Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly [1932-1933]

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ALUMNAE OFFICE

ANNA YOUNG ALUMNAE HOUSE

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
DECATUR, GEORGIA

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FALL ISSUE

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The grass, long past maturity

And tired from its play,
Cowers before the reaper's scythe

And goes to rest as hay.
The leaves, born green and innocent

Of knowledge, have grown old
And show their ripened characters

In brown and red and gold.

The soft -clouds and the tender blues
Of Heaven mourn the chills,

Arid don their garbs of winter gray

,', Y:o hide from icy ills.

Each flower, thankful for one day,
Fades on its slender stem

And leaves behind its tiny seeds
To seek new birth from them.
Elena V. Greenfield, '32.

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Vol. XI NOVEMBER, 1932 No. 1

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

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Chairmen of the Standing Committees

Publicity Janef Preston, '21

Preparatory Schools Vallie Young White Archibald (Mrs. E. S.), '17

Curriculum . Mary Ben Wright Erwin (Mrs. G. E.), '25

House and Tea Room . Caroline McKinney Hill (Mrs. F. ) , '27

Local Clubs Emily Spivey, '25

Beautifying Grounds . Louise Brown Hastings (Mrs. D. M.), '23

Entertainment . Mary Sayward Rogers (Mrs. O.), '28

Student Loan . Hattie Lee West Candler (Mrs. A. W.), '07
Constitution and By-Laws Patricia Collins, '28

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Autumn Cover

Elena V. Greenfield, '32

The Anna Young Alumnae House Frontispiece

Our Second Alumnae Week-End 5

Mary Ben (Wright) Er-win, '2 5

The Alumni Education Movement: A Study 6

Mary Ray Dobyns, '2 8

The New Session 7

Dr. J. R. McCain

The Hopkins' Jewel 8

Revolution in Rules 12

Betty Bonham, '32

New Books 15

Raemond Wilson, '30

New Addresses 18

Engagements and Weddings 21

Recent Arrivals - 23

Club News__ - 24

Faculty News 25

Necrology ; 27

Office News 29

Concerning Ourselves 3 3

Program for the Alumnae Week-end ; Cover

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'Somewhere within there were dim presences
Of days that hovered and of years gone by."

Souvenir, Edwin Arlington Robinson.

OUR SECOND ALUMNAE WEEK-END

Mary Ben (Wright) Erwin, '2 5

A year ago, we were looking forward to our first Alumnae
Week-End. Now, we look back on it with great satisfaction,
thanking the Curriculum Committee for the excellent program
and complimenting ourselves on having taken advantage of every
"drop of learning" the week-end offered. We were rejuvenated
by our return to school days and our thirst for knowledge in-
creased so that we have been impatient for another opportunity
to go back to the "Sheltering Arms" and answer the call of class
bells. Our second Alumnae Week-End is nearly here and we are
eagerly awaiting the Chapel bell on November 2S, when school
"takes in."

We had a big obligation to try to equal last year's excellent
schedule, but if you glance at this year's program, you will see
that it will be just as difficult for future committees to equal
the 1932 week-end. Now that the program is planned, the battle
is only half won. The College Administration has given the usual
full cooperation and has invited guest lecturers and our own
faculty members to speak, arranged class rooms, and asked us to
luncheon in the newly decorated Rebekah Scott dining room.
Now it's up to each Hottentot to do her best to add her presence
to the throng of school girls.

Dormitory space is free. Alumae House accommodations are
ridiculously low; lectures and the luncheon are free; and the
charge for the dinner is negligible. Chuck your job and send
"Sonny" and "Little Sister" to "Auntie's" for a visit, and answer
the call of your Alma Mater by giving yourself the best Thanks-
giving vacation ever. It's Home-Coming time at Agnes Scott
with an opportunity and a good time for every alumna. Sign and
mail your registration card now!

THE ALUMNI EDUCATION MOVEMENT: A STUDY

Mary Ray Dobyns, '2 8

Until the past ten or fifteen years, college and university alumni in this country have
shown their interest in their Alma Mater predominantly in two fileds, in intercollegiate
athletics and in the financial support of the institutions. It is very interesting to note
that the first rumors and suggestions of continued education for alumni came from
the alumni themselves, in their search for a way in which to be more closely and more
vitally connected with their Alma Mater. The development of the idea of alumni educa-
tion came as a result of interest on the part of the alumni themselves and not from ad-
ministrative headquarters.

There are four agencies which have been very active and have done a great deal
to further the work of alumni education. The first of these is the American Alumni
Council through its special committee on aims and policies which was formed to give
its attention to the problem of continuing intellectual relationship between colleges and
alumni and to assist in experimentation designed to facilitate the solution of the problem.
The second agency is the American Association for Adult Education which has a special
committee to cooperate with the Council in furthering this phase of educational en-
deavor. A third agency interested in this phase of education is the American Library As-
sociation. Mr. Charles H. Brown, librarian at Iowa State, is the chairman of a special
committee of the A. L. A. which was formed to study the library implications of alumni
education, with attention to the part played by college and public libraries, state library
commissions, and the relations of these to each other. The fourth agency interested in
this work is the Carnegie Corporation, which has contributed liberally of its funds to the
study of the present situation and the carrying out of certain projects.

It is found that the educational demands of the alumni fall into three classes. First,
alumni want further professional guidance and training. Second in importance to this
demand is the desire for cultural development, and in asking for cultural development,
alumni have requested that the fields of knowledge be related for them so that they may
see the connection, close or remote, between the various fields of knowledge. In addition
to this they would like to have the border fields, that is, the fields bordering on their
own particular field, explored and interpreted for them. The third demand expressed by
alumni is a demand for equipment for the intelligent and constructive dealing with
the large issues of common concern, a very practical need.

There are many types of programs now in operation. The following are some of the
more successful. Book reviews are used in several different ways. At Lafayette they are
published in the alumni magazine, and the books reviewed are lent to alumni without
charge direct from the president's office. Book reviews are published without any
attempt to supply the books at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Southern
California, and Lafayette. The University of North Carolina and Iowa State lend books
from a college book club on the payment of a nominal fee. Another type of program is
the organized lecture course, class programs, and credit courses which are used by the
University of Michigan, Denison, Columbia, and Vassar. Teachers' College at Columbia
offers an organized reference service to its alumni. Reading lists are sent out at more
or less regular intervals by many colleges, chief among which are Amherst, Dartmouth,
and Smith. Short courses or an alumni college are offered bv Michigan, Columbia, Iowa
State, Vassar, Agnes Scott, Wellesley, and Berea.

We turn now to the problem of alumnae education at Agnes Scott College. The first
attempt at a formal program of Alumnae Education was made in the fall of 1931, when
an alumne week-end was held from November 27 to 28. Lectures were given by members
of the Agnes Scott faculty and by visiting lecturers. The subjects of the lectures were
modern poetry, child guidance, history, social service, oral English, and the latest books.
The lectures occupied the morning hours, while an art exhibit and a book exhibit were
given in the afternoons. There were more than one hundred alumnae and their friends
registered for the courses, and the project was decidedly a success.

THE NEW SESSION

The forty-fourth session of Agnes Scott opened Wednesday morning, September the
fourteenth, with very simple ceremonies. The principal address was made by President M.
L. Brittain, Georgia School of Technology. Brief messages were given by Mr. J. K. Orr,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mrs. J. F. Durrett, President of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, and Dr. A. J. Moncrief, who spoke for the local community. Special music was
furnished by the choir and by Mrs. S. G. Stukes.

The enrollment for the first term is 462, which is exactly the same as for the cor-
responding date last year, and is about thirty more than our usual number for the fall
term in recent years. We have a larger proportion of day students than is usual, and,
in fact, the largest number that we have ever had.

Our invested funds now amount to $1,266,599.5 6. This is an increase of a little
more than $66,000.00 over the same date a year ago. Our investment in buildings,
grounds and equipment amounts now to $1,375,933.38, which is an increase of $21,-'
000.00 over the corresponding period of 1931. Our reserve for depreciation and for
emergencies has likewise been somewhat increased so that our gain in total assets for the
year amounts to a little more than $95,000.00, after deducting a slight shrinkage in our
investment. We are extremely grateful to friends who have been paying their campaign
pledges at real sacrifice during these times.

Agnes Scott makes a remarkable showing in the soundness of its investments. The
defaults in either principal or interest have been negligible; and no list of bonds has been
published either by insurance companies, banks, or educational institutions which shows a
lower proportion of back due interest than ours.

For the fourteenth consecutive year we have been able to collect in full, before the
close of the session, every dollar due from students or patrons.

The educational work of recent years has been unusually gratifying. We recently
published the honor roll for grades made last session for the classes of 1933, 1934, and
1935. There were thirty-nine names on these class lists, nearly twice the usual number.
It is especially noteworthy that thirteen of these were from the class of 193 5.

Last year our sophomores took examinations covering the whole field of knowledge.
These were given under the auspices of the American Council of Education and were par-
ticipated in by 138 colleges and universities throughout the United States. It was a very
exhaustive test, covering two days, and we are gratified that Agnes Scott ranked third
in the entire list of institutions.

The new session is opening with a fine spirit of co-operation on the part of both
faculty and students and there is every reason for us to be thankful for our blessings.

THE HOPKINS' JEWEL

The spiritual element was dominant in the minds of those who founded Agnes Scott.
They earnestly desired to advance the Kingdom of God, and they believed that nothing
else would be so effective as a strong institution for women. They believed that if the
College was to have power the individual students must have an all-round personal de-
velopment, and they planned for four-fold emphasis in the work of the campus life.
Later generations have found that they cannot improve on the basic principles of the
founders, and so there has been a continuity of aim and endeavor.

The physical well being of each student has the first consideration. The best equip-
ment on the campus is that which provides physical education, health service, and recrea-
tion. The College believes that a sound body is essential for happiness and efficiency in
any educational program.

High standards of scholarship are expected at Agnes Scott. The mental attainments of
its students should be at least equal to the best for either men or women in this country.
The search for truth, avoidance of shams and short-cuts, maintenance of the honor
system, fearlessness of purpose, and efficiency in every duty, are expected to characterize
those who study here. It is the aim of the College to exhibit scholarship so ably and at-
tractively that it may be popularized.

The Agnes Scott girl has a strong feeling of social responsibility. A real democracy
of opportunity and of student social life prevails on the campus and is a good founda-
tion for a sane attitude toward other people. Every graduate wishes to make some con-
tribution to the community in which she lives, to help the under-privileged, and to main-
tain in a modest way at least an international viewpoint.

The religious life of the College is wholesome and sincere without being ostentatious.
The atmosphere tends to confirm and to strengthen faith, and to give God His rightful
place as Savior and Lord. Religious services are marked by simplicity and earnestness. The
whole aim of the institution is to send out educated Christian women to be a power in
blessing the world and in glorifying God.

The above is cited in full from the 1932-1933 Students' Handbook. Here it is placed
under the Y. W. C. A. groupings, and appears under the heading of The Agnes Scott
College Ideal. We feel that it is a nice summary of the intangible elements that enter so
vitally into the lives of Agnes Scott students.

Beginning with the session 1928-1929, the class of 1922 conceived the idea of a stu-
dent award that would symbolize the fulfillment of definite ideals and the everyday
practise of certain personal characteristics worthy of the high idealism of our dean, Miss
Nannette Hopkins. No student has entered Agnes Scott but what she has been im-
pressed by Miss Hopkins' loyalty to standards of character and by her ambition that each
student incorporate these principles into her program for life. No student has spent any
amount, of time at Agnes Scott, whether extended over a period of four years or limited to
the briefest sojourn here, but what she has made an effort conscious or otherwise to
realize these ideals.

To the intangible elements of a full college program then, the class of 1922 dedicated
their memorial, as evidence of their appreciation after graduation of this fine idealism, as
symbol of their belief that these characteristics should be made to seem relatively more
important, by awarding a distinct honor to that graduate of each class who had most
nearly attained perfection in social adaptation, unselfish leadership, unswerving recog-
nition of truth, appreciation of physical fitness in the old sense of "mens sana in corpore
sano," in loyalty to Agnes Scott College and her unique traditions.

That the award has been made for four years successively now gives us an interesting
time for observation. Three classes have passed through the gates of our Alma Mater,
to engage in varied fields of activity "far from the reach of her sheltering arms," since
the first amethyst pendant was awarded to Helon Brown of the class of 1929. That

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the Hopkins' jewel has gone successively to a President of the Senior Class, to a President
of the Y. W. C. A., to the first foreign exchange student, and to a President of Student
Government would certainly indicate that many are the fields of activity in which a
girl can attract marked admiration, win a distinct tribute to her high sense of the fit,

The Hopkins' jewel, although known as an award for past achievement, has the
power of the far-famed Janus who could look to the future while regarding the experi-
ences of the past. The award indicates faith, on the part of the committee according it,
in the winner's ability in the future to maintain her standard of idealism, to carry far
afield Agnes Scott ideals, to incorporate them in whatever line of activity her life may
follow. Certainly the following resume of the activities of the four winners would in-
dicate that this faith has been well-founded and is justified.

Helon Brown, coming with her twin sister to Agnes Scott from Stamps, Ark., in
1925, spent four years in residence on the campus. Her four years were active ones in
point of service to the College through her interest in varied stu-
dent activities. Elected in 192 8 to the position of Senior Class
President, Helon's capacity for leadership was lauded by class
members who were appreciative of its merit. An amusing story
current at the time of 1929's commencement exercises has it that
William Hood Williams of Little Rock, down on Helon's invita-
tion, went into Miss Hopkins' office to tell her that they agreed
decidedly on one point their selection of Helon as the jewel of
1929. Helon and Bill were married in January, 1930, and have
made their home in Little Rock ever since. Mary Brown Williams,
whose picture we naturally publish with Helon's, was born there last April. But even a
home and a baby are not too time-exacting to leave Helon without other interests.

Helon spent her first winter in Little Rock in the varied capacity of cook, house-
keeper, yard cultivator, and Sunday school teacher. Then, following the interests of her
very lovely and active mother, Helon began work in earnest on a state Y. W. C. A.
project, that of the girls' club branch for small towns of less than ten thousand in
population. This idea grew out of an appreciation of the small town recreational problem,
"the lack of well-directed, creative, wholesome leisure time for those girls just older
than the group interested in the award system of the Girl Scout and Camp Fire groups,"
to quote Helon. As chairman of this state project, Helon pushed forward. A well trained
Y. W. C. A. secretary was managed and financed, to get girls' clubs and women's councils
going in the various towns which had manifested their interest and desire to have the
work. Helon writes, "For a year and a half we have been doing the most difficult thing
of all in so intangible a work as ours that is, beginning." Finances have in a sense
necessitated a temporary suspension of activity. However, although the regular secretary
has been dismissed, a volunteer secretary keeps in touch with the National Board and
with the girls, too, through correspondence. The movement has attracted noticeable in-
terest on the outside. The girls and women, already interested, are eager to go on and will,
to some extent, alone. The project is definitely shaping itself toward making the Y.
W. C. A. club (or the Girl Reserves) a transition club between Girl Scouts and college
Y. W. C. A.'s. It is hoped and believed that the movement will effectively correct the
futile programs of small town high school sororities. Camps, in connection with the
project, operated in several sections of Arkansas this past summer. More successful seasons
are anticipated. Helon says that the chairmanship, although it was a discouraging posi-
tion at the first, has brought with it its own reward in giving her direct contact with
many fine women negro and Indian, as well as white. Was not the first jewel well
placed?

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The 1930 award went to Elizabeth Flinn, known more intimately and characteristic-
ally as "Tumpsy." Tumpsy came to Agnes Scott from Atlanta, where her father is
pastor of the North Avenue Presbyterian Church. He is perhaps
better known to us as the Dr. Richard Orme Flinn, trustee of
Agnes Scott. Tumpsy's period of attendance was an active one,
for she took part in practically every phase of college life with
its full program. "Life," to quote Tumpsy, "since June, 1930,
has been one succession of surprises." The summer following her
graduation, Tumpsy attended two student conferences in Europe
a British Student Conference and a conference of the World's
Student Christian Federation in Switzerland. That summer's
varied program included the Passion Play at Oberamergau and
visits with students of the five countries through which thev traveled. Again quoting,
"Europe made much more vivid the possibilities of a world movement of students. So
it was natural, I think, that my desire to participate in our national student movement
was heightened. It was exceedingly interesting to be identified with the Southern Divison
of National Student Council (Y. W. C. A.) the next winter." For the greater part of
the next winter, Tumpsy was at home in Atlanta. After trips to Miami and New York
City with friends, she began a summer course at Columbia, after the completion of
which she undertook her present position on September 1, 1931.

