July 7, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



school to start in 1893 with its doors open to 

 the admission of women upon the same condi- 

 tions as for men, the blessing of coeducation in 

 medicine being more adequately appreciated 

 to-day than at that time. This is only one of 

 the many large services to the women's cause 

 rendered by President Thomas outside of Bryn 

 MawT College. 



To that very important if not larger part 

 of college education which is represented by 

 students' life, association in college halls of 

 residence and activities, here fortunately with- 

 out intercollegiate athletics, clubs and fraterni- 

 ties, and without sacrifice of the primary col- 

 legiate aim, and which really creates the spirit 

 and personality of the college, Bryn Mawr has 

 made its full and delightful contribution, but 

 this is for those who have lived the life to tell. 

 Most charmingly and competently has this been 

 done by the pen of a gifted alumna, Mrs. Helen 

 Thomas Flexner, in the brochure entitled 

 "Bryn Mawr — a Characterisation." 



I may mention as a most notable contribu- 

 tion affecting the life of students the system 

 of students' self-government, which was devel- 

 oped here in a more completely organized and 

 unrestricted form than existed elsewhere. It 

 "was born," President Thomas tells us, "of the 

 temporary and whoUy fortuitous coming to- 

 gether of marriageable men and maidens as 

 professors and students." 



We have only to look around us on these 

 lovely grounds and beautiful buildings of grey 

 stone in order to appreciate the significance of 

 the contribution made under the directing mind 

 and taste of President Thomas by Bryn Mawr's 

 architects to the beauty of American colleges 

 in creating here what has been designated as 

 the American Collegiate Grothic style of archi- 

 tecture. 



The best fruits of all the contributions of 

 Bryn Mawr which I have sketched so incom- 

 pletely and inadequately and of the inspiring 

 personal influence and instruction of President 

 Thomas are the lives and work of over 4,500 

 former and present students, of whom about 

 2,000 are alumnae, of this college. 



Who can estimate the benefits to American 

 homes and communities, indeed to the whole 

 nation, resulting from the activities and influ- 



ence of these women who received their inspira- 

 tion and training within these walls? Members 

 of the graduating class! We have every con- 

 fidence that these benefits are to be appreciably 

 increased by your admission to-day to the 

 goodly company of liberally educated women 

 who bear forth to the world the spirit and the 

 traditions of service of Bryn Mawr. 



President Thomas! It is a great privilege 

 and honor for me, personally and as a repre- 

 sentative of the Johns Hopkins University, to 

 be permitted to join with these loyal alumuEe 

 of Bryn Mawr and your colleagues and with 

 hosts of others in paying tribute to you on this 

 occasion for your great and enduring work for 

 this college, which, as I have endeavored to 

 point out, has made important contributions to 

 higher education. It was not really necessary 

 to add the last two words to the title of this 

 address. 



Tou brought to this task, so triumphantly 

 achieved, scholarly attainments and unswerving 

 devotion to productive scholarship, force of 

 character and intellectual ability of a high 

 order, the boundless energy and enthusiasm of 

 abiding youth, indomitaible courage, resource- 

 fulness and perseverance in overcoming diffi- 

 culties, clear vision and steadfast loyalty to 

 ideals, persuasive and vigorous speech, the 

 inspiration of a cultured, radiant and vital 

 personality, an unwavering and ardent devo- 

 tion to the cause not of woman's education only 

 but of her advancement in all ways and her 

 emancipation from all shackles and disabilities. 



In enjoying well earned release from the 

 burdens of administrative responsibility and in 

 turning to other tasks, for we can not think of 

 you as inactive, you carry with you the durable 

 satisfaction of great service rendered to the 

 great cause to which you have devoted your 

 life, the admiration, affection and gratitude of 

 the thousands of students, alumnae and friends 

 of Bryn Mawr College, the appreciative recog- 

 nition and felicitations of other institutions of 

 learning, of scholars and of friends of educa- 

 tion and of the cause of women everywhere. 



We can hardly think of Bryn Mawr without 

 you. President Thomas, but you are passing qn 

 to an able and experienced successor, a three- 

 fold graduate of this college, the torch of un- 



