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Some Answers
1. A college cannot stand still. It
must advance or lose ground. The en-
dowments will hold the ground once
gained, but it is the growing Alumne
Fund that makes possible new work and
ever higher standards.

2. The Alumne Fund is steadily in-

creasing Bryn Mawr’s Endowment.

3. Until 1909, when the alumnz made
their first gift to the Endowment Fund,
the regular salary for a Bryn Mawr full
professor was $2500 a year. The salaries
above that amount since 1909 are due to
the initiative of the Alumnz Fund.

4. Since 1904 the Alumnz Fund has
raised two endowments, the interest on
which pays the salaries of two full pro-

fessorships, thereby releasing funds to;

increase salaries of full professors and
assistant professors.

5. The Alumne Fund is devoted pri-
marily to the purpose of increasing pro-
fessors’ salaries. It thus makes possible
the difference between mediocrity and
distinction in Bryn Mawr’s Faculty.

6. The work of the Bryn Mawr Faculty
has always been work of distinction.
Here are a few instances of the recent
achievements:

Professor Charles Chequiere Fenwick
was appointed Special Representative of
the Treasury Department to Camp Travis,
Texas, and to Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
to assist in the organization of local
bureaus of the Central War Risk Bureau
in Washington and to explain the terms
of the War Risk Act to the officers and
men of the two camps. He has also pre-
pared the following reports: A report on
“States Less Than Sovereign,” a study of
the minor communities of the family of
nations, in collaboration with Professor
Willoughby, of the Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity, at the request of the commission
instituted by the government for the
preparation of material needed at the
peace conference. A second report on
“Wardship in International Law” for the
same commission.

 

 

 

WHY THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNA
FUND?
Some Questions

Why has the Alumna Fund given
the College $350,000 for Academic
Endowment?

Why has it given $130,000 to build
' the Library.

Why has it given $54,000 to cover
deficits?

Why is it the greatest asset the
College has?

Why is this Fund greater than any
single Endowment?

Why does it mean more for Bryn
Mawr than any other fund?

Why does Bryn Mawr get results
with insufficient endowment?

Why do so many Bryn Mawr alum-
nz subscribe to this fund?

Why would it be the greatest thing
that could be done for Bryn Mawr
if every graduate and former student
subscribed?

 

WIPPIN i SoARD |

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Professor Howard Levy Gray was re-
quested by the Shipping Board to go to
England in August, 1918, to assist the rep-
resentatives of the Shipping Board on the
Joint British and United States Shipping
Board. Professor Gray resigned his ap-
pointment under the Food Administration
to accept the appointment to the Shipping
Board.

Professor Clarence Errol Ferree and
Dr. Gertrude Rand Ierree have prepared
apparatus for testing visual acuity at low
illuminations. Commander G. B. Trible,
Chief Eye Surgeon at the U. S. Naval
Hospital at Washington, has stated that
this apparatus will be installed first in the
naval schools and hospitals, and will later
be put on the battleships. It will be used
chiefly for testing the fitness of men for
lookout work, for signaling, and for all
work requiring acute vision at low illumi-
nations. Prior to laying the problem
before Professor Ferree and Dr. Rand
Ferree last summer Commander Trible
had already tried the laboratories of Eng-
land and France. The apparatus designed
for this purpose since the beginning of
the war by Spearman in England, for ex-
ample, was in his estimation not at all
satisfactory. The same was true of the
apparatus designed at the Medical Re-
search Laboratory at Mineola. Dr. Trible
also stated that in planning the lighting
of the new Naval Hospital he had gone
over the work of Professor Ferree and
Dr. Rand Ferree and had followed their
recommendations wherever it was pos-

 

sible.

THE CALL TO BRYN MAWR
LOYALTY

 

A Statement of Facts
The loyal Bryn Mawr woman will
not permit her college to suffer finan-
cially because of devoted service to
country. Every one of us is trying
to work to serve our country.
The question is—

How can I help most?
How much can I GIVE?

The Alumne Fund offers a solution
of this problem.

Bryn Mawr has worked faithfully
for the WAR.

Bryn Mawr alumne and under-
graduates are enthusiastically taking
up the work of reconstruction.

Help Bryn Mawr to serve her
country in helping her solve the
problems of PEACE.

 

  
   

Professor Roger Frederic Brunel, Pro-
fessor of Chemistry, was appointed by the
Director of Chemical Warfare Service of
the War Department to do experimental
work for the Gas Defense Department of
the Chemical Warfare Service from the
autumn of 1917 to the autumn of 1918.

Professor David Hilt Tennent, at the
request of a member of the Advisory
Commission of the Council of National
Defense, designed short courses for die-
ticians in military hospitals, the work to
be done in technical schools and schools
of applied science in connection with op-
portunities given by the Surgeon-Gen-
eral’s office for practical work to be done
in military hospitals.