Tumpsy is now Associate Secretary in the Y. W. C. A. at the University of California
at Los Angeles. She writes of her program: "Inasmuch as U. C. L. A. is a state university
and largely a 'commuting' university and inasmuch as the student Y. W. C. A. has a good
sized 'plant' of its own (a dormitory and tea room in conjunction with its building), the
set-up of our work is rather different from that of the Y. W. C. A. at Agnes Scott." The
Y. W. C. A. staff there includes, besides Tumpsy, an executive secretary, a house mother,
and a tea room manager. Tumpsy's work involves office responsibilities, program work
and counselling, with emphasis on attention to publicity, hostessing, and world-education.
Like Helon, Tumpsy finds her work stimulating and California intriguing, but appreciates
most her contacts with campus guests. These in 1931-1932 were of international fame,
including Dr. Albert Einstein, Dr. Charles A. Beard, T. Z. Koo of China, Ragno Kawai
of Japan, Eziqueil Chavez of Mexico, and many others. Tumpsy's enthusiasm for student
work is unflagging. We glory in her full and active life, and in an Agnes Scott idealist
to represent us so capably in the West.

Marguerite Gerard, arriving at Agnes Scott in September of 192 8, attracted a great
deal of attention by reason of her personal charm as well as by reason of her being our
first foreign exchange student. Marguerite pursued a regular
course of study here for three years, returning to Paris for her
summer vacations. The award of her degree at Commencement in
1931 made administrative officers and faculty realize how fine a
student had been sent to Agnes Scott by the Institute of Interna-
tional Education. Marguerite's accomplishment brought impetus
to our campus ideal of maintaining "in a modest way at least an
international viewpoint."

Returning to Paris in June, 1931, Marguerite spent a vacation
there and at Cannes on the Riviera with her family. Last winter
she continued her studies at the Sorbonne, receiving a diploma as a teacher of French from
that institution last Spring. This year she has been able to qualify as a French teacher
in an American School in Florence. Marguerite writes of being highly enthusiastic over
the prospects of the winter. In February and March she will travel over a large part of
Europe, and every week-end during the course of the year will be spent in visiting some

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city in Italy. Can we not feel justified pride in honoring one of so cosmopolitan a nature,
who can adapt herself with equal readiness to life in America, France, and now Italy?

Commencement of 1932 brought with it the announcement that the Hopkins' Jewel
had been awarded to Andrewena Robinson of Dayton, Tenn. Andrewena last year com-
pleted a successful term as President of Student Government, both
in the effective execution of rules as they existed and in the re-
vision of rules she and her committee recommended. Dr. McCain,
appreciative of her fine leadership and capabilities in personnel
work, engaged her as Secretary to the Dean for the present session.
Andrewena, known as "Dee," works with Miss Hopkins and
Carrie Scandrett, '24, in connection with administrative problems
and student adjustments. 1932 is justly proud of this one of its
members' being accorded this additional honor. Agnes Scott, in
turn, is grateful in having its last "jewel" in sight.

Leaders in four branches of student activity have gained recognition in four suc-
cessive years for tireless enthusiasm and generous support of the College ideals. Arkansas,
California, Italy and Agnes Scott will be fields into which our standards will be carried
by these superlative Agnes Scott graduates. The class of 1922 has initiated a signal
memorial unique in commemorating intangible and idealistic qualities, memorable in
realizing that "they cannot improve on the basic principles of the founders" of Agnes
Scott, cooperative with these principles in indicating a desire for "a continuity of aim and
endeavor."

ATTENTION, ALUMNAE

Listen and learn about your government!

Every Tuesday evening from 8:00 to 8:30, Eastern Standard Time!

Impartial, non-partisan broadcasts presented by the Committee on Civic Education by
Radio of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and The American
Political Science Association.

Over a nation-wide network of the National Broadcasting Company.

November 15 Retrenching in State and Local Expenditures.

November 22 Redrawing the Boundaries of Local Government.

November 29 Redistributing Functions of State and Local Government.

December 6 Reorganizing County Government.

December 13 Reforming Financial Methods.

December 20 Reducing and Limiting Local Indebtedness.

December 27 Revising Our State and Local Tax System.

AUTRES TEMPS, AUTRES MOEURS

Betty Bonham, '32

The last decade of the nineteenth
century has always been pictured by
those who enjoyed it, as an era, quite
gay and perhaps a little bit naughty.
The gaiety and naughtiness, how-
ever, must not have extended to
students at least not to those who
attended the Agnes Scott Institute
during the session 1891-1892, if we
are to believe the record of the "Do-
mestic Government," which lays
down the law for that term. We in-
vite any alumnae of more recent
years who found the rules of their
day a trifle irksome to glance over
a few of those set down for the
ladies of the Institute.

"Pupils will not be allowed to go

to Atlanta oftener than once a

quarter for shopping purposes, and

then only when accompanied by a

teacher. Parents are earnestly re-
quested not to ask a violation of this rule." Certainly the day when a faculty mem-
ber supervised the purchase of so small an item as a package of pins is a thing of the dim
and distant past, when we consider that only freshmen are limited as to the number
of trips to town, and that number for them is twice a week.

"Pupils are permited to correspond only with such gentlemen as are especially named
by parents." To think that only the other day a letter, addressed to "My Sweetheart, May
Smith," stirred up nothing more than amusement for the postmistress! (the truth).

"Indiscriminate novel reading is prohibited." That must have been before the days of
English 3 3 3-3 34, with its gay requirements of Moll Flanders and Tom Jones!

"Pupils shall not borrow money, jewelry or books, nor wear the clothing of others.
No exchanging of clothes will be permitted." To the present student must come the
observation, "Life must have been pretty difficult in those days."

"At 9:30 o'clock at night young ladies must prepare for bed and at 10 o'clock the
house must be quiet." We'd be willing to wager that this rule was hard to enforce!
Restrictions on quiet now have to specify those times when radios and victrolas may
and may not be played!

"No young lady is allowed to leave the grounds without express permission, nor to
appear on the streets unless accompanied by a teacher." Chaperons are more and more in
the background of the present regime. Chaperons are not required until after a time limit
(of adjustable hour) for trips to Decatur and Atlanta. And this year comes the innova-
tion of no chaperon, but a registered date, for Juniors and Seniors who wish to walk to
Decatur or ride to Atlanta on the street car, provided the couple reaches the campus by
eleven! But like the proverbial Cinderella, woe be to the girl who lets the clock strike
on her!

"Young gentlemen coming from the homes of the pupils are not received unless they
bring letters of introduction to the Principal from parents or guardians." That must have
indeed been the era in which the term "court" originated. Assuredly, a call had all the
formality of a presentation!

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"Extravagance in dress is discouraged. Parents will confer a favor by consulting
simplicity and economy in the attire of their daughters." If the depression had been
on then, it would have been unnecessary to use the word "economy." Dr. McCain, ques-
tioned recently on the type of picture to be used for a bulletin, admitted that full-
lengths should be good for a period of two or three years now, with a change in
styles as much in the future as a more upward trend in finances!

"Occasional holidays, according to the needs of the pupils and the judgment of the
faculty will be given." This rule certainly dates itself. We can well imagine that the
far-famed April Fools' Day fiasco put an end to it, when students took matters into
their own hands, and considered their "needs" first, and the faculty's "judgment" second!

"The Institute has ample grounds, halls and verandas, and boarders will be required
to take sufficient exercise to promote health." Those were the good old days of long
skirts and violent games of croquet! What a far cry from the new degree requirement of
eight semester credits, derived from a field of strenuous athletic activities, including a
swimming test, and made attractive by features of golf and horseback riding!

"The following violations of the laws of health are prohibited: Eating imprudently
at night; wearing thin, low shoes in cold weather; going out without wraps or overshoes
(What are they?) ; sitting on the ground and promenading out of doors with the head
uncovered; and the too early removal of flannels or any neglect to put them on at the
approach of cold weather."! Need we go further?

The "Domestic Government" rules certainly suggest a strong aroma of moth balls to
one who picks up the present Students' Handbook to meet the following breezy bits:

A Word to the Wise

"Freshmen! Your college career has begun! May it be with a steady heart, a ready
hand, and an eye peeled for every opportunity that you enter upon this exciting career
of four years. May you also learn through contact with your school friends, for books
don't teach it, how to discriminate between what is foolish, useless, unworthy, and what
is 'nice and necessary.' Take a hint from 'those who know'!!

"Let not your heart be troubled when the first tests arrive, for when you study you
pass, and tests don't last forever. Stay away from meals to study if you think an empty
stomach and strung-up nerves are any stimulation to an empty brain.

"Put all you've got into that stunt whether you're the leading man or the most
overworked stage hand, for cooperation in that first event largely determines your class
cooperation eventually. Keep your class spirit on top and forget you were the big cheese
in your own home town!

"If you crave unpopularity of a most disagreeable sort, borrow and borrow for keeps!
Besides it is neither 'worthy' nor 'nice.'

"If you don't like the food, chase yourself and spend your money in the tea room.
It's your dad who has to 'pay' the consequences, and anyway, some people aren't finicky
and will enjoy your share of 'heavenly hash.'

"Forget not the beauty of the campus. It really exists, though hidden under countless
layers of chewing gum and Black Cow wrappers,

"As for discussing your woes and tribulations at the table use discretion. Some
people enjoy the sob story; others like pleasant topics; and anyone's digestion will thrive
under 'griping' if she's lined inside like a billy goat!

" 'Busy' signs mean what they indicate. If you have any self-respect, you will have
lespect for your friends behind the busy sign. If you don't care about them, it's no
business of yours to impose upon them by walking over their only privacy signal.

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"Push pins are much better for picture hanging that tacks or nails, and they can
be secured at the Book Store. When you are tempted with a nail, recall that holes in
plaster are not beautifying and future Hottentots will appreciate a smooth wall space.

"Needless to say, studying in chapel is simply not done by the best people for reasons
well, you are well enough trained to know, we hope, or you wouldn't be at A. S. C.

"On Saturday nights the faculty have prayers in the parlor immediately after supper.
Therefore, control your Saturday evening enthusiasm long enough to get down to the
gym where you can have a delightful time dancing it off.

"Again, in a word use discrimination, and use it wisely. There's not a thing you can
do that does not affect someone or something somehow. You can't live a life to your-
self, especially in school, so make your stay at A. S. C. a joyful one!"

Progress is a great thing. If we advance as much in the next forty years as we have
in the past four decades, who knows, who can tell what the regulations of the session
1971-1972 will be?

"The world was discovered in fourteen hundred ninety-two; but man was not dis-
covered until seventeen hundred seventy-six. Before then man was only a worm of the
dust, and the tradition still lingers, fostered by the sects that believe in the ministry
of fear."

"Woman was not discovered until eighteen hundred seventy-six. Her existence be-
fore then was not even suspected, and the few men who did have their suspicions were
considered unsafe, erratic, strange and peculiar."

"As a school teacher, woman was not deemed capable or acceptable until about
eighteen hundred sixty-eight. Woman's entrance into the business world is a very modern
innovation. It all dates since the Civil War, and was really not accepted as a fact
until eighteen hundred seventy-six the year the typewriter appeared."

Excerpts from White Hyacinths, an essay by Elbert Hubbard.

THE BOOK PATH

The leaves of the trees are books to wolves and birds.

The boughs whirr there to make new forest words.

And good books fly or run up to the sun.

And the books

Reconnoiter

For men, for men.

For book-thoughts stay from May on round to May.

We read on high, though grizzlies block the way.

And the Doomsday Book opens up in Heaven's day.

The book-path

Is a picture

For men, for men.

Vachel Lindsay.

The Fountain, by Charles Morgan. (Alfred Knopf, 1932.)

But rarely among modern fiction does there come such largess of beauty, of truth,
of strength as is found in The Fountain. But rarely does an author penetrate the depths
of spiritual consciousness, of human emotion as has Charles Morgan. In exquisitely
phrased prose he has written an interlude of experience at once isolated from, and vet
created by the circumstances of the World War, even as a quiet tide-pool is isolated from,
and yet created by ocean-flood.

Lewis Alison, a British officer interned for the duration of the war, comes to Enken-
daal, the castle of a noble Dutch family, with the purpose of spending his exile in writing
a history of the contemplative life. The scholarship and deep meditation necessary for his
book take on a more profound significance than merely the means to an end. They come
to form the basis of Alison's personal experience of searching for spiritual tranquility
within solitude.

Into this scheme of life comes Julie, the English step-daughter of Alison's host, and
wife of Narwitz, a Prussian nobleman, officer at the Front. Inevitably, it seems, Julie
becomes the one clear design traceable in the pattern of Lewis' life, the living well in
whose depths he found the draught of peace. A barren calm would have been that peace
had he found it in solitude alone. But, through Julie, it becomes a pulsing, living repose,
a flowing fountain, rather than a stagnant pool.

Then returns Julie's husband, maimed in body, the living ghost of a man, who seeks
in his wife proof of his own existence. Julie's fulfilment of his belief in her becomes her
salvation, the fortitude by which she and Lewis are made strong to project their love
into the realm of ordinary living, when, after Narwitz's death, the enchanted interlude
at Enkendaal is at an end.

Profound, wise, The Fountain is, above all, rich in mature philosophy. Its characters,
though young, grow beyond the restless childhood of the soul, into the full and quiet
prime of the spirit's maturity.

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Sons, by Pearl S. Buck. (The John Day Company, 1932.)

Sons graphically takes up the dramatic details of the saga of the house of Wang, so
gloriously portrayed in The Good Earth. It begins where the thread of The Good Earth
was broken, with the death of Wang Lung. Sons, while concerning itself with the three
male descendants of Wang Lung, concerns itself primarily with Wang the Tiger. Just as
The Good Earth is the well rounded drama of the life of Wang Lung, so is Sons a perfect
dramatic cycle of the life of Wang the Tiger. The end of Sons does more than any other
portion of the book to connect it vitally with The Good Earth, harking back to the theme
of The Good Earth as it does with the indubitable call of the soil.

Wang the Tiger will be remembered as the youngest son, whose ambitions to become a
great scholar were thwarted by his father's desire that he become a farmer, a tiller of
the soil from which had come all the Wang wealth. He is an interesting figure. Deprived
of the education he coveted, and disappointed early in his youth by his father's enslaving
the lovely Pear Blossom to whom he had been strangely attracted, we find him a terse,
withdrawn character. He is an odd combination of ambition and loyalty to the very
letter of honesty.

Women to Wang the Tiger are unimportant. His life interests center around the
pursuit of military prowess. His men love him, but with a feeling of awe inspired in part
by his suggestive title, in part by his quick fierceness. In an encounter with the Leopard,
another war lord, Wang the Tiger conquers and comes in contact with the Leopard's
woman who piques his interest. Something of her obstinacy and defiance attracts Wang
the Tiger, and he makes the decision to have her freed. Called before him to hear her fate,
she surprisingly confesses her desire to become his bondswoman. Wang the Tiger then
goes through the legal formalities of a wedding. The harelipped trusty of Wang the
Tiger suspects the woman of duplicity. His worst suspicions of her are confirmed.
Finally convinced of her treachery and of her marriage with him as a means of avenging
the late Leopard, Wang the Tiger kills her himself.

Because he is stirred by his pride in his nephew, Wang the Tiger becomes ambitious
for a son whose very existence he could plan. He takes two wives into his household, and
from the second of these wives is his son born. Wang the Tiger takes him out of the
courts of the women at the tender age of six, and begins his fierce schooling, in prep-
aration for a career as a war lord. His son evidences no interest in this career, accepting
all with passive submission to the will of his father. At fifteen he is sent south to a school
of war. Fifty men are sent with him, to look after his every want. His sojourn is short,
and he returns to his father one night, dressed in the uniform of the new army of the
south. Gone is his son's patience. He speaks to his father gently but positively, renouncing
his father's ambitions for him, declaring his determination to become a farmer. He no
longer suppresses his scorn for his father's career as a "little lord of war in a small coun-
try town."

The end of the book is intensely dramatic. In the words of the author, "Wang the
Tiger sat still and over him rolled the bitterness of his whole life. He came out of his
dreams in that moment as a man comes suddenly out of mists in which he has walked
for a long time, and he looked at his son and saw there a man he did not know. Yes,
Wang the Tiger had dreamed his son and shaped him faithfully to his dream, and here
the son stood and Wang the Tiger did not know him. A common farmer! Wang the
Tiger looked and saw his son, and as he looked he felt an old, known helplessness come
creeping over him again. It was the same sick helplessness he had been used to feel in
the days of his youth when the earthen house was his goal. Once more his father, that
old man in the land, reached out and laid his earthy hand upon his son."

