  fourth-hand  Ford  and  start 
out   for  California." 

Dot  Hall  has  been  traveling  in  Sicily, 
Greece,  and  to  Budapest  with  her  father 
and  Con  Hall,  '17.  She  teaches  and  raises 
calves  and  lambs — just  where  I  don't 
know — on  her  travels. 

Ruth  Hamilton  has  been  teaching  his- 
tory at  Baldwin  for  the  past  two  years. 

Jinkie  Holmes  has  been  hopping  off  to 
Europe  every  year  or  so  between  investi- 
gating the  private  life  of  microbes.  She 
had  a  story  published  in  the  August 
Scribner. 

Eleanor  Marquand  Forsyth  has  a 
daughter,  Mary  Blakie,  born  May  29,  1929. 
Eleanor  is  treasurer  of  the  local  Women's 
College  Club  in  Princeton. 

Jean  Wright  received  her  Ph.  D.  degree 
in  French  at  Bryn  Mawr  this  June.  She 
sailed  for  Constantinople  in  July  with  her 
father. 

Dorothy  Peters  Eis  was  in  Mississippi 
last  spring  and  motored  home  to  Michigan 
via  Florida. 

Peggy  Rhoads  did  editorial  work  this 
past  summer  on  "The  Friend"  in  Philadel- 
phia. 

Edith  Rondinella  teaches  music  at 
Agnes  Irwin  School  and  is  studying  piano 
with  Mr.  Alwyne  at  Bryn  Mawr.  She  now 
has  a  manager  for  her  lecture  recitals. 

The  class  wishes  to  express  sympathy 
to  Annette  Stiles  for  the  passing  on  of 
her  brother  in  May. 

"K.  T."  Wessels  spent  the  summer  in 
the  family  cottage  at  Eastern  Point, 
Conn.,  with  her  two  sisters  and  their  fam- 
ilies. She  returned  to  San  Francisco  Aug- 
ust 15th.  On  May  23rd  she  held  a  piano 
recital  in  San  Francisco,  playing  works 
of  Scarlatti-Taussig,  Bach,  Mozart,  Schu- 
man,  Brahms,  Debussy,  DeFalla  and  Cho- 
pin. She  is  a  pupil  of  Austin  Conradi, 
Philipp-Siloti  and  Bloch.  Knowing  our 
K.  T.,  we  envy  all  those  who  heard  her 
play.  We  who  had  the  privilege  at  re- 
union will  long  remember  the  happiness 
she  gave  us. 

Isabel  Whittier  is  to  teach  modern 
European  History  at  Hunter  College,  New 
York  .City.  Her  address  is  American 
Women's  Home  Association,  353  West 
57th  Street.  She  took  a  short  trip  this 
summer  through  Nova  Scotia.  She  re- 
ceived her  M.  A.  from  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  in  1922,  taught  English  and 
History  in  Senior  High  School  in  Hazle- 
ton,  Pa.  (1922-27),  then  taught  near  Phil- 
adelphia, and  last  winter  at  Chevy  Chase 
School  in  Washington.  She  hopes  to  get 
her  Ph.  D.  from  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania in  1930.  Her  thesis  is  "Benning 
Wentworth,     Royal    Governor    of    New 


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Hampshire,  1741-67."  She  lias  had  three 
articles  published,  "Alexander  Hamilton" 
and  "Benjamin  Franklin"  in  The  Manu- 
facturer, and  "The  Sons  of  Brunswick. 
Maine,"  published  in  The  Forward,  April 
27,  1929. 

Buster  Ramsay  Phelps  had  an  operation 
for  appendicitis  early  in  May.  In  August 
she  went  to  South  Carolina  with  her  hus- 
band for  boating,  swimming  and  off-shore 
fishing. 

Roberta  Ray  Mills  spent  last  winter  in 
Florida,  her  husband  having  to  go  there 
because  of  acute  neuritis.  She  says  her 
"boy  and  tom-boy  .  .  .  are  still  hand- 
some like  their  daddy,  but  developing  ap- 
petites and  figures  like  their  mother." 
They  bought  a  Spanish  bungalow  in  Mi- 
ami, and  with  the  help  of  one  nurse — the 
other  having  left,  Bert  did  all  the  work — 
"Mary  Ann  alternately  ate  sand  and  the 
contents  of  the  dog's  pans" — until  it  be- 
came "a  question  of  a  maid  or  a  divorce, 
and  we  thought  a  maid  would  be  cheaper." 
They  hope  to  spend  every  winter's  vaca- 
tion in  Florida. 

1920 

Editor:    Margaret  Ballou  Hitchcock 
(Mrs.  David  I.  Hitchcock) 
45  Mill  Rock  Rd.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Alice  Quan  Rood  was  married  on  June 
12  to  Archibald  Van  Deusen  at  Evanston, 
Illinois. 

Phoebe  Helmer  Wadsworth  has  a 
daughter,  Katharine  de  Koven,  born  June 
14,  in  New  York  City.  Phoebe  spent  the 
summer  in  the  house  of  her  husband's 
parents  at  Middletown,  Conn. 

Lois  Kellogg  Jessup  will  be  assistant 
head  of  the  Brearley  School  beginning- 
September,  1930. 

Millicent  Carey  went  to  England  in  July 
to  spend  six  weeks  with  some  English 
friends.  In  September  she  will  return  to 
Bryn  Mawr  as  assistant  professor  of  Eng- 
lish. She  will  be  Acting  Dean  of  the  Col- 
lege this  year. 

Teresa  James  Morris  has  recently  re- 
turned from  a  trip  to  Mackinac  Island, 
Mich.,  where  she  and  her  husband  spent 
their  vacation.  In  winter  she  works  for 
the  Junior  League. 

Helen  Kingsbury  Zirkle  has  been  run- 
ning Alford  Lake  Camp,  which,  she  says. 
is  in  a  flourishing  condition.  Next  winter 
Helen  will  take  courses  in  American  lit- 
erature at  Harvard,  hoping  eventually  to 
take  a  Ph.  D.  in  the  subject. 

Betty  Weaver  will  continue  to  teach 
Latin  at  Dongan  Hall,  Dongan  Hills, 
Staten  Island,  New  York,  next  winter. 
This  last  summer  she  took  a  "sabbatical" 


and    had    a    real    vacation    at    Belgrade 
Lakes,  Maine. 

K.  Cauldwell  Scott  recovered  fully  from 
a  serious  operation  last  spring  and  this 
summer,  played  in  tennis  tournaments 
with  hdr  husband.  Her  two  little  girls, 
Kay  Junior,  aged  three,  and  Janet,  aged 
one,  are  very  cunning.  Kay  herself  is  a 
model  parent  and  housekeeper. 

Margaret  Ballou  Hitchcock  will  teach 
the  second  grade  at  Mrs.  Foote's  School 
in  New  Haven  next  winter.  Mary,  aged 
four,  her  oldest  child,  will  go  to  nursery 
school. 

The  class  editor  is  depressed  by  the 
fact  that  she  sent  out  forty  postcards  urg- 
ing her  classmates  to  send  in  news,  and 
has  received  five  answers  to  date.  If  you 
want  this  news  column  to  be  long  and 
interesting,  1920,  you  know  what  you  can 
do  about  it ! 

1921 
Editor:   Helen  James  Rogers 
(Mrs.  J.   E.  Rogers) 
99  Poplar  Plains  Road 
Toronto,  Ontario,   Canada. 

Grace  Trotter  Johnson  has  a  33/2-year- 
old  daughter  who  attends  a  nursery  school 
in  East  Orange.  Grace  herself  teaches 
college  prep  history  in  a  country  day 
school  in  Stamford.  This  summer  she 
has  been  taking  courses  at  Columbia. 

Emily  Kimbrough  Wrench  celebrated 
Labor  Day  by  having  twin  daughters. 

Now  for  a  few  statistics  which  I  have 
compiled  from  your  cards  and  the  Regis- 
ter. They  are  not  complete,  as  I  have 
had  only  64  replies  from  the  133  letters 
sent  out.  I  hope  the  delinquents  will  re- 
pent and  send  me  some  news  of  them- 
selves soon,  so  that  this  remarkable  rec- 
ord can  be  brought  up  to  date. 

So  far  we  have: 

Eighty-seven  married  classmates.  61  of 
these  have  a  total  of  97  children,  46  girls 
and  51  boys. 

Twenty-one  members  with  other  de- 
grees: 9  M.  A.,  4  Ph.  D.,  6  M.  D.,  1  A.  B. 
in  Architecture,  1  Ds.  C. 

Thirteen  teachers:  3  teach  in  colleges, 
7  teach  in  private  schools,  3  teach  in  pub- 
lic schools. 

Nine  medical  workers,  5  research  work- 
ers, 4  secretaries,  3  psychologists,  2  social 
workers,  2  authors,  1  sculptor,  1  actress, 
1  ballet  dancer  and  teacher,  1  librarian. 

1923 

Class  Editor:  Dorothy  Meserve  Kun- 

HARDT 

(Mrs.  Philip  B.  Kunhardt) 
Mount  Kemble  Ave.,  Morristown,  N.  J. 
Haroldine  Humphreys  was  married  on 
July     18th    to    Carl     Muschenheim.     No 


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23 


longer  will  the  footlights  cast  their  purple 
and  orange  shadows  upon  our  Dena,  be- 
cause she  abides  in  the  flickering  glow  of 
her  own  hearth,  waiting  for  her  husband 
to  come  back  from  his  day's  work  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in 
New  York.  Mr.  Muschenheim  is  espe- 
cially pursuing  the  biological  side  of  medi- 
cine, which  seems  to  mean  taking  a  bird 
and  making  five  beaks  grow  where  only 
one  intended  to — or  manipulating  a  frog 
so  that  one  leg  comes  forth  from  the  neck 
instead  of  the  hip. 

Katharine  Strauss  has  announced  her 
engagement  to  Henry  J.  Mali,  of  Groton, 
Yale,  and  the  woolen  business.  He  is  tall, 
with  gray  eyes,  and  is  terrifically  nice, 
and  they  will  be  married  in  Oyster  Bay 
on  October  12th  and  live  at  14  East  75th 
Street,  New  York  City.  " 

Harriet  Scribner  Abbott  was  seen  for 
a  fleeting  moment.  She  was  at  Cornwall- 
on-the-Hudson  and  was  surrounded  by 
her  son  and  her  very  sweet  daughter 
Alice  (the  son  was  sweet,  too). 

As  your  long-lost  and  unworthy  editor 
was  motoring  through  Glens  Falls,  she 
called  on  Rosamond  Raley  Braley,  who 
was  up  there  on  a  visit,  her  own  home 
being  now  in  Littits,  Pa.  From  Ros  came 
reassuring  news  of  Virginia  Brokaw  Col- 
lins, who  was  so  terribly  hurt  in  an  auto- 
mobile accident  in  Florida.  Ginney  is 
really  getting,  better,  after  long  weeks  in 
a  hospital. 

Helen  Dunbar  has  done  probably  the 
most  extraordinary  things  of  any  member 
of  1923  since  our  graduation.  She  has  not 
only  brilliantly  graduated  from  the  Yale 
Medical  School,  but  she  has  super-bril- 
liantly  graduated  from  Union  Theological 
Seminary — and  now  is  abroad  on  a  schol- 
arship from  Union,  writing  a  thesis  on 
her  great  interest — the  relationship — the 
very  warm  relationship — of  Medicine  and 
Religion. 

Please,  1923,  send  me  news  of  your- 
selves— anything  ranging  from  the  most 
casual  tidbits  to  the  most  pulsing  secrets 
will  be  divulged  if  mailed  to  Morristown. 
I  have  hung  my  green  lantern  as  a  symbol 
of  hope,  from  my  mail  box,  which  is  the 
kind  that  sits  on  a  pole,  and  I'm  going  to 
camp  alongside,  disproving  the  saying 
that  a  watched  mailbox  never  plumps  out. 

1925 

Susan  Carey  died  of  peritonitis  after 
an  operation  for  appendicitis  in  the  hos- 
pital at  Littleton,  New  Hampshire,  near 
her  summer  home  in  Sugar  Hill,  on  Sep- 
tember 5th.  She  returned  from  England 
in  August,  where   she  had  been   visiting 


relatives  for  two  months,  apparently  in 
perfect  health,  and  developed  acute  ap- 
pendicitis soon  after  reaching  home. 

We,  of  the  class,  will  count  it  an  espe- 
cial privilege  to  have  spent  four  years 
with  her,  and  will  remember  with  lasting 
afTection  her  unique  and  charming  per- 
sonality, her  spontaneity  and  unfailing 
graciousness,  and  her  rare  gift  for  people 
of  all  kinds.  In  the  absence  of  the  edi- 
tor, I  am  writing  this  note  in  her  memory, 
and  I  know  the  class  will  join  in  sending 
their  deepest  sympathy  to  the  family  of 
the  most  lovable  and  loved  member  of 
1925. 

Nancy  Hough. 

1926  AND  1927 

Members  of  1926  and  1927  will  be  inter- 
ested in  the  piece  of  news  which  appeared 
in  the  form  of  an  Associated  Press  dis- 
patch to  the  New  York  World,  dated  July 
24th: 

2  NEW  YORK  GIRLS  GET 

OXFORD  LAW  DEGREES 

First   Americans   of  Sex   to    Obtain 

Them,  Sisters  Will  Be  Admitted 

as  Barristers  in  November 

OXFORD,  England,  July  24  (A.  P.)— 
Two  American  girls,  the  Misses  Jessie 
E.  and  Katherine  M.  Hendrick,  sisters, 
have  gained  law  degrees  in  the  final  honor 
class  of  jurisprudence  at  Oxford  Univer- 
sity. They  are  the  daughters  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Frank  Hendrick,  of  New  York  City. 

Both  girls  are  graduates  of  Erasmus 
Hall  High  School,  Brooklyn,  and  Bryn 
Mawr  College.  They  also  are  members  of 
the  Middle  Temple,  London,  and  will  be 
admitted  as  barristers  in  November.  They 
are  the  first  American  girls  to  take  Ox- 
ford law  degrees. 

Jessie  was  elected  President  of  the  Ox- 
ford Society  of  Home  Students,  and  is  the 
first  American  student  so  honored.  Kath- 
erine  is  at  Lady  Margaret  Hall. 

1926 
Class  Editor:   Harriot  Hopkinson 
Manchester,   Mass. 

Dot  Lefferts  Moore  (Mrs.  Lawrence 
Moore,  of  Wilton,  Conn.)  has  a  son,  born 
in  or  about  the  middle  of  September.  His 
name  is  Peter,  and  he  is  reported  to  have 
looked  sophisticated  ever  since  his  birth. 
His  mother,  meanwhile,  is  a  contributing 
editor  to  The  Arts. 

Benjy  Linn  is  now  an  M.  A.,  and  was 
last  seen  by  me  being  a  bridesmaid  in  New 
Hampshire  for  K.  Simonds,  '27  (now  Mrs. 
Lovell  Thompson).  This  wedding  should 
appear  in  many  columns  of  the  Bulletin. 


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there  were  such  a  multitude  of  classes 
represented  thereat. 

Ibby  Bostock  was  married  in  June  to 
the  Rev.  Aaron  Charles  Bennett,  rector 
of  St.  Mary's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  St.  Mary's,  Pa.  They  are  "at 
home"  at  St.  Mary's  after  September  1st. 

Tommy  Tomkins  Villard  is  living  in 
New  York,  and  is  working  as  an  editor 
of  the  Junior  League  Bulletin. 

Janet  Sabine  was  married  on  Septem- 
ber 7th  to  Mr.  Frederick  A.  Ley,  of  New 
York. 

The  usual  number  of  people  have  been 
going  abroad  and  returning  from  abroad, 
and  sending  dateless  postcards  here  and 
there,  so  it  is  all  very  difficult  not  to  get 
confused  and  unauthentic  impressions  of 
their  wanderings.  Alice  Wilt  has  been 
abroad  all  summer;  Delia  Johnston  and 
her  husband  have  gone  to  Germany  for  a 
year;  Frances  Henderson  has  gone,  or  is 
shortly  going,  to  Greece;  Franny  Jay  has 
been  in  Berlin  all  summer. 

1928 

Class  Editor:  Cornelia  B.  Rose,  Jr. 
1  Lexington  Ave.,  New  York  City 
(Until  further  notice.) 

Now  that  Babs  Rose  has  taken  over  the 
management  of  1928's  Gossip  Exchange, 
she  is  eagerly  awaiting  some  merchandise. 
Just  to  start  things  off  she  will  display 
the  following  information  in  hopes  that 
it  may  tempt  some  return  in  kind. 

Cay  Field  Cherry  writes  from  Albany 
that  "Barby  Loines  Dreier  has  been  at 
Lake  George  all  summer,  so  I  haven't 
seen  her  since  the  grand  arrival.  But  she 
was  mighty  funny  talking  about  her  'ugly 
brat.'  It  was  a  homely  little  devil,  but 
had  lots  of  character  in  its  face  at  the 
start — having  Barby's  nose  and  a  flat  but- 
ton of  a  chin.  Pol  Pettit's  here  getting 
ready  for  college  again  with  dentists  and 
innoculations.  (Ed.  Note. — Pol  came  out 
very  well  at  medical  school  last  year,  we 
hear;  fifth  in  her  class  or  something  ex- 
citing like  that,  with  an  average  of  about 
90,  and  Skee  McKee  did  equally  well  at 
P.  &  S.)  We're  trying  to  get  hold  of 
Gaillard  to  go  up  and  see  her.  (Ed.  Note. 
— M.  S.  B.  G.  seems  to  have  vanished  into 
the  wilds  of  Onteora,  no  trace  of  her  hav- 
ing been  reported  by  anyone.)  For  my 
summer  I've  just  been  doing  Red  Cross 
Motor  Corps  and  being  initiated  into  the 
chores  of  Junior  League  work  (which  I 
was  invited  to  join  in  June).  In  the  fall 
I  expect  to  go  back  to  the  scenery  work 
with  the  Albany  Players,  too.  Otherwise 
it's  a  trip  here  and  there:  Lake  Mohawk 
for  our  anniversary,  Nantucket  for  a  va- 


cation from  housework,  Lake  George  on 
a  visit." 

Other  items  garnered:  Al  Bruere  and 
Babs  Rose  spent  their  two  weeks  together 
sunning  and  sleeping  on  Cape  Cod.  They 
paid  a  visit  to  Woods  Hole,  where  Edith 
Morgan  Whitaker  was  visiting  her  fam- 
ily en  route  from  California  to  set  up  an 
establishment  for  the  winter  in  Cam- 
bridge. It  is  expected  that  the  Whitaker 
family  will  be  augmented  this  Autumn. 
Edith  was  well  and  very  happy. 

Peg  Barrett  seems  to  have  struggled 
through  her  appendectomy  with  great  suc- 
cess last  June  and  is  still  carrying  on  in 
the  income  tax  department  of  the  Girard 
Trust  Co.  in  Philadelphia.  At  least,  there 
have  been  no  reports  to  the  contrary. 

Ginny  Atmore  seems  to  have  had  a 
very  good  summer  with  the  N.  S.  F.  A. 
in  the  Balkans  and  Austria,  and  threatens 
to  do  it  again  next  summer.  It's  becoming 
chronic,  Ginny.  Nan  Bowman,  '27,  and 
Betty  Freeman,   '29,  were  with  her. 

Mat  Fowler  has  left  millinery  at 
Macy's  and  is  assistant  to  an  assistant  to 
some  one  high  up,  as  we  understand  it. 
Likes  it  better  than  assuring  ugly — usual- 
ly— females — certainly — that  certain  hats 
become  them — or  don't. 

Bertha  Ailing  spent  a  night  with  Al 
Bruere  on  her  way  from  some  place  to 
some  place  else,  and  seemed  very  full  of 
social  engagements. 

When  last  heard  from,  Betty  Brown 
Field  was  returning  from  a  trip  abroad 
so  that  she  might  start  out  for  Japan  by 
way  of  Russia.  Going  to  attend  the  Pan- 
Pacific  conference.  Some  people  have  all 
the  luck. 

Others  doing  exciting  things  include 
Nancy  Wilson,  ex-'28,  who  is  '  in  Spain 
studying  'cello  with  Casals  and  cutting  a 
swathe  in  high  Spanish  society. 


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that  Winter  is  entirely  too  long 


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planned,  romantically  scheduled  ...  9,  12,  16, 
1  8  or  26  days  of  golden  marrow-warming  sun 
just  when  harassed  northern  America  needs  it 
...Nerves  built  up  and  tension  let  down... Big 
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Duration  of 

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New  York 

Voyage 

Rates 

Dec.    3,  1929             s 

s.  Franconia 

16  days 

$200 

Dec.  18,     "               s 

s.  Carinthia 

16  days 

200 

Dec.  21,     "               s 

s.  Franconia 

16  days 

200 

Dec.  26,     "               s 

s.  Caronia 

8  days 

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The  Saint  Timothys  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

Founded  September  1882 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head  of  the  School 

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY    E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  1785) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 
A  country  dav    school  for  boys 

MODERN  AND  WELL  EQUIPPED 
Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 

UNIVERSITYgTrLS 

BOARDING  AND  DAY   SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough     and     successful     Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive  Chicago,  Illinois 

THE  HARTRIDGE   SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

50  minutes  from  New  York 

A  country  school  with  beautiful  grounds. 
College    Preparatory  and    General    Courses. 
Over  fifty  girls  in  leading  colleges  today. 
Resident  Department  carefully  restricted. 
Special  attention  to  Music  and  Art. 
Athletics,  Dramatics,  Riding, 

EMELYN  B.  HARTRIDGE,  Vassar,   '  .B.,  Principal 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey 


The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY,    CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT,  A.B., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


fcOGERSHAI/L 

fAModern  School  With  New  England Tradihons 


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H^m  '  Thorough  Preparation  tor  any  College 

I    ^^  One  Year  Intensive  Review 

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JHfe  ^r,)loma.  Junior  College  Courses — Home 
ki^iiwiincs,  oecretarial  Training,  Music,  Art,  Dramatic 
Art.  26  Miles  from  Boston  Outdoor  Sports.  Riding 
Gymnasium.    Swimming  Pool. 

EDITH   CHAP  IN  CRAVEN,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 
201  Rogers  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

/1ARCUAV  SCmL 

BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and 
all  leading  colleges 

Musical  Course  prepares  tor  the  Depart 
ment  of  Music  of  Bryn  Mawr  College 
EDITH  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 
L.  May  Willis,  Principal 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 
Individual  Instruction.     Athletics. 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa 

Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address:    Bryn  Mawr.  Pa 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON  COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vassar) 

Principal 


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THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 


BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 


GRAY  GABLES 


Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 
One  year  course  for  Board   Examination. 

For  catalog  address: 

Hope  Fisheb,  Ph.D.,   Bancroft   School 

Wobcesteb,  Massachusetts 


MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 
COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses  Junior  High  School 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,  Headmistress 

The  Katharine  Branson  School 

ROSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Francisco 

A  Country  School     College  Preparatory 

Head: 
Katharine   Fleming   Branson,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

1330  19th  St.,  N.  W.  Washington,  D.  C. 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 

Head  Mistress 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 


FERRY    HALL 

A    RESIDENT    AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On    Lake  Michigan,  near    Chicago 

Junior  College:  High  School  Department:  College 
Preparatory  and  General  Courses.  Special  Departments 
of  Music.  Expression  and  Art. 

Two  new  dormitories,  including  new  dining  room  and 
infirmary,  to  be  opened  September  1929. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 


ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 
(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  courses) 


GREENWICH 


CONNECTICUT 


The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 

(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr.  Mount  Holyoke.  Smith. 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  college*.     Abundant  outdoor  life. 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis. 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON,  A.B. 

HEAD 

THE  LOW  AND  HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

64th  year.    Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN  POINT,  STAMFORD,  CONN. 


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^    y      A  Country  School  in   the  Green 
Spring     Valley    near    Baltimore. 
Modern  Equipment. 

All  Sports.  Special  Emphasis  on  Horse- 
back Riding.  Mild  Climate. 
Garrison  Forest  Girls  who  are  going  to  college 
are  thoroughly  prepared  for  any  institution. 
Other  girls  take  courses  with  special  emphasis 
on  Music  and  Art.  Younger  girls  live  in  a 
separate  Junior  House. 

Principals 

MISS  JEAN  G.  MARSHALL 

MISS  NANCY  OFFUTT, 
Bryn  Mawr,  ex  '20 

Box  B,  Garrison,  Maryland 


Katharine  Gibbs 

A  sclwol  of  unusual  character  with  a  distinctive 
purpose  for  educated  women 
SECRETARIAL   ACADEMIC  EXECUTIVE 
BOSTON 


90MarlboroStreet 
Resident  and 
Day  School 

NEW  YORK 
247  Park  Avenue 

PROVIDENCE 
155  Angell  Street 


Special  Course  for  College 
Women.  Selected  subjects 
preparing  for  executive  posi- 
tions. Separate  classrooms 
and  special  instructors. 
One-year  Course  includes  tech- 
nical and  broad businesstrain- 
ing  preparing  for  positions  of 
a  preferred  character. 
Two-year  Course  for  prepara- 
tory and  high  school  gradu- 
ates. First  year  includes  six 
college  subjects.  Second  year 
intensive  secretarial  training 
Booklet  on  request 


Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 


GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  1 9  miles  from  New  York.    College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.       Music       Art  and 

Domestic  Science.      Catalogue  on  request.      Box  B. 

MIRIAM  A.   BYTEL,    A.B.,   Radclifte,   Principal 

BERTHA  GORDON  WOOD,  A.B.,   Bryn   Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


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INTENSIVE  WINTER  AND 
SUMMER  COURSES 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  of  costume  design  and  illus- 
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sistent with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  for 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
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Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
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In  Arnold,  Constable  &  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

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November,  1929 


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OFFICERS  OF   THE   BRYN    MAWR  ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION 

EXECUTIVE  BOARD 

President Louise  Fleischmann  Maclat,  1906 

Vice-President Natalie  McFaden  Blanton,  1917 

Recording  Secretary Gertrude  Hearne  Myers,  1919 

Corresponding  Secretary Mat  Egan  Stokes,  1911 

Treasurer Margaret  E.  Brusstar,  1903 

Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

Chairman  of  the  Publicity  Committee Caroline  Morrow  Chadwick-Collins,    1905 

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Alice  M.  Hawkins,  1907 

EDITOR  OF  THE  BULLETIN 

Marjorie  L.  Thompson,  1912 

DISTRICT  COUNCILLORS 

District  I Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913 

District  II Julia  Langdon  Loomis    1895 

District  III Alletta  Van  Reypen  Korff,  1900 

District  IV Katharine  Holliday  Daniels,  1918 

District  V Frances  Porter  Adler,  1911 

District  VI Edna  Warkentin  Alden,  1900 

District  VII Helen  Brayton  Barendt,  1903 

ALUMNAE  DIRECTORS 

Ruth  Furness  Porter,  1896  Mary  Peirce,  1912 

Frances  Fincke  Hand.  1897  Margaret  Reeve  Cary,  1907 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Otey,  1901 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  ALUMNAE  FUND 

Caroline  Florence  Lexow,  1908 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  ACADEMIC  COMMITTEE 

Pauline  Goldmark,  1896 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  SCHOLARSHIPS  AND  LOAN  FUND  COMMITTEE 

Margaret  Gilman,  1919 

CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  HEALTH  AND  PHYSICAL  EDUCATION 

Dr.  Marjorie  F    Murray,  1913 

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In  one  of  the  current  magazines  an  article  on  "The  Convention  of  Going  to 
College"  starts  out  trenchantly:  "Our  passion  for  well-rounded  education  is  such 
that  we  are  in  danger  of  manufacturing  a  nation  of  billiard  balls.  .  .  .  On  the 
whole  it  is  a  good  thing  that  he  (the  student)  should  be  well  rounded;  at  least  he 
will  now  be  able  to  roll  smoothly  and  comfortably  through  life.  .  .  .  But  occa- 
sionally there  appear  students  with  outstanding  abilities  and  independent  interests 
who  ought  not  to  be  made  spherical ;  who  should  be  left  as  they  are, — eleptical,  oblong, 
or  triangular."  Miss  Park's  opening  speech  to  the  Freshmen  makes  one  feel  in  spite 
of  their  almost  alarming  uniformity  of  excellence  that  nevertheless  one  need  not 
fear  lest  the  mould  in  every  case  be  round.  This  present  class  has  a  greater  variety 
of  preparation  than  has  been  true  of  entering  classes  in  the  past  ten  years  or  so ;  more 
come  from  the  public  schools;  a  quarter  of  them  enter  with  a  credit  average;  and  there 
is  a  greater  range  in  age.  Other  colleges  report  a  "country-wide  decline  in  numbers  of 
college  applicants,"  but  we  are  confronted  with  the  problems  arising  from  a  steady 
increase  in  numbers.  The  fact  that  there  were  approximately,  in  the  best  Bryn 
Mawr  tradition  of  statistics,  two  and  one-half  girls  for  every  place  available,  means 
that  coming  to  Bryn  Mawr  is  certainly  not  following  the  line  of  least  resistance. 
That  in  itself  should  insure  something  of  the  point  of  view  of  an  earlier  time  when 
entering  college  was  both  an  adventure  and  an  achievement,  and  the  successful  student 
felt  that  being  there  placed  upon  her  an  intellectual  obligation.  And  as  the  present 
student  progresses  she  will  find  that  the  educational  processes  are  tending, — in  the  honors 
work,  in  the  opportunities  for  following  her  own  line  of  interest,  if  the  greater  leisure 
for  reading  develop,  as  the  faculty,  as  the  students,  as  the  alumnae  hope  they  will, — not 
to  mould  her  into  a  spherical  mass,  but  to  give  her  an  ever-widening  space  in  which  to 
grow. 


PRESIDENT  PARK'S.  SPEECH 

It  is  hard  to  believe  that  only  today  the  college  year  begins.  A  few  weeks  ago 
I  was -looking  at  Cape  Breton  bays  set  like  sapphires  in  their  gray  rocks  or  the  clear 
pools  of  rivers  filling  and  emptying  with  the  tide,  and  watching  eagerly,  laid  in  against 
its  northern  background,  a  life  which  disappeared  from  New  England  fifty  years  ago, 
laborious  enough  but  uncomplicated  and  leisurely.  I  thought  of  Mrs.  Chad  wick-Collins 
thirty-two  times  as  I  drove  for  three  hours  between  Annapolis  and  Yarmouth,  for  I 
passed  thirty-two  teams  of  oxen  on  the  road!  With  a  sudden  understanding  of  why 
my  grandmother  was  a  better  woman  than  I  but  not  being  able  to  use  the  revelation 
profitably,  I  came  back  to  the  machine  age.  In  an  instant,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye, 
we  were  again  slaves  to  the  telephone,  to  the  post  box  collection,  and  the  power  house 
siren.  The  noise  of  the  grass  cutter  without  and  the  vacuum  cleaner  within  has 
filled  our  heads;  eleventh-hour  bath-tubs  have  clanked  into  Pembroke,  freshmen's 
trunks  and  telegrams,  finally  the  freshmen  themselves  have  come  and  somehow  dis- 
tributed themselves  and  the  time  of  the  college  offices  has  already  for  a  week  been 
bent  twenty-four  hours  a  day  on  the  freshman  registration.  I  am  driven  to  remember 
my  old  Ford.  There  has  been  such  a  clatter  of  everything's  beginning  at  once  that 
it  is  hard  to  be  reminded  the  college  year  has  not  moved  officially,  that  so  far  we  have 
heard  only  the  noise  of  the  starter  and  that  the  journey  is  not  brilliantly  begun!  It  is 
with  this  minute  finally  that  we  launch  on  the  official  year's  round  and  from  now  on 
the  entering  class  takes  its  own  place  and  only  its  own  place  in  the  pattern  of 
the  year. 

The  really  new  figure  in  that  pattern  is  the  Graduate  School  in  its  new  hall, 
with  its  new  officer — its  individuality  about  to  form.  In  separating  graduate  and 
undergraduate  students  a  tradition  well  pedigreed  from  Cambridge  and  Oxford  and 
long  cherished  was  broken  and  in  no  Bryn  Mawr  breast  was  there  a  unanimous 
vote  in  favor  of  the  change — or  rather  perhaps  our  sentiment  voted  mutinously 
against  our  sense.  For  undeniably  the  good  of  the  Graduate  School  is  the  good  of 
each  member  of  the  college,  and  undeniably  for  the  good  of  the  school  a  well-considered 
and  a  resolute  step  has  been  taken.  Where  all  education  of  graduate  and  professional 
students  is  expensive,  such  education  in  a  small  college  is  overwhelmingly  expensive; 
it  cabbages  a  large  sum  for  fellowship  and  scholarships  (at  Bryn  Mawr  the  income 
of  $700,000)  ;  precious  class-room  space  is  devoted  to  relatively  few  students;  it  sends 
up  the  bills  for  teaching,  for  books,  for  equipment. 

If  I  should  paint  Bryn  Mawr  as  Atlas,  the  world  on  his  shoulders  would  at 
different  times  bear  different  labels  but  sometimes  and  especially  when  I  was  in 
financial  depression  it  would  be  labelled  The  Graduate  School.  And  it  is  true  that 
it  is  possible  now  as  it  was  not  once  for  women  to  study  in  the  advanced  courses  of 
American  and  foreign  universities.  Why  then  with  this  year  is  the  Graduate  School 
made  still  more  important?  With  honorable  reasons  for  giving  it  up,  for  closing  its 
excellent  record  of  preparing  women  for  professional  teaching,  and  research,  the 
college  has  chosen  to  establish  it  more  firmly,  to  underline,  as  it  were,  its  position  in 
Bryn  Mawr.  On  its  altar  we  have  laid  the  admired  Miss  Schenck,  the  much-loved 
Radnor. 

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There  is  a  double  answer.  First,  the  college  has  acted  because  of  the  Graduate 
School  itself  and  has  based  its  confidence  on  such  conclusions  as  were  put  together  in 
the  1927  report  to  the  Alumnae  of  the  Academic  Committee  and  on  such  concrete 
facts  as,  say,  the  giving  of  the  doctor's  degree  last  June  to  ten  women  and  the  master's 
to  seventeen  more,  the  recurring  award  of  fellowships  at  universities  in  America  and 
abroad  to  recent  members  of  the  school,  and  the  appointment  to  teaching  and  research 
positions  of  Bryn  Mawr  graduate  students  fresh  minted  in  the  last  ten  years  by  the 
Universities  of  Michigan,  Nebraska  and  West  Virginia,  Western  Reserve,  Rochester, 
by  Yale,  Swarthmore,  Earlham,  the  Johns  Hopkins  and  the  Harvard  Medical  Schools, 
the  University  of  Delaware's  Foreign  Section  in  Paris,  the  Metropolitan  Museum, 
besides  each  one  of  the  large  and  many  of  the  small  colleges  for  women.  And  second, 
because  the  Graduate  School  educates  not  only  its  hundred  or  more  students  yearly. 
It  educates  also  the  four  hundred  undergraduates  wrho  share  the  faculty  and  the 
library  and  the  college.  It  colors  for  the  freshmen  the  elementary  classroom  work  and 
sets  the  standard  for  the  honors  work  of  the  juniors  and  seniors.  It  sends  the  faculty 
willy  nilly  to  their  own  research.  Mr.  Gray  and  Mr.  Gray's  young  ladies  crowd,  we 
hear,  the  London  Record  Office,  and  Miss  Swindler's  young  ladies  must  crowd 
Greece.  There  are  doubtless  faculty  and  students  who  sit  in  darkness  but  that  the 
undergraduate  work  at  Bryn  Mawr  is  shot  through  by  a  graduate  attitude  of  mind 
is,  I  believe,  the  reason  why,  to  say  nothing  of  others,  such  recent  undergraduates  as 
Katharine  and  Jessie  Hendrick  at  Oxford,  Rebecca  FitzGerald  at  Vienna,  Elizabeth 
Pillsbury  at  Berlin,  Agnes  Newhall  and  Mary  Zelia  Pease  at  Athens,  Frederica 
de  Laguna  in  London  and  Copenhagen  have  won  excellent  comment  and  award. 

