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THE YEAR AT THE COLLEGES.

A PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT.

MOUNT HOLYOKE’S GROWTH.

LIMIT OF ENROLMENT REACHED.

New Music Building and President’s House Being Erected – The Changes in Curriculum and Faculty – The Gifts of the Year.

From Our Special Reporter.

SOUTH HADLEY, Sunday, June 14.

Mount Holyoke college has expanded its work and added to its effectiveness during the past year, although growth in numbers is not possible to any considerable extent, nor has it been for several years, during which the capacity of the accommodations has been fully utilized.  The refusal of applications for enrolment begins a year and a half before the time of entrance, so much greater is the demand for the training at the college than can at present be met.  An important change instituted during the past year has been that of the adoption of a group system in the curriculum.  A good amount of required work is retained, there are a considerable number of electives to be made within restricted groups, and a fair amount of free elective.  The faculty of the college is being increased so that the fact in which the college takes just pride – its large number of instructors in proportion to its student body – is becoming increasingly marked, although during all the time of growth there has been steady increase of the number of teachers to students.  The college will be able to show the exceedingly fine ratio of one instructor to about nine students.  This showing is the more impressive when it is seen how liberally the college maintains its policy of allowing leave of absence for study and travel.

Gifts have been received in considerable numbers during the past year, but not in large amounts relative to the needs of the college in order that it may more fully fill the great field in which it does a great work.  The college is seriously embarrassed by the inadequate size of the college chapel.  It has been outgrown by the vesper service, there being frequently persons standing, and has been totally outgrown for the baccalaureate and commencement exercises.  All undergraduates are excluded and not all the alumnae desiring to attend can be accommodated.

The enrolment at Mount Holyoke, which represents its capacity for accommodating the young women, is 711.  These students come from 27 states and from Mexico, India and Turkey.  The senior class numbers 142, the junior 176, there are 189 sophomores and 197 freshmen, and in addition six graduate students and one special student in music.  The faculty staff, including the administrative officers, numbers 114, an increase of four over the previous year and further additions are to be made for the next year.  The most important change in the faculty has been the appointment of a dean, Miss Florence M. Purington, B. S., a graduate of Mount Holyoke, and for several years a member of the faculty.

Dr Henrietta Hooker, professor of botany, will resign her position at the close of this year.  She will have served 25 years on the faculty of the college and will be the second member of the faculty who will receive an annuity from the Carnegie foundation, Miss Frances Hazen having last year met the requirement of service.  Dr. Hooker will be succeeded by Associate Prof Mary E. Kennedy, a graduate of Oberlin college, who has done graduate work at Chicago university and has been on the faculty of Mount Holyoke for two years.  Miss Mignon Talbot, associate professor of geology, will next year be promoted to a full professorship of geology.

The college strongly favors the policy of granting leave of absence for study or travel.  During the past year Associate Prof Wallace of the department of zoology has been studying at the university of Pennsylvania.  Miss Gertrude Cushing of the department of Romance languages has studied in France and Spain, and Dr. Eleanor Rowland of the department of philosophy has studied in Europe.  Miss Dorothy Foster of the department of English literature has been studying at Radcliffe.  All will return in the fall.  During the latter part of the year Prof Cornelia M. Clapp of the department of zoology has been studying at the zoological station on the Pacific coast; Prof Mary Vance Young of the department of Romance languages spent the spring in England; Associate Prof Jeannette Marks of the English literature department had leave of absence; Miss Bertha Blakely, college librarian, spent two months on the Pacific coast; Miss Vivian Small of the department of Latin delivered the founders’ day address at Mills college, Cal., and was absent about a month.  During the coming year those who will be away are Prof Bertha K. Young of the department of English literature, Director Nellie A. Spore of the department of physical training, Miss Mary E. Trueblood of the department of mathematics, Miss Emma P. Carr of the department of chemistry, and Miss Grace M. Bacon of the German department.  Prof Helen M. Searles of the Latin department and Prof Nellie Neilson of the department of history will spend the first semester abroad.

