WELLESLEY COLLEGE BULLETIN ANNUAL REPORTS NUMBER PRESIDENT AND TREASURER 19334934 WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS FEBRUARY, J935 WELLESLEY COLLEGE BULLETIN ANNUAL REPORTS NUMBER PRESIDENT AND TREASURER 1933-1934 Bulletins published eight times a year by Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. February, 1 number; April, 3; May, 1 ; October, 1 ; November, 1 ; December, 1. Entered as second-class matter, February 12, 1912, at the Post Office at Boston, Massachusetts, under the Acts of July, 1894. Volume 24 Number 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Report of the President 5 Report of the Dean of the College IS . 23 Report of the Dean of Freshmen , Report of the Committee on Graduate Instruction 28 Report of the Dean of Residence 32 Report of the Librarian 38 Report of the Director of the Personnel Bureau 49 Appendix to the President's Report: Amendments to the By-Laws 55 Legacies and Gifts 56 New Courses in 1934-35 59 Academic Biography of New Members of the Teaching Staff for 1934-35 60 Leaves of Absence in 1934—35 62 Promotions of 1934-35 62 Resignations and Expired Appointments, June, 1934 63 Fellowship and Graduate Scholarship Awards for 1934—35 ... 64 Publications of the Faculty 65 Sunday Services 69 Addresses 70 Music 74 Exhibitions at the Farnsworth Art Museum 75 Report of the Treasurer 77 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT To the Board of Trustees: As provided by the By-Laws, I hereby present a report upon the 59th year of the College, closing on June 30, 1934. The supplementary reports should be read to secure a full picture of the year. Attention is called to the report of the Personnel Bureau, which is included for the first time. There have been a number of changes in the membership of the Board. At the annual meeting the following new mem- bers were elected: Dr. Albert Davis Mead, Professor of Biology and Vice-President of Brown University; Mr. Edward Allen Whitney, Professor of History and Literature at Harvard University; and Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, a former student of the College, first woman member of the Board of Aldermen, New York City, and first Congress- woman from New York State, completing in 1933 a term of four years. Mrs. Edith Jones Tower, B.A., 1916, suc- ceeded Mrs. Helen Knowles Bonnell, of the Class of 1907, as alumna trustee for the term 1934—1940. Miss Grace Goodnow Crocker has now completed twelve years of con- tinuous membership and therefore retires from the voting members of the Board. She was, however, elected Secretary of the Board at the May meeting, as the By-Laws provide that the Secretary need not be a voting member. As Secre- tary of the Board she will attend, without vote, the meet- ings of the Executive Committee and of the Committee on Gifts. On August 4 of 1933, Mary Frazer Smith, Recorder of the College, died at her summer home on the Maine coast; on August 30, less than four weeks later, Eleanor Acheson McCulloch Gamble, Ph.D.-, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychology Laboratory, died suddenly in Wellesley College South Byfield. A brochure containing appreciations of these two officers has been published. It is therefore only neces- sary to say here that rarely has the college community sustained such a shock and suffered such a loss as was oc- casioned by the death of these two members within a month. News was received of the death, on January 5, of Fraulein Margarethe Miiller, Emeritus Professor of German Lan- guage and Literature. Professor Miiller had been living in Munich since her retirement in 1923. Many of her Wellesley friends had called on her at various times and had re- ported her vivid interest in the College. With the close of this year Miss Clara Eliza Smith, Ph.D., Helen Day Gould Professor of Mathematics, retired from active service. She had been connected with the College for twenty-five years as Instructor, Associate Professor and Professor. Many of her former students bear testimony to her friendly aid and to her skill as a teacher. By vote of the Trustees she was given the title Professor Emeritus. This year also brought to a close the service of three Heads of Houses, Mrs. Wheeler, Miss Snyder, and Mrs. Wardwell. Mrs. Engles resigned as Head of Stone Hall because of ill health. The report of the Dean of Residence will give further details in regard to these four officers. All have served the College with loyalty and efficiency. Mile. Marguerite Mespoulet, Professor of French, presented her resignation to accept a position offered her by Barnard Col- lege and Columbia University. Mile. Mespoulet has been a brilliant and stimulating teacher and we offer her our good wishes In her new work. Her resignation creates a vacancy which Is difficult to fill. The College was