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Boston School of Physical Education's first graduating class in 1915
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Standing (left to right): ?, ?, Louise Whiting, ?, ?. Seated (left to right): Gertrude Fossette, Anna Monahan, ?, Dorothy Sayre, ?. The unidentified girls are (minus one): Glennie Allen, Florence McGann, Katherine Weiss, Helen Hodgkins, Josephine Gordon Pear, Marjorie Woodhead, and Edith Fowler. 6 x 9.5 inch print located in same folder.
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Statement by Marjorie Bouvé to the alumnae and members of the corporation of the Boston School of Physical Education
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A STATEMENT BY , MARJORIE BOUVE TO THE ALUMNAE AND MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION DATED MARCH 24, 1925 To THE ALuMNAE .urn MEMBERS oF THE CoRPORATION OF THE BosToN ScHooL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION: . 184 AsFINW ALL AVE., BROOKLINE, MAss. , MucH 24, 1925. ·On Feb~uary 24, 1925, ~fter having been one of the founders of. the School in 1913, its first Director, and continuously active in i,ts management for the intervening twelve years, I resigned as a Director and on March 21, 1925, resigned, as a Member of the Corporation. My resigna• tion was in form voluntary but in reality forced by Dr. Goldthwait, President of the Corporation. ' I This abr~pt ending of my connection with the School in mid-term and under circuiJlstances carefully calculated to humiliate an4 discredit me . justifies making this explanation to you; and my pride in the School's accomplishment, my .sense of accountability to you and my sense of self- respect require it, I . A few days before I resigned as a Director Dr. Goldthwait came to me and said that I had dominated the school for three years, thereby jeopardizing its success, that this was intolerable; that the executive committee felt that lt was ,unwise to have two Directors, that Miss Stratton was to be the Head of the School, or Director, and that I was to be subordinate to her. He said that he wished to make it as easy for me as possible, and that I could think it over and decide what I would like to be called; that I had bee~?- very SUCC813Sful with the girls, especially in relation to the dormi• tories, and if the pay attached to the new position was not adequate, he would see that it was spe• cially made up to me, whether by himself personally or by the School he was not entirely clear. Before stating subsequent events I wish to try briefly and accurately to convey to you some idea of the atmosphere of the situation thus brought to a climax. The starting of. B. S. P. E. in 1913 .was the outcome of talk in a group of perhaps a dozen young women in Boston, graduates of B. N. S. G., and all employed as teachers of physical educa• tion. Miss Barnes and I made the first start by going to the head of a large Boston institution to see if a school could be established in affiliation with that institution. We found that his ideas of the scope of such a school and ours were not the same. We were determ'ined, however, to make a start. We next thought that Dr. Goldthwait might be interested, and through Miss Sande,rson he was~ approached. A conference followed. He approved our statements of the principles on which we proposed to found the school, and also our practical plans, and persuaded ·his medical firm to lend us $3800. Before the School was fairly under way, Miss Barnes withdrew, but five of us, Miss Baxter, Miss Sanderson, Miss Shepardson, Miss Stratton and I went ahead and started the School. I happened to be the only one of the group willing on the chance of success to give up a good position and give my entire time to the new venture, at a salary considerably less than what I was then re• ceiving and so was chosen director. . We incorporated the School as a "membership corporation not for profit," and the loan was made to the Corporation. After the second year it looked as if the enterprise might succeed, and Miss Stratton gave up her position, ·and devoted her whole time to the School, and the ·next year Misa Sanderson did the same. We three then became equal Directors in the sense of managers. We were also until last spring the sole trustees of the School, and in full control of its policies. We bought the land for the present structure, and built the building, obtaining a first mortgage of $40,000 and borrowing on a second mortgage from Dr. GoldthwtJ,it $40,000 more. This generous assistance made possible the new plant in which th~ School is now housed. Dr. Goldthwait has said it was a ques• tion of giving up or building. To the best of my knowledge, we never entertained the idea of giv• ing up the School. 