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Professor Florence Peebles gave
courses in Bryn Mawr College by request
of the Food Administration on “Food
Conservation” and prepared her students
to take examinations for the Food Ad-
ministration diplomas.

Professor William Roy Smith prepared
a report on the Diplomatic History of the
Opium Trade for the commission on col-
lecting data for the Peace Commission
organized by the War Trade Board.

Professor M. P. Smith prepared a re-
port on the Economic Resources of China
for the same commission.

Professor William Bashford-Huff, Pro-
fessor of Physics, has been granted leave
of absence for the year 1918-19 and is
doing war work in Washington in the
Bureau of Standards.

 

 

 

 

Graduate courses in Industrial Su-
pervision and Employment Management
have been organized in the Carola Woer-
ishoffer Graduate Department of Social
Economy and Social Research by Pro-
fessor Susan Myra Kingsbury, with the
co-operation of the Federal Depart-
ment of Labour of the War Labour
Policies’ Board, and were undertaken
with their approvak and assistance and
endorsed by the Assistant Secretary
of War in charge of Industrial Relations,
and endorsed and supported by the Gov-
ernment Committee on Training Courses
under the Shipping Board and given with
their co-operation. Fifteen thousand dol-
lars for the first year was voted by the
Y. W. C. A. to enable Bryn Mawr College
to train in this way employment man-
agers, service or welfare superintendents,
industrial superintendents of women’s
work, factory inspectors, investigators of
industrial problems ecting women, in-
dustrial secretaries, or industrial group
leaders. Women who have already grad-
uated from college are trained for eight
months in units of ten and are expected
to be leaders in industrial reconstruction.

What the Alumnz Fund Has Done for
Faculty Salaries

In 1885 Bryn Mawr College was
founded. At that time full professors re-
ceived $2500 a year and associate pro-
fessors received $2000 a year. Ten years
ago the College effected a new schedule
of Faculty salaries, increasing full pro-
fessors to salaries ranging from $2500 to
$3000.

This year, using for the first time the
interest on the Mary Elizabeth Garrett
Fund of $100,000 raised by the alumnz,
the salaries of all associate professors
were raised to $2500.

These are the only two substantial in-
creases in the professors’ salaries since
the College was founded.

They have been made possible by the
contributions of Bryn Mawr alumnz to
the Alumne Fund.

The increases in Faculty salaries must
be maintained, if Bryn Mawr is to con-
tinue to maintain her pre-eminent place
among American educational institutions.

These increases can be maintained only
by the Alumne Endowment Fund. The
success of this work, therefore, depends
upon you, Bryn Mawr Alumne.

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ALUMNA NUMBER
Managing Editor
Alice Martin Hawkins ‘07.

Assistant Editors
Louise Congdon Francis '00.
Isabel Foster ’15. —

Clara Vail Brooks ’97.

 

For the first time in the history of The
News and the college the alumne are
writing and editing an issue of an under-
graduate periodical.

.The spirit of generosity and co-opera-
tion with which The News offered the
president of the Alumne Association thts
opportunity has warmed the hearts of
those who were called in to form tne
scrub board of editors and encouraged
them in their work. Hastily organized;
and working at the disadvantage of being
widely separated, they have used tele-
graph, telephone and post. They apolo
gize for the deficiencies in the result, but

hope that it will arouse the interest of
other alumne in The News, for many of
them fail to realize that the news of their
friends and of the college, which they are
always longing to hear, may be found
every week in this paper. If they realized
it as some alumne do, the subscription
list of The News would be quadrupled.

There are people who say that publicity
won the war. It is certain that the high
morale of America, of every city, town,
village and hamlet, could not have been
.inspired without the people knowing the
purposes of the war and what the rest of
the country was doing to win it.

Bryn Mawr has not sought the advan-
tages of publicity to any considerable ex-
tent. What it could do has never been
tested. But in a large way it is the
problem before the annual meeting of the
Alumne Association this year. Now that
the war is over, the directors and many
other alumne feel that the time has come
for spreading the gospel of Bryn Mawr.
The question of increasing the number of
branches of the association will be
brought forward in a motion for raising
the dues. This is a publicity move pure
and simple. The question of reorganizing
The Quarterly is one, as is also that of
having a secretary to travel through the

country speaking on Bryn Mawr.

