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Download Original 5.44 MB WELLESLEY COLLEGE BULLETIN ANNUAL REPORTS PRESIDENT AND TREASURER J927-J928 WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS FEBRUARY, 1929 SERIES 18 NUMBER 2 WELLESLEY COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORTS PRESIDENT AND TREASURER 1927-1928 TABLE OF CONTENTS Report of the President 5 Report of the Dean of the College 15 Report of the Dean of Freshmen 23 Report of the Dean of Residence 28 Report of the Committee on Graduate Instruction 34 Report of the Librarian 37 Appendix to the President's Report: College Taxation 47 New Courses for 1928-1929 48 Academic Biography of New Members of the Teaching Staff for 1928-1929 48 Leaves of Absence m 1928-1929 51 Promotions of 1928-1929 52 Resignations and Expired Appointments, June 1928 53 Alice Freeman Pahner Fellow for 1928-1929 55 Holder of the Orthopedic Fellowship for 1928-1929 55 Publications of the Faculty 56 Simday Services 61 Addresses 62 Music 67 Exhibitions at the Famsworth Art IVIuseum 68 Appendix to the Dean's Report 70 Report of the Treasurer 91 3 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT To the Board of Trustees: ( I have the honor to present my report for the year closing June 30, 1928. The full history of the year can be learned only by consulting the reports of the other administrative officers, including those of the Deans, the Librarian, the Chairman of the Committee on Graduate Instruction, and of the Treasurer. There have been various changes in the Board of Trustees during the year under review. The most significant of these is the resignation of the Treasurer of the College, Mr. Lewis Kennedy Morse, in January, 1928. The value set by the trustees upon the service of Mr. Morse as Treasurer is indicated by the following resolution adopted by the Board at their meeting on March 9 : In accepting the resignation of the Treasurer of the College, Mr. Lewis Kennedy Morse, the trustees wish to place on record their deep appreciation of his service to the College. Mr. Morse was elected to the Board in November, 1912; he became Assistant Treasurer in May, 1913, and Treasurer January 1, 1914. During Mr. Morse's term as Treasurer, the College has undertaken three campaigns for funds: the million-dollar fund for salary endowment, begun in 1913 and merged after the fire of March, 1914, with the Restoration Fund, amounting with the insurance award to nearly three million; the first phase of the Semi-Centennial Fund of $2,700,000, completed in June, 1921; and the later phase of the Semi-Centennial Fund still in progress, amounting on January 1, 1928, to $4,553,260. At the close of the fiscal year 1912-13, the Trust Funds of the College amounted to $1,364,677; on June 30, 1927, the Treasurer's Report shows the Trust Funds to be $8,520,418, of which $5,866,874 is permanent endowment. With the assistance of the Finance Committee, the Treasurer has had the handling and investing of these funds. How ably Mr. Morse has accomplished his task is shown by the statement of the auditors that on December 31, 1927, the market value of the securities held by the College exceeded the book value by approxi- mately $1,500,000. This alone is a brilliant achievement; but the Wellesley tie of his daughter and her mother, his personal loyalty to both Professor and Mrs. Palmer, all combined to inspire in him a desire to give to the 5 Wellesley College College a service beyond the routine duties of his ofi&ce as Treasurer. Mr. Morse has laid a foundation for all time upon which his successors may confidently build. The trustees gratefully congratulate Mr. Morse on this splendid record of fifteen years and extend to him and to Mrs. Morse all good wishes for the future. At the January meeting, when Mr. Morse's resignation was presented, the trustees referred it to the Finance Committee with instructions to bring a report before the end of the year as to a successor. After careful consideration, the Finance Committee presented at the March meeting the name of James Dean as Treasurer of the College to succeed Mr. Morse. Mr. Dean was unanimously elected. The Finance Committee also recommended that Mr. Morse be continued as a member of the Board to serve out Mr. Dean's unexpired term. This recom- mendation was also adopted unanimously by the Board. Mr. Morse was away when this vote was taken, and when informed of the action of the Board declined to serve, on the ground that he proposed to remove to New York and wished to be relieved of all responsibility. The trustees are to be congratulated on securing Mr. Dean's acceptance of the important ofi&ce of treasurer. Mrs. Alice Upton Pearmain resigned from the Board in May because of ill health. Mrs. Pearmain had been abroad the greater part of the year and felt that her place