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SWARTHMORE
COLLEGE
Wharton Hall.
Sproul Observatory.
Hall Gymnasium.
Parrish Hall.
Servants* Dormitory.
Tennis Courts.
The Shop Building.
Science Hall.
Somerville Gymnasium.
10. The Library.
The Hall o f Chemistry.
Students* Observatory.
The Benjamin West B ouse.
The Meeting House.
15. Professors’ Residences.
“ Ulverstone,” The President’s House
The Railroad Station.
The Farm House.
The Heating and Lighting Plant.
20. Memorial Gateways.
21 . Water Tank.
22. The Swimming Pools.
CUNNINGHAM
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SW ARTHMORE COLLEGE
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
B u l l e t in
CATALOGUE N U M BER
FO RTY-SEVEN TH YEAR
1915-1916
Founders’ D ay, 1915
Gifts and Bequests
Wharton Hall
General College Information
SWARTHMORE, PENNSYLVANIA
Printed for the College
Vol. X III.
No. 2 .
Twelfth Month, 1915
Entered at the Post-Office at Swarthmore, Pa., as second-class matter
S atar H)morcan<^
Printed by the Franklin Printing Company
Philadelphia, Pa.
1915
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
1915-16
FO U N D ERS’ D A Y , 1915
The eighth annual celebration o f Founders’ Day occurred
this year on October 23. The occasion was marked by the usual
academic procession o f guests, faculty, students, and prospec
tive students down to and including the Class o f 1935; by ad
dresses in the out-door auditorium; by a Tea and Reception to
the invited guests in the L ibrary; by the planting o f an oak tree
on the campus; by a foot-ball game with Franklin and Marshall
and by a play presented in the evening by the students in Parish
Hall.
In order to indicate the historical union and co-operation of
the two Quaker commonwealths o f Pennsylvania and Delaware,
the governors o f these two states participated in the programme
o f exercises in the out-door auditorium. Robert M. Janney,
President o f the Board of Managers, gave an introductory ad
dress in which he outlined the ideals o f the Quaker founders
o f both the state and college.
Governor Miller made a
historical address on the important and permanent value of
William Penn’s contributions to the law and government of
Delaware. Governor Brumbaugh dwelt upon the great Quaker
and American ideals o f conduct in personal and social life, and
in the development of education both public and private.
This cooperation o f the chief executives of Pennsylvania and
Delaware in celebrating the occasion was further emphasized by
their joint planting o f an oak tree in the Presidents’ and Gov
ernors’ Row bn the College Campus.
The celebration o f Founders ’ Day this year may therefore be
considered somewhat in the light o f a precedent for the future
cooperation o f all three of the Quaker commonwealths, namely,
Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey; and perhaps the occa
sion may be so widened in the future as to provide for the
expression o f the fundamental ideals in the founding o f other
American commonwealths as well.
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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
BEQUESTS AND G IFTS
B y the will of the late Wilson M. Powell, o f New York, one
thousand dollars was bequeathed to the College, and this amount
has been added to the General Endowment Fund. The class
of 1894 made a gift to the College on the twentieth anniversary
o f their graduation, o f an avenue o f scarlet oaks bordering the
walk from the railway station to Wharton Hall, and about two
hundred conifers, deciduous trees and shrubs which have been
planted on the southwest campus.
W H A RTO N H A LL
The third and last section o f Wharton Hall, the men’s dormi
tory, is now being built and it is expected that the building will
be ready for use in September, 1916. When the new section is
completed there will be quarters for about two hundred and ten
men in residence, which with the day students would provide
for two hundred and fifty men. The plans call for two large
rooms in the basement of the new section. These rooms will be
used for meeting places for the men.
SW ARTH M ORE COLLEGE C A TA LO G U E
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR
1915-1916
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1916
First Month 4 ...........Third-day . . . . College W ork resumes a t '8.00 a . M.
First Month 31...........Second-day ...M id -y e a r Examinations begin.
Second Month 4 ....... S ix th -d a y ......... Registration and Enrollment in Classes
for the Second Semester.
Second Month 5 ....... Seventh-day . . . First Semester ends.
Second Month 7 .......Second-day . . . Second Semester begins.
Third Month 14....... T h ird -d ay ........ Meeting o f Board Of Managers.
Third Month 24....... S ix th -d a y ........ College Work ends at 4.00 p . m . for
the Spring Recess.
Fourth Month 4 .........Third-day . . . . College Work resumes at 8.00 a . m .
Sixth Month 2 ......... S ix th -d a y ........ Final Examinations begin.
Sixth Month 9 ......... S ix th -d a y ........ Meeting o f Board o f Managers.
Sixth Month 9 ....... .. Sixth-day . . . . . Class Day.
Sixth Month 10 .......Seventh-day. . . Alumni Day.
Sixth Month 11 .......First-day ..........Baccalaureate Day.
Sixth Month 1 2 . . . . . Second-day. . . Commencement.
Sixth Month 13 to Ninth Month 19. . Summer Recess.
Ninth Month 18....... Second-day ...E xam in ations for Admission.
Ninth Month 19....... T h ird -d ay ......... Matriculation, Registration and En
rollment in Classes.
Ninth Month 19....... T h ird -day ......... Examinations for Admission.
Ninth Month 20....... Fourth-day ...E xam in ations for Admission.
Ninth Month 20.......Fourth-day . . . College Work begins at 8.00 a . m .
Tenth Month 3 ...........T h ird -day......... Meeting o f Board o f Managers.
Tenth Month 28.........Seventh-day ...F o u n d e r s ’ Day. College W ork sus
pended for the day.
Eleventh Month 29. . .Fourth-day ...C o lle g e Work ends at 1.00 P. M. for
the Thanksgiving Recess.
Twelfth Month 4 . . . .Second-day . . . College Work resumes at 8.00 A. M.
Twelfth Month 5 . . . . Third-day . . . . Annual Meeting o f Corporation.
Twelfth Month 20. . .Fourth-day ...C o lle g e W ork ends at 4.00 p . m . for
the Christmas Recess.
1917
First Month 4 .............F ift h -d a y ..........College Work resumes at 8.00 a . m .
First Month 29...........Second-day . . . Mid-year Examinations begin.
Second Month 2 .........S ix th -d a y ......... Registration and Enrollment in Classes
for the Second Semester.
Second Month 3 .........Seventh-day . . . First Semester ends.
Second Month 5 . . . . . Second-day . . . Second Semester begins.
Second Month 2 2 . . . . Fifth-day . ....C o lle g e Work suspended fo r the day.
Third Month 13.........Third-day . . . . Meeting o f Board o f Managers.
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Third Month 23
Fourth Month 3.
Sixth Month 1 ..
Sixth Month 8 . .
Sixth Month 8 . .
Sixth Month 9 . .
Sixth Month 10.
Sixth Month 11.
SWARTHMOKE COLLEGE BULLETIN
S ix th -d a y .........College Work ends at 4.00 p . m . for
the Spring Recess.
Third-day . . . .College W ork resumes at 8.00 a . m .
S ix th -d a y .........Final Examinations begin.
S ix th -d a y .........Class Day.
Sixth-day .........Meeting o f Board o f Managers.
Seventh-day . . . Almuni Day.
First-day . . . . . Baccalaureate Day.
Second-day . . . Commencement Day.
TA B LE OP CONTENTS
F ounders ’ D ay , 1915.......... ..............................................................................
Map
and
B equests
General V iew
and
op the
PAGE
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College Grounds___ F ronting T itle
Gif t s .............................
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W harton H all ; ..................................................................................................
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L unar Calendar, 1916-17.................................
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College Calendar, 1916-17....................
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T he B oard
Committees
op
M anagers . ..................................................................................
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B oard.........................................................................
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op the
T he F a c u l t y .....................................................................................
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Administrative Officers...............................................................................
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Faculty Committees...................................................................................
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Swarthmore College:
Location and Foundation............................... ■ ........................................
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Buildings and Grounds.......................................
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Social L ife .................................................................... ...........................
32
Beligious L ife ................................................................................................
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Students’ Societies........................................................................................
33
College Publications.....................................................................................
35
Libraries and Beading Booms...................................................................
List o f Periodicals Beceived.....................................................................
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The Museum o f Biology and Geology.....................................
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E xpenses
F ellowships
B equirements
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and
for
S cholarships ...........................
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A dm ission :
Admission by Certificate.............................................................................
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Entrance Bequirements...............................................................................
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Advanced Standing...............................
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Examination fo r Admission.....................
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R equirements
Graduation . . , . ...............................................................
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Prescribed S t u d ie s ...................................................................................
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for
M ajor Subject................................................................................................
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Elective Studies..............................................................................................
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Uniform Curriculum for the Freshman Year in the Courses in Arts
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The Courses o f Study in Applied Science..............................................
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Irregular Courses o f Study.........................................................................
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Uniform Curriculum for the Freshman and Sophomore Years in
Applied Science ...............................
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Course Advisers..............................................................................................
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Extra Work Done Outside o f Classes......................................................
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Removal o f Conditions....................................................................
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System o f Grades..........................................................
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Exemption from Examinations................................................................
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Absences from Examination...............................
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Absences from Classes.......................................
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D egrees :
Bachelor o f A rts............................................................................................
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Master o f A rts.............................................
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Engineering Degrees..........................................................
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D epartments
English
and
Courses o r I nstruction :
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French and Spanish......................................................................................
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German Language and Literature...............................
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Greek and L atin ............................................................................................
94
Public Speaking............................................................................................
98
Public Speaking Contests and Prizes...................................................... 100
History and International Relations.................................................... :. 101
Political Science. « ..................
104
Economics ...............................
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Law
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History o f Religion and Philosophy.................................................... . 109
Psychology and Education......................................................................... 112
Fine A rts....................................... ................ ..........................................
Biology
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Chemistry and Chemical Engineering........ ......................
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TABLE OP CONTENTS
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D epartments
Civil,
and
Courses
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I nstruction— Continued:
'echanical, and Electrical Engineering. .................................... 126
Mathematics and Astronomy................
Physics
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Physical Education
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Physical Education o f the Men................................................................. 149
Physical Education o f the Women........................................................... 150
R egister
op
S tudents, 1915-16............................... ........................................ 152
Summary
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F ellows
and
Students
H olders
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by
States ................................................................... 163
S cholars, 1915-16..................................................................... 164
F ellowships , 1893-1916............................................................. 164
D egrees Conferred
in
1915.................................................
170
T he A lumni A ssociation ......................................................................
173
Swarthmore Clubs ....................
173
I n d e x ................................... .............................................................. |.................. 177
Committee
on
T ru sts ........................................................................................ 180
BOARD OF M ANAGERS
R obert M. J anney , President,
1015 Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia.
W ilson M. P owell, J r ., Vice President,
130 E. Seventieth Street, New York.
H etty L ippincott M iller, Secretary,
Riverton, N. J.
Charles M. B iddle, Treasurer,
513 Commerce Stréet, Philadelphia.
Term expires Twelfth Month, 1916
Charles P. J enkins , West Washington Square, Philadelphia.
R obert H. W alker , 914 Fidelity Building, Baltimore, Md.
E mma C. B ancroft, Wilmington, Del.
H arriett Cox M cD owell, 310 Kenmore Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
George M. L amb , J r ., Station H, Baltimore, Md.
H oward W . L ippincott, 509 Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia.
M ary W . A lbertson, Westbury, L. I., New York.
A bigail F oulke P im , Penllyn, Pa.
Term expires Twelfth Month, 1917
H oward Cooper J ohnson , 1210-1214 Commonwealth Bldg., Philadelphia
H etty L ippincott M iller, Riverton, N. J.
J oanna W. L ippincott, '1712 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.
M arianna S. R awson , 11 Clifton Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
R owland Comly , Logan Trust Building, Philadelphia.
H enry C. T ürner, 11 Broadway, New York.
D aniel U nderhill, J r ., 26 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
E lsie P almer B rown , 1622 Twenty-ninth St., N.W., Washington, D. C.
Term expires Twelfth Month, 1918
I saac H. Clothier, Eighth and Market Streets, Philadelphia.
Caroline H. W orth , Coatesville, Pa.
E dmund W ebster, 1324 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia.
E mma M cI lvain Cooper, 715 Cooper Street, Camden, N. J.
R ebecca C. L ongstreth, Haverford, Pa.
W illiam C. S proul, Chester, Pa.
R obert P yle, West Grove, Pa.
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COMMITTEES OP THE BOARD
Term expires Twelfth Month, 1919
R obert M. J anney , 1015 Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia.
L uella B urdsall, Port Chester, N. Y.
W ilson M. P owell, J r ., 130 E. Seventieth Street, New York.
E dward M artin , M.D., 1506 Locust Street, Philadelphia.
W m . W. Cocks, Westbury, Long Island, N. Y.
L ucy B iddle L ew is , Lansdowne, Pa.
P hilip M. S harples, West Chester, Pa.
M ary H ibbard T hatcher , Swarthmore, Pa.
COMMITTEES OF TH E BOARD
The President is ex Officio a Member of Every Committee
I saac H. Clothier,
E dmund W ebster,
H oward W . L ippincott,
W illiam C. Sproul,
Caroline H. W orth ,
Mary W . A lbertson ,
W ilson M. P owell, J r.,
E mma M cI lvain Cooper,
Rowland Comly ,
E dmund W ebster,
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L ucy B iddle L ew is ,
E dward M artin , ..
W ilson M. P owell, J r.,
H enry C. T urner,
Robert P yle ,
Executive
L ucy B iddle L ewis ,
J oanna W. L ippincott,
E mm a C. B ancroft,
L uella B urdsall,
P hilip M. S harples,
H oward Cooper J ohnson ,
R ebecca C. L ongstreth,
H enry 0. T urner.
Finance and Audit
W ilson M. P owell, J r.,
George M. L amb , J r.
Instruction
M arianna S. R awson ,
R ebecca C. L ongstreth,
H arriett Cox M cD owell,
H etty L ippincott M iller,
M ary H ibbard T hatcher .
Buildings and Property
E dmund W ebster,
H oward W. L ippincott,
R owland Comly ,
R obert P yle ,
Caroline H. W orth,
E mma M cI lvain Cooper,
H oward Cooper J ohnson ,
Charles F. J enkins .
Charles F. J enkins ,
E dmund W ebster,
I saac H. Clothier,
Trusts
H oward Cooper J ohnson ,
R obert P yle ,
J oseph Sw ain .
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D aniel U nderhill, J r.,
Charles F. J enkins ,
L ucy B iddle L ew is ,
Library
H arriett Cox M cD owell,
R obert H. W alker ,
W illiam W. Cocks .
Household
E mma C. B ancroft,
Caroline H. W orth,
E mma M cI lvain Cooper,
A bigail F oulke P im ,
J oanna W. L ippincott,
H etty L ippincott M iller,
M art H ibbard T hatcher .
I saac H. Clothier,
E mma C. B ancroft,
Caroline H. W orth,
Nominations
H oward Cooper J ohnson ,
M art W . A lbertson,
George M. L amb , J r .,
Charles F. J enkins .
THE FACULTY
President
J o s e p h S w a i n , President o f the C ollege,. . . . “ Ulverstone,” College Campus
B.L., Indiana University, 1883; M.S., 1885; LL.D., Wabash College,
1893; LL.D., Lafayette College,- 1911; LL.D., University of Pennsylvania,
1912; student o f Mathematics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh,
1885-86. Instructor in Mathematics and Zoology, Indiana University, 188385 ; Assistant U. S. Fish Commissioner, 1884 ; Professor of Mathematics,
Indiana University, 1886-91 ; Professor of Mathematics, Leland Stanford
Junior University, 1891-93 ; President o f Indiana University, 1893-1902.
Member o f National Council of Education; Member o f National Council of
Religious Education; Member Board of Trustees, World’s Peace Foundation;
President, Public Education Association of Philadelphia; President of the
National Education Association, 1913-14. President of Swarthmore College
from 1902.
Vice President
J o h n A n t h o n y M il l e r , Edward H. Magill Professor o f Mathematics and
Astronom y,........................... ..
Cunningham House, College Campus
A.B., Indiana University, 1890; A.M., Leland Stanford Junior University,
1893; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1899. Graduate Student, University of
Chicago, 1895-97, and summer term, 1898. Instructor in Mathematics, In
diana University, January to June, 1890; Superintendent of Schools, Rock
ville, Ind., 1890-91; Instructor in Mathematics, Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versity, 1891-92; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1893-94; Acting Professor
of Mathematics, Indiana University, 1894-95; Professor of Mechanics and
Astronomy, 1895-1906.
Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Swarth
more College, from 1906. Vice President, from 1914.
.D ean o f Women
H e n r ie t t a J o s e p h in e M e e t e e r , Assistant Professor o f Greek,. .Parrish Hall
A.B., Indiana University, 1901; Ph.D., University o f Pennsylvania, 1904.
Frances Sergeant Pepper Fellow in Classical Languages, University of Penn
sylvania, 1901-04. Dean o f Women, University of Colorado, 1904-06. Deau
of Swarthmore College, 1906-13; Assistant Professor o f Greek, from 1909.
Dean of Women, from 1913.
Dean
W il l ia m A l b e r t A l e x a n d e r , ............ Benjamin West House, College Campus
A.B., Indiana University, 1901. Library Assistant in Charge of Reference
Department, Indiana University, 1901-05.
Acting Instructor in History,
Swarthmore College, 1907-08; Registrar, Swarthmore College, 1905-13. Dean,
from 1913.
E l iz a b e t h P o w e l l B ond , Dean Emeritus,..........................................................
6300 Greene Street, Germantown, Philadelphia
A.M., Hon., Swarthmore College, 1897.
1906.
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Dean of Swarthmore College, 1886-
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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
A rthur B eardsley, Emeritus Professor o f Engineering, and Librarian o f
the Friends’ Historical Library,......................................301 College Ave.
C.E., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1867; Ph.D., Hon., Swarthmore
College, 1889.
Instructor in Mathematics and Engineering, University of
Minnesota, 1869-70; Professor o f Civil Engineering, 1870-72. Professor of
Engineering, Swarthmore College, 1872-98.
W illiam H yde A ppleton, Emeritus Professor o f the Greek Language and
Literature,................. The Clinton, Tenth and Clinton Sts., Philadelphia
A.B., Harvard University, 1 8 6 4 ;' A.M., 1867; LL.B., 1869; Ph.D., Hon.,
Swarthmore College, 1888; LL.D., Swarthmore College, 1912; student of
Greek and Philology, Universities of Berlin and Bonn, 1870-71; Athens,
1881-82. Tutor in Greek, Harvard University, 1868-70. Professor of Greek
and German, Swarthmore College, 1872-88; Acting President and President,
1889-91; Professor of Greek and Early English, 1891-1905; Professor of the
Greek Language and Literature, 1905-09.
Susan J. Cunningham , Emeritus Professor o f Mathematics and Astron
om y,......................................107 N. Thirty-fourth Street, Philadelphia
Sc.D., Hon., Swarthmore College, 1888. Special student at Vassar College,
1866-67; student under Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University during
the summers o f 1874 and 1876; at Princeton College, in the summer of
1881; at Williams College, the summers of 1883 and 1884; student in
Mathematics under private coach at Newnham College, Cambridge, England,
during the long vacation term of the summers of 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1882;
student at the Observatory of Cambridge, England, during the summer of
1887, and at Greenwich Observatory, the summer of 1891; student at the
University of Chicago during the first half of the summer quarters of 1894
and 1895. Instructor in Mathematics, Swarthmore College, 1869-72; Assistant
Professor, 1872-74; Professor, 1874-1906.
George A rthur H oadley, Emeritus Professor o f Physics,. .518 Walnut Lane
C.E., Union College, 1874; A.B., 1874; A.M., 1877; Sc.D., 1907. P ro
fessor o f Physics, Swarthmore College, 1888-1914. Vice President, 1892-1914.
Spencer T rotter, Professor o f B iology,...........“ Pennyscroft,” Cheyney, Pa.
M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1883.
Jessup Fellow, Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Sciences, 1878-80; Resident Physician and Surgeon,
Pennsylvania Hospital, 1883-85; Lecturer in Zoology in the Wagner Free
Institute o f Science, Philadelphia. Professor of Biology and Geology, Swarth
more College, from 1888.
W illiam I saac H ull , Isaac H. Clothier Professor o f History and Inter■ national Selections,. . . ....... ....................... ........................ 504 Walnut Lane
A.
B., Johns Hopkins University, 1889; Ph.D., 1892. Student of History,
Universities of Berlin, 1891, and Leyden, 1907. Associate Professor of His
tory and Economics, Swarthmore College, 1892-94; Joseph Wharton Professor
o f History and Political Science, 1894-1904; Professor of History, 1904-11;
Professor of History and International Relations, from 1911.
J esse H erman H olmes, Professor o f the History o f Beligion and Phi
losophy, .................................................... 5 Whittier Place, College Campus
B.
S., University o f Nebraska, 1884; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1890.
Graduate Student in University of Nebraska, 1884-85; Harvard University,
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summer of 1895; Oxford University, 1899-1900; University of Pennsylvania,
1903-05 and 1911-12. Professor of the History of Religion and Philosophy,
Swarthmore College, from 1899.
* B enjamin F ranklin B attin , Professor o f the German Language and
Literature, and Secretary o f the Faculty,......................... ...........................
The Benjamin West House, College Campus
A.
B., Swarthmore College, 1892 ; Ph.D., University of Jena, 1900. Joshua
Lippincott Fellow (Swarthmore College), Berlin and Athens, 1893-94; stu
dent of German and Philosophy, Universities of Berlin, 1898-99, and Jena,
1899-1900 ; student of Germanics, Universities of Leipzig and Munich, 190910. Instructor in Rhetoric and Composition, and in Greek, Swarthmore Col
lege, 1892-93 ; Assistant Professor of German, 1900-02 ; Professor of German,
from 1902.
I sabelle B ronk, Suscm W. Lippincott Professor o f the French Language
and Literature................................................................ 317 N. Chester Road
Ph.B., Illinois Wesleyan University, 1893; Ph.D., University of Chicago,
1900. Student o f French and German, Wellesley College, 1880-83 ; Germany
and France, 1883-84; University o f Leipzig, Sorbonne, and Collège de France,
1889-91; University of Chicago, summer quarter of 1896 and 1897-98. Fel
low in Romance Languages, University of Chicago, 1898-1900; student in the
Bibliothèque Nationale, summers of 1902, 1903, 1904, and 1908; at the Uni
versity of Grenoble, first half of summer session 1906 ; in Paris and Madrid,
1910-11. Assistant in the Romance Languages and Literatures and head of
Beecher House, University of Chicago, 1900-01. Assistant Professor of the
French Language and Literature, Swarthmore College, 1901-02 ; Professor,
from 1902.
Gellert A lleman , Professor o f C h e m is tr y ........... \ . . .................................. ..
8 Whittier Place, College Campus
B.
S., Pennsylvania College, 1893; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1897.
Berlin, 1911-12.
Instructor in Chemistry, University of Maine, 1897-98 ;
Instructor in Chemistry, Washington University, 1898-1902.
Professor of
Chemistry, Swarthmore College, from 1902.
P aul M artin P earson, Professor o f Public Speaking, . . . .516 Walnut Lane
A.B., Baker University, 1891; A.M., 1895; Litt.D.,
English and Oratory, Northwestern University, 1894-95 ;
1901-02. Assistant in Oratory, Northwestern University,
ant Professor of Public Speaking, Swarthmore College,
from 1904.
1909.
Student of
Harvard University,
1895-1902. Assist-)
1902-04; Professor
G eorge F r e d e r ic k B l e s s in g , I.
V. Williamson Professor o f Mechanical
Engineering,......................................6 Whittier Place, College Campus
B.M.E., Kentucky University, 1897; M.E., 1905; Ph.D., Hanover College,
1906.
Draftsman with the Snead Iron Works, Louisville, Ky., 1897-98;
Draftsman with the Brown-Ketchum Iron Works, Indianapolis, Ind., 1898-99 ;
Draftsman with the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company, Louisville, Ky.,
summer, 1899; Associate Professor o f Mechanical Engineering, Nevada State
University, 1899-1900; Draftsman with Joseph McWilliams & Co., Contractors,
Louisville, Ky., summer, 1900; Professor o f Mechanical Engineering, Nevada
State University, 1900-05 ; Assistant to Engineer of Tests, Southern Pacific
Railroad, Sacramento, Cal., summer, 1902 ; in charge o f Design and Research*
* Absent on leave.
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Work lor the Eureka Oil Burning Company, San Francisco, Cal., summer,
1903; designer, Pacific Foundry, San Francisco, Cal., summer, 1904; Design
and Research W ork in Turbine Pumps, Platt Iron Works, Dayton, Ohio,
1905-06; designer in steam Turbine Department of General Electric Company,
Lynn, Mass., 1906; Assistant Professor of Machine Design, Sibley College,
Cornell University, 1906-08; Lecturer, Machine Design, Cornell University,
summer session, 1907 and 1908.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Swarthmore College, from 1908.
* H arold Clarke Goddard, Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor o f Englishi.................................................... .... .3 Whittier Place, College Campus
A.B., Amherst College, 1900; A.M., Columbia University, 1903; Ph.D.,
Columbia University, 1906.
Instructor in Mathematics, Amherst College,
1900-02; Instructor in English Literature, Northwestern University, 1904-06;
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Northwestern University, 1906-09.
Professor of English, Swarthmore College, from 1909.
W alter D ennison , Professor o f Greelc and Latin,...............................................
2 Whittier Place, College Campus
A.B., University of Michigan, 1893; A.M., 1894; P h.D „ 1898; student at
the University of Bonn, 1894-95; Fellow of the American School of Classical
Studies at Rome, 1895-97.
Instructor in Latin, University of Michigan,
1897- 99; Professor of Latin and Roman Archaeology, Oberlin College, 18991902; Junior Professor o f Latin, University of Michigan, 1902-10; Annual
Professor of Latin at the American School of Classical Studies at Rome,
1908-09. Professor of Greek and Latin, Swarthmore College, from 1910.
B obert Clarkson B rooks, Joseph Wharton Professor o f Political Science,
104 Cornell Avenue
A.B., Indiana University, 1896; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1903. Presi
dent White Fellow in Political and Social Science, Cornell University, 18979 8 ; President White Traveling Fellow, Universities of Halle and Berlin,
1898- 9 9 ; Instructor in Economics, Cornell University, 1899-1904; Joseph
Wharton Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College, 1904-08; Professor of
Political Science, University of Cincinnati, 1908-12; Professor of Political
Science, Swarthmore College, from 1912.
B ird T homas B aldwin , Professor o f Psychology and Education,...................
521 Elm Avenue
B.S... Swarthmore College, 1900; A.M., 1903; Ph.D., Harvard University,
1905; Supervising Principal Moorestown Friends’ Schools, 1900-02; Graduate
Student University of Pennsylvania, 1901-02; Joshua Lippincott Traveling
Fellow (Swarthmore College) Harvard University, 1902-Ò3 ; Assistant in
Education, Harvard Summer School, 1903; Graduate Student and Assistant
in Psychology and Logic, Harvard University, 1903-04; Thayer Scholar,
Harvard University, 1904-05; Professor of Psychology, West Chester State
Normal School, 1905-09; Student Leipzig University, Germany, summer,
1906; Lecturer in Psychology and Education, Swarthmore College, 1906-10,
Lecturer in Psychology and Education, University of Chicago, 1909-10; Asso
ciate Professor of Education and Head of the School of the Art of Teaching,
The University o f Texas, 1910-12; Professor of Education, University of Ten
nessee, summers 1912 and 1913; Professor of Educational Psychology, Johns
Hopkins University, summer 1915;' Professor of Psychology and Education,
Swarthmore College, from 1912.*
* Absent on leave.
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Louis N e w t o n R o b in s o n , Professor o f Economics, .......... 411 College Avenue
A.B., Swarthmore College, 1905 ; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1911 ; Graduate
Student, Cornell University, 1905-06; Joshua Lippincott Traveling Fellow of
Swarthmore College, Universities of Halle and Berlin, 1906-07 ; Fellow in
Economics and Statistics, Cornell University, 1907-08. Member and Secretary
of the Pennsylvania State Penal Commission.
Instructor in Economics,
Swarthmore College, 1908-10; Assistant Professor, 1910-18; Professor, from
1913.
H a r v e y Co r n e l iu s H a y e s , Morris L. Clothier Professor o f Physics, . .............
526 Walnut Lane
Harvard University: A.B., 1907; A.M., 1908; Ph.D., 1911; Research
Fellow -and Assistant in Physics, Harvard University, 1910-11 ; Instructor in
Physics, 1912-18 ; Instructor in Physics, The Harvard Summer School, 1910-13 ;
Professor o f Physics, Swarthmore College, from 1914.
J ohn R ussell H ayes , Librarian,................................................517 Elm Avenue
A.
B., •Swarthmore College, 1888 ; A.B., Harvard University, 1889 ; LL.B.,
University of Pennsylvania, 1892; student of English, Universities of Oxford
and Strasburg, 1892-93. Assistant in English, Swarthmore College, 1893-95;
Assistant Professor, 1895-1906. Librarian, from 1906.
L ewis F ussell , Assistant Professor o f Electrical Engineering.........................
Riverview and Baltimore Avenues
B . S., Swarthmore College, 1902; M.S., 1903; E.E., University of W is
consin, 1907; Ph.D., 1907. Student, Cornell Summer School, 1904; Joshua
Lippincott Fellow (Swarthmore College), University of Wisconsin, 1905-06.
Instructor in Physics, Swarthmore College, 1902-05; Assistant in Electrical
Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 1906-07. Instructor in Electrical Engi
neering, Swarthmore College, 1907-09; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engi
neering, from 1909.
W alter R oss M arriott, Assistant Professor o f Mathematics.........................
306 Union Avenue
A.B., Indiana University, 1906; A.M., Swarthmore College, 1907; Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania, 1911.
Assistant in Mathematics, Swarthmore
College, 1906-07 ; Instructor in Mathematics, 1907-09 ; Assistant Professor,
from 1909.
R oy B ennett P ace, Assistant Professor o f English,..................................... ...
1 Whittier Place, College Campus
A.B., Richmond College, 1897 ; A.M., George Washington University, 1898 ;
A.M., Harvard University, 1901 ; student o f English, Germanic Philology and
Romance (absent on leave), University o f Chicago, 1914-15. Professor of Eng
lish, Woman’ s College o f Richmond, 1901-02; Professor of English, Ouachita
College, 1904-07 ; Instructor in English, Swarthmore College, 1907-09 ; Assist
ant Professor, from 1909.
Samuel Copeland P almer, Assistant Professor o f Biology,. . 315 Cedar Lane
A.B., Swarthmore College, 1895; A.M., Swarthmore College, 1907; A.M.,
Harvard University, 1909; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1912; Joshua Lip
pincott Fellow (Swarthmore College), 1907-08 and 1910-11; student, Summer
School, Harvard University, 1903 and 1908 ; holder o f Philadelphia Academy
o f Natural Science’s Table, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.,
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1907; student, Bermuda Biological Station, 1909. Assistant in Zoological
Laboratory, Radcliffe College, 1908-09; Assistant in Zoological Laboratory,
Harvard University, 1907-09. Director of Athletics, Swarthmore Preparatory
School, 1885-1900; Vice Principal, 1900-07; Acting Assistant Professor of
Biology and Geology, Swarthmore College, 1909-10 ; Assistant Professor, from
1911.
George W illiam L ew is , Assistant Professor o f Mechanical Engineering,. .
16 Trinceton Avenue
M.E., Cornell University, 1908; M.M.E., 1910. Machine W ork with AllisChalmers Company, Scranton, Pa., summer, 1904; Foundry W ork with AllisChalmers Company, Scranton, Pa., summer, 1905 ; Experimental Gas Engine
W ork with Fairbanks-Grant Company, Ithaca, N. Y., summer, 1906. Instructor
in Machine Shop, Cornell University, Summer Session, 1908; Instructor in
Machine Design, Sibley College, Cornell University, 1908-09; Instructor in
Experimental Engineering, Sibley College, Cornell University, 1909-10. As
sistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Swarthmore College, from 1910.
Scott B arrett L illy , Assistant Professor o f Civil Engineering,.....................
4 W h ittie r Place, College Campus
B.S., Michigan Agricultural College, 1907; C.E., Cornell University, 1909.
Assistant to the Park and Boulevard Engineer, Detroit, Mich., summer, 1907
08 ; in City Engineer’s Office, Grand Rapids, Mich., summer, 1910 and 1912.
Instructor in Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 1907-10. Acting Assistant
Professor of Civil Engineering, Swarthmore College, 1910-11; Assistant Pro
fessor, from 1911.
Clara P rice N ewport, Assistant Professor o f German,..................... ................
1 Whittier Place, College Campus
A.
B., Swarthmore College, 1903; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1908.
Graduate Student, University of Chicago, 1903-04; Student of German and
French, University of Berlin, Sorbonne and Collège de France, and University
of Munich, 1904-05; Graduate Scholar in German, University of Wisconsin,
1906-07; Teaching Fellow in German, 1907-08; Instructor in Latin, Swarth
more College, 1908-09; Acting Assistant Professor of German, Swarthmore
College, 1909-10; Instructor in German, University of Kansas, 1910-12; As
sistant Professor of German, Swarthmore College, from 1912.
H enry J ermain M aude Creighton, Assistant Professor o f Chemistry,.........
308 Chester Boad
B.
A., Dalhonsie University, 1906; M.A., Dalhousie University, 1907; M.Sc.,
University o f Birmingham, 1909; D.Sc., Das eidgenössisches Polytechnikum,
Zürich, 1911; University of Heidelberg, 1909-10. Dalhousie University, sum
mers o f 1914 and 1915. H. M. Royal 1851 Exhibition Science, Research
Scholar, 1908-10. Demonstrator in Chemistry, Dalhousie University, 1907-08;
Lecturer on Physical Chemistry, 1911-12. Instructor in Chemistry, Swarth
more College, 1912-13 ; Assistant Professor, from 1913.
H oward Cooper J ohnson , Lectm er in L aw ,................................................. .. •••
1210-14,-Commonwealth Building, Philadelphia
B.L., Swarthmore College, 1896; LL.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1899;
Lawyer; Member o f the Board of Managers, Swarthmore College. Lecturer in
Law, from 1913.
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A l b e r t W i n s l o w B a r k e r , Assistant Professor o f Fine Arts, . . .Moylan, Pa.
School of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, School of Industrial Art
o f the Pennsylvania Museum. Instructor, School of Industrial Art of the
Pennsylvania Museum, 1903-13. Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Swarthmore College, from 1914.
E u g e n e L e R o y M ercer , Director o f Physical Education, ........Wharton Hall
M.D., University o f Pennsylvania, 1913; Graduate in Physical Education,
University of Pennsylvania, 1915; Physician and Director, Summer Camp,
1913; Freshman Football Coach, University o f Pennsylvania, 1913; Assist
ant Physical Instructor and Track Coach, Swarthmore College, 1914-15; Di
rector of Physical Education, Swarthmore College, from 1915.
L il l ia n S h a w , Director o f Physical Education o f the Women,. .Parrish Hall
A.B., Queens College, 1912; Student of Physical Education, Harvard Uni
versity Summer School, 1914; Graduate of the Sargent School of Physical
Education, 1915.
Director of Physical Education o f the Women, Swarth
more College, from 1915.
T h o m a s W a l t e r G il k y s o n , Instructor in Law ,....................................................
1210-14 Commonwealth Building, Philadelphia
A.B., Swarthmore College,' 1901; A.M., 1904; LL.B., University of Penn
sylvania, 1908. Practicing Law in Philadelphia since admission to the bar,
1908. Acting Instructor in History, Swarthmore College, 1907-08; Instructor
in Law, Swarthmore College, from 1910.
M a u d B a s s e t t G o r h a m , Instructor in English,......................144 Park Avenue
A.B., Radcliffe College, 1902; A.M., Radcliffe College, 1906; Ph.D., Radcliffe College, 1910.
Instructor in English Composition, Wellesley College,
1910-11. Instructor in English, Swarthmore College, from 1911.
Cl a r a M a b e l H ogue , Instructor in English,.................................. Parrish Hall
A.B., Greenville College, 1904; A.M., Northwestern University, 1910. Reader
in English Literature, Northwestern University, 1910-11. Reader in English,
Swarthmore College, 1911-12. Instructor in English, from 1912.
A l l e n B r o w n W e s t , Instructor in Greelc and Latin,...........318 Chester Road
A.B., Milton College, 1907; A.M., University o f Wisconsin, 1910; Ph.D.,
University of Wisconsin, 1912; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, 1907-09;
1910-11.
Student and Assistant in Latin and History, University of W is
consin, 1909-10; Fellow in Latin, University of Wisconsin, 1911-12. In
structor in Gre^k and Latin, Swarthmore College, from 1912.
M a r io n V ir g in ia P e ir c e , Instructor in French and Spanish,...........................
144 Park Avenue
A.B., Swarthmore College, 1903 ; A.M., University of Chicago, 1904. Fellow
in Romance Languages, University of •Chicago, 1903-04 ; Joshua Lippincott
Traveling Fellow (Swarthmore College), studying at the Sorbonne, Ecole des
hautes études, Collège de France, and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1904-05;
doing research work in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, and the Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris, 1906-07 ; graduate student, University of Pennsylvania,
1907-08; student in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1911-12. Professor of
Romance Languages, Cornell College, 1905-06 ; Instructor in French and
Spanish, Swarthmore College, from 1913.
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J o h n H i m e s P i t m a n , Instructor in Mathematics and Astronom y,...................
317 N. Chester Boad
A.B., Swarthmore College, 1910; A.M., 1911. Joshua Lippincott Fellow
(Swarthmore College), University of California, 1911-12; Lick Observatory
Fellow, 1912-13.
Instructor in Mathematics and Astronomy, Swarthmore
College, from 1913.
P h i l i p M a r s h a l l H ic k s , Instructor in Public Speaking,.........Avondale, Pa.
A.B., Swarthmore College, 1905; A.M., 1913. Assistant in Public Speak
ing, Swarthmore College, 1911-14. Instructor, from 1914.
P r is c il l a G o o d w y n G r if f i n , Instructor in English,.........231 Kenyon Avenue
A.
B., Swarthmore College, 1910; Member of Board of Examiners tor Teach
ers, Alabama State Department of Education, 1911-13. Instructor in English,
Swarthmore College, from 1914.
W a l t e r H a n r ic h s B e n n e r T r u m b a u e r , Instructor in English,. .Swarthmore
B.
S., University of Pennsylvania, 1912; A.M., University of Pennsylvania,
1913; University Scholar, 1912-13; Assistant in English, University of Penn
sylvania, 1913-14; Instructor in English, Swarthmore College, from 1914.
L e o n a r d B a y l i s s K ru eg er , Acting Instructor in Economics,...........................
204 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia
Ph.B., University of Wisconsin, 1914; A.M., University of Pennsylvania,
1915; graduate student, University o f Wisconsin, summer term, 1914; As
sistant in Industry, Wharton School o f Finance and Commerce, University
o f Pennsylvania, 1914-15. Acting Instructor in Economics, Swarthmore College, from 1915.
A n n e t t e S. P l a s s , Instructor in French,......................... 317 N. Chester Boad
A.B., University of Iowa, 1900; A.M., University of Iowa, 1903; Sorbonne
and Collège de France, 1900-02; Student in the Bibliothèque Nationale, sum
mers of 1904, 1905, 1906; Graduate Student, Columbia University, 1909-10;
Student in London and Paris, 1910-13. Assistant in French, University of
Iowa, 1902-03 ; Professor o f Romance Languages, Washburn College, 1903-07 ;
Principal o f Plass School for Girls, 1913-15; Instructor in French, Swarthmore College, from 1915.
A l b e r t W . P r e s t o n , Instructor in Engineering,.................114 Cornell Avenue
Four years apprenticeship C. R. G. & P. Ry., 1898-1902; Head Machinist,
C. G. W. St., Hoe, Mo., 1902-04; Machinist Foreman, D. & R. G. Ry., Salida,
Colo., 1904-05; Machinist Foreman, Colorado Southern, Trinidad, Colo., 190506. Toolmaker, McNeil & Co., Joplin, Mo., 1906-07; Machinist Foreman,
Southern Pacific Co., Oakland, Cal., and Sparks, Nev., 1907-10. Instructor
in drawing, Southern Pacific Apprentice School, 1910-15; Assistant to Engi
neer of Tests, Southern Pacific Co., summer, 1913; Instructor in Engineer
ing, University o f Nevada, 1910-15; Instructor in Engineering, Swarthmore
College, from 1915.
B a l p h G e r e n e G u t e l iu s , Instructor in Chem istry,.. . .123 Princeton Avenue
A.B., Ohio State University, 1915. Instructor in Chemistry; Swarthmore
College, from 1915.
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A n t o n ia W e is s b r a u n , Acting Instructor in G erm an,.. .318 N. Chester Road
Ph.D., University of Vienna, 1913. Teacher’ s Examination pro facilitate
docenti, University of Vienna, 1913; Student at Slimmer School, London,
England, 1914; Student, University of Birmingham, England, 1914-15. Act
ing Instructor in German, Swarthmore College, from 1915.
M a r y R. L e w i s , Lecturer in H y g ien e,.. . .46 N. Fortieth Street, Philadelphia
B.S., Wilmington College, 1911; M.D., Woman’ s Medical College of Penn
sylvania, 1911. School Medical Inspector, Philadelphia; Acting Superintend
ent, Woman’ s Hospital, Philadelphia, 1913. Assistant Obstetrician, Woman’ s
Hospital; Associate Member of Staff, West Philadelphia Hospital for Women;
Physician, Western Temporary Home for Children, Philadelphia; Lecturer in
Hygiene, Swarthmore College, from 1913.
J e a n H a m i l t o n W a l k e r , Assistant in French,.................318 Harvard Avenue
A.B., Swarthmore College, 1910. Graduate Student, University of Chicago,
as Lucretia Mott Fellow, from Swarthmore College, and as Fellow of the Uni
versity o f Chicago in Romance Languages, 1910-11. Student in Belgium and
Germany, 1900-04; in Paris, summer of 1912. Teacher of French and Ger
man, Catharine Aiken School, Stamford, Conn., 1911-13; Assistant in French,
Swarthmore College, from 1913.
L. E l o is e V e s t , Assistant in Psychology and Education,.............Parrish Hall
A.B., Swarthmore College, 1915. Graduate Student, Swarthmore College,
1915-16. Assistant in Psychology and Education, Swarthmore College, from
1915.
E t h e l M a y B u r n e t t , Assistant in H istory,..........................................................
3025 W. Dauphin Street, Philadelphia
A.B., Swarthmore College, 1915.
from 1915.
Assistant in History, Swarthmore College,
A D M IN IST R A T IV E OFFICERS
J oseph Sw ain , M.S., LL.D., President.
J ohn A nthony M iller, Ph.D., Vice President.
H enrietta J osephine M eeteer, PhJX, Dean o f W om en..
W illiam A lbert A lexander , A.B., Dean.
J ohn B ussell H ayes , A.B., LL.B., Librarian.
H arriet E. W orrell, Secretary to the President.
Chester B oberts, Superintendent.
E lla M ichener, Assistant to the Dean o f Women.
Clara E. M cCance, Secretary to the Dean.
A nna E thel F oster, A.B., Assistant Librarian.
A nne C. B rierly, Dietitian.
Sarah D oddrell Coale, Matron o f Wharton Ball.
Caroline A ugusta L ukens , B.L., Matron o f Parrish Ball Center.
M ary E. Cook, Director o f the Laundry.
E lizabeth Graham B edhepfer, Doolckeeper.
E lizabeth Swartz , Nurse.
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STANDING COMMITTEES OP TH E FACU LTY
The President o f the College is ex-officio a member o f all Committees.
A lu m n i.
R o b in s o n , B a t t i n , J . R . H a t e s , M a r r io t t , N e w p o r t , B u s s e l l .
Absence.
