4 THE COLLEGE NEWS| 7 Scholariidis of Women Merits Lafger Reward (Excerpts: from. the speech of M. Carey Thomas, President-emeritus of Bryn Mawr College.) It is fifty-seven years ago this No- vember that I was aSked by the founder of Bryn Mawr whether I thought that women professors would be as willing toteach in co-educational colleges or annexes as in women’s col- leges. He said that young women should study under. women of high at- tainments holding responsible posi- tions. He:was then considering mak- ing his new college an annex to the Johns Hopkins. Having just--gradu- ated from Cornell and having seen no women employed by the university ex- cept charwomen, I innocently replied that I\did not think that women, even if they wanted to, would be permitted to teach anywhere except in women’s colleges. What I said was true then and it is true now, fifty-seven years later, AG will be fifty-one years in Decem- ber since the thirteen Quaker trustees named in the will of our founder ap- pointed Dr. James E. Rhoads presi- dent of the college and at the same time appointed me Dean of the Fac- ulty and Professor of English. It was agreed between President Rhoads and myself that as the college was to open in nine months he should give his whole time to completing the) build- ings and I should give mine to plan- ning the curriculum, nominating the professors and selecting the students. From that time until he resigned be- cause of ill health in 1894 we worked together in perfect harmony, although there was a difference of thirty years in our ages. He made my educational policies his own and supported them with unflinching determination in the Board of Trustees. Every anniver- sary of Bryn Mawr must recognize and honor his great qualities. He was consumed by the flame of a great love for the best as he knew it. Had he not been what he was during those first nine critical years, from 1885 to 1894, Bryn Mawr College could not be what it is today. We owe him a debt of gratitude and admiration that can never be repaid. The next nine months were like a dream of the Arabian Nights. I was twenty-seven years old. I had just returned from four years’ study in ‘France, Germany and Switzerland with one of the then brand-new Ph. D. degrees in my pocket. I had studied in two American and four foreign uni- versities. I thought I knew what we did not want in Bryn Mawr. But how to get what we did want—the right students, the right professors, the right course of study? How to or- ganize our new college with its tiny endowment (reduced to about $731,000 when the college opened in 1885) so as to create women scholars, women re- searchers, women writers, women thinkers? Alone I could never have found the answer had not everyone helped—President Gilman and _ his splendid group of Hopkins professors, my German, French and Swiss pro- fessors (who recommended six of our early faculty, including Jacques Loeb, who was called from Germany to open our department of physiology), and many individual American professors whom I consulted, including of course the presidents and professors of Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith and the remarkable group of women then organizing Radcliffe. ’. ““Y ean perhaps best explain what Bryn Mawr did by telling you what Bryn Mawr did first. This is not as conceited as it sounds. It was much easier to do things first in 1885 than . in 1935. Bryn Mawr solved the prob- \lem of getting able students by mak- \ing her. entrance examinations the ost difficult in the United States, ahd she kept them unchanged for thirty-six years. We solved the prob- lem of’ professors by appointing only holders of the new Ph. D. degree. Woodrow Wilson was the only excep- tion. \He had published his thesis and done all the work, but he took his ex- aminations later. There were then, as far as§ we could find out, only four women Ph. D.’s in the world, two of them in mathematics; and we ap- pointed. three. Our early professors were called\away so rapidly to other universities \at double their Bryn _»Mawr §salari youth in the kind of ‘teaching. that youth taught st three decades of the college, which \I believe is the ideal _Btyn Mawr opened with, and has always maintained, one where else outside of foreign univer- sities. Every teacher of undergradu- ates gives at least three hours of her or his time to conducting graduate work. -Only so, I believe, i is inspiring teaching possible. Bryn Mawr opened with a three -years graduate school and resident fellowships soon increased to:one for every department... In 1892 -Bryn Mawr } was-the first American college oY University