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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE,
1873-74-
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS,
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders
Race
in
Street
Twelfth
meeting
ively,
is
in
It is
Meeting House, Philadelphia, on the
month,
given in
at
three o'clock
as
held
Third-day
of this
Public notice
m.
in
one or more newspapers published, respect-
Philadelphia,
New
York, and Baltimore.
desirable that Stockholders should be furnished with the
Annual Catalogues, and
thority
p.
first
is
of" the
College.
we have never had
all
other
publications
This has been but
the addresses of
many
issued
by the au-
imperfectly
done,
Stockholders, and
those of others have been changed since their names were entered
upon the
lists.
That a
list,
the College, Stockholders are
corrected to date,
requested to
dent their names and addresses
County, and State.
in
full,
may be
kept at
forward to the Presi-
giving
the
Post-Ofifice,
.
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ANNUAL CATALOGUE
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE,
S^VARTHMORE,
PA.
1873-74.
WITH MINUTES OF THE
TENTH ANNUAL MEETING
STOCKHOLDERS.
PRESS OF
J.
B.
LIPPINCOTT &
CO.,
PHILADELPHIA.
1878-74.
187:
Sixth
Fourth-day.
Sixth
Fifth-day.
Commencement.
Summer Vacation
Third-day.
Examinations for admission begin.
Fifth- day.
Examinations
month i8th,
month 19th,
Ninth month 2d,
Ninth month 4th,
begins.
for admission completed,
and old Students
Sixth-day.
Regular Exercises begin.
Ninth month
Third- day.
Meeting of the Board of Managers.
Meeting of the Board of Managers.
9th,
Twelfth month
ist,
Second-day.
Twelfth month 2d,
Third-day.
Annual Meeting
Twelfth month 2d,
Third-day.
Meeting of the Board of Managers.
Twelfth month 24th, Fourth-day.
1874-
return.
Ninth month 5th,
month 5th,
First month 6th,
Second month loth.
Fifth month iilh,
Fifth month 19th,
First
of the Stockholders.
Holidays begin.
Second-day.
Students return.
Third-day.
Regular Exercises begin.
Third-day.
Meeting of th£ Board of Managers.
Second-day.
Senior Examinations begin.
Third-day.
Senior Examinations completed
result
Commencement
month
month
the
;
announced, and parts
for
assigned.
8th,
Second-day.
15th,
Second-day.
Annual Examinations begin.
Annual Examinations completed, and
month 15th,
Sixth month i6th,
Sixth month 17th,
Ninth month ist.
Ninth month 3d,
Second-day.
Meeting of the Board of Managers.
Third-day.
Fourth-day.
Commencement.
Summer Vacation
Third-day.
Examinations for admission begin.
Fifth -day.
Examinations for admission completed,
Ninth month 4th,
Sixth- day.
Regular Exercises begin.
Ninth month 8th,
Third-day.
Meeting of the Board of Managers.
Meeting of the Board of Managers.
Sixth
Sixth
the result announced.
Sixth
begins.
and old Students
Eleventh month 31st, Second-day.
Twelfth month
ist,
Third-day.
Twelfth month
1st,
Third-day.
Twelfth month 24th, Fifth day.
1875.
First
First
month
month
return.
Annual Meeting of the Stockholders.
Meeting of the Board of Managers.
Holidays begin.
4th,
Second-day.
Students return.
5th,
Third-day.
Regular Exercises begin.
CORPORATION.
ittrs.
CLERKS.
ISAAC
H.
CLOTHIER,
ISAAC STEPHENS,'
WORTH,
CLEMENT BIDDLE,
S. B.
F.
CORLIES.
BOARD OF MANAGERS.
MARTHA G. McILYAIN,
ANNA M. HOPPER,
ELIZA H. BELL,
CHARLES T. BUNTING,
EDWARD TAYLOR,
JOHN D. HICKS,
ROBERT WILLETS,
JOSEPH WHARTON,
FISHER LONGSTRETH,
HOOPES,
WILLIAM H. MACY,
ELLWOOD BURDSALL,
B. RUSH ROBERTS,
SAMUEL WILLETS,
WILLIAM DORSEY,
M.
EDWARD
HUGH
SARAH
McILVAIN,
DANIEL UNDERHILL,
HANNAH W. HAYDOCK,
ANNA M. FERRIS,
MARY T. LONGSTRETH,
HENRY C. HALLOWELL,
RACHEL T. JACKSON,
RACHEL M. BIDDLE,
CAROLINE UNDERHILL,
ELIZABETH S. WORTH,
JANE P. DOWNING,
MARGARET
G.
CORLIES,
LOUISA M. STABLER,
ELIZABETH
T.
YARDLEY.
TREASURER.
CLEMENT
M. BIDDLE, No. 513 Commerce
Street, Philadelphia.
®Stt^r$
Httit
i^mmiUat^ nf
—
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^mv\i.
cy-s-iji-e—o
PRESIDENT.
SAMUEL WILLETS.
SECRETARY.
M.
FISHER LONGSTRETH.
AUDITORS.
M.
EDWARD TAYLOR.
FISHER LONGSTRETH,
INSTRUCTION.
CLEMENT RIDDLE,
JOHN D. HICKS,
HANNAH W. HAYDOCK,
HENRY C. HALLOWELL,
WILLIAM DORSEV,
M. FISHER LONGSTRETH,
JOSEPH WHARTON.
ANNA
M.
HOPPER,
MUSEUM.
RACHEL T. JACKSON,
RACHEL M. BIDDLE,
MARY T. LONGSTRETH.
JOSEPH WHARTON,
JOHN
D.
HICKS,
EDWARD TAYLOR,
ANSON LAPHAM REPOSITORY.
ANNA M. FERRIS,
JACKSON,
HENRY C. HALLOWELL.
STEPHENS,
RACHEL
ISAAC
T.
FINANCE.
EDWARD HOOPES,
WILLIAM DORSEY,
HUGH
McILVAIN.
BUILDING.
HUGH
S.
B.
McILVAIN,
WORTH,
EDWARD HOOPES,
ELLWOOD BURDSALL.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
RACHEL T. JACKSON,
ANNA M. HOPPER,
WILLIAM DORSEY,
MARTHA G. McILVAIN,
CLEMENT BIDDLE,
JANE P. DOWNING,
S. B. WORTH,
HANNAH W. HAYDOCK,
DANIEL UNDERHILL,
MARGARET G. CORLIES,
ANNA M. FERRIS,
JOHN D. HICKS,
EDWARD HOOPES,
HUGH McILVAIN,
ISAAC H. CLOTHIER,
4
ELIZABETH
S.
WORTH.
l^atttH^
iuttarttmiinl
0F|
THE PRESIDENT.
THE MATRON.
MARIA
L.
SANFORD.
EUGENE PAULIN.
ARTHUR BEARDSLEY.
WILLIAM HYDE APPLETON.
THOMAS
S.
FOULKE.
®fiitir$ 0J iuttBrtimin}
ED\VARD
PRESIDENT,
nnh %mirntim.
MAGILL,
H.
A.M.,
AND PROFESSOR OF MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
PHEBE W. FOULKE,
MATRON.
MARIA
SANFORD,
L.
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY.
EUGENE PAULIN,
A.M.,
PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN AND FRENCH LANGUAGES.
ARTHUR BEARDSLEY,
C.E.,
PROFESSOR OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.
WILLIAM HYDE APPLETON,
A.M., LL.B.,
PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK AND GERMAN LANGUAGES.
THOMAS
S.
FOULKE,
SUPERINTENDENT.
SUSAN
J.
CUNNINGHAM,
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS.
FREDERICK
S.
CURTIS, Ph.B.,
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY.
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
SUSAN W. JANNEY,
INSTRUCTOR IN PENMANSHIP AND BOTANY.
ELIZABETH
G.
MACY,
INSTRUCTOR IN ELOCUTION.
MARY
AUSTIN,
L.
INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN AND IN ENGLISH BRANCHES.
ESTHER
TRIMBLE,
J.
INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, RHETORIC, AND ELOCUTION.
SAMUEL
S.
GREEN,
B.S.,
INSTRUCTOR IN PHYSICS.
ELIZABETH
S.
OVV^EN,
INSTRUCTOR IN MATHEMATICS.
MARY
P.
H.
ROCKWELL,
INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN, RHETORIC, AND COMPOSITION.
ELIZABETH PAULIN,
INSTRUCTOR IN FRENCH.
MARY
M.
COLEMAN,
INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH BRANCHES.
GEORGE W. INGRAHAM,
A.B.,
INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN AND IN ENGLISH BRANCHES.
KATE LOUISE ROCKWELL,
LIBRARIAN.
L.
MARIA
C.
PIERCE,
A.B.,
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR IN GERMAN AND IN ENGLISH BRANCHES.
SWARTHMOKE COLLEGE.
ELIZABETH
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR IN
HETTY
C.
MILLER,
FRENCH AND
T.
A.B.,
IN ENGLISH BRANCHES.
MOORE,
A.B.,
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR IN MATHEMATICS.
IsTOnsr-I^ESIDEHSTT OIPIFIOEI^S.
.
JOSEPH LEIDY,
M.D., LL.D.,
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY.
SUSANNA
P.
CHAMBERS,
INSTRUCTOR IN FREE-HAND DRAWING.
LOUIS LEWIS,
INSTRUCTOR IN GYMNASTICS.
Iti^i^nb.
Helen Magill, A.B.
Elizabeth Clarke Miller, A.B.
Hetty Townsend Moore, A.B.
Lydia Maria Child Pierce, A.B.
SENIOR CLASS.
CLASSICAL SECTION.
Evans, Ellen H
Hall, Amy Williams
HiBBARD, Mary
Price, Ferris Walton
Woolston, Elizabeth Stockton
....
....
....
West Chester.
Swarthmore.
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia.
Mt. Washington, Md.
.
SCIENTIFIC SECTION.
....
Haviland, Alfred Tredway
HooPES, Herman
.
.
Millbrook, N. Y.
Philadelphia.
JUNIOR CLASS.
classical section.
....
....
.....
Booth, John Broomall
Cavender, Mary
CoMLY, Helen Trump
Hanes, Lizzie
Hooper, Edith Robinson
LippiNCOTT,
McIlvain,
.
.
.
.
.
.
....
Howard White
Martha
.
.
Chester.
Philadelphia.
Byberry.
Woodstown, N.
J.
Titusville.
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia.
9
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
10
JUNIOR CLASS.
SCIENTIFIC SECTION.
CoRLiES, Franklin Haines
HooPEs, Barton, Jr.
Keese, Oliver, JRLewis, John Reece
.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
•
•
Titusville.
.
.
...
.
.
....
•
•
Richards, John Kelvey
.
.
RiDGWAY, William Hance
.
Philadelphia.
Media.
Ironton, O.
Coatesville.
.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
CLASSICAL SECTION.
Bedell, Matilda
.....
.....
.....
....
Bradley, Arthur Wadsworth
Linton, Frances
Longstreth, Elizabeth Jackson
Magill, Eudora
McIlvain, Emma
Mitchell, Edwin, Jr.
Morrill, Sarah Holden
.
.
WiLLiTS,
Germantown.
Fox Chase.
Darby.
.
.
Swarthmore College.
Philadelphia.
.
.
.
Philadelphia.
.
......
.....
Lucy
Smyth, Herbert Weir
Walter, Emile
Price,
Norristown.
