JUN 1 2 19S9 • r HAVE NEWS VOLUME 30—NUMBER 28 HAVERFORD (AND ARDMORE), PA., SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1939 a627 $2.00 A YEAR Spoon Man Award Warner Fite Receives Honorary LL.D. Degree Throng Hears Dr. Hu Shih, President Conifort From Class Of '39 At Morning Exercises - Received By Derr In Commencement Day Addresses In Roberts; Popular "Best Athlete" Assemblage Felled By Crosby Lewis' Spectacle Was Former Student StupendouS Cavalcade, 28 Earn A. B. Degrees, Council Head COM31EN CEMENT CALENDAR Sweeping Campus, 0:25 A.M. Senior Breakfast— 43 Are Bachelors Elected by his class as the Senior Dining Room. best fitted in personality and abil- Reveals Future 1.0,20 A. M. Commencement Exer- Of Science cises, Roberts Halt ity to represent his class and the 12:30 P. M. cheon—FoundersLun College to the outside world, Harry "Sometime Marches On" began Hall. College days officially ended this IL Den was presented with the its hilarioue scramble across the 2:15 P.M. Cricket Match, College spoon award at the climax of the All1111121:— Cope morning for 71 members of the alas Day exercises yesterday, campus yesterday afternoon at ex- 2:15 P. M. Preeentation of Por- Class of 1939, when President Com- afternoon. actly 3.30 o'clock, under the skill- trait — Haverford fort distributed diplomas at Com- Union (Gift of Class President of the'Student Council, ful hand of Flaverford's hey Orson of 1g89) ; Mr. J. mencement exercises .in Roberts Co-Captain of the Track Team, Welles, otherwise known as Crosby Stoadell Stokes, Pro- aiding. Hall to the 100th class to graduate and Permanent Vice-President of Lewis. Watching it were sundry 2:45 P. M. Alumni Sports. from Haverford.. Following the bis class, Den has received many members of the Senior Class, and 5:20 P. M. Annual Meeting of the presentation of degrees, Dr. His awards at the bands of the student Alumni ABsOCIBIJOU Shih, Chinese ambassador to the body, being elected best all-around families. It began its whimsical Haverford Union. athlete, best all-around undergrad- progress in the traditonally beau- 1,30 P. M. Alumni sueeer—on United States and former pupil of tiful confines of the Library garden the lawn. President Comfort, concluded exere uate, and most popular in the re- Dr. Warner Fite, '89, Professor :is P. se. else Singing—Found- cises with the Commencement cent News poll. and it was welcomed with the tra- em Hall. a& Emeritus of Philosophy at Prince- ditionally overwhelming enthusi- 8:15 P. M. Altinint Entertainment dress. Active In Athletics Introduced by Morris E. Leeds, Otustanding in athletic affairs, ton University, received the Hon- asm of Haverford Seniors. —Hebei-Le Halt After opening the program by 10;00 P. M. to midnight: Dancing '88, President of the Board of Man- Dem has played Varsity football orary degree of Doctor of Letters Gyinnaulum. agers, who opened ceremonies al for three years and Varsity Track presenting the athletic awards and at Commencement Exercises this captaincies' for 1939-1940, Dean of 11 a.m., with a reading from the for four years, in addition to ac- Bible, President Comfort in his tivity in Jayvee basketball during morning, the only honorary degree Freshmen Archibald Macintosh conferred. spoke a few words to the Alumni, annual graduation speech reviewed his Freshman and Sophomore outstanding activities of the Alum- years. Co-Captain of Track this Dr. Fite entered Haverford in parents, and Seniors present con- Variety Keynotes year, he holds the College's indi- cerning Athletics at the College. ni, Faculty, and students on the 1885 and participated in under- Acknowledgment and appreciation campus during the current year. vidual high-scoring record as well Art exhibitions sponsored by Pro- as the College record in the low , graduate activities. After gradu- of the 1939 record followed tnis Plans Of Seniors ation he attended the Philadelphia address. fessor A. Jardine Williamson and hurdles. A member of the Varsity Dr, Christian Brinton, '92, won Club for -three years, he also be- Divinity School and received his Purely Coincidence commendation from the President, came a member of Founders Club Ph.D. at the University of Penn- "Sometimes Marches On" was After Graduation who also thanked Alumni for their and the Executive Athletic Com- sylvania in 1894 after spending the original product of a Haver- cooperation in the completion of mittee thin year, several years abroad. ford mind. Any simlarity in name the Common Rosin and in the im- A resident of Germantown, he to any other organization (or da- Marriage,Poetry, Hotels provement of College .grounds. entered in the Fall of 1934 freill In the ensuing years, Dr. Fite ces display of 'current history)' is, the Penn Charter School, and was taught philosophy at Williams Col- according to Class Day