B r o o k s , M ee t e e r , A l e x a n d e r , B l e s s in g , B a l d w i n .
Athletics.
M il l e r , P a l m e r , M e r c e r .
Collection and Meeting Attendance.
H o l m e s , M ee t e e r , B a t t in , T ro tter , R o b in s o n , M a r r io t t
Diploma and Commencement.
B r o n x , A l l e m a n , H . C. H a y e s , P a l m e r , C r e ig h t o n .
Dramatics and Musical Activities.
D e n n is o n , M e e t e e r , P e a r s o n , B a t t i n , N e w p o r t , P a c e .
Entrance Requirements.
A l e x a n d e r , D e n n is o n , H u l l .
Founders’ Day.
H u l l , A l l e m a n , A l e x a n d e r , M ee t e e r , P e a r s o n , B r o n x .
Library.
T ro tt e r , H u l l , B r o n x , J . R . H a y e s .
Preparatory Schools.
B a l d w i n , A l e x a n d e r , B a t t i n , D e n n is o n .
Prescribed and Extra Worlc.
A l l e m a n , A l e x a n d e r , M il l e r .
Public Speaking.
P e a r s o n , H o l m e s , B l e s s in g , B a l d w i n , L i l l y .
Receptions.
M ee t e e r , B r o n x , R o b e r t s , F u s s e l l , C r e ig h t o n , H o g u e .
Student Social Affairs.
B a t t in , M eet e e r , N e w p o r t , M il l e r .
Student Affairs.
B l e s s in g , M eet e e r , D e n n is o n , H o l m e s , L i l l y .
Student Publications.
B l e s s in g , P e a r s o n , T r o t t e r , P a c e , B r o o k s , L e w i s .
Teachers’ Appointment.
D e n n is o n , B a l d w i n , H o l m e s , A l e x a n d e r .
Secretary o f the Faculty.
B e n j a m in F . B a t t in .
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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
LOCATION AND FOUNDATION
The Borough o f Swarthmore is situated southwest o f Phila
delphia on the Central Division of the Philadelphia, Baltimore,
and Washington Railroad. It is eleven miles from Broad Street
Station, with which it is connected by twenty-three inbound and
twenty-six outbound trains daily, the running time o f which
varies from nineteen minutes on express schedule to thirty min
utes on the local schedule. Three trolley lines, running cars at
twenty-minute intervals, also connect with Philadelphia elevated
and surface lines.
The college buildings and campus occupy a commanding posi
tion upon a hill not far from the center o f the town. The view
includes several miles of the Delaware River, the nearest point
of which is about four miles distant. The college property com
prises over two hundred acres of ground, including a large tract
o f woodland and the beautiful rocky valley o f Crum Creek.
The College was founded in 1864 through the efforts o f mem
bers o f the Religious Society of Friends, for the purpose of
securing to the youth o f the Society an opportunity fo r higher
educational training under the guarded supervision and care
of those of their own religious faith. Other applicants are ad
mitted upon the same terms as Friends, and nothing o f a sec
tarian character exists in the instruction or in the management
o f the College. According to its first charter, membership on the
Board of Managers of the College was limited to persons belong
ing to the Society o f Friends. The purpose o f this restriction
was not to establish sectarian control, but to prevent forever
the possibility o f such control by any sectarian element which
might otherwise have come to be represented on the Board. This
restriction is now believed to he no longer needed and is omitted
from the revised charter. The intention o f its founders was to
make the promotion o f Christian character the first considera
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taining a high standard o f scholarship. These aims have been
faithfully observed in the administration of the institution.
BUILDINGS
Parrish Hall is a massive stone structure, with its central por
tion separated from the two wings by fireproof compartments.
The central building, three hundred and forty-eight feet long
and five stories high, furnishes assembly room, lecture rooms,
museum, parlors, dining hall, and offices. The wings are four
stories high. The ground floor o f each wing is used fo r lecture
and recitation rooms; the remaining floors contain the dormi
tories of the women students. The Dean o f Women and several
instructors and matrons reside in the building.
Wharton Hall, the dormitory for young men, named in honor
of its donor, Joseph Wharton, late President o f the Board of
Managers, was opened fo r occupancy at the beginning o f the
college year 1904-05. The portion o f the building thus far com
pleted accommodates one hundred and twenty-five students. The
total capacity o f the hall will’ be about two hundred. It stands in
the west campus on the same ridge as Parrish Hall, and com
mands a fine view o f the Delaware River valley.
The Hall of Physics and Engineering is a two-story stone
building with basement, one hundred and sixty-two by sixtyfour feet, devoted to the departments of Physics and Engineer
ing. It contains lecture and recitation rooms, electrical, phys
ical and engineering laboratories, draughting rooms, engine and
boiler rooms. A ll departments are well equipped, and new ap
paratus and machinery are added as occasion demands.
The Hall of Chemistry, which was completed in 1904, is a red
brick building two stories high, one hundred and four by sixtyfour feet, and contains a finished basement. The basement has
an assay laboratory furnished with wind and muffle furnaces;
a fireproof combustion room, a laboratory for gas analysis, a
photometric dark room, large stock room, and cloak and toilet
rooms. On the first floor are offices, and laboratories for quan
titative analysis and fo r general chemistry. The large amphi
theater lecture room, seating one hundred persons and extend
ing to the basement, is reached from this floor. The second
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floor contains the organic laboratory, the laboratory for qualita
tive analysis, the laboratory for physical chemistry, the labora
tory for electrolytic chemistry, and the library. Two balance
rooms, one on the first floor and one on the second floor, contain
balances mounted on columns built independently o f the founda
tions and floors o f the building. The laboratories are splendidly
equipped with all the necessary modem apparatus. The chem
ical library contains a well-selected list of scientific and technical
books pertaining to chemistry, and complete sets o f five of the
leading chemical journals. Through the generosity of Mrs. Peter
T. Berdan, the library has received a complete set o f the publi
cations o f the London Chemical Society, and a set o f the Journal
of the London Society of Chemical Industry, presented by Mrs.
Berdan as a memorial to her son, Frederick T. Berdan, a mem
ber of the Class o f 1890.
The Sprout Astronomical Observatory, equipped by Senator
William Cameron Sproul, ’91, stands on the site formerly occu
pied by the President’s house, and contains nine rooms. On the
first floor are an office, a departmental library, a computation
room, two class rooms, and a shop room. On the second floor
are a modem lecture room seating seventy-five persons, a dark
room, and the dome room. The dome is a steel structure covered
with copper, forty-five feet in diameter. It is revolved by an
electric motor. Practically all the classes o f the department of
Mathematics and Astronomy, and some classes o f other depart
ments, are held in the Observatory.
The chief instrument o f the equipment is an equatorial re
fractor o f twenty-four inches aperture, and thirty-six feet focal
length, the mounting and optical parts o f which were made by
the John A. Brashear Co., Ltd. The mounting is modern and
convenient, motors being provided for winding the clock and
moving the telescope. The driving clock is electrically controlled.
A disc driven by a sidereal clock situated on the north side o f the
pier reads right ascensions directly. The telescope is provided
with the usual oculars, helioscope, position micrometer, double
slide plateholder, and a ray filter.
There is also a photographic telescope o f nine inches aper
ture and forty-five inches focal length, mounted after the de
sign of the Bruce telescope at Yerkes Observatory. The instru-
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ment is provided with a heavy mounting, a heavy driving clock,
coarse and fine position circles, a guide telescope, and such other
accessories as make it an effective and convenient instrument.
There is also a measuring engine fo r measuring five-by-seven
photographic plates, and a blink microscope.
Stephen Loines has recently given to the observatory a Polar
Equatorial, a new type o f telescope, designed and built by the
AIvan Clark and Sons’ Corporation. W ith this type of tele
scope the observer is enabled to make his observations while seated
in a warm room. It is housed in the Sproul Observatory.
The Students’ Astronomical Observatory, situated on the
campus a short distance southeast o f Parrish Hall, is especially
equipped for the purposes of instruction. It contains a refract
ing telescope of six inches aperture, mounted equatorially, fitted
with the usual accessories, including a position micrometer and
a very good spectroscope. The observatory also contains a tran
sit instrument o f three inches aperture, a mean time and a side
real clock and a chronograph. Mounted in a room adjoining
the transit room is a Milne seismograph, presented by Joseph
Wharton, which records photographically all vibrations o f the
crust of the earth. The latest addition to this observatory build
ing contains the photographic telescope referred to above.
The Library Building. On the lower east campus, near the
Benjamin West House, stands the Library, a fine specimen o f the
English Scholastic Gothic style. This Library was built and
furnished from the $50,000 generously presented to the College
by Mr. Andrew Carnegie and is maintained from the income on
a like sum subscribed by several friends o f the College. The
building is constructed o f local granite, with terra cotta and
Indiana limestone trimmings and was erected under the super
vision of Mr. Edward L. Tilton, o f New York. In the second
story of the massive entrance tower, is a large fireproof apart
ment, which contains the Friends’ Historical Library; in the
third story, are placed the Westminster chimes o f four bells and
the Seth Thomas Clock presented to the College in June, 1910,
by Mr. Morris L. Clothier in commemoration of the twentieth
anniversary of the graduation o f the class o f 1890. The first
floor of the main building contains a stack room and a large,
well-lighted reading room finished in dark oak. The reading
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room is two stories high, with a gallery round three sides. On
this gallery open the seminar rooms and the tower room devoted
to the Friends’ Historical Library; below are alcoves contain
ing reference books and other hooks in common use.
The Engineering Building. This building is o f concrete block
construction with reinforced concrete floors, columns and stairs.
It is three stories high, and one hundred and twelve feet long
by fifty feet wide. In architectural design it is simple and
effective, representing the latest and best type of factory build
ing construction. The ground floor contains a room used for
experimental and research work on the heat treatment o f metals,
a store room fo r stock and equipment, a vault for records, a lava
tory, and a locker room equipped with steel lockers. But the
main part o f this floor is divided between the forge and the foun
dry, furnished with a modern equipment o f down-draft forges
that is one o f the chief advantages of the building.
On each o f the three shop floors is a large tool room centrally
located. These rooms, similar in construction, have wire-mesh
partitions and doors through which an unobstructed view of the
entire floor may be obtained from any position.
On the second floor are an office fo r the shop, an office for
records o f the department, a lecture room, and a stock room.
Here too is located the main shop which has, besides its comple
ment of metal-working machines, a large equipment o f especially
designed benches for vise work.
The third floor, which is similar in plan and dimensions, is
equipped for pattern-making and general woodworking. A room
on this floor which is used as a reading room and workshop li
brary, contains a large number o f technical periodicals and such
books of reference as are constantly required by engineering
students. On this floor is located a large motor fo r operating
the elevator and the power machinery, and an additional motor
which operates a saw-bench independently.
A large double stack, constructed like the walls, o f concrete
blocks, passes up the center of the west side wall. One flue of
this stack is used for the forges, and the other for a smelting
furnace. Two smaller stacks, placed on the opposite side wall,
are intended mainly for ventilation.
The building is covered with a slag roof, and, with the ex-
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ception o f the roof and some wooden partitions on the third
floor, is entirely fireproof; the openings from the stair areaway
are protected by fire doors. The building is heated by steam
radiation operated on the Webster vacuum system, and the light
ing is entirely with electric lamps. A feature o f the various
shops is that all the machinery is driven by electric motors, while
the various machines are grouped on small motor drives so that
long lines of countershafting are entirely avoided.
The President’s House. The property on the east edge of the
campus on the com er o f Elm Avenue and Cedar Lane, recently
owned by W . H. Miller, has been purchased by the College and
is used for the President’s house.
The Wm. J. Hall Gymnasium for men is a two-story stone
building. On the first floor are offices, examining room, and the
main exercise hall, a room fifty by eighty feet, equipped with ap
paratus for individual and class work and a good court for
basketball. A trophy room and running track are on the second
floor. In the basement are lockers, shower baths, a dressing room
for visiting teams, and handball courts.
Somerville Hall, erected in 1893 through the efforts of the
Somerville Literary Society, is used as a gymnasium for the
women. It is furnished with apparatus adapted to the Swedish
system o f gymnastics. In the basement are dressing rooms,
showers, and lockers for the use o f day students who take work
in the department of Physical Education.
Two Swimming Pools, one for the women and another for the
men, were erected during the summer of 1912. These pools
were presented to the College by Philip M. Sharpies. The build
ing which contains the women’s swimming pool is connected by
a corridor with Somerville Hall, and the m en’s pool is connected
in like manner with the William J. Hall Gymnasium. The
rooms are well ventilated and lighted; the pools are of the most
modern construction. They are tiled on the sides by glazed tiling
and on the bottom by hexagon vitriolized tiling. The capacity
of the pools is about one hundred and fifty thousand gallons of
water. Each pool is supplied with a constant flow of filtered
water, which is pumped continually from the pools through the
filters and returned to the pools again heated to the proper tem
perature. Thus the water is kept in the best hygienic condition.
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A number o f shower baths, five-foot steel lockers with combina
tion locks, and offices for the supervision of the pools have been
added to both buildings. A gallery in the m en’s pool provides
space for visitors.
The Heating and Lighting Plant. A central heat, light and
power plant was erected in 1911 at a cost o f about one hundred
thousand dollars. The power house is a single-story brick struc
ture, located south o f the P. B. & W . R. R. tracks. Pour onehundred-and-twenty-five-horse-power Dillon boilers and three
Harrisburg engines* operating two seventy-five-kilowatt and one
fifty-kilowatt generators, have been installed. The engines are
the Fleming automatic type, and are directly connected with
twenty-three-hundred-volt, alternating-current generators. Heat,
light and power for all college purposes are provided by the
new plant.
Other buildings upon the campus are the Meeting-house, the
Benjamin West House (birthplace o f Benjamin West, P. R. A.,
erected in 1724), Cun/ningham House (the residence o f the Pro
fessor o f Astronomy and Mathematics), six residences fo r mem
bers o f the Faculty, a laundry building, a lodging-house fo r the
domestic servants, and the necessary farm buildings.
Whittier Field, the athletic ground for men, provides excel
lent facilities for football, baseball, and lacrosse, and has also
a good quarter-mile cinder track. Upon the campus are tennis
courts and additional space for lacrosse and baseball.
Cunningham Field, the women’s athletic ground, includes a
part o f the east campus beyond Somerville Hall. This field, en
closed by a hedge o f California privet, is divided into the three
terraces which make ample provision for basketball, tennis, and
English field hockey. This field was given by students, alumnfe,
and friends of the College as a tribute to Susan J. Cunningham,
who has for many years been closely identified with the interests
of the women students o f Swarthmore.
SOCIAL L IF E
Swarthmore, as a coeducational institution, undertakes to
provide college life in a home setting; to supply an atmosphere
in which manly and womanly character may develop naturally
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and completely. The intercourse o f the students is under the
care of the Dean o f Women and her assistants, who aim to make
it a means o f social culture.
RELIGIOUS L IF E
The daily sessions of the College are opened with a gathering
of students and instructors fo r the reading o f the Bible, or for
some other suitable exercise, preceded and followed by a period
of silence. Students under twenty-one years of age are expected
to attend either Friends’ Meeting, held every First-day morning
in the Meeting House, or, at the request o f their parents, the
church in the borough of the religious denomination to which
they belong. A class to which all students are invited is held
at 9.00 on First-day mornings for the consideration o f religious
subjects. Preceding the meeting there are also classes in the
First-day School to which students are invited. By these means,
and particularly by individual influence, and by the constant
effort to maintain in the institution a spirit in harmony with
the purpose o f its founders, it is believed that a proper care is
exercised to mould the characters of the students in conformity
with Christian standards.
STU D EN TS’ SO CIETIES
Two literary societies are maintained by the students: the
Regular
meetings are held for literary and other exercises, which afford
opportunity to acquire skill in parliamentary practice and in
debate. They are regarded as valuable auxiliaries in the work
of the College. Each society has, under the management of its
own members, but accessible to all students, a library and a
reading room containing periodicals and daily papers. The total
number o f books in these libraries is over four thousand.
The Joseph Leidy Scientific Society has for its object keeping
in touch with the results of modem investigation in Astronomy,
Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering. A t its meetings,
held monthly, announcements of recent discoveries are made by
the various instructors, and their meaning and importance are
Athenaeum by the men, the Somerville by the women.
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briefly discussed. Papers are also prepared and read by the
student members.
The Cercle français holds frequent meetings and is open to
all students in the French Department after the middle of their
first year. Its object is to afford increased opportunities for
acquiring a practical knowledge o f the French language.
The Deutscher Verein holds occasional sessions for the purpose
of affording its members a greater ease and facility in expressing
themselves in idiomatic German. Students are thus brought into
more positive acquaintance with German customs, amusements,
music, and literature.
The Mathematical and Astronomical Club is an association of
students in Mathematics and allied subjects, and of instructors
in Mathematics. It meets on the first and third Tuesdays of
each month to discuss subjects not pertinent to the class room.
The Classical Club meets once a month during the college year.
Addresses and papers are given on subjects which emphasize the
broader aspect of classical culture and civilization.
The English Club, open to all students, meets twice a month
to hold discussions and to listen to papers and addresses upon
topics o f literary and dramatic interest.
The Athletic Association is an organization o f the men for the
encouragement o f physical training and athletic sports.
The Women’s Athletic Association is a similar organization of
the women students.
Christian Associations. The religious life among the students
is furthered by the Young M en’s and Young W om en’s Christian
Associations. Formal and informal receptions and other social
functions are given with the especial object o f promoting closer
fellowship and a truly democratic spirit. Public meetings for
worship are held every Sunday evening, the young men meet
ing in Collection Hall and the young women in Somerville Hall.
No student organization o f the College may incur any financial
obligation, or make any contract involving a monetary considera
tion, without first obtaining the sanction o f the President o f the
College, or o f the proper faculty committee under whose super
vision the organization is placed. Students contemplating a new
organization must first consult the President of the College. I f
he desires to grant them permission to effect such an organiza-
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tion, he will advise the student representatives of the particular
faculty committee under whose supervision the organization is
placed.
COLLEGE PU BLICATIONS
Two periodicals are published by the students under the super
vision of the faculty: The Phoenix, a weekly publication, is de
voted to undergraduate journalism; the Halcyon is published
annually by the Junior Class.
The Swarthmore College Bulletin is published every three
months and contains a record o f the matters o f permanent im
portance in the progress of the College.
L IB R A R IE S AND READ IN G ROOMS
The libraries o f the College collectively contain over thirty
thousand volumes.
The chief sources o f income for increasing the collection in
the college library are these: the Edgar Allen Brown Fund,
established by his family in memory o f Edgar Allen Brown, of
the Class of 1890; the Alumni Fund; and the General Library
Fund.
The library is open Monday to Friday, inclusive, 8.00 A. m .
to 6.00 p. m . and 7.15 to 10.00 p. m . ; Saturday, 8.00 a . m . to
12.15 p . m ., 1.00 to 5.00 p. m ., and 7.15 to 10.00 p. m .
Residents o f the borough o f Swarthmore are cordially invited
to use the library.
The Friends’ Historical Library, founded by the late Anson
Lapham, o f Skaneateles, N. Y., contains a valuable and growing
collection o f Friends’ books, tracts, and early writings (many
very rare), photographs o f representative Friends, other objects
of personal and historic interest, and manuscripts relating to the
Society and its history. This collection is stored in rooms prac
tically fireproof, and it is hoped that Friends and others will
deem it a secure place in which to deposit books and other ma
terial in their possession which may. be o f interest in connection
with the history o f the Society. Such contributions are solicited,
and should be addressed to the Friends’ Historical Library, or
to A rthur B eardsley, Librarian, Swarthmore, Pa, The library
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is accessible to all persons interested in the doctrines and history
o f Friends, and ample arrangements are provided for its use for
consultation and fo r reference.
Moreover, the great collections of books in the Library o f the
University o f Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Library and its
Ridgway Branch, the Mercantile Library, the Free Library of
Philadelphia, as well as those in the special and technical libraries
o f the city, are open to the use of students under proper regula
tions. The Philadelphia library resources, which are o f especial
utility in connection with the various departments o f the College,
are referred to in the departmental statements.
The Library and the departmental reading rooms are supplied
with reference books and the leading literary, scientmc,
technical journals.
The following periodicals are taken by the College:
A dvocate o f P eace
Am erican A nthropologist
Am erican Chemical Journal
Am erican Econom ic Review
American H istorical Review
Am erican Journal o f Archceology
Am erican Journal o f International
Law
Am erican Journal o f Mathematics
Am erican Journal o f Philology
Am erican Journal o f Psychology
Am erican Journal o f Science
Am erican Journal o f Sociology
Am erican Journal o f Theology
Am erican M achinist
Am erican M athematical M onthly
Am erican Philological Association
Transactions
Am erican P olitical Science Review
Am erican Oxonian
Am erican Scandinavian Review
A nglia
Annalen der Physik
Annales Politiques et L ittéraires
Annals o f the Am erican Academ y
Annals o f M athematics
A rt and Archceology
Astronom ical Journal
Astronom ische Nachrichten
Astrophysioal Journal
A tlantic Educational Journal
A tlantic M onthly
Autom obile, The
B erichte der Deutschen Chem. Gesell
schaft
Berliner Philologische W ochenscrift
B iblical W orld
Boston Transcript
Brill M agazine
British Journal o f Psychology
B ulletin o f the Am erican M athe
matical S ociety
Bulletin de Correspomdance H ellenique
Bulletin o f the Pan Am erican
Union
Bulletin o f the Seism ological Society
o f Am erica
Cartoons
Cassinia
Cement A ge
Century Magazine
Chaucer S ociety Publications
Chemical News
Child, The
Christian R egister
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Christian Science H erold, M onitor,
and Journal
Classical Journal
Classical Philology
Classical Quarterly
Classical Review
Classical W eekly
Columbia University Quarterly
Delinquent, The
Dial, The
D ialect N otes
Dodge Idea
Drama, The
Early English T ext Society Publica
tions
Economic Journal
Education
Educational Adm inistration and Su
pervision
Educational Foundations
Educational Review
E lectric Journal
E lectric Railway Journal
Electrical Review
Electrical W orld
Electrician (London)
Electro-Chem ical and M etallurgical
Industry
Electrotechriische Zeitwng
Elementary School Journal
Engineering M agazine
Engineering News
Engineering Record
Engineering and Contracting
Englische Studien
English Journal
English Review
Etude
Folklore Journal
Folklore Society Publications
Forum
Foundry, The
Friends’ Fellowship Papers
Friends’ In telligen cer
Gas Industry
Gas Pow er
General E lectric Review
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W arper’s M onthly M agazine
H arper’s W eekly
Harvard Graduates’ Magazine
Harvard Studies in Classical Phi
lology
Harvard Theological Review
H ibbert Journal
H istory T eacher’s M agazine
Home and School Education
H orseless A ge
Illum inating Engineer
Illustration (P aris)
Independent
Industrial Engineering
International Journal o f Ethics
International Socialist Review
International Studio
Jahrbuch d. K aiserl. Deutschen
Archwolog. In stitute
Jahrbucher fu r Nationalokonomie
und Statistik
Johns Hopkins University Studies
Journal de Physique
Journal o f the Am erican Chemical
Society
Journal o f Am erican Folklore
Journal o f Animal Behavior
Journal fo r B iological Chemistry
Journal o f the Chemical Society
(London)
Journal o f Criminal Law and Crimi
nology
Journal o f Educational Psychology
Journal o f English and Germanic
Philology
Journal o f Experim ental Pedagogy
Journal o f H ellenic Studies
Journal o f Philosophy, Psychology
and Scientific M ethods
Journal o f P olitical Econom y
Journal o f the Royal Statistical So
ciety
Journal o f the Society o f Chemical
Industry
L ieb ig ’s Annalen der Chemie
L iterary D igest
Living A ge
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M achinery
M alone S ociety Publications
M echanical Engineer
M ississippi V alley H istorical Review
M odern E lectrics
Modern Language Association Pub
lications
M odem Language N otes
M odem Language Review
M odem Philology
M odern Sanitation
M otor Cycle News
M unicipal Engineering
N ation, The
National Geographic M agazine
National Municipal Review
National P risoners’ A id Association
Review
New W itness
New Y ork Times Boole Review
N orth American, Review
New Republic
New Statesman
Observatory
Outlook
Pedagogical Seminary
Pennsylvania M agazine
Photo-Era
Physical Review
Physikalische Z eitsch rift
P oetry
P oetry Journal
Policed Science Quarterly
Popular Astronom y
Popular Mechanics
Pow er Practical Engineer
Present Day Papers
Psychological Clinic
Public, The
Publications o f the Astronom ical
S ociety o f the Pacific
Punch
Quarterly Journal o f Econom ics
Quarterly Journal o f Public Speak
ing
Quarterly Review
Reactions
R eaders’ Guide to Periodical L itera
ture
Religious Education
Review o f Reviews
Romania
Royal Astronom ical Society, M onthly
N otices
School and Hom e Education
School Review
Scientific Am erican
Scientific Am erican Supplement
Scientific M onthly
Scribner’s M agazine
Sewanee Review
Sibley Journal
Single Tax Review
Story T ellers’ Magazine
Survey
Swarthmore H alcyon, and Phoenix
Technical W orld M agazine
Technology Review
Theosophical Quarterly
Transactions o f the Am erican M athe
matical S ociety
Unpopular Review
W estern E lectrician
W oodcraft
W oodworker, The
W orld’s W ork
Yale Review
Z eitsch rift fü r Electro-Chem ie
Z eitsch rift fü r Phys. Chemie
Z eitsch rift Gesamte Turbine-wesen
THE MUSEUM OP BIOLOGY AND GEOLOGY
The Museum contains a collection for educational purposes
only, and the specimens from its cases are in constant use in the
lecture room and laboratory. It is steadily becoming a more per
fect means of illustrating the different departments o f biology
and geology.
It includes the following collections:
1. The Joseph Leidy Collection of Minerals, the result of,
thirty years’ discriminating collection by its founder, consists
of exceedingly valuable cabinet specimens of minerals, charac
teristic rocks and ores, and models of the various systems of
crystallization.
2. The Collection Illustmting Comparative Osteology is com
posed o f a large series o f partial and complete skeletons, pre
pared at Prof. Henry W a rd ’s Natural History Establishment in
Rochester, N. Y . The collection illustrates the structure and
framework o f vertebrates.
3. The Wilcox and Farnham Collection of Birds comprises
stuffed specimens of native and foreign birds. Nearly all the
species visiting this State are represented.
4. The Frederick Kohl Ethnological Collection consists of
Indian implements, weapons, clothing, etc., mostly from Alaska.
5. The C. F. Parker Collection of Shells is made up o f choice
typical land, fresh water, and marine shells. These specimens
were all selected by the late Dr. Joseph Leidy from the exten
sive collection o f the founder, C. P. Parker, who was for many
years the Curator in charge o f the Academy o f Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia.
6. The Robert R. Corson Collection of Stalactites and Stalag
mites is composed o f specimens from the Luray Caverns, which
illustrates the peculiar limestone formations o f Luray and similar
districts.
7. The Eckfeldt Herbarium contains over two thousand speci
mens illustrating the flora of Pennsylvania. The Annie Shoe
maker Collection is a valuable addition to this.
8. The Joel Scarlet Collection of Minerals and Crystallo(39)
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graphic Specimens was presented to the Chemical Department
by the heirs o f the late Joel Scarlet, of Kennett Square, Pa.
This collection, which has been placed in cases located in the
library o f the Chemical Building, consists of about three thou
sand well-selected specimens, many rare and valuable. It is
used fo r the course in Mineralogy and is accessible to students
under the supervision of the instructor.
In addition to the above, there is a large and constantly in
creasing collection o f specimens of vertebrates and invertebrates
(including the U. S. Pish Commission Educational Collection),
o f dissected specimens fo r demonstration in the lectures on
Physiology, o f glass and papier-mache models illustrating special
points in vegetable and animal morphology, besides about three
hundred classified diagrams and colored charts illustrating every
branch o f natural history.
E X P E N SE S
The charge for board, room, and tuition ranges from $425 to
$525, of which at least $275 is payable in advance. The remainder
is due on the first of January. The charge varies in accord
ance with the size and location of the room. Every student’s bill
for the first payment is mailed before the opening of the col
lege year, and the student is held responsible fo r prompt pay
ment in advance. Thirty days after the opening o f college 5
per cent, will be added to all bills unpaid at that time. The
bill for the second payment is mailed before the first o f January.
In case bills are not paid before the end of the first semester stu
dents owing such bills may be excluded from all college exercises
for the second semester. Students withdrawing on or before the
end o f the first semester receive no benefit from scholarships, as
scholarships are credited at the beginning of the second semester.
All students choose rooms according to date of application for
admission. In order to reserve a room in any one o f the dormi
tories each student must make a deposit o f $10 when the room
is chosen. This sum will be held as a fund fo cover breakage
or any other damage to college property, and the loss involved
if a student fails to occupy the room reserved for him. The un
expended balance will be returned after graduation.
The tuition fee fo r non-resident students is $175 a year, of
which $150 is payable in advance, and the remainder on the first
of January.
In case of illness no extra charge is made unless a physician
or trained nurse is employed. When the connection o f a stu
dent with the College shall, before the end o f the period for
which payment has been made, be terminated by sickness or any
other cause considered unavoidable by the faculty, the student
may have the privilege o f sending an approved substitute for
the unexpired term, or, upon making written application to the
President o f the College, may receive credit for two thirds of
the tuition fee fo r the unexpired term from the date o f the said
application. Payments are to be made by check or draft to the
order of S warthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
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DINING-ROOM RATES
Per college year, $175; per month, $22; per week, $6; single
breakfast or lunch, 30 cents; single dinner (except Sunday),
40 cents; Sunday dinner, 50 cents; dinners per month, $9;
lunches per month, $7.
The college year for instructors and administrative officers be
gins with the Saturday preceding Registration Day, and ends
with the Saturday following Commencement Day, but does not
include the Christmas vacation. Instructors and officers who
wish meals before the beginning or after the end o f the college
year are expected to make arrangements in advance at the
Superintendent’s office.
The charge fo r board and room for instructors and adminis
trative officers is $275 per year.
The College is closed during the Christmas recess. Students
who desire to remain in Swarthmore or its vicinity at that time
may secure board at moderate charge in homes recommended
by the faculty. Students who desire to remain at the College
during the spring recess will be charged a proportionate sum
for board.
Students leaving property in any college building during the
summer recess do so at their own risk.
The college year for freshmen will end with the close of final
examinations. Freshmen will he expected to lea/ve the College
on or before Thursday preceding Commencement.
Students purchase their own books, which are furnished by
the College at the lowest rates obtainable. They also buy their
own stationery and drawing implements, and pay a reasonable
rate for laundry work done at the College.
A fee of $3 a semester is charged in every laboratory science,
except in Chemistry and Engineering.
The fees in the department o f Chemistry and Chemical En
gineering are as follow s: F or the course in Assaying, no fee, but
students pay for all breakage and all materials used; fo r the
course in Mineralogy $3 a semester; fo r all other courses in
this department $10 a semester. In addition to the abovenamed fees every student graduating in the department o f Chem
istry and Chemical Engineering is charged $25, in lieu o f fees
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EXPENSES
for apparatus and materials used, in connection with his thesis.
This last named fee is payable at the beginning o f the second
semester of the Senior year.
A fee o f $5 a semester is charged for each course in wood
working, forging, and machine practice; a fee of $2 a semester
is charged for each course in field practice and surveying; an
additional fee o f $2 is charged for the annual survey.
A deposit of $5 is required for each course in shop work or
founding. This deposit will be retained to cover breakage and
loss o f tools or supplies, and, after deduction for such items,
the balance will be refunded upon the completion o f the course.
Each student is charged a fee of $1 a semester for the use
of the gymnasium and swimming pools. This amount includes
locker rental.
In addition to the payments made directly to the College there
are a number of other items of living expense such as clothing,
care of health, recreation, traveling, etc., which the student must
meet. The combined expenditures of both classes vary consid
erably, o f course, from student to student. In order to ascer
tain the limits of such variation a careful statistical inquiry was
made at the end of the college year 1912-13 among a number
of students, who at the beginning o f the first semester, had been
requested to make detailed reports regarding their expenditures
for the year. The results are presented in the following tables:
Total
Expenditures for
College Year
1912-13.
Under $500...........
$500 to $600........
$600 to $700........
$700 to $ 8 0 0 .. . ..
$800 to $900........
$900 to $1,000 . . .
Over $1,000 .........
Women.
..................... 4
..................... 9
..................... 8
..................... 8
..................... 4
..................... 2
..................... 4
T o ta l... ..................... 39
Men.
1
15
16
16
7
7
Both.
5
24
24
24
11
9
2
6
64
103
Per Cent.
4.9
23.3
23.3
23.3
10.7
8.7
5.8
100.0
Board, clothing, lodging, care of health, tuition, books, ap
paratus, recreation, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses are in-
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eluded in the above table. The average total expenditure of the
thirty-nine women was $716.98; o f the sixty-four men, $704.09.
It will be noted that slightly more than one half (exactly 51.5
per cent.) o f the students of both sexes in the above table spent
less than $700 for the year, and nearly three fourths of them
(exactly 74.8 per cent.) less than $800. Compared with other
institutions situated in this part o f the country the above figures
indicate a very moderate cost o f living for the great majority
of Swarthmore students.
None of the one hundred and three students included in thé
above table was in receipt o f scholarship or other material aid
from the College. In other words they were meeting all ex
penses on their own account, and their annual totals are there
fore considerably higher than those of students who receive
financial assistance or its equivalent. A t present fellowships and
scholarships (see pp. 46 to 50) are available for over sixty stu
dents who are able to comply with the conditions imposed. In
addition to the one hundred and three students whose total ex
penditures are presented in the above table, eight scholarship
holders reported the cost to themselves o f the college year 191213. Each o f the eight received on an average the equivalent of
$131.25 from the College, and spent in addition to this $437.48.
On comparing these figures with the averages o f the above table
it is evident that the receipt of aid in the case o f the nine scholar
ship students is combined with economy in their other college and
living expenses.
Day students residing in Swarthmore avoid payment o f board,
lodging, washing, etc., to the College, although, o f course, ex
penses o f this sort must be met as part of the family budget or
otherwise. In 1912-13, the average total expenditure of four
such students for tuition, books, apparatus, and recreation— the
only directly college costs they had to meet— was $230.25, of
which $161.50, or 70 per cent., was accounted for by tuition fees.
Other forms o f economizing may be noted. Day students re
siding along the line of the P. B. & W . R. R. may take advantage
o f the very low rates o f transportation offered by the forty-sixtrip school tickets. On the other hand, a certain loss is incurred
by students not in residence and therefore not in close contact
at all times with the life o f the College. Those who expect to
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give a portion o f their time to remunerative work outside o f the
College, moreover, should not underestimate the difficulties in
volved in performing it and complying satisfactorily with col
lege requirements at the same time. As a general rule, it may
be said that only those in good health and of more than the aver
age mental ability can secure results in this way that are com
mensurate with the sacrifices involved. On the other hand, the
democratic atmosphere of the College assures a manly recogni
tion o f the worth o f such efforts to work one’s way through
College.
F E L L O W SH IP S AND SCH OLARSH IPS
FELLOWSHIPS
The J oshua L ippincott F ellowship of $450 founded by
H oward W . L ippincott, A.B., o f the Class o f 1875, in memory
of his father, is awarded annually by the faculty, with the con
currence o f the Instruction Committee, to a graduate o f the
College o f at least one year’s standing fo r the pursuit o f gradu
ate study under the direction of the faculty or with their ap
proval. Applications for the Joshua Lippincott Fellowship for
the year 1916-17 must be received by the.faculty before Febru
ary 20, 1916,
The L ucretia Mott F ellowship, founded by the Somerville
Literary Society and sustained by the contributions o f its life
members, has yielded an annual income since its foundation of
$525, It is awarded each year by a committee o f the faculty
(selected by the society), with the concurrence o f the life mem
bers o f the society, to a young woman graduate o f that year who
is to pursue advanced study at some other institution approved
by this committee.
The J ohn L ockwood Memorial F ellowship o f $450 was
founded by the bequest o f Lydia A. Lockwood, o f New York,
in memory o f her brother, John Lockwood. It was the wish
of the donor that the fellowship be awarded to a member o f the
Society of Friends. It is to be awarded annually by the faculty,
with the consent o f the Instruction Committee, to a graduate
o f the College of at least one year’s standing, fo r the pursuit of
graduate studies under the direction o f the faculty or with their
approval. Applications for this fellowship for 1916-17 must be
received by the faculty by February 20, 1916.
The
by the
nually
mittee
H annah A. L eedom F ellowship o f $400, was founded
bequest of Hannah A. Leedom. It is to be awarded an
by the faculty with the consent o f the Instruction Com
to a graduate o f the College o f at least one year’s stand
ee)
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ing for the pursuit o f graduate studies under the direction of
the faculty or with their approval. Applications for this fel
lowship for 1916-17 must be received by the faculty by Febru
ary 20, 1916.
The Martha B. T yson F ellowship of $450, founded by the
Somerville Literary Society in 1913, is sustained by the contribu
tions of the life members of the society. It is awarded annually,
by a joint committee of the faculty and the society (elected by
the society) with the concurrence o f the life members o f the
society to a woman graduate o f Swarthmore College, who has
taught successfully for two years after her graduation, and ex
pects to continue teaching. The recipient of the award is to
pursue a course o f study fitting her for more efficient work in
an institution approved by the Committee o f Award. Applica
tions for this fellowship for 1916-17 must be received by the
Committee o f Award not later than February 20, 1916.
SCHOLARSHIPS
1. The W estbtjry Quarterly M eeting, N. Y., S cholarship
is awarded annually by a committee o f that Quarterly Meeting.
2. Each o f the following funds yields annually about $200 and
is awarded at the discretion o f the College to students needing
pecuniary aid, whose previous work has demonstrated their
earnestness and ability:
(a) The R ebecca M. A tkinson S cholarship F und .
(b) The B arclay G. A tkinson S cholarship F und.
(c) The T homas L. L eedom S cholarship F und.
(d) The Mark E. R eeves S cholarship F und.
(e) The T homas W oodnutt S cholarship F und.
3. The A nnie Shoemaker S cholarship, a free scholarship
for board and tuition, is awarded annually to a young woman
graduate o f Friends’ Central School, Philadelphia.
4. The H arriet W. P aiste F und is limited by the following
words from the donor’s w ill: “ the interest to be applied an
nually to the education o f female members of our Society of
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Friends (holding their Yearly Meeting at Fifteenth and Race
Streets, Philadelphia) whose limited means would exclude them
from enjoying the advantages o f an education at the College.
5. The M ary W ood F und is limited by the following words
from the donor’s w ill: “ the income thereof to he, by the proper
officers thereof, applied to the maintenance and education at
said college of one female student therein, one preparing for
the avocation o f a teacher to he preferred as the beneficiary,
but in all other respects the application of the income o f said
Fund to he in the absolute discretion o f the college.”
6. The W illiam C. Sproul S cholarship. William C. Sproul,
a graduate of the Class of 1891, offers annually a scholarship
o f $150 to the graduate in best standing in the Chester High
School. This scholarship may continue throughout the college
course.
7. The following scholarships are offered for work done in the
College in 1915-16. They are o f the value of $200 each for resi
dent, and $100 each for day students, and are awarded in each
instance to that member o f each o f the respective classes who shall
be promoted without conditions, and shall have the best record
o f scholarship upon the regular work of the year.
( a) The D eborah F isher W harton ' S cholarship will be
awarded to a member o f the Junior Class.
( b ) The S amuel J. U nderhill S cholarship will be
awarded to a member o f the Sophomore Class.
(c) The A nson U a p h a m S cholarship will be awarded to
a member o f the Freshman Class.
8. The Samuel W illets F und provides several scholarships
for resident students needing pecuniary aid, whose previous work
has demonstrated their earnestness and their ability. They will
be awarded at the discretion o f the Committee on Trusts. A p
plication should be made to the President o f the College.
9. The I saac S tephens S cholarships. Four scholarships of
$50 per year.
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10. The I. Y. W illiamson S cholarships for P reparatory
S chools. Eleven scholarships of the value of $150 each for
resident students, and $75 each for day students, are offered to
members of classes graduating in 1916 in the following schools:
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
Friends’ Central S c h o o l.............Philadelphia.
Friends’ Seminary ..................... New York, N. Y.
Friends’ School ........................... Baltimore, Md.
Friends’ School .......................... Wilmington, Del.
Friends’ High S c h o o l................ Moorestown, N. J.
Friends’ A ca d e m y ..................... ..Locust Valley, N. Y.
Friends’ Select School ............... Washington, D. C.
Abington Friends’ School...........Jenkintown, Pa.
George School ..............................G eorge School, Pa.
F or conditions see next paragraph.
11. For the year 1916-17, Swarthmore College offers three
scholarships o f $150 each for resident students and $75 each for
day students, to members of classes graduating in 1916 in the
following schools:
1 to Swarthmore Preparatory School .............Swarthmore, Pa.
1 to Swarthmore Public High School.................Swarthmore, Pa.
1 to The West Chester High School................... West Chester, Pa.
The scholarships named in this and the preceding paragraph
will be awarded upon competitive examination under the direc
tion o f the college faculty. None will be awarded to applicants
who fail to be admitted without conditions to the Freshman Class,
and every holder o f such scholarship must pursue in College the
studies leading regularly to the degree o f Bachelor o f Arts. The
College reserves the right to require some form o f service from
students receiving scholarships from the College.
12. A friend of Swarthmore College and o f the University of
Pennsylvania offers a scholarship o f $100 fo r the college year
1916-17 to a graduate of Swarthmore College taking work in any
department o f the university.
13. The Western Swarthmore Club offers in conjunction with
the College, a competitive scholarship o f $350. Students inter4
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ested are requested to apply to tlie Secretary o f the Club, Francis
E. Broomell, 601 Reaper Block, Chicago, Illinois.
14. The M a r y Coates P reston S cholarship F und . A sum
o f money has been left by the will of Elizabeth Coates to
Josephine Beistle, o f Swarthmore, as trustee, the annual interest
o f which will be about three hundred dollars. This amount is
given by the trustee as a scholarship to a young woman student
in Swarthmore College, preferably to a relative of the donor.
15. The W om an’s Medical College o f Pennsylvania offers a
scholarship o f $140, full tuition, to a young woman graduate
of Swarthmore College, This amount is to be given annually
during the four years of medical work, thus having a total value
o f $560 to the student receiving the scholarship.
16. The Trenton Swarthmore Club offers in conjunction with
the College, a competitive scholarship of $400. The scholarship
is open only to male students in the vicinity of Trenton, N. J-,
and the award is based upon scholarship, character, leadership,
and athletic standing. Students interested are requested to ap
ply to the Secretary o f the Club, Owen Moon, Jr., 8 South Stockton Street, Trenton, N. J.
17. The P hilip M. S harples S cholarship. Philip M. Sharp
ies, o f West Chester, offers annually two four-year scholarships;
one to a young man and one to a young woman, graduating from
the West Chester High School. Fuller details may be secured
from the principal o f the West Chester High School.
18. The Ivy Medal is placed in the hands o f the faculty by a
friend o f the College, to be awarded on Commencement Day to
a male member of the graduating class for character, scholar
ship, and influence.
ADM ISSION
A pplication fob A dmission should be made as early as pos
sible by letter to the Dean o f the College. Students are not ad
mitted fo r a period o f less than the current college year, but,
when vacancies exist, students may enter profitably upon the
work o f a sufficient number o f courses. A ll applicants must
present satisfactory testimonials o f good character from their
former teachers, and students coming from other colleges must
present certificates o f honorable dismissal.
A dmission to the College is granted (1) to candidates who
pass satisfactory examinations covering the entrance require
ments stated below, pages 52 to 68; and (2) to those who pre
sent certificates signed by the principals o f duly accredited
schools, made out upon forms furnished by the College, affording
sufficient evidence that the entrance requirements have been met.