.
.
.
Vineland, N.
.
Mary
J.
West Chester.
Wilmington, Del.
Englewood, N. J.
Maiden Creek.
SCIENTIFIC SECTION.
Frank Lippincott
McClure, James Traquair
Smedley, Isaac Garrett
Bassett,
.
.
.
Taylor, Mahlon Kirkbride
.
.
.
FRESHMAN
J.
Willistown.
Burlington, N.
.
.
Salem, N.
Philadelphia.
.
.
J.
CLASS.
CLASSICAL section.
....
....
....
....
....
Bringhurst, Anna
Chandlee, Eliza
Grover, Ralph Waldo
Hill, Libbie Jane
Janney, Rebecca Talbott
Kirby, Georgiana Bruce
Lukens, Joseph Paul
McDowell, Charles
Musser, Emma Alden
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Wilmington, Del.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Earlville,
111.
Erie.
Hillsboro', Va.
Santa Cruz, Cal.
Newport, Del.
Brooklyn, L.
Muncy.
I.
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
Norton, Jesse Rowland
Paine, Charles Willla.m
Pearson, James
Powell, Sallie
Ironton, O.
Philadelphia.
.
Mercer.
Ware
Hancock's Bridge, N.
Northumberland.
New Hope.
Wilmington, Del.
Wilmington, Del.
Anna Sarah
Reeder, Watson Kenderdixe
Priestley,
Richardson, Maggie
Richardson, Mary Andrews
Roberts, Rebecca Hunt
Taggart, David
Willets, Isaac D.
Williams, Carroll Reeves
Yeatman,
iNlARiE
Florence
,
Flushing, L.
J.
1.
New Hope.
Fairville.
.
FRESHMAN
•
Burlington, N.
Northumberland.
CLASS.
SCIENTIFIC SECTION
i\LLDERDICE, WiLLIAM HiLLARY
Richmond, Va.
Barker, "\yiLLiAM S.
BurdsalLj'Ellwood, Jr.
BuRDSALL, Richard Howard
Chambers, J. Howard
Chambers, Simon Bernard
Corson, Norman Benjamin
Franklin, Joseph Frederick
Hallowell, William S.
Hatch, Charles Edward Lex
Ingram, Harry Atlee
New
.
.
.
Horace Fremont
Johnson, Helen Rowland
IviNS,
.
Philadelphia.
Norristown.
Flushing, N. Y.
Fairton, N.
J.
Titusville.
Philadelphia.
.
German town.
Philadelphia.
Media.
.
George Henry
Price, George Ward
Stewart, Thomas Seley, Jr.
Watson, Henry Winfield
Potts,
Port Chester, N. Y.
Wilmington, Del.
Bristol.
.
Knight, Mary Louisa
Lang, James Traquair
Merritt, Daniel Tobey
Osborn, Frank
Brighton.
Port Chester, N. Y.
Millbrook, N. Y.
Middletown, N.
New York
J.
City.
Chestnut Hill, Phila.
IMilton.
Attleborough.
J.
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
STUDENTS PURSUING IRREGULAR OR PARTIAL COURSES.
BiDDLE,
Chadd's Ford.
West Chester.
Anne
Bolton, Philip Schuyler
Canby, Laura
.
Baltimore,
s
Md.
Bangor, Me.
Dow, Herbert George
Eyre, Clarence Preston
Lobdell, Florence Delano
McKiNLEY, William Gibson
Peirce, Howell
Shannon, Mary Matilda
Worth, William Penn
Woodbury, N.
J.
Wilmington, Del.
Harrisburg.
South Charleston, O.
Philadelphia.
Coatesville.
TJ im: im: 7^
I?. IT.
....••
Resident Graduates
UNDERGRADUATES.
CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT.
Senior Class
Junior Class
....••••
.....••
.....••
.......
Sophomore Class
Freshman Class
.....••
5
7
12
22
scientific department.
Senior Class
Junior Class
Sophomore Class
Freshman Class
.....••
.
.
.
•
•
Students pursuing Irregular or Partial Courses
Total
•
2
6
4
21
.
93
CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT.
FACULTY OF INSTRUCTION.
EDWARD
H. ^lAGILL, A.M., President.
SANFORD,
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PAULIN,
History.
Latin and French.
APPLETON,
Greek atid German.
CUNNINGHAM,
Pure Mathematics.
CURTIS, Chemistry and Physiology.
LEIDY, Zoology, Comparative Anatomy, Compara-
tive Physiology,
Mineralogy, and Geology.
SUSAN W. JANNEY, Instructor in Botany.
ELIZABETH G. MACY, Instructor in Elocution.
MARY
L.
ESTHER
AUSTIN,
J.
ric, a7id
SAMUEL
MARY P.
S.
Instructor in Latin.
TRIMBLE,
Instructor in English Literature, Rheto-
Elocution.
GREEN,
Instructor in Physics.
ROCKWELL,
H.
Instructor in Latin, Rhetoric,
and
Cotnposition.
ELIZABETH PAULIN,
L. MARIA C. PIERCE,
Instructor in French.
Instructor in Gerjnan.
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION.
Every applicant
for
factory testimonials of
admission must submit to the President
good moral character
from another college must present
from the institution
Examinations
for
;
certificates of
satis-
and students coming
honorable dismission
left.
admission will be held on Third-, Fourth-, and
Fifth-days, the ist, 2d,
and 3d of Ninth month, 1874. Candidates
at two o'clock p.m., on Third-day, the ist
must present themselves
of Ninth month.
13
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
14
To
secure places, the accommodations being limited, applications
for admission for the next scholastic year should
as possible,
by
Candidates
be made,
as early
letter to the President.
for
admission to the Freshman Class will be examined
and text-books, or
on the following subjects
Latin. — Harkness's
their equivalents
Grammar; Harkness's Reader; Harkness's
Caesar's Gallic War, first three
Composition, first thirty lessons
books; and Virgil's ^Eneid, first two books.
French, Magill and Paulin's First Lessons; Magill's Grammar
;
—
and Magill's Introductory Reader.
Mathematics.
Degree
;
— Arithmetic; Algebra, to Equations of the Second
Davies' Legendre's Geometry,
English.
—English Grammar and
Descriptive and Physical
;
three books.
first
Modern Geography,
Spelling;
Ancient Geography (Baird's Classical
Manual); Physics (Rolfe and Gillet's Natural Philosophy) Barnes's
History of the United States; Anderson's History of England;
;
Smith's History of Greece.
Candidates for advanced standing must
mission to the Freshman Class;
first
be examined for ad-
all
the required studies
then in
already gone over by the class for which they are offered, and in as
many
elective studies as
at the
beginning of the course.
Especial attention
is
they would have pursued
if
they had entered
called to the importance of a thorough prep-
aration in the studies required for admission.
The want of
a serious source of embarrassment to future progress, and
repaired
who
by subsequent study.
The work
is
is
this is
rarely
arranged for those only
enter the classes thoroughly prepared.
Students are not considered as regular members of the College
until, after a residence
of at least four months, they have been ad-
mitted to matriculation on
character.
satisfactory
evidence
of good
moral
Before this they are students on probation.
COURSE OF STUDY.
Elective studies must be selected
in the
beginning of the year
only, and, unless completed, must not be dropped or changed during
the year.
A
sufficient
number of
electives
must be taken
to
make not
less
than sixteen nor more than twenty-one exercises per week, exclusive
of those studies requiring no immediate preparation out of the class-
room.
S WAR THAW RE COLLEGE.
The
15
required studies of each class in any course are
any other course,
electives for students of that class in
among
if
the
they are
prepared to pursue them, and pass the necessary preliminary examination.
may
Students in any of the courses
receive instruction in
Pho-
nography, Penmanship, and Free-hand Drawing.
FRESHMAN
CLASS.
Required Studies.
/.
^0. of
Ex. per week
— Harkness's Grammar and Latin Prose Composition
IV.
Livy, Book XXI.
^neid. Books
4
German. — Otto's Beginning German; Otto's Conversation
Grammar; Der Neffe
Onkel
.4
Mathematics. — Olney's Algebra, through Quadratic EquaLatin.
Virgil's
III.,
;
.
als
tions;
.
Chauvenet's Plane Trigonometry
History.
— Liddell's
History of
Ancient History
—
.
....
Books IV. -VI.
Legendre's Geometry,
Davies'
.
.
Rome;
Schmitz's Manual of
Student's Gibbon
;
Chemistry. Wilson's Inorganic Chemistry, with Lectures
Natural History. Zoology; Comparative Anatomy; Com
—
....
parative Physiology (Lectures)
Elocution.
— Murdock
and Russell's Vocal Culture; Coates'
Speaker; Selections from English Classical Authors; De
.........
—
clamations
Rhetoric and Composition.
//.
Hart's Rhetoric
;
Essays
.
i
i
Elective Studies.
— Hadley's Grammar; Boise's Xenophon's Anabasis,
.3
French. — Magill's Grammar; Siege de
Rochelle
English Literature. — Cleveland's English Literature of the
Greek.
Books
I., II.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
la
.
.
.
3
Compendium of AmeriCompendium of English
Nineteenth Century; Cleveland's
can Literature
Literature
.
;
Cleveland's
.
.
.
....
.
.2
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
1
SOPHOMORE
CLASS.
Required Studies.
/.
_^^.
Ex. per
— Harkness's
of
iveek.
Grammar and Latin Prose Composition;
Cicero's Orations; Livy, Book XXII.
-4
German. Otto's Conversation Grammar; Willielmi's Einer
muss heirathen Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm
4
Mathematics. Gillespie's Surveying; Davies' Legendre's
Latin.
...
—
.
;
—
.........
—
Geometry, Books VII. -IX. (four exercises per week
half-year)
.
English Literature.
erature (once a
first
2
Lectures on English and General Lit-
week
first
half-year)*
.
.
.
.1^
Shaw's Manual of English Literature and Lectures (four
exercises per
week
last half-year)
.
.
.
.
.2
—Atkinson's Ganot's General Physics; Lectures
(Botany
4th mo.
-4
Natural History. — Zoology; Comparative Anatomy; Com.1
parative Physiology (Lectures)
English Authors; DeElocution. — Selections from
clamations, Original and Selected
.1
Rhetoric and Composition. — Quackenbos's Rhetoric Essays
Physics.
after
ist)
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Classical
.
.
i
;
II.
Elective Studies.
—
Hadley's Grammar; Boise's Xenophon's Anabasis,
Books III., IV. ; Homer's Iliad, Books I. -III.
Jones
and Boise's Greek Prose Composition Goodwin's Greek
Moods and Tenses
French. Magill's Grammar; Fenelon's Telemaque Dumas'
Greek.
;
.......
.........
.........
;
—
Napoleon
History. — Student's
(Lectures)
* This course,
Philadelphia.
in
3
History of France; History of England
for the present year, is delivered
The Lectures
4
;
are attended
by
all
3
by Joseph Thomas, M.D., LL.D., of
the students of the
Sophomore
Class,
both departments, and such other members of the College classes as desire to do
so.
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
17
JUNIOR CLASS.
Required Studies.
I.
No. of
Ex. per
"week,
French. — Noel
and Chapsal's Grammaire Abregee; Fleury's
Magill's Prose and Poetry
Histoire de France
4
English Literature. Lectures on English and General Literature (once a week first half-year)
y^
Political Economy. John Stuart Mill's Principles of Politi;
.
.
