Sweet Briar College - Briar Patch Yearbook (Sweet Briar, VA)

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|d]l (ThrColInn- THE FACULTY AND OTHER OFFICERS Emilie Watts McVea, A. M., Litt. D. President, and Profeasor of English Mary Harley M. D., Woman ' s Medical College of the New York Infirmary Professo)- of Physiology and Hygiene Thomas Deane Lewis Graduate of William and Mary College ; B. D., the Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia Professor of Biblical Literature, and Chaplain to tlie College Clement Tyson Goode A. B., Wake Forest College; A. M. Harvard University Professor of English

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f c Ol rtic coiir.T. rO : -4iP !ja EM L iS Vr Tr5 McKiS I °r S the third year of President McVea ' s stay among us is drawing to a close, it may prove interesting, as well as beneficial, to recapitulate the history of her life, and to attempt to show what she has done and is trying to do for Sweet Briar. Miss McVea was born in Louisiana. She was educated at St. Mary ' s School, Raleigh, N. C, where she was a teacher and afterwards principal. Later she studied at Cornell, and in Washington at the Columbia University. She taught in Washington, D. C, and was assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Tennessee, which she left to assume the duties of Professor of English and Dean of Women at the University of Cincinnati, in 1904. Miss McVea was much more than a part of the teaching staff at Cincinnati. She was in every si?nse a citizen of the community. Just prior to her departure from Cincinnati, the organizations to which she had belonged during her twelve years ' sojourn in the city planned a unique testimonial to her services and fellowship. Twenty-seven organiza- tions with which she had been intimately associated joined in an expression of apprecia- tion of what her life among them had meant. Few women have called forth the tributes accorded that evening to the new president of Sweet Briar College. On commencement day, in June, 1916, the University of Cincinnati conferred on Miss McVea the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, in appreciation of her work to advance and strengthen the institution of which she had so long been a part, and in anticipation of what lay before her in her still larger field of influence. Sweet Briar had always held an enviable place among women ' s colleges, and there are few institutions of its size that draw their patronage from so wide an area. Unfortunately, however, the secondary department was encroaching in importance upon the college proper, and it is in regard to Miss McVea ' s efforts to overcome this circumstance that we are chiefly interested. Three years ago, the College was credited with one hundred and three students (twenty-one of whom were specials), and ninety-nine sub-freshmen in the preparatory department. This year the Freshmen number one hundred and twenty-nine; the Sophomores number fifty-six; the total number of College students is two hundred and fifty-three. By action of the Board of Ti-ustees, the Preparatory Department (the Academy) will be discontinued after June, 1919. In September, 1919, Sweet Briar will be altogether a College. Our faculty consists of thirty-three highly trained men and women. Our science laborator ies have been greatly enlarged and augmented during the past two years and a half. Our library now numbers over seven thousand volumes. New courses have been offered in Bacteriology, in Botany, in Greek, in History, in Psychology, in Ethics, in English, and in the Romance Languages. A separate department of Physics has been established, and next year a department of Economics and Social Science will be organized. With additional buildings, and with an endowment. Sweet Briar can become within the next five or six years H College of five hundred students, and take its rightful place in the educational world. These few facts speak for themselves, and while we realize that it has taken and will take many hands to carry on the work, we feel, too, that words can but poorly express our gratitude and admiration for Miss McVea ' s splendid initiative and accomplishment. Ad multo annos at Sweet Briar, President McVea. i=

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c Ji cht Collect rg Hugh S. Worthington A. M., University of Virginia Professor of Modern Languages S. Gay Patteson B. S., Columbia University Acting Professor of Mathematics Virginia Randall McLaws Student in the Charcoal Club of Baltimore; student and teacher in the New York School of Art; pupil of Henry Caro-Delvaille, Paris Director of Art Caroline Lambert Sparrow A. B., Goucher College; A. M., Cornel University; Graduate Woi-k, Chicago University Professor of History i sl B=m miiSX