jl 1<*l* (3 -r-r-csz -? WELLESLEY COLLEGE BULLETIN ANNUAL REPORTS PRESIDENT AND TREASURER 1924-1926 WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS MAY, J927 PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE IN JANUARY, MAY, JUNE, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER Massachusetts, Entered as seoond-class matter at the post-offioe, at Boston, under Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. 7 SERIES 16 ™«« WELLESLEY COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORTS PRESIDENT AND TREASURER 1924-1926 PRESS CF GEO. H. ELLIS CO. (IMC.) BCSTON TABLE OF CONTENTS Report of the President (1924-1926) 5 Report of the Dean of the College (July 1, 1925) 22 Report of the Dean of the College (July 1, 1926) 33 Report of the Dean of Freshmen (July 1, 1926) 40 Report of the Dean of Residence (July 1, 1924-July 1, 1926) .... 45 Report of the Committee on Graduate Instruction (July 1, 1925) . 51 Report of the Committee on Graduate Instruction (July 1, 1926) . 53 Report of the Librarian (July 1, 1925) 56 Report of the Librarian (July 1, 1926) 62 Appendix to the President's Report: In Memoriam. Dr. Katharine Piatt Raymond 68 New Courses for 1925-1926 69 New Courses for 1926-1927 69 Order of Exercises, Semi-Centennial Celebration 70 Appointments (1925-1926) 72 Appointments (1926-1927) 78 Academic Biography of New Members of the Teaching Staff (1925-1926) 83 Academic Biography of New Members of the Teaching Staff (1926-1927) 85 Leaves of Absence 86 Promotions 87 Resignations and Expired Appointments 88 Alice Freeman Palmer Fellows 91 Holders of the Goldmark Fellowship 91 Holders of the Orthopedic Fellowship 91 Holders of the Horton-Hallowell Fellowship 91 Sunday Services (1924-1925) 91 Addresses (1924-1925) 92 Music (1924-1925) 97 Sunday Services (1925-1926) 99 Addresses (1925-1926) 100 Music (1925-1926) 104 Publications of the Faculty (1918-1926) 106 Appendix to the Dean's Report (1924-1925) 123 Appendix to the Dean's Report (1925-1926) 142 Report of the Treasurer (1924-1925) 163 Report of the Treasurer (1925-1926) 193 3 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT I have the honor to present a formal report for the two years, July 1, 1924, to June 30, 1926. As usual, oral reports were made annually to the trustees. The supplementary reports of other administrative officers are included. Several changes in the membership of the Board of Trustees during this period have occurred. When Mr. Eugene V. R. Thayer removed from Boston to New York, he presented his resignation to the Board. The trustees declined to release him, feeling reluctant to lose his advice and counsel, especially in the Finance Committee of which he was a member. Finally, however, in September 1925 his resignation was accepted. He was elected to the Board in 1914, and was a member of the Finance Committee throughout his service. Mr. Alfred Aiken presented his resignation in June 1925. He had been a member of the Board since 1919, and throughout this time had been a member of the Finance Committee, where his experience in banking interests was especially valuable. It was with great regret that the trustees accepted his resignation. Mr. Galen L. Stone offered his resignation in the summer of 1925. It was only because of his insistence that the trustees accepted his resignation in September 1925. Mr. Stone was elected to the Board in 1915, and was serving on the Executive Committee and on the Finance Committee at the time of his resignation. In spite of the many claims on his time and thought, Mr. Stone gave his personal attention to the affairs of the College. He was a generous doner to the Library and to the Art Department, and when the academic group on Norumbega Hill is complete, the tower will be the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stone. To fill the vacancies resulting from these resignations, the trustees elected Mr. Frederic Haines Curtiss, Mr. James Dean and Mr. Clifton H. Dwinnell. These gentlemen were immediately put upon the Finance Committee and have already been of great service. 5 Wellesley College As stated in the last report, the trustees, in 1923, gave the Academic Council of the Faculty the privilege of nominating a member of the Board, and in November 1924, the nominee of the Faculty, Mrs. Percy T. Walden, was elected to the Board for a fixed term. Before her marriage, Mrs. Walden was for the year 1902-03 instructor in Economics at Wellesley. As the wife of the Dean of Freshmen at Yale, Mrs. Walden is familiar with college problems. Mrs. Walden's daughter is an undergraduate at Wellesley, which of course quickens her interest in college problems. The six-year term of service of Miss Jessie Claire McDonald as Alumna Trustee closed in June 1926. Miss McDonald has made a very valuable con- tribution to the College. As principal of the National Cathedral School in Washington, she