should be taken by someone able to give more time to the problems of the College. Mrs. Pearmain was elected to the Board in March, 1918. Both before and during her ten years of membership on the Board, she gave loyally of time and thought to college problems. Her service to the College was recorded in the following minute incorporated in the minutes of the meeting of May 11: In accepting the resignation of Alice Upton Pearmain, the trustees of Wellesley College wish to place on record their deep appreciation of the service she has rendered throughout the ten years of her term of office. Keenly interested in all building projects, Mrs. Pearmain gave service on the Building Committee of special value. It was due to her first sug- gestion that the fifth floor of Tower Court was altered, providing additional rooms for twelve students. As a member of the committee in charge of the 6 PREsroENx's Report erection of Alumna^ Hall she gave, without stint, time and thought to make that building adequately serve its purpose. The alterations and furnishings of the Club House at 131 Commonwealth Avenue were almost exclusively her work. The trustees do not forget that before her election to the Board Mrs. Pearmain had made significant contributions to the College through the Alumnae Association. Conspicuous among these contributions was her large share in raising the debt of $109,000 in 1900. Her service through- out has been as expert as tireless. The trustees gratefully record Mrs. Pearmain's farseeing loyalty to her Alma Mater. Miss Grace G. Crocker's term as alumna trustee expired in June, 1928. By vote of the Alumnae Association, alumnae are not immediately eligible for re-election. The trustees, recognizing the value of Miss Crocker's work, especially in connection with the Semi-Centennial Fund, elected her in May to another term of six years. Mrs. Helen Knowles Bonnell, B.A. 1907, was nominated by the Alumnae Association to succeed Miss Crocker as alumna trustee and was unanimously elected at the May meeting for a term of six years. The terms of Mr. Davenport and Mr. Ogden expiring in June, they were unanimously re-elected for another term of six years. At this same May meeting Lieutenant-Governor Frank G. Allen was elected to fill the vacant term closing in 1932, and Mr. John W. Farwell at the same time to fill the vacant term closing in 1930. Mr. Clifton Dwinnell died on March 13, 1928, four days after the March meeting. Mr. Dwinnell was elected a trustee in September, 1925. He was immediately made a member of the Finance Committee, where his expert knowledge of finance was of great value. Seldom has a trustee in so short time made such a significant contribution to the College. The College shares with the business world the loss of a man of great business sagacity and high integrity. Mrs. Elizabeth Parker Hunt, Associate Professor of Reading and Speaking, died on March 22, 1928, after an illness of four months. Mrs. Hunt came to Wellesley in 1920 as Assistant Professor of Reading and Speaking. She was promoted to an associate professorship in 1926. On the retirement of Professor Bennett in 1923 she was made Chairman of the Department, a position she held at the time of her death. The resolution 7 Wellesley College adopted by her colleagues of the Academic Council follows: As members of the Academic Council and the Official Staff of Wellesley College, we desire to place on record our sorrow and our sense of loss at the death, in the fuUness of her powers, of Mrs. Elizabeth Parker Hunt, Associate Professor of Reading and Speaking. Mrs. Hunt received the baccalaureate degree from the University of Iowa, the Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, and her pro- fessional training from various institutions, especially the Curry School of Expression in Boston. Coming to Wellesley in 1920, from a position at the University of Iowa, she was shortly afterward, at the retirement of Professor Malvina Bennett, elected Chairman of the Department. She won immediately the respect and affection of her colleagues and her students. Her staff foimd in her a leader who was considerate of others, unsparing of herself, bringing to her position not only the highest standards of profes- sional attainment, the thoroughness and proficiency which were to be looked for in one chosen to fill such a position, but also a buoyancy of spirit, a zest and a gentle humor, a dignity and fine courtesy, which enhanced for her students the value of the formal lessons she taught. Especially in her direction of dramatic performances were these qualities important. Those working under her guidance were the richer for life by their friendly association with a woman of ripe culture, penetrating insight, poise, sweet temper, and quiet strength.
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