Barnard College, the Gildersleeve Years

The Gildersleeve Years, 1911-1947
	1911	Virginia C. Gildersleeve becomes Dean of Barnard.
**	1911	Miss Katharine S. Doty is appointed secretary of Barnard College.
**	1912	Three more faculties agree to accept Barnard juniors, and award them with professional degrees.
	1912	The vague honor system is finally codified.
	1912	Seth Low resigns from the Board of Trustees due to failing health.
**	1913	Trial period begins; intending to replace fraternities with the Student Council.
	1913	The Faculty votes to grant degrees cum laude and magna cum laude.
**	1913	The Student government revises constitution to include Council.
**	1914	Instructors provide counseling on non-academic subjects.
	1915	The James Talcott Chair for religious instruction is established.
	1915	The Board of Trustees raise tuition from $150 to $200
**	1915	Students rally for course on the Bible.
	1916	Barnard leases two apartments at 99 Claremont Avenue to alleviate part of the housing problem.
	1916	May 18 - Undergraduates voted against fraternities at Barnard, 244 to 30..
**	1917	Barnard women speak out against the war.
	1918	Dean Gildersleeve discourages the impulse to leave school to join the war effort, saying that "trained brains" were really needed most.
	1918	The Trustees rent six apartments at 606 West 116th Street for housing.
	1922	Tuition fees for Columbia courses are now given directly to Columbia.
**	1922	The standard for professors is heightened, greatly improving positions for women.
	1923	Barnard freshmen publish the first volume of Barnacle, a humor magazine which disappeared with the class.
**	1927	The Seven Sisters are born.
	1928	All professional schools of Columbia University are open to women, except for Mines, Engineering, and Chemistry; at the time there was very little demand from women.
	1929	Trustees declare an increase in tuition fees beginning the academic year 1929-1930.
	1933	Trustees see a faculty salary cut as unavoidable.
	1934	Trustees report that there will be no faculty cut.
**	1935	The students stage anti-war demonstration (set for 4/12/35)
**	1939	Inter-Departmental courses begin.
**	1939	American Studies is introduced.
	1943	The School of Engineering opens to women.
	1943	Summer--Dean Gildersleeve is invited by the British Ministry of Information to fly to England for a visit of inspection.
**	1945	April 2 -- Dean Gildersleeve is appointed a delegate to the San Francisco Conference on world affairs.
	1945	April -- 83-year old Nicholas Murray Butler resigns. He was Columbia's 13th and longest serving president (44 years); Provost Frank Fackenthal named acting president.
**	1945	Columbia physicists have role in the atomic bomb.
	1945	November 26 -- Barnard announces the enrollment of its first "veteran," a former member of WAC studying under the GI Bill of Rights.
**	1945	December -- UN Charter Convention is held in San Francisco.
	1946	February--Dean Gildersleeve flies to Tokyo at the request of General Douglas MacArthur to help draft plans for the reorganization of Japanese education.
**	1947	June 30--Dean Gildersleeve resigns.