I  believe,  in  short,  there  is  a  wholly  defensible  foundation  for  the  verdict  of  our 
sense  and  that  the  sentiment  of  the  conservative  undergraduate  or  graduate  student 
can  and  should  be  easily  untwined  from  its  old  object  and  curled  around  the  new  tree. 
The  experiment  of  June  is  at  any  rate  the  commonplace  of  September.  Upwards  of  a 
hundred  graduate  students  have  already  registered — and  the  full  registration  always 
comes  late — and  sixty  are  establishing  themselves  in  a  remade  Radnor  Hall.  Resident 
F.ellow^s  in  seventeen  departments  and  scholars  in  twelve,  foreign  scholars  from  Austria, 
France,  Scotland,  Switzerland  and  Germany,  the  newly  named  Scholar  of  the  Society 
of  Pennsylvania  Women  in  New  York,  Ruth  Peters,  of  North  Cumberland,  Bryn 
Mawr,  1928 — these  will  all  frame  the  customs  of  the  first  Bryn  Mawr  Graduate  hall. 

To  the  Graduate  School,  the  new  Radnor  and  to  Dean  Schenck  we  offer  honest 
felicitations  and  warm  good  wishes. 

The  undergraduate  students  entering  Bryn  Mawr  this  year  interest  me  very  much 
and  the  history  of  their  selection  is  more  dramatic  than  usual.  It  is  as  unhandy  for  a 
college  to  enroll  one  small  class  every  four  years  as  it  would  be  for  a  coach  to  have 
out  of  its  four  one  small  wheel.  And,  it  is  readily  calculable,  the  small  class  tends 
to  perpetuate  itself.  In  ordinary  years  about  one  hundred  places  are  vacant  in  the 
halls  for  the  incomers,  and  the  number  of  applicants  is  not  over  140.  This  summer 
when  the  Committee  on  Entrance  Examinations  met  it  found  an  almost  insoluble 
problem.  Seventy  places  only  were  vacant,  185  applicants  were  completely  ready  to 
enter.  One  might  say  that  for  each  bed,  each  knife  and  plate  in  the  dining  room  two 
and  a  half  girls  presented  themselves.  The  difficult  details  of  the  Committee  work 
I  do  not  need  to  go  into.  At  its  advice  without  giving  up  the  residence  requirement  the 
number  of  places  in  residence  was  pushed  beyond  the  original  seventy,  first  by  dividing 


4  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

a  few  more  large  college  rooms  between  two,  we  hope  amicable,  owners,  then  by 
accepting  the  offer  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Hill  Collins  to  let  the  college  place 
eleven  students  and  a  warden  in  their  house  (which  has  one  valuable  by-product  in  that 
at  least  twelve  Americans  will  learn  to  spell  Bettws-y-Coed)  and  finally  by  borrow- 
ing temporarily  three  rooms  in  the  faculty  houses  oil  Roberts  Road.  Fifteen  students 
have  chosen  to  be  non-residents  rather  than  to  forego  entrance  to  Bryn  Mawr  entirely. 

Thanks  to  these  various  small  increases  the  college  opens  with  102  freshmen  in 
residence  and  a  class  of  121,  an  unexpectedly  successful  breaking  up  of  the  small  class 
cycle,  although  even  so  something  not  far  under  a  third  of  the  qualified  applicants 
had  to  be  refused.  The  problem  of  selection  of  a  freshman  class  appears  this  year 
in  I  trust  an  unusually  spectacular  way,  and  it  was  attacked  by  a  remarkably  con- 
scientious and  hard-working  committee.  This  committee,  however,  reports  that  the 
information  to  be  drawn  from  examination  averages,  scholastic  aptitude  tests,  school 
records  and  school  statements  fell  short  in  giving  an  adequate  picture  of  the  potential 
value  of  the  candidates.  The  committee  itself  has  made  several  suggestions  for  another 
year,  heads  of  schools  may  make  others,  and  I  should  like  to  ask  the  Curriculum  Com- 
mittee of  the  Undergraduate  Association,  its  members  only  two  or  three  years  out 
of  the  schools,  to  make  any  comment  it  cares  to  on  the  possibility  of  increasing  the 
chances  (I  put  it  cautiously  for  omniscience  alone  could  solve  the  problem  fully)  of  a 
juster  estimate  of  the  girls  who  wish  to  enter  Bryn  Mawr.  It  is  trite  to  say  that  such 
choice  is  all-important.  There  is  a  kind  of  applicant  who  like  the  cup  of  tea  described 
by  a  Cape  Breton  man  this  summer  is  "filling  but  not,  so  to  say,  enriching."  The 
college  is  full  or  empty,  good  or  poor,  adequate  or  inadequate  as  its  students  vary. 
I  should  like  to  feel  that  our  barometer  was  constantly  rising. 

In  regard  to  the  actual  freshman  class  admitted  this  year  the  choosers  feel,  I 
gather,  tremendously  exultant,  and  they  have  passed  on  their  satisfaction  to  me,  the 
wardens  and  the  committee  of  the  Self-Government  Association  who  took  no  part 
in  their  high-tension  labor  in  July.  I  shall  expect,  when  I  have  time,  to  tell  you 
more  at  length  of  the  records  of  the  121  new  students  and  to  pass  on  the  satisfaction 
to  you.  I  must  say  at  once  that  the  examination  average  of  the  composite  1933  is. a 
high  Merit,  her  scholastic  aptitude  test  a  high  B,  her  school  report  Good- — in  the 
technical  not  the  moral  sense — and  her  recommendation  judicious  but  warm.  Thirty- 
two  enter  with  a  Credit  average  compared  with  thirteen  in  1926,  nineteen  in 
1927  and  twenty  in  1928.  Fourteen  of  the  thirty-two  have  also  the  highest 
scholastic  aptitude  test,  and  seven  of  the  thirty-two  are  sixteen  or  barely  seventeen 
years  old.  Eighteen  per  cent  have  been  entirely  prepared  by  public  schools  as  com- 
pared with  eight  per  cent  in  1926,  eleven  per  cent  in  1927  and  1928 — a  consummation 
long  devoutly  wished  by  all  who  prize  variety  over  monotony  in  the  Bryn  Mawr 
student  today.  If  we  are  right  in  our  judgment,  the  Class  of  1933  should  somewhat 
earlier  than  usual  put  away  childish  things  academically  and  demand  for  the  work 
the  flavor  of  real  scholarship.  They  should  take  from  us  the  possibility  of  vacant 
rooms  through  scholarship  exclusion  and  they  should  press  us  hard  in  two  years'  time 
to  increase  the  honors  work  in  all  the  departments.  As  I  said  in  speaking  at  Commence- 
ment in  June,  I  believe  the  next  task  before  Bryn  Mawr  is  to  provide  a  curriculum 
which  should  be  the  equivalent  in  length,  breadth,  and  height  of  any  curriculum  of 
the  past  but  should  be  somewhat  more  elastic  as  it  relates  to  the  individual,  and  it  is 
surely  an  excellent  time  to  begin   the  combined   thinking  which  must  precede  such 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  5 

an  experiment  when  a  hundred  and  twenty  interesting  individuals  have  come  to  the 
campus.  To  co-operate  genuinely  in  any  such  change  or  indeed  in  any  important 
college  matter  it  is  necessary  that  the  various  interested  classes — faculty,  students, 
alumnae — should  act  as  it  were  in  the  same  plane.  They  should  use  the  same  coinage. 
And  this  mutual  coinage  should  include  not  only  curriculum  jargon,  "course,"  "credit," 
"pre-requisite,"  but  also  fundamental  agreements  as  to  the  use  of  intellectual  training, 
the  limitations  of  the  term  research,  the  contribution  of  present-day  psychology  and 
so  on.  Differ  as  we  may  on  any  of  these,  we  must  agree  enough  to  argue  profitably — 
not  merely  as  has  often  happened  in  the  past  throw  down  successively  each  other's 
straw  man.  Faculties  I  believe  often  need  to  revamp  decidedly  their  own  general  ideas; 
each  strains  past  the  last  milestone  of  knowledge  on  his  own  road,  but  the  sum  of  a 
dozen  such  progresses  of  individuals  in  Chemistry  or  Spanish  or  Philosophy  or  whatnot 
does  not  appear  as  an  equally  progressive  whole,  nor  does  the  specialist  reach  there 
by  a  general  viewpoint.  Students  on  the  other  hand  need  to  learn  more  of  the  duller 
intellectual  virtues — persistence,  patience  and  grubbing.  They  are  all  for  escalators 
and  miracles.  "The  harvest  is  past,  the  summer  is  ended  and  we  are  not  saved,"  they 
.  cry  each  autumn.  They  complain  again  that  all  races  set  them  are  obstacle  races, 
and  can't  bear  to  believe  that  the  hurdle  is  part  of  the  pleasure  of  the  course — it  is 
something,  rather,  shoved  into  the  curriculum  by  aged  mischief  makers.  As  for  Presi- 
dents, they  need  Sabbaticals,  camels,  pyramids,  Girgenti  temples  in  April  grass,  high 
Alpine  walks,  to  clear  their  heads  and  restore  them  from  the  melancholy  madness 
into  which  the  non-intellectual  life  of  a  central  office  makes  them  fall.  I  am  setting 
about  to  cure  my  faults  and  when  I  come  back  I  shall  expect  to  see  the  dust  and  the 
tumult  of  progress.  For  one  of  the  unexpected  by-products  of  the  increased  advanced 
work  has  been  a  recognition  by  the  faculty  and  the  students  working  in  those  courses 
each  of  the  other's  "language,"  of  the  truth  of  his  contentions,  of  his  handicaps  and 
assets.  I  have  noticed  this  again  and  again  in  conversation,  and  it  will,  I  am  con- 
vinced, begin  to  pervade  separate  faculty  and  student  discussions.  And  joint  confer- 
ences which  take  place  in  future  will  be  increasingly  fruitful  if  without  wasting  time 
we  understand  one  another.  We  are  after  all,  all  intellectual  beings  and  anxious  alike 
to  have  the  good  prevail. 

Our  mid-summer  gifts  have  been  well  directed.  With  a  somewhat  reckless  hand 
Dean  Manning  and  I  arranged  last  year  for  an  increase  in  the  honors  work  in  Latin 
completely  without  the  support  of  any  funds.  An  anonymous  gift  of  $1,000  from  an 
alumna  for  use  in  honors  work  this  year  seems  to  justify  our  plunge.  Another 
anonymous  gift  of  $1,000  from  an  alumna  to  the  President's  Fund  helps  the  honors 
work  of  several  other  departments.  A  third  anonymous  gift  of  $1,000  from  an  alumna 
is  at  the  moment  at  work  replacing  the  bath-tubs  in  Pembroke  West  and  building 
in,  at  Christmas  time  if  possible  and  if  not,  next  summer,  three  shower  baths  on  each 
floor.  I  trust  that  this  wide  range  in  use  of  these  anonymous  thousands  may  tempt 
some  one  of  you  to  add  still  others  which  I  promise  will  be  as  judiciously  and  as 
immediately  spent.  A  larger  anonymous  gift,  and  from  an  alumna,  which  will  be  veil' 
particularly  appreciated  by  both  undergraduates  and  graduates  makes  possible  in 
accordance  with  the  plan  for  increasing  the  faculty  salaries  of  which  I  have  many  times 
spoken,  a  grant  of  $1,000  a  year  to  Professor  Donnelly,  head  of  the  Department  of 
English.  The  grant  further  is  to  be  called  the  Lucy  Martin  Donnelly  grant  and  will 
be  continued  until   1935.     After  that  I  trust  that  it  will  turn  into  a  Lucy  Martin 


6  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

Donnelly  Professorship  of  English  in  honor  of  a  member  of  the  faculty  who  from  my 
own  undergraduate  days  to  the  present  has  trained  every  generation  in  distinction  of 
taste  and  stirred  in  each  delight  in  scholarship.  Three  bequests  have  been  made  to  the 
college  which  interest  me  specially  because  each  comes  from  a  giver  whose  interest 
we  had  not  guessed.  Mrs.  Eva  Ramsey  Hunt  has  bequeathed  to  the  college  $16,000 
for  the  establishment  of  two  scholarships"  in  memory  of  her  daughter,  Evelyn  Hunt, 
a  graduate  of  the  college  in  1898,  who  died  thirteen  years  ago.  Mary  E.  Trueman, 
of  the  class  of  1905,  after  making  two  bequests  of  five  thousand  dollars  each  to  two 
religious  institutions,  divided  the  residue  of  her  twenty-one-thousand-dollar  estate  into 
five  parts  and  left  two  parts  to  her  church  and  three  parts  to  Bryn  Mawr  College  for 
the  Department  of  English  or  History.  Miss  Jennie  E.  Ireson,  the  aunt  of  Lilley 
Ireson  (Mrs.  John  Coleman  Pickard),  of  the  class  of  1922,  of  Boston,  has  left  to 
Bryn  Mawr  and  to  Vassar  $5,000  each  to  endow  a  scholarship  in  her  mother's 
memory,  "in  recognition,"  the  will  runs,  "of  the  excellence  of  their  standards." 

Such  gifts  are  as  heartening  as  if  we  could  buy  Wyndham  with  them  or  endow 
a  professorship,  for  they  represent  just  as  fully  the  thought  and  the  approbation  of 
generous  friends. 

This  first  day,  sombre  in  its  cold  light  over  the  gray  stone  and  the  vines  beginning 
to  turn  rusty  from  their  mid-summer  green,  is  nevertheless  of  pleasant  augury,  for 
Miss  Thomas  comes  back  today  from  two  full  years  or  more  of  travelling  and  opens 
the  Deanery  for  a  long  Bryn  Mawr  stay.  Her  working  life  spans  the  college  from 
the  first  hazy  plan  in  Dr.  Taylor's  mind  to  the  leaf  picked  off  the  grass  by  the  grounds- 
man this  morning.  We  rejoice  whenever  she  returns  to  receive  the  fruit  of  her  hands 
and  to  let  her  own  works  praise  her  in  the  gates. 

And  so  at  half-past  nine  this  morning  the  forty-fifth  year  of  Bryn  Mawr  College 
begins.     Bonum  annum,  faustum,  felicem ! 


SCHOOLS  WHICH  FOR  THE  FIRST  TIME  HAVE 
PREPARED  ENTERING  STUDENTS 

*t  Batavia  High  School,  Batavia,  New  York. 

t  Cheltenham,   Pa.,   High  School. 

t  Collingswood,  New  Jersey,  High  School. 

f  Forest  Park  High  School,  Baltimore,  Md. 
*t  Great  Neck,  New  York,  High  School. 
Miss  Hockaday's  School,  Dallas,  Texas. 

f  Morgan  Park  High  School,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
Randell  Tutoring  School,  Denver,  Colorado. 

f  William  Penn  High  School,  York,  Pennsylvania. 

t  Haverford    High    School,    South   Ardmore,    Pa. 


*  Schools  which  have  given  final  preparatory  work. 
t  Public  schools. 


REGIONAL  SCHOLARS 

Each  year  the  list  of  Regional  Scholars  grows  longer,  and  the  achievements  of 
the  group  continue  to  justify  the  interest  shown  in  them.  This  autumn  the  College 
has  enrolled  thirty-three  undergraduates  whose  presence  there  is  due  in  large  part 
to  the  efforts  of  the  various  Regional  Scholarships  Committees  in  their  behalf. 

The  New  England  committee,  as  usual,  leads  the  way  with  nine  Scholars  to  its 
credit.  These  include  Dorothea  Cross,  1930;  Celia  Darlington,  1931;  Alice  Rider, 
1932,  and  six  in  the  class  of  1933.  Of  these  Freshmen  Scholars,  the  first  one,  Alice 
Brues,  is  the  youngest  girl  in  her  class — just  sixteen — and  she  enters  with  an  average 
of  87.73,  the  second  highest  of  all  the  Freshmen,  and  is  the  holder  of  the  Matricula- 
tion Scholarship  for  New  England.  She  and  two  of  the  others,  Rosamond  Robert 
and  Felicitas  de  Varon,  were  prepared  by  the  Girls'  Latin  School  in  Boston.  The 
other  Scholars  from  this  Region  are  Susan  Torrance,  of  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  pre- 
pared by  Dana  Hall;  Harriet  Flagg,  of  Bangor,  Maine,  prepared  by  the  Bangor 
High  School  and  the  Baldwin  School,  and  Tirzah  Clarke,  sent  by  the  Cambridge- 
Haskell  School. 

New  York  has  no  Freshmen  Scholars,  but  is  still  responsible  for  Phyllis  Wiegand, 
1930;  Margaret  Nuckols,  1931,  and  Dorothea  Perkins,  1932.  New  Jersey's  Scholar, 
Yvonne  Cameron,  is  a  Sophomore. 

The  Eastern  Pennsylvania  and  Delaware  Committee  is  sending  as  its  new 
Scholar,  Gertrude  Longacre,  prepared  by  the  Irwin  School.  Two  Juniors,  Frances 
Tatnall  and  Angelyn  Burrows;  and  Elizabeth  Barker,  Sophomore,  are  still  under 
the  wing  of  this  committee. 

The  Western  Pennsylvania  Committee  is  sending  two  Freshmen.  One  of  these, 
Eleanor  Yeakel,  comes  as  a  special  Scholar;  and  the  other,  Eleanor  Chalfant,  daughter 
of  Minnie  List,  1907,  is  the  regular  Regional  Scholar  from  that  district.  Both  were 
prepared  by  the  Peabody  High  School  of  Pittsburgh. 

The  Baltimore  Committee  has  a  new  Freshman  Scholar,  Eva  Levin,  daughter  of 
Bertha  Szold,  1895;  prepared  by  the  Forest  Park  High  School.  The  Washington 
Committee  continues  its  interest  in  Elinor  Totten,  now  a  Junior,  and,  with  the  Rich- 
mond Committee,  has  raised  a  special  scholarship  for  Ella  Rutledge,  1932,  of  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina. 

District  IV.  is  sending  two  Freshmen  Scholars,  Jeannette  Le  Saulnier,  prepared 
by  the  Indianapolis  High  School,  and  Elizabeth  Sixt,  prepared  by  the  Cleveland  High 
School.  This  Committee  is  also  continuing  to  help  its  Scholar,  Katharine  Sixt,  and 
has  added  to  its  list  Marianna  Jenkins,  both  of  whom  are  spending  their  Junior  year 
in  France. 

The  Chicago  Committee  has  four  Scholars,  Margaret  Bradley  and  Hester 
Thomas,  of  the  class  of  1932,  and  two  Freshmen,  Cecilia  Candee,  prepared  by  the 
Evanston  High  School,  and  Caroline  Lloyd-Jones,  daughter  of  Caroline  Schock,  1908, 
prepared  by  high  schools  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  Madison,  Wisconsin. 

District  VI.  has  two  Scholars,  both  Sophomores,  Anne  Burnett,  the  regular 
Regional  Scholar;  and  Melody  Byerley,  holder  of  the  Emily  Westwood  Lewis 
Memorial  Scholarship. 

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8  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

The  Scholarships  Committees  of  Northern  and  Southern  California  have  united 
in  sending  the  first  Regional  Scholar  from  District  VII.,  Louise  Balmer,  daughter  of 
Louise  Congdon,  1908,  prepared  by  the  Bishop's  School,  La  Jolla. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  average  age  of  the  fifteen  new  Scholars  is  slightly 
under  eighteen  years,  while  the  average  for  the  entire  entering  class  is  eighteen  years 
and  one  month.  Ten  of  the  fifteen  were  prepared  by  public  schools  entirely,  and 
one  more  received  part  of  her  preparation  at  a  public  high  school.  This  record  is  a 
distinct  indication  that  some  of  the  ideas  of  the  founders  of  the  Regional  Scholars  are 
bearing  fruit,  and  that  this  group  will  do  much  to  add  to  the  variety  of  the  student 
body  drawn  so  largely  from  the  private  schools  of  the  country. 


CHANGES  IN  THE  FACULTY  1929-30 

An  unusually  large  number  of  members  of  the  faculty  are  on  leave  of  absence 
this  year.  In  the  Department  of  English  Dr.  Chew  is  absent  and  his  work  has  been 
taken  over  by  Miss  Garvin.  Dr.  Leuba  is  on  leave  and  his  son  Clarence,  the  newly 
appointed  Lecturer  in  Psychology,  is  substituting  for  him.  Miss  Lattimore,  a  new 
Lecturer  in  Social  Economy,  is  carrying  Miss  Kingsbury's  work  in  the  latter's  absence. 
Doctor  and  Mrs.  Smith  are  abroad  and  Julian  Smith  Duncan  is  the  newly  appointed 
Lecturer  in  Economics  who  is  acting  as  substitute  for  Mrs.  Smith.  Mr.  Duell,  Asso- 
ciate Professor  of  Archaeology,  has  been  awarded  a  Guggenheim  Foundation  Fellow- 
ship "to  study  Etruscan  painting  of  the  Fifth  Century  B.  C.  at  Tarquinia  and  to  make 
archaeologically  accurate  copies  in  color  of  the  wall  paintings  in  the  best  preserved 
tombs  of  this  period."  Charles  Morgan  has  been  appointed  Lecturer  in  Archaeology 
to  substitute  for  him.  The  following  appointments  have  also  been  made:  Robert 
Elson  Turner,  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Associate  in  French;  Dr.  Ralph 
Stewart,  of  Johns  Hopkins  University,  Associate  in  Geology;  Dr.  Enid  Glen,  of 
Loughborough  College  (University  of  Nottingham,  England),  Associate  in  English; 
Dr.  Camillo  P.  Merlino,  from  the  University  of  California,  Associate  in  Italian,  and 
Miss  Madeleine  Soubeiran,  who  since  1927  has  been  teaching  at  the  Lycee  de  Jeunes 
Filles  at  Aix-en-Provence,  France,  Associate  in  French. 

Dr.  Crenshaw,  Dr.  Wright  and  Dr.  Ballou  have  returned  from  leave  of  absence 
and  are  taking  up  their  work  again. 

The  following  promotions  on  the  Faculty  have  been  made:  Dr.  Grace  de  Laguna 
has  been  promoted  from  Associate  Professor  to  Professor  of  Philosophy;  Dr.  Joseph 
E.  Gillet  from  Associate  Professor  to  Professor  of  Spanish;  Dr.  Marland  Billings 
from  Associate  to  Associate  Professor  of  Geology;  Dr.  Mary  Summerfield  Gardiner 
has  been  promoted  from  Instructor  to  Associate  in  Biology;  Dr.  Marguerite  Lehr 
from  Instructor  to  Associate  in  Mathematics;  Dr.  Dorothea  Egleston  Smith  from 
Lecturer  to  Associate  in  Biology;  and  Mr.  Ernest  Willoughby  from  Instructor  to 
Associate  in  Music. 

The  greatest  change  is  the  appointment  of  Eunice  Morgan  Schenk  as  Dean  of 
the  Graduate  School.     She  is,  however,  still  head  of  the  French  Department. 


BRYN  MAWR  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS 
WHO  HAVE  DAUGHTERS  IN  THE  CLASS  OF  1933 

Daughter  s  Name  Mother  s  Name  Class 

Louise  Congdon  Balmer Louise  Congdon  1908 

Janet  Barton  Barber  Lucy  Lombardi  1904 

Sylvia  Church  Bowditch  Sylvia  C.  Scudder 1899 

Emmeline  Margaret  Carson  Agnes  Gillinder  1904 

Eleanor  Murdoch  Chalfant  Minnie  Kendrick  List 1907 

Elizabeth  Stuart  Edwards  Caro  F.  Buxton  1901 

Louise  Jackson  Esterly Elizabeth  Norcross  1897 

Mary  Elizabeth  Grant Kittie  L.  Stone  1906 

Elizabeth  Bethune  Jackson  Elizabeth  Bethune  Higginson  1897 

Barbara  Korff Alletta  L.  Van  Reypen 1900 

Eva  Leah  Levin Bertha  Szold  1 895 

Caroline  Lloyd-Jones  Caroline  Franck  Schock 1908 

Ruth  Bowman  Lyman  Ruth  B.  Whitney 1903 

Ellen  Shepard  Nichols  Marjorie  Newton  Wallace  1908 

Evelyn  Waring  Remington  Georgiana  Mabry  Parks  1905 


NON-RESIDENCY 

(Reprinted  from  The  College  News) 

Fifteen  non-resident  Freshmen  enter  college  this  year.  An  ample  opportunity  to 
examine  the  non-residents  in  a  body  is  at  last  given,  and  we  may  now  begin  to  realize 
the  relationship  of  the  student  who  lives  away  from  the  campus,  to  the  students  who  live 
in  the  halls  and  are  drawn  closely  together  by  interests  centered  wholly  upon  college. 
Perhaps  now  we  can  discover  just  how  necessary  are  the  contacts  with  what  may 
sometimes  be  considered  the  more  trivial  side  of  college — the  halls. 

In  a  way,  the  slight  separation  between  students  in  one  hall  and  those  in  another 
gives  an  inkling  of  the  wide  separation  between  the  non-resident  student  and  hall 
activity.  It  is  partly  because  of  laziness  on  our  account  that  the  halls  are  not  more 
closely  linked,  but  at  least,  we  may  mingle  our  interests  before  ten-thirty  P.  M.  Mag- 
nify many  times  the  strong  negative  effect  that  the  distance  across  campus  seems  to 
have  upon  our  physical  and  mental  state,  and  an  idea  of  the  state  of  the  non-resident 
student  is  obtained. 

Those  fifteen  Freshmen  will  virtually  set  non-residency  to  test ;  through  them  we 
may  come  to  see  that  the  hall  is  not  necessarily  so  intrinsic  a  part  of  college  life  as  we 
permit  it  to  be. 


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"THE  FIRST  YEAR" 

The  Alumnae  Committee  of  Seven  Colleges  wishes  to  report  to  the  alumnae 
of  the  seven  colleges  an  outline  of  the  work  it  has  done  during  its  first  year.  It  is 
impossible  to  go  into  the  thousand  and  one  minor  actions  that  have  preceded  each 
major  action,  so  that  only  results  usually  regarded  as  tangible  will  be  listed,  though 
the  Committee  wishes  to  emphasize  its  opinion  that  often  the  intangible  result  is  the 
most  worthwhile  in  the  long  run.  However,  the  intangible  furnishes  nothing  to  make 
a  report  upon,  and  the  tangible  does.  At  least  one  of  the  magazine  articles  here  an- 
nounced has  come  about  from  the  spontaneous  interest  of  editors  on  learning  that  this 
Committee  was  established  to  furnish  information  on  the  eastern  colleges  for  women. 

Century  Magazine  will  publish  in  the  fall  an  article  by  Dean  Gildersleeve,  of 
Barnard  College,  on  the  foreign  student  in  the  women's  colleges.  Miss  Gildersleeve 
was  president  of  the  International  Federation  of  University  Women  from  1924  to 
1926,  and  is  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  Federation. 

Good  Housekeeping  Magazine  will  publish  in  an  early  autumn  number  a  major 
feature  article  interpreting  the  seven  colleges.  It  will  be  written  by  Miss  Ida  M. 
Tarbell,  who  has  visited  each  of  the  colleges  this  spring  to  gather  material  and  im- 
pressions. 

Between  the  months  of  October  and  April,  Pictorial  Review  will  publish  seven 
articles,  each  a  "thumb-nail  sketch"  of  one  of  the  colleges.  They  are  being  written 
by  Miss  Jeannette  Eaton,  a  Vassar  graduate  who  is  a  contributor  to  many  periodicals 
and  is  author  of  a  biography  of  Madame  Roland,  titled  "A  Daughter  of  the  Seine," 
which  has  just  been  accepted  by  the  Junior  Literary  Guild  as  their  book  of  the  month 
for  July. 

The  college  woman  from  every  type  of  educational  institution  in  her  relation 
to  marriage  will  be  discussed  in  a  late  summer  number  of  the  new  Smart  Set.  The 
article  has  been  written  by  D.  E.  Wheeler,  former  editor  of  McClures. 

The  North  American  Review  will  publish  an  article  by  Mrs.  Eunice  Fuller 
Barnard,  a  Smith  graduate  and  frequent  contributor  to  the  magazine  of  the  New 
York  Times,  on  the  new  ventures  in  the  women's  colleges. 

An  interpretation  of  "The  Seven  Presidents  at  Home"  has  been  written  by 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Hooper  Eastman,  the  Radcliffe  member  of  the  Committee,  to  appear 
in  the  Ladies'  Home  Journal. 

Arrangements  are  under  way  for  our  seven  presidents  to  broadcast  on  a  series  of 
Thursday  nights  beginning  the  last  week  in  September  over  WJZ,  at  the  invitation 
of  the  National  Broadcasting  Company.  College  clubs  will  be  definitely  informed 
of  the  dates  and  subjects  when  the  plan  is  complete  so  that  a  national  hook-up  will 
be  made. 

On  March  27th,  the  Committee  entertained  at  the  Cosmopolitan  Club  in  New 
York  the  alumnae  writers  of  the  seven  colleges  living  in  New  York.  Mrs.  Josephine 
Daskam  Bacon,  a  Smith  alumnae,  made  an  appeal  to  those  present,  forty  well-known 
article  and  fiction  writers,  to  remember  the  colleges  as  a  source  of  copy.  Miss  Gilder- 
sleeve presided  and  explained  the  appointment  of  the  Committee  by  the  President. 

On  May  2nd,  a  Chicago  group  chosen  by  this  Committee  gave  a  dinner  in  honor 
of  the  seven  presidents  at  the  Palmer  House.  There  were  750  guests  present,  and 
the  affair  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  the  most  brilliant  given  in  Chicago  this  past 

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season.  The  Presidents  each  spoke  briefly,  and  Dr.  George  Vincent  of  the  Rocke- 
feller Foundation,  gave  the  chief  address.  As  at  the  dinner  given  in  Philadelphia  on 
November  2nd,  the  purpose  was  to  acquaint  a  new  public  with  the  achievements  and 
needs  of  the  seven  colleges. 

A  New  York  dinner  is  planned  for  the  fall,  and  will  be  held  on  November  13th 
at  the  Hotel  Astor.  This  will  be  in  charge  of  a  special  committee  selected  by  the 
Alumnae  Committee;  the  members  will  be  announced  later. 

Previous  announcement  has  been  made  of  other  articles  and  activities  furthered 
by  the  Committee  during  the  past  year;  the  series  of  four  articles  in  the  New 
York  Times  magazine  in  May,  1928;  "The  Fourth  R  for  Women"  in  the  February, 
1929,  Century,  by  President  Comstock,  of  Radclifle;  "Some  Dangers  of  Coeduca- 
tion," by  Rebecca  Hooper  Eastman,  in  the  January,  1929,  Woman's  Journal;  "The 
Women's  Colleges  Reply,"  by  President  Neilson,  of  Smith,  in  the  January,  1929, 
Atlantic;  "Is  There  a  College  Crisis?"  by  Rebecca  Hooper  Eastman,  in  the  September, 
1928,  issue  of  Charm;  "In  Pursuit  of  Immorality,"  by  Rita  Halle,  in  the  March 
10th  issue  of  the  New  York  Herald-Tribune,  in  which  Mrs.  Halle,  a  Wellesley 
graduate,  went  back  to  the  source  of  rumors  of  immorality  in  the  colleges  and  found 
them  groundless.  A  discussion  by  three  of  the  deans  of  our  colleges  on  the  place  of 
clothes  in  the  college  girl's  scheme  of  things  will  be  published  by  The  Delineator. 
There  have  been  a  number  of  short  newspaper  articles  also,  and  numberless  conversa- 
tions with  writers  and  editors,  building,  we  hope,  toward  the  future. 

Under  the  auspices  of  Charm  magazine  college  teas  have  been  given  during 
the  winter  and  spring,  at  two  of  which  President  Neilson  and  President  MacCracken 
spoke,  with  their  addresses  broadcast  over  WOR. 

It  is  the  plan  of  the  Committee  to  announce  to  all  the  college  clubs  throughout 
the  country  the  actual  date  of  the  above  articles  when  they  are  definitely  scheduled  by 
the  editors.  Any  alumnae  or  their  friends  who  request  it  will  also  be  individually 
put  on  this  mailing  list  and  will  receive  a  post-card  in  advance  of  the  appearance  of 
the  article. 

Frances  Hand,  1897. 


In  the  Pictorial  Review  for  October  the  first  of  the  series  of  articles  by  Miss  Eaton 
appeared — the  one  on  Bryn  Mawr.  She  came  to  Bryn  Mawr  for  forty-eight  hours, 
explored  the  campus,  met  members  of  the  faculty  and  of  the  student  body,  discussed 
all  aspects  of  the  intricate  and  close-knit  life  of  the  College,  and  then  evaluated  us  in 
a  very  sympathetic  article.  Her  delighted  appreciation  of  Miss  Park  is  perhaps  the 
outstanding  thing.  "One  cannot  talk  with  her  for  five  minutes  without  realizing  both 
her  force  and  her  selfless  imagination  for  others."  Each  department  is  discussed  in 
some  detail,  extra-curriculum  activities  are  put  in  a  very  just  relation  to  academic 
interests,  and  the  weight  is  thrown  on  the  academic.  Of  the  part  that  the  Graduate 
School  plays  in  the  general  college  scheme,  she  says,  "It  is  readily  seen  that  when  one- 
fifth  of  the  college  is  working  for  higher  degrees  the  accent  on  learning  is  greatly 
stressed."  The  article  brings  out,  too,  the  essential  quality  of  Bryn  Mawr.  Miss 
Eaton  speaks  of  the  beauty  of  the  campus  and  then  continues:  "Here,  if  anywhere, 
can  youth  be  imbued  with  the  joys  and  rewards  of  the  intellectual  life."  For  both  the 
setting  and  the  conception  she  pays  her  tribute  to  "the  vision  of  its  great  leader, 
Miss  M.  Carey  Thomas." 


THE  LINGUISTIC  INSTITUTE 

A  summer  school  where  not  infrequently  the  professors  are  also  pupils,  and  in 
which,  of  thirty-seven  registrants  for  courses  or  research,  eighteen  already  hold  the 
Ph.D.  degree,  has  just  had  its  second  session  at  New  Haven.  A  school  where  the 
ideal  of  a  university  as  a  place  for  the  common  pursuit  of  knowledge  by  teachers  and 
students  alike  is  so  nearly  realized  that  a  professor  of  Greek,  a  member  of  the 
Faculty,  takes  a  course  in  Old  French  Phonology  with  a  colleague,  and  a  professor 
of  comparative  philology,  himself  a  teacher  of  Avestan,  embraces  the  opportunity 
to  attend  his  colleague's  Introduction  to  the  Avestan  Language  and  Literature  and 
see  how  another  scholar  presents  the  subject;  where  the  atmosphere  is  vibrant  at  all 
times  with  the  keenest  interest  in  the  study  of  languages  of  all  kinds  and  periods 
from  Hittite  and  Old  Norse  to  Modern  Chinese  and  Tagalog — such  is  the  summer 
session  of  the  Linguistic  Institute. 