is constantly preparing students for college. Through the group of her former students in college, she is familiar with the various undergraduate interests and activities and is able to contribute to any problem not only the view of an alumna and trustee but also that of the undergraduate. The Alumnae Association has recently decided that alumnae trustees shall not be eligible for a second term. The number of alumnae who have served on the Board will therefore increase more rapidly as the years go by, and the College will thus have a group of alumnae unusually intelligent and alert to understand future problems as they arise in the growth of the College. Mrs. Dorothy Bridgman Atkinson, 1910, of Minneapolis, was elected to succeed Miss McDonald, and took office at Commencement, 1926. It is with a continuing sense of loss that the deaths of Dr. Katharine P. Raymond on April 3, 1925, and of Miss Mary Caswell on March 6, 1926, are recorded. Dr. Raymond received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Cin- cinnati and her medical degree from the University of Michigan. She came to Wellesley in September, 1907, as Resident Physician and Health Officer. At that time only the upper floor of Simp- son was used as a hospital. Later, when the whole house was reserved for that purpose, the renovations and alterations were made under her supervision. Throughout the eighteen years of her service, repeated testimony was received from parents 6 President's Report and outside physicians of her keen diagnosis and skilful care. It was due to her vigilance that the College came through the influenza epidemics of 1918 and 1919 with miraculously few casualties. A memorial service was held in the College Chapel on Sunday evening, May 24, 1925. The minute adopted by her colleagues of the Academic Council follows: Be it Resolved: That we, the Faculty and Staff of Wellesley College, express our poignant sense of loss in the death of Katharine Piatt Raymond, the Resident Physician of the College for the last eighteen years. With pride that is sad but assured, we recall not only the constancy but the dis- tinction of her service. To her was due the reconstruction of Simpson Cottage as an infirmary, with professional equipment of nurses and wards, and the establishment, though with limited means, of a small clinical laboratory. With the devotion of the true and skilled physician she gave herself endlessly to the care of every illness that had in it any hint of gravity. Her diagnosis was generally recognized by consulting physicians as notably, even brilliantly accurate, and it was given with unfailing care for the humblest as for the highest among us. She safeguarded year after year, so far as it was humanly possible to do so, each one of the four or five hundred entering students, by physical examinations made with the help of six expert physicians. Under her wise control the standard of health for the whole College was exceptionally high. Her vigilance again and again pre- vented the spread of contagion; but when that was impossible, as in the great influenza epidemic of 1918, she handled three hundred ninety-four cases with a skill that led to the recovery of all but one. Her patience in working under adverse conditions, her strength and sagacity in dealing with the most difficult illnesses, her sustaining tenderness for all great pain or sorrow, leave us now a noble and ennobling memory. But if we would thus record the memory of these, her valiant and arduous years as our physician, we would likewise record our abiding sense of the woman who was never content to live without loveliness. Graciously endowed as she was by nature with beauty of being, she enhanced it by her own creative love for all things of life and health, for color, for light, for music. Hers was a fresh and radiant presence, a self constantly revitalized by vigorous outdoor hours, by keen winds, by birds, by the gardens and flowers that bloomed inevitably wherever Dr. Raymond lived her personal life. In her a strong, sane, beautiful womanhood was richly revealed. In her we have lost one who not only healed but who made us rich by her being. In her, our comrade and our friend, we have lost what will not soon be found again. It is an added pleasure to report that Dr. Raymond's friends in Cincinnati have presented to the College a picture by Frank 7 Wellesley College " Duveneck. The picture is given in loving memory of Katharine Piatt Raymond, Resident Physician at Wellesley College from 1907 to 1925." The picture is called "The Woman with a Vase" and is a study for a decoration. Al- though it is only a sketch, it is signed in full and "contains elements of the greatness of Duveneck's art, and the paint has that living glow which is characteristic of his work." In the Appendix will be found the minute adopted by the New England Women's Medical Society.