Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-04
BRYN MAWR OPENS
WITH ENROLMENT
THAT BEATS RECORD
Despite Infantile Paralysis
Quarantine, Number of Stu
dents Is Largest in His
tory of College
HONOR SYSTEM SUPREME

A larger enrolment than usual In spite
OF strict infantile paralysis quarantine,
marked the opening Of Bryn Mawr College
today. The exact number OF students viii
not be known until the registrars records
are completed.
The quarantine forbids any student from
leaving the college and prohibits the ma
circulation OF students from certain infected
districts. Visitors are barred from the
grounds unless on urgent business. students
and other persons coming to the institution
through an infected district such as New
York, are required to wear gloves while
passing through the danger zone" and 20
wash their hands thoroughly before entering
the college
An appeal to the students to cooperate
Loyalty to the college system Of student
self-government was made by Dr. NJ. Carey
Thomas, the president. in her opening ad-
dress at the chapel this morning,
PRESIDENT THoMAs's PLEA
President Thomas emphasized the fact
that this system has been developed at
Bryn Mawr to higher degree, probably.
than at any other college In the country.
The honor system is not a limited mon
archy, she said. but an absolute dictator
ship In its government Of college life, being
supreme even in its smallest detail She
told the new students that they were not
under the rule of their preceptors. and eX-
tnaN l0e ielatlOn between SNuhcnNS
and preceptors at Bryn Mawr was pot one
Of where students were 20 he ruled or
governed by their professors, but one where
they looked TO their professors as older
and more experienced students in the fields
upon which they were just entering.
The chapel exercises opened with a read
ing Of the Bible by President Thomas and
a prayer by George \. Barton. professor OF
biblical literature. After President
Thomas's address. which was the main fca-
ture of the occasion, they we're concluded
by both students and faculty rising and
singing the college hymn
CHANGES IN FACULTY
A number OF changes have been made
In the faculty at Bryn Mawr for the en-
suing year. Some OF them are due 20
leaves OF absence granted TO certain pro-
fessors for purposes OF study or of eS-
perience In different systems Of teaching In
vogue at other universities; others 10 res
ignatlons and replacements i'm the ordinary
routine of events.
One Of the most notable changes Is the
appointment OF DR. Howard Rolln Patch.
as professor OF English philology. Doctor
Patch is taking the place OF Dr. Carleton
Fairchild Brown, who has been granted
leave of absence to lecture at the Univer-
sity Of Minnesota this year.
Doctor Patch graduated originally with
the degree of A. b. from Hobart College
at Geneva, y. 1. Atter TINS, however, ne
went to Harvard for his post graduate
work, where he took the doctorate OF phil.
osophy in 1915. electlnE for his major sub.
ject medieval allegory. His thesis. which
was treatise on THE Goddess Fortuna
in Medieval Literature" is considered q
model OF its kind In scientific research work
A romantic. as well as an academic in.
terest is attached 10 the coming of Doctor
Patch. inasmuch as his appointment al
Bryn Mawr is his first since his marriage
last August to Miss Helen l.. Kennedy, oi