1 The war hit us pretty hard :financially, but if I remember rightly, we covered expenses with the exception of part of the camp expenses. Each summer we were a few hundred dollars in arrears until it was decided to charge the students for room and board at camp, and then we cleared expenses. After the war Dr. Goldthwait rightly said that we must begin to pay back our debts, and we felt that now with conditions becoming normal, we could do so. We immediately paid back the $3800, and with the help of the graduates we have since paid Dr. Goldthwait $14,000, and in addition have paid him $10,000 by increasing our first mortgage to that extent. It was the consensus of opin• ion at a recent corporation meeting that the School property was probably·worth now over $125,- 000. Thus the market value of the real estate shows an equity of about $60,000 above both the first and second mortgages. The second mortgage is not only perfectly well secured with the 6% interest it now carries, but it is readily salable. May I add that we would have been only too glad to have paid Dr. Goldthwait more interest on his money in the beginning had he in any way at that time intimated he was not satisfied with the interest he was getting. Miss Sanderson was abroad for a year, resuming her work at the School in January, 1919. In the fall of 1919 I had arthritis for a few weeks and then went to Vermont. I returned in Jan• uary, 1920, feeling very fit and ready to resume work, but Miss Stratton and Miss Sanderson both insisted that I should spend two or three months visiting other schools of similar character through the country to study their methods and operation and to gather data for discussion of a reorgani• zation of our School before the opening of another year. I finally consented and spent three months among the schools in the east and in the middle west for this purpose. On my way back to Boston I received in New York the following letter from Miss Sanderson: 142 DAVIS AVE., BROOKLINE, APRIL 17, 1920. DEAR MARJORIE: .. As the result of a winter of much thought and mulling over our work, we have reorganized the school in a few matters. This is done with the approval of Dr. Goldthwait, and with our policy he agrees. · First, we have been over-staffed-the subjects not efficiently correlated. We are carrying an unneces- sarily expensive faculty numerically. With the loss of Dr. Parker we are forced to change the teaching of anatomy. Dr. Stiles has resigned to go to Harvard and this necessitates a new teacher for physiology. · We are thinking of a plan by which Dr. Moore and Miss Lohne teach all the subjects related in their department, anatomy, physiology, the practice and theory of physio-therapy and give more time to the indi• vidual students here at school. 'fhis we spoke to you about when you were here. We have engaged Erna Grau to do much of the practical work in order to relieve both Florence and Leslie of some of their physical work which should grow less rather than more, as time goes on. We have eliminated both Voice and English next year as an experiment. Miss Read is to be married and at her suggestion we are going to try giving instruction only to those who need it. She says that teach• ing such a big class is unsatisfactory for the time we allow in the schedule. Miss Lawrence is agreed that instruction in English does not properly belong in our type of school and that it is not an unreasonable request to demand that our applicants be required to know a certain amount of English, how much we must decide. Since there is no demand for the teaching of archery we decided to give up instruction in it, and I am sorry you went to the expense of getting those things for it. So much for the changes in the school teaching: As to the organization of our Board of Trustees, we find that the office of "Director" is unconstitu• tio~ai, never having been voted upon but one year and is, I have always felt, an awkward and superfluous position. With a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer we have an adequate, customary and effi• cient committee to plan, control and direct, together, the policies of our school. In order to get the best results, it is imperative that each one has her own province in which to work and this province must be clearly defined and respected by the other two. 2 Just what each shall do is a matter of detail and careful planning. But in general I feel that our work must be so arranged that Florence (Miss Stratton) shall be relieved of much of the detail that she has always done and that she be given an opportunity to see other work. I think she has always carried more than her share and more than either of us. The division of labor must be fair and according to each one's ability and unless you are ready to come back in this spirit of cooperation, being one third of a whole, the work we do, the results of that whole, our dream of happy, efficient work together, you, Florence and I, will not be realized. And one last word about camp. In order to avoid any misunderstanding, we included June in your leave of absence and have planned all the activities accordingly-therefore we hope you will not embarrass us by coming or by trying to assume any responsibility about camp. The Demonstration is to be May 11 and 12 and we have asked Dean Warren to make the graduation address. This I think, covers the extent of school doings and this letter may sound brutally frank. But it is essential for harmonious work