.
.
—
.
.
.
........
—
Natural History. —Lectures on Mineralogy and
half-year)
(once a week
Elocution. — Declamations, original and selected
Rhetoric and Composition. —
Rhetoric;
cal
Economy
last
.
.
.
;
//.
Latin.
— Horace's
—
.
.
.
.
Abbott's
......
........
......
—
........
De
y^
.1
i
Elective Studies.
Odes; Cicero's De
Senectute, and
German.
Essays
.
......
Blair's
Lessons in English
i
Geology
Claris
Oratoribus,
De
Amicitia
4
Maria Stuart and Wilhelm Tell; Eichendorff's Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts; Exercises in
Schiller's
writing German
Greek. Felton's Greek Historians; Plato's Apology and Crito.
History. History of the United States (Lectures) History of
Modern Europe (Lectures)
English Literature. Shaw's Manual of English Literature,
—
—
and Lectures
4
4
;
2
2
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
1
SENIOR CLASS.
Requb'ed Studies.
/.
No. of
Ex. jier
—Wayland and Hamilton, with
half-year)
tures (once a week
Moral Philosophy. — Wayland, with Lectures (once a
Mental Philosophy.
first
last half-year)
.
.
.
—
.
.
.
.
.
.
iveek.
Lec.
.
.
.
.......
History. Guizot's History of Civilization; De Tocqueville's
Democracy in America
Natural History. Lectures on Mineralogy and Geology (once
a week last half-year)
Elocution. Original Orations
Rhetoric and Composition. Whately's Elements; Camp-
—
.
bell's
.
.
—
.
.
.
.
//.
;
Essays
.
.
.
.
Elective Studies.
—
....
Latin. Horace's Satires and Epistles; Tacitus' Agricola and
Germania Selections from Juvenal
;
German. — Schiller's
Niederlande
;
Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten
Emilia Galotti
Lessing's
;
Goethe's Eg-
.....
mont and Faust Exercises in Writing German
of German Literature (Lectures)
Euripides' Alcestis
Greek. Sophocles' Antigone
;
;
tures)
— Duruy's
maine
;
Histoire
Grecque;
Voltaire's Louis
Demos-
Duruy's Histoire Ro-
XIV; Madame de
;
Stael's L'Alle-
the History of
Whitney's Language and the Study of Lan-
...
Literature
guage
;
History
History of Greek Literature (Lec-
magne Compositions
English Literature. Schlegel's Lectures on
;
;
..........
.......
—
Corona;
thenes' de
French,
i^
2
^
i
—
Philosophy of Rhetoric
—
i^
week
-@7^S!lS^^^^
i
SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT.
FACULTY OF INSTRUCTION.
EDWARD
MAGILL, A.M., President.
SANFORD, History.
H.
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PAULIN,
Latin and French.
BEARDSLEY, Applied Mathematics and Physics.
APPLETON, Greek and German.
CUNNINGHAM,
Pure Mathematics.
CURTIS, Chemistry.
LEIDY, Zoology, Comparative Anatomy, Compara-
tive Physiology, Mifieralogy ,
and
Geology.
SUSAN W. JANNEY, Instructor in Botany.
ELIZABETH G. MACY, Instructor in Elocution.
ESTHER
J.
oric,
SAMUEL
MARY
P.
TRIMBLE,
Instructor in English Literature, Rhet-
and Elocution.
GREEN,
S.
H.
Instructor in Phjsics.
ROCKWELL,
Instructor in Rhetoric
and Com-
position.
ELIZABETH PAULIN, Instructor in French.
MARIA C. PIERCE, Instructor in German.
L.
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION.
The conditions of admission
same
Latin
as those for
is
to the Scientific
Department are the
admission to the Classical Department, except that
not required, although a knowledge of Latin accidence and
a sufficient knowledge of the construction to read easy Latin Prose
is
earnestly
recommended.
It
is
also very desirable that all appli-
cants for admission to this department should have had at least one
year's instruction in Free-hand Linear
Drawing.
In the courses of study which follow,
it
will
be observed that in
the requirements for the scientific degrees care has been taken to
and not to make of students of
ment mere chemists or engineers.
stcnxQ general culture,
this depart-
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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
20
COURSES OF STUDY.
The
named
studies
following courses are
in the
all
required
STUDIES, the ELECTiVES being the same as those for students of the
Classical
Department.
The Rules
for Elective Studies, given
on pages
14, 15, are the
same
for the students of all the courses.
FRESHMAN
CLASS.
^0. of
Ex. per
—
—
"week.
Chemistry. Wilson's Inorganic Chemistry, with Lectures
Graphics. Construction of Plane Problems in Geometry Projection
........
— Olney's
through
Algebra,
Legendre's Geometry,
Davies'
Chauvenet's Plane Trigonometry
German. — Otto's
Grammar
;
.
Beginning German;
Der Neffe als Onkel
Books IV.-VI.
.
,
.
;
.4
Conversation
.
.
.
.4
—Liddell's History of Rome; Schmitz's Manual of
Ancient History; Student's Gibbon
Natural History. — Zoology; Comparative Anatomy; Com-
....
parative Physiology (Lectures)
.
.
.
.
— Murdock
Speaker
;
.1
.........
—
Rhetoric and Composition.
Hart's Rhetoric;
SOPHOMORE
— Laboratory Practice
son's Fresenius
;
;
Essays
.
—John—Elderhorst
— Orthographic
Drawing
Physics.
Atkinson's
—
Shades, Shadows, and Perspective, with
......
General
Ganot's
(Botany after 4th mo.
— Gillespie's
ist)
Surveying;
Physics;
Davies'
;
—
4
Lectures
4
Legendre's
....
Geometry, Books VH.-IX.
Chauvenet's Spherical Trigonometry Olney's Higher Algebra
German. Otto's Conversation Grammar; Wilhelmi's Einer
muss heirathen (four exercises per week first half-year)
;
4
Projections; Spheri-
.........
cal Projections;
i
Qualitative Analysis
......
Preparation of Reagents
I
CLASS.
Determinative Mineralogy
Descriptive Geometry.
Mathematics.
3
and Russell's Vocal Culture; Coates's
Selections from English Classical Authors ; De-
clamations
Chemistry.
4
Quadratic Equa-
Otto's
.
History.
Elocution.
4
;
Drawing
Mathematics.
tions;
.
.
4
2
—
;
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No. of
Ex. per week.
English Literature.
—Lectures on English and General Litera-
....
....
....
....
ture (once a week first half-year)
Shaw's Manual of English Literature, and Lectures (four
exercises per
Natural History.
week last half-year)
Zoology; Comparative Anatomy;
—
parative Physiology (Lectures)
Elocution.
—Selections from
Classical English Authors
mations, Original and Selected
;
Decla-
—
.........
Rhetoric and Composition.
says
Com
Quackenbos's Rhetoric
;
Es-
JUNIOR CLASS.
Chemical Course.
/.
Chemistry. — Quantitative Analysis — Johnson's Fresenius
Spectrum Analysis — Kirchhoff's Researches, Secchi's Le
and Roscoe's Spectrum Analysis; Assaying — Mitchell, Crookes
4
Physics. — Acoustics Optics Heat Electricity
.4
Mathematics. — Olney's Analytical Geometry; Olney's
and Integral Calculus
4
French. — Noel and Chapsal's Grammaire Abregee Fleury's
;
......
......
......
Soleil, Scheller's
;
;
;
.
.
Differ-
ential
;
Histoire de France
Political
;
Magill's Prose and Poetry
Economy. — John
.
.
cal Economy, with Lectures
Natural History. Lectures on Mineralogy and Geology (once
—
a week last half-year)
Elocution. Declamations, Original and Selected
.
—
Rhetoric and
Composition.
Lessons in English
//.
;
4
Stuart Mill's Principles of Politi-
.
—
Essays
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Rhetoric;
yi
.1
......
Blair's
i
Abbott's
i
Efigineering Course.
—Analytical Mechanics of Solids and
—Theory, Adjustment, and Use of En-
Applied Mathematics.
Fluids
;
Geodesy
gineering Field Instruments
;
Farm Surveying
;
Leveling
Topographical, Triangular, and Hydrographical Surveying;
Field Practice and
Physics.
—Acoustics,
.......
Optics, Heat, Electricity
;
4
Astronomy
Determination of Time, Latitude, and Longitude
.
.
4
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
22
No. of
Ex. per
Graphics.
—Topographical,
Mechanism
Principles of
;
......
......
......
A^'isits
Machinery and Structures
Mathematics.
"week'
Machine Drawing;
and Sketches of Special
Structure, and
to
— Olney's Analytical Geometry;
and Integral Calculus
and Chapsal's Grammaire Abregee
Fleury's
Magill's Prose and Poetry
Histoire de France
Political Economy. John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political
ential
French.
— Noel
.
—
.
Economy, with Lectures
Natural History. Lectures on Mineralogy and Geology (once
—
a week last half-year)
Elocution. Declamations, Original and Selected
Rhetoric and Composition. Blair's Rhetoric;
.
.
—
—
in
English
;
Essays
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
......
/.
Chemical Course.
— Quantitative Analysis continued, with Special De-
terminations
;
Wohler's Mineral Analysis; Sutton's Vol-
.....
....
......
umetric Analysis; Crookes's Select Methods of Chemical
Analysis; Original Investigation
—
Physics. Work in the Physical Laboratory
Mental Philosophy. Wayland and Hamilton, with Lectures
(once a week first half-year)
Moral Philosophy. Wayland, with Lectures (once a week
last
Natural
—
—
History. — Lectures
half-year)
(once a week
Elocution.
........
......
......
—
Mineralogy
and
Geology
last half-year)
— Original
Orations
Rhetoric and Composition.
bell's
on
II.
....
Whately's Elements; Camp-
Philosophy of Rhetoric; Essays
E7igmeering Course.
—Road Engineering—Theory and Practice; PhysMechanics— Friction and other
Stress
and Strength of Materials, Practical Hydraulics, Water
Engineering, Practical Pneumatics
Machines — General
Engineering.
ical
resistances.
;
4
1
^
i
Abbott's
SENIOR CLASS.
Chemistry.
4
;
;
Lessons
4
Olney's Differ-
i
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
23
No. of
Ex. per
lueek.
Theory of Machines, Theory of Prime Movers, SteamEngines,
Water-Wheels,
Wind-Mills
—
Co7ish'uctions
;
Building Materials, Foundations
Stability of Structures,
.......
...
and Superstructures, Bridge Engineering;
Field Practice and
Physics. Work in the Physical Laboratory
Graphics. Plans, Profiles, and Sections of Road Surveys; Machine and Structural Drawing
Mental Philosophy. Wayland and Hamilton, with Lectures
(once a week first half-year)
Moral Philosophy. Wayland, with Lectures (once a week
—
—
.
—
—
last half-year)
Natural History.
\
.
.
.
bell's
.4
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
,
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.1^
i^^
— Lectures on Mineralogy and Geology (once
a week last half-year)
Elocution. Original Orations
Rhetoric and Composition.
—
4
4
......
—
.
.
.
.
Whately's Elements;
Philosophy of Rhetoric
;
Essays
.
.
.
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i
Camp.
.
i
DEGREES.
is conferred upon students who complete the
and pass the examinations in the same.
The Degr^ of B.S. is conferred upon students who complete
either of the Scientific Courses, and pass the examinations in the
The Degree
of A.B.