The quest of this publicity is not in any
sense to sell goods, that is, to get more
students, but rather to make the college
better, to increase the endowment fund,
to raise the professors’ salaries, to make
possible a students’ building and, best of
all, to make the name and fame of the
college ever more glorious by the high
academic and intellectual standing of its
chosen few.

| naval ‘authorities to devise an apparatus
| for testing acuity at low illuminations to

  
 
 

Tor the selection of men for this
type of service. We have devised and
had built in the College shop an appara-
tus for this purpose, which has been ap-
proved and accepted. Duplicates of this
apparatus, we are told, will be placed
first in the naval schools and hospitals
and later on the battleships when suffi-
cient data have been accumulated to
serve as a basis for the ranking or grad-
ing of the men.

The apparatus for testing the speed of
adjustment of the eye for clear seeing at
different distances was used in France
for studying the daily variations in the
combat aviator’s fitness for his work, or
for what has been called in aviation cir-
cles the “checking up of the tardy ace.”
It is still being used at the Medical Re-
search Laboratory at Mineola. Three
problems are in prospect there: (1) the
standardization of the test for the selec-
tion of aviators; (2) the study of the
diurnal variations in the aviator’s ocular
fitness for his work; and (3) the study
of the effects of oxygen poverty.

In the matter of care in the selection
of men and the supervision of their daily
fitness for their work our army has bene-
fited by the experiece of its allies.
Colonel Wilmer, former Commander of
the Medical Research Laboratory at Min-
eola, writing me recently from France,
states that during the first year of the
war 60 per cent of England’s aviation ac-
cidents were due to the poor selection and
to the poor supervision of the condition
of the aviator; during the second year
this had been reduced to 30 per cent;
and during the third year to 12 per cent.

In our preliminary tests of a large
number of eyes rated as grade A by the
clinic tests we found variations of as much
as 100 per cent in the speed of making
accurately the adjustments needed for
clear seeing at different distances. We
have also found that in the process of
“growing stale” no function more quickly
than this suffers depression or is subject
to greater variations from day to day.
That any lapse, lag or slowness in this
function is a serious menace to the avia-
tor in making a landing, in combat work,
etc., is now pretty generally recognized.

I trust that I am not intruding this
information upon you unduly. When I
began I had no intention of writing so
much. The extra information may per-
haps be of some personal interest to you.

Sincerely yours,
C. E. Ferree.

To the Editor:

The officers of the Trophy Club are
taking this opportunity to ask the
alumnez how much they wish to have the
Trophy Club kept up to date. When once
it is up to date, then, of course, the ques-
tion only concerns each Senior class, but
at present the club is very much behind
along every line. Its big meetings and
parties have long since discontinued, its
revenue has ceased, it has great need of
a good book case, a good glass case, and
innumerable pictures. It will have to
have pictures framed, old publications
bound and catalogued, and hundreds of
nameplates, which were discontinued in

 

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ty |up year by year, starting again with the | ™™
jeurrent year. We should very much ap-|
preciate some expression of alumne
Jopinion on the subject. Please address

communications to Katherine Townsend,
secretary, Denbigh Hall.

(Signed) Mary E. Tyler ’19,
President of Trophy. Club.

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The second Bryn Mawr Patriotic Farm
has been, on the whole, less spectacular
than the first, has had no newspaper no-
toriety, but has been in many ways even
more successful. Its greatest vicissitudes,
perhaps, have been in the many changes
of management. When the college organ-
ized a War Council on the plan of the
Council of National Defense, the farm
idea was taken over by the Department
of Food Production with Bertha Ehlers
(1909) as its head. She, aided by Dr. Huff
and an undergraduate committee, made
the arrangements for raising vegetables
on three plots of land. The largest of
these was one of 25 acres, about a mile
and a half from the college, lent to us
through the generosity of Mr. W. Hinckle
Smith. We had also the use of five acres
on the Baldwin School grounds and of
about two acres on the campus which had
been worked the previous summer. Miss
Phlers also arranged with Miss Johnson,
of the Baldwin School, for the workers to
have the great advantage of living in the
school building and of using the kitchens
for canning. Under her direction the
principal orders for seed were placed.

About the first of March press of work
made Miss Ehlers resign and I succeeded
her as head of the department. We made
every effort to secure a scientifically
trained agriculturist to manage the actual
farm work, but found that the demand
far exceeded the supply of these valuable
individuals, so that we engaged an old-
fashioned farmer, Mr. Joseph Woodward,
with excellent references. There were
obvious advantages in this with the labor
problem so difficult. For instance, he
began work on March 18th by hauling the
fertilizer from the freight yards to the
farm without help. The scientifically
trained woman we had sought could not
have done this, but this meant that we
needed a woman to superintend the stu-
dents who began work immediately after
Easter. We were very fortunate in hav-
ing Gladys Spry (1912) offer to undertake
this from April 15th until June 20th, when
Abba Dimon (1896) took charge and man-
aged the project for the rest of the sea-
son. Sue Blake (1898) acted as treasurer
until August, when Grace Albert (1897)
succeeded her. Few people probably

realise what a tremendous task this has | age was planted in sweet corn, potatoes,

 

  

BRYN MAWR PATRIOTIC FARM

been, or how many hours a week from
March until January it has occupied. Two
very busy people have cheerfully sacri-
ficed a large part of their leisure. Tirzah
Nichols (1896) volunteered her services
as housekeeper at the school for the first
two months and Helen Taft did the same
for the last month, and to them we owe
a debt of gratitude for making the living
conditions so pleasant.

