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Report of the President 4' WELLESLEY COLLEGE. PRESIDENTS REPORT, 1SS9. : WELLESLEY COLLEGE. PKESIDENT'S EEPOKT. 1889. BOSTON Frank Wood, Printer, 352 Washington Street. 1889. — : USIVERSITI IOWA STATE ^^ -^o'-- Library. ^%a,i.V^> PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT. To the Board of Trustees of Wellesley College : Ladies and Gentlemen —The President of the College has the honor to submit the following as her report for the academic year 1888-89. In presenting this report at the close of this first year of service, her first words must be those of gratitude for the continued prosperity of the College. In view of its steady progress under all difficulties, we feel anew the force of the Founder's dying prophecy, " God will finish it." In the discussion of changes or new measures proposed, it is most grati- fying and reassuring to note the ever-deepening loyalty of all the Fac- ulty to those principles which he deemed fundamental to the success of a Christian college. The corps of instruction now numbers eighty-two. The classification is as follows : Professors ,14 Associate Professors 5 Lecturers 3 Instructors 30 Tutors 5 Assistants 8 Librarians 2 Director and Instructors in the School of Music 12 Director and Instructors in the School of Art 3 Total 82 Other officers 8 Total 90 For the second time in our history, and the first in twelve years, death has removed one of the members of the Faculty. On October 6th Miss Clara French died after a brief illness. She had but just entered upon her first year of service as Instructor in English Literature. Although Miss French had met her classes but a few times, the students had already felt "her power ; and those of her colleagues who in these few busy days had come to know her, testified to the deep impression made upon them "by her sincerity of character and that energy of purpose whose infiuence will out- last her connection with the College, and inspire her associates to new endeavors in the work intrusted to their hands." and T^^^"«'»Sy. ,; Science Ll"br8iry — Miss Sara A. Emerson, Associate Professor of Latin, was not able to resume her duties on account of impaired bealtli, and was granted leave of absence until April, when she returned to her post. Miss Florence Yost, B.A. ('88 Cornell University), served as substitute during her absence. Professor Mary A. Currier, of the department of Elocution, finding her- self in need of rest, was granted leave of absence in March for the remainder of the year. Miss Cora E. Everett, assistant, was placed in charge of the department, and excellent provision was made for the advanced classes by the introduction of a course of ten lectures, one per week, given by three skilled teachers from Boston ; namely. Professor L. Alonzo Butterfield, Mrs. Curry, and Miss Mary A. Blood. Miss Lucia Clarke, Instructor in Latin, was laid aside for three months in consequence of an accident. Miss Estelle M. Hurll, Instructor in Ethics, was prevented by illness from resuming her duties until November. Miss Delia M. Taylor served as substitute during her absence. Miss Alma E. Aumack, of the department of Physics, began in Jan- uary to feel the effects of long continued and excessive raentaFwork, which, with the strain of home anxieties, has made it necessary for her to lighten materially her programme while she continues at her post. Aside from these cases the members of the staff' have been in good health, and able to carry on their duties with vigor. In June, the Acting President, in accepting the Presidency of the Col- lege, resigned the Professorship of Mathematics, which she had held since 1877, and Associate Professor Ellen A. Hayes was appointed to fill the vacant chair. Miss Eva Chandler was promoted from Instructor in Mathe- matics to Associate Professor of Mathematics. Professor Sarah F. Whiting, of the department of Physics, and Professor Katherine Coman, of the department of History, have been absent in Europe, each enjoying her sabbatical year. In the absence of Professor Whiting, Miss Alma E. Aumack, Instructor in Physics, was appointed acting head of the department, and Miss Helen Baldwin, Tutor and Laboratory Demon- strator. Miss Mary A. Knox, Instructor in History, was appointed acting head of the History department, and Miss Marcia K. Kendall, Instructor in History. Miss Ellen L. Burrell, Instructor in Mathematics, was granted leave of absence for the year. Mrs. Sarah Woodman Paul, A.B. ('81 Wellesley College), was appointed to fill this vacancy. The Faculty lost from its membership the following : Miss Mary C. Monroe, Instructor in Rhetoric, resigned because of home cir- cumstances. Miss Mary Caswell, Instructor in Botany, Friiulein Bertha MUhry, Instructor in German, and Mile. Adele Coustans, Instructor in Fi-encli, resigned because of impaired health. — — — Miss Lillian Burlingame, Tutor in Latin, entered