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Published in Nov., Jan., April and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
Vol. IX NOVEMBER, 1930 No. 1

Entered as second class matter under the Act of Congress, August, 1912

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Main Building Frontispiece

The President's Page 3

J. R. McCain

Agnes Scott's Campaign of Completion 4

Entrance and Degree Requirements at Agnes Scott 6

S. G. Stukes, Registrar

From the Alumnae President 8

Llewellyn Wilburn, '18

Letter of Welcome to Alumnae 8

Mary Warren, '29

The Young Resurgent Claims the Earth 9

Janef Preston, '21

The Campus Transformation 10

Ellene Winn, '31

Summering in France 11

Margaret Phythian, '16

Notes on New Books 13

Margaret (Bland) Sewell '20

Through the College Gates 15

Honor Roll Announcements
Lecture Association Program
Gift to Buttrick Hall
Faculty News
N. S. F. A. Conference

From the Alumnae Office 17

Club News

Another Cap and Gown

Report of House and Tea Room Committee

Concerning Ourserves 19

When A.B.s Change to ABCs 28

5 /SI 3

MAIN BUILDING

'O ivied walls! O storied halls!
O shrine of long ago!"

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

WHAT A CAMPAIGN!

This is what we hear on every side in Atlanta and Decatur with reference to the
closing phase of the Agnes Scott Development Fund. It was successful beyond the
dreams of most people in this community. While we did not get the thrill of reporting
"over the top" as yet, we did have the most wonderful support that I have ever known
and we did get close enough to the goal to be sure that our friends can see us through to
final completion.

The amazement of the Atlanta public is that the students and faculty and alumnae
showed the loyalty which was manifest everywhere and that they were not daunted by
hard times or by refusals or any other obstacles.

That the College community would a second time report 100 per cent pledging and
would bring their total gifts to approximately $115,000, surprised even the most
optimistic of us and gave an impetus to the city efforts. There is no doubting that the
Alumnae teams kept up the spirit of the movement day after day. Under the leader-
ship of Mrs. Essie Roberts DuPre, Mrs. Mary West Thatcher, Mrs. Allie Candler Guy, and
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, full attendance at the report meetings was secured and active
service every day. They proved to be eloquent also in their encouragement when things
seemed to be doubtful.

All Agnes Scott friends will be eternally grateful to George Winship, President of
the Fulton Supply Company, who was the general Chairman of the campaign, and also
of course to our beloved J. K. Orr, who was one of the most energetic and productive
workers, in addition to his generalship. Mrs. S. M. Inman was another Trustee who was a
tower of strength for us.

We now stand on the verge of victory with $1,466,768 pledged and a balance of
$33,232 to be raised. If we can have the continued help of our friends for a brief while
longer, we believe that we can celebrate a great accomplishment even during times that
would discourage most institutions.

The future of Agnes Scott never seemed brighter.

j. r. McCain.

Hail, Agues Scott! We sing to thee!

We'll forget thee never!

We'll remember ever!
/Ayr will we hold thee, Agnes Scott,
Of all the world the dearest spot
Hail!

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott's Campaign of Completion

ATLANTA AND DECATUR ORGANIZATION

With Dr. McCain as instigator and the
Campus, Atlanta and Decatur as the field
to be canvassed, Agnes Scott has launched
a campaign to complete the one which was
begun in 1928. James B. Nevin, editor for
the Atlanta Georgian, in a column recently
devoted to a discussion of this subject,
aptly phrases the idea which Dr. McCain
and his cohorts have been so eager to con-
vey. Mr. Nevin writes, "This writer
thinks the campaign if we may call it
that to raise this money for Agnes Scott
does not come within the usual view of
'drives' and things of that sort. It is not
something newly started on the contrary,
it is an effort to carry through a magnifi-
cent undertaking already NEARLY FIN-
ISHED." And continues, "I do not believe
Atlanta will fail Agnes Scott in this crisis.
I say that with all confidence notwith-
standing the 'ifs,' 'ands' and 'buts' that
MIGHT be advanced just at this time to
the contrary! If there is one institution
that this Greater Atlanta SHOULD hold
near and dear to its heart, it is Agnes
Scott College; indeed, I am by no means
sure that our citizenship understands fully
just what a splendid and wonderful col-
lege we have right here in our midst in
Agnes Scott. " "There is no finer school
for girls anywhere in these United States.
Agnes Scott stands at the very top of the
list, and is recognized as a college of ex-
traordinary excellence. Its value to At-
lanta, materially and spiritually, cannot
be over-estimated."

With just such fine leadership, such ar-
dent admiration of our scholastic stand-
ing, and with such faith and encourage-
ment from citizens in Atlanta, work was
begun this summer to see the campaign
through. We felt fortunate in securing,
as campaign manager, Mr. Fought; as
general committee chairman, Mr. George
Winship, of Atlanta; as chairman of the
ladies' teams, Mrs. Walter DuPre (Essie
Roberts); as Campus chairman, Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn, President of the As-
sociation; and Mr. J. K. Oit - as chairman of
the Board of Trustees, who are backing
the campaign. Mr. Fought has shown
great capability in surmounting the mass
of details which were to make possible
maximum efficiency in the final drive,
from October the thirteenth through the

seventeenth. Dr. McCain has been an in-
spirational leader, and has successfully put
over to the many committees working un-
der him the need of this campaign at this
time.

A series of well-planned dinner and
luncheon meetings were held for the teams
working in both Atlanta and Decatur and
led by men and women who have gener-
ously devoted their time to soliciting, be-
cause of their faith in the college. The
women of Atlanta were organized after
a luncheon in the Alumnae House on the
twenty-ninth of September. Elizabeth
Flinn, of the class of 1930, spurred them
on by a clever arrangement of verses
adapted from "Alice in Wonderland," the
key verse of which was:

"Won't you walk a little faster?," is the
plea of A. S. C.

Other schools may try to pass us, lest en-
dowed quite soon we be."

The Women's teams followed this out-
line of organization: Under Mrs. Walter
DuPre (Essie Roberts), chairman of wom-
en's teams, Miss Llewellyn Wilburn head-
ed the Decatur group; the Atlanta groups
were divided between Mrs. S. E. Thatcher
(Mary West) and Mrs. J. S. Guy (Allie
Candler). These three divisions were
each divided into five teams, each under
a chairman and a co-chairman. Each
team then had a minimum of six wox-kers,
making a total of approximately a hun-
dred workers. The teams led by the men
of Atlanta and Decatur were organized on
a similar basis.

The team chairmen and all workers on
the teams were guests of the college at a
rally dinner held in the Gymnasium on the
night of October the tenth, at which time
the students announced the outcome of the
Campus Campaign, which had been begun
at a luncheon meeting on the thirtieth of
September. The student body's enthusi-
asm and zeal was a great inspiration to
the workers who were to begin their so-
liciting the following Monday. The feel-
ing of camaraderie among students, alum-
nae and faculty was infectious, and none
came from the meeting feeling that he or
she could do anything less than his or her
level best to see to the completion of the
marvelous work that had already been
done in moving toward the goal desired.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott's Campaign of Completion

CAMPUS ORGANIZATION

Cleverly adopting the title of a recent
Paramount vitaphone production, "Follow
Thru," the student body launched the Cam-
pus Campaign on the thirtieth of Septem-
ber at a luncheon in the Bucher T. Scott
Gymnasium.

Sara Townsend, President of the Class
of 1930, presided as toastmistress. She
vividly detailed how news of the good old
Agnes Scott Spirit had reached Heaven,
where Saint Peter found it necessary to
put handcuffs, balls and chains on the
alumnae to keep them from returning to
their Alma Mater.

Mr. J. K. Orr, introduced as the "sweet-
est sugar lump of them all," spoke on the
record and aspirations of the college, and
predicted the success of the campaign.

Dr. McCain outlined the plan and pur-
pose of the campaign and expressed con-
fidence that the students and friends of
the college would "Follow Thru."
. Mr. Winship, loyally acclaimed with
"Hooray for Mr. Winship; he's an Agnes
Scott girl," paid a tribute to Dr. McCain
for the character of leadership that has
advanced Agnes Scott so rapidly.

Raemond Wilson, '30, spoke on "The
Alumnae and the Campaign," recounting
how the alumnae look toward the younger
clgssss as younger sisters who will carry on
for the alumnae by pledging support to
the fund that will make toward a greater
Alma Mater for us all.

Penelope Brown, '32, talked on "The
Campaign and the Students," urging the
students not to be discouraged by tem-
porary hardships and reverses, but to "Sail
on and on and on," as Columbus did after
former explorers had mapped out routes
for him to follow and complete.

The final feature of the luncheon was
"Feature Hottentots," who consisted of:
Ellen Hayes, Page Davidson, Mildred Mc-
Cain, and Caroline Orr. These miniature
Hottentots came on the stage wearing
freshman caps, and through their spokes-
man. Page Davidson, urged the students
and faculty to make Agnes Scott a bigger
and better college for the Hottentots of
the future.

The luncheon was closed by everyone's
singing the Alma Mater, and the entire
gathering went on the lawn back of the
Alumnae House, where a splendid group
picture of everyone was taken.

With this luncheon as a beginner, the
students went forward with all faculties
alive to complete the Campaign equally as
chverly. On Saturday night at six-thirty

the members of the freshman and sopho-
more classes were taken on a moonlight
supper hike, at which they were told defi-
nitely about the needs of the college, be-
cause of the varied activities here on the
campus.

On Tuesday, October the seventh, the
Agonistic published a yellow sheet, under
the title of "Follow Thru!" The entire
paper proved itself up to the ideals of a
news sheet, by covering accurately the
four newspaper questions. Four columns
were headed under: "The Campaign
Why?," "The Campaign Who?," "The
Campaign How?" and "The Cam-
paign When?" The first of these col-
umns endeavored to answer its question,
first of all by a statement of the facts of
the immediate future toward which we
are building, and devoted part of its space
to outlining a few student Utopias, to
show you not "what is expected of the on-
coming generation," but "what the on-
coming generation is expecting." These
things are, briefly: tiled shower baths, a
radio in every room, bedside telephones,
breakfast in bed. The second column was
similarly equally divided between a seri-
ous discussion of the actual participants in
the Campaign and a less serious grouping
of campus teams under the following lead-
ers: Big Chairman, Dr. McCain; Next
Big Chairman, Miss Wilburn; Odds' Chair-
man, Margie Ellis; Evens' Chairman, Mar-
garet Massey. The third column urged
loyal and just pledging on the Thursday
and Friday of the actual drive, and sug-
gested means of meeting these pledges by
such clever hints as the following: "Why
use taxies? Borrow Miss Hopkins' car."
"Never wash your hands in the dormitory.
Use the soap in Buttrick." The fourth
column emphasized the days to be devoted
the Campus Campaign in the first half,
and was wound up by a series of accounts
of the times when one would feel satis-
faction at having done her bit, such as:
"When It's Spring Time in the Rockies
we'll probably be listening to hammers
pounding on the new Music Building, so
cheer up, Third Floor Main!"

The grand finale of the Campaign was
reached at the dinner on Friday night,
when the entire student body, faculty and
team workers in Atlanta and Decatur were
present. The meeting proved that the
present students are developing a splen-
did sense of loyalty and are showing am-
bitions of putting Agnes Scott just where
we want to see her, at the head of the
class!

6 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

ENTRANCE AND DEGREE REQUIREMENTS AT

AGNES SCOTT

Samuel Guerry Stukes, Registrar

For some years Agnes Scott has been trying out various methods of selecting stu-
dents. We want not only students who are well prepared from the academic point of
view but students who will be able to adapt themselves to our ideals, co-operate with us
in our campus life, and carry on the traditions which mean so much to Agnes Scott
Alumnae. In this process of selection a very interesting fact has been discovered. For
several years applicants have been asked why they wish to come to Agnes Scott and we
have found that a very large percentage have been influenced by Alumnae. Investigation
has shown that this influence has not been through intimate acquaintance in all cases
but through the standing of our Alumnae in their communities. This has been most
gratifying to us and shows us how greatly our Alumnae may help us in this matter of
securing the most desirable type of student. We believe that greater service may be
rendered if the Alumnae are familiar with our entrance and degree requirements so we
are giving them here in brief outline.

Entrance Requirements

Very few changes in entrance requirements have been made at Agnes Scott in recent
years. This is true with regard to most of the colleges. Our requirements are in line
with those of the majority of institutions which offer only the B. A. degree.

We require sixteen units for entrance, some prescribed and some elective. The
prescribed units are: English 4, Algebra 2, Plane Geometry 1, History 1, Latin 4 or
Latin 3 plus Modern Language 2. Elective units to make the total of sixteen must be
chosen from the usual list of high school subjects with the exception that we do not
credit vocational or semi-vocational courses such as Home Economics, Typing, etc. It
is our experience that a student can carefully plan her preparatory course so as to meet
our entrance requirements and at the same time take several courses in the vocational
field. As a matter of fact practically all of our students have had some of these courses
before entering college.

We also acquire graduation from an accredited high school. This means that the
school must be on the state list of accredited schools or on the list of the Southern As-
sociation. Students from non-accredited schools may enter under the plan of four com-
prehensive examinations. Some schools require a grade higher than passing grade for
recommendation to college. In such cases the applicants must have made the higher
grade and in all cases must be recommended by the Principal for admission to this
college. If the applicant has not made the recommendation grade she may enter by
examinations.

The entrance requirements described above are for admission without condition.
We do admit some conditioned students. In every case however sixteen units from
our accepted list must be presented by the applicant. A student may not have the re-
quired Latin or Modern Language but have sixteen units. In that case she may make up
the conditions in college or in summer school following her freshman year. Our regula-
tion is that all conditions must be removed before the beginning of the second year.

Degree Requirements

A great many changes have been made in degree requirements during recent years.
In these too we have kept our curriculum in line with the curricula of the outstanding
colleges of the country. There are certain principles which must be taken into account
in determining a course of study: first, there must be a proper distribution of courses

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to prevent the student from too much specialization and to introduce her to the various
fields of knowledge; second, there must be sufficient concentration to allow a fair
degree of mastery in some one field. The first of these principles is evident in the re-
quired courses and the second in the regulations governing the concentration in the
Junior and Senior years. We have at Agnes Scott certain courses required of all students.
These specific requirements are:

English 6 semester hours

Modern Language 6

Bible 6

Hygiene 1 2

If the student has had no modern language in high school she must take twelve hours in
college. When the student enters with two units in Modern Language she continues that
language one year to satisfy the above requirement.

In addition to the specific requirements mentioned above we require that a student
select five out of the following seven groups:

Gr. I. Biology or Chemistry or Physics.

Gr. II. English Literature.

Gr. III. Greek or Latin.

Gr. IV. History or Economics.

Gr. V. Mathematics.

Gr. VI. Psychology.

Gr. VII. Biology or Chemistry or Physics.

In each of the five groups selected the student must complete a year course of not less
than six semester hours. There are two restrictions in connection with the selection of
groups: every student must take one laboratory science and every student must take in
college either Latin or Greek or Mathematics (that is, she must select either Group III
or Group V) .

The Alumnae will, we are sure, be interested in the changes allowed in the above
group system as compared with the old regulations which called for about half of the
work required for the degree in specific requirements without option. We believe that
the new curriculum allows a student greater freedom in selecting courses which fit in
with her particular abilities and at the same time safeguards against too much distribution
of subjects.

The changes which have been made also affect the major and minor requirements of
the Junior and Senior years. Some will remember that we had a few years ago the re-
quirements of a major and a minor. Now we have the major requirements
practically unchanged but instead of a minor we require courses in allied or
related subjects. These are commonly called "related hours." For instance, a student
majoring in French will complete the requirement of twenty-four semester hours in the
language and take her twelve related hours in other languages or European History. We
also allow a major of twenty-one hours when the related hours are increased to fifteen.
We believe that this scheme gives a student a better grasp of her field of specialization
than the old practice of a major with a minor not closely related to the major subject.
For the student, however, who has a special interest in two unrelated fields we offer the
"double major" without the required related hours.

This discussion may seem technical but we have tried to state the Agnes Scott
requirements as simply as possible. We want the Alumnae to know that .we are making
changes which keep us abreast of the educational practices of our finest institutions.

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

FROM THE ALUMNAE PRESIDENT

Dear "Alums":

How I wish every single one of yovi could be on the campus to see the changes
which have taken place during the summer! All of the students and faculty and At-
lanta and Decatur are still gasping and asking, "Have you seen the elevator in Buttrick?"

or "Aren't the date parlors in Main cute?" You'll
just have to make that visit this year and see for
yourselves, for no words of mine are adequate.

As the Quarterly goes to press the Campaign
Committee is launching in Atlanta and Decatur
what will be called "The Campaign of Comple-
tion," for it will be a drive for the final $300,-
000. The Trustees would never have undertaken
this campaign if the Alumnae had not made the
original offer to raise the money for the Chapel.
We pride ourselves on being able to see through
what we begin So let's each consider seriously
what our responsibility is in sending this cam-
paign over the top. $40,000 of the Chapel fund
has not yet been subscribed. Can't we dig down
a little deeper and make a success of this under-
taking?

I wonder if you feel in close touch with the
college and with the work of the Alumnae As-
sociation? I'm sure if you could know how many
students come to Agnes Scott because of some
alumna they have known, you would feel a thrill
of pride. If you have any suggestions of work

we ought to be doing, won't you let us know? The success of the year's work depends to

such a large extent on the interest of every Agnes Scott Alumna.

Sincerely,

LLEWELLYN WILBURN, '19,

President of Alumnae Association.

A LETTER OF WELCOME TO ALUMNAE

Dear Alumnae:

Thanksgiving is fast approaching and I know what Thanksgiving brings with it to
every Agnes Scott girl a desire to get back with all her old friends to her Alma Mater
for the loads of fun that she always finds there.

A Home Coming is a glorious adventure, when you stop to think about it, and you
wouldn't dare miss the chance of renewing old friendships, of exchanging latest secrets
with your best friend from far away, of seeing the marvelous changes wrought on our
Campus showing the first fruits of the Campaign and most especially you wouldn't
want to let your friends congregate at a birthday without you!

It's because of this birthday party that I have the chance of writing to you, so I
mustn't dwell too much on the other good things about home coming this year. First
of all, you are every one invited to attend a birthday tea given in the Alumnae House on

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Friday, November the twenty-eighth from three to five in honor of the birthday of our
dear alumna, Anna Young, for whom our Alumnae House is named. We expect to have
the very nicest party ever, but it can't be a success unless everybody who can possibly
come is there. Birthday parties often bring the same feeling that brides' showers and
graduation invitations do, but let me explain this point, too! This is not the old time
child's party where someone meets you at the door to take your present and lets you
in to see the fun if you've paid your entrance fee in the form of a tissue paper package
tied with blue ribbon! This gift-giving would be on the quiet, and from those who,
realizing the need of any household, feel that they would like to contribute some little
something to our Alumnae home. It is always tremendously appreciated. You all know,
and too well I expect, that sheets and pillow cases and towels do have a way of wearing
out, china and glassware will get broken and that there are always artistic additions that
make a place home-like. I'm afraid my hints fairly well escape subtlety!

In case I have digressed from my main objective, let me extend again the very heart-
iest invitation to every alumna to be present at our home coming Tea. If you can come
for the whole week-end, so much the better, but if you can spare only one day, make
that one Friday, November the twenty-eighth, and if you can spare only part of that
day, take time out from three to five, and I'm sure you won't be sorry.

Yours until Thanksgiving,

MARY WARREN, '29.
Chairman of Entertainment Committee.

THE YOUNG RESURGENT CLAIMS THE EARTH

This half-familiar loveliness, that glides

In shining presences across the grass,
These lingering April afternoons, and rides

Behind wind-hurried poplars as they pass,
Is more than some bright Ariel's descent

Upon an alien world. Unto this hour
April, a thousand vanished years, has lent

Evanescently her fair love's flower,
And burgeoning upon an ancient hill.

Has lifted measured moments to the sun,
Then drooped, a spent but young immortal still,

Another century of springs begun.
In beauty older than an Eden's birth,

The young resurgent April claims the earth.

Janef Preston, '21.

Winner of the White Sonnet Prize, offered by a Mrs. White of New York through
the Poetry Society of Georgia. This prize is given for the most perfect sonnet written
by any member of the Georgia Poetry Society and was won by Janef's poem over many
entries.)

10 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

THE CAMPUS TRANSFORMATION

Ellene Winn, '31

Just as the ladies of the gay nineties were wont to wreath their heads in glorious
transformations, so has our Alma Mater adopted a transformation, which, we feel sure,
should entitle her to hold her head high as one of the loveliest ladies of the South.

Never again will Sophomore Commission snatch hair over the advisability of push-
ing the Freshmen in the pool under the Old Gym, nor debate on whether Miss Miller
would lend mattresses for the event. The Alumnae's subterranean bird bath like a
poet's dead sweetheart is nothing now but a rose bush. Numerous little brick walks
and plots of grass are now on the sites of Home Ec and Old Gym, while the Laundry
has given place to Buttrick Hall, which is such a perfect example of Gothic architecture
that the history teachers use it to illustrate their lectures in History 101 on the subject of
Artichitecture. It even has a couple of flying buttresses!

There really isn't a "Back Campus" any more (where men, etc., are not allowed, you
know, and where people could wear combs in their hair in the dear old days), for a
new paved drive goes from McDonough to South Candler, via Buttrick Hall, the Library,
the Gym, and the Infirmary.

The administrative offices are on the first floor of the new building. You really
ought to see Dr. McCain's grand looking new office furniture, the gift of the Class of
1930. Also, everyone will be interested to know that Mr. Tart has a strong room.

All the classes are held in Buttrick, too. We had never known how palatial a class
room could look. There are, however, several drawbacks to our class rooms, gorgeous
as they are. All of them have glass in their transoms, and people will have to stop
pulling that awful gag about Miss Latin Smith except as an occurence of the dear, dim
past. And as to the desks they are so brand new, that it will be much harder to stay
awake during classes, as we used to beguile the time by reading the names and fraternities
of the beaux of our dear alumnae.

Other interesting features of the new building are the Post Office in the basement,
which has real barred windows just like the one in Big Dec, and the new Book Store,
which really looks exactly like Macy's. There is an elevator for the faculty, but every
one is afraid to run it but the Freshmen and Dr. Davidson. On the second floor there is
a marvelous lounge with wicker furniture in it, where people wait between the bells
which are, by the way, run entirely by electricity. They go off regularly, and now
Ellas doesn't have to punch those little buttons in Main.

Twelve and thirteen Main have been thrown together to make a very attractive
room for the Day Students, with new draperies, rugs and wicker furniture. And forty-
two Main is now the Y. W. Cabinet Room. All the other offices and class rooms in
Main which were left vacant have been made into the most adorable little date parlors,
with shaded lights, beautiful draperies, and everything conducive to romance. It is
rumored that this was done at the instigation of Miss Flopkins, who is eager to have
Agnes Scott uphold its high per cent of married alumnae. No statistics have as yet been
filed with us as to just how things are going, but we are sure that business will pick up
considerable as soon as the news gets around about the new courting facilities.

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SUMMERING IN FRANCE

Margaret Phythian, '16

Here comes another summer traveler pest wanting to talk about her trip and
everybody knows what a bore that can be and at least you can luckily turn the page,
since you know what it is all about, whereas, if I met you face to face, you might be
in for a good hour without hope of escape. But really the thing that makes me bold
enough to talk about my good times this summer is the memory of Ruth Slack's ac-
count in the Quarterly of her trip west; it sounded so interesting that I decided then and
there that if ever I had a summer that I enjoyed as much as she did hers, I would cer-
tainly put it in print!

One of the best things about this trip was that I did not expect to take it. When
I got back to Agnes Scott last fall, all worn down and washed out after a year of hard
study in Paris, and having missed all the thrill and excitement and enthusiasm of the
campus campaign, I had such a cheated feeling that I made up my mind then and there
that nothing could pull me so far away from home again. Then the year wore on and,
in no time, people were beginning to plan all sorts of interesting summer trips. Miss
McKinney and Dr. Sweet were going to Italy, Germany and Switzerland and Miss Alex-
ander was thinking of France and before I knew it, the foursome was made up and we
were sailing for Cherbourg on the Leviathan. Everybody knows that things cannot be
dull around Miss McKinney even with the dread of sea sickness hanging over her head,
so we had a jolly time all the way across and landed ready to do Europe. The foursome
split up at Cherbourg, Miss McKinney and Dr. Sweet making for Italy and Miss Alex-
ander and I off for a summer in France.

We were several weeks ahead of the tourist crowd. Brittany was our first objective,
starting with that most unique and beautiful of all spots, Mont Saint Michel. The
ideal way to see Brittany is supposed to be by auto, in a nicely organized party, where
all the difficulties are smoothed out, but if you don't mind a few discomforts, go as we
did on the funny little trains and make your way as best you can from one quaint little
town to another, with only as much baggage as you can handle with ease by yourself,
We left home with two suitcases apiece but cut it down to one before the first week
was over and literally lived in our suits.

I could talk forever about Brittany, the quaint old towns and the picturesque mar-
ket places, teeming with people in native costume, the clatter of their wooden shoes
over the cobblestones, the women on their knees washing in the river, the old churches
which have stood for centuries, always open and never empty, the wayside calvaries, the
lovely country side, yellow with blooming broom, and most of all the beauty of that
rugged coast with the blue sea dashing against its rocks. I have not enough descriptive
adjectives in my vocabulary to do justice to Brittany but if you are interested in seeing
France, do not forget this little corner where the people cling more tenaciously to their
traditions than in any other part of France, and where, if you do not follow the beaten
track, you can get some real insight into the life of the people.

After Brittany, we decided to make for the South before it got too hot, so we
followed the coast down to Biarritz in the western end of the Pyrenees, stopping on the
way at Nantes and Bordeaux, Biarritz is a typical ocean resort town, full of hotels,
shops and tourists, so we lingered only long enough to get places in one of the big auto-
cars for a six-day trip through the Pyrenees as far as Carcassonne. That was a marvellous
trip and after I stopped driving from the rear seat and made myself look at the scenery
instead of the narrow mountain road, I enjoyed every minute of it. The first day took
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beret would have seemed more picturesque had it not been the latest fad here at home.
We were eager to see the national Basque game of pelote but missed it all along the
line. I had always wanted to see the Pyrenees but had no idea that they were so beautiful.
We climbed to dizzy heights above the clouds with nothing in sight but snow peaks and
then down to lovely green valleys and slopes covered with masses of wild flowers and
then off again, always different, and each more beautiful than the one we had left behind.
Aside from the scenery, the high spots along the Pyrenees trip seem to me to be Lourdes
with its magnificent cathedral and thousands of pilgrims in search of miraculous cures,
and Carcassonne, that ancient walled city which seems untouched by modern civiliza-
tion.

From Carcassonne, we took another six-day auto trip through the mountains of
Central France. This seemed a little tame after the Pyrenees trip but was lovely low-
mountain country and particularly beautiful through the gorges of the Farn river. We
explored a unique cave in this section which was discovered thirty years ago but has been
open to the public only since 1927. Here some of the stalagmites rise to the amazing
height of one hundred feet and the general impression is that of a gigantic forest whose
fantastic looking trees are made of purest alabaster.

Coming back to Carcassonne, we took the train for Avignon and the Palace of the
Popes, stopping off at Farascon to pay our respects to Fartar Inn. Avignon was delight-
ful but I must hurry on to Marseille and from there all along the Mediterranean coast by
auto to Nice. Here we spent the fourth of July and encountered our first heat, so we
headed once more for the mountains and this time, the Alps.

We spent some time at Chamonix and did a little tame climbing toward Mont Blanc.
We were tempted to linger there but hurried on to Switzerland where we met Miss Mc-
Kinney and Dr. Sweet at Lucerne. Everyone knows what a beautiful spot Switzerland
is and I don't think we missed many of its delights After ten days here, we headed
back to Paris via Alsace.

I should have stopped the ramble long ago but I cannot do so without saying that
Strasbourg is a beautiful city and well worth the trip there for the cathedral alone not
to mention the quaint old homes and the stork nests on the chimney. Another spot in
France, which is of course classic to the tourist but none the less interesting is the
beautiful Loire valley, with its historic old chateaux and particularly the towns of Tours
and Blois. Here, as everywhere we wanted more time; a summer really should be twice
as long.

Until we got to Paris, we hadn't seen a soul from home, in spite of reports that all
of Agnes Scott was in Europe. By that time I looked so shabby that I hoped no one
would know me, but I had hardly stepped out, when I was hailed by Mar)' Davis. It
was good to see her but not complimentary that she recognized me by my delapidated
back. Next, we met Miss Christy and ended by staying at her hotel. But I mustn't
start on Paris or this will never end. We joined forces with Miss McKinney and Dr.
Sweet here for the second time and, after two weeks that went all too quickly, sailed
back together, congratulating ourselves that we had missed the U. S. heat wave and
unanimous in the decision that it had been a perfect summer.

So, the summer passed and when fall rolled 'round again and found us back at
A. S. C, I found that what I had missed during my year of study was to be mine again,
the thrill of the "Follow Through" campaign, with its goal so near; and not even the
most beautiful cathedrals I saw gave me more joy than the wonderful evidences of the
campaign already shown in Buttrick Hall and Main.

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NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20
Two Autobiographical Books

That truth is stranger and often more interesting than fiction is exemplified in a
recent book that possesses a unique and fascinating charm to all who have been so fortun-
ate as to read, "The Story of San Michele." The author, Dr. Axel Munthe, claims that
the book was not intended as an autobiography, that self, unconsciously, crept in. Some
one has called the book a story of Death; instead, it should be called a story of Life,
of abundant life. The author had a most interesting and varied career. Though of
Northern, Swedish birth, Dr. Munthe impresses one as being of Southern, Latin temper-
ament. Through the pages of San Michele, one travels extensively with Dr. Munthe;
one lives in Paris; in Keat's house in Rome; visits cholera-stricken Naples, one greets the
name of old friends, such as: Henry James, Dr. Weir Mitchell, Guy de Maupassant; one
associates with and becomes fond of a variety of dogs and pets. Indeed, Dr. Munthe
claims that though opinions differ as to his skill as a physician, his skill as a dog-doctor
has never been disputed. The reviewer could write pages about this delightful book,
but fears to deprive the prospective reader of some of the many thrills in prospect for him
or her.

Differing greatly from, and yet possessing some similarities to the story of San
Michele is the "Foursquare" of John Rathbone Oliver. A man of diverse gifts and in-
terests, Dr. Oliver has expanded his life to include four vital interests, hence the name
of his latest book. Dr. Oliver devotes more than half the pages of this book to his
work as psychiatrist to Baltimore's City Courts. To the layman, as well as to the
specialist in crimnology, these pages will make an earnest appeal. His occupation of the
chair of Medicine at the University of Maryland; the wardenship of one of the buildings
at Johns Hopkins; and the crowning joy of Dr. Oliver's week his services on Sunday
as a priest in the church of his choice, occupy the rest of the pages of this story of
a busy, useful life. Dr. Oliver does not add authorship to his list of successful activities,
but readers of "Fear" and of "Victor and Victim" know that he ranks high in the field of
letters.

The Son Avenger, by Sigrid Undset, Translated by Arthur C. Chafer

This novel brings to a dramatic close Mme. Undset's tetralogy, The Master of
Hestviken. To those who have followed the author through the pages of her earlier
works, who have lost themselves in the life of Norway of the Middle Ages, who have
followed Kristin Lavransdatter from her peaceful childhood through the tempestuous years
of her girlhood and young married life, to the final struggles of her old age, the power
of this later work comes not as a surprise. Some of the colorfulness of Kristin Lavrans-
datter is lacking to be sure but. on the whole, this last novel is of more real significance.
It is a book full of human and of spiritual problems, problems that can not be considered
apart from the age in which the characters live, problems of human justice and of medie-
val faith. Like Kristin Lavransdatter, it is alive with elemental passion and elemental
force. It is a book that one can not read and leave but a book that one must continue to
live with, day by day.

The Meaning of Culture by John Cowper Powys

"Culture is what is left over after you have forgotten all you have definitely set out
to learn." This somewhat unusual and entirely delightful definition is typical of the
freshness of attitude of the author toward an old subject. And if one can just persuade
oneself to overlook the rather alarmingly learned sound of the title of this book, and
to plunge headlong into its analyses, its definitions, and its applications of that fascinat-

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ing, elusive quality called culture, one will find relief from a prosaic, commercial,
mechanical world in the contemplation of one's one soul and of its great potentialities.
"Let us have done," says the author, "with this vociferous, hypocritical humbug about
real life being more important than books! The noisy persons who use these bracing
expressions will never know, with all their bluster, never, never in twenty years,
such quivering ecstatic raptures as one silent boy or one reserved girl draws in afternoon
from the pages or from between the pages of Rousseau's Confessions, or Proust's Le
Temps Ketrouve or Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, or Spengler's Decline of the West.
It is not the outward variety or the material bustle and clatter of experience that counts
it is the subtlety and the intensity." And it is for such as these the silent, the
reserved, the intense persons that Powys is writing. This cult which he terms Culture,
which resembles Humanism and which is strangely akin to the highest types of religion,
is for the man or woman, boy or girl who, though "surrounded by affectionate relatives
and pleasant acquaintances," is a little alone in the world, a little shy of sharing with
any one that inner light which shines so much more radiantly than the outward and
visible living of every day. Culture and Philosophy, Culture and Literature, Culture and
Painting, Culture and Poetry, Culture and Religion, these the author discusses fully and
with understanding, adding also considerations of the application of Culture through
happiness, love, nature, reading, human relations, and destiny. One could only wish that,
instead of repeating himself as he occasionally does, he had added some word, at least,
of the relationship of culture and music. But though that is not included in detail, it
is generally understood in his broad applications of culture, for "the true meaning of
culture is a quickening and vivifying of a person's deepest and most secret happiness; in
other words the attainment of as thrilling a response to the magic of life as that per-
son's temperament allows."

The Boys and Sally Down on a Plantation by Rose B. Knox
(Doubleday, Doran and Co., Garden City, New York, 1930.)

The Boys and Sally, by Rose B. Knox of the class of 1899, recaptures something of
the charm that endeared Two Little Knights of Kentucky and Diddic, Dumps and Tot to
juvenile readers and all readers interested in the Old South "just after the war." It is a
thoroughly readable and lovable story, based on plantation life and developed against
all the fine old traditions which we like to think of as being typically southern.

The plot is advanced in a series of whimsical accounts of the adventures of Sally,
her younger brother, Van, Richard, the mountain boy who claims to be the son of Rich-
ard Lyle who disappeared during the war, and, as Sally puts it, "the million boys in this
family" who "are perfectly awful!" A light vein of humour runs throughout the ac-
counts, and there is a mass of vivid description to make such scenes as the depletion of the
barn-yard fowl's feathers for the purpose of outfitting would-be Indians and the loss of
Sally's curls, thanks to a misdirected can of green paint, not only graphic but memor-
able.

Both the author and illustrator have lived on typical Southern plantations and the
life they portray verbally and pictorially is accurate as well as charming- The book is
recommended for boys and girls up to the age of twelve, and in the words of Anne
T. Eaton who reviewed the book for the New York Times in August, "Miss Rose B.
Knox has given us in The Boys and Sally, a volume that ought to be a permanent ad-
dition to the list of books for children dealing with American life."

Be sure to add this to your list of books for your child's next birthday or for Christ-
mas. It is a real story by a real Agnes Scott alumna, who will enjoy hearing how you
have liked the book. Write to Miss Rose B. Knox, care Junior Books, Doubleday, Doran
and Co., Garden City, New York.

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15

Through the College Gates

HONOR ROLL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Once more the faculty have donned their
academic regalia and marched through
the Chapel to the strains of "Ancient of
Days" while the student body stood ting-
ling with curiosity for the news that was
about to be announced. On Saturday, Oc-
tober the fourth, the faculty gave honor-
able mention to twenty-three of the pres-
ent student body for scholastic standing in
the academic year 1929-1930.

The papers dwelt lovingly on the fact
that of the twenty-three thirteen were
Georgia girls and ten of them of Atlanta or
greater Atlanta. All of which means,
"Look to your laurels, oh boarders!" or the
next building on the Campaign program
will be a Day Student hut, and not the
luxurious modern dormitory you are covet-
ing!

Those who have made the honor roll for
this past year are: Class of 1931: Marjorie
Daniel of Senoia, Georgia; Ellen Davis of
Louisville, Kentucky; Katherine Morrow
of Zitacuaro, Mexico (and, by the way,
Katherine is the only honor student who
is a non-resident of the United States);
Laura Robinson of Augusta, Georgia
(sister of Dr. Henry Robinson of the
Mathematics Department) ; Elizabeth
Simpson of Decatur, Georgia; Julia
Thompson of Richmond, Virginia; Louise
Ware of Atlanta, Georgia, and Ellene
Winn of Clayton, Alabama (one of the
contributors for this issue).

