are weeded
out of the courses in German enhances rather than defeats their
popularity among undergraduates.

The learned women who direct Wellesley's work in Philosophy and
Psychology lend their own distinction to this department. Professor
Case, a graduate of the University of Michigan, has been connected
with the college since 1884, and her courses in Greek Philosophy
and the Philosophy of Religion make an appeal to thoughtful students
which does not lessen as the years pass. Professor Gamble,
Wellesley's own daughter, is the foremost authority on smell,
among psychologists. In her chosen field of experimental psychology
she has achieved results attained by no one else, and her work
has a Continental reputation. Professor Calkins, the head of the
Department, is one of the distinguished alumnae of Smith College.
She has also passed Harvard's examination for the Doctor's degree;
but Harvard does not yet confer its degree upon women. She was
the first woman to receive the degree of Litt.D. from Columbia
University, and the first woman to be elected to the presidency
of the American Psychological Association, succeeding William James
in that office.

In the Department of Economics and Sociology, organized under
the leadership of Professor Katharine Coman, in 1901, Wellesley
has been fortunate in having as teachers two women of national
reputation whose interest in the human side of economic problems
has vitalized for their eager classes a subject which unless
sympathetically handled, lends itself all too easily to mechanical
interpretations of theory. Professor Coman's wide and intimate
knowledge of American economic conditions, as evidenced in her
books, the "Industrial History of the United States", and "Economic
Beginnings of the Far West", in her studies in Social Insurance
published in The Survey, and in her practical work for the College
Settlements Association and the Consumers' League, and as an
active member of the Strike Committee during the strike of the
Chicago Garment Workers in 1910-1911, lent to her teaching an
appeal which more cloistered theorists can never achieve. The
letters which came to her from alumnae, after her resignation
from the department in 1913, were of the sort that every teacher
cherishes. Since her death in January, 1915, some of these letters
have been printed in a memorial number of the Wellesley College
News. Nothing could better illustrate her influence as an intellectual