During the spring the students volun-
teered to work in the afternoons and all
day on Saturdays, and three friends of
Gladys Spry’s (Smith College, 1912, and
1913) worked with her eight hours every
day for two months. If it had not been
for these four cheerful and indefatigable
workers the farm would have been in a
bad way, as it was very difficult to get a
sufficient number of students during the
spring, when college work and the neces-
sary early planting conflicted. On June
8d the regular summer work of the stu-
dents began and continued until Septem-
ber 27th. During that period 75 workers
were enrolled, 50 per cent of whom were
undergraduates, 25 per cent alumne and
25 per cent not Bryn Mawr people, but
sisters or friends of the other workers.
Perhaps 50 other students have helped in
the work during the spring and autumn.
The average number of workers between
June 3d and September 15th was 22, the
greatest number being registered in June,
when there were 28 through most of the
month. The number dropped to 14 for a
few days at the end of July and to 16 at
the end of August. After September 15th
there was not much work possible, so the
number of workers was cut down to five.
Workers were paid only if they stayed
fqur weeks. The scale of wages was 16
cents per hour for the first two weeks, 18
cents per hour for the next two weeks,
and 20 cents per hour after that. If a
student worked as much as 48 hours in
the spring she was allowed to count that
as one week's work and need stay only
three more weeks to rank as a paid
worker.

The work consisted of planting, culti-
vating, and gathering vegetables and can-
ning. Our largest crops were those

which would be the most useful for the)
| different farmer, and again inexperienced

college in the winter. Most of the acre

 

  
   

tomatoes and string beans. Good sized |
crops of carrots, turnips, beets, parsnips,
salsify, cabbage, navy beans and field
corn were also raised, and enough peas,
lima beans, lettuce, onions, spinach and
radishes to supply the workers with fresh
vegetables all summer. In October corn
was husked and beans thrashed and vines
pulled up.

The produce of the farm was disposed
of in three ways. Fresh vegetables were
sold daily all summer to Low Buildings,

 

the College Inn, to individuals, and to
shops in Bryn Mawr, and, as soon as col- |
lege opened, to the halls. The greater
part of the sweet corn, tomatoes and
string beans was canned, amounting to
8500 quarts-—about 1550 corn and the re-
mainder about evenly divided between to-
matoes and string beans. We sold 1500
of these to the Baldwin School at college
prices, i. e., 18 cents per can for beans
and corn and 16 cents per can for toma-
toes. Of the root vegetables about 130
bushels of potatoes have been stored in
the college bins, and nearly 250 bushels
of turnips, carrots, parsnips and salsify,
and 350 heads of cabbage are buried on
the campus.

We received over $1200 in gifts from
more than a hundred people, in amounts
varying from $50 to a few cents. This in-
cludes refunds of wages or parts of wages
from some of the farm workers. Of the
$5800 in loans from forty-one (41) sub-
scribers we have repaid 75 cents on the
dollar. Thanks to the gifts, we are left
with a net deficit of only about $1400. As
we still possess about 8000 tin cans, a full
canning equipment and a number of farm

iall day,

 

tools, in all valued roughly at about $500,
I have hopes of reducing the deficit still
further and making an additional pay-
ment of perhaps 10 cents more on the

|and this year.

 

dollar to our generous supporters.

No doubt this will be a disappointment |
to many who had hoped to have us show
a profit. Personally I am agreeably sur-
prised. When we talk about the second |
year of the farm it sounds as if we should
have learned much from experience,
when, as a matter of fact, everything was
new again... We had absolutely different
land, much less fertile than last year's, a

workers, for, with only three or four ex

 

iii.

ceptions, these students had never done
this kind of work before. The farmers of
last year did not work on the college
farm, so that we had almost as many
handicaps as last year, the principal one
being this problem of unskilled labor. I
do not mean to say that the girls did not
work hard and willingly, but simply -that,
from the nature of things, they were not
worth what they were paid. They were
all eager to earn enough to pay their
board and this meant that almost irre-

| sistible pressure was put upon the man-

ager to find work for perhaps 25 people
when there was really only
enough necessary work to keep 25 busy
in the morning and 15 in the afternoon.