1. E xaminations foe A dmission may be taken either at the
close o f the college year, or in the autumn. (See the calendar
on page 7 fo r the dates.)
2. A dmission by Cebtificate. Graduates o f Friends’ schools
and o f public high schools, approved by the faculty and Instruc
tion Committee, will be admitted to the College on certificate
o f the principal, but are not in every case received without con
dition. The faculty admits these students on trial, and reserves
the right to change their classification or to decline to continue
their connection with the College if they find them to be in
sufficiently prepared. The privilege o f sending students on cer
tificate may be withdrawn from any school whose pupils are
found to be deficient. Principals o f other schools who wish to
have students admitted on their recommendation should cor
respond with the Dean on the subject.
Certificates issued by the College Entrance Examination
Board, which was organized in 1899 by the Association o f Col
leges and Preparatory Schools o f the Middle States and Mary
land, will be accepted in place o f examinations on the subjects
(51)
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sw arth m ore
college b u l l e t in
therein certified to as passed. Information as to the examina
tions held by this board may be obtained by addressing The
Secretary o f the College Entrance Examination Board, Sub
station 84, New York, N. Y.
Graduation from an acceptable four years’ high school course
or its equivalent is required for admission to the Freshman class
on certificate. A n applicant may offer substitutes for some of
the optional subjects listed below, but in such cases the student
is required to substitute for college electives such work as had
been omitted in preparatory school. Thus there would be no
increase in the number o f credit hours required fo r graduation,
but fewer electives could be included in the four-year college
course.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
It is to be carefully noted that the subjects included among
the entrance requirements are rated as strictly as possible ac
cording to the time that should have been devoted to prepara
tory work in each.
In regard to a unit o f admission requirements, the faculty o f
Swarthmore College has approved the following statement, which
has been adopted by the National Conference Committee on
Standards of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the College En
trance Examination Board, and the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement o f Teaching:
A unit represents a year’s study in any subject in a secondary
school, constituting approximately a quarter of a full year’s
work.
This statement is designed to afford a standard o f measure
ment for the work done in secondary schools. It takes the
four-year high school course as a basis, and assumes that the
length o f the school year is from thirty-six to forty weeks, that
a period is from forty to sixty minutes in length; and that the
study is pursued for four or five periods a week. B y this stand
ard a satisfactory year’s work in any subject cannot be accom
plished under ordinary circumstances in less than one hundred
and twenty sixty-minute hours or their equivalent. Schools or
ganized on any other than a four-year basis can, nevertheless,
estimate their work in terms o f this unit.
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The total number of units required on this basis for admission
to Swarthmore College is fourteen arid a half.
AURAL AND ORAL TESTS IN FOREIGN MODERN LANGUAGES
In accordance with a resolution adopted in 1908 by the Modern
Language Association of America and a similar one adopted in
1914 by the Association o f M odem Language Teachers of the
Middle States and Maryland, it is recommended that the schools
preparing students for Swarthmore College prescribe adequate
aural and oral tests fo r all candidates who desire to present a
foreign modern language in satisfaction of requirements for ad
mission.
I. General Statement of Subjects R equired for E ntrance
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
II.
12.
13.
14.
Elementary A lg e b r a ...............1%
Plane Geometry . .
1
English ...................
.3
History ...................
2
Elementary French
Advanced French .
Elementary German
Advanced German
G re e k .......................
Elementary Latin .
Advanced Latin . . .
Elementary Science
Solid Geometry . . .
Trigonometry . . . .
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.2
.2
2
,3
2
,2
2
¥2
¥2
units q
unit ^ Eequired subjects, seven and
units
one half units.
units
units
units
units
units
units
units
units
units
unit
unit
Optional subjects. O f these
enough must be offered to
aggregate seven units.
11. D etailed S tatement of S ubjects R equired for E ntrance
1. E lementary A lgebra {one and a half units).
The four fundamental operations; factoring; simple equa
tions in one, two, and three unknown quantities ; radicals ; frac
tional and negative exponents; quadratic equations in one, two,
and three unknown quantities; ratio and proportion; binomial
theorem for positive integral exponents; arithmetic and geo
metric series. The student should acquire facility in algebraic
manipulation, in the application o f algebra to concrete problems,
and in the interpretation o f results.
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2. P lane Geometry (one u n it).
The theorems and constructions presented in a good m odem •
high school text. Solution o f numerous original exercises and
loci problems; application o f geometry to mensuration.
3. E nglish (three units).
R equirements in E nglish
for
1916-1919
A. READING
W ith a view to large freedom o f choice, the books provided
for reading are arranged in the following groups, from each of
which at least two selections are to be made, except as otherwise
provided under Group I.
Group I— Classics in T ranslation
The Old Testament, comprising at least the chief narrative
episodes in Genesis, Exodus, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings,
and Daniel, together with the books o f Ruth and Esther.'
The Odyssey, with the omission, i f desired, o f Books I, II, III,
IY , Y, X Y , X V I, X V II.
The Iliad, with the omission, i f desired, o f Books, X I, X III, X IV ,
X Y , X V II, X X I .
The Aeneid.
The Odyssey, Iliad, and Aeneid should be read in English trans
lations o f recognized literary excellence.
For any selection from this group a selection from any other
group may be substituted.
Group II— S hakespeare
Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Merchant of Venice,
As You Like It
Twelfth Night,
The Tempest,
Borneo a/nd Juliet,
King John,
*
If not chosen for study under B.
Richard II,
Bichard III,
Henry V,
Coriolanus,
Julius Caesar,*
Macbeth,*
Hamlet*
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Group III— P rose F iction
M alory: Morte d’ Arthur (about 100 pages).
Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I.
Sw ift: Gulliver’s Travels (voyages to Lilliput and to Brobdingnag).
D efoe: Robinson Crusoe, Part ft
Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield.
Frances Burney: Evelina.
Scott’s Novels: any one.
Jane Austen’s Novels: anyone.
Maria Edgeworth g Castle Rackrent, or The Absentee.
Dickens’ Novels: any one.
Thackeray’s Novels: any one.
George E liot’s Novels: any one.
Mrs. Gaskell: Cranford.
Kingsley: Westward H o! or Hereward, the Wake.
Reade: The Cloister and the Hearth.
Blackmore: Lorna Doone.
Hughes: Tom Brown’s Schooldays.
Stevenson: Treasure Island, or Kidnapped, or Master of Bal-
lantrae.
Cooper’s Novels: any one.
Poe: Selected Tales.
Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables, or Twice Told Tales,
or Mosses from an Old Manse.
A collection o f Short Stories by various standard writers.
Group IY — E ssays, B iography, E tc.
Addison and Steele: The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, or Selec
tions from the Tatler and Spectator (about 200 pages).
Boswell: Selections from the Life of Johnson (about 200
pages),
Franklin: Autobiography.
Irving: Selections from the Sketch Book (about 200 pages), or
Life of Goldsmith.
Southey: Life of Nelson.
Lamb: Selections from the Essays of Elia (about 100 pages).
Lockhart: Selections from the Life of Scott (about 200 pages).
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Thackeray: Lectures on Swift, Addison, and Steele in the Eng
lish Humorists.
Macaulay: A ny one o f the following essays: Lord Clive, Warren
Hastings, Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Frederic the Great,
Madame d’ Arblay.
Trevelyan: Selections from the Life of Macaulay (about 200
pages).
Ruskin: Sesame and Lilies, or Selections (about 150 pages).
Dana: Two Tears before the Mast.
Lincoln: Selections, including at least the two Inaugurals, the
Speeches in Independence Hall and at Gettysburg, the Last
Public Address, the Letter to Horace Greeley; together with
a brief memoir or estimate o f Lincoln.
Parkman: The Oregon Trail.
Thoreau: Walden.
Lowell: Selected Essays (about 150 pages).
Holmes: The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
Stevenson: An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey.
H uxley: Autobiography and selections from Lay Sermons, in
cluding the addresses on Improving Natural Knowledge, A
Liberal Education, and A Piece of Chalk.
A collection of Essays by Bacon, Lamb, DeQuincey, Hazlitt,
Emerson, and later writers.
A collection o f Letters by various standard writers.
Group V — P oetry
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (First Series) : Books II and III,
with special attention to Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper,
and Bums.
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (First Series), Book TV, with spe
cial attention to Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley (if not
chosen for study under B ).
Goldsmith: The Traveler and The Deserted Village.
P o p e : The Rape of the Lock.
A collection o f English and Scottish Ballads, as, fo r example,
some Robin Hood ballads, The Battle of Otterburn, King
Estmere, Young Beichan, Bewick and Grahame, Sir Patrick
Spens, and a selection from latter ballads.
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Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan.
B yron : Childe Harold, Canto I I I or IV , and The Prisoner of
Chillon.
Scott: The Lady of the Lake, or Marmion.
Macaulay: The Lays of Ancient Rome, The Battle of Naseby,
The Armada, Ivry.
Tennyson: The Princess, or Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and
Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur.
Brow ning: Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought
the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Home Thoughts from
Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the
French Camp, Herve Riel, Pheidippides, My Last Duchess,
Up at a Villa— Down in the City, The Italian in England,
The Patriot, The Pied Piper, “ De Gustibus” — , Instans
Tyramms.
A rnold: Sohrab and Rustum, and The Forsaken Merman.
Selections from American Poetry, with special attention to Poe,
Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier.
B. S tudy
The hooks provided for study are arranged in four groups,
from each o f which one selection is to he made.
Group I— D rama
Shakespeare: Julius Ccesar, Macbeth, Hamlet.
Group II— P oetry
M ilton: L ’Allegro, II Penseroso, and either Comus or Lycidas.
Tennyson: The Coming of Arthur, The Holy Grail, and The
Passing of Arthur.
The selections from Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in Book IV
o f Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (First Series).
Group III— Oratory
B urke: Speech on Conciliation with America.
Macaulay’s Two Speeches on Copyright, and Lincoln’s Speech at
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Washington’s Farewell Address and W ebster’s First Bunker Hill
Oration.
Group IY — E ssays
Carlyle: Essay on Burns, with a selection from Burns’s Poems.
Macaulay: Life of Johnson.
Emerson: Essay on Manners.
When examinations are taken at the College the two examina
tions in English may he taken separately, one at the close of
the college year and the other in the autumn.
Too much emphasis cannot be laid on the necessity, especially
in the preparation o f the work assigned for careful study, of
persistent drill looking toward the attainment o f thoroughness,
accuracy, and exactness. Both the entrance examination and
(in the case of students provisionally admitted on certificate) the
work of the first semester may be expected to test these quali
ties.
4. H istory ( two units).
Preparatory work in any two of the following fields of His
tory will be accepted.
(a) A ncient H istory, with special reference to Greek and
Roman history, a short introductory study o f the more ancient
nations and the chief events of the early Middle Ages, down to
the death o f Charlemagne (814).
(b ) Medieval and M odern E uropean H istory, from the
death o f Charlemagne to the present time.
(c ) E nglish H istory.
( d) A merican H istory and Civil Government.
Each o f the above topics is intended to represent one year of
historical work wherein the study is given five times a week,
or two years of historical work wherein the study is given three
times a week.
The requirement in history involves comparison and the use
o f judgment on the pu p il’s part rather than the mere exercise o f
memory. The requirement presupposes the use o f good text
books, collateral reading, and practice in written work. Geo
graphical knowledge should be tested by requiring the location
o f places and movements on an outline map.
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5. E lementary F rench ( two units).
Ability to pronounce French accurately, to read at sight easy
French prose, to put into French simple English sentences taken
from the language o f everyday life, or based upon a portion of
the French text read, and to answer questions on the rudiments
o f the grammar as defined below. The preparation should oc
cupy two years, five recitations a week.
The first year’s work should comprise: (1) Careful drill in
pronunciation; (2) the rudiments o f grammar, including the in
flection o f the regular and the more common irregular verbs, the
plural o f nouns, the inflection o f adjectives, participles, and pro
nouns, the use of personal pronouns, common adverbs, preposi
tions, and conjunctions, the order o f words in the sentence, and
the elementary rules o f syntax; (3 ) numerous easy exercises, de
signed not only to fix in the memory the forms and principles of
grammar, but also to cultivate readiness in the reproduction of
natural forms o f expression; (4) the reading o f from one hun
dred to one hundred and seventy-five duodecimo pages o f gradu
ated texts, with constant practice in translating into French easy
variations o f the sentences read (the teacher giving the English),
and in reproducing from memory sentences previously read; (5)
writing French from dictation.
The second year’s work should comprise: (1) The reading of
from two hundred and fifty to four hundred pages o f easy
modem prose in the form o f stories, plays, or historical or bio
graphical sketches; (2) constant practice, as in the previous
year, in translating into French easy variations upon the texts
read; (3) frequent abstracts, sometimes oral and sometimes
written, o f portions o f the text already read ; (4) writing French
from dictation; (5) continued drill upon the rudiments o f
grammar, with constant application in the construction o f sen
tences; (6) mastery o f the forms and use o f pronouns, pro
nominal adjectives, o f all but the rare irregular verb forms, and
o f the simple uses o f the conditional and subjunctive.
Suitable texts for the second year are: A bout’s Le Boi des
montagnes; B ran o’s Le Tour de la France; Daudet’s easier short
tales ; De la Bédollière’s La Mère Michel et Son Chat; ErckmannChatrian’s stories; Foa’s Contes biographiques and Le Petit
Robinson de Paris; Foncin’s Le Pays de France; Labiche and
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Martin’s La Poudre aux yeux and Le Voyage de M. Perrichon;
Legouvé and Labiche ’s La Cigale chez les fourmis; Malot’s Sans
famille; Mairet’s La Tâche du petit Pierre; Mérimée’s Colomba;
extracts from Michelet; Sarcey’s Le Siège de Pans; Verne’s
stories.
6. A dvanced F rench (two units).
Ability to read at sight, with the help o f a vocabulary of
special or technical expressions, difficult French not earlier than
that o f the seventeenth century; to write in French a short
essay on some simple subject connected with the works read;
to put into French a passage of easy English prose; to answer
questions involving an advanced knowledge o f syntax, and to
carry on a simple conversation in French. A fter the successful
completion o f Elementary French, the preparation for Advanced
French should cover two years, o f five recitations a week.
The first year’s work o f Advanced French should comprise the
reading o f from four to six hundred pages o f ordinarily difficult
French, a portion of which must be in dramatic form ; constant
practice in giving French paraphrases, abstracts, or reproduc
tions from memory o f selected portions o f the matter read ; the
study o f a grammar o f moderate completeness; writing from
dictation.
Suitable texts are: A bout’s stories; Augier and Sandeau’s Le
Gendre de M. Poirier; Béranger’s poems; Corneille’s Le Cid and
Horace; Coppée’s poems; Daudet’s La Belle-Nivemaise; La
Brète’s Mon Oncle et Mon Curé; Madame de Sévigné’s letters;
H ugo’s Hernani and La Chute; Labiche’s plays ; L oti’s Pêcheur
d’Islande; Mignet’s historical writings; Molière’s L ’Avare and
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme; Racine’s Athalie, Andromaque, and
Esther; George Sand’s plays and stories; Sandeau’s Mademoi
selle de la Seiglière; Scribe’s plays; Thierry’s Récits des temps
mérovingiens; Thiers’s L ’Expédition de Bonaparte en Egypte;
V ign y’s La Canne de jonc; Voltaire’s historical writings.
The second year’s work o f Advanced French should comprise
the reading o f from six hundred to one thousand pages of'
standard French, classical and modem, only difficult passages
being explained in the class; the writing of numerous short
themes in French; the study o f syntax.
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Suitable reading matter will be: Beaumarchais’s Barbier de
Séville; Corneille’s dramas; the elder Dumas’s prose writings;
the younger Dumas’s La Question d’argent; H ugo’s Buy Bias,
lyrics, and prose writings; La Fontaine’s fables; Lamartine’s
Graziella; Marivaux’s plays; Molière’s plays; Musset’s plays
and poems; Pellissier’s Mouvement littéraire au X IX e siècle;
Renan’s Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse; Rousseau’s writ
ings; Sainte-Beuve’s essays; Taine’s Origines de la France con
temporaine; Voltaire’s writings; selections from Zola, Maupas
sant, and Balzac.
7. E lementary German ( two units).
(a) During the first year the work should comprise: (1)
Careful drill upon pronunciation; (2) the memorizing and fre
quent repetition o f easy colloquial sentences ; (3) drill upon the
rudiments of grammar, that is, upon the inflection o f the articles,
o f such nouns as belong to the language of everyday life, of ad
jectives, pronouns, weak verbs, and the more usual strong verbs ;
also upon the use o f the more common prepositions, the simpler
uses o f the modal auxiliaries, and the elementary rules o f syntax
and word-order; (4) numerous easy exercises designed not only
to fix in mind the forms and principles o f grammar, but also to
cultivate readiness in the reproduction of natural forms of ex
pression; (5) the reading of from seventy-five to one hundred
pages o f graduated texts from a reader, with constant practice in
translating into German easy variations upon sentences selected
from the reading lesson and given by the teacher in English, and
in the reproduction from memory of sentences previously read.
( b ) During the second year the work should comprise: (1)
The reading o f from one hundred and fifty to two hundred pages
of literature in the form o f easy stories and plays; (2) accom
panying practice, as before, in the translation into German of
easy variations upon the matter read, and also in the unprepared
reproduction, sometimes oral and sometimes in writing, o f the
substance o f short and easy selected passages; (3) continued
drill upon the rudiments o f the grammar, directed to the ends
o f enabling the pupil, first, to use his knowledge with facility
in the formation o f sentences, and, secondly, to state his knowl
edge correctly in the technical language o f grammar.
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Stories suitable fo r the elementary course can be selected from
the following list: Andersen’s Maerchen and Bilderbuch ohne
Bilder; A rn old’s Fritz auf Ferien; Baumbach’s Die Nonna and
Der Schwiegersohn; Gerstaeeker’s Germeishausen; Heyse’s
L ’Arrabbiata, Das Maedchen von Treppi, and Anfang und Ende;
H illem ’s Hoeher als die Kirche; Jensen’s Die Braune Erica;
Leander’s Träumereien and Kleine Geschichten; Seidel’s Maerchen; Stoekl’s Unter dem Christbaum; Storm’s Immensee and
Geschichten aus der Tonne; Zschokke’s Der Zerbrochene Krug.
The reading o f long plays is not advisable for the elementary
course, but one short play is recommended. Among shorter
plays the best available ones are perhaps Benedix’s Der Prozess,
Der Wieberfeind, and Guenstige Vorzeichen; E iz’s E r ist nicht
Eifersuechtig; W ichert’s An der Majorsecke; Wilhelmi s Einer
Muss Heiraten. A good selection o f reading matter fo r the
second year would be Andersen’s Maerchen, or Bilderbuch, or
Leander’s Träumereien, to the extent of, say, forty pages. After
that such a story as Das Kalte Herz, or Der Zerbrochene Krug;
then Hoeher als die Kirche, or Immensee; next a good story by
Heyse, Baumbach, or Seidel; lastly, Der Prozess.
8. A dvanced German (two units).
(a) The work o f the third year should comprise, in addition
to the elementary course, the reading o f about four hundred
pages of moderately difficult prose and poetry, with constant
practice in giving orally and in writing paraphrases, abstracts,
or reproductions from memory of selected portions o f the mat
ter read; also grammatical drill upon the less usual strong
verbs, the use of articles, cases, auxiliaries of all kinds, tenses
and modes (with special reference to the infinitive and sub
junctive), and likewise upon word-order and word-formation.
Suitable reading for the third year can be selected from such
works as the following: Ebner-Eschenbach’s Die Freiherren von
Gemperlein; Freytag’s Die Journalisten and Bilder aus der
Deutschen Vergangenheit, for example, Karl der Grosse, Aus
den Kreuzzuegen, Doktor Luther, Aus dem Staat Friedrichs des
Grossen; Fouque’s Undine; Gerstaecker’s Irrfahrten; Goethe’s
Hermann und Dorothea and Iphigenie; H eine’s poems and
Reisebilder; Hoffm an’s Historische Erzaehlungen; Lessing’s
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Minna von Barnhelm; M eyer’s Gustav Adolf’s Page; Moser’s Der
Bibliothekar; Riehl’s Novellen, for example, Burg Neideck, Der
Fluch der Schoenheit, Der Stumme Batsherr, Das Spielmannskind; Rosegger’s Waldheimat; Schiller’s Der Neffe als Onkel,
Der Geisterseher, Wilhelm Tell, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Das
Lied von der Glocke, Badladen; Seheffel’s Der Trompeter von
Saeckingen; Uhland’s poems; W ildenbruch’s Das Edle Blut.
(b) The work of the fourth year should comprise the reading
o f about five hundred pages o f good literature in prose and
poetry, reference readings upon the lives and works of the great
writers studied, the writing in German of numerous short themes
upon assigned subjects, independent translation o f English into
German.
9. Greek ( three units).
(а) Elementary Greek. Grammar (Goodwin’s recommended);
Elementary Composition; Xenophon’s Anabasis, Book I.
(б ) Advanced Greek. Anabasis, Books II, III, I Y ; Iliad,
Books I, II, I I I ; Greek Prose Composition; Translation at sight.
[Students who offer Advanced Greek are expected to offer also
General History o f Greece to the death o f Alexander.]
10. E lementary L atin ( two units).
First Latin B ook; reading which shall not be less in amount
than Caesar's Gallic War, I-IV, and which may be selected from
Caesar ( Gallic War and Civil War) and Nepos (L ives) ; the writ
ing o f simple Latin prose.
11. A dvanced L atin (two units).
Reading which shall not be less in amount than Cicero, the
Orations against Catiline, for the Manilian Law and for Archias;
and Virgil, Aeneid, I-VI. This amount o f reading may be
selected from the follow ing: Cicero (Orations, Letters, and De
Senectue) and Sallust (Catiline and Jugurthine W a r ) ; Virgil
(Bucolics, Georgies, and Aeneid) and Ovid (Metamorphoses,
Fasti, and Tristia). W ith this reading there should be carried
on systematic and regular work in composition, involving a thor
ough knowledge o f all regular inflections, all common irregular
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forms, and the ordinary syntax and vocabulary of the prose
authors read.
Candidates should be examined in translation at sight of both
prose and verse. The vocabulary, construction, and range of
ideas o f the passages set will be suited to the preparation secured
by the reading indicated above. Exercises in translation at
sight should begin in school with the first lessons in which Latin
sentences o f any length occur, and should continue throughout
the course with sufficient frequency to insure correct methods of
work on the part o f the student. From the outset particular at
tention should be given to developing the ability to take in the
meaning of each word— and so, gradually, o f the whole sentence
— just as it stands; the sentence should be read and understood
in the order o f the original, with full appreciation of the force
o f each word as it comes, so far as this can be known or inferred
from that which has preceded and from the form and the posi
tion of the word itself. The habit of reading in this way should
be encouraged and cultivated as the best preparation for all the
translating that the student has to do. Finally, the full mean
ing of the passage to be translated should be expressed in clear
and natural English. The school work in Latin should include
also much reading aloud, writing from dictation, and translation
from the teacher’s reading. Learning suitable passages by heart
is also very useful, and should be practiced.
12. E lementary S cience (two units).
The equivalent o f a year’s course, five periods a week, in each
o f two branches o f science, each to comprise both classroom and
laboratory work. Time spent in the laboratory shall be counted
at one half its face value. A year’s course in any branch with
out laboratory work will count as only one half of a unit, and
four such courses will be necessary to meet the requirement in
Elementary Science. A selection may be made from the follow
ing list o f sciences:
P hysics.— The course o f instruction in physics should in
clude :
(1)
The study o f one standard textbook, for the purpose of
obtaining a connected and comprehensive view o f the subject.
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The student should be given opportunity and encouragement to
consult other scientific literature.
(2) Instruction by lecture table demonstrations,"to be used
mainly for illustration o f the facts and phenomena o f physics
in their qualitative aspects and in their practical applica
tions.
(3) Individual laboratory work consisting o f experiments re
quiring at least the time o f thirty double periods. The experi
ments performed by each student should number at least thirty.
The work should he so distributed as to give a wide range of
observation and practice.
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The aim o f laboratory work should be to supplement the pu
p il’s fund of concrete knowledge and to cultivate his power of
accurate observation and clearness o f thought and expression.
The exercises should he chosen with a view to furnishing forceful
illustrations of fundamental principles and their practical ap
plications. They should be such as yield results capable o f ready
interpretation, obviously in conformity with theory, and free
from the disguise of unintelligible units.
Slovenly work should not be tolerated, but the effort for pre
cision should not lead to the use o f apparatus or processes so
complicated as to obscure the principle involved.
Throughout the whole course special attention should be paid
to the common illustrations o f physical laws and to their in
dustrial applications.
In the solution of numerical problems, the student should
be encouraged to make use o f the simple principles o f algebra
and geometry to reduce the difficulties of solution. Unneces
sary mathematical difficulties should be avoided and care should
be exercised to prevent the student from losing sight of the con
crete facts in the manipulation o f symbols.
Chemistry .— It is recommended that the candidate’s prepara
tion in chemistry should include :
(1) Individual laboratory work, comprising at least forty
exercises selected from a list o f sixty or more, not very differ
ent from the list given by the College Entrance Examination
Board.
(2) Instruction by lecture-table demonstrations, to be used
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mainly as a basis for questioning upon the general principles in
volved in the p u p il’s laboratory investigations.
(3)
The study o f at least one standard textbook, to the end
ulty members appointed annually by the President of the Colo f the most important facts and laws o f elementary chemistry.
B otany .— The work in this subject should include those topics
in the leading divisions o f the subject which are now regarded
by most teachers as fundamental. The general sequence of top
ics is that recommended by the College Entrance Examination
Board, but this point is not regarded as especially important,
and the sequence, the' methods, and the textbooks are left to the
judgment of the individual teacher.
The amount o f work in this course is designed to occupy a
year o f five periods a week. Where special circumstances, such
as exceptional difficulty in obtaining material, etc., prevent the
completion of the entire amount, it is recommended as better to
omit some o f the minor topics here and there and concentrate on
the more important topics than to attempt to cover them all super
ficially.
Individual laboratory work by the students is essential and
should receive at least double the amount of time given to recita
tion. Records o f the laboratory work, properly certified by the
teacher, in which stress is laid upon diagrammatically accurate
drawing and precise, expressive description should be required.
P hysical Geography.— The candidate’s preparation should in
clude :
(1 ) The study o f one of the leading secondary textbooks in
physical geography, that a knowledge may be gained of the prin
ciples, and o f well-selected facts illustrating those principles.
(2) Individual laboratory work, comprising at least forty exer
cises selected from a list not very different from the one given
by the College Entrance Examination Board. From one third
to one half o f the candidate’s classroom work should be devoted
to laboratory exercises. In the autumn and spring, field trips
should take the place o f laboratory exercises.
Z oology.— The requirement in this subject is based upon the
statement o f a committee appointed by the American Society of
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Zoologists. The outline o f a course in general zoology is con
tained in the publications o f the College Entrance Examination
Board. The outline should be developed on the basis o f a course
o f laboratory study guided by definite directions. This should
be supplemented by the careful reading o f at least one modem
elementary textbook in general zoology. A t least two thirds of
the time should be devoted to the practical studies o f the labora
tory. I f good nature-studies have not preceded the course in
high-school zoology, pupils should be encouraged to do supple
mentary work in the line o f natural history. A notebook in
cluding drawings o f the chief structures studied anatomically,
and also those drawings required in natural history, with notes
on demonstrations and in explanation o f drawings, should be
required.
13. S olid Geometry (one half o f a unit).
The theorems and constructions in a good modem text, includ
ing the sphere and spherical figures. Solution o f many original
exercises, loci problems, and numerical examples.
No entrance credit in solid geometry will be allowed to a stu
dent who has spent less than one half year, o f four or five reci
tations a week, in its preparation.
14. T rigonometry (one half o f a unit).
The trigonometric ratios; solution o f trigonometric equations;
reduction of trigonometric identities; multiple angles; theory
and use o f logarithms and tables; solution o f triangles.
No entrance credit in trigonometry will be granted to a stu
dent who has spent less than one half year, five recitations a
week, in its preparation.
AD V A N C E D STANDING
No student is admitted to advanced standing later than the
beginning o f the senior year. Students entering from other
colleges must complete at least one full year’s work at Swarthmore College in fulfillment o f the requirements for the degree of
Bachelor o f Arts. Students who come from other colleges must
present full credentials for both college and preparatory work,
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and a letter of honorable dismissal. I f the credentials are satis
factory to the Committee on Admission, the candidate will he
given, without examination, an equivalent amount of credit upon
the records o f the College. A ll applicants for advanced stand
ing for work done in other than approved colleges or universities
will be admitted to such standing only by examination. Ex
aminations for such credit shall cover the full equivalent o f cor
responding courses at Swarthmore College. Application for
advanced standing should be made in writing to the Dean. Ex
aminations will be held only at the College.
R E Q U IR E M E N T S F O R G R A D U A T IO N
T H E GENERAL UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OF STUDY
The degree of Bachelor o f Arts is conferred upon those who
complete the undergraduate course as outlined below. This
course is based upon uniform requirements for admission, and
upon certain studies which are prescribed for all matriculates.
In addition to securing this fundamental uniformity, it provides
for the varied needs and capacities o f individuals by permitting
a wide range o f election on the part of the student or his ad
viser; and it seeks, also, to provide a thorough training, extend
ing over three or four years, in some one department of study.
The requirement o f a thesis from a candidate for the Bachelor’s
degree is left to the option o f the head o f the department in
which the m ajor is taken.
Candidates fo r graduation in the Department o f Liberal Arts
are required to complete one hundred and twenty-four “ hours”
in addition to the prescribed work in physical education. For
the number o f hours required for graduation in the Departments
o f Engineering and in the Department o f Chemistry, see the
courses o f study outlined under the various departments. The
foregoing are minimum requirements. Students may he re
quired to complete additional “ hours” for graduation as penal
ties for absences from collection or from classroom, laboratory, or
other college exercises. A n “ hour” signifies one recitation or
lecture (or its equivalent) a week throughout one college semes
ter. A recitation or lecture is regularly fifty-five minutes long,
and the preparation o f the student is estimated at an average
o f two hours fo r each class exercise. In the Departments of
Engineering, Biology, and Chemistry a laboratory period is
three hours in length. In other departments, where additional
work is required outside o f the laboratory, the laboratory period
is two hours in length. It is designed to make the laboratory
exercise, as nearly as possible, equivalent in its demands to the
hour defined above.
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The prescribed number o f hours fo r students majoring in
the Departments o f Liberal Arts is seventeen fo r each semester
o f the freshman year and fifteen fo r each semester o f the sopho
more, junior, and senior years. The prescribed number o f hours
fo r students majoring in Engineering ranges from fifteen to
twenty for each semester.
A n average quality grade shall be required for graduation, and
fo r the purpose o f determining this quality grade, numerical
values called “ points,” shall be given to the grade letters, as
follows: for grade A , three points for each semester hour of
course in which the grade is received; fo r grade B, two
points; for grade C, one point; fo r grade D, no point. The
grade D is sufficient to pass a course, but does not count any
“ point.”
In accordance with this valuation the requirements in “ points”
for graduation o f all students, both those in arts and in applied
science, is one hundred and twenty-four. This is a requirement
for Arts students o f an average grade o f C. In other words, Arts
students are required for graduation to present one hundred and
twenty-four hours o f credit and one hundred and twenty-four
“ points.”
Students in applied science will be required for
graduation to present the number o f hours o f credit now pre
scribed (ranging from one hundred and thirty-two to one
hundred and fifty-one) and one hundred and twenty-four
“ points.”
Students are not allowed to carry more nor less than the
prescribed amount o f work except in special cases approved by
the Committee on Prescribed and Extra Work. Students often
find it difficult, however, to make out a course o f study fo r the
exact number o f hours, and for this reason a variation o f one
hour more or less than the prescribed number o f hours may be
allowed by the course adviser. In such cases the endorsement
o f the course adviser must be secured in writing on the Enroll
ment Card.
Students desiring to carry more than one hour in excess of
the prescribed number or more than one hour below the pre
scribed number must make application to the Committee on
Prescribed and Extra W ork on a regular form provided fo r the
purpose by the Dean. No student whose marks have fallen be
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low C in any subject or below B in more than one department
during the preceding semester shall be permitted to enroll for
more than one hour in excess o f the prescribed number. For
students entering from other schools or colleges, these grades shall
be determined from their entrance certificates. No application
o f a student to enroll for more or less than the prescribed num
ber o f hours shall be considered by the committee unless accom
panied by the written endorsement o f the course adviser.
I.
Prescribed Studies.— These studies must be taken by all
students who are candidates for graduation, unless for special
reasons permission to substitute some other work is obtained
from the proper faculty committee. The whole of the first
year is devoted to five of the prescribed studies with one
elective.
The time and order in which the remaining studies are taken
may vary according to the requirements o f each department.
The prescribed work, amounting to forty-three hours, exclusive
o f the Physical Education, includes the following studies :
Group 1. English.— Ten hours, four of which must be taken
in English Composition, and six in English Literature.
Group 2. Greek, Latin, French, German.— Twelve hours in any
one of these languages, or six hours in each o f two.
Group 3. Bible Study, History, Economics, Political Science.—
Nine hours, three of which must be taken in Bible Study, and
six in one of the following departments: History, Philosophy,
Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Education.
Group 4. Biology, Chemistry, Physics.— Six hours, to be taken
in any one o f the three departments, and to include at least one
credit-hour of laboratory work throughout a year.
Group 5. Mathematics, Astronomy.— Six hours, to be taken in
either one o f the two studies.
Group 6. Physical Education.-—For the prescribed amount of
work in this department, see the statements under the Depart
ment of Physical Education.
Students who fail in the required courses of the freshman
year should enroll in these courses during the, sophomore year.
No deviation from this rule will be allowed except on the written
endorsement of the course adviser, and after notification to the
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professor in charge o f the subject in which the student
failed.
A ll prescribed studies must be completed or in actual process
of completion at the beginning o f the senior year except in cases
where such prescribed work is not offered until the second semes
ter of the senior year.
No substitution o f elective for prescribed work where more
than one semester is involved shall be permitted after the be
ginning o f the senior year, nor in any case after the beginning
o f the second semester o f the senior year.
Application for permission to substitute an elective fo r a pre
scribed study must be made to the Committee on Prescribed and
Extra W ork on a regular form provided by the Dean for the
purpose.
II. Major Subject.— Every candidate for graduation is re
quired to select the work o f some one department as his major.
In most cases the selection may well be postponed until the be
ginning of the second year. In the department thus chosen.the
student must complete eighteen hours as a minimum (the pre
scribed work done in the m ajor study to be included in this
minimum), and the professor in charge may, at his option, de
termine the work o f thirty-six hours, provided six hours shall
not be in his own department. I f the major study is one o f the
languages, at least six hours o f the prescribed work must be
taken in another language. No matter how much credit may
have been given on entrance, no student is allowed to graduate
who has not been enrolled as a student o f Swarthmore College
at least one year and who has not had in the College at least
one year’s work in his major.
I f the m ajor study is changed from any branch of Engineer
ing to a department in arts, the number o f credit hours then
on record will be adjusted to the basis o f 124 hours.
III. Elective Studies.— The remaining work required for grad
uation may be elected from any department or departments of
the College.
The following subjects are open to election, in so far as the
exigencies o f the college programme will permit:
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Anthropology,
Art,
Astronomy,
Bible Study,
Biology,
Botany,
Chemistry,
Economics,
Education,
Engineering,
English,
French,
Geology,
German,
Greek,
History,
History o f Religion,
Latin,
Law,
Mathematics,
Philosophy,
Physics,
Political Science,
Psychology,
Public Speaking,
Spanish,
Zoology.
U N IFORM CU RRICU LU M FOR T H E F R E S H M A N Y EA R IN T H E COURSES
IN ARTS
FRESHMAN YEAR
First Semester
See
Page
Class
Lab’y
2
8
8
85
146
Hours per Week
Credits
__
__
__
3
2
3
3
- _
v—
8
3
«—
or
8
2
149
17
13
Second Semester
84
85
144
2
3
3
_
_
__
3
2
3
3
or
146
2
_
_
_
13
—
3
149
Totals.....................
3
3
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T H E COURSES OF STU DY IN APPLIED SCIENCE
The degree o f Bachelor of Arts in the Departments of Mechan
ical, Civil, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering, and in the
Department o f Chemistry, is conferred upon those students who
complete the prescribed work as outlined under the various de
partments above named.
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IRREGULAR COURSES OP STU DY
Irregular courses o f study, not including in due proportion
the prescribed m ajor and ■elective studies, may be pursued by
students who have been regularly admitted to the College by
examination or by certificate only in special cases and by ap
proval of the Faculty Committee on Prescribed and Extra Work.
U N IFO R M CU RRICU LU M FOR T H E F R E S H M A N A N D SOPHOMORE
Y EA R S IN APPLIED SCIENCE
The curriculum for the first and second years o f the fouryears’ courses leading to degrees in the Departments o f Mechan
ical, Civil, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering is the same in
every respect. Students in Chemistry, for the first and second
years, follow the same courses as given below except that women
students are required to take certain electives instead o f the pre
scribed courses, where specified.
FRESHMAN YEAR
First Semester
Hours per Week
See
Page
138
144
144
84
85
122
136
149
Class
Lab’y
Shop 203*..............................
6
3
3
2
3
2
2
3
3
6
2
3
3
2
15
18
6
3
6
2
3
2
2
3
3
2
15
17
2
15
Credits
Second Semester
138
144
144
84
85
122
137
149
Shop 203 and 204*..
Mathematics 253..
Mathematics 252..
English 1 ................
English 4 ..............
Chemistry 171.......
Drawing 192..........
Physical Education.
Pattern-making and Foundry
Trigonometry.......................
Algebra..................................
Composition..........................
Genera] Introduction...........
General Inorganic...............
Engineering............................
3
2
2
3
2
—
—
-
—
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2
Totals
14
Women majoring in Chemistry may substitute an elective for Shop Work and Drawing.
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SOPHOMORE YEAR
First Semester
See
Page
137
138
145
122
71
148
138
149
Hours per Week
Lab’y
Credits
—
3
1
3
2
2
.2
6
6
—
6
—
2
'—
—
2
2
3
3
3
3
2
—
13
20
18
6
6
2
2
3
3
3
3
Class
Drawing 193*........................
Shop 204, 205 and 206’ .......
Mathematics 254..................
Chemistry 172......................
Descriptive Geometry.........
Forge work and Machine work
Analytical Geometry............
Qualitative Analysis.............
Mechanical Engineering 213
Materials of Construction...
Totals.................
Second Semester
___ ■
Shop 206*..............................
139
3
1
3
2
6
—
2
Civil Engineering 223 or
2
—
2
1
—
11
24
19
_
149
—
Physical Education..............
Totals.....................
4
—
• Women majoring in Chemistry may substitute electives for Drawing, Shop, and Surveying,
t The courses to be followed in. Group 2 are determined by the student’s previous training
in these languages.
COURSE A D V ISE R S
A ll students are expected to confer with, their respective
course advisers before enrolling in classes. The professor in
charge o f the m ajor subject will serve as course adviser for
each student who has chosen a major subject. The President
will designate the course adviser fo r students who have not chosen
their m ajor subjects.
E X T R A W O R K DONE OUTSIDE OP CLASSES
No student will be granted credit for work in excess of that
regularly listed on the Enrollment Card unless permission to do
so is granted by the Committee on Prescribed and Extra W ork
at the written request o f the course adviser. A ll students ex
cept those desiring credit for intercollegiate debating must gain
permission o f the Committee on Prescribed and Extra W ork
before the work is entered upon.
REM O VAL OP CONDITIONS
Members o f the graduating class must make up all outstanding
conditions and deficiencies by the end of the first semester of
the senior year, and no student whose record is not then clear
shall be considered a candidate for graduation in that year.
A ll conditions must be made up in the semester immediately
following that in which the work reported as conditioned was
done, and as early in the semester as possible; except that by
special permission o f the professor concerned the time for mak
ing up the condition may be extended to the second semester
following in case (1) the course for which the condition was
imposed is not repeated until said second semester, and (2) it is
considered necessary by the professor that the student should
make up part or all o f the class or laboratory work involved at
the time the course is repeated. A ny condition not made up
within a year from the time it is imposed shall thereafter have
the effect upon the records o f an “ E, ” i. e., complete failure,
which cannot be made up.
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SYSTEM OF GRADES
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SYSTEM OF GRADES
Reports of students’ work are received at the Dean’s office
four times a year; at the end o f each semester and at each mid
semester. A ll grades are mailed to parents at the end o f each
semester, and are also given out to students at each mid-semester
and the end of the first semester.
The following system of marking is used by instructors: A
(excellent, 100-90 per cent.) ; B (good, 89-80 per ce n t.); C
(fair, 79-70 per ce n t.); D (poor, 69-60 per ce n t.); E (fa ile d );
W (w ithdraw n); Cond. (Conditioned).
The mark “ conditioned” shall be reported for only two rea
sons: (1) for unsatisfactory work in a semester course in which
the condition may be removed by doing satisfactory work either
in another semester course which involves the subject-matter of
the first course or in the second semester of a year’s course; (2)
when the work o f a course is incomplete; that is, when the work
done in the course is satisfactory with the exception o f a small,
definite part of i t ; for example, the writing o f a theme, the read
ing o f an assignment, or the taking of a final examination. The
mark “ conditioned” shall not be given to a student whose work
in a course has been below the passing grade. Such a student
shall be reported “ E ” (failed).
When the reports o f grades are filed at the Dean’s office, the
exact character o f the conditions imposed will be defined, and
the nature o f the work required to remove conditions reported
in writing. The students will then be notified by the Dean of the
terms of the conditions.
An average quality grade shall be required for graduation,
and for the purpose o f determining this quality grade easily,
numerical values, to be called “ points,” shall be given to the
grade letters, as follows: for grade A, three points for each
semester-hour o f course in which the grade is received; for grade
B, two points; for grade C, one poin t; fo r grade D, no point.
The grade D is sufficient to pass a course, but does not count any
“ point.”
In accordance with this valuation the requirements in “ points”
for graduation o f all students, both those in arts and in applied
science, is one hundred and twenty-four. This is a requirement
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for Arts students o f an average grade o f C. In other words,
Arts students are required for graduation to present one hun
dred and twenty-four hours o f credit and one hundred and
twenty-four “ points.” A ll other students (students in applied
science) will be required fo r graduation to present the number
o f hours o f credit now prescribed (ranging from one hundred
and thirty-two to one hundred and fifty-one) and one hundred
and twenty-four “ points.”
The above requirement went into effect beginning with the
class entering in 1913 (class o f 1917); for the class o f 1916, be
ginning with the year 1913-14, an average grade o f C shall be
required o f all Arts students fo r graduation, and in the case of
all other students (students in applied science)' whose courses
are regular, ninety “ points” shall be required for graduation.
E X E M PTIO N FROM E X AM IN ATIO N S
No underclassmen shall be exempted from semester final ex
aminations ; seniors with grades o f A shall be exempt in the final
examinations o f the second semester.
ABSEN CES FROM E X A M IN A TIO N
Students who are absent from any examination, announce
ment o f which was made in advance o f the date o f the examina
tion, shall be given a make-up examination only after presenta
tion by the student to the instructor in charge o f the course (1)
o f a certificate from the Committee on Absences that the student
has submitted a written statement satisfactorily explaining the
causes making the absences from examination imperatively neces
sary, and (2) o f a receipt from the office o f the superintendent
for a fee o f $2 which shall be paid by the student in the case o f
every such make-up examination, except when remitted by the
President o f the College.
ABSEN CES FROM CLASSES
Each instructor shall make on the form provided fo r the pur
pose daily reports o f student absences to the office o f the Dean.