Class of 1932: Penslope Brown of At-
lanta, Georgia; Lora Lee DeLoach, Stone
Mountain, Georgia; Virginia Gray, Union,
West Virginia; Ruth Green of Louisville,
Kentucky; Irene Hartselle of Lakeland,
Florida; Lois Ions of Miami, Florida; Eliz-
abeth Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida;
Elizabeth Skeen of Decatur, Georgia (the
second to last of the Skeens); and Miriam
Thompson of Atlanta, Georgia.

Class of 1933: Willa Beckham of At-
lanta, Georgia; Mary de Saussure Clarke
of Atlanta, Georgia; Elizabeth Lightcap
of Yazoo City, Mississippi; Elizabeth
Little of Atlanta, Georgia; Eulalia Napier
of Decatur, Georgia; and Gail Nelson of
Atlanta, Georgia.

tation to the alumnae to enjoy these lec-
tures. As you see from the following pro-
gram, the first lecture was held on October
29th, with Dr. Franco Bruno Averardi, as
the speaker, but it will be well worth your
while to purchase season tickets, as the
other attractions are all very interesting
and admission to the Byrd lecture will be
two dollars, except by the season tickets,
as the contract so stipulates; so, if you can
attend two or three of these lectures, it
will pay you to purchase the season ticket
and have the low price for the Byrd lec-
ture, available only to season ticket hold-
ers.

Wednesday, October 29, 8:30 P. M. Dr.
Franco Bruno Averardi Contemporary
Literature in Italy.

Monday, December 8, 8:30 P. M. Prin-
cess Der Ling At the Manchu Court.

Wednesday, January 7, 8:30 P. M. Dr.
Arthur Pillsbury Miracles of Nature
(moving pictures).

Thursday, February 26, 2:30 P. M. Ad-
miral Richard Byrd Flying to the South
Pole (moving pictures).

Princess Der Ling was one of the ladies
in waiting to the Empress Dowager of
China and her father was ambassador to
many countries; her education has been in
Christian mission schools of China and in
France; her wide travels have made her a
very interesting speaker and her subject
of the Manchu Court ought to prove a most
attractive one.

Dr. Arthur Pillsbury presents an illus-
trated lecture, dealing with the marvels of
nature, especially undersea life.

Admiral Richard Byrd. We simply name
him and add that he brings with him pic-
tures taken on his flight and expedition
which are entirely different from those of
his moving picture.

LECTURE ASSOCIATION PROGRAM
FOR 1930-1931

The Lecture Association feels that it is
exceedingly fortunate in the offerings for
this year and extends a most cordial invi-

GIFT TO BUTTRICK HALL

Among other new possessions of the ad-
ministration building is a beautiful colored
etching, brought from Europe by Miss
Alexander, Miss Phythian, Dr. Sweet and
Miss McKinney expressly for the purpose
of adorning the walls of Buttrick Hall.
The etching is of the Cathedral of
Chartres, and the college community at
large feel deeply indebted to them for this
gift of real artistic merit. This picture was
accepted by the faculty with expressions
of delight and the following morning, an-
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in chapel by Dr. McCain and an oppor-
tunity given to the college community to
see this picture.

FACULTY NEWS

Announcement was made at the begin-
ning of the session of the fact that the fac-
ulty and administrative staff for the year
1930-1931 includes sixty-five members, two
of whom are new, three of whom have
been on leave of absence last year, and
three of whom are temporary appoint-
ments. These faculty members and ad-
ministrative officers have been assigned
space in Buttrick Hall, and are enjoying
the privileges of having individual offices
and conference rooms. News of these fac-
ulty members is as follows:

Dr. James T. Gillespie, brother of the
late Dr. R. T. Gillespie of Columbia Semi-
nary, is to be associate professor in Bi-
ble. He and his wife are living on the
campus in one of the faculty homes.

Miss Marion Leatherman is in charge of
the Library, and will be assisted by Miss
Clara Mae Allen.

Miss Martha Crowe after receiving her
M.A. degree from Columbia University
this past summer, has become a regular
member of the French department, where
she served temporarily last year.

Miss Philippa Gilchrist is getting her
Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin this
winter, and in her absence Miss Frances
Rainey is filling in for a year in the Chem-
istry department.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson has returned as
professor of Mathematics after spending
last year on a leave of absence at Johns
Hopkins where he was awarded his Ph.D.
in June and where he did extensive work
on a text book. He and his wife and two
children are living on College Place again
this winter.

Miss Gooch chaperoned a party to Eu-
rope this summer.

Miss Melissa Cilley is head of the Span-
ish Department here this winter, coming
here from the University of Wisconsin,
where she was head of the Spanish House.
Miss Hollingsworth, her predecessor, is
doing clerical work in Baltimore.

Miss Emma May Laney has received her
doctorate from Yale University.

Miss Louise Hale is living in one of the
college houses on South Candler Street
this winter with her mother and father,
who are a delightful addition to faculty
activities.

Miss Leslie Gaylord went abroad with
Georgia Watson, '28, this past summer.

Miss Katherine Omwake, after spending
a winter doing research work in Washing-
ton, D. C, has returned to teach in the
Psychology Department.

Miss Hopkins was honored by the Uni-
versity of Georgia last June, when that
institution voted to confer the honorary
degree of doctor of letters on her. The
Athens papers detailed her distinction as
follows: "It is in recognition of her long
service in educational work that Miss
Nanette Hopkins, Dean of Agnes Scott
College, will receive the degree of doctor
of letters from the University of Geor-
gia." Miss Hopkins has also received cred-
itable publicity in the Atlanta papers re-
cently, and we feel a glow of pride in the
appreciation of the reading public of one
whom we hold so dear.

Dr. McCain's parents, Professor and
Mrs. John I. McCain, of Due West, South
Carolina, celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary on July the eighth, at which
time Dr. McCain also celebrated the comple-
tion of 50 years of teaching. Dr. McCain
is now head of the English Department of
Erskine College, where he has been for
the last forty-eight years.

Miss McKinney, Dr. Sweet, Miss Phy-
thian and Miss Alexander report an ideal
summer traveling in Europe.

Dr. Ethel Polk Peters, resident physi-
cian during Dr. Sweet's leave of absence
last year, has been added to the teaching
staff of Paine College in Augusta, Geor-
gia, where her husband, Dr. E. C. Peters,
is president.

N. S. F. A. CONFERENCE

One of the most interesting happenings
of the year at Agnes Scott will be while
most of the college community is away for
the Christmas holidays, when the National
Students Federation of America will con-
vene in Atlanta, with Georgia Tech and
Agnes Scott as hosts to the girls and boys
from all over the country. Rebekah Scott
dormitory will be given over to the girls
who are delegates to this conference, and
Tech will take care of the boy?. This con-
ference, lasting for several days in the last
week of December, is one of the most im-
portant of all student gatherings and
Agnes Scott feels honored to have the dele-
gates as her guests. Martha Stackhouse,
'30, who was our delegate of last year
and is also one of the national officers of
this association, is planning to return at
that time to assist in making our part in
this convention a success. Ellen Davis, '31,
the president of student government this
year, will also be here, and will assume a
good deal of the responsibility of arrange-
ment plans for our guests at Agnes Scott.

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From the Alumnae Office

Club News

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

The Birmingham Club held its first fall
meeting at the home of Mary Ray Dobyns,
the president, with eleven present, and the
election of officers resulted in the follow-
ing officers for the coming year: Presi-
dent, Eugenia (Thompson) Akin, '25; vice-
president, Elizabeth (Ransom) Hahn, '23;
secretary, Olivia Swann, '26; treasurer,
Pauline Willoughby, '30. This club has
decided to change its monthly meetings
from a downtown hotel meeting place to
the different homes of its members, meet-
ing on Saturday afternoons, every two
weeks, if possible, and with Lib (Ransom)
Hahn as chairman of the program commit-
tee and Vallie Young (White) Archibald
and Cornelia Cartland on the committee,
the meetings will be well provided for in
that line. A group from this club is plan-
ning a trip over for a week-end soon. One
interesting idea which this club is plan-
ning to try out and which they do not
mind others adopting is the use of one of
the ever-present miniature golf courses of
their city for a week, allowing them to
sell tickets on some sort of percentage
basis to increase the treasury. The award-
ing of a scholarship in Birmingham this
year is also under consideration with this
group and many other worth while plans.
Much credit is due the officers of last
year who so successfully put over the Col-
lege Day program in four high schools of
the city, with students from Agnes Scott
as speakers on these programs.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

Miss Farris Davis has been elected pres-
ident of this club at a luncheon held re-
cently at the George Washington Hotel;
Mrs. H. F. Bethea (Anne Waddell) is vice
president; Miss Elizabeth Lawrence, sec-
retary-treasurer; Mrs. Arthur Murphy
(Sarah Davis), member of the board for
two years and Mrs. J. H. Ross (Gertrude
Briesenick), members of the board for one
year. Gertrude (Briesenick) Ross gave a
delightful talk on the Agnes Scott com-
mencement which she attended; Charlotte
Buckland made the announcement that
scholarships were to be awarded this year
to Agnes Scott in the several high schools.
Mr. Charles T. Paxon and Mrs. Paxon

were guests of the club at this luncheon
and Mr. Paxon gave an interesting talk
on the Agnes Scott Building Fund. Those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. Paxon, Rachel
Paxon and her guest, Sarah Southerland,
Anne (Waddell) Bethea, Sarah (Mc-
Kowen) Blackshear, Farris Davis, Doro-
thy (Brown) Jennings, Elizabeth Law-
rence, Ellen Colyer and Charlotte Buck-
land.

ATLANTA, GA.

Officers are not elected this year in this
club, as they hold office for two years, ac-
cording to the club constitution, so the
September meeting, which was held at
Willie Belle (Jackson) McWhorter's beau-
tiful home on Habersham Road, was a
very delightful social meeting, without
much routine business, except the many
plans for the annual Bazaar, which will be
held this year at the Anna Young Alum-
nae House, under the general leadership
of Ethel (Alexander) Gaines, with about
ten efficient chairmen of tables and their
committees, to assist in making it a suc-
cess. For the first time, the bazaar will
be held on the campus and this enables
the club to not only appeal to its usual
Atlanta gathering but also puts it near to
the college community. This club has an
annual pledge for five years to the cam-
paign of five hundred dollars and with
one year's five hundred behind, is press-
ing hard on to its second payment.

COLUMBUS, GA.

Early in September, this club was host
to the students who are to be students at
Agnes Scott this year at a beautiful
bridge-tea at Spring Haven, the charming
country home of Mrs. Roy Duncan (Lil-
lian Eason). Not only were the girls who
were prospective students for this year but
also those who were returning for a sec-
ond year and their mothers, guests of this
club. The game was played in rooms
which were veritable gardens of flowers
throughout, lavender and white predomi-
nating. Afterwards, the club and its
guests were seated for tea at a long table,
beautiful with low bowls of physostegia,
dahlias and roses, with tall lavender can-
dles in crystal holders, and at each hon-
oree's place were lovely manikins dressed
in white organdy with touches of lavender,
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hostesses were: Lillian (Eason) Duncan,
Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust, Mary (Brad-
ley) Cooper, Myrtle Blackmon, Emilie
Harvey, Josephine (Schuessler) Stevens,
Miriam Kaufman, Frances McCoy, Mar-
guerite (Bratton) Joerg, Hallie (Alexan-
der) Turner, Lucile Eason and Louise Ba-
ker. The honorees were: Natilu McKen-
ney, Louise Schuessler, Juliette Kaufman,
Mary Dexter, Joan Raht, Nanna Seally,
Marjorie Gamble, Mrs. C. M. Gamble, Bet-
ty Gardner and Mary Boyd.

Many interesting things are being done
by this club each year; one of the most
successful ones of last year is to be re-
peated this year the bringing of a group
of interested high school seniors up to the
college for a week-end, the guests of the
Columbus girls who are now in college,
that they may have a real taste of college
life at A. S. C. and see how much fun it
it. Also, the awarding of the scholarship
which was won last year by Louise
Schuessler, will be again given by this
club to a high school student.

The officers elected for the coming year
were: Josephine (Schuessler) Stevens,
president; Pearl Lowe (Hamner) Betts,
vice president; Frances McCoy, secretary;
Lillian (Eason) Duncan, treasurer; public-
ity chairman, Louise Baker. There are
about sixteen members in this most en-
thusiastic club.

ANOTHER CAP AND GOWN!

The Alumnae Association feels deeply
indebted to Daisy Frances Smith for the
gift of a cap and gown during the sum-
mer. This is a favor to us and to the
girls who rent them from year to year,
and we wish to extend our thanks to her.

And speaking of caps and gowns the
caps and gowns which the Alumnae Asso-
ciation rents to the senior class each year
have gone like the proverbial hot cakes
already this fall. What we need is more of
them. ' Seniors are clamoring for them,
and there are quite a large number of
these who feel that they cannot afford to
buy new ones, and to whom we would like
to extend the privilege of renting them
from us, but find ourselves without the
wherewithal. Haven't you a cap or a
gown for which you have no immediate
use that you could let us have ? If you have
a prospect in sight for said articles such
as a sister or a daughter who plans to en-
ter Agnes Scott, why not let us have your
cap and gown until she needs them? Or
if you are merely cherishing them as sym-
bols of "the bright college scenes from the
past," shake out your sentimentality with
the moth balls with which they are stored
away, and let us have them.

REPORT OF HOUSE AND TEA ROOM
COMMITTEE

(This report was not published with re-
ports of the other Alumnae Association
committees in the July Quarterly, being
delayed to cover the fiscal year from Sep-
tember to September).

The Anna Young Alumnae House seems
to become more popular each year as a
home for returning alumnae. This year
we have had a greater number of guests,
from guests of alumnae, mothers of col-
lege students, as well as from alumnae.
There have been some alumnae who have
spent several weeks at the Alumnae House
while taking courses in Atlanta, and there
was one, Miss Rosa Belle Knox, of the
class of 1899, who, being so charmed with
the atmosphere of the house, spent two
months there while writing a book.

Returning alumnae have always found
a cordial welcome awaiting them, from
Mrs. Nisbet, the hostess, and manager of
the tea room and we feel that she has
been most successful in her first year with
the Alumnae Association. Mrs. Nisbet
will be with us again this year.

The House has been the grateful recipi-
ent of many gifts linen from Miss Mc-
Kinney and Dr. Sweet, Miss Alexander
and Miss Phythian, Miss Lillian Smith,
Mrs. Jean Ramspeck Harper, and many
others. Miss Elizabeth Jackson gave a
half dozen bouillon spoons. At the Thanks-
giving Birthday Party there were gifts
of money from Mesdames Young, Brown
and Eagan, and a lamp from the Atlanta
Club, and two pictures from the Birming-
ham Club.

The House and Tea Room Committee
had $155.47 which passed through their
hands during the year. This was spent
for linen, silver, china, curtains, kitchen
utensils, and menu card covers for the Tea
Room, which were made by a member of
our committee, Eva (Towers) Hendee.

This report is from September to Sep-
tember:

Receipts $7,842.02

Disbursements 7,104.53

Profits 737.49

75% Profits to General Asso-
ciation 553.12

20% Profits to Mrs. Nisbet 147.50

5% Profits to House Committee 36.87

Respectfully submitted,
FRANCES (GILLILAND) STUKES,
Chairman of House and Tea Room Com-
mittee.

Program of Events

FOR

November and December

November:

November 1 Seniors' Hallowe'en Party.

November 8 Investiture.

November 22 Blackfriars' Play.

November 27-29 Home Coming Week-end for Alumnae. Re-
union time for class of 1930.

Home Coming Week-end Events:

November 27 Alumnae-Varsity Basketball Game, 10:00 a. m.
Football in Atlanta.

Formal dinner in college dining halls, followed by
dance in Gym.

November 28 Visiting classes in morning.

Swimming in Gym pool, time to be arranged.
Alumnae Home Coming Tea in Alumnae House,
3 to 5 p. m.

November 29 1930 Class Reunion Dinner, Alumnae House, at
7 o'clock.

December:

December 5 Dedicatory services of Buttrick Hall.

December 6 Junior Night.

December 14 Messiah. Given by the Choral Society under the
direction of Mr. Johnson.

December 19 Beginning of Christmas Holidays..

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Published in Nov., Jan., April and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
Vol. IX JANUARY, 1931 No. 2

Entered as second class matter under the Act of Congress, August, 1912

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Winter Scenes at Agnes Scott Frontispiece

The President's Page 3

Dr. J. R. McCain

English Schools 4

Mrs. Kate Culpepper Rawls

Buttrick Hall Dedicated 6

Commencement Dates 6

Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief 7

The Second Generation at Agnes Scott 9

John Masefield 10

Adelaide Cunningham, '11

Founder's Day, February 21st 11

Life Members of Alumnae Association 12

Thanksgiving Reunion for 1930 13

Belle Ward Stowe, '30

Impressions of the White House Conference 14

Carol (Stearns) Wey, '12

A College Education What Is It? 15

Institute of Euthenics Vassar College 16

Do Your Christmas Swapping Early 17

Book Reviews by Mary McCallie, '30
Through the College Gates 19

Campus Chat

Faculty News
From the Alumnae Office 21

Club News

The Prof's Job

Alumnae Home Coming Tea

Agnes Scott Needs You

Checked In!

The Play Awards

Help Wanted!

Concerning Ourselves 2 5

A Blank Page for Your Use 44

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The wealth that summer hoarded,
The careless Autumn spills

Along the country road-sides
And on the distant hills.

She flaunts a princely vesture

Of scarlet and of gold,
And puts away no saving

For Winter or for cold

Oh, Autumn is a spendthrift,

And recklessly runs thru
The gold of Summer's saving

And April's silver, too.

So Winter is a pauper

Who wraps her shame in snow,
When naked branches rattle

And cold winds blow.

Marjory (Lowe) Haley, '23.

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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

OUR AGNES SCOTT

As we approach the close of the year and the opening of a new one, it is a natural
inclination for us to take stock of our situation and to make plans for things that
should be done. It is with some such attitude of mind that I have been thinking over
the more than forty years of Agnes Scott experience, and I would like to share with
the Alumnae my meditations.

Agnes Scott came into existence at a most important epoch of the educational his-
tory of this country. Interest in the training of women was just beginning and in the
South it had hardly passed the stage of a vague dream. There were no standards in high
school fields, and almost none in the realm of colleges or universities for men.

While Agnes Scott had a very modest beginning, and while it could cover only a
most limited part of the educational territory, yet its Founders had definite plans for
the development of an institution of Higher Education, and they did the little which was
attempted with real thoroughness. From the beginning, therefore, our college has been
a missionary of high standards. When the General Education Board in May, 1929, ap-
propriated five hundred thousand dollars for our work, their action was "in recognition
of its excellent work, standing and influence."

Along with the maintenance of standards which have secured all the recognition
provided by the educational world, have gone the qualities of dignity and simplicity in
all institutional relations. In Commencement Exercises, in Investiture, announcements
of new members in Phi Beta Kappa or Hoasc, in giving awards of academic honors, the
college always makes an impression on those who are present. For example when Dr.
John H. Finley, the distinguished Editor of the New York Times, was delivering a
Commencement Address for us not long ago, he was so impressed with the ceremonial
over which Miss Hopkins presides that he went and knelt at her feet and asked that
she adjust for him his hood as she had been doing for the seniors. He has received honor-
ary degrees from many, many famous universities, but nothing ever quite impressed him
so much.

The simplicity of our college life and activities is carried also into the religious
atmosphere of the college. It is most noteworthy that our attainment in intellectual
thought and action has not prevented a very beautiful and simple faith on the part of
both faculty and students. Agnes Scott girls have largely been content to live their
religion rather than to boast about it. Denominational lines have never been drawn,
but the power of real religion has been ever felt.

On account of small financial resources, Agnes Scott has never emphasized beauty
in buildings, campus, and equipment; but the time has now come when surely this ought
to be stressed as far as may be possible.

As we think into the future, there is no doubt that very many of the colleges for
women will be discontinued. Experts give various estimates, but most of them range be-
tween two-thirds and four-fifths of such institutions which they think will yield to the
financial pressure and competition of State Institutions. We believe that Agnes Scott
ought to have a permanent place, and it is our duty and responsibility to see that such
foundations are laid as will make permanence possible. It was this feeling of responsibility
and of opportunity that led to the campaign for a million and a half dollars, and this
feeling also must help us in pressing on to greater things in the future.

Our College is one of the few that does not desire to be big. By continuing to
strengthen our resources, and to select our students, we believe that Agnes Scott will
always have a place as one of the greatest small colleges in all the world.

J. R. McCain.

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ENGLISH SCHOOLS

Kate Culpepper Rawls

(Mrs. Rawls wrote this treatment of the school system of England, after an exhaustive study of the
subject, and wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness to certain reading sources: J. Dover Wilson's
"School of England" ; I. C. Kandel's "Education in Europe" ; Sandifors' "Comparative Education," and
"Educational Yearbook of International Institute." Mrs. Rawls is head of the Mathematics Department
of Commercial High School in Atlanta, Ga.)

To give an accurate account of the school system of England is a feat that has not
yet been accomplished even by one of their own number. All the world has known
how characteristically "efficient" were the German schools, what faultless machines were
produced by that perfectly planned, highly centralized control that used its schools for
nationalistic propaganda; that it was basically aristocratic as shown in the separation of
the Volkschule and the Hohere Schulen, the latter accessible to the privileged classes only;
that, since the late war even, the German system has not been radically modified.

France could also give an account of her system, the best example of State control
in all the world, which she regards as the soundest guarantee of efficiency, as well as her
surest safeguard from monarchy or ecclesiastical control. Although 20 per cent of her
children are educated in private schools, not one of these schools can be opened without
the approval of the Ministry of Public Instruction, inspector of an academy, the de-
partment officials, local mayor, and Public Prosecutor. Only a small number of boys
and girls enjoy the privilege of her wonderful higher schools (other than special voca-
tional), since the selective method here is by the process of elimination. Again, as in
Germany, intense application required of the pupils who enter secondary schools at 9 or
10 years of age, leaves almost no time for outdoor sports and play, if suitable grounds
were provided. These usually are lacking, and teachers, held responsible for accidents to
pupils, are not over-zealous in urging sports.

In spite of the radical departure of the English schools from the ideals of those
mentioned (with their many acknowledged excellencies), or perhaps because of that
departure, the schools of England afford a fascinating field of study. Their organization
would seem devoid of any philosophy or underlying principle. Certainly England could
not claim to have set up in advance, as did Germany, all the aims and inclusive ends of
her system. Some critics have claimed that English education, like her Constitution, has
grown up "in haphazard fashion," in a fit of absent-mindedness," "in response to the
needs of the moment," etc.

To have responded to the needs of the moment through all the centuries that have
marked education in England, is no mean accomplishment. Before England became a
nation under King Alfred, her first minister of Education, Whitby, Canterbury, Yarrow,
and York were producing scholars, as they are doing today. Modern Oxford and
Cambridge were in active existence in. the 13th century, older than the State itself. As
the system now is, in its main divisions of university, secondary, and elementary, so it
was in the 15 th century. It was at the period of the Reformation that large numbers of
schools, both elementary and secondary, were built by private benevolence. The modern
expansion of free education in England could not have been so rapid without the use of
these old school buildings, accessible to all communities.

J. Dover Wilson, in "The Schools of England," says: "How England has accomplish-
ed, in less than a century, the colossal task of giving free elementary education to her
child population, of free secondary education with scholarships and grants to colleges and
university, from the small beginnings of a parliamentary grant for schools of the poor
to a fairly coordinated system under central control of a Board of Education is more
like a romance than a statement of fact." But this central control in no way resembles
that of France and Germany. The principle of State control of education has never ap-

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pealed, in the large, to English thought which abhors mechanical organization and theory,
and worships freedom as an element in the development of character.

The most intriguing feature of the English schools is the mystic maze of "private"
and "public." Their great public schools are private boarding schools, and many of
their privately owned and operated schools are "public" in the sense of being financed by
public or state funds. Many private schools, with no State or local aid, are rated "effi-
cient" by the Board, if they have proved to the State Inspector that their schools are
maintaining required standards. This stimulus raises the standard of education in the
whole country, as parents will naturally choose "efficient" schools for their children.

Physical education, games and swimming, are required of all, and for the older pupils,
excursions under teachers' guidance, to places of historical, geographic, artistic or civic
points of view, and journeys. The curriculum was arrived at after 60 years of trial
and error. It is said to be excellent, and to keep the pupil working at capacity.

After examination, at 1 1 years, the best are drafted to the secondary schools, the
better of the remaining go to the central school. The Central schools (modern) are
classified as elementary, but are really free secondary. In London and large cities, the
central schools are (1) Selective, take pupils thru 15th year, have vocational aim; (2)
Non-Selective, in provincial cities, the whole elementary period divided into junior and
senior. There are 70 selective schools in London. They probably take the place of
American Junior High Schools.

An interesting group of schools, which many of the radical labor party would like
to abolish, as well as the great public schools which these schools supply, are the
boys' preparatory schools.

These are private ventures without endowments and free of governmental control,
charging ample fees. The boys trained in them leave not later than 14 years of age for
one of the higher schools. Characteristically boarding schools, they draw many day
pupils in the large towns. They are the only gateway by which boys may enter Eton,
Westminster, Marlborough, and other public schools of this type. This is true also as
concerns admission to Royal Naval College. There is no choice of curriculum, since
that is decided by the schools to which they contribute their pupils and that means
many hours weekly of Latin and Mathematics. As junior public schools they share the
seniors' aims: Development of character and leadership are as important as excellence in
the class-room work.

The nature of the education provided is physical, mental and moral. The program
includes much sleep, play, wholesome food and gymnastics. "No school can succeed if
it does not make health a main consideration."

The headmasters of the boys' schools, think, as all Englishmen think, that the im-
portance of games as means of inculcating public spirit, unselfishness and cooperation, can
scarcely be exaggerated. A Rhodes scholar from America (at Oxford) said: "What
impresses me most is that here are 3000 young men every one of whom would rather
lose a game than play it unfairly"; and Dean Inge contributed: "The maxim, play the
game' may seem to the Germans childish, to the French foolishness but rightly applied,
it is the foundation of all that is best in English character why we have been suc-
cessful in foreign policies and in governing backward races."

Secondary education in England is administered in the great public schools, and
the day schools for boys and girls. The most interesting of these arc public schools,
partly because of their wonderful history. Be it remembered that these are private
boarding schools for boys and are feeders for the great colleges and universities. For
centuries England has depended on these private schools for secondary education, in
marked contrast with Germany, France and other important states. It is claimed that

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this condition has prevented many English children from receiving higher education,
has fostered tradition, conservatism, a spirit of class distinction and prevented standard-
ization in secondary education. If it be granted that the main purpose of this education
is to develop leaders, it has amply met the challenge. There is afforded a training in
these schools that is far more than mere instruction. Eton alone has given England 10
prime ministers, 22 governor generals of India, a number of cabinet members and public
men. The teachers of these schools regard the certificates demanded for entering and
leaving, secured by difficult examinations, a salutary feature in schools where selection
is not otherwise possible. They justify the stiff curriculum requirements on the basis
of small classes, expert instructors (Oxford and Cambridge men) , ideal conditions of
study and recreation.

BUTTRICK HALL DEDICATED

The dedication of Buttrick Hall, the new administration building, was one of the
outstanding events of the fall, taking place December 5, at two o'clock. Since the
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools was meeting in Atlanta, it was
Agnes Scott's privilege to entertain some two hundred delegates at luncheon in Rebekah
Scott before the exercises. And their presence at the dedication exercises added much
to the audience, composed of the college community and friends from Atlanta and De-
catur. Afternoon classes were suspended and all gathered in the Gymnasium for the
exercises. Dr. Few, the president of Duke University, and Dr. Dillard, a member of the
General Education Board, made short speeches, then the keys of the new building were
formally turned over to the Trustees by the architect who explained some of the symbol-
ism of the decorations on the buildings. A prayer of dedication closed the service.

COMMENCEMENT DATES MAY 30- JUNE 2

Are you a member, graduate or ex, of the classes of 1893, 1894, 1910, 1911, 1912,
1913, 1929 or 1930? This is your reunion year and won't you turn that new calendar
over to May and June and mark with red ink this week-end? Do you know how
lucky you are that this is your reunion year, for though all alumnae are urged to come
back and many will be here who are not of these classes, there's something special about
reunion year and especially having it coincide with the year when there is so much to
see back here? Can you wait to see Buttrick Hall? Or will you be able to spend the
spring months until you see with your own eyes the date parlors of Main and the ter-
races and the back entrance to Main, not to mention the green, green grass growing
over the spots where old Home Ec and the old Gym stood, as well as the hearing the
thrilling sound of the hammers and what-ever-it-is that builds new buildings?

If you have never been back for a reunion time, you don't know what you have
missed, and, if you have, you know you cannot afford to miss it. There will be some-
thing doing every minute and more folks to see whom you haven't seen in years, more
talks to have out, more thrills over your college as she is to-day and more memories
of her as she was in your day. Since this Dix plan brings back classes which were here
at the same time, you'll find many, not just of your own class, whom you'll be glad to
see once more. And don't forget that there are many friends among the faculty who
have long since forgotten the escapades of your past, granting that you ever had such
and remember you in that roseate setting of "an old-girl."

May 30 to June 2nd: Reunion time for all alumnae! Lay your plans deep and long
for that time!

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"DOCTOR, LAWYER, MERCHANT, CHIEF,"

Jills of All Trades

Several times questions have been asked the alumnae office about the various lines
of work that our alumnae are following and even a very casual glance at this subject
is so interesting that we feel you will enjoy knowing it, too. This article does not pre-
tend to cover the ground in any way at all, for that would be an exhaustive study, but
the following names and occupations of our alumnae are given just as a "starter" and with
the idea of choosing a representative from many different lines of endeavor; in almost all
of these paths, many names could be given, if this were intended as a list of any kind
but it only wishes to give you some idea of the many kinds of work in which Agnes
Scotters are engaged.

Mary Barker, '00, is a splendid representative of our hundreds of teachers, as she
has been again elected as head of the American Federation of Teachers.

When it comes to alumnae authors of stories, plays and poems, Rosa Belle Knox of
the class of 1 899, has just published "The Boys and Sally," which has won much
favorable comment as a story of southern life for children ;.Janef Preston, '21, Helen T.
Moore, ex-'18, have achieved awards in poetry field and Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20,
is one of our play writers.

Among our librarians, Tommie Dora Barker, ex-' 10, has won prominence, having
been recently appointed as regional field secretary of the American Library Association
for the South; while Lillian (Baker) Griggs, '97, is secretary and director of the Library
Commission of North Carolina. This field of activity is one that so many of our alumnae
have sought in recent years, especially, that to mention the librarians would consume
many pages, for they are doing valuable work in libraries from Maine to California, and
in all the branches of the work.

Nan Bagby Stephens, ex-'03, as originator and director of the Drama Workshop in
Atlanta, is adding materially to the cultural life of her city.

In the field of kindergarten again we find so many alumnae it is impossible to choose
one, so we'll name two: Fannie Virginia Brown, ex-'26, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Cather-
ine Randolph, '2 5, a teacher of kindergarten methods.

Ruth (Slack) Smith, '12, is dean of women at Duke University, while Ellen Palmer
(Pratt) Rhodes, ex-'97, holds that position at the University of Georgia.

Caroline Randolph, '18, is technical assistant in the State Health Department at
Nashville, Tenn.

Dorothy Moorehouse, ex-' 18, superintendent of the Ophthalmic Hospital of Cincin-
nati, Ohio, G. Suttle Ham, '19, a doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, in
Houston, Texas, are two illustrations of our alumnae in the field of medicine, where
many are engaged.

With the title of director of social medical service of the Children's Flospital, Wash-
ington, D. O, Lucia Murchison illustrates another phase of work being done; while
Sara Currie, '28, is clinical laboratory and X-ray technician in Highsmith Hospital in
Fayetteville, N. C.

Among our newspaper women, Martha Lin Manly, '2 5, is one who has been true to
this profession since her graduation; Farris Davis edits a magazine, Woman, published by
the Southern Club Woman Publishing Co. Anna (Colquit) Hunter is another member
of this group, as editor of book reviews for the Savannah Press.

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In the realm of advertisers, the Agnes Scott alumnae are cornering the market; many
names could be given you of alumnae who are doing outstanding work in this line of
work, but space forces us to name just a very few: Myra (Scott) Eastman, '18, is a
partner in the well-known advertising firm of Eastman, Scott & Co., in Atlanta; Mary
Brock Mallard, '19, is advertising manager of Myers Department Store in Greensboro,
N. C; Olive Graves, '28, is with J. Back Advertising Agency in Nashville, Tenn. The
corps of the advertising departments of Davison-Paxon and Rich's in Atlanta read
like a class roll of Agnes Scott of any recent year.

So many of our alumnae have entered the business world that it is impossible to choose
one; the name of Katherine Reid can be given as she ranks high as a trainer of busi-
ness people, being president of Crichton's Business College in Atlanta. Such interesting
positions are held in stores, offices and banks by Agnes Scott graduates that it is hard to
leave this subject untouched.

An unusual work is that being done by Bess McConnell, ex-' 19, as consulting dec-
orator for eastern hotels of United Realties Co., including Grove Park Inn at Asheville,
N. C; Wardman Park and the Carlton, Washington, D. C.

Mary Junkin, ex-'28, does the designing of cretonnes for the F. A. Foster Co. in
Boston, makers of the Puritan and Doulton. And speaking of designers, we can claim
one of the celebrated costume designers of the country in Laura Mays, who has acquired
an international reputation in this line, specializing in costumes for musical comedies and
moving picture productions; her designs have been displayed with such costumers as
Chanel, Patou and eminent American artists.

Leonore (Owsley) Herman adds to our variability by being an alumna who has at-
tained distinction as a mural decorator in this country, studying in France under Simon
and Hellen.

The vice president of the Dancing Masters Association of Georgia, Gene Dozier,
'27, is one of Atlanta's foremost dancing teachers. And while we are in the "arts," we'll
speak of Pauline Brown, ex-'29, music supervisor of the city schools in Bristol, Tenn.

And from far away Honolulu comes news of Martha Jane Smith, ex-'26, who will
be there for two years as director of the Girl Scouts. Many of the alumnae are in Y.
W. C. A. work; mention may be made of one, "Jack" Anderson, who is traveling the
length and breadth of California in the interest of that organization.

Of alumnae in religious work of all kinds there are a great number; many are mis-
sionaries in foreign and home lands, others are engaged in religious work in the churches,
as Sarah McFadyen, '2 8, director of Religious Education in Presbyterian Church in
Minden, La., and Gladys Gaines, in religious work in St. David's Church in Austin, Texas.
And closely allied to this are our alumnae in orphanage work, of whom we will mention
three: Mariam Anderson, '2 8, head of the girls cottage at Grandfather's Orphanage at
Banner Elk, N. O; Kathleen Kennedy and Louise Ash, who are running "singlehanded"
the whole works at the Pritchard Orphanage in Ona, W. Va..

And last but by no means least, never forget the high average of A. S. C. alumnae
who have that unnamed and unsung and non-union- houred "job" of runner of house
and husband and "chillun." Those Agnes Scotters are so numerous and so outstanding
that we cannot illustrate, just look over the married file and take your choice. And
there are other interesting professions which have not been touched upon in this space
that our girls have chosen. Isn't it a thrilling thing to think of the touch of Agnes
Scott all around the world, her girls taking their part in every phase of life's work and
shedding abroad the influence of those days spent back on her campus?

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THE SECOND GENERATION AT AGNES SCOTT

The second generation at A. S. C, known as the Granddaughters Club, of which
Clara Knox Nunnally is president, is one of the prides of the Alumnae Association, as
well as the college, for it is made up of girls who are following in the footsteps of their
mothers at A. S. C. In this picture, taken on the steps of the Anna Young Alumnae
House, are:

First row, from left to right:

Judy Blundell, '3 3 whose mother was Adeline Schaefer, '00

Sara Shadburn, '32 " " " _. Estelle Webb, '02

Clara Knox Nunnally, '31 " " " __Allie Felker, '10

Charlotte Reid, '34 whose guardian was Mary Hubbard, Academy

Elise Jones, '31 whose mother was Ada Darby, '09

Florence Preston, '34.

Annie Wiley, '99

Second row, from left to right:

Jule Bethea, '3 3

Mary Hamilton, '34

Adele Arbuckle, '31

Elizabeth Winn, '34

Third row, from left to right:

Catherine Baker, '32

Mae Schlich, '32
Mary Duke, '3 3

Isabel Lowrance, '34

Martha Williamson, '32

Sarah May Love, '34

Fannie Brown, '06

Mary Carter, Academy

is Mrs. H. B. Arbuckle, Special
was May Elizabeth Curry, '07

Catherine Spinks, '0 5
May Shepard, '04

Gennic Cousin, '00

Grace Hollis, '01

Lillian Phillips, '03

Louise Inglis, '97

Not in the picture:

Lucy Goss, '34
Nancy Kamper, '34

Lucie Durham, '97
Vera M. Reins, '06

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JOHN MASEFIELD, POET LAUREATE OF ENGLAND

Adelaide Cunningham, '11

(This article is composed of excerpts from a most delightful story of John Masefield, by Adelaide
Cunningham, which appeared recently in the Atlanta Journal.)