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Whereas The Good Earth is a drama of the soil, typifying the rise of great families
to positions of wealth and power, Sons is a drama of the Chinese Revolution. The former
is a drama of universal appeal, symbolic of all China; the latter is a drama of historical
appeal, symbolic of new China, in revelt against an old generation which does not see
the "nation whole and how weak and despised . . ."

Obscure Destinies, by Willa Cather. (Alfred Knopf, 193 2.)

Three character sketches comprise this book, three stories of human relationships in
which plot plays small part. Here is no absorbing intrigue, no poignant climax, no skilful
denouement; rather, a group of portraits painted by a series of well-chosen incidents
which reveal the quality of the personalities described, quietly, yet trenchantly.

Neighbor Rosicky, a Bohemian exile, who had learned the cruelty of the world from
his pinched life in London and New York, came to find the fulfilment of his destiny in
the golden, undulating expanses of Nebraska wheat fields, in the soft, blue-green stretches
of alfalfa fields. He had a genuine love for the soil, and a sense of security in being
rooted in the fertile ground. And yet, he was not oppressed by the frequent capriciousness
and sternness of the earth. For him, earth's bounty of peace to the spirit was compensa-
tion for whatever hardship. This gift he coveted for his sons, and it was the legacy he
would have chosen, above all, to leave them when he died.

Old Mrs. Harris was a Tennessee housewife of the old school, who believed that a
mother's duty to her daughter was to manage that daughter's household and to humor
her so that she could have the best of everything. An essential part of her code was to
keep in the background. Such an estate "she acepted unprotestingly, almost gratefully."
It was, therefore, a great cross to Mrs. Harris that the gossiping neighbors in the little
Colorado town whither she had moved with her daughter, Victoria, and her unsuccessful
son-in-law, were indignant that she was the drudge of the family, that she "was put
upon." Mrs. Harris' creed was to keep up appearances, and "she valued respectability
above personal comfort ... if they always had a cool pleasant parlour, with Victoria
properly dressed to receive visitors." Self-sacrifice was the destiny to which she was
called, and yet she died, having never once dreamed that she had thus crucified herself.

Mr. Dillon, the genial Irish banker, and Mr. Trueman, the big cattleman in "Two
Friends," were the most prominent citizens of a young Kansas prairie-town. They were
broad-minded, liberal men, traveled and experienced, among a provincial group of settlers.
They respected each other's prejudices, and took a deep, unspoken delight in each other's
company. It was a trivial thing that drove them apart. Always each had mildly ridiculed
the other's political party, and had taken it as a compliment. It was during the campaign
preceding Bryan's defeat and McKinley's election that Mr. Dillon became rabid about
the Democratic platform, that he openly antagonized Mr. Trueman. Mr. Trueman with-
drew his money from Mr. Dillon's bank, and their friendship was at an end. Shortly
afterward, Mr. Dillon died, and Mr. Trueman moved away. Never was there a recon-
ciliation, never a healing of the breach.

The first two of these sketches leave one with a sense of satisfaction, bred of the idea
of fulfilment, of completion. Despite the grimness of life, Mr. Rosicky and Mrs. Harris
had loved living, had died having found life complete. Each of their lives had fulfilled its
purpose, and yet each of them had been unconscious of its pattern.

Not so is it with the last sketch. Mr. Dillon and Mr. Trueman had found in each
other a truth, and had died, knowing only the distortion of that truth. This fact leaves
one with an ache of despair that the twisted, for them, was never made straight.

MIAMI, FLA.

The Miami Agnes Scott Club held its
first formal business meeting in Septem-
ber. New officers elected include:

President Carolyn Essig, '28.

Vice-President Corinne Simril, Insti-
tute.

Secretary Lois Ions, ex-'32.

Treasurer Amy Twitty, '21.

Dues for the year were voted to be one
dollar. The meetings for the year will be
held on the third Saturday of each month
on the roof of Burdine's Department Store.
A committee was chosen to formulate plans
for the year, and another to draw up a
constitution and by-laws. The vice-presi-
dent will be in charge of all social activi-
ties.

LOIS IONS, ex-'32, Secretary.

ATLANTA, GA.

The Atlanta Club, which has functioned
all through the summer months with de-
lightful meetings at the homes of various
alumnae, held its first meeting for the new
session on Tuesday afternoon, September
the twentieth, at the home of Susan
(Young) Eagan, Institute. Reports by the
committees were read at that time, indi-
cating the full and successful program this
club has sponsored during 1931-1932. Dr.
McCain, Cora (Morton) Durrett, '24, Dor-
othy Hutton, '29 and Penelope Brown, '32,
were speakers for the afternoon .

The Business Girls' Club, a branch of
the local Atlanta Agnes Scott Club, held
its first fall meeting at Rich's on Wednes-
day, September the twenty-first. Sarah
Slaughter, '26, president of this group,
spoke. Supplementary talks on the Col-
lege and possible activities for business
alumnae were discussed by Cora (Morton)
Durrett, '24, Augusta (Skeen) Cooper, '17,
and Dorothy Hutton, '29. About twenty
alumnae called during the hours of twelve
to two for lunch, and enjoyed the informal
meeting conducted at that time.

COLUMBUS, GA.

The Columbus Agnes Scott Alumnae Club
held its first fall meeting with Mrs. F. Roy
Duncan (nee Lillian Eason, ex-'09), at her
beautiful country home, Springhaven, on
the River Road on Tuesday, September the
sixth. The second meeting for the session
was held with Frances McCoy on Tuesday,
October the fourth. This club is planning
as active a program as ever for this year.

DECATUR, GA.

The Decatur Agnes Scott Club held its
first meeting for the new session on Mon-
day afternoon, September the twenty-
sixth, in the Anna Young Alumnae House.
The meeting was called to order by Emma
Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13. After the
minutes had been read, and plans for the
year outlined in brief, the club enjoyed
talks by Dr. McCain, Dorothy Hutton, '29,
and Penelope Brown, '32. A social hour
was then enjoyed.

KNOXVILLE, TENN
The Knoxville Agnes Scott Club held its
first meeting since June on September 23.
Another meeting was held on October 4.
The time of meeting has been changed
from the third Friday to the first Tuesday
in each month. This group has begun a
study of "Existing Conditions in Russia."
Mrs. L. A. Sisk (Mary Elizabeth Grimm,
ex-'21) read the first two papers which
were book reviews of "Thirteen Years in
the Royal Court" and "The Five Year
Plan" at the September meeting. These
studies are very interesting, and are en-
joyed by all the club members.
MRS. ALBERT CAMPBELL, Secretary.
(Nee Mary Ruth Logan, ex-'27.)

Miss Hopkins spent the greater part of
the summer with her sisters, Mrs. De Jar-
nette and Miss Orra Hopkins, in Staunton,
Va. Miss Hopkins later went to Hot
Springs, Va., before returning to the Col-
lege in August.

Dr. and Mrs. McCain spent a few days
in Due West, S. C, with relatives there
the early pai*t of the summer.

Miss McKinney and Dr. Sweet enjoyed
a motor trip through New England this
past summer.

Miss Lillian Smith went to Syracuse, N.
Y., in June to be present at the graduation
exercises of Syracuse University, which
awarded her niece, Dorothea Keeney, the
degi-ee of Ph.D. Later Miss Smith, Bishop
Keeney and Dorothea traveled together.

Mrs. Sydenstricker spent most of the
summer in Decatur, visiting her son in Au-
gusta later. Mrs. Sydenstricker underwent
a minor operation, from which she has
now completely recovered.

Mr. and Mrs. Holt spent most of the
summer in Decatur, going to North Geor-
gia for a short trip the first part of Sep-
ember.

Miss MacDougall returned to the Col-
lege after the opening of the new session
to resume her duties here after a year's
study in Germany, France, Austria and
Hungary.

Dr. George Hayes and his young daugh-
ter, Ellen, spent part of the summer in
Embreville, Pa. Dr. Hayes and his family
are now living at 723 South Candler
Street.

Dr. Henry Robinson and his family visit-
ed in Augusta this past summer.

Miss Catherine Torrance drove to East
Cleveland with her niece, Mary Frances
Torrance, in June. She was accompanied
home by her sister, Miss Mary Torrance,
who has spent the past winter at the Uni-
versity of Michigan Library School.

Miss Muriel Harn sailed June the eighth,
and spent the summer months traveling in
Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and
France. She sailed for home on the second
of September.

Dr. Philip Davidson, Mrs. Davidson and
the children spent the summer in New
York City, where Dr. Davidson again
taught at the summer session of Hunter
College.

Dr. Francis Cooke visited his family in
Gloucester, Va., late in the summer, while
Mrs. Cooke was visiting her family in
Charleston, 111.

Miss Frances K. Gooch studied at the
University of Wisconsin this summer. She
went to Chicago for graduation exercises
of the summer session, and was present
when Martha Stansfield, '21, received her
Ph.D., and Marjorie Daniel, '31, was
awarded her M.A.

Miss Emma May Laney taught at the
summer session of Hunter College in New
York City, and sailed for England the end
of the summer for a delightful short visit
there.

Miss Louise Hale has the sympathy of
faculty and alumnae who will regret to
learn of the tragic death of her young
nephew following an automobile accident,
and the more recent death of her father.

Miss Elizabeth Jackson spent the sum-
mer at her home in South Weymouth,
Massachusetts.

Miss Emily Dexter and Miss Kather-
ine Omwake sailed on June the twenty-
eighth for a trip abroad. After a short
visit on the Continent, they spent the rest
of the summer in England.

Miss Mary Westall spent the summer at
home in Asheville, N. C.

Miss Gladys Freed is spending the win-
ter abroad, where she is studying archae-
ology in Italy, having been awarded a
traveling fellowship by the University of
Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Sturdivant went to
Woods Hole, Mass., where Mr. Sturdivant
is doing research work in the Marine Biol-
ogical Laboratories.

Miss Leslie Gaylord again conducted a
tour abroad, and returned with i-enewed
enthusiasm for Europe.

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Miss Annie May Christie left the end of
September for Chicago, 111., where she will
study for her doctorate at the University
of Chicago.

Miss Harriette Haynes spent the sum-
mer in Austria, where she took a course
in dancing.

Miss Florence Smith spent the summer
in Decatur with her family. Miss Smith
studied law at Emory University during
that time.

Miss Melissa Cilley went to summer
school at the University of Wisconsin.
While visiting at home the early part of
the summer, Miss Cilley underwent a
tonsilectomy.

Miss Louise Lewis spent her second
summer at Harvard University in Cam-
bridge, Mass., where she again enjoyed
an art scholarship awarded by the Car-
negie Foundation.

Miss Eda Bartholomew visited in New
York and Boston for three weeks this sum-
mer. While in Boston, Miss Bartholomew
attended the convention of the American
Guild of Organists.

Dr. James M. Wright is spending the
greater part of this session in Atlanta,
where he is doing valuable financial re-
search. His sociology classes will be
taught by Professor Arthur Raper, a grad-
uate of the University of North Carolina.

Miss Edna Ruth Hanley of Bluffton,
Ohio, will be chief librarian this term,
coming to Agnes Scott from Bluffton Col-
lege. She did her special training at the
Library School of the Univei-sity of Michi-
gan.

Miss Gwendoline Miller, of Kalamazoo,
Mich., will be assistant librarian this ses-
sion. Miss Miller took her undergraduate
and special training at the University of
Michigan.

Dr. and Mrs. James Gillespie spent the
summer in Bryson City, N. C., where Dr.
Gillespie has been preaching every Sun-
day for the past year.

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cunningham and
their daughters, Margaret and Mary,
spent a month at Brevard, N. O, this past
summer.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Tart visited their re-
spective families this past summer, Mr.
Tart going to South Georgia and Mrs. Tart
going to Pennsylvania.

Miss Harriet Daugherty went to New
York by steamer, and from there to camp
in New York State, where she again work-
ed with the Gould Foundation.

Miss Emma Miller spent the summer in
Canada with her family, and reports hav-
ing almost perished from the cold!

Miss Frances Calhoun spent part of the
summer in Spartanburg, S. C, where it is
reported she learned to swim!

Mrs. Jennie D. Finnell spent the sum-
mer at home in Ellenton, S. C.

Mrs. Lena Davies spent the summer with
her son in Barnwell, S. C.

Mrs. Theodora Morgan-Stephens, former
member of the music faculty of Agnes
Scott, was recently honored by the Wom-
an's Division of the Chamber of Com-
merce of Atlanta. She has just been
elected its first honorary member. She has
had charge of National Music Week for
the past two years.

Academy
Mrs. H. Grady Brooks (nee Kathleen
Harper Hill) died at a private hospital in
Atlanta on Tuesday night, August 2, fol-
lowing an operation and a two weeks' ill-
ness. Mrs. Brooks was born in Washing-
ton, Ga. She had made her home in New
Orleans prior to moving to Atlanta ten
years ago. She is survived by her mother
and by her husband, to whom we extend
our sympathy.

Institute

Miss Mary Ethel Davis of Decatur died
on Thursday, July 21, as a result of com-
plications following an operation. Her
death occurred at a local private hospital,
to which she had been taken for treat-
ment. She had been ill only a short time.
Miss Davis was born near Decatur, and
spent most of her life there. She attended
the Decatur public and high schools, and
was graduated from Agnes Scott in the
class of 1896. For a number of years she
taught at Doraville and in Atlanta. She
was connected with the Unitel States Vet-
erans' Bureau for some time, but took up
Red Cross work in Atlanta shortly before
returning to Decatur to work with the
chapter there in April of 1919. She was
active in church work and civic enter-
prises. The alumnae extend sympathy to
her family in their bereavement.

Miss Louise Vaughn George of Decatur
died at a private hospital on Friday after-
noon, June 3, after an illness of several
days. Miss George formerly lived in At-
lanta before moving to Decatur to make
her home. She had been active in the work
of the Inman Park Methodist Church and
in the Joseph Habersham Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Miss George is survived by her mother,
Mrs. W. Henry George, of 321 Sycamore
Street, Decatur. To her those who knew
her daughter wish to express their sympa-
thy.

1911
Mr. A. H. O'Neal, father of Mrs. Lewis
H. Johnson (nee Gussie O'Neal), ex-'ll,
died the night of September 22, after a
long period of illness. The many alumnae
friends of Mrs. Johnson feel deeply sym-
pathetic in her bereavement.

1915

Mrs. LeRoy H. Woodruff (nee Margaret
Curry Houser), ex-'15, died early in the
morning of May 30, at her residence on
the Partlow State School grounds in Tus-
caloosa, Ala. Mrs. Woodruff's death fol-
lowed an illness of several years. Prior
to that time she was a vigorous and earn-
est worker in the Presbyterian Church.
She had resided in Tuscaloosa for eleven
years, having moved there from Anniston.
She is survived by her husband and two
daughters. We feel their loss as our
own.

1925

Lucie Summerville Welton, daughter of
Mrs. Felix Welton (nee Frances Gardner),
'25, died on the anniversary of her first
birthday this past summer while en route
with her parents to Shanghai. We sympa-
thize deeply with Frances in the loss of
her baby.

1926

Mr. Michael Kendall, husband of Gladys
Harbaugh, '26, died during the summer.
Gladys' many friends send her their love
and sympathy in her recent bereavement.

1931

Elizabeth Kelly, '31, died in Savannah,
Ga., on September the eighth, following a
tragic accident from which she never re-
gained consciousness. She was driving
in a car between Daisy and Claxton, Ga.,
the afternoon of September the seventh,
when the car overturned, resulting in her
tragic death. Her schoolmates feel her loss
keenly, and extend sympathy to her fam-

iiy.

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Special

Mrs. E. Smythe Gambrell (nee Kathleen
Haygood) died on Saturday, October the
eighth, from injuries incurred in an auto-
mobile accident when returning from the
Iowa-Nebraska football game. Mrs. Gam-
brell had been visiting her parents in
Nebraska where her father is commander
of the Seventh Corps Area. The fatal ac-
cident occurred on the eve of Mrs. Gram-
brell's success as a playwright. It was an-
nounced on October the third that she and
Harold Felton of Omaha had won the
prairie playmakers' prize for their play,
"Skim Milk." She is survived by her par-
ents, Major General and Mrs. Johnson
Haygood, her husband, and two small sons,
Robert and David Gambrell. The alumnae
extend their sympathy to her family.

Faculty

The Reverend John P. Hale, father of
Miss Louise Hale of the French Depart-
ment, died of heart failure at a local hos-
pital on Wednesday morning, September
7. Dr. Hale, with Mrs. Hale, had been mak-
ing their home with Miss Hale on South

Candler Street for the past two years.
The college community and alumnae re-
gret that this sorrow has come to Miss
Hale and her mother. Our sympathy goes
out to them in their loss.

