The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-24


ing. Later her marriage removed her
from a position where she had gained
not only the respect but the earnest
cooperation and love of hundreds of
workers. Mrs. Palmer's career at We'll
lesley is bound up with the history of
the college.
She accepted the call to the west be-
cause it's duties only compelled her
presence in Illinois six weeks out of
each term. She was one Of two deans.
and her work consisted chiefly in class
flying students according to their
qualifications. seeing them entered into
classes and lending her ear and enthu-
siaStic interest to all questions con-
corning the advancement of the big
western institute. Her resignation,
which creates such genuine regret. IS
| accounted for by Prof. Palmer's years
leave of absence. which he and his
wife wish to spend together in foreign
| lands.
Dean Agnes Irwin also forms one of
the small yet brilliant circle to which
! Mrs. Palmer belongs in classic Cam
| bridge. Since the Harvard annex for
women has taken to itself name
Radcliffe-it has elected a woman, Miss
Irwin, as its dean, and Mrs. Louis Ag-
assiz as president.
| The remarkable fact about the form
er ladys election is her lack of collegi-
| ate training and traditions. Naturally
this action gave rise to wide comment,
and strange and new was the expla-
nation offered; namely, that the fac
ulty wished to make it point 10 have
the position filled by a woman of
thorough and polite culture whose re-
commentator, however, should be her
gracious womanliness rather than &C
ademic excellence. Radcliffe'S new
dean has been known for some years
as the head of one of Philadelphia
prominent and fashionable finishing
schools. Her venture in this line has
resulted proftably in financial and
educational sense. She is a woman
who has probably reached the meridian
of life, ripe in experience and judg-
ment; one whose attractiveness comes
not especially from scholarly qualities
so much as from high personal ones.
She can give TO Radcliffe all the hne
tone it desires and exercise over the
women studying there an ennoblng
influence of refinement and gentleness.
Her duties are not onerous; they are
not comparable with those of Miss
Thomas, Miss Smith and Miss Talbot.
In fact, 1 scarcely believe Miss Irwin
was invited to Radcliffe to work, but
to lend and give that lofty, distinct
personal charm and fine womanlinesS
which the world so desires in the place
where it's wives, mothers and daugh- |
tiers are moulded.
Mrs. Palmer, in leaving Chicago, left
one of the cleverest Of young coileg-
ians as dean pro tenn.
Miss Marian Talbot-who has been |
widely known as the secretary of the |
Association of College Alumni-a body |
that has done more excellent work |
than the world is altogether cognizant |
OF, was graduated from Wellesley IN |
the class of 80. The Boston school of |
technology next enrolled her among Its |
students, and her alma mater invited |
her to lecture there on her specially, |
science. These lectures she master,
fully conducted until the west offered |
her a chair beside that of the other |
notable Wellesley woman.
Miss Talbot is a quiet, determined |
little woman-a bundle OF energy, lar |
too much for her physical strength. |
Hard work is her forte, for in addl- |
ton to the tasks that fall plentifully |
to her as a resident dean, she is pro-
lessor of sanitary science in the col |
lege. She is systematic, accurate in !
detail and an unquestioned authority |
on all statistics touching the college |
life for women in the United States.
Barnard college in New York boasts
the youngest dean of the five. Miss
Emily James Smith is only 20 years Of |
age and this is her first authoritative |
bow to the educational world. She |
was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 'S9,
studying later at Girton college. Cam
bridge. England, then at the Univer-
sity of Chicago. Barnard called her
from her classes, but it did so on the |
most justifable grounds. Dean Smith |
is brilliantly equipped for the high |
position she holds. This is her first
year, but she has already become a
favorite and gives good reason to
prophesy that Columbia's annex now
holds another shining light among wo-
man educators of this progressive day. |
Miss Smith is a rapid rather than |
tireless worker Six hours a day is the |
limit with which she cares to tax her
self. Nevertheless, the young dean &C
complishes in that time what it re-
quires the ordinary woman day and
a half to do.
Personally she is very attractive, be-
ing handsome, with genial, graceful |
manners and admirable taste in dress.
Miss Smith utterly overthrows all pre-
ideas of the college-bred blue
stocking. She has been delightfully."- |
entertained socially in New York. and |
her career is all before her. full of
promise and congenial, ambitious work.
HARRY-DELE HALLMARK.
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