John Masefield, appointed May. 10, 1930, to succeed Robert Bridges as poet laureate
of England, visited Atlanta in the spring of 1918. As a "war speaker" appointed by
the British foreign office to present the cause of the allies before the soldiers in the
various cantonments located in the United States, Masefield spoke at Camp Gordon, where
I heard him in June, 1918.

While in Atlanta, the English poet also addressed the Writers Club. On this oc-
casion, he gave a resume of his book, "Gallipoli," which is a first-hand account of the
campaign waged in the Dardanelles by the British against the Turks. At the conclusion
of his lecture, the audience requested the speaker to give several of his poems. He re-
sponded with the characteristic "Sea Fever," beginning "I must go down to the seas
again."

Masefield's love for the sea makes it particularly appropriate that he be poet laureate
of England. But Masefield is essentially the poet of peace, a poet of the new democracy.
Ramsay MacDonald, the Labor Minister, appointed him. And Masefield writes not about
the glories of the British empire and the fighting strength of her navy; he writes about
her stately ships that go to far-distant lands, laden with rich cargo; he writes about sailors
and English farmers, who love their homes;

"These homes, this valley spread below me here,
The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen,
Have been the heartfelt things past-speaking dear
To unknown generations of dead men.

"All the unspoken worship of those lives
Spent in forgotten ways at other calls
Glimmers upon these fields where evening drives
Beauty like breath, so gently darkness falls."

Masefield lives on Boar's Hill, overlooking Oxford, a hill which poets seem to love,
for here also lived the poet laureate, Robert Bridges, and here came Matthew Arnold,
who was professor of poetry at Oxford, when he wished to escape from the noises and
bustle of the town.

To reach Boar's Hill one takes a bus at Carfax. The road crosses the Thames at
Folly Bridge, from which, one sees the barges and boats of the famous Oxford races.
Thence we travel through the Hinkseys, suburbs of Oxford, and on over the meadows
and up the hillside. Thus Masefield describes it:

"Midsummer night has fallen at full moon,
So, being weary of my ancient tale,
I turned into the night

Up the old trackway leading from the vale
The downland dimmed before me, dune on dune,
Pale dogrose buds about me shed their scent;
The startled peewits glimmered as they went;
The moonlight made the earth and heaven white,
The heaven and earth together uttered June."

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Below us are "the spires of Oxford," the "valley belfries" which Masefield hears;
on we go past Bagley wood where the gypsies lived in Arnold's day. Fired against the
west is the tree, Arnold's signal elm, a proof to him that Scholar Gypsy traveled yet the
loved hillside, where he and Clough used to go to escape "the great town's harsh, heart-
wearying roar."

How quiet is the hill! The wind comes strong and sweet, laden with the scent of
new-mown hay and clover. A traveler joins us. She had been to see Robert Bridges.
An old man she told me, but very cordial.

Now Masefield takes his place, Masefield, the poet who sings not of princes and
captains, but of sailors and farmers, of the "poor, lonely ones of God."

Many years ago Masefield said in "Consecration" that he would write

"Not of the princes with periwigged charioteers
Riding triumphantly laurelled to lap the fat of the years,
Rather the scorned the rejected the men hemmed in with spears;
Not the be-medalled Commander, beloved of the throne,
Riding cock-horse to parade when the bugles are blown,
But the lads who carried the koppie and cannot be known.

"Theirs be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold;
Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould
Of the maimed, of the halt, and the blind in the rain and the cold
Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tales be told."

FOUNDER'S DAY, FEBRUARY 21

The second great home coming event of the year, 1930-1931, is near at hand,
February 21st this year instead of February 22nd, since it falls on Sunday when all over
the country the girls of A. S. C. will be in spirit back at Agnes Scott as they listen to
the voices of Miss Hopkins, Dr. McCain and a few old friends, and sing with the Glee
Club the songs of long ago. And through the country-wide, in almost every state, there
will be groups of alumnae or individual alumnae eagerly waiting the hour when the
Founder's Day program goes out over WSB, Atlanta Journal station. What excitement
about whether or not it will come in strong or whether this will be the night when the
static decides to be omnipresent, then the hour strikes, the dial is twisted, and suddenly
you hear the announcer saying, "Agnes Scott College is celebrating tonight with this
program the birthday of its founder, Col. George Washington Scott," a long sigh of
relief and back you settle in your chairs to hear the talks and songs, then up on your
feet to sing loud and long, "When far from the reach of thy sheltering arms." And
don't forget to send in that telegram to Miss Hopkins or Dr. McCain, care Journal
Radio Station, Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, Ga., to be read back over the radio and re-read
next day in chapel and re-read many times by your friends on the campus and at last
to appear in the next Quarterly. If you can't get the telegram off for any reason, be
sure to let us hear immediately by letter how the program came to you, who was with
you as you listened, and what you enjoyed most of all.

If you have a large group of alumnae in your town, won't you plan a gathering on
February 21st to hear this program? If you have a small group, won't you meet together
at one home and tune in on February 21st? If you are the lone "alum" in your town,
you too, must tune in on WSB and enjoy this half hour with the whole crowd of old
girls who are with you "in the air." It is a fine time to invite interested high school
girls who may be considering coming to college to listen in, or mothers of girls at A.
S. C. now or any friends of the present or future Agnes Scott.

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THANKSGIVING REUNION FOK CLASS u* 6v

Dear 1930-ers-Absent-from-Reunion,

As a fitting beginning we'll have to tell how awfully much we missed each and every
one of you that week-end of November 27th-30th, at that grand get-together back at
school. It really was wonderful our love for the Alma Mater got increased about two-
fold, we were overcome by the improvements, and the campus still seems to like us a
little so it was a huge success.

The festivities began Wednesday night with the Cotillion formal; it seemed just
like old times to be down in the Gym, looking at everybody's new evening dress and
wondering if they think our own new one is as cute as we do. Of course, there was the
real sure 'nuf male orchestra and the usual good old Dr. Hewey punch in the offing.
(It really tasted a little strong after so many months of abstinence!) Then we got to
meet all the shy little freshmen and had a chance to impress them as high and mighty
alumnae. But alas! all to no avail for they weren't even half as silly as we were. Thanks-
giving morning there was the usual basketball struggle, Alumnae versus Varsity. It
was a good game but sad but true, dear sisters, we got beat. Not even Callie's straight
and sure tosses, nor Sara Townsend as an enthusiast (isn't she that in everything we ask
you?) nor Lynn nor Mattie Blanche with their playing good as ever, nor faculty help
in Miss Wilburn and Miss Sinclair could overcome those up-and-atom-like-the molucule
students! Thursday night we all had turkey in the dining rooms and then our highest
hopes and deepest desires were realized believe it or not, we were entertained at Coffee in
the faculty parlor with Miss Hopkins herself presiding. So you see all those four years
spent in honest toil were not in vain. Verily 'twas an uplifted feeling!

Friday we were given a tea in the Alumnae House with soft lights, dee-licious food,
and everything else that blesses the heads of alumnae such as we. The rest of the day
was spent in riding the elevator over in Buttrick and looking around the luxurious (can
you imagine it?) Main parlors, which formerly sheltered Miss Smith's Latin classes and
those night-mares of History 1.

Saturday was our very biggest day, for that night we had our banquet. It was
strictly 1930 we got snooty and didn't ask any of the other visiting alumnae, so you
can imagine what fun we really had. The place cards were those cute bugs we always
used 'way back in our college days. Don't you remember them just about to jump
off a stump and waving a hat or flag or something? Then the decorations were perfectly
beautiful red and white carnations and nice fluffy green ferns (I could wax really poetic
but never fear, I'll be considerate and spare you) . We amused ourselves by singing
Senior Opera all over again. All of us grew hoarse over "We are the loyal soldiers of the
Count de Loo-oony" and the nuns' "O, my friend, why have you come?" so we paused
for a moment and let Sara sing her famous laughing song. Then Pauline did her well
known "Sonny Boy" and we got almost tearful. As a truly public spirited close, we all
made little speeches over our present state of life. The school teachers won with Eleanor

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Bonham leading, being the proud mother of five hundred children and two gold fish.
Sara impressed us all with her lofty "Dum Spiro Spero" inspired by her Latin classes
down in Opelika. The others in the same category, that of leading impressionable little
minds to things of higher learning, were Louise Baker, Lynn Moore, Pauline Willoughby,
Fanny Messer, Anne Turner, Mary Jordan, Lillian Thomas, Emilie Harvey says she knew
her mind got affected at Agnes Scott, for she's now in a really nut house some pecan
warehouse or something! Katherine Crawford is trying not to get Scotch with her
close association with Mr. Tart, and Tumpsey Flinn besides studying French and type-
writing at home is taking riding lessons (improvement 999) out at school. Rae Wilson
and Mary McCallie staged a regular debate over the merits of Rich's and Davidson's, re-
spectively, so to keep them from blows, Lib Keith intervened with stories of more
school at the University of Louisville and a handsome unmarried professor. Mattie
Blanche is really inspired with being real honest-to-goodness Agnes Scott faculty and
Callie Nash seems to be prospering with her cooking lessons. Virginia Sears is taking
organ and as a result of such heavy labor has lost ten pounds. Miriam Kaufman is a
real working woman and has been for two years, and Mary Gregory is on the verge of
joining her. And now comes the grnd climax which I've saved till last on purpose.
You should have seen Jane Bailey and heard her when she murmured ever so sweetly,
"I've got the darlingest little home and the dearest husband in the world." That was too
much, for we all got so terribly romantic that we had to leave the banquet and go out
and look at the moon shining on Main Tower.

Tumpsey spoke at Y. W. Sunday night and told us all about her pilgrimage in
Europe this summer. And then it was all over. But I know all of us who were there
will never forget that first sensation of being a graduate and an alumna. It was really
worth all the struggle that had to be gone through with before we got to that exalted
state. So all of you who weren't back this time, do try to come to the next reunion
in May and we'll all get sure 'nuff collegiate again.

Yours for 1930,

Belle Ward Stowe.

IMPRESSIONS OF THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE

Carol (Stearns) Wey, '12

Those of you who read the news of the 1912 class know, thanks to my having the
Alumnae Secretary as a next door neighbor, that I have been much interested for the
last few years in a home for dependent children, and particularly absorbed recently in
the building of the new Cottage Unit plant. Consequently you will understand that it
was as a representative of Hillside Cottages and the Child Welfare Association of Fulton
and DeKalb Counties of Georgia that I was invited to attend the White House Confer-
ence on Child Health and Protection. It was my first appearance in a professional wel-
fare group and as a "Board Member" my impressions are those of the veriest layman
among the more than two thousand delegates present.

The opening meeting, held on Wednesday evening, sounded the exact right note
to put those attending in tune with the purpose for which they had been brought to-
gether from the four corners of the country; from the invocation of Reverend McCart-
ney, "Forgive the sins of maturity, we beseech Thee, which we continually commit
against the innocence and helplessness of childhood," though the benediction of Rev-

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erend Walsh, "Teach us what Thou alone canst teach us best, how to cherish, guide
and fortify the future citizenry of this beloved land into perfect manhood from gen-
eration to generation." The address of President Hoover was admittedly one of his best.
His sympathetic approach to the subject and his very evident sincerity and understanding
made all those who heard him realize that his services in the past for little children had
never come just in line of duty but sprang from the motivating theme of his life.
Only one who loved children could have the noble conception of so remaking the world
that it might keep unsullied the child who comes to us as the "freshest thing from the
hand of God."

The work began in earnest the next morning with group breakfasts, morning meet-
ings, discussion luncheons, afternoon meetings, linked together by one of the finest insti-
tutions in Washington, the nickel taxis! The Conference was divided into four sections,
Medical Service, Public Health Service, Education and Training, and the Handicapped,
each of them under the chairmanship of an outstanding leader in that field of service.
The committees and subcommittees of these sections had been working for two years
on the reports that were presented, gathering and diagnosing facts and formulating con-
clusions and recommendations. As a result of the study of those hundreds of com-
mittees, the delegates were presented at the closing session on Saturday morning with a
minimum standard for American children as regards health, education and care, whether
in their own homes or in foster care, in boarding homes and institutions. A national
effort to get these standards incorporated in the program of all who actually work with
children was explained as the primary purpose of the Conference. This is to be accom-
plished by regional, state, county and community conferences in which the findings and
recommendations are to be given wide publicity and made available to every mother,
teacher, doctor, nurse and social worker, professional or lay, in the country. The
entire proceedings of the Conference are published in pamphlet form by the United States
Daily in the issue of November twenty-eight and can be secured by application to that
paper.

The White House reception was the only purely social function on the program.
After standing in line for an hour or more, making one's way inch by inch, through the
beautiful rooms on the lower floor of the White House, it seemed as though the actual
ceremony of shaking hands must be more or less perfunctory. But President and Mrs.
Hoover projected their personalities into their individual greetings in a remarkable way
and you left the blue room feeling that they were personally glad that you, too, were
interested in what was so near their hearts.

A COLLEGE EDUCATION WHAT IS IT?

To be at home in all lands and ages; to count nature a familiar acquaintance and
art an intimate friend; to gain a standard for the appreciation of other men's work and
the criticism of your own; to carry the keys of the world's library in your pocket, and
feel its resources behind you in whatever you undertake; to make hosts of friends among
the men of your own age who are to be leaders in all walks of life; to lose yourself in
generous enthusiasms and cooperate with others for common ends this is the offer of
the college for the best four years of your life. William DeWitt Hyde.

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THE INSTITUTE OF EUTHENICS

Vassar College

In this day of much talk on the subject of adult education, it is interesting to see
what one college has done on a large scale in offering a summer course, lasting last year
six weeks, with a total enrollment of 74 adults and sixty children, this course being
termed the Institute of Euthenics. Euthenics may be defined as the application of science
and art to the betterment of living. The Summer Institute is planned to supplement the
usual undergraduate liberal arts curriculum. It attempts to bring together and to cor-
relate all that art and various sciences, physical, biological, psychological, and social, have
to contribute currently to the betterment of living, especially for the child and his par-
ents. Its plan centers in the family. Little children are cared for in two schools. Fathers
who cannot come for the entire term may come for three weeks, or one, or for week-ends
when lectures and discussions are open to them. Others interested in this field are wel-
come whether their interest is personal or professional teachers, nurses, social workers,
college students.

The courses offered are concerned primarily with the environment, its improvement
and better adaption to human needs, and courses primarily concerned with the adjustment
of the individual to his environment, physical and human. Among these are courses in
Nutrition, Mental Hygiene, Child Guidance, Development of Learning in the Pre-School
Child, Food Preparation and Menu Planning, given in a food laboratory, where the best
kitchen equipment of many types is available for study and testing. A course in House-
hold Technology is welcomed by women who enjoy working out with their hands what
their minds have planned; this course gives expert knowledge of all sorts of equipment,
help in acquiring skill and efficiency in using it, in organizing the mechanics of the house-
hold so highly as to give the maximum of pleasure in doing the work and the maximum
of leisure for other things. A further opportunity for studying and improving the
environment was available in the arts and crafts studio, whither most of the registrants
repaired in free hours for weaving, dyeing, block printing and book binding, designing
and making jewelry. Courses in interior decoration, not with the idea of professional
training but to give women training in color, design, furniture and elementary architec-
ture are among the popular subjects of this summer institute. Many other interesting
courses are offered.

Mothers who attend the Institute may enter children from eighteen to fifty-four
months of age in the nursery school. This school is used as a laboratory to familiarize
parents with the most approved methods of child care as applied to the pre-school child.
A careful study of the child is made and the results of these studies presented to the
parents and the future training of that child outlined. The children sleep in the dormi-
tory in rooms across the hall from those occupied by their mothers and spend the day
at school, with the exception of about one and a half hours in the afternoon.

The school for children from 4 J/2 to 7 l /z years is the third school held during this
summer session. These children are brought in first-hand contact with those things in
their immediate environment which are basically related to modern living and of in-
herent interest to children of their age. This group of children is housed in a separate
dormitory with a house mother and assistants, so that diet, hours of rest, and play can be
supervised. They are with their mothers an hour or two each day and all day Sunday
except at meal times.

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DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SWAPPING EARLY!

(This story with a moral comes from the heart and pen of Mary McCallie, '30, who is now connected
with Davison-Paxon's in Atlanta in the book department and incorporates the book reviews of this Quarterly
with a back-stage view of the life of a seller of best sellers.)

Statistics show that ninety per cent of Christmas Shoppers buy books for Christmas
and that ten per cent exchange them afterwards. Don't ever struggle over choosing a
book for some one else for he will change it anyway.

There is not another job in the world quite so interesting as working in a book
shop. Half of your customers don't give you credit for being able to read and write and
the other half think you know everything and have read every book in stock or should
have. I have had more different experiences in the three months I have been working
than in the whole time I was at college. I've had all kinds of customers from the lady
who playfully pinched me on the leg, as she left, to the old man who shook his cane
at me and roared, "I trust no one's literary judgment but my own." I know what the
Faculty read and what they send to their families and what every one gave and received
for Christmas. Peggy Lou is going to have a regular library. Rae Wilson came down
and pointed out all the things she wanted and it was my job to write around to her
different friends and get them to buy them for her. (She bribed me with one of those
waffle suppers.) The other day I asked the house detective how she was getting along
and she said business was picking up. We have been so busy in our department that I
have not had a chance to do much reading but here is some book news:

Seed, by Charles Norris, has been the national best seller throughout the fall. It
has been selling very well in our department and has had the longest waiting list in the
Carnegie Library. It is called a novel of the American family.

Phillipa, by Anne Douglas Sedgewick, is our best seller at present and is throughly
modern and interesting.

Tides of Malvern, by Francis Griswold, of Asheville, N. C, is a popular book at
present. It is most attractive looking and makes an excellent gift because it is suitable
to almost anyone who likes fiction. It is a real relief from the sordid type of South Caro-
lina story we have had in the past. Tides of Malvern is the history of a Charleston fam-
ily from the time of their coming to South Carolina till the present day.

Mad Man's Dream is a new novel in wood cuts by Lynn Ward. There is a decided
vogue for wood cuts at present though some people find them hard to read.

Angel Pavement, by J. B. Priestly, is for the reader who loves Dickens. It is a novel
of the present day economic and labor conditions in London. Incidentally it has awaken-
ed interest in his earlier novel, The Good Companions.

Galsworthy's new book, On Forsyte Change, is very popular with the readers of the
Forsyte Saga and the Modern Comedy. It includes nineteen short stories about nineteen
members of the great clan.

Cakes and Ale, by Somerset Maugham, is a very good seller. Rosie, "the skeleton in
the closet," is charmingly drawn.

Christopher Moreley has a new bok, Rudolph and Armina; it is a satire or some-
thing. Despite its attractive jacket and William Allen White's recommendation, it
seemed to me to fall far short of some of Moreley's earlier works.

In biography, Byrd's Little America has the limelight at present. Nearly everybody
is interested in it and its front page review in the New York Times Book Review gave it a
good send off.

Hilaire-Belloc has a new book on Cardinal Wolscy. This and Sedgewick's Henry of
Navarre are two of the best recent biographies on European history.

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RvR, by Van Loon, discusses not only Rembrandt but also his times, is very
well done and interesting to anyone who knows something of the Dutch school of
painting.

The Saxon-Suydam books are beautiful and filled with the romance of the delta
region. The trio includes Fabulous New Orleans, Old Louisiana, and La Fitte, the Pirate.
The glamorous tales of Saxon are beautifully illustrated by Suydam's charming pencil
drawings.

The Age of Hate, by Goerge Fort Milton, is another history of the reconstruction
period. It is a mighty undertaking but worth the effort to read it.

The Marks of an Educated Man, by Albert Wiggom, is a best seller in its line. We
have been asked for the Earmarks of an Educated Man but then one day, a customer asked
for the Professional Man. We were quite at a loss till someone figured out she meant
the Specialist.

John Cowper Powys has a new book, In Defense of Sensuality. The title is rather
misleading; the New York Times calls it the Philosophy of Loneliness.

Edward Arlington Robinson has a new poem, The Glory of the Nightingales, and
there is a new series of Cheerful Cherubs! (Don't shoot me for classing the two
together. I once sold the same customer Harbor Lights of Home by Edgar Guest and the
Sonnets of Shakespeare!)

For those interested in psychology, Watson has a new book called the New Be-
haviorism.

There is nothing new in drama just now but G. B. Shaw's Applecart will probably
be published sometime soon.

Pershing's new book will be published in April and will cost ten dollars. I am
taking orders now in advance.

Books may come and books may go but Elsie Dins more sells on forever, and that's
a fact.

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Through the College Gates

CAMPUS CHAT

The following girls were named during
the fall session as the new members of
Hoasc: Adele Arbuckle, Helen Friedman,
Katherine Morrow, Martha Tower and
Elizabeth Woolfolk. The service, during
the course of which the names were an-
nounced, was opened by the processional
of the active, alumnae and faculty mem-
bers of the organization. Weesa Chandler,
president of Hoasc, presented the speaker,
Georgia Watson, '28, who explained the
real purpose and principles of Hoasc, be-
fore reading the names of the new mem-
bers. ....
* * * *

The fall try-outs for Blackfriars were
held on November 12th, being only open
to upper classmen, as the spring try-out
will be for Freshmen as well as the upper
classmen. The girls who were admitted
are: Jane McLaughlin, Clyde Lovejoy, Jura
Taffer, Varnelle Braddy, Betty Peeples,
Jule Bethea, Betty Bolton, Letitia Rock-
more and Johnnie Turner.

On Saturday night, November 22nd,
Blackfriars presented A. A. Milne's "The
Ivory Door," which delighted the audience
with its whimsical theme and its ability to
make the hearers believe for the moment
at least in kings and queens and fairies
and magic. Polly Vaughn, ex-'29, linked
up the alumnae's interest in this presen-
tation, as she played the role of King
Perivale.

The "Around the World" Carnival, held
in the Gym, in November was a most spec-
tacular event, when with all the guests in
costumes of the different countries, and
with little booths lining the sides of the
gym, offering the foods of the countries
for a nickel, and folk dancing as the pro-
gram, the Gym resembled the country fair
of distant lands. In the centre of the gym
was a merry-go-round, home made and
home operated by two girls who were soon
the dizziest people at the party. There
were Hottentots' booth, America's booth,
with its typical hot dog stand, the white
Alaskan booth with snow and icicles, Ger-
many's stand with pretzels and root beer;
Japanese novelties were displayed at
Japan's booth, while Spain and France and
Persia all poured out their wares for
Agnes Scott consumption.

Investiture service was held on Novem-
ber the eighth, before a large assembly of
friends and relatives of the class of '31.
This ceremony of long standing and one
peculiar to Agnes Scott was instituted, as
Dr. McCain said, as the result of the de-
sire of the college to testify to the confi-
dence placed in the seniors; Miss Christie,
the chosen speaker for this occasion, spoke
on "Adaptability," emphasizing the neces-
sity for an individual's adapting himself to
his surroundings in order that he may live
the complete life. Then in the old, famil-
iar way, senior by senior, the class knelt
before Miss Hopkins, as she placed the cap
on their heads, then walked off, full-fledg-
ed seniors of the class of 1931.
* * * *

The Cotillion Club sponsored a fashion
show on the campus in November, with
twenty-four members of the club acting
as models for lovely designs furnished by
J. P. Allen Co., of Atlanta, and with the
famous A. P. D. C. orchestra furnishing
the music. . % % %

A new state club has been organized on
the campus, South Carolina Club, with
eighteen members present for the first
meeting. * * * *

With the charming reminder that
"there's no frigate like a book to take us
to many lands," the Book Exhibit opened,
under Janef Preston's guiding hand, in
Buttrick Hall in the lovely lounge room on
the second floor, with a wondei'ful exhibit
of books. These books, books of travel,
biography, poetry, children's books, novels
are shown through the courtesy of
several book stores in Atlanta, who very
generously lend, in addition to the popu-
lar editions, some very beautiful volumes
for display. Among these were "Arabian
Nights," Anderson's "Fairy Tales," "Alice
in Wonderland," "Heidi" and "Pinnocchio."
No books are sold at the exhibit, it being
purely for information and enjoyment, and
is one of the most looked-for occasions of
December, this being the third year of the
"Book Exhibit."

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The Glee Club, under Gussie (O'Neal)
Johnson, gave a program of beautiful
Christmas music on December seventh,
when all the lovely carols of English tradi-
tion were sung in the chapel. Their pro-
gram was repeated over WSB, Atlanta
Journal station, the following week.

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The Lecture Association presented its
second speaker, Princess Der Ling, on De-
cember 8th in one of the most entertaining
programs yet offered. Her Imperial High-
ness has been educated in Europe and
America and was a pupil of Sarah Bern-
hardt and Isadore Duncan. Attired in the
costume of first lady-in-waiting to the
Empress-Dowager of China, she spoke of
her experiences at the Manchu Court.

On December 9th, Anne Hopkins and
Andrewena Robinson of Pi Alpha Phi de-
fended the affirmative side of the question:
"Resolved that Great Britain should im-
mediately grant dominion status to India,"
against a team from Cambridge Universi-
ty, England. This team, under the auspices
of the National Student Federation of
America, is traveling through this country
debating at various schools.
* * # *

In the name of "sweet charity" Com-
munity Chest the faculty gave an open
faculty meeting in chapel on an evening
in November, when for a small price, stu-
dents were "let in" on all the formerly
mysterious doings of faculty meeting.
After Dr. McCain's performance that eve-
ning, there are many rumors of his accept-
ing an invitation to become a member of
the Theatre Guild, and the quartette, Dr.
Wright, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Dieckmann, and
Mr. Cunningham with their rendition of
what they considered would be an interest-
ing variation of the deplored sameness of
college songs, "Three More Weeks Till Va-
cation," broke up the faculty meeting!
Miss Hopkins failed to show up at the
meeting, it being reported that she was at
an exciting movie and Dick, in her ab-
sence, presented the student petition com-
plaining of the excessive cuts they were
being given. Miss Smith pled guilty to
this offense, offering as her excuse the
many interesting shows in Atlanta she had
to see. One petition won the hearty ap-
proval of the faculty, that of letting the
students have breakfast in bed, with the
recommendation that this be tried out first
on the faculty. With Dr. Sweet's recommen-
dation that the faculty health was wretch-
ed because of overwork and that tests
would be abolished, cheers burst forth so
unanimously from the audience that facul-
ty meeting broke up in a riot.

FACULTY NEWS

Mrs. W. F. Bull (Miss Libbie Alby), a
beloved teacher of Institute days at Agnes
Scott and known to many alumnae, sent in
greetings from her home in Korea, ex-
pressing her deepest interest in Agnes
Scott, and wishing every good thing for
A. S. C.

Miss Alexander had as her guest in No-
vember Miss Susanne Colton, now of
Korea, who was a former teacher in the
French department and about whom many
alumnae will be glad to hear news. She
is taking a year's leave of absence and is
traveling extensively; before coming here,
she crossed Siberia and coming through
Europe, stopped for sometime in Louraine
where she visited former school mates;
since landing in this country, she has visit-
ed her brother, who is head of the French
department at Annapolis. Miss Colton was
delightfully entertained while the guest of
Miss Alexander at Agnes Scott.

At the meeting of the Southern Political
Science Association in Atlanta in Novem-
ber, Dr. Philip Davidson was one of the
speakers on one of the nights of the con-
ference, when international relations were
discussed.

The alumnae will be grieved to hear of
the death of Mrs. FinnelPs mother and we
assure her of our deepest sympathies.

Miss Emily Howson recently visited Dr.
Ethel Polk-Peters, who was resident physi-
cian last year in Dr. Sweet's absence, at
her home in Augusta, Ga.

Miss Hopkins had as her visitors, recent-
ly, Mr. and Mrs. Frances Calley, of Hunt-
ington, W. Va., and Mrs. Walter Calley.

Miss Marian Leatherman, the new
librarian, and Miss Clara Mae Allen were
delegates to the meeting of the South-
eastern Library Association in Tampa,
Fla., in November.

Dr. James Wright's article discussing
the history of street railways and the con-
troversies concerning fares appeared in
two installments in the "Journal of Land
and Public Utility Economics."

Miss Annie Mae Baker, who was a mem-
ber of the faculty in the mathematics de-
partment last year, is studying in Balti-
more this winter and also is teaching some
classes in the Teachers' College there.

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From the Alumnae Office

Club News

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

The Birmingham Club has been spending
a most enterprising sort of a winter and
sends in enthusiastic reports of success in
trying out their miniature golf scheme, a
rummage sale, and in getting each alumna
to make a silver contribution at each of
the meetings this year, when they are hav-
ing a tea instead of the former business
luncheons. Their programs are including
book reviews this year, a feature which
gives new stimulus to their meetings.

On Founder's Day the club is going to
buy and serve a dinner at the home of some
member, each alumna guest paying a regu-
lar dinner charge. The profits are to be
put in the treasury.

Another scheme which will work toward
the future success of the club is a cam-
paign for inactive members. Those alum-
nae who are not known are visited and
a contact established which it is hoped will
transfer them from the inactive to the ac-
tive list of local alumnae.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

The Agnes Scott Club of Jacksonville
was hostess on the afternoon of November
21st to the American Association of Uni-
versity Women, of which most of the Agnes
Scotters are members. The meeting was
held with Farris Davis, president of the
Agnes Scott Club, at her home, 3626 Rich-
mond St.

The Agnes Scott girls assembled the eve-
ning before to hear the news from "home"
and to talk over business. While gossip-
ing about Agnes Scott, reading the Quar-
terly, and the news bulletin which, by
the way, is delightful they arranged the
flowers and got the nifty little purple and
white badges ready for the greeting com-
mittee to use on the following day.

On the eventful afternoon, Agnes Scott
was present in full force to receive the rep-
resentatives from the other colleges and
to put dear "old A. S. C." on the map.
If there were any A. A. U. W. members
present who had not previously heard of
Agnes Scott, they'll never be that ignor-
ant again. Charlotte Buckland, Rachel
Paxon, Ellen Colyer, Dorothy (Brown)

Jennings, Bessie (Standifer) Gammon,
Sarah (McKowen) Blackshear, Gertrude
(Briesenick) Ross and ten or fifteen others
were right there with the little purple
badges, and the Agnes Scott handshake
and the Agnes Scott smile. A few Agnes
Scott pillows and pennants were scattered
around conspicuously and the purple and
white color scheme was used on the tea
table, with flowers, table decorations and
even to the sandwiches.

Sarah (McKowen) Blackshear was host-
ess on the occasion of the October A. S. C.
Club meeting and did herself proud as a
hostess. And the girls did enjoy that
meeting! Two new members Shirley
(Montague) Morrow and Mrs. Turner
were there and the girls put them right
to work. Plans were made for the Novem-
ber meeting which was to be held with
Farris Davis. It was decided to have after-
noon and evening meetings alternating so
that the "mothers" who cannot leave
homes and families for evening meetings
could hear from the old school and so that
bachelor girls who work down town and
cannot get to afternoon meetings will have
an opportunity to keep in touch through
the evening meetings.

Anne (Waddell) Bethea, first vice presi-
dent and board member, and general favor-
ite, broke the sad news that she will move
to Tampa soon. What the Jacksonville
Club will do for someone to think up the
attractive favors and do the "art" work
for the annual luncheon and the bridge
parties is yet to be seen. Anne has taken
an active part in the club and has done
three times her share of all the work, and
she will be sorely missed. She promises to
run back for meetings, once in a while;
surely she can be persuaded to come back
for the annual luncheon in May.

Farris Davis, President.

ATLANTA, GA.

The Atlanta Agnes Scott Club has had a
most successful year under the able leader-
ship of Florence Perkins, our president.
The principal aim throughout the year was
to raise the amount of our pledge to the
endowment fund, which was $500. This
was done by two large bridge parties, sev-
eral smaller ones, and some individual
bridge parties held in the homes of various

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members. The bazaar just given netted
the club around two hundred dollars, as
well as being a really delightful affair, held
at the Alumnae House for an entire day
in the early part of November. For the
first time, the Atlanta Club sponsored the
Agnes Scott Glee Club at their perform-
ance given last April in Atlanta. Among
the outstanding social events of this past
year were the Founder's Day banquet held
at the Biltmore Hotel in February and the
entertainment planned for the high school
seniors at May Day at Agnes Scott.
Elizabeth (Little) Meriwether,

Secretary.

DECATUR, GA.

The Decatur Club has received a new
impetus, and under the able leadership of
Mrs. John Scott is really beginning to
mean something more than a name. On
Friday, October 31st, the club held its first
fall meeting, with twenty-seven present.
Mrs. Scott called the meeting to order and
after reading the minutes of the Council
Meeting by the secretary, urged that we all
be prompt; she then asked for a discussion
as to whether or not we have dues. Mrs.
Forrest Hill (Caroline McKinney) moved
that we have dues amounting to $1.00 per
year, which was agreed. We decided to
meet in homes sometimes instead of the
Alumnae House. Mrs. Taylor (Olivia
Fewell) asked for the January meeting and
expressed her joy at being in Decatur once
more and finding such a group interested
in A. S. C.

After several important announcements,
and a most interesting five minutes of news
items about Decatur alumnae by Mrs.
Dieckmann (Emma Pope Moss) Miss Alex-
ander gave us a delightful account of her
summer in France, which was a fitting in-
troduction to the social time with tea which
we then enjoyed.

Willie Mae (Coleman) Duncan,

Secretary.

BALTIMORE, MD.

Since this Quarterly went to print just
about the time of the first gathering of the
Baltimore group, the real story of that
meeting will be published later, but this is
to announce that Sterling Johnson called
the Baltimore alumnae together for tea at
her home on December the sixth and from
the acceptances, it must have been a unani-
mous meeting. More about this new club
later!

CHARLOTTE, N. C.

The first fall meeting of the Charlotte
alumnae was held at Mary (Keesler) Dal-
ton's home, with twenty-five present, al-
though the heavens opened up and the rain
fell in torrents, which made the large num-
ber present even more encouraging, for
they were very much interested in this re-
organizing of the former club. Louisa
Duls was elected president and as one of
the members writes, "she is so capable and
enthusiastic, she inspires all of us." The
vote of the club was for four meetings a
year, making them large and interesting
ones. The club is losing one alumna, Caro-
line (Moody) Jordan, to High Point, N.
C, but is gaining another, Marian (Mc-
Camy) Sims, who has just moved to Char-
lotte.

GREENVILLE, S. C.

The Greenville Club met with Virginia
Norris on Thursday evening, November
13th, with a most enthusiastic group of
Agnes Scotters present, including May
(Curry) Winn, Bee Keith, Margaret Laing,
Lottie May (Blair) Lawton, Margery
(Moore) McAulay and Julia Polk. May
(Curry) Winn had just returned from a
visit to her daughter who is now at Agnes
Scott and gave a splendid first hand report
of all the new building and improvements
on the campus. It was decided to plan for
some work with the high school girls in the
way of interesting them in A. S. C. Vir-
ginia Norris resigned as president of the
club and in her place Margaret Keith was
chosen.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

The alumnae of Memphis met at the call
of Mary Shewmaker, '28, on November the
fourteenth, at her home and in spite of a
week of rain which reached its climax that
afternoon, a fine crowd of alumnae
gathered together to consider the possi-
bilities of an organization this year, and
after a most enthusiastic discussion, agreed
on organization, with meetings to be called
at certain intervals by the president, and
all the group to be ready for work at all
times on committes appointed. Julia Jame-
son, '22, was named as chairman of the
committee on high schools, which commit-
tee will endeavour to interest the girls of
the high schools of Memphis in Agnes
Scott. Jane G. Curry, '04, gave a most in-
teresting account of her recent visit to the
college when she saw all the new things,
even the famous elevator. Much interest
was displayed in the plans for Founder's
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an active discussion of ways in which this
group might keep alive its love for A. S. C.
and its interest in her future. A most de-
lightful social time was enjoyed by the
Memphis alumnae, who were present. They
were: Nell (Coats) Pentecost, ex-'09; Jane
G. Curry, '04; Elizabeth Hart, ex-'27;
Christine (McCormick) Rust, ex-'09; Eliz-
abeth (Moore) Brown, Academy; Margaret
(Rowe) Jones, '19; Elizabeth Shaeffer, ex-
'19; Dorothy Fooshe, ex-'30; Rowena
(Pate) Armistead, Academy; Molly (Mc-
Cormick) McCord, ex-'ll, and Mary Shew-
maker, '28; three others are really counted
in this club as they were not able to be at
this meeting but will be active members,
Julia Jameson, '22; Melville Jameson, ex-
'21, and Margaret (Smith) Lyon, '22.

