Wellesley College Library Wellesley College ®lkm XLVII 311 WELLESLEY, MASS., MARCH 16, 1939 No. 21 Wellesley Will Dedicate New Recreation Building and George Howe Davenport Pool DONOR FOR WHOM POOL IS NAMED Mr. Lindeman To Cheers Will Talk on Leisure Educator To Greet House As Education Lead Honors "Education for the Presidents Leisure in a Demo- Day Chapel cratic Society" is the topic which Eduard New Dormitory Leaders Lindeman, authority on Miss Gallagher, A Goucher Assembly After Chapel recreation, will discuss Faculty Member, To Talk For Announcements at the Dedication cere- On History Of Women mony in the new Rec- Inaugurating a new custom, reation Building Thurs- Katharine J. Gallagher, pro- Wellesley will cheer the newly- day, March 16, at 8 fessor of History at Goucher Col- elected House Presidents at a spe- p.m. President Mildred lege, will speak on Honors Day, cial announcement on the steps of H. McAfee will pre- March 21, in the Chapel at 8:15 a. Houghton Memorial Chapel at the side. Mr. Lindeman is m., on the subject "A Grim Chap- conclusion of the chapel service, especially well fitted ter in the Cultural History of Thursday, March 16. The house to speak inasmuch as Women." Professor Gallagher is he is professor of So- presidents will take over import- widely known as a lecturer of dis- ant positions, inasmuch as they ciology at the New tinction in the field of Renaissance are responsible for the smooth York School of Social history, and as a scholar who has running of their respective houses. Work and the Director given much thought to the subject of the Division of Rec- In the quadrangle Shafer elect- of education for women. She is a Projects spon- ed Marjorie Jones '40; Betty Hen- reation graduate of Vassar College, and drickson '40; Cazenove, Carol Cos- sored by the Works holds the Doctor's degree from the Administra- den '40; and Beebe, Janet David- Progress University of Wisconsin. She has '40. of Court tion. son Students Tower taken an active part in the work '40. Claflin dedication pro- chose Jean Cumming The of the American Association of elected Virginia Merrills '40; and gram will be preceded University Women, and is at pres- Virginia Grier '40 formal dinner at Severance voted by a ent a member of the committee of house office. Hall Thurs- to the top Pomeroy the International Association of President of 6:30 p.m. The The new House day at University Women. will be Harriet Lundgaard will include Munger guests Miss Gallagher has spent much '40; of Stone Hall, Sarah Rankin Miss McAfee, Mrs. (Continued on Page 12, Col. 1) '40; and of Olive Davis Hall, Hope George Howe Daven- Kibbee '40. port, wife of the late George Howe Daven- CouncilAdoptsNew Talk port for whom the Mr. Sheean To swimming pool is System of Credits On Foreign Affairs named; Professor and Mrs. Eduard Linde- Future Probation Lists Will man, and the Deans, Vincent Sheean, foreign corre- Not Include Names Of (Cont. on P. 7, Col. 1) George Howe Davenport, late trustee and benefactor. spondent and author, will express Juniors And Seniors "Personal Opinions" on European affairs in a lecture sponsored by The Academic Council has Forum in Alumnae Hall Thursday, Harriet Harrison Conveys Impression Of adopted certain changes in its poli- March 23, at 8:00 p. m. cies which it is a satisfaction to Speaking from first hand obser- General World Turmoil In Burma Despatch announce at this time. In order vation of significant men and to facilitate the summarization events, Mr. Sheean will discuss and comparison of records a new called "credit ratio" is to be current international news from a Editor's Note: manence in present living condi- free moving, tribal Arabs for whom term au- tions have influenced our reactions. they were intended. used. This term is defined as the personal point of view. The Although lacking a permanent Personal History, Not In Tunis, where we stopped for ratio of the number of quality thor of foreign correspondent, NEWS lias Italians In Africa Algeria, Peace but a Word, and San Felice, one day after leaving a points to the number of semester availed itself of the fact that Har- The very ship on which we began strict guard protects the reservoir involved. This means, for he has a long-standing background hours riet Harrison, last year's editor- our journey introduced us to the from Italian farmers living in the example, that credit ratio of 1.0 and knowledge of European his- a in-chief, is now on a trip around conditions. In first uncertainty of district. Attempts have been would correspond to an all C rec- tory. the world. The following