College News, 1919-09-30, Vol. 06, No. 01

              The College News
Volume VI.    No.  I
BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1919
Price 5 Cents
KARL OETLEY  JES8EN
Karl Detley Jessen, Ph.D.. Professor
of German at Bryn Mawr since 1!)04,
died last Wednesday in the Bryn Mawr
Hospital after an operation for appen-
dicitis. He is survived by his widow,
who was Myra Stephanie Richards '15,
and by a daughter.
Dr. Jessen, who was a widely known
German scholar, was born in Wlnne-
mark, Schleswlg-Holstein, Germany, in
1872. After studying in the universi-
ties of Kiel and Berlin, he came to the
United States in 1892, and received the
degree of bachelor of arts from the
University of Chicago in 1896. He en-
listed as a volunteer soldier in the
Spanish-American War, but his health
gave out and he returned to Germany
for a time. The University of Berlin
conferred upon him the degree of doc-
tor of philosophy in 1901.
From 1901, until he came to Bryn
Mawr in 1904, Dr. Jessen was instruc-
tor and lecturer on German literature
and (esthetics in Harvard t'niversity.
He was the author of numi rous essays,
literary, social, and political, for ency-
clopedias, magazines, and newspapers.
President Taft, Dr. Rufus Jones and
many members of the faculty attended
the funeral, which took place last Sat-
urday.
ACADEMIC YEAR OPENS TOMORROW
President Taft will open the thirty-
fifth academic year of Bryn Mawr with
an address In Chapel tomorrow morning.
The opening services tomorrow will be
the first In the history of the college at
which President Thomas has not been
present.
Of the entering class of over a hun-
dred, two members are daughters of
alumna: of the Class of 1893. Anne Fitz-
gcrald is the daughter of Susan Walker
Fitzgerald, and Silvia Saunders the
daughter of Louise Brownell Saunders.
Mrs. Saunders was 1893's Kuropean Fol-
low.
Eight Freshmen are listen of alumna?
or undergraduates H. Schwarz 'IS, F.
Howell '19, L. Kellogg '20, F. von Hof-
sten '20, E. Matteson '21. E. H. Mills "21.
K. Ward '21 and M. D. Hay '31 all have
sisters in 1923.
Of the four matriculation scholarships
awarded to members of the Freshman
Class, the scholarship for the New Eng-
land States went to Mary Adams of Rose-
mary with an average of 83.15. Edith
Melcher of the Lower Merlon High
School is scholar for Pennsylvania with
81.3, and Virginia Miller, prepared by the
Oirton School, is scholar for the West
with an average of 70.8. The sc holarship
for New York, New Jersey, and Delaware
was won by Beatrice Bishop, who enters
from the Brearley School with an average
of 78.7. Honorable mention was made of
Elisabeth Vincent, Haroldine Humphries,
and Harriet Price.
(Continued on page 4, column 2.)
1918 PLEOGE8 $5000 MEMORIAL TO
WAR SERVICE OF CLASSMATES
Five thousnd dollars, a memorial to
Amelia Richards and Louise Tunstall
Smith, who died in war service, was
voted as a reunion gift by 1911 at Its re-
union meeting last June. Practically the
entire sum was raised In one day, by
pledges at the class banquet and by tele
gram* from absent members. The memo-
rial was given to the Victory Chair of
French
ALUMNAE WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN FOR FACULTY ENDOWMENT
LAUNCHED BY ENTHUSIASTIC CONFERENCE
Joint Committee of Faculty and Alumnae Propose Two Million Dollars
(Specially contributed by tbe publicity manager of the alumnae committee.]
Representatives of nearly every
graduating class that Bryn Mawr has
ever nad, met Friday and Saturday in
Taylor Hall to discuss the Million
Dollar Campaign Fund for Faculty
Salaries, which will be carried on this
year.