to offer resident fellow- ships for foreign women scholars, ten in all. Shé was then, and is now, the only college to award a European. fel- lowship for foreign study to the best student in each senior class. The Self-Government Charter. granted in 1892 by the Trustees is the most com- plete ever given and it has worked well for over forty years. I have left to the last the plan of undergraduate study adopted by the college which worked so well that it was not altered for thirty-six years. Of all the many letters I have re- ceived from Bryn Mawr graduates ‘there is one that pleases me most, al- though like many other such letters it is a two-edged sword: “Dear President Thomas, I have forgotten everything I raion at Bryn Mawr, but I still see cou standing’ in chapel and telling us to believe in women.” In two months from today I shall be three score and eighteen years old, and this is probably my last’ speech. I find that I cannot close it without asking the alumnae here today and the much ‘greater number of alumnae and form- er students listening over the radio not only “to believe” in women (which; of course you all do), but also to do what you can to help women scholars in their dire need. The late Dr. William H. Welsh, the head. of the Johns Hopkins Medical Faculty from the opening of the Med- ical School in 1898 until his death a year ago, gave the commencement ad- dress on my retirement at sixty-five in 1922. Before speaking he had made a scientific ‘study such as only he could make of the Higher Education of Women. He was one of the most brilliant thinkers I have ever met. He said to me before leaving: “Bryn Mawr is committing a crime against women scholars and women scientific investigators. Women, like me, can never become truly eminent unless they receive the reward of their labors. TI am shocked to find even at Bryn Mawr that at least one-half of your full professors are men and that _in the hundreds of co-educational colleges in the United States there are prac- tically no women professors and that even in some of the few separate col- leges for women, men are presidents instead of women. How long,” he asked indignantly, “are women going to permit women scholars to be asked to make bricks without straw? No men could be expected to do. distin- guished work in teaching or research under such conditions.” I realized then as never before that my generation had given women only opportunity to study. We had not opened to them the rewards of study. Your generation must come to their rescue. My generation has given you political power. One-half of the votes in the United States are or can be cast by women. You have also finan- cial power. Statistics show that one- half of the invested wealth of the United States is controlled by women. When you or your husbands or fathers make large memorial gifts to co-edu- cational universities, why not request that women’s scholarly and teaching abilities be recognized by professor- ships? When you give large sums to hospitals, why not make it a condi- tion that women medical students shall be allowed to compete for in- terneships and women physicians for medical and surgical professorships? The Johns Hopkins Medical School was persuaded by a gift of $406,977 raised or given entirely by women to admit women when its Medical School opened in 1893. In the United States, all state-sup- ported schools and universities, includ- ing all their graduate and professional schools, are now open to women stu- dents. They are managed by elected or appointed boards of control. It will not be difficult for you in your home towns to, see to it that. broad- THE BRASS PLATTER INN Managed by MRS. PAUL. BROWN Luncheons - Teas Dinners 233 E. Montgom rdmore, Avenue a. requirement that I believe exists no-| minded men .and- women, and if pos- sible yourselves also, are. put on these boards. They: will then’ elect broad- minded presidents and principals and will insist that the ability of women teachers shall be rewarded by head- ships of departments, school principal- ships and university professorships. Before closing I wish to express again Bryn Mawyr’s great academic debt to the Johns Hopkins University and to its great first president, Daniel C. Gilman, and to the first large don- ors who came to Bryn Mawr’s support when she could not H&ve developed without such _hélp—to Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who asked his father to give us a power plant with light and heat for, all our buildings, Rocke- feller Hall,and td pay the deficit on the Library; to Mary Elizabeth Gar- rett, who gave us the great Saupe Classical