The faculty of the school remains the same. The department of Sociology is being ably developed by Mrs. John M. Glenn, and the Sunday School (known as St. Faith's Sunday School) is affiliated with the demonstration school of St. Michael's Parish. Dean Knapp went on furlough last year to the Far East and of the twenty-six women who have been sent out by the school, she was able to see twenty-four at their posts. I quote from her report to the Board of Trustees: "We have reason to be proud of the women who have been sent out by the school. In almost every case they are occupying leading positions. The Bishops speak of them in high praise. They work well together and they stand by their posts. "Deaconess Hart, a graduate of the school, working in Hankow, has established, under Bishop Roots, a training school for deaconesses known as St. Phoebe's School. Three native women are in training for the office." WILLIAM M. GROSVENOR, Warden. REPORT Of St. Stephen's College To the Convention of the Diocese of New York: I have the honor to report that fifty-five students are registered at St. Stephen's College this year. This is a slight increase on the number of the students in College at the end of last year. We should have had a much larger increase if we had had more money for scholarships. Notwithstanding the increased charges, which are now $425.00 instead of $300.00, we had a large number of applications for entrance. Ten men were graduated last June, of whom five are now in Seminaries. One is studying for Medicine, two are engaged in educational work, one in literary work, and one is working to earn money to go to the Seminary later. This year we have added two new professors to our staff. The Rev. Cuthbert Fowler, formerly Canon of Portland Cathedral, one of our own graduates, has come to take charge of the newly organized Department of Music. This department includes Public Speaking and Reading, as well as training in Ecclesiastical and other Music and the History of Music. Our aim is to establish at St. Stephen's College a working example of the highest type of Church Music, so that all who are interested in this matter (and all ought to be interested) will know where to go in order to obtain information and find their ideals actually in operation. We have also secured the services of Mr. Harold L. Gibbs, Master of Arts of Brown University, who is teaching History and Social Science. Mr. Gibbs intends in his courses to apply social theories to modern problems. He also will offer a course in Social Psychology and an effort is to be made to get into practical touch with these problems in the cities. In the Modern Language Department, Italian and Spanish as well as French and German are being studied by a number of the students. The work of the College is developing most satisfactorily and the morale of the student body is good. The following letter from President Finley, Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, will interest the Convention: "Dear President Rodgers: “I shall be very glad to have you tell your Convention that the records of this department bear testimony to the soundness of the course of study, the thoroughness of the instruction, and the good morale of the student body at St. Stephen's College as maintained in accordance with the avowed purpose of the institution. The institution, though small in numbers, has exerted a beneficent influence in the field of higher education in this state and I am glad indeed to bear testimony to this fact. I had the opportunity to witness, on its last Founders' Day, the loyal expression of its graduates and the fine spirit of its student body. "May I express the hope that St. Stephen's College will increase in vigor and grow in strength in the realization of its dual ideal. "Sincerely yours, (Signed) JOHN H. FINLEY." The friends of St. Stephen's College have been saddened by the death of George Bailey Hopson, D.D. He passed quietly away at the age of seventy-eight, full of honors and with the affectionate respect of all who knew him. He retired from active teaching three years ago when he rounded out fifty years of continuous work as Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. It is said that he only missed one class during the whole of that period. The funeral took place on a glorious September morning in the Chapel, where all who could possibly manage it were gathered, and we laid him to rest in the peaceful God's Acre belonging to the College. The Trustees have resolved to perpetuate Dr. Hopson's memory in the most appropriate way possible, namely the endowment of the Chair of Latin Language and Literature. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM C. RODGERS, President. REPORT Of the Committee on Proportionate Lay Representation in the Convention To the Convention of the Diocese of New York: Since the last meeting of the Convention, this Committee has lost two of its lay members by death-John Newland and Francis C. Huntington. The death of Mr. Huntington was a severe loss, as the report made by this Committee to the last Convention was due to his painstaking work and his enthusiastic interest in the subject. He had an evenly tempered and judicial mind and what he undertook was always well done. Should this Convention take action on the report now submitted, which will require the continuance of this Committee, the Committee respectfully asks that two additional lay members be added to their number. Upon presentation of the report submitted to the Diocesan Convention of 1915, the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, That the report of the Committee on Proportionate Lay Representation be received and printed in the Journal