Classical Course,
same.
The Degree of A.M.
will
to all Bachelors of Arts
who
in professional or literary
be given, three years after graduation,
shall have engaged, during that period,
studies, and who shall present an acceptable
thesis.
The Degree of M.S.
will
be given, three years after graduation,
Chemical Course who shall have
to all Bachelors of Science of the
engaged, during that period, in professional or scientific studies, and
who
shall present
an acceptable thesis upon subjects pertaining to
Chemistry or Physics.
The Degree of C.E.
will
be given, three years after graduation,
Engineering Course who shall have
to all Bachelors of Science of the
engaged, during that period, in professional or scientific studies,
and who
shall present
an acceptable
thesis
upon
subjects pertaining
to Civil Engineering.
The Second Degrees
will also
be conferred upon those Bachelors
of Arts or of Science who, as Resident Graduates, shall continue
their studies
jear
under the advice and direction of the Faculty for one
and pass the examinations in the same.
after graduation,
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GENERAL INFORMATION.
SITUATION.
SwARTHMORE COLLEGE
IS
situated Oil the
West Chester and Philadel-
phia Railroad, ten miles from Philadelphia.
at Thirty-first
and Chestnut
Streets,
Cars leave the depot
West Philadelphia, ten times
daily.
POST-OFFICE ADDRESS AND CITY OFFICE.
The
Post-Office
Express packages
left
address
may be
is
Swarthmore, Delaware Co., Pa.
sent to this address, or,
in care of William Dorsey, 923
No food except ripe fruit should in
Market
if
Street,
any case be sent
small,
may be
Philadelphia.
to students.
LIBRARIES.
The
Libraries of the College
volumes.
now
Each department of study
contain over two thousand
is
supplied with a good and
steadily increasing library of reference.
The General Library
accessible to all the students, according to the rules established
the Faculty, and
is
is
by
open twice a week during term-time for the deand daily for the delivery of books of refer-
livery of reading books,
ence needed by the students.
It
is
open
at
all
times to teachers
and members of the household.
The Anson Lapham Repository, which contains
a small but in-
creasing collection of Friends' books, photographs of representative
Friends, and manuscripts relating to the Society and
all
its
history,
is
at
times accessible to teachers, students, and members of the house-
hold.
PHYSICAL CULTURE.
Regular daily exercise in the open
air is required of all the stu-
which the extensive grounds connected with the College
ample facilities. The gymnasium, which is well supplied with
dents, for
afford
25
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
26
suitable apparatus,
boys and
open every day
is
for the voluntary exercise of
They
girls in separate classes.
also receive regular instruc-
These
tion from a teacher of Gymnastics.
exercises,
which consist
almost entirely of the so-called light gyinnastics, are required of
all
the students, unless they bring a certificate from a physician that
it
would be injurious to their health to take them but no effort is required which cannot be safely and profitably undertaken by any one
Girls must be provided with dresses suitable for
in good health.
;
these exercises.
RELIGIOUS EXERCISES.
While care
taken to inculcate the doctrine that religion
is
of set
is
a
and is not confined to the observance
forms or the promulgation of religious tenets, the regular
matter of practical daily
life,
assembling for religious purposes
On
carefully observed.
is
First-
day morning a religious meeting is held, attended by students,
teachers, and members of the household, and occasionally by visitThe meeting is preceded by First-day school exering Friends.
cises, consisting
of the recitation of passages of Scripture prepared
by members of the
different classes,
and the reading of
a portion of
Scripture selected for the exercises of the following week.
ercises of
each day are terminated by
The
ex-
a general meeting for reading
selected portions of Scripture, or other suitable books,
and impart-
ing such moral lessons as circumstances seem to require, followed by
a period of silence before retiring for the night.
VISITING
AND
LEA \IE OF
ABSENCE
Parents and guardians are especially requested not to
children at the College on the
first
day of the week, nor
visit their
to ask per-
mission for them to leave the College during term-time, unless
circumstances render
should in
all
it
cases be
necessary.
Requests for leave of absence
accompanied by reasons
satisfactory to the
Faculty.
Students
may be
visited,
on week-days, by parents or guardians,
or by near relatives or others approved by parents or guardians; but
general visiting
is
discouraged.
their studies or recitations at
All persons
who
any
Students must not be ijiterrupted in
time.
are interested in Education,
and who are desirous
of examining the methods of instruction and discipline at Swarth-
more, will always be welcome, and should, when convenient,
the institution between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 M.
visit
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
COMMENCEMENT AND
Commencement Day
is
VACATIONS.
the third Third-day of Sixth month.
commences eleven weeks
scholastic year
27
The
and continues
thereafter,
Students are not admitted for a shorter period than
forty-one weeks.
the current scholastic year, but
may
enter at any time
if
prepared to
join existing classes.
Besides the vacation of eleven weeks in summer, there will be a
vacation of one week at Christmas.
OUTFIT.
Although no form of dress
attire as
is
appropriate to
is
prescribed for either sex, such simple
is earnestly recommended.
and elaborately trimmed dresses are
school-life
Ear-rings, bracelets, necklaces,
prohibited.
Students should be supplied with six towels, six napkins, two
umbrella, and
clothes-bags, a wrapper, slippers, an
Girls must also be provided with
toilet articles.
Every
article
must be marked with the
full
name
the requisite
gymnasium
dresses.
of the owner.
USE OF TOBACCO.
The
use of tobacco in any form being strictly prohibited, those
addicted to
use, if not prepared to
its
renounce
it
entirely, should
not apply for admission.
EXPENSES.
For RESIDENT STUDENTS the price of board and tuition is ^350 per
which ^200 is payable in advance, and ^150 on the first of
year, of
Second month.
For DAY SCHOLARS the price is ^200 per year, of which one-half
is payable in advance, and the remainder on the first of Second
month. The day scholars dine with the resident students.
A
proportionate deduction
after the
When
for
is
made
to those students
who
enter
opening of the scholastic year.
a student
is
absent, from sickness, or other approved cause,
more than one month
at a time, a return will
be made
at the rate
of ^25 a month.
When a
be made
student
at the
is
same
withdrawn
rate.
for
any approved cause, a return will
of withdrawal is reckoned from
The time
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28
the
date of a written application to
that
effect,
directed
to the
President.
Students buy their
those
who pursue
own
stationery and drawing instruments, and
the study of Practical Chemistry pay for the chemi-
which they use in the Laboratory.
There is no additional charge in case of sickness except
fees, and extra expenses actually incurred.
cals
Books are furnished
for doctor's
for the use of studerrfs without expense, but
they are held responsible for the abuse of these as well as of
all
other
College property.
There are no extra charges.
PAYMENTS.
Payments are to be made by check or draft to the order of
Clement M. Biddle, Treas., No. 513 Commerce Street, Philadelphia.
\%^
—
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
This school is intended to prepare students for the Classical and
Departments of the College, or to furnish a good practical
Most of the studies
education to those desiring a shorter course.
Scientific
pursued are required of
clearly
gress
shown
when
that
all,
but few being optional, as experience has
young students make much more
satisfactory pro-
pursuing a regular required course, even for a single year
without any idea of graduation, than when they select
The
for themselves.
all
their studies
course of study in this school, while
it
is
an
two departments of the College, is also
be the best training for those whose means or circum-
essential preparation for the
believed to
stances require that they should finish their studies in the Preparatory
Attention
School, or before reaching the end of the College course.
is
invited to the course of study as here arranged, and the various
Preparatory Schools
among Friends throughout
requested to conform to
to enter our
course.
To
it,
as far as practicable,
Freshman Class
the
country are
and prepare students
either in the classical or the scientific
secure this end, a thorough mastery of the elementary
principles of the subject taught,
text-books required,
study can rarely,
if
is
and not a mere knowledge of the
most earnestly recommended.
Subsequent
ever, atone for deficient preparation.
ORGANIZATION.
This school
Classes
is
A and B
at present
divided into three classes. A, B, and C.
are divided into classical
and
scientific sections, pre-
paring for these respective departments in the College.
Class
C
will
be given up in 1876, and the requirements will, at the same time, be
advanced to the requirements for entering Class B as at present
organized.
'
29
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
30
GOVERNMENT AND INSTRUCTION.
The students of the Preparatory School are under the same general
management as the College classes. With a few exceptions, the same
general rules are applicable to both, and the students of this school
receive instruction from teachers employed especially for this purpose, and also from professors and instructors of the College.
EXPENSES,
The expenses of
Etc.
students of this school are the same as those of
students of the College classes, and the various remarks under the
head of General Information* in the College Catalogue are applicable alike to the College and Preparatory School.
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION TO THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
Applicants for admission must be at least thirteen years old, and
should submit to the President, from their
testimonials of
good moral
Examinations
for
last teacher, satisfactory
character.
admission will be held on Third-, Fourth-, and
and 3d of Ninth month, 1874. Candidates
must present themselves at two o'clock p.m., on Third-day, the ist
of Ninth month.
To secure places, the accommodations being limited, applications for admission for the next scholastic year should
Fifth-days, the ist, 2d,
be made, as early as possible, by
letter to the President.
Candidates for admission to Class
C
will
be examined
as follows
:
In Elements of English Grammar, embracing a knowledge of the
Parts of Speech,
and
of the United States
^^ None
undergo
this
their uses;
;
Reading and Spelling; Geography
Arithmetic, through Decimal Fractions.
who are not sufficiently advanced in their studies to
examination should present themselves for admission,
as the third or lowest division of Class
C
is
to be given
up
at the
close of the present scholastic year.
Candidates for admission to the advanced classes of the Preparatory School will be further
examined
in the studies of the classes
below that which they propose to enter.
* See pages 25-28.
COURSES OF STUDY.
ElECTIVE STUDIES.
The
elective studies in all th.t classes of the Preparatory School
Natural History (lectures). Phonography, and Free-hand
Drawing. Latin and French are also elective studies in Class C.
are
CLASS
^o.of
Ex. per week.
C.
—
Brooks's Normal Written and Brooks's Normal
Mental Arithmetic, through Percentage
Geography. Guyot's Grammar School Geography; Map
Arithmetic.
.
—
Drawing
Grammar. — Brown's
.4
.
.........
First Lines of English
Reading and Speaking.
Words; Monroe's
Spelling.
—Phonetic
.
.
4
4
Spelling; Enunciation of
....
Reader Declamations
and Dictations
Fifth
— Leach's Speller,
Grammar
;
.
.
Composition
Writing
3
2
i
3
Elective Studies.
Latin.
—Harkness's Introductory Latin Book
—Magill and Paulin's
Lessons
French.
First
...
in
French
.2
.
.
31
2
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
22
CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
CLASS
B.
No. of
Ex. per
Txieek.
— Harkness's Grammar and Reader; Caesar begun
French. — Magill and Paulin's First Lessons in French;
Latin.
.
Magill's Introductory French Reader
.
....
4
3
—Brooks's Normal Written and Brooks's Normal
.4
Mental Arithmetic, completed
Geography. —Warren's Physical Geography
History. — Barnes's History of the United States; Anderson's
History of England
4
Reading and Speaking. — Phonetic Spelling Enunciation of
Words; Hillard's Fifth Reader Declamations
and Dictations
Spelling. — Leach's
Arithmetic.
.
...
.
.
.
.
2
.......
;
;
Composition
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
W^riting
2
CLASS
Latin.
2
2
.
.
.....1
.
Speller,
—Harkness's Grammar;
A.