together that some matters be made clear. To which I replied:- DEAR MARGUERITE: Affectionately yours, MARGUERITE. BRONXVILLE, N. Y. (APRIL, 1920) Your letter came as a surprise as I thought you wished to wait on reorganization until I had had time to report on what other places were doing. · I have felt for some time that you and Florence were not being frank with me and I have been very much upset over it. I have always felt that you would be fair though the Heavens fell. It certainly does hurt to have you take any backhand method. We have almost literally ''sweated blood'' over getting a School of ideals and have worked day and night to have things right. I think the high esteem in which the School seems to be held throughout the country justifies our work. It seemed with you as President of the Corporation and in charge of the Corrective Department, Florence as Treasurer and Secretary of the Corporation-Secretary of the School-in charge of dancing and practically supervisor of teaching and with me as Director of the thousand and one details, that we had a pretty fair dis• tribution of work. Of course, during the war things were in such a hectic state that we rushed every minute without time to think just what we were doing. I knew that we would have to have a reorganization when you got back. It does seem to me though that this is something that all th1·ee of us should plan carefully. It did hurt a good deal to have the actual "saying" of how you and Florence felt come from Dr. Gold• thwait. If you and Florence felt that I was "running" things too much, why by all that's great didn't you say so. Have you ever found me unwilling to cooperate1 We are grown women and it does seem to me as if we ought to be able to talk things over calmly and intelligently. It was certainly disconcerting, to say the least, to hear from the girls that I was not going back to School in February before I knew it myself, and to have them say that they had heard I was not going to camp before I had even heard camp mentioned. I really can't see your point about camp. How could I em bar ass you by going Y I don't want to take the running of it away from you, but I do want to have a chance to be at camp with all it means to me to be in such relation with the girls, to know the present juniors and to fit in wherever you wish me to. So, too, it was a bit upsetting to be told by Miss Coleman, the Secretary at Teachers College that Erma Grau was to be on our staff next year! I really don't feel that you have considered me very much. It would have been so easy for you to talk over plans with me at Christmas time. When I was coming back so soon it does seem as if we might have gotten together on the reorganization. Then, too, I found that Dr. Goldthwait had been misinformed on certain points. He said I had called the School my School. I have never done this, and I don't know how many times I have corrected people when they have said ''the Bouve School.'' I even went in to see Miss Butler about it once as I felt the name was coming from Student House. I also spoke to one senior class about it. I didn't tell him that it had been called the "Gold• thwait School'' just as much, and that frequently people had spoken of it as your school. What's more, I never thmtght of it as my school. (The last paragraph in my letter is omitted as it brings up a matter which I think in courtesy to a third person should not be discussed here.) Yours, MARJORIE. When I returned, although I felt that the underhanded· method of reorganization had created an almost impossible situation, I decided to keep quiet for the good of the School. Some of the graduates got wind of the trouble and were restive, but I told them that things had been exagger• ated and that gossip about them would only hurt the School. No reference was ever made to my trip to the west, nor any request made for any advice or suggestions respecting the proposed reorganization. Many of the changes have since been proved unsound. I resumed active work at the School in the summer of 1920. Miss Sanderson became Mrs. Smith in the fall of 1922, and since that time has devoted no consecutive time or service to the School. When she went away to be married Miss Stratton and I were both made Directors. The year before all of our salaries were raised to $4000. We voted Mrs. Smith $4000 as a salary for a sabbatical year the year she was married. In 1923-24 Mrs. Smith could give very little time to the School, and Miss Stratton and I felt that under the circumstances, $1000 was an ample salary for her. Dr. Goldthwait was highly indignant at this suggestion, saying that we must give her $2500 a year on the score of her long connection with, and her fine work for the School. This we have done for two years, and this is the principal reason why our budget fell short of $5000, which Dr. Gold• thwait felt we should have cleared last year. Meanwhile the alumnae have been straining every nerve to reduce the second mortgage. Last spring Dr. Goldthwait commenced to interest himself actively in the so-called "reorgan• ization.'' For twelve years, during which time we three