unnecessary to go beyond a reprimand in order to keep the standard of the social life among the girls up to what one has a right to expect in this community. The chairmen of the lodging houses and the Self Government Association representative in each of the sorority houses are coming to feel more keenly the importance and responsibility of their position. The situation is not yet ideal, but it is improving year by year. The life in the two halls, Chadbourne and Barnard, proceeds along the lines of healthy, high-minded life among those groups. Miss Alvord, who was mistress of Chadbourne Hall for five years, did much to make Chadbourne Hall one of the great centers of the student life among the girls. Mrs. Flett, who this fall takes Miss Alvord's place, is a graduate of the University, and will certainly carry on even farther the work which Miss Alvord began. Miss Mason, who has come this year to Barnard Hall will undertake to work along the same lines as have been followed in Chadbourne Hall. It is unfortunate that there is no parlor in Barnard Hall large enough to accommodate all the young women for a house meeting, but the parlor of Lathrop Hall is available for that purpose on alterating Tuesday evenings and thus the difficulty is in part overcome. LATHROP HALL Lathrop Hall itself is coming to be used by the young women more and more, and to be considered by them as the center of their social life. With the removal of the Home Economics Department to their own building the fifth floor is available during the day time for the Department of Physical Education, and in the evening for the use of the women students. On Friday evenings two of the literary societies will hold their meetings there, and the rooms will be available on Saturday evenings for informal gatherings of women students-committees, small organizations of girls, etc. Your Dean of Women is, as has been said, at home in the tea room of this hall on Thursday afternoons from the first of November to the Easter vacation for any young women who choose to come in for a cup of tea. The parlor is available to the young women for receiving their callers on Wedresday and Sunday evenings. The hall has not yet reached the limit of its availability for the women students, but each year sees its use increased and the fact of its possession better appre ciated. By making the dining-room into a large cafateria and using the old cafeteria for luncheons, dinners, etc., given by organizations, the use of the hall is still further extended and varied. SUMMER SESSION During the past two years the Summer Session has come to be almost a regular part of the academic year. The Director of the Summer Session has cordially assisted in making possible the continuity of policy regarding women students throughout the entire year. To this end there has been appointed a Dean of Women for the Summer Session, who has also been head of Chadbourne Hall. For the past two years this position has been held by Miss Winifred Robinson, now Dean of the newly founded Women's College of Delaware. For two summers Barnard Hall has been open to summer students, and a head of this hall has been provided. In the summer of 1914 Miss Martha Doan, instructor in Chemistry in Vassar College, held this position. The work of the two years has made it possible to provide in the Summer Session the segregation of women students in lodging houses just as has been done throughout the year. There have also been house committees in the halls, and house rules, somewhat simplified over those enforced in the regular session. The Student Interests' Committee has carried its work through the Summer Session, and the Dean of Women for the Summer Session has been ex-officio one of its members. Thus the work of the Summer Session has been brought into line with what your Dean of Women undertakes to do throughout the year; the result has been considerably to strengthen the work of her office. FUTURE NEEDS The immediate future needs for the women students seem to your Dean of Women not numerous, yet somewhat imperative. It is with reluctance that they are brought forth, since anyone acquainted with the situation realizes how unusually generous the State of Wisconsin has been in providing accommodations and administration for its women students. It is, perhaps, just because so much has been done that a little more seems of such importance. The first need is that of a co-operative house, such as is administered in Wellesley and Smith Colleges, and in Northwestern University. In such a house the young women who reside within its walls might work from an hour to an hour and a half a day, thereby reducing very materially their expenses. It is almost impossible for us to open such a house unless the building itself were a gift. Rents are so high in Madison that that item alone would preclude its success if the enterprise were to be carried on in a rented house. If a building could be put up by the state in which the rooms could be rented at a minimum, and where the supervision could be under the Department of Home Economics the house might be made to subserve a triple purposethat of cutting down the expenses of a group of sixty girls, of rendering possible another sort of laboratory for the Home Economics Department, and of caring for a group of girls who either do not come to the University, or undertake to work for their room and board under circumstances which are not always the most healthful or stimulating. Such a house should accommodate about sixty students, should pay its own expenses, and cut down for each student so housed the expenses per year for room. board, and laundry to less than $150. This statement is made on the basis of what has been done at Northwestern University, where Dean Potter has made the plan a great success. The second need which your Dean of Women wishes to have considered is the separation of the Department of Physical Education for women from that of the men. The end, aim, and work of physical education for women are not the same as those for men. The tendency among young women-in a coeducational university, as it is also in a woman's college,-is to develop sports and games along the lines of men's sports and games, whereas many physical directors, physicians, and administrators believe that the possibility of developing sports and games for women along quite different lines has not yet been in the least realized. The Department of Physical Education for Women is in many coeducational institutions a separate administrative department, under a woman as director, and left quite free to develop along its own lines. Your Dean of Women would like to see the matter considered. Respectfully submitted, REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE President Charles R. Van Hise, The University of Wisconsin. Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit to you herewith a brief report of the Summer Session of the University for the biennium July 1, 1912 to June 30, 1914. It is a pleasure to be able to report that the rapid growth of the Session has continued uninterruptedly, and that both the quality of its work and the character of its student body are steadily improving from year to year. In its early stages the majority of the students were not working for academic credit, there were very few of our own undergraduates enrolled, and only the larger departments of one, later two, colleges were represented. At the present time all the colleges are included, practically all the departments are giving their standard courses, University of Wisconsin undergraduates make up almost onethird of the total enrollment, approximately nine-tenths of the entire student body is working for academic credit, and the group of "preparatory and unclassified special" students, amounting to less than one-tenth of the whole, is apparently decreasing in numbers. In the Session of 1913 approximately 3312 per cent of the students were graduate students, 57 per cent were regular college undergraduates from our own and other institutions, and 912 per cent were preparatory and special students. About 52 per cent of the whole number were teachers. It is also gratifying to note in this connection that while our Summer Session naturally appeals more widely to non-residents than the semesters-teachers being free to come to us in the summer-Wisconsin still sends more than one-half of our total enrollment-934 students in 1912, 1076 in 1913. In 1912, 736 students came from 45 other states and 60 from 18 foreign countries; in 1913, 991 from 44 other states and 53 from 15 foreign countries. The temper of the student body as a whole is most excellent; there is an extraordinary degree of purpose and seriousness as well as of ability displayed in their work, and leading faculty men have repeatedly declared that their summer teaching, although arduous, is the most satisfactory of the year as regards results. THE STAFF The splendid spirit of our instructional corps in all the colleges, its devotion to the work of the Session and to the interests of the University is worthy of all commendation. In the College of Letters and Science rich programs of lectures, demonstrations, and round tables, embracing the most varied topics of interest, are offered each week, regardless of the fact that no additional remuneration is granted for such work. These lec |