A ll powers o f supervision and discipline over student absences
ABSENCES FKOM CLASSES
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are vested in a Committee on Absences to be composed o f the
Dean, The Dean o f Women, both ex officio, and three other fac
ulty members appointed annually by the President o f the Col
lege, who shall designate the Chairman of the Committee from
among its members.
In dealing with all student absences the Committee on A b
sences shall classify them either (a) as allowable absences, or (b)
as disallowed absences. Allowable absences are absences which
in the opinion o f the Committee on Absences are incurred for
sufficient cause. B y sufficient cause is meant any grounds for
absence which would justify failure to keep a stated business
appointment; provided, however, that no absence shall be con
sidered allowable by the Committee on Absences unless a writ
ten explanation o f it is made by the student taking it on a form
provided for this purpose at the Dean’s office. Such explana
tion must be made by the student in advance o f the absence, or,
if this be impossible, at the earliest practicable time thereafter.
In case the absence is not reported in advance the student shall
be required to state fu lly on the form referred to above the rea
sons for his delay in reporting it. Failure to explain absences
promptly and adequately shall be sufficient ground for classify
ing them as disallowed.
A ll absences not coming under the definition of allowable ab
sence shall be considered disallowed absences subject to discipline.
In the exercise o f their powers o f discipline over absences o f the
latter character the Committee on Absences may warn students,
parents, or guardian; may place students on probation and fix
the terms o f said probation; and may require students to make
hours o f credit for graduation in addition to the requirements
as stated in the Catalogue; provided, however, that such credit
penalties shall not exceed the ratio o f the number o f absences to
the number o f hours o f attendance required to make one hour
of credit, and, provided further, that, in the case o f students who
reach the end o f the first semester o f their senior year with a
penalty o f less than one full hour o f credit imposed under this
section, said penalty may be removed by the Committee on A b
sences.
F or each disallowed absence on days beginning or ending the
Thanksgiving, Christmas and spring recesses, or ending the sum
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mer vacation, students shall be required to make one half hour
o f credit for graduation in addition to the requirements as stated
in the Catalogue. Absences penalized under this section shall
not be subject to discipline provided under other sections o f these
rules.
Students shall have the right to a hearing before the Commit
tee on Absences in cases involving the imposition o f credit penal
ties by the Committee, and the right to petition the Faculty in
cases where, after such hearing has been given, they are dissatis
fied with the decision o f the Committee. In all questions involv
ing the number o f a student’s absences the reports of Instructors
shall be considered authoritative.
D EGREES
BACHELOR OP ARTS
The degree o f Bachelor of Arts is conferred upon students
who have complied with the requirements for graduation as
stated on pages 69 to 75.
,
M ASTER OP ARTS *
1. The degree o f Master o f Arts may be conferred upon
graduates o f Swarthmore College or o f other institutions of
satisfactory standing who have spent at least a year in residence
at this College, pursuing a systematic course of non-professional
study approved by the faculty. The amount o f work required
o f candidates for the Master’s degree consists o f the equivalent of
thirty credit hours in courses o f instruction o f advanced grade,
o f which at least twenty hours shall be in a major subject and
the remainder in a minor subject to be approved by the professor
in charge o f the m ajor subject. A ll candidates must have com
pleted the work o f the m ajor subject in the undergraduate course
as stated on page 72, before entering upon graduate work. No
work counted for the first degree will he accepted for the second
degree. In no case will the Master’s degree be conferred upon
resident students in less than one year after the conferring of
the Bachelor’s degree. It must he understood, however, that
only students o f ability and maturity will be able to finish the
work in one year. No person will be recommended for the Mas
ter’s degree who shall not have attained a grade o f A or B on
examination in each subject.
2. The degree may be conferred upon graduates o f Swarth
more College who have devoted one year to graduate work in
residence at another college or university, and who have fulfilled
the requirements indicated in the preceding section.
3. The degree may be conferred upon graduates o f Swarth
more College not in residence at any college or university, who
* Candidates holding the degree of Bachelor of Science, who have fulfilled all the
requirements prescribed for the degree of Master of Arts, may at their option receive
the degree of Master o f Science.
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have completed, a course o f non-professional advanced study ap
proved by the faculty, substantially equivalent in kind, grade,
and amount to that prescribed for the resident candidates for
that degree. Courses o f study will be assigned to candidates
upon an application to the faculty, in which they state the sub
jects they desire to pursue.
All candidates in absentia must register (by correspondence,
if necessary) at the beginning o f each college year, and make
reports to the faculty at the end o f each semester.
Each candidate fo r the Master’s degree must prepare a satis
factory thesis on a subject assigned by the professor in charge
o f the major subject, and must pass a final oral examination
before a committee of the faculty composed o f the professors in
charge o f the m ajor and minor subjects respectively, and three
other members o f the faculty appointed by the President of the
College. A majority vote o f this committee is required for
favorable recommendation to the faculty. This examination will
be held only when notification of the intention to appear for
examination is given to the Dean on or before the first of April
o f the year in which the candidate desires to receive the degree.
The thesis must be presented on or before May 25th o f the
year in which the candidate desires to receive the degree, and
a bound copy of the thesis must be deposited in the college library
by July following.
Every resident candidate .shall pay the regular tuition for each
year o f residence and a diploma fee o f $5. Every non-resident
candidate shall pay a registration fee o f $5 and an additional
fee o f $20 when the degree is conferred.
A D V A N C E D D EG R E E S IN ENGINEERING
The advanced degrees o f Mechanical Engineer (M .E .), Elec
trical Engineer (E .E .), and Civil Engineer (C .E .), may be ob
tained by graduates who have received their Bachelor’s degree
in engineering upon the fulfilling o f the requirements given be
low :
1. The candidate must have been connected with practical
engineering work for three years since receiving his first degree.
2. He must have had charge o f engineering work and must be
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in a position o f responsibility and trust ant the time o f applica
tion.
3. He must make application and submit an outline o f the
thesis he expects to present, one full year before the advanced
degree is to be conferred. A fter this application is made he
will receive an outlined course o f study to pursue during the
year.
4. The thesis must be submitted for approval, and satisfactory
evidence given that the reading requirement has been met one
calendar month before the time o f granting the degree.
5. Every candidate shall pay a registration fee o f $5 and an
additional fee o f $20 when the degree is conferred.
D EPARTM EN TS AND COURSES OP INSTRUCTION
English
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Harold Clarke Goddard * and Assistant Professor Roy
Bennett Pace. Maud Bassett Gorham, Clara M. Hogue, Walter
H. Trumbauer, and Priscilla Goodwyn Griffin are Instructors.
The purpose o f the work in English is to impart the ability
to write clear, forceful, idiomatic English, and to arouse and
foster love o f good literature. A special effort is made to keep
in view, at all times, the application of the works studied to the
life and problems o f the present day.
The requirements and electives in Composition may be seen
below. O f the courses in English Literature, Course 4 fulfills the
prescription in English Literature, and is a prerequisite to all
other courses in English; Courses 8, 10, 11, and 12 are open
to all students who have completed Course 4 ; Courses 6, 7, 9,
and 13 are open to all students who have completed six addi
tional hours elected from Courses 8, 10, 11, and 12, and also
with the consent o f the instructor, to Juniors and Seniors whose
m ajor subject is not English; Course 5 is similarly open to stu
dents who have completed the six additional hours elected from
Courses 8, 10, 11, and 12, and also, with the consent o f the in
structor, to Juniors and Seniors whose major subject is another
language; Courses 14, 15, and 16 are open only as stated under
the courses. In certain cases a more advanced course and its pre
requisite may, with the permission o f the professor in charge of
the department, be taken together.
I. Composition. Assistant Professor Pace, Miss Gorham, Mis3 Hogue, Mr.
Trumbauer, and Mrs. Griffin.
Two hours a week throughout the yea/r. Offered annually.
Prescribed, in the Freshman year, for all candidates for graduation. Short ‘ and
long themes and regular conferences throughout the year, together with assigned
collateral reading.
2. (a) Elementary Journalism.
Assistant Professor Pace.
Two hours a week during the first semester. Offered in 1915-16.
Elective for all students who have passed in Course 1. A study is made of rep
resentative daily and weekly journals, and all writing is along journalistic lines.
* Professor Goddard is absent on leave during 1915-16.
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DEPARTMENTS AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
2. (&) Second Year Composition.
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Mrs. Griffin.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Prerequisite, Course 1. This course continues, along more advanced lines, the work
of the Freshman year, emphasis being placed upon expository writing.
3. Narrative Writing.
Miss Hogue.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Open only to those who have attained a grade of A or B in Course 1, 2 (a ), or
2 (&). The chief emphasis o f this course is on the short story; the analysis of its
structure and practice in writing it. In the second semester some time is devoted
to the writing of one-act plays.
E N G LISH LAN GU AGE AND LITERATURE
4. General Introduction to English Literature.
Mr. Trumbauer, and Mrs. Griffin.
Miss Gorham, Miss Hogue,
Three hours a w eek throughout the year. Offered annually.
The first semester of Course 4 is devoted, in the main, to a study of various
literary types. Representative examples of lyric and narrative poetry, of the drama,
novel, and essay are discussed and criticised in the classroom. _ Lectures upon
versification and a few of the fundamental principles of literary criticism. The second
semester is given to a rapid survey of the history o f English literature from the
Anglo-Saxon to the Victorian period. A large amount o f collateral reading and fre
quent written reports are required during both semesters.
Course 4 is prescribed, in the Freshman year, for all candidates for graduation,
and is prerequisite to all other courses in English.
5. Anglo-Saxon.
Assistant Professor Pace.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
The work of the first semester is based on Bright’s Anglo-Saxon Reader. During
the second semester Beowulf and one other poem are read. Lectures on phonology,
and a general survey o f the Anglo-Saxon period. Beowulf in particular is studied
as a monument not only of the language but also of early English life.
Except with the consent of the instructor, Course 5 must be continued throughout
the year.
6 . Chaucer.
Miss Gorham.
Three hours a w eek throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
After an introductory study o f Middle English grammar and phonology, Course 6
is devoted to a careful reading of a number of the Canterbury Tales, several of the
Minor Poems, and the Troilus and Criseyde. Brief selections are read from the
works d¥ Langland and other writers of the period.
Course 6 must be continued throughout the year.
7. The English Drama,
Mr. Trumbauer.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Course 7 deals with a selected period or aspect of the English drama. Subject for
1915-16: The Elizabethan Drama, exclusive of Shakspere.
Course 7 must be continued throughout the year.
8 . Shakspere.
Assistant Professor Pace.
Three hours a week throughout thef year. Offered annually.
A critical study of several selected plays of Shakspere and more rapid reading of the
rest of his works.
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9. Prose Pietion.
Assistant Professor Pace.
Three hours a week during the second semester.
The object o f Course 9 is twofold: to trace the development of the art of fiction,
and to study the novel as a criticism o f life. Careful study of a number of representa
tive novels and more rapid reading o f others.
10. English Poetry.
Miss Hogue.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
The work o f this course is devoted to the English poets of a selected period, the
emphasis being placed on the interpretation o f individual masterpieces rather than on
the study of literary movements. Subject for 1915-1916: English Poetry of the Nine
teenth Century. .
Course 10 may be taken as a whole or by semesters.
11. English Prose.
Miss Gorham.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
The purpose o f Course 11 is to present the development of English thought and of
the social, political, and ethical ideals o f the English people, as embodied in the prose
literature o f a Sleeted period.
Subject for 1915-16: The Eighteenth Century.
Course 11, except by special permission, must be continued throughout the year.
32. American Literature.
Assistant Professor Pace.
Three hours a w eek throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
A survey o f the history o f American literature, emphasis being placed upon the
nineteenth century and upon leading writers.
13. The Principles o f Literary Criticism.
Professor Goddard.
Three hours a week during the second semeter. Offered in 1916-17.
Course 13 is designed to give some acquaintance with the principles underlying
the criticism and interpretation o f literature and art.
14. Special Topics.
Professor Goddard.
Three hours a week during the second semester. Offered in 1916-17.
The purpose of Course 14 is to cover periods and topics not fully treated in the
other courses of the department, and to offer, also, opportunity for the detailed study
o f selected authors.
Course 14 is conducted on the seminary plan and is intended primarily for Seniors
majoring in English; it is open to others only by special permission.
15. Teachers ’ Course in English.
Assistant Professor Pace.
Two hour8 a week during the first semester. Offered in 1916-17.
In this course a study is made of methods o f teaching (a ) composition in secondary
schools, and (5 ) selected works from the lists of college entrance requirements/
Open to Juniors and Seniors majoring in English.
16. Linguistics.
Assistant Professor Pace.
One hour a week throughout the year.
Offered in 1915-16.
The Philadelphia libraries o f particular value in connection
with work in the department o f English are the following: the
Library o f the University o f Pennsylvania; the Philadelphia
Library; the Mercantile Library; the Free Library o f Phila
delphia.
DEPARTMENTS AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
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French and Spanish
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Isabelle Bronk. Marion Peirce and Anette S. Plass
are Instructors and Jean H. "Walker is Assistant.
The courses of study in French are designed to afford a high
degree of literary culture, as well as to impart thorough train
ing in the grammar and linguistics of the language. Until the
middle o f the second year, the authors studied are all selected
from those o f modern times, and the greatest attention is given
to colloquial French. The student is then ready to be brought
into contact with the more artificial (rhetorical) forms o f ex
pression constantly occurring in the higher grades o f literature.
The fact that French is a living tongue is kept ever in view.
For this reason but little English is used in the classroom. Free
composition, dictation, memorizing, and conversation are required
throughout the courses. Much attention is given to pronuncia
tion, and the relations o f modern French to classical, popular,
and low Latin are brought often before the students.
The course in Spanish is arranged with a view to giving, as
far as possible, a practical knowledge o f this language, and also
some idea o f the modem literature of Spain.
From eleven to fourteen courses in French are given each year.
The Class in Course 21 is divided into four sections, the classes
in Courses 22 and 23 into three each.
Students who are prepared in Elementary French (see page
59) enter Course 22; those who are prepared in Advanced
French (see page 60) enter Courses 24 and 26.
Students who elect French as a m ajor study are required to
complete the work o f five full years, or thirty “ hours,” and to
take either Course 31 or Course 36.
The first semester’s work in Elementary French and Element
ary Spanish will not be accepted toward a degree unless followed
by the work o f the second semester in the same language.
Some of the lists o f works studied, as given below, are subject
to a slight modification.
21. Elementary French.
Mrs. Plass.
Professor Bronk, Miss Peirce, Miss Walker, and
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
This course is intended for those who begin French in college. Its aim is to
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enable the student to read ordinary French with ease, to understand to some extent
the language when spoken, and to form simple sentences, both oral and written.
Thieme and Effinger, French Grammar. Beginner’s Reader, followed by narrative
prose (Daudet’s easier short stories, Mérimée, Colomba, or George Sand, La Mare au
diable) and by a modern play.
Open to all students.
22. Beading o f Nineteenth Century Prose, Grammar, and Composition.
fessor Bronk, Miss Peirce, and Mrs. Plass.
P ro
Three hours a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
This course is designed to supplement and extend Course 21. Prose composition
and drill upon the essential principles of the grammar are continued; much attention
is given to idioms and synonyms; the reading becomes more rapid; and French is
made almost exclusively the language of the classroom. A survey is also taken of
the different literary movements which prevailed in France during the nineteenth
century, and o f their causes and effects.
Prose composition. Prose selected from the writings of Balzac, Bazin, Claretie (Vol.
V I, Magill’s series), Coppée, Erckmann-Chatrian, France (V ol. I l l , Magill’s series),
Hugo, Maupassant, Zola, or others.
Prerequisite, Course 21.
23. Beading o f Dramatic Masterpieces, Grammar, and Composition.
sor Bronk, Miss Peirce, and Mrs. Plass.
Profes
Three hours a week during the second semester. Offered annually.
The work in grammar and prose compostion is a continuation of that in Course 22.
The structure of the classical and romantic tragedy is studied, as well as comedy
in the hands of Molière. Upon the completion of Course 23, students should possess
an accurate reading knowledge o f French, the ability to use the language as a means
of oral and written expression, and an acquaintance with the more important modern,
as well as a few classic authors.
Prose composition. Corneille (one play), Racine (part of one play), Hugo, Ruy
Bias or Sernani, Molière, L e Bourgeois gentilhomme.
Prerequisite, Course 22.
24. Seventeenth Century History and Literature.
Professor Bronk.
Two hours a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
This course is conducted mainly in French. Particular attention is given to the
social as well as to the literary tendencies o f the time, and the students present
reports upon pertinent topics, as well as abstracts of the works read.
Lectures on the history and society o f the seventeenth century. Corneille, L e Cid;
Molière, L es Précieuses ridicules; Racine, Athalie; La Fontaine, Fables (ed. Hachette)’.
Prerequisite, Course 23.
25. Eighteenth Century Literature.
Professor Bronk.
Two hours a week during the second semester. Offered annually.
This course is conducted in French.
The history of the eighteenth century is
studied to some extent, and its literary characteristics are compared with those of
the seventeenth and nineteenth. Reading, reports, and abstracts.
Voltaire’ s Prose (extracts, edited by Cohn and W oodward) ; Beaumarchais, Le
Mariage de Figaro; selections from Buffon, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, etc.
Prerequisite, Course 24.
26. Advanced Prose Composition.
Miss Peirce.
Two hours a week during the year. Offered annually.
This course is conducted mainly in French. The work is based upon selected
texts, and drill is also given in the writing of French themes and letters.
Prerequisite, Course 23.
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27. Seventeenth Century Prose.
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Miss Peiree.
Two hours a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
This course is conducted in French. Informal lectures are given and these are
accompanied by discussions of the works studied, by collateral reading, and by reports.
Selections from Pascal, L es Provinciales and P en sées; from La Rochefoucauld,
Maximes; from Bossuet, Oraisons fu nèbres; from Madame de Sévigné, L ettres; and
from La Bruyère, Les Caractères.
Prerequisites, Courses 24, 25, and 26.
28. Literary Criticism.
MÎ3S Peirce.
Two hours a week during the second semester.
The object o f this course is to introduce the student to a style of writing in which
the French particularly excel, as well as to stimulate him to original thought and
investigation. The work is in French, with discussions, illustrative readings, and
reports.
Selections from Sainte-Beuve’s Causeries du lundi (Harper’ s edition) and from
Brunetière, Etudes critiques.
Prerequisite, Course 27.
29. Modern French Comedy.
Miss Peiree.
Two hour's a week during the second semester. Offered in 1915-16.
The masterpieces o f about fifteen representative dramatists are studied, attention
being fixed particularly upon the different manners in which they reflect contemporary
life. A comparison is also made of their various styles. The work is in French.
30. Lyric Poetry and Versification.
Professor Bronk.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
A study o f lyric poetry from Villon to the end of the nineteenth century. An
examination o f French verse-structure from its origin to the present. The work is
given in French. Canfield’s Lyrics is used as a textbook and is supplemented by
further reading from the poets studied.
Prerequisite, Course 25.
31. Outline Course in French Literature.
Professor Bronk.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
This course is designed as a substitute in some measure for Courses 83 and 36,
and as a review and extension o f the courses in literature already pursued. Much
attention is devoted to the literary monuments of the Old French period, these being
read as far as possible in Modern French translations. The literature of the Renais
sance is then taken up, after which consideration is given to the movements and
tendencies of later times, the different writers and their works. The outside reading
is both wide and varied. This course is conducted in French, by means of lectures,
collateral reading, reports, and research work. Pellissier, Littérature française, is
used as a handbook.
Open to advanced students who are able to speak and understand the French
language. / Credit for three hours is given.
32. History o f the Novel.
Professor Bronk.
Two hours a week for one semester.
The French novel is here considered both in its origins and development and in
its portraiture of life. Morillot’s L e Roman en France depuis 1610 jusqu'à nos
jours is used as a textbook, and about fifteen representative novels are read by the
students outside of the class. The course is conducted in French and on the seminary
plan.
Open to advanced students with a fairly good command of French.
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33. Sixteenth Century Literature.
Professor Bronk.
Two hours a week throughout the year.
A general survey with Darmesteter and Hatzfeld, L e Seizième Siècle en France, as
a basis. This course is given in French.
Open to students who have successfully completed Courses 28 (or 29) and 80.
34. Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Professor Bronk.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
A more thorough study o f the lives and works of these two writers than can be
attempted in Course 25.
35. Practical Phonetics.
Miss Peirce.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
A study of French pronunciation, based upon the Abbé Rousselot’s manual, Précis
de prononciation française.
36. Old French.
Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax.
Professor Bronk.
Two hours a week throughout the year.
Translation into modern French o f the selections in Constans, Chrestomathie de
Vancien .français, with particular regard to linguistic forms. The reading of Extraits
de la Chanson de Roland (ed. P aris), Aucassin et Nicolete (ed. Suchier), and La
Tie de St. Alexis.
The course in Old French will be found an important basis, both for the study of
early English and for the historical study of the French language.
Open to students who have had advanced Latin and who possess a fair command
of French.
37. French Conversation.
Miss Peirce.
Two hours a week throughout the year.
One hour’s credit is given each semester.
38. Elementary Spanish.
Miss Peirce.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
This course aims to give a knowledge o f the essentials of Spanish grammar, the
ability to read ordinary Spanish with ease, and some practice in conversation.
Hall, All Spanish Method; Harrison, Spanish R eader; Tamayo y Bans, Lo Positivo;
Valdés, L a Algeria del Capitán Ribot.
International Correspondence. Beginning in the second year,
an opportunity is given to students to carry on, under direction,
a correspondence with French students.
The French Library is supplied with the treatises and books
of inference necessary to illustrate the courses given. It is en
riched annually by important additions.
Occasional public lectures are given by French scholars or
men and women o f note.
The Cercle Français meets twice a month during the academic
year.
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German Language and Literature
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Benjamin F. Baffin* and Assistant Professor Clara
Price Newport. Antonia Weissbraun is Acting Instructor.
The courses o f study in this department are designed to afford
grammatical and linguistic training, and (fo r those who have
not had a full classical course) a degree o f literary culture.
They bring the student into touch with the character and genius
o f the German people.
Emphasis is laid upon the relations o f the German to the
English and to the classical languages ; upon etymology and syn
tax; and upon social conditions and political events. The
courses, however, are literary rather than historical and philo
logical.
In the classroom, translation into English is discontinued as
soon as possible and expressive reading o f the German text is
substituted ; the students begin early to use the German in recita
tions. The idiomatic sentence and modern colloquial language
form the basis of the work in composition. Reading and trans
lating at sight are cultivated.
Other texts may at times be substituted for some o f those indi
cated.
The first semester’s work in Courses 41, 42, 43, and 49 will not
be accepted toward a degree unless followed by the work o f the
second semester in the same language.
41. Elementary German. Assistant Professor Newport and Miss Weissbraun.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Thomas, Practical German Grammar, Part I ; Grimm, Maerchen (twelve selec
tions) ; Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts; Gerstaecker, Germelshausen;
German Prose Composition; Schiller, Wilhelm Tell (first three acts).
This course
is for those who have had no preliminary training in German; it presupposes a dis
cipline o f several years’ language work in Latin and French ; and. prepares for
progressive and independent work. It aims to give a definite knowledge of German
grammar, an ability to understand spoken German, to converse during the recitati®n, to summarize in German the topics discussed in class, to write easy German, to
acquire a correct pronunciation, and to memorize simple lyrics.
42. Advanced German.
Assistant Professor Newport and Miss Weissbraùn.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Thomas, Practical German Grammar (reviewed and continued) ; Schiller, Wilhelm
Tell ( completed) ; one o f Riehl’s Culturgeschichtliche Novellen; Baumbach, D er
* Professor Battin is absent on leave during 1915-16.
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Schwieger8ohn; Freytag, D ie Journalisten; Goethe, Iphigenie auf Tauris; E. S.
Buchheim, Elementary Prose Composition (Parts I I and I I I ) ; German ballads and
lyrics (seven to be memorized). Lectures in German on literary characters and
social conditions.
43. Schiller.
Miss Weissbraun.
Three times a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Hauff, Lichtenstein. Schiller, W erke, Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, Stuttgart. Lectures
in German on German literature and the life of Schiller. The students present sum
maries. in German of the texts read and oral discussions of assigned topics.
This course presupposes a systematic knowledge of the grammar and the ability to
converse.
44. Goethe.
Assistant Professor Newport.
Three times a w eek throughout the year. Offered annually.
Goethe, W erke, Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, Stuttgart. A careful study of Goethe’ s
works. Course 44 presupposes a systematic knowledge of the grammar and the ability
to converse readily. The students present summaries in German of the texts read
and oral discussions o f assigned topics.
45. Middle High German.
Professor Battin.
Three hours a week, second semester. Offered annually.
Middle High German; Wright, P rim er; Grammars, Weinhold, 2te aufl., Paul,
5te aufl.; Nibelungenlied (ed. Zarncke). This course and Courses 46, 47, 48 are
conducted ip German and are primarily for those making a major in German.
46. Goethe’s Faust.
Assistant Professor Newport.
Three hours, one semester.
47. Exhaustive Study o f Some Author. Professor Battin, Assistant P ro
fessor Newport, and Miss Weissbraun.
Three hours a week during first semester.
Lessing— offered in 1915-16.
For students majoring in German.
48. The German Novel.
Professor Battin.
Three hours a w eek, one semester.
History and development o f the German novel, with extensive reading and the
presentation o f theses and discussions.
49. Scientific German.
Assistant Professor Newport.
Three hours a week throughout the year.
Brandt and Day, Scientific German.
Prerequisite, Course 42.
50. Advanced Scientific German.
Offered annually.
Professor Battin.
Schwegler, Geschichte der Philosophie;
Prerequisite, Course 49.
Two hours a week, one semester.
Humboldt, Ansichten der Natur.
51. Outline Course in German Literature.
Assistant Professor Newport.
Three hours a w eek throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
This course aims to give a clear conception o f the historical development of German
literature. Prerequisites are ability to read rapidly and accurately and to compre
hend lectures in German.
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52. Richard Wagner.
Professor Battin.
Three hours d week, first semester.
Wagner, Leben und W erice.
53. Geschichte des deutschen Volks.
Professor Battin.
Two hours a week, each semester.
David Mueller, Geschichte des deutschen Yolks.
54. Teachers’ Course.
Professor Battin.
Twice a week, second semester.
55. The German Drama in the Nineteenth Century.
Assistant Professor
Newport.
Three hours a week, first semester. Offered in 1916-17.
Development of the drama in Germany from Kleist to the present day. Extensive
reading and the presentation of theses and discussions.
56. German Literature in the Eighteenth Century.
Professor Battin.
Three hours a week, second semester.
A general survey with extensive reading.
57. Advanced Prose Composition.
Miss Weissbraun.
Two hours a week, second semester. Offered in 1915-16.
This course is conducted mainly in German. The work is based on selected texts
and drill is also given in writing German themes and letters.
Open to students who have completed Course 43.
58. Lyric Poetry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Miss Weiss
braun.
One hour a week, secoond semester. Offered in 1915-16.
This course is intended for the rapid reading and committing to memory of the best
German lyrics of the period covered.
Open to students who have completed Course 43.
The Deutscher Verein meets occasionally for lectures, conver
sation, and social enjoyment.
International Correspondence: Students who desire it are given
an opportunity to carry on, under direction, correspondence with
students in German Institutions.
Facilities in Philadelphia and vicinity o f especial value to work
in the Department o f German are as follow s: the general and
special libraries o f Swarthmore College, University o f Pennsyl
vania, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia
Public Library; Germanic collections o f the museums in Memo
rial Hall, Drexel Institute, University o f Pennsylvania Museum;
services in German at several churches; several daily and weekly
newspapers; lectures at the German Society.
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G re e k a nd L a t in
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Walter Dennison. Henrietta Josephine Meeteer is
Assistant Professor o f Greek and Allen B. West is Instructor
in Greek and Latin.
The aim o f the department is primarily to create an apprecia
tion o f the masterpieces o f Greek and Latin literature and to
trace their influence upon modern thought and letters; attention
is given to the political institutions o f both Greece and Rome
and their survival in present times, to philosophy and religion,
to private and social life, and to art and architecture as exem
plified by existing remains in sculpture and painting and in pri
vate and public buildings. Use is made of illustrative material
belonging to the College, and o f the collections in the University
Museum in Philadelphia. In connection with Courses 70 and 76
a visit is made each year to the Metropolitan Museum o f New
York.
Special attention is called to Courses 61 and 62 in Greek and
71 in Latin, which are provided fo r those who, previous to en
tering college, have not been able to complete the preparatory
work required for admission to the freshman courses.
Students who enter College with four years o f Latin will elect
Course 72; those who enter with two or three years o f Greek
will elect Course 64.
The attention o f all students is called to Course 69c in the
History of Greek Literature, to Course 70 in the A rt o f the
Greeks, to Course 73c in Roman Literature in English, and to
Course 76 in the Topography and Monuments o f Ancient Rome;
fo r these courses a knowledge o f Greek or Latin is not required.
A Teachers’ Course in Latin (78) is offered fo r Seniors who
expect to take positions as teachers o f Latin and Greek in public
and preparatory schools. Those who elect this course must be
fore the end of the senior year have pursued at least Courses 72a,
72b, 73a, 73b, 73c, 75, and 76; the head o f the department will
recommend as teachers o f Latin only those who have completed
these courses satisfactorily. Such students are expected also to
take at least Course 61 in Greek.
A Freshman Scholarship Prize in Latin is awarded to the
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student who passes the best competitive examination in the Latin
comprised in the average four years’ course in the high school;
this examination is open to the Freshman members o f Course 72.
Students desiring detailed information concerning the courses
in Greek and Latin are invited to consult with the instructors.
GREEK
61. Beginners’ Course. Grammar; reading o f Xenophon, A nabasis, Book I.
Professor Dennison.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
This course is provided for those who have not had an opportunity of studying
elementary Greek in the preparatory school.
62. Xenophon, A n abasis, Books II-IY .
Assistant Professor Meeteer.
Three hours a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
A continuation oi Course 61. Students who complete this course are admitted in the
second semester to Course 63.
63. Homer, Odyssey.
Assistant Professor Meeteer.
Three hours a w eek during the second semester. Offered annually.
The earlier books will be read entire and portions oi the later hooks.
64. (a ) Greek tragedy, iEschylus, E u m en id es; Sophocles, P h ilo c te te s; Eurip
ides, Troades. Some time will be devoted to a study o f the Greek
theatre. Assistant Professor Meeteer.
Three hours a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
Students who enter college with at least two years oi Greek elect this course.
[The following works will he read in 1916-17: .Eschylus, Prom etheus; Sophocles,
Antigone; Euripides, Alcestis. ]
64. (6 ) Selected Dialogues o f Plato, including the Crito, A p ology, and
Phcedo. Lectures on the doctrines o f the various schools o f Greek
philosophy: Assistant Professor Meeteer.
Three hours a week during the second semester.
Offered annually.
65. (a ) Historical Prose; selected books o f Herodotus and Thucydides;
some account o f the early Greek historians. Mr. West.
Two hours a week during the first semester.
65. (b ) Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry.
Offered in 1916-17.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a week during the second semester.
Offered in 1915-16.
66 . (a ) Demosthenes and the Attic Orators. Mr. West.
Three hours a week during the first semester.
Offered in 1915-16.
66 .
(6 ) Selections from the Lyric Poets.
Mr. West.
Twg hours a week during the second semester.
68 .
Greek Prose Composition.
Offered in 1916-17.
Assistant Professor Meeteer.
One hour a week during the second semester. Offered in 1916-17.
The purpose of this course is to give facility in the writing of simple Greek prose.
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69. (a ) Modern Greek; current periodicals.
Mr. West.
One hour a week during the first semester. Offered in 1916-17.
Elective for students who have spent three or more years in the study of classical
Greek.
69. (b ) The New Testament.
Mr. We3t.
One hour a w eek during the first semester. Offered in 1915-115.
The peculiarities o f Hellenistic Greek will be pointed out. The class will read
from a “ harmony” o f the gospels, and will study selections from the epistles descriptive
of the primitive church.
69. ( c ) History o f Greek Literature.
Mr. West.
One hour a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
A survey of the rise and development o f Greek literature in its various forms—
the epic, comedy, tragedy, the lyric, history, philosophic writing, pastoral poetry, etc.
No knowledge o f Greek is required. The course is designed to be of suggestive value,
especially to advanced students in the modern languages and literatures.
70. The A rt o f the Greeks.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a week during the first semester. Offered in 1916-17.
A course of lectures giving an introduction to the various departments of Greek
art, especially architecture, sculpture, and painting; the purpose of the course, in
part, is to give some preparation for future visits to the great museum collections of
Europe and America. A knowledge o f Greek is not required. Open to all students
except Freshmen. This course is given in alternate years only.
LATIN
71. Preparatory Latin.
Mr. West.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
This course is arranged for those who enter college with either two or three years
only o f preparatory Latin, and who therefore cannot at once enter the regular Fresh
man course. Selections from Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid will be read, as the needs of
the class require. Students who desire to take this course are requested to consult
with the instructor in charge as early as possible. .
72. (a ) Cicero, Essay On Friendship; miscellaneous selections; exercises in
Latin writing. Professor Dennison.
Three hours a week during the first semester.
See note under Course 72 b.
Offered annually.
72. (b ) Livy, Book I, and selections from Books I I - X ; Plautus, Menaechmi.
Professor Dennison.
Three hours a week d/uring the second semester.
Courses 72 a and 72 b form the regular Freshman elective.
Offered annually.
73. (a ) Horace, Odes and Epodes; studies in the private and social life o f
the Bomans. Professor Dennison.
Three hours a w eek during the first semester.
See note under Course 73 c.
73. (b ) Tacitus, Germania, and Agricola.
Offered annually.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a w eek during the second semester.
See note under Course 73 c.
Offered annually.
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73. (c ) Roman Literature in English. Lectures and collateral reading.
Elective for Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Mr. West.
One hour a week during the second semester. Offered annuaUy.
For this course a knowledge of Latin is not required. '
Courses 73 a, 73 b, and 73 c, form the regular Sophomore elective.
74. (it) Catullus and selections from Tibullus, Propertius, and O vid; studies
in the lyric and elegiae poets o f Rome. Mr. West.
Three hours a week during the first semester.
Offered in 1916-17.
74. (6 ) Selected Letters o f Seneca; the Latin Fathers; Christian Hymns;
the philosophic and religious faiths o f the first three centuries
o f the Empire, and the introduction o f Christianity. Mr. West.
Three hours a week during the second semester.
74. (c ) Roman Satire.
Offered in 1916-17.
Mr. West.
Three hours a week during the first semester. Offered in 1915-16.
The origin of satire and the fragments from the early satirists. Representative
selections from Horace and Persihs. Analysis of the best satires of Juvenal and
comparison with other sources for the moral life of Rome in the second century.
74. ( d) The Earlier Roman Emperors.
Mr. West.
Three hours a week during the second semester. Offered in 1915-16.
Biographical and historical studies based upon Suetonius, Lives of the Ccesars and
Tacitus, Annals. While some attention will be given to the evolution of the imperial
form o f government, the main emphasis will be upon the characters of the emperors
and the statesmen of the first century.
75. Latin Prose Composition.
Mr. We3t.
Two hours a w eek during the second semestet. Offered annually.
Opportunity is afforded in this course for constant practice in writing and speaking
.Latin. Some attention will be given also to the refinements of Latin style.
76. Topography and Monuments o f Ancient Rome.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a week during the first semester. Offered in 1915-16.
Lectures illustrated with the stereopticon, and assigned readings. The different
departments o f Roman art will be treated briefly, both independently and in their
relation to Greek and to modern art; in particular the appearance of the ancient
city will be discussed and the extant monuments described. No knowledge of Latin
is required for this course; it is hoped it will prove of interest to those who expect
some time to visit Rome. Open to all students except Freshmen. This course is given
in alternate years only.
77. (a ) Martial and Petronius.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a week during the first semester.
77. (b ) The Letters o f Pliny the Younger.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a week during the second semester.
77. (c ) The Letters o f Cicero.
Offered in 1916-17.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a week during the first semester.
78. Teachers’ Course.
Offered in 1916-17.
Offered in 1915-16.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Lectures and reports upon the text of Caasar, Cicero, Virgil, and other Latin authors
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commonly read in the preparatory schools.
introductory announcement above (p. 9 4 ).
79. Latin Sight Beading.
For admission to the course see the
Mr. West.
Two hours a week throughout the year, one hour credit. Offered annually.
The work o f this course is almost exclusively confined to the classroom and requires
no outside preparation except for an occasional report upon the life and works of the
author studied. Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses will be read in 1915-16, selec
tions from the Latin Drama in 1916-17. Sight reading tends to make the student rely
upon his o'wn memory and ingenuity rather than upon lexicon and grammar, thereby
making the study of .the language more natural and less difficult.
90. The History o f Greece.
Mr. West.
Two hour8 a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
The history o f Greece, from the earliest times to the death of Alexander the Great,
supplemented by Fling’s Source Rook of Greek History and by other illustrative
source material.
91. The History o f Borne. Mr. West.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
The history of Borne,’ from the earliest times to the beginning of the Barbaric
Invasions, supplemented by Munro’s Source Book of Roman History and by selected
passages from Roman historians.
Public Speaking
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Paul M. Pearson. Philip M. Hicks is Instructor, and
Elizabeth B. Oliver is Assistant.
The work in this department falls along two lines. The aim
is primarily to develop and train the voice to he an efficient in
strument in self expression and the interpretation of literature.
The department also endeavors to give thorough training in
the principles and practice o f effective public speaking; to de
velop poise, confidence, and the clearness o f thought and utter
ance, indispensable to the man whose success depends upon his
ability to deal with his fellow men, whether his field o f activity
be professional, technical, or in the business world.
In line with the belief that frequent practice in speaking is the
requisite for successful results, the work in practical public
speaking has been arranged in one hour courses to meet the needs
o f students who desire to carry work in the department through
out the college course.
81. Declamation.
Professor Pearson, Mr. Hicks, and Miss Oliver.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
The aim o f this course is to acquire purity, flexibility, and strength of voice, and an
easy, natural manner in reading the different forms of literature.
Students are
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required to commit selected passages, 'which they recite before the class. Cummock,
Choice Readings. The classes are organized in small sections, so that the students may
have the personal criticism of the instructor. Frequent conferences with students are
given.
82. Advanced Declamation.
Professor Pearson.
Two hour8 a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
The aim of the course is to complete studies not fully developed in other courses of
the department, and to give specital training in story telling and in interpreting the
modern drama. Prerequisite Courses 81 and 84 or 86.
83. Teachers ’ Course in Public Speaking and Reading.
One hour a week during one semester.
The aim o f this course is to teach students how, to become teachers of reading.
Among the fundamental topics taken up are: Articulation, Pronunciation, and Voice
Control, Methods of Teaching Reading, Observation, and practice teaching.
84. Interpretation.
Professor Pearson.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
The purpose of the course is to acquire the best possible expression of the literature
studied. After learning the spirit o f the author and of his time, an attempt is made
to give his writing such expression as will reveal the thought and emotion for which
the words are but signs. The course covers the field of American literature, one
writer boing studied each week. Vincent, American Literature Masters. Prerequisite,
Course 81.
85. Special Declamation.
Miss Oliver.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Students meet the instructor for private lessons at hours agreed upon. Each student
taking the course is required to give public recitals during the year. Course open only
to those who major in Public Speaking.
86 . Shakspere.
Professor Pearson.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
Several plays of Shakspere are read during the year; •assigned passages are
committed and recited. Prerequisite, Course 81.
87. History o f Oratory.
Mr. Hicks.
One hour a week during the second semester.
Offered every other year.
Offered in 1915-16.
A survey o f the development and practice of the art of Public Speaking, including
the lives o f the great masters of oratory, presented in lectures by the instructor and
■supplemented by research by the students.
88 . Extempore Speaking.
Mr. Hicks.
One hour a week throughout the year.
This course affords weekly practice in informal speaking. Special emphasis is laid
upon speech structure and in outlining and criticizing representative speeches. This
course is a prerequisite for courses 89, 90, and 91.
Extemporaneous Speaking. Pearson and Hicks.
89. Debate.
Mr. Hieks.
One hour a week throughout the year.
Posters, Argumentation and Debating, furnishes the ground work for the course, and
the work takes the form of discussions of questions o f current interest. During a part
of the year a thorough drill is given in parliamentary law, the classes being conducted
as public meetings presided over by the students in turn.
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90. Psychology o f Public Speaking.
Mr. Hicks.
One hour a week throughout the year.
This course aims to familiarize the students with the employment of the various
methods of persuasion in speaking. Scott, Psychology of Public Speaking. Among the
topics treated are mental imagery, suggestion, the emotions, the crowd, and memory;
weekly practice in speaking is continued.
91. Oratory.
Mr. Hicks.
One hour a week during the first semester.
A study of the requirements o f the more formal types of modern oratory based upon
a critical examination o f the best models o f deliberative, legal, pulpit, and platform
oratory. Classroom speeches o f a more formal nature are required, but the student
is at liberty to follow whatever type seems most desirable. Ringwalt, Modern American
Oratory.
Public Speaking Contests and Prizes
The various public speaking contests are under the direction
o f the College Debate Board, which consists o f three members of
the Faculty, and five students, elected annually. T h e. public
speaking events Eire designed to bring out the ability o f the stu
dents and to encourage college spirit. Besides having the honor
o f representing the College in a number o f important inter
collegiate events, the students compete fo r prizes in the various
contests.
A n annual oratorical contest, open to all students, is held in
February. The student winning first place represents the Col
lege in the Pennsylvania Oratorical Union contest, in which
Lafayette, Lehigh, Ursinus, Muhlenberg, and Franklin and
Marshall are competitiors.
Pennsylvmia Debating League. Through the initiative of
Swarthmore College, a debating league was organized in 1903
between Swarthmore, Franklin and Marshall, Dickinson, and
State Colleges. The plan o f the intercollegiate debate is that of
the round-robin. Bach college prepares two teams, one on the
affirmative and one on the negative o f the question, which is de
bated. A t Swarthmore there is a trial debate among the stu
dents to determine the teams fo r this debate. A ll debates are
held the first Friday in March. The negative teams remain at
home, and the affirmative teams go to the college fixed on the
schedule.
The President’s Prize is contested in debate by representatives
o f the Sophomore and Freshman Classes. The student presenting
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the best debate is awarded a gold medal offered by the President
o f the College.
The Delta TJpsilon Prize of $25 is competed for in the college
oratorical contest. The sum o f $500 has been given to the Col
lege by Owen Moon, Jr., Class o f 1894, the interest from which
is to be used for this purpose.
The Ella Frances Bunting Prize in Extemporaneous Speak
B y a gift o f $1,000, E. M. Bunting o f New York, makes
permanent the prizes that have hitherto been provided annually
for this purpose. Two prizes o f $25 each are offered, one con
tested for by the young men and one by the young women.
ing.
Declamation Contest for the Wm. W . Cocks prizes of $50.
Contestants for these prizes must have completed two courses in
Public Speaking and one in English; the six students having
the highest marks in these courses are chosen to compete.
Potter Prize Speaking. Three cash prizes, $12, $8, and $5.
Competition open to all students o f the College. Twenty-four
hours before the time announced for the contest the question for
debate is announced, and the contestants are required to draw for
sides. Each speaker is required to make a brief opening speech,
and a second longer speech in answer to the arguments presented
by his opponents. The prizes are given by Justice W . P. Potter
of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
The Swarthmore Chapter o f Delta Sigma Bho, the national
society for the promotion o f sincere and effective public speak
ing, chooses its members each spring from the Junior Class.
The Phi Kappa Psi Prizes in oratory are open to competition
among preparatory schools. The contest is held at the College
annually.
H is t o r y a n d In te r n a t io n a l R e la tio n s
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor William I. Hull. Allen B. West, Instructor in Greek
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and Latin, conducts Courses 90 and 91. Ethel Burnett is As
sistant.
