Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Another important change was made at this time : Class C, which had been used as a Model School in the Teachers ' Department, being now dropped, it was decided to abandon this school of practice, and to open a course in the Science of Teaching, for those intending to become teachers, and the Professor to be appointed was to use the class itself as the practice or model class, thus obviating the necessit) ' of a school of small children for this purpose. Thus, the College proper was, little by little, being evolved from the large mixed College and Preparatory School. About 1,200 volumes were added to the Library this year, for more than half of which we were in- debted to gifts of our friends, Stephen DarHngton, W. J. Youmans, Joseph M. Truman, Jr., Dilhvyn Par- rish, and Joseph C. Turnpenny ; and Friends Historical Library was considerably increased by gifts from Howard M. Jenkins, Charles Thompson, Dillwyn Parrish, Eli M. Lamb, Lydia H. Hall, and Lydia Jackson. Increased attention was given this year to the Department of Physical Culture, and Walter W. Ford, A ' l. D., was appointed to train the students in accordance with the carefully graded system of Dr. Sargent, of Harvard College ; and Susan P. Stackhouse, M. D., was appointed Lecturer on Physiology and Hygiene to the young women, and Dr. Dolley gave a similar course to the young men. At this time the report of the students ' standing in scholarship in exact figures, indicating the per- centages, was abandoned, and the present system of first, second, third, and fourth grades was established. A full report of this prolific year would lead me quite beyond the limits prescribed by the Halcyon, and I must close with this remark, again repeated by the Managers at this time. They say : Let us again remind you that th€ one great need of the College, to place it beyond all question upon a safe and secure foundation, is the endowment of Professors chairs, in all of t he leading and essential departments. ' The next chapter will show that this reiterated counsel did not go very long unheeded. 18

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classes alone will fill Swarthmore to its utmost capacity, and soon require additional buildings for their accommodation. The only change in the head of a department th e present year was the appointment of Henry W. Rolfe, A. M., a graduate of Amherst College, previously an Instructor in Cornell University, to take charge of the Department of Latin. The President, who had assumed this charge the previous year, now in- structed only the Senior Class, requiring this relief that he might give more attention to outside lectures, and the general duties of the College. As an Assistant in Latin, Ferris W. Price, A. B., a graduate of Swarthmore in the Class of 1874. and for some years a successful Instructor in Friends ' Central School, in Philadelphia, was appointed in place of Mary L. Austin, who resigned at this time after fifteen years of most satisfactory and faithful service in the College. The Department of Chemistry was much strength- ened at this time by the appointment of Albert G. Palmer, Ph. D., of Johns Hopkins University, as As- sistant Professor of Chemistr} ' , and considerable new apparatus was added to this Department. A change, which was practically, though not nominally, a change of the head of a Department, was made this year: Dr. Joseph Leidy, who was appointed Professor of Natural Llistory in 1870, and served the College so well in that capacity for fifteen years, was now made Emeritus Professor of Natural History and Curator of the Museum ; and Dr. Charles DoUey was appointed Assistant Professor of Natural History and Lecturer on Physiology and Hygiene. Dr. Dolley had recently returned from abroad, where he had been pursuing his studies in Zorn ' s Biological Laboratory, in Naples. He entered most zealously upon his new duties, and the work of this Department was greatly extended. Dr. Dolley giving us three entire days each week, whereas Dr. Leidy had given us but a few hours weekly of his valuable time. Under Dr. Dolley the Col- lege opened a Biological Laboratory for practical work, and made Biology an elective study for all who desired and were prepared to enter upon it. Among the minor changes made by Dr. Dolley is one which the young women of the College have since especially enjoyed, the establishment of the flower-garden on the border of the drive, at the east end of the College. We felt that the changes and additions in the corps of Instructors this year were eminently satisfactory, and that the teaching force had never hitherto been so strong and efficient as at that time. The Instruction Committee appointed, this year, a part of their number as a Visiting Committee, who visited and reported upon the classes everv month, and the President made to this Committee monthly reports of his visits to the Classes, and their condition, both in the College and Preparatory School. 17

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Faculty and Instructors, WILLIAM WILFRED BIRDSALL, President and Professor of Pedagogy. B. S,, Earlham College (1873); A. M. (i ELIZABETH POWELL BOND, Dean. A. M., Swarthmore College (1897). Author of IVonis by the Way. EDWARD HICKS MAGILL, Emeritus Professor of the French Language and Literature, and Lecturer on French Literature. A. B., Brown University (1852); A. M.. Brown University (1855); LL. D., Haverford College (1886). Member of A K E and B K. Author of Magill ' s French Grammar; Magill ' s French Prose and Poetry; Magill ' s Modern French Series. ARTHUR BEARDSLEY, Emeritus Professor of Engineering and Librarian of Friends ' Historical Library. C. E., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1867); Ph. D., Swarthmore College (1889). Member of A K E. WILLIAM HYDE APPLETON, Professor of Greek and Early English. A. B., Harvard (1864); A. M.. Harvard (1867); LL. B., Harvard (1869); Ph. D., Swarthmore College (1888). Member of X t and B K. Editor of Greek Poets in English I ' erse. SUSAN JANE CUNNINGHAM, Edward H. Magill Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Sc. D,, Swarthmore College (18 19