Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 24

3 2 i COLLEGE EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR PRACTICALLY EVERY NORWICH GIRL. Facilities For Higher Education Afforded By Con- necticut College For Women—Norwich Link- ed in Interest to the College at Its Doors—Im- provements and Additions Made During the Academic Year. An annual survey of affairs of interest to the people of Norwich must take account of Connecticut College, the new col- lege for women developing in its suburbs. Norwich now has a college at her very doors. Since September 25, 1915, it has been possible for a Norwich girl living at home to have the facili- ties of higher education afforded by the income and investment of a million and a half dol- lars for the annual ex- penditure, including car- fare, of about two hun- dred dollars. The found- ing of this new college makes a college educa- tion possible for practi- cally every Norwich gin} of ability and ambition. BEvery girl in Norwich is henceforth an heiress, if she wishes to be one, with the heritage of the rich possibilities of a life and vocation that a college of the right kind can afford. So surely a summing up of the year's DR. F. H. S8YKES - events must include for® Norwich a statement of the growth and progress of the new college at her doors. Active Part Norwich Has Taken in College. < One of the first addresses made by the newly elected 'presE dent, Dr. Frederick H. Sykes, in behalf of the new college was given under the auspices of the College Club of Norwich in Slater Hall. Si that time and, indeed, ever since the very beginning of thefnovemefhit to establish the college in New Lon- don, the people of Norwich have lent their active aid and good will to the enterprise. The faculty of the college were cordially entertained at a reception held last winter in Slater Hall under the agspices of the College Club. This club, in order to found a scholarship at the new college, has given a series of highly successful entertainments beginning with the well remembered Cafe Chantant in 1914, including assemblies of various sorts and reaching a point of considerable distinction in the Shakespeare Pageant of last spring. To all these affairs the business houses, mewspapers, schools and, organizations of Norwich have con- ted in some way. The result has been the appointment of a graduate of the academy as scholar in the college during the past year and for the present year. Besides the scholarship fund there is a sum amounting to about $600 on deposit in a Norwich bank, the nucleus of a Norwich Hall fund, which the club hopes will in time compel the interest of the public and result in a new building for the college. Norwich Linked With College Interests. ., At a late aeeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Fastern Connecticut, lafgely through Nerwich interest, 2 movement was inaugurated to erect a building at the college, this building to be devoted to furthering the development of commercial and indus- trial arts in the state of Connecticut. In these and in other ways, Norwich is linked in interest to the college at its doors; the college board of trustees has among its members a citizen of Norwich; many Norwich people have brought gifts to the new college; but the best and closest, and we hope, the ever increas- ing bond of interest is that the daughters of Norwich will, many of them, receive their education at Connecticut College. Norwich Girls Enrolled. There have been enrolled in the college during the years 1915-16 and 1916-17 the following Norwich girls: Class of 1919—Ruth F. Avery, Beatrice Boyd, Flsie Brand, Caroline Chapman (Mrs. Joseph Devine), Sadie A. Coit, Mary E. Coughlin, Irma Hutzler, Clementina E. Jordan, Marion S. Rogers, Agnes Troland, Rosa Wilcox. Class of 1920—Ruth Barber, Alice V. Coleman, Loretta P. Higgins, Dora M. Schwartz, Irene A. Wholey, Nellie English. Special Students—Faith Bonfoey, Mary Crofton, Elizabeth Fulkerson, Louise Howe, Josetta Lavallee, Mrs. Robert W. Per- kins, Mrs. John Foran, Ruth Stevens, Mrs. L. L. Blackstone, Mrs. Gardner Greene, Anna Perkths, Lucille Smith, Beatrice Under- wood, Adeline”Kearney and Edith Huggard (Montville). January 1st, 1917, sees the ®ompletion of the first year and a half of work at Connecticut College. At the end of this time the newest college in New England is a thriving community of two hundred students, freshmen and sophomores, with many* other special students; it has a faculty of twenty-five members; it occupies six buil@gings on its great estate beside the Thames river; its students are enrolled in more than seventy-five courses of instruction in fifteen departments; its student body represents eleven states of thei Union and England; sixty colleges and uni- versities of the United States and Europe are represented in the tmnm%snd experience of its faculty. New Dormitories Already