The entire conference realized that
the subject before them affected vi-
tally, not only the future of Bryn
Mawr, but of the education of women
everywhere, and the whole cause of
education In the United States. Speak-
ing at the Saturday morning session,
Acting-President Helen Herron Taft
said, "The present campaigns to In-
crease college endowment, our own, as
well as the Princeton, Harvard, Cor-
nell, Smith and other funds, are the
most reasonable ways of pressing the
claims of the teaching profession. But
If the wealthy people of the United
States do not realize that they owe the
college professors of the country a liv-
ing, I, for one. wunt the college facul-
ties to form a union and strike." She
spoke of the Intolerable conditions
under which so much college teaching
is done. "We cannot have successful
scholars," said Miss Taft, "if a burden
of financial worry weighs our teachers
down. And the faculty of Bryn Mawr
this year has had a real struggle to
make ends meet. During the war, they
were silent, but since the armistice
they have been forced to bring for-
ward their case for fair salaries. It is
absolutely necessary that their case be
eased."
"I want you to know," said Miss
Taft to the alumnae, "that we are
faced with the difficulty of not getting
any professors at all. Even Yale was
shocked this year to discover how few
promising young men were making ed-
ucation their life work. They were all
going to other professions where It
was possible to live and support a
family."
Show Need for Two  Million
The conference opened Friday morning
with  Mrs.  Richard Francis, president of
the Bryn Mawr Alumna) Association, in
the chair.
From the first the enthusiasts of the
conference wanted to make the campaign
one for a two million endowment rather
than one million. The one million dollars
would provide a faculty salaries increase
of twenty-five per cent only, and in the
face of the sixty to ninety per cent rise
in the cost of living, reported by prac-
tically every faculty family at the college,
the proposed increase seemed too small.
It was pointed out that if Bryn Mawr
wanted to keep Its primacy among the
women's educational institutions in Amer-
ica, and to maintain its place on a par
with the men's universities, it must offer
financial attraction to the best teaching
staff possible in the country. Princeton's
campaign calls for tourteen million dol-
lars; Harvard's campaign calls for thirty
million, "and on up." There was no sen-
timent among Bryn Mawr alumn.-e for
meekly dropping to second-rat eness, of-
fering to women, at the very beginning
of their enfranchisement and in the hour
of their greatest need for an education
(hat would make political leadership and
responsibility part of their task in life,
less than Harvard or Yale or Princeton
offered to their brothers. If two million
were needed to do this, the alumna* were
willing to double their collecting job and
go ahead with the men.
The alumnae decision to ask for two
million rather than one will be referred
to the directors of the college and to the
faculty before adoption by the Alumna*
Association.
Plan  Organization
It was decided to open the drive imme-
diately and let It culminate at the 1920
commencement. Some time during the
year a Simultaneous Drive Week should
be celebrated throughout the country.
Pledges In the campaign, it was agreed,
should be spread over a two-year period,
so that five semi annual payments should
be possible, bringing the final payments
In Jane, 191*.
The districts for the campaign are to
be   strictly   outlined   and   each   district
chairman is to be paramount in her own
territory, rendering bi-monthly reports to
the central campaign office, which shall
direct and cooperate with the district
chairmen.
Publicity a Big Feature of the Work
The session on Friday afternoon was
presided over by Professor Donnelly and
was devoted to a discussion of publicity,
and how best to bring the purposes, hiB-
tory and present activities of Bryn Mawr
College before the public. Dean Maddl-
son spoke of the days before the war,
when Bryn Mawr had been more self-
contained, and the publicity policy of the
college had been limited to a modest an-
nouncement of routine affairs and ruled
by a quiet fear of the wrong kind of \.|-
low journalism.
Miss Isabel Foster. Bryn Mawr '15, a
graduate of the Columbia School of Jour-
nalism, and at present on the staff of the
alert Waterbury Republican, spoke like a
bfMM through a newspaper city room.
She said that if Bryn Mawr, about to
make demands on the public for support
and interest, wanted the cooperation of
the press they had to accept newspaper
Standards of what was interesting. They
could not "command" space. They iiad
to earn it by supplying interesting news,
and becoming a good natured part of the
great number of competing organizations
that wanted a place on the front page.
Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel. pub-
licity adviser for the National Association
of Public Health Nurses, and for the Na-
tional Woman's Party, spoke on Publicity
as an Art, and urged the alumnae to
unite with the other colleges In empha-
sizing some one point that would have a
public appeal. She quoted Secretary
Lane, of the Department of Interior, as
saying that the United States today
lacked a common objective Just at a time
when we should be most united on educa-
tional Ideals, and at war with the appall-
ing illiteracy In the country. She sug-
gested that Bryn Mawr should play some
national part In bringing the country to
a common campaign for education. "Let
your appeal for money come In the rear
of your campaign for national education."
Miss Ernestine Brans, publicity adviser
to the Bryn Mawr Alumna Association,
spoke on how Bryn Mawr could put Its
best foot forward daring the costing year.
(Continued on page I. cohuan I.)
PRE8IDENT TAFT OOE8 TO EUROPE
WITH PRE8IOENT TH0MA8
Arrange   for    Exchange   Professors   and
Scholarships
President Taft arrived In Canada on
September 7th after a two months' trip
with President Thomas In England.
France and Italy, made for the purpose
of arranging for scholarships and ex-
change professors.
The French, and particularly the Eng-
lish, gave them a warm reception, but the
Italians of the Intellectual classes were
anti-American and received them coldly,
in one case giving them a decided rebuff.
Dean Gildersleeve, acting as a special
delegate of the Foreign Relations Com-
mittee of the A. C. A., and Miss Choate,
treasurer of the Rose Sldewlck Memo-
rial Scholarship Fund, sailed with Miss
Thomas and President TafL At a recep-
tion given at Bedford College by tbe
British University women, Dean Glider-
sleeve spoke on the part college women
can play In creating a better understand-
ing between England and America. A
Joint committee of the A. C. A. and the
British University Women met to ar-
range for scholarships and exchange pro-
fessors.
(Continued on page 4, column 2.)
CHANQE8   IN   FACULTY   AND   8TAFF
Helen Taft '15 will be acting President
of the college this year during President
Thomas's leave of absence.
Hilda Smith '10, for two years director
of the Bryn Mawr Community Center,
will act as Dean.
Dr. DeHaan, Professor of Spanish, has
returned after two years in Holland.
Dr. Tenney Frank, formerly Professor
of Latin, has accepted a professorship st
Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Horace
Wetherill Wright, A.B., Wisconsin, Ph.D..
University of Pennsylvania, will succeed
him as Associate Professor in Latin.
Dr. Carpenter, Dr. Crenshsw snd Dr.
Savage, who were granted leaves of ab-
sence for military service, have returned.
Dr. Savage will give his course In the
Technique of the Drama.
Dr. Gray, who has been working for the
English Shipping Board, and Dr. Huff,
who has done Hospital Reconstruction,
will return.
Dr. Hoppin has resigned as substitute
for Dr. Carpenter.
Dr. William Roy Smith and Dr. Marion
Paris Smith are travelling In China and
India during their year's leave of absence.
Dr. Edith Ware, A.B., Goucher. Ph.D.,
Columbia, has been appointed Lecturer In
American History as substitute for Dr.
Smith. Dr. George Herman Derry. A.B^
Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts,
will substitute for Mrs. Smith.
Miss Georgians Goddard King is trav-
elling in Spain during her year's leave of
absence. Dr. Arthur Edwin Bye, A.B.,
University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D., Prince-
ton, and former Associate Professor of
Art at Vassar, will take her place.
Mme. Claude Riviere Is doing editorial
work in New York. Mile. Ma reel le
Parde, Agregee, University of Paris, suc-
ceeds her as Associate In French.
Dr. Howard Patch, Associate Professor
In Philology, has accepted a professorship
st Smith College.
(Continued on page 3, column 2.)
Freshman Committee of Five Elected
This Evening
The committee who will manage 1123
for the first five weeks of college, before
the Freshman president Is chosen. Is
Frances Knox. Frances Matteson, sister
of B. Matteson '21. Betty Gray, and Sarah
Thomas. The class meeting st which the
officers were elected, was held this eve-
ning.
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