trustees had built the School into a rather outstanding success, he had interested himself very little in the details of administration, except in respect to Mrs. Smith's salary, and had only visited the School occasionally at such times as the Christmas Party, Demonstration, Graduation, and possibly for two or three lectures. A few names had been added to the list of Corporation members, but the Corporation as a body never interested themselves in or undertook to control the management of the .School on either the working or finan• cial sides. When this "reorganization" was about in readiness to be put through, Dr. Goldthwait wrote the following letter to Mrs. Smith:- l\'Iy DEAR MRS. SMITH: NOVEMBER 21, 1924. With this I am enclosing a statement which I have prepared for Dr. Brown, the result of a request made by him for my suggestions regarding the .curriculum to be planned at the School with reference to the first year. The request was made two days ago, and I am very glad to have this opportunity to make sugges• tions regarding the curriculum at the school. This is the :first time, of course, that my advice has ever been asked and I do not expect that the suggestions made by me will receive much consideration in the Faculty or with the majority of the Board of Directors. You can see how radical the position is, as taken by me, but absolutely no more radical than was the original conception of the Boston School of Physical Education which was to break away from the old tradi• tional teaching of co-ordinative exercise as the basis of physical education. These have been used for many, many years, with the resulting product which we see coming to our schools and colleges at the present day. The thing that has distressed me of late is that while the School originally started with vision as far as progressive study and work was concerned, of late it seems to me that it has settled down to even a more formal type of school than some of the others are at the present time. I am perfectly sure, as I watch the product of the School,-and after all that is the way a school or institution must be judged,-that the girls leaving our School are neither prepared for the best work in teaching nor are they prepared for the so-called medical part of their work. In other words, after having been to a professional school, they must have fur• ther instruction in order to be competent to carry on the work in their profession. As I have seen the teaching side of things, I am sorry to say that some of the best instruction that I have seen given of late in the different schools, has been given by girls not from our School, and that some of our own graduates have done certainly only very indifferent work. From the medical point of view, the con• dition is quite pathetic, it seems to me, when the fundamentals, if taught at the right time, should give every girl such understanding of the muscular balance of the body that the corrective work is a natural part of her life. 4 I have felt so strongly about the School of late, and have felt that it failed so much in the ideals that are being demanded in the world to-day, that I had planned, a short time ago, to resign from the Board, both the Corporation and from other committees. It is not, of course, possible for me to allow my name to be used, and girls sent to the School on the basis of my name being attached to the School, when there is so much of that which is being taught of which I do not approve. I will, naturally, wait until after the meeting and see just what the reaction of the Group is, but I naturally do not expect much in the way of change since I am perfectly sure that it would be impossible to embody that which is stated here without a very radical change in the teaching staff of the School. You, of course, know my feeling regarding the School and my willingness to have made a very large finan• cial contribution had the School developed in the way that seems to many of us worthy. As far as you, yourself, are concerned there would never by any difficulty as I am sure you have the vision, and were your hands not tied, things would be done very differently than they are now being car• ried on. Very sincerely yours, JoEL E. GoLDTHWAI'l'. On January 16, 1925, the reorganization was put through. The important change was the cre• ation of an Executive Committee of five, who should have the full and complete executive function with respect to employment and salaries of officers, faculty, curriculum, and all details. This con• trol had formerly been vested in us as trustees. Previous to the January meeting Mrs. Smith had resigned as President of the Corporation to make way for Dr. Goldthwait, and as Director, saying she was too busy to be Director any longer. At the January meeting she accepted a place on the Executive Committee, and has since taken the chairmanship of the committee to plan the three-year course. At the meeting I tried to have an Executive Committee of seven, one of whom should be an alumna, and two to be the Directors. I felt very strongly that the Directors, who had helped to found the School and who had served the School