Needed. The college is planned to develop its facilities with the an- nual growth of its student body, but the student body has grown so0 fast since its beginning on September 25, 1915, that the ma- terial facilities provided for it at that time are now inadequate. Next year the college will be forced into eight o'clock morning classes and Saturday morning sessions in order to provide room accommodations. Already re are now one hundred and nine- ty-three classes weekly and the addition of third-year classes will exhaust the supply of class-rooms. Last year the college had fifty-five students who occupied Plant and Blackstone houses. This year the college has one hundred and thirty-five resident- students who fill to the fullest capacity Plant, Blackstone and the | new dormitory, Winthrop House, opened November 16th last. Besides these there are living in ivate houses off the campus nearly twenty girls for whom mmodations in the college / Y. W. C. A.; Dr. Lawrence D. Ussher, missionary to Armeni: dormitories could not be provided. Next September there will, be an entering freshman class of at least one hundred if quarters for them can be found between this day and September 24, 1917, but no funds are available for the new dormitories needed. Thames Hall, the temporary dining hall, served on the average of 200 meals a day last year and this year serves 410 meals a day. It is running at its utmost capacity now and under great difficulties. To add the class of 1921 will require double the kitchen facilities. The needs of the college are great and press- ing. Will the new year see them satisfled? Improvements and Additions. The academic year 1916-17 has seen extensive improvements and additions to the college equipment. Winthrop House, a frame dormitory on Mohegan Avenue, north of Thames Hall, was opened on November 16. It accommodates 35 students and a member of the faculty who acts as resident fellow. The generous giff of Mrs. Appleton R. Hillyer, of Hartford, has made possible the Field House and Assembly Hall, now under way. The completion of this building will Telieve the great strain to which the dining room has been subjected in supplying the only assembly hall of the college and gia small gymnasium fer physical education. The basement of Flackstone House was finished off during the month of October to provide five much needed rooms for the music department, but that department also will require addi- tional accommodations another year. To the, visitor, however, the greatest improvement will doubtless be seen in the grounds immedlately surrounding the buildings where gradinz, Seeding, planting and intelligent care to the extent of the funds avallable have produced a marked improvement. Another link of the col- lege roads, that leading from the top of the hill to Winthrop House and Thames Hall is now under construction, giving access by good roads from Norwich via Williams street. The college is beginning to take its place in the social and intellectual life of the community. It offers this year a series of seven concerts, two by artists well known on the concert stage, two by members of its own music faculty, and three recitals by music students and the colleze glee club. Various literary pro- grams are provided. Three members of the faculty have con- tributed to the success of the New London Citizens’ Free Lecture Course and college people are actively associated with work in the Civic League, in charities, and other public activitiess Tha college circle, because it is a small one, rejoices at being able to call from the active world at large men and women distinguished in their several fields of endeavor and on these occasions it in- variably invites the interested public to come and listen also. College Lectures Last Year and This Year. Such have been the lectures by Hon. L. E. Whiton. state senator; Hon. Ernest E. Rogers, mayor of New London; Dr. Ger- tgude A. Walker, physician; Professor Homer Hulbert, in part, founder of the present educational system in Korea; Dr. G. G. acCurdy, Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Curator of the Anthropological Collection, Yale; Miss Laura Dillingham of the Mr. DeWitt C. Croissant, field representative for the simplified spelling movement; Miss Mabel B. Haywood of the International Institute, Madrid; Mr. George Utley, librarian; Rev. W. M. Zumbro, of the American College, India; Lieut. W. T. Merrill, U. S. N.; Professor Alice Libby of Western College; Mr. H. A. Tirrell of the Norwich Free academy; Mr. Richard Schellens, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford; D. E. A. Cook, educator; Mf. Julius Eggleston of New London; Dr. Valeria Parker, field agent of the Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene; Rev. Byron U. Hatfield; Miss Polly Sabine of the Red Cross service in Serbia; Mr. Leyton Richards of Manchester, England, well known