E. E. Howell, Jr., brother of Mrs. James
Gillespie, was killed in an automobie ac-
cident the latter part of June. Mr. Howell
was a l-esident of Florence, S. C. Friends
of Dr. and Mrs. Gillespie regret to learn
of this tragedy in their family.

Miss Marian Leatherman librarian for
the past two sessions, died Saturday morn-
ing, August 20, at Wesley Memorial Hos-
pital, following an illness of a week's dur-
ation. Miss Leatherman had returned to
the College to resume her duties for the
year. Miss Leatherman was well loved by
students and faculty who deeply appreciat-
ed the fine work she had done during her
brief stay here. She is survived by her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Leatherman,
of Ingomar, Pa.; her sister, Miss Jeanette
Leatherman, of Washington, D. C, and by
her brother, Mr. William M. Leatherman,
Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa. To them and her
many friends do we extend our sympathy.

The Granddaughters' welcome to their

midst five new members this year. Mary
Adams of Eatonton, Ga., is the daugh-
ter of Bertha (Thomas) Adams, Insti-
tute. Mary Henderson of Chickamauga,
Ga., is following in the footsteps of her
alumna mother, Ruth (Home) Henderson
of Academy days. Frances McCully's
mother is Margaret Lilla (Wilson) McCul-
ly, Institute, of Sharon, S. C. Mary
(Dortch) Forman, Institute, sends us her
young daughter, Elizabeth Forman, from
Birmingham, Ala. And last but not less
illustrious is Louisa Robert of Atlanta,
daughter of Louise (Ayres) Robert, ex-'lO.
We say no less illustrious, for Louisa comes
well-known on her own account, having
been an eligible competitor for the swim-
ming events of the Olympics this year.

The Graddaughters' Club held its first
meeting at the Alumnae House on Friday
afternoon, September the twenty-third,
presided over by Sarah Shadburn, '33,
daughter of Estelle Webb, '02. The Club
held its annual dinner the night of Stunt
Night, October the fifteenth. At this time
each girl invited an escort who enjoyed
with her a delightful informal dinner in
the Alumnae Tea Room and the annual
Freshman-Sophomore fiasco in the Bucher
Scott Gymnasium.

Noteworthy among our granddaughters
are those who were recently accorded stu-
dent honors for the session 1931-1932.
These were: Lucy Goss, '34, daughter of
Lucy (Durham) Goss, '97; Mary Hamilton,
'34, daughter of Mary (Carter) Hamilton,
Academy; Clara Morrison, '35, daughter of
Louise (Read) Morrison, Academy; Eliz-
abeth Winn, '34, daughter of Elizabeth
(Curry) Winn, '07.

Pi Alpha Phi, our debating club, has
again mapped out for itself an active and
interesting program for the session. Pi
Alpha Phi, with charter members from the
former Propylean and Mnemosynean Socie-
ties, began its activities in 1921. Begin-
ning its inter-collegiate program in 1914,
Pi Alpha Phi has continued a policy of
triangular debates each year, to include
Sophie Newcomb and Randolph-Macon Col-
leges. Statistics show that out of four-
teen debates entered into by this trio,
Sophie Newcomb won five decisions, Ran-
dolph-Macon seven, and Agnes Scott nine.
The program since 1914 has been extended
to include such other colleges as Vassar,
Hampden-Sydney, Goucher, and repre-
sentative English teams from Cambridge
and Oxford.

Pi Alpha Phi in 1932-1933 started the
ball rolling with a dual debate with Wes-
leyan College on Friday, October 21, the
subject being the issues of the present
political campaign. The Agnes Scott Dem-
ocratic team went to Wesleyan while the
Agnes Scott Republican team debated at
home. On October 27 a triangular bout in-
cluded Agnes Scott, Emory and Georgia
Tech, the subject again being politics.
Katharine Woltz, '33, defended the Dem-
ocrats at Emory; Nell Brown, '33, took the
part of the Republicans at Tech; Eliz-
abeth Lightcap, '33, debated in favor of
the Socialists at Agnes Scott.

Pi Alpha Phi is eagerly anticipating an
encounter with the international team of
Irish debaters from the University of Dub-
lin at Agnes Scott the second week in
December. The assigned topic is: Resolved:
That the British Commonwealth of Na-
tions has no future.

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Our new Field Alumnae Secretary, Pen-
elope Brown, '32, (if you will pardon the
slang) is a wow! Penny brings into this
new position of hers all the qualifications
to back up such an awe-inspiring title and
then some!

We are grateful to the class of 1932 for
many things, and the least of these is
certainly not Penny. Penny had a record
throughout her four college years that
would be hard to beat. Entering in 1928,
she was President of the Freshman class,
making honor roll that year and the three
successive ones. Last year she was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa at the mid-winter elec-
tion. As editor-in-chief of the 1932 Sil-
houette, Penelope attracted favorable at-
tention, and was interviewed for the theme
used in the annual. This was published in
the Scholastic Press Association Magazine
with the picture we are now sending to
you.

Dr. McCain has employed Penny to fill
what he feels is a real need in our Alum-
nae Association. Working for the College
and the Alumnae Association, Penelope
will visit and correspond with a large
number of communities from which we
have had representative alumnae, from
which we should again hope to procure
valuable college material. Her work this
past summer and this early in the new
session has included trips throughout
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Tennessee. Early in October,
Penelope visited Atlanta and Decatur high
schools, taking them a cordial invitation to

the Freshman-Sophomore Stunt on the
fifteenth. Her reception everywhere has
been gratifying. Our alumnae have been
most cooperative and cordial.

Penny's schedule for work this winter
and spring is still tentative. We are hop-
ing that she can contact all of our organ-
ized alumnae groups, and work with the
office in organizing still more. Penny will
visit these clubs upon request, and will
bring with her interesting bits of informa-
tion about Agnes Scott and moving pic-
tures of our many and varied activities. If
you are one of an organized group, if you
are one who would like to see your local
organized, or if you are an alumna in a
community of recognized valuable college
material, let us hear from you. It won't
be a bad Penny that will turn up under
the title of the Agnes Scott Field Alumnae
Secretary, we can assure you!

Dr. McCain, addressing the Emory sum-
mer graduating class on August 26, pre-
dicted the consolidation of many private
and denominational colleges into larger
units, to meet similar mergers on the part
of state-controlled institutions.

Dr. M. L. Brittain, President of the Geor-
gia School of Technology, made the key-
note address at the opening exercises of
Agnes Scott on the morning of September
14. Dr. Brittain's talk, in brief, outlined
four points. Students were encouraged by
this well-known educator to live more,
meaning giving more attention to physical
fitness, to love more, to laugh more, and
to learn more. His talk met with a hearty
reception by students and faculty alike.

The Lecture Association had the pleas-
ure and privilege of hearing Richard Hali-
burton on Tuesday, October 18, and Dr.
Fritz Rager, Secretary of the Austrian
Chamber of Labor, on Wednesday, October
26. The Association looks forward to an-
other successful season of stimulating lec-
tures. It is hoped that Norman Thomas
will appear on the Spring program. Alum-
nae interested in attending these lectures
are reminded of the season rate of $2.00
per person, or a $1.00 charge for indi-
vidual lectures.

The Alumnae House is deeply appreciat-
ive of a recent gift of four linen sheets and
four linen pillowcases. The modest donor
is Miss Louise McKinney of the English
Department. Our linen supply is low, and
we are grateful for this thoughtful pres-
ent.

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31

The report of the Tea Room Committee
for the session 1931-1932 is as follows:

Total receipts $5,986.27

Total disbursements 5,973.42

Balance in the bank $ 12.85

A bill of $65.02 was not paid at the end
of the last session, due to a deficit. The
amount not collected from students for the
session was $94.39. While the report shows
a deficit at the present moment, the Tea
Room will have been run at a slight mar-
ginal profit, when these students have paid
their bills in full.

The Tea Room has found it advisable to
adopt a limited credit system for students.
Statements are mailed the fifteenth of the
month this semester. Bills not paid by the
first of the succeeding month will auto-
matically disqualify a student for credit.

All applications for the Quenelle Har-
rold Graduate Fellowship must be in
the first of February, 1933. This Fellow-
ship is awarded to Agnes Scott graduates
of not more than three years' standing.
The Committee on Awards finds it neces-
sary to ask for applications at an earlier
date this year.

Miss Hopkins' work this session has
been lightened by having Carrie Scan-
drett, '24, back in the capacity of As-
sistant Dean and Assistant Registrar, and
by the addition to her office force of An-
drewena Robinson, '32, in the capacity of
Secretary to the Dean. The office is kept
open for longer periods of time, during
which each girl is expected to call in per-
son to sign out. Juniors and Seniors, by
a new rule effective this session, are al-
lowed to go out unchaperoned in the eve-
ning, provided they are back on the campus
by eleven. This rule and others are insti-
gated with the hope that the students will
face the social problems of the past years
with more frankness. The rule, according
to Miss Hopkins, is meeting with a great
deal of success, and every one concerned
is pleased with the innovation.

Miss Frances K. Gooch was hostess at a
dinner party recently in the Alumnae
House to Madame Hsiang Hsi Kung, wife
of Minister Kung of Shanghai and Nan-
king. Madame Kung is a representative
of the Chinese royalty, and was a former
student of Miss Gooch's at Wesleyan.

Orientation classes for Freshmen were
held on September 14 and 15, with Dr.
McCain, Mr. Stukes, and Miss Hanley as
speakers. The purpose of these classes was
to give the Freshmen a clearer insight into
their college life, and to help them with
the problems which will arise. Dr. McCain

spoke on "Friendship"; Mr. Stukes on "The
Value of Budgeting Time"; and Miss Han-
ley on "The Use of the Library."

Prior to the orientation course, twenty-
five outstanding girls were chosen to con-
duct the handbook classes and to aid the
Freshmen in every way possible. These
girls arrived early and were instructed in
leadership. Carrie Scandrett, '24, Assist-
ant Dean and Registrar, gave a talk on
"The Spirit of Leadership"; Dr. Davidson
spoke on "Citizenship"; and Andrewena
Robinson, '32, Secretary to the Dean, out-
lined "The Traditions and History of Agnes
Scott College"; Margaret Ridley, '33. Presi-
dent of Student Government, explained in
full the work in the Students' Handbook
and its teaching.

The alumnae who approve of the head-
ings used for the various groupings of
news in this issue will be interested in
meeting the artists. Leone (Bowers)
Hamilton, '26, is responsible for the cap-
tion for the President's Page. To Myra
Jervey are we deeply indebted for Necrol-
ogy, Who's Next?, Moved!, Books, Concern-
ing Ourselves, and Recent Arrivals. Myra
has been studying dress designing with the
Parson's School of Fine and Applied Arts
in New York City since her graduation
in 1931. Evidently her talents are not re-
stricted to designing clothes. Helen Fried-
man, another 1931 graduate and a New
York art student, sends us the clever
headings for Club Notes, Faculty Notes,
and Offishyally Speaking. The office feels
more than grateful for the fine work of
these three. If you, too, like their work,
let them hear from you. In the manner of
Liberty we are soliciting a Vox Pop!

To alumnae interested in the fine article
by Mary Ray Dobyns, '28, will be sent free
of charge from the office a copy of the
fifty books especially selected for use of
our alumnae who wish to push their learn-
ing farther along. These books include
seventeen in the field of the social sciences,
and thirty-three from various fields of in-
terest. We regret that this list could not
be published in full in this issue. It was
compiled by Mary Ray as her special prob-
lem at the Emory Library School last year.

The three student representatives at the
meeting of the Alumnae Council on Sep-
tember the thirtieth were unanimous in re-
porting that students felt their real prob-
lem lies in the day student situation this
year. The local enrollment includes over
two hundred students this session. Y. W.
C. A., Student Government and other cam-

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pus organizations have adopted as their
special problem "The Day Students." Any
alumnae who can send in suggestions as
to how day students can be encouraged to
take more active part and interest in the
year's program of activities are urged to
do so. This will be appreciated by students
and alumnae alike who consider this their
vital problem.

The Publicity Committee of the Alumnae
Association announces that the regular
monthly broadcasts for Agnes Scott will
continue through this winter. Listen in
and boost your College on the air! The
next two broadcasts have been scheduled
for
November 4, Friday, from 4:30-5:00 P. M.,

Central Time.
December 2, Friday, from 4:30-5:00 P. M.,

Central Time.
Thev will go out over the Journal station,
WSB, Atlanta, Ga.

The A. A. U. W. has fellowships for next
year that will be available to Agnes Scott
graduates. Any alumnae interested in con-
tinued study next year are urged to make
application for these fellowships at an
early date. These are listed in the A. A.
U. W. Journal for October, 1932. They are
discussed in full on page 20.

The Alumnae Office has heard, from
time to time, the report that many alum-
nae failed to receive the most recently com-
piled Alumnae Directory. If you are one
of those who did not get your copy, and
would like to have this l-egister, which is
still accurate in part, send in your re-
quest to the Alumnae Secretary with ten
cents in postage to cover mailing. This
issue was mailed the first of February,
1931.

On Wednesday, September the four-
teenth, following a suggestion of Dr. Mc-
Cain's that we acquaint the new students
with our Alumnae House and our Tea

Room, one hundred and sixty-seven girls
were personally invited to call between
the hours of four and six. The Executive
Committee, recently elected, and Mrs. Don-
aldson received. The girls were taken all
over the Alumnae House, and the student
privileges carefully outlined for them. We
feel grateful to Dr. McCain for a sugges-
tion that we feel will be valuable in ac-
customing students to the idea that this
Alumnae House of ours is theirs, too.

Four new foreign students have come to
Agnes Scott this winter. They are: Melanie
Vasickova from Lubno, Czechoslovakia;
Olga Mallo from Havana, Cuba; Ursula
Boerse from Munich, Germany, and
Susanne Dorland from Paris, France. This
is the largest number of exchange stu-
dents that have ever been at Agnes Scott
at one time since the idea was first adopt-
ed in 1928.

Recent Campus improvements include:
new draperies and drop lights for Rebekah
Scott dining room and new drop lights for
Inman lobby. In exteriors, Louise (Brown)
Hastings, '23, is beginning plans for build-
ing and planting the pergola for the Alum-
nae Garden. This rose arbor is sponsored
by our local Charlotte alumnae.

The Alumnae Association is again put-
ting in a plea for more caps and gowns.
All the ones at our disposal have been
rented for this session, and there is still
a student demand for them. Florence
Perkins, '26, gave one recently. We are
grateful to her, and would appreciate hav-
ing her example followed by any alumna
who has a cap or gown for which she now
has no immediate use.

For local alumnae, or for visiting alum-
nae, a special alumnae swimming hour has

been arranged for Thursday afternoons at
4:10 P. M. in the gym. It is hoped that
many will take advantage of this privilege
granted the alumnae by the members of
the Physical Education Department.

Trogram for

^Alumnae lnJeekSnd

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th

10:00-10:30 A. M. Chapel.
Books.
Miss Emma May Laney, Agnes Scott College.

10:30-11:30 A. M.A Revived British Empire?

Dr. Philip G. Davidson, Agnes Scott College.

11:30-12:30 P. M. Some Phases of Modern Literature.

Dr. William Gilmer Perry, Georgia Tech.

12:30- 1:10 P.M. Luncheon in Rebekah Scott Dining Room.

(Alumnae are guests of the College. Reservations
must be made through the Alumnae Office by
Wednesday, November 23 rd.)

1:10- 2:00 P. M. Nitrogen; We Cannot Live Without It, and We
May Not Be Able to Live With It.
Dr. J. Sam Guy, Emory University.

2:00- 4:00 P. M. Book Exhibit in Buttrick Hall.

(Arranged through the courtesy of Miss Louise
McKinney and Miss Janef Preston, Agnes Scott
College.)

7:00 P. M. Dinner in the Anna Young Alumnae House.

The Scientific Attitude Towards Child Psychology.

Dean Raimundo De Ovies, St. Philip's Cathedral,
Atlanta, Ga.

(A charge of 6S cents a plate for dinner. Reser-
vations must be made through the Alumnae
Office by Wednesday, November 23 rd.)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26th

10:00-10:30 A. M. Alumnae Chapel.

Miss Janie McGaughey, Secretary of the Commit-
tee on Woman's Work of the Presbyterian
Church, conducting.

10:30-11:30A. M. Personality.

Mr. S. G. Stukes, Agnes Scott College.