One way in which money was lost was
in making the farm workers comfortable.
To begin with, the estimate of $6 a week
for their board was too low, and in the
laudable attempt to treat them better
than at West Chester, a deficit of over
$600 in running expenses’ of the house-
10ld was the result. This includes bills
for breakage and losses of things lent by
the Baldwin School. A good deal of this
loss may be put down to servants’ wages.
At most farm units the workers took care
of their own rooms and thus eliminated
a considerable item of expense, but as we
were living in a borrowed establishment
we felt that we could not, in justice to the
Baldwin School, risk any unnecessary
neglect. I fear, also, that the workers
were fed too well and too bountifully for
our budget.

Another large item of expense comes
from the changes in canning equipment
made necessary by the difference in con-
ditions under which we worked last year
For instance, last year the
canning was done on fires-built in pits,
so that there was very little lifting up
and down. This year we used high coal
cook stoves and had to have cranes put

jup to lift the trays of cans, otherwise

there would have been serious danger of
the girls straining their backs. Unfortu-

inately, too, the Baldwin School needed

their kitchens several weeks before we
were through with them, so that we could
not do all the canning planned and that
meant a definite loss. Weather cond!
tions counted against us too. The excess
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verted cowl pleated back col-
lar, daintily trimmed with
buttons and tucking. Flesh
and white.

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the course in. : Geiateens ‘Management
by President M. Carey Thomas; Miss
Anna Bezanson, in charge of the course,

will speak on the aims and objects of the
course. Mrs. Robert E. Speer will speak
on “Community Program in Industrial
Centres,” Prof. Joseph Willits will speak
on “Humanizing Industry,” and Mr.
Felix Frankfurter will speak on “Indus-
trial Work for Trained Women.” The
course is a special war emergency course
made possible by the National War
Council of the Young Women’s Christian
Association. Bryn Mawr College is the
only woman’s college in the world train-
ing graduate students in this field.

ALUMNA FUND
(Continued from page 1.)

The Growth of Annual Gifts to the
Auumnze Fund

Year Number Total
Ending Contributing Received
1908 401 $2,868.25
1909 469 7,201.80
1910 718 110,528.65
1911 398 21,137.64
1912 390 3,559.35
1913 383 2,310.20
1914 548 3,911.74
1915 649 2,314.07
1916 684 14,812.38
1917 947 30,232.13
1918 554 10,804.38
$209,730.66

Total for all years:

While a good indication of the alumna
interest in the College, this total of the
Alumne Fund contributors is but 36 per
cent of the living Bryn Mawr women and
should be doubled at best.

An Unusual Fund

The Alumne Fund is unique among all
of Bryn Mawr’s financial assets.

It is a voluntary gift, started and car-
ried out entirely by alumne.

It is truly democratic. Every woman
has an equal opportunity to help the Col-
lege.

The gifts, small in themselves, come to
Bryn Mawr each year in a large total.
How can you give even a little to help
make this yearly total $5000 to $50,000.

The Alumne Fund suggests larger gifts.
The fact that over 400 of her own daugh-
ters have believed enough in Bryn Mawr
to give their money to her each year will
undoubtedly bring more frequent and
larger benefactions. Think of the effect
upon the large donor if every one of our
alumnz were thus showing every year
her belief in Bryn Mawr.

The Alumne Fund is building up for
Bryn Mawr a great endowment.

Faculty Salaries at Bryn Mawr
1908-1010 Badge .......:.... $87,194.69
py ee $120,499.27

The Alumne Fund underwrites this.

Cost of Tuition in Bryn Mawr College
1917-1918

Total number of students, 485.

Average cost of tuition per student,
$467.70.

Average tuition paid per student, $182.
(Graduate students pay $100.)
(Undergraduate students pay $200.)

Approximate per cent receipt to cost,
39 per cent.

-Secretary—Hilda
a } Smith "20, Roberts Road, Bryn Mavr.|

Corresponding ‘Secretary — Ratheritie
| Williams McCollin ‘15, Upland Way,
;| Overbrook, Pa.
_Treasurer—Bertha Sophie Ehlers '09,
123 Waverly Place, New York City.

    

- Finance Committee .
1889—Martha G. Thomas,
East, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
1895—Mrs. Herbert L. Clark (Elizabeth
Bent), Bryn Mawr, Pa.

1896—Mrs. Charles B. Dudley (Mary
Crawford, Gulf Road, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

1896—Elizabeth Kirkbride, 1406 Spruce
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

1896—Mrs. Francis L. Slade (Caroline
McCormick), 18 West 52d Street, New
York City.

1897—Mrs. H. S. Brooks (Clara Vail),
Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y.