​Associate professorship appointments have been made to Miss Vivian Small, A. M., of the department of Latin; Miss Mary Gertrude Cushing, A. M., of the department of Romance languages; Miss Ellen Deborah Ellis, Ph. D., of the department of history, and Miss Julia B. Dickinson of the department of music.  The new appointments include that of Prof George Olds of Amherst, who will give a course in mathematics.  Appointments as resident instructors have been made to Miss Julia Langness, Ph. D., university of Pennsylvania; Miss Dorothy Hahn, now a fellow at Bryn Mawr college; two new instructors in history, Miss Bertha Haven Putnam, Ph. D., Columbia university, and Miss Margaret Morriss, now a fellow at Bryn Mawr college,;;;; in archeology; ,,,,Miss Edith Hall, Ph. D., a graduate of Smith college and graduate student at Bryn Mawr college; in English literature, Miss Laura A. Hibbard, A. M. of Wellesley; in zoology, Miss Mary A. Clark, A. B., Mount Holyoke, and A. M., Columbia; in the department of botany, Miss Alma G. Stokey, Ph. D., university of Chicago; in the German department, Miss Emma R. Goddard, A. B., Mount Holyoke, graduate student at the teachers’ college of Columbia university and at the university of Leipsic; in the English department, Miss Caroline F. Lester, A. M., of the teachers’ college of columbia university.  Miss Margaret E. Hughes, who is now supervisor of physical training at Charleston, S. C., a graduate of Dr Curry’s school of expression of Boston, will be physical director for the year.  Miss Ivy G. Eaton, a graduate of the New Haven school of physical training, will be assistant in the gymnasium.  Miss Ethel V. Crosby, who has been trained in the Boston museum art school, will be assistant in the art department.  Miss Annie Scott, A. B., Mount Holyoke, will be assistant in the registrar’s office.  The new appointments mean a substantial enlargement of the staff as well as substitute work and a few permanent changes.
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THE YEAR AT THE COLLEGES.
After talking about Mount Holyoke, the Special Correspondent then went on to talk about Smith.

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The college will be able to show the exceedingly fine ratio of one instructor to about nine students.  This showing is the more impressive when it is seen how liberally the college maintains its policy of allowing leave of absence for study and travel.
I mention this in a Tour about Alma:
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The enrolment at Mount Holyoke, which represents its capacity for accommodating the young women, is 711.  These students come from 27 states and from Mexico, India and Turkey.  The senior class numbers 142, the junior 176, there are 189 sophomores and 197 freshmen, and in addition six graduate students and one special student in music.
142 plus 176 plus 189 plus 197 plus six plus one does indeed add up to 711.

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Dr Henrietta Hooker, professor of botany, will resign her position at the close of this year....Dr. Hooker will be succeeded by Associate Prof Mary E. Kennedy, a graduate of Oberlin college, who has done graduate work at Chicago university and has been on the faculty of Mount Holyoke for two years.
So Dr. Hooker made a vacancy at the top, everybody in botany department moved up one step in seniority, and a place at the bottom was left for a new hire, i.e. Alma.  And Associate Prof Mary Kennedy, like Alma, went to Oberlin for her undergraduate degree and then on to Chicago for graduate work.  Did Mary Kennedy write to Alma saying, "We've got just the place for you here!" ?

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During the latter part of the year Prof Cornelia M. Clapp of the department of zoology has been studying at the zoological station on the Pacific coast
Dr. Clapp later became Alma's three-doors-down neighbor in Woods Hole, so I include her in both the non-family South Hadley folks page and also the non-family Woods Hole folks page.

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During the coming year those who will be away are Prof Bertha K. Young of the department of English literature, Director Nellie A. Spore of the department of physical training, Miss Mary E. Trueblood of the department of mathematics, Miss Emma P. Carr of the department of chemistry, and Miss Grace M. Bacon of the German department.
Alma was acquainted with Grace Bacon, so I've got her on the non-family South Hadley folks page.

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Associate professorship appointments have been made to Miss Vivian Small, A. M., of the department of Latin; Miss Mary Gertrude Cushing, A. M., of the department of Romance languages; Miss Ellen Deborah Ellis, Ph. D., of the department of history, and Miss Julia B. Dickinson of the department of music.
I enjoy sightings of Ellen Deborah Ellis, who, like Alma, went to exotic places.  I have given her space on the non-family South Hadley folks page even though I have no evidence that Alma even knew her, though of course she must have, given the small size of Mount Holyoke College.

Also I would like to know if Miss Julia B. Dickinson was related to Emily Dickinson.

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​Miss Annie Scott, A. B., Mount Holyoke, will be assistant in the registrar’s office.
I happily imagine that Annie Scott was Class of 1908, and that she worked part-time in the registrar's office while she was an undergraduate, and now that she's graduated, she's working there full time.  But that's just me imagining things.
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