Library, rebuilt the Deanery, created the Deanery Garden, made up anonymously the annual deficits year after year until the college income was large enough to meet the annual ex- penses, and then every year until her death gave the college $10,000 a year for the president’s emergency fund and was always ready to help college departments in which she was inter- ested; to Carola Woerishoffer, an alumna who left the college $750,000; to our splendid Bryn Mawr alumnae and former students who in four mag- nificent drives have enabled the col- lege that they love to give a better and ever better education—our alum- nae have given us in the 1900 drive new buildings costing $732,273; in the 1910 drive an additional endowment of $517,276 and $154,789 tvfognd fhe Phebe Anna Thorne Expe tal School; in the 1920 drive $2,221,784 endowment for raising the salaries of professors; in the 1925 drive $457,000 for the Marjorie Walter Goodhart Hall and an endowment of $200,000 for a Music Department, and now we are to hear the result of the Fiftieth Anniversary Alumnae Drive from the wonderful chairman of the last three alumnae drives who, if any one can in this period of depression, will have performed a miracle on behalf of the Bryn Mawr College. Bryn Mawr, Haverford | To Put On “The Swan” Continued from Page One The Messiah, which will be presented the week-end immediately following the performance of The Swan, the Players’ Club has made some tem- porary changes in ‘its board of gov- ernment. Ann Fred has been chosen chairman, Julia Grant continues as secretary, Ethel Mann is to be in charge of lighting, and Isabelle Selt- zer is chairman of the costume com- mittee. Rosemont Swamped 6-1; Three Forwards Score Bryn Mawr, November 4.—Sec- ond varsity hockey team buried a slow Rosemont second team under an avalanche of 6 goals to 1. Three of second team’s forward line shared the scoring honors, Ballard accounting for three of the points, Carpenter, two, and Raynor, one,.to make up the grand. total. At the opening whistle Bryn Mawr broke into the attack, where she stayed throughout the first half ex- cept for one short moment. of this we were afraid during the first ~~ OR: AO AEE OBIE AE LTTE. There is an unusually varied collection of dresses in black at the shop of Jeanne Bett’s, underneath the Country Book- shop. They have searched carefully to find the answer to “preferably black,” that dis- criminating requirement. It may be a suit for shopping, a woolen or silk for under a coat, a street length cocktail dress, a dinner or an evening gown— - the variety in prices puts them all within the realms of. possi- bility. In spite five AE we were going to be beset by our-old trouble of. not being able to pe The three inside for- wards muddled, and ‘seemed to hinder rather than help each other in, the circle.- Also the Rosemont goalie was quick, though she did not clear very well, Jane. Garcenan, however, soon got into the seoring column to start. Bryn Mawr on her upward way. Raynor almost immediately cqunted again with a beaytiful drive from left wing. This score was followed by one from Ballard, a follow-in shot, and-another from Carpenter, ending the first half with the score 4-0 in Bryn’ Mawr’s favor. The second half started in much the same vein; and Ballard tallied twice more. put in endless.substitutes and the play became somewhat more even. In one quick dash Wenger, substituting for Flannigan, scored Rosemont’s only point of the day. As Bryn Mawr was so rarely on the defence, the backs had a very restful time until the last ten minutes of the second half. Though she had little to do, it gave us a certain feeling of assurance to have Seltzer back in her old position. The halfback line played a beautiful game. Delia Mar- shall at left half backed up the for- ward line nicely; Peggy Martin, at center half, kept the play well dis- tributed, and Mary Whitmer displayed some lovely stickwork. The forwards also we congratulate on playing a good fighting game. On the whole the second team did nicely. We see that they can play well when they are on the top. Now we must find out whether they can cow a team that has already beaten them and wreak vengeance on Merion next week. Line-up: BRYN MAWR ROSEMONT Pel or TOW a ee Smith Rosemont, however, began: to} Page Three Carpenter....... Br aoees Flannigan | Harrington..... Bis Succ vweee Grush SS ee an LU CEN DRe O’Neill ‘Whitmer....’.. y Dig) | a eee Casey 3 TA 1 RR epee ce. h, ..J. Fitzpatrick Marshall...... Res Pevevsses Cook Stoddard....... r. f. ......MeDonald ; eae Le fe veesscae Garrity Leighton. . Bi ceeee . Durning. : dhiativates