letter, wireless from mid-ocean a message made to poison this source of water ord; 2.0 to an all B record. Tickets for the lecture will cost dated February 20, Burma, was Rome informed the captain that for the city. The Tunisian French The first of these changes in pol- fifty cents, and will be sold at the written aboard the Steamship Ka- his ship (one of the largest of the not only hate but fear the large through icy consists in the raising of the Ticket Booth, Monday India Steam rapa/ra of the British Italian line) had been command- influx of Italian settlers into the standard required for attainment Thursday, March 20-23. Our Navigation Company, Limited. eered by the government. As flag- protectorate. of honors. Except for the mem- correspondent embarked at Bos- she ship of a commercial fleet, was Iraq's Experimentation bers of the Class of 1939 whose present WELLESLEY WILL HEAR ton, October 16. At the to carry 20,000 Italian colonists honors will be awarded as in the Turkey offered us another vari- moment she is in Java. to Tripoli in Libya, and the cap- past, any student whose name ap- MARGARET A. BARNES ety of unrest. The period of heavy tain must reach Genoa no later pears on an honors list may have Dear Wellesley ites: mourning for Mustafa Kemal Ata- Margaret Barnes, than a specified date. The order the assurance that she has at- Mrs. Ayer Imagine, if you can, a greater turk began on the day we sailed author publicized necessitated a revolutionary change tained a credit ratio of at least of the recently antithesis of atmosphere than the up the Sea of Marmora to Istanbul. in schedule some ports of call 2.0 on the work under considera- Wisdom's Cute, and onetime win- healthy, organized routine of your — During 15 years of Turkish inde- were completely omitted, and pas- tion. Up to the present time it ner of the Pulitzer Prize for fic- Wellesley scene and the unkempt, pendence this piesident and dicta- sengers were literally dumped in has been possible to be a Wellesley tion, will deliver the Sophie Chan- fanatical hysteria of the sunrise tor has performed miracles in the Naples, they wished to College Scholar or to receive tell Hart fund lecture Tuesday, scene on the holy river Ganges at whether westernization of Turkey. The disembark or had plans for con- Freshman honors with a slightly March 28 at 4:40 p. m. in Pendle- Benares, India. Perhaps you may steady stream of weeping men and lower rating than this. ton Hall. then understand how impossible it tinuing to other ports. Rome had women, who went to view his body Because captain could do of this change there will be is to record our Odyssian wander- spoken and the lying in state at the Dolmabahce, a "The adventures of an accident- somewhat smaller ings in a coherent style for you. nothing to placate the indignant gave witness to the adoration of number of Jun- al author" is subject of Mrs. the iors than in My increasing bewilderment as we storm of protest from incommoded the Turks for the man who separ- previous years who Barnes' lecture, the second to be learn on see the world with our own eyes passengers. ated church from state and un- Honors Day that they are sponsored the fund. under Hart Wellesley College Scholars. The convinces me that the chasm be- passage ended at Algiers, veiled the women. Now that the Established for the department of Our is increased prestige for tween the intellectually curious had to strong hand of the president this group English Composition by former where the ship fortunately religion- of all the will, we trust, be a source of satis- Wellesley minds and the the confusion of gone, no one—least students of Miss Hart's the fund tie up. Leaving minds of the East is, at knows what fate awaits faction to every one. stunned shipboard, we set out on a motor Turks— provided its first lecturer in No- present, unbridgeable. the newborn nation. Other changes are to be inaugu- to the Sahara. Our vember 1937, Miss Elizabeth trip down when however, a consciousness of The Taurus Express, a part of rated which are designed to intro- If, frequently attracted to Drew came here to speak on mod- eyes were world turmoil, a sensation of im- ex-Kaiser Wilhelm IPs Berlin to duce greater flexibility in comput- ern drama. impromptu drawings of the ham- pending change, has pervaded even Baghdad railroad, carried us into ing the "C average" required for mer and sickle on walls and public found keen Arab the protected campus, then you Iraq, where we (Conti)iucd on Page 11, Col. buildings in the towns through 2) Friday, March 17, may surely comprehend the in- agitation.