Chairman Will Occupy '39 Model League Lauded immediately placed on his class's lege, University of Chicago, Uni- L. Crosby .Lewis, a complete coin- In Future After commending the perform- executive committee. He served versity of Texas, Indiana Univers- cidence. It was the whimsical ance of undergraduate repineenta- as class president for the next two ity„ Harvard University and Le- tives to the 1939 Model Assembly prophecy of Haverford men as With interests as varied as get- years, as vice-president this last land Stanford Junior University. they will be in the future, and of the League of Nations, Presi- year, and was finally elected per- In • 1916, he became Chairman of Lewis does not suggest that thes, ting married, teaching, writing dent Comfort turned to the field of manent vice-president. He has also the Department of Philosophy at resemble the -future in any way at poetry, and loafing in the country, athletics, which, he said, had been represented his class on the Stu- Princeton University, where he the point. of, graduation. "Heaven the graduating class leaves the marked by the winning of the Mid- dent Council every year he has was Stuart Professor of Ethics. forbid," says Lewis. "I couldn't campus and begins its initial in- dle Atlantic Soccer championship been here, acting as its eecretary Author of An Introductory hope to tell you what they resem- and by the fourth undefeated sea- and president, respectively, in the Study of Ethics," and "Individual- ble at Out point." vestigation of life off the campus. son of the track team in dual last two years. ism," Dr. Fite has contributed Spectators united in saying that Agreeing only in one thing, that meets. Majoring in Engineering, Derr widely to many philosophical jour- for spontaneity and freshness of jobs are still hard to find, a large "We have come to expect," the has been a member of the Engineer- nals, and periodicals. He is a mem- approach this particular Gass Day majority of them plan to spend President continued, "victories in ing Club for three years. A mem- ber of the American Philosophical entertainment, excelled any others the Summer working. this department of athletics, and ber of the Student Affairs Commit- Association, the American Asso- they had over seen. A large. num- Twenty-four hours after Com- we suspect that Founder's Bell tee, and a member of the Fresh- ciation of University Professors, ber of the spectators had never mencement, Jerome I. Aron, erst- rings now about 5.90 of its own vo- man-Junior Dance Committee in Phi Beta Kappa, and the Nassau seen any other Class Day entertain- while Government major, will be lition whenever there is a track his first year. He is a member of Club of Princeton. ments, but they allowed themselves somewhere on the Pacific engaged, meet." the Triangle Society, local secret to be overwhelmed by the majority probably, in perming a Chinese New Endowments Announced fraternity. opinion. grammar. Aron will fly from Cam- Spoon Presentation den to the coast, and embark at Announced by President Com- The spoon is a 25-inch, hand- Velte To Spend Junior Derr Receives Award once for the Far East. No par- fort was the establishment of a carved, solid mahogany object with The presentation of the Spoon ticular reason — just curiosity," $20,000 fund given anonymously gilt letters, presented by the Class Year Studying Abroad Man award te Harry H. DeM was Aron stated when interviewd. in honor of Dr. A. T. Murray, '85, of 1938, BB the custom is that each greeted with much enthusiastic ap- One Senior has already an- the income of which will be avail- class present the spoon to the next. William E. Velte will spend his plause. Immediately following this, his engagement and another will able as the Augustus 'Faber Mur- The presentation was made by junior year studying in the Uni- the Spoon for the 1940 presenta- be married sometime early in ray Research Fellowship for a Laird H. Simmons, Chairman of versity of Weimar, Germany and tion was placed in charge of Rob- August. Samuel Witheis is the Haverford graduate who wishes to the Spoon Committee, at the end the University of Zurich, Switzer- ert W. McConnell, President of the man who has announced his en- do work in English, Classical, or of the Class Day Exercises on the land. Velte, a German major, Class of '40. Various gifts and gagement, but he is unable at this German philology and literature. lawn in front of the Library. plans to sail for Germany soon af- announcements of gifts were made time to give the date of the wed- Another anonymous grant has also As described in the directions ter the close of school. to several members of the Senior ding. The other man, who pre- been made to extend instruction posted for the spoon-man elections, During the summer he will study Class at this point.