so long, would know its needs better than other members of the Corporation who had not been in close touch with the School. Under the new by• laws, the office of Vice-President was left optional with the Board (I had been Vice-President up to this time). No Vice-President was elected. Miss Stratton was made Secretary. Mr. Soule had been made Treasurer at a previous meeting. It was stated to Miss Stratton and me by Mrs. Smith that this plan of reorganization had been carefully worked out for the express purpose of giving Dr. Goldthwait 100% control of the School. Under the new arrangement Miss Stratton and I were no longer trustees of the School, but we were put in the role of employees, subject to dismissal at any time. It was stated at the meeting that this was correct corporate management, and that while it might seem severe, it was the proper way to set the thing up, but that of course, so long as Miss Stratton and I remained, there would be no thought of any change in the matter of our respective authority, salary or function. The first week in February Dr. Goldthwait came to Miss Stratton and me at the School and said the first thing he wanted was one hundred hours taken out of the curriculum and the budget re• duced $7500, "and this", turning impressively to me, "without in the least affecting Mrs. Smith's present salary.'' On February 17th Dr. Goldthwait made his speech to me as described at the beginning of this statement and on February 24th I sent to the Executive Committee the following letter of resignation: JoEL E. GoLDTHWAIT, M. D. CHAIRMAN, Executive Committee of Boston School of Physical Education, 372 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass. 184 ASPINWALL AVE, BROOKLINE, MASS. FEBRUARY 24, 1925. My DEAR DR. GOLDTHW AIT: 0 t d" th Referring to our conversation on the 17th inst. in which you told me that I had "domma e ~ School for three years, that this was intolerable and jeopardized the success of the School, that there mus 5 be but one head, that Miss Stratton was to be that head, that I might think it over and pick out some sub• ordinate position to occupy and that if the salary attaching to such position was not satisfactory you would see that it was specially made up to me,-I beg to say I am resigning as a Director of the School, effective today, and you will please take this letter as notice to that effect. Perhaps it is true that I have "dominated" the School. If so, the period has not been three years as you suggest but twelve years and the growing success of the School might very well be a source of per• sonal gratification. I have never consciously "dominated" anything and I am reasonably certain that there are but few among the Alumnae, the Faculty or the Corporation who would deny or question my singleness of purpose to help make the School a deserved success or who would comment unfavorably on the quantity or the quality of my labors to that end. If you personally had watched the work or had come to the School more than perfunctorily once or twice a year or had otherwise any first hand knowledge of the facts I doubt if even you would be one of these. Your very remarkable letter of November 21, 1924, to Mrs. H. T. Smith, written obviously for the "dominating" director and so handed me thirty days after it was written contains no single true statement of fact regarding the School, which is not surprising in view of the fact that you personally have never taken the trouble to ascertain any of the facts at first hand. That letter together with Mrs. Smith's statement to me that the recent ''reorganization'' so-called had for its object the vesting in you personally of a 100% con• trol of the School furnishes ample confirmation not only of the unsoundness and (for the School) the dan• ger of your attitude, but also of the indirection, hypocrisy and unfairness of your personal methods. You seem to me, as you will to all those truly interested in the School, thoroughly contemptible. Very truly yours, MARJoRIE Bouv:E. On February 25th Dr. Goldthwait sent me the following letter to which I made no reply: MY DEAR Mrss Bouv:E: Sent u Special Delivery" FEBRUARY 25, 1925. Immediately following the meeting of the executive committee of the Boston School of Physical Edu• cation that was held Friday afternoon last, I tried to get in touch with you in order to discuss with you the wishes of the committee so that the work of the school would be disturbed as little as possible, and that things would be worked out as fairly as was possible for you. The feeling of the committee was very definite in that it recognized, as its first duty, the protection of the school in making it as fine as it was possible so to do. It was because of this that the different addi• tions had been made to our corporation in the past, and the conferences which we have had with these edu• cators have led the executive committee to the decisions which they have reached. It is obvious to any one that there cannot be two heads to any large enterprise. 