The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-06
Washburn College VIII Begin
School Year Tuesday.
Expect One of Most Successful
Terms in History.
TO INCREASE ENDOWMENT
Officers Make Plans to Handle
Increased Enrolment.
Only Few Changes Made in
Faculty This Year.

Washburn college will begin next
Tuesday, September 13, a year which
the president, DR.. Farley P. Womer,
believes will be the most successful
in the history of the school. He not
only expects to increase the endow-
ment of the college by $S00,000, but
believes that in its ordinary activities
a new high mark will be set. Coach
Dwight Ream, whose pupils hold state
championships in football, track and
tennis. hopes for another good year
in athletics.
The enrolment, which totaled about
$50 last year in all departments, ex-
Guiding Implications. will be mater
tally increased, in the opinion of all
the officers of the college. An index
to the situation is furnished by the
applications for rooms at Holbrook
hall, the girls dormitory. where all
the available space was reserved
more than month ago.
Only Few Changes in Faculty.
The faculty will consist largely of
the same persons who conducted the
school thru a harmonious and success
full year ending last June. The expan-
sion of the school of music and fine
arts, under Dean Henry V. Stearns,
will bring at least three new music
teachers to Topeka, and it is possi-
Die that the school of music may be
enlarged even more.
The last addition to this faculty is
Albert HaberStro, a baritone, who re-
Gently has gained distinction in Kansas
City, Mo. He holds an honor certifi-
cate from the University of Buffalo.
His singing voice is unusually beauti-
full. according to Dean Stearns. He
formerly headed a conservatory of his
own at Grand Island, Neb.. and at
Lexington, Ky. Other new teachers
in the school of music are T. Post, a
tenor, and his wife, Dorothy Delegea
Post, soprano.
Albert E. Behner to Washburn.
The chair of Bible in the school of
liberal arts will be held by Albert E.
Behner, a graduate of the University
of Denver, and holder OF a degree of
of theology. He received the degree
of master of arts, Chicago university.
DIR. w. C. Wheeler, who Behner sue
ceeds, will give his full time to teach
ing mathematics, filling the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Mrs.
Mary W. Newson, who resigned to be-
come head of the mathematics de-
partment, at an increased salary, at
Eureka college, Eureka, Ill.
Special Political Science Course.
The newly created chair of political
science and history will be held by
Victor E. White, holder of an A. M.
at Chicago university. He will in
crease the instruction in political sci
ence from six to twelve hours year
in the college department. and give a
special course of political science in
the law school.
Prof. T. W. Todd, formerly profess
sor of German. has been granted a
leave of absence for one year. He is
now in California, where he went with
his family several weeks ago. His
work will be taken by Mrs. w. ]. Nor
gan, who taught last year in the Eng
ling department. Her husband is pro-
fessor of philosophy.
An important change in the admin
istration of the college is the resigna-
ton of DIR. Duncan L. McEachron as
dean of the school of liberal arts, in
order to give all his time to his duties
as vice president and treasurer. His
place as dean is to be taken by Prof.
Pierre S. Zampierre, head of the de-
partment of romance languages.