11:30-12:30 P.M. An Address on the Belgian Congo.
Mrs. Motte Martin, Decatur, Ga.

4:00- 6:00 P. M. Annual Homecoming Tea.

Anna Young Alumnae House.

Agnes #rott
I Alumna

.

3lg, 1933

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Planning for Great Things 7

Dr. J. R. McCain

Meditations on the Golden Age 9

Emma (Jones) Smith, '18

Gulls Off Nova Scotia 10

Leonora (Owsley) Herman, Institute

Matrimonial Statistics . 11

Dr. H. A. Robinson

A Delegate Reports on the A. A. U. W. Convention 11

Elsa Jacobsen, '27

My Junior Year Abroad 12

Sara Wilson, '3 3

New Books 13

Sara Lane Smith, '32

Office News 16

Annual Reports of the Alumnae Association 17

Personal Notes 27

PLANNING FOR GREAT THINGS

Not long ago the president of a. great philanthropic foundation met with a group of
Atlanta educators and business men and made a very interesting suggestion. He ex-
plained that there is very great need indeed of some educational center in the South which
would develop not merely a single institution but a whole program of higher education
on a very efficient and well established basis. By way of illustration, he referred to the
fact that his foundation was making a scholarship award to an Agnes Scott graduate
who wished to study economic and social conditions in Georgia. She preferred to study
under someone who was reared in this state and who might know the general conditions
at first hand. In order to carry out this purpose, it was necessary that she go to Chicago
and that the Georgia student and the Georgia professor study about Georgia 700
miles from it.

This foundation president suggested that in Atlanta there are enough strong institu-
tions to form the nucleus for a great center if they could get together on a cooperative
basis and eliminate duplication. His general idea appealed to all present as very sound and
logical.

Since that time there have been many conferences between representatives of Agnes
Scott, Emory University, and Georgia School of Technology with a view to working
out some definite plan for procedure. We have learned that there are quite a number of
duplications in the work which we are doing ourselves, and we find that there are many,
many fields in which none of us is undertaking to do anything. There are other fields
in which we give some courses, but which are not at all adequately covered.

After gathering only the most obvious data, we were able to convince the Beck
Foundation, a local philanthropic organization, to undertake the financing of a real
study of the situation. This study is now in progress under the general direction of Dr.
George A. Works, of the University of Chicago, who is an expert in this field and
who has associated with him some of the great educators of the country.

It looks now as if a few of the definite objectives for this cooperative movement
would be establishment of a strong graduate school, fully equipped for giving the Ph.D.
degree; the organization of a school for training social workers and Sunday School lead-
ers; the development of a program for adult education and leisure-time utilization for
great numbers of people who do not wish a technical college training; the founding of
a Department of Commerce and Business Administration which will be open to women
as well as to men, somewhat on the order of the Harvard School.

In addition to these larger enterprises which would be for students of both sexes,
it is thought that it would be needful to develop a School of Music and a School of
Art which would primarily be useful for women.

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It is roughly estimated that it would take approximately fifteen million dollars ($15,-
000,000.00) to work out on anything like a satisfactory basis the developments above
suggested. It is thought that the great educational foundations might be interested in
providing two-thirds of this amount and that the other third could be secured from
individuals and groups in the South. It is a program that would take a long time.

In what way would this cooperative movement affect Agnes Scott? So far as our
immediate campus is concerned, we would expect that it would greatly increase our
equipment and facilities for doing the work for the B. A. degree. We do not wish to
be much larger, if any, but in a great many ways we do need to have our facilities
strengthened. While we would not want to bring to our campus, in most instances at
least, the development suggested above, we would like for our influence and standards of
work to be available in helping to mould and plan and control such organizations and
to help make them available as easily as possible for our graduates. It would also give us
a chance to render some service to our community as a whole aside from the education
of the individual students who come to us. We have never shared Agnes Scott in any
general way with the community around about us.

None of our dreams may come true. If nothing more is accomplished from the study
than a closer cooperation and helpful friendship between the institutions already in
the field, it will be worthwhile. If the program should be fully developed and suc-
cessful, we would have in the South an educational center which might be compared
in some ways to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The study at least is
very interesting.

INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
A total of 1,43 3 universities, colleges, and professional schools are listed in the 193 2
educational directory issued by the U. S. Office of Education. The four-year universi-
ties and colleges total 677, of which 116 are tax-supported and 561 are privately con-
trolled. There are 312 junior colleges, 167 independent professional schools (law, medical,
theological, etc.) and 120 normal schools. Not in the general total are 157 teachers' col-
leges. New York has the largest number (92) of colleges and universities, though
Pennsylvania (90) is close behind. Texas has 81, California 78, Illinois 72, Missouri 63,
Ohio 57, Iowa 52, Massachusetts 5 1.

WHY DO STUDENTS CHOOSE A PARTICULAR COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY?

Mainly because of its nearness. And women, more than men, are thus influenced,
says Ellis M. Reeves of the University of Chicago.

The second factor is acquaintance with other students; third, subject matter of
courses; then parental wishes, influence of friends or relatives, scholarship or other
financial aid (particularly in denominational colleges), church affiliation, and finally,
interviews with representatives.

MEDITATIONS ON THE GOLDEN AGE

Emma (Jones) Smith, '18

Once several years ago when I was back at Agnes Scott for a few hours Emma Pope
(Moss) Dieckmann and I had dinner with Miss Hopkins, and as is the custom when one
is with Miss Hopkins we talked of the "Good Old Days." It was then that I remarked
to them with that strangely superior expression that seems to fasten itself on you when
you become an alumna, "Oh well, all these changes are wonderful and all that, but I
miss so much that was better, that I can't help feeling that the days when WE were
here were the Golden Age at Agnes Scott." I hope I had the grace to look ashamed when
they laughed at me, but I doubt it.

This year when I came back to Commencement, I was so eager to get there, that I
came too early. And looking around and seeing that I was so far re-uning alone, I
hastened, a forlorn figure, to Miss Hopkins for comfort. "Emma Jones," said Miss
Hopkins in that sweet, intimate voice that makes you feel that you are the only alumna
who ever came back home, "Do you remember the day that you said that the days when
you were at Agnes Scott were the Golden Age? Well, I told Dr. McCain what you said.
And do you know what he said to me in reply? He said, 'Well that is the way they
ought to feel. I hope every class that graduates from Agnes Scott will feel that its day
was the Golden Age.' "

One may be fifteen years away from "the Sheltering Arms" and still be able to enter-
tain a new idea now and then, so the remark caused me to approach Commencement with
a different attitude. Now that I am at home my impulse is to relax and sum the
experience up in "Oh yes, I had a grand time, but of course things were changed such
a lot!" But I've promised Dorothy Hutton to be articulate on the subject, so I shall
write on the Golden Age. Was it then? Is it now?

To those who have been gone a long time I write chiefly. Yes, things are changed.
Do you remember the dingy class rooms, where we crowded into worn desks with too
little room for our elbows and practically no room for our knees? Do you remember
the dashes from Main to Home Ec. Building, from there to the Gym and back again
to Main? Then you should see Buttrick Hall! From class to class they ride in elevators
to spacious class rooms. (With that much room to expand their opinions OUGHT to be
broad.) Do you remember the old "Swimming Hole?" (We would consider our seven
year old sons safe in it now.) There's a dream of a pool in the new gymnasium building.
It's deep and clear, and a beautifully sanitary blue (whatever that may be!). Do you
remember the plays in the chapel, where the hero paid for a dramatic exit by falling
over the organ stool that lurked just outside the slit in the curtain that served as the
door? This year I sat in the new (to me) auditorium and watched the purple curtain
draw back to reveal a perfectly appointed set for the first act of Quality Street And
the heroes of our plays! Whatever their manly estate in the script, they emerged on the
set in a skirt, or a cap and gown, or an overcoat all for the sake of sweet modesty.
Imagine my thrill when this year 1 saw the hero SLAM A REAL DOOR as he made his
entrance, clad in white sateen knee breeches!

Do you remember the days when the Glee Club, dressed in assorted white dresses
borrowed from friends (or enemies?), presented itself every year in some twenty simple
songs? Then you would have had the thrill I had when I sat through one of the most
charming performances of H. M. S. Pinafore I have ever seen. Men were in the cast,
girls! And Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, our Gussie, gave the outstanding performance of
the evening when she mounted the director's box and lifted them out of themselves
by the charm of her inspiration and the skill of her baton.

10 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

Are you one of those who crawled under the fence back of Inman to go to Mrs.
Towers' Tea Room? Or do you belong to that larger group who stumbled down the
steps into the Science Hall Tea Room? Or even to that later one who traversed the
cinders to the Alumnae House Tea Room? Then you should come with me through the
lovely Alumnae Garden, between Inman Hall and the Alumnae House. There I would
have you sit with me by the pool, with its water lilies and its fountain, and have Sunday
morning breakfast.

But other things are different. The girls are different. They are prettier than we
were. They are more poised, more aware of the world, more likely to find themselves at
home in it.

What was it then that I missed? Why had I felt that ours was the Golden Age? I
missed that intimate life of the campus that was ours. That absorbing interest in its
activities that caused us to forget everything else outside, and that brought out things
in us that we would never have found elsewhere. I missed Dr. Armistead and Dr. Gaines,
for the world holds no two others like them. I looked around the audiences when I was
in the auditorium and I wondered where the students were, for it seemed to me there
were more outsiders than girls. I, remembering the years when the student body snake -
danced until twelve o'clock when we won an intercollegiate debate, listened in dismay
when I heard that they have to urge the students to come to the debates. I wonder if
our very lack of equipment didn't bring out our ingenuity and draw us closer together.
If the open meeting of the Alumnae Association is any indication, it is still the alumnae
from by-gone years that take most interest in the Association. Does that mean we have
a passion for our Alma Mater that the New Era hasn't brought?

Yes, Agnes Scott is changed. But so is the world. And so are girls. What it took
to develop us would irk them. What we wanted they do not seek or need.

But I am getting sentimental and that's a sign of age, so I return to the original
theme. Yes, ours was the Golden Age for us. And so is this the Golden Age for
them. And if anything could make you happy upon returning to Agnes Scott after
fifteen years, it should be to find that what it took to train girls in our day, she had;
and what it takes to train them today, she has. All ages are the Golden Age for her.
And as long as she has Miss Hopkins and Dr. McCain and Miss McKinney and Miss Smith
and those others whom we love and who share their spirit, it's safe to go back to Com-
mencement, for Agnes Scott, our Agnes Scott, remains forever unchanged.

GULLS OFF NOVA SCOTIA

By Leonora (Owsley) Herman, Institute

(Published in the Literary Digest of April 1$, 193 3.)

Pattern of wings and of silver on blue,

Rhythm of waves and the joy of their flinging;
Swirling and movement and deep lapis hue

Up to my eyes their enchantment are bringing.
Wind in my hair and the sun in my heart,

High on the fore-deck's staunch rail 1 am leaning.
None of the beauties we've seen from the start

Equal this loveliness, soaring, careening.
Cities and citadels, mountains and bays

Fade insignificant, lost in my dreaming.
Yours is the picture indelibly stays,

Wings against water exultantly gleaming.

MATRIMONIAL STATISTICS

Henry A. Robinson, Professor of Mathematics

To marry or not to marry, that is the question. Before the ink will have dried on
their diplomas 2 per cent of the class of 193 3 will have entered matrimony. It
has been stated that college women are not the marrying type, but a glance at the alum-
nae files of Agnes Scott College will convince you that this is false, at least in her case.
Naturally, after having been on the campus for four years, our girls are more select
in their taste, harder to please and require more of their husbands than do the girls who
have not been to college. But our percentages compare favorably with the nation's aver-
age of 74 for women married between the ages of 20 and 44.

The percentage of the alumnae married increases rapidly with the number of years
out of college. It tends towards a constant of about 82 per cent after twenty years.
The rates for classes in groups of fives are as follows:

Classes Percentages married
1928-32 24

1923-27 58

1918-22 72

1913-17 81

1913-32 57

Even these figures should be higher for many of the alumnae who marry do not send

notification to the alumnae office, and are, of course, still recorded unmarried.

If we differentiate between the graduates and non-graduates, we will see that the

non-graduates have a slight edge on the graduates. This is perhaps due to the fact that

the non-graduates are out of college on the average of two years longer than the

graduates.

A newspaper editor recently advocated colleges' establishing matrimonial bureaus,

but it appears that Agnes Scott graduates can pretty well handle their own bow and

arrows.

A DELEGATE REPORTS ON THE A. A. U. W. CONVENTION

Elsa Jacobsen, '27

The convention is all over, and I can truly report that it was a fine one. I enjoyed
every bit of it that I could attend. In fact, it was like a grand vacation to me. The
program was most interesting and every one there was so friendly.

The meetings I went to were all on general topics, dealing with education and inter-
national relations. One of the most interesting talks was one given by Dr. Hildegarde
Kneeland of the Bureau of Economics on The Challenge to the College Woman as a
Homemaker Under Modern Conditions. Perhaps the most thrilling event was the Inter-
national Dinner at which Dr. Mary Woolley spoke on The Outlook for Disarmament. She
was splendid and every one had a feeling of pride when she got up.

The grand part about the convention was seeing all the women who are taking such
a prominent part in the affairs of the world. I rather felt as if I were in the wrong pew
and couldn't believe that I was a member of an organization to which they belonged.
I always knew that the American Association of University Women was a big thing, but
I had never before realized how much it has done to open up educational possibilities for
women and to raise educational standards. I feel as if I certainly owe a great deal to the
Alumnae Association for giving me the privilege of attending the convention.

When I heard of some of the academic problems of some of the colleges, I certainly
was proud that Agnes Scott is my Alma Mater.

MY JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD

Sara Wilson, '3 3

In taking my junior year abroad, I was affiliated as an exchange student in the Uni-
versity of Delaware group to France. Ninety-two of us from colleges as widely separated
as Brown and Western Reserve landed at Le Havre in late July of 1931. Honor-bound
to speak only French from the moment we touched French soil, most of us stood re-
spectfully silent, awaiting whatever orders we could understand. Needless to say, there
was a great deal of repetition during those first few days. My own prize error was made
in a cafe, where I had boldly demanded French pastry. The waiter gently but firmly
informed me that they did not sell tapestry and that if I spoke English, he would be glad
to direct me.

After a week-end in Paris, we went to Nancy, the principal industrial city of Lor-
raine. We attended the university there from August through October. The work
there was very difficult and rather tedious. It was intended solely to give a knowledge of
spoken and written French grammar and a background to French literature. Every day
began with an examination at eight A. M. (Examinations seem so much more serious
at eight than at nine!) This little overture or prelude was followed by grammar explan-
ations, translation, dictation, lectures, and singing lessons. In the afternoon individual
lessons in phonetics and essay writing were given. The day, scholastically speaking, ended
usually between four and five o'clock. Then, providing one had a five-franc note left
from last month's allowance, it was in order to go to the Cafe Thiers for tea and eclairs.

The sojourn in Nancy was not, however, entirely the purgatory for bad French that
I have described it. Each week-end there were delightful excursions to Domremy, Ver-
dun and Metz. The group gave dinners and dances every month. During the first week
in September we took our jaded nerves, and brains, wearied by irregular subjunctives, to
the Alps for a short vacation.

The examinations caused quite a bit of stage-fright, as most of us had never taken
an oral examination even in English. We were all quite relieved when they were all
over and none of us had received the expected failure slips.

Paris in early November gray, stormy weather, cobble-stone streets, living under a
real gabled roof, drinking onion soup after midnight near Les Halles, buying Parma
violets on the streets! With such charming prospects, the sooty, gray walls of the Sor-
bonne could not hold us for more than two hours a day. The work there was, of course,
lighter and far more interesting. French law and politics, geographical economics, art
and architecture, and, of course, the numerous literary courses were very popular. My own
particular favorite was Literature of the Middle Ages, given by a lovely old professor with
a white goatee and a sense of humor. There were also special courses arranged for the
group by Sorbonne professors.

Once a week the group went en masse to the theatre. There were short excursions
to Versailles, Chartres, and the chateaux. During the Easter vacation we toured the
Riviera and northern Spain.

This is what we all saw. Each of us, however, chose an individual "quartier." Some
were addicted to Montmartre. Several could always be found on the exclusive boulevards
of the shopping district. Others adopted polo coats and berets and haunted the Latin
quarter.

I wish that I could write at greater length, but after all there is so very much to say.
Paris, city of glamorous dreams, where the gilt never wears off the gingerbread, salut!