BLACK MOUNTAIN GATHERING

It surely was a time of "wherever the
band of thy daughters shall roam," when
a group of Agnes Scotters gathered at Mc-
Graw's Coffee House at Black Mountain, N.
C, this last August and drank tea and ex-
changed news. There is always a large
group in this vicinity every summer and
with just a little bit of work, the whole
crowd rallied 'round and although it seems
to be a closed meeting, for not yet has any
story of what was said come back but
the group pictures show that "a good time
was had by all." By the way the negatives
of these pictures will be kept in the
Alumnae Office and anybody who wants
them is so welcome to borrow them. Here
are the names of the "alums" who met for
tea: Miriam Preston, '27; Helen Trafford
Moore, ex-'18; Florence Preston, '34;
Isabel Wilson, '34; Marion Green, '29;
Grace (Carr) Clark, '27; Marcia Green,
'27; Maurine Bledsoe, '27; Sallie Horton,
'25; Katherine Morrow, '31; Sarah McFad-
yen, '28; Sarah (Smith) Merry, '26;
Martha Riley Selman, '29; Mary Ray
Dobyns, '28; Rachel Paxon, '29; Virginia
Wright, '33; Bessie Meade Friend, '33;
Mary Elliott, '32; Margaret Friend, '34;
Susan Glenn, '32; Sarah Hill, '31; Margaret
Hyatt, '32; Louise Winslow. '32; Ruth Mc-
Lean, '30; Katherine Wright, '32, and Eu-
genia Edwards, '33.

THE PROF'S JOB

The only non-commercial agency through
which college and university professors can
get jobs is the appointment service con-
ducted by the American Association of
Univeristy Professors, 26 Jackson Place,
Washington, D. C. The Association in its
aims and policies is similar to the Amer-
ican Bar Association in the law field and
the American Medical Association in med-
icine.

ALUMNAE HOME COMING TEA

Each year the tea, given the day after
Thanksgiving, a date very close always to
Miss Anna Young's birthday, is a much
awaited event, for it is the time when all
the local alumnae and all the visiting
alumnae drop in for a cup of tea and a
visit, when the members of the faculty are
also guests, and this year, all presidents
of organizations and classes of the stu-
dents were invited to meet the alumnae
and faculty, which gave an added interest
to tne gatnering. As one alumna put it,
"I never have been to a tea where I had
such a good time, because this was one
time when you saw so many folks you
knew and hadn't seen in a long time."
About two hundred guests called during
the afternoon and the Alumnae House was
a-hum with talk and laughter, as old
mends met again.

In the receiving line were Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain, Miss HopKins, Mrs. Young, tne
motner of Miss Young, and Mrs. Eagan
and XVirs. Brown, the sisters of Miss Young,
and Mary Elizabeth Warren, who is chair-
man of the Entertainment Committee and
under wnose capable planning the tea was
given. L,ittie Anne Young Eagan receiv-
ed tne cards at the door, with Dick Scan-
drett meeting the guests. Miss McKinney
and Miss Alexander poured tea and coffee
at the tea table in the dining room, which
was beautifully decorated with yellow and
white chrysanthemums and with the yel-
low tapers. The members of the Grand-
daughters Club assisted in serving during
tne afternoon.

This occasion has come to be a time
when many friends send gifts to the House
and we were the fortunate recipients this
year of several. Gifts of money, to be
used in purchasing something for the Anna
Young Alumnae House were made by Mrs.
Brown, Mrs. Eagan and Mrs. Young, and
this will be most thoughtfully used by the
House Committee in adding something of
real beauty and usefulness. The gift of an
exquisite table cloth was made by Miss
McKinney, Dr. Sweet, Miss Alexander,
Miss Phythian and Miss Lillian Smith. Miss
Elizabeth Jackson presented the House
with a half dozen dinner napkins which
were appreciated so much. Mrs. Cullen
Gosnell (Louisa White) gave the Alum-
nae House some most attractive cup towels,
and Dorothy Hutton made a gift of two
madeira doilies for the trays, and Miss
Martha Stansfield donated a very inter-
esting book of recipes.

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AGNES SCOTT NEEDS YOU

Alumnae everywhere will be interested
to know that when college opened on Sep-
tember 17th this year, it was with an un-
usually large enrollment, as well as with
improved teaching and administrative fa-
cilities. It will rejoice the hearts of alum-
nae to know that in this year, especially,
when the states from which we draw
many of our girls, as well as other parts
of the country, are suffering from the well-
known "hard times," such is our college's
fame now that the registration increased
over last year and Agnes Scott is running
up to its full capacity, till that new dor-
mitory comes along, which the campaign
is to make possible. The following notice
is published from Mr. Stukes, registrar,
not in any sense because of the need of
students "in the mass" here, but because
he feels that we, as alumnae, can render
the service of all services to our Alma
Mater by interesting the type girl whom
we feel is "Agnes Scott material" and
worthy of the opportunity which she will
have at our college. Won't you lend the
aid he asks in really studying the situa-
tion in your towns and making a definite
appeal to the girls whom you know will
make the most of their life here and add
to the renown of Agnes Scott?

An Appeal to the Alumnae

You have been of great help to us in se-
curing for Agnes Scott many very fine stu-
dents. We want to ask that you help us
again this year. We would like to have
you send us the names of girls whom you
think will make good college material, and
indicate whether they are Juniors or Sen-
iors in high school. You know the type of
girl we want at Agnes Scott. In this is-
sue is a description of our entrance and
degree requirements. This may be of
some help to you in advising with pros-
pective students. Won't you keep this ap-
peal in mind and help your Alma Mater
in this wav?

THE REGISTRAR.

If you knew how welcome a letter, a
clipping, or a marked newspaper about
yourself is at this office, you would shake
off that innate modesty which is a part of
true culture, and sit right down and write.
You have no idea how "many people will
be interested in you, your family, your
job, and everything that pertains to you.
If you get married, or get married again;
if you get a good job, or lose a good job,
no matter what it is, you'll find apprecia-
tion and sympathy in abundance among
our readers.

Don't leave your affairs to our imagi-
nation.

CHECKED IN!

The following out-of-town alumnae were
registered at the Alumnae House for the
Home Coming week-end, including several
girls from Atlanta and Decatur of the 1930
class who were out for the reunion dinner
on November 29th. Emily Spivey, '25;
Marcia Green, '27; Carolina McCall, '27;
Louise Plumb, '27; Margaret Keith, '28,
and Virginia Norris, '28; Anne McCollum,
'28; Sarah Glenn, '28; and of the 1930
class, Louise Baker, Eleanor Bonham,
Katherine Crawford, Elizabeth Flinn, Mary
Gregory, ex-'30; Jane Bailey (Hall) Hef-
ner, Emilie Harvey, Mary Elizabeth Jor-
dan, Miriam Kaufman, ex-'30; Elizabeth
Keith, Mary McCallie, Frances Messer,
Blanche Miller, Lynn Moore, Carolyn Nash,
Virginia Sears, Belle Ward Stowe, Lillian
Thomas, Sara Townsend, Anne Turner,
Crystal Hope Wellborn, Pauline Willough-
by, and Rae Wilson.

THE PLAY AWARDS

Many years ago now the Alumnae As-
sociation sponsored the Play Writing Class
at A. S. C. and from that has grown the
Drama Workshop, with many alumnae en-
rolled as well as some who are not alum-
nae, still under the inspiring instruction of
Miss Nan Stephens in Atlanta. Two prizes
are offered annually to this group by the
Association, the first, a twenty-five dol-
lar award to the alumna winning the high-
est recognition in the group of writers of
the long play, the other, a ten dollar prize
to the alumna writer of the best short or
one-act play. The contest has been held
and after the decision of the judges was
reported to the Alumnae Association, the
awards were made to Frances (Freeborn)
Pauley, '27, for the long play, and to Emily
Ramage, ex-'28, for the short play.
Frances' play is called "Me and Galahad,"
and in this contest, Mary Ramage's ('26)
play, "The Pattern," won second place.
Emily's plav, which won the other prize, is
"A Honey."

HELP WANTED!

The following alumnae are lost or stray-
ed. Can you help locate them?

Brown, Anne (Academy), Memphis, Ten-
nessee.

Cannon, Ellen Harriet (ex-'29), Decatur,
Georgia.

Carson, Mary Virginia (ex-'27), Win-
ston-Salem, North Carolina.

Capin, Martha Rebecca (Mrs. C. M.
Andamson) (ex-'27), Roanoke, Virginia.

Daye, Nelle Frances (Mrs. J. C. Clark)
(1921), Huntsville, Alabama.

Dunbar, Marian (Academy), Atlanta,
Georgia.

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Vol. IX APRIL, 1931 No. 4

Entered as second class matter under the Act of Congress, August, 1912

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Gates Frontispiece

The President's Page 3

Dr. J. R. McCain

Adult Education 4

Adelaide Cunningham, '11

Poems of an Alumna 6

Commencement and Reunion . 7

Founder's Day Broadcast 8

March Winds (Poem) 11

Helen T. Moore, ex-' 18

Department of Physical Education 12

Llewellyn Wilburn, '19

Through the College Gates 14

Campus Chat
Faculty News

From the Alumnae Office 16

Club News

Quenelle Harrold Fellowship

Our Itinerary!

N. S. F. A. Conference at A. S. C.

(Ellen Davis, '31)
Main Tower
Letter from Miss Markley

Concerning Ourselves 23

Red Letter Days Back Page

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The campus gates are opened wide.

Don't let them wait in vain
To greet alumnae's eager feet

That turn through them again!

The creaking hinges on the gate

Are telling of that day
When Agnes Scott awaits with joy

Reunion times in May!

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THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE
Seeking to Beautify Agnes Scott

During most of the life of our College, we have been so poverty stricken that in the
expenditure of our money we have had to consider the severest utility for the given
moment. When a building was erected, there were not funds to make it larger than
was absolutely necessary just then, and only the plainest and simplest architectural treat-
ment could be afforded. No institution ever got more for its money than Agnes Scott,
for we have always had Trustees who were fine business administrators.

We are by no means a rich institution now, not even well-to-do in comparison with
some of the older and stronger colleges, but many of us feel that the time has come when
we ought to emphasize more the aesthetic qualities in our developments. This will mean
fewer accomplishments in point of number, but they ought to be more permanent and
pleasing.

The new Buttrick Hall illustrates some efforts in this direction. The site for it was
some ten feet lower than the level of the ground at the colonnade, and even a notable
building would seem hidden away, so we decided to re-grade the whole back campus. It
meant some $10,000 expenditure, and it could have been saved, but those who see the
results unanimously agree that it was a good investment. In the new building we decided
to use genuine limestone instead of the manufactured imitation which was put into the
gymnasium, and we made a generous use of the stone trimming. If we had followed the
treatment used in the gymnasium, we could have saved perhaps $30,000; but we would
never have won the exclamations of delight that are given even by educators from great
institutions when they see our new building.

For more than forty years, we have strung our telephone and light wires on poles
scattered over the campus, and we could continue this policy indefinitely, even though
the poles and loose wires were a continual eyesore. However, we arranged this year to
put all wires on the main campus underground and to erect a white way system of
lights that would illuminate the campus at night and adorn it by day. It cost several
thousand dollars to make the change, but it was in the interest of beautifying our College.

Our latest plan for improving the looks of our campus is the establishment of a
formal garden. This was proposed last year by Mrs. Donald Hastings, the very efficient
chairman of the Alumnae Committee on Grounds. It seemed impossible to attain, but
the co-operation of the local clubs and of others has helped so much that by Com-
mencement we hope to have a beautiful graded garden between the Alumnae House and
Inman. In keeping with this effort, has been the planting of shrubbery around the
various large buildings and especially in the quadrangle back of Agnes Scott Hall.

These are but illustrations of the general policy which we hope to follow, and we
trust very much that the Alumnae will approve of it. No college has ever had finer
ideals and more beautiful spiritual characters in its product. We want the material sur-
roundings to be in keeping with the beauty of the lives which we seek to develop.

Please feel free to make suggestions about our plans or as to the general policies which
should be adopted.

J. R. McCain.

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ADULT EDUCATION
Shall the Alumnae of Agnes Scott Join This Movement?

Adelaide Cunningham, '11
Chairman of the Curriculum Committee of the General Alumnae Association

Nicholas Murray Butler gives as marks of an educated person: "correctness in the
use of the mother tongue, refined and gentle manners, the habit of reflection and power
of continued growth." The alumnae of Agnes Scott College have through the training re-
ceived from great teachers been well grounded in the use of the mother tongue; our dean
has left her imprint upon hundreds of alumnae, as an example of all that is best in
Southern womanhood; the habit of reflection we have learned through all of our four
years in our Alma Mater, whose quiet halls and stately trees in themselves give an atmos-
phere conducive to thought. It is the last part of Dr. Butler's definition which should
give us concern: the power of continued growth. As individuals undoubtedly the
alumnae grow; but as an organization have we realized our power to become a part of
this great movement called "Adult Education," and in so doing develop still further
our power to grow mentally and spiritually?"

It is the idea of growth and education as a life-long process that one sees in this new
movement, which is really not a new movement at all, having started in the last century
under various guises, women's clubs, lyceums, chautauquas, extension courses and the
like. Many alumnae are members of the Parent-Teacher Association, studying "Parental
Education." But leaders in this activity are recognizing the inadequacy of this term
which fails to account for the vast army of persons interested in child-training, other
than parents and teachers.

Hence, the movement called "Adult Education" has come to apply to those seeking
to gain intellectual light which will not only be of practical value in enabling them better
to cope with problems of living, but intellectual light which is, in itself, a real pleasure
to the lover of learning. "Adult education used to be conceived as reserved for those who
had no chance at intellectual training in youth," writes the editor of the New York
Herald Tribune, "but increasingly it has become evident that to stop education is rapidly
to become uneducated."

Parents and teachers alike need to study continually in order that their duty to the
next generation may be fulfilled. For, as Everett Dean Martin has written in "The
Meaning of a Liberal Education," "The surest way to defeat education is to place it in
charge of those whose education has stopped."

Moreover college men and women, who are neither parents nor teachers are eager for
further study. Our changing civilization makes it imperative that we keep abreast of the
times. "Don't just get educated; keep educated," says a Mid-Western editor. An
alumna of Adelphi College stated that she would like to be "brought down to date on
everything that had happened since she left the college ten years ago."

Winifred Shaw, alumni secretary of the University of Michigan, was delegated in
192 8, at a conference of college presidents and alumni officers, called under the auspices
of the Carnegie Corporation, to make a report upon the efforts made by American colleges
and universities for alumni education. In this report, Mr. Shaw names four methods of
contact between the college and its alumni: (a) personal contacts with alumni groups
made by the presidents and other officers; (b) reports of the progress mailed to alumnae;
(c) reading lists prepared by the faculty and mailed to the alumni; (d) conferences be-
tween faculty and alumni at the college and other centers.

Agnes Scott has through a wonderfully progressive president, and through the
efficient services of two alumnae secretaries, made personal contacts with the great number
of alumnae; reports of the continued growth of the college have been mailed from the
office of the college and of the Alumnae Association; the alumnae quarterly keeps

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alumnae informed of the work now being done at the college; a beginning was made,
also, with reading lists a few years ago; with the fourth means of contact, the remainder
of this article will treat, for a conference, or "alumni college" is a thing which Agnes
Scott has not tried. But many other colleges and universities have achieved success in
trying it.

In the Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly of January, 1931, an article by the alumnae
secretary describes the summer institute for euthenics held at Vassar for five consecutive
sessions, bringing together mothers, children and fathers, and also, women preparing to be
lay leaders in parental education and professionals in lines closely related to the home.

In June, 1930, Wellesley College held an educational conference immediately after
commencement; a three-day program included lectures, round table discussions and social
events, and, according to the executive secretary, Kathleen Elliot, the conference was
considered a very great success.

Mt. Holyoke has recently held an alumnae gathering in an Emily Dickenson
Memorial Conference which took place over Founder's Day week-end. Mills College in
California held its summer school of fine arts with a view to developing eventually courses
primarily for Mills graduates. The South is notably represented in women's colleges
achieving success in the alumnae educational conference idea. North Carolina College
for Women at Greensboro in 1929 held its first seminar upon the subject of "Our Times,"
under the direction of the department of history. The second seminar in 1930 was con-
ducted by the department of psychology on "Child Psychology" and the third at Thanks-
giving, 1930, on "Modern Literature" was conducted by the department of English.
Attendance at these seminars ranged from 22 5 to 365 alumnae, no special effort being
made to secure large attendance, so that the response was a natural one. The secretary,
Clara Byrd, writes, "We followed the same general idea each time, beginning with a
dinner meeting and lecture on Friday evening, continuing with two lectures on Saturday
morning, a fourth that afternoon, a final one on Saturday evening, with some social
features interspersed. We feel that the discussion periods have added to the interest and
effectiveness of our seminars. We proceed on the theory that a full program kept as
far as possible at white heat of interest and extending over a short period, would be
much better than a seminar of several days at a slower pace."

Co-educational institutions are also experimenting with alumni education. In the
Ohio State Education Conference at Ohio State University, one day was devoted to
the alumni education idea. Columbia University gives weekly lectures at its downtown
clubs. Michigan conducts an alumni university lasting five days after commencement.
Men's colleges seem to prefer the "after commencement" time. LaFayette has a varied
program, ranging from lectures on football coaching to discussions of electrical engineer-
ing and politics. Amherst, one of the first to suggest the alumni education idea, has a
definite educational objective for its alumnae councils which are well attended.

We note that, whereas formerly the contact between alumni and their colleges has
been based almost entirely on interest in athletic contests and contact between alumnae
and their colleges upon the basis of a social interest, at present there is a growing tendency
of both men's and women's colleges to help their graduates to go forward in the pursuit
of the finer things of life and to satisfy that very craving which four years of residence
has created. From the standpoint of the graduate, the need seems to be for a flexible
program rather than a formal series of lectures. What alumni and alumnae want is not
another job but intellectual recreation which will better fit them for the job they have or
for life itself.

"Adult education is selective," says Everett Martin," its aim is not to provide a slight
increase of information and a few noble sentiments for the rank and file, but to select
out of the undifferentiated mass those who are naturally capable of becoming something
more than automatons. These need no credits or examinations or promise of diplomas to
spur them to intellectual effort."

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What shall Agnes Scott do? The answer is with the five thousand alumnae. Statistics
prove that alumni educational conferences have proved more successful in women's col-
leges than in men's, that smaller colleges are better adapted for them than the larger
ones. Agnes Scott has ever been progressive with the best American education has to
offer, in curriculum, in physical equipment, in endowment, in character building. Now
that the leading colleges and universities are launching the alumni college idea, Agnes
Scott will do her part. Shall we conduct a seminar next Thanksgiving, say on Modern
Literature, supplementing our annual Home Coming Week-end program of social events
with lectures? Our alumnae president, Llewellyn Wilburn, is also physical director of
Agnes Scott, and she has suggested that athletics, including swims in the beautiful pool,
be part of the recreational program. The president, Dr. McCain, favors the idea and
promises his support if the plan is launched. Write your opinion to the alumnae secretary
or to Adelaide Cunningham, chairman of the curriculum committee, which has this in
charge.

POEMS OF AN ALUMNA

The following two poems of Elizabeth Woltz Currie, '25, appeared in the 1930
volume of the North Carolina Poets," published by the International Writers League of
Newport, Ky., and off the Miami Press of Cincinnati, Ohio. The ideal of this league is
to bring out a book of verse in each state, to give young, unknown writers a chance to
put some of their works into print. Mr. H. A. L. De Aryan, successful magazine editor,
poet and lawyer, is president of the league, Anne Windsor, editor of the book, "North
Carolina Poets," is vice president.

CATHERINE'S EYES

Deep pools of memories,
Dark brown, and, oh, so fair,
Guard well her secrets rare,
Keep safe her treasuries.

Fair veils of deeper thought,
Soft beds of kindliness,
Beam love's unselfishness,
Show shyness beauty brought.

Brave eyes that understand.
Calm sentinels of peace.
Speak low, and never cease
Promise of helping hand.

Deep pools of memories,
Dark brown, and oh, so fair,
A hope to please, lay bare
Wisdom of centuries.

LULLABY TIME

With falling night there comes the Mother's call
To little one to cuddle close and sleep,
While lying trustfully, too tired to creep.
Below drawn shades, the yellow sunbeams crawl.
The darkening shadows move across the wall.
Alight, the shining eyes with wonder peep,
With hope their lasting vigil thus to keep.
In slow defeat the sleepy eyelids fall.
Grey-blue, the light sifts pale o'er baby's face,
With gentle semblance of a calmer rest.
The babe lies still within the safe embrace.
Sharp outlines fade from table, door, and chest;
A dream portrays a smile of lovely grace.
The light is gone, the dark has come 'Tis best.

Elizabeth Woltz Currie, '25.

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COMMENCEMENT AND REUNION
May 29 to June 2

The Romans worshipped an. ancient deity, Janus, whose image was struck on many
of their earliest coins. Janus is depicted as having one head with two faces, one of which
looks forward and the other which looks backward. In honor of this Latin divinity the
first month of our calendar is named, January being the month which links the old with
the new, the time when we look back over the past and forward to the future.

We, as alumnae, are similar to Janus in our outlook on life. An alumna inclination
that is always apparent is the desire of each one to look retrospectively over the past, to
look expectantly toward the future. Were there a month in our calendar which we might
claim as our own, certainly none would be more appropriate than May, the month of
alumnae reunions, the time which so strongly links us with a vital past, so strangely urges
us on to a still more vital future.

From May 29 to June 2 this year Agnes Scott is eagerly awaiting the return of all
her alumnae daughters. There will be formal reunion plans for the classes of '93, '94,
'10, 11, '12, '13, '29 and '30, informal reunion plans for all returning alumnae. Never
was there a time when the past and future have been brought so sharply into contrast.
The amazing campus developments of the year just past will set eager tongues to wag-
ging of "memories of youth that has past," will stir alert minds to thinking of the mar-
velous possibilities that lie before the college in its immediate future.

The calendar in this issue calls your attention to the activities of commencement
week-end. The number of real red-letter days should be invitation enough in themselves.
But it is not possible, in the limitations of such a space, to list the innumerable activities
so dear to the hearts of Agnes Scott alumnae in being pleasures uniquely associated with
our Alma Mater. We can but hint at the physical loveliness of the campus with the vivid
coloring of its May foliage. We can but remind you of the cordial welcome dear friends
here on the campus are always so eager to extend to you. We can but promise you the
usual wit, laughter and camaraderie of the Trustees' luncheon. We can but suggest a
medley of Glee Club refrains, the organ's plaintive peal at Vespers in the Chapel at dusk,
the joyful song of the sophomores at the completion of the traditional daisy chain, the stir-
ring lilt of the Purple and the White as seniors march to Class Day in the May Day Glen,
and the throat-catching strains of Alma Mater. We can but guarantee messages of vi-
brant import for alumnae in the sermons of Sunday and commencement day itself. Surely
not even the most dormant imagination can fail to be stirred by memories such as these
awaken!

A Vassar alumna catches a note of the reunion spirit in a poem entitled Reveille,
appearing in a calendar published and distributed by the Vassar Alumnae Fund:
"The sun lies thick and warm in June upon the fields where daisies bloom.
The shadows 'neath the pines are long (it can't be far away!)
Come back and laugh and sing and shout
Your classmates will be all about
You'll find there'll be no room for gloom.
(June isn't far away!)

A most cordial invitation goes to each and every alumna for the dates May 29 to
June 2. Yours will be a wide gamut of experiences, a wealth of renewed contacts, a treas-
ury of memories to hoard throughout the years to come in much the same sentiment as
the lovely verse:

"Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin
That time cannot take nor a thief purloin,
Oh, better than the minting of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory of a lovely thing."

Come back, old girl, come back!

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FOUNDER'S DAY BROADCAST

Founder's Day this year coming on Sunday caused our celebration to be advanced
one day and on the twenty-first, in the broadcasting room of WSB Atlanta Journal,
the Glee Club and the speakers gathered to send Agnes Scott's greeting to her daughters,
who were eagerly waiting the program, some in groups, some the solitary alumnae of
their towns. So far as we have heard there were groups in twenty states and probably
many more from which we have not yet heard and in each of these states several large
groups and lots of individual alumnae, so you can see the far-reaching touch of this
half hour which is given Agnes Scott through the courtesy of this local station. The
stories of the dinners and group gatherings are given under Club News but all telegrams
and short messages which have reached here are printed below. Nothing can express the
pleasure which Dr. McCain and Miss Hopkins and in fact everybody at the broadcast re-
ceive when these telegrams are handed to Miss Hopkins during the program and we know
that you are listening in at that very minute. We can almost hear the Alma Mater
rising in mighty shouts around us as the program closes with alumnae everywhere
singing.

Here comes the roll call of the radio hearers, as they reported by telegram:

ALABAMA:

Anniston: Greetings from Anniston alumnae; all listening in; best wishes.

Bay Minnette: Program coming in fine; greetings to Hottentots everywhere. Georgia
Mae (Burns) Bristow.

Birmingham: Greetings to Agnes Scott from twenty-five Birmingham alumnae.
Birmingham Club.

Montgomery: From nineteen four to nineteen thirty, we send greetings. Montgom-
ery Agnes Scott Girls.

Opelika: Hope the program is better than our radio. Old squatters: Caroline Mc-
Call, Edith McGranahan, Ethel (McConnell) Cannon, Ruth (Erwin) Meadows,
Mabel (Ponder) Ingram, Katherine (Dean) Stewart, Sara Bissell Townsend.

Sheffield: Love and loyalty to Agnes Scott. The Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia
Club.

Uniontown: Congratulations on Founder's Day program; love and best wishes to
Agnes Scott. Louise Robertson.
ARKANSAS:

Little Rock: Program is splendid and you know I am enjoying it. Helon (Brown)
Williams.
CALIFORNIA:

Ocean Beach, San Diego: Spent radio time "checking and double checking" old
friends and addresses in the directory, as it is impossible to get WSB at that
time of the day. Whenever I do get a Founder's Day program, I will surely
send a telegram! Love (Haygood) Donaldson.
FLORIDA:

Dunnellon: Program coming in fine; I wish I were there. Margaret Mixson.

Jacksonville: Jacksonville Club anxiously awaiting program; congratulations, best
wishes and love. Agnes Scott Alumnae Club.

Kissimmee: Waiting program; love and best wishes to Agnes Scott. Ruth (Guffin)
Griffin.

Miami: Enjoying splendid program; congratulations and all good wishes. Helena
Hermance and Edyth (Carpenter) Shuey.

Quincy: Ten Agnes Scott students from Academy to College listening to program.
God bless oui Alma Mater. Louise (Inglis) Love.

St. Petersburg: Program coming in fine; group here enjoying it; love to Miss Hop-
kins. Frances West.

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Tallahassee: Tallahasseee alumnae and friend send greetings; program coming in fine.
Mrs. George Scandrett, Elizabeth Lynn, Eleanorc Albright, Leonora Smith,
Martha McKnight, Anne Zillah Watson, Louise Yerxa, Dorothy McKethan,
Vivian Bryant, Clauzelle Whaley.

Winterhaven: Am eagerly awaiting program; wish I was a freshman with four
years to go; love to all. Sallie Abernethy.
GEORGIA:

Augusta: How homesick I am; greetings; program fine. Mildred Jennings.

Canton: Thoroughly enjoyed program, which came in as clear as a bell. (Telephone
message from Mary Glenn Roberts.)

Columbus: Eleven alumnae enjoying program; the rest have flu. Columbus Club.

Cordele: Program was wonderful; all it lacked was a word from Miss McKinney.
Linda (Miller) Summer.

Greenville: Enjoyed program even though I had no other Agnes Scotter to lend
enthusiasm; reception unusually clear and I felt as if I had actually seen you
all. Regina Pinkston.

Macon: Wish they had radios in hospital; would be wonderful to hear your voice.
Alice (Jernigan) Dowling.

Rome (Extracts from a letter to Dr. McCain) : While in Atlanta on Saturday evening,
I had the good fortune to listen in on your Founder's Day program and am
writing to congratulate you and all w r ho participated in the program on the very
fine program given. I was especally interested in the report of the present
student body as well as the members of your alumnae organization. With the
splendid past of the institution and the successful outcome of your recent
efforts, the future of Agnes Scott is assured. I wish to assure you of my
personal interest in the fine work your institution is doing in the cause of
higher education of wcmcn in the South. Dr. W. D. Furry, President of
Shorter College.

Rome: Congratulations on splendid program; best wishes. Marguerite (Watts)
Cooper.
ILLINOIS:

Chicago: Greetings from Chicago. Annette (Carter) Colwell, Blanche (Ryan)
Brim, Janet MacDonald, Charis (Hood) Barwick, Eloise Lower, Margaret
(Sienknecht) Lutz, Martha (Brenner) Shryock, Lillian (Beatty) Schuhman,
Reba Vinnedge.
KANSAS:

Fort Leavenworth: Two army daughters from far off Ft. Leavenworth listening in.
Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes, Almcdia (Sadler) Duncan.
KENTUCKY:

Shelbyville: Thinking of you today and wishing I could be present at the program.
Jane Bailey (Hall) Hefner.
LOUISIANA:

New Iberia: Thinking of everyone as you broadcast. Hello, Margaret and Olive.
Violet Weeks.
MARYLAND:

Baltimore: Baltimore alumnae send greetings; we are listening eagerly. Helen (Mc-
Cormick) Kirk, Florence Brinkley, I lorence (Ellis) Henderson, Jane (Harwell)
Rutland, Alvahn Holmes, Mary Leech, Lucile Caldwell, Mamie Shaw, Peggie
Rankin, Frances Brown, Lila Porchcr, Lillian (LcContc) Haddock, Sterling
Johnson.
MISSISSIPPI:

Crystal Springs: Fagerly awaiting program; hope to have some alumnae clubs
organized soon. Best wishes to all. Annie Tait Jenkins.

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Greenwood: Program coming in fine; greetings to Anges Scott. Mildred (Hall)

Pearce.
Jackson: Have enjoyed visiting Agnes Scott by radio: Elizabeth (Watkins) Hulen,

Margaret (Watkins) Goodman, Emily (Watkins) Cain, Lesa Holifield, Alice

Virden, Ida (Bechman) Remfrey, Ruth Virden.
NEW YORK:

Schenectady: Greetings; thrilled to hear program coming in fine. Helen (Bates)

Law.
NORTH CAROLINA:

Asheville: Twenty Asheville and Hendersonville alumnae and guests listened in

Saturday night; we enjoyed every bit of the program and wished we might be

with you; our enthusiasm and loyalty expressed by forming Western North

Carolina Club. Greetings and love to all Hottentots, Dr. McCain and Miss

Hopkins.
Carthage: Yes, I really got the program for the first time since my marriage and

did I enjoy it? You should have seen my delight in each number, especially Miss

Hopkins' address. Elizabeth (Woltz) Currie.
Chapel Hill: Radio program splendid and I hope we can continue to have them;

five in number, we gathered to listen in. Margaret Tufts.
Charlotte: Dr. McCain just heard; enjoying program; wild excitement among the

members. Charlotte Club.
Greensboro: It is our special pride that Agnes Scott has always had standards and

has lived up to them honestly- On this Founder's Day, we send gratitude and

love, with special greetings to Dr. McCain and to dear Miss Hopkins and Miss

McKinney. Charlotte Newton, Cora Strong.
Winston-Salem: Winston-Salem listening in; thanks for program; love for Miss

Hopkins. Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal.
Winston-Salem: Greetings to all assembled and to all listeners in. Sarah (Boals)

Spinks.
Winston-Salem: Winston-Salem girls enjoying program very much; love to all. Lib

(Norfleet) Miller.
PENNSYLVANIA:

Philadelphia: Enjoyed program; wish we had had television. Katherine Pasco,

Mabel Robeson, Jack McLellon.
SOUTH CAROLINA:

Charleston: Charleston alumnae having dinner with Mary (Kelly) Van de Erve

and enjoying every word of program; love from all to Miss Hopkins. Claude

(Wright) Williams, Maude (Atwood) LaBruce, Margaret Burge, Mary (Kelly)

Van de Erve, Helen Clarke Martin, Lewis (Murchison) Jenkins, Ruth (Pres-

cott) Whitsitt, Anna (Skinner) Verroni, Susan (Young) Eagan.
Columbia: Greetings to our Alma Mater from her daughters at Columbia. Eva

(Wassum) Cunningham, Elise Currell, Jane Tucker (Fisher) Dana, Katherine

(Kirkland) Geiger, Dorothy Lane, Geraldine LeMay, Virginia (Lancaster) Mc-

Gowan, Gladys Neil, Florence (Tucker) Weston, Helen Wright, Elizabeth

(Joiner) Williams.
TENNESSEE:

Johnson City: Enjoyed program; every word was just as clear as if you had been

in the same room with me. I could almost see the smile on Miss Hopkins' face.

I wish they would hurry up and get television, then we could all see you folks

at least once a year whether we come to Decatur or not. I am always wishing

the very best for Agnes Scott. Elizabeth (Cass) Bailey.
Knoxville: Greetings from the Knoxville girls: 1890 to 1927. Frances (Stuart)

Key.

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Memphis: Congratulations and best wishes; program coming in fine. Memphis
Club.

Nashville: Will enjoy program tonight; wishing Agnes Scott greatest success always.
Mrs. Weaver Harris.
TEXAS:

Austin: I got in just in time to hear Miss Hopkins announced and from then on I
could hear every word as distinctly as though she had been in the same room.
I hope other Texans were listening in. I enjoyed hearing changes in Student
Government, etc. Enjoyed whole program all alone and stood and sang Alma
Mater with the rest of the girls all over the country. Gladys Gaines.
VIRGINIA:

Farmville: Listened in here all by myself and got it splendidly. Ditto Worth,
Jo and other Charlottesville alumnae went to Marion (Daniel) Blue's house
Saturday night to listen in and couldn't get it at all. Lucile Bridgman.

Lynchburg: Lynchburg alumnae send greetings; program coming in fine. Spott
Payne.

Staunton: Best wishes for Founder's Day program; sorry that our first inter-col-
legiate debate at Mary Baldwin prevents my listening in. Martha Stackhouse.
WEST VIRGINIA:

Lewisburg: We can see Dr. McCain talking. Peg (Bell) Hanna and Helen Lewis.

MARCH WINDS

March.

And a world half-freed from winter's chill.

Mocking w r inds and a whirl of scattered leaves.

March.

And in a hushed, expectant thrill,

The voices of returning beauty breathe

Peace to an earth set free from winter's blast,

Peace, and good cheer to warm our weary hearts.

Heralds with trumpets are the winds that pass,

Welcoming beauty as winter departs.

Helen Trafford Moore, ex 'L

Even the back of Main changes fact!

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THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Llewellyn Wilburn, '19

As in all phases of education, there have been many changes in Physical Education.
The contrast between the gymnasium costume of yesterday with plaited bloomers fall-
ing down below the knees and bulky middy blouse (usually wrinkled) and the neat
knickers, socks and short-sleeved shirts of today (which are freshly laundered and kept
in the gymnasium) is significant. Along with this change in costume have come other
changes, perhaps not as apparent, but of even more importance.

Physical Education activities are divided into sections for beginning, intermediate
and advanced students. By means of motor ability and knowledge tests and conferences,
the skill of the student is determined. In this way, the novice is not embarrassed by
being unable to keep up with the class, the skilled student is permitted to make as much
progress as she can.

Such a wide variety of activities is offered, that each student should be able to find
one which she can enjoy. At the present time, swimming and dancing are the only
required activities. The year is divided into three seasons. The first season includes
tennis, swimming, hockey, golf, archery, and horseback riding. The second season in-
cludes dancing (natural, tap, folk), basketball, volley ball, life-saving, water polo, and
individual gymnastics. The third season offers tennis, swimming, golf, archery, horse-
back riding, track, baseball, and May Day dancing.

While such team games as hockey, basketball and baseball are enjoyed by many,
tennis, swimming, riding, golf and archery are very popular. And it is felt that these
sports make a valuable contribution to training for leisure time. Each student is en-
couraged to become proficient in some activity during her four years at college. She
is considered proficient if she can be ranked under one of the following heads: a member
of any class team, a member of advanced tennis of the Tennis Club, a life-saver, a student
coach or teacher, a member of the Dance Club, a golfer who can make a score of fifty for
nine holes of golf, an archer who shows ability to make a score of one hundred in a
Columbia Round of Archery. It is significant that last year sixty-five students passed
the Red Cross Life Saving test.

More and more the activities of the Physical Education Department are contributing
to the social life on the campus. Such events as progressive tennis parties and faculty-
student games have been encouraged. A tennis club has been organized and this club
invites players from other colleges to play with them. When the visitors come, they are
matched up with Agnes Scott students and during the afternoon's play the players have
a chance to try their luck with various partners. Since men are invited as well as girls,
the games are fast and exciting. We are particularly fortunate in having on the faculty
a number of professors who are enthusiastic lovers of sport and who are always ready
to join with the students in friendly games.

Although credit is still given by hours, the marks of progress are in the likes of
the students for activities which are so satisfying, that they will continue them after
college with the increasing realization that wholesomeness and health are attractive.

