Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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if EURPURHTIUH HDFHINISTRHTIUN 0 Simmone College if forty-twoyearf old, and if therefore quite young af collegeJ meafure age. At the fame time, .fzmmonf it old enough to he the pioneer of a new ideal in the education of women, and thier fact her hiftorian would no douht find much more important than mere yearf or ivy-clad wallf. Every .Yimmoner .rtudent knowf that ideal- found profef- .rional education hafed on hroad liheral Jtudiexf' When .S'i77Z77Z07l.f opened ity doorf, a college for women comhining cultural and profeffional Jtudief way unheard of. Faded clippingf from newfpaperf and magazinef of the time reveal that the venture way regarded elf Jenfational, if not revolutionary. There muft have heen quite a fluttering in the dovecotey. Thif .reemf amufing now, when relatively few pofitiony are clofed to women, ef- pecially in wartime. Changef have come quickly thefe patt four decadee. I t would he eagy to attrihute the gift of prophecy to the founderf of Simmonf, Jince the plan they evolved haf coincided with the Jocial and economic trend and hae now won fairbf general acceptance. The evidence indicatef that they were far-.fighted men, hut not prophetf. They knew that women were heing drawn into the economic world, and that they .rhould he given adequate preparation.

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Bancroft Beatley, AAI., Ed.D., I,itt.D., President ur administrators adapt HE SIMMONS CORPORATION is keeper of a sacred trust. They received it from fore-sighted, practical John Simmons, a Boston merchant who provided in his will for the founding of a women's college that should give instruction in art, science, and industry best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an inde- pendent livelihood. John Simmons' works set the pace, and formed the matrix from which the future aims and purposes of the embryon- ic college were to be indelibly impressed. In 1899 the Corporation was organized, and three years later the doors of the first modern college of its kind in the country were thrown open to students. Guided by the watchwords, Art, Science, and Industry, the Simmons Corporation has done a good job. Its particular jurisdiction lies in questions of administration, finance, and property, for the discussion of which it holds several yearly meetings. just how faithfully the Corporation has followed the spirit and letter of the founder's will may be seen in the record and achievement of Simmons graduates, the readiness with which the college was geared to wartime needs, and in the well-balanced fusion of tech- nology and liberal arts that characterizes its program. The Corporation consists of the following members: Henry Le- favour, Ph.D., LL.D. ,John Washburn Bartol, A.B., M.D., Eiueritu.r,' Mary Eleanor Williams, Henry Edmund Bothfeld, Treu.furer,' Carl Dreyfus, A.B., Charles Milton Davenport, A.B., LL.B., William Emerson, A.B., Art.D., Chiziriniing Francis Prescott, A.B., John Stanley Ames, A.B., M.F., William Brooks Baker, A.B., LL.B., Clerlzg Bancroft Beatley, A.M., Ed.D., Litt.D., Prerident ofthe Collegeg Erwin Haskell Schell, S.B., Edward Frost, Rosamond Lamb, Richard Mason Smith, A.B., M.D., S.D., Ruth Hornblower Green- I t if to their credit their they proceeded with prudence and eizution, keeping .rtep with the profeefionnl progreirf of zoonien, hut ut- teinpting no .f17l'ilIfJ in ndzfunee of the pnrizde. The whole proeerr nzuft he tenti1tiz'e, u'rote Hemp' Lefti- rour, firft prerident of jiinnnonf, when the eoiiege zone heing orgizniqed. You Inuit expert nzirtulzef und pnrtiizl fniluref. You hnre hoth to erente nzizrketf for your produetr and jityour produetf to the dennind of the exifting niurketf' Thif if hufineff tulle with it vengeance. But it tellf the Jtory. .Slinnnonf hier izizodyf heen preoccupied about finding new nnzrlzetf for it.f produetf Cg7'eIefZ!e1f6'.fD, nf ure!! nf about fitting there products, to the deinnnd of the exirting nnzrket. AJ iz rule, hon'ez'er, it u.s'e.r loentionr other thnn thi.r to dexerihe the proeere. The will of john tfiinnionr, el wealthy Horton inerehnnt, uhieh provided the fund! to endow zrhnt Nlr. .Siinzinonr cuffed .Sifll!lll0l1.f lfenfnle Coiiege, .rhouxf elenrfy that he did not gforeiee if-lm zroznen noufd inter do in the world or hon' they would he ednented to do it. This, doeunfent, druzrn in 1867 .mid in pnrt: ll is ini' zrifl to found und endon' nn inffitutzon. . .for the purpose of touching medicine, inuiie, ll,1'11ll'fll1ig, defigning, telegruphmi, und other hrnnehef of nrt, .reienre und indnitry heit rulenfuted to enuhle .s'choinr.s' to nequire nn independent !Il'f!f!l0lllJ.U Peg petitions the president 10