Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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IN THE LIBRARY Miss Taylor Mr. Herben ' s office: A sign on the door saving. Engaged. Later discovered to be euphem- ism for Reading magazines in periodical room. The reading room: Freshman laboriously try- ing to use Mr. Fenwick ' s home-made short- hand. She found the key to this cryptic sys- tem rustling in the grass beneath Fenny ' s window. Think it will bring her luck to translate her Pol. notes into Fenograms. The periodical room: The Unfailing Four are holding another session. Librarians report that the only way you can note the passage of time is when one club member has to leave to bold a class. Mr. Anderson ' s office: This is Swap morning. Everybody works in somebody else ' s office so that he can get some real concentration con- centrated. We ' ve got to hand it to you. It does baffle the students. Mr. Chew ' s office: One would think he taught psychology instead of English, the way his desk is back against the light so that he can see every flinch of recalcitrant paper-writers while he remains a dark outline of the perfect gentleman and scholar. The maid ' s chair: From this vantage point there seem to be two professors who never leave their nest in the lib for longer than a little leg-stretching in the hall ways. The maid con- fesses she always thinks of them as the Two Settin ' Hens. (Hint: One carries his books in a sack, the other is a member of the Un- failing; Four. ) MARGARET HAILE COMMISKEY DORIS JESSIE HASTINGS (Mrs. Howard C. Darnell I GRACE B. DOLOW1TZ ■HH HHH| ■ « ' Ejk fl S 18

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BEAUTIFUL DONATION TO GRACE NEW ART WING Especially Contributed By A Benevolent But Anonymous Father Next to the water cooler there is a group of books which the library has seen fit to disgorge from its depths and to offer to the public for fifteen cents a volume. Among these miscel- laneous tomes are a few priceless pearls, works moral, didactic, and literary, which can only- have been discarded through ignorant blindness to the beautiful destiny of womanhood, for they are concerned with Woman in her pure un- tutored state. Beauty without and beauty within was once the sacred possession of every woman; it has only become an ideal in these days of equality of the sexes and women ' s colleges. Still, it is not an ideal ever to be despaired of, and in order to recapture it as a fact, I am donating these books to the new art wing, with the provi- sion that they be given a sacred room of their own. Inside, where all who enter must see it, will be hung an illuminated copy of the chart to be found in Self-Measurement, a volume in the Art of Life Series. This invaluable little book en- ables one to test her inner integrity, or dis- integrity, by answering direct, searching ques- tions such as Do you get up in the morning and hurl your shoes through a pane of glass? , or Can you make two blades of grass grow where one grew before? When she has an- swered these questions truthfully, she grades herself plus or minus on the moral ladder, represented by the chart. For example, an af- firmative answer to the first question would give her minus three in her physical relation to life and would place her on the deplorable level of murder. An affirmative to the second ques- tion would give her plus three and would place her in the admirable class of the Captains of Industry. Their education will not be without the in- spiration of the classics, diluted of course. For this purpose Shakespeare ' s Ideals of Woman- hood by George William Gerwig is admirably suited. Gerw r ig ' s scholastic achievement in recognizing the undying qualities of the great master and simplifying them to fit our modern idiom, finds no greater expression than in this ringing passage. In the readiness of her wit and the sunniness of her charm. Shakespeare may almost be said to have dis- covered the American girl three hundred years before she discovered herself. It is the privilege of each one of us to know Juliet the poetic, Portia the capable, . . . Cordelia the honest, . . . Viola the tender. Ophelia and Desdemona the sorrowful. What greater proof of his discrimination and tact than his thoughtful omission of Lady Mac- beth? Finally, since no education is complete with- out provision for harmless enjoyment, the girls will be allowed to read Chamber ' s Repository of Distinctive and Amusing Papers, the ennobling virtues of which anthology are so pl easantly dis- guised that the young ladies will be improved even while relaxing. Let them read the story of Grace Ay ton. The foulest fiend that ever brooded over men ' s souls, and hatched discontent and spleen from black imagin- ings, must have turned himself to love if Grace had excorcised him by her great gray eyes of guilelessness and joy. This is a tense moment when patient Grace is waiting for her drunken husband: Then the young wife began to tire of her work — marvelous fine work was it: making up strange clothing, problems of diminutive dimensions and infinite portions, more like doll ' s clothes than anything else, and yet not doll ' s clothes either. I know of no more touching picture, no other one which can stir in the depths of our hearts the question Well, ' was it ' indeed? 17

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CAROLINE deLANCEY COWL AMANDA ELIZABETH GEHMAN NEW FACUL Youth, Pulchritude, and Variety Mr. Bornemeier is that gentleman of unassum- ing manner and curly hair who inspires under- graduate interest in whether rats see color. Miss deLaguna is not really a newcomer on the campus. She has long been listed among faculty children. However, this is her first year of teaching here. She adds something new to anthropology lectures with tales of her own adventures among the Eskimos of Alaska. Miss Northrup gives economic students first hand information about the treasury department in Washington where she has worked. She is an authority on practically everything, raising kittens included. She has few dislikes except ' ' loose thinking that is all form and no content. Miss Pease is chiefly noted for her sense of EMILY DOAK TY FACES Characterize New Professors humor which once led her to show a slide of a cartoon from Punch on a classical archeology quiz. Mr. Sloane was at first mistaken by his class for a visiting Princeton freshman, but his words proved him to be a man of wide experience, well acquainted with art museums and taverns. Both he and his wife, who is the nice but mys- terious student listening in the back of the room, have become campus favorites. Mr. Steele of the flaming red hair, teaches giddy freshmen the rudiments of English com- position. When not in his official capacity, he is often found willing to instruct them in other subjects, such as dancing and authentic Oxford slang. SUSANNE PRESTON WILSON 19