1897—Mrs. Gerard Fountain (Elizabeth
Caldwell), Scarsdale, N. Y.

1899—Mrs. Herbert S. Darlington (Sybil
Hubbard), Radnor, Pa.

1901—Mrs. William Roy Smith (Marion
Parris), Low Buildings, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

1907—Mrs. Cecil Barnes (Margaret
Ayer), 1240 19th Street, Washington,
D.C.

1909—Bertha Ehlers, ex officio, 123
Waverly Place, New York.

1912—Mary Peirce, Haverford, Pa.

1912—Louise Watson, Secretary, Yar-
row West, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Pembroke

Publicity Committee
Mrs. H. S. Brooks (Clara Vail, 1897),
Chairman, Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y.

James E. Rhoads Scholarships Committee
Lucy Martin Donnelly ’93, chairman
(1919-21).
Emily Gifford Noyes '15 (1919-20).
Marion Parris Smith '01 (1916-19).

Conference Committee
Term, 1918-19
Gertrude Buffum Barrows
man.
Grace Frank, associate.
Alice D. Patterson ‘13.
Mary Pierce °12.

04, chair-

Nominating Committee
Cornelia Halsey Kellogg '00 (1919-23).
Elizabeth Lewis Otey ’01 (1917-21).
Alice Hearne Rockwell '13 (1917-21).
Josephine Niles McClellan '14 (1917-21).
Antoinette Cannon ’07 (1919-23).

Loan Fund Committee
Martha G. Thomas ’89, chairman (1916-
21).
Mary C. Smith '14 (1918-20).
Doris Earle '03 (1917-22).
Alice D. Patterson ‘13 (1919-24).
Elizabeth Y. Maguire °13 (1918-23).

Committee on Athletics
F. Maude Dessau ‘15, chairman (1915-
20).
Mary G. Branson 16 (1918-21).
Alice Hawkins '07 (1918-22).
Marion S. Kirk '10 (1919-23).
Louise Marshall Mallory ’05 (1919-24).

Members of the Academic Committee
For ‘the Meetings, January, 1919

Frances Browne '09, chairman.

Esther Lowenthal '05.

Dorothy Wolfe Douglas 712.

Janet Howell Clark ’10.

Helen Sandison ’06.

Grace Latimer Jones ‘00.

Eleanor Fleisher Riesman '03.

Louise Congdon Francis, ex officio.

Please make cheques payable to
Bertha Ehlers, Treasurer of the Alumne
Association, and send to your class col-

 

lector.

   

sie necessary when she was elected to
the Board of Directors of the College.
Pauline Goldmark sent in her resignation

work in the Department of Labor. Helen
Emerson went abroad in November as a
member of the Bryn Mawr Service Corps
under the Red Cross. Ellen Ellis re-
signed, also, and there was no appointed
substitute for Elizabeth Sergeant, not
then returned from Europe. This left
Esther Lowenthal and Frances Browne
as sole surviving members. The Board
of Directors of the Alumne Association,
nothing daunted by what seemed a hope-
less situation, appointed and called to-
gether, on December 7th, in New York,
a new committee, which they met with sa
much encouragement and so many ex-
pressions of confidence that its members
could not but rise to meet the trust thus
placed in them with all their good will
and energy. There were present at this
embryo meeting Eleanor Fleischer Ries-
man, Helen Sandison, Grace Latimer
Jones, Frances Browne, with Louise
Congdon Francis and Frances Fincke
Hand to help and advise in the plan for
the January meetings at Bryn Mawr. It
was not until Thursday, January 23d, on
the evening before the various confer-
ences with President Thomas and mem-
bers of the Faculty, that the whole new
committee was able to come together and
discuss its policy with regard to the sub-
jects upon which it was to confer the
following day. In the meantime, how-
ever, individual members of the commit-
tee had been indefatigably at work on the
special problems, notably Eleanor Ries-
man on the pension situation, Helen San-
dison on methods of eliminating students
in other colleges, and Grace Jones on en-
trance examinations. Elizabeth Kirkbride
represented the Alumnz Directors at
this, our first meeting, with her usual
good counsel and helpful suggestion.
Louise Francis attended this and all the
following conferences throughout the
next two days. The committee owes
much to her untiring co-operation.