'l'hose of us who have tried to make it go that way deserve real censure, and the wonder is that things have gone as well as they have. That being the case, it is simply a question as to which should be made chief where two persons, for• merly three, have held nominally equal rank in the appointment which they have received by the corporation. After most careful consideration it was considered that Miss Stratton should be made chairman of the board of directors and that both she and you should be appointed directors, with the idea of there being as little change in the apparent condition of administration of the school as possible. The executive committee felt that it was better to leave the title for both you and Miss Stratton the same, calling you both directors, with Miss Stratton chairman, she being held responsible, for the present at least. It had been our hope that with this, as far as the graduates of the school are concerned, that little discussion need occur and that the time that was required to test Miss Stratton's ability could be passed without the school, in any way, suffering. The matter has been discussed, however, by so many of the alumnae and you, that this phase of the situa• tion, of course, has been changed, not by us but by you yourself. As you know, the committee has been working very hard on the readjustment of the curriculum, and in this it has had the advice of those who are considered the best in the educational field at the present time. The general plan is such that if it can be carried through, there will be very little to be desired, it seems to us, in order to make the curriculum perfect. In arranging the work of the year it was our hope that you would be willing to take over the entire teaching of anatomy, both the pure anatomy, so-called, as well as the applied anatomy, or that which has been called previously, kinesiology. It was the hope of the executive committee that you would be willing to take this on and that with the members of the committee, you would work out a general plan of presentation of anatomy to the students that could be so elaborated that it would become the standard that would, ultimately, be used in other schools. The need of this is, of course, obvious and we felt that if you were willing that you could do this and that it was not necessary to have a medical person give that instruction. It was also ex- 6 ,pected 1;h'at .th~ class· work, as far as the gymnasium was concerned,· would be carried on in conjunction with the teaching that the students were receiving by you in anatomy so that the course would be as complete and correlated as it was possible to make it. This work is, of course, that which represents the absolute fun• damental for instruction such . as we wish to give our students and which is absolutely essential if they are to be able to understand the more advanced instruction and be qualified to meet the demands made upon them upon graduation. There will, of course, be other duties than just this, the housing supervision, for instance, and ·Others, all of~ which would be worked out in conference with the executive committee in case you were willing to go on with such a general arrangement. Whether Miss Stratton is big enough to swing the duties of chairman or not, remains to be seen. It seemed, however, to the committee, fair to try her at this time. In the light of the letter which has been received from you, I am not quite sure just what you wish to do, but if you wish, after receipt of this, to have a conference with me, I will gladly meet you at such time as is mutually possible. It is necessary for me to go to Washington for advice in connection with the V ete• ran 's Bureau work, leaving tomorrow evening, returning reaching Boston Saturday morning. Very truly yours, JoEL E. GoLDTHWAIT. A different arrangement from that stated to me February 17th, but a few of the Alumnae had in the meantime voiced their sentiments! To ask me to teach visceral anatomy was certainly a ridiculous proposition. I had scarcely thought of it for twenty years and I had never done any dis• section in it. I would not so affront the intelligence of a class of normal students! On February 26th Dr. Goldthwait sent me the following letter: MY DEAR Miss BouvE: Sent by Special Messenge1· Rec'd 11 A. M. FEBRUARY 26, 1925. The letter which was received by me from you yesterday, I had not intended to make public, or to include, at present at least, in our records. Since, however, you have made this public yourself, there is noth• ing else to do but to make it a part of those records. .Any question which there may have been in the minds of the executive committee regarding the selection of Miss Stratton, for the present at least, as chairman of the directors, this letter removes. It is obvious that the letter was written in a spirit of anger and no one should be judged under those conditions. For that reason, before definitely presenting it to the executive committee, I am writing to see if, in the light of the letter sent you by me yesterday, you wish to reconsider your action and remain with the School, your duties to be in general as they were outlined in my letter, further details to be elaborated by the executive committee, the chairman of the directors, and yourself. Will you kindly let me hear from you by letter before noon, if possible, so that no unnecessary harm to the school can arise from -delay. to which I replied by special messenger as follows: JoEL E. GoLDTHWAIT, M.D. Chairman Executive Committee, Boston School of Physical Education, Boston, Mass. · MY DEAR DR. GoLnTHw AIT: Very truly yours, JoEL E. GoLDTHWAIT. 