At Bryn Mawr

At Bryn Mawr

The young ladies of Bryn Mawr College did honor last week to two of their number who had smashed all local records, one in scholarship, the other in athletics. Sylvia Walker of Bethlehem, Pa., "greatest athlete ever developed at Bryn Mawr," they named Queen of the May. She was already senior president; had captained the basketball and hockey teams; had played on the lacrosse team. At Frederica De Laguna, daughter of Professor and Mrs. Theodore De Laguna, respectively the head and a member of the Bryn Mawr philosophy department, they marveled when it was announced that she had scored 304 out of a possible 315 honor points in her courses. The previous record was 279 points. A European scholarship was Miss De Laguna's reward, which she proposed to apply at the Sorbonne after some preparatory work in anthropology and philosophy at Columbia University next year.

In Virginia

Last week the University of Virginia fell heir, by the will of Graham F. Blandy, Manhattan stockbroker, to $600,000 with which it was directed to inaugurate an agricultural school. This school, when finished, will represent one more marked advance in the university's progress, under President Edwin A. Alderman (elected 1904), from a small college serving a limited class to a large university meeting the needs of a commonwealth.

No state university in the land has a more aristocratic tradition than Virginia. The sons of first Virginia families went there when their peers--in the north, south and west--were traveling away as they still do from their home state universities, to Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Virginia produced, as it still does, professional men almost exclusively--lawyers, doctors, architects, journalists. Few scions df the aristocracy-that-was became bank clerks, bondsellers, storekeepers. And if they were going to stay on the land, as gentlemen farmers, they did not go to college, unless it was to make friends and carouse. Martial, unruly or younger sons went to Virginia Military Institute. A few technically inclined ones went to Virginia Polytechnic.

It was to extend the advantages of a liberal university to many classes, and not only to select young bloods such as needy Poet Poe found and tried to live up to at Virginia, that President Alderman strove from the first for a bigger university. Now his appeal to the intelligent farming class, of which Virginia like the whole country has great need, will be fortified.