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Through the College Gates

CAMPUS CHAT

The following girls were elected to Phi
Beta Kappa and their names announced in
chapel February 14th by Mr. Stukes, the
president of the local chapter: Katherine
Morrow, Laura Robinson, Elizabeth Simp-
son and Julia Thompson. Mr. Stukes, in
his address, reviewed the essential qualifi-
cations for membership in this oldest of all
scholastic fraternities in the world: schol-
arship, fraternity, integrity and loyalty.
There are at present 107 chapters, only
eleven of which are in women's colleges.
Dr. McCain mentioned the unique manner
in which Agnes Scott obtained hers several
years ago, being the first institution under
the new system of admittance ever invited
to establish a chapter.

Admiral Richard Byrd gave his lecture
with moving pictures of his flight over the
Antarctic wastes to the South Pole in the
Gym on February 26th. This wonderful
lecture, bringing to a close a most success-
ful lecture series at the college, indeed re-
flects the untiring efforts of the Lecture As-
sociation Committee and the college' ad-
ministration to bring outstanding lecturers
and entertainers to the college for the com-
munity. Commander Byrd gave two lec-
tures while here, one at the college in the
afternoon and the other in the evening in
Atlanta.

In the beginning of his talk, he announc-
ed the Antarctic region was the one place
where the foot of woman had never trod,
that it was the lonesomest, most quiet
place imaginable, and it was to wonder if
he was longing for that region when the
cheers and shrieks of the girls accompa-
nied him off the campus. All the little boys
in the audience were on the stage in one
bound as he finished, one little fellow hav-
ing asked as his birthday present that he
be allowed to 'punch' Byrd, as he passed.

#

Mary Catherine Williamson, '31, has been
selected as the winner of the May Day
scenario, held recently among the students.
Her scenario, chosen for its accurate his-
torical details and its flexibility of struc-
ture, as well as for its aesthetic and artis-
tic qualities, is an outline of an Old English
May Day as presented during the reign
of Charles II. # * * #

Did you know that for every student
resident and day in Agnes Scott, there
are more than five tons of coal consumed

each nine months by the power and heating
plant of the college? And not only that!
Did you know that 16,000,000 gallons of
water are used by the college for various
purposes drinking, swimming, etc. every
twelve months, a total of a million and a
quarter gallons of water per month ? What
a water bill! * * * *

Poetry continues to be Agnes Scott's pe-
culiar forte and not only are we publishing
this quarter alumnae verse, but also are
announcing that Kitty Reid, '31, with her
poem, 'Dirge,' and Gilchrist Powell, '33,
with 'Swamp Sketch' are the representa-
tives from Agnes Scott appearing in Har-
per's, "The New Anthology of College
Verse," published in April. This anthology
is a collection of verse from almost 300
colleges and is edited by Miss Jessie Reh-
der, a graduate of Randolph-Macon College.

% % ;Js #

The Junior Banquet, with dates, music
and entertainment, was held in White
House on February 28th. While all the
rest of the college ate a dateless meal in
Rebekah and longed for their Junior year,
the lucky Juniors and dates enjoyed their
annual banquet and later attended the
Blackfriars play in the Gym.
# * * *

"Little Women," the play presented by
Blackfriars, on February 28th, held espe-
cial interest from an alumnae viewpoint,
for it was directed by 'our own,' Mary Ben
(Wright) Erwin, '25. This play, a comedy
by Marian De Forest, adapted from the
story by Louisa Alcott, is a charming char-
acter study of a group of lovable people,
with many hearty laughs in it.

4c * * *

Founder's Day's traditional banquet and
minuet marked the 23rd of February this
year. And while our alumnae Founder's
Day program went out on February 21st,
the college community chose Monday eve-
ning for their day. In the well remember-
ed way of all Founder's Day dinners, the
Seniors, in period costumes, with powdered
wigs and flowered crinoline, held the cen-
ter of the stage in the two dining rooms,
where George Washington acted as toast-
master and Martha presided at the other
end of the table. If there were just space
to quote the choice speeches of Betsy Ross
and Patrick Henry and Daniel Boone, La-
Fayette, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas
Jefferson, who were all present and 'spoke
their pieces' in their well-known style!

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While we are telling of dinners and din-
ners, we might as well talk of cake! As
the great reward for a 100 per cent record
on the four points prescribed for Health
Week at Agnes Scott, a luscious cake was
presented to Sturges Cottage, and the oth-
er dormitories and cottages looked on in
silent regret over the hours of tramping
and the oceans of orange juice drunk, and
the three square meals a day, not to men-
tion the 7 out of every 24 hours of each
day squandered in sleep which went to
make up the scoring points for this cake.
And not only was a cake won, but also the
coveted honor of 'Miss Health' which went
to Sarah Hill, '31.

The spring season in sports this year is
to be featured by special classes in horse-
back riding, with the completion of a rid-
ing ring beyond the May Day dell, where
classes will be held for beginners, while the
advanced riders will have the regular hour
trips aside from class instruction. The an-
nouncement in the Agonistic is enough to
bring tears to the eyes of those of us who
came all too soon, for it says, "Think of
this! Spring coming on a beautiful sunny
afternoon! A deep woody bridle path and
a horse!" * # * *

The annual Agonistic contest between
the four classes began with the Senior is-
sue on February 11th, followed by the Jun-
ior, Sophomore and Freshman issues suc-
cessively. Each class strives for the best
issue possible and the final decision will be
made too late for this issue of the Quar-
terly; the judges are prominent Atlanta
journalists and members of the Agnes
Scott faculty. * * * *

Dr. W. M. Anderson was the speaker for
the week of talks and conferences held
each year by some outside speaker for the
college community. He is the pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church in Dallas,
Texas, and also head of the men's work of
this denomination. Of most attractive per-
sonality, Dr. Anderson had a very great
appeal to college girls and his week was a
most profitable one on the campus.
* * * *

Pi Alpha Phi, our debating society, is re-
viving the plan of having two teams de-
bating between two colleges on each cam-
pus the same night. The University of
Tennessee will be the interchanging college
and the date will be sometime during the
week of March 23rd.

Spring holidays this year will extend
from the first to the seventh of April, in-
cluding Easter Sunday in their brief vaca-
tion.

FACULTY NEWS

The whole campus was saddened by the
d-eath of Miss Philo Sturges which occur-
red in January. She was well known to
many alumnae, some knew her during her
active days as housekeeper at Agnes Scott,
others knew her as a frequent visitor back
at the college which always held her affec-
tion. One of our cottages, Sturges Cot-
tage, was bought by Miss Sturges, after
her resignation from her position and later
was bought by the college for use as a
small dormitory.

Mr. C. W. Dieckmann gave a recital re-
cently in the chapel, with Miss Florence
Smith, violinist, and Mary Catherine Wil-
liamson, pianist, assisting.

Dr. George Hayes and his little daughter,
Anne, recently visited Dr. Hayes' parents
in Philadelphia.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Johnson have return-
ed from a delightful visit of a few days to
New Orleans.

Dr. Ethel Polk-Peters, who is now pro-
fessor of hygiene at Payne College, Augus-
ta, was a recent guest on the campus, when
she visited Miss Howson.

Miss Howson and Dr. Robinson were ad-
mitted to the Georgia Academy of Science
at the recent meeting in Macon on Febru-
ary 13th. At this meeting Miss MacDou-
gall, the retiring president, spoke about
"Some Higher Values of Science Study"
at the luncheon and was also a speaker on
the program of the meeting. Miss How-
son and Dr. Robinson read papers on sci-
entific subjects.

At this meeting of the Science Academy,
many of the teachers of Agnes Scott were
present; among these were Miss Westall,
Miss Dexter, Miss Omwake, Miss Blanche
Miller and Miss Lucile Coleman.

Dr. Davidson was recently a delegate to
the International Relations Club meeting
which was held at Duke University.

Anent Miss MacDougall, we quote from
the February issue of the Alumnae News
of the North Cai-olina College for Women:
"Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall, head of the
Department of Bilology, Agnes Scott Col-
lege, has conducted some interesting ex-
periments in changing the shape of micro-
scopic animals by exposing them to ultra-
violet radiation. Ultra-violet rays have be-
come well known because of their exten-
sive use in human therapeutics, but Dr.
MacDougall chose for her study one of the
simplest animals, a tiny single-celled ani-
mal. During her undergraduate days, Dr.
McDougall was a student at North Carolina
College for a year."

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From the Alumnae Office

Club News

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

The Birmingham Club has been holding
its regular monthly meetings since the last
report, the one in January having as its
speaker the alumnae secretary, the Febru-
ary meeting being in preparation for
Founder's Day dinner. The club is offering
a scholarship this year to a high school girl
and competition is so strong among the
Birmingham girls who have applied that
the choice will be a difficult one, one based
on scholarship and outstanding personality.

The Founder's Day banquet was held at
the home of Mrs. R. D. Thompson, Eugenia
(Thompson) Akin's mother, in Glen Iris
Park. "We had a perfectly lovely ban-
quet, much more delightful than we could
have had at a hotel. The house was lovsly,
decorated in daffodils, and the dining room
where ice and coffee was served was beau-
tiful, with a lovely lace and embroidered
cloth on the table and a centerpiece of daf-
fodils. We served the girls at card tables,
before going into the dining room for cof-
fee. Everyone looked so pretty and had a
lovely time. Annabel (Stith) Self, ex '23,
gave two readings which alone were worth
being there to hear."

"We were thrilled to death over what we
made" (This club, having pledged to the
campaign, conceived the idea of making its
banquet not only pay for itself but net a
nice profit for its payment on the pledge,
by letting club members do all the work
and buying the groceries themselves.) "We
had a grand dinner and charged $1.10 just
as we pay at the hotel. There were twenty-
four present and we cleared over seven-
teen dollars, then Dot (Bowran) Collins'
mother gave us five dollars besides, so we
felt quite flush and are sending another
payment to school. We didn't have a bit
of trouble fixing for the banquet and we
are all set for the same idea for next Feb-
ruary 22nd." (This is from a report from
the president of the club, Eugenia (Thomp-
son) Akin.)

From another source in Birmingham, we
learned that Mrs. Thompson, at whose
house the dinner was held, not only fur-
nished house and equipment but made many
lovely donations to the menu also, and from
the menu which was sent in to the office,
it certainly was a marvelous dinner, so if
this club can just interest all its mothers

also, next year's dinner ought to be clear
profit!

Those pesent were: Dot (Bowron) Col-
lins, Elizabeth (Ransom) Hahn, Annabel
(Stith) Self, Louise (Buchanan) Proctor,
Frances Bitzer, Mary Ray Dobyns, Martha
Riley Selman, Mary Nelson Logan, Eloise
Harris, Olivia Swann, Vallie Young
(White) Archibald, Mary (Bryan) Winn,
Elizabeth Callen, Eleanor Gresham, Edith
Gilchrist, Margaret (Griffin) Williams, Sa-
rah MacKenzie, Katherine Woodbury,
Eleanor Bonham, Edna (Trader) Rosier,
Helen Ridley, Frances (Formby) Manley,
Cornelia Cartland and Eugenia (Thomp-
son) Akin.

FLORENCE, SHEFFIELD AND TUS-
CUMBIA, ALA.

About this newly formed club, Margaret
Rice, recently elected secretary, writes:
"We started organizing last fall when Eliz-
abeth Allen and Ruth Scandrett were here.
The idea at that time was simply a chance
for all alumnae here to see them, but when
we realized we had so many Agnes Scott
girls in the Tri-Cities, the idea expanded
into definite plans for a club. Our first
real meeting was held in Sheffield at the
home of the president, Martha (Nathan)
Drisdale, a dinner on Founder's Day. For
once WSB came in clearly and we crowded
around lest we miss a word, and sang until
we drowned out the radio (several times
we stopped to find we were lines ahead, and
must wait for the Glee Club to catch up).
To date we have located fourteen alumnae:
Charlotte (Jackson) Mitchell, '14; Ruby
Lee (Estes) Ware, '18; Esther Joy
(Trump) Hamlet, '22; Mary Wallace Kirk,
'11, in Tuscumbia; Mettie (Moody) Hyde,
ex '22; Martha (Nathan) Drisdale, ex '20;
Helen (Hendricks) Martin, '30; Mary
(Lynes) Martin, ex-'26; Martha Bishop in
Sheffield; and Lucile Sherritt, ex '32; Mary
Loyd Davis, '27; Lilburne Ivey, '22; Polly
Irvine, '30; Margaret Rice, '28."

MONTGOMERY, ALA.

"When we heard Dr. McCain competing
with a banjo on the Founder's Day broad-
cast, we were reminded of the Decatur
freight. Even so, it was fine to hear him.
And we didn't miss a word of Miss Hop-
kins' message. We should like for you to
believe that there were many of us but we
must disillusion you. We were seven:

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Marian (Black) Cantelou, Kate Clarke, An-
nie Shapard, Jeannette Shapard, Anne
George Irwin, Ruth Scandrett and Mary
Terry. The bulletin and letters from A. S.
C. made us feel very much at home. We
chuckled over some of it, laughed at some,
and talked on and on of Agnes Scott. When
our folks came for us, we were in the midst
of plans for an Agnes Scott for boys."

Mary Terry.

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
The alumnae in New Haven met with
Flora (Crowe) Whitmire, at her home on
West Elm Street, to listen in to the Found-
er's Day program. The group included
Emily (Kingsberry) Ferrara, Eugenia Go-
here, Miriam Preston, Ida (Landau) Sher-
man, Polly Stone, Eunice (Briesenick)
Sloan, and Roberta Winter.

TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

"We had a grand time on Founder's Day
getting a radio assembled before the par-
ty, thoroughly enjoyed the program and
are still surviving on the memories of our
get-together. The radio was borowed for
the occasion and the aerial was nothing
more than our clothes line. Since I'd done
the work of converting the clothes line into
an aerial, the roommates were very dubi-
ous about its ability to function properly.
It worked and for two hours we searched
frantically for WSB. Couldn't locate it
till the Glee Club was giving its first num-
ber. What a joy to hear them! And all
the others who followed. Our guests in-
cluded the alumnae of Tallahassee and
Mrs. Scandrett (Dick's mother) and Laura
Strunk, the F. S. C. W. alumnae secretary."
So writes Elizabeth Lynn.

ATLANTA AND DECATUR, GA.

The joint meeting of Atlanta and Deca-
tur alumnae was a dinner held at the Bilt-
more, following the radio program. The
committee in charge of plans, headed by
Carol (Stearns) Way and Mary Helen
(Schneider) Head, with Marie (Maclntyre)
Scott, Mynelle (Blue) Grove and Elizabeth
(Tuller) Nicolson assisting, deserved all
praise for the lovely time which more than
a hundred alumnae and escorts enjoyed.
On the speaker's table, a perfect replica of
Main Building, lighted, so that all the
windows glowed as we all remember them
in the evening at Agnes Scott, was placed
in the center of a campus of green grass
and shrubbery and trees; one side of the
campus was given over to the time of 1889,
with groups of girls in old-fashioned cos-
tumes (these were dolls dressed by this
committee) sitting sewing; on the walk was
an old-fashioned buggy and horse, not to
mention the dummy which figured so in the
early days and romances of the college; on

the other side, 1931, modern dolls in swim-
ming, golfing, horseback riding costumes
dotted the campus with an airplane flying
over head and a modern sport roadster in
the drive. At each place was a place card of
Main Tower which was the work of Leone
(Bowers) Hamilton.

The entire program after dinner, which
was presided over by the Decatur Club
president, Marie (Maclntyre) Scott, cen-
tered about the early days; Dr. McCain
spoke of the early history, intrducing Mrs.
F. H. Gaines; Miss Hopkins and two of the
Institute girls, Mary (Neel) Kendrick and
Mary (Jones) Campbell, convulsed the au-
dience Avith stories of pranks of the Insti-
tute. A clever skit, written by Mary Ben
(Wright) Erwin, was acted in costume by
Mary Ben and Emma Wesley, the latter
wearing her graduation costume with its
ribbons and train, and Mary Ben in acade-
mic costume. The minuet dances from the
college added a very festive touch to the
evening and when we sang the Alumnae
Song in closing, all local alumnae felt they
had had a most interesting peep back into
the years of the infancy of our college and
had met some very interesting girls of
those days who have passed on our Agnes
Scott to these days.

COLUMBUS, GA.

The Columbus Club has been such astir-
ring bunch that it is hard to know what to
report first. This club held a bridge-tea
on January 16th at Mrs. Schuessler's on
Wynnton Drive and netted itself $60.00,
which will go onto its campaign gift. Lil-
lian (Eason) Duncan and Josephine
(Schuessler) Stevens were co-chairmen of
this party, which was a very lovely occa-
sion, as well as a profitable one, with re-
freshments served, and delicious candies
and cakes on sale.

The announcement of the club scholar-
ship to Agnes Scott has been made and ap-
plications taken. In connection with the
high school this club has for the second
time sent a group of high school Juniors and
Seniors up for a week-end at Agnes Scott,
with the Columbus girls who are students
at the college as hostesses. So many fine
girls were secured almost entirely through
this project last year that it is hoped that
most of the group of eight who came this
year will be interested in coming, as they
saw the college in action.

The Founder's Day celebration was a
buffet supper at Myrtle Blackmon's and,
as their telegram read, "Eleven wei-e there;
the rest had flu." After hearing the pro-
gram, the evening was spent in the pleas-
ant recollections which Agnes Scotters can
always rally. Hallie (Alexander) Turner
was presiding, as Josephine (Schuessler)

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Stevens was sick with flu. Others present
were Louise Baker, Martha Bradford, Ruth
Bradford, Miriam Kaufman, Louise (Thom-
as) McKee, Hazel (Brand) Taylor, Natilu
McKinney, Joan Raht, and Myrtle Black-
mon.

The club held its regular monthly meeting
at the home of Louise (Thomas) McKee,
'29, on Tuesday, March the third. At that
time Myrtle Blackmon and Louise Baker
made a report on the week-end they had
had at the college with the high school
students.

SAVANNAH, GA.

In honor of the many alumnae in Savan-
nah, Ga., Dorothy Hutton entertained dur-
ing the time she was home for the holidays.
This city has forty-eight alumnae and is
hoping to organize an alumnae club this
spring; this first meeting was a very de-
lightful opportunity of meeting together
and enjoying news from the college.

close to the going to press of this issue that
no report had been received at that time,
but with Julia's invitation, which read, "to
get together at various times, both for our
own pleasure and in an endeavor to ad-
vance the interests of our Alma Mater,"
no New Jersey alumna will refuse, and the
report will be in the July issue.

BALTIMORE, MD.

This is one of our very newest clubs and
with two meetings already and the third
one planned and dated, it seems to be most
successful. The December meeting, called
at the inspiration of Sterling Johnson,
proved such an enjoyable occasion that the
formation of the club materialized and with
eight people there for the first meeting,
held with Sterling', plans were made for
Founder's Day.

"Our meeting Saturday, February 21st,
was a great success. Thirteen of us were
the guests of Alvahn Holmes for a delight-
ful buffet supper. The radio program came
in perfectly; Miss Hopkins sounded as if
she were in the room with us, talking to
us personally. Frances Stukes' solo car-
ried me back to college days, and all of us
rose to the occasion when it came time to
sing the Alma Mater. We were even pre-
pared with copies of the second stanza, so
were sorry not to be able to use it!

Those present were: Helen (McCor-
mick) Kirk, Florence Brinkley, Florence
(Ellis) Henderson, Jane (Harwell) Rut-
land, Alvahn Holmes, Mary Leech, Lucile
Caldwell, Mamie Shaw, Peggie Rankin,
Frances Brown, Lila Porcher, Lillian (Le-
Conte) Haddock, Sterling Johnson. Sterl-
ing Johnson is president of this club.

The next meeting will be with Mamie
Shaw at the Hopkins Medical School Wom-
en's Club House in May. The other bit of
business of the February meting was the
election of Helen (McCormick) Kirk as
treasurer."

NEW JERSEY STATE

The alumnae of New Jersey were invited
to a meeting on February 23rd at the home
of Julia (Ingram) Hazzard, which was so

ASHEVILLE, N. C.

(Organization of the Western North Caro-
lina Club).

"I am glad to write you about the lovely
dinner party we had Saturday night, Feb-
ruary 21st. There were about twenty-four
alumnae, including four husbands present.
Maurine Bledsoe was master of ceremonies.
The program came in fine and we were so
thrilled over every bit of it. My, how
some of the alumnae opened their eyes
wide over the things Penny Brown told
about. The sweetest part of the whole
program was Miss Hopkins' talk which
made everyone of us feel more than ever
part and parcel of Agnes Scott.

After the program, Maurine read the
news item letter of the campus and Sarah
Shields Pheiffer read the letters from the
faculty. After all this we were so thrilled
and just bubbling over with that good old
A. S. C. spirit that we just had to put our
feeling into action. Maurine suggested we
form an A. S. alumnae club and invite all
the old girls from Hendersonville, Mon-
treat, Black Mountain, and other places
near here and call it the Western North
Carolina Club. Everybody heartily agreed
and temporary officers were elected. Mau-
rine as president and me (Mary Louise
Thames) as secretary. Sara Pheiffer was
appointed as a 'Lookout Committee' to
round up the alumnae who were not able
to get to this dinner and tell them about
the club. This first meeting was very in-
formal and impromptu, and the only busi-
ness transacted was to send Miss Hopkins
a telegram, because we wanted her to
know how much we had enjoyed the pro-
gram and about the club. We are having
the first regular meeting in March and will
send in an account later.

We had two prospective Hottentots
with us, Marion Calhoun from Asheville
and Elizabeth Grier from Hendersonville.
They were so pepped up over everything
about A. S. C, they can hardly wait to go.

This may not be a perfectly accurate list
of those who were at the dinner but here
goes: Beth Taylor, Pauline Smathers, Vir-
ginia (Baird) Ravenel, Sarah (Shields)
Pfeiffer, Gladys (Lee) Kelly, Ellen Fain,
Mrs. Fain, Laura (Candler) Wilds, Eliza-
beth Sandei-s, Louisa Baird, Catherine (Mc-
Sween) Branson, Maurine Bledsoe and
Mary Louise Thames.

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Best wishes from the Westei'n North
Carolina Club." Mary Louise Thames, Sec-
retary.

CARTHAGE, N. C.

One noble alumna had six high school girls
in to dinner on Founder's night and with
them listened in on WSB. She had a long
table spread with mementos of her college
days, everything from annuals to memory
books. The color scheme of purple and
white was carried out in her table decora-
tions. And it has even been said of this
party by one of the girls that it was the
nicest party she had ever been to, and this
remark made to someone other than the
hostess. The girls enjoyed the Glee Club
music and the talk by Penelope Brown, the
Junior, who spoke on present day condi-
tions, but, the alumna says she had the
best time of all. This was Elizabeth
(Woltz) Currie and the idea is passed on
for the lone alumna in a town next Febru-
ary 22nd.

CHARLOTTE, N. C.

The February 21st meeting was a most
enthusiastic one, with Mrs. J. S. Cothran,
Sally Cothran, Josephine Houston and Belle
Ward Stowe, as joint hostesses. This club
has recently held a most interesting Col-
lege Day in the high school, with Louisa
Duls, the president, planning it all, and
Pernette (Adams) Carter writing the clev-
er skit used, based on, 'Not in the Cata-
logue.'

CHAPEL HILL, N. C.

"Although we were only five in number,
Clara (Cole) Heath, Romana (Gallaway)
Mackie, Susan (Rose) Saunders, Jean Mc-
Alister, and I (Margaret Tufts), we had a
lovely reunion at Susan's home here. The
program came in splendidly and how good
it was to hear the familiar voices and songs
that recalled the days gone by. After the
program, we read the messages from the
faculty and exchanged many 'Do you re-
members' over the coffee cups. I think the
radio programs are splendid and hope we
can continue to have them." Margaret

Tufts.

WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.

"I am sending you an account of the
meeting on Founder's Day of the Winston-
Salem A. S. C. alumnae which was called
by Lib (Norfleet) Miller at her home in or-
der to hear the program. Unfortunately
all our alumnae were not able to be there
but twelve managed to come. Those who
were present were: Sarah (Boals) Spinks,
Ruth (Anderson) O'Neal, Lillian (McAl-
pine) Butner, Roberta Katherine (Love)
Brower, Isabel Ferguson, Mary Dudley
Brown, Elizabeth (Norfleet) Miller, Mary
Martha (Lybrook) Neal, Carolyn Nash and
Virginia Shaffner.

We elected Caroline Nash president and
decided to have one regular meeting a year
on Founder's Day. We also made plans
to put on an Agnes Scott day in the city
high school. Our present plans are to be-
gin a week ahead of time by putting litera-
ture in the Library and doing as much
talking as possible, then to have one day in
which to concentrate our efForts put on a
program and try to get as much Agnes
Scott spirit into Winston-Salem as possi-
ble.

Let me tell you again how much we en-
joyed the Founder's Day program. Hear-
ing Miss Hopkins, Miss Wilburn, Penny
and the Glee Club put new life into the
Winston Club." Virginia Shaffner.

CHARLESTON, S. C.

This group met with Mary (Kelly) Van
de Erve for the Founder's Day program.
All but two of the Charleston alumnae and
Susan (Young) Eagan, of Atlanta, were at
the meeting. Mary wrote most entertain-
ingly of this: "These were the ones who
gathered around the radio and listened with
bated breath to Dr. McCain, Miss Hopkins
and the others: Margaret Burge, ex-'19;
Lewis (Murchison) Jenkins, ex '24; Helen
Clark Martin, '26; Claude (Wright) Wil-
liams, Institute; Ruth (Prescott) Whitsitt,
Institute; Anna (Skinner) Vei-roni, Insti-
tute; Susan (Young) Eagan, Institute;
Dr. Van de Erve, the only husband
present, who sang lustly The Purple
and the White, insisting that we stole the
tune from Princeton, his Alma Mater;
Jerme, our middle son, who manipulated
the radio; Janet, four years old and a
prospective Agnes Scott student; and her
mother, who wishes for her nothing better
than that she should fall into the hands of
those she remembers who are still standing
by the guns." Mary says that they sat
around and talked before and after refresh-
ments.

COLUMBIA, S. C.

"Mrs. Cunningham asked me to write
about the fine time the Agnes Scotters had
in Columbia on Founder's Day. At seven
o'clock, we assembled, ten strong, at Eva
(Wassum) Cunningham's. The progi-am
came in splendidly, with just enough static
to keep us in a state of suspense about the
radio. We heard everything from Miss
Wilburn's speech to "The Journal covers
Dixie like the dew." It made us feel as if
we were back at A. S. C. when Dr. McCain
and Miss Hopkins spoke. Penelope Brown
excited us so with her talk on the recent
improvements that we almost decided to go
back to college for a post-grad in horse-
back riding. When the end of the program
came, we sang the Alma Mater so lustily
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Atlanta. Didn't you, now? While George
Washington was leading the dance at A.
S. C, we ate a delightful supper and every-
one seemed to have kept the Agnes Scott
appetite, so supper was a fitting climax to
the evening. The Agnes Scotters who lis-
tened in here were: Elise Hay Currell,
Jane (Fisher) Dana, Virginia (Lancaster)
McGowan, Geraldine LeMay, Gladys Neil,
Florence (Tucker) Weston, Eva (Wassum)
Cunningham, Katherine (Kirkland) Geiger,
Helen Wright and Lilly (Joiner) Wil-
liams." Geraldine LeMay.

GREENVILLE, S. C.

"It was all my fault about our telegram;
I had such good intentions about getting it
off in plenty of time and then the day came
and we were so busy, it entirely slipped
my mind until we were hearing your voice
over the radio. Everybody thrilled over
hearing Dr. McCain and Miss Hopkins just
as they did the first time they heard it.
We enjoyed the student, too, although it
made me feel awfully old when I realized
I didn't know her. So many people had
flu or had husbands or children with it that
our attendance was small. We met at my
house and had about ten in all. We did
have three attractive high school girls
whom we consider good prospects for A. S.
C. After the radio time, we had a gor-
geous time reading the news letter with
the faculty greetings and reminiscing
about all kinds of things. It was a lovely
evening and we are looking forward to
next Founder's Day. We are hoping to
have something attractive to help let the
high school girls know something of Agnes
Scott." Margaret Keith.

KNOXVILLE, TENN.

Frances (Stuart) Key, ex-'23, sent in the
following account of the Knoxville alum-
nae: "The Knoxville alumnae got togeth-
er for a luncheon on Saturday, February
the twenty-first. We had glorious time.
The eating was fun, of course, but you
should have heard the noise. Really every
one talked at one time! We had a bakers'
dozen there. From that beginning, and due
mostly to the enthusiasm and energy of
Emilie (Ehrlich) Strasburger, we have or-
ganized an A. S. C. club. She accomplish-
ed something none of the rest could have
done. We met on Friday the twenty-sev-
enth at Emilie's house. Emilie was made
president. Dot (Keith) Hunter was elected
vice-president, Frances (Stuart) Key, sec-
retary, and Nan Lingle, treasurer. We
have planned to meet every month and to
have very short programs but a grand time
together."

MEMPHIS, TENN.
Nell (Coats) Pentecost had the Found-
er's Day meeting at her house and through
the courtesy of her husband's firm, the
group had a marvelous radio which enabled
them to hear most of the program which
usually at that hour is an impossibility in
Memphis from WSB. "Miss Hopkins sound-
ed like herself in spite of the fact that her
voice was lowered to a full bass and was
accompanied constantly by somebody's far-
away jazz orchestra. All would have been
well if we could have assembled a crowd,
but if you think your little girl is taking
scarlet fever, you can't leave her any more
than you can if it is her third birthday and
when you have a baby three months old,
he has to be fed on time, and when your
parents are visiting you, you can't park
them in a boarding house and go off and
leave them, and besides all that if you have
a husband who travels, Saturday night is
the one night you have to do what he
wants to do. Or so they say! We assem-
bled four strong and had agrand time lis-
tening in and pitying those who couldn't
come. Nell (Coats) Pentecost, Sarah
(Hightower) Barnes, Blanche (Hearring)
Wilbur and Mary Shewmaker were the four
who got together but many more listened
in overtheir own radios." Mary Shewmaker.

FARMVILLE, VA.

"We tried to hear the Founder's Day
program and did succeed in hearing some
of it, in spite of Amos yelling "You get out
of here" and a gentleman in Montreal re-
citing French poetry." Louise (Lovejoy)

Jackson.

LYNCHBURG, VA.

"We had the nicest afternoon that you
can imagine on Founder's Day. It suits
everybody better for us to meet about four
o'clock, have tea, talk and then go home
for the program. We met with Louise
(Wilson) Williams and around a blazing
wood fire talked over old times and new and
compared Agnes Scott with other colleges
much to glorification of our Alma Mater!

The group is small here. Gladys (Camp)
Brannan and I (Spott Payne) were in
school together, then came a lapse of some
five or six years. Courtney Wilkinson and
Phyllis (Roby) Snead have been our mod-
ern members, but this afternoon Catherine
(Mitchell) Lynn waked us un decidedly,
for being a Georgian, she has kept in clos-
er touch with college happenings. For the
first time in broadcasting history, I heard
almost the entire program. It was a queer
but beautiful feeling to hear the well-i~e-
membered voices of Miss Hopkins and Dr.
McCain. The program was sincere and fine,
thrilling me to the tips of my fingers. Any
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completely fogot myself in the songs; for
when Alma Mater faded out, I was sur-
prised to hear my feeble strain soaring on
unattended." Mary Spottwood Payne.

Attention is called to the lovely frontis-
piece in this issue. This pen and ink draw-
ing was done by Leone (Bowers) Hamilton,
of the class of 1926. "Red" is doing some
wonderful work with the college art de-
partment and is one who always responds
to any call for help. We feel fortunate in
having her on the campus, in being able to
claim her work as our own, and in being
able to publish such a beautiful plate as
the one in this Quarterly.

QUENELLE HARROLD FELLOWSHIP

We are calling the attention of the Alum-
nae to the Quenelle Harrold Foundation,
established by Mrs. Thomas Harrold in
honor of her daughter, Quenelle Harrold,
'23. The income from a gift of ten thou-
sand dollars is used to provide a graduate
fellowship. The fellowship is awarded an-
nually to a member of the senior class or to
an alumna of not more than three years
standing. It offers an unusual opportuni-
ty for graduate study and research in
any approved university chosen by the fel-
low. Applications should be filed with the
Registrar early in the year. Announce-
ment of the award is made at commence-
ment. ,

LET US INCLUDE YOUR TOWN ON
OUR ITINERARY!

For the remaining months of this term,
our assistant alumnae secretary, Dorothy
Hutton, will be traveling for the college
for about half of the time in the interest
of enrollment and your co-operation is
asked about these trips. It is Dr. McCain's
plan to ask alumnae to arrange for meet-
ings in their high schools when Dorothy
may speak to the students about Agnes
Scott and if on the same day she can meet
with you in an alumnae group meeting,
you would have the pleasure of hearing all
the news fresh from the college and even
if there is no organization in your town,
probably the alumnae would be interested
in this one meeting. The schedule for these
trips is even now being made in the Alum-
nae Office, so just as soon as you read this,
won't you write us what day would be con-
venient for her to come to your high
school? We are asking especially all or-
ganized groups who may have been mak-
ing plans for a college day in the high
schools to let us know your date and if you
wish, Dorothy will attend this meeting and
be of help to you in presenting our Alma

Mater to the girls of your schools. This
plan of a field secretary under auspices of
the Alumnae Association and the college is
not a new one in many colleges but it is
new to us and we feel sure that once you
know there is an available speaker, you
won't mind a bit arranging for her coming.
It is the greatest service alumnae can ren-
der the college, this of getting students
of Agnes Scott caliber for Agnes Scott, so
do your good turn for A. S. C. and let us
hear from you as to the date you would
like for the field secretary to come. Time
is flying, it will soon be June, and we need
your help!

N. S. F. A. NATIONAL CONFERENCE
AT A. S. C.

Ellen Davis, '31

Six years ago, a representative group of
college students met at Princeton Univer-
sity to attend the Intercollegiate World
Court Congress. As a result of this con-
gress, The National Students' Federation
of America was founded with a view to
filling the need for some permanent and
inclusive organization of colleges and uni-
versities in America. The purpose of the
new federation as stated by its founders
was "the achievement of a spirit of co-op-
eration among the students of the United
States of America to give consideration to
questions affecting students' interests, the
development of an intelligent student opin-
ion on questions of national and interna-
tional importance, and the fostering of un-
derstanding among the students of the
world in the furtherance of an enduring
peace."

That the international phase of the work
has been predominant is evident from a
glance at the program of activities of the
organization. The federation, working
through its national staff in New York and
in co-operation with the C. I. E., has spon-
sored a program of European travel for
American students. Last year, fifty-eight
American college students went to Europe
on specially arranged tours and came in
contact with student life and thought by
being entertained by the European students
themselves. This same bureau arranges
and cares for several groups of foreign
students who come to this country on short
tours, and helps the individual student trav-
eling or studying here or abroad by pro-
curing reduced rates and special privileges
through the C. I. E. Student Identity Cards.
International debating is carried on under
the direction of the national office. The
Cambridge team came to the Agnes Scott
Campus this vear under the auspices of the
N. S. F. A.

The national service of the N. S. F. A.
includes the weekly news release which in-

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forms college newspapers of student news
of significance both nationally and interna-
tionally, and the nation-wide , broadcast
over the Columbia System of addresses on
current topics of interest to student. The
national headquarters has compiled excel-
lent surveys on student problems, condi-
tions and opinions, which are available for
the use of any local student organization.

The N. S. F. A. met this year for its
annual congress in Atlanta as guests of
Georgia Tech. and Agnes Scott. About 275
delegates from all over the country arrived
on December 29 when the metings started.
The girls were entertained in the dormi-
tories at Agnes Scott and the boys at Tech.
and lunch and dinner were served each
day in the Tech. dining hall. Among other
social events during the convention was a
luncheon at Agnes Scott on New Year's
day following a trip to Stone Mountain.
Cosy fires in the studios, brilliant poin-
settia everywhere, small bales of cotton for
favors, some lovely old negro lullabies and
songs, and above all, a chicken dinner in
true Agnes Scott style, were greatly ap-
preciated by the guests.

The main theme of the congress was em-
bodied in a consideration of the tariff ques-
tion and the main addresses dealt with this
subject. The speakers were: Norman
Thomas, who spoke from New York by ra-
dio on "World Depression Demands World
Cooperation," presenting the Socialist point
of view; Hon. D. W. Davis, on "Why I Am
a Protectionist;" and Governor Nellie Tay-
lor Ross on "The Tariff and Related Prob-
lems." The general sessions were for the
most part taken up with the consideration
of the broader problems on national and
international significance such as prohi-
bition and subsidation of athletics and na-
tional organization and deveopment. The
more detailed and specific campus prob-
lems were discussed in smaller groups,
which considered such topics as, Student
government for schools of various types
and sizes, college publications, fraternity
and non-fraternity organization, athletics,
honor systems, and organizations for wom-
en's colleges. The congress declared for a
modification of the Eighteenth Amendment
and proposed a congress of athletic direc-
tors and college presidents to consider the
problem of subsidation of athletics.

