College News, 1919-01-30, Vol. 05, No. 15

              SPECIAL ALUMNA NUMBER
The College News
Volume V.   No. 15
BRYN MAWR, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1919
Price 5 Centa
ALUMNAE endowment fund
QUESTIONS�ANSWERS�FACTS
Some  Answers
1.  A college cannot stand still. It
must advance or lose ground. The en-
dowment* will hold the ground once
gained, but It Is the growing Alumna;
Fund that makes possible new work and
��ver higher standards.
2.  The Alumna? Fund Is steadily in-
� reaslng Bryn Muwr's Endowment
3.  Until 1909, when the alumnae made
their first gift to the Endowment Fund,
the regular salary for a Bryn Mawr full
professor was $2500 a year. The salaries
above that amount since 1909 are due to
the initiative of the Alumna' Fund.
4.  Since 1904 the Alumna? Fund has
raised two endowments, the interest on
which pays the salaries of two full pro-
fessorships, thereby releasing funds to
increase salaries of full professors and
assistant professors.
5.  The Alumna? Fund is devoted pri-
marily to the purpose of increasing pro-
fessors' salaries. It thus makes possible
the difference between mediocrity and
distinction In Bryn Mawr's Faculty.
6.  The work of the Bryn Mawr Faculty
has always been work of distinction.
Here are a few Instances of the recent
achievements:
jj&i^&Az
Professor Charles Chequlere Fenwick
was appointed Special Representative of
the Treasury Department to Camp Travis,
Texas, and to Fort Sam Houston. Texas,
to assist in the organisation of local
bureaus of the Central War Risk Bureau
in Washington and to explain the terms
of the War Risk Act to the officers and
men of the two camps. He has also pre-
pared the following reports: A report on
"States Leas Than Sovereign." a study of
the minor communities of the family of
nations, in collaboration with Professor
Wt I lough by, of the Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity, at the request of the commission
Instituted by the government for the
itlon of material needed at the
cosfifUM A � oond report on
In International Law" for the
lomnilnslon
WHY THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNA
FUND?
Some Questions
Why has the Alumna; Fund given
the College $350,000 for Academic
Endowment?
Why has it given $130,000 to build
the Library.
Why has It given $54,000 to cover
deficits?
Why is it the greatest asset the
College has?
Why Is this Fund greater than any
single Endowment?
Why does It mean more for Bryn
Mawr than any other fund?
Why does Bryn Mawr get results
with insufficient endowment?
Why do so many Bryn Mawr alum-
na? subscribe to this fund?
Why would it be the greatest thing
that could be done for Bryn Mawr
if every graduate and former student
subscribed?
THE CALL TO BRYN  MAWR
LOYALTY
A Statement of Facts
The loyal Bryn Mawr woman will
not permit her college to suffer finan-
cially because of devoted service to
country. Every one of us is trying
to work to serve our country.
The question Is�
How can I help most?
How much can I GIVE?
The Alumna? Fund offers a solution
of this problem.
Bryn Mawr has worked faithfully
for the WAR.
Bryn Mawr alumna? and under-
graduates are enthusiastically taking
up the work of reconstruction.
Help Bryn Mawr to serve her
country in helping her solve the
problems of PEACE.
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Professor Howard Levy Gray was re-
quested by the Shipping Board to go to
England In August, 1918, to assist the rep-
resentatives of the Shipping Board on the
Joint British and I'nited States Shipping
Board. Professor Gray resigned his ap
pointment under the Food Administration
to accept the appointment to the Shipping
Board.