The meetings held on Friday took place
in Taylor Hall in the President’s office,
the first being the conference with the
Entrance Examination Committee of the
Faculty, the members of which are Presi-
dent Thomas, chairman; Miss Orlady,
secretary; Professor Donnelly, Prof. W.
R. Smith, Professor Wheeler, Professor
Castro, Professor Peebles. The results
from the various changes in entrance sub-
jects were reviewed and certain matricu-
lation policies discussed. Grace Jones
carried the discussion for the committee.
At 11.30 the Academic Committee met the
Curriculum Committee of the Faculty, con-
sisting of President Thomas, chairman;
Professor Bascom, secretary; Professor
Scott (absent), Prof. M. P. Smith, Pro-
fessor Schenck, Prof. T. De Laguna, Pro-
fessor Frank (absent). The members of
the Faculty present gave interesting de-
scriptions of the manner in which their
classes were conducted and various pos-
sibilities in class room methods were
touched upon. Also means for making
the program more flexible were discussed,
such as the possibility of putting five
periods instead of four into the morning
session. Dean Taft was present at both
of these meetings.

In the afternoon at 3 o'clock the com-
mittee met the Pensions Committee of the
Faculty, consisting of Dr. Barton, chair-
man, Professor Scott (absent), and Pro-
fessor Fenwick. Eleanor Riesman gave a
report of the situation and read the ob-
jections put forth by the Association of
University Professors in the report of
their committee, which she had in proof.
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Faculty appointed by the President,

which meets the Academic Committee

The personnel of this committee is de-

termined, from year to year, by the na-

ture of the subject-matter under consid-
eration. The members of the Faculty
present this year were Professor Barton,

as secretary of the special conference

committee which met with the under-
graduates to discuss the method of regu-
lating cuts last spring; Dean Taft and
Professor Tennant, also of this commit-
tee; Professor Kingsbury, Miss Bezanson
and Miss Kellogg, for the purpose of giv-
ing to the committee a description of the
course in employment management. On
Thursday afternoon the committee had
had an interesting talk with Miss Martin,
President of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion, and learned from her the details of
the new method for recording and regu-
lating cutting, and was interested to hear
from the members of the Faculty their
opinion of the value of such student fac-
ulty co-operation. Some bearings of the
necessity for and method of regulating
cuttings on educational problems came
out also in the committee’s conferences
with the Curriculum Committee and with
President Thomas and Dean Taft on Sat-
urday morning. Professor Kingsbury and

her associates gave the committee a most.

interesting description of their courses,
which showed clearly that Bryn Mawr
was finding through such work a direct
method and one that was wholly con-
structive both for the College and for the
community, of taking part, and a leading
part, in certain important world recon-
struction problems of the present day.

On Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock,
the committee met President Thomas and
Dean Taft at the Deanery. Methods for
eliminating students in other colleges
were discussed and the working of the
recent ruling of the Senate of Bryn Mawr
on this question was explained to the
committee. Various other subjects of in-
terest to the College were mentioned and
several matters for the committee’s con-
sideration were presented by President
Thomas. At 11 o’clock a meeting be-
tween the President, the Dean and the
Executive Committee of the Board of Di-
rectors of the College was held, following
a direction on the part of the Board that
its Executive Committee should meet
with the Academic Committee of the
Alumne Association to confer on the dis-
position of the Sage Fund. Marion Reilly,
Blizabeth Kirkbride and Anna Rhoads
Ladd were present from the Executive
Committee of the Board of Directors.
Suggestions for the disposal of the money
were discussed in the light of the many
considerations that must be met in deal-
ing with a problem of such great import
to the College.

The Saturday morning sessions ended
with a very delightful luncheon at the
Deanery, at which Dean Taft acted as
hostess since President Thomas was un-
able to be present on account of the
death of her brother.

On Saturday afternoon the committee
held its final meeting, discussing the
points gone over in the different confer-
ences and making its plans for the next
year’s work as far as these were pos-
sible before the personnel of the commit-
tee was definitely decided by the result
of the elections. It is the very well
grounded opinion of the acting chairman
that the Alumnz Association owes a
large debt of gratitude to the substitute
members on the committee for the ener-
getic and whole-hearted manner in which
they responded to its appeal for carrying
out their wishes.

Frances Browne,

 

pressed their interest in hearing these

Acting Chairman.

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
   
   
 
 

 

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$049.51
Petia ics
Farmers’ Wages....... 748.

Fon. Wages....... + Qed
— $3713.30
Stable Rent, Horse Feed,
. WA Sis ie 31
“ Truck Expense.. 156.17
.48
Less Re: for Hau 3.55
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™Biatlonery Telephone, Postage, 48
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Less Re eipts 41.50 a
Living Expenses
a. ..., $2312.30
Household. .......:. 191.12
SS Se ee 25.14
Wages for Servants.. 413.99
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Interest on Bank Balances....... $51.20
Donations for use in a apering the
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Total Interest and Donations
applied to reducing deficit .........

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financed the venture. ...........+:. $1405 ,93

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Total Loans for Financing. ............... $5800.00
on hand for distribution (Skee eee ee 43094 .07

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There still remain 8000 tin cans, canning equipment
-and farm tools to be disposed of (estimated value
$500.00). Whatever is received will, of course, reduce
the loss by that amount.