Compo-
Harkness's Latin Prose
sition, first thirty lessons
Caesar's Gallic
;
War, through
Book HI. Virgil's ^neid, first two books
French. Magill's French Grammar; Magill's Introductory
;
—
.......
French Reader
Mathematics.
—Brooks's
Algebra,
to
Quadratic Equations
Davies' Legendre's Geometry, Books
I. -III.
.
Natural Philosophy
— Rolfe and
half-year)
Uranography. — (Twice a week
half-year)
Physiology. — (Twice a week
History and Geography. — Smith's History of Greece
Physics.
Gillet's
.
.
first
last
.
;
Baird's
Manual Review of the History of the United
States, and England
Reading and Speaking. Hillard's Sixth Reader; Murdock
and Russell's Vocal Culture; Declamations
Spelling. General Exercises upon Lists of Difficult Words
Classical
;
.
.
—
—
........
.........
Dictations
Composition
^Vriting
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
Z2>
SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT OF THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
CLASS
B.
-y^-of
Ex. per
lueek.
— Brooks's Normal Written and Brooks's Normal
Mental Arithmetic, completed
.4
of English Gram*English Grammar. — Brown's
mar
4
French
Lessons
French. — Magill and Paulin's
Introductory French Reader
Geography. — Warren's Physical Geography
Arithmetic.
,
.
.
.
..........
Institutes
......
...
.......
—
in
First
[Magill's
;
.
History.— Barnes's History
History of England
Reading and Speaking.
Words;
Spelling.
Composition
Writing
....
.........
Speller,
.
.
and Dictations
CLASS
—Brooks's
4
Phonetic Spelling; Enunciation of
..........
Mathematics.
2
of the United States; x'Vnderson's
Hillard's Fifth Reader; Declamations
—-Leach's
3
2
2
i
2
A.
Algebra, to
Quadratic Equations
....
Davies' Legendre's Geometry, Books I.-III.
—
—
.
Graphics. Free-hand Linear Drawing
Physics. Rolfe and Gillet's Natural Philosophy
^Merchant of
^English Grammar. Analysis and Parsing
—
.........
.......
—
;
Venice
—
Magill's French Grammar; IMagill's
French Reader
Uranography. (Twice a week first half-year;
Physiology. "Twice a week last half-year)
French.
Introductory
—
History and Geography.
—Smith's History of Greece
;
Baird's
......
Manual Review of the History of the United
States, and England
Reading and Speaking. Hillard's Sixth Reader Murdoch
and Russell's Vocal Culture Declamations
Spelling. General Exercises upon Lists of Difficult Words
Classical
;
—
;
;
—
Dictations
Composition
Writing
* Latin
may be
.........
.........
.1
2
i
.
substituted for English
.
Grammar
parents or guardians.
3
.
.
.
.
in this course, at the request of
CLASS
CLASSICAL SECTION.
Burr, Caroline Elizabeth
Davison, Alexander Young
Germantown.
Dawson, Howard
Ely, Sallie Wilhelmina
Fowler, Charlotte Elizabeth
Gleim,
Morton.
.
.
Plainfield, N. J.
Lambertville, N.
,
Orange, N.
.
Anna Cook
Lebanon.
.
Gould, Rebekah Wright
.
Hudson, N. Y.
West Chester.
Horsham.
Horsham.
.
Conshohocken.
.
Hall, Estelle
Hallowell, Mary Ashbridge
Hallowell, Mary Paul
Hawkins, Charles Augustine
Jones, Abbie Conrad
LoFLiN, Ella
Martin, Edward
MuLFORD, Ella
Pancoast, Sallie Emma
Porter, Florence Maria
Purdy, George Washington, Jr.
.
.
Cincinnati, O.
.
....
....
.
Philadelphia.
.
.
Germantown.
Millville, N. J.
.
Philadelphia.
Titusville.
.
.
Smith, George Peyton
Smith,
J.
J.
Cold Spring, N. Y.
Philadelphia.
Mary Elizabeth
Mary Jank
.
Valentine,
Philadelphia.
Glen Cove, L.
CLASS
I.
A.
SCIENTIFIC SECTION.
Battelle, William Smull
BiDDLE, Martha Canby
34
.
....
....
Chambers, John Paul
Deacon, George Hartley
Dell, Frank Pierce
.
.
.
Philadelphia.
.
..
Philadelphia.
.
.
Mount Holly, N.
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia.
J.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
Field,
Henry Cromwell
Walter Davis
Griscom,
35
Brooklyn, L.
Salem, N.
.
I.
J.
Hall, William Johx
Johnson, Llewellyn Haskell
LippiNCOTT, Elisha Eden
Lobdell, Alice Dike
McAllister, Harry
McAllister, Oswald
West Chester.
Hannah John
MuDGE, Henry Willets
Media.
Glen Cove, L. L
Miller,
Orange, N.
Wilmington, Del.
Wallingford.
Wallingford.
.
.
Brooklyn, L. L
Palmer, Francis Jackson
PowNALL, John Gest
Christiana.
Randolph, Nathaniel Archer
SeaivljlN, Sa:muel Jackson Underhill
Seaman, William
Sharp, Benja^iin
Chadd's Ford.
....
....
Shoejvl\ker, Charles Harry
Webster, Mary Adelaide
.
•
Jericho, L.
.
L
Brooklyn, L.
I.
German town.
Philadelphia.
.
Fanwood, N.
.
Williams,
J.
Long Branch, N.
Howard
J.
Goshenville.
CLASS
B.
CLASSICAL SECTION.
Albertson, Silas Lyox
.
Barnard, Elizabeth Hannah
Beatty, John Franklin
Bunting, Harry Mulford
CoNROw, Howard F.
DoRSEY, Frances
Errington, George Eaton
Fender, AVilliam Preston
French, Catherine Ann
Hopper, Lesley
HuFNAL, Henry Glenn
.
.
Walter
LiNDERMAN, HeNRY RicHARD
Lloyd, Charles White
.
Philadelphia.
Germantown.
.
Staten Island, N. Y.
Ralston.
.
Philadelphia.
Baltimore, ^Id.
.
Oakdale.
Upper Lehigh.
.
Washington, D. C.
Philadelphia.
.
Philadelphia.
Penn's Manor.
.
.
.
Media.
Philadelphia.
.
.
.
L
Doe Run.
Leisenring,
Lloyd, Morris
Lovett, Margaret Thompson
Magill, Beatrice
Miller, Charles Robert
Newhall, Anna Peterson
Roslyn, L.
.
Swarthmore College.
West Chester.
Germantown.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
36
Paulin, Amelie Antoinette
....
Paxson, Helen Fisher
Riegel, Harry
Sinn,
Howard
.
.
Philadelphia.
.
.
Swarthmore College.
West Chester.
.
Philadelphia.
.
Taggart, James McCurley
Webster, Joseph Goldie
White, Josephine
Litiz.
Fanwood, N.
.
J.
Yardleyville.
CLASS
B.
SCIENTIFIC SECTION.
Bailey, Joseph Trowbridge, Jr.
Edgerton, Theodore Tracy
GiLLINGHAM, HeLEN DiKE
GiLLINGHAM, MaRY ELIZABETH
Hall, Harrison C.
Hallowell, Fanny
Hunt, Joshua
LippiNCOTT, Charles Cassidy
Merritt, Anna Frost
.
Philadelphia.
.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
.
.
.
Huntingdon Valley,
•.
.
Catasauqua.
.
Marlton, N.
.
.
Philadelphia.
.
.
.
Shoemaker, Clara Harper
Speakman, Horace
Stelwagon, Weightman
Stocker, Libbie Allison
Taylor, Henry Mendinhall
Williams, Julia Matilda
Williamson, Cynthia Jennie
Wright, Frances Palmer
Maiden Creek.
.
.
.
Philadelphia.
.
St. Clair.
Philadelphia.
.
.
.
.
.
Bethlehem.
Roslyn, L.
I.
Roslyn, L.
I.
Titusville.
.
.
.
.
I.
Germantown.
C.
.
.
Wilmington, Del.
Newark, N. J.
Jamaica, L.
.
.
Brodhead, Wessales
Broomall, Harry Lewis
J.
Jenkintown.
CLASS
.
Moorestown, N.
Germantown.
.
.
Abbott, Charles Wallar
Albertson, Carrie
Albertson, Ida
Ames, Georgianna Buckham
Bond, Alfred Huidekoper
Bond, George Gorham
J.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
.
Morris, Elizabeth
Penrose, George Dilks
Scattergood, Israel Middleton
Sharp, Leedom
.
J.
Swarthmore.
.
.
.
Philadelphia.
Moorestown, N.
.
Germantown.
Germantown.
Media.
Media.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
Bruere, John Hankens
Burr, Walter Lincoln
Canby, Willl-^m, Jr.
CoMLY, Esther Shallcross
CoMLY, John Iredell
Cone, Lorenzo Hall
37
Recklesstown, N.
Baltimore,
Md.
Holmesburg.
Horshamville.
.
Bristol.
Margaret Longstreth
Dankel, Nathaniel
Davison, Lewis Drexel
Corlies,
.
Philadelphia.
Alburtis.
Morton.
Dickson, Fanny Wallach
New York
Edge, Joseph George
Ellison, John Barker
French, Clara Angelina
French, Maggie Bavington
French, Samuel Harrison
Glover, James
Gray, Eugene Wesley
Hankins, Mary Belle
Hopper, George
Lee, William Fawkes
Leedom, Charles
Le\vis, John Howard
LovETT, George Sidney
Magill, Gertrude Burleigh
Maitland, Edward Vincent
Maitland, Virginia Kathrine
McIlvain, Edwin Pearson
McIlvain, Harry Spencer
McIlvain, James Sterling
Moore, Thomas Leggett
MoRRELL, Annie
Musser, Francis Reber
Parke, Thomas
Passmore, Mary Catherine
Paulin, Eugene, Jr.
Peterson, John Bouvier
Polk, William, Jr.
Porter, Altamont Wilson
Potts, Frederick
Pound, Robinson
Price, Harrie Bertsch
Long Branch,
.
.
.
J.
Philadelphia.
Mt. Ephraim, N.
J.
Lock Haven.
Connersville, Ind.
Md.
West Chester.
Baltimore,
Philadelphia.
.
.
J.
Philadelphia.
.
.
N.
Haddonfield, N.
.
.
City.
Philadelphia.
.
.
J.
Philadelphia.
Oakdale.
Washington, D. C.
Swarthmore College.
.
Philadelphia.
.
Philadelphia.
Chester.
Chester.
Mt. Holly, N.
J.
Sandy Spring, Md.
Brooklyn, L.
I.
Muncy.
Trenton, N.
West
J.
Chester.
Swarthmore College.
Philadelphia.
Odessa, Del.
Titusville.
New York
City.
Eatontown, N.
LTpper Lehigh.
J.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
38
.Philadelphia.
Ramsay, James B., Jr.
Reed, Loring Woods
Rice, Philip
Roots,
New
....
....
Hallowell
Mary Belle
Rowland, Henry Ward Beecher
SCATTERGOOD, GeORGE KiEM
schultz, eula
Scott, Townsend, Jr.