The  Institute  is  a  project  of  the  Linguistic  Society  of  America,  which  was 
founded  in  December,  1924,  for  the  advancement  of  the  scientific  study  of  language 
in  all  its  aspects.  "Toward  this  end,"  to  quote  from  a  bulletin  of  the  Society,  "it 
has  held  annual  meetings  for  personal  contacts  and  the  reading  of  papers;  it  has  estab- 
lished new  media  of  publication  for  the  fruits  of  linguistic  research;  it  is  constantly 
co-operating  with  other  agencies  interested  in  linguistic  study."  In  the  midst  of  a 
scientific  age  the  study  of  the  science  of  language  has  in  this  country  been  somewhat 
neglected.  It  was  to  remedy  this  situation  and  encourage  research  and  study  in 
linguistic  science  that  the  Linguistic  Society  of  America  was  organized  by  a  group 
of  scholars  who  were  especially  interested  in  this  important  field  of  knowledge,  and 
that  the  Society  in  turn  founded  the  Linguistic  Institute.  Of  particular  interest  to 
Bryn  Mawr  alumnae  is  the  fact  that  the  first  president  of  the  Linguistic  Society 
of  America  was  Hermann  Collitz,  a  former  member  of  the  faculty  of  Bryn  Mawr 
College. 

The  intention  of  the  Institute  is  to  provide  for  students  of  linguistic  science 
facilities  similar  to  those  afforded  biologists  at  Woods  Hole.  To  the  linguist  "words 
are  things"  (as  Byron  tells  us)  and  take  the  place  of  the  fishes  and  other  marine 
animals  which  nature  supplies  so  abundantly  at  the  Massachusetts  resort.  Accordingly 
the  generosity  of  Yale  University  in  placing  at  the  disposal  of  the  members  of  the 
Institute  its  library,  as  well  as  dormitories  and  classrooms,  has  given  the  project  a 
pou  sto.  Financial  support  for  the  novel  enterprise  has  been  secured  from  the  same 
university  and  also  from  the  Carnegie  Corporation  at  the  instance  of  the  American 
Council  of  Learned  Societies. 

Among  the  distinctive  characteristics  of  the  Institute  are  the  wide  variety  and 
unusual  excellence  of  the  courses — embracing  some  twenty  languages — made  possible 
by  the  presence  of  a  strong  faculty,  drawn  this  year  from  fifteen  different  colleges  and 
universities;  the  atmosphere  of  scholarship  and  disinterested  enthusiasm  and,  if  I  may 
paraphrase  Spinoza,  of  the  intellectual  love  of  languages;  the  free  interplay  of  ideas 
among  keen  intelligences  and  kindred  minds,  especially  at  the  vigorous  discussions 
which  followed  the  public  lectures,  on  topics  connected  with  linguistic  science,  held  on 
Tuesday  and  Friday  evenings  throughout  the  session ;  and  the  exceptional  opportunity 

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for  advanced  students  to  pursue  certain  courses  in  languages  rarely  given  in  any 
American  university  at  any  time. 

Perhaps  an  apergu  of  the  unique  nature  of  the  Institute  can  best  be  afforded  by 
mention  of  the  most  popular  courses  in  the  present  session.  These  were — if  we  except 
certain  courses  in  phonetics  and  in  speech  articulation,  of  especial  interest  to  teachers 
of  the  deaf — Sanskrit,  Psychology  of  Language,  Historical  Syntax  of  the  German 
Language,  and  Introduction  to  Linguistic  Science.  The  last-mentioned  course,  by  the 
way,  was  given  by  Professor  Prokosch,  one  of  the  "Bryn  Mavvr  men,"  of  whom,  as 
President  Emeritus  Thomas  has  said,  Bryn  Mawr  is  justly  proud.  Due  credit  is 
given  by  the  graduate  schools  of  American  universities  and  colleges  for  work  done 
in  any  of  the  courses  of  the  Linguistic  Institute  toward  the  M.A.  or  the  Ph.D. 
degree,  and  it  is  greatly  to  be  hoped  that  a  larger  number  of  students,  perhaps  some 
of  them  from  the  graduate  school  of  Bryn  Mawr,  may  avail  themselves  of  this 
unparalleled  opportunity  to  receive  instruction  in  so  stimulating  an  environment  from 
eminent  scholars  in  linguistics. 

For  one  who  like  the  ancient  Athenians  loves  either  to  tell  or  to  hear  some  new 
thing,  one  of  the  most  delightful  features  of  the  Institute  is  the  sense  of  being  in 
touch  with  the  very  latest  discoveries  of  linguistic  science,  whether  of  the  very  old  or 
the  very  new.  So  for  example  there  was  no  small  thrill  in  being  permitted  at  an 
open  meeting  of  the  class  in  Philological  Phonetics  to  look  down  the  throat  of  the 
inventor  himself  of  the  "fonolaryngoskop"  (the  newest  device  for  studying  the 
organs  of  articulation)  and  see  the  vocal  cords  themselves  vibrate  as  the  professor 
articulated  the  vowels  from  a  to  u.  On  the  other  hand,  my  own  personal  interests  led 
me  to  delve  among  ancient  Egyptian  papyri  in  an  effort  to  gain  new  evidence  on  the 
Homeric  text  tradition,  and,  above  all,  to  make  the  acquaintance  of  one  of  the  oldest 
and  most  prized  of  Yale's  possessions — the  Yale  Hittite  Tablet. 

This  ancient  brick,  which  is  undoubtedly  older  than  three  thousand  years  by 
several  centuries,  is  covered  with  clearly  incised  cuneiform  characters.  The  language, 
however,  is  not  Semitic,  but  Hittite,  which  was  till  lately  undecipherable,  but  has 
recently  been  discovered  to  be  one  of  the  Indo-European  languages,  or  at  the  least, 
of  Indo-European  affinities.  My  own  researches  in  the  Latin  passive  had  brought 
me  into  contact  with  Hittite,  and  it  was  in  order  to  deepen  my  acquaintance  with  the 
language,  now  so  important  to  the  Indo-Europeanist,  that  I  studied  cuneiform  writing 
and  Hittite  at  the  Institute  this  summer. 

"The  words  of  Anniwiyani,  mother  of  Armati,  the  bird-maker"  ...  so 
begins  the  ancient  ritual  tablet.  Across  the  millennia  the  words  of  this  antique 
Hittite  dame  came  to  me,  as  I  sat  beneath  one  of  the  venerable  elms  of  the  historic 
Yale  yard,  and  were  alive  again !  The  bright  sunshine  slanted  across  the  green 
grass.  Theodore  Dwight  Woolsey,  Professor  of  Greek  and  President  of  Yale  Col- 
lege, looked  benignly  down  from  his  high  pedestal.  "Words,  words,  words,"  cried 
Hamlet.     Can  there  be  anything  more  wonderful  than  words  ? 

Edith  Frances  Claflin,  Ph.D.,  1906. 


SYRIA 

By  Kate  Chambers  Seelye,  '11 

(Reprinted  from  the  Christian  Herald) 

This  is  the  season  of  social  calls  in  Beirut.  In'  the  United  States  they  say  the 
custom  has  practically  died  out,  but  here  we  practice  it  in  full  force  and  from  Novem- 
ber to  May  ladies  of  all  nationalities  and  faiths  may  be  seen  "doing  their  rounds." 
There  are  those  just  come  from  America,  who  are  rather  scornful  of  the  rest  of  us. 
When  they  see  us  consulting  our  printed  lists  of  "days  at  home,"  they  laugh,  but  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  they  don't  know  what  they  miss!  Ours  is  not  the  custom  of  merely 
leaving  cards  at  the  door.     We  like  to  see  our  friends,  and  every  one  has  her  "day." 

One  thing  hard  for  the  occidental  to  understand  is  that  a  constant  buzz  of  con- 
versation is  not  essential  to  social  comfort.  A  group  of  oriental  friends  may  sit  silent 
for  some  time  with  no  feeling  of  embarrassment  whatever,  punctuating  the  silence  now 
and  then  with  that  delightful  Arabic  phrase  of  welcome,  "ahlan  wa  sahlan"  (the 
translation  is  difficult,  perhaps  best  "You  are  welcome  to  our  home!")  and  receiving 
its  reply  "bil  mitahal"  ("The  newcomer  is  welcome!")  On  the  other  hand,  we  occi- 
dentals, the  moment  there  is  a  pause,  feel  we  must  fill  the  breach  with  chatter. 

Home  from  an  afternoon  of  such  calls  one  brings  all  sorts  of  interesting  experi- 
ences. The  other  day  I  was  calling  on  a  Greek  friend.  She  is  remarkably  clever  at 
adapting  her  Greek  embroideries  into  table  covers  and  cushion  covers,  so  that  a  caller's 
eye  is  constantly  wandering  from  one  bit  of  rich  embroidery  to  another.  As  we  sat 
there  drinking  tea  she  told  me  of  the  engagement  ceremony  that  had  taken  place  in 
her  house  that  week.  Her  maid  was  an  Armenian  orphan,  without  a  relative  in  the 
world.  There  was  an  Armenian  man  of  good  family  who,  in  spite  of  holding  a 
steady  secretarial  position,  could  not  win  a  wife  in  his  own  group  on  account  of  his 
wooden  leg!  His  friends  had  suggested  this  orphan,  thinking  she  might  overlook  the 
missing  limb.  For  her  it  was  an  excellent  "catch,"  in  spite  of  the  wooden  leg,  and  her 
mistress  was  so  pleased  that  she  offered  her  house  for  the  engagement  ceremony.  A 
few  days  later  I  met  my  Greek  friend  in  our  cactus  lane,  and  she  told  me  that  the 
wooden  leg  had  proved  too  much  for  the  girl.  In  spite  of  all  protests  she  had  .broken 
the  engagement. 

Another  day  I  was  calling  on  one  of  our  leading  educationalists,  principal  of  a 
girl's  school,  who  told  me  how  a  very  poor  Moslem  woman  came  asking  to  enroll  her 
child.  The  teacher  realized  that  the  tuition  would  be  high  for  such  a  woman  and 
suggested  another  school,  less  expensive.  But  the  mother  was  firm.  "We  have  saved 
some  money,  here  it  is,"  she  said  producing  it,  and  continued,  "You  see,  our  neigh- 
bors' children  come  to  your  school,  and  they  have  such  good  manners,  we  decided 
that  our  child  should  go  to  no  school  but  yours."  The  money  was  enough  for  one 
term,  and  my  friend  had  not  the  heart  to  refuse  such  faith  and  eagerness.  At  the 
end  of  the  term,  the  child  was  doing  so  well  that  one  of  the  Moslem  women's  clubs 
was  persuaded  to  raise  the  tuition  for  the  rest  of  the  year. 

As  we  are  a  polyglot  country,  a  hostess  must  often  use  three  or  four  languages 
in  an  afternoon,  and  think  nothing  of  slipping  back  and  forth  from  one  tongue  to 
another.  Arabic,  French,  English,  Turkish  and  Armenian  are  the  languages  one  meets 
most  often.  To  the  American  brought  up  in  a  land  of  one  language  this  is  tantalizing; 
and  it  fills  the  newcomer  with  the  envious  wish  that  she  knew  at  least  one  other  lan- 
guage than  her  own.     . 

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REDACTED:  p.  14 


The  following  material  has  been  removed 
from  this  volume:  Vol.  9,  no.  8,  p.  14: 

Syria  by  Kate  Chambers  Seeyle,  BMC  Class 
of  1911,  reprinted  from  the  Christian 
Herald. 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  15 

It  is  interesting  to  see  how  steadily  the  number  of  unveiled  Moslems  and  Druses 
is  increasing.  As  I  watch  them  with  eager  interest  I  remember  a  conversation  when  I 
returned  to  the  Near  East  nine  years  ago.  A  Moslem  student  at  the  American  Uni- 
versity had  put  me  in  touch  with  one  of  the  more  progressive  men  in  his  community, 
a  man  who  had  been  mayor  of  the  city  for  some  time.  The  latter  had  invited  me  to 
visit  a  club  for  Moslem  girls  in  which  he  was  interested.  During  our  conversation  I 
naturally  brought  up  the  subject  of  the  veil,  claiming  that  very  little  could  be  done 
for  the  progress  of  the  Moslem  women  till  the  men  helped  them  to  do  away  with  the 
veil.  My  host,  knowing  that  the  girls  understood  French,  was  rather  worried  over  my 
sowing  such  radical  seed  in  their  minds,  and  hastened  to  assure  me  that,  although 
the  veil  should  and  would  disappear  in  time,  the  change  must  come  very  slowly.  There 
were  far  too  many  conservatives  opposing  such  a  step  to  make  haste  possible  or  desir- 
able. "It  will  take  about  twelve  years,"  he  told  me.  On  that  day  this  seemed  a 
terribly  long  time  to  wait,  and  I  groaned  inwardly.  It  is  nine  years  today  since  then, 
and  I  heard  some  one  remark  recently  that  in  another  two  or  three  years  he  thought 
the  veil  would  be  a  thing  of  the  past.  My  friend  apparently  knew  whereof  he 
.  prophesied. 

Turkey  is  moving  fast.  A  government  order  did  away  with  the  veil;  a  govern- 
ment order  did  away  with  the  fez ;  and  now  a  government  order  has  done  away  with 
the  old  Arabic  alphabet.  Some  ignorantly  say  that  this  move  may  weaken  the  position 
of  the  Arabic  alphabet  in  Syria  .  .  .  forgetting  that  when  the  Turks  came  to  the 
Near  East,  they  had  no  alphabet  of  their  own,  and  consequently  adopted  the  Arabic 
letters.  They  are  merely  changing  garments,  neither  of  which  was  woven  on  their 
own  loom  of  culture.  In  the  case  of  the  Arabic  language,  their  alphabet  is  their  own, 
an  integral  part  of  their  history  and  civilization. 


REID  HALL 

THE  AMERICAN  UNIVERSITY  WOMEN'S  PARIS  CENTER 

One  of  the  sights  of  Paris  which  is  becoming  better  known  to  American  univer- 
sity travelers  and  more  frequently  visited  by  them  is  Reid  Hall,  the  American  Uni- 
versity Women's  Paris  Center.  The  Club  occupies  an  old  picturesque  sixteenth 
century  house  in  the  Rue  de  Chevreuse,  and  boasts  one  of  the  loveliest  gardens  in  the 
Latin  Quarter.  The  house  was  built  by  the  Due  de  Chevreuse  for  his  hunting  box, 
and  was  a  part  of  the  extensive  Luxembourg  Park.  The  secret  underground  passage- 
way from  the  Club  courtyard  to  the  Luxembourg  Palace  still  exists.  The  property 
passed  through  many  hands,  and  was  finally  acquired  by  Mrs.  Whitelaw  Reid  for 
her  American  Girls'  Club.  During  the  war  Mrs.  Reid  turned  the  buildings  into  a 
hospital  for  American  officers,  and  later  it  became  the  headquarters  of  the  American 
Red  Cross. 

In  June,  1922,  Mrs.  Reid  loaned  the  property  for  a  period  of  five  years  to  Miss 
Gildersleeve  and  a  group  of  university  women  to  establish  a  center  for  American 
university  students  in  Paris.  The  Club  flourished  during  these  years  to  such  an  extent 
that  at  the  end  of  the  period  Mrs.  Reid  very  generously  turned  the  property  over  to 
the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Club.  The  name  of  the  Club  was  changed  to  Reid 
Hall,  in  appreciation  of  Mrs.  Reid's  gift  and  of  the  services  of  Mr.  Whitelaw  Reid 
when  he  was  American  Minister  to  France, 


16  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

The  purpose  of  the  Center  is  to  provide  a  residence  for  American  university 
women  who  are  in  Paris  attending  classes  at  the  Sorbonne,  the  College  de  France  and 
other  academic  institutions  of  high  standing,  and  to  bring  them  in  touch  with  French 
life  and  thought  and  with  university  men  and  women  of  other  nations. 

University  women  traveling  in  Europe  will  be  welcomed  as  transients  during  the 
summer  months  and  the  winter  and  spring  vacations. 

Reid  Hall  is  one  of  the  headquarters  of  the  International  Federation  of  Univer- 
sity Women  and  a  center  for  university  women  of  all  nations.  During  the  academic 
season  there  are  in  residence  at  least  five  French  university  students  who  conduct  the 
French  tables.  French  is  the  language  of  the  House,  and  French  customs  are  followed 
wherever  possible  so  that  students  may  live  in  the  atmosphere  of  their  adopted  country 
and  yet  keep  their  American  comforts.  There  are  also  students  of  other  nationalities 
in  residence,  and  the  warm  and  lasting  friendships  which  develop  must  help  inter- 
national relations. 

During  the  academic  season  the  Center  arranges  a  program  of  dinners  and  teas 
so  that  the  members  may  meet  university  men  and  women  of  other  nations.  The  Club 
is  "at  home"  the  first  and  third  Wednesday  of  every  month,  when  members  may 
entertain  guests  or  meet  an  invited  guest  of  honor.  Every  month  the  Club  gives  two 
special  dinners  with  distinguished  international  speakers.  I  remember  particularly  a 
dinner  when  Andre  Siegfried  gave  an  interesting  resume  of  his  book  on  America,  and 
afterwards  discussed  informally  with  the  students  all  the  points  which  were  questions 
in  their  minds.  I  remember,  too,  the  delightful  occasion  when  John  Erskine  spoke, 
when  the  Hall  could  not  possibly  hold  all  Paris  who  wished  to  come.  Then  there 
was  the  charming  dinner  when  Abbe  Dimnet  outlined  his  "Art  of  Thinking,"  and 
another  when  Marcel  Bouteron,  the  librarian  of  the  Institut  de  France,  spoke  on 
Balzac  and  brought  all  the  Balzac  treasures  from  the  library  of  the  Institut  to  show 
our  students.  There  have  been  countless  other  dinners  of  interest  when  Frenchmen 
and  Englishmen  addressed  the  students — Andre  Maurois,  Alfred  Zimmern,  Sisley 
Huddleston,  etc.,  etc.  In  addition  to  these  more  formal  occasions,  small  dinners  are 
arranged  for  students  who  wish  to  meet  foreign  professors  or  students  in  their  own 
field  of  work. 

The  Club  also  maintains  a  Bureau  of  Information  which  introduces  our  American 
students  to  individuals  or  organizations  in  Paris  interested  in  a  particular  study.  The 
Bureau  also  gives  information  in  regard  to  excursions  for  the  holidays  and  week-ends, 
addresses  of  language  teachers  and  French  families,  shopping  and  positions  in  France. 

We  receive  a  great  many  demands  from  college  graduates  in  America  for  situa- 
tions in  Paris,  but  there  are  practically  no  openings  for  American  women.  In  the 
schools  English  women  are  preferred,  and  in  business  houses  and  banks,  French  and 
English  girls  can  afford  to  work  for  much  smaller  salaries. 

Reid  Hall  is  well  equipped  to  take  care  of  the  various  needs  of  the  students. 
There  is  a  well-stocked  library  with  English  and  French  books,  a  large  hall  for  con- 
certs and  dances,  three  attractive  salons,  a  sun  porch,  dining  rooms  and  a  delightful 
garden.  The  Club  is  well  known  for  its  delicious  table,  and  the  chef  with  his  tall 
white  cap  and  spotless  apron  lends  more  than  atmosphere  to  the  cheerful  home.  There 
are  accommodations  for  sixty  students,  and  six  studios  for  art  students. 

Dorothy  F.  Leet, 

Director,  Reid  Hall, 


CLASS  NOTES 


1892 
Class  Editor:   Edith  Wetiierill  Ives 
(Mrs.  Frederick  M.  Ives) 
145  E.  35th  St.,  New  York  City. 

After  welcoming  a  new  grandson  in 
July,  Helen  Clements  Kirk  went  abroad 
with  her  husband  and  youngest  daughter 
for  a  short  trip. 

Edith  Hall  expects  to  spend  the  winter 
with  her  mother  and  sister  at  Bryn  Mawr 
Court,  Bryn  Mawr. 

Elizabeth  Winsor  Pearson  and  her  hus- 
band spent  the  early  part  of  the  summer 
in  a  club  cottage  at  Staten  Island  to  be 
within  reach  of  their  eldest  son  who  is  in 
a  law  firm  in  New  York.  On  their  way 
home  they  stopped  over  with  Edith 
Wetherill  Ives  and  her  husband  at  their 
farm  near  Brewster,  N.  Y. 

Bessie  Stephens  Montgomery  has  five 
grandchildren,  the  children  of  her  son  and 
daughter.  Last  summer  she  and  her  hus- 
band took  an  extensive  motor  trip  through 
France.  Last  winter  they  spent,  as  usual, 
in  Florida  and  this  summer  they  expect  to 
be  in  their  cottage  at  Buck  Hill  Falls,  Pa. 

Jane  and  Mary  Mason  have  twin  great- 
nieces,  one  of  whom  is  named  Mary  Jane. 

1895 


Marianna  Janney,  '95 

Her  class  in  college  wishes  to  add  a 
word  to  the  regret  of  the  whole  Bryn 
Mawr  community  for  its  loss  of  Marianna 
Janney,  who  died  in  her  house  on  Elliott 
Avenue  on  Saturday,  October  12th,  after 
an  illness  of  a  few  weeks.  She  felt  al- 
ways much  loving  gratitude  for  the  Bryn 
Mawr  College  of  our  youth  and  early  ef- 
forts, and  kept  a  rare  warmth  of  fellow- 
feeling  for  her  class.  She  was  generous 
always  in  contributing  to  any  of  our  class 
undertakings,  giving  not  only  money,  but 
also  her  influence  and  enthusiasm.  For 
twenty  years  she  had  so  directed  the  Eng- 
lish department  of  Miss  Wright's  School 
at  Bryn  Mawr  that  she  had  had  a  marked 
effect  on  the  teaching  of  English  in  pre- 
paratory schools.  She  was  an  innovator, 
too,  in  the  use  of  dramatics  by  her  depart- 
ment. Into  young,  developing  life,  her  in- 
sight was  rarely  fine.  The  class  of  '95 
commemorates  lovingly  a  member  of 
whom  it  is  justly  so  proud. 


1901 
Class  Editor:    Jane  Righter 

Dublin  Road,  Greenwich,  Conn. 

Ethel  Buckley  and  her  husband  motored 
to  Pecketts  on  Sugar  Hill  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, where  they  spent  the  summer  en- 
joying the  interesting  walks  and  motor 
trips  through  the  White  Mountains. 

May  Southgate  Brewster — "My  oldest 
son  graduated  from  Harvard  two  years 
ago.  He  is  now  flying  and  wants  no  other 
pursuit  in  life.  The  second  boy  graduated 
from  West  Virginia  University  this  year. 
He  was  a  valuable  member  of  the  football 
team,  and  how  he  hated  to  leave  it.  Bay- 
lies, the  youngest,  is  a  Junior  at  Vassar 
and  carried  the  daisy  chain — or  helped  to 
— at  commencement.  I  always  search 
eagerly  and  in  vain  in  the  Alumnae  Bul- 
letin for  news  of  our  contemporaries.  Do 
all  of  our  class  mates  share  my  reluctance 
to  furnish  publicity  items  about  them- 
selves? I  do  hope  to  be  at  Bryn  Mawr 
next  June." 

Emily  Cross,  on  July  1st — "I  am  just  off 
for  Europe,  but  will  be  home  about  Sep- 
tember 1st  and  am  looking  forward  to  the 
reunion  next  year." 

Genie  Fowler  Henry  wrote  from  Mus- 
koka,  Canada,  that  she  was  spending  sev- 
eral delightful  weeks  there  with  friends. 
Her  latest  college  activity  had  been  enter- 
taining the  Pittsburgh  Bryn  Mawr  Club 
at  a  picnic  luncheon.  She  adds  "1901  is 
surely  non-communicative  about  its  activi- 
ties and  I  feel  very  much  out  of  touch 
with  my  classmates,  so  will  especially  wel- 
come a  reunion  next  year." 

May  Brayton  Marvell  judged  the  roses 
in  the  Newport  Flower  Show  last  sum- 
mer. She  sent  me  a  picture  of  her  garden 
clipped  from  a  newspaper  which  I  regret 
cannot  go  into  the  class  notes.  The  fol- 
lowing is  the  description  below  the  pic- 
ture:  "This  interesting  old-fashioned  gar- 
den leads  up  to  the  stone  house  which  may 
be  seen  behind  the  tree  at  the  back  of  the 
picture.  It  is  on  the  estate  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Edward  I.  Marvell  in  Tiverton  and 
was  built  as  a  cook  house  early  in  the  18th 
century.  The  wall  which  surrounds  the 
garden  was  also  built  then  to  keep  the 
cattle  out  of  the  garden.  The  wide  fire- 
place and  the  old  cooking  utensils  may 
still  be  seen  in  the  house  and  the  fine  old 
wall  makes  an  ideal  enclosure  for  the 
flowers,  most  of  which  are  annuals,  the 
sorts  which  bloomed  in  the  gardens  of 


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long  ago.  Hollyhocks,  snapdragons,  soft 
pink  mallows,  fragrant  stocks,  lilies,  all 
blend  together,  a  lovely  combination  of 
pink,  lavender  and  bine." 

Lucia  Holliday  Macbeth — "I  have  taken 
the  presidency  of  our  small  and  scattered 
Bryn  Mawr  Club  in  Los  Angeles.  I  am 
expecting  to  go  east  next  spring  and  am 
counting  on  seeing  all  of  1901  at  the  re- 
union." 

Caroline  Daniels  Moore  wrote  from  the 
Horseshoe  Ranch,  Dayton,  Wyoming",  on 
August  7th.  "I  know  no  news  of  1901.  I 
should  be  very  pleased  if  any  1901ers 
motoring  across  Wyoming  would  look  me 
up.  I  am  here  all  of  July  and  August  and 
the  early  part  of  September.  I  am  writ- 
ing to  Ethel  about  the  reunion." 

Jessie  Pelton  writes  that  she  spent  the 
summer  in  Watch  Hill,  R.  I.,  and  that  she 
is  expecting  to  come  on  for  reunion. 

Mary  Ayer  Rousmaniere — "I  flew  with 
my  daughters  twice  this  summer  from 
Paris  to  Frankfort  and  from  Amsterdam 
to  London.  We  had  a  fine  trip  through 
France,  Holland,  Belgium,  England  and 
Scotland.  Polly  is  a  sophomore  at  Vassar. 
Frances  has  just  passed  her  preliminaries 
for  Bryn  Mawr.  I  am  now  Chairman  of 
the  Fifteenth  District  League  of  Women 
Voters." 

Marion  Parris  Smith  spent  her  vacation 
in  London,  where  she  and  her  husband  did 
research  work  in  the  British  Museum. 
They  enjoyed  the  "season"  of  theatres  and 
opera  and  in  August  left  for  a  cruise  of 
the  Greek  islands. 

Louise  Thomas  wrote  that  she  spent  the 
summer  in  Nantucket. 


1902 
In  Memoriam 

Helen  Slocum   (Nichols)    Estabrook, 
ex  1902 

For  one  who  knew  her  intimately,  life 
may  always  appear  a  little  differently 
moulded,  if  ever  so  slightly,  by  her  un- 
conventionality,  the  quick  eagerness  of 
her  spirit,  her  rare  and  spicy  humor,  by  a 
variable  whimsicality.  Even  as  the  sur- 
face of  a  meadow  changes  in  an  instant, 
bent,  rippled  and  colored  by  the  passing 
of  the  lightest  summer  air. 

In  the  great  city,  where  in  her  young 
enthusiastic  days  as  a  volunteer  social 
worker,  she  came  to  know  so  well  the  in- 
most secrets  and  conditions  of  the 
crowded,  complex  life  of  the  tenements, 
we  struggle  still  with  those  same  eternal 
problems  of  human  life  and  nature,  which 
she  faced  with  such  high  heart  and  humor 
twenty-five  years  ago.    In  those  days  her 


attitude  was  also  somewhat  in  advance 
of  the  methods  of  her  day:  for  it  was  al- 
ways the  "human,"  what  present-day 
workers  call  the  psychological  aspect  of 
social  service  work,  that  appealed  to  her, 
and  in  dealing  with  which  she  showed 
remarkable  insight  and  understanding. 
She  did  far  more  "visiting"  than  was  re- 
quired of  her.  For,  if  the  truth  be  known, 
the  visits  had  their  especial  appeal  to  her, 
just  as  interesting"  or  enjoyable  social  ex- 
perience. These  people  whom  she  met  in 
New  York's  slums  were  not  to  her  "cases" 
but  personalities;  and  they  in  turn  looked 
upon  her  not  as  a  visitor  from  the  forbid- 
ding, if  helpful  Charity  Organization  So- 
ciety, but  simply  as  a  kind  or  entertaining 
friend.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that,  these 
many  years  afterward,  all  large  Charity 
Organizations  have  abolished  regular 
"visiting,"  while  the  few  visits  that  are 
essential,  are  paid  on  this  social  basis. 

Helen's  stories  of  these  visits  were  in- 
imitable. Pity  they  cannot  all  be  known, 
for  they  would  make  a  volume  of  the 
most  entertaining  reading.  One  of  them 
may  be  briefly  mentioned: 

She  went,  one  day,  to  see  a  workman 
with  a  weakness  for  drink,  who  was  giv- 
ing his  family  and  the  other  visitors  of 
the  organization  a  good  deal  of  trouble. 
He  was  known  to  be  a  good  workman, 
but  no  one  had  been  able  to  persuade  him 
to  stick  to  his  job.  In  response  to  her 
urging  him  to  make  another  trial,  he  re- 
plied, "But  I  am  not  working,  just  ask  any 
of  your  other  visitors,  they  know  I  won't 
work !" 

"Have  you  ever  thought  of  fooling 
them?"  and  this  argument  seemed  to  ap- 
peal to  him  when  nothing  else  would,  and 
he  did  get  a  steady  job.  Several  months 
later,  when  his  "visitor"  was  walking 
through  the  middle  of  the  street,  in  ac- 
cordance with  her  custom  of  choosing  this 
as  the  safest  place  to  walk  in  rough  dis- 
tricts, a  man  called  to  her  from  the  side- 
walk, "Don't  you  think  I've  fooled  them 
long  enough?" 

"I  think  I'd  fool  'em  anyway  for  a  few 
days  longer,"  she  replied,  remembering 
with  her  characteristic  quickness  that  the 
next  day  would  be  St.  Patrick's  Day. 

Perhaps  the  most  concrete  way  in  which 
to  recapture  something  of  Helen's  indi- 
vidual viewpoint  is  to  read  from  her 
diaries,  kept  for  years  in  the  good  old 
New  England  fashion,  during  the  times  of 
her  extensive  travels  abroad.  For  during 
many  summers,  subsequent  to  her  leaving 
college,  it  was  her  good  fortune  to  travel 
pretty  much  all  over  the  pre-war  conti- 
nent. 


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19 


These  travels  took  her  to  many  unusual 
places,  and  into  many  entertaining  en- 
counters : 

At  Molde,  Norway,  in  the  summer  of 
1903,  she  went  aboard  the  German  Em- 
peror's private  yacht.  "We  went  up  at 
the  stern,  walked  the  length  of  it  and 
down  at  the  bow.  A  rope  running  from 
bow  to  stern  divided  the  deck  in  half.  We 
passed  on  one  side  of  the  rope  and  the 
Emperor  was  walking'  up  and  down  on 
the  other,  transacting  business  with  the 
Admiral  and  saluting  mechanically.  We 
had  been  told  we  should  not  sec  him  so  I 
could  hardly  believe  my  eyes  when  I  saw 
some  Germans  courtesying  to  the  ground. 
Just  then  he  turned  and  I  saw  him  not 
more  than  ten  feet  away.  I  suppose  my 
courtesy  stood  out  as  not  the  proper 
court  one,  for  I  got  an  extra  smile  all  to 
myself.  .  .  .  The  Emperor  has  a  much 
stronger  and  also  a  pleasanter  look  than 
in  his  photos.  He  is  also  older  and  shorter 
than  I  expected.  His  knees  have  that 
sprung  look  that  goes  with  age.     .     .     ." 

In  France  she  visited  as  a  friend  some 
%of  the  oldest  French  country  seats.  At 
an  ancient  chateau  in  Chambery,  which 
datgs  back  to  the  twelfth  century,  "It 
seemed  very  strange  to  go  up  the  winding- 
stone  stairway  to  a  comfortable  room  with 
adjoining  bath  .  .  ."  and  later  "lunch- 
eon was  served  to  fourteen  of  us  who  sat 
around  a  big  table.  I  sat  on  the  marquis' 
left.  .  .  .  Everything  wTas  delicious  and 
served  on  very  impressive  silver,  while 
they  kept  their  forks  between  courses.  A 
little  girl  of  fourteen  had  a  tray  placed  in 
front  of  her  with  coffee  and  so  forth.  She 
started  making  it  about  the  fish  course. 
After  lunch  she  walked  all  round  the  table 
and  served  everyone.  Two  other  children 
followed,  one  with  cream,  one  with  sugar. 

"From  our  visits  here  to  three  house- 
holds, it  seems  to  be  the  fashion  to  serve 
breakfasts  on  red  table-cloths.  A  huge 
tureen  of  soup,  boiled  eggs,  coffee,  boiled 
milk,  etc.,  are  placed  on  the  table.  You 
all  sit  down  at  the  same  time  and  help 
each  other." 

From  her  visit  to  the  chateau  she  rode 
away  on  a  quaint  mail-coach.  "A  mail- 
box was  fastened  to  its  side  and  into  this 
the  peasants  dropped  their  letters." 

In  Turkey  she  and  her  father  were 
guests  in  the  house  of  Hadji  Hassein,  a 
business  friend  of  her  father.  She  visited 
the  ladies  of  the  household,  the  harem, 
frequently:  "They  received  us  most 
cordially  and  we  all  sat  on  chairs  out  of 
deference  to  me.  The  women  wore  Euro- 
pean dresses  of  no  especial  fashion  but 
of  beautiful  materials.  They  had  strings 
of  coins  about  their  necks,  on  their  heads 


were  little  gold  crowns,  and  from  these 
came  soft  white  veils  that  fell  down  be- 
hind. Their  hair  was  cut  like  Buster 
Brown's  on  the  sides  and  braided  behind." 

The  Turkey  visited  in  1906  was,  we  arc 
constantly  reminded,  the  older  Turkey, 
where  women  still  went  heavily  veiled, 
where  packs  of  half-wild  "sacred"  dogs 
ran  the  streets  and  where  inhabitants  and 
tourists  alike  were  haunted  by  the  fear  of 
spies  and  bandits.  But  there  was  a  certain 
spy  who  turned  out  to  be  very  human, 
after  all,  and  a  delightful  companion  at 
tea-time ! 