184 .ASPINWALL .AVE., BROOKLINE, MASS. Your letter of February 26th sent by special messenger has been received. My letter of February 24th was sent to you as Chairman of the Executive Committee and I assumed that it would, of course, be made a part of its records. Under the circumstances I do not see ho~ there can be any further discussion except before the Executive Committee. I shall be very glad to meet With them at an hour possible to us all. FEB. 26, 1925. 11.00 .A.. M. 7 Very truly yours, MARJORIE Bouv:E. No attention was paid to this letter. I was given no opportunity to talk to the Executive Committee. On March 2nd I received the following letter from the Secretary of the Executive Committee: MY DEAR MISS BouvE: MARCH 2,1925. 184 AsPINWALL AVE., BROOKLINE, MAss. Miss MARJORIE BouV'E, On March 2 the Executive Committee of the Boston School of Physical Education voted to accept your resignation, as tendered in a .letter to Dr. Joel J?· Goldt~w~it dated February 24, 1925: . . The Executive Committee wishes to express theirappreCiatwn of your long and conscientiOus service as one of the directors of the Boston School of Physical Education. Respectfully yours, HowARD MooRE Howard Moore, M. D. Sec., Executive Committee. The chronology and contents of these communications furnishes, among other things, a fair· illustration of the confusion of identity, in the mind of Dr. Goldthwait, between himself and the Executive Committee. The following are excerpts from a stenographic report of Dr. Goldthwait's remarks to nineteen Alumnae on February 25th. None of these excerpts has been lifted from the context in any manner that changes or distorts the meaning: ''The School has not been sending out competent graduates. I have personally had a chance to see what one might call the product of the School pretty closely. That has re• sulted in the School having taken away from it very important tasks which might otherwise have gone to the School if it had been considered competent. * * * The School today is bankrupt. * '~ * The School was started to be the best that could be done in physical educa• tion. In the past two or three years other schools have been doing better work so that their girls are more welcome than our students." * * * When the School started it was incorporated as a corporation that could mean no profit to anyone except salaries to the workers. It was so organized and a corporation formed and some by-laws drawn up, the whole thing being built up around Mrs. Smith." * * * In the beginning the constitution and by-laws were very loosely drawn just to make it possible for these women to go ahead and build up a school. * * * In the beginning we had three directors, all called directors, given equal authority-it was only because they were able to get on together that the thing went. * * * The full responsibility of the School, of seeing that it measures up, is now vested in the Executive Committee made up of Mrs. Smith, now resigned from the School as Director, and will receive no salary, Mrs. Kuntz, Dr. Moore, Dr. Wilde and myself." "It would be undeniably better for the School if both Miss Stratton and Miss Bouve should leave. We could get' one of the best educators in the country. But it wouldn't be fair to let any one new step in. * * * I know that if anything were to happen that would remove these two persons it would be better. * * * We are not blaming anyone except those of us who turned the thing over so carelessly to any person at all to make it go. The organization as it is now is a fine one, and it is just a question now of making that thing go, and getting people who can make it go.'' 8 To the four hundred Alumnae of B. S. P. E. I do not believe the significance of the fore• going facts, correspondence and excerpts requires any comment or elucidation from me. I know, of course, as you do, that the School has been successful beyond the dreams of its founders; that it stands at the top of its 'class in respect not only of the quality and fitness of its "product" but also in respect of the degree in which its graduates are sought as teachers; that the School is not bankrupt, but on the contrary is in a perfectly healthy and sound financial condition; and that the School has a loyal and highly efficient Faculty and as fine a body of undergraduates a3 are gathered anywhere. I am extremely proud of the part I have had in the School's history. It is nqt for me to appraise either its extent or value. It is enough to know, as I do know, that I have the respect of the entire body of Alumnae, Faculty and undergraduates, and, I dare believe, the affectionate regard of a great majority of them. MARJORIE BOUV:EJ.
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