upon a year of advanced study at Oxford University, England. These resignations were accepted with regret, and cheerful testimony is borne to the fidelity and ability with which these officers discharged their duties. To fill the vacancies caused by these retirements, the following appoint- ments were made : Miss Margaret Janvier, Instructor in Rhetoric, during the first semester; Mrs. Mary P. Manly during the second semester. Miss Anna R. Brown, Instructor in English Literature, for the first two terms. Miss Emma Ditto for the spring term. Mile. Amelie Tournier, Instructor in French. Fraulein Maria Eggers, Instructor in German. Miss Addie Belle Hawes, B. A. (Oberlin College), Instructor in Latin. Miss Maria Da Silva was appointed Tutor in Italian. Miss Marion McGregor Noyes was appointed Instructor in Logic. Miss Cora E. Everett, Assistant in Elocution. The whole number of students received this year is six hundred and eighty-three, —fifty-five more than were received the preceding year, and an increase of ninety-three in two years. Five hundred and thirty-nine of these are candidates for the bachelor's degree, —an increase of sixty-one in the regular classes. These come from forty-two different states and coun- tries. New England sends three hundred and thirty-four, one hundred and ninety-six of whom are from Massachusetts. We have, therefore, three hundred and forty-nine from beyond the New England States. The aggregate is divided among the several classes as follows : Fifth Year 6 Seniors 87 Juniors 108 Sophomores . 122 Advanced Freshmen 23 Freshmen 193 Total candidates for the Bachelor's Degree . 539 Graduate Students 10 Other Special Students . 134 Total 683 The average age of the students June 1, 1889, was as follows : Fifth Year 22 years. 4 months Seniors 21 " 4 " Juniors . 20 " 4 " Sophomores 19 " 2 Advanced Freshmen and Freshmen 18 " 4 " Specials . 22 " 4 — Of the six hundred and eighty-three received, there have fallen out during the year : From ill health 32 Home circumstances 16 Unexpected change in plans 10 Inadequate preparation 4 The number admitted to the freshman class shows an increase of fourteen over the number of the preceding year, and there have been fewer cases of dismissal because of inadequate preparation. The value of the work done by our Board of Examiners, through its efficient secretary, becomes yearly more evident. The earnestness of the students, their progress in scholarship, their fidelity in meeting college requirements, their loyalty to the College, their good fellowship among themselves, have been fully up to the stand- ard of previous years. Cases of discipline have been very few, and there has been no serious breach of college order. The Chapel Fund Association, the formation of which is, perhaps, one of the best indices we have had of the love of the students for the College, and of their eager desire to promote her interests, has continued its efforts to raise the money for the much-needed chapel. An enthusiastic meeting early in the year resulted in a fair in December, which netted the Association about $500. Although purses do not seem to open readily to the appeals made, yet the enthusiasm does not die. Two movements, both in a literary direction, have been significant. A petition for a revival of the Greek-letter societies which existed in the early years of the College, signed by representatives from the upper classes, was presented to the Council, and was granted. Secondly, the development into a fuller life of the journalistic germ we have been nour- ishing for some years, realizes a hope which has been held by the students since the earliest days of our college life. Little encouragement was given to this hope in former years, but with the increasing numbers both of alumnae and of undergraduates,—the latter no longer gathered under a single roof but scattered in many buildings, —the need of some unifying force, some constant medium of communication, grew 3'early more apparent. By way of trying the experiment of a college paper, one sheet of the village Courant has been issued by itself this year, under the name of Wellesley Courant, College Edition. This has been edited by a staff of students under the guidance of a member of the Faculty. It has aimed "to encourage such varieties of journalistic and literary work as do not naturally fall within the scope of the rhetoric department ; to furnish alumnae, and other absent friends of Wellesley, with such a record of passing events as shall keep them closely informed of her progressive welfare ; and to give expression through the pens of Faculty, alumnae, and students alike, of the college life — its purposes, ideals, aqd higher values." Although but a beginning has been made, there are signs of an increas- ing literary activity among the students. Warmest assurances of appre- ciation pour in from the alumnae.
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