The courses are conducted by means o f classroom lectures and
library work, which are coordinated by the students in written
outlines and reports. The purpose o f the department is to afford
training in the discriminating use o f historical materials; to
cultivate the historical habit of m in d; and to develop a knowledge
o f European, English and United States history, as a whole, to
gether with a more detailed knowledge o f certain great epochs,
institutions, and personages in the history of western civilization.
Each o f the various threads o f the historic story is followed con
secutively, and especial stress is laid on biography, a careful study
o f the life-work o f twenty-four great social leaders being included
within the courses.
International relations are emphasized throughout all the
courses in history, and four courses are devoted to a study of the
development o f international relations and the laws governing
them, particularly as illustrated in the work o f the two Hague
Conferences.
Twelve course are offered, six each year, four o f them being
devoted to European History, and two each to English History,
American History, M odem International Relations, and Inter
national Law.
90. The History o f Greece.
Mr. West.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16,
The history o f Greece, from the earliest times to the death of Alexander the Great,
is supplemented by Fling’s Source Book of Greek History, and by other carefully
selected illustrative source material.
91. The History o f Rome.
Mr. West.
Two hour8 a week during the second semester. Offered in 1914-15.
The history of Rome, from the earliest times to the beginning of the Barbarian
Invasions, is supplemented by Munro’s Source Book of Roman History and by selected
passages from Roman historians.
92. The History o f France.
Miss Burnett.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
A consecutive history o f the French people, from the time of the Barbarian In
vasions to the present, with a biographical study o f Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, Coligny,
Robespierre, and Napoleon.
93. The History o f Germany.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1914-15.
A consecutive history o f the German people, from the time of the Barbarian In
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vasions to the present, with a biographical study of Luther, Frederick the Great, and
Bismarck.
94. (a ) The History o f England (to 1603).
Professor Hull.
Three hours a w eek throughout the yeo/r. Offered in 1915-16.
England to the end of the Tudor Period, with a biographical study of Alfred, Henry
II, and Queen Elizabeth.
94. (6 ) The History o f England (from 1603).
Professor Hull.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
England from the beginning of the Stuart Period, with a biographical study of
Cromwell, Chatham, Pitt, and Gladstone.
95. (a ) The History o f the United States (to 1783).
Professor Hull.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
The United States to the end of the Revolution, with a biographical study of
Franklin and Washington.
95. (b ) The History o f the United States (from 1783).
Professor Hull.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
The United States from the beginning of the Critical Period, with a biographical
study of Washington, Olay, and Lincoln.
96. (a ) Modern International Relations (E urope).
Professor Hull.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
The historic background o f the Great War, together with its immediate causes and
significance.
96. (b ) Modern International Relations (Am erica).
Professor Hull.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
A history of the relations between the United States and the Latin-American Repub
lics, with a special study o f the problem of the Monroe Doctrine and its proposed
solutions.
97. (a ) International Law (The Law o f P eace).
Professor Hull.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
The essentials of the international law o f peace, with a careful study of the con
structive programme of the two Hague Conferences.
97. (b ) International Law (The Law o f War and Neutrality).
Hull.
Professor
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
The essentials of. the international law of war and neutrality, particularly as ex
emplified in the two Hague Conferences and in the warfare of the Twentieth Century.
The work in this department may be greatly aided by the
books and other collections in the following Philadelphia libraries
and museums: The Pennsylvania Historical Society, Locust and
Thirteenth Streets, which possesses an admirable collection of
material relating to Pennsylvania and American Colonial His
tory; the University o f Pennsylvania’s Library and Archaeo
logical Museum, Thirty-fourth and Spruce Streets, which are
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especially rich in materials relating to modern and classical Euro
pean History. The department itself is building up as rapidly
as possible a collection o f boohs and documents relating to inter
national law and diplomacy.
P o lit ic a l S cien ce
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Bobert C. Brooks.
The fundamental aim o f the courses offered in political science
is to prepare students for intelligent and effective citizenship.
To this end an effort is made to interpret the political life and
movements of our time in city, state, and nation. Particular
attention is given to criticisms o f existing institutions and pro
posals for their reform. Governments and parties in the lead
ing foreign nations o f the world are considered'not only because
o f their intrinsic importance, but also for the valuable sugges
tions they may yield for the solution of our American problems.
Though the courses in political science are primarily to pro
duce intelligent and effective citizenship, they should also prove
more immediately helpful to those who intend to enter politics,
law, public service, journalism, business, or the teaching of civics.
Students who expect to devote themselves to advanced study and
research in political science should be able to lay the founda
tions for such work in the undergraduate courses offered by this
department.
Unsupported by collateral study in economics and history much
o f the significance of political science will be lost. Psychology,
philosophy, and pedagogy are also valuable aids. A reading
knowledge o f German or French should be acquired as soon as
possible by students of political science, and both of these are
essential for graduate study in this field. Training in English
and public speaking are highly desirable.
Changes in advanced courses to be made from year to year
will enable students to take more work in political science than
is here scheduled.
101. American Political Parties and Party Problems.
Professor Brooks.
Three hours a week during first semester. Offered annually.
A study o f the growth, organization, aims, and methods of political parties in the
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United States, with particular reference to the primary and convention system,
financing of parties, and the charges of corruption in American politics and life.
Open to all students except Freshmen.
102. American Federal Government.
Professor Brooks.
Three h ow s a week during second semester. Offered annually.
A study o f the origin, development, and present structure of the Federal Govern
ment of the United States. Designed as a continuation o f Course 101, hut may he
elected separately.
Open to all students, except Freshmen.
103. Government and Parties in England and Continental Europe.
Pro
fessor Brooks.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered a/nnuaUy.
An outline study of the framework o f government and the organization, methods,
and aims of the leading political parties o f England, France, Switzerland, and Ger
many. Particular attention is given to the constitutional documents of the countries
studied and to the more accessible sources of official information regarding them.
Wherever possible, comparisons are drawn between the political institutions and prob
lems of the countries studied and those of the United States.
Open to all students.
104. Municipal Government in England and Continental Europe.
Professor
Brooks.
Two hours a week during first semester. Offered annually.
A study o f municipal government in England, France, and Germany, with the par
ticular purpose o f discovering suggestions for the improvement of city government
in the United States. Special financial and social problems of city life, such as
municipal ownership, taxation o f unearned increment, the drift of population to urban
centers, the housing problem, sanitation, and provision of facilities for recreation are
also discussed.
Prerequisite, Courses 101, 102, or 103, or the equivalent of one of these.
105. Municipal Government in the United States.
Professor Brooks.
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Two hours a week during second semester. Offered annually.
A somewhat detailed study of municipal organization and functions in the United
States. Particular attention will be given to the city of Philadelphia. Reform propo
sals, such as the commission plan, the city manager plan, short ballot, and the work
of bureaus of municipal research will be discussed.
Prerequisite, Courses 101, 102, or 103, or the equivalent of one of these.
106. American State Government and Experimental Legislation.
Professor
Brooks.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
A study of the organization and functions of state government in the United States,
with particular reference to Pennsylvania.
The legislative branch will be given
special attention in this course for the present, and a large part of the work of the
class will consist in experimental legislation, i. e., the drafting, discussion, and voting
of bills upon topics o f current interest.
Prerequisites, Course 101, 102, or 103 or the equivalent of one of these.
107. History, o f Political Ideas.
Professor Brooks.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
A study of the development of political thought. The first part of the course is
devoted to a series of lectures on Oriental, Greek, Roman, and mediaeval political
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ideas, students being assigned collateral reading in Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, St.
Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and others. Political philosophers of later date
are studied principally from their writings, particular attention being given to
Machiavelli, Bodin, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Burke, Bentham, Mill,
Maine, and Seeley.
Open only to Juniors and Seniors.
108. Recent American Political Thought.
Professor Brook 3.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
A study o f the writings o f the more notable recent' commentators upon American
political life and ideals with particular reference to the probable large developments
o f the immediate future.
Open only to Juniors and Seniors.
E c o n o m ic s
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Louis N. Robinson.* Leonard B. Krueger is Acting
Instructor.
Good citizenship implies intelligent citizenship. The broadest
purpose o f college instruction in Economics is to contribute to
the former by the cultivation o f the latter. Prom this point of
view the study o f Economics should appeal to all students, for
the .duties of citizenship await them all. In a narrower way,
work in Economics should prove useful to those who intend to
devote themselves to law, business, journalism, philanthropy, or
the public service. Finally, fo r those who wish to prepare for
investigation or teaching in this field, college instruction, with
its closer personal relation between student and teacher, should
provide suitable preparation for graduate study and research
in larger institutions.
Collateral work in Political Science, History, German, and
French is strongly recommended fo r all who intend to devote
much time to Economics. A knowledge of general biological
theory, o f psychology, and o f philosophy would add greatly to
the value o f work done in this department. No credit will be
given in courses which run throughout the year, unless the work
o f the entire year is taken.
The advanced courses will be changed from year to year, thus
enabling students to take more work in the department than is
here scheduled.
During 1915-16 Professor Robinson gives only part of his time to class work.
DEPARTMENTS AND COURSES OP INSTRUCTION
111. Principles o f Economics.
The
ciples
public
trusts,
Not
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Mr. Krueger.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered ann/ually.
first part of this course consists of a study of the fundamental laws and prin
of economics; the second part deals with the application of these laws to the
questions of the day, such as those connected with the tariff, taxation, currency,
trade unions, strikes, socialism, and the railroads.
open to Freshmen except to those majoring in Economics.
112. Money, Credit, and Banking.
Professor Robinson.
Two hours a, week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
The work o f this course will be divided into three parts: (a ) a study of the prin
ciples of money, credit and banking; (b ) a study of the exemplification of those
principles in the monetary and banking history of certain countries; (c ) a study of
present-day currency and banking problems in the United States. As a supplement
to the classroom work, visits will be made to the mint and to banking institutions in
Philadelphia.
Prerequisite, Course 111 or its equivalent.
113. Public Finance.
Professor Robinson.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
The subject-matter o f this course will be the nature o f governmental wants, public
expenditures, budgets, and budgetary legislation, the development of tax systems, the
different kinds of taxes, the theory of incidence, the problem of equity, practical ideals
for a tax system in the United States, and the theory and extent of public debts.
Prerequisite, Course 111 or its equivalent.
114. Organization, Management, and Problems o f Business. Mr. Krueger.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
A discussion of the main features o f agriculture, manufacturing, and transporta
tion, and the relation of each to the government. The historical development, the
changes in structure, the organizing, the financing, the management, the economic
and social problems are considered in detail.
Open to all students.
115. Criminology.
Professor Robinson.
Two hours a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
Three general subjects are treated in this course. The first has to do with the
theory and data of criminality. The second subject deals with criminal law and
criminal procedure. The third relates to penology. Visits are made to the various
penal and reformatory institutions in Philadelphia and vicinity.
Open to all students.
116. Modern Philanthropy.
Professor Robinson.
Two hours a week during the second semester. Offered annually.
The large public questions involved in the relief of the indigent and in the care
of the insane, the feeble-minded and other dependents. Visits are made to represen
tative institutions in Philadelphia and vicinity.
117. Resources and Industries.
Mr. Krueger.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
This course consists of a study o f the mineral, water, forest, and land resources of
the United States with special emphasis on their conservation. Following this the
principal agricultural and manufacturing industries pf the United States will be
studied and discussed. Attention will also be given to the main continental and
oceanic routes of travel.
Open to all students.
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Professor Robinson.
Two hours a week during the first semester. Offered in 1916-17.
Attention will be given in this course to the various forms of socialistic theory.
Its main object, however, is to describe the evolution of the Socialist movement and
the organization o f Socialistic parties, to measure the present strength of the move
ment and to examine its methods and aims.
119. The Labor Problem.
Professor Robinson.
Two hours a week ¿hiring the second semester. Offered in 1916-17.
A study o f the history, activities, and structure of labor organizations, and the in
fluence of economic and political theories upon them.
The location o f Swarthmore enables her students to take ad
vantage o f many valuable opportunities fo r study afforded by
Philadelphia collections and institutions. The library o f the
University o f Pennsylvania contains collections aggregating
22,000 volumes for the support o f the work of the Wharton
School o f Finance and Commerce, particularly the Colwell Col
lection o f 7,000 volumes, and the Cary Collection of 3,000
pamphlets. The Philadelphia Commercial Museum contains ex
tensive and interesting collections o f raw materials and finished
products and a library on commercial topics. As a great center
o f manufacturing, commercial and- banking activities, Philadel
phia enables the student to deal with many economic questions
on the ground. Her widely known philanthropic institutions
are similarly available fo r sociological investigation.
Law
The instruction in this department is under the joint direction
o f T. Walter Gilkyson and Howard Cooper Johnson, Instructors
in Law.
The courses in law are designed to give to the student an in
sight into legal reasoning and a general knowledge o f the funda
mental legal relations which govern our society. It is expected
that these courses will serve as a helpful introduction to pro
fessional study for those who aim to prepare themselves for the
life o f the law yer; that those students who desire to equip them
selves fo r active business life, will be aided by an intelligent
study of the principles which lie at the basis o f commercial life ;
and that all will find in the systematic study o f the Science of
the law a broadening influence that will tend to general culture.
DEPARTMENTS AND COURSÉS OF INSTRUCTION
125. Law and Social Progress.
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Mr. Gilkyson.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
The purpose o f this course is to discover the relation between law and modern
social and economic conditions.
The student will first become familiar with the
fundamental principles of the law of crimes, torts, private, and quasi public corpora
tions, and will later work out the relation between these principles and the social
and economic conditions of modern society. The influence of modern theories of
economics and sociology upon the law, and the development of legal principles, both
through statute and decision, in response to such influence, will then be carefully
analyzed. It is proposed to carry out this course through lecture work and assigned
reading.
126. Contracts.
Mr. Johnson.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
This course is based on Sullivan’s Business Law, and is designed to give the
student a working knowledge o f the law of contracts and negotiable instruments.
Classroom discussion of cases illustrating the principles underlying the law covering
these topics is the chief work, but special consideration will be given to new laws,
state or national, of vital interest.
128. Law o f Association.
Mr. Johnson.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
A general su rvey. of the law o f Pennsylvania corporations and the principles of
partnerships and agency will be covered by classroom discussion and reading in
Sullivan’s Business Law. The principles o f business organization and management
and issuance of securities by and the financial plans o f corporation will receive at
tention.
129. Modern Labor Legislation.
Mr. Gilkyson.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered in 1915-16.
An analysis o f the common law principles which govern the relationship of Master
and Servant and a study of the recent labor legislation and the changes and modifica
tions it has made in the Common Law.
130. Decedent’s Estates.
Mr. Johnson.
One hour a week throughout the year. Offered in 1917-18.
The ground here covered will include a study of the Intestate Law, the making
and interpretation of wills and the practical duties incident to the position of ex
ecutor, administrator, trustee, or guardian.
H is t o r y o f R e lig io n a nd P h ilo s o p h y
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Jesse H. Holmes.
The object of the courses is to give the student an introduction
to the principal religious and philosophical systems of the world,
together with a study more in detail o f a few o f them. The
courses offered as electives cover three years. A ll students are
required to take a course of three hours in the study o f the Bible.
The work will be varied by lectures, recitations and prepara
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tion o f special themes. Several hundreds of lantern slides illus
trating various phases o f the subject-matter are available, as are
also charts, maps, pictures, and a carefully selected library.
Special work may be arranged for students desiring to make
preparation for effective Sunday-school teaching. This will be
partly in regular classes dealing with the study o f the Bible,
history of religions, ethics, sociology, psychology, and educa
tional methods, and partly in classes arranged for the special
needs o f students making application. It is possible to ar
range for work o f this character covering short periods, such as
two or three months.
131. Bible Study.
Professor Holmes.
Two hours a week in first semester, one hour a week in second semester. Offered
in 1916-17.
Intended to give such, general knowledge of the Bible, its origin, contents, and
qualities as literature, as should be possessed by all intelligent people. The work
of the student will consist largely of indicated readings in the Old and New Testa
ments. Kent, Historical Bible, will be used as a supplementary textbook.
The Class work will include lectures, recitations, study of maps, pictures, etc.
132. History o f Religion.
Professor Holmes.
Two hours a w eek during the first semester. Offered in 1916-17.
A brief study o f the principal religious systems of the world. Menzies, History of
Religion, is followed as textbook, but a large part of the work of the course is carried
on in the library.
133. The Religion o f the Hebrews.
Professor Holmes.
Three hours a w eek during the first semester. Offered in 1916-17.
A study of the Hebrew people, their social and religious customs, their prophets
and their literature. It is based upon the study of the books of the Old Testament,
Kent, Historical Bible, being also used. In the early part of the course attention is
given to the origin of the Semites and their early movements, Babylonia, Assyria, and
other allied topics.
Open to students who have completed Course 131, and to others who, in the judg
ment o f the instructor, can profitably carry on the work of the class.
134. L ife and Times o f Jesus.
Professor Holmes.
Three hours a, week during the secoond semester. ■Offered in 1916-17.
A study of the social, political, and religious conditions prevailing at the beginning
o f the Christian era, followed by the life, work, and teachings of Jesus, and the
Apostolic age of the Christian Church. Stevens and Burton, Harmony of the Gospels,
the Acts of the Apostles, and the other books of the New Testament, together with
Pfleiderer, Christian Origins, are made the basis of the work.
v Open to students who have completed Course 131, and to others who, in the judg
ment o f the instructor, can profitably carry on the work of the class.
135. History o f Christianity.
Professor Holmes.
Two hours a week during the second semester. Offered in 1916-17.
A study o f the principal events in the history of the Christian church, and espe
cially in the development of Christian doctrines. Some attention will be given to the
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history of various Christian sects. Allen, Contin/uity of Christian Thought, Pfleiderer,
Development of Christianity, have been used as textbooks.
Open to students who have completed Course 131, and to others who, in the
judgment of the instructor, can profitably carry on the work of the class.
136. Ethics. Professor Holmes.
Two hours a week, second semester. Offered in 1916-17.
An introduction to the various types o f ethical theory, with discussion of some
applications o f ethical principles. Drake, Problems of Conduct has been used as a
textbook.
137. History o f Philosophy.
Professor Holmes.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered in 1916-17.
After a brief introductory glance at the early Greek philosophies, especial attention
is given to Socrates and to the systems of Plato and Aristotle. Some time is devoted
to the development of philosophical systems in the period centering about the beginning
of the Christian e ra ; the growth, culmination, and decline of scholasticism, are studied,
and the appearance of the modern critical spirit. In the second semester the work
is directed to the modern systems beginning with Descartes. Especial attention is
given to the philosophy of evolution. Thilly, History of Philosophy, is used as a
textbook.
Open to Juniors and Seniors.
138. Introduction to Philosophy.
Professor Holmes.
One hour a week in second semester. Offered in 1916-17.
A study of the more general present-day theories of science: lectures on the theory
of knowledge, fundamental ideas, the meaning of natural law, the theory of evolution
in the inorganic and in the organic world. Russell, First Course in Philosophy has
been used as a textbook.
Open to students who have completed two years of college work in the sciences.
Some of the greatest archaeological collections of the world are
near enough to be made use o f by Swarthmore students, and
visits to museums, exhibitions, etc., are frequently possible.
Especially to be noted is the Achaeological Museum of the Uni
versity o f Pennsylvania, with its remarkable collections illus
trating the civilizations of Babylonia, Assyria, and E gypt; its
display o f amulets, charms, etc., from many parts of the w orld;
its Buddhist Temple showing the externals of worship among
the people o f India, and collections o f similar materials from
among the American Indians, the Esquimaux, and many other
peoples.
A Museum of Religions has been started at Swarthmore, which
has already a valuable collection o f religious curios from China,
Japan, India, and elsewhere. Additions to this collection will be
welcomed.
Mention should be also made of the great libraries of Phila
delphia, and of the lecture courses, often by the great scholars
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o f the W orld, at Drexel, Franklin, and Wagner Institutes, and
at the University o f Pennsylvania, in addition to those offered
at Swarthmore. The most famous preachers, statesmen and
orators are frequently to be heard in Philadelphia, and the
opportunities thus afforded are brought to the attention o f stu
dents.
P sychology and Education
The instruction in this department is under the direction
o f Professor Bird T. Baldwin, assisted by Eloise Vest. Special
Methods Courses for teachers are given by Professors H. C.
Hayes, Jesse H. Holmes, Benjamin F. Battin, Paul M. Pearson,
Walter Dennison, and Assistant Professor Walter Ross Marriott.
THE AIM OP THE DEPAETMENT
The new department o f Psychology and Education is being
organized on comprehensive and scientific lines around the cen
tral purpose o f thorough preparation through intelligent par
ticipation and experimentation in school work. On every hand
emphasis will be placed on the modern empirical and scientific
points o f view in psychology and education. Therefore, ex
perimental laboratory courses will be given in both these fields
in order to make the work concrete, definite, and scientific. In
order to connect theory and practice, and to formulate prin
ciples o f education, all theoretical and historical courses will he
paralleled by work in School Observation, Practice Teaching,
and Experimental Education in contemporary school problems.
ASSISTANT TEACHING
Observation and Assistant Teaching will be conducted at Lansdowne, Chester, Media, W allingford, Rutledge, and a Friends’
school, all o f which are within a half hour’s ride o f the College.
A ll candidates for the recommendation of the department for
the Pennsylvania State Certificate will be required to take Edu
cation 146 (Principles and Practice of Teaching). In this
course, after each student has had the required observation work
and has made a series o f lesson plans, he teaches daily for at
least thirty consecutive type lessons in one or two subjects. He
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is also visited by the professor in charge, whom he meets regu
larly for individual conferences and for class exercises and dis
cussion. This intensive, systematic training under careful super
vision and direction, with the background gained in other courses,
will practically eliminate the difficult problem of the “ inex
perienced teacher.” Superintendents are glad to find these stu
dents, and to accept them as “ experienced.”
EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATION
Regular courses involving laboratory and field work will be
given at the College during the coming year, and special efforts
will be made to study educative processes in action through
direct experimental methods. This work has been so arranged
that graduate students and teachers near the College may meet
in .class on Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning to work
on special problems, and to receive special training in technique.
This work will center, in the main, around contemporary prob
lems in the public schools of the community, the Williamson
School o f Mechanical Trades, the Elwyn Training School for
Mentally Defective Children, and the Glen Mills Reformatory
at Sleighton Farm.
MORAL EDUCATION
In collaboration with the Department of History o f Religion
and Philosophy, under the direction of Professor Holmes, the
College is able to offer unusual opportunities in Moral Educa
tion.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
This work, which is given in cooperation with the Department
of Physical Education, consists o f theoretical and practical
courses in play, gymnastics, school hygiene and medical inspec
tion, with the double purpose of giving a thorough knowledge
of the physical development o f school children and o f giving
materials and methods for the student’s future need as a teacher.
t e a c h e r s ’ courses
Through the cooperation o f professors in other departments
efforts are being made to correlate and coordinate all the work
within the College bearing directly on the preparation o f teach8
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ers. During the coming year Special Methods Courses will be
given in Physics, German, Public Speaking, English, and Latin.
These courses are for junior and senior students who have the
prerequisites in the special subjects and in Education. Some of
the courses will be accompanied by observation and practice
teaching under the direction o f the instructor in charge.
The Teachers’ Courses aim to make a detailed study o f the
best methods o f teaching high-school subjects from the stand
point o f adolescent development, and the organization and pres
entation of subject-matter. The courses are essentially profes
sional in their point o f view and emphasize methods of teaching.
They consider, aside from their specific characteristic topics,
the relative educational value o f the subject in secondary schools,
the plan and organization o f the course o f study, the best types
o f texts and explanatory material, methods o f organizing classi
fied bibliography and reference books for school libraries in the
subject at hand.
Emphasis is placed on the method of the recitation and types
o f lesson plans for secondary schools, including a consideration
o f the transition o f method and subject-matter from the ele
mentary to the high school, and from the high school to the
College. A limited number o f hours of practice teaching in any
one o f these courses may be counted toward the teaching re
quired fo r the recommendation o f the department o f Educa
tion for the State College Certificate.
TEACHERS ’ APPOINTMENT COMMITTEE
A Teachers’ Appointment Committee, consisting o f Professors
Dennison, Baldwin, Holmes, and Dean Alexander, was instituted
in 1912. The duty of this committee is to assist the graduates
o f the College in their effort to secure satisfactory teaching posi
tions. This assistance is to be rendered not only to members of
each year’s graduating class, but also to earlier graduates who
have been teaching meanwhile, and having acquired experience,
desire more responsible positions than the ones they now have.
THE STATE COLLEGE CERTIFICATE
Students graduating from college and completing the required
number o f courses (eighteen semester hours) in Psychology and
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Education, including the required practice teaching of not less
than thirty regular lessons covering six weeks or more, will be
recommended by the Department for the State College Certifi
cate, which carries exemption from all examinations for posi
tions in the public schools o f Pennsylvania, and becomes perma
nent after three years o f teaching. This certificate is accepted
by a number o f other states.
COURSE OP STUDY
No course in this department should be taken before the
Sophomore year. The courses designed fo r the Sophomore year
are Ethics (136), General Psychology (139) or (140), and Edu
cational Psychology (1 4 1 ); fo r the Junior year, Principles of
Education (142) History o f Education (144), and School Hy
giene (1 4 5 ); fo r the Junior or Senior year, School Supervision
(1 4 3 ); and for the Senior year, Practice Teaching (146), Ex
perimental Education (147), and Teachers’ Courses* 15, 54, 78,
89, 100, 270, 292.
COURSES OP INSTRUCTION
136. Ethics— Theory, Practice and Teaching. Professor Holmes.
Two hours a week during first semester.
This course aims to present the principal theories as to the basis of right and
wrong, to discuss practical questions such as come before men and women in busi
ness and social life, and in citizenship. The latter part o f the year will be devoted
to a consideration of methods of developing morals in schools, uses and abuses of selfgovernment, the work of the church and the Sunday school, boys’ and girls’ clubs, and
other institutions which affect ideals and conduct. Opportunity will be given for
observation o f such institutions, and, in case of those taking the teachers’ course,
for practice teaching when possible.
Open to all students.
139. General Psychology.
Professor Baldwin and Professor Holmes.
Three hours a week during the first semester.
This course aims to introduce the student to the science of psychology through
modern experimental methods together with lectures, demonstrations, and clinical ob
servations. It also aims to lay the foundations for more advanced work in psy
chology and courses in other departments that demand a knowledge of the funda
mental principles of mental activity.
Texts— Pillsbury, Hollingsworth.
141. Educational Psychology.
Professor Baldwin.
Three lecture hours a week durihg second, semester.
This course begins with a consideration o f the aims and technique of general and
experimental psychology and emphasizes the study of the development of mental
traits and individual differences throughout childhood and adolescence. W ork is car
ried on by means of lectures, texts, reports, demonstrations, and experiments.
* In some instances the Teachers’ Courses may be taken in the Junior year.
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142. Principles o f Education.
Professor Baldwin.
One hour a week throughout the year.
A study of the principles underlying a science of education furnishes the end and
aim o f this course. An analysis o f the learning process is made and the results and
methods o f the work accomplished in experiments and studies in education during the
last decade are summarized in lectures and illustrated by class demonstrations and
experiments. Thorndike’s Educational Psychology.
143. School Supervision.
Two hours a week during first semester.
At) elementary course designed to introduce the student to a general survey of the
study by means o f a systematic study of the organization, administration, and methods
of supervision of public schools; the teaching staff; the school plant and its equip
ment; the practical problems o f school and class management in the elementary and
secondary schools; the course of study; daily program; examinations, marking,
promotion and grading; Wagner’ s School Laws of Pennsylvania. Text, Snedden and
Dutton’s, School Administration and Bagley’s Class Management.
Prerequisite, Education 141 or 142.
144. The Philosophy and History o f Education.
145. School Hygiene.
One hour per week throughout the year.
This is a course in school and community hygiene for those who are intending to
teach. Dresslar’s School Hygiene is used as a text, supplemented by the instructor’s
notes and collateral reading.
146. Assistant Teaching.
Professor Baldwin.
Three hours a w eek during the first or second semester.
This course is required o f all applicants for the recommendation of the Depart
ment for the Pennsylvania State College Certificate. The principles of teaching, school
observation and practice teaching furnish the material for the course. Thorndike’s
Principles of Teaching and Carter’s Methods of Teaching are used as texts, supple
mented by collateral reading and the professor’s Outlines on School Observation and
Practice Teaching.
The work consists of practice teaching in the elementary and high schools. Stu
dents in some o f the special Teachers’ Courses may, under certain conditions, be
excused from a portion o f the work. All students are required to teach at least
thirty lessons.
Prerequisite, Education 141. Open .to Seniors who have not taught and who have
had at least three courses in Psychology or Education.
147. Experimental Education.
Professor Baldwin and Miss Vest.
Three hours throughout the year.
This course deals with educative processes and agencies in action from the scientific
point o f view, and is based largely on laboratory investigations and educational re
search under conditions, which inay be controlled, repeated, modified, and carried out
serially and chronologically. The course gives training in scientific and statistical
methods o f approaching educational and psychological problems. Some of the prob
lems studied are: Retardation, elimination, school training, juvenile delinquency,
mental deficiency, mental tests, tests for physiological age, physical defects and school
standing, adolescent development, and the psychology of high-school branches of learn
ing.
Each student is assigned a special problem for investigation.
Prerequisite, Senior standing or two years’ experience in teaching.
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This course deals'w ith the application o f psychology to husmess efficiency, law,
medicine, and sociology.
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Text, Munsterberg’ s General and Applied Psychology.
t e a c h e r s ’ courses
GIVEN BY OTHER DEPARTMENTS
ii? Tpnehers’ Course in English.
f wo hours a week during first semester.
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14 Teachers’ Course in German.
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Professor Battin.
One hout a week during second semester.
The various methods of teaching German in the secondary schools the « « * > 9
of good textbooks, the place of composition and conversation as helps « language
of modern language teaching will he taken up in this conrse.
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uCpsychology or Education for those who wish credit in
Education.
78. Teachers’ Course in Latin.
Professor Dennison.
Two hours a week throughout the year.
Lectures and reports upon the text of Ctesar, Cicero, Virgil, and other Latin authors
commonly read in preparatory schools.
Observation and practice teaching.
Prerequisites, Latin 72a, 72b, 7da, mo,
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Psychology for those who wish credit in Education.
tw0 courses in Education or
89 Teachers’ Course in Public Speaking and Beading.
P rofessor Pearson
One hour a week during second semester.
The aim o f this course is to teach students how to become teachers of :reading.
Among the fundamental topics taken up are: Articulation, Pronuncia 10 ,
Control, Methods o f Teaching Reading.
Observation and practice teaching.
m Psychology for
Prerequisite, Public Speaking 81, and two courses in Education or Psychology
those who wish credit in Education.
270. Teachers’ Course in Mathematics.
Assistant Professor Marriott.
Two hours a week during second semester.
The aim of this course is:
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(a ) To acquaint the student with the more elementary parts of the History
Mathematics directly connected with his subjects.
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(b ) To study those topics in which the secondary teacher encounters the greates
difficulties ^ presentation, to give the student practical laboratory experience in
teaching and to make reviews and criticisms of modern texts.
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Prerequisites, Mathematics 251, 252, and 25 3; and two courses in Psychology or
Education for those who wish credit in Education.
(This course does not count as required mathematics.)
292. Teachers’ Course iu Physics.
Professor Hayes,
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F in e A r t s
The instruction in this department is under the direction o f
Assistant Professor Albert Winslow Barker.
The aim o f the course offered in this department is twofold,
First, to study the historical development o f architecture,
sculpture, painting, and the allied arts, as a part o f the history
o f Western civilization, in order to show the share that these
arts have had in the creating and fixing o f ideals, and in the
development o f craftsmanship.
Second, the principal types
and examples o f these arts are studied as masterpieces o f achieve
ment, o f permanent value in defining standards, and fo r the
cultural enjoyment o f their special characteristics.
The work consists o f illustrated lectures and indicated reading,
with the opportunity fo r laboratory work fo r either one or two
hours.additional credit.
151. History o f Art from the Christian Era to the Renaissance.
Professor Barker.
Assistant
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One hour a week during flret semester
The source; dominance of architecture in the medieval period; development of craftsmansnip.
152. History o f A rt; Renaissance and Modern Art.
Barker.
Assistant Professor
One hour a week during second semester.
The initial renaissance of the fourteenth century; the development of painting and
sculpture; the growth o f the modern spirit in art.
B io lo g y
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Spencer Trotter. Samuel Copeland Palmer is Assist
ant Professor.
The courses in Biology are designed to give a broad and liberal
view o f the facts o f life as a part o f the system o f general cul
ture. The successful completion o f the several courses as part
o f the general work fo r the degree o f A. B. is preparatory to the
study o f Medicine, o f Forestry, or o f Agriculture. Students are
thus enabled to enter the technical schools o f the leading uni
versities in the above-named branches.
Special work in the dissection .of the human body is likewise
afforded students who are preparing fo r the study o f Medi
cine.
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The courses are arranged so as to present a logical sequence
throughout the four years o f college work fo r students making
Biology their major subject.
Students making Biology their, m ajor will be required to take
one year each in Chemistry and Physics, and the equivalent of
two college years in a m odem language, preferably German.
The requirements by the foremost medical schools of the coun
try o f two years’ preparation in Biology is fulfilled by these
courses in Swarthmore College.
These courses likewise lead to the post-graduate work of the
university.
COURSES IN GENERAL BIOLOGY
155. .General Biology.
(a ) Zoology. Professor Trotter.
Three hours a week during first semester. Offered annually.
This course is an outline study o f the structure, classification, distribution, and
general natural history of animals. Two lectures a week— three hours laboratory work
in the dissection o f types.
Textbooks— Hertwig’ s Manual of Zoology; Kingsley.
Open to Sophomores and Freshmen.
(b ) Botany.
Assistant Professor Palmer.
Three hours a w eek during second semester. Offered annually.
A course in elementary botany desiged to give the student a broad view of the whole
field o f plant growth, structure, development, distribution, and classification. Two
lectures a week— three hours laboratory work including field work in May and June.
Open to Sophomores and Freshmen. Credit is not giv&n in this course (155) until
both sections (a ) and (b ) are completed.
156. Invertebrate Morphology.
Assistant Professor Palmer.
Three hours a week during first semester. Offered annually.
A careful and detailed study or invertebrates with laboratory study of the more im
portant orders. Two lectures a week— three hours laboratory.
Prerequisite, 155.
157. Mammalian Anatomy and Physiology.
Professor Trotter.
Three hours a week during second semester. Offered annually.
Two lectures a week on mammalian anatomy and physiology with special relation to
the human mechanism. Three hours laboratory work in the dissection of the mammal
(cat) and the study o f organs and tissues. This course includes elementary work in
Histology. Textbooks, Huxley’ s Lessons in Elementary Physiology, (1915 e d .) ; Wilder’ s
Mammalian Anatomy.
Prerequisite 155.
158. Advanced Zoology.
Professor Trotter.
Three hours a. week throughout the year. Offered annually.
A laboratory course of six hours a week in systematic work on North American
Yertebrata with dissection of types. Textbook, Jordan’s Manual, and standard works
on the several groups of vertebrate animals.
Prerequisite, 155.
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159. Embryology.
Assistant Professor Palmer.
Three hours a w eek throughout the year. Offered annually.
Study of the development of a vertebrate with special reference to the development
o f the chick. The growth o f the chick is followed closely from the primitive streak
stage to four days. Drawings are required showing the various stages of.grow th in
whole mounts and in selected sections along both transverse and saggital planes. In
connection with this course students are instructed in the proper methods of fixation,
staining, and sectioning of tissues and in the use of the camera lucida. A minimum
o f six hours a week laboratory work is required for this course.
Prerequisites, 155, 156, 157.
COURSES IN B O T A N Y
161. Systematic Botany.
Assistant Professor Palmer.
Three hours a week during second semester. Offered annually.
A course in field work devoted entirely to the classification of the native trees and
shrubs for the first part of the course, and o f spring flowers for the second. Six
hours a week of laboratory work. Prerequisite, 155.
162. Cryptogamic Botany.
Assistant Professor Palmer.
Three hours a w eek during first semester. Offered annually.
In this course the development of sex in plants is the keynote of study. Carefully
selected forms are secured to bring out this feature in the laboratory.
Sach’ s classi
fication o f the Thallophytes is used as the basis of this course. Two lectures a week
with four hours laboratory. Prerequisite. 155.
163. Plant Physiology.
Assistant Professor Palmer.
Three hours a week during first semester. Offered annually.
A laboratory course to determine the principal functions of the root, stem, leaves,
etc., o f our common forms o f plants. Six hours a week (three hours credit). Pre
requisite, 155.
COURSES IN ADVANCED BIOLOGY AN D PREPARATORY M EDICINE
164. Genetics.
Assistant Professor Palmer.
Two hours a week during first semester. Offered annually.
A lecture course devoted to the discussion o f the principles of plant and animal
breeding. There will be given also a review of the history of our domesticated ani
mals. Prerequisite, 155.
165. Anthropology.
Professor Trotter.
Three hours p er week during second semester. Offered annually.
A course o f lectures on the zoological relations of man, his history as a species
and a review o f the natural history of mankind (race, culture and geographical distri
bution), professor’s “ notes” — consultation of various authors— written reports on as
signed subjects. Open to Juniors and Seniors. Prerequisite, 155.
166. Human Anatomy.
Professor Trotter.
Three hours a ¿week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Advanced work in osteology, the dissection o f the cadaver and a study and dissec
tion o f the human brain. Standard textbooks on anatomy. A laboratory course of
six hours a week throughout the year, intended especially for students preparing for
medicine. Prerequisites, 155, 157, 158, 159.
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COURSES IN GEOLOGY
170. Geology and Physiography.
Professor Trotter.
Two hour8 a week during first semester. Offered annually.
A lecture course in Elementary Geology (dynamical and structural) and a study of
the physiography and life relations of North America. Textbooks, Chamberlain and
Salisbury, College Geology— professor’s “ notes.”
Open to students above Freshman
Class.
The Museum o f Biology and Geology is an adjunct to the de
partment o f Biology. A n account o f its collections may he
found on page 39. The Academy o f Natural Sciences, Logan
Square, Philadelphia, affords valuable matter for study and
reference both in its collections and library. The museum of
the Wagner Free Institute o f Science, Seventeenth Street and
Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, contains valuable aids to
study. The library o f the University of Pennsylvania, and the'
Philadelphia Library, com er Locust and Juniper Streets, are
available for consultation and research. The Wistar Institute
of Anatomy, Thirty-sixth and W oodland Avenue, contains valu
able material for study in connection with the pre-medical
courses.
C h e m is tr y a nd C h e m ic a l E n g in e e r in g
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Gellert Alleman. H. Jermain Creighton is Assistant
Professor o f Chemistry and Ralph G. Gutelius is Instructor in
Chemistry.
This department does not aim to develop specialists in any
particular branch o f chemistry, but presents opportunities for
a comprehensive general training in this science.
The successful completion o f the courses in Chemistry will
enable the student to enter upon graduate work at any lead
ing university, or will be o f material assistance to him in various
technical pursuits in which he may be engaged. Those intending
to prepare for the medical profession will find it advantageous
to follow several o f the elementary courses here offered.
The new and commodious chemical laboratory, with its splen
did equipment, lends every advantage to thorough and modern
instruction in this department.
Students who major in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
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must have a reading knowledge o f German before entering upon
the chemical work pursued during the third year. They should
also be thoroughly familiar with elementary mathematics.
The course in Chemistry, as Applied Science, and the course
in Chemical Engineering are prescribed for the first and sec
ond years.
Students may m ajor in Chemistry, in a course in Arts, re
quiring 124 hours fo r graduation; in Chemistry, as Applied
Science, requiring 132 hours for graduation; in Chemical En
gineering, requiring 140 hours for graduation.
171. General Inorganic Chemistry. Professor Alleman, Assistant Professor
Creighton, and Mr. Gutelius.
Three hours a w eek throughout the year. Offered annually.
Lectures, demonstrations, written exercises, individual laboratory practice, and
weekly conferences on the general principles involved in elementary chemistry. This
course includes work similar to that outlined in Smith, General Chemistry f o r .Colleges.
In the laboratory each student performs about two hundred experiments which
are selected from Smith and Hale, Laboratory Outline of General Chemistry. Credit
in •this course is not assigned until the completion of the entire course at the end
of the year.
172. Qualitative Analysis.
Assistant Professor Creighton.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered ann/aally.
The theory and practice involved in the detection of the chemical elements. Special
attention is paid to the application of the electrolytic dissociation theory to analysis,
and the metallic and nonmetallic elements are studied more fully than in Course 171.
Demonstrations, conferences, and individual laboratory work. The textbooks used
are A. A. Noyes, Qualitative Analysis, and Talbot and Blanchard, Electrolytic Dis
sociation Theory; Baskerville and Curtman, Qualitative Analysis, is also recommended.
During the second semester, students make Quantitative determinations of a num
ber of typical ions and become familiar with the elementary principles of Quantitative
Analysis.
The equivalent of nine hours of laboratory work per week through the year, carry
ing a credit o f three hours for each semester. Credit in this course is not assigned
until the completion o f the entire course at the end of the year. Prerequisite, 171.
173. Elementary
Gutelius.
Quantitative
Analysis.
Professor
Alleman
and
Mr.
Three hours a week during one semester. Offered annually.
Complete analysis of potassium chloride, copper sulphate, calcite, haematite, apatite,
sphalerite, clay, Portland cement, and coal.
For students taking Engineering as their major subject. Nine hours of laboratory
work per week throughout one semester, carrying a credit of three hours. The time
arranged to suit individual requirements. Prerequisite, 174.
174. Quantitative Analysis.
Professor Alleman.
Three hours a w eek throughout the year. Offered annually.
Demonstrations and laboratory work involving methods in gravimetric and volu
metric analysis.
Required o f students who select Chemistry as their major subject; open as an
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elective to all others who have taken Courses
their equivalent elsewhere. The equivalent o f
week throughout the year, carrying a credit o f
time is arranged to suit individual requirements.
175. Advanced Quantitative Analysis.
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171 and 172 at this institution, or
nine hours of laboratory work per
three hours for each semester.
The
Prerequisite, 172.
Professor Alleman.
Three hours a w eek during the second semester. Offered annually.
Examination of foods and food products, and their adulterants. W ork in toxicology
analysis o f sewage, and the sanitary analysis o f water.
Required o f students who select Chemistry as their major subject; open as an
elective to all other students who have had sufficient knowledge of chemistry to
follow the course. The work on sewage and water analysis is particularly adapted
to students in engineering. The equivalent o f nine hours of laboratory work per
week during the second semester, carrying a credit o f three hours. The time is
arranged to suit individual requirements. Prerequisite, 174.
176. Physical Chemistry.
Assistant Professor Creighton.
Three hours a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
Lectures and laboratory work. The work covered in the lecture course includes
the thermodynamic laws; the gaseous, liquid and solid states of matter; physical
mixtures; the theory o f dilute solutions; the kinetic theory of gases; the relation
between chemical structure and physical properties; chemical statics and dynamics;
and thermo-chemistry.
Stress is laid on the applications of thermodynamics to
chemical processes, i n the laboratory students make observations on the behavior of
solutions, determine molecular weights by physical methods, measure velocities of re
actions and familiarize themselves with the use of the refractometer, the spectroscope,
and the polariscope.
The following books are recommended: Nernst, Theoretical
Chemistry; Jones, Elements of Physical Chemistry; Young, Stoichiometry; Wash
burn, Principles of Physical Chemistry.
Two lectures and three hours per week of laboratory work. Required of students
who select Chemistry as their major study. Prerequisites, 174 and 272.
177. Organic Chemistry. Professor Alleman and Mr. Gutelius.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
Lectures, demonstrations, written exercises, and laboratory work.
This course
includes the work as outlined in Remsen, Organic Chemistry. In the laboratory,
students make and study the various organic preparations as given in Remsen,
Organic Chemistry.
