WELLESLEY COLLEGE BULLETIN ANNUAL REPORTS NUMBER PRESIDENT AND TREASURER 1935-1936 REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL FUND 1921-1936 WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS DECEMBER, 1936 WELLESLEY COLLEGE BULLETIN ANNUAL REPORTS NUMBER PRESIDENT AND TREASURER 1935-1936 Bulletins published eight times a year by Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. April, 3; May, 1; October, 1; November, 1; December, 2. Entered as second-class matter, February 12, 1912, at the Post Office at Boston, Massachusetts, under the Acts of July, 1894. Additional entry at Concord, N. H. Volume 26 Number 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Report of the President 7 Report of the Dean of the College 15 Report of the Dean of Freshmen 23 Report of the Committee on Graduate Instruction 28 Report of the Dean of Residence 31 Report of the Librarian 34 Report of the Director of the Personnel Bureau 43 Appendix to the President's Report: Plan of Department Organization 49 Committee on Reappointments, Promotions, and Dismissals ... 51 Regulations in Regard to Sabbatical Leaves and Grants .... 52 Legacies and Gifts 53 New Courses in 1936-37 57 Academic Biography of New Members of the Teaching Staff for 1936-37 58 Leaves of Absence in 1936-37 60 Promotions of 1936-37 60 Resignations and Expired Appointments, June 1936 61 Fellowship and Graduate Scholarship Awards for 1936-37 .... 61 Pub-lications of the Faculty 62 Sunday Services 66 Addresses 67 Music 71 Exhibitions at the Art Museum .71 Report of the Treasurer 73 Report of the Chairman of the Semi-Centennial Fund 109 PRESIDENT ELLEN FITZ PENDLETON August 7, 1864—July 26, 1936 MINUTE ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES October 16, 1936 The Trustees of Wellesley College, in formal meeting assembled, desire to make record in the permanent annals of the College of their profound gratitude for the life and of their deep sorrow because of the death of Ellen Fitz Pendleton, the sixth president of the College: It is, therefore, resolved that the Trustees of Wellesley College do make record of their gratitude to Almighty God for the life of this wise and noble woman, who for fifty-four years lived within the circle of the College and for exactly half a century spent herself in its service. Recalling the gentleness and the dignity, the wisdom and the vision of this gifted leader of the College, together with her devotion to the service of truth and to the lighting of the minds of the many thousands who came thither, the Trustees do make permanent memorial of their gratitude to Him who was the Author and Sustainer of her life. It is further resolved, that the Trustees do make record of their admiration for the great achievements of Ellen Fitz Pendleton as the gifted administrator and builder of the steadily growing College. Wise and far-seeing as an educator, just and firm and yet sympathetic with her fellow laborers, tireless and cou- rageous as a builder of both the plant and the vested funds of the College, she was a magnificent incarnation of womanly poise and dignity in the midst of a confused and troubled time. Now that she has laid down her work, a host of memories rise up to declare the College signally blessed in her amazing fitness for the task to which she gave herself utterly. It is finally resolved that the Trustees make record of their own and of the general grief, great not only for the College, suddenly deprived of her mature counsels and gracious presence, but great by reason of the loving esteem in which she was held by all who knew her well. It could not be otherwise; for to know her well was to be drawn to her and to be drawn to her was to esteem her greatly. Strength and dignity were her garments, and she opened her mouth with wisdom, but always kindness was on her tongue. In word and deed she gave outward and visible proof that she was "a woman who loved the Lord"— worthy of all praise. The fruit of her life is a better world and, in the hearts of those who knew and loved her, the deeply held conviction that a great spirit has passed this way and, in her passing, has left to us and to those who shall come after us both more light and a larger peace. MINUTE ADOPTED BY THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL OF THE FACULTY October 1, 1936 We, the faculty of Wellesley College, meet to do honor to the memory of Ellen Fitz Pendleton, whose swift passing, at the end of her many years of service, as member of the faculty. Dean, President, seems less a death than a triumph. She went in her great hour, when the very air about her was warm with her praise, coming from those who had in any way shared her working life, the trustees of the college, the faculty, her fellow alumnae, the undergraduates, the members of her household, and those with whom she had been associated in intercollegiate relationships, which her generous spirit had done much to foster. We hold in high esteem the fine sincerity which was the basis of her character, the simplicity and directness of her speech and action, her unswerving liberalism which permitted each instructor the widest latitude of thought and expression, her pride in the achievements of others. We are grateful for her sympathy, her humor, her strong affections, for her Christian faith, for her confidence in the in- nate good in each individual, her trust in the spiritual life manifest with or with- out creed, her belief in the Eternal Spirit that will bring order out of the chaos of the world. Wellesley was the centre of her being; her contribution to its life is of imperish- able worth. Few executives have shown such untiring fidelity to the routine matters which are the foundation of good government, few have possessed such explicit knowledge of detail. She brought to bear upon the problems of admin- istration an unusual power of concentration, a balanced judgment; she welcomed eagerly advice and suggestion from others. In her long life of devotion she has built into the very walls of the college her strength, her unflinching courage, her practical sagacity, her steadfast sense of justice, her intellectual honesty, her high ambition that Wellesley, so long as it endures, shall serve the need of youth in upholding high intellectual and moral standards in all its training. While we mourn for our beloved leader who has gone, we think of her, not with a sense of loss, but with a sense of lasting gain in having been privileged to work with her toward great ends. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT* To the Board of Trustees: The following report is upon the sixty-first year of the College, closing on June 30, 1936. On this date Miss Ellen Fitz Pendle- ton retired from the presidency. During the fifty years which had passed since her graduation from Wellesley in 1886, she had been an officer of the College for forty-nine years and its president for twenty-five years. The election of Miss Mildred Helen McAfee as the seventh president of the College was announced by the Board of Trustees on May 15, 1936. At the time of her election Miss McAfee was Dean of College Women at Oberlin College. The death of Miss Bertha Bailey on November 16, 1935, meant the loss of an alumna trustee who had served on the Board for five years. The following minute was adopted by the Trustees in her memory: The death of Bertha Bailey, only a few months before the end of her term as an alumna trustee of Wellesley College, has taken from active daily service one of those strong daughters of Wellesley who prove the worth of the College to society. Her strength was in that quietness and confidence with which she continuously upheld the standards of intellectual life and the conception of personal character she brought to Wellesley as a young woman in the '80's. As an undergraduate she was notable, with a glowing personality, vigor- ously adventuring in new fields of action, yet steady in leadership, and fore- sighted. As an alumna these qualities were recognized by her election as vice-president of the Alumnae Association in 1910 and her election to the Board of Trustees six years ago. From the year of her graduation in 1888 to her death she set herself to the task of multiplying in the lives of the girls who were her pupils and her charges the influences that had developed her in Wellesley and there crystallized her aspirations. She taught successively in important private schools in several sections of the country until in 1912 she became principal of Abbot Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. From there she has pro- •Most of the material from which this report has been compiled was collected before Miss Pendleton was taken ill in July, 1936. The report was actually written after her death. y Wellesley College gressively deepened her influence in Wellesley College, sending to Wellesley the girls she brought up to feel the value of discipline, the obligation to form reasoned opinions and the necessity of forming habits of responsible conduct. In the counsels of the alumnae trustees she emphasized the policies and choices which make for real achievement, irrespective of its drama or popu- larity. It is as such a quiet and positive factor in life wherever she shared it that Bertha Bailey will be gravely missed. At the next annual meeting of the Board Mrs. Margaret Elliott Tracy was elected alumna trustee.