All who attended the congress came
away with an appreciation of the great
value of such an organization to our coun-
try and with a feeling of a broader and
clearer understanding of problems and con-
ditions of today from contact with other
students from all parts of the country
who are student presidents and lead-
ers and who are intensely interested in

promoting that "intelligent student
opinion on questions of national and
international significance." Especially was
it a privilege to have the convention in At-
lanta. In all probability, we gained more
than we gave, but all delegates reported a
pleasant visit and expressed warm appreci-
ation of the "Southern hospitality" shown
them by Georgia Tech and Agnes Scott.

THE MAIN TOWER

(Copied from The Agonistic.)
Our tower is a sort of Notre Dame, too.
In the older days every girl felt that she
owed it to her own honor and glory to
have her name inscribed on the inside of
the Tower. With her name went some
appropriate remarks about her own or her
class greatness and perhaps a solemn
promise to meet her friends there, in the
Tower, at some date ten years or so later.
The Tower means a lot to the alumnae,
for it is the one thing that has been here
from the first and has never changed. The
much-disputed summer-house is unrecogni-
zable, the moss-grown brick paths that
used to wind so enticingly among the
trees of the front campus have given way
to our new drive. But we, who are so soon
to join the ranks of that numerous tribe,
the alumnae, will never feel strange in our
Alma Mater so long as we may lift our
eyes and see Main Tower against the
blue Georgia sky.

LETTER FROM MISS MARKLEY

(This is a paragraph from a letter to
Miss Alexander which was written to her
by Miss Mary Markley and which is being
published as many alumnae will remem-
ber her so pleasantly and will be glad to
hear news of her.)

"My trip was all that I expected and
more in many ways. China and India were
superlatively interesting not only because
I saw them in more different aspects but
because of the dramatic way in which his-
tory is making under one's very eyes. In
China, I had an interview with Dr. C. T.
Wang, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
And in India, I visited Gandhi's Ashram just
four days before the much advertised In-
dependence Day, January 26th. We sailed
from Bombay on January 25th and had by
radio reports on the disappointments of
that day. For a month I stayed with
Frances (Frances Charlotte (Markley)
Roberts, '21) met her entertaining family
and university friends. She teaches Fresh-
man history and does a lot of interesting
things on the side. Of course, I saw Anna
Sykes, '16, and Margaret Winslett, '20."

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pool in Alumnae Garden Frontispiece

Commencement and Reunion Time 3

As a '29-er Saw Reunion 4

When Shall We Three Meet Again? 7

A Week-end of Stimulation ,__ __ 8

Scenes on Alumnae Day .__ 9

Our Proposed Alumnae Week-end 10

An Alumna Tells the World About Paris Fashions 11

Book Reviews 13

Alice (Jernigan) Dowling, '30

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We Were There, Agnes Scott 16

Hopkins Jewel 17

Quenelle Harrold Scholarship Award 17

Who Gets the Cup? 17

Commencement Awards 17

Faculty News 17

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American Alumni Council Conference 20

Necrology 20

Club News 21

Cellege Presidents 23

Annual Report of Alumnae Association 24
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COMMENCEMENT AND REUNION TIME

When the Friday of commencement week-end dawned, the fun began! "Alums"
began the trek back to Agnes Scott from the four corners of the country and Alumnae
House and Miss Hopkins' office and old Main and new Buttrick were filled with "old"
girls and shrieks of joy and the hum of catching-up on all the news since last we met.
Never was a week-end more perfect in weather, bright sunshine, yet not too hot, delight-
ful breezes and one tiny little shower on Sunday afternoon, just enough to make con-
ditions perfect.

The business meetings of the Executive Board and Council on Thursday afternoon,
May 28 th, came off in great style and are covered in their reports. Now for a little story
of the fun. On Friday afternoon, the Decatur Agnes Scott Club, with Marie Maclntyre
Scott, as president, and Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, as chairman, gave a marionette
show in the chapel for alumnae children and what with pictures being taken for the
Atlanta papers beforehand and ice cream cones and paper caps waiting after the show,
the afternoon was one continual whirl, with fond mothers displaying offspring to Miss
McKinney and Miss Hopkins and Dr. Sweet and Miss Smith; when night fell and the
supper bell rang out in its old familiar way, alumnae gathered their own together and
wended their way back home or to the Alumnae House or to their hostess' to wait the
morrow.

Saturday was the BIG day! From early in the morning, there was a buzz in Re-
bekah where the entertainment committee was working with buckets of flowers and
yards of tables to present the glorious appearance it did when we came in to lunch. But
wait, we are ahead of ourselves. At eleven thirty, the annual meeting of the Alumnae
Association was held in the chapel and there we listened to year's reports of committee
work and officers and then to the finest talk by Dr. McCain on what a college expects of
an alumna and what an alumna has a right to expect of its college. As for the reports
of the association, well, we'll let you in on what a visitor said, "I was interested in coming
to your meeting to see your organization and I was impressed; we have nothing like it at
all!" "And one new almna said she and her friends had decided we had the best organiza-
tion in the world. Are we modest? Our best friend couldn't accuse us of it! You know
Trustees' luncheons, don't you? Suffice it to say, it was a great occasion, the only sorrow
being that for the first time in history, Mr. Orr could not preside as toastmaster, but Dr.
Flinn, Tumpsy's father, made a name for himself in taking Mr. Orr's place in a
wonderfully happy way. You would have enjoyed seeing the skit played in by Emma
Wesley and Mary Ben Wright Erwin, which Mary Ben wrote, telling the tales of two
generations of Agnes Scotters and given in the costumes of 1900 and 1931. And what
shall we say about the cornerstone laying and the making of the gift to the college of
the beautiful pool by the senior class? This pool and fountain is the center of our new
Alumnae Garden and we all wound our way past Mr. Stukes' moving picture machine
trying hard to register absolute a-plomb, as we made our way from Rebekah to the back
of the Alumnae House where the ceremonies were held in a very simple but pleasing way,
with Louise Brown Hastings in charge, the senior class officers laying the stone and
beneath it a box of mementos and then turning on the water in the new fountain, with
Alma Mater's song closing the afternoon. Glee Club with an alumna as star, Nelle
Esslinger, and with another alumna, Gussie O'Neal Johnson, as director, put on a won-
derful program on Saturday evening in the chapel.

Sunday morning always brings memories of our baccalaureate day and when the
long line begins to move from Inman porch to Buttrick and the song peals forth,
we have only to close our eyes to see our crowd and hear familiar voices in the place of
these. Dr. W. E. Hill of Richmond, Virginia, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church

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of that city, and the father of Sarah Hill of the class of '31, made one of the most
interesting addresses of many years to the seniors and a large crowd of friends and
alumnae and families. After dinner Miss Hopkins entertained everybody at coffee and
almost before we could realize it the afternoon was over and seniors vespers were calling
and then Open House in the Alumnae House for seniors and their guests, alumnae and
faculty, which began at seven and lasted far into the evening, with everybody enjoying
punch and sandwiches and talk.

Monday was THE day for 1893 and 1894 and 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913, 1929,
and 193 0. For after the breakfast hours, the Tea House closed its doors to all and
spread tables for the reunion class luncheons and that night for class dinners. Soon
the crowd began to gather: 1893 and 1894 had six members and Miss Hopkins in the
private dining room, Mary (Neel) Kendrick, Emily (Divver) Moorer, Kittie (Burress)
Martin, Kate (Logan) Good, Clara Belle (Rushton) King, and Bessie (Scott) Harman.
1910, 1911, and 1912 held their luncheon together, with twenty present, and after lunch,
Ruth (Slack) Smith called for an accounting for the "about-twenty" years since these
girls walked the campus as students, and many were the confessions made, from a grand-
son, to a daughter in the senior class this year, to several hundred graduating daughters
of another who happened to be a teacher, to Mildred's making the papers in Minnesota,
well, you can't imagine how much news the alumnae secretary accumulated for the
quarterly just listening-in! Miss Lillian Smith was a guest of this group and said she
really noticed an improvement in the crowd after twenty years! 1913, with its thirteen
members back and Miss McKinney and Dr. Sweet as guests, made such a large table that
they ate alone but the noise that came from that side was evidence that 1913 still is
able to entertain itself. 1929 and 1930 held dinners in the Alumnae House at seven
that evening, and at two long tables, these two classes filled the capacity of the Tea
House to the limit and when asked if there was anything to report, one 1929-er re-
marked that there was so much talking and noise that you couldn't think, so a good time
must have been had by all. Monday afternoon was Class Day and daisy chain time,
then Blackfriars, with "In Love With Love" closed a very full day.

Tuesday morning, Dr. J. R. Cunningham of the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary,
spoke to the graduating class and proved himself a very pleasing and instructive speaker
and one who quite won the hearts of his hearers.

The last paragraph is the one that hates to be written for it must tell of the leaving
of the alumnae, back to homes, and husbands, and children, and jobs, and bosses, and
principals, but back with a week-end of happy memories, of days of girlhood re-
lived, of hours spent with old friends and in old surroundings, back with a new picture
of Agnes Scott interwoven in the old fabric of our dreams of her. Reunion time, if it
is your reunion year next year, don't miss it; it is like no other experience in all the world!

AS A '29-ER SAW REUNION

Dear '29ers:

I am home again after the Reunion at Agnes Scott and am still thrilled over seeing
old friends and doing the old familiar things with them. In this letter I want to share
some of that thrill with you.

I arrived Friday in time for Chapel and Phi Beta Kappa announcements. As I
watched the service it was as if I had never been away. We sang Come Thou Fount, and
Mr. Stukes made the announcements (Marjorie Daniels and Harriet Smith got in), and
everyone was so excited and happy. Then came the recessional and I saw another early
arrival among the 29ers for Jean Lament and I walked out together and the years that
had passed were no more.

According to custom we went to the mailroom not the old one in Main, but a new
one in Buttrick which is a marvel to behold. However, the reaction is the same. Jean

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was there too and we found it impossible to keep away from one another two years is
a long time.

With true Alumnae Pride I went to the baby party that afternoon. On the way
over I met Dit Worth who had driven down from Charlottesville. She looked the same
except plumper and her hair was waved on the whole life seems to be treating her well.
I picked up Miss Pirkle and we went on to the party as each others baby. None of our
babies were there, but Dottie informed me with almost motherly pride that we had some
as cute as any there. I agreed when I saw Nancy Anderson (Esther Nisbet's daughter)
some days later.

That night late I heard of Martha Riley's and Mary Nel's arrival and though it was
long past my normal bedtime I just had to dash over to see them. They were making
Atlanta the first stop of a long trip to New York, Toronto, and points in Michigan. It
was so good to see them that the minute I expected to stay soon lengthened into half an
hour.

The next morning '29ers began to arrive thick and fast. Mary Lanier was in the
Tea Room when I went in for breakfast and Betty Gash and Lib Hatchett soon came in.
Bet had met Lib in Glascow and they had driven down together. They intend to con-
tinue to New Orleans where Lib will pay Bet a short visit.

I had hardly left them when I stumbled on Mary Alice Juhan and Sally Souther-
land who had driven over together in Sally's new Ford which by the way is one of these
new Victoria coupes. It rides well!! Mrs. Donaldson came along and Sally promised
her to life save for an Alumnae swim. It was much fun to watch Sally do her old
swimming stunts and until a crowd gathered we put on an exhibition in which Sally
was the sole performer.

After the swim we were discovered by Gladys Austin. Gladys is looking forward to
a wonderful summer. She and Lilly Bellingrath are going to Chautauqua together when
after a short stay Lilly will return home. Gladys will spend about nine weeks up there
teaching one hour of Bible a day. It was past time for the Alumnae meeting so we went.
Rachel Paxon and Lenore Gardner joined us there. Rachel has the distinction of being
the first Alumna to fly to a reunion. Her description of her trip from Jacksonville made
the rest of us desire such an experience.

At the Trustee luncheon that day we were proud of our representation. There were
thirty-five of us. It would be impossible to mention everyone, but I will say that Helon
Brown Williams arrived on time to sit at the head of the table and help make the gather-
ing perfect. Your ears must have burned for many questions were asked about the
absentees. We were proud to be able to claim 24 husbands and 9 babies to our credit in
only two years of conquest.

I wish everyone of you could see the beginning that has been made to the Alumnae
garden which is to occupy the space between Inman and the Alumnae House. Already
it is a great improvement. It was to this part of the campus that the group was invited
to gather after the luncheon for the dedication of the lovely fountain which is the gift
of the class of '3 1 to their Alma Mater.

Left to our own resources after these exercises we were free to discover improvements
on the campus which made us very proud and happy. We had read about these im-
provements in the Quarterly and were not disappointed by them. The campus seems
twice as large and is twice as lovely.

That night was the Glee Club Concert. We thrilled to the old songs and were
drawn to the new ones. I enjoy those concerts more every year. Afterwards I chaperoned

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a Junior to Decatur and felt very important though not at all certain about walking off
the campus in such a fashion.

Sunday morning dawned with sausage and the ever-faithful grits for breakfast.
Soon underclassmen and Juniors began to appear in white dresses, seniors assembled in cap
and gown, and the Faculty in academic robes met both groups on Inman porch. From
everywhere came crowds for the Baccalaureate Sermon. We too joined the crowds in
the gym and were privileged to hear a wonderful sermon delivered by Dr. Hill, the father
of Sarah Hill. We lingered afterwards with the crowd in front of the gym, eager to
speak to everyone and determined to miss nothing.

After dinner at coffee in Rebekah lobby and after vespers at open house in our own
Alumnae House an opportunity was provided when we could meet the families of the
senior class and see more old friends. On both of these occasions we were particularly
anxious to converse with members of the faculty and administration. These friends who
have meant much to us and make us feel all the more welcome by the spirit with which
they welcome us.

To those of us who attended the reunion Monday was most important because of our
class dinner in the Alumnae House that evening. Everyone seemed to enjoy the occasion
so much that no one wanted to leave. We had a short class meeting afterward. At
this time Mary Ellis was elected Secretary to take the place of Dorothy Hutton who has
done such fine work for the past two years. Of importance was a motion made by Kitty
Hunter that the married ones of our number compile a book on the things to do and
the things to beware of in married life. We enjoyed the letters that came from some of
the absentees and wish that all had written. Even after the meeting everyone lingered
and I am glad I did for I got to meet Mary Gladys' J. B. who is a loyal '29er assisting
Mary Gladys with boxes of fixings she had brought out for the dinner. Finally, the
party resolved itself into a bull session of six, uproariously entertained by G. B. Knight
who is her own dear self plus a liberal education by Emory students. The book-burn-
ing ended our party. We were carried back several years when we saw Latin Prose,
English '01, and History Sylabbi going up in smoke. In spite of our school-teacher slant
on life we enjoyed it.

Tuesday found '29ers scattering. I stuck it out and was very glad to be one of
the class at the evercises to clap when Lib Hatchett was announced as the receiver of
the Quenelle Harrold fellowship for graduate study next year. In a short while it was
all over and I was frantically packing in a very Hottentot-like fashion.

I consider my five days at the reunion the most perfect I have ever spent. As I look
back on them I see that they meant certain definite things to me. In the first place I
realized the value of the Agnes Scott faculty and administration as part of our life.
Though we have graduated they continue to mean more. Then I realized what a great
debt of appreciation those who are scattered far owe to those alumnae who are near
most of them the day students of college days. They make our reunions finer because of
their large attendance and because of their activity. Many things could not be done
were it not for these who are on the spot.

Though I have written much I have not said nearly all and have only attempted to
convey to you what the reunion meant to me. As I have tried to share this experience
with you I hope you will share your experiences with me for I am always interested. At
the next reunion we hope that all the absentees of this reunion will be present.

V. W.

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When Shall We Three Meet Again?
In May, 1931, in 101 Main!

Back in the days of 1892 and 1893, three girls rcomed in Main 101, when Main
was new and shiny and the Buttrick of the campus! This May, those same three girls
came back and old 101 folded its arms around them and they were heme again.
These girls are shown in the above picture, reading from left to right: Kate (Logan)
Good, Acworth, Ga.; Kitty (Burress) Martin, Anderson, S. C.; Emily (Divver) Moorer,
Greenwood, S. C.

After a glamorous week-end when they were by all edds the hit of commencement,
they wrote a letter of thanks to the present students who gave up their room for Emily
and Kittie and Kate to enjoy reunion in and it was so clever, we begged permission to copv
it for the Quarterly.

"Dear Anne Pennington and Elizabeth Phillips,

"When you left me 1 felt so bare and empty. Then the maid made me worse bv
coming in and sweeping and dusting away every vestige of you and dragging in an-
other bed. I was dismal and wondered what it was all about. At dusk, the loveliest
time of the day, when I was giving myself up to thoughts of you, three arrogant (?)
intruders walked in and took possession of me.

"Stepping into the middle of me, one threw her arms around the other and ex-
claimed "Oh, girls, can that be Kate Logan and that Emily Divver and this Kittie
Burress in 101 in old Main at Agnes Scott?"

"Then they chattered and laughed and suddenly 1 felt a thrill for at the sound of
their voices memory awoke. The years rolled back when I was fresh and fair and young
and my complexion had not been defaced by the lines of time. Dear girls of '31, re-
member during all these years I've sheltered many girls and my walls have heard their
secrets and shared their joys and sorrow, victories and defeats and they have become a
part of me. I listened as they recounted the past and boasted of the pranks perpetrated
within my walls so long ago. I almost laughed with them for how vividly do the things
of youth stay in our memories! Those intruders (?) grew dear to me for I recognized
my contemporaries not by their names nor faces for they too had been touched up to hide
the lines and cracks, but by that intangible something that every soul which has abided
within my walls has left behind and by which I recognize these, my children of '93.

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Had I any doubts they would all have been dissipated when I heard Kate Logan talking
to sleep Emily Divver and Kittie Burress as in the long ago.

"As their voices grew dreamy in approaching sleep, I heard your praises unanimously
sung for giving them the privilege of coming home after all these years and being to-
gether and sleeping again the sleep of girlhood 'within my sheltering arms' . . . I'll be
here to welcome you in September after your happy vacation and hope that I may be
spared, when in the after years, you too shall wander back again to have the years roll
away and to get your second wind for the finish of Life's race, as have these rejuvenated
girls of the 'gay nineties.'

"Your old,

"ROOM 101."

A WEEK-END OF STIMULATION

Did you read the article in the April Quarterly called "Adult Education," with the
question, "Shall the Alumnae of Agnes Scott Join This Movement"? Then you know
what all this is about; if you did not read it, you missed the best possible summary of
this new movement, so please find that last Quarterly and turn to it. It was written
by Adelaide Cunningham, '11, chairman of the Curriculum Committee of the Alumnae
Association, and represents many weeks of the perusing of pamphlets from many col-
leges on this subject. The whole thing in a "couple of nut-shells" is that education is a
lifetime process and that many of us would like to have a time when our college would
continue the process in us by offering some lectures at a time when special arrangements
for our stay on the campus would be made.

The Alumnae Association is planning to offer to you this chance of a lifetime next
fall and would like to hear from you as to what type of lectures and how many and what
social features you would enjoy during that week-end. Will ycu read this bare outline
of the program and then grab a pen and write before you stop to do the next task and
never get around to it, telling us what you think is good and what can be improved on in
your estimation in this plan, suggesting speakers whom you would like to hear also?

Home Coming Week-End has become an institution in our Association's year, being
the Thanksgiving week-end, but up to now it has been concentrated on the senior class
of the past year having its first reunion dinner and on the annual tea in the Alumnae
House for all alumnae. These will still be the feature social events but the plan now is
to have at the same time a program of lectures that will be such an inducement to
alumnae that many of all years will make reservations, pack the suitcase, dust the cobwebs
out of the brain and come with high hopes of getting "intellectually stimulated" in those
same old halls of A. S. O, and no exams to see whether you do or do not get that
stimulant!

Do you like this tentative plan? PLEASE WRITE US YOUR OPINION!
Thanksgiving: Formal dinner in the two dining rooms. Dance afterwards in the Gym.
Friday Morning: Lectures. (Here's where we need your advice.)

Luncheon: (The plan would be to have this in the dining room of the college, with

a round table discussion or a talk to close the morning program.)
Friday Afternoon: Athletic meet in afternoon. (The Athletic Department, under

Llewellyn Wilburn would plan a full program of events, giving us a chance to see

the students and if possible some games in which alumnae and students might join.)
Dinner: (This is planned now to be a dinner in the Tea House, with a dinner talk

along the lines we would be following in the morning courses.)
Saturday Morning: Lectures.

Saturday Afternoon: Annual Tea to all alumnae in Alumnae House.
Saturday Evening: Dinner for 1932 class reunion in Tea House.

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SCENES ON ALUMNAE DAY AT COMMENCEMENT

1893 -'94, just before their
reunion luncheon in the
Alumnae House. Miss Hop-
kins and Miss McKinney
still have to keep an eye on
these girls, as the picture
shows.

Four Reunioners caught
when they were talking of
auld lang syne in the new
setting of the Alumnae
Garden.

Seven of the class of 1912
looking happy but hungry
as this picture was made
just before their class
luncheon when with the
members of 1911 and
1910, twenty in all, they
gathered around the table
to discuss their "pasts."

1915 held a record reunion
with eleven at its luncheon
plus Miss McKinney and
Dr. Sweet; with old annu-
als and pictures of their
"present and futures," they
sjieut a jolly luncheon hour.

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OUR PROPOSED ALUMNAE WEEK-END
What Alumnae Think of the Plan

Lucile (Little) Morgan, 1923: "Concerning Adult Education in General, I have been
interested in the "cause" ever since I have been an adult. There hasn't been a time since
I have been out of Agnes Scott when I wasn't studying something, and the subjects have
ranged all the way from Contract Bridge to Dynamic Symmetry! . . . As to a pro-
gram of Adult Education for Agnes Scott, I am certainly "all for it." It seems to me
that the suggestion of a seminar at Thanksgiving time on some subject or subjects is
the most practical and hope-inspiring idea that has appeared in the Quarterly in a long,
long time. Many "alums" are, I suppose, like myself, living in small towns or rural com-
munities, since Agnes Scott draws largely from an agricultural area. For that reason
such a program would have an added allure, in that it gives the incentive for com-
parative-progress reports and the feeling of unity with a larger group pursuing like sub-
jects. ... I am not at all sure that Modern Literature is just the course I would select
if given a choice. I feel a greater need, I believe, for directed study in something like
contemporary history, sociological findings, or contemporary philosophy. These are
merely my own personal reactions, however, and no matter what course or courses
should be offered, I would attend all I could and would co-operate whole-heartedly in any
way that I could. ... In undertaking such a program, even to a very limited degree at
first, the Alumnae Association would be in step with a movement that is not only good
in its immediate effects, but will have a really measurable effect on those whose cause has
been championed by Harry Stillwell Edwards in "The Tenth Generation." I wish I had
means to make a substantial contribution right now toward the launching of an Adult
Education plan for A. S. alumnae. As I haven't, I will give of my enthusiasm and co-
operation as fully as I may. Anyhow, you know where there is one alumna who is only
waiting for the opportunity to show by participating, just how much such a plan would
fill a long-felt want."

Louise (Wells) Parsons, 1911: "It (the plan) particularly appeals to me, for I'm so
interested in that phase of 'Adult Education,' called 'Parental Education.' I've been
doing a lot of reading along that line."

Carol (Stearns) Wey, 1912, suggests as subjects for discussion:

Appreciation of Literature.

Appreciation of Art.

Appreciation of Music.

Modem Trends in Philosophy.

Modern Trends in Sociology.

Ruth Pirkle, 1922: "I feel the need of being educated after my years out of college,
even though they have been spent among educators. There are so many subjects in which
we are interested and would like to know more, but may never do so unless we set aside a
special time and pursue knowledge in company with enthusiastic friends. I believe our
alumnae program will mean a renewal of many of the joys and associations of college life.
It will offer definite activities for alumnae visitors and make them feel more a real part
of the college again."

Elizabeth Floding, 1921: "As I sit here at ten-thirty with a day's work behind me
and a night's work ahead and a testimonial sandwiched in between, I have for inspiration
an absurd map of Paris drawn by Mark Twain with an accompanying 'official com-
mendations.' (Let me hasten to add that mine is one of the very few 'solicited' testimon-
ials on this page because I am one of the very few members of Adelaide's committee.
But to return to the map of Paris I would that you could see it!) Here are its said
'official commendations.' 'It is the only map of the kind 1 ever saw.' U. S. Grant. 'It
is very nice large print.' Napoleon. 'My wife was for years afflicted with freckles, and,

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though everything was done for her relief that could be done, all was in vain. But, sir,
since her first glance at your map, they have entirely left her. She has nothing but con-
vulsions now.' J. Smith. What Mark Twain modestly guarantees for his map of Paris
I am sure we can with equal truth guarantee for these seminars and a large share of the
fun thrown in. You might re-read the last 'official commendation' and ask yourself
what in all fairness you could ask for more."

Charis (Hood) Barwick, 1916: "In accordance with the request in the Alumnae
Quarterly that we express ourselves about adult education, I'm giving you my reaction. I
plan to go down to commencement next year, and could stay a few days for something
of that sort, but I couldn't go at Thanksgiving, if I went then. I live so far away that
I have to save wedding fees for several years to finance a trip to my Alma Mater! I
have very seriously considered attending the Vassar School of Euthenics. I sent for the
information a year ago, but when I decided to go to England and Scotland, I had to
forego the other plan. My handicap is my boys. I must provide for them, if I go any-
where to study."

AN ALUMNA TELLS THE WORLD ABOUT PARIS

FASHIONS

When Mary Knight graduated in 1922 from Agnes Scott, the class prophecy said
nary a word about being a feature writer in less than ten years but truth is stranger than
prophecy, to miss our quotation a mile! In a recent article in the Atlanta Constitution
many interesting things about Mary's career were told, from which
I report the following is extracted:

"When Mary Knight speaks, there can be no doubt. She personi-
fies in Paris the southern girl and on the Paris staff of the United
Press, she personifies the ambition of all newspaperwomen, the roving,
happy, envied foreign correspondent. Her career has been short but
sweet. In eighteen months since she left Atlanta with a hundred
dollars in cash and a million in ambition, she has worked as a "leg-
man" reporter works, interviewed successful personalities, within oue
year after her start, being assistant editor of Romance, having worked
on New York newspapers, told housewives how to shop in Good
Housekeeping, and, at last throwing up jobs and chances in New York, arrived in Paris.
She learned the interior layout of every newspaper office and special correspondents'
salon in Paris before she stepped into her present job. For ten hours a day now she plays
at a hard job.

"She is one of three women foreign correspondents in France, one of six in all Europe
and covers assignments which no man would ever approach. Her skill in writing about
the technically difficult French fashions so that any laywoman can understand has made
her one of the most successful fashion critics Paris has ever known. As foreign cor-
respondent she has 'covered' celebrities of every color and nationality, channel swimmers
to movie stars, ministers of state, dressmakers by the score, naturalist colonies, even
getting into the hospital where Joffre lay dying, when mere male reporters were
kept at bay by the French general staff and police."

Thinking we might as well do a little interviewing of Mary and let her see how her
victims feel, we sent post haste to her a request for an interview on how she did it, or at
least, how she did it so quickly and the following letter is an answer which gives evidence
that Mary will probably be a more sympathetic interviewer having had this taste of her
own medicine:

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4 Rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 12 April, 1931.
Dear Mrs. Donaldson:

This is a good joke on me! While 1 remember being taught that it was a "more
blessed thing to give than to receive," it never occurred to me that the Scriptures might
refer to interviev/ing. In my experience in Europe interviewing people for jobs, as well
as stories, I have learned that it is, indeed, more blessed to give but also more difficult.
I'll say my say, however, and you can take what you like of it and feed the wastebasket
with the rest.

The preamble to my constitution is Heaven help the girl or woman who thinks
she's clever enough to come to France and get a job when her French vocabulary is so
thin that it folds up and falls down like a tent the first time she puts a little pressure on
it anywhere off the beaten path of the tourists' route. I repeat, Heaven help her, because
little else will, unless some guiding hand steers her into a safe harbor after a few terrible
storms, as it did me. It's too big a chance to take in the first place, it isn't fair to herself
and certainly not to anyone to whom she expects to be useful. She is a liability, not an
asset. I've learned my lesson and I'm not sorry it was hard because it will take me a
long time to forget it.

I wonder what you would like most to know? And I see now, why nearly everyone
I try to get stories from usually makes me pry them out with questions. It is easier to
answer questions than it is to reach back in your own head and think out of whole
cloth.

With due respect to the French Department of Agnes Scott College, and to Miss
Alexander and Miss Phythian especially, who did nobly with the material they had in
me as a pupil in the old days, the verbs of my forced French conversation sprawled on
wobbly legs like a baby calf for months after I arrived in Paris. I went four nights a
week to the Alliance Francaise from 8 to 10 P. M. and was glad to fall into bed in my
gabled room under the eaves of the slanting Louis XVI roof that covers Reid Hall. A
roof, incidentally, that harbored many a wounded soldier during the World War when
number 4 Rue de Chevreuse was used as a Red Cross Base.

My funniest experience happened in response to an ad I placed in the New York
Herald last September. A French woman at Tours answered it. She had a fashionable
finishing school for American and English girls and needed a college graduate to handle
the correspondence and generally look after the office. An excellent opportunity for the

right party and it would seem that I might be "it." Mme. P wrote perfect English

and the picture postcards of her chateau were charming. There was a vague hint about
perhaps travelling with the girls in the summer and also a suggestion that I talk English
to her two small children in the afternoons. Letters were exchanged and I packed up,
bag and baggage, and sallied forth to the chateau country where the purest French is
spoken and the oldest wine is drunk.

To make a long story short, I arrived, was met at the station and driven to the
school. My room was large and sunny and I had a private bath. I was introduced to
week-end guests the Prince of Siam, a consul and his wife, and an American woman and
her two daughters. No mention was made for a day and a half of what I was to do
until I finally pinned my hostess down and discovered that what I had suspected (and
what I had been supposed to suspect) since arriving was true. My duties were to assume
the entire care of Madame's two children, aged two and a half and three and a half, boy
and girl respectively, get up at six A. M. every morning, give them their breakfasts,
dress them, blow their noses and keep them quiet until eight, when I would take ther
for a walk after eating a little "snack" myself in my room that joined the children's.
While they played in the yard I would run in and do the office work, answer all the letters

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and work on schedules and things, then give the babies their lunch and fix them for their
afternoon nap a little later. Dress them again and frolic about with them until four
when it would be time for milk and cookies. At seven they were to be bathed and fed
their suppers upstairs and put to bed and myself, somehow, gotten dressed and freshened
up by eight o'clock to dine below "just like one of the family." After dinner, if the
children were quiet, I might chaperone some of the girls to a movie or something, or
work in the office on plans and summer schedules and other things. My laundry would
be done free. I would get my room and meals, and my salary would be I held my
breath 300 francs, $12.00 a month! Had I ever had ear trouble I might have believed
it had come again, but I knew I had heard correctly.

A little sense of humor saved a tragic situation and parted us still friends. The
Prince had been a good sport and an excellent dancer, the consul and his wife were de-
lightful, and the American family curious and much amused to see what my decision

would be about the "job." They had told Mine. P it would be "difficult" to get an

American girl college graduate to combine a secretarial and a nurse maid job but she
couldn't see why. I was to succeed a little Swedish girl who was the essence of all things
humble and submissive.

I returned to Paris the next day with an almost empty pocketbook and still no job.
It was the 2 3rd of September. On the 24th I became a staff correspondent for the United
Press of America in Paris.

Again I say If you want to get a job or be a foreign correspondent in France, eat,
live and drink French before you leave America. Mumble it in your sleep at night,
and learn to say your prayers in it. Be prepared for a few staggering blows, but know
that they won't kill you and that you will have a jolly good time that is worth a few
scars. If you can give it up to eventually marry and settle down you'll have accumulated
bedtime stories enough to put all the grandchildren to sleep with. And if you stick it out
until they reserve a place for you in the old ladies home for fevered journalists, you can
sit back and rock in your creaky old chair and smile until you doze off into a nice long
sleep because you know, better than anyone else, that you and Life had more in common
than many.

Very sincerely,

Mary Knight, '22.

BOOK REVIEWS

THE GOOD EARTH
By Pearl S. Buck
Once in a great while we find a book whose plot is simple and direct, whose charac-
ters are only men and women like ourselves, whose writing makes no pretense at clever-
ness or adornment a book whose very simplicity creates an overwhelming sense of
dramatic reality. Such a book is Pearl Buck's new novel of China, The Good Earth.

The plot is this: Wong Lung, a hard working young farmer of very poor circum-
stances, at the behest of his father takes for his wife O-lan, a slave girl from the manorial
house of Hwang. O-lan is ugly, but strong and even-tempered, slow and fruitful, like
a beast. For a few years after his marriage, Wong Lung prospers. Flis home is full of
harvests and O-lan bears him sons of promise. He is even able to buy a strip of land
from the fast declining house of Hwang.

To the land Wong Lung gives the great love of his life. When famine comes,
he refuses to sell his hard-won acres, preferring to take his family to the South, where
they earn a pitiful living by begging and by sweating between the shafts of a 'ricksha.
During the outburst of Civil War, he joins in the looting of a rich house and is able to

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return north to his land. For a long season the earth gods favor him. He accumulates
more land, hires helpers, educates his sons, and is even able to afford the luxury of a
pretty second wife.

At the height of his prosperity he purchases the House of Hwang and becomes the
rich man of his village and the head of a great family. But wealth does not make his
last years happy. He still clings with passion to his land, seeing all the while that his
sons, who do not share his attachment, are merely waiting for his death to sell the acres
he has accumulated and become idle, dissolute city dwellers.

This, then, is the story, and the least important part of the book. What really mat-
ters is the China Mrs. Buck depicts, devoid of mystery and egotism. Here is the China
of the small farmer in whom an ancient civilization has created certain strong unswerving
standards responsibility toward the past and accountability to the future; an inarticulate
family consciousness which he himself scarcely understands, a simple pride in the values
of the life of which he is so small a part.

Long after one forgets the story, long after one forgets the picture of Chinese life
which the book creates, one will remember this simple man and his trusting, tenacious
devotion to his land. By the land he prospers, by the land he suffers, and into the earth
he goes again at last. Wong Lung's idols are sun and the clouds and the rivers, and
most of all the land. The book leaves one with a vast sense of the continuity of human
life, in all its meaning and tragedy and joy, as it is universally lived on the good earth.

Alice (Jernigan) Dowling, '30.

FATAL INTERVIEW
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The advent of a volume by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a matter of great moment
to all poetry lovers, and in her new sonnet sequence, Fatal Interview, she justifies their
claim for her immortality. Here is the Shakespearean vigor of The Lamp and the Bell,
the serious tone of The Buck in the Snow, the surprising ironic mood of her earlier verse;
but added to all these is a power cf touch which "conveys one into a world of primalities
and finalities."

Miss Millay has used the same vehicle the sonnet which Petrarch and Dante,
Shakespeare and Sidney employed to voice

"This love, this longing, this oblivious thing,
That has her wider,"

and this part of our own generation does not suffer by comparison with the masters.

Miss Millay's ever present facility of rhythm and rhyme is no new note, but the
vehemence of her passion, exulting or despairing, gives cause for wonder. Here is a
woman, "held by a tall oblivious gaoler eyed with stars," yet glorying in her bondage.
Being

"Like her mother the brown earth,
Fervent and full of gifts and free from guile"

she scorns a love which holds by "philtre any doll can brew," she can bid her love farewell
forever from her heart, then

"Stiffen up her back
To meet the yelping of the mustering years
Dim, trotting shapes that seldom will attack
Two with a light who match their steps and sing;
To one alone and lost, another thing."

Alice (Jernigan) Dowling, '30.

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NEW STUDENT OFFICERS FOR 1931-1932

Reading from left to right Andrewena Robinson, Student Government president;
Sara Lane Smith, editor of the Aurora; Penelope Brown, editor of the Silhouette; Sara
Bowman, president of the Athletic Association; Diana Dyer, president of Y. W. C. A.,
and Betty Bonham, editor of the Agonistic.

BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON AT THE ALUMNAE HOUSE

When Frances Moore celebrated her birthday with a real grown-up luncheon
for seven of her friends and her mother, Ruth (Brown) Moore, ex '13, this picture was
made. The guests are, reading from left to right: Louise Sams, Myra Greenawalt, Edith
Candler, Jean Slack, Elizabeth Thomson, Ruth Slack, Frances Moore, the honoree, and
Marcia Mansfield.

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WE WERE THERE, AGNES SCOTT!

The names of out-of-town alumnae who were back for commencement week-end
is published, with regret that lack of space prevents publishing the names of the many
alumnae of Atlanta and Decatur who were back at this time. There may be some omis-
sions from the out-of-town list, if the alumnae did not register at the Alumnae House.