The  diary  is  not  lacking  in  charming 
descriptions  of  nature  and  the  historical 
interest  of  places, — but,  after  all,  the  most 
delightful  descriptive  bits  are  purest 
whimsy  such  as  these : 

Brindisi  was  only  "a  very  dirty  place. 
No  sooner  got  settled  than  I  saw  two  fleas 
hopping  about  on  my  suit-case.  On  my 
way  saw  an  ancient  Corinthian  column, 
so  ancient  of  course  that  the  guide-books 
tell  different  tales  of  its  origin.  We  saw  a 
little  girl  asleep  on  an  ash-heap,  and  an 
electric  light  bulb  over  a  medieval  carved 
stone  fountain  at  which  women  were  fill- 
ing their  water  jugs.  So  much  for  the 
town  Horace  sung  odes  about  and  Virgil 
died  in.    .    .    ." 

Again,  "Between  eight  and  nine  we 
rounded  the  North  Cape.  It  is  a  horrid 
place  if  the  rest  of  it  is  like  the  bottom 
fringe  I  saw !  The  ship  pitched  so  I  could 
hardly  keep  my  feet.  The  Captain  said  it 
was  neither  safe  to  land  anyone  nor  to 
stay  near  it.  .  .  .  But  we  waited  long 
enough  for  two  men  to  come  out  in  a  row- 
boat  and  take  our  mail.  The  advantage  of 
this  is  that  it  is  stamped  North  Cape.  It 
reaches  its  destination  some  time  later 
than  if  kept  on  the  steamer !" 

On  her  last  foreign  trip  in  the  summer 
of  1927,  Helen  Estabrook  was  the  gay 
companion  and  fellow-adventurer  of  her 
three  children.  Arrived,  with  a  sigh  of 
relief  in  Paris,  where  she  rejoiced  to  find 
that  all  four  of  them  could  ride  in  a  taxi- 
cab  for  the  same  price  as  the  subway,  she 
suddenly  discovered  that,  boylike,  her  son 
yearned  for  the  underground.  Quickly 
sensing  the  youthful  viewpoint,  she  turned 
to  her  own  calls  and  interests  in  the  city, 
and  encouraged  the  children  to  sight-see 
for  themselves.  So  while  the  eldest  of 
fifteen  went  on  a  tour  of  the  battle-fields, 
the  younger  children  complacently  sur- 
veyed Paris  together  from  the  top  of  the 
Eifel  Tower. 

Of  course  the  main  object  of  the  trip 
was  that  the  children  should  learn  French. 
But  instead  of  searching  for  teachers,  a 
nice    French   boy   was   engaged   as   com- 


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panion.  It  was  also  arranged  that  her  son 
should  go  on  a  camping  trip  with  a  group 
of  French  Boy  Scouts  and  a  Catholic 
priest.  Spending  a  night  at  the  Convent 
of  Tamie,  the  boys  were  given  a  place  to 
sleep  in  the  barn,  next  the  pigs,  who,  by 
the  way,  snored  most  disturbingly  all 
night !  But  at  the  same  convent  Jim  had 
his  first  experience  of  hearing  the  monks 
chant  the  Gregorian  chant  in  Latin, — and 
"it  all  turned  out  to  be  most  interesting." 

From  these  latter-day  adventures  I  look 
back  twenty  years  or  so,  to  those  summers 
in  the  Adirondack  woods,  when  classmates 
of  1902  were  her  companions  of  camp 
and  trail  and  mountain-top.  I  remember 
her  as  an  energetic  climber,  always, — pos- 
sibly a  little  impatient  of  the  trail, — eager 
for  the  summits.  Of  one  of  our  expedi- 
tions she  has  written: 

"The  trail  was  quite  blind  at  first  .  .  . 
then  level  for  some  time  and  went  through 
tall  grass,  around  the  south  side  of  tiny 
'Lake  Clear  o'  the  Clouds/  lying  between 
the  peak  of  Marcy  and  Skylight  ...  A 
cloud  came  across  the  sun  just 
then     .     .     ." 

With  her  characteristic  eagerness,  she 
seems  still  a  few  quick  steps  ahead  of  us, 
— seeing,  adventuring,  on  the  upward 
trail ! 

1904 

Class  Editor:  Emma  O.  Thompson 
340  S.  42nd  St.,  Philadelphia. 
When  I  returned  from  Europe  I  found 
a  letter  from  Katherine  Pierce  dated  July 
6th.  You  see  my  mail  was  held  for  me 
since  I  traveled  so  unscheduled  and  freely 
that  I  feared  it  would  be  lost.  Katherine 
says,  "It  may  interest  the  class  to  know 
that  my  eldest  son,  William  Curtis  Pierce, 
was  married  at  Saint  George's  Church, 
New  York,  June  19th,  to  Elizabeth  Neall 
Jay,  Barnard  1929.  Eleanor  Silkman  Gil- 
man  represented  1904  at  the  wedding  ac- 
companied by  her  daughter.  Curtis  is  at 
the  Harvard  Law  School."  Katherine  also 
says  that  Harriet  Southerland  Wright  was 
in  the  States  with  her  family  for  a  short 
visit  this  summer. 

Nineteen  four  seems  to  have  spent  its 
summer  upon  the  ocean.  Alice  Boring 
sailed  August  10th  from  Seattle  for  China. 
She  has  returned  to  her  professorship  at 
Yenching  University,  Peking.  Leslie  Clark 
also  crossed  the  Pacific,  sailing  from 
Seattle  July  26th  on  a  ship  of  the  Dollar 
Line.  She  plans  to  be  away  until  Septem- 
ber, 1930,  visiting  friends  in  the  Orient 
and  traveling  around  the  world.  Several 
of  the  class  preferred  the  Atlantic.  Cary 
Case  Edwards  deserted  London  this  sum- 


mer and  visited  her  family  in  Maine, 
stopping  over  with  Isabel  Peters  at  Oyster 
Bay.  Emma  Fries  traveled  in  Europe 
from  May  until  September,  enjoying 
Naples,  Budapest,  Paris,  London  and  other 
interesting  places. 

Margaret  Ullman  writes  that  Alice 
Schiedt  Clark  is  going  abroad  this  winter 
with  her  husband  and  family.  It  is  Dr. 
Clark's  Sabbatical.  Daisy  is  kept  busy 
with  her  bees  and  her  garden. 

Eleanor  Bliss  Knoff  and  Anna  Jonas 
have  recently  published  Bulletin  No.  799 
of  the  U.  S.  G.  S.  entitled  "Geology  of 
the  McCall  Ferry-Quarryville  District, 
Pennsylvania."  It  is  a  splendid  piece  of 
work.  Do  look  it  up  and  see  how  fine 
it  is. 

Fifty  members  of  the  class  contributed 
to  the  commencement  present  for  Betty 
Fry.  Betty  was  very  happy  about  her  trip 
to  Europe  and  the  opportunity  to  study  at 
a  foreign  university. 

Please  send  news  and  numerous  letters 
to  the  class  column  this  winter  and  make 
it  intensely  interesting. 

1905 

Class  Editor:   Eleanor  Little  Aldmcii 
(Mrs.  Talbot  Aldrich) 
59  Mt.  Vernon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Frances  Eleanor  Mason,  by  her  mar- 
riage to  Mr.  Trowbridge  last  year,  ac- 
quired a  ready-made  family  of  three 
daughters,  aged  9,  16  and  18,  respectively. 
We  hear  that  she  is  devoted  to  them  and 
that  they  thoroughly  appreciate  our 
"Gozey."         , 

Rachel  Brewer  Huntington  sends  the 
following  letter  with  the  remark,  "I  don't 
think  plans  make  very  good  reading  so 
delete  this  as  much  as  you  like  for  the 
Bulletin."  (The  Editor  believes  that  1905 
will  not  share  this  opinion.)  "We  had  a 
fine  summer  in  Princeton,  Massachusetts 
— a  very  large  household  through  July 
with  nine  or  ten  children  around  the  table 
so  that  I  felt  quite  like  the  Old  Woman  in 
the  Shoe.  Summer  over,  we  came  to  be 
with  my  family  until  we  start  on  our  trip. 
We  are  in  the  thick  of  preparation  now  as 
we  sail  on  September  8th  from  Boston 
to  Havre.  We  go  first  to  Paris  and  then 
plan  to  motor  through  France  until  we 
find  the  right  spot  in  Southern  France 
where  the  children  and  I  will  settle  down 
while  Ellsworth  'does'  Spain  and  Portugal. 
He  will  pick  us  up  later  and  continue  our 
way  across  the  continent  by  automobile  as 
far  as  we  can  go  comfortably  at  that  sea- 
son (December).  I  hope  we  can  get  to 
Budapest.  From  there  we  shall  take  the 
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where  we  shall  spend  Christmas  with 
Ellsworth's  brother  and  sister,  both  of 
whom  live  there.  I  expect  to  put  the  chil- 
dren in  the  Community  School  and  we 
may  stay  several  months.  It  is  still  an 
open  question  whether  I  shall  accompany 
Ellsworth  to  Palestine  and  Egypt  and 
down  as  far  as  Uganda.  In  June  we  are 
going  to  the  Oberammergau  Play  and 
later  into  Scandinavia.  We  shall  end  up 
in  England  and  sail  from  there  about  a 
year  hence.  That,  in  brief,  is  our  present 
plan.  We  all  have  different  ambitions  to 
fulfill  in  making  this  trip.  Ellsworth's 
is  to  visit  every  country  in  Europe  and  he 
hopes  to  return  replete  with  geographical 
knowledge.  Charles  dreams  of  meeting  a 
lion  in  his  native  habitat.  George  expects 
to  spend  his  time  on  the  boat  riding  the 
rocking  horse  in  the  nursery.  I  am  not 
sure  what  Anna's  chief  wish  is  but  per- 
haps it  is  to  leave  her  pig-tails  behind  her. 
I  hope  we  shall  all  add  a  few  dozen  words 
to  our  French  vocabulary." 

1911 
Class  Editor:    Louise  S.  Russell 
140  E.  52d  St.,  New  York  City. 

Norvelle  Browne  spent  some  time  last 
summer  with  Dorothy  Coffin  Greeley  and 
made  the  acquaintance  of  Dorothy's  new 
daughter.  Norvelle  sails  October  11  to 
spend  the  winter  in  Europe. 

Virginia  Canan  Smith  writes  that  she 
has  a  daughter,  Virginia  Custer,  born 
February  27.  Her  other  children  are  boys, 
ten  and  twelve  years,  and  Virginia  says 
that  now  "with  the  arrival  of  a  girl  she 
expects  to  renew  her  interest  in  things 
feminine  and  of  Bryn  Mawr." 
.  Charlotte  Claflin  wrote  a  fine,  long  let- 
ter last  spring  too  late  for  the  July  issue, 
but  I  am  quoting  from  it  now,  assuming 
that  it  still  holds:  "I  feel  as  if  1911  must 
by  this  time  be  so  wholly  vague  as  to 
what,  if  anything,  and  where,  if  anywhere, 
I  have  been  this  long  while,  that  I  am 
going  back  a  bit  to  get  a  running  start. 
In  1924,  then,  I  completed  three  years 
with  the  Girls'  Service  League  of  New 
York  City.  In  the  ensuing  five  years  I 
have  (1)  reorganized  the  Community 
Home  of  Rochester,  N.  Y. — a  maternity 
home  doing  casework  with  unmarried 
mothers;  (2)  reorganized  the  casework  of 
the  Infants'  Home  of  Toronto,  Ontario — 
also  working  on  the  illegitimacy  problem ; 
(3)  reorganized  and  opened  the  Gumbert 
School,  Perrysville,  Pa. — a  school  for  de- 
linquent girls;  (4)  started  the  casework 
department  of  the  State  Cancer  Hospital, 
Pondville,  Mass.;  (5)  done  child-placing 
and   home-finding    for    the    Nursery   and 


Child's  Hospital  of  New  York  City;  and 
(6)  am  now,  I  hope,  at  rest  for  a  good 
spell  to  come,  on  the  staff  of  the  Chil- 
dren's Aid  Society  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  The 
'rest'  does  not  consist  in  any  letting  up  of 
work,  but  in  the  satisfaction  of  being 
with  an  organization  so  fine  in  its  ideals 
and  spirit  as  that  justly  noted  C.  A.  S. 

"Between  whiles  1  have  tutored  at 
Rosemary  Hall,  Greenwich,  Conn.,  in  the 
springs  of  1927  and  1928.  An  article  of 
mine,  'Squatter  Rights  in  Case  Work,'  ap- 
peared in  The  Survey  of  May  15,  1928. 
My  article,  'The  Martyrs  of  Massachu- 
setts,' was  reprinted  by  the  Sacco-Vanzetti 
Defense  Committee  as  part  of  its  memor- 
ial leaflet  in  August,  1928.  And  the 
archaeological  hypothesis  put  forward  in 
my  note  'The  Inscription  of  Dvenos' 
(Classical  Philology,  October,  1927)  was 
favorably  noticed  both  by  Professor  Kent, 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  to 
whose  hypothesis  mine  was  an  emenda- 
tion, and  also  by  Mrs.  Harriet  Boyd 
Hawes,  one  of  the  most  eminent  of  living 
classical  archaeologists,  who  wrote  me 
succinctly,  T  think  you  are  right.' 

"May  this  summary — or  as  much  of  it 
as  you  think  worth  passing  on — tell  1911 
that  I  have  tried  to  do  them  a  little  credit 
by  not  merely  cumbering  the  earth  these 
few  years  past.  By  another  reunion  I 
hope  to  have  something  more  consecutive 
to  report.  And  if  any  of  them  come  to 
Buffalo,  I  want  to  know  it." 

(The  Class  Editor  would  appreciate  it 
if  some  of  the  rest  of  you  would  follow 
Charlotte's   example ! ) 

In  September,  Mary  Case  Pevear  and 
her  elder  daughter  drove  out  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  where  Catherine  is 
entering  the  freshman  class. 

Anita  Stearns  spent  a  week  in  New 
York  the  last  part  of  September. 

Louise  Russell  spent  the  summer  in 
Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  and  had  the  good 
fortune  to  run  across  several  Bryn  Mawr 
people   (though  1911  was  sadly  missing). 

1916 
Class  Editor:    Catherine  S.  Godley 
768  Ridgeway  Avenue 
Avondale,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Anna     Sears    Davis    and    her     family 
spent    their    vacation    at    Ely,    Vermont, 
which  Anna   considers   a   summer   haven 
for  those  with  young  children. 

Constance  Dowd  varied  her  vacation 
program  by  dashing  off  to  New  Haven  as 
soon  as  Camp  Runoia  closed.  She  spent 
the  first  week  in  September  there  attend- 
ing the  International  Congress  of  Psy- 
chology.   Cedy's  account  of  reunion  has 


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been  greatly  admired  and  even  called  a 
classic,  which  shows  that  she  has  not  lost 
the  light  touch  with  which  she  wrote  our 
songs  in  the  undergraduate  days. 

Margaret  Mabon  Henderson  writes 
from  Glasgow  that  her  family  will  have 
to  grow  up  and  go  to  Bryn  Mawr  if  she 
is  ever  to  get  back  to  renew  the  old  ties. 
The  family  to  date  consists  of  Elizabeth, 
nine ;  Margaret,  seven,  and  Agnes,  five. 
Mig  says  they  are  all  so  Scotch  that  one 
would  never  guess  they  had  any  American 
blood   in   them. 

Florence  Hitchcock  could  not  come  to 
reunion  because  she  was  to  be  in  France 
on  those  dates.  Was  that  the  beginning 
or  the  end  of  the  trip  and  was  it  business 
or  pleasure?  Flo  is  one  of  our  reticent 
members,  so  we  ask  these  questions  pub- 
licly. 

Maki  Hitotsuyanagi  Vories  spent  the 
summer  in  the  United  States.  She  arrived 
just  too  late  for  reunion,  but  sent  her 
greetings  and  a  copy  of  A  Mustard  Seed 
in  Japan  so  that  the  class  might  read  of 
her  husband's  work,  in  which  she  has  a 
part,  in  Omi-Hachiman,  Japan. 

1919 
Editor:  Marjorie  Remington  Twitchell 
(Mrs.  Pierrepont  Twitchell) 
Setauket,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

Tip  has  a  son !  His  name  and  other 
details  are  as  yet  unascertained  by  the 
editor.  He  is  the  fifty-third  boy  of  the 
class,  not  counting  the  children  in  the  class 
files,  unnamed  and  undesignated  as  to  sex. 

Mary  Scott  Spiller  is  home  again  in 
Swarthmore  after  a  year  abroad.  She 
spent  most  of  the  time  in  England,  her 
husband  studying  there  during  his  Sab- 
batical year.  But  she  also  took  a  beauti- 
ful trip  with  him  on  the  continent. 

Peggy  Rhoads  is  back  with  the  Mission 
Board  now.  She  found  her  three  months 
this  summer  with  "The  Friend"  very  in- 
teresting. "It  has  been  published  by  the 
same  printers  for  102  years.  The  head  of 
the  firm  is  a  woman,  but  I  am  the  first 
woman  ever  to  be  editor-in-chief."  Con- 
gratulations ! 

Hazel  Collins  Hainsworth,  having 
majored  in  math  at  College,  is  now  pursu- 
ing the  lighter  arts — she  is  taking  courses 
in  French  history,  art  and  literature,  and 
has  to  write  papers  of  weight  on  those 
subjects. 

Jinkie  Holmes'  story  "Aunt  Emmeline 
Takes  an  Interest"  was  published  in  the 
August  Scribner's.  If  anyone  wishes  the 
thrill  of  reading  a  classmate's  fiction,  don't 
neglect  to  send  for  the  August  Scribner's. 


Your  new  editor  has  a  little  news  of  her 
own.  I  have  ten  children  !  For  I  am  turn- 
ing my  hand  for  the  first  time  to  teaching, 
contrary  to  all  my  preconceived  plans,  for 
I've  always  sworn  I'd  never  teach ;  but 
it's  fascinating !  We  are  staying  all  year 
'round  in  our  new  home  sixty  miles  from 
New  York  on  the  sound.  It  is  real  coun- 
try, four  miles  to  the  station,  two  to  a 
post  office.  A  country  day  school  of 
twenty-six  children  has  just  been  started 
near  us,  and  to  keep  my  days  occupied,  I 
am  teaching  the  children  ranging  from 
eight  to  eleven,  history,  geography,  com- 
position, spelling,  reading,  art,  history  and 
poetry — that's  all. 

1923 
Class   Editor:    Dorothy    Meserve   Kun- 
hardt  (Mrs.  Philip  B.  Kunhardt) 
Mount  Kemble  Avenue 
Morristown,  N.  J. 
Clara    McLaughlin    MacDowell    has    a 
son,    William    Wallace    MacDowell,    Jr., 
born  June  29th. 

1924 
Editor:  Beth  Tuttle  Wilbur 
(Mrs.   Donald  Wilbur) 
1518^  E.  59th  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

The  job  of  editing  seems  to  be  looking 
up !  The  Editor  is  still  waiting,  however, 
for  the  avalanche  of  letters  which  is  to 
reply  to  her  recent  inquiries  regarding 
'24's  summer  activities.  A  most  generous 
letter  from  Kay  Neilson  was  enough  to 
make  up  for  the  other  deficiencies ! 

Kay  writes:  "If,  as  you  suggest,  the 
class  is  more  stingy  with  its  reputations 
that  with  its  money,  I  should  think  we'd 
have  no  Bulletin  column  at  all — that  is, 
if  Chuck's  lamentations  as  to  our  finan- 
cial status  be  justified! 

"Don't  tell  me  you  missed  the  picture, 
in  the  Sunday  Times  some  weeks  ago,  of 
Professor  and  Mrs.  Weld  Arnold  record- 
ing the  eclipse  somewhere  in  the  Straits 
Settlements?  Because  the  lady  in  the  case 
was  none  other  than  Ailing  Armstrong, 
who  was  married  in  Boston  last  January, 
after  spending  three  semesters  studying 
the  Fine  Arts  at  Harvard. 

"Another  member  of  our  class  who 
used  to  pop  up  occasionally  was  Helen 
Walker  Parsons;  she's  been  living  in 
Cambridge  and  doing  economics  on  the 
side,  to  such  purpose  that  she  took  her 
M.A.  a  year  ago  at  the  same  time  I  did. 
We  used  to  meet  during  distraught 
marathons  from  the  sub-basement  to  the 
sixth  floor  of  the  Widener  stacks. 

"Ruth  Tubby,  who  is  back  at  her  old 
job  in  the  Brownsville  Children's  Library, 
tells  us  that   Martha   Hammond  has  be- 


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come  a  full-fledged  nun  in  a  convent  in 
Peekskill,  and  now,  I  believe,  goes  by  the 
name  of  Sister  Frideswide. 

"Bobby  Murray  Fansler  has  a  highly 
talented  and  delightful  daughter,  Ruth 
Murray,  now  about  two  and  a  half. 
Priscilla's  son,  Timothy,  no  less  charm- 
ing than  his  cousin,  was  visiting  while 
I  was  there,  Priscilla  being  engaged  in 
tutoring  at  the  Bryn  Mawr  Summer 
School. 

"Goodness!  I  was  forgetting;  Bobby, 
having  adorned  the  Metropolitan  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts  for  some  time  as  itinerant 
instructor,  is  now  taking  on  a  full  time 
job  there  with  regular  lecture  courses. 

"And  Becca  Tatham  is  the  chief  guide 
and  prop  of  the  Fogg  Museum  Staff  in 
Cambridge. 

"As  for  me — I  seem  to  be  on  the  point 
of  sailing  for  Europe  in  the  fall,  in  the 
forlorn  hope  of  scratching  up  something 
.  new  and  startling  about  the  Italian  renais- 
sance of  sufficient  interest  to  induce  Har- 
vard to  give  me  a  Ph.D." 
-  A  very  impressive  document  arrived 
recently  from  France  revealing  the  mar- 
riage of  Roberte  Godefroy  and  Mr.  Herve 
Chauvel,  Docteur  en  Pharmacie,  Assist- 
ant a  la  Faculte  de  Pharmacie  de  Paris, 
le  Jeudi,  11  Juillet  1929,  a  midi  precis, 
en  l'Eglise  Notre  Dame  des  Champs. 

And  as  for  '24  babies  !  Beside  our  own 
son,  D.  E.  W.,  Jr.,  who  was  born  on 
August  22,  three  others  have  been  added 
to  the  list  during  the  summer,  and  an- 
other very  interesting  one  is  scheduled 
for  the  near  future.  The  three  who  have 
already  arrived,  in  chronological  order, 
are  Frank  R.  Morris,  Jr.,  Russ's  son,  who 
was  born  on  July  first,  John  Head  Kal- 
tenthaler,  another  brother  for  our  class 
baby,  on  August  24th,  and  Gordon  Brew- 
ster Baldwin,  Doris  Hawkins'  son,  born 
on  September  third.  We  certainly  seem 
to  be  running  to  boys. 

Bess  Pearson  called  up  the  other  day 
to  inquire  where  class  pledges  were  to  be 
paid,  and  we  were  certainly  surprised  and 
pleased  to  hear  from  her  again.  She  re- 
vealed her  whereabouts  for  the  last  three 
years,  which  has  been  the  Pennsylvania 
Museum,  in  the  capacity  of  assistant  in 
charge  of  prints.  Last  April  she  took 
time  off  for  a  five  months'  trip  to  Eu- 
rope, but  is  now  back  on  the  job  again 
at  the  Museum.  We  couldn't  answer  her 
inquiry  about  the  pledges  as  Chuck,  our 
collector,  is  in  England  for  the  winter. 
We  would  suggest  that,  for  Bess's  ben- 
efit, and  for  that  of  others  who  have 
inquired,  she  let  us  know  where  all  this 
money  is  to  be  sent. 

Please  note  Editor's  change  of  address. 


We  moved  out  here  to  Chicago  some 
weeks  ago  to  join  our  husband  who  has 
been  located  here  since  the  spring.  As 
we  are  now  far  from  the  center  of  B.  M. 
gossip,  we  would  appreciate  getting  a 
great  deal  of  news  ! 

1925 
Class  Editor :  Elizabeth  Mallett  Conger 
(Mrs.  Frederic  Conger) 
325  E.  72nd  St.,  New  York  City. 

Fall  and  the  poor  working  girls  are 
back  at  their  jobs.  Beth  Deafi  is  teaching 
at  the  Florence  Nightingale  School  and 
living  with  Betty  Stewart. 

Via  Saunders  is  working  long  hours 
at  the  Weyhe  Galleries  on  Lexington  Ave- 
nue and  hobnobbing  with  celebrities. 

Libby  Wilson  is  still  at  the  Citizens' 
National  Bank  in  Trenton,  Tennessee. 

Mary  Lytell  is  warden  of  the  Betsy 
Barbour  House  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.  She 
traveled  in  the  west  this  summer,  around 
Banff  and  Lake  Louise,  and  hopes  to  get 
her  Ph.D.  this  winter. 

Leila  Barbour  is  going  abroad  in  No- 
vember with  her  mother  and  Kay  Nielson 
to  work  on  her  "obscure  little  Spanish 
painter." 

May  Morrill  Dunn  is  job-hunting  in 
New  York.  That  doesn't  sound  very 
definite,  but  we're  on  her  track. 

And  Brownie  is  up  to  something  im- 
portant.   We're  on  her  track,  too  ! 

And  of  course,  there  are  hordes  of  fall 
brides !  On  September  fourteenth  Brad 
was  married  to  George  Whitman  Hol- 
brook  in  Wellsville.  She  and  Mr.  Hol- 
brook  are  now  living  in  Bradford,  Penn- 
sylvania. 

Billy  Dunn  is  now  Mrs.  David 
Buchanan,  residing  for  the  moment  in 
Akron,  Ohio,  but  on  December  first  she 
and  her  husband  leave  for  India  for  three 
years !  And  speaking  of  India,  Chissy  is 
married.  She  and  Calvin  Tomkins  were 
married  on  November  twelfth  in  Grace 
Church  with  Frances  Chisolm  and  Tommy 
Tomkins  Villard  as  bridesmaids.  Chissy 
and  her  husband  have  sailed  for  England 
and  France,  and  later  from  Venice  to 
Bombay.    They  may  be  back  in  May. 

And  now  for  the  younger  generation. 
Nana  Bonnell  Davenport  and  Rachel  Fos- 
ter Manierre  have  both  had  sons,  accord- 
ing to  the  good  1925  custom.  Henry  Bon- 
nell Davenport  was  born  early  in  Septem- 
ber (He  is  living  with  his  parents  but 
we  don't  know  just  where  because  they 
seem  to  have  moved),  and  John  Foster 
Manierre,  Jr.,  arrived  toward  the  end  of 
July.  Both  babies,  we  hear,  (not  from 
their  mothers)  are  exceptionally  good  and 
healthy  and  charming. 


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BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 


1927 
Class  Editor:  Ellenor   Morris, 
Berwyn,  Pa. 

Liz  Nelson  Tate  has  a  son,  Robert 
Wood  Tate,  born  July  13th,  weighing  8 
pounds  5  ounces.  This  is  all  very  fine 
for  the  Tate  family,  but  where,  oh  where, 
is  that  class  baby? 

Billy  Holcombe  Trotter  also  produced 
a  boy  on  August  22nd.  With  Dot  Irwin 
Headley's  son  this  make  three  gentlemen 
within  a   few  months. 

The  fall  brings  almost  as  many  brides 
as  the  traditional  June. 

On  September  2nd,  K.  Simonds  became 
Mrs.  Lowell  Thompson.  Corinne  Cham- 
bers and  several  members  of  '28  were 
bridesmaids.  Corinne  found  the  wedding 
ring  in  the  cake,  so  please  watch  this  col- 
umn carefully  for  future  developments. 

Eleanor  Waddell  on  September  14th 
was  married  to  George  Stephens. 

On  October  12th  two  more  of  us  fol- 
lowed in  their  footsteps.  Betsy  Gibson 
was  married  to  Mr.  John  Delafield 
Du  Bois,  and  Ruth  Miller  to  Mr.  Otto 
Henry  Spillman. 

Sara  Pinkerton  has  been  writing  a 
paper  for  her  M.A.  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  during  the  summer. 

Mad  Pierce  Lemmon  has  moved  into 
a  new  house  in  Ardmore,  and  writes  that 
she  is  quite  domestic. 

In  the  following  letter  Eleanor  Maria 
Chamberlain  writes  of  her  doings  in 
Panama:  "There  wasn't  anything  about 
'27  in  the  last  two  numbers  of  the  Bul- 
letin. I  didn't  know  whether  it  was  no 
material,  or  merely  because  you  didn't 
feel  that  way.  I  don't  know  whether 
any  of  my  doings  may  constitute  material 
or  not,  but  as  no  one  has  loved  me  enough 
to  tell  you  anything  about  me,  I  decided 
I'd  better  do  it  myself — then  on  the  other 
hand — you  mayn't  want  it. 

"This  last  year  has  been  quite  varied. 
I  went  back  to  the  laboratory  work  till 
they  changed  doctors.  The  new  man  had 
a  different  range  of  interests  and  also 
found  that  the  job  was  one  of  those 
where  the  tail  wagged  the  dog.  So  I 
stopped  that.  About  the  middle  of  Aug- 
ust I  sold  three  of  my  orchid  pictures  to 
Oakes  Ames,  for  a  book  on  Panaman 
Orchids.  I  also  came  out  in  print  as 
having  been  assistant  in  research  work 
on  the  behavior  of  malarial  parasites,  es- 
pecially the  sexual  forms,  under  treat- 
ment with  quinine  and  plasmodine. 

"After  stopping  lab  work  I  concen- 
trated on  painting  and  had  a  lot  of  fun 
with  it. 

"At  the  end  of  December,  Mother  and 


I  went  to  Peru  for  a  jaunt.  1  had  to 
use  the  Spanish  that  I'd  been  studying 
religiously  twice  a  week  for  the  last  year 
and  a  half.  I  regretted  not  a  minute  of 
those  lessons. 

"Pcnr  was  perfectly  fascinating.  The 
scenery  was  the  most  beautiful  and 
amazing,  I  have  ever  seen.  We  had 
three  days  in  Lima  and  saw  among  an 
orgy  of  gorgeous  Spanish  churches,  the 
Palace  of  La  Pericholle  (see  Bridge  of 
San  Luis  Rey),  which  was  charming. 

"We  debarked  at  Mollendo  and  went  up 
to  Puno  where  we  took  a  boat  across 
Lake  Titicaca.  The .  lake  is  perfectly 
marvelously  beautiful.  We  spent  two 
days  in  La  Paz  (Bolivia)  where  the 
main  stunt  is  the  Cholo  and  Indio  cos- 
tumes which  are  very  brilliant — clear, 
pure  colors,  with  geranium  pink  pre- 
dominating. We  also  saw  our  first  llamas 
here ! 

"From  La  Paz  we  recrossed  the  lake 
and  went  up  to  Cuzco,  crossing  the  divide, 
which  was  fun.  There  are  gorgeous 
glaciers  and  snow  mountains  there. 

"Cuzco  was  fascinating.  Besides  the 
very  splendid  Spanish  things,  there  were 
the  amazing  Inca  Walls  all  through  the 
city  as  well  as  a  huge  fortress  above  it. 
We  also  visited  another,  even  finer  one 
on  the  bank  of  the  Urubamba  river. 

"Another  lovely  thing  about  Cuzco,  and 
the  country  around  there,  was  the  pro- 
fusion of  wildflowers — lupin,  calcilaria, 
dahlias  (  !),  geraniums,  poppies  and 
broom. 

"We  had  a  lot  of  fun  sketching  all 
along  the  trip.  Usually  when  we  did  we 
had  a  crowd  of  little  Indio  children 
around  us  making  remarks  and  asking 
questions  in  Quichna  and  Spanish.  They 
were  a  lot  of  fun. 

"When  we  got  back  the  fleet  was  in, 
much  excitement.  Our  tour  here  is 
over  and  we  sail  for  Europe  on  June 
15th,  having  four  months  leave  due  and 
granted.  Our  new  station  is  Washing- 
ton, where  Daddy  goes  to  the  Surgeon 
General's  Office. 

"There !" 

1928 
Class  Editor:  Cornelia  B.  Rose,  Jr. 

1  Lexington  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

Elizabeth  Bethel  has  a  position  as  re- 
search assistant  to  the  head  of  the  His- 
tory Department  at  Yale  this  year  and  is 
now  staying  at  No.  8  Englewood  Avenue, 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

Puppy  McKelvey  writes  that  "Amram 
is  taking  a  business  course  this  fall  and 
will  work  in  her  father's  office  for  a 
while,  in  order,  she  says,  to  get  a  good 
reference." 


'  carrison  forest 


^*£^       A  Country  School  in  the  Green 
Spring     Valley    near    Baltimore. 
Modern  Equipment. 

All  Sports.  Special  Emphasis  on  Horse- 
back Riding.  Mild  Climate. 
Garrison  Forest  Girls  who  are  going  to  college 
are  thoroughly  prepared  for  any  institution. 
Other  girls  take  courses  with  special  emphasis 
on  Music  and  Art.  Younger  girls  live  in  a 
separate  Junior  House. 

Principals 

MISS  JEAN  G.  MARSHALL 

MISS  NANCY  OFFUTT, 
Bryn  Mawr,  ex  '20 

Box  B,  Garrison,  Maryland 


THE  LOW  AND 
HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

65  th  year.    Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN  POINT, 
STAMFORD,  CONN. 


Katharine  Gibbs 

A  school  of  unusual  character  with  a  distinctive 
purpose  for  educated  women 
SECRETARIAL   ACADEMIC  EXECUTIVE 

BOSTON 
90  Marlboro  Street 


Resident  and 
Day  School 


NEW  YORK 
247  Park  Avenue 


PROVIDENCE 
155  Angell  Street 


Special  Course  for  College 
Women.  Selected  subjects 
preparing  for  executive  posi- 
tions. Separate  classrooms 
and  special  instructors. 
One-year  Course  includes  tech- 
nical and  broad businesstrain- 
ing  preparing  for  positions  of 
a  preferred  character. 
Two-year  Course  for  prepara- 
tory and  high  school  gradu- 
ates. First  year  includes  six 
college  subjects.  Second  year 
intensive  secretarial  training. 
Booklet  on  request 


WINTER  ACCOMMODATIONS  ON 
BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE  CAMPUS 

LOW  BUILDINGS:  Three  furnished  suites 
(bedroom  and  sitting  room)  now  vacant  will 
be  rented  by  the  month  or  College  year  to 
alumnae  or  other  well  recommended  women. 

Inclusive  price  with  table  board,  heat  and 
light  $22.50  to  $27.00  per  week. 

APPLY    TO    MANAGER— TELEPHONE 
BRYN  MAWR  1578 


Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 

GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  19  miles  from  New  York.     College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.       Music        Art  and 

Domestic  Science.       Catalogue   on  request.       Box  B. 

MIRIAM   A.   BYTEL,    A.B.,   Raddiffe,    Principal 

BERTHA   GORDON   WOOD,   A.B.,   Bryn    Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


I 


INTENSIVE  WINTER  AND 
SUMMER  COURSES 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  of  costume  design  and  Illus- 
tration taught  in  shortest  time  con- 
sistent with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  for 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
partment disposes  of  student  work. 
Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
Bureau.    Write  for  announcement. 

In  Arnold,  Constable  &  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

1680  Broadway  (near  52nd  St.)  New  York 


t>i£tij^ctif£ 
Millinery 

successfully  caps 
the  climax  of 
fashion  and  the 
smart  ensemble. 

