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

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TOYNBEE MRS. F. D. R. and ANNA LORD STRAUSS ALFRED BARR, JR. Page twelve

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THE LIBRARY CLOISTER BEFORE BUILDING OF THE WEST WING Bryn Mawr history goes back long before the founding of the college. George Washington marched his arniy down Old Gulph Road to Valley Forge, when the road was no more than a cart path and there was no temptation for the troops to disregard the 10:30 rule. The neighboring town, once Possum Town, and later Humphreysville, had been renamed Bryn Mawr (Welsh for high hill ) because it was the highest point within a ten-mile radius of Philadelphia. Here Taylor picked the high and healthy tract of land because it was sure to be malaria-free, and founded his Quaker College for women. A VICTORIAN ROOM IN PEM EAST GIBSON GIRLS UNDER PEM ARCH Page eleven

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(opposite) When there ' s a rush in the hookstore for Eliot ' s Collected Poems, we know that this is no helated enthusiasm for Freshman English, but that a celebrity is going to speak. Alfred Barr, Jr. came six weeks in a row from the Modern Museum to show slides, everything from the geometrical designs of Mondriaan to the three- eyed faces of Picasso; Toynbee came from Eng- land to give the Flexner Lectures entitled ' En- counters Between Civilizations . T. S. Eliot came . . . and left the U. S. with the Nobel Prize. Mrs. F. D. R. and Miss Anna Lord Strauss came . . . and left with the M. Carey Thomas Award, not given annually as yet, only four times in history ! There were countless others — Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, Owen Roberts, Stassen and Max Lerner, Venturi and Jose Ferrer. We heard Sylvia Zaremba and the Paganini Quartet, and numerous speakers on subjects from writing for the movies to the wandering cyclotron. (below) Is this owl-covered Rock Arch? Where we find the Lantern Man for our after-dark trip to the Local for a late-date in Philly? Where on the roof the seniors sing the Magdalen College hymn to the rising sun every May Day? The old story goes that when they built Rock, they had to institute a system of wardens rather than hall mistresses , because post-Victorian prudery would never have allowed a mistress of Rocke- feller! Page thirteen