exponent of the Pacifist movement; Professor Ellsworth Huntington, geographer and explorer; Dr. Cephas Guillet, psychologist and educator; M. Jules Bois, French lecturer and man of letters; Miss Irene Sy vester of the American Association for Labor Legislation. ' Local Preachers at Vesper Services. The Sunday vesper service of the collefe has brought tc the college day by day the ablest preachers of Eastern Connecticut adding to the religious life of the college as well as acquainting with the institution the visiting pastors who bear their im- pressions to their home circles. In this way it has been the priv- ilege of the college to listen to many preachers from Norwich and its vicinity. These hdve been the Rev. Joseph H. Sclden, Rev. W. S. Beard of Willimantic, Rev. J. Eldred Brown, Rev. S. H. Howe. Rev. Herbert J. Wyckoff, Rev. F. D. Sargent of Put- nam, Rev. G. H. Stouse, Rev. R. R. Graham, Rev. Donald Fletcher of Quaker Hill, Rev. F. D. Ludington of Uncasville, Rev. P. F. ‘Wolfenden, Rev. G. W. Bwing, Rev F. W. Coleman, Rev. Charles H. Ricketts, Rev. Edward S. Worcester and Rev. C. A. Northrop. Generous gifts have been made to the college during its last half year. The late Dr. W. P. Bolles, whose childhood and boy- hood was spent in the old Bolles home on what is now part of the college campus, left to the coliege by will all his scientific instruments, including microscopes, cameras, a valuable telescope, drawing instruments and a library of 1,300 bool This is the second Eift to the college of an entire private library, for as Norwich people will recall, to Mrs. Thomas Harland of Norwich was due the founding of the college library with a nucleus of 2,000 well chosen books. Other large gifts of books have come from Mrs. G. W. Lane and Mrs. C. W. Gale, both of Norwich. Altogether the college has accumulated during its year and a half of existence 9,500 volumes. Scholarships and Prizes. It is the earnest wish of the college to ally itself intimately with the various districts of Connecticut by the establishment of scholarships in the high schools of the state. The college feels that to have in each high school a final prize for distinguished merit would mean the quickening of interest in study, in prepa- ration for worthy vocations throughout the whole body of high school students. Several scholarships have already been estab- lished, for example, the Norwich College Club Scholarship, which last year and this year has provided funds to pay the tuition of a graduate of the Norwich Academy. Funds are in the process of being collected for seven other scholarships in other parts of the state, Prizes are offered by friends of the college to stimulate and reward excellence in certain fields of study. These are the Theodore Bodenwein prize for excellence in English in the field of the newspaper article; the Charles R. Hanscom prize in math- ematics; the Graham Hislop prize in English; the Brvan F. Mahan prize for proficiency in music; the Beatrice Cameron Mansfield prize in dramatics; the S. F. Peterson prize in Greek; the Louige. Ryckman Sykes prize for the best speech on any social or” political topic of present interest; the Alice R. €ary prize in French; the Frank A. Comstock prize in botany, and a prize offered by subscription among several people for excellence in Spanish. Additions and Changes in Faculty During Past Year. The sophomore courses added last fall necessitated some additions to the faculty and there have been besides the usual vearly changes in the staff of instructors. An assistant pro- fessorship of music was created to which Mr. William Bauer, instructor in music during the academic year 1515-16 was ap- pointed. Arthur H. Graves, Ph.D.,, Yale university, came to the college as associate professor of biology for botany. Professor Graves had been from 1909-14 assistant professor of botany in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University and spent the following year, 1914-15, in research work in the Royal College of Science, London. Connecticut Collage is also indebted to the Sheffield school for Dr. David D.>Leib, assistant professor of mathematics and physics. Professor Leib took his A. B. and A. M. in Dickinson college; was scholar and later fellow in mathematics at Johns Hopkins University where he received his doctor’s degree in 1909; since then Dr. Leib has been instructor in mathematics at Sheffieid. In the department of English Dr. Marjorie L. Barstow, has been appointed. Dr. Barstow is a graduate of Cornell University and held a fellowship in English for two years at Yale where she received her Ph.D. last spring. She comes to Connecticut College with teaching experience in Vassar and the University of Kansas. Mlle. Carola L. Ernst has been appointed instructor in romance languages. Mlle. Ernst holds the diploma of regente litteraire in the German and English lan- guages from the