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

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DEDICATION To Miss Marion Edwards Park, who has been the creative impulse behind the concrete and spiritual growth of Bryn Mawr College during the past two decades. Her imagination has helped to realize the visions of a larger and more fully eguipped campus. As a gracious hostess she has enriched our four years of college life, throughout which she has been for us the embodiment of intellectual integrity. Not only has she encouraged our individual development through her emphasis on independent thought, but she has also shown us how to live as members of an ordered community. Through her inspiration Bryn Mawr has become a living example of democracy.

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n r f J THE construction of Goodhart Hall was started in 1926, but it took a long time to complete the foundation because of the numerous little springs and hidden brooks that feed a swamp in the field below. The well known opinion of Mr. Herben is that the finished product resembles a com- bination of a Breton Chapel and an English tithe barn. Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner, speaking for the undergraduates of a decade ago, expressed the same sentiment less vehemently: We hoped it would be more theatre, less architecture. Originally the plan was to erect three separate buildings, an audi- torium, practice and class rooms for the music department, and recreational facilities for the students. Up to that time, Miss Park told us, the center of Taylor had been hollowed out and used for commencements and assemblies; Mr. Willoughby and Mr. Alwyne used to have their offices in Wyndham and the back of Miss Ely ' s house; and a dozen wobbly tables put together in the gym served as a stage, while the audience sat around the track and dangled their feet over the edge. The college authorities, even after they realized that these projects could be combined under one roof, continued to think of them as three separate units, and as a result the building is still more or less divided into three sections. For example, to go from the auditorium to the Common Room one must pass either over or under the stage or run around outside. The needs for which the hall was built are fairly well fulfilled, and to all intents and purposes Good- hart is complete, although there is still room for additions and improve- ments, such as better lighting and an organ in the loft.