SAKS-FIFTH  AVENUE 

FORTY- NINTH  to  FIFTIETH  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


Kindly  mention  Bryn  Maws  Bulletih 


The  Saint  Timothy's  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

Founded  September  1882 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head  of  the  School 

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY   E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  178S) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 

A  country  day    school  for  boys 

MODERN  AND  WELL  EQUIPPED 
Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 

UNIVERSITY^TrLS 

BOARDING  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough    and    successful    Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive  Chicago,  Illinois 

THE  HARTRIDGE   SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

SO  minutes  from  New  York 

A  country  school  with  beautiful  grounds. 
College   Preparatory  and   General   Courses. 
Over  fifty  girls  in  leading  colleges  today. 
Resident  Department  carefully  restricted. 
Special  attention  to  Music  and  Art. 
Athletics,  Dramatics,  Riding, 

EMELYN  B.  HARTRIDGE,  Vassar,  I.E.,  Principal 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey 


The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY,    CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT,  A.B., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


tOGERSHAIX 

f ,4  Modern  School  with  New  England  Tradih'ons 


■  JJAMot 

M  \8k  '         Thorough  Preparation  for  any  College 
■    ^^  One  Year  Intensive  Review 

JB  ^^^  General  Academic  Course  with  dl- 
^^■ki  ^^Fploma.  Junior  College  Courses — Home 
Economics,  Secretarial  Training,  Music,  Art,  Dramatic 
Art.  26  Miles  from  Boston  Outdoor  Sports.  Riding. 
Gymnasium.    Swimming  Pool. 

EDITH  CHAP  IN  CRAVEN,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 
201  Rogers  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

/1ARCUAV  SCH<&L 

BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and 
all  leading  colleges 

Musical  Course  prepares  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  Music  of  Bryn  Mawr  College 
EDITH  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 
L.  May  Willis,  Principal 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 

Individual  Instruction.    Athletics. 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa. 

Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address:    Bryn  Mawr.  Pa. 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON  COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vassar) 

Principal 


Kindly  mention   Bryn    Mawr   Bulletin 


THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 


BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 


GRAY  GABLES 

THE  BOARDING  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE 

BANCROFT  SCHOOL  OF  WORCESTER 

Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 

One  year  course  for  Board   Examination. 

For  catalog  addrest: 

Hope  Fisher,  Ph.D.,   Bakchoft  School 

Worcester,  Massachusetts 


MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 
COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses  Junior  High  School 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,  Headmistress 

The  Katharine  Branson  School 

ROSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Francisco 

A  Country  School    College  Preparatory 

Head: 
Katharine   Fleming   Branson,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

1330  19th  St.,  N.  W.  Washington,  D.  C. 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 

Head  Mistress 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 
Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 


FERRY    HALL 

A    RESIDENT    AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On   Lake  Michigan,  near   Chicago 

Junior  College:  High  School  Department:  College 
Preparatory  and  General  Cour»es.  Special  Departments 
of  Music.  Expression  and  Art. 

Two  new  dormitories,  including  new  dining  room  and 
infirmary,  to  be  opened  September  1929. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 

ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 

(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  courses) 

CAROLINE  RUUTZ-REES.  Ph.D.  \  „    .  M.  .  m  , 
MARY  E.  LOWNDES.  Litt.D        /  Heai  Mlrimm 


GREENWICH 


CONNECTICUT 


The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 

(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr.  Mount  Holyoke.  Smith. 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  college*.     Abundant  outdoor  life. 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON.  A.B. 

HEAD 

CAMP   MYSTIC  conmnyeIttTcut 

Miss  Jobe's  salt  water  camp  for  girls 
8-18.  Conducted  by  Mrs.  Carl  Akeley  (Mary 
L.  Jobe).  Halfway,  New  York  and  Boston. 
Land  and  water  sports.  Horseback  riding. 
MARY  L  JOBE, 
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Spanish  capital,  its  life  centers  about  a 
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The  Bryn  Mawr  Summer  School  has  become  for  many  of  us  almost  a  common- 
place; we  forget  that  it  marked,  in  this  country,  an  epoch  in  the  education  of  women 
in  the  same  way  that  Bryn  Mawr  itself  did.  But  any  one  who  was  in  Taylor  Hall 
that  June  morning  in  1922  and  heard  President  Emeritus  Thomas  greet  the  students 
who  were  gathered  for  the  second  Summer  School  cannot  think  of  it  without  a  stirring 
of  the  blood.  One  remembers  her  saying  to  them:  "It  is  an  adventure  for  us  and 
for  you,  an  adventure  that  may  have  the  happiest  results.  You  and  your  teachers 
are  beginning  here  something  that  may  help  bring  about  industrial  peace.  Nothing 
ought  to  be  impossible  in  the  new  world  in  which  you  will  live  the  greater  part 
of  your  lives."  She  went  on  to  challenge  that  group  of  women  and  girls  to  leadership 
as  she  had  challenged  each  college  generation.  "As  in  a  vision  I  saw  that  out  of  the 
hideous  world  war  might  come  as  a  glorious  aftermath  international  industrial  justice 
and  industrial  peace,  if  your  generation  had  the  courage  to  work  as  hard  for  them 
as  my  generation  had  worked  for  woman  suffrage.  .  .  .  It  is  not  enough  to  think. 
We  must  act.  But  we  must  keep  our  minds  continually  open  to  new  ideas.  We  must 
all  of  us  be  willing  to  revise  our  opinions  until  we  die."  Her  hope  that  other  col- 
leges "would  turn  over  for  eight  weeks  every  summer  their  buildings  and  equipment" 
is  slowly  being  fulfilled.  Bryn  Mawr  is  now  no  longer  a  pioneer  but  a  corporate 
member,  one  of  the  joint  Committee  of  the  Affiliated  Summer  Schools.  In  her  article 
in  this  number  Hilda  Smith  says,  "Each  school  is  still  an  independent  unit  as  far  as 
its  own  policies  are  concerned,  but  new  strength  has  come  into  the  national  organiza- 
tion through  the  knowledge  that  three  schools  together  are  interested  in  the  same 
problems."  Now  besides  these  Summer  Schools  there  has  been  another  outcome,  an- 
other step  in  women's  education, — the  Vineyard  Shore  School  started  by  Hilda 
Smith, — the  first  Winter  School  exclusively  for  women  workers.  It  grew  out  of 
"the  long-realized  need  of  the  Summer  School  students." 


SCHOOLS  FOR  WOMEN  WORKERS  IN  INDUSTRY 

On  the  Bryn  Mawr  campus  some  five  years  ago  a  little  group  of  shoe  workers, 
electrical  workers,  9ilk  weavers,  and  garment  workers  were  discussing  one  hot  July 
day  what  might  be  for  them  the  next  steps  in  education.  The  Summer  School  term  of 
two  months  had  meant  for  every  student  a  sacrifice  of  wages,  increased  family 
responsibility  and  in  many  cases  the  loss  of  a  job.  On  the  other  hand,  the  summer  had 
brought  to  each  of  these  factory  workers  a  glimpse  of  new  knowledge,  a  wider  under- 
standing of  the  problems  of  industry,  and  renewed  determination  that  the  results  of  the 
school  term  should  in  some  way  be  applied  at  home  for  the  benefit  of  the  whole 
industrial  group.  "We  have  just  begun  to  learn!"  exclaimed  one  girl,  "now  that 
we  have  found  out  how  to  study,  why  can't  we  go  on  a  little  longer?" 

Every  year  in  the  Bryn  Mawr  Summer  School  there  have  been  girls  of  great 
mental  ability,  with  a  desire  to  "go  on  a  little  longer"  and  a  serious  interest  in  industrial 
questions.  Some  of  these  women  workers  are  so  eager  to  pursue  their  studies  once 
they  have  acquired  the  tools  of  learning  that  they  are  willing  to  give  up  wages  and 
risk  losing  a  job  for  a  few  months  more  after  the  Summer  term,  if  only  a  suitable 
opportunity  were  offered  for  this  longer  period  of  education. 

At  intervals  during  the  nine  years  of  Bryn  Mawr  Summer  School  history,  an 
experiment  has  been  tried;  sending  to  college  on  specially  contributed  scholarships 
certain  industrial  workers  who  have  shown  marked  ability  in  their  School  classes. 
This  experiment  has  not  been  entirely  successful,  not  for  any  lack  of  serious  purpose 
on  the  part  of  the  student,  but  rather  because  the  conditions  of  college  training  have 
made  the  effort  seem  insuperably  difficult,  at  times  futile.  An  industrial  worker  with 
no  high  school  preparation  cannot  face  entrance  examinations,  although  qualified  by 
a  mature  mind  for  college  courses  once  the  entrance  barrier  is  passed.  Moreover,  the 
financial  burden  of  four  years  of  college  expenses,  even  with  the  aid  of  a  scholarship, 
is  almost  too  great  to  be  borne.  Required  college  courses  often  include  subjects  which 
the  industrial  worker  considers  useless  to  her  and  perhaps  an  entire  waste  of  time. 
College  students  younger  in  age  and  less  serious  in  interest  seem  almost  like  children 
to  such  an  experienced  woman,  and  the  genial  atmosphere  of  campus  activities  she 
finds  hard  to  understand.  As  one  student  from  Bryn  Mawr,  a  glove  worker,  wrote 
during  her  first  year  in  a  university,  "I  can't  understand  the  scramble  for  marks 
and  credits.  Why  not  study  just  for  the  sake  of  learning  things  and  not  for  a  degree?" 
Methods  of  teaching  in  most  colleges  and  universities  prove  confusing  to  the  indus- 
trial worker,  who  comes  from  the  Summer  School's  small,  informal  classes  to  great 
lecture  rooms,  and  to  an  instruction  method  which  often  deprives  the  student  of  any 
opportunity  for  discussion.  "They  don't  like  you  to  talk  back  here  or  ask  a  ques- 
tion," wrote  another  industrial  worker  from  a  university,  "they  just  want  to  pour 
it  in."  And  the  reflection  of  college  atmosphere  given  in  the  letter  of  a  textile  worker 
struggling  through  her  Freshman  year  is  typical.  "I  know  lots  of  girls  back  in  the 
mills  who  would  be  more  interested  in  these  courses  than  most  of  the  Freshmen  I 
meet  around  the  campus.  I  thought  they  had  come  here  to  study  but  apparently  not." 
In  spite  of  these  difficulties,  however,  the  Bryn  Mawr  students  who  have  gone  on  to 
colleges  or  universities  have  acquitted  themselves  with  credit,  passing  entrance  exami- 

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nations  after  one  year  of  preparation,  into  which  was  packed  four  years  of  high 
school  work;  winning  prizes  for  English  essaj^s,  rated  as  among  the  best  students  in 
economic  classes,  and  contributing  from  practical  experience,  in  the  direct,  fearless 
fashion  characteristic  of  this  group,  to  every  part  of  the  academic  program. 

To  the  question  of  eager  students  every  summer  "Is  there  any  place  I  could  go 
after  the  Summer  School  to  learn  a  little  more?"  a  new  answer  has  been  given  this 
fall  with  the  opening  of  the  Vineyard  Shore  School  for  Women  Workers  in  Industry. 
Up  to  the  present,  a  small  group  of  students  from  Bryn  Mawr  has  been  enrolled 
each  year  in  Brookwood  Workers'  School  at  Katonah,  New  York,  a  school  for  men 
and  women  from  industry  which  offers  a  two-year  course  emphasizing  training  for 
active  work  in  the  labor  movement.  While  of  proved  value  to  many  Summer  School 
students,  the  course  at  Brookwood  is  too  advanced  for  others.  To  those  who  have 
known  the  Summer  School  students  individually  there  has  seemed  a  need  for  a  resident 
school  for  a  longer  period  than  two  months,  following  the  liberal  traditions  of  the 
Summer  School,  and  with  a  similar  method  of  teaching,  offering  to  women  workers 
a  chance  to  study  their  own  industrial  problems,  and  at  the  same  time  to  explore  a 
little  farther  other  fields  of  knowledge  associated  with  the  industrial  field,  or  offering 
new  resources  for  creative  work  and  for  the  use  of  leisure  time.  The  plan  for  the 
Vineyard  Shore  School  has  grown  out  of  this  long-realized  need  of  the  Summer 
School  students.  After  four  years  of  preparation  and  finance  work,  the  school  opened 
on  October  15th  with  fourteen  students. 

The  Vineyard  Shore  property  includes  sixty-six  acres  of  land  and  two  large 
furnished  houses  on  the  hilly  slopes  above  the  Hudson  river,  about  eighty  miles  from 
New  York.  Below  the  houses  the  land  descends  in  a  series  of  terraces,  partly  wooded, 
to  the  rocks  and  beaches  of  the  river  shore.  Across  the  state  highroad  which  skirts 
the  School  grounds  is  the  little  village  street  of  West  Park,  winding  up  into  the 
wooded  hills.  These  woods,  with  their  trails  and  rushing  streams,  extend  thirty 
miles  or  more  without  a  town  or  village.  The  School  locality  then  combines  advan- 
tages of  accessibility  by  train,  boat,  or  automobile  with  the;  seclusion  and  quiet  of  the 
country.  North  about  twenty  miles  the  Catskill  range  begins,  and  to  the  east  on  clear 
days  one  sees  the  far  mountain  tops  of  the  Berkshires.  The  district  takes  its  character 
from  the  river  and  the  wooded  hills,  with  the  large  vineyards  along  the  river  slope. 
The  community  itself  is  one  of  about  300  working  people,  of  Dutch  or  Huguenot 
descent,  with  a  fair-sized  Italian  population,  employed  for  the  most  part  in  farming, 
on  the  railroad,  or  on  large  estates,  many  now  empty  or  given  over  to  ecclesiastical 
institutions. 

Entrance  requirements  for  the  Vineyard  Shore  School  are  practically  the  same 
as  for  Bryn  Mawr  or  the  other  Summer  Schools;  three  years'  factory  experience,  ability 
to  use  the  English  language,  ages  between  20  and  35,  and  good  health.  Industrial 
workers,  those  employed  in  the  labor  movement  and  other  women  workers  if  organized 
are  eligible. 

The  first  group  of  industrial  workers  arrived  at  West  Park  by  boat  or  train  up 
the  Hudson  River  on  October  15th.  Cool,  clear  weather,  a  blue  river  and  vivid 
autumn  coloring  on  the  hills,  combined  to  give  the  students  a  first  impression  of  over- 
whelming beauty.  Most  of  these  workers  had  been  employed  the  day  before  in  some 
factory  workroom,  or  else  were  exhausted  from  fruitless  search  for  a  job.  As  with 
the  Summer  School  students  during  the  past  three  years,  unemployment  has  been  a 


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serious  handicap! in  enrollment.  Girls  who  have  been  out  of  work  for  the  best  part 
of  the  last  two  years  find  at  the  last  moment  that  they  cannot  give  up  even  the 
chance  of  a  busy  season  this  winter,  in  order  to  come  to  school.  Illness  in  families 
has  been  another  deterring  factor,  so  that  although  three  times  the  number  of  students 
applied  for  the  School,  only  this  small  group  could  actually  come  when  the  School 
started.  Continued  recruiting  up  till  Christmas  it  is  hoped  may  increase  the  number 
of  students  to  twenty  or  more,  the  capacity  of  the  School  buildings  this  first  year. 

In  the  first  group  of  students,  there  are  four  garment  workers,  two  textile  workers, 
two  electrical  workers,  a  multigraph  operator,  two  shoe  workers,  a  rubber  worker, 
a  leather  belt  maker  and  a  worker  on  Fairbank  Scales.  The  states  represented  are 
Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island,  New  York,  Pennsylvania,  Wisconsin  and  California. 
One  student  comes  from  the  Wisconsin  Summer  School,  two  from  the  Barnard 
School,  ten  after  one  or  two  summers  at  Bryn  Mawr,  and  one  has  never  attended 
any  of  the  Summer  Schools,  but  is  ready  for  fairly  advanced  work  through  attendance 
in  evening  classes.  The  group  is  about  equally  divided  between  union  and  non-union 
workers,  and  nationalities  include  American-born,  Hungarian,  Russian,  German, 
Italian. 

The  work  will  be  of  comparatively  advanced  character,  emphasizing  current 
social  and  industrial  problems,  including  the  study  of  economics,  history,  science,  Eng- 
lish literature,  composition,  public  speaking,  with  related  work  in  music,  art  and 
dramatics.  A  number  of  students  who  applied  for  the  School  were  not  accepted 
because  it  was  believed  that  they  could  not  maintain  the  proposed  standard  of  work, 
so  that  the  selected  group  although  small  is  able  to  carry  a  fairly  advanced  program. 

It  has  been  surprising  to  see  how  quickly  during  the  first  week  the  students  made 
the  adjustment  to  new  surroundings  and  settled  down  to  regular  work.  This  work 
includes  for  each  girl  an  hour  a  day  of  household  "chores,"  cleaning  or  dusting,  wash- 
ing dishes,  waiting  on  the  tables.  Two  girls  are  assigned  duty  as  chauffeurs  for  the 
School  truck  and  one  who  has  had  a  little  library  experience,  takes  care  of  books. 
Two  or  three  girls  share  the  large  bedrooms,  in  both  houses.  Dining  rooms  and 
kitchen,  and  a  classroom  for  economics  and  history  occupy  one  house,  while  in  the 
other  are  held  the  science  and  the  English  classes.  Large  living  rooms  with  open  fire- 
places are  used  in  both  houses,  and  the  long  porches  overlooking  vineyards  and  river. 

For  three  hours  every  morning,  after  the  housework  is  done,  the  students  devote 
themselves  to  one  subject,  without  the  physical  and  mental  confusion  involved  in 
changing  classes.  This  solid  period  under  the  direction  of  one  teacher  may  include 
discussion,  independent  or  supervised  reading,  writing  papers,  or  any  other  activity 
connected  with  the  subject.  For  the  science  class  this  sometimes  means  a  mid-morning 
walk  down  the  lane  to  the  river  to  identify  trees;  or  a  visit  to  the  study  of  John  Bur- 
roughs, for  many  years  a  next-door  neighbor  and  now  remembered  in  every  corner 
of  the  orchard  and  at  each  turn  of  the  woods  trail  to  "Slabsides" ;  in  economics  it 
may  mean  chart  or  poster  making,  work  on  a  statistical  study,  the  dramatization  of 
an  arbitration  court,  or  the  processes  of  some  trade;  in  English  part  of  the  three 
hours  may  be  given  to  practice  in  public  speaking,  to  reading  aloud,  to  a  forum,  or 
to  some  venture  in  writing  poetry. 

After  dinner,  with  its  before  and  after  periods  of  setting  tables,  serving,  and 
washing  dishes,  the  students  have  a  free  period  from  two  to  four,  in  order  to  enjoy 
out-of-doors  during  the  sunniest  part  of  winter  days ;  classes  or  conferences  again  from 


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4.00-5.30,  and  an  early  supper  at  the  usual  countryside  hour  of  six.  In  the  evening 
there  is  an  informal  period,  current  events,  or  literature,  and  the  last  hour  at  8.30  is 
reserved  on  clear  nights  for  star  study  on  the  upper  porch,  where  a  wide  sweep  of  sky 
shows  the  constellations  north  and  south,  and  all  the  eastern  horizon.  Saturdays  are 
free  for  hikes  and  picnics,  and  already  the  students  have  been  exploring  back  roads 
through  the  woods,  charting  old  trails  along  the  river  and  blazing  new  ones,  and  on  the 
first  Saturday  taking  a  picnic  expedition  to  the  great  Ashokan  reservoir  in  the  Catskills, 
a  series  of  lakes  set  in  the  mountains,  providing  water  for  New  York  City. 

There  are  limitless  possibilities  ahead,  with  a  small  group  of  undoubtedly  able 
students,  with  mature  minds  and  a  strong  social  spirit,  studying  together  for  as  long 
a  term  as  eight  months  under  almost  ideal  conditions.  In  time  it  is  possible  that 
talents  may  be  released  and  that  art  in  its  various  forms  may  take  its  place  in  relation 
to  the  other  subjects  of  the  curriculum.  For  it  is  the  belief  of  the  faculty  and  students 
of  the  School  that  no  subject  should  stand  alone,  but  that  each  one  may  be  taught 
in  its  fullest  significance  in  relation  to  other  fields  of  knowledge.  Thus,  for  this 
first  term  the  study  of  Social  Science  will  give  the  background  of  American  history  and 
economic  development,  the  English  courses  will  deal  with  American  literature  and 
the  possibilities  of  creative  writing  for  American  workers,  the  Science  will  trace  the 
development  of  invention  and  the  machine  as  related  to  industry  in  this  country, 
with  the  broader  background  of  astronomy,  the  story  of  the  earth,  and  of  life  on  the 
earth.  The  central  theme  of  all  the  courses  was  discussed  the  first  day  of  the  School, 
and  will  be  the  theme  of  other  discussions  from  time  to  time,  in  the  light  of  new 
knowledge.  "On  what  factors  does  human  well-being  depend?" — a  subject  broad 
enough  to  give  scope  for  many  explorations,  and  of  deep  enough  significance  to  satisfy 
the  social  instincts  of  these  industrial  workers. 

The  organization  of  the  School  has  been  in  the  hands  of  a  Joint  Committee 
similar  to  that  controlling  the  Affiliated  Summer  School, -made  up  of  teachers  and 
others  interested  in  workers'  education,  together  with  an  equal  number  of  industrial 
workers,  former  students  of  the  Bryn  Mawr  Summer  School.  From  now  on  the 
faculty  and  students  of  the  new  school  will  elect  representatives  to  a  reorganized 
committee,  to  control  policies.  Within  the  School  community,  an  executive  committee 
of  students  and  faculty  are  in  charge,  with  a  New  England  textile  worker  who  has 
attended  Bryn  Mawr  for  two  summers  as  chairman,  and  subcommittees  to  consider 
the  problems  of  the  study  program,  of  house  administration  and  of  recreation. 

Although  plans  for  the  School  were  begun  four  years  ago,  the  difficulty  of  financ- 
ing such  an  enterprise  has  meant  a  long  delay  in  actually  putting  plans  into  operation. 
The  task  in  finance  work  has  been  to  discover  a  group  of  liberally  minded  people 
who  would  believe  in  such  an  adventure  in  workers'  education,  and  whose  assistance 
would  not  mean  any  less  support  for  Bryn  Mawr  or  any  of  the  other  Summer  Schools. 
After  three  years  of  tedious  work,  such  a  group  was  finally  organized.  With  the 
help  of  this  new  committee  almost  the  entire  budget  for  the  first  year  of  the  Vineyard 
Shore  School  was  raised  last  winter,  a  budget  covering  all  costs  of  tuition,  and  also 
annual  expenses  of  administration  and  upkeep  of  the  property.  Every  student  is 
making  herself  responsible  for  $200  covering  her  board  and  lodging  expenses  for  the 
eight-month  term.  This  amount  if  not  paid  in  full  during  the  year,  will  be  loaned 
to  the  students  by  the  School,  and  repaid  in  small  amounts  when  the  student  goes 
back  to  work.    The  students  are  taking  this  financial  responsibility  very  seriously,  and 


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the  fees  which  have  already  been  paid  to  the  School  are  the  result  of  several  years  of 
saving  for  this  purpose.  In  addition  to  the  students'  fees,  a  scholarship  of  $700  has 
been  raised  in  the  budget  for  each  girl,  covering  all  other  expenses  of  maintaining 
the  School. 

In  time  it  is  hoped  certain  enterprises  may  be  launched  which  will  make  the 
School  at  least  partially  self-supporting.  Several  such  projects  have  already  been 
discussed ;  the  possibility  of  raising  young  trees,  spruce  and  pine,  for  the  Christmas 
tree  market,  an  idea  encouraged  by  the  state  forestry  department  in  order  to  save 
the  forests;  a  co-operative  jam  kitchen  where  the  waste  fruit  in  the  surrounding 
country  might  be  utilized  and  some  use  of  the  school  buildings  in  summer  for  a 
group  of  interested  people  who  might  pay  their  share  of  running  expenses  for  the 
vacation  period. 

To  turn  from  this  new  venture  at  Vineyard  Shore  to  recent  developments  in  the 
Summer  School  movement,  this  past  year  has  brought  new  impetus  to  this  movement 
through  the  affiliation  plan  put  into  operation  last  year  by  Bryn  Mawr,  Barnard  and 
Wisconsin.  According  to  this  plan,  representatives  from  all  three  schools  meet  on  a 
joint  committee  to  confer  on  problems  affecting  the  whole  movement,  and  in  each 
district  these  schools  have  joined  forces  for  district  work,  in  finding  students,  prepar- 
ing applicants,  and  in  raising  a  scholarship  fund.  Each  school  is  still  an  independent 
unit  as  far  as  its  own  policies  are  concerned,  but  new  strength  has  come  into  the 
national  organization  through  the  knowledge  that  three  schools  together  are  interested 
in  the  same  problems.  A  special  committee  to  study  the  question  of  new  schools  for 
women  workers  has  been  appointed,  in  the  hope  that  such  schools  may  be  started 
only  where  needed,  and  when  the  right  conditions  for  democratic  organization  and 
freedom  of  teaching  can  be  secured.  Sixty  people  met  last  spring  in  the  Ohio  dis- 
trict to  discuss  workers'  education,  especially  in  relation  at  some  future  time  to  a 
resident  school  in  that  section  of  the  country.  Through  the  central  office  of  the 
Affiliated  Schools,  teaching  problems  in  this  field  of  education  are  being  studied  by  the 
faculty  of  the  three  Schools,  in  order  to  find  suitable  material  for  classroom  work, 
the  best  preparation  for  applicants,  and  to  help  former  students  in  using  what  they 
have  learned  for  the  benefit  of  their  own  communities. 

Last  winter  brought  much  new  interest  in  the  Summer  School  movement,  which 
for  the  first  time  since  the  Bryn  Mawr  School  was  started  in  1921  bids  fair  to  become 
almost  too  popular.  Never  have  there  been  so  many  demands  for  talks  or  articles, 
never  so  many  people  applying  for  teaching  positions.  The  Summer  term  at  Bryn 
Mawr  opened  with  105  industrial  workers,  the  largest  number  ever  enrolled,  for  the 
most  part  well-prepared  and  able  students. 

As  usual,  the  statistics  of  enrollment  showed  a  wide  diversity  of  trades,  nationali- 
ties and  sections  of  the  country.  Five  places  were  assigned  to  students  from  Europe: 
two  Danish  workers,  a  photograph  engraver,  and  a  cotton  mill  operator;  two  women 
from  England,  an  organizer  and  a  garment  worker;  and  one  German  girl,  a  textile 
worker.  These  foreign  students,  well  acquainted  with  the  industrial  conditions  and 
the  labor  movements  of  their  own  countries,  brought  to  the  School  a  sense  of  interna- 
tionalism, emphasized  also  by  the  mixed  character  of  the  group  assembled  from  every 
part  of  the  United  States. 

The  School  was  fortunate  in  having  Miss  Frances  Perkins,  the  Commissioner 
of  Labor  in  New  York  State,  as  the  speaker  on  the  opening  day.    Her  subject,  the 


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"Progress  of  Women  in  Industry,"  caught  the  interest  of  every  student  present,  and 
made  the  School  feel  the  common  problems  facing  the  women  workers.  This  interest 
was  made  more  vivid  by  the  Trade  Party  the  following  week,  where  the  trades  rep- 
resented in  the  School  were  dramatized  in  historical  sequence.  The  "Ladies  of 
Lowell,"  reading  their  dramatic  announcement  that  the  "Ladies  of  this  country  will 
never  be  slaves" ;  the  early  days  in  the  millinery  and  the  garment  trades  when  women 
in  flowered  skirts  and  picturesque  bonnets  came  to  work  in  the  shops;  and  the  scenes 
in  the  modern  shop  under  union  and  non-union  conditions  were  all  dramatically  por- 
trayed and  enthusiastically  received  by  the  School. 

The  unit  plan,  tried  last  year  with  success  in  the  classroom  work,  was  continued 
this  year.  By  this  arrangement  of  classes,  the  students  were  grouped  in  six  units  of 
about  eighteen  girls,  on  the  basis  of  psychological  tests,  industrial  background,  and 
interest  in  one  subject  or  another  of  the  elective  courses  offered  in  each  unit.  Three 
instructors  taught  in  each  unit,  planning  their  courses  together  in  order  to  give  each 
student  a  unified  program  of  study.  Economics  and  English  (Literature,  Composi- 
tion and  Public  Speaking)  were  required,  and  an  elective  course,  Science,  Psychology 
or  History,  was  given  as  the  third  subject  in  each  unit. 

One  day  in  July  was  devoted  to  an  institute  held  by  the  Philadelphia  Women's 
Trade  Union  League  on  the  Bryn  Mawr  campus.  Problems  of  the  textile  industry 
were  discussed,  with  students  of  the  School  from  various  parts  of  the  country  describ- 
ing their  own  processes  in  hosiery,  cotton,  silk  or  rayon.  After  a  program  of  outside 
speakers,  the  students  again  took  an  active  part  in  the  program,  staging  a  legislative 
hearing  on  the  forty-four-hour  week,  and  with  spontaneous  dramatic  effect  giving  the 
views  of  the  trade  unionist,  the  employer,  the  efficiency  expert,  and  the  unorganized 
worker.  Another  phase  of  the  educational  program  was  carried  out  through  a  series 
of  factory  trips  in  connection  with  the  classroom  work  of  the  units.  Groups  of  girls 
visited  the  Ford  assembly  plant,  a  steel  mill,  a  hosiery  mill  and  an  upholstery  factory. 
The  visits  were  reflected  in  the  English  classes  the  next  week,  bringing  out  interesting 
talks  and  articles  full  of  vivid  impressions. 

Of  special  interest  this  summer  was  the  work  in  corrective  gymnastics,  a  system 
which  it  is  hoped  may  do  much  to  relieve  the  strain  and  fatigue  of  the  industrial 
worker,  through  more  relaxation  and  bodily  control.  Thirty  students  took  part  in 
these  exercises  every  day,  while  others  joined  the  natural  dancing  classes,  or  played 
tennis.  Many  students  as  usual,  had  learned  to  swim  before  the  summer  was  over. 
This  systematic  work  on  the  part  of  the  health  department  resulted  in  steady  physical 
improvement  for  many  girls  during  the  two  months'  term.  Medical  examinations  and 
preventive  work  in  discovering  early  symptoms  of  diseases  have  been  of  the  greatest 
benefit  to  the  whole  School. 

Certain  events  which  have  become  School  traditions  mark  the  progress  of  the 
summer.  The  International  Peace  Festival  with  its  vivid  costumes  of  all  nations, 
and  its  program  of  folk  songs  and  dances;  the  picnics  arranged  by  various  units, 
combined  sometimes  with  an  informal  forum,  to  discuss  the  use  of  leisure  time,  or  the 
community  life  of  every  section  of  the  United  States;  the  beautiful  concert  of  harp 
and  cello  music;  and  the  final  Lantern  Ceremony  held  in  the  cloisters  at  dusk  around 
the  symbolic  altar  of  wisdom,  where  the  workers  lighted  their  lanterns  and  went  off 
in  the  darkness  singing  to  carry  on  the  light. 

As  one  looks  back  on  the  summer  one  has  an  impression  of  a  high  standard  of 


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classroom  work,  and  genuine  progress  in  teaching  and  in  learning.  This  impression 
is  confirmed  by  the  reports  of  the  faculty,  who  consider  tthat  from  this  viewpoint  the 
summer  has  been  unusually  successful.  On  the  other  hand,  the  teaching  is  much 
hampered  by  the  lack  of  suitable  material  for  reading,  and  a  very  limited  fund  for 
books.  Pamphlets  growing  out  of  the  actual  work  of  the  classroom  and  recording 
some  of  the  most  significant  discussions  might  be  one  answer.  More  graphic  material 
maps,  charts,  diagrams  and  moving  pictures  are  also  much  needed. 

As  in  every  summer,  the  School  faced  a  serious  problem  in  creating  unity  among 
a  group  of  people  whose  antagonisms  at  first  are  more  apparent  than  their  sense  of 
common  problems.  Girls  from  the  textile  industry  of  the  North  and  the  South;  gar- 
ment workers  from  the  large  industrial  centers,  whose  union  ranks  have  been  broken 
by  struggles  and  controversies;  workers  from  the  far  west,  with  an  atmosphere  of 
out-of-door  living  and  better  industrial  conditions;  American-born  and  foreign-born 
workers,  organized  and  unorganized,  how  in  this  brief  two  months  can  the  School 
develop  a  program  which  is  educational  in  the  deepest  sense  of  the  word,  not  only  in 
the  classrooms,  but  also  in  the  every-day  life  of  the  School  community? 

That  the  industrial  workers  who  have  attended  Bryn  Mawr  have  benefited  by 
the  classes,  by  this  constant  mingling  of  different  groups  and  their  free  expression  of 
all  shades  of  opinion  is  shown  in  the  following  extracts,  taken  from  articles  written 
by  students  this  past  summer: 

"A  world  of  knowledge  has  opened  its  doors  to  me.  I  had  no  idea  before  this 
how  to  study,  how  to  get  the  most  out  of  what  I  did  read  and  what  to  read." 

"I  have  learned  one  thing  that  I  would  not  take  anything  for.  That  is  to  try 
and  understand  people  that  I  don't  like." 

"Bryn  Mawr  has  opened  a  door  for  me  and  I  am  going  through  it  by  going  on 
with  these  courses." 

"I  intend  to  observe  what  happens  in  my  community  and  factory  and  do  what  I 
can  to  help  solve  the  great  problem  of  industry." 

"I  can  more  easily  concentrate  my  mind  on  textbooks  and  grasp  the  substance 
of  what  I  am  studying.    I  have  also  advanced  in  the  power  to  attack  a  problem." 

"My  mind  seems  like  a  day  after  a  night  of  rain." 

The  winter  work  begins  with  district  conferences  of  former  students  held  as 
usual  each  year;  conferences  leading  it  is  hoped  to  enrollment  in  evening  classes,  a 
greater  sense  of  responsibility  for  industrial  problems,  and  new  activity  on  the  part 
of  former  students  in  discovering  well-qualified  applicants  for  all  the  Summer  Schools. 
These  Alumnae  groups  now  represent  the  Affiliated  Schools,  for  all  through  the  middle 
west  girls  from  Wisconsin  and  Bryn  Mawr  are  working  together  and  in  New  York 
City  Bryn  Mawr  and  Barnard  students  have  one  Alumnae  Association.  The  Southern 
Summer  School,  while  not  affiliated,  is  co-operating  with  Bryn  Mawr  in  district  work. 

New  developments  in  New  York  City  are  indicative  of  new  interest  throughout 
the  country  in  workers'  education  and  for  that  reason  may  be  briefly  described  here. 
A  workers'  Morning  Class  was  initiated  last  year  by  Bryn  Mawr  Summer  School 
students  to  provide  special  work  on  Saturday  mornings  for  girls  who  were  unem- 
ployed or  on  a  five-day  week  with  fifteen  students  who  maintained  a  high  standard 
of  work  in  American  Economic  History.  An  interesting  feature  of  this  class  was  its 
control  by  a  co-operating  group  of  four  organizations.  The  Women's  Trade  Union 
League  which  offered  classrooms,  the  Museum  of  Art,  giving  a  related  course  in  the 


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history  of  art,  the  Summer  Schools  of  Barnard  and  Bryn  Mawr,  responsible  for 
organization  and  publicity,  and  Columbia  University  Extension  Department,  which 
contributed  the  teacher's  salary.  This  small  beginning  in  a  new  sort  of  class  for 
workers  has  led  Columbia  University  to  take  the  class  officially  this  year  into  its 
Extension  Department,  with  the  same  arrangements  for  classrooms  and  the  same  joint 
committee  as  an  advisory  body.  The  small  art  class  has  also  led  to  a  workers  class 
at  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  "What  Workers  have  Wrought  through  the 
Ages,"  with  Roberta  Fansler,  a  Bryn  Mawr  alumna,  as  the  teacher.  It  is  significant 
that,  as  one  more  result  of  the  Summer  School,  these  two  great  educational  institu- 
tions, with  all  their  resources,  have  committed  themselves  to  a  new  program  of 
workers'  education,  carrying  on  with  a  teaching  method  adapted  to  the  needs  of  an 
industrial  group. 