The greater part of life is rigidly confined to the everyday round of things. In
the last years this round of the commonplace has included more and more of dullness,
disappointment, even tragedy. Emily Newell Blair, in her book column in the May Good
Housekeeping, suggests books as an escape. The reader may slip back a hundred years
in time, take a trip, or thrill with falling in love. He may become rich or poor or
handsome within the hour. If you need to get away for a while, try one of these.

As the Earth Turns (MacMillan, 193 3) is a novel of Maine farmers. Since So Big
was published there has been an increasing flood of novels of farmers and farm life
all somewhat alike. But Gladys Hasty Carroll has found something new to put into her
story of the changes of the seasons.

Jen, the daughter of the home, is the most unforgettable character. She was not
beautiful by ordinary measure, but possessed of some inner source of serenity, strength,
understanding that made her low, stocky figure really beautiful.

Jen was the daughter of Mark Shaw, and the step-daughter of nervous, flighty Cora
Shaw. The kitchen, and consequently the heart of the home, was Jen's. Even the com-
ing of the step-mother had not altered that. Once the table had been surrounded by
half-grown boys and girls, but as this winter came, most of them had gone away to
make other lives. Only Jen and Ed of the older children had been born with the love
of the soil, with deep contentment in depending upon it.

Ralph was an aviator. Lize, hard, thin, sophisticated, worked in an office. Oily, who
had loved books, was working his way through college. George had married and owned
a farm but longed to get away from the failure his own laziness made. Lois May, not
really a Shaw, but Cora's daughter, was seventeen, slim, pretty enough, shallow, burn-
ing to get away to city life.

As the earth turned that year it brought Ed's marriage to Margaret, the school
teacher, the coming of a Polish family to live in this intensely Yankee community, the
death of one Shaw, the birth of another, revolt, success for Oily and freedom for Lois
May.

Over it all stood Jen, fine-fibred and plucky, smoothing the difficulties, supplying
their physical needs, understanding their spiritual ones. Perhaps it is enough to say
about her that her inarticulate, New England family was willing to accept her romance
with a young, blue-eyed Pole on the next farm, if Jen wanted it that way. There is
something in the quick, clean strokes of her knife as she pares apples, or peels potatoes
that carries a feeling of her serenity and contentment even to the reader.

'Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass
Stains the white radiance of eternity."
Shelley.

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Francis Stuart has written a strange and beautiful story in The Coloured Dome
(Macmillan, 1933). It deals with a people radically different from calm, sturdy Maine
farmers Irish young people. It is Ireland in the time of the rebellion. While the story
is Garry Delea's story a young Irishman who worked in an office till five-thirty and
frequented the clubs of Dublin from midnight to dawn it is also a running com-
mentary on the saying of Christ's, "He that saveth his life shall lose it."

Garry, like many of his friends, believed in and worked for the Irish Republic. He
hoped to be able some day to render it perhaps through its secret and mysterious leader,
Tulloolagh McCoolagh a great service. He found his outward life unsatisfying. He
felt a surge in his pulse like the surge of sap in trees at spring. He longed for an outlet
for this feeling. Men find this fulfillment, he was told, either in the love of woman or
in the sacrifice of self to a supreme cause.

Tulloolagh called him one night and offered him the chance of being one of four
who should give themselves to the English to pay for a pardon for many others. Two
would be shot. Garry unhesitatingly and gladly signed his name with the other three.

He discovered that Tulloolagh, the leader he had idolized so long, was a woman and
that she loved him. In that fact he met and yielded to his great temptation. Instead of
being shot, as they had expected, they were released and the other two were killed.

And almost at once they began to know that love would not compensate to either
one of them for having lost the dream that for them it had stained the white radiance
of eternity. Garry, feeling that the dome must be broken to let the radiance in, turned
his back on the new love, on life as he had known it and set himself "to share the little,
ludicrous tragedies of the world."

"And ye who have your eye-balls vex'd and tired,
Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea."

Alexander Laing chose well the name The Sea Witch (Farrar & Rinehart, 1933) for
the story of a slim, compelling clipper ship that subtly bewitched the lives of those who
sailed aboard her. "There is some sort of magic, as yet unexplained, in ships and in this
ship more than in any other I ever saw. It seems the essence of curved simplicity: im-
mense, as man-made objects go, yet graceful as a dancing girl. I do not wonder that
sailors look upon their vessels as people: women, or rather superwomen."

Sometimes it happens that a thing or a place so dominates a book that it loses human
interest. Not so with The Sea Witch. She seems rather to weave together and make
purposeful the lives of three widely different brothers, Roger, William, and Hugh.

Wide-shouldered, narrow-hipped young Captain Roger Murray was the chief asset
of his ship owner and the Beau Brummel of New York. He set and broke again world
records for the fastest trip to China in the days when every ship carried sails and the
Panama Canal had not been thought of.

The middle brother, Will, was a seaman, too. As tall, as brown, as strong as his
brother, but quieter, not quite a typical sailor. It was a peculiarity of his to maintain
that seamen would do their best work for considerate officers.

But Hugh was different. His muscles were not hardened, nor his skin bronzed by
gruelling dashes across the North Atlantic and the longer, harder voyages to China. He
was a sculptor. And it so happened that Mary de Peyster studied water color sketching
at the same Art Academy where Hugh was learning the old art of sculpture.

It was not hard to understand why Roger chose Mary from all the pretty girls in
New York to pay court to. And it was easier still to see why she should smile upon the
glamorous Captain Murray. But very few people realized that Hugh Murray was carv-
ing a figurehead for a new ship a beautiful figurehead for which Mary was the un-
conscious model. It was the old story of Pygmalion and his Galatea.

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The new ship was The Sea Witch and Captain Murray was to take her on her first
voyage to China. Just before he left he and Mary de Peyster were married. Will was
signed first mate for the trip and an unidentified young man was shanghaied and thrown
into the fo'c's'le to fill out the necessary number of sailors. The young man was Hugh.

In such a strange way the three brothers found themselves aboard the same ship a
ship they would grow to love as one loves a person Roger, gallant, proud, racing the
seas; Will, quiet, strong, compassionate; Hugh, half-dead from rough usage, determined
not to give up, happy to be sailing with his Galatea.

And so The Sea Witch came and went, somehow always carrying the three Murrays
and after a while taking Mary, too, on its record voyages to buy tea and silks in the
Orient. They drove her hard and skillfully and she sailed well for them, but Hugh felt
that she would take her revenge on all of them some day.

And so she did. It was on account of the ship that Maty realized she had chosen the
wrong one of the Murray brothers. In a terrific storm The Sea Witch took Will's life,
the most loved one of them all. A year or so later she broke Roger both in body and
spirit till it would have been hard to recognize the debonair Captain. Only Hugh stayed
by her. She was only ten years old, but the strain of racing, hard-driven trips had told
on her. She was still a beauty to the eye, but Hugh could feel her aging as she slipped
from her proud trade in teas to less and less honorable shipping. Of the three, only
Hugh saw her at the end when she went down, proud ship, figurehead and all. Unless,
perhaps Will was watching, too.

There are very few books that combine more than one or two good features. The Sea
Witch is one of these rare ones. Enough of the sea to take a landlubber far from home,
enough of history to make him forget time, enough of romance to color the drab and
commonplace all clothed in beautiful words.

And so if you would like to lose yourself and your troubles for a while, try a book,
for,

"There is no frigate like a book

To take us lands away,

Nor any coursers like a page

Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!"

Emily Dickinson.

Phi Beta Kappa elected thirteen student
members this session. More students were
eligible, but could not be admitted, be-
cause of the restrictions as to member-
ship as controlled by the national board
of Phi Beta Kappa. The students elected
were: Maude Armstrong, Willa Beckham,
Margaret Belote, Mary DeSaussure
Clarke, Virginia Heard, Anne Hudmon,
Roberta Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Lightcap,
Eulalia Napier, Gail Nelson, Margaret
Telford, Martha Walker, Sara Wilson,
Alumnae elected from the class of 1918 to
membership were: Katherine L. Seay,
Belle Bacon Cooper, and Emma (Jones)
Smith.

Mortar Board entertained with a lunch-
eon for its members and the members of
Hoasc on Friday of Commencement Week-
End. The luncheon was well-attended,
and alumnae expressed surprise at the
number of things the local Mortar Board
chapter is doing.

The Alumnae House is to be completely
painted and papered during the summer.
This is made possible through the gener-
osity of the Trustees, who are bearing half
of the expenses for the repair work. The
house will be open for inspection again
in September, when it is hoped that many
alumnae will be back to enjoy the im-
provements.

The Senior Honor List is as follows for
the 1932-1933 session: Maude Armstrong,
Margaret Belote, Bessie Meade Friend,
Mary DeSaussure Clarke, Virginia Heard,
Mary Hudmon Roberta Kilpatiick, Eliz-
abeth Lightcap, Eulalia Napier, Gail Nel-
son, Margaret Telford, Martha Walker,
Rosalind Ware, Sara Wilson.

The Hopkins Jewel was awarded to
Margaret Ridley of Atlanta, President of
the Agnes Scott Student Government As-
sociation.

The $285 Scholarship for the best all-
round record of any student was awarded
to Mary Boggs, '35, of Birmingham, Ala-
bama. Honorable mention was accorded
Polly Gordon, '34, of Chicago, Illinois.

The Quenelle Harrold Fellowship was

this year won by Mary Sprinkle, '31, who
will spend next year in study abroad.

The Rich Prize for the best freshman
record went to Shirley Christian, '36, of
Chattanooga, Tennessee, who won second
place in the competitive scholarships last
year.

The Laura Candler Medal for the high-
est average for the year in Mathematics
was awarded to Mary DeSaussure Clarke,
'33.

Departmental Scholarships were award-
ed to the following: To Lillian Herring,
'34, the Piano Scholarship; to Marjorie
Simmons, '35, the Voice Scholarship; to
Frances Cassels, '35, the Art. Scholarship;
to Martha Skeen, '34, the Spoken English
Scholarship.

The Morley Prize for the most original
work in the Department of Mathematics
was won by Polly Gordon, '34.

Commencement brought to the Campus
two distinguished speakers. Dr. Joseph
R. Sizoo of the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church of Washington, D. C, de-
livered the baccalaureate sermon. Dr.
Henry Nelson Snyder, President of Wof-
ford College in Spartanburg, South Caro-
lina, delivered the Commencement address.

The Class of 1933 left the College one
hundred academic hoods. These are to be
rented annually for one dollar. The Alum-
nae Association is to make a twenty-five
cent revenue on the hoods, and the re-
mainder is to go to a trust fund for a por-
trait of Dr. McCain. Congratulations to the
class for their original idea!

ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COM-
MITTEE OF THE AGNES SCOTT
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION,
MAY 25, 1933

The meeting was called to order by the
president, Cora (Morton) Durrett. The
minutes were read and approved.

Reports of the following were read and
approved: General Secretary, Treasurer
and the Publicity, Preparatory Schools,
Grounds, House and Tea Room, Enter-
tainment, Constitution and By-Laws Com-
mittees.

The Tea Room Committee reported that
the Tea Room still owed the General As-
sociation only $200 of the $526 borrowed
in January. The Committee voted that the
Aluminae House should be redecorated dur-
ing the summer. The financing of this
work is to be left to the Finance Commit-
tee.

It was agreed that a letter be sent to
the Senior Class suggesting that a fee be
charged each Senior for the rent of the
hoods they are presenting to the College.

Mrs. Brawley resigned as Chairman of
the Entertainment Committee. It was de-
cided to leave the filling of this position
to Miss Hutton.

The Committee accepted and passed on
the recommendatons made by the Commit-
tee on Constitution and By-Laws.

It was announced that Betty Bonham
had been appointed Treasurer of the Tea
Room for next year.

As there was no further business, the
meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
FRANCES (GILLILAND) STUKES,

Secretary.

MEETING OF THE AGNES SCOTT
ALUMNAE COUNCIL, MAY 25, 1933

The Council meeting was called to order
by the Alumnae President, Mrs. Durrett.
Minutes of the last meeting were read and
approved.

The reports of the following committees
were read and approved: Publicity, Beauti-
fying Grounds, Entertainment, Curriculum,
Student Loan. A resume of the year's
work was given by Dorothy Hutton,
Executive Secretary, and by Penelope
Brown, Field Secretary.

Margaret Ridley, President of Student
Government, and Margaret Bell, President
of Y. W. C. A., told of their work in carry-
ing out last year's committee's recom-
mendations, the success in orientation of
the freshmen, and the plans for next
year.

Miss Hopkins spoke also of the orienta-
tion of the freshmen and told of some
of the recent changes in Student Govern-
ment rules.

Dr. McCain gave a comparison of Agnes
Scott today with that of ten years ago in
regard to scholastic standing, number of
graduates and their post-graduate achieve-
ments, value of buildings and endowment.
Dr. McCain also told of the survey being
made for the purpose of coordination of
the work of Agnes Scott, Georgia Tech,
and Emory.

There being no further business the
meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
FRANCES (GILLILAND) STUKES,

Secretary.

MEETING OF THE AGNES SCOTT
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

The annual meeting of the Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association was held on May the
twenty-eighth at eleven thirty o'clock in
the Chapel with Cora (Morton) Durrett,
President, presiding.

Minutes of the last meeting and the re-
ports of the President, General Secretary
and Treasurer were read and approved.
The annual reports of the following stand-
ing committees were read and the recom-
mendations made in them accepted: Pub-
licity, Preparatory Schools, Beautifying
Grounds, Entertainment, House and Tea
Room, Curriculum, Local Clubs, Consti-
tution and By-Laws, Student Loan.

Mrs. Durrett made the announcement
that the trustees would give $800 to the
Association and half of the cost of re-
pairing of the Alumnae House during the
summer. The Association voted to leave
the financing of their half of this expense
to the discretion of the Finance Commit-
tee. It was moved that a letter be sent to
the Trustees thanking them for their gift.

There was no further business and the
meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
FRANCES (GILLILAND) STUKES,

Secretary.

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Not as an apology but as an explanation,
I must state that if the work of the Alum-
nae Association for the past year has
lacked proportion, it has been due to the
necessity of over-emphasis on certain
phases. There is no need to explain to you
the economic handicaps of the year. Four
committee chairmen have resigned and
have had to be replaced. In spite of other
difficulties peculiar to the year, I believe
the chairmen as a whole have maintained
the standard of past alumnae activities.
Especial credit is due the General Secre-
ary for her untiring efforts and splendid
cooperation. The Executive Committee
were unanimous in tendering Dorothy Hut-
ton the appointment for another year.

Alumnae are interested in the welfare
of Agnes Scott. It is necessary that we
evidence this interest by a more definite
cooperation with the work of the Alum-
nae Association through the medium of
our local clubs whose value as potential
aids in securing worthwhile students for
Agnes Scott cannot be overestimated. We
should resolve to respond more readily to
the appeals sent out from the Alumnae Of-
fice that as an Association we not lag
financially or otherwise.

Respeotfullv submitted,
CORA (MORTON) DURRETT,

President.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL SECRE-
TARY OF THE ALUMNAE
ASSOCIATION

It is with sincere regret the Alumnae
Secretary regards the report of her prede-
cessor and realizes that nothing new such
as an Alumnae Week-end or an Alumnae
Garden has been begun. It is with genu-
ine pleasure and relief, however, that she
can report a strict adherence to the former
alumnae program, with no omission of
any of its many features.

The fall brought with it the necessary
task of once more putting into practical
use an office that had been closed over a
period of some three months. This meant
a membership drive among 1,200 former
Alumnae Association members, among the
graduates of 1932 and among those newly
acquired alumnae who nad become so by
failure to return for the 1932-1933 ses-
sion. It meant further a definite begin-
ning on the Fall Quai - terly and the Alum-
nae Week-end, a daily attention to files
and correspondence, renewed contact with
clubs, and work toward the organization
of a new corps of officers and commit-
tee chairmen into a cooperative unit for
advancement of the alumnae program.

The office will have this year issued
three quarterlies and a rotogravure bul-

letin. The idea for this last was suggested
by the former Alumnae Secretary and
proved of actual value in being an innova-
tion and at the same time a less expensive
issue. Compilation of these has been in-
teresting and stimulating. To alumnae
contributors and to the regular staff of
class secretaries the Alumnae Secretary is
grateful.

The second Alumnae Week-end, dupli-
cating the schedule of the first, attracted
favorable criticism. The office merely func-
tioned under the fine leadership of the
Curriculum Committee, whose report on
this project can better qualify it than any
mention from the office.