Required of all students who select Chemistry as their major subject.
178. Organic Chemistry (Advanced Course).
Gutelius.
Professor Alleman and Mr.
A continuation of Course 177. Lectures and laboratory work. In the laboratory,
students make all the preparations (not previously made in Course 17 7), as given
in Gattermann, Praocis des Organischen Chemikers.
A knowledge of German is
required.
Required of all students who select Chemistry as their major subject.
180. Electro-Chemistry.
Assistant Professor Creighton.
Three hours a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
Lectures and laboratory work. The laboratory work in this course is arranged
so that the student may obtain exact practical information regarding the application
of electricity to chemical manufacture, and become proficient in the measurement of
electrical conductivities and electromotive forces, and in making electro-chemical
analyses. The laboratory course also includes the testing o f Faraday’s laws and the
measurement o f transport numbers, the absolute migration velocity o f ions, decomposi
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tion voltage and heat of neutralization. The following textbooks are recommended:
Abegg, Electrolytic Dissociation; Le Blanc, Textbook of Electro-Chemistry; Oettel,
Electro-Chemical Experiments and Exercises in Electro-Chemistry; Fisher, Praktikum
der Elektrochemie, and Smith, Electro-Chemical Analysis.
Required of all students who select Chemistry as their major subject; open as an
elective to all other students who have a sufficient knowledge of chemistry and of
physics to follow the course. Prerequisite, 174 and 176.
The number of students in this course is limited to six.
181. Assaying.
Professor Alleman.
One hour a w eek during the first semester. Offered in 1916-17.
Fire assays o f ores of gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, and of numerous metal
lurgical products. The textbook used is Furnam, Practical Assaying.
Three hours o f laboratory work per week during the first semester, carrying a
credit o f one hour.
182. Mineralogy.
Professor Alleman.
Two hours a w eek during the second semester. Offered annually.
This course consists o f lectures on crystallography and descriptive mineralogy; and
the determination o f minerals by the blow-pipe. Moses and Parsons, Mineralogy,
Crystallography and Blow-pipe Analysis, is used as a guide. Prerequisite, 165.
183. Physical Chemistry (Advanced Course).
ton.
Assistant Professor Creigh
One hour a week during the first semester.
A continuation of Course 176.
Offered annually.
Chemical Engineering
The extensive demand made on the part o f various industries
fo r men trained both in Engineering- and Chemistry has influ
enced the establishment of a course which will afford preparation
along these special lines. The course, as arranged, includes all
the prescribed work required fo r the degree of A. B. Ample
opportunity is also afforded the student in the choice o f elective
studies. The course, faithfully followed, will give the student
a liberal education, and, in addition, special training in Chemical
Engineering. The course as outlined follow s:
FRESHMAN TEAR
Thirty-five “ hours” o f prescribed work.
See Uniform Curriculum on page 74.
SOPHOMORE YEAR
Thirty-seven “ hours” o f prescribed work.
See Uniform Curriculum on page 75.
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Hours per W eek
F ir s t S e m e s te r
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Class
Lab’y
2
3
Credits
3
■—
3
3
9
3
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3
3
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or
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H
2
105
107
141
141
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History 102 or 103 or 104.. .
or
Elementary Economics and
Railroad Transportation. .
Electrical Engineering 237.. Direct Current Theory..........
Electrical Engineering 238... D. C Lab...............................
Totals............. . . . .
3
—
—
2
—
18
12
18
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141
91
87
122
123
105
107
Electrical Engineering 238 ..
Electrical Engineering 237 . .
German..................................
or
French...................................
Chemistry 174 ...................
Chemistry 177 ...................
History 102 or 103 or 104.. .
or
Economics 111 ...................
Elective................. ................
Direct Current Laboratory...
Direct Current Theory........
Quantitative Analysis
Organic Chemistry...
Totals
7
15
SENIOR YEAR
F ir s t S e m ester
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Hours per Week
Lab’y
Class
3
3
•—
2
107
Economics 111 or 112 or 113
105
123
92
Chemistry 178 ...................
—
3
Adv. Organic Chemistry.. ..
—
3
2
2
1
Religion and Philosophy 131
1
3
3
—
3
1
3
110
Credits
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3
Bible Study...........................
2
—
2
Totals.....................
15
9
IS
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4
2
S e c o n d S em ester
141
107
Engineering 232 ............ .. Experimental Laboratory...
Economics 111 or 112 or 113
123
Chemistry 178 ...................
Religion and Philosophy 131
3
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110
Adv. Organic Chemistry. . . .
Bible Study......... ............. ...
—
3
12
—
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3
2
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E n g in e e rin g
CIVIL, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor George F. Blessing. George W . Lewis is Assistant
Professor o f Mechanical Engineering, Scott B. Lilly is Assist
ant Professor o f Civil Engineering, Lewis Fussell is Assistant
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Albert W . Preston is In
structor, and Samuel S. Shoemaker is Assistant.
The courses in Engineering are designed to train men in the
fundamental principles that underlie the branch in which they
are majoring, and to give such engineering and practical work
as time and equipment will permit.
The location o f the College near Philadelphia and the
important manufacturing centers in its vicinity enables
students to visit a great variety o f industrial and engineering
works.
A man must supplement a technical course by experience in
practice and contact with real engineering work before he can
attain his power as an engineer, and it is hoped that these visits
will prove o f value to the student when he begins practical
engineering work.
The success o f an engineer has come more and more to depend
upon his ability to meet men o f education and culture on equal
terms; hence, courses in liberal arts are carried throughout the
four years in the belief that they will ultimately benefit the
students. The technical courses o f study are arranged and con
ducted with the purpose o f imparting a liberal preparation for
immediate usefulness in the office, drafting room, or field. By
adding familiarity with commercial demands and practice to
the preparation o f the school, the graduates from these courses
may successfully undertake the responsibility o f design or super
intendence o f engineering works. When circumstances permit,
undergraduates are encouraged to engage in engineering work
during the summer vacation. The experience and maturity so
gained are o f great value in subsequent collegiate and profes
sional work.
The instruction in this department is given both by lectures
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and recitations; in the drafting room, the field work, the labora
tory, and shop the aim is to adapt the instruction to the indi
vidual needs of the student.
THE EQUIPMENT
The Field Equipment is ample fo r practice in surveying, and
includes transits, levels, plane tables, compasses and other aux
iliary apparatus.
Engineering Library and Club Boom. This is a large, beau
tifully furnished room on the second floor o f the Engineering
Building. It is equipped with electrical connections fo r stereopticon lantern or motion picture machine. The book shelves
in this room contain about one thousand volumes o f technical
works in which is included transactions o f engineering societies
and bound volumes o f the most important technical papers and
journals. Current issues o f all the leading engineering maga
zines are also to be found on the reading tables.
' Drafting Booms. The drafting rooms are equipped with
drawing tables, stools and cabinets in which students may keep
their drawing supplies. In addition to the above equipment this
department has a ten-inch Sibley wood turning lathe, with many
extra parts, and a duplex power driven pump fo r use in sketch
ing and to illustrate the principles o f machine construction and
design. The Junior and Senior drawing rooms are also equipped
with filing cabinets containing blue prints and other data to aid
the student in the design courses.
The Engineering Laboratories. The Materials Laboratory
contains a 15,000-pound Olsen testing machine, and a larger one
having a capacity of 100,000 pounds. Both machines are fitted
for tests in tension, compression and deflection. In addition,
there is a 50,000-pound Olsen torsional testing machine, and
micrometers fo r measing elongation, compression and deflection,
a Fairbank’s cement testing machine with a complete equipment
for making tests on cement, a White-Souther endurance testing
machine, a. Shore scleroscope, an Upton-Lewis endurance testing
machine and a complete equipment for the heat treatment of
metals.
For tests in mechanical engineering the equipment consists
of steam and gas engine indicators, planimeters, tachometers,
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steam and coal calorimeters, pyrometers, gauge and indicator
testing apparatus. This laboratory also contains oil and grease
testing apparatus, a Junker calorimeter for gas and liquid fuel
tests and gas analysis apparatus.
In the Gas Engine Laboratory the apparatus consists of a fivehorse-power Otto gas engine, a ten-horse-power Quincy gasoline
and kerosene engine, a four-cylinder twenty-horse-power Rutenber automobile engine direct connected to a Tracy fan dynam
ometer, a ten-horse-power Mietz and Weiss fuel oil engine and a
vertical fifty-horse-power two-cylinder Bruce-Macbeth gas en
gine. The above engines are fitted fo r testing with Prony brakes
indicating apparatus, etc.
This laboratory also contains a
“ Receo” Rider Ericsson hot-air engine.
The Steam Engine Laboratory contains a fifty horse-power 8 in.
x 13 in. x 10 in. Ideal tandem-compound high-speed engine, a
10 in. x 24 in. Wetherell-Corliss engine, a seven-kilowatt hori
zontal Curtis turbine direct connected to a direct-current dy
namo installed with a separate switchboard.
This laboratory’
also contains a 5 in. x 8 in. vertical slide-valve engine. The above
engines can be run condensing or non-condensing. The con
densing apparatus consists o f a Wheeler surface condenser. The
steam engine equipment in the power plant consists of two onehundred-horse-power and one sixty-five-horse-power Harrisburg
high-speed engines.
The boiler room contains four one-hundred-and-twenty-fivehorse-power horizontal return tubular boilers fitted with turbo
blowers and automatic damper regulator. F or testing the boil
ers the plant is equipped with a W ilcox automatic feed water
weigher, coal weighing apparatus, flue gas analysis apparatus,
etc.
The equipment o f the Hydraulic Laboratory consists o f a
D ’Olier centrifugal pump direct connected with a ten-horse
power direct current motor and fitted with necessary apparatus
for conducting a complete test such as weirs, nozzles, gauges,
etc. A fifteen-horse-power Christiana turbine water wheel fitted
with Prony brake, hook gauges, weirs, etc. A small impulse
water wheel o f the Pelton type.
The Direct Current Laboratory contains a plug type switch
board supplied with direct current power and connected with
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129
the alternating switchboard so that the equipment in both lab
oratories may be used in either. It makes possible the rapid
connection in parallel or series of all the apparatus. The me
chanical power for this room is derived from a twenty-five-horsepower variable speed induction motor, and the direct current
power from the substation located in the adjoining room. This
is equipped with two twenty-five-kilowatt one-hundred-andten-volt direct current generators of Westinghouse make driven
by two thirty-five-horse-power three-phase General Electric in
duction motors; and one fifty-kilowatt General Electric induc
tion motor-generator set. In addition to the usual control ap
paratus there is installed a Tirrill automatic voltage regulator,
giving very steady voltage. The apparatus includes shunt, series
and compound wound motors and generators, motor-generators
and variable speed motors o f various types, together with the
necessary starting, field, and load rheostats. The meters are of
the most accurate type, the range being from .001 to 500 amperes
and from .001 to 750 volts.
The Alternating Current Laboratory has a switchboard similar
to but larger than the one in the direct-current laboratory. It
is supplied with direct current and with twelve different alter
nating voltages, the latter being obtained from a bank of three
twenty-KV-A step-down transformers.
In addition to this
single- and three-phase supply a pair o f Scott transformers of
four-KV-A rating deliver two-phase power, and a 7.5-KV-A
synchronous generator in the laboratory supplies one, two, three,
six or twelve phases. The main power supply comes from the
power plant below the railroad, where two seventy-five-KV-A
and one fifty-K V -A revolving field alternator develop threephase power at twenty-three hundred volts. A good modem
switchboard is rendered doubly useful for teaching purposes,
since there are more than the usual number o f switchboard
meters which make checking and comparison more effective.
Here also there is a Tirrill voltage regulator. In the laboratory
in addition to the resistances, inductances, and condensers
(one hundred and forty microfarads) there are transformers,
single- and three-phase induction motors o f several types, a
repulsion motor, an inductor generator, two synchronous con
verters, a synchronous motor, synchronous generator and a vari9
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able frequency motor generator set giving from twenty to seventy
cycles per second.
Single-phase and three-phase induction potential regulators
give close voltage control. There are a number of high-grade
ammeters, voltmeters, and wattmeters which make it possible
to read closely any current from .1 to 400 amperes and any
pressure from 10 to 3,000 volts. A vibrating reed frequency
meter, a synchroscope, a contact device for wave form, a power
factor meter, recording and integrating meters are available.
A fully equipped General Electric oscilligraph is freely used to
show wave shape and phase relations.
For the work in illumination there are a Bunsen photometer
of semi-portable type, a three-meter Queen photometer with
Lummer-Brodhun screen, revolving head, etc.; a portable SharpMiliar illuminometer. Many types o f lamps and types o f glass
ware are at hand and a study is made o f the various types of
lighting around the college to determine where each would be
best applied for interior or outdoor work.
SHOP WORK
This work extends through two years for all engineering stu
dents, and may be continued if desired.
The Machine Shop occupies a large portion of the second floor
of the building and it has a floor area of 3,300 square feet. It
is exceptionally well lighted and is arranged so that the machine
and bench work are entirely separated. A large tool room is
centrally located and is in charge o f an assistant, who supplies
individual tools on a check system, as is done in commercial
shops. The machinery is grouped on three drives, each drive
operated by its own electric motor.
The machine shop contains an excellent assortment o f tools,
including screw-cutting engine lathes; speed lathes, simple and
back-geared; a planer; a complete universal milling machine
with milling cutters; a shaper; a twist-drill grinder > and two
vertical drill presses; a lathe-center grinder; plain and swivel
vises; lathe chucks, universal and independent, also drill
chucks; chucks for milling machine and vises for planing; sur
face plates; standard gauges and a complete equipment of small
tools.
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131
The equipment of the machine shop includes two Hamilton
engine lathes, 16 in. x 6 f t . ; a Lodge and Shipley lathe of similar
size, a Whitney wet tool grinder, and a 16 in. x 8 ft. Champion
engine lathe o f rugged design for the demonstration o f high
speed cutting tools. This lathe is double back geared, has taper
turning attachment, compound rest and quick change gear device
giving forty changes of threads without removing a gear. The
gearing on all lathes is covered by guards or casings to prevent
accidents.
The Woodworking Shop extends through the entire length of
the third floor of the shop building, and has a floor area of more
than 3,300 square feet. The work benches are fitted with quick
acting vises and other accessories and are provided with drawers
and tool cabinets in sufficient number to assign each student a
container for his tools and exercises. The plan o f individual
assignment o f tools and supplies, is followed here, and each stu
dent is provided with a complete set o f tools. The machine
equipment is o f the best and comprises a motor-driven Oliver
thirty-eight-inch band saw with tilting table, and screens and
guard for the protection of the operator; a motor-driven Col
burn universal saw; a twenty-four-inch Oliver Hand Planer
and Jointer with safety cylinder, and Oliver universal wood trim
mer; a motor-driven six-inch Oliver hand planer and jointer
with safety cylinder; a 16 in. x 10 ft. Oliver wood turning lathe
with overhang to spindle and a Mummert W olf & Dixon Com
pany oil tool grinder; a post drill, and a group of twelve wood
turning lathes driven by motor.
The Forge Shop. This equipment consists of ten fires, and
one additional master fire. These forges are operated on the
down-draft principle, and were designed and constructed for this
shop by the Buffalo Forge Company. The exhaust and pressure
fans for the system are motor driven, and the blast and exhaust
ducts are of moulded concrete. The forge shop is situated on the
ground floor o f the building and covers an area of more than
1,000 square feet.
The Foundry is also located on the same floor, and has a floor
space of more than 1,000 square feet. A gas heated cupola or
furnace is in use for melting metals in crucibles. The addi
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tional equipment consists of moulding benches, flasks and other
accessory apparatus.
Fees. A fee o f five dollars fo r each semester will be charged
for each course in woodworking, forging and machine practice.
A fee o f two dollars for each semester will be charged for each
course in. field practice and surveying. An additional fee o f two
dollars will be charged for the annual survey.
A Deposit o f five dollars will be required o f each student en
rolling for a course in shop work or founding. This deposit will
be retained to cover breakage and loss o f tools or supplies, and,
after deducting for such items, the balance will be refunded upon
the completion o f the course.
THÉ ENGINEERING BUILDING
A description o f the Engineering Building may be found on
page 30 o f this B u l l e t i n .
THE MAJOR IN ENGINEERING
The engineering courses extend through four years; and, in
this respect, differ from the other m ajor courses offered in the
College, which are elected at the beginning o f the second year
and extend through the three subsequent years. The students
in Engineering have thus their entire course arranged with the
advice and consent of their course adviser in Engineering.
The m ajor in Engineering may be taken in one of four courses :
Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, or Chemical Engineering.
The
courses o f study constituting the major in Engineering are given
in detail below, and in the statement o f the department of
Chemistry.
The work for the first two years is common to all students in
Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Chemical Engineering and in
cludes work in English, Pure Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry,
Drawing and Shop Work.
The work offered in the shops throughout the several courses
are intended to teach certain principles o f manufacturing and
to familiarize the student with methods and processes o f the
mechanic arts. The student works in the various shops of the
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133
department, and completes in each a series of practical exer
cises. He thus obtains some knowledge of the nature and prop
erties of the various materials he employs, and becomes familiar
with the use and care o f the more important hand and machine
tools.
A complete cheeking, cost and time-keeping system is in oper
ation throughout the shops. The system is in charge o f a shop
clerk, and each student is required to spend a part of his time
in the office to familiarize himself with the system. The object
is to make the shop- courses not only a means of developing the
powers o f observation and judgment, together with the acquisi
tion of mechanical skill, but to familiarize the student with busi
ness methods and make the shops serve as a laboratory for work
in industrial organization.
During the third year the Mechanical Engineering students
take up work in Kinematics o f Machinery and Drawing, while
those in Civil Engineering are assigned Field Practice, and Ele
mentary Structural Design. During the fourth year, oppor
tunity is offered for more definite specialization in the branches
of Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering as indicated in
the courses outlined.
For a statement o f the requirements for advanced degrees in
Engineering, see page 82.
Courses op S tudy
I. Civil Engineering.
Freshman year. See page 74.
Sophomore year. See page 75.
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JUNIOR YEAR
F ir s t S e m ester
See
Page
139
145
71
148
141
140
141
Hours per Week
Class
Mechanical Engineering 215
'Electrical Engineering 237 ..
3
3
3
Mechanics of Materials.......
Lab’y
Credits
__•
_
3
3
3
3
_
3
2
Direct Current Theory.........
_2
Electricial Engineering 238 .. Direct Current Laboratory...
6
—
3
2
2
1
Totals.....................
13
12
17
Second, S e m ester
1S9
145
71
141
141
137
141
148
Mechanical Engineering 215
Mathematics 257..................
Group 2 . . .
;••••...............
Electrical Engineering 237..
Electrical Engineering 238..
Civil Engineering 196..........
Mechanical Engineering 232
Physics 272 or Elective.......
3
3
3
Mechanics of Materials
Analytic Mechanics.. . .
Direct Current Theory........
Direct Current Laboratory...
Structural Design.................
Experimental Laboratory...
Advanced Physics.................
Totals....................
2
3
3
3
—
—
—
2
1
2
2
3
• —
—
—
6
2
4
3
13
16
3
19
SENIOR YEAR
F ir s t S e m ester
See
Page
Class
140
138
71
139
110
Hours per Week
Religion and Philosophy 131
Lab’y
6
Credits
4
3
3
3
3
2
2
3
3
3
3
_
_
Bible Study...........................
2
—
2
Totals................. ...
15
9
18
__
3
3
3
3
3
S e c o n d S e m ester
140
71
Civil Engineering 226..........
Railroads...............................
140
138
110
Religion and Philosophy 131
3
3
3
3
_
—
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___
9
___
6
Bible Study...........................
1
—
2
1
Totals.....................
13
15
18
II. Mechanical Engineering.
Freshman year. See page 74.
Sophomore year. See page 75.
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JUNIOR YEAR
F ir s t S e m ester
See
Page
139
145
71
148
141
137
138
141
Hours per Week
Class
Mechanical Engineering 215
Mechanics of Materials.......
Electrical Engineering 237 . .
Mechanical Engineering 195
Mechanical Engineering 214
Electrical Engineering 238...
Direct Current Theory..........
Kinematic Drawing.............
Kinematics............................
Direct Current Laboratory...
Totals...................
Lab*y
3
3
3
2
2
—
3
3
3
3
__
•
2
2
2
2
1
6
—
—3
15
11
2
Credits
19
S e c o n d S e m ester
139
145
71
141
141
141
137
148
Mechanical Engineering 215
Electrical Engineering 237..
Electrical Engineering 238 .
Mechanical Engineering 232
Mechanical Engineering 195
Physics 272 or Elective........
Mechanics of Materials.......
Direct Current Theory........
Direct Current Laboratory...
Experimental Laboratory...
Kinematic Drawing..............
Advanced Physics.................
Totals.....................
3
3
3
—
—
2
—
2
3
4
3
3
13
13
—
—
—
3
3
3
2
1
2
1
3
18
SENIOR YEAR
Hours per Week
F ir s t S em ester
See
Page
139
137
71
140
141
139
110
Class
Lab’y
3
—
3
3
_6
Mechanical Engineering 217
Mechanical Engineering 197
Machine Design....................
Machine Design Drawing...
Mechanical Engineering 233
Mechanical Engineering 216
Religion and Philosophy 131
Experimental Laboratory...
Steam Machinery............. ..
Bible Study......................... 1
3
Totals........................
14
2
4
— .
—
10
Credits
8
2
3
8
2
3
2
18
S e c o n d S e m ester
139
137
71
Mechanical Engineering 217
Mechanical Engineering 197
Machine Design.. . . ............
Machine Design Drawing...
141
139
143
Mechanical Engineering 233
Mechanical Engineering 219
Mechanical Engineering 249
Experimental Laboratory...
Power Plants.........................
Principles of Manufacturing
110
Religion and Philosophy 131
2
—
3
_1
Bible Study...........................
1
Totals......... ...........
12
III. Electrical Engineering.
Freshman year. See page 74.
Sophomore year. See page 75.
_6
4
——
2
2
3
2
2
3
6
1
2
1
16
18
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JUNIOR YEAR
Hours per Week
F ir s t S em ester
See
Page
Class
.
I.ab’ y
Credits
145
71
148
139
141
Mechanical Engineering 215 Mechanics of Materials.......
Electrical Engineering 237. . Direct Current Theory..........
141
141
Electrical Engineering 239. . Illumination..........................
Electrical Engineering 238... Direct Current Laboratory...
—
3
2
2
2
1
Totals.....................
14
8
19
3
3
«
3
3
3
3
_
2
3
_2
—
1
2
3
_
•
S e c o n d S em ester
145
71
141
141
139
141
Electrical Engineering 237. .
Electrical Engineering 238. .
Mechanical Engineering 215
Mechanical Engineering 232
3
3
Direct Current Theory........
Direct Current Laboratory..
Mechanics of Materials.......
Experimental Laboratory. . . .
148
2
3
3
6
2
13
.
3
12
SENIOR YEAR
F ir s t S e m ester
See
Page
142
Electrical 'Engineering 240.. Alternating Current Theory.
142 , Electrical Engineering 241. . Alternating Current Laboratory...................................
71
140
142
142
139
Hours per Week
Class
_
3
Credits
3
3
8
Electrical Engineering 242..
Lab’y
3
_
_
1
2
3
3
Central Stations and Power
Transmission.....................
Electrical Engineering 246. . Conferences...........................
Mechanical Engineering 216 Steam Machinery.................
—
—
3
1
3
\—
3
Totals.....................
16
3
19
3
1
S e c o n d S e m ester
14«
142
142
71
Electrical Engineering 243 ..
Electrical Engineering 244 .. Polyphase Laboratory.........
Electrical Engineering 245 ..
139
142
Mechanical Engineering 219
Electrical Engineering 246 ..
3
3
3
3
1
3
_
_
_
3
1
3
3
3
3
£
13
191.
8
19
Engineering Drawing.
Six hours a week during the first semester. Two hours* credit.
Linear drawing, lettering, model and object sketching of machine parts.
Open to Freshmen.
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192. Engineering Drawing.
Six hours a week during the second semester. Two hours* credit.
This work is intended to instruct the student in the making and reading of com
mercial working drawings. The character of the work is such as. is followed in the
best modern drafting rooms, and attention is given to standard conventions, tabu
lations, titling, etc.
Open to Freshmen.
193. Descriptive Geometry.
Six hours a week during the first semseter. Two hours’ credit.
This work consists o f lectures, recitations and drawing-board work, u p on ' the
presentation of lines, planes and solids; tangencies, intersections, sections, develop
ments and isometric projection. It is ‘intended to give the student an understanding
of the theory of projection and the principles hecessary to the proper delineation
and interpretation o f constructive drawings. Work is done in all quadrants, but
the practical problems, introduced to illustrate the application of the subject to sub
sequent work in design, are shown in the third quadrant.
Open to Sophomores; prerequisites, Courses 192 and 251.
194. Empirical Design and Machine Drawing.
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Six hours a week during the second semester. Two hours* credit.
Machine drawing and empirical designing, an extension of the work in 192. P ro
portioning of machine details as fixed by practice and empirical methods. Making
and using standard data sheets. Making o f assembly drawings. The general aim
of the course is to give the beginner a drill in the proportioning of such parts as
are fixed by common practice rather than by mathematical theory and to apply the
work o f 192.
Open to Sophomores; prerequisites, Courses 192 and 193.
195. Kinematic Drawing.
Six hours a week during the first semester and three during the second. Three
hours* credit.
Drawing-board application of Course 214. Solution of mechanism by means of
instant centers, designing o f cams, gears, linkages, etc. Drawing of velocity and
acceleration diagrams.
Open to Juniors in M .E .; prerequisite, Course 194, and must be taken with
Course 215.
196. Elements o f Structural Design.
Six hours a week during the second semester. Two hours’ credit.
Computation of stresses in trusses, mainly by graphic methods. The forms and
strength o f joints and fastenings used in heavy framing. Besides the graphic analysis
o f simple beams and roof trusses, complete detail designs and working drawings of
joints to resist large tensile stresses, and of a wooden roof truss for given specifica
tions. Elements of designing in structural steels.
Required o f Civil Engineering Students only.
Open to Juniors; prerequisites,
Courses 193 and 194, and must be taken with Course 215.
197. Drawing and Design.
Six hours a week during each semester. Two hours’ credit for each semester.
Drawing-room problems in elementary machine design illustrating the work as given
in 195. In this course the student for the first time undertakes the design of a
complete machine, laying out the general outlines, proportioning the details theo
retically, and modifying his results by practical considerations.
All computations
necessary for the complete design must be carefully and systematically made and
kept. Working drawings of the most important details and a finished assembly draw
ing of the machine .are completed.
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Open to Seniors in M .E.; prerequisites, Courses 193 and 194, and must be taken
with 217.
198. Structural Design.
Six •hour8 during first semester.
Three hours* credit. Six hours during second
semester. Three hours’ credit.
Computation of stresses; types and details of bridge and roof trusses; reports,
drawings; complete design of a plate girder and a through Pratt railway bridge.
Open to Seniors in C.E .; prerequisite, Course 196.
199. Topographical Drawing.
Three hours a week during first semester. One hour’s credit.
A topographic map will be drawn from the field notes of the annual survey.
Open to Seniors in C .E .; prerequisite, the annual survey.
203. Pattern Making.
Six hours a week during first semester and alternates with 204 during second semester.
Two hours’ credit for first semester and one hour’s credit for second semester.
A preliminary course of instruction in the use of hand and machine tools for
woodworking, followed by graded instruction in pattern-making, construction of Core
boxes, etc.
Open to Freshmen.
204. Foundry Work.
Three hours a week during the second semester. One hour’s credit.
Moulding, mixing and casting of metals and core-making, etc. The student is
required to produce castings from the complete set of patterns made in Course 203. ..
Open to Freshmen.
205. Forge Work.
Six hours a week during the first semester. One hour’s credit.
Forging, welding, tool-dressing, tempering, etc., and a study of press and die work
and “ drop forgings."
Open to Sophomores.
206. Machine Work.
Three hours a week during the first semester and six during the second. One hour’s
credit for first semester and two for the second.
Use o f measuring tools, hand and machine tools, fitting apd assembling. Operation
and use of jigs and other manufacturing fixtures.
Open to Sophomores.
207. Machine Work.
Open to Juniors and Seniors.
One week preceding the opening of college.
A continuation o f 206.
213. Materials o f Construction.
Two hours a week during the first semester.
This course consists of a study o f the physical properties and methods of manu
facture o f the various materials used in engineering construction. It does not treat
o f the strength o f materials as given in the course on Mechanics of Materials. [215.]
Open to Sophomores; prerequisite, Course 171.
214. Kinematics.
Two recitations a week during the first semester. Two hours* credit.
Theory o f mechanism, instant centers,- cams, gears, linkages, etc. Velocity and
acceleration diagrams.
Open to Juniors; prerequisite, Course 194.
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215. Mechanics o f Materials.
Three recitations a weeJc during first semester. Three hours* credit Two recitations
and one lecture a week during second semester. Three hours’ credit.
This course continues throughout the year and credit will not he given for a single
semester.
This course treats o f the resistance o f materials, center of gravity, moment of
inertia, riveted joints, mechanics o f beams, columns, shafts; combined' stresses, tem
perature stresses, impact- and resilience. Textbook: Merriman, Mechanics of Materials.
Open to Juniors; prerequisites, Courses 256 and 213.
216. Steam Machinery.
Three hours a week during the first semester. Three hours* credit.
The course covers the elementary consideration of the behavior of gases and vapors;
theoretical heat engines; application of theory to steam engines; principles governing
the transfer of heat from hot gases to water; principles of combustion; boiler
furnaces and grates; types of boilers; feed-water heaters, economizers, super heaters,
advantages of condensing; types of condensers, condenser pumps, etc.
Open to Seniors; prerequisites, Courses 171, 256, 272 and 273.
217. Machine Design.
One lecture and two recitations a week during the first semester. Three hours* credit.
One lecture and one recitation during the second semester. Two hours* credit.
Analysis o f complete machines. Selection o f mechanism for specified work and
study o f practical considerations involved. Analysis of energy and force problems
in machines. Determination o f driving devices as based on work to be done. Pro
portioning o f detailed parts as dictated by stress and practical considerations. Appli
cation of the laws of Mechanics and Kinematics to the design of machines and a dis
cussion o f empirical design and modifications due to practical considerations.
Open to Seniors; prerequisites, Courses 214 and 195, and must be taken with 197.
218. Pumping Machinery.
Two hours a week during second semester. Lectures, recitations and problems.
Two hours* credit.
This course consists of the theory of air compressors, design of distributing systems
and c'ompressed air plants; study of machines for pumping liquids, with a descrip
tion of types, together with a description o f pumping plants to meet given conditions.
Special attention will be given to centrifugal and turbine pumps, and the complete
calculations and part' design of a high-pressure, multi-stage turbine pump will be
included.
Open to Seniors; prerequisites, Courses 216 and 225.
219. Power Plants.
Two hours a week during second semester. Lectures, recitations and problems.
Two hours* credit.
This course consists of the description, function and operating combinations of
boilers, engines, heaters, condensers, economizers, piping systems, etc.
Open to Seniors.
223. Surveying.
Six hours a week during the second semester. Two hours* credit.
Theory and field work; land surveying; leveling; laying out of buildings; study
of construction and adjustment of surveying instruments; drawing of a map from
the field notes.
Open to Sophomores; prerequisite, Course 253.
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224. Surveying.
Six hours a week during the first semester. Two hours* credit.
Theory and field work. Problems, involving the accurate use of chain, tape, transit
and level; city surveying.
The field work includes the use of the stadia for both traverse and topography.
Open to Juniors; prerequisite, Course 223.
225. Hydraulics.
Three hours a week during the first semester. Three hours* credit.
Fluids at rest. Hydrostatic pressure. Pressure of water against walls and dams.
Steady flow of liquids through pipes and orifices and over weirs. Fluid friction.
Loss of head. Steady flow o f water in open channels. Kutter’s formula and dia
grams based thereon. Theory of various kinds of hydraulic motors, etc.
Open to Seniors; prerequisites, Courses 256 and 257.
226. Railroads.
Recitations and field work during the first semester. Four hours* credit. Lectures,
recitations and problems during the second semester. Three hours* cred it.'
First Semester.— Circular curves; transition curves; turnouts, cross-sections. Com
plete surveys will be made for the location of a section of railway; 'cross-sections will
be taken and structure surveys made. Each student will make a map and profile
of the entire line with an estimate o f the quantities and cost, including grading, track
and structures.
Second Semester.— Lectures, recitations, and problems. The construction, main
tenance and operation of railroads.
Open to Seniors; prerequisite, Course 223.
227. Municipal Engineering.
Two hours of recitations, lectures and problems per week, during second semester,
two hours* credit.
(a ) Study o f the design, construction and operation of municipal waterworks and
sewerage systems: water and sewage purification; garbage disposal; (b ) Roads and
pavements.
Open to Seniors; prerequisites, Courses 223 and 225.
228. Concrete Construction.
Three hours* lectures and recitation during the ¿econd semester. Three hours* credit.
Study of reinforced construction and design; properties of the material; general
theory; tests of beams and columns; working stresses; use of diagrams and tables,
in building construction. Complete design o f one bay of a reinforced concrete factory
building.
229. Engineering Problems.
One hour*s credit each semester.
Problems such as occur in ordinary engineering' practice, chosen to show the ap
plication o f the principles of both mechanics and hydraulics to practical design.
These problems cover a wide range of subjects and afford opportunity for both
analytical and graphical solutions. Computations and reports.
Open to Senjors; elective.
230. The Annual Survey.
One week preceding the opening of college.
Topographic surveying.
Open to. Sophomores and required with.Course 223.
One hour*s credHt.
231. The Annual Survey.
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One week preceding the opening of college.
Topographic surveying; precise measurement; triangulation.
Open to Juniors and required with Course 224.
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232. Experimental Laboratory.
Four hours a week during second semester. Two hours’ credit.
Use of engineering computing devices. Experiments involving the parallelogram of
forces, center of gravity of plates, systems of levers; the mechanical strength of ma
terials, tension, torsion, transverse and compression tests. The study of the variation
of mechanical strength with differences in composition or heat treatment applied to
steel and cast irons, demonstration o f modern methods of tempering, annealing, heat
treating, etc. Reports aré required to be writen up neatly and fully, and must
include all the data and results of tests, together with conclusions. The preparation
of the report is considered an important part of ,the course.
Open to Juniors; prerequisites, Courses 171, 215, 256, 272, 273."
233. Experimental Laboratory.
Four hours each semester. Two hours’ credit each semester.
This course covers laboratory work, recitations and written reports. The course
covers calibration of indicator springs, steam gauges, thermometers, dynamometers,
viscosity and friction tests o f lubricants, tests and heating values of coals, tests of
various forms of Calorimeters, measurements of water, valve setting, efficiency tests of
steam boilers, Corliss simple engine, Ideal compound engine, steam heaters and con
densers, pump and water wheels, gas engines, etc.
Open to Seniors; prerequisites, Courses 216 and 232.
234. Gas Machinery Design.
Two lectures a week and one three-hour drawing period. During first and second
semester. Three hours’ credit.
The course consists of the rational and empirical design of internal combustion
engines and gas producers. The drawing period to cover the practical application
of principles discussed in the lectures.
Open to Seniors, prerequisites, Courses 214, 215 and 232.
235. Gas Power Machinery.
Two lectures a week, second semester. Two hours’ credit.
General theory and important points in the design and operation of internal com
bustion engines and gas producers. Description of existing commercial types, study
of relative advantages and consideration of questions of economy.
Open to Seniors.
236. Steam Turbines.
One lecture a week during second semester. One hour’s credit.
Classification of turbines and description of leading features of various types. Cal
culations involved in turbine design. Adaptability to special conditions of service and
discussion o f building, erecting and testing.
Open to Seniors; prerequisite, Course 216.
237. Direct Current Theory.
Two hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
A detailed study of the theory of direct currents, direct-current generators, motors
and their applications.
238. Direct Current Laboratory.
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One hour a week throughout the year.
The testing of direct-current generators, motors and apparatus.
To accompany Course 237.
239. Illumination.
Two hours a week for the first semester.
Photometrical measurements of light sources, with the theory of light distribution.
Open tq Juniors taking Engineering and Science Courses.
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240. Alternating Current Theory.
Three houre a week for the first semester.
The theory of alternating currents with especial reference to single-phase generators, motors, and transformers.
Prerequisites, Courses 237 and 238.
241. Alternating Current Laboratory.
One hour a week for the first semester.
A laboratory course including the testing, of single-phase generators, motors, trans
formers, meters, etc.
To accompany Course 240.
242. Central Stations and Power Transmission.
Three hours a week for the first semester.
A study of the electrical design, installation, equipment and economic operation of
central stations with the theory o f transmission and of the lines used in the distribu
tion o f electric power.
Prerequisites, Courses 237 and 238.
243. Polyphase Currents.
Three hours a week for the second semester.
An elementary course in the theory and application of polyphase machinery and
appliances.
Prerequisites, Courses 240 and 241.
244. Polyphase Laboratory.
One hour a week for the second semester.
A laboratory course in the testing of polyphase machinery and appliances.
To accompany Course 243.
245. Electric Railways.
Three hours a week for the second semester.
A study o f the equipment and operation of trolley lines and the electrification of
steam roads.
Prerequisites, Courses 237 and 240.
246. Conferences.
One hour a week throughout the year.
A seminary course in which papers are presented on definite problems in electrical
engineering, with a discussion o f methods of solution. This course is supplemented
by trips to electric stations in which an opportunity is afforded to observe practical
solutions o f the problems considered.
247. Social Engineering..
One hour a w eek throughout the year.
A study o f betterment work in the industries. Safety,. hygiene, cooperation, profitsharing, pensions, social insurance, housing, education, recreation and affiliated ques
tions are considered.
248. Efficiency.
Three hours a week during the second semester. One hour*s credit.
This work consists o f a study o f the principles of efficiency.
Records, plans,
schedules, dispatching, standardized conditions and operations, etc., are considered
and applied both to the individual and the shop organization,
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249. Principles o f Manufacturing and Factory Management.
One hour during the second semester. One hour’s credit.
Theory of measuring tools, shop tools and equipment; shop processes; manufac
turing methods ; theory o f cost and time-keeping systems ; factory management.
Open to Seniors in M.E.
M a th e m a tic s a n d A s tro n o m y
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor John A. Miller. Ross W . Marriott is Assistant Pro
fessor. John H. Pitman is Instructor, and Hannah B. Steele is
Research Assistant. Murat Louis Johnson o f the Penn Mutual
Life Insurance Company, is non-resident lecturer in the mathe
matics o f Insurance.
The courses in Mathematics are designed to meet the wants
of students desiring later to do graduate work in the best uni
versities; to teach mathematics in the preparatory schools; to
pursue engineering or other technical courses.
Students may fulfil the College requirement o f six hours of
Mathematics for all candidates for graduation, by taking Courses
251 and 253, by taking three hours o f Course 252 and Course 253,
or by taking six hours o f Astronomy. Students majoring in
Mathematics will take the first year Courses 251, 252; and 253.
Courses 251, 252 and 253 may be taken in any order. It is
preferred, however, that one semester, at least, of Course 252
should precede Course 253. The order in which the remaining
courses should be taken is specified for each course.
A . description o f the instrumental equipment for astronomy
may be found on pages 28 and 29. The teaching staff is at
present devoting as much time as is consistent with their teach
ing duties to studies in stellar parallax with the twenty-fourinch telescope, and in comet photography with the photographic
telescope. Students interested in either o f these problems may
work with advantage in conjunction with one of the professors.
The observatory is open to visitors on the second and fourth
Tuesday nights of each month, except those Tuesday nights that
fall in a vacation period. On clear evenings objects are shown
through the great telescope.
The Mathematical and Astronomical Club, an association of
students in Mathematics and allied subjects, and instructors in
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Mathematics, meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month
in the lecture room o f the Sproul Observatory. A t these meet
ings, reports are given by students on subjects usually not pre
sented in the classroom. Active participation in the club by
students majoring in the department is urged.
A departmental library is located on the first floor of the Ob
servatory. It contains about two thousand volumes and is suffi
ciently complete to make it a good working library. It is reason
ably supplied with standard treatises, particularly those published
in the last two decades. It contains complete sets o f nearly all the
American Mathematical and Astronomical periodicals, and sets,
some o f which are complete, some o f which are not, of the lead
ing English, German, and French periodicals.
This library
receives in exchange for the publications of the observatory, the
publications o f many o f the leading observatories of the world.
The departmental library has been repeatedly enriched
through the benefactions of Professor S. J. Cunningham. Upon
her retirement in 1906, she donated her private library. In 1908
she gave a fund which is being spent for the library, and in
1910 she gave a fund the income o f which will be devoted to
the purchase o f books and periodicals. A fund given by Senator
William C. Sproul has made possible the purchase o f complete
files of various astronomical periodicals and other astronomical
publications.
COURSES IN M A TH E M A T IC S
251. Solid Geometry.
Mr. Pitman.
Three hours a week during first semester.
Phillips and Fisher, Solid Geometry.
252. Algebra.
Offered annually.
Assistant Professor Marriott.
Three hours a week during first semester, and two hours a week during second
semester. Offered annually.
The fundamental operations and their laws o f combination. A short review of
factoring and simultaneous equations.
The transformation theorems; remainder
theorem; symmetric functions; differences; permutations and combinations; bi
nomial theorem; series; theory of equations; determinants and elimination. Fine,
College Algebra.
253. Trigonometry.
Assistant Professor Marriott and Mr. Pitman.
Three hours a week during first sem ester; repeated in second semester. Offered
annually..
The trigonometric ratios; reduction of trigonometric identities; solution of trig
onometric equations; inverse functions; solution of triangles and use of tables.
Lock, Trigonometry (Revised edition),
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254. Analytic Geometry.
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Professor Miller.
Three hours
Theory of Cartesian and Polar
the general equation -of the second
Prerequisites, Courses 252 and
255. Differential Calculus.
a week during the first semester. Offered annually.
cofirdinates; tjie straight line; the conic sections;
degree. Pine and Thompson, Coordinate Geometry.
253.
Assistant Professor Marriott.
Three hours a week during second semester. Offered annually.
A study o f text, supplemented by an occasional lecture. Granville, Differential and
Integral Calculus.
Prerequisite, Course 254.
256. Integral Calculus.
Assistant Professor Marriott.
Three hours a week during first semester. Offered annually.
A study o f text, supplemented by lectures. Granville, Differential and Integral
CalcuXu8.
Prerequisite, Course 255.
257. Analytical Mechanics.
Professor Miller.
Three hours a weeTc during second semester. Offered annually.
Composition and resolution o f forces; center of gravity; moments; velocity; accelera
tion; collision of bodies; the integration of simple equations of motion. One of the
purposes o f the course is to develop facility in applying mathematical formulas and
methods to the investigation o f physical phenomena.
Open to students who have credit in Course 256.
258. Theory o f Equations and Determinants.
Assistant Professor Marriott.
Two hours a week during first semester.
Cajori, Theory of Equations.
Prerequisite, Course 254.
259. Solid Analytic Geometry.
Offered annually.
Professor Miller.
Two hours a week during second semester. Offered annually.
Pine and Thompson, Coordinate Geometry, supplemented by lectures.
Prerequisite, Course 255.
260. Advanced Calculus.
Professor Miller.
Three •hours a week during first semester. Offered annually.
Total and partial derivations; theory o f infinitessimals; development of series;
definite integrals; approximations. The aim of the course-is three-fold; to ground
the student in the elementary work which has preceded it; to afford the merest in
troduction to the theory o f functions; and to develop skill in the application of the
principles o f the Calculus to Geometry, and Mechanics. Wilson, Advanced Calculus.
Open to students having credit in 257, 258, and 259.
261. The Mathematics o f Insurance.
Mr. Johnson.
Assistant Professor Marriott and
Offered in alternate years.
Three hours a week during first semester.