One  more  experiment  this  year  has  grown  out  of  the  needs  of  these  workers, 
through  the  reorganization  of  the  College  Settlement  in  New  York  for  a  new  program 
of  work.  This  settlement,  dear  to  many  college  women  in  the  early  days  of  settle- 
ment work,  has  always  held  to  its  original  purpose  of  bringing  together  college  women 
and  women  wage  earners  for  better  understanding.  So  it  was  quite  natural  that  when 
neighborhood  needs  changed,  and  a  settlement  in  the  Rivington  Street  district  seemed 
no  longer  necessary,  the  committee  of  the  Settlement  should  welcome  a  new  plan  in 
the  field  of  education,  still  in  line  with  settlement  purposes.  This  plan,  which  is  about 
to  be  carried  out,  is  for  the  establishment  of  an  Art  Workshop  for  Industrial  Workers 
and  College  Women,  a  corner  where  both  groups  can  meet  and  study  the  creative 
use  of  leisure  time  through  various  forms  of  art.  With  the  coming  of  the  shorter 
workday  in  industry,  a  margin  of  leisure  will  give  to  industrial  workers  more  oppor- 
tunity to  explore  the  possibilities  of  music,  drama,  literature  and  other  forms  of  art, 
and  perhaps  to  discover  in  themselves  new  and  hidden  talent  in  creative  work.  Col- 
lege Alumnae  too  might  welcome  the  opportunity  to  use  leisure  time  in  testing  them- 
selves in  those  arts,  the  theoretical  background  of  which  many  alumnae  have  studied 
in  college  classrooms.  A  new  committee  carrying  out  in  its  organization  the  Summer 
School  plan  of  co-operation  between  college  women  and  industrial  workers,  has  been 
formed,  with  one  Alumna  from  each  of  the  women's  colleges,  and  an  equal  number 
of  industrial  workers.  These  artists,  musicians,  writers  and  sculptors  who  have  an 
understanding  of  the  educational  needs  of  an  industrial  group  will  be  consulted  as  to 
the  program  of  classes  and  the  choice  of  teachers.  Rooms  have  been  engaged  for  the 
Workshop  and  Miss  Mabel  Leslie,  formerly  an  electrical  worker,  and  with  long 
experience  in  organizing  evening  classes  for  workers  through  the  Women's  Trade 
Union  League  has  been  appointed  as  the  Director.  The  first  classes  selected  by  the 
new  committee  are  to  be  in  the  study  of  color,  in  plastic  work,  the  appreciation  of 
music  and  in  creative  writing,  either  poetry  or  labor  drama.  Any  College  Alumnae 
living  in  New  York  City  who  may  be  interested  in  enrolling  as  a  student  or  giving 
help  as  a  teacher  in  the  Art  Workshop  should  apply  to  Miss  Mabel  Leslie,  at  14  East 
37th  Street,  New  York  City. 

The  stated  purpose  of  this  new  venture  is  "to  develop  opportunities  for  industrial 
workers  and  college  women  to  study  various  forms  of  creative  art,  to  discover  through 
such  study  possibilities  of  creative  work  for  leisure  time  and  to  apply  the  results  of 
study  to  social  and  industrial  situations."  In  other  words,  while  the  Art  Workshop 
may  point  the  way  to  new  and  delightful  fields  of  creative  work  for  both  groups  con- 


10  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

cerned,  part  of  its  purpose  is  to  develop  through  this  industrial  group  in  its  association 
with  college  women  those  forms  of  art  which  express  the  spirit  of  our  industrial 
civilization,  and  which  can  be  applied  to  make  that  civilization  more  significant  and 
more  beautiful. 

This  summary  of  new  plans  afoot  in  the  world  of  the  Summer  School  would  not 
be  complete  without  mentioning  that  next  year  will  be  the  tenth  anniversary  of  the 
Bryn  Mawr  Summer  School,  and  that  various  interesting  suggestions  have  been  made 
for  a  fitting  celebration.  The  Summer  School  during  its  ten  years  of  existence  has 
found  a  place  in  the  minds  and  hearts  of  many  people,  industrial  workers,  teachers, 
and  active  members  of  many  widely  scattered  committees.  Could  some  reunion  take 
place  next  year  at  Bryn  Mawr  of  former  students  and  teachers?  Could  a  small  group 
of  industrial  workers  be  sent  to  Europe,  as  exchange  students  in  one  of  the  workers' 
schools  abroad?  Could  future  support  of  the  School  become  more  assured  through 
some  plan  of  endowment?  These  and  other  suggestions  are  under  discussion,  for  all 
those  associated  with  the  School  are  eager  to  mark  this  tenth  memorable  year  in 
School  history. 


STUDENTS  OF  BRYN  MAWR  SUMMER  SCHOOL, 
BY  INDUSTRY,  TRADE  OR  OCCUPATION 


1929 


Cigarettes   2 

Clothing    3 5 

Men's    12 

Women's    23 

Electrical  Supplies  3 

Laundry  Work 2 

Leather  Goods 2 

M iscellaneous  22 

Cans    1 

Carburetors  1 

Corsets    1 

Cosmetics    1 

Flowers  1 

Food — Pretzels  1 

Hair — Artificial   1 

Ink,  Paste,  Etc 1 

Maid  in  Millinery  Dept 1 

Nurse,  Children's 1 

Optical   Goods  1 

Photo-Engraver    1 

Railroad  Clerk  1 

Rubber  Goods  1 


Shore  Polish  Dauber 1 


Stencils,  Addressograph 

Telephone  Operator  

Waitress   

Washing  Machines  

Watches    


.  1 
.  1 
.     1 

;  i 
.  i 

Wire  Springs  1 

Woodwork,  Veneer  1 

Mercantile  Establishments  : 

Millinery    

Neckwear  

Textiles  

Cotton  3 

Hosiery  5 

Jute  1 

Rayon   2 

Silk   2 

Woolen  2 


Total 


2 
11 

4 
15 


Trade  Union  Staff  Work 3 

Upholstery    _ 4 


105 


CONFERENCE  OF  ALUMNAE  EXECUTIVES 

On  the  last  three  days  of  October  the  Alumnae  Association  acted  as  host  to  the 
Presidents  and  Executive  Secretaries  of  the  Alumnae  Associations  of  Mount  Holyoke, 
Radcliffe,  Smith,  Vassar  and  Wellesley.  It  was  especially  fortunate  that  the  new 
Alumnae  Office  could  present  so  good  an  impression,  since  no  ray  of  sun,  moon  or 
stars  deigned  to  lend  lustre  to  the  gathering,  but  a  steady  rain  made  pulp  of  the 
campus,  and  a  thick  mist  completely  blotted  out  the  view  on  which  we  always  rely 
when  acting  as  guide  to  visitors  from  other  campuses  with  greater  acreage  than  our 
own.  However,  the  new  furniture  and  the  Yellin  iron  work,  the  swimming  pool  and 
the  cloister,  all  received  most  gratifying  favorable  mention,  along  with  great  interest 
in  the  new  organization  of  the  Graduate  School.  Dean  Schenck's  kitchenette  also 
aroused  much  enthusiasm. 

The  first  event  on  the  program  was  a  dinner  given  at  Wyndham  by  President 
Park,  followed  by  a  reception  to  meet  the  graduate  students  and  a  few  other  local 
alumnae  from  the  five  colleges  represented.  Mrs.  Chadwick-Collins  gave  a  luncheon 
the  following  day,  inviting  the  members  of  the  Executive  Board  of  the  Alumnae  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Bryn  Mawr  alumnae  on  the  faculty  to  meet  the  delegates.  On  the 
second  evening  the  group  adjourned  after  dinner  to  have  coffee  with  President- 
Emeritus  Thomas  at  the  Deanery.  They  sat  in  a  half  circle  around  the  fire  in  the  big 
room  and,  over  marrons  glaces  and  cigarettes,  talked  of  the  reasons  that  justify  the 
existence  of  the  separate  woman's  college,  and  except  for  the  smoke  and  a  few  new 
terms  like  "inferiority  complex,"  it  might  have  been  one  of  the  well-remembered 
Senior  receptions. 

Three  business  sessions  were  held,  at  which  many  problems  common  to  these  six 
colleges  and  associations  were  discussed.  The  group  was  found  to  be  evenly  divided 
in  the  methods  used  for  financing  the  various  associations.  Mount  Holyoke,  Radcliffe 
and  Wellesley  have  given  up  the  system  of  dues  to  the  association,  and  make  their 
Alumnae  Fund  appeal  cover  all  needs.  A  contributor  to  the  fund  is  a  member  of  the 
association  for  the  year  in  which  the  contribution  is  received.  Smith  and  Vassar  still 
ask  for  dues  in  addition  to  contributions,  but  are  considering  the  advisability  of  chang- 
ing their  system.  In  no  case  are  the  members  treated  as  leniently  as  at  Bryn  Mawr, 
where,  according  to  the  by-laws,  members  are  carried  four  years  before  being  dropped 
for  non-payment  of  dues.  In  most  of  the  other  cases,  one  year's  delinquency  means 
forfeiture  of  membership. 

Bryn  Mawr  was  shown  to  be  more  liberal  in  its  attitude  toward  associate  mem- 
bers. In  no  other  association  are  they  allowed  to  vote  or  to  hold  office  of  any  impor- 
tance. Their  names  are  printed  either  in  different  type  from  those  of  full  members 
in  the  Alumnae  Register,  or  they  are  put  together  at  the  end  of  the  book,  or,  some- 
times, their  names  are  not  carried  at  all.  Much  difference  of  opinion  was  expressed  on 
this  topic,  but  in  general  the  feeling  seemed  to  be  that  the  distinction  between  A.  B.'s 
and  those  who  had  left  college  without  securing  degrees  was  gradually  breaking  down, 
although  in  some  cases  "the  rights  and  privileges"  of  an  A.  B.  are  still  to  be  jeal- 
ously guarded. 

There  are  so  many  differences  of  organization  in  connection  with  clubs  and  local 
branches  that  comparisons  were  found  to  be  difficult.   The  relation  of  the  local  groups 

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12  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

to  the  central  associations  of  the  other  colleges  is  usually  closer  than  in  the  case  of 
Bryn  Mawr,  although  in  no  case  do  they  expect  financial  support,  and  sometimes  even 
make  regular  group  contributions  toward  the  expenses  of  the  Alumnae  Office.  Most 
of  the  Alumnae  Councils  have  representatives  from  their  various  clubs,  and  many  of 
them  have  a  definite  yearly  program  of  work  arranged  through  consultation  with  the 
central  associations,  which  assume  a  certain  responsibility  for  their  activities.  There 
was  some  evidence  of  a  feeling  that  this  is  a  phase  which  is  passing,  and  that  the 
function  is  purely  social,  except  where  the  existence  of  an  organization  can  be  of 
practical  use  to  the  college,  as  in  the  case  of  any  money-raising  enterprise. 

The  most  interesting  part  of  the  conference  dealt  with  the  part  now  being  taken 
by  the  Alumnae  Associations  of  the  country  in  regard  to  Alumnae  Study  Groups  and 
Educational  Conferences  for  Alumnae.  Many  evidences  were  given  to  show  that 
there  is  gradually  crystallizing  a  demand  on  the  part  of  college  men  and  women  for 
guidance  from  the  college  of  their  undergraduate  days  along  the  line  of  continued 
education.  In  this  movement  Bryn  Mawr  was  shown  to  be  far  behind.  In  fact,  not 
even  a  gesture  has  been  made,  but  that  the  demand  exists  may  be  shown  by  the  fact 
that  the  Carnegie  Foundation  is  now  financing  an  inquiry  into  the  matter,  and  has 
engaged  for  this  purpose  the  services  of  Mr.  Wilfred  Shaw,  for  many  years  the 
Alumni  Secretary  of  the  University  of  Michigan.  Mr.  Shaw  has  already  published 
two  short  articles  on  this  subject  in  Scribners,  and  his  report  on  the  situation  is  to  be 
printed  within  a  few  months. 

Vassar  has  done  the  most  in  this  line  and  plans  to  go  even  farther.  About  three 
times  a  year  week-end  conferences  have  been  held  to  which  alumnae  and  their  friends 
are  invited.  A  fee  of  three  dollars  has  met  all  the  expenses  entailed  in  securing  speakers, 
who  are  drawn  largely  from  the  faculty  and  the  alumnae.  Among  the  subjects  treated 
at  conferences  already  held  have  been  Poetry,  Writing  Courses,  Religious  Education, 
Reading  for  Children,  Public  Health,  and  Gardening,  and  one  on  Music  has  been 
planned  for  January.    The  attendance  has  been  as  high  as  150. 

Radclifle  has  held  two  successful  conferences,  one  on  Vocationad  and  Part-Time 
Work  and  one  on  Modern  Contemporary  Literature.  At  the  latter,  125  were  expected 
and  400  came.  Mount  Holyoke  is  having  a  similar  meeting  this  month,  with  Emily 
Dickinson  as  the  subject  for  discussion.  Wellesley  is  planning  a  three-day  conference 
to  take  place  immediately  after  Commencement.  The  subjects  discussed  will  be 
Psychology  and  Religious  Education.  For  several  years  Smith  has  conducted  an 
alumnae  week-end  in  the  early  Autumn.  Alumnae  visit  classes,  and  round-table  dis- 
cussions on  two  or  three  subjects,  conducted  by  members  of  the  faculty,  are  arranged. 
This  year  350  alumnae  attended. 

In  addition  to  these  conferences,  many  of  the  alumnae  associations,  with  the 
co-operation  of  the  faculty,  stand  ready  to  supply  reading  lists  on  many  topics.  At 
Smith  some  progress  has  been  made  along  the  line  of  "graduate  projects,"  which 
includes  some  guidance  by  the  faculty  of  lines  of  thought  and  study  as  desired  by 
individual  alumnae. 

In  his  article  on  Educating  the  Alumni  in  the  November  Scribners  Wilfred  B. 
Shaw  describes  what  our  colleges  are  doing:  "Significant  experiments  are  already  under 
way  to  continue  the  education  of  those  who,  under  the  old  system,  considered  them- 
selves educated.  Some  institutions  are  already  sending  out  reading  lists,  some  are  hold- 
ing alumni  conferences,  while  others  are  seeking  to  establish  a  more  personal  contact 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  13 

with  their  graduates.  Smith  College  is  reaching  nearly  a  third  of  her  alumnae  through 
reading  lists.  .  .  .  Dartmouth  is  sending  out  similar  lists  to  all  her  graduates  and 
President  Hopkins  finds  from  his  wide  contact  with  Dartmouth  men  that  these 
pamphlets  are  greatly  appreciated.  Lafayette  College  has  followed  the  same  practice 
for  two  years  and  it  can  safely  be  assumed  that  the  success  of  the  first  session  of  its 
Alumni  College  was  in  some  measure  due  to  the  interest  aroused  by  the  twelve  book- 
lists prepared  by  different  members  of  the  Faculty  and  widely  distributed  among  the 
alumni.  Vassar  has  held  a  long  series  of  alumnae  conferences  in  fields  as  widely  varied 
as  child  education,  gardening,  and  poetry;  RadclifTe  had  three  hundred  alumnae  back 
last  March  for  a  conference  on  modern  literature;  while  the  University  of  Michigan 
has  definitely  set  up  an  Alumni  University  and  has  appointed  an  officer  to  stimulate 
and  develop  the  relationship  between  the  institution  and  its  graduates  implied  in  the 
project." 


ALUMNAE  PRESIDENTS  AND  SECRETARIES 
WHO  MET  AT  BRYN  MAWR 

October  29,  30,  and  31,  1929 

SMITH 

President:    Miss  Ruth  H.  French,  60  Pinckney  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
Secretary:   Miss  Florence  H.  Snow,  Alumnae  Office,  Northampton,  Mass. 

WELLESLEY 

President:    Mrs.  Walter  S.  Church,  6413  Jackson  Street,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Secretary:    Miss  Laura  M.  Dwight,  Alumnae  Office,  Wellesley,  Mass. 

RADCLIFFE 

President:  Miss  Emilie  Everett,  266  Chestnut  Hill  Avenue,  Boston,  Mass.    (Not 

present.) 
Secretary:    Miss  Elizabeth  W.  Munroe,  Cambridge  38,  Mass. 

VASSAR 

President:  Mrs.  A.  Ross  Hill,   800  West  52nd   Street,  Kansas  City,  Mo.     (Not 

present.) 
Vice-President:    Mrs.  John  T.  Gillespie,  Morristown,  N.  J. 
Secretary:    Miss  Harriet  Sawyer,  Alumnae  House,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

MOUNT  HOLY  ORE 

President:  Mrs.  Andrew  C.  Vauclain,  2416  North  54th  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Secretary:  Miss  Mary  C.  J.  Higley,  Alumnae  Office,  South  Hadley,  Mass.     (Not 

present.) 
Former  Secretary:   Miss  Florence  Clement,  for  Miss  Higley. 

BRYN  MAWR 

President:   Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay,  16  East  84th  Street,  New  York  City. 
Secretary:    Miss  Alice  M.  Hawkins,  Bryn  Mawr,  Penna. 


NOMINATED  FOR  PRESIDENT 

Anne  Maynard  (Kidder)  Wilson,  1903  (Mrs.  Edmund  Beecher  Wilson) 

Anne  Maynard  Wilson  was  prepared  for  college  by  the  Baldwin  School  and 
entered  Bryn  Mawr  from  there  in  1899.  She  majored  in  mathematics,  but  eagerly 
entered  into  all  undergraduate  activities  that  gave  scope  to  her  artistic  or  creative 
gifts.  She  was  particularly  interested  in  dramatics  and  took  a  leading  part  in  all  the 
plays.  She  was  one  of  the  assistant  managers  of  the  first  May  Day  Fete  held  at 
Bryn  Mawr,  although  she  was  only  a  Freshman  at  the  time.  She  contributed  fre- 
quently to  the  various  college  publications. 

In  1904  she  married  Dr.  Edmund  Beecher  Wilson,  of  Columbia  University, 
now  Da  Osta  Professor  of  Zoology  Emeritus  in  Residence.  Her  only  child,  Nancy, 
a  talented  'cellist,  was  a  former  student  at  Bryn  Mawr. 

Some  one  who  was  in  College  spoke  of  her  as  standing  out  from  her  group  because 
of  her  extraordinary  social  charm.  With  her  it  amounted  to  a  gift.  With  this  charm, 
indeed,  as  a  very  integral  part  of  it,  she  had  a  "fine  open-mindedness,  combined  with 
an  ability  to  hold  her  own  course  without  arousing  contention  in  others.  She  could 
work  with  others  as  well  as  lead  them." 

In  view  of  her  social  and  executive  ability  one  can  understand  why  in  the  early 
days  of  her  membership  in  the  Cosmopolitan  Club  in  New  York  she  soon  was  chosen 
to  help  govern  it.  From  1916  to  1919  she  was  Secretary,  and  from  1922  to  1925  she 
was  its  President.  Since  her  Presidency  she  has  been  Chairman  of  several  of  the  club's 
committees.  For  the  two  years  following  1920  she  was  President  of  the  Columbia 
University  Teas  Association.  All  of  these  demands  on  her  time  have  in  no  way 
lessened  her  interest  in  Bryn  Mawr. 

For  the  last  four  years  (from  1925)  she  has  been  Chairman  of  the  Bryn  Mawr 
Regional  Scholarship  Committee  of  New  York  State.  Every  one  who  has  followed 
the  work  of  the  regional  committees  knows  how  exacting  have  been  the  demands  of 
the  position  and  how  eminently  successful  her  work  is.  She  has  given  freely  to  it  all 
her  gifts  of  intellect  and  personality. 


NOMINATED  FOR  VICE-PRESIDENT 

Gordon  Woodbury  Dunn,  1919  (Mrs.  Frederick  Sherwood  Dunn) 

Gordon  Woodbury  Dunn  was  prepared  for  college  by  Bradford  Academy  and 
entered  Bryn  Mawr  in  1915.  From  the  first  she  took  an  active  part  in  college  affairs. 
She  was  President  of  her  class  her  Junior  year  and  was  a  member  of  the  War  Council 
Board,  and  in  her  Senior  year  she  was  President  of  the  War  Council  until  it  dis- 
banded a  few  months  after  the  Armistice.  As  President  her  task  was  so  to  direct  its 
activities  that  each  graduate  and  undergraduate  student  could  contribute  weekly  a 
definite  number  of  hours  to  war  service  without  slighting  academic  work.  That  her 
own  interest  in  academic  work  was  not  lessened  is  clearly  indicated  by  the  fact  that 
she  was  that  year  also  President  of  the  English  Club  and  won  the  George  W.  Childs 
Essay  Prize.  After  she  graduated  she  was  elected  permanent  Vice-President  and 
Treasurer  of  her  class.   Since  1927  she  has  been  a  member  of  the  Academic  Committee. 

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BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  15 

The  year  after  she  left  college  she  went  to  France  as  a  member  of  the  American 
Committee  for  Devastated  France,  and  worked  in  the  Aisne  section,  with  headquarters 
at  Soissons.  When  she  returned  to  this  country  she  took  a  position  as  assistant  in  the 
Children's  Room  at  the  New  York  Public  Library. 

In  1922  she  married  Frederick  Sherwood  Dunn  and  moved  to  Washington,  where 
her  husband  was  a  member  of  the  Mexican  Claims  Commission.  She  taught  Greek 
in  Miss  Madeira's  School  the  Winter  of  1925-6,  and  it  was  the  following  year  that 
she  became  a  member  of  the  Academic  Committee.  During  her  residence  in  Washing- 
ton she  has  been  very  active  in  the  work  of  the  Washington  Bryn  Mawr  Club.  The 
fact  that  one  year  she  was  in  Baltimore  while  her  husband  studied  at  Johns  Hopkins 
and  the  next  in  Geneva  made  no  break  in  the  continuity  of  her  interest. 

For  the  people  who  knew  her  in  College,  no  comment  is  necessary,  but  to  those 
who  came  before  her  or  after  her,  it  might  be  interesting  to  speak  of  her  keen  interest 
in  the  whole  subject  of  education,  of  her  versatility  and  wide  range,  of  her  marked 
ability  as  an  organizer,  and  of  the  humor  and  charm  with  which  she  presided  at  any 
meeting. 

The  news  of  her  sudden  death  was  received  November  22nd,  at  the  close  of  the 
Council  meeting.    It  is  a  shock  and  a  grief  to  the  Association. 


PROGRAM  FOR  THE  COUNCIL  MEETING  IN 
NEW  YORK 

Wednesday,  November  20,  1929 
12.30  P.  M. 

Buffet  Luncheon  at  the  Bryn  Mawr  Club. 

1.30  P.  M. 

Business  Session  at  the  Bryn  Mawr  Club. 

Welcome — by  Julia  Langdon  Loomis,  1895,  Councillor  for  District  II. 

Opening  of  the  Business  Session — by  Louise  Fleischmann  Maclay,   1906,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Alumnae  Association  of  Bryn  Mawr  College. 

Report  of  the  Treasurer  and  Presentation  of  the  Budget  for  the  Year  1930 — by 
Margaret  E.  Brusstar,   1903. 

Report  of  the  Finance  Committee  and  of  the  Alumnae  Fund — by  Caroline  Flor- 
ence Lexow,  1908,  Chairman. 

Discussion  of  Publication  of  Alumnae  Register. 

Report  on  Revision  of  By-Laws — by  Dorothy  Straus,  1908,  Chairman  of  Special 
Committee. 

8.00  P.  M. 

Dinner  for  the  District  Councillors,  the  President  of  the  Alumnae  Association,  the 
Chairmen  of  the  Scholarships,  Finance  and  Publicity  Committees;  the 
Chairmen  of  the  Local  Scholarships  Committees  and  the  Alumnae  Secre- 
tary, at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Maclay,  16  East  84th  Street,  fol- 
lowed by  a  conference  on  scholarships  and  other  District  problems. 

Dinner  for  all  other  members  of  the  Council  at  the  homes  of  New  York  Alumnae. 


16  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

Thursday,  November  21,  1929 
9.30  A.  M.-1.00  P.  M. 

Business  Session  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Edward  E.  Loomis. 
Reports   frojn   District    Councillors 

District  I. — Helen  Evans  Lewis,  1913. 
District  II. — Julia  Langdon  Loomis,  1895. 
District  III. — Alletta  Van  Reypen  Korff,   1900. 
District  IV. — Katharine  Holliday  Daniels,   1918. 
District  V. — Frances  Porter  Adler,    1911. 
District  VI.— Edna  Warkentin  Alden,  1900. 
District  VII. — Helen  Brayton  Barendt,  1903. 
Report  of  the  Scholarship  and  Loan  Fund  Committee — by  Margaret  Gilman, 
1919,  Chairman. 

Report    of    the    Academic    Committee — by    Pauline    Goldmark,     1896, 
Chairman. 

1.30  P.  M. 

Luncheon  at  the  home  of  Caroline  McCormick  Slade,  1896,  Director  of  Bryn 
Mawr  College,  to  meet  the  New  York  members  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, and  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Bryn  Mawr  College. 

3.00  P.  M. 

Business  Session  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Loomis. 

Report  of  the  Committee  on  Health  and  Physical  Education — by  Dr.  Marjorie 
F.  Murray,  1913,  Chairman,  introducing  Dr.  Marjorie  Jefleries  Wagoner, 
1918,  Resident  Physician  of  the  College,  who  will  speak  on  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  of  the  College. 
Report  on  Behalf  of  the  Alumnae  Directors — by  Frances  Fincke  Hand,  1897. 

8.00  P.  M. 

Dinner  in  honor  of  President  Park  in  the  ball  room  of  the  Colony  Club,  by  courtesy 
of  Clara  Vail  Brooks,  1897. 

Friday,  November  22,  1929 
9.30  A.  M. 

Business  Session  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Edward  E.  Loomis. 

Undergraduate  Problems  as  presented  by  Martha  Humphrey,   1929,  and  Eliza- 
beth Perkins,  1930. 
Report  of  Alumnae  Committee   of  Seven   Colleges — by  Frances   Fincke   Hand, 

1897. 
Report   of  Bulletin — by  Marjorie  Thompson,    1912,   Editor. 
Report  of  the  Nominating  Committee — by  Eleanor  Little  Aldrich,  1905,  Chair- 
man. 
New  Business. 

1.00  P.M. 

Luncheon  for  President  Park  and  the  Council,  to  meet  the  headmistress  of  New 
York  City  College  Preparatory  Schools  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Loomis. 


MEETING  OF  CLASS  COLLECTORS 

On  Saturday,  November  9th,  a  meeting  of  Class  Collectors  was  held  in  New  York 
City  at  the  Bryn  Mawr  Club.  Eighteen  persons  were  present,  including  representatives 
from  the  Ph.  D.'s  and  M.  A.'s  and  from  the  classes  of  1892,  1897,  1899,  1900,  1901, 
1905,  1907,  1908,  1912,  1913,  1916,  1920,  1922,  1923,  1925,  1926  and  1928.  After 
the  meeting  the  collectors  were  the  guests  at  luncheon  of  Florence  Lexow,  1908, 
Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee  and  of  the  Alumnae  Fund. 

Miss  Lexow  gave  a  general  report,  making  a  comparison  between  the  Alumnae 
Fund  contributions  for  1928  and  1929.  This  showed  a  falling-off  for  the  first  ten 
months  of  1929  both  in  the  number  of  contributors  and  in  the  amount  of  money 
received.  The  explanation  given  for  this  was  that  every  class  had  made  a  special  effort 
during  the  last  few  years  to  raise  the  sum  pledged  for  Goodhart  Hall  furnishings,  and 
that  a  natural  reaction  was  being  felt.  On  the  other  hand,  it  was  pointed  out  that  the 
amount  of  the  contributions  which  have  been  sent  in  to  the  Alumnae  Fund  undesig- 
nated is  more  than  $3,000  greater  than  it  was  at  this  time  last  year.  This  means  that 
enough  money  is  already  on  hand  to  meet  all  the  budgeted  expenses  of  the  Alumnae 
Association,  including  the  $1,000  for  the  President's  Fund  and  the  $500  given 
annually  to  increase  the  Rhoads  Scholarships,  and  the  fiscal  year  will  undoubtedly 
close  with  a  surplus,  to  be  disposed  of  according  to  the  vote  of  the  association  at  the 
next  annual  meeting. 

With  this  encouragement,  all  the  collectors  were  urged  to  make  forceful  appeals, 
-  since  the  goal  of  $6,000  promised  to  President  Park  for  academic  purposes  is  still  fai 
off,  and  it  is  hoped  that  there  will  also  be  available  considerable  sums  which  can  be 
given  to  the  Honours  Work  and  to  the  Needs  of  the  Library,  the  two  other  stated 
objectives  of  the  Alumnae  Fund  for  1929.  Mrs.  Hand  spoke  of  the  great  desirability 
of  creating  a  fund  which  can  be  given  to  the  President  without  any  restrictions,  so 
that  when  she  is  confronted  suddenly  with  such  an  emergency  as  the  possible  loss  of 
valuable  members  of  the  faculty,  who  receive  calls  to  other  colleges,  she  may  use  it 
absolutely  at  her  own  discretion.  Several  of  the  other  colleges  have  such  funds,  which 
have  proved  to  be  most  valuable  aids  in  crises  of  this  kind,  which  arise  rather  fre- 
quently, and  which  usually  must  be  met  immediately. 

In  the  discussion  which  followed  Mrs.  Hand's  plea,  the  question  was  asked  as  to 
whether  the  association  would  be  expected  by  the  College  to  continue  such  support 
indefinitely.  While  no  positive  answer  could  be  given  to  this,  it  was  the  general  feeling 
that  until  the  College  has  a  larger  endowment,  it  will  naturally  lean  upon  the  alumnae 
to  supply  its  needs  each  year.  Since  the  sum  of  $2,000  was  voted  by  the  association  last 
February  to  increase  the  salaries  of  Associate  Professors,  obviously  a  like  sum  must 
be  forthcoming  from  some  source  each  year  for  this  same  purpose,  so  that  it  seems  fair 
to  assume  that  the  association  has  a  moral  obligation  to  continue  at  least  this  amount 
each  year  until  1935,  and  that  it  is  likely  that  the  members  of  the  association  will  feel 
that  there  can  be  no  more  appealing  cause  than  such  academic  needs  as  the  Alumnae 
Fund  objectives  for  this  year,  and  will,  therefore,  be  ready  and  willing  to  pledge  their 
continued  support.   In  this  way  the  idea  of  "Living  Endowment"  will  be  carried  out. 

Miss  Lexow  asked  each  representative  present  to  give  her  opinion  as  to  how 
much  more  money  might  be  expected  from  her  class  this  year,  especially  with  a  view 
toward  estimating  how  nearly  the  promised  $6,000  is  in  sight.  At  present  more  than 
half  of  the  classes  are  still  making  payments  on  their  pledges  to  the  Goodhart  Hall 
Furnishings  Fund,  which  makes  it  difficult  to  count  on  any  considerable  sum  toward 

(17) 


18  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

any  other  purpose.  It  was  reported  that  these  payments  had  been  coming  in  so  well 
that  at  present  there  remains  only  $3,000  of  indebtedness  to  the  College  for  the 
money  advanced  to  pay  for  the  iron  work,  which  must  all  be  paid  by  June  15,  1930. 
The  group  of  classes  who  hold  reunions  in  June,  1930,  will  have  to  concentrate 
entirely  on  raising  the  amounts  pledged  for  their  reunion  gifts,  but  those  who  held 
reunions  in  previous  years  have  so  nearly  completed  their  payments  in  nearly  every 
case  that  many  of  their  members  can  be  counted  on  to  help  swell  the  total  desired  for 
the  fund  for  academic  purposes. 

Most  of  the  collectors  present  agreed  that  it  was  well  to  make  an  annual  appeal 
even  when  a  class  had  just  finished  making  a  special  gift,  believing  that  every  encour- 
agement should  be  given  to  form  the  habit  of  regular  contributions  to  the  Alumnae 
Fund,  however  much  the  amounts  given  may  vary.  Mrs.  Ives,  Collector  for  1892, 
read  a  letter  from  a  classmate  saying  that  although  she  had  received  within  the  last 
few  weeks  four  different  requests  for  money,  which  had  come  to  her  directly  or 
indirectly  as  a  result  of  her  college  connections,  she  had  made  it  a  principle  never  to 
refuse  any  Bryn  Mawr  appeal.  With  this  tangible  evidence  of  the  triumph  of  loyalty 
to  an  ideal,  over  a  most  natural  and  well-founded  irritation  at  the  constant  demands 
emanating  from  what  is  bound  to  appear  to  be  the  same  aching  void,  these  lineal 
descendants  of  the  daughters  of  the  horse  leech  went  away. 


ALUMNAE  BOOKS 

Short  as  Any  Dream,  by  Elizabeth  Shepley  Sergeant.  Harper  &  Brothers, 
1929. 

Miss  Sergeant  presents  her  record  of  a  Maine  family,  beginning  when  Maine 
was  still  The  Wilderness,  against  New  York  today.  "My  great-great-grandfathers 
built  their  Maine  houses  with  their  own  hands.  My  great-grandfathers  and  my  grand- 
fathers inherited  from  them.  Yet  here  am  I,  with  all  this  atavistic  attachment  to  a 
sacred  dwelling,  home  of  the  race,  deriving  from  some  forgotten  Beeckman.  My 
janitor  is  a  Norwegian  sailor.  My  maid  a  Sicilian  peasant.  My  landlord  a  Viennese 
art  dealer  who  may  at  any  minute  sell  out  to  the  Jewish  real  estate  interests."  She 
writes  her  story  "suspended  between  a  subway  and  a  skyscraper."  She  has  been  at  the 
front,  in  the  great  war,  has  been  wounded,  and  treated  as  though  a  soldier  in  Front 
Line  hospitals.  So  it  is  with  a  consciousness  deeply  modified  by  the  present  that  she 
sets  herself  to  record  the  family  past,  a  task  bequeathed  her,  a  weight  she  must  be 
rid  of  by  writing  down,  a  Myth  of  Creation.  But,  "you'll  be  so  disappointed,"  she 
insists  to  the  old  cousin,  last  worshipper  of  The  Family,  who  has  been  the  force 
impelling  her,  "so  little  about  Verona — the  people — the  way  they  felt  crowded  out 
the  rest," — all  the  mere  furniture  of  the  altars. 