The office has kept in touch with clubs
through personal and form correspond-
ence. The Alumnae Secretary has regular-
ly attended meetings of the Decatur Club,
of the Atlanta Club, and of the Business
Girls' Group in Atlanta. This monthly
contact has been invaluable to the office.
By cooperation from New York alumnae,
an Agnes Scott Club was organized there
in December. In January contact was made
by the Alumnae Secretary with two alum-
nae groups, in Savannah and in Albany.

The Granddaughters' Club was again
sponsored by the Alumnae Association.
The club for the second time entertained
escorts at a dinner on Stunt Night. This
club was entertained in the fall and winter
by the Alumnae Association, at informal
meetings. The group, in turn, helped out
by serving at the Thanksgiving Home-
coming Tea and at the tea given for the
seniors in the spring.

A reunion was sponsored for the class
of 1932 at Thanksgiving. The class had a
well-attended buffet supper. Reunions for
1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1918, 1919, 1920,
1921, 1931 and 1932 were sponsored this
Commencement. Each group enjoyed one
class reunion entertainment in addition to
the other features of the program as plan-
ned for the college community.

A criticism from a patron that Agnes
Scott is not well known or represented at
such conventions as the A. A. U. W. has
been met as well as the times would per-
mit. Elsa Jacobsen, '27, represented Agnes
Scott at the A. A. U. W. National Con-
ventoin in Minneapolis from May 17 to
May 20, her expenses being paid from
the amount allotted the office for travel-
ing. Further contacts with the A. A. U.
W. have included attendance at the At-
lanta Branch of the A. A. U. W. meetings
by the Alumnae Secretary and the com-
pilation of the complete geographic file
of Agnes Scott graduates for the national
headquarters in Washington to help in or-
ganizing local branches of their organiza-
tion.

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Work with the Entertainment Commit-
tee has brought many pleasant contacts
with students and faculty, as well as with
alumnae. Of these, the tea at the begin-
ning of the session, given for the new-
students, the meetings with the Grand-
daughters' Club, the tea for the senior
class, the tea for the Curriculum Com-
mittee and their co-workers for the
Alumnae Week-end, the Thanksgiving
Home-Coming Tea, the Founder's Day
dinner at the College and open house at
Commencement might be mentioned in
passing.

The Secretary enjoyed seeing over one
hundred state alumnae and meeting pros-
pective students in some fifteen high
schools during a twelve days' trip in Janu-
ary with Penelope Brown, Field Secretary.
This was an enjoyable experience and
brought to the alumnae office a renewed
realization of the value of contact be-
tween alumnae and prospective students.

The alumnae office has made every ef-
fort to give due publicity to alumnae af-
fairs. This has been greatly facilitated by
the help of the Publicity Commttee, under
Janef Preston, and by the personal help
of Lucile Daley of the Atlanta Journal
staff. At the time of Founder's Day
alumnae in many towns cooperated with
the office in having notices of the pro-
gram and alumnae group meetings run
through their local papers.

The annual Founder's Day broadcast on
February the twenty-second went out
over WSB from six to six-thirty o'clock,
central time. Twenty-two groups of alum-
nae were reported to have met for the oc-
casion. The program itself was picked up
over a wider area than ever before. News
of its reception came back to us from
Austin, Texas, from Schenectady, New
York, and from Cristobal in the Canal
Zone. The Decatur and Atlanta Alumnae
Clubs met with the college community for
a dinner in the gymnasium. Forty-four
alumnae and ten alumnae husbands are
known to have attended. After dinner cof-
fee was served in the Alumnae House.

Miss Ruth Blair of the State Depart-
ment of Archives made possible for Agnes
Scott an exhibit at the Rhodes Memorial
Hall of Atlanta on Sunday, May the
seventh. This exhibit brought to light
many interesting items in connection with
the history of the College. It aroused in
those who saw it a great deal of inter-
est, and out of the occasion grew a re-
quest that the exhibit be repeated at Com-
mencement.

The alumnae office has tried to follow
its former policy in making contact with
the senior class. Letters, urging them to
join the Alumnae Association, have been
sent out. At a class meeting during Com-
mencement the program of the Association
was presented to them, with the very
definite hope that 1933 will see us with
ninety-nine genuine converts to the alum-
nae cause.

The records of the alumnae office show
that there have been about thirty visitors
at the Alumnae House during the session,
four of whom were our guests for more
than one occasion. Olive Weeks, '32, stayed
at the Alumnae House from November
through May. The house revenue has been
valuable in helping out with the budget.

Without becoming hysterical, the Alum-
nae Secretary would like to call attention
to the fact that dues have come in on such
a discouraging scale and the situation of
the Tea Room has been so critical, that
the alumnae office has had to function this
year circumspectly rather than progres-
sively. To alumnae who have paid their
dues and yet have been understanding
about the less attractive quarterlies the
office has had to present, to those others
who have lent moral if not financial sup-
port, to all those who have so tirelessly
shown a ready sympathy and encourage-
ment, and in particular to Cora (Morton)
Durrett who has conscientiously borne
more than the share of the burden con-
sistent with her office the Alumnae Sec-
retary wishes to take this occasion to ex-
press appreciation. She is grateful for
the confidence shown in her by the Execu-
tive Board in her reappointment for 1933-
1934. It is a trust she will sincerely en-
deavor to deserve.

Respectfully submitted,

DOROTHY HUTTON,

General Secretary.

TREASURER'S REPORT TO AGNES

SCOTT ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

From June 1, 1932, Through June 10, 1933

Proposed
Receipts Budget
1932-33 1933-34

Dues $870.50 $1000.00

Tea Room Rent 425.00 400.00

Gift from College 800.00 800.00

Gift from Columbus Club 5.00

Room Rent (House) 158.75 150.00

Tea Room Profits

Miscellaneous (Rent

Caps, Gowns; Tolls) ._ 52.74 50.00

Interest on Savings Acct.

(July, 1932-Dec, 1932) 23.96

Return on Loan to Class

of '22 (Hopkins' Jewel) 9.00

Total Receips $2344.95 $2400.00

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Disbursements
1932-33

Secretary $800.00

Maid 144.00

Dues 32.50

Entertainment 55.25

Traveling Expenses (A.

A. U. W. Convention), 9.55
Printing, Postage, Sta-
tionery 937.62

House Operation 193.83

Furnishing Upkeep of

House 148.74

Miscellaneous (Govt.

Tax; Flowers 5.69

To Committee on Beauti-
fying Grounds 15.00

Loan to Decatur Club__ 4.00

Proposed

Budget

1933-34

$720.00

96.00

32.50

60.00

8.00

975.50
195.00

155.00

8.00

25.00
*125.00

Total Disbursements_$2346.18 $2400.00
*To redecorate Alumnae House.
Balance brought forward June 1,

1932 $ 279.65

Total Receipts June, 1932-June,

1933 2344.95

$2624.60
Disbursements June, 1932-June,

1933 2346.18

Balance on hand June 10, 1933
(checking account in First Na-
tional Bank) $ 278.42

Report on Savings Account (Life Mem-
bership Fund):
Balance brought forward June 1,

1932 $ 801.58

Receipts for June, 1932-May, 1933 .00

Borrowed from Savings Acct. Jan.

11, 1933 (to pay Tea Room debts

for Nov.-Dec, 1932) 526.05

Balance left in Savings Acct. Jan.

11, 1933 275.53

Repaid by Tea Room Collections

on December, 1932 Charge Ace ts. 75.88

Repaid by Tea Room From Prof-
its Jan.-May, 1933 297.54

Total Repaid $ 373.42

Balance in Savings Account June

10, 1933 $ 648.95

Amount still due Savings Acct. by

Tea Room 152.63

Respectfully submitted,
MARGARET (WHITINGTON) DAVIS,

Treasurer.

REPORT OF THE HOUSE AND TEA
ROOM COMMITTEE

The Tea Room Committee begs to sub-
mit the following report for the session
1932-1933:

At the beginning of the session letters
were sent out to alumnae in the Fall

Quarterly, urging them to make use of
the Alumnae House, and once more call-
ing attention to its many advantages for
alumnae guests and guests whom they
might recommend. At the same time, let-
ters were sent to the students, acquaint-
ing them with the new system of charges
that had been worked out by the com-
mittee. This plan was to have a student
given two weeks of credit after she had
her first bill and to discontinue credit
after this time, if she had not then paid
her bill in full. These measures seemed
wise as precautionary ones against such
losses as were sustained throughout the
Tea Room on student accounts last year.

Improvements in the Alumnae House in
the early part of the session included the
installation of a ventilator in the kitchen,
the addition of a trap for the newly pur-
chased refrigerator, the purchase of cur-
tains for the downstairs living room, din-
ing room, and office and the addition of
some new menu covers for the Tea Room.
The committee is grateful to Imogene
Allen, Cora (Morton) Durrett and Car-
oline (McKinney) Hill for their help with
these improvements in the house.

In December a meeting of the commit-
tee showed that the Tea Room was run-
ning at more of a loss at this time than
it had in previous years, although a care-
ful investigation of the books showed that
it has been usual for the Tea Room to
seem to run at a loss until after Christ-
mas each year. At this time it was agreed
to reduce the wages of the servants, to
reduce the number of student assistants
to two, and to discontinue serving din-
ners on week nights with the exception of
Wednesdays. A deficit of six hundred
dollars was reported as then extant on
the Tea Room books.

The report of the Tea Room Commit-
tee is here logically supplemented by a re-
port of action taken by the Executive
Committee at specially called meetings on
January the sixth and again on February
the first.

Following a meeting on January the
fifth with alumnae past-presidents, the
Executive Committee found it necessary to
take the following drastic action with re-
gard to the Tea Room: The Alumnae As-
sociation, out of its savings account, as-
sumed full responsibility for the debts of
the Tea Room, amounting at this time to
$526.05. The Tea Room is to pay this
back out of its receipts. To insure against
further running at a loss, one maid was
dismissed immediately and the salaries of
the other two reduced, and the manager's
salary was cut from $100 a month to $50.
A stipulation that all supplies be bought
on a cash basis was made. The Tea Room
rent was cut to $35.00, unless the full

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amount of $50.00 could be paid at the end
of any month from that month's receipts.
The order for paying bills was prescribed:
gas and electrictiy and the telephone,
servants and student help, $35.00 rent, the
manager's salary of $50.00, the remainder
of the Tea Room rent ($15.00). Any surplus
after these bills had been paid was to ap-
ply on the debt to the General Association.

On February the first, acting on a sug-
gestion of Dr. McCain, an auditing com-
mittee of three was appointed to audit
each week the books as kept by Mrs. Nis-
bet. The Treasurer of the Tea Room had
ceased to function in her full capacity
since the accounts were now handled en-
tirely in cash.

In January permission had been pro-
cured from Dr. McCain to have the Tea
Room open for student trade on. Sunday
mornings from eight to ten o'clock. It
was found necessary at a meeting in
March to vote that this be discontinued,
since the ledger showed that this had not
been a paying scheme.

A report at that time showed that
$220.00 was still out on student accounts.
It was therefore agreed to discontinue
student credit on March the fifteenth and
to employ a student assistant, Mary Mc-
Donald, on May the first to collect these
accounts on a 10 per cent commission. In
March the chairmanship of the commit-
tee was taken over by Helene (Norwood)
Lammers, ex-'22, since Caroline (McKin-
ney) Hill, '27, had tendered her resigna-
tion.

A meeting of the Tea Room Committee
on April the twenty-fourth unanimously
recommended to the Executive Committee
that Mrs. Nisbet be retained as manager
for 1933-1934 and that her salary be kept
the same until such time as the debt to
the General Association be paid in full.
A recommendation also came from the
committee at this time that the Alumnae
House should be redecorated, if possible.

The sofa in the downstairs living room
was found to be in bad condition, and
was repaired at a cost of $15.00. A gift
cf $5.00 from the Columbus Club had been
turned over to this committee for the
purchase of curtains for the bedrooms.
New curtains had also been procured for
the upstairs living room.

The Committee will try to sponsor a
drive for more tickets in the Tea Room
next session. These tickets will provide a
discount value to the purchaser. This
recommendation came from a discussion
of student credit and an agreement to
continue student credit another year, but
to require that bills be paid in full one
week after sent out. No credit will be ex-

tended a student who has an unpaid ac-
count after that time.

Gifts were received and acknowledged
from the following friends during the
year: a silver sandwich try from Susan
(Young) Eagan and Bessie (Young)
Brown; a lace bureau cover and bed-
spread from an anonymous donor; linen
towels from Rusha and Emma Wesley;
linen towels from Lucy (Reagan) Red-
wine; a bedspread from; Miss Lillian Smith
of the faculty; a load of wood from Janef
Preston; new spoons and forks for the
Tea Room from Lucile Alexander, Mar-
garet Phythian, Miss Louis,e McKinney
and Dr. Mary F. Sweet; kitchen utensils
from Dorothy Hutton and Miss Elizabeth
Jackson; sheets and pillow cases from
Miss Louise McKinney; and sandwich tray
covers from Martha Stansfield.

Helene (Norwood) Lammers tendered
her resignation the early part of April,
since she has moved to Cincinnati for an
indefinite period of time. The chairman-
ship was accepted by Imogene Allen at the
May meeting of the Executive Board, and
she will serve in that capacity next year.

The committee has been much gratified
by Mrs. Nisbet's tireless cooperation,
working as she has with less student and
servant help and on a reduced salary. The
committee feels confident that with her
continued cooperation the debt to the
Alumnae Association, which has now been
reduced to $152.63, will reach its full pay-
ment in the 1933-1934 session. An addi-
tional $100.00 has been held in reserve to
buy supplies for next fall, since supplies
are now bought on a cash basis.
Respectfully submitted,

DOROTHY HUTTON,

Member of the Tea Room Committee.

REPORT OF THE BEAUTIFYING
GROUNDS COMMITTEE

The Committee on Beautification of
Grounds begs to submit the following re-
port:

The efforts of your committee this year
have been directed principally toward the
upkeep of the Alumnae Garden, which has
been done with the aid of the college
gardener.

The principal project was the erection
of a pergola, the gift of the Charlotte
Club.

Twenty-eight pink climbing roses were
planted as a gift from the committee.

Annual seeds were sown this spring to
fill vacant places in the beds.

Very encouraging reports have been re-
ceived from different sources around the
campus of the pleasure the garden has
given. This has proved very encouraging.

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There is a crying need for cash dona-
tions for the upkeep of the Alumnae Gar-
den and for defraying other expenses in
this connection. We sincerely hope that
the different active clubs will see their
way clear to make donations for carrying
on this work this coming fall and winter.
Respectfully submitted,
LOUISE (BROWN) HASTINGS,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE

The activity of the Curriculum Commit-
tee for 1932-33 was limited to the promo-
tion of the Alumnae Week-End at Thanks-
giving, 1932, at which time the following
program was presented:
Friday, November 25:
10:00 '"'Books" Miss Emma May Laney.
10:30 "A Revived British Empire" Dr.

Philip Davidson.
11:30 "Some Aspects of Modern Liter-
ature" (American Drama) Dr.
William Gilmer Perry.
12:30 Luncheon in Rebekah Scott Dining
Room.
1:30 "Nitrogen: We Cannot Live With-
out it and We May No Be Able to
Live With It" Dr. J. Sam Guy.
6:00 Dinner Alumnae House.
7:00 "A Scientific Attitude Toward
Child Psychology" Dean Rai-
mundo D'Ovies.
Saturday, November 26:
10:00 Alumnae Chapel Hour Miss Janie

McGaughey.
10:30 "Personality" Mr. S. G. Stukes.
11:30 "Belgian Congo" Mrs. Motte Mar-
tin.
4:00 Home-Coming Tea, Alumnae House.
The week-end was well attended more
than 100 registered for the morning lec-
tures and about 50 attended the dinner
and lecture on Friday evening but we
shall be happy when a great many more
will find it possible to attend the entire
program.

We thank every one who had any part
in the Week-End: Dr. McCain, Miss Hop-
kins, and the faculty for their guidance
and encouragement, the speakers who
made the lectures possible, the Alumnae
Secretary who so efficiently performed
the detailed tasks, the alumnae commit-
tees and individuals for their cooperation
and support, and the alumnae and friends
who attended the lectures.

Our aim for next Thanksgiving is a pro-
gram so varied and attractive, that it will
appeal to the interests of every alumna.
The criticisms and suggestions about the
first *two week-ends have been gladly re-
ceived and the committee will be grateful
for further suggestions to make next
Thanksgiving at Agnes Scott successful.

In keeping with the plans now carried out
i n leading colleges and universities
throughout the country, we are striving
to promote adult education among our
alumnae and stimulate our minds to pres-
ent-day lines of thought.