Shalkop, Alonzo Hagy
Shoemaker, Alvin Tomlinson
Smedley, Harry Leedom
Smith, James Chalmers
Speakman, Lillian Harvey
Stelwagon, Frank Melville
Stewart, George Childs
Straus, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Tomlinson, Laura
Travilla,' Elizabeth Newport
Trump, Julia Epley
Walter, Helen
Whitelock, Elizabeth Stockton
Wilbur, Warren Abbott
Williamson, John Nicholas
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Willis, Gilberta
Willits, Samuel
....
.
.
.
.
Castle, Lid.
Media.
Connersville, Lid
Media.
Moorestown, N.
J.
Ellenville, N. Y.
Baltimore,
Md.
Philadelphia.
Baltimore,
Md.
Media.
Philadelphia.
Chester.
Philadelphia.
Baltimore,
Md.
Philadelphia.
Huntingdon Valley.
West Chester.
Jersey Shore.
Englewood, N. J.
Mt. Washington, Md.
Bethlehem.
Jamaica, L.
I.
Philadelphia.
Maiden Creek.
Anna Beulah
Wood, Henry Shotwell
Wood, Anna Maria
Winchester, Va.
Young, Alexander
Morton.
Wilson,
Connersville, Ind.
Bristol.
UNCLASSIFIED STUDENTS.
L
Maybell Paulina
Moore, Sallie Maria
Providence, R.
Root, Anna Cornelia
Taylor, Helen
Port Chester, N. Y.
Davis,
.
Newton
Weidner, Henry Norton
Vail, Francis
Orange, N.
J.
West Chester.
Newburg, N. Y.
Chester.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
39
SUMMARY.
Class
A
Class
B
C
Class
..........
..........
.......
Unclassified Students
Total in Preparatory School
.
.
,
.
45
47
78
6
.176
GENERAL SUMMARY
OF THE
COLLEGE AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL
-4
..........
..........
.........
..........
........
...
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.........
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Seniors
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
7
Juniors
13
Sophomores
Freshmen
16
43
Students pursuing Irregular or Partial Courses with the Col-
10
lege Classes
Preparatory Students (regular)
.
.
.
.
.170
.
Unclassified Students in the Preparatory School
6
Total
269
BY
Pennsylvania
.
.
STATES.
.
.
.
.
.
.
New Jersey
New York
Maryland
Delaware
Ohio
Indiana
Virginia
District of
Maine
Rhode
35
-32
11
.
California
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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Meeting House, Philadelphia, Twelfth
by the
2d, 1873, according to public notice given, as required
Charter
One
of the clerks being absent, Lydia
W.
Parrish was appointed
Clerk for the Day.
The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and approved.
The Report of the Board of Managers was read, and the action of
The
the Board, as therein set forth, was approved and confirmed.
Report of the Treasurer was also read and approved, and both reports
were referred to the incoming Board for publication.
The terms of office of the following Managers expired at this time:
Samuel Willets,
Jane P. Downing,
William Dorsey,
Margaret G. Corlies,
Hugh
Louisa M. Stabler,
Mcllvain,
Elizabeth T. Yardley.
Daniel Underbill,
Robert Willets, Ellwood Burdsall, Henry C. Hallowell, Hannah
W. Haydock, Joseph Matthews, Anna M. Hopper, Edward Hoopes,
Susan M. Parrish, William P. Bancroft, Henry M. Laing, and Isaac
H. Clothier were appointed to nominate the officers of the Corporation required by the Charter,
i.e. two Clerks, a Treasurer, and eight
Friends,
who
are Stockholders, to
fill
the vacancies in the Board of
Managers.
Daniel Underbill, Thomas H. Speakman, and B. Rush Roberts
were appointed Inspectors of Election.
The Nominating Committee made
the following report
CLERKS.
Sarah
Isaac H. Clothier,
F. Corlies.
managers for four years.
Samuel Willets,
William Dorsey,
Jane
Hugh
Louisa M. Stabler,
Elizabeth T. Yardley.
McIlvain,
Daniel Underhill,
P.
Downing,
Margaret G. Corlies,
treasurer.
Clement M. Biddle.
45
MINUTES OF THE
46
An
election by ballot was held, and the Inspectors reported the
above
A
officers elected,
without opposition.
the following changes in the
In
make
proposition was received from the Board of Managers to
By-Law
I.
By-Laws
strike out the
:
words " on the Third-day following
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the Fifth month," and insert,
the day preceding the
Add
to
By-Law
"on
Commencement."
IV.,
"He
shall
be ex
officio a
member
of the
Executive Committee."
In
By-Law VIII.
insert,
The
"to each
strike out the
words " twice
in the year to,"
and
stated meeting of."
proposition was approved, and the By-Laws, as changed, were^
adopted.
The following change
sideration next year,
in the Constitution was
and the
proposed
for
con-
clerks were directed to give the required
notice to the Stockholders:
Change the first sentence in Article 2d, to read as follows " The
Annual Meeting of the Stockholders shall be held on the third Fourthday in the Ninth month, at half-past one o'clock p.m., at Swarthmore College."
Then adjourned.
:
CLEMENT
M. BIDDLE,
LYDIA W. PARRISH,
Clerk.
Clerk for the Day.
MANAGERS' REPORT.
Since the issue of the last Annual Report the first class in the
College has been graduated, after completing the regular four years'
This class at graduation numbered six, of whom
course required.
three remain at the College as post-graduates and assistant teachers,
It will thus be
continuing her studies.
once inaugurated the practice of supplying
and one
as a post-graduate,
seen that
Swarthmore has
at
herself with instructors from the
list
of her graduates, than
whom
none could better understand and appreciate the duties required ;
and surely none could more readily identify themselves with the life
of the institution.
The whole number of
students in the College, exclusive of those
:
TENTH ANNUAL MEETING,
in the Preparatory School,
number of
Juniors
Sophomores
Freshmen
.
The remaining
89, being an increase of 19 over the
is
.......
.......
......
......
These are
last year.
Seniors
47
classified as follows
7
13
16
43
10 are pursuing irregular or partial courses in the dif-
ferent classes.
The
organization of the separate Classical and Scientific Depart-
ments, referred to in the report of
and the
carried into effect;
scientific sections as follows
Seniors
•
Classical
•
Sophomores
Classical
.
Freshmen
Classical
Classical
Total
.
.
.
.
It will
.
.
now been
and
be observed that nearly
all
5.
Scientific
.
.
.•
7>
.
.
•
Scientific
.
.
12,
Scientific
.
.
22,
Scientific
•
•
46,
Scientific
•
2
6
4
•
.
21
.
.
•
ZZ
•
of the students are pursuing one
or the other of the regular courses of study provided,
sirable,
fully
:
Classical
Juniors
year, has
last
classes are all divided into classical
and
this is de-
both for the interests of the College, and of the individual
students,
who almost
invariably
make more
satisfactory progress
when
pursuing a regular course, even for a short time, without any idea of
graduation, than
when they
course the elective system
Of
select all their studies for themselves.
is
so far
combined with the regular system
advance .in their course,
and Senior Classes the studies are largely elective.
that the Electives increase as the students
and
in the Junior
Upon
the same principle, the Electives are very few in the Prepara-
tory School, and students in that school are expected to pursue the
work of the
which they are placed. Substantially
all students, whatever is to be
their subsequent course. Hence, while the courses of study are almost
coincident at first, they diverge more and more as the students advance.
regular
classes in
the same foundation must be laid for
Facilities will continue to
be offered to those
who wish
special courses of study, but only to those so far
able to pursue
them
in the
two years of the course.
suit
of a select course
is
as 'to
College classes, and especially in the
It is
be
last
a serious error to suppose that the pur-
adapted to immature minds, that especially
heed the advantages of systematic training
of study.
to pursue
advanced
in a well-arranged course
MINUTES OF THE
48
The study of
even
Greek language
the
will
continue to be optional,
Course, and the study of Latin
in the Classical
is
not required
of students of the Scientific Course, though a sufficient knowledge of
that language to enable the student to construe easy Latin prose
is
recommended. The study of the two leading languages
of modern continental Europe, French and German, is required in
both the Classical and Scientific Courses. The Scientific Department
is now separated into two distinct courses during the Junior and
Senior years, and for completing the one the degree of Bachelor of
earnestly
Science in Chemistry
is
awarded,
for the other the
A
degree of Bachelor
sum has been
expended during the past year in increasing the facilities for instruction in these departments, and, when the improvements now in
progress are completed, Swarthmore will compare favorably in this
of Science in Civil Engineering.
respect with
many
of our
older
considerable
institutions of learning.
earnestly invited to our courses of study as
tion
is
and
clearly set
forth
the
in
Fifth
among Friends throughout
schools
conform
Freshman Class,
Annual
now
Atten-
arranged,
Catalogue, and
the
the country are requested, as far
and prepare students
as practicable, to
to this course,
enter the
in either the Classical or the Scientific
to
Course.
The Preparatory School numbers 176
students, divided as hereto-
and C; but Classes A and B are now
the College classes, into Classical and Scientific Sections,
fore into three classes. A, B,
divided, as
preparing for the corresponding departments of the College.
It is
up Class C in 1876, and the rethe same time, be advanced to the
the intention of the Board to give
quirements for admission
will, at
requirements for entering Class B, as
lowest division of Class
C
will
at
be dropped
present organized.
at the close
The
of the present
These changes are warranted by the large number
who cannot be received for want of room.
Over 40 have been declined for this cause during the past summer,
scholastic year.
of applicants for admission
several of
is
felt
whom
are
still
establishing
in
waiting for places.
An
increasing interest
good Preparatory Schools among Friends
throughout the country, where children can be prepared for Swarth-
more
;
and
this,
together with the dropping of our lower classes, will
prove an important movement toward making the College what
it
must eventually become, the culmination of our system of schools.
When
the
C
class shall
have been dropped entirely, those who enter
the lowest class in the Preparatory School will require but two years
for preparation
for the College,
and many can hope
to give their
TENTH ANNUAL MEETING.
children the
thus receive
full
all
49
course of study in one of the departments, and
the benefits which the institution was intended to
confer.
With the exception of the addition of
three resident graduates as
assistant teachers, the corps of instructors
year.
remains the same as
last
This, together with the fact that a very large majority of
last
year's students returned to continue their studies, enabled the College
to begin the present year
the managers a source of
now
being
under favorable auspices, and has been to
much encouragement. The accommodations
altogether insufficient for the applicants, especially in the
west end, the most feasible plan for increasing them, and at the same
time advancing the interests of the College in other respects,
is
build-
who have families separate residences upon the
College-grounds.
The erection of one of these during the coming
year would considerably increase the capacity of the College.
The
ing for the Professors
income from this increase would be a large interest upon the
and an important step would be taken toward furnishing the Professors who have families with comfortable homes, which
would contribute directly to the welfare of the College by more
thoroughly identifying them, in feeling and interest, with the institunet
capital invested,
tion.
It is
of the utmost importance that the Professors should have
every facility possible to enable them to pursue their arduous labors
with success, and to elevate the standard of scholarship in their
About 8S000 expended
respective departments.
in the construction
of a house would be a most judicious and economical outlay.
the
work be undertaken without
The
various departments of study,
charge as
for the
last
all
continuing under the same
year, are in a satisfactory condition,
College that solid reputation upon which
depends.
Let
delay.
While the need, referred
its
and are earning
ultimate success
to last year, of apparatus,
books
of reference, maps, charts, etc., for the use of the instructors, has
been met
to a considerable extent, increased expenditures for these
objects, as well as for the enlargement of the general library, are
greatly needed.