 

‘ive heat and long drought greatly re-
duced our potato and corn crops through
no fault of ours, so that we produced far
less than we had estimated.

In my opinion, we sold our products,
both fresh and canned, at too low a price.
The situation was complicated by our
dealing almost entirely with the college.
We did not wish to increase the college’s
expenses and so agreed to the prices set
by the Junior Bursar, although I feel sure
that we could have made more had we
sold our goods elsewhere.

. In comparison with last year’s farm our

showing, in spite of our many drawbacks,
is a good one. We produced nearly $500
worth more in food than last year, not-
withstanding the almost total loss of our
potato crop and much of our corn crop—
two of our largest plantings,—and the
fact that the land at West Chester was
much more fertile than that at our dis-
posal this year. Our*“net deficit is now
$1000 and may be $1500 less than last
year’s, and we have already repaid of our
loans twice as much on the dollar as last
year’s farm has been able to do up to
date.

Even though we have to face a money
deficit, the summer’s work has been
worth while. There is the actual result
of food production to show and there is
good training for the workers engaged.
The workers all showed great initiative
and faithfulness and many of them will
be qualified to help in the organization
of land army units if they are needed
next summer. The spirit was splendid all
through the summer and the results have
been as good as the land and the climate
allowed. The effectiveness of the farm
unit has been largely due to the quarters
in which they lived and worked, and the
generosity of the Baldwin School in giv-
ing the use of the building has been con-
stantly appreciated by every one who has
been here. The comfortable living quar-
ters kept up by the spirits of the workers
through the heat of the summer and the
use of the kitchens for canning was a
great help in every way. The plot of land

come an active member in a world body-
|politic. This idea can only become aj
|reality when a great many people in all}
countries understand the language, litera-| ff.
|ture, ideas and aspirations of people of | fj
other countries. The burden of this un-}|
derstanding should be placed squarely on| J
the college and university all over the| Bilge
world, Bryn Mawr has been one of the]
first American institutions of learning to|

assume the duties of international educa-
tion. For many years we have sent an-
nually four European Fellows to foreign
universities to study for higher degrees.
For many years students from Great
Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland,
and Scandinavia have held foreign schol-
arships in our Graduate School. Our
Japanese scholarships for undergraduate
students have enabled the college to send
Bryn Mawr alumne back to their native-
country to use their training in the serv-
ice of Japanese education.
China is a country with a great future
as well as a great past. The relations of
the United States with China, as with
Japan, are bound to be close. The Chi-
nese Scholarship Committee is anxious
that Bryn Mawr play its part in making
the intellectual ties between the two
countries strong and enduring. The first
Chinese Scholar, Fung Kei Liu, entered
the Freshman Class in the autumn of
1918 after a year’s preparation at the
Shipley School. We hope that she will be
the first of many Chinese women gradu-
ates of Bryn Mawr who will do their
share in the great task of educating Ori-
ental women to meet the responsibilities
which the new order of things is laying
upon the world.
This preparation is preliminary to the
announcement that the Chinese Scholar-
ship Committee intends and expects to
increase its endowment to $40,000, so
that the second Chinese Scholar may be
brought to the United States in the sum-
mer of 1920 for two years’ preparatory
training before entering college the au-
tumn after Fung Kei Liu’s graduation.
Chinese students must plan for our schol-
arships years in advance so that they
may receive such training in English as
will enable them to derive the greatest
benefit from their American education.
We ask the alumne to help us by an-
nual contributions which may be used as
income, by contribution to our endow-
ment fund, which at present amounts to
$9000, and by enlisting in behalf of the
Chinese Scholarship Fund the support of
persons who may be interested in China,
in promoting international scholarships
or in educating Oriental women. The
League of Nations is a great idea, the
Chinese Scholarship Fund is one little
step towards making it a reality.

Marion Parris Smith.

 

 

farmed on the Baldwin School grounds
was also by far the best land we had, and
furnished much more than its proportion
of the products. In every way the Farm
owes a debt of gratitude to the School
and to Miss Johnson.

I am afraid that I have not sufficiently
stressed what a great thing the Farm had
in Miss Dimon’s untiring services and de-
votion. Perhaps only those who actually
worked with her on some of those hot
days, when farming seemed the most dis-
tasteful form of patriotism,—except can-
ning,—which was worse still,—can appre-
ciate her spirit, which never lagged, and
made everyone else ashamed to complain,
but I want the Alumne Association to
realize that without her this particular
patriotic work of the College would have
been practically impossible.

Respectfully submitted,
Alice Martin Hawkins.

 

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