Given in
1915-16.
Permutations and combinations; theory o f probability; method of finite differ
ences; a study of Part I of Actuaries’ Textbook. Completion of this course, and
of the regular courses in algebra, plane geometry, plane trigonometry, plane analytic
geometry, differential and integral calculus should enable the student to proceed
with the examinations for admission to the Actuarial Society of America.
Prerequisite, Course 256.
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265. Differential Equations.
Assistant Professor Marriott.
Offered in alternate years. Three hours a week during second semester. Offered in
1914*15.
A study of ordinary and partial differential equations, with their applications to
geometrical, physical, and mechanical problems.
Prerequisite, Course 256.
266. Higher Algebra.
Assistant Professor Marriott.
Three hours a week during first semester, and two hours a week during second
semester.
An introduction to Higher Mathematical Analysis, including the number concept
from a standpoint of regular sequences; . number fields and domains; properties of
functions of real and complex variables, linear transformations and collineations;
matrices and invariants. The course is intended as a transition from the elementary
to the higher mathematics.
Bocher, Higher Algebra, and Harkness and Morley,
Theory of Functions.
Open to Seniors and Graduates majoring in Mathematics.
267. Method o f Least Squares.
Mr. Pitman.
Three hours a week ¿luring first semester. Offered in 1917-18.
The law of errors; the probability curve; adjustment of observations; weights
and probable errors. The theory will be applied to practical problems in astronomy.
A few supplementary lectures will be given on the methods of interpolation and
mechanical quadratures.
Merriman, Least Squares.
Open to Juniors and Seniors.
268. Research Courses.
Graduate students may work in conjunction with one of the professors on any
problem upon which the professor may be engaged. The student is encouraged to
familiarize himself with the literature of the problem in hand and to ground himself
in its fundamental principles.
270. Teachers ’ Course in Mathematics.
Assistant Professor Marriott.
Two hours a week d/uring second semester. Offered in 1915-16.
The aim of this course is:
(a ) To acquaint the student with the more elementary parts of the History of
Mathematics directly connected with his subject.
(b ) To study those topics in which the secondary teacher encounters the greatest
difficulties in. presentation, to give the student practical laboratory experience in
teaching, and to make reviews and criticisms o f modern texts.
Prerequisites, Mathematics 251, 252, and 253.
[This course does not count as required Mathematics.]
COURSES IN ASTRONOMY
262. Descriptive Astronomy.
Professor Miller.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Offered annually.
A study of the fundamental facts and laws o f Astronomy, and of the methods and
instruments of modern astronomical research. The course is designed to give infor
mation rather than to train scientists. A study of the textbook will be supplemented
by lectures illustrated by lantern slides from photographs made at various observa
tories. The class will learn the more conspicuous constellations and have an oppor
tunity to see the. various types o f celestial objects through the telescope. The treat
ment is non-mathematical. Young, Manual of Astronomy.
Prerequisite, Solid Geometry.
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263. Practical Astronomy.
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Mr. Pitman.
S ou r to be arranged.
ite o ry and use of the transit instrument; determination of time; the latitude of
Swarthmore; theory o f the determination o f longitude.
Intended for students of
Astronomy and Engineering and those desiring to take the civil service examinations
for positions in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Prerequisites, Courses 255 and 262.
264. Orbit Computation.
Mr. Pitman.
Three hours a week during second semester.
Offered in 1915-16.
Central orbits; computation of the orbit of a comet or an asteroid.
Short Method.
Open to Juniors and Seniors having credit in 267.
Leuschner’s
P h y s ic s
The instruction in this department is under the direction of
Professor Harvey C. Hayes.
The department aims to give such a thorough and general
training in the subject during the first two years’ work as will
enable one to pursue intelligently the work given in engineering
and advance work in any department o f physics. This work
also affords ample preparation fo r teaching Physics in high
schools and preparatory schools.
Instruction, in most of the courses, is supplemented by rigor
ous laboratory work. The apparatus used in connection with
this work is all modem and mostly new.
The laboratory is well equipped for advanced work in the
study o f light, or electricity and magnetism.
Students who m ajor in Physics must be prepared to do faith
ful and painstaking work. They should, if possible, start the
work in the freshman year. They must have a reading knowl
edge o f either French or German before entering the work of
the Junior year.
Those who major in Physics may equip themselves for the
following pursuits: post-graduate work in any leading univer
sity, research work in most of the numerous industrial labora
tories, various positions in connection with wireless telegraph
service.
No credit will be given for the first semester’s work in Courses
271 and 272 unless followed by the work o f the second se
mester.
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T H E COURSES IN P H Y SIC S
271. General Physics.
Professor Hayes.
Three hours throughout the year. Offered annually.
Two hours of lecture and two hours o f laboratory work each week. The solution
of practical problems involving the various laws which are studied forms a regular
and important part of the student’s work.
Open to Freshmen.
272. Advanced General Physics.
Professor Hayes.
Three hours throughout the year. Offered annually.
Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory work each week. Problem
work will be assigned throughout the year.
Open to students who have passed Course 271, or who, in the opinion of the in
structor, are prepared for this more advanced work.
273. Magnetic and Electrical Measurements.
Professor Hayes.
Three hours for first semester. Offered annually.
One or two hours of lecture at the pleasure of the instructor and from three to
five hours of laboratory work each week. The course is designed for familiarizing
the student with the construction and use of modern standard electrical and mag
netic measuring instruments. The laboratory work consists in measuring with ex
treme accuracy, resistance, electromotive force, current, capacity, and magnetic prop
erties. Both practical and theoretical problems dealing with subjects of electricity
and magnetism are assigned regularly.
Open to students who have passed Course 272.
274. Theories o f Magnetism.
Professor Hayes.
Three hours during second semester. Offered in alternate years.
Two hours of lecture and three hours o f laboratory each week. The laboratory
work consists in studying the magnetic properties of iron and other metals and the
variation in these properties produced by various heat and mechanical treatments.
Open to students who have passed Course 273.
275. Wireless Telegraphy.
Professor Hayes.
Three hours during second semester. Alternate with Course 274.
One or two hours o f lecture and three or five hours of laboratory work each week
at the pleasure o f the instructor. The laboratory work deals with the phenomena p f
high-frequency alternating currents.
Open to students who have passed Course 273.
276. The Conduction- o f Electricity Through Gases.
Professor Hayes.
Three hours a w eek during first semester,
Three hours o f lecture each week. The subject is developed historically and deals
with the Cathode Ray, the Canal Rays, and the X-Rays, and their relation to the
a, ¡3» an(i y radiations given out by radium and other radio-active substances. The
purpose of the course is to familiarize the student with some of the modern views
concerning the constitution of matter.
Open to students who have passed Course 272.
277. Light.
Professor Hayes.
Three hours a week during second semester.
Two hours o f lecture and three hours o f laboratory work each week. The subject
is developed, and the various phenomena explained, in accordance with the wave
theory. The laboratory work consists in reproducing and obtaining a photographic
record of these phenomena.
Open to students who have passed Course 272.
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P h y s ic a l E d u c a tio n
The aim o f the departments o f Physical Education is. to pro
mote the general physical well being of the students, and to
assist them to gain the hygienic, corrective, and educative effect
o f rightly regulated exercise.
In order that this object may be better attained, and to assist
the directors in gaining a definite knowledge o f the strength
and weakness o f the individual, a careful physical examination
and medical inspection (eye, nose, and throat) is required, which
serves as a basis for the work.
A ll students must take the prescribed work in Physical Educa
tion. It is strongly recommended that, before entering College,
each student undergo a thorough visual examination and be fitted
with glasses, if there is a need for them.
For a general statement in regard to the facilities for physical
training at Swarthmore see pages 31 and 32.
P h y s ic a l E d u c a tio n o f th e M e n
Instruction in this department is under the direction o f E.
LeRoy Mercer, M.D.
Two hours a week o f regular prescribed work are required of
all men in the first and second year classes.
Intercollegiate contests in various athletic and aquatic sports
are conducted by the Athletic Association, but under the over
sight of the Athletic Committee and the Director o f Physical
Education, who may at any time forbid any man entering a con
test whose physical condition is not satisfactory.
1. Physical Education.
Dr. Mercer.
Two hours a week throughout the year (two sections).
This course is required of all first-year men, who may elect from the following
during the fall months, opening of college to Thanksgiving recess: Football, lacrosse,
cross-country, track and tennis.
Ending of Thanksgiving recess to spring recess: The classes meet in the gym
nasium and the work consists o f gymnastics and athletics so fitted to the students*
life that it will be both beneficial and pleasant.
Ending o f spring recess to Commencement, election may be made from the follow
ing: Baseball, lacrosse, track and tennis.
Lectures in hygiene will be given during the winter.
Freshmen will be required to attend one swimming period weekly.
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2. Physical Education.
Dr. Mercer.
Two hour8 a week throughout the year (two sections).
This cour&e is required of all second-year men. The plan and nature of'th e work
is similar to Course 1, hut more advanced. The talks on hygiene are continued.
3. Physical Education.
Dr. Mercer.
Juniors and, Seniors, one hour each week (optional).
From Thanksgiving recess to the spring recess, gymnastic exercises and recreative
games.
P h y s ic a l E d u c a tio n o f th e W o m e n
This department is under the direction o f Lillian Shaw and
Dr. Mary R. Hadley Lewis.
One hour o f exercise each day except Sunday is required o f
all resident and non-resident women students throughout their
college course. Two o f these periods of each week must be
spent in supervised classwork— field hockey in the fall, classwork in the gymnasium in the winter, basketball and tennis in
the spring. On the other four days of the week some form of
outdoor exercise must be taken. This may be tennis, riding,
cross-country tramps, or swimming. Exceptions to these re
quirements are made only for physical disability and at the dis
cretion of the physician in charge, in which case suitable work
is prescribed. Exercise in the gymnasium, swimming and all
athletic sports are under the personal supervision o f the director.
First-year students are required to attend a course of lectures
in Hygiene, given once a week during the first and second
semester.
Application for information in regard to the regulation dress
for athletics and gymnastics should be made to the Dean.
1 . First Year Gymnastics. Miss Shaw.
Two hours a week from Thanksgiving to the Spring Recess.
Required of first-year students.
Elementary German and Swedish, gymnastics, gymnastic games, and folk-dancing.
In addition, one hour o f swimming a week is required of first-year students.
2. Second Year Gymnastics.
Miss Shaw.
Two hours a week, from Thanksgiving to the Spring Recess.
' Required of second-year students.
German and Swedish gymnastics (more advanced than Course 1 ), gymnastic games,
and folk-dancing.
One period a week o f swimming is required, in addition.
DEPARTMENTS AND BOURSES OP INSTRUCTION
3. Third-Year Gymnastics.
151
Miss Shaw.
Two hours a week from Thanksgiving to the Spring Recess.
Required of third-year resident students.
German and Swedish gymnastics (more advanced than Course 2 ), gymnastic games,
and folk-dancing.
One period a week of swimming is required, in addition.
4. Fourth Year Gymnastics.
Miss Shaw.
Two hours a week from Thanksgiving to the Spring Recess.
Required of fourth-year resident students.
German and Swedish gymnastics (more advanced than Course 3 ), gymnastic games,
and folk-dancing.
5. Fencing.
Miss Shaw.
One period a week from Thanksgiving to the Spring Recess.
Open to Juniors and Seniors as an elective period in addition to the two required
hours a week.
6 . Advanced Elective Gymnastics. Miss Shaw.
One hour a week from Thanksgiving to the Spring Recess.
Open only to members of the class gymnastic squads in addition to the two required
hours a week.
Advanced apparatus work, advanced marching, and gymnastic games.
7. ( a) Advanced Elective Dancing.
Miss Shaw.
One hour a week from Thanksgiving to May.
Open to all students as an elective in addition to the two required hours a week.
.¿Esthetic dancing and advanced folk-dancing.
8 . (b ) Beginners’ Elective Dancing.
Miss Shaw.
One hour a week from Thanksgiving to May.
9. Special Corrective Gymnastics.
Miss Bransom.
Advised for students who need special attention because of poor carriage, slight
curvatures, or weak arches.
Daily work on the part of the student in addition to a period once a week with the
instructor.
10. Swimming.
Ability to swim is a part of the requirement in Physical Education.
S T U D E N T S , 1915-16.
G rad uate S tu den ts
Name.
D arlington, Charles J oseph ,
Major Subject.
Chemistry,
Residence.
Darling.
A .B ., Sw arthm ore C ollege, 19 1 5 .
German,
Brooklyn,
A .B ., A d e lp h i C ollege, 19 14 .
V est , L elia E loise,
E d u cation,
Ottumwa,
A .B ., Swarthm ore College, 19 15 .
S chriefer, L ouise L ohmann ,
N. Y.
Iowa.
U ndergraduate S tu den ts
A dams , A lice N aomi,
A dams , V irginia E lizabeth ,
A gnew , H arman P aul ,
A gon, Olga A lice,
A insworth , H arold,
A lderfer, Clement J oseph ,
A llen , J ames E verett,
A llen, M argaret,
A mes , J ames W ilson ,
A ndrews, E lizabeth H olbert,
A rnold, J ames P orter,
A shmead , Charles Colliday,
A tkins , H elen M arie,
A tkinson , E leanor W illiams ,
A tkinson , H elen D orothy,
A tkinson , M ary Cleaver,
A tlee, ■Clara ,
B ailey , L yn n H amilton ,
B aird, F rances L aura,
B aker , E dwin W arman ,
B aker, E ugene T homas ,
B aker, F rances H aw ke ,
B aker , H enry F enimore, J r .,
B aker, B utherford M orse,
B aldwin , A rdis M ayhew ,
B allard, J udson T upper,
B allein , H elen E lizabeth ,
B arnard, B oyd T erhune,
B arnard, N orris Clements ,
B arnes , H arold F reeman ,
E n g lish ,
Swarthmore.
Lisbon, Ohio. Econom ics,
Philadelphia.
L a tin ,
Jeannette.
P o l. Science,
Swarthmore.
P o l. Science,
Benovo.
Chem. E n g in ., West Chester.
B isto r y ,
Woodstown, N. J.
B isto ry ,
Hawley.
E n glish,
Butherford, N. J.
Butler, Mo.
Engineering,
Beesley’s Point, N. J.
P u b . Speaking, Merchantville, N. J.
Trenton, N. J.
E n g lish ,
Moorestown, N. J.
P sy .
Edu.
Trenton, N. J.
F rench,
Biverton, N. J.
C ivil E n g in ,
West Collingswood, N. J.
L a tin ,
Wilmington, Del.
Baltimore, Md.
P o l. Science,
Engineering,
Lansdowne.
E n glish,
Chester.
Chem. Engi/n., Baltimore, Md.
C ivil E n gin.,
New York, N. Y .
E n g lish ,
Baltimore, Md.
Chem. E n gin., Philadelphia.
Winfield, Kans.
F ren ch ,
Econom ics,
Winfield, Kans.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
E lec t. E n gin.,
Swarthmore.
(152)
STUDENTS, 1915-16
Name.
B artleson, T homas L eer,
B ell, D orothea,
B ell, J ohn W esley ,
B elville, Catharine B eading,
B erry, H omer H endricks,
B erry, P aul B urnett,
B ew , W alter T hewlis ,
B iddle, H elen B oberta,
B ingham , L eslie Shaw ,
B ishop , M argaret,
B lackburn, J ohn B ussell,
B lackwell , Charles M cI ntire,
B lake , J oseph M urdock,
B lau, B obert Sloss,
B odine, D avid M onroe, J r .,
B onner, Charles Granniss ,
B oughton, F rederick A nthony ,
B ower, E thelwyn ,
B radfield, E dmund Shannon ,
B riggs, H arry Schweinhart ,
B riggs, I sabella M cK elvey,
B riggs, L eon W illard,
B ronk, D etlev W.,
B rooke, B ichard D avis ,
B rown , H azel H emphill ,
B rown, H erbert L awyer ,
B rown, J ane P ancoast,
B rown, J anet M cP herson,
B rown, J ohn T rites ,
B rown , K enneth B ent,
B ryan , A lice Gibson,
B ryan , Gideon W arren,
B ucher, E lla B arbara,
B uckman , E m ily M arian ,
B uckman , F ranklin P reston,
B ullock, E dward Samuel ,
B urdsall, E llwood M orris,
B uedsall, B ichard L loyd,
B ush , A lva E dison,
B ush , E dwin M onroe,
Cameron, W arren M elrath ,
Carpenter, I saac , J r .,
Carris, E dward Clayton ,
Chappell, E va H elen,
Clark , H elen Catharine ,
Clarke, W illiam A nderson,
Major Subject.
Beeidence.
Chester.
New York, N. Y .
P o l. Science,
Lebanon, Ind.
Trenton, N. J.
E n glish ,
Chester.
Chem istry,
Chester.
Chem istry,
Ventnor, N. J.
Biverton, N. J.
Chem istry,
Millville, N. J.
E n glish,
Lansdowne.
Econom ics,
Bedford.
Trenton, N. J.
Econom ics,
Jacksonville, Fla.
M athem atics,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Econom ics,
Trenton, N. J.
M ech. Engi/n., Philadelphia.
■ Chemistry,
Tuxedo, N. Y.
M athem atics,
New York, N. Y.
M ech. E n gin., Barnesville, Ohio.
E n glish,
Pottstown.
B iology,
Washington, D. C.
Econom ics,
Trenton, N. J.
Engineering,
Troy, N. Y .
E n g lish ,
Philadelphia.
Astronom y,
Philadelphia.
B iology,
Glen Mills.
E n glish,
Leesburg, Ya.
French,
Washington, D. C.
M athem atics,
Media.
B iology,
Pendleton, Ind.
Econom ics,
Wilmington, Del.
Chem istry,
Ingraham, HI.
P u b . Speaking, Lansdowne.
B iolog y,
Trenton, N. J.
B iology,
Trenton, N. J.
Chem. E n gin., Wallingford.
Econom ics,
Port Chester, N. Y.
M ech. E n gin., Port Chester, N. Y .
Chemistry,
Eldora, Iowa.
Lebanon, Ind.
Econom ics,
Nottingham.
Econom ics,
White Plains, N. Y .
E ngineering,
Woodlynne, N. J.
M athem atics,
Barnesville, Ohio.
L a tin ,
Philadelphia.
Econom ics,
Elizabeth, N. J.
Chem. Engi/n.,
Chem istry,
153
154
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
Name.
M ajor Subject.
Residence.
West Chester.
C l e m e n t , J o h n F r e d e r ic k ,
Oak Summit, N. Y.
Cl i m e , B e n j a m i n S y d n e y ,
Philadelphia.
Co h e n , H y m a n H a r r y ,
Philadelphia.
Co l e s , H e l e n ,
Merchantville, N. J.
C o m l e y , B o y C l if t o n ,
Lebanon, Ind.
Co n n e r , V io l a M a r t h a ,
Montchanin, Del.
C o n r o w , R e b e c c a W il s o n ,
M athem atics,
Riverton, N. J.
C o o k , F lo r e n c e L o n g s t r e t h ,
French,.
Philadelphia.
C ope , M a r g a r e t t a ,
E n glish ,
Philadelphia.
C o pe , W il l i a m T o rb e r t ,
Econom ics,
West Chester.
C ornog , A l l is o n G r is c o m ,E le c t. E n gin., Ithan.
C ornog , E l w o o d C a r r ,
E le c t. E n gin., Ithan.
C ornog , I s a a c C l y d e ,
E lec t. E n gin., Concordville.
C ornog , W i l l i a m L i n d s a y ,
Chem istry,
Ithan.
C o r s e , G eorge F o x ,
H istory,
Gardenville, Md.
C o r s o n , E w i n g T ib b e l s ,
M athem atics,
Ocean City, N. J.
C o y , G e r a l d in e M il e s ,
M athem atics,
Glencoe, 111.
Cr a ig h e a d , R u t h ,
Greek,
Harrisburg.
Crosley, M a r y I n g r a h m ,
E n glish , .
Melrose Park.
Cr o s s , R u t h M a y ,
M athem atics,
Cynwyd.
C u l in , H e l e n C o l l in s ,
Econom ics,
Ogontz.
Cu l v e r , E s t h e r H e l e n ,
German,
Quogue, N. Y .
C u r t in , E l l s w o r t h F e r r is ,
C ivil E n gin.,
Clarksburg, W. Va.
D a n ie l s , H e l e n ,
L a tin ,
Swarthmore.
D a r l in g t o n , D o r o t h e a L i n d s a y ,
Darling.
D a r l in g t o n , H e l e n E l i z a b e t h , H istory,
Pomeroy.
D a v is , Cl a r k W a r r e n ,
Chem. E n gin., South Omaha, Neb.
D a v i s , L o u is N ic h o l s ,
E le c t. E n gin.,
West Chester.
D eacon, I sabel D o ro th y,
F rench,
Mount Holly, N. J.
D e n n i s , F red C o n d o n ,
M athem atics,
Terhune, Ind.
D e n w o r t h , H u g h F r e d e r ic k ,
Econom ics,
West Chester.
D e p u t y , H e le n G ertrude,
M athem atics,
Glenolden.
D e v e l in , D o r o t h y A r c h e r ,
H istory,
Camden, N. J.
D i l l in g h a m , W il l ia m H e n r y ,
P o l. Science,
Boyce, Va.
D o a n , M a r c ia S ib y l ,
B iology,
Indianapolis, Ind.
D o l m a n , M e l a n ie N i c k i n s o n ,
Swarthmore.
D o n n e l l y , F r e d e r ic k S t o c k h a m , M athem atics,
Trenton, N. J.
D o n o h u g h , E m m a E d it h ,
Swarthmore.
D o w d e l l , M a r c u s P.,
P o l. Science,
Harrisburg.
D o w d y , A l l e n E d g ar ,
Chem. E n gin., Moore.
D oyle, T h o m a s H en ry,
C ivil E n g in .,
Philadelphia.
D u f f y , C h e s t e r Cl y d e ,
E n gineering ,. Bellaire, Ohio.D u n h a m , M a r k A d d is o n ,
M ech. E n gin., Omaha, Neb.
E b y , L e s l ie H y a t t ,
M ech. Engim,., Sheboygan, Wis.
E l l io t t , M a r k , J r .,
B iology,
Virginia, Minn.
Cl e m e n s , M a r g a r e t M e t e r s ,
E n glish ,
E le c t. Engim.,
Econom ics,
Econom ics,
P u b . Speaking ,
Chem istry,
STUDENTS, 1915-16
Name.
E l l s w o r t h , A b ig a il M a r t ,
E n d io o tt , P a u l D a v i s ,
E v a n s , E d n a P r is c il l a ,
E van s, H e n r y T urner,
F a h n e s t o c k , K a t h e r in e V .,
F a ir l a m b , R e b e k a h A l c y o n e ,
F a r ie s , J e a n R e ic h n e r ,
F e r r is , J o h n P r ic e ,
F etter, L a u r a J a c k s o n ,
F i r m in , M a r i a n G o ld sb o r o u g h ,
F orgeng , I l l o n a A n n a ,
F o u l k e , H a n n a h L ip p in c o t t ,
F r ic k e , A l ic e B ir d ,
F r ic k e , F r a n c e s B r o w n ,
F rorer , E l iz a b e t h N e w m a n n ,
F r o s t , E d w a r d L a w r e n c e , J r .,
Ga s k i l l , H e l e n G e r t r u d e ,
G a w t h r o p , M a r y H ic k m a n ,
G a w t h r o p , W il l i a m R a l p h ,
G e m m i l l , P a u l F l e m in g ,
G e r l it z k i , M a r io n V ir g in ia ,
G ib s o n , P a u l R a y m o n d ,
G il b e r t , D o r is M e l l o r ,
G il c h r is t , C h a r l e s D o u g l a s ,
G il l e s p ie , F r a n k l i n S im c o e ,
G l i c k , L o u is M a u r ic e ,
G o e h r in g , W a l t e r ,
Go ff, S a r a h E l is e ,
G o o d all , M a r y H a l l ,
G ould , M i n n ie E l m a ,
G o u r l e y , B u s s e l l Co n w e l l ,
G o w d y , E d w i n T udor ,
Go w d y , L a u r a n c e P e t e r s ,
Gr a h a m , M a l c o l m Sag u e ,
G r a t z , M a r io n C l e v e n g e r ,
G r ie s t , M a r y K i r k ,
G r if f e n , G l a d y s E v e l y n ,
G r i f f i t h s , J o s e p h in e M u r r a y ,
G u t e l iu s , F red P y l e ,
H a l l , G l a d y s Cu n n i n g h a m ,
H a lsey, M a r y D arrack,
H alsted, J e ss,
H a m il t o n , T h e o a,
H a m p s o n , Ch a r it y B e l l ,
H a n s o n , A im e e D o r o t h y ,
H a r l a n , R an d olph B e h r e n s ,
Major Subject.
English,
Pol. Science,
155
Residence.
Riverton, N. J.
Atlantic City, N. J.
Masonville, N . J.
Civil Engin.,
Port Washington, N. Y .
Harrisburg.
English,
English,
Brandywine Summit.
B iology,
Bala.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Bub. Speaking, Hopewell, N. J.
M athematics,
Philadelphia.
Scranton.
French,
Ambler.
Pub. Speaking, Swarthmore.
Swarthmore.
M athematics,
Philadelphia.
P ol. Science,
Floral Park, N. Y .
Latin,
Swarthmore.
French,
Kennett Square.
Cherri. Engin., Lancaster.
York.
Greek,
Doylestown.
Chem. Engin., Chester.
M athematics,
Philadelphia.
M ech. Engin., Hoboken, N . J.
Nottingham.
B iology,
Chem. Engin., West Chester.
Philadelphia.
Economics,
English,
Ocean City, N. J.
H istory,
Philadelphia.
Towson, Md.
French,
M-elrose Park.
Economics,
Thompsonville, Conn.
Thompsonville, Conn.
P ol. Science,
M ech. Engin., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Pemberton, N. J.
English,
Philadelphia.
Latin,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
M athematics,
M athematics,
Norristown.
Mech. Engin., New York, N. Y .
English,
Swarthmore.
Pub. Speaking, Swarthmore.
Economics,
Sheboygan, Wis.
Chemistry,
Fargo, N. D.
Latin,
Govans, Md.
Latin,
Perth Amboy, N. J.
M ech. Engin., Mauch Chunk.
156
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
Name.
H a b e t , D a v id P e r c iv a l , J e .,
H a e v e t , M a e t E l iz a b e t h ,
H a v il a n d , M a e g a e e t ,
H a t e s , E sth er Kach el,
H a t e s , G eorge P a s s m o e e ,
H a t e s , W i l l i a m W a ld o ,
H eacock, R a l p h H and erso n ,
H eald, P u s e t B an ceopt,
H e ck , J o sh u a H olland,
H en derson , L e o n ,
H eeem an, D oroth t D r e w ,
H ibb erd , S t a n l e t T h o m a s ,
H il l , R u t h G l o v e r ,
H odge , D a v id M a l c o l m ,
H odge , R ic h a r d G a m b e i l l ,
H odge , S e w e l l W e b b ,
H odge , W in if r e d T h o r n t o n ,
H o l l in g s h e a d , E l w o o d R oger ,
H o l m e s , E s t h e r F is h e e ,
H oot , H e n e t I e w i n ,
H o w e l l , Ch a r l e s M a n l t ,
H u g h e s, E l s ie M a t ,
H u l l , C h a r l a G a ig e ,
H u t c h in s o n , H a l b e r t C o n e o w ,
I c k e s , H e l e n E u g e n ie ,
I n g l is , H e l e n F lagg ,
I e w in , E verett P h e l p s ,
J a c k so n , H erbert W orth ,
J a c k s o n , J a m e s J ., J e .,
J e n k i n s , B e a t r ic e M a g il l ,
J e n k i n s , I s a b e l C ope ,
J o h n so n , Ch arles R u ss e l l ,
J o h n so n , D o eo th t A gn es,
J o h n s o n , H e le n E l iza b e t h ,
J o h n so n , J o h n W il l ia m ,
J o l in b , D o e o t h t E l i z a b e t h ,
J ones, B tron L esteb,
J o n e s , M ir i a m M il l e t t ,
J otce, E m il t P a e e t,
K e e n e , M aelan L in d a ,
K e l l e t , W il l i a m D o n n e l l ,
K e lle t, H elen M a t ,
K e n n e d t , F lorence,
K e r n s , B e u l a h M argaret,
K id d , J o h n E d w a r d ,
K in g , W il l e t t a B l a n c h e ,
Major Subject.
Latin,
French,
Residence.
Philadelphia.
Brandywine Summit.
Brooklyn, IST. Y .
Swarthmore.
English,
West Chester.
English,
Chem. Engin., West Chester.
Rising Sun, Md.
Engineering,
E lect. Engin., Wilmington, Del.
E lect. Engin., West Chester.
Millville, N. J.
Econom ics,
Kensington, Md.
H istory,
Media.
Chemistry,
Pub. Speaking, Swaxthinore.
Chester.
Washington, D. C.
Engineering,
Washington, D. C.
Mathematics,
Washington, D. C.
Latin,
Moorestown, N. J.
Pol. Science,
Riverton, N. J.
Pol. Science,
Philadelphia.
Engineering,
Civil Engin.,
Millville, N. J.
Rutherford, N. J.
Latin,
Johnson City, N. Y.
Latin,
E lect. Engin., Plainfield, N. J.
English,
Norwood.
English,
Philadelphia.
B iology,
Catskill, N. Y .
Economics,
Lansdowne.
E lect. Engin., Christiana.
English,
Chicago, 111.
Latin,
Philadelphia.
E lect. Engin., Chester.
M athematics,
Alexandria, Ya.
Greek,
Braintree, Mass.
Econom ics,
Coatesville.
English,
Tottenville, N. Y .
M ech. Engin., Lebanon, Ind.
Pub. Speaking, Swarthmore.
Pub. Speaking, Swarthmore.
H istory,
Lansdowne.
Engineering,
Philadelphia.
Latin,
Spotswood, N. J.
French,
Philadelphia.
Moline, 111.
E lect. Engin., Chester.
M athematics,
Philadelphia.
157
STUDENTS, 1915-16
Name.
K is t l e r , C l a r a R u t h ,
Major Subject.
Residence.
P u b . Speaking, Shenandoah.
Norristown.
West Chester.
White Plains, N. Y.
K o m o r i, P h y l l i s ,
C ivil E n gin.,
Clifton Heights.
K orn, A d o lph ,
F rench,
Philadelphia.
K r a u s k o p f , M a d e l in e ,
L a tin ,
Reading.
K u r tz, M a bel M organ,
L a tin ,
Reading.
L a c e y, R u t h A gn es,
M athem atics,
West Chester.
L air d , O l iv e P r a n c e s ,
German,
L a n g , H il d a A n n a ,
Rutledge.
E ngineering,
L a n g , W a l t e r B e r l in g e r ,
Rutledge.
H istory,
L a u d e n s l a g e r , P l m e r B orger ,
Philadelphia.
M ech. E n gih ., Media.
L e s l e y , C o n r a d C l o t h ie r ,
E n glish,
L e w i s , L o u is e E v a n g e l in e ,
Pendleton, Ind.
F rench,
West Chester.
L e w i s , L o u is e K e r ,
German,
L i p p i n Co t t , R h o d a A l ic e ,
Swarthmore.
L o c k , R o y L ee ,
East Cleveland, Ohio.
H istory,
Woodbury, N. J.
L u c a s , D o r o th y P ordyce,
Econom ics,
L u k e n s , J a m e s Cl a r e n c e ,
Moore.
L a tin ,
L u k e n s, M a r y L yn dell,
Upper Darby.
P o l. Science,
L u k e n s , S a m u e l C o n r a d , J r .,
Philadelphia.
H istory,
West Chester.
L u m i s , R u t h E l iz a b e t h ,
M cC a b e , M a r t h a G e rt ru d e ,
Selbyville, Del.
M athem atics,
Arden, N. Y.
M c Cl e l l a n , B e s s ,
L a tin ,
M cG a h e y , M a r y H o w it t ,
Darby.
Cleveland, Ohio.
M c Go v e r n , F r a n c is P a t r ic k ,
E lec t. E n gin., Philadelphia.
M c N e il l , C l a r e n c e E s b in ,
E n glish ,
M a c k , I r e n e M il l e r ,
Melrose Park.
M a c k e n z ie , D o r o t h y J o s e p h in e , E n glish ,
Elkins Park.
E le c t. E n gin., Abbottstown.
M arch , J o se ph W olf,
E n glish ,
M arkle, M ary A n n a,
Swarthmore.
M ech. E n gin., Swarthmore.
M a r r , H ar o ld G r a h a m ,
Econom ics,
Wilmington, Del.
M ason , J oh n T en n ey,
M athem atics,
M ath er, M a r y ,
Wayne.
H istory,
M a u l e , W a l t e r W il l i a m ,
Gum Tree.
P u b . Speaking, Lansdowne.
M a x w e l l , P rances H elen,
Chem istry,
East Orange, N. J.
M a ze , A u g u stu s E verett,
M ech. E n gin., Media.
M e l i c k , J a m e s B l o o m f ie l d ,
L a tin ,
Toughkenamon.
M e n d e n h a l l , E d i t h W il s o n ,
Bendersville.
P o l. Science,
M ic h e n e r , A n n a M a r g u e r it e ,
Chem. E n gin., Bendersville.
M ic h e n e r , C h a r l e s R a y m o n d ,
Riverton, N. J.
M il l e r , E l i z a b e t h R u l o n ,
H istory,
Hatboro.
M il l e r , E v e l y n L e v is ,
E n g lish ,
Philadelphia.
M il l e r , H e l e n - M a y ,
Philadelphia.
C iv il E n g in .,
M olloy, J a m e s H ow ard,
York.
L a tin ,
M oore , A b ig a il I r e n e ,
K n e a s , W il d a M a r ie ,
K n o x , G eorge M oore ,
French,
M ech. E n gin.,
158
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
Name.
M ajor Subject.
Residence.
Roanoke, Va.
Knightstown, Ind.
Swarthmore.
Swarthmore.
Morton.
Swarthmore.
Glen Ridge, N. J.
Hagerstown, Md.
M y e r s , C h a r l e s L o u is R eed , J r .f
Moore.
P o l. Science,
M y e r s , Cl a r e n c e G a t e s ,
Waterloo, Iowa.
N a b b , M a l v e r n J.,
Millville, N. J.
H istory,
N a y , Cl a r e n c e P a u l ,
Sheridan, Ind.
P u b . Speaking,, Pleasant Plains, N. Y .
N e e l y , E lea n o r M organ,
German,
N e e l y , R o s e M a r g u e r it e ,
Philadelphia.
N e lso n , A lbert N oel,
Lebanon, Ind.
N e v il l e , J o s e p h S id d o n s ,
C ivil E n gin.,
Delaneo, N. J.
B iology,
West Chester.
N e v y a s , J acob,
N e w c o m e r , B e a t r ic e K e n t ,
Philadelphia.
P u b . Speaking, Philadelphia.
N ew com er, E sther A n n e,
P u b . Speaking, , Chester.
N ic h o l s , E s t h e r O r in d a ,
B iology,
N u n ez, M a r y ,
Tampa, Fla.
H istory,
O g d en , J o h n M a h l o n , '
Ogden.
E n glish,
O gden , S a m u e l R o b in s o n ,
Elizabeth, N. J.
E n glish ,
Ol in , H a r r y A r th u r ,
Chicago, III.
Econom ics,
O r ch ard , J o h n E w in g ,
South Omaha, Neb.
E n glish ,
O r n d o r f f , R u t h M a r ie ,
Philadelphia.
P a in e , D o r o t h y B e l l e ,
Scranton.
P a l m e r , E d gar Z a v it z ,
Chester.
Greek,
P a t t is o n , E s t h e r S t o w e l l ,
Swarthmore.
P earson, A n d rew R u ss e l l ,
Swarthmore.
P o l. Science,
P e r r y , H o race M it c h e l l ,
Chester.
P e t t it , A l b e r t R u s s e l l P h i p p s , M ech. E n gin., Rancocas, N. J.
C ivil E n gin.,
Downingtown.
P h i l i p s , C h a r l e s F l e m in g ,
B iolog y,
P h il ip s , E sth e r H e w e s ,
Plainfield, N. J.
Econom ics,
Fort Dodge, Iowa.
P ie r c e , A l l in H u g h ,
E n glish,
Yeadon.
P ie r c e , F lo r e n c e M a y ,
C ivil E n gin.,
P o h l ig , W i l l ia m T h eo d or e ,
Bala.
B iology,
POSTLETHWAITE, VIRGINIA,
Sewickley.
E n glish ,
P ound, M abel L e w e l l y n ,
St. Thomas, Ontario, Can.
E n glish,
Chester.
P ow ell, E d n a M yrtle,
M athem atics,
P o w e l l , M argaret E lgar,
Lansdowne.
F rench,
Lancaster.
P o w e r s, M a r y E l iza b e t h ,
Chem. E n gin., West Chester.
P r a t t , Ca r l D a v i s ,
M ech. E n gin., Swarthmore.
P r e s t o n , A l b e r t W.,
E n g lish ,
P r ic e , K a t h e r i n e V ir g in ia ,
Brookline, Mass.
Glyndon, Md.
P r ic e , T h o m a s R o w e , J r .,
M eek. E n gin.,
Chem. E n gin.,
M o r g a n , R o w l a n d R ic h a r d ,
M o r r is o n , B a y a r d H u n t e r , J r ., Chem istry,
M o r r is o n , E l iz a b e t h K n o w l e s , Econom ics,
F rench,
M orton, J e a n F lo ren ce,
P o l. Science,
M u n c e , J a m e s G a y G ordon ,
M ech. Engin..,
M u r c h , J o h n D w ig h t ,
Chem. E n gin.,
M yers, A llen I saac,
M oore , W il l ia m R a n d o l p h , J r .,
159
STUDENTS, 1915-16
Name.
Major Subject.
Residence.
Chester.
P u g h , C a t h a r i n e W h it e ,
French,
Swarthmore.
H istory,
Swarthmore.
P u g h , I sabel R oberts,
E n glish ,
West Chester.
P y l e , E d it h S h a r p l e s ,
Washington, D. C.
P y l e , E l iza b e t h ,
B iolog y,
C iv il E n gin.,
Washington, D. C.
P y l e , F re d e r ic L a w r e n c e ,
Chemistry,
Wilmington, Del.
Q u a y l e , O s b o r n e R o b in s o n ,
R a k e s t r a w , J o s e p h in e B.,
H istory,
Wildwood, N. J.
M eeh. E n gin., Brooklyn, N. Y .
R aw son, A rth ur J oy,
Woodstown, N. J.
E n glish ,
R eed , L a v i n i a T o w n s e n d ,
West Chester.
H istory,
R e e s e , N e l l ie R u t h ,
Bangor.
L a tin ,
R e ic h a e d , G l a d y s A m a n d a ,
Lansdowne.
R eid , H e l e n H u t c h in s o n ,
E n glish , '
West Chester.
R e il l y , W il l i a m J o s e p h ,
Philadelphia.
R ic h a r d s o n , C l a r e , F r a n c e s ,
West Chester.
R iddle , F lo r e n c e ,
H istory,
Philadelphia.
R id p a t h , W i l l i a m L in c o l n , J r ., B iology,
Econom ics,
Bound Brook, N. J.
R ip p e r t , J o h n S e b r in g ,
E n glish ,
Wellsville, Ohio.
R ig g s , J e a n S t e w a r t ,
E n glish ,
Philadelphia.
R ob e r t s , J a n e L u k e n s ,
Wilmington, Del.
H istory,
R o b e r t so n , E d it h E l i z a b e t h ,
Philadelphia.
R o b e r t so n , M a r io n T e m p l e t o n , French,
Warrensburg, Mo.
R o b e r t so n , R a l p h M a r io n ,
Philadelphia.
R obey, H elen K oon s,
Winchester, Ya.
M athem atics,
R o b in s o n , M a r y O p a l ,
Chester.
E n glish ,
R o se, S a r a h R u tte r ,
Philipsburg.
E n glish ,
R u n e , E lea n o r R ae,
Bedford.
R u ss e l l , I r m a K ip p ,
Yardley.
B iolog y,
San ds, J o se ph E v a n s ,
Trenton, N. J.
S a t t e r t i iw a i t e , E d it h R i d g w a y , L a tin ,
Chem istry,
Chattaroy, W . Y a.
S c h o e w , F r e d e r ic k W il l ia m ,
Wilmington, Del.
F ren ch,
S co tt , H e l e n e B a r r e t t ,
Jericho, N. Y.
S e a m a n , P h e b e U n d e r h il l ,
Philadelphia.
E n glish,
S e e d s , C h a r l o t t e Y a n Co u r t ,
E n glish,
Swarthmore.
S h id l e , N o r m a n G l a s s ,
E n glish,
Philadelphia.
S h o e m a k e r , E l iz a b e t h J a c k ,
Philadelphia.
S h o e m a k e r , F l o r e n c e M a t h e r , F rench,
Tullytown.
Econom ics,
Sh o em ak er, L este r B u rton,
M ech. E n gin., Chambersburg.
S h o e m a k e r , S a m u e l S t e in e r ,
S h o e m a k e r , W i l l i a m M a c C., J r .,,M ech. E n gin., Norristown.
Folsomville, Ind.
P o l. Science,
S h ro d e , P a r e m e n u s C a r l ,
Swarthmore.
E n glish ,
S im o n s , K a t h e r in e W ood ,
E le c t. E n gin., Darby.
S im p s o n , A n d r e w ,
Philadelphia.
Philosophy,
S in z h e im e r , E l s i e M a y ,
Perth Amboy, N. J.
L a tin ,
S m i t h , C l e m e n t in e M a r t e n i s ,
Philadelphia.
C ivil E n gin.,
Sm it h , E dm u n d P a u l ,
P r o v o s t , W il l i a m R o bert ,
C ivil E n gin.,
160
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
Name.
S m i t h , H a r o ld L e s l e y ,
Sm it h , W a l t e r E ugene,
Snyder, M a r y E sther,
S p a c e m a n , G eorge D o n a l d ,
S p il l e r , H e l e n N e w b o l d ,
S pk o u l ,. J o h n R o a c h ,
Stabler, E lean or P alm e r ,
S tephens, J oh n D ayton,
Stephenson, R u th ,
S t e w a r t , Ca r l B e n j a m i n ,
S t i c k l e , W il m e r F r a n k l i n ,
S t i c k n e y , D a v id J o h n ,
Stokes, F rances B artlett,
S t o k e s , M a r i a n 'A d a m s ,
S totensbu rg , E l iz a b e t h ,
S t o u t , E l in o r C h r i s t i n a ,
S t o w , F r a n k l i n P ie r c e ,
Stratton , R oland P a n c o a st,
S trode , K a t h a r i n e E l i z a b e t h ,
S tro n g , S a r a h L u o r e t ia ,
S u l l iv a n , A n n a E l i z a b e t h ,
Su pe r , D o r o t h y E m m a ,
T a n g u y, L e w is L eland,
T a y l o r , E s t h e r Gertrud e,
T a y l o r , L e o n a r d K . M .,
T a yl o r , M a r y E n t r ik e n ,
T a y l o r , R ob e r t M o s s ,
T a y l o r , T h o m a s N e w b o l d , J r .,
T a y l o r , W il l i a m S im p s o n ,
T e m p le , Ch a r l e s,
T e r r a d e l l , R u s s e l l J o s l in ,
T h a tc h e r , M a r y A lberta,
T h o m a s , D orothy,
T h o m p s o n , T h eodore R ic h a r d s ,
T ic e , F lo r e n c e M a y ,
T i l y , M ild red B r o m l e y ,
T i m m i s , W il l i a m W a l t e r ,
T o e r r in g , H e l e n e C a b l o t t a ,
T o m l in s o n , E d w i n A u g u s t u s ,
T o m l in s o n , W il l ia m W e s t ,
T rego , L il l i a n G w i n n e r ,
T r o w b r id g e , A g n e s C o w g il l ,
T u r n e r , M a r y R e b ecc a W il s o n ,
•Tw in i n g , J a n e W i l l i a m s ,
V a n H orn, A l ic e R o se,
V a n L oon , E m i l y L o is ,
Major Subject.
