Education: Barnard’s Unselfish

Barnard College in Manhattan announced last week that it had accepted a bequest of $3,000, income of which will go annually to that Barnard senior who “has given conspicuous evidence of unselfishness during her college course.” Donor of the fund is the late Mrs. Ella Fitzgerald Bryson of Manhattan (Barnard 1894) who wished so to honor her late husband, unselfish Frank Gilbert Bryson.

Barnard trustees at first hesitated to accept the prize money. They wondered how their most unselfish girl might be discovered. Barnard’s Student Council suggested that the prize should go every year to the senior who has given most willingly her time and service to her college, the girl to be chosen at a meeting of her class, with nominations open, ballots secret.