She  revisits  the  ancestral  places  and  finds  the  automobile  has  done  its  work. 
Greek  fruiterers  and  Olde  Shoppes  spot  the  wide  avenues  bordered  by  elms,  where 
the  great  frame  houses  still  stand  set  back  from  the  thoroughfare,  austere,  legendary. 
Indeed  it  is  one  of  the  delights  of  Miss  Sergeant's  record  that  she  restores  laughter 
and  love  to  what  our  imaginations  have  over-puritanized.  Nancy  Penton,  in  1820, 
knows  she  loves  the  young  doctor  who  is  engaged  to  her  sister,  and  when  her  sister 
is  carried  off  by  congestion  of  the  lungs,  she  marries  him,  and  they  then  are  happy  in 
the  timeless,  undogmatic  way  of  lovers.  Her  daughter,  Mary  Bumstead,  wide- 
mouthed,  dimpled,  supremely  charming  always  to  all  men — and  to  her  own  children — 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  19 

marries  with  passionate  love  a  sensitive  dreamer.  He  takes  her  to  Minnesota  to  claim 
land.  The  terror  of  the  Indian  uprising,  that  in  Minnesota  was  a  closer  matter  than 
the  Civil  War  just  starting,  is  beautifully  felt  and  given,  along  with  the  roughness 
of  frontier  life.  Mary  has  a  radiance  and  a  laugh  her  granddaughter  has  handed 
to  us  for  our  delight — and  greater  courage.  Mary's  husband  too  seems  to  this  reviewer 
a  successful  re-creation,  reviving  sympathy  for  our  Frontier  story. 

We  have  tacked  grimness  to  the  independence  of  family  life  on  the  Frontier, 
whether  in  Maine  or  Minnesota,  and  yet  any  such  self-confidence  today  suggests  light- 
heartedness,  generosity,  laughter.  Miss  Sergeant  has  persuaded  us  that  our  Yankee 
pioneers  were  no  sterner  than  we  are.  Is  it  their  language  that  has  misled  us?  Their 
words  have  become  stilted  and  dour  to  our  ears.  The  helpless  users  were  not  so 
perpetually  serious  as  their  vocabulary  has  come  to  seem. 

It  is  a  fine  inheritance  Miss  Sergeant  has  now  put  in  its  place — a  matter  for 
pride  and  not  fear.  Her  book  is  richly  human,  and  often  beautiful  in  a  strictly 
American  fashion.  Edith  Pettit  Borie,  '95. 

The  French  Fmnc,  by  Eleanor  Lansing  Dulles.  Macmillan  Co.,  New  York, 
1929. 

This  is  a  valuable  book  from  several  points  of  view:  it  is  of  interest  to  the 
historian  for  a  phase  of  French  war  history  as  obscure  as  it  is  important;  to  the 
economist  as  an  attempt  at  the  verification  and  qualification  of  the  classical  theories  of 
money  and  foreign  trade;  and  to  the  general  reader  as  an  accurate  record  of  matters 
much  distorted  by  propaganda  and  national  passions.  With  its  excellent  equipment 
of  analytical  digest,  index,  bibliography,  statistical  tables,  and  abundant  footnotes 
it  may  well  serve  as  a  standard  book  of  reference  not  only  for  the  financial  history 
of  the  French  nation  from  1914  to  1928,  but  for  the  currents  of  opinion,  so  important 
to  understanding  and  so  soon  lost  with  the  ephemeral  leaflets  in  which  they  are,  to  a 
large  extent,  expressed. 

The  construction  of  the  record,  the  mere  fact  gathering,  out  of  government  pub- 
lications, occasionally  incomplete  and  certainly  unfamiliar,  from  commercial  publica- 
tions, newspapers,  bank  records,  and  similar  material  must  have  presented  numerous 
occasions  for  patience  and  ingenuity.  It  is  to  Miss  Dulles'  great  credit  that  the 
intrinsic  difficulty  of  this  task  did  not  deflect  her  interest  from  the  large  issues.  Her 
book  conveys  a  vivid  sense  of  the  interaction  of  economic  forces  and  their  close  relation 
to  the  environing  political  and  cultural  conditions  of  French  life.  She  pauses  to 
point  out  that  the  changes  in  the  value  of  the  franc  may  alter  the  French  habits  of 
saving,  the  size  of  industrial  establishments,  and  the  types  of  business  leadership.  It 
may  be  a  new,  a  less  sympathetic,  and  a  less  contrasting  France  to  which  the  American 
tourist  of  the  future  is  destined. 

The  theoretical  portion  of  the  work  may  be  taken  as  typical  of  the  newer  de- 
velopment in  economic  studies.  It  is  an  attempt  to  use  statistics  to  test  the  validity  of 
economic  reasoning.  Never  before  have  such  attempts  had  so  rich  a  chance  of  success, 
for  never  before  have  facts  been  gathered  on  such  a  scale  nor  have  statistical  methods 
been  sufficiently  developed.  With  abundant  material  and  with  sharpened  weapons, 
the  economists  of  today  have  the  means  to  measure  short-time  fluctuations  where 
Ricardo  and  his  contemporaries,  facing  the  same  problems  as  the  result  of  the 
Napoleonic  wars,  could  deal  only  with  long-time  effects.  It  is  likely  that  we  face  a 
change  in  emphasis  in  the  theories  under  consideration  comparable  to  that  wrought 


20  BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN 

in  the  theory  of  value  when  attention  turned  to  market  as  apart  from  natural  value 
i.  e.,  included  deviations  as  well  as  equilibria.  Miss  Dulles  gives  one  a  lively  impres- 
sion of  current  controversy;  of  the  conflicts  of  opinion  over  such  issues  as  gold  and 
credit;  a  managed  currency,  the  purchasing  power  parity  doctrine.  One  may  recom- 
mend this  book  as  a  most  convenient  answer  to  the  question:  what  are  economists 
thinking  about? 

The  reviewer  cannot  refrain  from  noting  that  Miss  Dulles  has  habits  of  writing 
which  give  the  reader  an  unnecessarily  hard  task.  Over  and  over  again,  for  example, 
she  gives  the  end  of  the  sentence  to  a  merely  qualifying  phrase  and  so  prevents  the 
focus  of  attention.  The  too  frequent  use  of  loose  qualifications  as  "to  a  considerable 
extent"  is  irritating  in  a  study  largely  quantitative.  And  the  use  of  bulky  phrases 
caught  from  heavy  journalese — "the  retail  price  situation"  instead  of  merely  retail 

Esther  Lowenthal,  1905, 
Professor  of  Economics,  Smith  College. 


LETTERS  FROM  ALUMNAE 

The  following  extracts  from  a  letter  from  Frances  Ferris,  1909,  are  of  interest: 
"I  went  to  Copenhagen  expecting  to  have  a  day  or  two  there  before  the  opening  of 
the  Progressive  Education  Association  Conference  at  Elsinore.  But  the  town  was 
simply  jam  full  and  I  had  to  make  my  way  on  out  to  Elsinore  that  night.  It  was  a 
journey  I  shan't  soon  forget  for  I  had  never  been  in  a  country  where  I  couldn't 
speak  the  language,  and  this  late  at  night,  into  the  bargain.  But,  by  dint  of  jumping 
up  at  every  station  and  inquiring  'Espergjaerde'  in  a  hopeful  tone  of  voice,  I  arrived. 
Espergjaerde  is  a  little  watering  place  about  five  miles  down  the  coast  from  Elsinore, 
charming  if  one  wanted  to  stay  there,  but  desperately  inconvenient  considering  I 
wanted  to  attend  conferences  in  Elsinore  three  times  a  day.  I  finally  rented,  a  bicycle 
and  got  into  action  again  after  ten  years,  so  that  I  managed  to  attend  two  at  least. 

*  *  * 

"I  adored  Denmark  and  the  Danes  and  had  a  few  days  in  Copenhagen  after- 
ward, waiting  to  go  to  Russia.  .  .  .  From  Copenhagen  we  went,  a  party  of 
eight  teachers  from  the  conference,  by  boat  to  Helsingfors,  Finland,  a  two-day  voyage 
in  the  cleanest  and  most  compact  of  little  boats.  But  both  the  Baltic  and  the  North 
Sea  are  quite  as  rough  as  the  Atlantic,  I  find.  Helsingfors  is  a  very  thriving,  modern 
city.  Perhaps  I  don't  need  to  tell  you  that,  but  I  have  always  thought  of  it  as  an 
outpost  of  civilization  on  the  edge  of  the  Arctic  Circle,  the  inhabitants  of  which  were 
largely  Esquimaux  living  in  igloos.  How  utterly  ignorant  and  provincial  we  are — or  I 
am  at  any  rate.  We  spent  only  one  day  there  and  left  at  midnight  for  Leningrad. 
Next  morning  about  nine  we  crossed  the  border.  .  .  .  The  alphabet  broke  into 
bits  like  a  kaleidescope  and  you  couldn't  even  read  the  names  of  the  stations.  I  felt 
exactly  like  Alice  stepping  through  the  looking  glass.  I  spent  the  next  two  weeks  in 
topsey  turvey  land.  Russia  is  the  most  contradictory  country  you  can  ever  imagine. 
It  has  at  once  the  extremes  of  the  good  and  the  bad  that  make  you  feel  quite  crazy 
at  times.  But  at  all  times  it  is  so  stimulating,  so  vital,  that  everything  else  seems  flat, 
stale  and  unprofitable  by  comparison.  It  certainly  makes  you  stand  and  deliver.  No 
ready-made  opinions  and  convictions  stand  a  minute.  Everything  is  questioned, 
religion,  marriage,  government.  Every  social  and  economic  institution  you  have  ever 
thought  of  as  approximately  permanent,  simply  rocks  beneath  your  feet. 


BRYN  MAWR  BULLETIN  21 

"Leningrad  made  me  frightfully  melancholy,  for  it  reminded  me  of  nothing  so 
much  as  the  war  zone  in  1917  with  its  streets  all  torn  up,  its  houses  falling  into  dis- 
repair or  being  wrecked,  its  dirt  and  deserted  aspect.  A  million  people  have  left  it, 
and  so,  though  it  isn't  really  deserted — as  one  quickly  found  out,  if  one  boarded  a  tram 
— the  great  wide  boulevards  with  only  here  and  there  a  dilapidated  droshky  or  ram- 
shackle Ford  gave  that  impression.  The  tide  is  running  out  of  Leningrad  and  run- 
ning into  Moscow.    There  the  overcrowding  is  as  bad  as  the  desertion  in  Leningrad. 

*  *•  * 

"They  are  building  apartment  houses  as  fast  as  they  can,  but  there  are  not  half 
enough.  They  have  a  curious  system  of  rents,  two  families  occupying  the  same  kind 
of  apartment  pay  different  rents,  according  to  their  number,  income,  age,  etc.  This, 
taking  circumstances  into  consideration  is  universal,  even  in  prison  sentences.  Their 
maximum  sentence  is  ten  years  except  for  treason,  for  which  capital  punishment  is 
the  penalty.  .  .  .  The  prisoners  are  paid  for  their  labor.  In  one  prison  we 
visited  there  was  a  textile  factory,  and  there  they  buy  their  own  clothing — ordinary 
clothes  and  supplementary  food  if  they  want  it.  I  got  a  cake  of  chocolate  that  was 
very  good  but  very  expensive.  One-third  of  their  earnings  are  withheld  to  form  a 
fund  to  help  them  start  fresh  when  they  leave  prison.  They  are  allowed  to  go  from 
cell  to  cell  and  visit  when  not  on  the  shift  that  is  working  in  the  factory,  and  each 
cell  has  its  radio.  The  farmers  even  are  allowed  to  go  home  for  harvest  if  the 
Commune  will  pledge  itself  that  they  will  return  to  prison  afterward. 

*  «  * 

"I  was  in  Russia  only  two  weeks  and  in  only  two  cities,  so  it's  silly  to  try  to 
form  any  real  opinion  anyhow,  much  less  hand  it  out  to  other  people. 

"From  Russia  I  came  by  way  to  Warsaw,  where  I  stopped  a  couple  of  days,  to 
Vienna,  which  I  simply  loved.  The  city  is  so  enticing  with  its  shops,  operas,  cafes, 
concerts,  etc.,  the  surrounding  country  so  lovely,  and  the  people  so  charming.  I  did  a 
good  deal  of  school  and  clinic  visiting,  and  if  my  German  had  only  been  better,  I 
should  have  certainly  stayed  on  to  work  there.  Both  Adler  and  Freud  have  clinics 
for  the  schools  which  are  entirely  free  to  visitors  and  which  interested  me  enormously. 
The  people  seemed  to  avail  themselves  of  them  very  freely  and  I  was  curious  to  know 
what  the  effect  will  be  on  the  next  generation.  Even  what  resources  we  have  in 
America  of  that  kind,  people  will  not  use.  If  only  the  idea  of  preventive  medicine 
will  carry  along  with  it  the  idea  of  preventive  measures  in  mental  diseases,  we  ought 
to  get  a  much  better  balanced  and  better  developed  generation  than  this  has  been. 

*  *  * 

"From  Vienna,  I  went  off  on  a  ten-day  toot  through  the  Tyrol  all  on  my  own. 
.  .  .  I  should  of  course  have  preferred  having  a  companion,  but  I  wasn't  going  to 
waste  that  golden  opportunity  for  the  want  of  one.  So  off  I  started  with  a  German 
dictionary  in  my  pocket  and  a  Baedeker  in  my  bag,  and  had  a  heavenly  time. 
I  took  a  marvelous  motor  trip  through  the  Dolomites  to  Cortina  d'Ampezzo.  That 
was  the  best  yet,  for  aside  from  the  scenery,  its  historic  interest  was  very  great  as  that 
whole  country  was  the  Austro-Italian  'front'  during  the  war.  Such  a  contrast  to 
what  I  had  known  in  France  and  Belgium.  Of  course  it  was  impossible  absolutely 
to  level  such  mountains  and  fill  up  such  vallej^s  as  those  were,  but  imagine  the  battles 
that  raged  in  those  narrow  defiles  and  the  devastation  of  country  when  every  gun 
shot  loosened  an  avalanche.     A  nice  German,  who  spoke  French  very  well  as  he  had 


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been  on  the  French  front  all  through  the  war,  and  had  been  twice  wounded,  once  by 
the  Americans,  got  to  talking  with  me  apropos  of  the  war  about  pacifism  and  though 
we  of  course  had  very  different  fundamental  ideas  on  the  subject,  I  found,  as  so  often 
I  found  in  the  soldiers  in  France,  more  understanding  and  sympathy  than  from  any- 
one else. 

*  *  * 

"From  Innsbruck,   I  came  to  Lucerne,  but  it  was  too  late.    The  weather  had 
broken  and  after  waiting  three  days  to  go  up  the  Rigi,  I  left  and  came  on  to  Geneva, 
where  I  have  been  settling  in  and  getting  ready  to  stop  my  flitting  about  and  do  some 
serious  work  at  the  Jean  Jacques  Rousseau  Institute." 
October  16,  1929. 

MISS  KINGSBURY'S  IMPRESSIONS  OF  RUSSIA 

Miss  Kingsbury  has  been  spending  six  months  in  Russia  to  study  the  position  of 
women  under  the  Soviet  government.  The  New  York  Times  of  November  9th  car- 
ried the  following  interview: 

"  'We  were  immensely  struck  by  the  eagerness  of  local  authorities  to  help  our 
investigation.  There  was  no  attempt  at  concealment  or  obstruction.  On  the  contrary, 
they  showed  naive  pride  at  what  sometimes  seemed  only  moderate  achievement.  On  the 
other  hand,  everywhere  there  was  an  atmosphere  of  intense  activity  and  of  much 
being  done,  which  compares  favorably  with  the  United  States. 

'For  instance,  the  metallurgic  works  at  Nizhni  Novgorod  has  buildings  of  real 
beauty  and  a  magnificent  'House  of  Culture'  for  the  workers  with  a  theatre  and  club 
rooms.  The  agricultural  and  machine  plant  at  Rostoff  has  one  of  the  finest  factory 
buildings  to  be  seen  anywhere,  with  an  arched  roof  and  an  arrangement  of  glass  panels 
providing  diffused  light.  It  is  admittedly  more  expensive  than  the  typical  modern 
American  factory  being  erected  by  the  Kahn  firm  at  Stalingrad  for  tractors,  but 
it  is  more  effective  and  I  imagine  more  satisfactory  to  work  in. 

'Stalingrad  is  a  town  of  extraordinary  interest  because  it  is  being  rebuilt  almost 
from  the  ground  up.  No  American  'boosters'  could  surpass  the  Stalingraders  in  civic 
enthusiasm.  Situated  at  the  junction  of  the  projected  Volga-Don  canal,  Stalingrad 
will  be  the  'Soviet's  Detroit,'  the  residents  assert  proudly,  and  the  huge  new  com- 
mercial buildings  for  the  workers  are  already  in  the  course  of  construction.' 

The  American  engineer  Calder  in  charge  of  the  tractor  plant  found  the  Russians 
good  and  energetic  workmen,  although,  he  said,  one  had  to  show  them  everything, 
but  that,  once  they  understood,  they  remembered,  and  the  buildings  are  advancing  even 
faster  than  was  projected,  the  American  educators  reported. 

From  Samara  Saratof  the  American  women  visited  villages  and  collective  farms. 
They  saw  no  signs  of  'class  war,'  but  noticed  everywhere  along  the  trip  the  better 
appearance  of  collective  farms,  with  their  wide  and  regular  fields,  as  compared  with 
the  narrow  'strip  farming'  of  individual  peasants,  still  common  in  Russia  though 
it  has  been  obsolete  in  Western  Europe  for  hundreds  of  years. 

'It  is  impossible  to  draw  a  conclusion  from  so  hurried  a  trip,'  Professor  Kings- 
bury concluded,  'but  we  saw  enough  to  prove  the  absurdity  of  the  stories  that  the 
Russian  economic  effort  is  largely  wasted  or  confined  to  limited  areas  for  "show  win- 
dow" purposes.  Nor  can  one  fail  to  be  impressed  by  the  genuine  energy  and  enthus- 
iasm of  the  local  authorities  who  are  not  only  trying  to  transform  Russia,  but  seem  to 
believe  it  can  be  done.'  " 


CLASS  NOTES 


1897 


Class  Editor:  Alice  Cilley  Weist 
(Mrs.  Harry  H.  Weist) 
174  E.  71st  St.,  New  York  City. 

The  class  extends  to  Edith  Edwards 
sincerest  sympathy  over  the  loss  of  her 
brother,  Mr.  Daniel  Mann  Edwards,  Har- 
vard '04,  who  died  on  June  25th,  at  Woon- 
socket,  R.  I.  As  we  grow  older  it  is  hard- 
er to  lose  our  close  relatives. 

Maisie  Campbell  says  she  has  no  news, 
but  she  went  to  the  sea  somewhere  for 
three  weeks.  The  new  Brearley,  with  its 
afternoon  session,  will  fill  her  time  more 
than  ever  this  year.  She  greatly  enjoyed 
Grace  Campbell  Babson's  visit,  and  Grace's 
two  children,  Gorham  (17)  and  Mary 
(14),  and  hated  to  have  them  sail  away 
for  the  West,  via  the  Panama  Canal. 

Frances  Hand  went  abroad  with  all  her 
family,  but  they  separated  over  there.  She 
and  her  husband  took  a  hasty  but  delight- 
ful trip  through  the  Black  Forest,  Tyrol, 
Vienna,  Budapest,  over  the  Carpathians 
into  Poland,  back  to  Berlin  and  Paris  and 
home. 

Elizabeth  Angel  went  to  Petersham, 
Mass.,  and  enjoyed  every  moment  in  the 
quaint  farmhouse  they  have  rented  twice. 
The  boys  had  a  fine  time,  and  but  for 
Henry's  having  his  tonsils  out  the  summer 
would  have  been  a  complete  success. 

Alice  Weist  went  to  France  to  see  small 
Mary  Weist,  a  most  adorable,  doll-like 
person  who  speaks  only  French.  Inci- 
dentally, it  was  good  to  see  Mary's  par- 
ents !  We  spent  most  of  the  time  at  the 
seashore  near  Dinard,  usually  too  cold  to 
swim,  but  with  enough  bathing  to  find 
that  Mary  loves  it,  as  well  as  dogs.  My 
younger  son,  Edward,  went  over  and  came 
back  with  me,  and  Helen  joined  us  at 
Dinard  from  the  Progressive  Education 
Conference  at  Elsinore,  and  came  back 
with  us,  S.  T.  C.  A.  on  the  Holland  Amer- 
ica Line.  Edward  and  I  had  a  thrilling 
visit  to  Mont  St.  Michel. 

It  would  be  so  pleasant  if  more  would 
write  in  their  news  without  having  postals 
sent  them,  and  pleasanter  still  if  the  re- 
turn postals  came  back  at  once. 

1899 

Class  Editor:  Ellen  P.  Kilpatrick 
1027  St.  Paul  St.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Susanne  Blackwell,  the  second  daughter 
of  Katherine  Middendorf  Blackwell,  has 
announced  her  engagement  to  John 
Thompson,  of  Trenton. 

Dorothy  Fronheiser  Meredith  and  her 
daughter   spent   the  greater   part  of  the 


summer  motoring  in  the  Southwest.  Doro- 
thy is  most  enthusiastic  about  Colorado. 

Emma  Guffey  Miller  has  sent  in  the 
following  note.  The  whole  class  joins  with 
her  in  extending  its  deep  sympathy  to 
Dorothy  Bradley. 

"Members  of  '99  as  well  as  those  of  the 
class  of  1929  will  learn  with  sorrow  of 
the  death  of  Elizabeth  Bradley,  for  one 
year  a  student  at  Bryn  Mawr. 

"Elizabeth,  who  was  the  daughter  of 
Dorothy  Sipe  Bradley,  of  '99,  entered 
college  with  the  class  of  '29  but  was 
forced  to  give  up  her  work  owing  to  the 
development  of  spinal  trouble  which  was 
the  result  of  an  injury  several  years  pre- 
vious. 

"She  underwent  several  operations  and 
was  hopeful  of  recovery  and  to  hasten  it 
went  to  Tucson,  Arizona,  last  September 
so  she  might  benefit  by  a  better  climate. 

"She  began  to  study  in  the  University 
there  and  was  doing  excellent  work  in 
Archaeology  when  she  was  attacked  by  a 
severe  form  of  enteric  fever  from  which 
she  died  three  weeks  later. 

"To  the  Members  of  the  Bryn  Mawr 
Club  of  Pittsburgh,  Elizabeth  Bradley 
represented  something  more  than  a  former 
student,  for  her  brave  struggle  with  ill- 
ness made  us  feel  that  she  possessed  a 
fineness  of  spirit  and  endeavor  which  is 
given  to  few,  and  our  deepest  sympathy  is 
extended  to  the  members  of  her  family." 

1900 
Class  Editor:  Louise  Congdon  Francis 
(Mrs.   Richard  Francis) 
Haverford,  Penna. 

Edith  Wright  visited  Bryn  Mawr  in  Oc- 
tober and  Margaret  Findley  (1931), 
Elise's  daughter,  had  a  tea  for  her  in  Den- 
bigh. On  November  9  Reggie  represented 
1900  at  the  meeting  of  Class  Collectors 
in  New  York. 

Barbara  Mosenthal  is  a  freshman  at 
Vassar.  Johnny  writes  that  she  is  still 
hoping  to  send  Joan  to  Bryn  Mawr.  She 
writes  further  of  her  summer  in  Europe, 
which  cost  her  the  reunion,  as  follows: 
"We  had  a  wonderful  three  months'  trip 
in  Sweden  and  Norway — all  of  us  except 
Barb.  We  went  'way  north  into  Holland 
and  had  an  interesting  stay  on  the  Lafoten 
Islands.  It's  a  marvelous  stretch  of  coast 
up  there,  but  pretty  dangerous.  The  boat 
we  came  down  from  the  North  on,  the 
end  of  August,  struck  a  rock  a  few  weeks 
later  and  sank  in  three  minutes." 

Susan  Dewees  has  rented  her  house  for 
the  winter  and  is  entertaining  suggestions 
as  to  how  best  to  spend  a  thoroughly  foot- 
free  winter. 


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1906 

Class  Editor:  Mrs.  Edw.  W.  Sturdevant 
Marine  Barracks,  Quantico,  Va. 

As  far  as  her  duty  to  her  class  is  con- 
cerned the  Editor  has  not  been  exactly 
active,  but  two  moves,  settling  two 
houses,  one  to  rent  and  one  to  live  in, 
with  the  final  addition  of  a  very  severe 
cold  has  made  editing  simply  beyond  her. 
She  has  a  collection  of  news,  however, 
that  reached  her  too  late  for  the  July 
number.  The  class  is  doing  wonderfully  in 
responding  to  post  cards,  but — will  they 
try  to  send  them  in  some  days  before  the 
end  of  the  month,  as  the  Editor  must 
have  her  notes  in  the  Alumnae  Office  by 
the  first  of  each  month. 

She  leads  off  proudly  this  time  with  a 
letter  from  a  husband !  Herbert  Gibbons 
wrote  last  summer  that  they  were  in  Por- 
nic,  Brittany,  where  they  had  a  house. 
They  had  a  series  of  illnesses  all  winter 
culminating  in  Christine's  being  operated 
on  for  appendicitis.  Christine  spent  last 
winter  studying  singing  with  Mme. 
Abramoff  in  Paris;  Mimi  studying  profes- 
sional dancing  with  Jacques  Dalcroze  in 
Geneva;  Hope  sharing  a  governess  with 
the  little  Frieseke  girl  in  Normandy,  while 
Lloyd  graduated  from  Taft  School  in 
June  and  is  now  a  freshman  in  Prince- 
ton. Herbert  himself  has  lately  published 
another  book:  The  New  Map  of  South 
America.  A  letter  from  Helen  completes 
the  chronicle.  Christine  and  Mimi  are  to 
spend  the  winter  in  Paris,  Hope  goes  back 
to  Miss  Fine's  School,  and — most  thrill- 
ing of  all — Herbert  and  Helen  sail  from 
Los  Angeles  on  December  9th  for  a  trip 
around  the  world,  landing  in  Marseilles  in 
the  spring.  The  trip  is  being  financed  by 
a  Mr.  Albert  Kahn,  a  Frenchman  who  es- 
tablished a  foundation  to  give  this  trip 
to  writers  and  professors. 

Lucia  Ford  Rutter  and  her  family  spent 
two  months  on  a  ranch  in  New  Mexico 
last  summer  and  came  home  by  way  of 
California  and  the  Grand  Canyon.  Her 
oldest  boy  entered  the  Mohonk  School 
this  autumn  and  her  daughter  Elizabeth 
is  with  Jessie  at  the  Walker  School. 

Katherine  McCauley  Fearing  spent  a 
delightful  six  weeks  at  Seabreeze,  Fla., 
last  winter.  She  spent  July  and  August 
at  East  Gloucester,  Mass.  Her  principal 
occupation  and  interest  is  her  small  daugh- 
ter, now  six  years  old  and  well  and  happy. 

Mary  Richardson  Walcott's  most  excit- 
ing news  is  that  Molly  has  been  chosen  at 
Smith  to  spend  her  junior  year  in  France. 
1906  is  proud  of  her  and  send  her  their 
congratulations  and  best  wishes  for  a 
happy  and  successful  year.    The  two  old- 


er boys  spent  the  summer  as  wranglers  on 
ranches  in  the  West.  Robert  is  in  Har- 
vard, writing  and  illustrating  jokes  for 
the  Lampoon.  John  graduates  from  St. 
Paul's  this  year.  He  has  made  the  crew 
and  won  the  school  short  story  contest,  a 
good  combination.  Maurice,  the  youngest, 
is  only  fourteen  and  may  go  to  boarding 
school  this  year. 

Elizabeth  Townsend  Torbert  had  a  fine 
summer  at  Squam  Lake,  N.  H. 

Grace  Wade  Levering  and  Jessie 
Thomas  Bennett  with  Rosanne  sailed  for 
Antwerp  on  June  21st.  Jessie  took  her 
roadster  and  planned  to  conduct  them  over 
Europe.  The  husbands  followed  the  end 
of  July.  Perhaps  next  time  the  C.  E.  can 
tell  you  how  the  trip  turned  out,  she  con- 
fesses to  a  burning  curiosity. 

Mary  Withington  wrote  in  July,  much 
excited  over  a  proposed  month  in  Eng- 
land to  be  followed  by  a  week  in  Paris 
before  her  return.  She  spent  a  very  busy 
winter  helping  to  install  the  library  in  its 
beautiful  new  building,  varied  by  trips  to 
various  other  libraries  to  study  their 
equipment,  lighting,  etc.  Nan  Pratt  and 
her  sister  spent  their  vacation  at  a  camp 
in  the  Adirondacks  run  by  Bertha  Brown, 
'04.  Helen  Sandison  went  to  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

Augusta  French  Wallace's  brother, 
Clayton,  died  in  September.  The  class 
send  her  their  deepest  sympathy. 

1907 
Class  Editor:  Alice  Hawkins 
Taylor  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr. 


The  news  has  just  been  received  of  the 
death  of  Letitia  Butler  Windle  on  Novem- 
ber 22nd  at  the  University  Hospital,  ' 
Philadelphia,  where  she  had  been  for  six 
weeks  under  the  care  of  Dr.  Charles 
Frazier. 

The  class  wishes  to  extend  its  sincere 
sympathy  to  Margaret  Ayer  Barnes  on 
the  death  of  her  mother,  Mrs.  Benjamin 
Ayer,  who  died  in  Chicago  in  September 
after  a  long  illness. 

May  Ballin  won  the  New  Jersey  State 
Golf  Tournament  for  Women  this  au- 
tumn. May  seems  to  be  one  of  those  re- 
markable people  who  can  play  both  golf 
and  tennis  well,  and  positively  clutters  up 
her  family's  apartment  with  the  prizes  she 
is  always  winning.  She  has  the  additional 
reward  of  retaining  her  girlish  figure.  It 
was  a  great  sight  to  watch  her  bare  brown 
legs  running  around  the  tennis  courts  of 
Nantucket  last  summer. 

Mabel  O'Sullivan  made  such  an  impres- 
sion on  the  inhabitants  of  Maine  by  her 


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teaching  of  English  at  the  University  of 
Maine  last  summer  that  she  was  recently 
induced  to  go  all  the  way  to  Portland 
for  a  week-end  to  make  a  speech. 

Since  Bess  Wilson's  year  in  England 
she  has  become  a  most  enthusiastic  gar- 
dener and  has  done  wonders  with  her 
place  at  Malvern.  She  threatens  to  retire 
from  medical  research  and  devote  herself 
to  delphinium,  perhaps  raising  Scotch 
puppies  as  a  side  issue.  Some  people  ad- 
vise her  to  take  up  real  estate,  as  she  has 
been  so  successful  in  buying  disreputable 
looking  houses  and  turning  them  quickly 
into  delightful  dwelling  places.  Not  satis- 
fied with  a  house  in  town  in  addition  to 
her  country  place,  she  has  just  bought  a 
seashore  cottage  at  Spray  Beach,  N.  J., 
and  is  making  that  over.  The  extraordi- 
nary part  of  all  this  activity  is  that  she 
seems  to  manage  to  be  in  three  places  at 
once  in  addition  to  holding  down  a  full- 
time  job  which  demands  great  scientific 
concentration.  We  are  glad  to  say  that 
she  still  sings  and  plays  her  own  accom- 
paniments, and  insists  upon  having  a 
piano  wherever  she  is  living  at  the  mo- 
ment. 

1909 
Class  Editor:  Helen  Bond  Crane 
Denbigh  Hall,  Bryn  Mawr. 
When  the  Editor  should  have  been 
sending  in  a  column  for  the  November 
Bulletin,  she  was  immersed  in  Freshman 
Week,  and  hence  did  nothing  else.  A  red 
class  entered  this  year,  distinguished  by 
an  unusually  high  average,  the  ability  to 
sing,  and  the  wit  to  keep  the  Sophomores 
from  getting  their  Parade  Song.  Inci- 
dentally, when  the  classes  gathered  in 
Pern  Arch  after  the  parade  and  the  Jun- 
iors sang  "Side  by  Side,"  the  Freshmen 
greeted  it  with  cheers  and  applause  and 
thought  it  had  been  written  for  the  occa- 
sion. One  of  them  said  to  us  afterwards, 
"Did  you  hear  that  song?  That  was  a 
good  one!"  (Please  page  D.  Child,  or 
Cliffy — or  both.)  Two  weeks  later  the 
Freshmen  distinguished  themselves  at 
Lantern  Night  by  their  remarkable  sing- 
ing of  the  Freshmen  Lantern  Hymn, 
"Sophias  philai  paromen."  As  we  sat  on 
the  cloister  roof  listening  to  "Pallas"  and 
"Sophias"  and  waxing  somewhat  senti- 
mental over  the  red  lanterns,  we  were  glad, 
once  again,  that  1909  had  braved  the  pro- 
tests of  the  entire  college  and  the  damp 
and  dismal  early  morning  practices,  in  or- 
der to  start  so  lovely  a  tradition  as 
Lantern  Night  in  the  cloister.  (If  you 
have  forgotten  those  painful  weeks,  read 
Frances  Browne's  reminiscences  in  the 
class  book.)    Well,  now  we  belong  to  the 


ages — though  the  ages  are  quite  unaware 
of  it,  or  us. 

During  the  past  few  weeks  we  have  had 
several  fleeting  glimpses  of  "classe." 
Bertha  Ehlers  has  been  entering  her  niece 
in  college  and  bringing  her  to  various 
functions.  Bertha  is  president  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  Club  and  eats  com- 
mittee luncheons  there  almost  daily.  Club 
affairs  almost  threaten  to  obscure  insur- 
ance for  her. 

Julia  Doe  Shero  is  teaching  at  the 
Thorne  School;  she  drives  over  daily 
from  Swarthmore  with  her  three  daugh- 
ters, who  are  in  the  school,  and  seems  to 
thrive  on  her  somewhat  strenuous  living. 

Hilda  Spraguesmith  and  her  mother  are 
living  in  President  Park's  house  for  this 
year,  as  Miss  Park  is  leaving  for  her  sab- 
batical year,  after  Thanksgiving.  They 
have  just  returned  from  a  perfect  year 
abroad,  judging  by  Hilda's  account  of  it; 
they  motored  in  their  own  car,  at  their 
own  pace,  through  most  of  France.  "Mr. 
Emile  F.  Williams'  Undiscovered  France 
became  our  constant  guide,  always  to  be 
relied  on  and  always  leading  us  to  new 
enchantments."  We  only  wish  we  had 
space  to  give  some  of  her  impressions  of 
Chartres,  Angers,  Poitiers,  Angouleme 
and  Periguex;  the  prehistoric  caves  of 
Les  Eyzies;  Toulouse,  Carcassonne  and 
other  alluring  spots.  After  hibernating  in 
Italy,  they  took  to  the  car  again;  "retrac- 
ing our  steps  across  the  mountains,  we 
visited  Avignon  and  its  far-famed  'pont' ; 
then  on  to  Nimes  and  to  Millau  to  rejoin 
'Mr.  Williams.'  Twisting  and  turning  on 
a  narrow  road  high  above  a  great  chasm, 
the  world  lost  in  heavy  clouds  and  driz- 
zling rains,  we  were  thankful  that  the 
roads  of  France  belong  so  often  to  you 
alone.  From  Millau  we  followed  the  gorge 
of  the  Tarn,  so  frequently  compared  to 
our  own  Grand  Canyon — but  it  is  greatly 
in  miniature.  We  regretted  that  we  could 
not  stop  over  night  at  a  perfect  little 
mediaeval  chateau,  drawbridge  and  port- 
cullis included,  but  we  had  to  push  on. 
From  Mondes  we  climbed  rapidly  into  the 
snow  fields,  4200  feet  up,  crossed  the  di- 
vide, and  came  down  to  Le  Puy.  With 
the  cathedral  an  aerial  church  and  the 
little  chapel  of  San  Michel  perched  high 
on  top  of  the  Rocher  d'Aiguille,  we  found 
Le  Puy  a  most  fascinating  place."  If  any 
of  you  are  going  to  France,  see  Hilda 
first. 