Residence.
Coatesville.
Eureka, N. Y.
Quakertown.
Coatesville.
Philadelphia.
Chester.
P sy . and E d u ., George School.
M athem atics,
Philadelphia.
B iology,
Philadelphia.
Columbia, Mo.
Physics,
Newton, N. J.
Buffalo, N. Y.
B iolog y,
Rancocas, N. J.
F rench,
West Chester.
Ridley Park.
Wenonah, N. J.
Econom ics,
Camden, N. J.
P o l. Science,
Moorestown, N. J.
B isto r y ,
West Chester.
German,
Ringoes, N. J.
M athem atics,
Lansdowne.
L a tin ,
Minersville.
M athem atics,
West Grove.
Philadelphia.
Chem. E n gin., West Chester.
E n glish ,
West Chester.
B iolog y,
Chester.
Baltimore, Md.
Chem. E n gin., Chester.
E le c t. Engim., Swarthmore.
Econom ics,
Trenton, N. J.
E n glish ,
Swarthmore.
F rench,
New York, N. Y.
B iolog y,
Kennett Square.
German,
Quakertown.
Philadelphia.
C ivil E n gin.,
Woodhaven, N. Y.
: Philadelphia.
Econom ics,
i Salem, Ohio. ■
Econom ics,
I Salem, Ohio.
E n glish ,
Swarthmore.
F ren ch,
■;Pittsburgh.
H istory,
Betterton, Md. •
E n glish ,
Hatboro.
L a tin ,
Plainfield, N. J.
B iolog y,
Philadelphia.
Econom ics,
C ivil E n g in .,
P s y . and E d u .,
M eoh. E n gin.,
E n g lish ,
L a tin ,
STUDENTS, 1915-16
Name.
Major Subject.
Residence.
Darby.
V er n a m , M a r y H eadley,
Trenton, N. J.
V oelk er, E d w a r d D ic k ,
Swarthmore.
•
W a l l , N ora B l a n c h e ,
Clearfield.
W a l l a c e , Cl a i r M a x w e l l ,
Media.
W a r e , M a r i a n Cl e v e l a n d ,
Salem, N. J. ,
W a t e r s , L il l ia n I sabel,
E n g lish ,
Baltimore, Md.
W a t s o n , E l iza b e t h A t k in s o n ,
German,
Doylestown.
W a y , D . H ebert,
Chem istry,
Oxford.
W a ygood , L o u is e W y n k o o p ,
E n glish ,
Glenside.
W e b s t e r , H a r o ld S h o e m a k e r ,
E ngineering,
Philadelphia.
W e e k s , M a r ie S c h e l l ,
F rench,
Philadelphia.
W e l t z , E a r l H .,
Chem istry,
Wilmington, Ohio.
W e s t , J o h n B u k r is s ,
C ivil E n gin.,
Swarthmore.
W e s t f a l l , H e l e n M a r ie ,
L a tin ,
Milwaukee, Wis.
W e s t o n , C h a r l e s M c IL v a in e ,
Chemistry,
Norwood.
W h it e , E d w a r d E l i j a h ,
C ivil E n g in .,
Glen White, W . Va.
W id e n e r , D e a n C o pp e r ,
P o l. Science,
Okmulgee, Okla.
W ig m o r e , H a r r y Ch a r l e s ,
Econom ics,
Glenolden.
W il l e t s , E d m u n d B o bert , J r .,
M ech. E n gin., Trenton, N. J.
W il l e t s , M a r g a r e t V a i l ,
H istory,
Trenton, N. J.
W i l l i a m s , E m m a T . B .,
Astronom y,
Norristown.
W il l ia m s , F r a n c e s B a k e r ,
Norristown,
W il l o u g h b y , L a u r a B o b in s o n ,
Baltimore, Md.
W il s o n , A n n e E l iz a b e t h ,
E n glish ,
Princeton, N. J.
W il s o n , G eorge L l o y d ,
Econom ics,
Bidley Park.
W il s o n , H e l e n . E l i z a b e t h ,
L a tin ,
Harrisburg.
W il s o n , M a r g a r e t ,
F rench,
Philadelphia.
W il s o n , M a r y E l iz a b e t h ,
E n glish ,
Toughkenamon,
W ood , G e r t r u d e N o r m a ,
M athem atics, ' Philadelphia.
W o r th , E l iz a b e t h S h a r p l e s s ,
French,
Coatesville.
W r ig h t , C a t h a r i n e ,
E n g lish ,
Baltimore, Md.
W r ig h t , B a l p h M c Cl e l l a n ,
C iv il E n gin.,
West Chester.
T a p , D a n ie l K . F .,
Econom ics,
Honolulu, I. H.
Y ardley, Ch a r l e s H e n r y ,
L a tin ,
York.
Y e r k e s , M a r g a r e t N ie l l ,
P u b . Speaking ; Swarthmore.
Y oung, D o r o th y,
Easton.
Y o u n g , E d it h C o r a ,
M athem atics,
Swarthmore.
Y oung, E m i l y Grac e ,
P u b . Speaking, Easton.
Y o u n g , E t h e l E eid ,
M athem atics,
Camden, N. J.
Y o u n g , F r a n c e s W il l a r d ,
Camden, N. J.
Y o u n g , H e l e n A .,
French,
Easton.
Y o u n g , H e l e n G e rt ru d e ,
M athem atics,
West Chester.
Y o u ng , J u l ia B a l s t o n ,
H istory,
Butledge.
V e r l e n d e n , A l i c e W il d e ,
11
H istory,
F rench,
Chem istry,
Econom ics,
C ivil E n gin.,
161
162
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
S p e c ia l S t u d e n t s
Name.
B unting , George M iller, J r .,
H ill , M argaret L ivingston,
M cCance, Clara E lizabeth ,
V ogler, M ary E mm a , .
W illiams , E dith R oberts,
W orrell, H arriet E lizabeth ,
Major Subject,,
Elect. Engin.,
English,
German,
Residence.
Chester.
Swarthmore.
Oil City.
Media.
Norristown.
Ogden.
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K a n s a s ......................................................
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Massachusetts .......................................
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Ontario, C a n a d a ........................................r..............
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FE L L O W S AND SCHOLARS, 1915-16
Joshua L ip p in c o tt F ello w :
F r a n k H . G r if f i n , A.B., 1910.
Columbia University.
L u cretia M o tt F ello w :
R e b a M a h a n C a m p , A.B., 1915.
Student in
__ ,
Student m Rad-
cliffie College.
John Lockwood M em orial F ello w : F r a n c e s D a r l in g t o n , A.B., 1896.
Stu
dent in the University o f Pennsylvania.
H annah A . L eedom F e llo w : H a r o l d S. R o b e r t s , A.B., 1912; A.M., Prince
ton University, 1915. Student in the University o f Wisconsin,
M artha F . T yson F ello w : A n n e S h o e m a k e r H a in e s , A.B., 1912. Student
in the University o f Wisconsin.
S w a rth m o re-U n iv ersity o f Pennsylvania Scholar:
Cl a u d e C h l o r a l S m i t h ,
A.B., 1914.
W estern Swarthmore Club S cholar: A llin H ugh P ierce, 1919.
T ren ton Swarthmore Club S cholar: F r a n k l i n P r e s t o n B u o k m a n , 1919.
D eborah F ish e r W harton S cholar: O l iv e F r a n c e s L a ir d , 1916.
Sam uel J . U nderhill S cholar: H il d a A n n a L a n g , 1917.
A n son Lapham Scholars: W il l i a m R a l p h G a w t h r o p , 1918, a n d M a b e l
K u r t z , 1918.
W illiam C. Sproul Scholars: H e l e n E u g e n ie I c k e s , 1917.
E s t h e r O r in d a
N ic h o l s , 1918.
E d g a r Z a v it z P a l m e r , 1919.
P h ilip M . Sharpies Scholars: H e r b e r t L a w y e r B r o w n , 1916.
R id d l e , 1916.
F lo r e n c e
M a r g a r e t M. C l e m e n s , 1917.
L ou is M a u r ic e G l i c k ,
1917. W il l ia m J o s e p h R e i l l y , 1918. M a r y A n n e M a e k l e , 1918.
J o s e p h N e v y a s , 1919. H e l e n G e r t r u d e Y o u n g , 1919.
P h ila d elp h ia B oard o f Ed u cation Scholars: M a r ie W e e k s , 1916. H e l e n
r?r.ARK, 1917. M a r i a n G . F i r m i n , 1917. E m i l y L o is V a n L oon , 1918.
E s t h e r G . T a y l o r , 1919. M a r y K . G r ie s t , 1919.
A n n ie Shoem aker S cholar: D o r o t h e a L. D a r l in g t o n , 1919.
W estbwry Quarterly M eetin g S cholar: P h y l l i s K o m o r i , 1919.
1. V . W illiam son Scholars: Friends’ Central School, F r a n c e s B a k e r W i l
l i a m s , 1919: H a r o l d S h o e m a k e r W e b s t e r , 1919. Moorestown Friends
School, E d n a P r is c il l a E v a n s , 1919. George School, E l w o o d R oger
H o l l in g s h e a d , 1919. Baltimore Friends’ School, T h o m a s N e w r o l d
T a y l o r , 1919. Wilmington Friends’ School, H e l e n e B. S co tt , 1919.
Swarthmore Preparatory School, A n d r e w S im p s o n , 1919. Swarthmore
Public High School, M e l a n ie N . D o l m a n , 1919.
H OLDERS OF TH E JOSH U A LIPPIN CO TT FELLO W SH IP
1893-94.
T homas A tkinson J enkins , A.B., 1887;- Ph.B., University o f Pennsyl
vania, 1888; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1894 ; Professor o f
French Philology, University o f Chicago.
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HOLDERS OP THE JOSHUA LIPPINCOTT FELLOWSHIP
165
B enjam in F ranklin B attin , A.B., 1892; studied in Berlin; Ph.D., Jena,
1900. Professor o f German 'Language and Literature, Swarthmore
College.
1894- 95.
D avid B arker B ushmore, B.S., 1894; M.E., Cornell University, 1895;
C.E., Swarthmore, 1897. Engineer, General Eleetric Co., Schenectady,
N. Y .
1895-96.
1
H o w a r d W h it e , J r ., B.S., 1895; M.S., University o f Michigan, 1896 ; C. E.,
Swarthmore, 1900.
Deceased.
1896-97; 1897-98.
J o h n W . G regg , B.L., 1894; A.M., Cornell University, 1898; LL.B., George
Washington University, 1906.
Lawyer.
1898-99.
studied in Berlin ; M.L., Swarthmore,
1900; Ph.D., University o f Pennsylvania, 1903. Instructor in German,
Central High School, Philadelphia.
E l l w o o d C o m l t P a r r y , B.L., 1897 ;
1899-1900; 1900-01.
J ohn E dw in W ells, B.L., 1896; M.L., 1899; A.M., Columbia, 1900; Ph.D.,
Yale University, 1915. Professor o f English Literature in Beloit College.
M a r y G r a y L e ip e r , B.L., 1899;
B ird
T homas
B a l d w in ,
Ph.D., Ibid,, 1905.
more College.
1901- 02.
studied in Berlin.
1902- 03.
B.S., 1900; A.M., Harvard University, 1903;
Professor o f Psychology and Education, Swarth
1903- 04.
A lbert Cook M yers , B.L., 1898; M.L., 1901; studied in Universities o f
Wisconsin and Harvard. Historical Writer.
1904- 05.
M a r io n V ir g i n i a P e ir c e , A.B., Swarthmore, 1903;
A.M., University o f
Chicago, 1904; studied in Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, and
Collège de France in Paris, and in the Libraries o f Madrid. Instructor
in French, Swarthmore College.
1905- 06.
M.S., 1903; E.E. and Ph.D., University o f
Wisconsin, 1907. Assistant Professor o f Electrical Engineering, Swarth
more College.
1906- 07.
Louis N e w t o n K o b in s o n , A;B., 1905; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1911;
L e w i s F u s s e l l , B.S., 1902;
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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
studied in University o f Halle and Berlin, 1906-07; Fellow in Cornell
University, 1907-08. Professor o f Economics, Swarthmore College.
1907- 08.
A.M., 1907; A.M., Harvard Uni
versity, 1909; Ph.D., Ibid ., 1912. Assistant Professor o f Biology,
Swarthmore College.
1908- 09.
M a rt E liza ( N o r t h ) C h e n o w e t h , A.B., 1907; A.M., 1910; studied in
Oxford University, England.
S am tjel C o p e l a n d P a l m e r , A.B., 1895;
1909- 10.
M ary T albott (J ann ey ) Coxe, A.B., 1916; studied in University o f Ber
lin, Germany.
1910- 11.
S a m u e l C o p e l a n d P a l m e r , A.B., 1895; A.M., 1907; A.M., Harvard Uni
versity, 1909; Ph.D., Ibid ., 1912. Assistant Professor o f Biology,
Swarthmore College.
1911- 12.
J o h n H i m e s P i t m a n , A.B., 1910; A.M., 1911; studied in University o f
California. Instructor in Mathematics and Astronomy, Swarthmore
College.
1912- 13.
I o l a K a y E a s t b u r n , B.L., 1897; A.M., 1906; Ph.D., University o f Penn
sylvania, 1913; Professor o f German, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.
1913- 14.
A.M., Harvard University, 1913.
Instructor, Brown University and Wellesley College. Secretary o f the
Boston Budget Commission.
E d w in
A n g e l l C o t t r e l l , A.B., 1907;
1914- 15.
F r e d e r ic k M y e r l e S im o n s , J r ., A.B., 1909;
A.M., 1912; student in the
University o f Chicago, Assistant in Department o f Economics and In
dustry, University o f Chicago.
F r a n k H. G r i f f i n , B.S., 1910;
1915- 16.
student in Columbia University.
H OLDERS OF TH E LU C R E T IA MOTT F E LLO W SH IP
1895- 96.
H e l e n B r ig h t ( S m i t h ) B r in t o n , A.B., 1895;
studied in Oxford Univer
sity ; A.M., Swarthmore, 1899.
1896- 97.
studied in Oxford University; A.M.,
M a r y S t o n e M c D o w e l l , A.B., 1896;
Columbia University, 1903.
HOLDERS OP THE LUCRETIA MOTT FELLOWSHIP.
1897-
167
98.
studied in Newnham College, Cam
S a r a h ( B a n c r o f t ) C l a r k , B.S., 1897;
bridge.
1898-
99.
studied in Berlin; A.M., Columbia
Teacher o f German, George School.
E d n a H a r r ie t B ic h a e d s , B.L., 1898;
University, 1904.
1899-1900.
studied in Newnham College, Cam
M a r t E l i z a b e t h S e a m a n , A.B., 1899;
bridge.
Teacher.
1900- 01.
A.B., Badcliffe, 1901.
Culture School, New York, N .Y.
A n n a G i l l in g h a m , A.B., 1900;
1901L il l i a n W in if r e d
Teacher in Ethical
02.
( B o g e r s ) Xl l m e r , A.B., 1901;
studied in Berlin.
1902- 03.
Margaret H ood TAtlor, B.L., 1902; studied in Berlin.
1903- 04.
Ph.M., University o f Chicago, 1904.
French, High School, Flushing, L. I., N. Y.
A n n ie B oss , A.B., 1903;
1904C h a r l o t t e B i t z e m a B ogert , A.B., 1904;
Teacher o f
05.
A.M., Columbia University, 1905.
1905- 06.
E lizabeth H all , A.B., 1905; A.M., Columbia University, 1906.
B ertha
C a r o l in e
1906- 07.
1906; A.M., Cornell University, 1907.
P ie r c e , A.B.,
Teacher.
1907J e a n n e t t e (C u r t i s ) C o n s , A.B., 1907;
08.
A.M., 1909; studied in University
o f Berlin, Germany.
1908- 09.
L izzie Stkes J ames , A.B., 1908; studied in University o f Berlin, Germany;
A.M., University o f Pennsylvania, 1911; Ph.D., University o f Pennsyl
vania, 1914. Teacher o f Latin and German, William Penn High School,
Philadelphia, Pa.
1909- 10.
H e l e n H a r r ie t . P o r te r fie l d , A.B., 1909; studied in University o f Chicago.
1910-
11.
studied in University o f Chicago.
Teacher o f French, Mary Lyon School, Swarthmore, P a ; Assistant in
French, Swarthmore College.
J e a n H a m i l t o n W a l k e r , A.B., 1910;
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168
1911-12.
' A n na H eydt, A.B., 1911; A.M., Radcliffe College, 1912.
College, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Teacher in Irving
1912-13.
C a r o l in e H a l l o w e l l S m e d l e y , A.B., 1912 ;
studied in University o f Cali
fornia.
E s t h e r M id l e r , A.B., 1913;
1913-14.
studied in University o f Berlin, Germany.
1914- 15.
A.B., 1914; {studied in the University o f Chicago.
Computer and Secretary to the Director o f Allegheny Observatory, Uni
M a r i e S a pf o r d B e n d e r ,
versity o f Pittsburgh.
R e b a M a h a n C a m p , A.B., 1915;
1915- 16.
student in Radcliffe College.
H OLDERS OF TH E JOHN LOCKW OOD M EM ORIAL
F E L L O W SH IP
1910-
11.
E d w i n C a r l e t o n M a c D o w e l l , A.B., 1909;
studied in Harvard University ;
M.S., Harvard University, 1911; Ph.D., Ibid ., 1912. With Carnegie
Institute o f Experimental Evolution, Cold Springs Harbor, L. I , N , Y .
1911- 12.
studied in University o f Pennsylvania;
A.M., University o f Pennsylvania, 1913; Ph.D., University o f Penn
sylvania, 1915. Teacher o f Mathematics, Swarthmore High School.
H e n r y P e r r is P r ic e , A.B., 1906;
1912- 13.
W alter F rank R ittman , A.B., 1908; A.M., 1909; M.E., 1911; Ph.D.,
Columbia University, 1914. Chemist, United States Bureau o f Mines.
1913- 14.
studied in University o f Pennsylvania; Ph.D.;
University o f Pennsylvania, 1915. Professor o f Greek and Latin, Ox
H e l e n P r ic e , A.B., 1907;
ford College.
1914- 15.
studied in Radcliffe College; A.M., Radcliffe
Teacher o f English, High School, East Orange, N. J.
H e l e n H eed , A.B., 1905;
College, 1915.
1915-16.
student in the University o f Pennsyl-
P r a n c e s D a r l in g t o n , A.B., 1896;.
vania.
HOLDERS OF THE IVY MEDAL
169
HOLDERS OP TH E H AN N AH A . LEEDOM FELLO W SH IP
1913-
14.
A r t h u r P e r c iv a l T a n b e r g , A .B ., 1910;
A .M ., 1913; studied in Columbia
University; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1915. Chemist, E. I. duPont
de Nemour Co.
1914- 15.
A r c h e r T a y l o r , A.B., 1909; A.M., University o f Pennsylvania, 1910;
studied in Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1915.
1915- 16.
A.M., Princeton University, 1915;
dent in the University o f Wisconsin.
H a r o ld S. R o b e r t s , A.B., 1912;
stu
H OLDERS OF THE M A R TH A E. TYSON FE LLO W SH IP
1914-
15.
H e l e n P r ic e , A.B., 1907; studied in the University o f Pennsylvania; Ph.D.,
University o f Pennsylvania, 1915. Professor o f Greek and Latin, Ox
ford College.
1915- 16.
A n n e S h o e m a k e r H a in e s , A.B., 1912; student in the University o f W is
consin.
H OLDERS OF TH E IY Y M ED AL *
1898. A n n a B elle E isenhower , A.B., 1899; A.B., Radcliffe College, 1900;
A.M., Ib id ., 1907.
1899. M ary G. L eiper, B.L., 1899.
1900. M a r y S . H a v il a n d , B.L., 1900; A.B., Radcliffe, 1901.
1901. George A . Seaman , A.B., 1901.
1902. E lliott R ichardson, B.S., 1902; C.E., 1905.
1903. S a m u e l T . S t e w a r t , A .B ., 1903.
1904. H alliday R. J ackson , A.B., 1904.
1905. L ou is N. R obinson, A.B., 1905; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1911.
1906. T. H. D udley P erkins , A.B., 1906.
1907. A mos J. P easlee, A.B., 1907; LL.B., Columbia University, 1911.
1908. H erman P ritchard, B.S., 1908 ; A.M., 1911. .
1909. W alter F. R ittman , A.B., 1908; A.M., 1909; M.E., 1911; Ph.D.,
Columbia University, 1914.
1910. J o h n J o h n s o n , B .S ., 1910.
1911. J o s e p h H. W i l l i t s , A.B., 1911; A.M., 1912.
1912. H erman E lliott W ells, B.S., 1912.
1913. H enry L ee M essner , A.B., 1913.
1914. A lbert R oy Ogden, A.B., 1914.
1915. T homas B ayard M cCabe, A.B., 1915.
* This medal is placed in the hands of the faculty without restriction for such
disposition as may he deemed best. It is usually awarded for Character. Scholar
ship, and Influence. Until the year 1910 it was known as the College Medal.
D EG BEES CONFEKKED IN 1915
BACHELOB OF ABTS
In B iology
L illie E lizabeth F l in n ............................................ Philadelphia.
J ohn W aldo H ow ell ............................... . . . . . ........ .Springfield, Ohio.
B alph L inton ...............................................................Moorestown, N. J.
A rthur H orton M a n n ............................................... Philadelphia.
J ohn Goodwin T aylor ............................. .................. Chester.
H oward E arle T w in in g .......................................... .Ivyland.
In Chemistry
W illiam H illes W ard ................................................Zanesville, Ohio.
In Economics
Gilson Grant B lake , J r ......................................Jacksonville,
Fla.
T homas B ayard M cCabe ........................................... Selbyville, Del.
L ewis H erbert T i l y ................................................... Cyuwyd.
J ohn Scholfield W illiam s , 2d ....................... ....P hiladelphia.
In English
H elen Seidel E v a n s ................................................... Philadelphia.
J essica Granville -Smith ................................... — Bellport, N. Y.
E thel B lanche H arvey ...........................................Moorestown, N. J.
F annie E lizabeth H il l ............................................. Philadelphia.
D enman H oward K elley ................................. ...... .Gilmour, Ind.
D orothy P owell ........................................................ Lansdowne.
E lizabeth M a y B oberts ...............: ......................... Glenolden.
Grace M arguerite S chaeffer .................................. Lancaster.
In French
Sara Storm A ppleby .-..................................... ' . . . . . .Glen Cove, N. Y.
H elen E l m o r e ........ , . . . . - .................. ........................ Swarthmore.
E lizabeth D orothea Gage .......................................Atlantic City, N. J.
E lma Greenwood J effeeis .......................................Chester.
E sther M arie J e n k in s . . .........................................Gwynedd.
A nna L ippincott M iller ............................................Biverton, N. J.
E llen J ulia M iller ................................................... Hatboro.
M arian E lizabeth M unce .........................................Swarthinore.
B achael E lizabeth B oberts .........: ......................... Moorestown, N. J.
B ena B othner ............................................................ Philadelphia.
E thel Shoemaker ...................................................... Philadelphia.
J osephine E lliotte W ilso n .....................................Chester.
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I n German
J ane A ckley H e n e y . ......................................
A uguste E milie J ellinghaus . . . .........
Sarah B eulah S heppard ...............................
L eila N ewton T aylor ............................... ....
Delia E loise V e s t .....................
V era L ouise W alton ......................................
J ennie H aines Y erkes .................................
Woodbury, N. J.
.New York, J § Y.
Maurieetown, N. J.
Darby.
Ottumwa,’ Iowa.
New Garden.
Swarthmore.
I n H istory
Grace M arie A tkin son ............................................ Philadelphia.
E thel M a y B urnett .................................................Philadelphia.
W alter A loysius Coogan..........................................Philadelphia.
BLannah W oerall D arlington ................................. Darling.
I da B elle D o w n ey ..................................................... Swarthmore.
M ary Caroline L ange ...............................................Media.
M arian V inton P h il ip s .............................................Downingtown.
M ary B rown B eed .....................................................Beedsville.
Samuel Smedley, J r ................................................. .Media.
I n L a tin
E dith Koselle B aner ...................................
D orothy F ehr F ahnestock .......................
Gw yn n H enry K eller .................................
A gnes E lizabeth O ’B r ien .........................
M artha L ouisa P ancoast ...........................
L ilian M arie P il e ..........................................
E linor E o b in s o n ............................................
B ertha K ent W ebb ........................................
Beesley’s Point, N. J.
Harrisburg.
West Chester.
Philadelphia.
Chester.
Philadelphia.
Wilmington, Del.
West Chester.
I n M athem atics
B eba M ahan Ca m p ......................................................Swarthmore.
Sara D arlington
..................................................Pomeroy.
B ertha E lizabeth D elaplaine ............................... Wilmington, Del.
E arl A rthur H unter .........i .......................................Barnesville, Ohio.
B uth Short .................................................................. Merchantville, N. J.
J ohn Comly W h ite .......................................... .Lansdowne.
I n Philosophy
E lisabeth Somers W illia m s . . . . ........................... Biverton, N. J.
I n P o litic a l S cience
W illiam M artz B eury ................................................Philadelphia.
P aul M iller Cuncannon . . ........................................Kennett Square.
W illiam W esley M atson ..........................................West Chester.
F rank Corwin Oren . .................................................. Wilmington, Ohio.
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In Public Speaking
B retta Cr a p s t e r .......................................................... Winfield, Kans.
R ebecca W ebb H olmes ................................................Swarthmore.
M argaret A nne M cI ntosh ....................................... New York, N. Y .
M argaret M ilne .......................................................... New York, N. Y .
In Chemical Engineering
Charles J oseph D arlington ................................... Darling.
J ames R obert F rorer................................................. West Chester.
H erschel Gaston Sm it h ........................................... Austin, Texas,
In Civil Engineering
J ohn W illiam R aymond , J r..................................... Brooklyn, N. Y .
W illiam L aurie Seam an ........................................... Glen Cove, N. Y.
In E lectrical Engineering
K amaghiel Garabed B o y ajia n ........................... — Swarthmore.
N orman L eroy M acK iss ic k ....................................... West Chester.
J ohn D orman R obinson ......................................... ..Georgetown, Del.
Clayton T aylor R ogers........................................... Asheville, N. C.
In Mechanical Engineering
J ohn S tokes Carsw ell ............................................. Philadelphia.
B yron Coles Collins ..................................................Moorestown, N. J.
A ubrey E dward F o x ..................................................Cadiz, Ohio.
M ilton H oward F ussell, J r .....................................Philadelphia.
J ohn J oseph M a tth ew s ......................... .................. Brooklyn, N. Y.
R oger B acon Ow in g s ..................................................Simpsonville, Md.
N orman Sherrerd ...........' ..........................................Haddonfield, N. J.
H arry J ames Stites .................................................... Williamstown.
J oseph Stanley W etherald ..................................... Sandy Springs, Md.
M ASTER O F AR TS
In P ublic Speaking
E lizabeth B iggins Oliver ......................................... Chester.
M ECHANICAL EN GIN EER
H enry L awrence H e s s ..............................................Philadelphia.
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
The Alumni Association was organized May 8, 1875, and in
corporated January 16, 1882. Its object is “ to promote union
and good feeling among the Alumni, and to advance in all proper
ways the interests o f Swarthmore College.” A ll graduates are
ipso facto members of the Association. The Annual Reunion is
held on Tuesday o f Commencement Week.
OFFICERS FOR 1915-16
President
T. W alter Gilkyson , ’ 02............................................Philadelphia, Pa.
V ice Presidents
B ertha L. B roomell, ’ 94......................... ..
H erman H oopes, *74............................................
P ercival P arrish , ’ 96........................................
Philadelphia, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Secretary and Treasurer
A bby M ary H all R oberts, '9 0 ................................. Swarthmore, Pa.
D irectors
Term expires June, 1916
Charles G. H odge, ’ 96................................................Philadelphia, Pa.
H enry B. Seaman , '8 1 . .............................................. New York, N. Y .
B ird T. B aldwin , ’ 00........ ......................................... Swarthmore, Pa.
Term expires June, 1917
E llen W illiams B attin , '9 3 ................................... Swarthmore, Pa.
L evis M. B ooth, ’ 99 .................................................... Plainfield, N. J.
M argaret L aurie Seaman , ’ 89................................. Glen Cove, N. Y.
SW ARTH M ORE CLUBS
T H E P H IL A D E L P H IA SW A R TH M O R E CLUB
The Philadelphia Swarthmore Club was founded in 1889.
Good fellowship and love o f Alma Mater have been the key
stone in the arch o f the club’s continued success. Since 1899
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the club has held without interruption an annual meeting and
dinner, the Philadelphia association being the only one which
has such a record. The first annual dinner was held on April
14, 1889, and was attended by about sixty members. The at
tendance now averages about one hundred and seventy-five. The
club has never had any regular officers, but it is the practice to
appoint each year a committee to take charge o f the meeting
and dinner fo r the ensuing year. During his lifetime, Mr. Gerit
E. H. Weaver was the moving spirit and chairman o f this com
mittee. From the date o f his death until 1914 Howard Cooper
Johnson acted as chairman. Charles C. Miller is the present
chairman.
T H E W E ST E R N SW A R T H M O R E CLUB
The Western Swarthmore Club originated in December, 1903,
when at an informal dinner about a dozen Swarthmoreans met
and organized the Chicago Swarthmore Club. The Chicago Club
met for a year or so at irregular intervals, and, having elected
Francis E. Broomell, secretary and treasurer, decided to widen
its field, and oifer an annual free scholarship, consisting of hoard,
room and tuition. The club was then called the Western Swarth
more Club, and its membership increased to about sixty grad
uates in the West. The scholarship is open fo r competition to all
high and preparatory school graduates west o f the Allegheny
Mountains, and the club has sent six students through the fresh
man year, and has been the means o f inducing more than twice
that number to choose Swarthmore. In this way all the principal
high schools in the Middle West hear o f Swarthmore every year,
and the students carry her good name wherever they go. The
Western Swarthmore Club has thus proved Swarthmore .spirit
not by words, but by deeds. The present officers are: President,
Professor T. A . Jenkins, ’87; treasurer, Francis E. Broomell, ’93;
secretary, F. M. Simons, Jr., ’09. A ll communications should be
addressed to the secretary, University o f Chicago, Chicago, 111.
Club Scholars: 1906-07, Murat Louis Johnson, A.B., 1909,
Kentucky; .1907-08, Clyde Insley Blanchard, ex-1911, Missouri;
1908-09. Alice Elizabeth Masten, ex-1912, Indiana; 1909-10,
James Jacob Schock, 1913, Oklahoma; 1910-11, Edwin Adams
Lucas, 1914, Illinois; 1911-12, Lelia Eloise Vest, 1915, Iowa;
SWARTHMORE CLUBS
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1912-13, John Ewing Orchard, 1916, Nebraska; 1913-14, Clar
ence Gates Myres, 1917, Iowa; 1914-15, Jess Halstead, 1918,
Wisconsin ; 1915-16, Allen Hugh Pierce, 1919, Iowa.
TR EN TON S W A R TH M O R E CLUB
The Trenton Swarthmore Club is an organization o f the
Swarthmore men located in Trenton, N. J., formed primarily
fo r the purpose o f furnishing a scholarship in Swarthmore Col
lege to the preparatory schools in Trenton and vicinity.
The organization offers yearly a full, free competitive honor
scholarship o f $400 which is awarded to the most worthy male
applicant from the neighboring territory, which includes seven
o f the most prominent preparatory schools within a radius of
ten miles.
The requirements o f application are based somewhat on those
o f the Rhodes Scholarship, and embrace scholarship, character,
moral force, and- physical development. The purpose o f the
award is to secure and to induce men from that vicinity to enter
Swarthmore, the aim o f the committee being to attract and de
velop all-around men, since no particular stress is given to any
one line o f activity.
Club Scholars : 1910-11, Howard Buckman, 1914, Trenton High
School; 1911-12, Hyland Lorraine Hodgson, ex-1915, Trenton
High School; 1912-13, Edwin Augustus Tomlinson, 1916, George
School; Stanley A voy Pennock, 1917, Peddie Institute; Fred
erick Stockton Donnelly, 1917, New Jersey State Model School ;
Franklin Preston. Buckman, 1919, Trenton High School.
S W A R TH M O R E CLUB OP W E S T JE R SE Y
A meeting of Swarthmore graduates and ex-students living in
and around Riverton and Moorestown, N. J., was held on March
31, 1911, and the name agreed upon as the “ Swarthmore Club of
West Jersey.” Its purpose is expressed in the following : “ We
the subscribers, hereby form ourselves into an association under
the name o f the ‘ Swarthmore Club o f West Jersey,’ for the pur
pose o f promoting the best interests o f Swarthmore College.
Dated this the 31st day o f March, A.D. 1911.” This association
now numbers thirty-six members.
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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN
T H E N E W Y O R K S W A R TH M O R E CLUB
The New York Swarthmore Club is an informal organization
somewhat similar to the Philadelphia club, possessing neither
constitution nor by-laws, although, it has recently elected offi
cers and a board o f governors. The club, which now includes in
its membership nearly one hundred Swarthmore men resident in
New York or nearby towns, holds a semi-annual reunion, either a
dinner or a smoker, which is attended usually by about sixty
Swarthmoreans. The officers fo r 1915 are: President, Henry C.
Turner, 1893; Secretary and Treasurer, Maurice E. Griest, 1904;
Board o f Governors, Joseph Pitch, 1879; Frederick A. Seaman,
1883; Henry C. Turner, 1893; William S. Barker, 1895; Maurice
E. Griest, 1904; Edward P. Palmer, 1906; Henry C. Field, 1909;
J. Ernest Hartman, 1912.
IN D E X
Absences from Classes, 78
Absences from Examination, 78
Administrative Officers, 24
A dmission R equirements
for, 51
Certificate, Admission by, 51
Examination for Admission, 51
Advanced Standing, 67
Alumni Association, 173
Alumni Library Fund, 35
Approved Friends’ Schools and HighSchools, 51
Applied Science, Courses o f Study in,
73
Astronomical Observatories, 29
Astronomy and Mathematics, Depart
ment of, and Courses, 143
Athenæum Literary Society, 33
Athletic A ssociation, 34
Women’ s Athletic Association, 34
Athletic Fields :
Cunningham Field, 32
Whittier Field, 32
Attendance at Meeting or Church, 33
Aural and Oral Tests in Foreign Modern
Languages, 53.
Bachelor of Arts Degree, 81
Bachelor o f Arts in Engineering, De
gree, 73
Bequests and Gifts, 4
Biology, Department of, and Courses,
118
Birds, W ilcox and Farnham Collection
of, 39
Board
of
Managers, 12
Officers and Committees
Board, 13
Brown Library Fund, 35
of
the
Buildings, 27
Astronomical Observatories, 29
Benjamin West House, 32
Chemistry, Hall of, 27
Cunningham House, 32
Engineering Building, 29
Hall Gymnasium (for M en), 31
Heat, Light and Power Plant, 32
Library Building, 29
Meeting-House, 32
Parrish Hall, 27
Physics and Engineering, Hall of,
27
President’ s House, 31
Somerville Hall (Gymnasium for
W om en), 31
Sproul Observatory, 28
Swimming Pools, 31
Wharton Hall (Men’s Dormitory),
Bulletin, Swarthmore College, 35
Calendar, College, 7
Lunar, 6
Cercle français, 34
Certificate, Admission by, 51
Chemical Engineering Course in, 124
Chemistry, Departments of, and Courses
in, 121
Chemistry, Hall of, 27
Church or Meeting, Attendance at, 33
Christian Associations, 34
Civil Engineering, 126
(177)
Classical Club, 34
Co-education, 32
College Publications, 35
Committee on Trusts, 180
Conunittees of the Board of Managers,
Committees of the Faculty, 25
Conditions, Removal of, 76
Contents, Table of, 9
Corson Collection of Stalactites and
Stalagmites, 39
Course Advisers, 76
Course of Study, General Undergrad
uate, 69
Cunningham Field, 32
Cunningham House, 32
Curriculum for the Freshman Year in
the Courses in Arts, 73
Curriculum for
the Freshman and
Sophomore Years in Applied Science,
Debating League, Intercollegiate, 100
Degrees, 81
Bachelor of Arts, 81
Engineering Degrees, 82
Master of Arts, 81
Degrees Conferred in 1915, 170
Departments and Courses
struction, 84
of
I n
Biology, 118
Chemistry and Chemical Engi
neering, 121
Economics, 106
Education and Psychology, 112
Engineering, Chemical, 124
Engineering, Electrical, 126
Engineering, Mechanical and Civil,
126
English, 84
Fine Arts, 118
French and Spanish, 87
German, 91
Greek, 94
History and International Rela
tions, 101
History of Religion and Philos
ophy, 109
Latin, 94
Law, 108
Mathematics and Astronomy, 143
Physical Education, 149
Physics, 147
Political Science, 104
Psychology and Education, 112
Public Speaking, 98
Deutscher Yerein, 34
Dormitories, 27
Parrish Hall, 27
Wharton Hall, 4, 27
Eckfeldt Herbarium, 39
Economics, Department of, and Courses,
106
Education and Psychology, Department
of, and Courses, 112
Education, Physical, 149
Elective Studies, 72
Electrical Engineering, 126
Engineering Shops, 29, 130
English Club, 34
178
INDEX
English, Department of, and Courses,
84
Entrance Requirements, 52
Ethnological Collection, The Frederick
Kohl, 39
Examinations, Exemption from, 78
Examinations for Admission, 51
Expenses of Student Living, 41
Dining-Room Rates, 42
Extra W ork Outside of Class, 76
Faculty , 15
Committees of the Faculty, 25
Fees, Tuition, Laboratory, and other,
43
Fellows and Scholars, List of, for 191516, 164
Fellowships and Scholarships, 46
John Lockwood Memorial, 46
Joshua Lippincott Fellowship, 46
Lucretia Mott Fellowship, 46
Martha E. Tyson Fellowship, 47
Scholarships, List ofj 47
Fine Arts, Departments of, and Courses,
118
First-day Meeting, 33
Founders’ Day. 1915, 3
French and Spanish, Department of,
and Courses, 87
Friends’ Historical Library, 36
Friends’ Meeting, 33
Friends’ Schools, Approved, 51
German Language and Literature, De
partment of, and Courses, 91
Grades, System of, 77
Graduation Requirements for, 69
Greek Language and Literature, De
partment of, and Courses, 94
Gymnasia, 31
Hall Gymnasium (for M en), 31
Somerville Hall (for W om en), 31
Halcyon, The, 35
Hall Gymnasium (for M en), 31
Herbarium, The Eckfeldt, 39
Heat, Light and Power Plant, 32
History and International-Relations, De
partment of, and Courses, 101
History o f Religion and Philosophy,
Department of, and Courses, 109
Irregular Courses of Study, 74
Kohl Ethnological Collection, The Fred
erick, 39
Laboratory Fees, 43
Latin Language and Literature, De
partment of, and Courses, 94
Law, Department of, and Courses, 108
Leedom Fellowship, Holders o f Hannah
A., 1913-16, 169
Leidy Collection of Minerals, The, 39
Leidy Scientific, Society, The Joseph, 33
L ibraries and R eading R ooms, 35
Friends’ Historical Library, 35
Periodicals, Library List of, 36
Library Building, 29
Lippincott Fellowship, Holders o f the
Joshua, 1893-1916, 164
Literary Societies, Student, 33
Location and Foundation o f the Col
lege, 26
Lockwood Memorial Fellowship, Holders
of the John, 1910-1916, 168
Major Subject, 72
Managers, B oard oe, 12
Officers and i Committees ' of the
Board, 13
Map o f College Grounds, facing title
page.
Master of Arts Degree, 81
Mathematics and Astronomy, Depart
ment of, and Courses, 143
Mechanical Engineering, 126
Meeting or Church, Attendance at, 34
Meeting-house, 32
Minerals and Crystallographic, Speci
mens, Scarlet Collection of, 39
Minerals, Leidy Collection of, 39
Mott Fellowship, Holders of the Lu
cretia, 1895-1916, 166
Museum, T he B iological
logical, 39
and
Geo
Corson Collection of Stalactites and
Stalagmites, 39
Eckfeldt Herbarium, 39
Kohl Ethnological Collection, 39
Leidy Collection of Minerals, 39
Osteology, Collection Illustrating
Comparative. 39
Parker Collection of Shells, 39
Scarlet Collection of Minerals, 39
Shoemaker Collection, 39
W ilcox and Farnham Collection of
Birds, 39
Observatories, Astronomical, 29
Oratorical Associations and Prizes, 100
Osteology, Collection Illustrating Com
parative, 39
Parker Collection of Shells, The C. F.,
39
Parrish Hall, 27
Periodicals, Library List of, 36
Philosophy and Religion, Department of,
History of, and Courses, 109
Phoenix, The, 35
Physics, Department of, and Courses,
147
Physics and Engineering, Hall of, 27
P hysical E ducation, General State
ment , 149
Physical Education of the Men
Students, Department of, and
Courses, 149
Physical Education of the Women
Students, Department of, and
Courses, 150
Political Science, Department of, and
Courses, 104
Prescribed Studies, 71
President’s House, 31
Prizes, Oratorical Associations and, 100
Psychology and Education, Department
of, and Courses, 112
P ublications , College, 35
Bulletin, Swarthmore College, 35
Phoenix, 35
Halcyon, 35
Public Speaking, Department of, and
Course, 98 t
Railway Facilities, 26
Religion and Philosophy, Department
of, History of, and Courses, 109
Religious Life, 33
Requirements for Admission, 51
Requirements for Graduation, 69
Scholarships, List of, 46
Shells, The 0. F. Parker Collection of,
39
Shoemaker Collection, The Annie, 39
Social Life, 32
Somerville
Hall
(Gymnasium
for
W omen), 31
Somerville Literary Society, 33
Spanish, 87
Special Students, 1915-16, List of, 162
Sproul Observatory, 28
Stalactites and Stalagmites, The Rob
ert R . Corson Collection of, 39
179
INDEX
States, Summary o f Students by, 163
Students’ Societies, 33
Athletic Association, 34 ^
Athenæum Literary Society, 33
Cercle français, 34
Christian Associations, 34
Classical Club, 34
Deutscher Verein, 34
English Club, 34
Leidy Scientific Society, 33
Mathematical
and
Astronomical
Club, 34
Somerville Literary Society, 33
Women’s Athletic Asociation, 34
Students, 1915-16, 152
Swarthmore Clubs, 173
Swimming Pools, 31
Tuition and Other Pees, 43
Trusts, Committee on, 180
Tyson Fellowship, Martha E., 47
Undergraduate
General, 69
Course
of
Study,
Elective Studies, 72
Irregular Courses of Study, 74
Major Subject, 72
Prescribed Studies, 71
Undergraduate Students, 1915-16
List of, 152
Summary by States, 163
West, Benjamin, House, 32
Wharton Hall, 4, 27
Whittier Field, 32
W ilcox and Farnham Collection
Birds, 39
Women’s Athletic Association, 34
of
COMMITTEE ON TRUSTS
•
CHARLES F. JE N K IN S,
1024 Race Street, Philadelphia.
EDMUND W EBSTER,
1324 South Broad Street, Philadelphia.
ISAAC H. CLOTHIER,
Eighth and Market Streets, Philadelphia.
HOWARD COOPER JOHNSON,
1210-1214 Commonwealth Building, Philadelphia.
ROBERT PY L E ,
West Grove, Pa.
JO SEPH SW AIN,
Swarthmore, Pa.
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Swarthmore College Catalogue, 1915-1916
A digital archive of the Swarthmore College Annual Catalog
1915 - 1916
183 pages
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