Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-30
FACULTY CHANGES
AT BRYN MAWR
Miss Helen Taft Becomes Act
ing Head and Miss HiIda
Smith Acting Dean
TERM OPENS TOMORROW

Important changes in the faculty Of
Bryn Mawr College were announced
today. The college will reopen tomor-
row. For the first time in thirty five
years DR.. NJ. Carey Thomas: president
Of the college, will not address the stu
dents at the opening session.
Dean Helen Taft, acting head of the
college, will preside at the exercises.
Doctor Thomas is in Spain.
Miss Hilda Worthington Smith will
be acting dean Of the college for the
next two years. She has been for three
years director of the community center
OF Bryn Mawr and was formerly war
den of Rockefeller Hall.
Prof. William Bashford Huff, pro-
fessor of physics; Prof. Howard L.
Grye, professor Of history; Prof. Rhys
Carpenter, professor Of classical arch
eology; Prof. Howard James Savage,
associate professor of rhetoric, and DR..
James Llewellyn Crenshaw, associate in
physical chemistry, have returned to the
college after absence due to various
forms of war work. Prof Fonger de
Haan, professor Of Spanish, returns
after two years. absence.
No appointment has yet been an
nounced to fill the vacancy caused by
the death Of Prof. Karl Detlev Jessen.
professor of German, who died on Sep
tember "a.
Professor Florence PEBBLES has re-
signed as associate professor of physi-
ology on account of i'll health and DR..
Summer Gushing Brooks has been ap-
pointed associate professor of physi-
ology and biochemistry. DR.. Brooks
has lately been research fellow in tropi-
cal medicine and assistant in the Har-
ward Medical School
DIR. Tenny Frank, professor of Latin
literature, has been called to Johns
Hopkins University, and DR.. Horace
Wetherill Wright has been appointed
associate in Latin literature. He has
been instructor in Latin in the Uni
versity of Missouri and in Oberlin Col
lege.
DR.. William Roy Smith, professor Of
history, is travelling in China and In
dia, and his courses will be given by
DR.. Edith f. Ware, lecturer in history
at Smith College. ...
DR.. Marian Parrish Smith, profess
sor of economics, is also travelling in
China and India. DR.. George Her
mann Dorry, from the University of
Kansas, where he has held the chair
of economics and industrial legislation,
will give the courses in economics an.
nounced by Doctor Smith.
In place of Prof. Georgianna God
dard King, now studying art in Spain,
DIR. Arthur Edwin Bye has been ap-
pointed as her substitute and will offer
the courses announced by Professor
King. Doctor Bye has been assistant
professor of art in Vassar College. .
Miss Mary Sinclair Crawford will
be instructor in French. Miss Helen
Wakley Irwin and Miss Gertrude Geer
have been appointed instructors in
English composition.
Miss Agnes Murray Macfadzean,
University of Glasgow, has been ap-
pointed reader in English, Miss Ger
trude Williams, Oberlin College, will
he demonstration in chemistry and Miss
Mary Jane Guthrie, University of Mis-
souri,, is to be demonstrator IN biology.
Changes in Wardens
Changes in the wardens Of the halls
of residence are as follows: Miss
Hannah Thayer Carpenter, warden of
Denbigh Hall, as successor to kathe-
rine w. McGiffert; Edith Adair, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, warden of Rockefeller
Hall. as successor to Mrs. Adeline Wer-
ner Vorys; Leslie Richardson, Of Cam
bridge. Mass, as successor of Letitia
B. Windle, warden of Radnor.
Mrs. Alice Paterson Bensinger, OF
Philadelphia, has returned to Bryn
Mawr as secretary to the acting dean OF
the college. Miss May Morris returns
to Bryn Mawr after a years absence,
as assistant to the circulation and
reference librarian.
An important addition has been made
to the Phoebe Anna Thorn Open Air
School, which is under the direction OF
the department of education. A pri-
mary department is opened this autumn
foy children from six to nine years Of
age. The instructor is Mrs. w. ID.
Ceilings, of Columbia University.
Miss Constance Dowd, of New York,
and recently clerk in the ordnance
bureau of the War Department. will
be assistant director of athletics and
gymnastics in place of Miss Helen Reed