Dorothy  North  sailed  on  the  Saturnia, 
October  16th.  "We  saw  the  lovely 
Azores,  and  after  gazing  on  those  rocks 
and  cliffs  and  substantial  hills  with  real 
woods  and  terraces  like  ruled  lines,  and 
houses  of  all  sorts  of  colors,  it  seemed  as 


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if  we  were  almost  ashore,  and  I  had 
imagined  the  Atlantic  would  consider  it- 
self a  lake,  and  a  tame  one,  for  the  rest 
of  the  way.  Now  I  question  the  Mediter- 
ranean, which  we  tackle  next,  and  vague 
recollections  of  Vergil  and  somebody's 
shaken  locks  and  mangled  wreckage  of 
Latin  come  to  mind,  all  suggestive  of 
storms.  ...  I  hope  to  put  in  some 
months  over  here,  playing  around  the 
Mediterranean,  wherever  it's  warm  and 
interesting;  then  in  the  spring  to  go  back 
to  Chicago."  Until  then  her  address  will 
be  care  Morgan  &  Co.,  14  Place  Vendome, 
Paris. 

Catherine  Goodale  Warren  returned  to 
Honolulu  with  her  mother  last  spring, 
and  gardened  strenuously  all  summer, 
"much  to  the  astonishment  of  the  Japa- 
nese servants."  She  returned  to  her 
Haverford  apartment  early  in  November; 
and  in  February  she  and  her  mother  will 
sail  for  Europe  "to  be  gone  a  year,  if  we 
can  keep  warm  in  winter  and  be  content." 

Mary  Goodwin  Storrs  got  back  to 
China  last  winter,  and  had  the  novel  ex- 
perience of  going  up  the  Min  River  in  a 
motor  boat.  With  three  days  at  the  end 
in  the  usual  "sparrow  boat"  (poled  by 
boatmen)  they  made  a  record  trip  of  a 
week  and  an  hour  from  Foochow  to  Shao- 
wu;  without  the  motor  boat  the  journey 
used  to  take  some  three  weeks.  In  addi- 
tion to  her  many  other  duties,  Mary  is 
teaching  three  grades  of  Calvert  School 
lessons  to  her  three  oldest  children  and 
some  others  in  the  station. 

1911 
Class  Editor:  Louise  S.  Russell 

140  E.  52nd  Street,  New  York  City. 

Harriet  Couch  Coombs  has  a  fifth  son, 
Arthur,  born  April  28. 

Margaret  Dulles  Edwards  has  moved 
from  Bronxville  to  Radburn,  N.  J. 

Molly  Kilner  Wheeler  has  a  son,  born 
in  August. 

Margaret  Hobart  Myers  and  her  family 
spent  the  summer  in  Easthampton  with 
her  father.  She  went  back  to  Sewanee 
in  September,  accompanied  by  six  chil- 
dren, aged  two  to  sixteen  years,  and 
twelve  pieces  of  luggage  (three  of  them 
being  dogs,  one  with  a  broken  leg). 

Catherine  Delano  Grant  has  a  son, 
Christopher,  born  in  July.  He  is  Cath- 
erine's fifth  son  and  sixth  child. 

On  her  way  back  from  the  White 
Mountains  this  summer,  Betty  Taylor 
Russell  spent  a  night  with  Ruth  Wells, 
and  found  her  happy  and  busy  in  her  job 
as  Director  of  the  New  Bedford  Branch 
of  the  Massachusetts  S.  P.  C.  A.  Ruth 
spent  her  vacation  in  Michigan. 


Mary  Taylor  spent  a  week  in  New  York 
in  October  getting  Norvelle  Browne  off 
for  Europe.  Mary  has  given  up  the 
thought  of  mere  jobs  and  is  devoting  her- 
self to  her  family. 

During  Norvelle  Browne's  stay  in  Eu- 
rope Blanche  Cole  Lowenthal  will  take 
over  the  job  of  class  collector.  Norvelle 
sailed  on  October  11th  and  is  planning  to 
stay  until  next  fall.  Her  address  is  care 
of  Brown,  Shipley,  London. 

1914 
Class  Editor:  Elizabeth  Ayer  Inches 

(Mrs.  Henderson  Inches) 

41    Middlesex.  Road, 

Chestnut  Hill,  Mass. 
On  June  26th  past,  Deborah  Kirk  Welsh 
was  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A. 
Welsh  at  Lima,  Pa.  "Nine  days  later,  we 
sailed,  with  Deborah  in  a  market  basket, 
for  Bermuda  where  we  spent  the  summer. 
We  are  leaving  in  December  again  and  1 
hope  if  any  Bryn  Mawrter  is  visiting  Ber- 
muda this  winter,  she  will  take  time  to 
look  me  up  and  have  a  cup  of  tea  with 
me." 

1917 
Class  Editor:   Bertha  C.  Greenough 

203  Blackstone  Blvd., 

Providence,  R.  I. 
Josephine  Ranlet  Swift  was  married  on 
October  22nd  to  Nathaniel  Holmes,  2nd, 
at  Old  Lyme,  Connecticut.  She  will  be  at 
home  after  the  first  of  December  at  2900 
Cleveland  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 

1918 
Class  Editor:  Helen  E.  Walker 
5516  Everett  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
Molly  Cordingley  Stevens  has  a  second 
son,  Samuel  Abbott,  born  in  May. 

Margaret  Timpson  and  her  mother 
•  spent  the  month  of  August  seeing  Amer- 
ica, and  in  particular  the  American  and 
Canadian  Rockies.  As  they  passed 
through  Chicago,  Helen  Walker  and  Tim- 
mie  twice  held  a  private  reunion  and  did 
their  best  to  out-talk  each  other. 

1919 

Class     Editor:      Marjorie      Remington 
Twitchell 

(Mrs.  Pierrepont  Twitchell), 
Setauket,  L.  L,  N.  Y. 


Gordon  Woodbury  Dunn  died  Novem- 
ber 22nd.  Her  son,  Woodbury  Dunn,  was 
born  November  1st. 


Fran  Fuller  Savage  writes,  "We  have 
two  very  remarkable  daughters,  Cordelia 
Fuller,  born  May  12,  1926 — two  days  too 
late    tojbe  [a  ^birthday    present    for    her 


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proud  father,  and  Maud  Fuller,  born  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1929,  a  day  too  soon  to  be  called 
George  after  the  father  of  his  country, 
even  if  she  had  been  a  boy.  They  are 
both  very  wonderful.  ...  I  am  so  ab- 
sorbed in  them  I  have  literally  time  for 
nothing  else."  Dr.  Savage  is  "no  longer 
teaching  but  a  staff  member  of  the  Car- 
negie Foundation  for  the  advancement  of 
Teaching.  He  has  just  completed  a  sur- 
vey of  'Athletics  and  Sports  in  American 
Colleges  and  Universities,'  published  in 
October.  Previous  to  this  he  wrote  .  .  . 
similarly  of  English  schools  and  univer- 
sities and  we  were  over  there  in  1925 
(collecting  material)  for  several  months." 
From  Marie  Lubar:  "My  job  to  me  is 
highly  exciting.  I  am  a  case  worker  with 
the  Children's  Aid  of  Pennsylvania,  which 
places  dependent  children  in  need  of  homes 
with  private  families.  My  job  is  supervising 
these  children  after  they  are  placed " 

1920 
Class  Editor:  Margaret  Ballou  Hitch- 
cock  (Mrs.  David  Hitchcock), 
45  Mill  Rock  Road, 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

Louise  Sloan  is  instructor  in  Research 
Ophthalmology  at  Wilmer  Institute  which 
is  connected  with  the  Johns  Hopkins  Hos- 
pital. She  is  working  with  Dr.  Ferree 
who  is  Resident  Lecturer  in  Ophthalmol- 
ogy and  Director  of  the  Laboratory  of 
Physiological  Optics. 

Kitty  Robinson  is  at  Bryn  Mawr  this 
winter  living  in  Radnor  as  Senior  Grad- 
uate Student  and  as  Secretary  to  Miss 
Schenck  (Miss  Schenck  is  Dean  of  the 
Graduate  School  and  Radnor  is  entirely 
for  Graduate  Students). 

Dorothy  Jenkins  is  part-time  demon- 
strator in  Physics  at  Bryn  Mawr. 

Lilian  Davis  Philip  has  moved  from 
New  York  to  Staten  Island.  Her  ad- 
dress is  Benedict  Avenue,  Dongan  Hills. 

K.  Townsend  is  achieving  quite  a  repu- 
tation for  her  knowledge  of  and  skill  in 
athletics.  She  is  president  of  the  Boston 
Field  Hockey  Association  which  means  a 
busy  autumn  as  the  intersectional  matches 
will  be  held  in  Boston  this  year.  K.  has 
moved  to  135  Beaconfield  Road,  Brook- 
line,  where  she  has  an  apartment. 

1921 
Class  Editor:   Helen  James  Rogers 
(Mrs.  J.  E.  Rogers) 
99  Poplar  Plains  Rd.,  Toronto,  Can. 
Julia  Peyton  Phillips'  second  daughter, 
named  Betsy,  was  born  August  21st.    She 
is  a  distinguished  baby,  having  been  born 
with    two    large    crooked    teeth.      Tooth 
brushes   of  every  make   and  color  have 


been  showered  upon  her  and  Julia  is 
thinking  of  making  a  fortune  by  going 
into  the  testimonial  game.  Two  months 
old  Betsy  pictured  flourishing  a  Dr. 
West's  tooth  brush  and  lapping  up  Ipana 
tooth  paste  in  the  red  and  yellow  striped 
tube. 

This  piece  of  news  upsets  my  carefully 
compiled  statistics  but  so  does  another 
fact  that  I  have  just  learned:  that  Marg 
Archibald  and  Goggin  are  in  New  York 
holding  down  secretarial  jobs. 

I  can't  resist  one  more  plea  addressed 
to  the  delinquents  who  are  not  listed  in 
the  statistics.  Please  crash  through  with 
news  so  that  my  data  will  be  up  to  date 
at  reunion  this  June. 

I  have  just  been  in  New  York,  and 
while  there  saw  Schurmy.  She  has  said 
farewell  to  her  gay  social  life  on  the 
Continent  and  come  back  to  get  a  job, 
preferably  along  merchandising  lines.  I 
found  Ellen  Garrison  very  busy  being 
Primary  Assistant  at  the  Dalton  School. 
She  says  that  Cloey  is  settled  in  London 
at  present  but  plans  to  come  back  to  this 
country  bag  and  baggage  in  February. 
Kat  Bradford  is  continuing  with  her 
course  in  Horticulture  at  Columbia.  When 
last  seen  she  and  Fanny  Riker  Duncombe 
were  off  to  New  Canaan  to  plant  spring- 
bulbs.  A  moth  ball  was  to  be  put  beside 
each  bulb  to  ward  off  nibbling  mice.  Pig- 
let Morton  Creese  is  leaving  New  York 
and  moving-  to  Hoboken.  Her  husband  is 
Vice  President  and  Treasurer  of  Stevens 
Institute  which  is  located  there. 

1923 
Class  Editor:  Dorothy  Meserve  Kun- 
hardt  (Mrs.  Philip  B.  Kunhardt), 
Mt.  Kemble  Ave.,  Morristown,  N.  J. 
Grace. Carson  deserves  our  many  thanks 
— she  has  written  a  letter  to  the  editor 
giving  news — a  thing  no  one  else  has  done 
for  untold  stretches  of  time — gratefully 
we  read  some  of  her  own  words:  "To- 
gether with  Mother,  I  spent  the  summer 
on  the  West  Coast — from  Victoria  south 
to  San  Diego.  We  went  by  way  of  the 
Panama  Canal,  a  charming  and  exotic 
place,  which  had  the  grace  to  be  cool  in 
our  honor, — and  returned  through  New 
Orleans,  the  quaintness  and  fascination 
of  which  are  not  exaggerated.  In  Santa 
Barbara  I  saw  Margaret  Dunn  Kamper. 
She  has  a  most  attractive  young  daughter, 
and  is  soon  taking  her  Bar  examinations. 
The  latter  part  of  this  month  a  friend  and 
I  are  sailing  for  six  weeks  motoring  in 
Scotland  and  England,  and  finally,  I  am 
planning  to  marry  early  in  January.  Just 
one  more  remembered  note:  Ratz  and  I 
bade   farewell  to  Eric  one  day  in  June. 


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She  sailed  on  the  Majestic  to  do  various 
diplomatic  things !   in  Geneva." 

Helen  Dunbar  is  abroad  for  a  year  on 
a  fellowship.  She  will  be  in  Vienna  this 
fall,  Paris  this  winter,  and  London  next 
spring.  She  has  had  her  Ph.D.  from 
Columbia  a  year  now. 

Star  McDaniel  Heimsath  is  the  new 
president  of  the  College  Club  in  Bridge- 
port, Connecticut — there  are  about  three 
hundred  members  of  this  club. 

Augusta  Howell  Love  joy  has  a  daugh- 
ter, Cynthia  Jane  Love  joy,  born  on  the 
20th  of  September. 

Celestine  Goddard  Mott  has  a  son, 
whom  she  is  planning  to  take  back  to 
India  very  soon. 

Dorothy  Stewart  Pierson  has  a  son, 
Richard  N.  Pierson,  Jr. 

Katharine  Shumway  has  announced 
her  engagement  to  Dr.  Howard  Freas. 
He  has  spent  the  last  three  years  in  the 
Belgian  Congo,  experimenting  with  sleep- 
ing sickness  and  has  received  recognition 
for  his  brilliant  work  by  the  Belgian 
government. 

1924 
Class  Editor:  Beth  Tuttle  Wilbur 
(Mrs.  Donald  Wilbur), 
1518^  East  59th  St,  Chicago,  111. 

Very  little  news  of  '24  has  as  yet  been 
received  in  Chicago.  We  eagerly  sought 
out  the  Alumnae  Register  to  find  the  '24 
colony  here — and  find  that  it  practically 
isn't;  and  that  a  large  proportion  of  those 
who  are  supposed  to  be  here,  namely  Lois 
Coffin  Lund  has  recently  moved  away ! 
So,  as  usual,  '24,  if  you  want  to  see  your 
names  in  print,  you  know  how  to  go  about 
it. 

A  letter  from  Howdy  reveals  that  her 
"offending  worm"  was  successfully  re- 
moved during  the  summer,  and  that  she 
has  now  acquired,  in  addition  to  teaching 
English  at  the  Scranton  Junior  High 
School,  the  job  of  Dramatic  Coach  of 
the  Senior  High  School.  She  modestly 
asserts  that  her  only  qualification  is  the 
fact  that  she  once  directed  a  Christmas 
play! 

1927 
Class  Editor:  Ellenor  Morris, 
Berwyn,  Penna. 

At  last  we  have  a  class  baby !  Ursula 
Squier  Reimer  appeared  on  the  scene  on 
August  28th,  and  although  her  advent 
should  have  been  heralded  some  months 
ago,  it  is  not  yet  too  late  for  rejoicing. 
If  there  are  any  other  claimants  to  this 
exalted  position,  they  should  make  them- 
selves known  at  once.  At  any  rate  many 
congratulations  to  the  Ursula  Squier 
Reimers,  mere  et  fille. 

Kitty  Harris  writes  that  she  is  teaching 


French  this  year  at  Springside  School  in 
Chestnut  Hill. 

We  are  indebted  to  her  for  news  of  Dot 
Pearce's  wedding  to  Dr.  Robert  Kenneth 
Gustav.eson  this  fall.  She  and  Gordon 
Schoff  were  bridesmaids,  and  she  reports 
that  Dot  and  her  husband  have  departed 
to  Pasadena  to  live. 

She  also  tells  of  the  christening  of  Dot 
Irwin  Headly's  son,  Jonathan,  a  most  at- 
tractive young  man ;  and  of  Ruth  Rickaby 
Darmstatd's  charming  New  York  apart- 
ment. 

Gordon  Schoff  is  at  Art  School. 

.     1928 
Class  Editor:  Cornelia  B.  Rose,  Jr., 
333  E.  68th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Three  cheers  for  1928's  Class  Baby ! 
Edith  Morgan  Whitaker  is  the  proud 
mother  of  a  baby  girl,  born  on  October 
22.  Doug  writes  that  "Eda  is  exception- 
ally well."  Their  address  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  is  204  Holden  Green. 

Yildiz  Phillips  van  Hulstuyn's  eight- 
pound  boy  was  born  at  6  P.  M.  on  Oc- 
tober 18th.  John  van  Hulstuyn  writes 
that  "Both  Yildiz  and  the  baby  are  doing 
even  better  than  could  be  expected.  She 
is  at  the  Booth  Hospital.  But  if  her 
progress  continues  it  won't  be  long  before 
she  is  at  home  in  Jackson  Heights,  L.  I, 
3339  70th  Street.  "The  baby  has  dark 
hair  and  a  wide  smile  even  at  the  age  of 
two  hours."  The  name  is  to  be  John 
Carey  v.  H.  1928  sends  you  hearty  con- 
gratulations, Yildez. 

The  class  seems  to  be  doing  itself  proud 
not  only  in  the  way  of  babies.  Word 
comes  that  "The  Week  End  Book  Service 
has  been  incorporated  under  the  same 
name  with  Puppy  McKelvey  as  President ; 
Caroline  Smith,  Vice-President,  and  Car- 
oline SchaufBer  (from  Smith)  as  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer.  We  are  opening  a 
store  at  959  Madison  Avenue  and  hope 
all  our  little  friends  and  classmates  will 
drop  in  at  frequent  intervals.  The  store 
is  most  attractive,  has  a  fireplace  and  easy 
chairs,  so  we  recommend  that  they  come 
in  to  pass  away  the  time  in  comfort  and 
joy.  We  will  be  open  evenings  until 
Christmas." 

From  this  it  appears  that  C.  Smith  has 
forsaken  the  idle  life  and  is  devoting  her- 
self to  good  works. 

Frances  Bethel  Rowan  writes  that 
"Elizabeth  Bethel  has  a  position  as  Sec- 
retary for  the  History  Department  at 
Yale.  She  is  living  at  8  Edgewood  Ave- 
nue, New  Haven,  and  is  crazy  about  her 
work  and  New  Haven.  I  am  not  doing 
much  of  anything  except  a  little  Junior 
League  work  and  some  work  for  the  Bryn 
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am   treasurer   and   very   much   interested 
in." 

Please  note  that  the  peregrinations  of 
the  Editor  have  finally  landed  her  at  333 
East  68th  Street. 

1929 
Class  Editor:    Elizabeth  Linn 
1357  E.  56th  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

The  arrival  of  an  Alumnae  Bulletin  in 
which  the  class  of  1929  was  distinguished 
by  its  absence  caused  your  editor  to  blush 
with  shame.  An  extensive  campaign  to 
make  up  for  lost  time  has  now  resulted  in 
the  accumulation  of  quite  a  number  of 
scraps  from  the  feast,  as  follows : 

Nancy  Woodward,  who  comes  first 
though  her  name  begins  with  W,  says 
she's  going  to  begin  selling  books  in  the 
Doubleday  Doran  Bookshop  at  McCreery's 
about  the  middle  of  November;  but  only 
temporarily  because  "as  soon  as  the  mar- 
ket gets  on  its  feet"  a  kind  friend  is  going 
to  give  her  a  chance  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness. For  her  sake  and  our  own  we  hope 
this  will  be  soon.  Nancy  also  says  she 
saw  Peggy  Haley  who  is  in  New  York 
job-hunting. 

Others  have  also  been  lured  to  the 
bright  lights.  K.  Balch  is  sharing  an 
apartment  at  13  Christopher  street  with 
Jimmy  Bunn,  with  an  eye  to  a  journalistic 
career.  Sounds  like  a  swell  menage. 
Ginny  Fain  is  in  New  York,  too,  working 
on  the  "Inquiry"  and  helping  to  write  a 
book  on  the  racial  factors  in  industry.  We 
suppose  she  learns  about  them  as  she  goes 
along.  Mary  McDermott  is  in  the  Ad- 
vertising Department  of  Time,  and  Viccy 
Buel  is  a  "literary  Scout"  for  the  Century 
Company,  eager  to  read  your  latest  manu- 
script and  discover  your  genius.  Bobby 
Yerkes  has  also  entered  the  publishing 
field  and  is  with  the  Yale  Press  in  New 
Haven.  Sally  Bradley  is  doing  volunteer 
work  at  Calvary  Church  and  taking  a 
course  at  N.  Y.  U.,  and  Bobs  Mercer  is 
living  at  International  House,  and  study- 
ing Psychology  at  Columbia.  She  seems 
to  be  doing  intensive  research  on  the 
feeble-minded  and  the  abnormal. 

Annabel  Learned  has  hooked  a  history 
of  Art  Scholarship  and  departed  for  Flor- 
ence to  study.  Ella  Poe  and  Barbara 
Humphreys  were  also  in  Italy  when  last 
heard  of,  staying  at  a  titled  villa.  Doughy 
Purcell,  who  is  at  home  living  a  gay  life 
and  dabbling  in  cookery,  says  that  they 
(Ella  and  Barbara)  are  rather  depressed 
over  the  length  of  time  their  families 
want  them  to  stay  in  Europe.  This  seems 
to  us  pathetic. 

We  have  heard  only  echoes  of  Pussy 
Lambert,  from  Italian  tunnels  and  Bavar- 


ian beer-halls.  But  she  seems  to  have  re- 
turned safely  from  the  farther  shores,  ac- 
companied by  Mess  Hamman,  who  went 
back  to  college  after  all. 

Concerning  those  in  more  distant  parts : 
Carla  Swan  is  part-time  Examiner  in  the 
Research  Department  of  the  public 
schools,  and  seems  to  bear  the  load  with 
great  good  cheer.  Bettie  Freeman,  on  her 
return  from  Central  Europe,  embarked  on 
a  business  course.  Marion  Park  is  teach- 
ing little  boys,  and  Ros  Cross  is  teaching 
girls,  not  so  little.  Ella  Horton  is  "not 
doing  a  thing  but  going  to  parties,"  and 
not  even  political  parties  at  that. 

We  only  wheedled  two  engagements 
out  of  our  class-mates,  and  we  scarcely 
dare  claim  credit  for  one  of  them.  Ginny 
Newbold  has  been  hand-in-glove  with  too 
many  classes  to  belong  to  any  one.  How- 
ever, she  is  going  to  marry  a  red-headed 
young  broker  named  Samuel  Gibbon.  We 
can,  however,  lay  undisputed  claim  to  Jane 
Barth,  who  is  going  to  marry  Richard 
Sloss  on  the  26th  of  December.  Mr.  Sloss 
is  a  lawyer,  and  they  are  going  to  live  in 
San  Francisco.   Think  of  that. 

Betty  Fry,  just  recovered  from  an  un- 
timely attack  of  jaundice,  has  left  Eng- 
land for  Paris,  where  she  is  going  to 
study  history  at  the  Sorbonne.  We  have 
laid  a  small  bet  that  she  is  destined  to 
become  one  of  "Dr.  Gray's  young  ladies." 

Ruth  Biddle  is  taking  a  course  in  In- 
dustrial Relations  at  Bryn  Mawr.  and 
working  for  the  Philadelphia  Summer 
School  Committee  and  a  variety  of  other 
causes.  Bea  Shipley  is  Assistant  Girl 
Reserve  Secretary  at  the  Germantown 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  but  does  not  wish  to  be 
thought  militaristic.  Clover  Henry  is 
bringing  up  some  children  in  a  French 
chateau,  "Le  Pin,"  Champtoie,  Maine-et- 
Loire.  Grace  DeRoo,  Doris  Blumenthal 
and  Elizabeth  Ufford  are  settled  in  an 
apartment  in  Cambridge,  pursuing  the 
delights  of  science.  Ruth  Kitchen  is  a 
graduate  student  at  Bryn  Mawr;  Becky 
Bryant  is  studying  at  the  Columbia 
School  of  Architecture,  and  so  on. 

As  for  our  young  matrons,  Mary  Gess- 
ner  Park  and  Becky  Wills  Hetzel,  they 
are  wedded  to  domesticity.  Becky  has  an 
apartment  in  Haverford,  where  she  is 
said  to  cook  divinely.  Kit  Collins  is  also 
keeping  house,  across  the  street  from 
Rock.  Tony  Shallcross  is  an  assistant 
buyer  in  the  sportswear  department  of 
Gimbels  in  Philadelphia,  and  seems  to  be 
the  only  one  of  the  flock  who  has  been 
working  long  enough  to  be  promoted. 

As  for  your  editor,  she  is  safe  at  home, 
studying  economics  at  the  University  of 
Chicago  and  teaching  her  small  niece  to 
play  ball. 


The  Saint  Timothy's  School 
for  Girls 

CATONSVILLE,  MARYLAND 

Founded  September  1882 

COLLEGE  PREPARATORY 

AND 

ELECTIVE  COURSES 

MISS  LOUISA  McENDREE  FOWLER 
Head  of  the  School 

Wykeham  Rise 

WASHINGTON,  CONNECTICUT 

A  COUNTRY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

FANNY   E.  DAVIES,  LL.A.,  Headmistress 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr  and  Other  Colleges 

The  Episcopal  Academy 

(Founded  1785) 

CITY  LINE,  OVERBROOK,  PA. 

A  country  day   school  for  boys 

MODERN  AND  WELL  EQUIPPED 
Endorsed  by  Bryn  Mawr  Alumnae 

UNIVERSITYgTrls 

BOARDING  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 

Founded  1896 

Thorough    and    successful    Preparation 

for  Eastern  Colleges  for  Women  as  well  as 

for  Midwestern  Colleges  and  Universities 

Illustrated  Catalogue  on  Request 

ANNA  B.  HAIRE,  A.B.,  SMITH  COLLEGE,  Principal 

1106-B  Lake  Shore  Drive  Chicago,  Illinois 

THE  LOW  AND 
HEYWOOD  SCHOOL 

Emphasizing  college  preparatory  work. 

Also  general  and  special  courses. 

One  year  intensive  college  preparation. 

Junior  school. 

65th  year.    Catalogue. 

SHIPPAN  POINT, 
STAMFORD,  CONN. 


The  Ethel  Walker  School 

SIMSBURY,    CONNECTICUT 

Head  of  School 

ETHEL  WALKER  SMITH,  A.M., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


Head  Mistress 

JESSIE  GERMAIN  HEWITT,  A.B., 
Bryn  Mawr  College 


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Art.  26  Miles  from  Boston.  Outdoor  Sports.  Riding. 
Gymnasium.    Swimming  Pool. 

EDITH  CHAP1N  CRAVEN,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 
201  Rogers  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

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BRYN  MAWR,  PA. 
Prepares  for  Bryn  Mawr.  and 
all  leading  colleges 

Musical  Course  prepares  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  Music  of  Bryn  Mawr  College 
EDITH  HARCUM,  Head  of  School 
L.  May  Willis,  Principal 

THE  MISSES  KIRK'S 

College  Preparatory  School 

PREPARATORY  TO  BRYN  MAWR  COLLEGE 

Individual  Instruction.    Athletics. 

Clovercroft,  Montgomery  Avenue,  Rosemont,  Pa. 

Mail,  telephone  and  telegraph  address:    Bryn  Mawr.  Pa. 


CHOATE  SCHOOL 

1600  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

HOME  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

EMPHASIS  ON  COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Elective  Courses  for  students  not  preparing 
for  College 

AUGUSTA  CHOATE,  A.M.  (Vasaar) 

Principal 


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THE  AGNES  IRWIN  SCHOOL 

2009-2011  Delancey  Place,  Philadelphia 

A  College  Preparatory 
SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 


BERTHA  M.  LAWS,  A.B.,  Headmistress 


GRAY  GABLES 


Complete  College  Preparatory  Course. 
One  year  course  for  Board   Examination. 

For  catalog  address: 

Hope  Fisheb,   Ph.D.,    Bancroft   School 

Wobcesteb,  Massachusetts 


MISS   BEARD'S  SCHOOL 

A  Country  School  near  New  York 

Orange,  New  Jersey 

COLLEGE  PREPARATION 

Advanced  Courses  Junior  High  School 

Music,  Art,  Domestic  Science 

Catalog  on  Request 

LUCIE  C.  BEARD,   Headmistress 

The  Katharine  Branson  School 

ROSS,  CALIFORNIA    Across  the  Bay  from  San  Francisco 

A  Country  School    College  Preparatory 

Head: 

Katharine    Fleming    Branson,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr 

MISS  MADEIRA'S  SCHOOL 

1330  19th  St.,  N  W.  Washington,  D.  C. 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR 
GIRLS 

LUCY  MADEIRA  WING,  A.B. 

MRS.  DAVID  LAFOREST  WING 

Head  Mistress 

MISS  WRIGHT'S  SCHOOL 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pa. 

Prepares  for  College  Board 
Examination 


FERRY    HALL 

A    RESIDENT    AND    DAY    SCHOOL    FOR    GIRLS 

LAKE  FOREST,  ILLINOIS 

On   Lake  Michigan,  near   Chicago 

Junior  College;  High  School  Department:  College 
Preparatory  and  General  Cour»es.  Special  Departments 
of  Music,  Expression  and  Art. 

Two  new  dormitories,  including  new  dining  room  and 
infirmary,  to  be  opened  September  1929. 

Eloise  R.  Tremain,  A.B.,  Bryn  Mawr,  Principal 

ROSEMARY  HALL 

College  Preparatory 

(With  supplementary  but  not  alternative  courses) 

CAROLINE  RUUTZ-REES.  Ph.D.  \  „     .  Mj  . 
MARY  E.  LOWNDES.  Litt.D        /  Head  MMmm 


GREENWICH 


CONNECTICUT 


The  Shipley  School 

Bryn  Mawr,  Pennsylvania 

Preparatory  to  Bryn  Mawr  College 

ALICE  G.  HOWLAND,  ELEANOR  0.  BROWNELL 
Principals 

MISS  RANSOM  and 
MISS  BRIDGES'  SCHOOL 

PIEDMONT,  CALIFORNIA 

(A  suburb  of  San  Francisco) 

A  RESIDENT  AND  DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

General  and  College  Preparatory  Courses 
Outdoor  Life  throughout  the  year 

EDITH  BRIDGES,  B.L.,  Principal 

The  Baldwin  School 

A  Country  School  for  Girls 
BRYN  MAWR  PENNSYLVANIA 

Preparation  for  Bryn  Mawr.  Mount  Holyoke,  Smith, 

Vassar  and  Wellesley  college*.     Abundant  outdoor  life. 

Hockey,  basketball,  tennis 

ELIZABETH  FORREST  JOHNSON,  A.B. 

HEAD 

CAMP   MYSTIC  coSSSrW 

Miss  Jobe's  salt  water  camp  for  girls 
8-18.  Conducted  by  Mrs.  Carl  Akeley  (Mary 
L.  Jobe).  Halfway,  New  York  and  Boston. 
Land  and  water  sports.  Horseback  riding. 
MARY  L  JOBE, 
Room  507.     607  Fifth  Are.,  N.  Y.  C. 


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Spring     Valley    near    Baltimore. 
Modern  Equipment. 

All  Sports.  Special  Emphasis  on  Horse- 
back Riding.  Mild  Climate. 
Garrison  Forest  Girls  who  are  going  to  college 
are  thoroughly  prepared  for  any  institution. 
Other  girls  take  courses  with  special  emphasis 
on  Music  and  Art.  Younger  girls  live  in  a 
separate  Junior  House. 

[Principals 

MISS  JEAN  G.  MARSHALL 

MISS  NANCY  OFFUTT, 
Bryn  Mawr,  ex  '20 

Box  B,  Garrison,  Maryland 


Katharine  Gibbs 

A  school  of  unusual  character  with  a  distinctive 
purpose  for  educated  women 
SECRETARIAL   ACADEMIC  EXECUTIVE 
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NEW  YORK 
247  Park  Avenue 

PROVIDENCE 
155  Angell  Street 


Special  Course  for  College 
Women.  Selected  subjects 
preparing  for  executive  posi- 
tions. Separate  classrooms 
and  special  instructors. 
One-year  Course  includes  tech- 
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ing preparing  for  positions  of 
a  preferred  character. 
Two-year  Course  for  prepara- 
tory and  high  school  gradu- 
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Cathedral  School  of  St.  Mary 

GARDEN  CITY,  LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y. 

A  school  for  Girls  19  miles  from  New  York.    College 

preparatory  and  general  courses.      Music       Art  and 

Domestic  Science.      Catalogue  on  request.      Box  B. 

MIRIAM  A.   BYTEL,    A.B.,   Radcliffe,   Principal 

BERTHA  GORDON   WOOD,   A.B.,   Bryn   Mawr, 

Assistant  Principal 


The  Traphagen  School  of  Fashion 


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MID-TERM  STARTING 
JANUARY  20th 

All  phases  from  elementary  to  full 
mastery  of  costume  design  and  Illus- 
tration taught  In  shortest  time  con- 
sistent with  thoroughness.  Day  and 
Evening  classes.  Saturday  courses  for 
Adults  and  Children.  Our  Sales  De- 
partment disposes  of  student  work. 
Every  member  of  advanced  classes 
often  placed  through  our  Employment 
Bureau.    Write  for  announcement. 

In  Arnold,  Constable  &  Company  Costume 
Design  Competition,  over  100  schools  and 
nearly  800  students  took  part;  all  prizes 
were  awarded  to  Traphagen  pupils  with 
exception  of  one  of  the  five  third  prizes. 

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BACK  LOG  CAMP 

THE  ADIRONDACK  MOUNTAINS 
INDIAN  LAKE,  NEW  YORK 


Back  Log  Camp  completed  last  September  its  thirty-fourth  season :  one 
of  the  most  successful  in  its  history.  This  means  much  more  than  a  rea- 
sonable cash  return  for  the  capital  and  labor  invested.  Without  this  the 
Camp  could  not  run.  It  means  that  many  of  our  old  friends  (numerous 
Bryn  Mawr  women  among  them)  and  many  new  ones  entered  into  the  fel- 
lowship of  the  Camp.  They  found  there  a  pervading  friendly  spirit,  peace, 
good  company,  excellent  food,  and  as  much  as  they  wanted  of  wilderness 
adventure  under  the  expert  personal  guidance  of  a  large  family,  themselves 
college  graduates  born  and  bred  in  the  art  of  making  a  wild  section  of  the 
Adirondack  Wilderness  accessible  to  persons  of  moderate  income  and 
cultivated  taste. 

The  bustle  and  glamour  of  a  fashionable  summer  resort,  so  indispensa- 
ble to  the  happiness  of  some  persons  and  so  distasteful  to  others,  is  wholly 
absent  from  the  absolutely  simple  life  of  the  Camp. 


Letters  of  inquiry  should  be  addressed  to 

Mrs.  Bertha  Brown  Lambert  (Bryn  Mawr,  1904) 

272  Park  Avenue 

Takoma  Park,  D.  C. 


Other  references 

Mrs.  Anna  Hartshorne  Brown  (Bryn  Mawr,1912) 

Westtown,  Penna. 

Dr.  Henry  J.  Cadbury 

(Head  of  Biblical  Dept.,  Bryn  Mawr) 

Haverford,  Penna. 


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