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. The membefs of the Faculty present ex- (¥ PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION “THE COLLEGE news” yearly, met with them in Taylor Hall. when she was” called to Washington to 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.