Respectfully submitted,
MARY BEN (WRIGHT) ERWIN,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
LOCAL CLUBS

The work of the Committee en Local
Clubs has this year been largely carried
on through the alumnae office. Its work
has been greatly stimulated by the co-
operation of the Field Secretary of the
Alumnae Association who has made her
contacts with high schools include contacts
with alumnae.

An earnest effort has been made to fes-
ter interest among the local clubs in
Penelope Brown's visits to their localities
this year. During the year fifteen of the
twenty cities where local clubs are organ-
ized were visited by the Field Alumnae
Secretary. In twelve of these fifteen meet-
ings were held (either at tea, dinner, or
lunch). In the other three some alumnae
were seen, but not in groups. In seven
other cities, where there are no organized
clubs, the alumtnae got together in gi-oups.
In two of these places, Penelope Brown
and Dorothy Hutton met the alumnae at
group meetings. In all, nineteen club
meetings or group gatherings were held.
The movies of the campus were shown in
every place possible. Agonistics and the
latest school literature were taken for the
alumnae to see. The secretary tried to
have the latest gossip from the campus and
the latest news from alumnae clubs and
the different meetings. Contact was made
with over two hundred and sixty-two alum-
nae, rot including those of Decatur and
Atlanta. These places where clubs are
not organized were urged to have some
form of organization just to help the
College with the high school work and to
get together for the various programs.
In these places, the secretary tried to make
contact with as many alumnae as possible
individually either by telephone, calls, at
the high schools, or by correspondence. It
was only through the clubs and the indi-
vidual alumnae that as much work as was
done this year with the high schools was
possible.

Further contact was made with local
groups by the regular attendance of the
Alumnae Secretary at the monthly meet-
ings of the Decatur Club, the Atlanta Club
and the Business Girls' Group of Atlanta.

To regularly organized groups and to a
few prospective ones (Los Angeles, Green-
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club bulletins, containing recent campus
gossip and news, have been mailed from
the alumnae office. These bulletins were
supplemented by additional items (songs,
letters from faculty members, and pic-
torial bulletins) at the time of Founder's
Day. These were reported as enjoyable
features of all the meetings.

Alumnae club projects have included the
following: by the Atlanta Club, a bazaar
at Christmas time, a gift of five dollars
toward the decorations for the Founder's
Day dinner at the College, help with the
high school party given for Decatur and
Atlanta students, and a benefit bridge
party in the spring; by the Decatur Club,
the Annual Children's Party en Friday of
Commencement; by the New Orleans Club,
linens made by the members for the Alum-
nae House; by the Columbus Club, a do-
nation of five dollars which was used for
bedroom curtains in the Alumnae House;
and by the Charlotte Club, continued work
toward completing the pergola in the
Alumnae Garden.

The Clubs Committee takes pride in the
organization of a New York Agnes Scott
Alumnae Club in December. This group
met again on February the twenty-second
and again in the spring. This plan of
three meetings a year has been adopted
by them as a regular schedule.

Alumnae Clubs often make inquiries of
the office of the way in which they may
help the College. It is felt that their pur-
pose should be primarily to keep alive in-
terest in Agnes Scott, secondly to cooper-
ate with the College in creating interest
among good prospective students in Agnes
Scott, and finally to make some material
gift to the College. It is with sincerity
that this committee can say that it be-
lieves organized groups this year have ac-
complished this.

Respectfully submitted.

EMILY SPIVEY,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE PUBLICITY
COMMITTEE

During the past year the Publicity Com-
mittee has continued its efforts to secure
effective publicity for the College through
the press, radio, and campus agencies.

The committee has from time to time
made suggestions to K. U. B., the journal-
ism club, concerning items of college news
that should be sent to newspapers in At-
lanta or in other cities. We recognize
gratefully the work of the student re-
porters, who secure regular dissemination
of college news through the press. We
wish also to express appreciation of the
assistance of the Alumnae Secretary, who
has personally reported important alumnae
news to the papers.

One of the special projects adopted for
this year was the preparation of feature
articles about the College for the mag-
azine sections of prominent newspapers.
We accomplished one step in the realiza-
tion of this plan when the Magazine Sec-
tion of the Atlanta Journal of May 7 car-
ried an illustrated story of the develop-
ments that Miss Hopkins has witnessed at
Agnes Scott during her forty-four years
of service as Dean of the college. Martha
Lin Manly, assisted largely by the Alum-
nae Secretary and slightly by the Com-
mittee Chairman, prepared this ai-ticle.
Plans are being made for the publication
of similar articles in the newspapers of
other cities and states.

Radio publicity, under the direction of
Mary Catherine Williamson, is at present
being intensively developed. Throughout
the year the Atlanta Journal has courte-
ously given us broadcasts, and has recent-
ly allowed us more frequent programs and
better hours. With these broader oppor-
tunities, the Committee has concentrated
attention upon making our "moments on
the air" as valuable as possible in put-
ting Agnes Scott before the public.

It is the plan to present over WSB in
the Agnes Scott Broadcasts as many
phases of college life as possible. Alum-
nae, students, and faculty are to present
the programs. The first in the new fifteen
minute broadcasts presented Dr. McCain,
who gave a very enlightening talk on the
condition of the College during the past
year. The next program presented Dor-
othy Hutton, who gave an inclusive sum-
mary of campus events; and an Agnes
Scott piano student, assisted by Mr.
Dieckmann. The third program presented
Blackfriars in a part of the play, "Quality
Street," which is to be given at Com-
mencement time. On May 23 "Pinafore,"
also to be given on the campus at Com-
mencement, was presented. These last two
broadcasts were accompanied by announce-
ments of the time, date, and place, of pro-
duction on the campus. Mr. George Win-
ship has promised to be the speaker for
the program during the week of May 29;
he will speak on the building program
which the College is considering. It is
hoped to present on future programs as
many prominent alumnae as are available,
and to have them speak on subjects per-
taining to the various professions in which
they are engaged. During the summer
months the programs will consist, in part,
of educational talks by members of the
faculty who are in Atlanta and Decatur
during the vacation. Announcements of
all the programs are fully written up in
the radio page of the Atlanta Journal on
the day of broadcasting.

Respectfully submitted,

JANEF PRESTON,

Chairman.

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
PREPARATORY SCHOOLS

The Committee on Preparatory Schools
begs to submit the following report for the
session 1932-1933:

The work of the Committee on Prepar-
atory Schools has this year been taken
over almost entirely by an able, well-
qualified, and regularly employed alum-
na Miss Penelope Brown of the class of
1932 as traveling representative of the
College. The chairman of this committee
worked with her during her visits to high
schools of Birmingham, Alabama.

The contacts made by Miss Brown while
she was in Birmingham consisted in talks
made by her to the junior and senior girls
in the following schools: Ramsay, Phillips,
Woodlawn, Bessemer and Loulie Compton
Seminary. Great interest was shown at
the several schools by the girls over the
attractive talk and moving pictures pre-
sented by the representative, but it is
feared that probably few girls will be able
to attend Agnes Scott this fall, owing
to restricted financial conditions, which
have been felt decidedly in and around
Birmingham.

In Atlanta a committee under the chair-
manship of Eloise Gaines, '28, and Patricia
Collins, '28, cooperated with the College
in giving a High School Party for seniors
of the Atlanta and Decatur high schools.
Two hundred and eighty students were in-
vited to attend the party on March the
eleventh, from eleven to four-thirty o'clock,
at the College. Transportation to Agnes
Scott was generously provided by mem-
bers of the Atlanta Alumnae Club, in
whose name the party was given. One
hundred and forty students enjoyed the
carefully planned program, which included
presentations by the Physical Education
and Spoken English Departments, a tour
of the campus under the direction of Mor-
tar Board, lunch in Rebekah Scott dining
room, and a tea-dance under the leader-
ship of the Cotillion Club.

Also under the work of this committee
was the visit of two prospective students
of the Cartersville High School, who at-
tended May Day at the invitation of Emily
Spivey, '25. They were entertained at the
College and all expenses were paid for
them while they were on the campus.

Alumnae everywhere that the Field
Secretary has been this year may be said
to have constituted this committee. To
each of these cooperative alumnae the
committee wishes to express appreciation.
A vote of thanks goes from this commit-
tee likewise to Penelope Brown for the
splendid way in which she has carried out
her work during the year. To her has been
detailed the task of making this report

more explicit, by having it include her
own.

Respectfully submitted,
Vallie Young (White) Archibald,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE FIELD SECRETARY
OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

In visiting eighty-nine cities in twelve
southern states and the District of Colum-
bia, contacts were made with one hundred
and thirty-four high schools. In these one
hundred and thirty-four, talks were made
in one hundred and twenty, and movies
were shown in one hundred and seven. Of
the fourteen where talks could not be ar-
ranged, the principals were seen in ten,
and teas given for students in four. For the
twenty-seven where the movies could not
be shown, arrangementes were made in
seven for the movies to be shown else-
where (in churches, moving picture houses,
or at teas).

Approximately $357.91 was spent on
traveling expenses while on trips. The rea-
sonableness of this amount was made pos-
sible through the hospitality and the splen-
did cooperation of the alumnae in each
city. They were asked to make the contact
at high schools, but volunteered them-
selves as chauffeurs, hostesses, traveling
companions, moral support, et. al.

Six long trips were made and several
day and two or three day trips. These last
were made in the College Chevrolet. The
secretary was accompanied on the different
trips in the car by Dorothy Hutton, '29,
Imogene Hudson, '32, Sara Lane Smith, '32,
and Louise McCain, '34. Their help in driv-
ing, talking and lending their support in
every way is most appreciated. The long
trips were taken by train or bus.

Besides actually visiting the various high
schools, further contacts were made
through correspondence. Catalogues of
Agnes Scott were sent to almost all of the
accredited high schools in the South. An-
nouncements of the competitive scholarship
examinations were sent out to these high
schools, and to some chosen private pre-
paratory schools ond other public schools
all over the country. As a resut of this, a-
bout one hundred and sixteen took exami-
nations. Annuals were sent to fifty li-
braries in as many high schools. Litera-
ture was sent to those high schools where
there were "college advisory committees."
Follow-up work with the students seen in
the various high schools was done by Betty
Bonham, '32, and Penelope Brown, '32.
Special stationery, designed by Judy Blun-
dell, '33, was used for this.

Respectfullv submitted.
PENELOPE BROWN,
Field Alumnae Secretary.

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THE COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION
AND BY-LAWS

The Committee on Constitution and By-
Laws begs leave to submit the following
report, incorporating certain recommenda-
tions suggested by the committee as a
whole.

Reference to the 1932 report of the Con-
stitution and By-Laws Committee discloses
the fact that two items of unfinished busi-
ness were inherited from the preceding
committee and your committee submits
that these should be dealt with in the fol-
lowing manner:

1. By-Laws, Article V, Elections: Sec-
tion 1. Nominations: It is recommended
that the words, "Two nominees . . ", fol-
lowing the word "Nominations" at the be-
ginning of the sentence be struck, and the
words, "One nominee", be inserted in place
thereof, so that the section shall read:
"One nominee for each office and for each
chairmanship shall be made by a nomina-
ting committee, appointed by the Execu-
tive Committee, not later than two months
before the annual meeting. When the bal-
lot is presented, additional nominations
may be made from the floor." The reason
for this change is the fact that it has been
brought to the attention of the commictee
that two nominees involve a double amount
of notification which is in truth unneces-
sary since additional nominations may be
made in the discretion of the qualified
voter as Section 1. points out. Also it has
been found that, in a great many cases, a
defeated nominee, who might be a val-
uable asset to the Association loses inter-
est after elections. For these reasons, and
principally because it is felt that any ad-
vantage gained is insufficient to outweigh
disadvantages, your committee makes the
foregoing recommendation.

2. By-Laws, Article VIII, Section 1. It
is submitted that this should be amended
so that the enumeration of the members
composing the Alumnae Council shall be
ten, instead of heretofore, nine, and that
member class Number 10 shall be: "All re-
tired presidents of the Alumnae Associa-
tion." This amendment is suggested to
you because it has been brought to the
attention of the committee that the group
was omitted through inadvertence.

Further, your committee suggests:

1. That Article IV, Section 5-a, of the
By-Laws be carried out henceforth, in re-
gard to the presentation of the work and
purpose of the Association.

2. That unless Article IV, Section 5-c,
of the By-Laws be carried out with refer-
ence to an audit of accounts, there is an
inconsistency and the same shall be struck
from the text.

3. That Article IV, Section 5-1, of the
By-Laws be amended to read: "The Presi-
dent of Student Government shall be asked
to appoint one student from the day stu-
dents and one from the boarding students
who, at the invitation of the chairman,
shall be invited to confer with the Com-
mittee at least twice a year." This sug-
gestion is prompted by the fact that the
students themselves have so appointed stu-
dent representation on the Tea Room Com-
mittee for the past two years.

The committee believes that the above
recommendations will make for better
clarification and usefulness of the Con-
stitution and By-Laws.

Respectfully submitted,

PATRICIA COLLINS,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE ENTERTAINMENT
COMMITTEE

The Entertainment Committee has func-
tioned on eight occasions this year at
Agnes Scott.

Following a suggestion made by Dr.
McCain, the new students were entertain-
ed at a tea in the Anna Young Alumnae
House at the opening of the session. One
hundred and eleven new students called,
and the occasion seemed well enough at-
tended to warrant its repetition.

The Entertainment Committee sponsor-
ed the annual Home Coming Tea on Sat-
urday of Thanksgiving Week-End. About
eighty guests called during the afternoon.
This number included faculty, alumnae and
student representatives of the campus or-
ganizations. Members of the Granddaugh-
ters' Club served.

Also sponsored by this committee were
an informal meeting of the Granddaugh-
ters' Club in the fall and a dinner given
for them and their escorts on Stunt Night,
October the seventeenth.

The Entertainment Committee had so
far functioned under the chairmanship of
Mary (Sayward) Rogers, '28. In January
she moved to Albany, Georgia, and tender-
ed her resignation at that time. She was
succeeded by Eloise (Gay) Brawley, '16,
as chairman and Theodosia (Willingham)
Anderson, '11, as co-chairman.

The Entertainment Committee acted as
a committee for decorating for the Foun-
der's Day dinner, given in the gymnasium
and attended by local alumnae as well as
by the college community. This work was
materially lightened by a donation of five
dollars by the Atlanta Club and another
donation by Cora (Morton) Durrett, '24.

Another informal meeting of the Grand-
daughters' Club took place in the early
spring.

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The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

The Entertainment Committee gave a
tea for the senior class on Saturday after-
noon, April the twenty-second. At this time
the granddaughters again asssited. Since
the budget had been cut in January,
the committee relied on local alumnae for
donations for this occasion. These dona-
tions were made most generously. The
committee also entertained at open house
in the Alumnae Garden on Sunday of Com-
mencement. Punch for this occasion was
generously donated by Cora (Morton)
Durrett. Also at Commencement this com-
mittee was instrumental in procuring
flowers for the annual Trustees' Luncheon.

The following will show what disposi-
tion the Entertainment Committee made
of the money allotted it this year:

June, 1932 Open House $11.10

September, 1932 Granddaughters'

Tea 1.90

Freshman Tea___ 10.00

Cards for Invitations 1.00

October, 1932 Tea for Alumnae

Week-End 3.30

November, 1932 Flowers and
Guests Dinner of Alumnae

Week-End 2.70

December, 1932 Home-Coming Tea 15.45
May, 1933 Tickets for High School
Girls for May Day and Senior
Opera 1.80

Open House 8.00

$55.25
The Entertainment Committee would
recommend a continuation of these sched-
uled alumnae entertainments and the ad-
dition of the annual freshman party at
the beginning of the session, in order to

familiarize new students with the usages
of the Alumnae House and to give this
committee another valuable contact with
the student body.

Respectfully submitted,
ELOISE (GAY) BRAWLEY,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE STUDENT LOAN
COMMITTEE

Receipts

Received from Caroline (McKin-

ney) Hill, former Chairman $167.58

Payments on Loan ($12.50 on form-
er one and $15.00 on one this year 27.43

Savings Bank Interest .13

Disbursements

$195.14

Loans made (three for $50.00 and

one for $15.00) $165.00

Balance on Hand $ 30.14

The committee has not written letters to
those students who still owe money to this
fund, since the previous committee had
written last year with such poor results
and since financial conditions generlly
seemed no better. The committee plans,
however, to get in touch with the eleven
alumnae who still owe money to this com-
mittee, this amounting to $880.00.

It is hoped that money for this fund
will be available for the next session, since
there have been so many calls for help
which this committee has not been able to
answer from a lack of proper funds.
Respectfully submitted,
HATTIE LEE (WEST) CANDLER,

Chairman.

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