A
sum
sufficient for these
still
purposes should be appro-
priated yearly, to be expended as required, or,
if
possible, a
perma-
nent fund, to be called the Library Fund, should be created, by
gift
or otherwise, the interest of which should be available for uses so
indispensable to success.
The Reading- Room
has been liberally supplied with the leading
magazines and journals, both literary and
done
for the past
scientific.
two years by an annual appropriation
4
This has been
\
but
it
would
MINUTES OF THE
^o
be better to make
fund
is
it
dependent upon the Library Fund,
if
such a
established.
The department of Natural History
means of
illustration since last year
has been provided with further
by valuable additions
to the
mineralogical cabinet, and a fine collection of native and foreign
Cases for the reception of these, and other specimens on
shells.
hand not previously arranged,
are being fitted up,
and
it is
now con-
fidently believed that this department will, in a {^\^ years, be
supplied, through the liberality of interested friends, and that
prove, not a
mere museum of
and original sense,
curiosities, but a
museum
amply
it
will
in the true
a place of study; the study of nature in her
various forms.
The Anson Lapham Repository,
referred to in the last two annual
somewhat increased during the year by donations
from a few friends. Provision has been made for a complete record
or descriptive catalogue of every book and other object deposited
here, with a full account of the articles themselves, and the source
reports, has been
whence they came. Through the liberality of the founder, a large
number of photographs and engravings of the present and past representatives of our religious society is about to be added to the ReposiThat the collections here made during the year have been few
tory.
This must be a gradual
should not be a source of discouragement.
growth, and its full development a work of time.
Our confidence
in the
co-education of the sexes has been fully con-
firmed by another year's experience, the results of which clearly disprove the fallacies of those who oppose the system. The objection
and even to all higher education for women, based
upon supposed injury to their health, which has recently been so
urgently pressed upon purely theoretical grounds, and supported by
the citation of a few strongly marked exceptional cases, is comThe five young women who
pletely disproved by our experience.
graduated at Swarthmore last year had quite as good health at the
end of their four years' course as at the beginning of it, and the
amount of work which they accomplished would compare favorably
with that of any class of young men in a four years' college course.
It may well be doubted whether the health of an equal number of
young women in any other pursuit in life is better than that which
to co-education,
among those who are pursuing their studies at SwarthOur experience has been that the proportion of boys and
exists to-day
more.
young men absent from
sickness
is
on account of
and young women. The
recitations during the year
fully equal to that of the girls
\V
TENTH ANNUAL MEETING.
statistics
51
of Swarthmore, as of Michigan University, of Oberlin, and
of the various colleges and high schools of the West where this
system has been
fairly tried, lead to
conclusions directly opposite to
those reached by the opponents of co-education.
Physical training, to secure the health and strength of the students,
has received
that
Regular exercise
attention which
in the
insisted upon, with the
open
importance deserves.
great
its
air at stated periods
most beneficial
results.
has been rigidly
All, not physically
incapacitated, are required to take regular exercise in the gymnasium,
under a teacher appointed
The
for that purpose.
general good health
of the students throughout the year proves the wisdom of the sanitary
regulations to which they have been subjected.
to this important subject
by
all in
by those
authority at Swarthmore,
at the
may
The managers
attention given
well entitle the institution to
the confidence of parents and guardians
tion of their children.
The
head of the household, and
who
intrust to us the educa-
'
desire to call especial attention to the fact that,
while the intellectual training of the students has been a subject of
anxious care, and their physical well-being secured by regular and
appropriate exercise, their moral and spiritual welfare has been sedulously guarded, and, as a tangible result, the discipline of the institution
was never in a more satisfactory condition.
The
students
are daily learning the great lesson that those are best governed
The
who
and prompt
obedience to authority, and the kindly relations subsisting between
the governing and the governed, prove that the system adopted is
productive of the best results.
It is no mere arbitrary announcement and rigid enforcement of a set of "rules and regulations."
Reasons accompany necessary prohibitions, and the students are
are taught to be a law unto themselves.
made
cheerful
to feel that the authorities are not arrayed against them, but
on their side, that their interests are identical, and that
working together for the same end. It is believed that there
are few large institutions of this character where tlie true family
that they are
all
are
relation
is
so perfectly preserved.
The
principles of our religious
society are taught in that most effective of
all
ways, the lessons of
and daily example, while spoken words, in season, are not
The managers feel deeply impressed with the conviction
neglected.
that they would be reporting but a part, and that the least important
part, of the work which is being accomplished at Swarthmore, were
daily
no
life
allusion
receive.
made
to the religious training
which the children here
MINUTES OF THE
52
The
strictly material
improvements made during the past year are
The grounds in front have
deserving of mention in this Report.
been improved by laying out a new walk from the Railroad Station,
and planting it with shade-trees on each side painting and varnishing many of the rooms and "halls, and furnishing for the increased
;
number of
students, occupied
much
of the
summer vacation
heat
;
has been introduced into the north chambers in the east end of the
College, to render them equally comfortable and desirable with those
on the south side of the building new water-works have been completed, by which an ample supply of water from a fine spring south
;
of the College
obtained, thus preventing the recurrence of the im-
is
perfect supply of last year
;
and a new farm-house
is
in process of
erection.
The Finance Committee would
Treasurer's Report for a
full
dition of the College.
They
refer
desire,
however, to state that
been self-supporting during the past year,
students have met
all
Stockholders to the
the
statement of the present financial con-
the current expenses.
i.e.,
it
has
the receipts from the
could not, of course,
It
be expected that the various additions and improvements which have
been enumerated
in
this
For the means
receipts.
year we are
still
Report should be made from the regular
to accomplish so
many
of these in a single
further indebted to those friends of the College
who
have heretofore supplied them when improvements were demanded.
We
most earnestly
at their
commend
command, and
their
example
believe, with the highest interests of the rising
and of the
who have means
fraught, as we
generation among us,
to those
entreat their aid in a
religious society to
which we belong.
work
:
TENTH ANNUAL MEETING.
53
TREASURER'S -REPORT
OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Wm. Cakby
Biddle, Treasurer, in account with Swarthmore
College.
DR.
nth mo. 30th, 1872.
To balance on hand
To cash from
«
Ar S
»4o5-M
as per last report
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Capital Stock
:
$5,800.00
422.00
Donations
3"-07
Interest
6,533.07
To
cash from New
Capital Stock
York Yearly Meeting
^O'675-OO
Total Receipts, including balance
..
.
$'^lfiTi-9'^
•
•
CR.
By
Drafts of Finance Committee
For Construction account
:
.
.
)
I2th mo.
4th, 1872, to
nth mo.
26th, 1873.
f
j
For Furnishing account
p^^ ^^^^^ ^f Grounds account
For Educational Assistance
.
Tuition
return
account,
money advanced
bill
to
.
.
.
$5,921.79
1,125.66
1,037.25
790.00
of
meet
on Construction account
.
4,000.00
12,874.70
Loan account on call
ment of grounds
at interest to
pay appropriation
for
improve-
Balance on hand, deposited in Philadelphia National Bank
•
•
.
.
'^'\\>^'^\
bS&4&
$17,673-91
WM. CANBY BIDDLE,
Treasurer.
We have examined the above account of Wm. Canby Biddle, Treasurer
more College, compared it with his vouchers, and find it correct.
of Swarth-
EDWARD TAYLOR,
M.
FISHER LONGSTRETH,
Auditors.
Philadelphia, Eleventh
7nonth, 2()th, 1873.
54
MINUTES OF THE TENTH ANNUAL MEETING.
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
GENERAL
RECEIPTS.
Philadelphia
:
^194,900.00
21,833.22
Capital Stock
Donations
Endowment Fund
Endowment Fund
Educational
....
Interest
10,000.00
100.00
7.193-23
;^234,o26.45
New York
:
^107,475.00
2,664.00
5,000.00
Capital Stock
Donations
Endowment Fund
6,036.73
Interest
121,17573
Baltimore
:
510,400.00
Capital Stock
Donations
Profit
555-00
10,955.00
5.563-89
and Loss on Tuition account
171,721.07
EXPENDITURES.
Expenses of Organization
$10,686.55
Property:
....
....
Westdale
.
Construction account
Furnishing account
Care of Grounds account
Educational Assistance
.
^27,036.13
289,546.17
27,825.76
1,037.25
790.00
346,235.31
Investments
Loan account
Ground Rents
Cash in Bank
:
— Care of Grounds
.....
.....
4,112.75
10,000.00
686.46
,
14,799.21
$371,721.07
WM. CANBY BIDDLE,
Treasurer.
-^^g/^^^
CHARTER.
An Act
Section
i.
Be
it
to
incorporate
Swarfhmore
College.
enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met,
That James Martin, John M. Ogden, Ezra
Michener, Mahlon K. Taylor, Thomas Ridgway, James Mott, Dillwyn
Parrish, William W. Longstreth, William Dorsey, Edward Hoopes,
William C. Biddle, Joseph Powell, Joseph Wharton, John Sellers,
Clement Biddle, P. P. Sharpless, Edward Parrish, Levi K. Brown,
tives of the
and
it is
Hugh
hereby enacted
:
Mcllvain, Franklin Shoemaker and their associates and suc-
and the}^ are hereby made and constituted a body
and corporate, under the corporate title of Swarthmore College,
and under that name shall have perpetual succession, and are hereby
empowered, and made capable in law, to purchase, take, hold, and
enjoy to them and their successors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, stock, goods, chattels, and effects; provided, the clear annual
value thereof shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars; and to sell,
cessors forever be,
politic
demise, convey, assure, transfer, and dispose of their estate or interest
therein,
and
also to
improve and augment, and apply the same, with
and income thereof, to the purposes of their
and the said corporation, by the name aforesaid, shall
and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be
answered, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity,
and shall have power to make, have, and use a common seal, and the
same to change, alter, and renew at their pleasure, and also to make
and execute such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, not contrary
to the laws and constitution of this Commonwealth, as to them shall
the rents,
institution
issues, profits,
;
seem meet.
Section 2. That the said corporation be authorized to establish
and maintain a school and college, for the purpose of imparting to
persons of both sexes knowledge in the various branches of science,
literature, and the arts, and the Board of Managers shall have power
55
CHARTER.
56
to confer upon the graduates of the said College, and upon others,
when, by their proficiency in learning, they may be entitled thereto,
such degrees as are conferred by other colleges or universities in the
United States.
Section 3. That the capital stock of the said corporation
fifty
thousand dollars, divided into
tvi^o
shall
be
thousand shares of twenty-five
same from time
dollars each, with the privilege to increase the
to
time to a sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, and the
said school or college may go into operation when the sum of fifty
thousand dollars has been subscribed, and the stock shall be transferable in conformity with the rules and by-laws of the corporation.
The meetings
shall
be held annually
form a quorum, and special meetings
at their discretion,
and notice
;
twenty-five stockholders shall
may be
called
by the Managers
be given of the annual and special
least ten days previous to the time at
shall
meetings of the corporators, at
which they are to be held, by advertisement in three daily newspapers, one published in the city of New York, one in the city of
Philadelphia, and one in the city of Baltimore
;
the officers of the
corporation shall be two clerks, a treasurer, and thirty-two managers,
all
of
whom
shall
be members of the religious society of Friends, and
among the Stockholders at their
be chosen by ballot from
shall
annual meeting
;
but in case of failure to elect the officers at the
stated time, those in office shall continue until others are chosen.
members of the Board of Managers, and
quorum for the transaction of
business.