Annie Wilson Terry, '24, Montgomery, Ala.
Emily Spivey, '25, Rock Hill, S. C.
Rosalie (Wooten) Deck, '26, E. Point, Ga.
Sarah Will (Cowan) Dean, '26, College
Park, Ga.

Clarkie Davis, '26, Columbus, Ga.
Ladle Sue Wallace, '26, Rutledge, Ga.
Juanita Greer, '26, Staunton, Va.
Louisa Duls, '26, Charlotte, N. C.
Mildred (Cowan) Wright, '27, Doraville,

Ga.
Frances (Chambers) Wing, '27, Roswell,

Ga.
Ida (Landau) Sherman, '27, New Haven,

Conn.
Mamie Shaw, '27, Baltimore, Md.
Georgia D. Watson, '28, Thomson, Ga.
Jack McLellon, '28, Philadelphia, Penn.
Mary Ray Dobvns, '28, Birmingham, Ala.
Betty (Fuller) Veltre, '28, Cuba.
Irene Lowrance, '28, Charlotte, N. C.
Rachel Paxon, '29, Jacksonville, Fla.
Katherine Lott, '29, Waycross, Ga.
Bettv Gash, '29, New York City.
Elizabeth Hatchett, '29, Glasgow, Ky.
Sarah Southerland, '29, Charlotte, N. C.
Violet Weeks, '29, New Iberia, La.
Jean Lamont, '29, Raeford, N. C.
Martha Bradford, '29, Columbus, Ga.
LaRue Berry, '29, E. Point, Ga.
Mary Alice Juhan, '29, Crabbottom, Va.
Susanne Stone, '29, Oxford, Ga.
Helon (Brown) Williams, '29, Little Rock,

Ark.
Julia McLendon, '29, Cairo, W. Va.
Ruth Worth, '29, Charlottesville, Va.
Mary Lanier, '29, Langdale, Ala.
Mary Nelson Logan, '29, Birmingham, Ala.
Martha Rilev Selman, '29, Birmingham,

Ala.
Dorothy Smith, '30, Savannah, Ga.
Anna Kathrine Golucke, '30, Crawfordville,

Ga.
Mary Brown, '30, Ashburn, Ga.
Evalyn Wilder, '30, Albany, Ga.
Martha Stackhouse, '30, Staunton, Va.
Mary Terry, '30, Montgomery, Ala.
Sara Prather Armfield, '30, Fayetteville,

N. C.
Eleanor Bonham, '30, Birmingham, Ala.
Katherine Leary, '30, Deland, Fla.
Gladney Cureton, '30, Moreland, Ga.
Martha Shanklin, '30, Marion, Va.
Lillian Russell, '30, Fordyce, Ark.
Josephine Smith, '30, Donalsonville, Ga.
Mary McCallie, '30, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Kittie (Burress) Martin, '93, Anderson,
S. C.

Emily (Divver) Moorer, '93, Greenwood,
S. C.

Kate (Logan) Good, '93, Acworth, Ga.

Bertha (Adams) Hosale, Academy, River-
dale, Ga.

Julia (Costen) Handley, Academy, La-
Grange, Ga.
Ada (Darby) Jones, '09, Gainesville, Fla.
Lucy (Reagan) Redwne, '10, Fayetteville,

Ga.
Mildred Thomson, '10, St. Paul, Minn.
Katharine Bunn, '11, Cedartown, Ga.
Allie (Felker) Nunnallv, '11, Monroe, Ga.
Isabel (Nunnally) Knight, '11, Buford, Ga.
Louis? (Wells) Parsons, '11, Pasadena,

Calif.
Marv Elizabeth Radford, '11, LaGrange,

Ga.
Ruth (Slack) Smith, '12, Durham, N. C.
Hazel (Murphy) Elder, '12, Marietta, Ga.
Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust, '12, Colum-
bus, Ga.
Susie (Gunn) Allen, '12, Macon, Ga.
Margaret (Roberts) Graham, '13, Valdosta,

Ga.
Kate Clark, '13, Montgomery, Ala.
Marv (Enzor) Bvnum, '13, Troy, Ala.
Lilly (Joiner) Williams, '13, Cope, S. C.
Lavalette (Sloan) Tucker, '13, Nashville,

Tenn.
Mathilde (Brenner) Gercke, '13, Augusta,

Ga.
Laura Mel (Towers) Yager, '13, Richmond,

Va.
Anne (McClure) Simpson, '16, Norcross,

Ga.
Laura (Cooper) Christopher, '16, Barnes-

ville, Ga.
Ray (Harvison) Smith, '16, Elkin, N. C.
Jeannette (Victor) Levy, '16, Augusta, Ga.
Grace Geohegan, '16, Birmingham, Ala.
Louise (Wilson) Williams, '16, Lvnchburg,

Va.
Malinda Roberts, '16, Canton, Ga.
Mary Glenn Roberts, '16, Canton, Ga.
Louise (Slack) Hooker, '20, East Orange,

N. J.
Helen (Hall) Hopkins, '21, Berkeley, Calif.
Aimee D. (Glover) Little, '21, Marietta,

Ga.
Mary White Caldwell, '23, Scottdale, Ga.
Nannie Campbell, '23, Richmond, Va.
Maud (Foster) Jackson, '23, Washington,

D. C.

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HOPKINS JEWEL AWARD

This award offered for the third time
by the class of 1922 in honor of Miss Hop-
kins was awarded this year to Marguerite
Gerard of Paris, France, who has been
the exchange student from France at
Agnes Scott for three years. This beauti-
ful jewel, which is an amethyst pendant
on a white gold chain, carrying out the
purple and white of Agnes Scott, is given
each year to the girl who most nearly
meets the ideals which Miss Hopkins has
established, including conspicuous loyalty
to the college, ideals of service, ability
to cooperate, physical fitness, poise and
graciousness. Marguerite Gerard has
won the hearts of all who came in touch
with her personality during her three
years on the campus and it is a very great
tribute to her that she has been chosen
for this honor.

QUENELLE HARROLD SCHOLARSHIP
AWARD

This award, given by Mrs. Thomas Har-
rold of Americus, Ga., in honor of Quenelle
Harrold of the class of 1923, is awarded
to a senior or an alumna who is deemed
most worthy of pursuing graduate work
in some large university. The scholar-
ship this year has been given to Eliz-
abeth Hatchett, of the class of '29, of
Glasgow, Ky., who will do graduate work
in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University
this next winter.

Mamie Shaw, '27, and Frances Brown,
'28, have held this scholarship in the past
at Johns Hopkins, also Miriam Preston,
'27, at Yale, and Lois Combs, '30, at Co-
lumbia University have been among the
holders of this award which is a greatly
coveted one.

WHO GETS THE CUP?

The reunion cup, given by the Alumnae
Association to the class with the largest
percentage of its graduates back for re-
union, was awarded without a blinking of
an eye or a scribbling of a pencil, for we
had this year a 100 per cent class back
for reunion. So the class of 1894, with
Mary (Neel) Kendrick back for reunion,
now is the proud possessor of the cup. Our
sympathies go out to the classes that made
such wonderful percentages but 100 per
cent is 100 per cent and better luck next
time! As for 1894, the alumnae office
thanks it personally for making a dream
come true, a reunion class back 100 per
cent for reunion and may you live long
and prosper!

COMMENCEMENT AWARDS

Lucy Goss of Decatur and Mary Hamil-
ton of Dalton, Ga., tied for the $50 award
made each year by Rich's of Atlanta to
the member of the freshman class mak-
ing the best record.

Amelia Wolf of Savannah, Ga., won the
piano scholarship and Kathleen Bowen of
Decatur, Ga., the voice, it being the third
consecutive year, Kathleen has won this
honor.

Julia Blundell of Yazoo City, Miss., was
given the scholarship in the art depart-
ment.

The scholarship in the Spoken English
department was given this year to Martha
Skeen of Decatur, Ga.

Mrs. Nellie Candler of Decatur, Ga.,
gives each year the Laura Candler prize
in mathematics for the best work done in
that department and this year it was
awarded to Penelope Brown. Dr. H. A.
Robinson of Agnes Scott gives the Morley
Medal for the most original work done
in the mathematics department and this
was won by Mary Clarke. Both of these
girls are residents of Atlanta.

The Collegiate Scholarship, which means
full tuition at Agnes Scott for a year given
to the student in Junior, Sophomore or
Freshman class, making the best all round
record was awarded to Elizabeth Lightcap
of Yazoo, Miss.

FACULTY NEWS

Dr. McCain addr-essed the thirty-fifth
convention of the Georgia Federation of
Women's Clubs, held in Waycross in May,
his subject being the "Youth Movement."
As the Atlanta Constitution says, "So un-
derstanding of and sympathetic with the
youth of the land is Dr. McCain that his
talk will be exceedingly enlightening to
delegates and visitors attending the Coun-
cil."

Recognition of her splendid work came
to Miss "Mac" in the award of a Guggen-
heim fellowship for research work, an
award which will make possible her hope
of spending a year in Berlin and Paris in
scientific study. She is the author of
several papers which have been printed in
the Journal of Experimental Zoology; her
paper on her subject, "Inheritance in the
Tailed Form of Chilodei) Uncinatus" was
read by Miss MacDougall before the Geor-
gia Academy of Science, of which she is
past president and will be read by her
at the annual meeting of the National
Academy of Science in Washington in
April.

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Miss MacDougall will sail for Europe
this summer; about the middle of August
she will attend the World Biological
Congress in Poland, going afterward into
Russia, visiting the biological laboratory
of the Soviet Republic at Moscow. From
there she will go to Berlin-Dalhem to study
at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, being as-
sociated with Dr. Max Hartmann, famous
protozoologist. After six months, she will
be at the University, with the laboratory
of Dr. Favre Fremiet at her disposal. Miss
MacDougall will visit a number of biologi-
cal laboratories in Europe, including those
in Poland, Russia, Germany, Italy, France,
and England.

At the March meeting of the Beta chap-
ter of Phi Beta Kappa at Agnes Scott,
Miss Laney was elected to membership.
Miss Laney took her M. A. at Columbia
University, her Ph. D. at Yale and her
election is based on her excellent record at
these institutions and her unusual success
as a teacher. Election to Phi Beta Kappa
is an honor to members of the student
body but membership on the basis of grad-
uate work and accomplishments since
graduation involves even greater honor.
Miss Laney is spending this summer in
New York City where she is teaching in
the summer school of Hunter College.

Mrs. Sydenstricker gave a most inter-
esting tea in April to a group of alumnae,
most of whom were Bible majors or
minors. The group met with her in South
Side and after a delightful time of find-
ing out "where and what and who" every-
body was, the whole party went over to
the Tea House for tea. Those who were
fortunate enough to get in on this party
were: Imogene Allen, Elizabeth Lockhart
Davis, Marianne Strouss McConnell, Leone
Bowers Hamilton, all of Decatur; Margery
Moore McAulay of Greenville, S. C, and
Lucile Phippen Shingler of Andrews, S. C;
Annette Carter Colwell and Martha Eakes
Matthews, both of Chicago, and Mary
Louise Thames of Asheville.

Miss Laleah Almon, who was one of
the loved teachers of the Academy, has
besn the guest of Miss Hopkins for a few
days and was entertained by her friends
on the faculty and by many of her former
students who remembered Mademoiselle
Almon so pleasantly.

Alumnae of recent years will be inter-
ested in the little white card which ar-
rived recently announcing the birth of
Robert James McCreary, Jr., as they re-
member his mother as Miss Genevieve
White of the library of A. S. C.

Miss Lewis has been signally honored by
receiving a scholarship to the Harvard
Fine Arts School for the summer term.

Dick Scandrett is spending this summer
and fall in New York where she is study-
ing at Columbia, working toward her M. A.
Dick will return to Agnes Scott around
the first of February.

Miss Gooch is vice president of the
Southern Association of Teachers of
Speech and as such is in charge of the
organizing of play production tournaments
and poetry tournaments in the southeast-
ern section of the country. Recently, she
read Rachel Field's "The Nine Day Queen"
before the Council of Jewish Women in
Atlanta.

Dr. Davidson is teaching in the summer
school of Hunter College in New York
City.

Miss Sinclair will be at Camp Wakon-
dah all summer with Miss Randolph.

Miss Haynes is spending the summer
at Camp Rockbrook, Brevard, N. C.

Among those attending summer courses
are Miss Gaylord and Miss Martha Stans-
field at the University of Chicago.

Miss Ham will- be in Germany this sum-
mer. And among the other European
travelers are Miss Dexter and her sister.

Miss Omwake is teaching this summer
in the George Washington University in
Washington. D. C.

Miss Roberta Hollingsworth who was
for several years on the Spanish faculty
at Agnes Scott has won the Dupont Fel-
lowship to the University of Virginia.

Miss Lillian Smith is having a wonder-
ful summer visiting interesting ruins which
have recently been uncovered in Spain and
Italy. She will return in August.

CAMPUS CHAT

The elections to Phi Beta Kappa for
this year were: Miss Emma May Laney,
elected to membership in recognition of
her attainments in the field of culture and
also for her work as an English teacher
at Agnes Scott. Miss Laney has recently
acquired her Ph. D. at Yale; the alumnae
members elected from the class of 1916
this year were: Elizabeth (Burke) Bur-
dett, Laura (Cooper) Christopher. Grace
Geohegan, Jeanette (Victor) Levy and
Louise (Wilson) Williams; the seniors
chosen were: Harriette Smith and Marjoru
Daniel, in addition to the four received
earlier in the year, Katherine Morrow,
Laura Robinson, Elizabeth Simpson and
Julia Thompson.

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Hoasc announced ten new members from
the class of 1932 in chapel services one
Saturday morning in April. Weesa Chan-
dler, '31, president of Hoasc, introduced the
speaker of the occasion, Beth (McClure)
McGeachy, '23, who gave an inspiring talk
on Hoasc' ideal of service. Formal in-
itiations were held the following Tues-
day night at Candler Hotel, when- a num-
ber of faculty and alumnae members of
Hoasc were present. The new members
were: Betty Bonham, Sarah Bowman,
Penelope Brown, Diana Dyer, Marguerite
Link, Martha Logan, Mary Miller, Betty
Peeples, Andrewena Robinson and Sara
Lane Smith.

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The Agnes Scott Glee Club held its an-
nual recital on Saturday evening, April 18,
in the college chapel, under the direction
of Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson. The last
part of the program was an act from
"Pinafore" and the entire program was a
credit to the girls and to their direc-
tor.

Senior Opera filled its customary en-
gagement on the campus with a presenta-
tion of "O-Hello!" on the evening of May
2nd. "O-Hello" is the latest of the long
list of operas familiar to alumnae of
various years, some of these being, "Tan
Trousers," "Polly's Archie," "Ah Heed
Her," "Low He Grins," "Madam Butter-
milk" and last year's "111 Flows the Gore,"
one of the goriest in opera history at A.
S. C. "O-Hello," with an exciting elope-
ment as a curtain raiser and a breath-tak-
ing smothering as a hair-raiser, was re-
ceived with unusual enthusiasm by the
college community, Alumnae came back
from far and wide for this event and this
week-end might be called "Little Com-
mencement."

May Day was unusually beautifully pre-
sented this year on May 2nd when "Au-
burn Dell," a typical celebration of May
Day "In Merrie England" was given with
all the festive scenes of the May Pole,
May Queen and her court in picturesque
English costumes, dancing on the village
green. This pageant, written by Mary
Catherine Williamson, '31, was presided
over by Mildred Duncan, '31, as Queen,
and the members of her court were: Julia
Rowan, Molly Childress, Shirley McPhaul,
Mary Frances Torrance, Nell Starr, Sara
Lane Smith, Mary Boyd, Martha Stigall,
Marjorie Beilfuss, and Martha Skeen.
Robin Hood was Lucile Heath, Maid
Marian, Mary Lillias Garretson, and Will
Scarlet was Kathleen Bowen.

Play Day at Agnes Scott has become an
institution, with "play for play's sake" as
the theme. Yearly, the afternoon of May
9 th sees our hockey field alive with
baseball and track, or hears the gym re-
sound to thunders of applause of volley
ball or basketball, feels a mighty splash-
ing in the pool where water polo is raging,
for the high schools of Atlanta and De-
catur send their girls to A. S. C. to play;
then to conclude an afternoon of excite-
ment, the guests and the Agnes Scotters
join in a picnic in the hockey field.

Mr. Dieckmann and some of his most
accomplished pupils gave a recital in the
chapel on April 26th. The closing duet
by Mr. Dieckmann on the organ and Miss
Mary Catherine Williamson on the piano,
the magnificent First Movement of Con-
certo, op. 54, by Schumann, concluded a
program skillfully selected and presented.

In May, Mr. Dieckmann gave a recital
in recognition of National Music Week.
In this last recital of the year, he was as-
sisted by Lucile Heath, Mary Ruth Roun-
tree, Amelia Wolf and Mary Catherine
Williamson.

* * * *

Spring Raid, that traditional Sophomore-
Freshman institution, took place but was
of a type hitherto unknown on the campus.
This change in the policy of the sopho-
mores was assigned to the fact that "the
perhaps regrettable desire for sophistica-
tion, ever increasing among college girls,
makes the former decorative type of raid
a bit inappropriate." Also, it was pointed
out that Freshmen have changed a great
deal since their entrance into college last
fall and have become "students fully in-
itiated into our college life and fully co-
operating in all our activities." The class
of 1933 buried the hatchet, literally and
figuratively, instituting a ceremony dedi-
cated especially to the class of 1934.

* * * *

Eta Sigma Phi, our classical fraternity,
held its banquet in the Alumnae House
following its initiation of its new members,
having as its guest of honor and speaker,
Miss Gertrude Smith, member of the clas-
sical department of the University of
Chicago. The new members are: Louise
Brant, Winona Eubanks, Evelyn Gilbreath,
Louise Hollingsworth, Eulalia Napier, Ruth
Owen, Rosalind Ware, Marie Whittle, Olive
Weeks, LaTrelle Robertson, Betty Bolton.

* * * *

Marjorie Daniel, '31, had the honor of
having a paper published recently in the
Georgia Historical Quarterly.

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"Let's Fly Home!" No, that is not the
slogan of the freshman class for the close
of school, but a real, honest-to-goodness
title to an article in the Agonistic, urging
girls to speed aloft in the big planes that
leave Candler Field nearby on regular
schedules now, enlarging on how "clean,
comfortable and exhilarating" this modern
method is, a change from the hours
formerly spent in slow, tedious travel on
earth-bound transports. From the days
of the dummy at Agnes Scott to the days
of the airplane is a span of time!

both during the business and also the social
part of the convention. Agnes Scott felt
itself very fortunate in having such an
interesting group of college people on its
campus.

AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL CON-
FERENCE

The American Alumni Council, which is
composed of the secretaries of the alumni
and alumnae associations of all larger col-
leges and universities throughout the coun-
try, held its first southern convention in
Atlanta from April 15-19, with the three
local colleges as host colleges, Tech,
Emory and Agnes Scott. This was the
eighteenth annual conference of this or-
ganization and with Mr. John Olmstead,
president of the Council, of Oberlin Col-
lege, as presiding officer, the program
of the convention progressed through the
morning sessions of the three days, with
luncheon meetings.

The afternoon programs were of an in-
formal and social nature. On the first
afternoon of the session, the guests were
taken to Emory for a true southern
barbecue, followed by a ride to Stone
Mountain, then back to Agnes Scott where
tea was served in the Alumnae House to
the delegates. In addition to the alumnae
officers, Dr. McCain received, while Miss
Hopkins and Mrs. McCain poured coffee
and tea from a most beautifully appointed
tea table framed against the background
of one of the windows of the Tea House,
which, as one visiting secretary remarked,
would always be the picture she would
carry away with her of Agnes Scott. Mary
Warren, '29, as chairman of the entertain-
ment committee of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, assisted in arranging the tea. The
May Queen and her court, as well as mem-
bers of the Granddaughters Club served
and the college's own orchestra played
throughout the tea-time. Georgia Tech
also entertained for the guests at a
cabaret dinner and Wesleyan aided the
local committee with one event on the
social program.

Many interesting problems of alumni
work were discussed and much help was
gained from these, but even greater profit
came from the informal discussions and
from the contacts with other secretaries,

NECROLOGY

Miss Emily Howson's death which oc-
curred on June 5th was a great shock to
the college community and will be the oc-
casion of deep sorrow to her many friends
in the alumnae association. Miss How-
son had been professor of Physics and
Astronomy for many years at Agnes Scott
and had proven an inspiration to her stu-
dents, as well as being a real friend to
them. The interment was in Philadelphia
where her family reside.

Dr. Neal Anderson, one of Agnes Scott's
most valued trustees, and also the father
of two of our alumnae, Ruth (Anderson)
O'Neal, '18, and Margaret (Anderson)
Scott, '15, died in Montgomery, while visit-
ing there. Dr. Neal Anderson had been
in failing health since last fall but had im-
proved very much recently. The sympa-
thies of the alumnae are with the family
of our esteemed trustee and our sense of
loss is indeed great.

Mrs. Samuel Young, the mother of Miss
Anna Young for whom our Alumnae House
was named, passed away in Atlanta on
May 17th, after a six weeks' illness. She
was also the mother of Susan (Young)
Eagan and Bessie (Young) Brown, two of
our most active alumnae. Mrs. Young was
born in Chicago and at seventeen married
Dr. Young in Illinois, living in Pittsburgh
until 1893, when Dr. Young retired and
came to Atlanta to live. Mrs. Young was
one of the best beloved members of the
Central Presbyterian Church of Atlanta,
in the activities of which she took an out-
standing part until her last illness. Many
alumnae will grieve to hear of this loss as
we had known and loved her not only as
the mother of three alumnae but for her
own self. Mrs. Young was always pres-
ent at the Annual Tea which is held in
the Anna Young Alumnae House, the
gathering being planned to come each
year around Miss Anna Young's birthday.

Mildred McGuire (Mrs. Lawrence G.
Bulgin), '15, died on March 13th in Ta-
coma, Wash. Mildred had recently moved
to Washington from Salem, Ore. A little
son was born a few days before her death
and survives her. The sympathies of the
alumnae and other friends here are ex-
pressed for her family.

Helen Mebane's (Mrs. George C. Steed-
man), ex '17, death occurred in 1930; she
left a little son, only six days old at her
death.

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Club News

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

The Birmingham Club has had a most
successful year, both financially and in
other accomplishments. A series of talks
was given under its auspices by Dorothy
Hutton in the various high schools of the
city; also a group of high school students
was brought over for May Day week-end
to see the college in operation. Two
scholarships were awarded to seniors of
the Phillips High School to Agnes Scott
for next year, with the judges, Frances
Bitzer, Vallie Young (White) Archibald
and Mary Ray Dobyns.

The May meeting of this club was a
most unusual one, being a luncheon at the
country home of the president's parents,
near Birmingham, and after lunch a most
delightful afternoon was enjoyed, with
swimming as the special attraction. Seven-
teen alumnae were gathered for this event.
Eugenia (Thompson) Aikin has been the
president of this club and many of the
excellent ideas of the year have been hers
and she has had the thorough co-operation
of the Birmingham alumnae.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

The Jacksonville Agnes Scott Club closed
a rather busy season with a tea at the
Party House on Park street, Saturday
afternoon, May 16, from 4 to 6, compli-
menting the nine ranking seniors and the
nine ranking juniors and the deans of the
three high schools.

The tea which was planned by Elizabeth
Lawrence and Rachel Paxon with the as-
sistance of the scholarship committee of
which Mrs. J. H. Ross is chairman and
Charlotte Buckland and Ellen Colyer are
members, was one of the most delightful
social events of the year, and after Rachel
finished her humorous and entertaining
description of the life of an Agnes Scott
girl from the day she makes up her mind
to attend, until she marches away, trium-
phant, yet sorrowful, with a degree in her
hand and wearing a Phi Beta Kappa key,
every one of the girls was eager to go to
Agnes Scott. The deans, too, said they
would like to start in as freshmen and
enjoy the thrills, and experience even the
heartaches and the disappointments.

Farris Davis and Gertrude Ross poured
tea from a beautifully appointed tsa table,
and the other Jacksonville alumnae assist-
ed in serving.

The Party House had been engaged for
only two hours, but when the two hours

were over, neither the guests nor the host-
esses were ready to depart. Really it was
a delightful little party, and the A. S. C.
girls feel that every senior in Jacksonville
is going to hear about Agnes Scott, for
the girls just grabbed up the literature
to take back with them.

Anne Bethea who has recently returned
from Tampa and is "home" for keeps, was
unanimously elected president for next
year at a meeting held with Farris Davis
Tuesday night. Neither Emily Post nor
Roberts Rules of Order was consulted as to
the proper procedure. Anne was not pres-
ent, and the club just decided to make
her president, without even consulting her.
In fact she hasn't been officially notified
yet but will she have the courage to re-
fuse after she sees her name in the Quar-
terly ?

The year has been delightful, though the
retiring officers are not at all satisfied
with results, because they had hoped for
so much. However, they feel that folks
in Jacksonville are hearing something
about the college. To begin with, the local
club entertained the American Association
of University Women Jacksonville Branch
at the first meeting of the year, and put
the other colleges to work. The precedent
of having the different colleges entertain
the A. A. U. W. has become established,
as the F. S. W. C, Columbia, Chicago,
University of California, and several
others followed suit.

The card party was a success socially,
and it netted a fair little sum, in spite of
the terrible business depression.

The social meetings have been thorough-
ly enjoyable and several who had not
hitherto taken interest in the club have
shown a certain degree of interest this
year.

The club has fallen down on the Euro-
pean trip. Folks down here just can't go
to Europe this year, unless they strike oil
or find gold or something like that.

The biggest thing that has been done is
the advertising that has been done through
the schools, and Gertrude Ross, Mary
Goodrich Meredith, Charlotte Buckland.
Elizabeth Lawrence, Rachel Paxon, Ellen
Colyer and Mrs. Frank Gammon cannot be
too highly praised for that for they have
worked untiringly.

Sarah McKeown Blackshear has certain-
ly been a faithful worker this year. When-
ever anything work of any kind was to be
done, Sarah was right on hand. So was
Janet Newton who is one of the busiest
business women you ever saw.

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Because most of the girls are teaching
and their school duties are unusually hard
this year, and too, because of the financial
stress, it was decided at the meeting of the
club held Tuesday night, to postpone the
annual luncheon until the fall, and to sub-
stitute the tea for the luncheon this
spring. The old board is recommending
to the new one that a big luncheon be
held at the beginning of the season next
year, and with an idea of getting into ac-
tive membership every Agnes Scott girl in
this vicinity.

The new officers are Anne Bethea,
president; Janet Newton, vice president;
Rachel Paxon, secretary, Mary Goodrich
Meredith, treasurer; Gertrude Ross and
Sarah Blackshear, board members.
FARRIS DAVIS,

President.

ATLANTA, GA.

The Atlanta Club carried out a most
elaborate afternoon and evening party for
high school seniors from the eight high
schools of Atlanta and Decatur on April
24th, under the capable leadership of
Isabel (Leonard) Spearman, '29, and
Nancy Simpson, '30, and with the assist-
ance of the members of Hoasc on the cam-
pus. Arriving at Agnes Scott at three
o'clock, the girls were met by Hoasc mem-
bers and shown the buildings, then for
the rest of the afternoon, entertained with
games of all sorts under the direction of
the Athletic Board; dinner was enjoyed
by the high school girls in the dining room
of Rebekah where they were guests of
honor and duly sung to by all the college
girls during the meal; Miss Gooch directed
a short play for their entertainment after
dinner and then dancing was enjoyed in
the Gym till nine. This annual event on
the program of the Atlanta Club is con-
sidered of great value to the college. This
Club has had a most delightful year with
many accomplishments, its bazaar, its
Founder's Day banquet, this high school
event and many interesting monthly meet-
ings.

The officers elected for the next two
years are Augusta (Skeen) Cooper, '17,
president; Martha (Rogers) Noble, '14;
first vice president; Elizabeth (Snow)
Tilly, ex '24, second vice president; Eliz-
abeth Cole, '28, recording secretary; Sarah
Belle (Brodnax) Hansell, '23, corresponding
secretary, and Isabelle (Leonard) Spear-
man, ex' 29, treasurer.

lege Day program in the high school, giv-
ing the girls an insight into college life.
Dorothy Hutton, field alumnae secretary,
represented the college in a talk in the
auditorium of the high school in the morn-
ing; that afternoon, a tea was given for
the girls and most attractive booths of the
various colleges arranged at that time
displayed the literature, etc., of each col-
lege. Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust did a
wonderful job of the Agnes Scott booth
and as a part of the program, Louise Baker
and Ruth Bradford gave a clever skit
formed from the pamphlet "Not in the
Catalogue."

Another interesting plan of this club
along this line was the sending of six
girls from the senior class for a week-end
with Columbus students at Agnes Scott,
when they saw the college actually in
operation and attended classes, and in the
afternoon and evening enjoyed the fun of
college.

The Columbus Club closes an unusually
active and successful year under the lead-
ership of Josephine (Schuessler) Stevens
and her assisting officers.

At the May meeting, held at Ruth Brad-
ford's home, Louise Baker, '30, was chosen
as president for 1931-'32, Ruth Bradford,
'30, as secretary, Frances McCoy, ex '30,
as treasurer, with Hallie (Alexander)
Turner, '18, as vice president, and Joseph-
ine (Scheussler) Stevens, '25, as publicity
chairman.

DECATUR, GA. ,

The Decatur Club has had a year of
most enjoyable programs and has ac-
complished much in increasing its attend-
ance and its work. The Children's Day
Party always given on the Friday after-
noon of Commencement Week was this
year an outstanding event under the di-
rection of Emma Pope Moss Dieckmann
as chairman and Marie Maclntyre Scott as
president.

This club is sponsoring the Alumnae
Garden as its special responsibility and
will during the summer supervise the care
of the flower beds and in the fall expects
to make donations of shrubs and plants for
its continued beauty.

COLUMBUS, GA.

On April 17th, this club joined with
other alumnae clubs of its city in a Col-

MASSACHUSETTS STATE

India (Hunt) Balch, '17, planned a first
meeting of the Massachusetts alumnae at
her home on Founder's Day and had a
number present and many other inter-
ested letters, so much so that she was
calling another meeting in the early sum-
mer, to be reported on later.

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NEW JERSEY STATE

It is a pleasure to report a splendid new
club, the New Jersey State Club, which
had its inspiration in Julia (Ingram) Haz-
zard, '19, who assembled the alumnae to-
gether for a first meeting in her home in
the early spring. On May 22nd, the group
met with Dorothy (Mustin) Buttolph, ex
'16, in Montclair and the third meeting is
already spoken for by Louise (Slack)
Hooker, '20, in East Orange.

CHARLOTTE, N. C.

The Charlotte Club has held three meet-
ings during the year, with Louisa Duls as
president, and has accomplished a great
deal in the line of interesting high school
girls to Agnes Scott. A splendid College
Day was held in the high schools and later
a tea when possible prospects were invited,
with the awarding of a scholarship. The
splendid gift of the Charlotte Club of one
hundred dollars will make possible the
next step in carrying our Alumnae Gar-
den to completion, the erection of the
long pergola down the center of the gar-
den. With this erected, the roses, which
have been donated, will be planted and by
next spring it will be a beautiful part of
the garden plan.

PHILADELPHA, PENN.

Four alumnae gathered at the heme of
Ellott May ("Jack") McLellon, '28, for an
evening of bridge and Agnes Scott on May
5th and spent a most enjoyable time, ex-
changing news about alumnae and college
and reminiscing, in fact, such a good time
was had by all that they are planning
to make this a frequent occurrence. Esther
Stephens, ex '30; Katherine Pasco, '29;
Ruth (Stephens) Knepp, ex '30, with Jack
McLellon, '28, formed this group of alum-
nae "far from the sheltering arms." In
May, this group met for a luncheon, with
Mabel Robeson, ex '28, also present.

ANOTHER FOUNDER'S DAY MEETING
ADDED

Orlando, Fla:

"We met at the home of Lucile (Smith)
Bishop, '21, and although we were not so
large in numbers, we were enthusiastic
over being together in the name of Agnes
Scott. The program was clear over the
radio and we enjoyed it so very much
and felt closer than ever to our Alma
Mater. After the program, the letters
from Agnes Scott were read and each one
seemed to hear a message to her person-
ally. Alice Willits, '30, had her annual
with her which interested us very much
and she gave us some very up-to-date in-
formation. This is the second time when

Lucile (Smith) Bishop has been hostess to
this group on Founder's Day and is a
'much-looked-forward-to' occasion. Those
present were: Floy Sadler, '25, Oakland,
Fla.; Mary (Hyer) Vick, '15, Winter-
Garden, Fla.; Alice Willits, '30, Mildred
(Ryan) Brim, '22, Wilmer (Daniel)
Bishop, '22, Lucile (Smith) Bishop, '21, and
Grace Bargeron, '24, all of Orlando, Fla.

"With all good wishes for Agnes Scott,
I am,

"Very sincerely,
"GRACE BARGERON, "24."

COLLEGE PRESIDENTS

Statistics on college and university
presidents are not as easily picked up as
statistics on high school or grade school
principals and superintendents. The teach-
ers' employment bureaus devote their time
more to schoolmen below the rank of presi-
dent. The selection of a president for any
college or university these days is no small
job. It is of interest therefore to look
over an article, "Some Facts About Col-
lege Presidents," by Homer P. Rainey of
Franklin College, published in School &
Society for October 26.

He finds that about 97 per cent of our
college presidents have come from two pro-
fessions teaching and the ministry and
believes that these' form excellent training.
Examining the teaching experience of 124
college presidents he finds the median year
to be between 14 and 15, "surely a worthy
period of apprenticeship." As to what these
presidents taught in their ante-presiden-
tial days, Greek and Latin lead all other
subjects. Regarding degrees, more held
LL.D.s than any other kind, with Ph.D.
second.

Much has been heard lately about young
college presidents. Mr. Rainey's findings
show that 73 per cent of the presidents now
in office are between the ages of 46 and
65, and 18 per cent are beyond 65. Only
three in a list of 192 are under 40. The
median age is 56.6 years.

A study of the ages at which these presi-
dents entered office shows the median to
be 43 years. Thirty per cent were 40 or
under, 46 per cent between 41 and 50. Only
2 per cent were 60 or over.

"Is there a typical college president?"
asks the author in his summary. "The date
in this study tend to give an affirmative
answer. That answer would be: He was
either a teacher or a minister (sometimes
both) before becoming president. He had
had thirteen or fourteen years' experience
and was 43 years of age when he became
president. In almost half the cases he was
a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is 56
years of age in his present position."

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ANNUAL REPORTS OF ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COM-
MITTEE OF THE AGNES SCOTT
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
MAY 28, 1931

The meeting of the Executive Committee
was called to order by the president,
Llewellyn Wilburn, in the Alumnae House,
May 28th, at 2:30 o'clock. The minutes of
the last two meetings were read and ap-
proved.

Reports of the General Secretary, the
Treasurer, and the following standing com-
mittees were accepted: tea-room, curricu-
lum, entertainment, preparatory schools,
beautifying grounds, constitution and by-
laws, and student loan.

It was agreed to inaugurate at Thanks-
giving time the Alumnae Week-End pro-
gram upon which the curriculum commit-
tee has been faithfully working.

In view of the fact that the play-writing
class is no longer held on the campus and
that very few of our alumnae are mem-
bers of this play-writing class held in At-
lanta, it was decided to abolish the Alum-
nae Play Prize of thirty-five dollars.

Appreciation of the enthusiastic work of
the standing committees was expressed by
the president.

The Alumnae Association agreed to
make a loan to the class of 1922, should
the class find it necessary to borrow money
in order to pay for the Hopkins Jewel
awarded to a senior at commencement.

Regret was expressed over the resigna-
tion of Evangeline Papageorge as treas-
urer and Margaret Whittington was ap-
pointed to succeed her.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

MARTHA CROWE,

Secretary.

MINUTES OF THE ALUMNAE COUN-
CIL MEETING, MAY 28, 1931

The meeting of the Alumnae Council of
the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association was
called to order by the president, Llewellyn
Wilburn, in the Alumnae, House on May
28th. Minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.

The president brought forth the subject
of the criticism of the college from outside
sources, that is, off the campus. Several
of those present cited incidents where
Agnes Scott is the butt of criticism direct-
ed against too severe academic program

and the need of more social life on the
campus. In connection with this discus-
sion, Chopin Hudson, president of the Y.
W. C. A. on the campus, read a report
from the students which emphasized the
necessity of increasing social atmosphere,
of bringing more people on the campus.
Another recommendation from the stu-
dents was that High School Day be car-
ried out earlier in the year instead of in
the spring. At this time it was suggested
that the local alumnae entertain the high
school students at an earlier date as most
high school seniors have decided upon their
college by spring.

Allie (Candler) Guy and Mary Ray
Dobyns reported the work of the Atlanta
and Birmingham Clubs. Mary Ray Dobyns
outlined briefly the very active work of
the Birmingham Club and announced that
this group awarded this year two scholar-
ships of two hundred dollars to Birming-
ham high school girls.