University of Liege and at the beginning of the war was professor of French literature in the Deutscher Schul- verein, Brussels; she is also a lecturer and woman of letters, being the author of “L'Hymne a la Joie” In the field of fine arts, department of ceramics, Miss Aida Watrous received last fall the appeintment as instructor in fine arts for ceramics. Miss Watrfous is well known to the people of Norwich as in- structor in the Norwich Art School. Other additions and changes in thq faculty have been made as follows: L. M. Crandall of Norwich, lecturer in business economy; E. D. B. Lynde, secretary of the associated charities, New London, lecturer in social sclence Senor Nicholas Dominguez assistant in romance languages for Spanish; and Hiss Ruth Meredith Reicheldorfer, assistant in phy- sical education. The Spirit of the College. Something must be said in closing concerning that vital thing, the spirit of the college, the esprit'du corps of students and faculty. Of course, it has not had much time in which te for- mulate itself, or to manifest itself in those so-called “college traditions” so dear to the heart of every college graduate, but in thinking over the life of the college for the past year and a half certain salient characteristics stand forth in unchallangeable clearness. They are for the most part, as they should be, pioneer qualities—independence, democracy, sturdiness, T sibility and a certain facility for making the best of th noticeable trait in the freshman class of last year was the will~ ingness and ability of the students to help in the practical ad- spon- A ministration of the college. In the college refectory, in the li- brary, in the college book store, in the college offices and labora- tories, were girls who not only enjoved “helping run the col- lege” and with that happy faculty of youth made play out of sy work, but really did it well and dignified their office in th BLACKSTONE HOUSE (Photograph by Miss Mabel Torrey, 1920, Member of Class in Photography) formance -of it. In many cases these opportunities to hold posi- tions on the college staff of workers made the students’ contin= uance in college possible and at the end of the year when the honors for scholarship were determined it was found that a ma- jority of the awards went to students of this sort. Another trend of things seems to be in the direction of definiteness of purpose on the part of both freshmen and sophomores—a self-knowledge of what they are going to do Wwith their course when they begin it. This is probably due to the effort the college malkes to turn into an appropriate channel from the start the student's best energies and capabilities 50 as not to leave its graduates afloat on a sea of uncertainty, no more decided at the end of four years than they were at the bgginning as to what they want to make of thei#’lives. This purpose is in close harmony with the best thought of the day—a thought the college is happy to per- ceive and to foster in its students—an intelligent selection on their part of the sphere of activity for which they are best suited, a careful training for that activity, and a carecer made happy ana successful by a congenial work well done. OVER $150,000 FOR IMPROVEMENT ' OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT ROADS, Expenditures in New London County During the Year Totaled $90,194.92, While $45,059 Was Amount Expended in Windham County. & In the improvement of Eastern Connecticyt roads during the past year the State Highway Department has expended a total of $153,069.89. In New London County $90,194.92 was expended by the department and in Windham County $45,069. In New Lon~ don County the expenditures wWere divided as follows— 2 miles of trunk 1in® roads .....eecsvessessssnccsss. $27,861.08 1.8 miles of state aid roads ......... teebesnacnenn 2491711 2.1 miles of road paid by town of Groton and bullt under the supervision of the State. 34,719.91 Trunk line bridges . oo 1,456.80 Railings ......... 1.249.47 Total . $90,194.92 Expenditures in Windham County were divided as follows— 6 miles of state roads . vee $43,350.10 Bridges . 708.90 Total $45,069.00 The most important improvement in the counties is the cone crete road in Groton, beginning at the road to the ferry and ex~ tending toward Flistern Point, a distance of 2.7 miles. This im- provement was bailt under the supervision of the state and paid for hy the state, trolley company and town. The state and trolley company paid for the section beginning at the road to the ferry and ending at the watering trough at Pequonndé Road, from trunk line money amounting to $19,981.36; and the town paid for the section beginning at the watering trough and ending at the junction of the Branford Farms and Westerly Road, at an expense of $84,719.91. E. C. Welden is the divisional engineer and Charles J, Ben« nett is the State Highway Commissioner. | |