July 7, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



certain trained senses and qualities in the 

 realms of sport, racing and hunting. 



I asked to be supplied with the names of 

 those who have taught here and later a'ttained 

 high distinction. I find, as I anticipated, that 

 the list with the accompanying data is too 

 long to be recited within the limited compass 

 of this address, but it is so remarkable and 

 illustrates so completely the standards of pro- 

 ductive scholarship sought for the instructing 

 staff that I can not forbear citing the more 

 eminent names, some of which will be recog- 

 nized by those unfamiliar with the reputations 

 of technical scholars and men of science. 



First in time comes Woodrow Wilson, who 

 soon after receiving the doctor of philosophy 

 degree at Johns Hopkins University and pub- 

 lishing his excellent book on Congressional 

 Government was called to Bi-yn Mawr in 1885, 

 where he organized the department of history 

 and taught for three years before accepting ap- 

 pointment first at Wesleyan University and 

 then at Princeton. In the same department of 

 history taught for eighteen years Charles 

 McLean Andrews before accepting a call to 

 Johns Hopkins and later to Tale, where he is 

 now Farnum professor of American history. 



We can understand one of the reasons for 

 the prominent position held by the ancient 

 classics in the curriculum of Bryn Mawr when 

 we recall that here taught for many years that 

 brilliant Greek scholar, Paul Shorey, who left 

 to head the department of Greek at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; E. Washburn Hopkins, 

 who went to Yale as professor of Sanskrit and 

 comparative philology; Herbert Weir Smyth, 

 here for thirteen years before becoming Eliot 

 professor of Greek literature at Harvard; Gon- 

 zales Lodge, for eleven years here and now 

 professor of Latin at Columbia ; Tenney Frank, 

 who taught here for fiiMeen years before he was 

 called to the chair of Latin of Johns Hopkins, 

 and Moses S. Slaughter, who is now head of 

 the department of Latin at the University of 

 Wisconsin. 



Indicative of the position accorded to the 

 biological and physical sciences in the scheme 

 of liberal education at Bryn Mawr and if pos- 

 sible even more remarkable than the roll of 

 classical scholars is that of the biologists, which 



includes the names of Edmund B. Wilson and 

 Thomas Hunt Morgan, now at Columbia, and 

 Jacques Loeb, called here from a docentship at 

 Strassburg and now at the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute of Medical Research, who are to-day the 

 most eminent biologists of America, perhaps of 

 the world. To these are to be added the weU 

 known names of Frederic S. Lee, for many 

 years head of the department of physiology at 

 Columbia, and the chemists, Elmer P. Kohler, 

 who after teaching here for twenty years be- 

 came professor of chemistry at Harvard, and 

 Edward H. Keiser, now holding the chair of 

 chemistry at Washington University. 



I must content myself with merely mention- 

 ing some of the familiar names in other de- 

 partments: in mathematics, Harkness; in 

 geology. Miller; in physics, Mackenzie; in ex- 

 perimental psychology, which he here founded, 

 Cattell; in philosophy, Bakewell and Mezes; in 

 English, Tinker and Upham ; in Germanic phil- 

 ology, CoUitz; in economics and sociology, 

 Giddings. 



When to this impressive list are added the 

 far larger number of women graduates who 

 hold important teaching or administrative posi- 

 tions in educational institutions, including Bryn 

 Mawr herself, we can appreciate something of 

 the richness of the gift contributed by this 

 college in less than four decades of existence 

 through the training and development of teach- 

 ers and investigators to the education not of 

 women only, but of men as well, and to the 

 advancement of knowledge. 



Should any one suppose that this continual 

 migration of eminent men teachers to other 

 colleges and universities has sapped the teach- 

 ing strength of Bryn Mawr, he has only to 

 regard the eminent women and men in her 

 present faculty and the well equipped depart- 

 ments of instruction in order to realize that 

 never were the educational advantages and the 

 intellectual life of this college so great and so 

 vigorous as. they are to-day. 



There are, however, certain significant infer- 

 ences to be derived from the fact that it is 

 mainlj' men and not women who have been 

 withdrawn from this faculty to other institu- 

 tions. One of these inferences doubtless points 

 to the preference of many of tbe men for chairs 