Ruth Pirkle, as secretary of her class of
'22, commented on the effectiveness of the
use of sub-secretaries in securing class
news for the Quarterly. Dorothy Hutton,
secretary of '29, mentioned the splendid
spirit of cooperation the class of '29 shows
in contributing alumnae news.

Dr. McCain spoke of the moving picture
machine and the part it is to play in Agnes
Scott publicity. Interesting scenes of cam-
pus activities will be filmed and it is hoped
that these films may be shown in various
cities. Dr. McCain also brought out the
fact that the faculty is gaining recognition
in numerous fields. Miss McDougall of the
biology department has received the Gug-
genheim appointment for next year and
Miss Lewis of the art department has re-
ceived an appointment from the Carnegie
corporation to study art this summer at
Harvard University.

Beth (McClure) McGeachy, one of the
councillors-at-large, discussed the possi-
bility of allowing Decatur people to use
the college swimming pool. It was sug-
gested that special days be decided upon in
the fall when the group from Decatur
might enjoy the swimming pool as guests
of the alumnae.

Miss Hopkins expressed her delight at
the enthusiasm the alumnae always show
over the idea of returning to Agnes Scott
at commencement time. She talked of the
problem of the assimilation of the fresh-
men. At present they are too much apart
since most of them are in Inman Hall, and
they need to be more a part of the student
body. Miss Hopkins also cited the im-

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provements on the campus this year such
as the opening of Buttrick Hall and the
parlors in Main, the Campaign, and the
part these had had in stimulating Agnes
Scott spirit. A very delightful description
of the Alumnae Garden was read by Mrs.
Donald Hastings. An expression of ap-
preciation for her untiring effort was
given. Frances (Tennant) Ellis spoke of
the great part the Lecture Association
plays in creating interest in Agnes Scott
and in bringing outsiders on the campus.
She also emphasized the need of more
newspaper advertisement for the college
lectures.

Mary (West) Thatcher suggested that
more newspaper advertisement be given
the commencement program at Agnes
Scott. It was agreed, however, that
through the efforts of K. U. B., the college
journalistic society, the college has re-
ceived more publicity this year than form-
erly.

There being no further business, the
Council adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

MARTHA CROWE,

Secretary.

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIA-
TION, MAY 30, 1931

The annual meeting of the Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association was held in the
chapel on May 30th with the president,
Llewellyn Wilburn, presiding. Minutes of
the last meeting of the Alumnae Council
were read and approved. Reports of the
president, general secretary, assistant sec-
retary and treasurer were read and ap-
proved.

A motion to adopt as a whole the re-
ports from the standing committees was
made and passed. Reports were then given
and accepted from the following commit-
tees: Student Loan, Publicity, Preparatory
Schools, Entertainment, Local Clubs, Alum-
nae House, Constitution and By-Laws, Cur-
riculum and Beautifying Grounds. The
president then announced the gift of $750
from the trustees to the Alumnae Associa-
tion for the year 1931-1932.

A very delightful and inspiring part of
the program was contributed by Dr. Mc-
Cain who spoke on the subject of what a
college Expects of its alumnae. The sub-
ject matter of Dr. McCain's address was
as follows:

Today the alumnae of Agnes Scott Col-
lege number five thousand, that is, for
every student and faculty member on the

campus there are ten alumnae. So it might
be said that Agnes Scott is not located
simply in Decatur but it is scattered all
over the world.

The college to the graduate is her Alma
Mater, that is, the relationship between
the college and the alumnae is that of
mother and daughter. And the college ex-
pects from her daughter only what the
normal mother expects. Financially, she
does not look to her daughter to support
her; a well-managed college should not
expect her alumnae to bear the expenses
of the running of the college. But should
the alumna through a feeling of true senti-
ment desire to make a gift to her Alma
Mater or to help her in some project whose
accomplishment means happiness for all,
then the college is happy to receive such
expressions of love.

The greatest thing expected of an
alumna is that the college hear good
things of her. Let her do the particular
thing she finds most challenging, for the
college's fondest hope is that she find her
place, as a mother feels of her daughter.
In so far as her light shines clearest and
farthest does the light of the institution
shine. In her success the college finds its
success.

Just as a mother expects her child to
keep in touch with her through all the long
years, so with the Alma Mater. It is the
alumna's part to share with the college her
successes, her joys, her sorrows, her prob-
lems and her failures.

The alumnae are playing a most vital
part in their contacts with high school stu-
dents; through personal alumnae contacts,
Agnes Scott is getting as students the type
that could not be secured by advertise-
ment or in any other way. The alumnae
are the institution's advertisement, her
epistle.

The alumnae are expected to interest
themselves in the scholastic program of
the college, to inform the college of the
courses they have most enjoyed and from
which they derived the most benefit. Re-
actions of the alumnae to the numerous
endeavors of the college is always an in-
spiration.

Looking at the question from another
angle, Dr. McCain brought out the fact
that the alumnae have a right to expect
certain things from their college. The
alumnae look to the institution to present
a respectable appearance. They rightfully
count on development along the physical
side from time to time. They expect their
college to have sound business manage-
ment, to keep pace with modern progress,
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institution, in the standards, ideals, and
the strong spiritual basis upon which the
school is founded. Thus it is that a college
is a vital, strong, active force in human
lives only in so far as these vast reciprocal
relations between the alumna and her
Alma Mater are maintained.

Following this most interesting address,
and on motion duly made and seconded, the
meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

MARTHA CROWE,

Secretarv.

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

The year 1930-31 has been one of intense
interest for your president. I would like
to commend the work of all the commit-
tees they have been tireless in their ef-
forts during the year and I am sure with
these same committees for another year,
the Alumnae Association will move for-
ward at a great pace.

You have heard the report of our Alum-
nae Secretary and Assistant Secretary and
can judge by these reports a little of the
constructive work done by these two. It
has been with much regret that the Execu-
tive Board has considered the resignation
of our Alumnae Secretary. She feels that
she cannot continue in her office indefin-
itely and thinks that her resignation
should come in the middle of a term of of-
ficers rather than when new officers come
into office, that the work may not be too
hampered. Dorothy Hutton, who has had
valuable experience in the Alumnae Office
as assistant secretary for the past year,
has been appointed Alumnae Secretary.
Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson will hold the
Secretaryship until the second semester of
next year as Dorothy Hutton will be in the
dean's office for the first semester supply-
ing a temporary vacancy.

Respectfully submitted,
LLEWELLYN WILBURN,

President.

REPORT OF GENERAL SECRETARY

This report of the year, 1930-31, in the
Alumnae Office divides itself into the
three heads into which alumnae work falls
naturally, that of work for or with the
college itself, second, contacts maintained
with the alumnae through this office, and
lastly, contact with the present student
body.

In considering what this office has been
able to accomplish to further the college,
we offer the work done in the carrying out
of the plans of Dr. McCain in the Atlanta

campaign for the remainder of the funds
necessary for success in the million and a
half campaign, which was one of the early
endeavours of last fall. Dorothy Hutton's
report of her tours this spring in the in-
terest of the college will also be along this
line of work, as is true of the reports of
many of our committees of the Alumnae
Association, such as Publicity, Preparatory
Schools, Beautifying Grounds, and Student
Loans Committee, in all of which the
alumnae office has tried to be of any help
possible to the chairmen.

Of course, the second division, that of
work done in contact with alumnae, is the
main reason for our being and consequent-
ly the bulk of this report. The issuing of
four Quarterlies, the correspondence with
clubs and the sending to these clubs a
monthly bulletin for their programs, tell-
ing newsy bits of campus and alumnae
gossip, endeavoring to give to their meet-
ings a touch of Agnes Scott atmosphere,
also the contact with class secretaries, with
state presidents, and with committee chair-
men, the daily correspondence with indi-
vidual alumnae for various reasons and re-
quests, are some of the methods which this
office has enjoyed being able to use during
the year just closing. Our Founder's Day
radio program and group meetings
throughout the country at that time are
considered most valuable ways of drawing
the alumnae nearer to the college. And
a new project for us will be tried out this
fall, it is hoped, when the regular Home
Coming Week-end at Thanksgiving will be-
come more of a general home coming for
all alumnae, maintaining still the special
emphasis on the last year's senior class
which always comes back then for a first
reunion. It is planned to make this a time
of pleasure and also some profit by offer-
ing lectures to all who wish to enjoy again
a period of intellectual stimulation with-
out exams or preparation, and in the best
of company and location. Reunion time in
May is the time of the year toward which
the alumnae secretary works all year long,
from the first notices in the fall Quarterly
to the letters which pour on the reunion
classes especially as the time draws near.

Our third classification for work in the
alumnae office is with reference to the
members of the present student body,
recognizing that they should be interested
while they are yet students, in the alum-
nae organization and what it is striving to
accomplish. Working along this line, in
May, the alumnae secretaries ai - ranged
small teas for groups of the senior class
divided by the class president into con-
genial groups, and while tea was being
served them, the two secretaries presented
to them the general plan of the organiza-

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tion, asking- them to join, and also suggest-
ing the plan for their class organization
in alumnae work, with a life president, a
secretary for two-year service, and cap-
tains of these small groups working with
this secretary and the class secretary with
the general secretary of the Alumnae As-
sociation in keeping the class members in
touch with the office and the office inform-
ed about the class members. A very ac-
tive Granddaughters Club, composed of the
students who are daughters of alumnae,
has met often in the Alumnae House, as
the guests of the Alumnae Association,
and has written to other granddaughters
who are eligible for Agnes Scott in the
next few years, welcoming them to their
college and their mothers'. The alumnae
office co-operates with the Agonistic in
supplying news for an alumnae column in
each issue, and tries to be of service when-
ever any student organization makes a
suggestion which can be complied with in
any way.

Outside of the regular routine of the of-
fice this year there have been two out-
standing occurrences, one, the Campaign
in the fall, and the other, the meeting of
the American Alumni Council in Atlanta
this spring, when Tech and Emory and
Agnes Scott were the hosts for this con-
vention. This Council is composed of
alumni and alumnae secretaries from all
the larger colleges and universities of the
country and we considered ourselves for-
tunate to have these delegates at a three-
day meeting in Atlanta. Agnes Scott gave,
as its part in the entertainment of these
guests, a large tea in the Alumnae House
on one of the afternoons of the conference,
which was enjoyed very much by the dele-
gates. At this tea, the May Queen and her
court served and the college orchestra
furnished the music, while Miss Hopkins
and Mrs. McCain poured tea.

This report would not be complete with-
out a word of thanks to the many officei's
and committee chairmen who have made
possible a year which has been filled with
accomplishment in every line of alumnae
work. There has seemed to be a feeling of
responsibility among the individual alum-
nae and an urge to further Agnes Scott as
never before. In spite of adverse financial
times, the association has held its own in
paid membership, a fact which has delight-
ed the officers who were at the beginning
of the year much concerned about this not
being possible this year. No report on
files is made in this report as that falls
in Dorothy Hutton's report.

Next year promises great things, with
the officers and chairmen entering on their
second year of service, with this year's

background, and next year's plans, and
the alumnae secretary feels after her
two years of contact with the alumnae
that there is nothing in all the world which
compares in pleasant experiences with the
"job" of alumnae secretary at Agnes
Scott!

Respectfully submitted,
FANNIE G. MAYSON DONALDSON,

General Secretary.

REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT ALUM-
NAE SECRETARY

The Assistant Alumnae Secretary has
devoted the greater portion of her time to
editing the Agnes Scott Alumnae Register,
which was finally completed the first of
February. In the fall, work toward this
end necessitated the correction of the mar-
ried and the geographic files, which make
up part of the office equipment in filing
alumnae records. The rough proof for the
Directory was given to the printer just be-
fore the Christmas holidays, and proof was
read on this during the holidays and for a
short time after that. At Christmas time
the secretary made a trip to Jacksonville
for a most enjoyable meeting with the
local alumnae there. In January much of
the time was spent in addressing envelopes
for the Directory, approximately 5,000
copies of which were released for mailing
on the first of February.

Following the plan used in this last Di-
rectory, that of combining alumnae
whether of the Academy, the Institute or
the College into one general alphabetical
classification, it was decided to put the
system of the master file on a similar
basis. After new cards for this purpose
had been planned and printed, work was
begun in earnest. A brief outline of the
new system may be of interest to you at
this point. All the Academy alumnae are
entered on pink cards, all Institute
alumnae on blue cards and all College
alumnae on white cards. In the event of
an alumna's having attended more than
one of these distinct institutions, duplicate
cards are made in different colors. This
color designation keeps the records sep-
arate and distinct, at the same time mak-
ing it possible to file them together for
quicker ready reference. These new cards
endeavor to carry the information of alum-
nae as it comes into the office, including
such data as: permanent address, temp-
orary address, registration address, mar-
ried name, parent's or guardian's name,
years of attendance, degrees received and
from what colleges, friends or relatives
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to the office in keeping in touch with that
particular alumna, and personal or bio-
graphical notes relative to her activities in
or after college. It is hoped that in the
fall there will be a complete and accurate
system of files, including a corrected mar-
ried file, a geographic file made up with
new cards, an Alumnae Association paid
membership file also made up of new
cards, and the more detailed master file.

Following the suggestions of our many
interested alumnae and a plan formerly
adopted by our college, it was decided to
send the assistant alumnae secretary out
to visit high schools in local regions in an
earnest attempt to interest high school
girls in Agnes Scott. Alumnae teaching in
the schools visited or living in the towns
in which these high schools are located
were largely responsible for the cordial re-
ception with which our college representa-
tives met, and we feel that we owe them a
great deal in making arrangements as they
did. An undergraduate representative,
Penelope Brown, '32, accompanied the as-
sistant secretary to Birmingham, where
two large high schools and the Loulie
Compton Seminary were visited. Each of
these representatives made short talks and
distributed catalogues and such literature
as might be expected to arouse interest in
campus activities. The secretary then went
to Anniston alone, where she met with a
small group of local alumnae as well as
talking at the Anniston High School. From
there she went to Gadsden, then returning
to Birmingham, for the alumnae club meet-
ing there. Another trip included Hender-
sonville and Asheville, N. C. Here the
secretary and Penelope Brown were join-
ed by Adah Knight, '29, and Polly Brown,
ex '29, who supplemented the usual talks
by another short talk and the rendition of
some of the college songs. A third trip in-
cluded the Columbus College Day, which
was suggested by our local Agnes Scott
alumnae and which was carried out by five
other southern colleges of a representative
calibre. This program, in brief, included a
short talk by each of the college repre-
sentatives at a morning assembly and the
presentation of some short bit of entertain-
ment on a program given at the Harmonie
Club that afternoon, when each college had
a booth at which were exhibited college
literature and publications of interest.
Besides Columbus, Opelika, Montgom-
ery, LaGrange, and Newna.n were visited.
In Montgomery a private school, Miss Mar-
garet Booth's School for Girls, was visited
as well as the high school there. These
trips were very stimulating in throwing
the secretary in intimate contact with
many interested and active alumnae, and
in noting the high esteem in which Agnes

Scott is held by the public, educators, and
the other colleges with which she is more
or less in competition.

The Agnes Scott Atlanta Club sponsored
a college day for high school girls in At-
lanta and Decatur. After this the secre-
tary and Penelope Brown made talks at
North Avenue Presbyterian School, the
North Fulton High School, and at the
Druid Hills School.

The Assistant Secretary feels grateful
to the college for making possible her posi-
tion and to the many alumnae who have
been a constant inspiration in their inter-
est for a year and a half of alumnae work
which brought with it an even deeper ap-
preciation of Agnes Scott and its possi-
bilities.

Respectfully submitted,
DOROTHY HUTTON,
Assistant Alumnae Secretary.

TREASURER'S REPORT

Two separate reports are given due to
the failure of the Decatur Bank and Trust
Co. in January.

September 1, 1930, to January 1, 1931.
Account with Decatur Bank and Trust Co.

Receipts

Dues $ 672.00

Tea Room Rent 125.00

House Rent 114.00

Tea Room Profits 405.93

Miscellaneous 44.76

Alumnae House Gifts 60.00

$1,421.69
Cash in bank September 1, 1930__ 370.33

$1,792

Disbursements

Secretary $ 400

Office Supplies, Postage, Printing,

etc. 625

Furnishings and Upkeep 226

Maid 60

Entertainment 33.

Dues 32

Travelling Expenses 6

Miscellaneous 7

Alumnae House Gifts 60

Play Prizes 35

Total $1,487

Savings Account $1,545

Checking Account 304

Total $1,849

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Total with interest:

$1,887.07
1,849.98

Interest $ 37.09

$1,792.02
1,487.28

Balance $ 304.7.4

Received 114.28

Balance tied up $ 190.46

Savings Account Life Membership Fund

In Bank, Sept. 1 $1,495.24

50.00

$1,545.24
Bank closed January 9, 1931.

January, 1931-May 28, 1931

Account with the First National Bank of
Atlanta, Decatur Branch. Opened Janu-
ary 14, 1931.

Receipts

Dues $ 482.00

Tea Room Rent _. 275.00

House Rent 124.85

Gift from College 750.00

Miscellaneous 7.98

Total ___$1,639.00

37%% of amount in old checking

Account 114.28

Total Receipts $1,754.11

Disbursements

Secretary $ 500.00

Office Supplies, Printing, Post-
age, Stationery, etc 588.93

Furnishings and Upkeep 203.77

Maid 100.00

Entertainment 28.00

Travelling Expenses 29.00

Miscellaneous 55.45

Total Disbursements $1,505.15

Cash in bank May 28, 1931 $ 248.96

In Savings Account with Decatur Office of
the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta

Zl x /2'/( of Amount in Old Savings

Account $ 593.35

Respectfully submitted,
EVANGELINE PAPAGEORGE.

BUDGET FOR 1931-1932

Receipts

Dues i $1,200.00

Tea Room Rent 400.00

Gift from College 750.00

Room Rent (House) 200.00

Tea Room Profits 300.00

Miscellaneous 75.00

Total $2,925.00

Disbursements

Secretary $ 900.00

Maid 160.00

Dues 32.50

Entertainment 75.00

Travelling Expenses 50.00

Office Supplies, Printing, Post-
age, Stationery, etc 1,272.50

Furnishings and Upkeep 350.00

Miscellaneous 85.00

Total $2,925.00

REPORT OF PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

This committee has put its efforts this
year on trying to get more notice about
Agnes Scott in the papers all over the
country, using the state presidents and
other sources as distributing points for
any articles of interest. Two letters were
sent last fall and three since Christmas,
usually about fifty copies of each, along
this line of endeavour.

Pamphlets about the Wicker Tours were
secured and sent in a letter urging travel
for summer.

A short letter urging the fun and fel-
lowship in A. S. C. Clubs, as shown by the
many meetings around February 22nd, was
sent.

When the May Day material and com-
mencement data reached the chairman of
this committee, an invitation was sent,
hoping that this would be more effective
than the usual letter.

Realizing that much can be accomplish-
ed along the line of placing Agnes Scott
before the country in the newspapers,
especially of the southern states, this com-
mittee is planning to continue its efforts
in this phase of work for the coming year.
Respectfully submitted,
LOUISE (SLACK) HOOKER.

REPORT OF BEAUTIFYING GROUNDS
COMMITTEE

Your Beautifying Grounds Committee
begs to submit the following report for the
year just closing.

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We respectfully call to your attention
the fact that the campus of our institu-
tion is greatly enhanced by its wonderful
natural beauty and that all work of ad-
dition and maintenance is being undertaken
with that knowledge in mind, thereby
further developing this natural beauty and
in full accordance with plans of the archi-
tectural design.

We are happy to announce at this time
that our major project for the year, the
alumnae garden, is well under way and
that completion of the initial phase of the
work is assured through the generosity of
the senior class of 1931 in giving the
beautiful formal pool as a permanent me-
morial of their love and affection, and that
of the Decatur, Atlanta, Columbus and
Charlotte Clubs in giving both objects and
funds for other parts of the garden, and
also that of the college itself in providing
for the costly preliminary work of grading
and piping.

The primary object of this formal garden
which is located in the space between our
alumnae house and Inman, is to provide a
quiet retreat for our girls, where they may
enjoy the still depths of the silent, lilied
pool, surrounded by a carpet of cool green,
and reached by a refreshing walk under a
many pillared archway of climbing roses
and flanked by long beds of flowering
plants and bulbs, selected principally for
spring and autumn blooming, the whole set
off with banks of appropriate shrubs of
charm and dignity.

Although a complete unit in itself, the
garden is designed to fit in and blend with
the general campus picture.

We believe the garden, when complete,
will prove a source of real pleasure and
true inspiration to our girls, our alumnae
and visitors and it is with this idea in mind
that we have undertaken this lasting and
beautiful memorial.

With funds we have in sight we have
completed all preliminary and heavy work,
the pool, the grass, the walks and beds,
with a few shrubs in the background and
have done some planting in the beds.

It is the earnest desire of your commit-
tee to carry this project to full completion
as soon as possible. This means erection
of the pillars and arches for the rose
walks, planting these roses, planting the
remaining shrubs in the background, and
setting the remaining beds with the proper
plants and shrubs.

We are pleased to announce that the De-
catur Club has generously offered to ac-
cept the responsibility of the garden's
maintenance.

Your committee wishes at this time to
thank the many friends who have so kind-
ly and generously assisted them in their
work and wishes for them to know that
the success of the year's work has been,
in great measure, due to this wondei'ful
spirit of co-operation.

Respectfully submitted,
LOUISE (BROWN) HASTINGS,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

The Committee on Constitution and By-
Laws begs leave to submit the following
report for the year 1930-1931:

The work of the Committee has been
carried on entirely by correspondence but
with the help and advice of former mem-
bers of the Committee and of the Alum-
nae Secretary, we are able to suggest the
following amendments:

1. That Article IV, Section 4, of the By-
Laws of the Association be amended to
read: All members of committees shall be
members of the Association. One member
of the outgoing committee, preferably its
chairman, shall serve as a member of
the new committee.

This amendment is suggested in order to
give greater continuity and efficiency to
the work of the committees.

2. That Article IV, Section 5, L, be
amended to read: The House and Tea
Room Committee shall have charge of
maintaining and operating the Anna
Young Alumnae House and the Silhouette
Tea Room, subject to the approval of the
Executive Committee. This committee
shall consist of three or more members
with the General Secretary as ex-officio
member. It shall be the duty of this com-
mittee to submit a list of candidates for
manager of the Tea Room to the Executive
Committee. The Committee shall meet at
least once every six weeks, the house man-
ager being invited by the chairman to at-
tend at least two of these meetings. Min-
utes shall be kept for all meetings, and
these together with a list of rules and
regulations must be kept on file in the
Secretary's office for reference.

The President of Student Government
shall be asked to appoint a student repre-
sentative, who, at the invitation of the
chairman, shall be invited to confer with
the Committee at least twice a year.

3. That to Article IV, Section 5, D, of
the By-Laws of the Alumnae Association
be added, to read: The Executive Commit-
tee shall hold three meetings yearly, the

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first to take place as soon after the open-
ing of college as possible and the second
and third in the winter and spring.
Respectfully submitted,

JANET L. MacDONALD.

REPORT OF THE ENTERTAINMENT
COMMITTEE

The Entertainment Committee has been
in charge of many social activities
throughout this year, 1930-1931, beginning
with the Thanksgiving Tea which about
150 alumnae attended. At intervals dur-
ing the year, there have been small in-
formal senior teas to acquaint the mem-
bers of the senior class with the alumnae
and the Alumnae Association. The Alumni
Secretaries' Convention which met in At-
lanta this year was entertained at a tea
in the Alumnae House on April 16. During
Commencement week-end, which is a busy
time for this committee, there was the
decoration of the Rebekah dining room
for the Trustees' Luncheon, and the hold-
ing of Open House for seniors, faculty, and
alumnae on Sunday evening.

Respectfully submitted,
MARY ELIZABETH WARREN,
Chairman of the Entertainment Committee.

REPORT OF LOCAL CLUBS COMMIT-
TEE

The Local Clubs Committee reports cor-
respondence with many prospective clubs
in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten-
nessee and Virginia and in many cities,
Baltimore, St. Louis, New York, Cincinnati,
Washington and several cities in Florida.
Much correspondence has been done with
alumnae who knew of the Greenville Club,
of which the chairman is a member, and
wanted details of how organization is be-
gun.

Clubs already organized at the begin-
ning of the term of this committee were
Birmingham, Montgomery, Ala.; Atlanta,
Decatur and Columbus, Ga.; Jacksonville,
Fla.; Korean Club; Charlotte, Winston-
Salem, N. C; Greenville, S. C; Lynchburg
and Richmond, Va.

Clubs formed during this year are one in
Alabama composed of the thrse towns,
Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Florence, with
Martha (Nathan) Drisdale, president, and
Margaret Rice, secretary; another in Balti-
more, Md., under the leadership of Sterling
Johnson; one in North Carolina, called
the Western North Carolina State Club,
with Maurine Bledsoe as prime mover and

with Mary Louise Thames, as secretary; in
Tennessee, two clubs have been organized,
one in Memphis under the leadership of
Mary Shewmaker, the other in Knoxville
under Emilie (Ehrlich) Strasburger's guid-
ance.

Many groups meet on Founder's Day
each year but are not called clubs; their
meetings were reported on in the Foun-
der's Day account in the April issue of
the Quarterly. In addition to these, Julia
(Ingram) Hazzard called a meeting of
the alumnae of New Jersey late this
spring and India (Hunt) Balch brought
the alumnae near her to her home in
Centre Newton, Mass., in May. A small
group of alumnae in Cincinnati meet oc-
casionally, having had a first meeting this
spring with "Jack" McLellon.

Club letters or bulletins are sent month-
ly from the Alumnae office with campus
and alumnae news to aid in the programs.
The clubs have taken a very active inter-
est in the securing of high school girls
for Agnes Scott this year and many have
made contributions to the Campaign Fund,
also. The new formal garden of the
Alumnae Association has solicited the in-
terest of the clubs and the securing of
more publicity for Agnes Scott in the
various localities has been another object
in a very full program of club activities.
All in all, the committee feels that this has
been a most successful year in club work
and wishes to thank especially the officers
of the clubs who have worked so faithful-
ly during this year.

VIRGINIA NORRIS,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE SECONDARY
SCHOOLS COMMITTEE

The secondary schools committee has
tried this year to interest desirable high
school girls in going to Agnes Scott,
principally through personal contacts with
various groups and through interesting
talks made by alumnae and present stu-
dents at Agnes Scott. We have had very
gratifying results in some places, but we
regret that there was some lack of co-
operation on the part of a few of the
local clubs. We hope to have even a better
report next year. We have tried to stress
especially the giving of scholarship aid by
the Administration to deserving girls who
should be selected by the various alumnae
groups, and we hope that next year we can
interest more girls through this plan. A
detailed report of our work follows:

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ALABAMA:

Anniston Dorothy Hutton talked to all
the students of the high school and
apparently competed successfully with
the man who was advertising an em-
balmed whale that had just come to
town.

Bay Minette Georgia Mae Bristow has
talked to a group of Junior Study Club
girls when they were assembled for
their annual business luncheon.

Birmingham The offer of scholarship
aid by the Administration was pre-
sented to the students (seniors) of
Ensley, Phillips, and Woodlawn Highs
and Loulie Compton Seminary early in
March. Four girls applied for the
scholarships, and the two $200 scholar-
ships were awarded to Mary Boggs
and Frederica Twining. In April,
Dorothy Hutton, assistant alumnae
secretary, and Penelope Brown, junior,
spoke to the seniors of Phillips, Wood-
lawn, and the Seminary, and the girls
showed a great deal of interest in
their talks. The Birmingham Club
also sent five girls over to the college
for May Day week-end to see the
school in action.

Montgomery Dorothy Hutton talked to
the girls of Lanier High School and
Margaret Booth School, and the girls
seemed extremely interested.

FLORIDA:

Jacksonville Last fall the Jacksonville
club was hoping to offer a scholar-
ship, the fund to be augmented by the
local group, but no later report has
come in.

Miami The alumnae in Miami are wil-
ling to help, but they feel that they
cannot do very effective work with-
out an organized alumnae group.

Orlando No report.

St. Petersburg The alumnae here
promised to discuss the offering of a
scholarship but have made no further
report.

GEORGIA:

Atlanta This club arranged an after-
noon and evening visit to the college
by the seniors of all high schools in
Atlanta and Decatur in April. Hoasc
and the Athletic Association gave the
girls a full afternoon's entertainment
and Miss Gooch arranged a one-act
play just after dinner; the students
were entertained in Rebekah Scott
dining room for dinner, and later

dancing was enjoyed in the Gym. The
next week talks were made in the
various high schools of Atlanta on the
advantages of Agnes Scott.

Columbus The Columbus club seems to
be one of the most active that we
have. They planned a tea and a col-
lege day program in connection with
the alumnae of several other colleges.
We hear that they put on a very clever
skit about Agnes Scott. They have
offered a scholarship and they sent
two cars full of Columbus high school
girls up to Agnes Scott for a week-
end to give them a taste of college
life.

Decatur This club made no separate
plan in this work, as it seemed best to
include the Decatur high schools in the
day's entertainment of the Atlanta
students, so it was unnecessary for
this club to undertake this.

Macon Sara Johnston has talked to a
good many girls but on account of the
business depression there have been
no definite results.

NORTH CAROLINA:

Asheville The Asheville alumnae, under
the capable direction of Maurine
Bledsoe, have invited all alumnae in
motoring distance to join them in a
Western North Carolina club which
has accomplished several things. Ada
Knight, Dorothy Hutton, and Penelope
Brown talked to the girls of two high
' schools in Asheville the first week in
April, and the event was a great suc-
cess. Polly Brown, a Hendersonville
alumnae, capped the climax with
some Agnes Scott songs. As a result
of this program, sixteen girls were
signed up as being interested. They
were entertained with a tea some
weeks later, when Polly Brown sang
again. The Asheville club finds that
very many of the high school girls
have no Latin at all and so are not
eligible for the scholarship. The award
was made to Marion Calhoun.

Carthage One alumna had six high
school girls to dinner on Founder's
Day to listen to the radio program.

Charlotte This club presented a pro-
gram in the high school, using brief
talks, a dramatization of "Not in the
Catalogue." The girls were invited to
apply for the hundred-dollar scholar-
ship given through this group. On the
mimeographed program given each
girl was a list of the local girls who
are alumnae or now are students of

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Agnes Scott. Personal interviews of
interested girls by an alumna resulted
in seven girls deciding on A. S. C.
These girls were invited to listen to
the Founder's Day radio program with
the alumnae.

Hendersonville The Hendersonville
alumnae joined with the Asheville club
in their plans. Ada Knight, Dorothy
Hutton, and Penelope Brown spoke
here the first week in April, and as a
result fourteen girls signed up as
being interested. They were enter-
tained at the same tea that was given
for the Asheville girls. Ellen Fain
has been in charge of the scholarship
plans here.

Winston-Salem This club had a good
plan of putting a lot of Agnes Scott
literature in the library about a week
before their college day, and then
concentrating all their efforts on one
day.

SOUTH CAROLINA:
Greenville No report.

TENNESSEE:

Memphis The Memphis club is very
new and has been unable to do as
much as they would like to have done
this year. They say they hope to have
much more to report next year.

VIRGINIA:

Richmond No report.

The chairman would like to emphasize
the fact that it is never too soon to be-
gin to interest girls in Agnes Scott, and
she would suggest that the local clubs try
to interest especially juniors as well as
seniors because of the fact that so many
girls have already made their plans for
college by the time they reach their senior
year. She also wishes to take this oppor-
tunity to thank all those alumnae who
have done such splendid work to further
the plans of this committee, especially the
other members of the committee Georgia
Mae Bristow, Sara Johnston, Mary Shew-
maker, Martha Stackhouse, and Georgia
Watson.

Respectfullv submitted,

MARY RAY DOBYNS,

Chairman.

We have out in loans at this time
$805.00. Of this amount $500.00 is owed
by girls who are already out of school,
$305.00 by girls who are still in school.

Letters have been written to each of the
girls asking them to repay their loans in
part or in full at the earliest possible date.

In order to make the notes legally bind-
ing, the committee decided to have the
notes signed by the parents of the girl
to whom the loan is made, and to have
the note renewed by her when she is of
age.

Following is more detailed account of
the financial standing of the association:

Credit

Bal. at beginning of 1930-31 $ 34.42

Repaid during year 143.93

Total $178.35

Debit
Loans made during year $125.00

Balance in bank $ 53.35

Gift of Laura Mel (Towers) Yager

in May 25.00

Total $ 78.35

Respectfully submitted,
CAROLINE McKINNEY HILL.
May 30, 1931.

REPORT OF STUDENT LOAN COM-
MITTEE

The Alumnae Student Loan Committee
has been able this year to make loans
to two students, one of $25.00 and one of
$100.00.

REPORT OF CURRICULUM COMMIT-
TEE

Two fields of activity have been entered
upon by the curriculum committee for
1931-1932: alumnae education and a study
of the curricula of other colleges in com-
parison with the curriculum of Agnes
Scott. A survey of the alumnae education
field has been completed; the study of the
curricula will be completed before the next
annual report of the committee.

Three meetings have been held by the
committee, two of which have been at-
tended by the alumnae secretary and one
by the assistant secretary. In addition to
these meetings much of the work of the
committee has been carried on by cor-
respondence and also by telephone.

In preparation of the report submitted
below on alumni education in American
colleges, the following sources have been
used: correspondence with alumni secre-
taries and experts in the field of adult
education, interviews with such persons,
material upon the subject in the Carnegie
Librai-y of Atlanta, bulletins and alumni
magazines secured through the Agnes
Scott alumnae secretary, and also by writ-

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ing requests for same, material upon the
subject of alumni education which was
placed on exhibit at the National Confer-
ence of Alumni secretaries held at the At-
lanta Biltmore Hotel in April, 1931.

Twenty-four colleges and universities
are included in the survey, fourteen of
these colleges for women, five men's col-
leges, and five co-educational. Twenty-
two of the twenty-four reported some form
of alumni education, only two gave nega-
tive replies.

These forms of alumni education are
called by different names, seminars,
alumni universities, alumni colleges, educa-
tional conferences, alumni assemblies,
alumni college days. They are attended by
alumni alone, or alumni plus wives or hus-
bands as the case may be. The duration
of the conference is from one day to six
weeks, though the usual length is a week-
end or a week. The programs consist of
lectures followed usually by a conference
which is a characteristic factor in the
alumni gatherings. Professors and alumni
meet in these conferences.

Although a few conferences have been
held upon one single subject, the tendency
at present seems to be conferences with a
varied program of lectures. The educa-
tional features are supplemented in every
case by social features.

Having been in existence scarcely a de-
cade, alumni conferences may be consider-

ed still in the experimental stage; but the
fact that colleges which have undertaken
the project have repeated it in successive
years, the fact that alumni attending these
conferences testify as to their value and
enjoyment these considerations move the
curriculum committee to recommend that
Agnes Scott undertake the project and
supplement her annual social reunion next
Thanksgiving with an educational pro-
gram.

In submitting this report, we, the mem-
bers of the committee, feel that its prep-
aration has been of great value to us in
bringing us in closer contact with the
college, with each other, and with the
"finer things" in life, which our years at
Agnes Scott have taught us to love.
Respectfully submitted,

ADELAIDE CUNNINGHAM, 1911,

BETTY FLODING, 1921,

RUTH PIRKLE, 1922,

RUSHA WESLEY, 1900.

REPORT OF THE ANNA YOUNG

ALUMNAE HOUSE AND TEA

ROOM COMMITTEE

The report from this committee will not
be published until the fall quarterly in
order to give the total financial report
which is not possible at the time this issue
of the Quarterly goes to press.

^M

One contribution of the small college to American life is a culture
which is both national and provincial.

Culture is naturally localized. The culture of an American college
has a distinct flavor as compared with the culture of a college in Ger-
many or in England and the culture of an American college in the
Middle West, in the South, in New England, or on the Coast, will be
distinctly local. It would be a mistake for us to endeavor to establish
purely national categories for measuring the cultural life of any par-
ticular college in America. Richness of life consists in a blending of
great universal ideals with the colloquial spirit in life of distinct com-
munities.

There is no purely national college in America. Even the oldest
and most firmly-established institutions draw over half their students
from the area immediately surrounding the campus. This is as it
should be.

The task of the small college in America is to place the whole
American scheme of things on the background of a world history, to
find the social, political and intellectual ancestries of American ideas
and to gain a larger knowledge of the significance of American achieve-
ment from a knowledge of what the rest has elsewhere achieved.

The college must therefore, while mastering intellectually the his-
tory of mankind, become by reason of this larger knowledge, adequate
interpreters of the American civilization. In the second place, the
small college has the distinct task of enriching the experience of life in
a given section of America by relating that particular life to the whole
American scene, and by relating the forces which have entered into the
creation of new states and communities with a maturity which is the
result of a genuine knowledge of American history as a whole.

Something of this localizing of culture should be the task of the
American college.

W. I. MAURER, President of
Beloit College

{Published in Liberal Arts College Movement, June issue)

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