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In the beginning, Sarah Lawrence was so breezily progressive that its suburban neighbors viewed it askance, protested when it began to expand beyond the Lawrence estate. They complained that students raced through town in fur coats and rolled socks, played the piano and sang until all hours. Sarah Lawrence girls no longer overrun Bronxville. They are now responsible to advisers or "dons," who watch their progress, give them permission to leave when they deserve holidays. When President Warren, stately, handsome daughter of the headmaster of Albany (N. Y.) Academy for boys, succeeded President Marion Coats in 1929, she put through a charter enabling the college to give a four-year course, grant A. B. degrees. Though few Sarah Lawrence girls avail themselves of the longer course, under Miss Warren the enrolment has grown, to 277, tuition has been shaved from $1,800 to $1,700. President Warren's last big day in the news came when she forbade students to hitchhike to Yonkers for the afternoon for fear that they might be kidnapped. That provoked a memorable controversy between President Warren and the Mayor of Yonkers. To replace Board Chairman MacCracken, Sarah Lawrence last week elected Dr. Elliott Dunlap Smith, master of Yale's Saybrook College. Elected a trustee was one of Sarah Lawrence's own alumnae: Mrs. John Appleton Clark of Manhattan, Class of 1932, aged 24.