The government and direction of the said school and
college, the appointment and employment of professors and other
officers concerned therewith, and the general management of the
The
clerks shall be ex officio
eleven
affairs
who
members
shall
constitute a
of the College, shall be entrusted to the Board of Managers,
shall
have power to enact such rules and regulations not incon-
sistent with the constitution
and amendments thereto, adopted by
the corporators as they shall see
fit.
HENRY
Signed,
C.
JOHNSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN
P.
PENNEY,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved the
first
day of April, a.d. 1864.
A. G.
CURTIN,
Governor.
—
SUPPLEMENT
A
To
"An Actio incorporate Swarthmore College," authorizing an increase
of
Section
Be
i.
it
Capital Stock.
enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met,
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That the Board
of Managers shall consist of thirty-two Managers, who shall choose a
President and Secretary from their own number, and said officers
shall affix the corporate seal and attest all documents as may be
tives
of the
Commonwealth
:
directed by the Board of Managers.
Section
2.
That the
capital stock of said corporation
may be
in-
creased so as to amount in the whole to five hundred thousand dollars,
and the said Managers may borrow money on bonds, to be secured
by mortgage on the real estate of the corporation to trustees for the
bondholders, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand
dollars.
Section
3.
That women, single or married, may be members of
and Managers thereof.
said corporation
B. B.
STRANG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES
H. STINSON,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved the fourteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
JOHN
W. GEARY.
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Harrisburg, April 30, A.D. 1870.
Pennnsylvania,
ss.:
I DO hereby certify. That the foregoing and
annexed is a full, true, and correct copy of the origis AL.
^^j ^^^ ^^ ^^^ General Assembly, entitled "A SupI
I
^'
An Act to incorporate Swarthmore
plement to
increase
of capital stock," as the same
College,' authorizing an
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—
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remains on
file
in this Office.
In testimony whereof,
I
have hereunto
my
set
hand and caused
the Seal of the Secretary's Office to be affixed, the day and year
above written.
J.
WEAKLEY,
M.
Deputy Secretary of
the
Commonwealth.
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CONSTITUTION
OF
S
W A RT H MORE
COLLEGE.
—
Article I. The capital stock shall be fifty thousand dollars,
which may be increased from time to time to any sum not exceeding
three hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of the
value of twenty-five dollars each, transferable on the books of the
Association only with the consent of the Board of Managers.
Article
II.
held on the
—The
first
annual meeting of the Stockholders shall be
Third-day
in the
P.M., in the city of Philadelphia.
be ex
officio
members of
each annual meeting,
at
Twelfth month,
at three o'clock
A clerk and assistant clerk, who shall
the Board of Managers, shall be appointed
who
shall
make and
preserve regular min-
utes of the proceedings, subject to the adoption of the meeting at
the time.
Special meetings
may be
called
by the
clerks, at the
written request of any twenty Stockholders.
Article
III.
—The management of the
institution shall
the direction of thirty-two managers, sixteen of each sex,
be under
who
shall
an annual meeting, under the care of three inspectors, to
Eight of said managers shall be elected
be appointed at the time.
be elected
for
at
one year, eight
for
two
years, eight for three years,
and eight
for
four years.
The term of service for each manager shall be decided by mutual
agreement among themselves, and eight members shall be elected to
They shall have power to
serve for four years, annually thereafter.
fill
any vacancy that may occur
in
their Board.
They
shall all
be
Stockholders and members of the Society of Friends, and an equitable proportion of
them
ings of Philadelphia,
shall
belong to each of the Yearly Meet-
Baltimore, and
New
York, and other Yearly
Meetings the members of which subscribe to the stock.
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CONSTITUTION.
6o
election of managers shall be by ballot, and votes by proxy
be received, each Stockholder having one vote and a majority
of votes so cast shall determine the election, and also all other sub-
The
shall
jects
;
voted upon.
Provided, that
all
questions affecting the purchase of real estate,
or location of the College, the removal of the same after location, or
the sale of the whole or any portion of the real estate, shall be
decided only
at
by a majority of the
and no such pur-
a stated or special meeting,
votes cast, each share being entitled to one vote
chase, sale, or transfer of the real estate shall be
been proposed
at
;
made without having
a stated or special meeting held at least three months
previously.
And
further provided, that
no
alteration to this Constitution shall
be made except at a stated meeting of the Stockholders, by a vote in
its
favor, either in person or
by proxy, of the majority of
all
the stock.
Notice of any proposed change in the Constitution shall be given
annual meeting and decided upon at the next annual meeting
at the
the said .proposed change shall be placed in
and each Stockholder
shall
full
upon the minutes,
be notified thereof.
Should the Stockholders fail to elect at any annual meeting, the
managers of the previous year shall continue in office until successors
are elected.
—
Article IV. The Board of Managers shall appoint their own
and frame by-laws for their government, subject to the
officers,
approval of the Stockholders.
When
shall
the amount of capital stock is subscribed and paid in, they
provide for the purchase, erection, furnishing, and future man-
agement of the College.
No
shall
contract for real estate, building, or furnishing the institution
be entered into unless the money
for the
same be
in the
hands
of the Treasurer, and they shall at no time incur expenses in
management beyond
the
available
resources
its
of the current six
months.
The Treasurer of
the College shall collect, receive, and hold the
funds subject to the order of such committees or officers as they
authorize to draw upon
him, and they shall audit and
settle
may
his
accounts at least twice every year.
shall make full reports of their proceedings to the members
annual meeting of the Stockholders, and a printed copy of
They
at the
their report shall be furnished to each of the
members.
BY-LAWS.
LAW
I.
MEETINGS.
There
meetings of the Board annually on the
and Ninth months, on the day precedSecond
Second Third-day
ing the Commencement, on the day preceding and on the adjournment of the annual meeting of the Stockholders. Special meetings
shall be called by the Secretary when requested by five members.
shall
be
five stated
:
in
Eleven members constitute a quorum.
LAW
II.
AND COMMITTEES.
OFFICERS
A President of the Board of Managers, Secretary, Auditors, Finance
Committee, Building Committee, Instruction Committee, Committee
on Museum, Committee on Anson Lapham Repository, and an Executive Committee, shall be appointed annually at the meeting succeeding the annual meeting of Stockholders; and should none be
appointed at that time, those previously appointed shall continue to
fulfil
the several duties prescribed until others are duly appointed.
All the other committees shall be authorized to report to the Executive
Committee.
LAW
III.
THE PRESIDENT.
The
decide
President shall preside at the meetings of the Board and
all
questions of order.
LAW
IV.
THE SECRETARY.
The
Board,
Secretary shall keep regular minutes of the meetings of the
as
adopted
at the
time; shall notify the members of the time
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BY- LAWS.
62
and place of meeting, inform committees of
act,
under direction of the Board, in
He
office.
shall
be ex
officio
a
all
member
LAW
their appointment,
and
matters pertaining to the
of the Executive Committee.
V.
THE TREASURER.
The Treasurer
shall
hold the funds belonging to the Corporation,
Board shall sign the certificates of
on demand, to all subscribers who have
subject to the disposition of the
stock,
and
shall issue these,
paid their instalments in
shall
;
In the investment of the funds he
full.
be guided by the advice and direction of the Finance
mittee.
He
Board
shall report to the
at the stated
Com-
meetings in the
Second and Twelfth months.
LAW VL
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The Finance Committee
shall
draw
all
orders on the Treasurer for
expenses authorized by minute of the Board, and the orders shall
not be valid without the signatures of at least two of this
tee.
They
shall also advise with
and direct the Treasurer
Commitin regard
to the investment of the funds of the corporation.
LAW
vn.
THE AUDITORS.
The Auditors
shall audit the accounts of the Treasurer twice in
the year, immediately previous to the time of his reports, to which
they shall append the result of their audits.
LAW VUL
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
This Committee shall consist of sixteen members,
who
shall
have
the general supervision of the College, etc., during the recess of the
Board of Managers, and, subject to its approval, shall decide upon
such appointments of Professors and Teachers as may become
necessary.
They shall also appoint such other employes as may, in their
judgment, be required.
BY-LAWS.
They
63
render the Faculty such aid as niay be
in their power
and discipline, and report their proceedeach stated meeting of the Board of ^Managers.
shall
in relation to instruction
ings to
LAW
IX.
THE FACULTY.
The
President, Matron, and such of the resident Professors and
may be elected by the Board, shall constitute the Faculty,
and shall hold regular meetings, arrange the course of study, determine the qualifications for admission into the several departments
and classes, and for graduation, decide upon rules of order, and
others as
determine
all
questions pertaining to the discii)line or instruction,
subject to the approval of the Executive Committee, to
shall report
whom
they
monthly.
LAW
X.
ANNUAL REPORT.
The President and
the Executive
Committee
Report to the Stockholders, which
for
approval at
the
meeting
shall
shall
frame the Annual
be submitted to the Board
immediately preceding the annual
meeting.
LAW XL
COMMITTEE ON TRUSTS, ENDOWMENTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS.
The Managers shall appoint five of their number to constitute the
Committee on Trusts, Endowments, and Scholarships, to hold ofiice
three years, or during the pleasure of the Board.
It shall
name
be the duty of this Committee to receive, invest in the
of the College, and hold in their custody,
all sums of money,
and other property that may be given or bequeathed to Swarthmore College for General Endowments, for Special
Endowments, or for Educational Endowments.
stocks, mortgages,
The Board of Managers
of each of these funds
purposes of the College
;
of Special Endowments, to the particular
Fund was given and of Educational Endowof those who would otherwise be excluded, by their
purpose for which the
ments, to the aid
shall direct the application of the interest
of General Endowments, to the general
:
:
limited means, from enjoying the advantages of an education at this
College.
BY-LAWS.
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SCHOLARSHIPS.
A
donation to the College of the sum of
five
thousand dollars, to
be held by this Committee, shall found a scholarship in perpetuity,
in
the gift of the donor,
and of
his legal heirs, or of
any assignee
approved by the Board of Managers.
Nominations under perpetual Scholarships shall be subject to the
same limitations and restrictions as are placed on nominations under
Scholarships for limited periods.
—
Scholarship for two lives.
Any person giving to the College
the sum of Four Thousand dollars, to be held by this Committee,
shall have the privilege of nominating, during his or her lifetime,
one student, who, when approved, shall be admitted, subject to all
the rules and regulations of the College, and shall be entitled to
board and tuition without charge.
When
ceases,
from any cause such student's attendance
another
shall be
may be
at the
College
n-ominated, and the privilege of nomination
extended under such Scholarship to one successor, provided
such successor shall be duly appointed by the donor during his or
her lifetime.
On
the death of the successor, the principal
sand dollars shall merge into the General
The
College, however, in
all
sum of Four Thou-
Endowment Fund.
cases of Scholarships, whether per-
petual or otherwise, reserves to itself the right at any time to return
any donor, or his legal representatives, whose
and determine.
This Committee shall make a full report, including an audited
statement of investments, and of its Treasurer's account, to the
Board of Managers at the meeting preceding the annual meeting of
the principal
sum
to
right shall thereupon cease
the Stockholders.
The
interest
is
to
be paid to the Treasurer of the College
-as re-
ceived by this Committee.
LAW
XII.
alterations and amendments.
These By-Laws may be altered or amended at any meeting of
the Board next preceding the annual meeting, notice of such change
having been given at a previous stated meeting.
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