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ALUMNAE OFFICE 

ANNA YOUNG ALUMNAE HOUSE 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 
DECATUR, GEORGIA 



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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 

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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 
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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. 



14 The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 

"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 



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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. 



The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly 15 

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 
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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 
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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 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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