honored to have on its staff Professor Louis Cazamian of the University of Paris as Visiting Pro- fessor of English Literature on the Mary Whiton Calkins Memorial Foundation. It Is both a pleasure and a duty to testify to the distinction of the lectures which he gave not only In the large course (306) but also In his series of eight public lectures on "Symbolism in Victorian Literature." His President's Report many occasional addresses, as well as those of Madame Cazamian, were also greatly enjoyed. Altogether, Professor and Madame Cazamian with their two daughters made a charming and delightful addition to the college community. When Professor Cazamian was obliged to return to France at the close of the winter term, Miss Vida D. Scudder, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, very kindly consented to take charge of the course in Victorian Prose for the rest of the year. In the Appendix will be found, as usual, a complete state- ment of other changes in the faculty, together with the academic biography of the new members of the staff ap- pointed for the year 1934-35 and the list of those members who will be on leave for the whole or a part of that year. As the guest of the Vereinigung Carl Schurz, Professor Elizabeth Donnan will join the group of professors from other American colleges who are to make a six weeks' tour of Germany. The Dean of the College will also join the group for a part of the time. We look forward with interest to their reports next fall. In early June, Professor Leland H. Jenks was invited to serve on the committee, under the chairmanship of Raymond Leslie Buell, to make a survey for the social and economic reconstruction of Cuba. This committee was appointed by the Foreign Policy Association at the request of the President of Cuba and with the ap- proval of the United States Government. Doubtless Mr. Jenks' appointment was in recognition of his book, "Our Cuhan Colony." Miss Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Associate Professor of Art, was invited to attend the fourth Inter- national Congress of Byzantine Studies, to be held in Sofia from September 9 to 16. The invitation was personally ex- tended to her by Professor B. Filov, General Secretary of the Committee of Organization of the Congress and widely- known authority on Bulgarian archaeology. The subject of her paper will be ''La legende d'Abgar d'apres un rouleau illustre de la bibliotheque Pierpont Morgan in New York." This important parchment roll, containing the correspond- Wellesley College cnce between Abgar, King of Edessa, and Jesus Christ, came to the attention of Miss Der Nersessian when she was working on the Byzantine manuscripts in the Morgan Library. As it is not yet known to Byzantine scholars in Europe, the paper will doubtless have unusual interest. Mr. W. Alexander Campbell, Associate Professor of Art, who has been Assistant Director of the excavations at Antioch, has now been made Director of this excavation and next year will be absent for the second semester, as he has been for the past three years. In recognition of Mr. Campbell's service the department of Art has received a part of a mosaic border of 100 a.d., found at Antioch in 1932. This border was attached to the Judgment of Paris panel, re- cently sent to the Louvre, and is valued at a minimum of ^1,000. Other members of our faculty are constantly in demand to undertake publications requiring research for which their qualifications are recognized. The College may well be proud of the scholars on its faculty. Miss Frances L. Knapp, Dean of Freshmen and Chairman of the Board of Admission, made in the spring—with the co- operation of the Alumnae Association—an extended trip to the Pacific Coast and to the Southern States. She visited schools and Wellesley Clubs in Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pasa- dena, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, Dallas, San Antonio, At- lanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Richmond, Washington, and Baltimore. The survey undertaken by the Committee on Curriculum and Instruction of the Academic Council was completed and a report made to the Council and to the Trustees. Although the report was not so far-reaching as it was hoped it might prove to be, it undoubtedly led to revision of courses in many departments. Attention is called to the new courses offered for 1934—35, a list of which is given in the Appendix. During the year under review three amendments to the By-Laws were voted by the Trustees: the By-Law authoriz- ing the Committee on Educational Policy was considerably 8 President's Report amplified to define more accurately its duties; the By-Law naming the degrees was also altered to conform with the present usage; and the By-Law concerning the Committee on Conference was discontinued.