Professor Clarence Errol Ferree and
Dr. Gertrude Rand Ferree have prepared
apparatus for testing visual acuity at low
illuminations. Commander G. B. Triole,
Chief Eye Surgeon at the U. S. Naval
Hospital at Washington, has stated that
this apparatus will be Installed first in the
naval schools and hospitals, and will later
be put on the battleships. It will be used
chiefly for testing the fitness of men for
lookout work, for signaling, and for all
work requiring acute vision at low illumi-
nations. Prior to laying the problem
before Professor Ferree and Dr. Rand
Ferree last summer Commander Trible
had already tried the laboratories of Eng-
land and France. The apparatus designed
for this purpose since the beginning of
the war by Spearman in England, for ex-
ample, was In his estimation not at all
satisfactory. The same was true of the
apparatus designed at the Medical Re-
search Laboratory at Mineola. Dr. Trible
also stated that In planning the lighting
of the new Naval Hospital he had gone
over the work of Professor Ferree and
Dr. Rand Ferree and had followed their
recommendations wherever It was pos-
sible.
4RJF*.
Professor Roger Frederic Brunei, Pro-
fessor of Chemistry, was appointed by the
Director of Chemical Warfare Service of
the War Department to do experimental
work for the Gas Defense Department of
the Chemical Warfare Service from the
autumn of 1917 to the autumn of 1916.
Professor David Hilt Tennent, at the
request of a member of the Advisory
Commission of the Council of National
Defense, designed short courses for die-
ticians in military hospitals, the work to
be done In technical schools and schools
of applied science in connection with op-
portunities given by the Surgeon-Gen-
eral's office for practical work to be done
In military hospitals.
Professor Florence Peebles gave
courses in Bryn Mawr College by request
of the Food Administration on "Food
Conservation" and prepared her students
to take examinations for the Food Ad-
ministration diplomas.
Professor William Roy Smith prepared
a report on the Diplomatic History of the
Opium Trade for the commission on col-
lecting data for the Peace Commission
organised by the War Trade Board.
Professor M. P. Smith prepared a re-
port on the Economic Resources of China
for the same commission.
Professor William Baahford Huff. Pro-
fessor of Physics, has been granted leave
of absence for the year 191S-19 and is
doing war work In Washington In the
Bureau of Standards.
Graduate courses in Industrial Su-
pervision and Employment Management
have been organized In the Carola Woer-
ishoffer Graduate Department of Social
Economy and Social Research by Pro-
fessor Susan Myra Kingsbury, with the
co-operation of the Federal Depart-
ment of Labour of the War Labour
Policies Board, and were undertaken
with their approval- and assistance and
endorsed by the Assistant Secretary
of War in charge of Industrial Relations,
and endorsed and supported by the Gov-
ernment Committee on Training Courses
under the Shipping Board and given with
their co-operation. Fifteen thousand dol-
lars for the first year was voted by the
Y. W. C. A. to enable Bryn Mawr College
to train In this way employment man-
agers, service or welfare superintendents.
Industrial superintendents of women's
work, factory inspectors, Investigators of
Industrial problems aJfecting women, in-
dustrial secretaries, or industrial group
leaders. Women who have already grad-
uated from college are trained for eight
months In units of ten and are expected
to be leaders in Industrial reconstruction.
What  the  Alumnae  Fund   Hss  Done  for
Faculty Salaries
In 1885 Bryn Mawr College was
founded. At that time full professors re-
ceived $2500 a year and associate pro-
fessors received $2000 a year. Ten years
ago the College effected a new schedule
of Faculty salaries, increasing full pro-
fessors to salaries ranging from $2.roo to
$3000.
This year, using for the first time the
Interest on the Mary Elizabeth Garrett
Fund of $100,000 raised by the alumna*,
the salaries of all associate professors
were raised to $2500.
These are the only two substantial In-
creases in the professors' salaries since
the College was founded.
They have been made possible by the
contributions of Bryn Mawr alumna* to
the Alumnse Fund.
The Increases In Faculty salaries must
be maintained, If Bryn Mawr Is to con-
tinue to maintain her pre eminent place
among American educational Institutions.
These Increases can be maintained only
by the Alumna? Endowment Fund.    The
success of this work, therefore, depends
upon you. Bryn Mswr Alumna'
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