and that the Committee be continued and directed to receive and consider such suggestions as may be presented to it by any member of the Church in this diocese and to give further study and consideration to the subject and to report to the next Convention, and further, that copies of such report be mailed to members of the next Convention at least ten days prior to its first session.” During the past year, the Committee has given further study and consideration to the subject of proportionate lay representation in the Convention, and as a result, and for the reasons stated at length in the report which appears on pages 218 to 229 inclusive of the Diocesan Journal of 1915, it recommends the adoption of the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, That for the purpose of carrying into effect the principle of proportionate Lay Representation in the Diocesan Convention, the following amendments to Articles III. and VII. of the Constitution of the Diocese of New York be recommended for final action and adoption at the Diocesan Convention in this Diocese in the year 1917. Proposed Amendment to Article III. of the Constitution That Article III. of the Constitution of the Diocese be amended by striking out the last paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The Lay Members shall be one (1) male Delegate from each Church and Organized Mission in union with the Convention, together with additional Delegates for each such Church which shall report more than two hundred Communicants in its parochial report to the Bishop as follows: 200 to 499 inclusive Communicants 1 Additional Delegate 500 to 899 inclusive Communicants 2 Additional Delegates 900 to 1,399 inclusive Communicants 3 Additional Delegates 1,400 to 1,999 inclusive Communicants 4 Additional Delegates 2,000 to 3,999 inclusive Communicants 5 Additional Delegates 4,000 and over Communicants 6 Additional Delegates provided that no mission or parish assisted by the Diocesan Missionary and Church Extension Society shall be entitled to more than one Delegate. Proposed Amendment to Article VII. of the Constitution That the remainder of the first paragraph of Article VII. of the Constitution, after the words "When votes are taken by orders," appearing in the fifth line, be stricken out and the following inserted in lieu thereof: "each Lay Delegate shall have one vote" so that the entire article reads as follows: "In all matters which shall come before the Convention, the Clergy and Laity shall deliberate in one body. In voting each clerical member shall have one vote, the Bishop, the Bishop-Coadjutor and the Suffragan Bishops having the right to vote with the Clergy. When the votes are taken by orders, each Lay Delegate shall have one vote.” 2. Resolved, That the Committee be continued and directed to report to the next Convention the amendments to the Canons of the Diocese necessary, in their opinion, to carry into effect the proposed amendments to Articles III. and VII. of the Constitution should the same be approved by the next Convention. Respectfully submitted, THEODORE SEDGWICK, Chairman, HERBERT SHIPMAN, J. O. DAVIS, GEO. K. MACNAUGHT, SAMUEL THORNE, JR., CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL. Clerical Reports The Bishop of the Diocese has received reports, according to Canon. from the following Clergymen of the Diocese who have no parochial or missionary charge. THE REV. STURGIS ALLEN, O.H.C. Reports that his residence during the past year has been at Holy Cross, West Park, New York, and that the Holy Eucharist has been celebrated daily with a few exceptions; that sermons and addresses have been given from time to time. A Retreat for the All Saints' Sisters of the Poor in Baltimore, in May, and one for the Sisters of the Holy Nativity in West Orange, N. J., in July, were conducted. THE REV. HENRY ANSTICE, D.D. Respectfully reports that during the week he has been closely occupied with the duties of his several official positions and on Sundays has officiated wherever his services have been desired. THE REV. WILMER PARKE BIRD Respectfully reports that he is at present making his home in Washington, and that his address is The Woodward, Connecticut Avenue and Ashmead Place, N.W., Washington, D. C. THE REV. ROLAND J. BUNTEN Respectfully reports that during the Convention year he has been engaged as a teacher in Pawling School, Pawling, N. Y. He has also officiated and assisted at most of the Church services at the School, besides conducting services as opportunity has offered elsewhere. THE REV. HUGH L. BURLESON, S.T.D. Reports that during the Convention year just closing he has been engaged in the regular duties of his office as Editorial Secretary of the Board of Missions, and in addition thereto has occasionally preached and officiated in some parishes of the Diocese. He has performed no official acts within the Diocese that require a report, but has administered baptism four times outside the Diocese. THE REV. C. P. A. BURNETT Reports that his official acts, so far as daily office and Holy Eucharist are concerned, have been about the same in number during the year ending November 1, 1916, as he reported for the preceding year. He has preached ten sermons. baptized an infant, and officiated at the burial of a woman. The baptism and burial were duly recorded in the parish where they took place. THE REV. G. H. HOUGHTON BUTLER Respectfully reports that from October, 1915, to November, 1916, he was engaged in supply work as follows: In parish work, in All Angels' Church, New York City, to February, 1916; acting curate at St. Paul's Church, Brooklyn, in February; locum tenens at St. Andrew's Church, Stamford, Conn., in March; again at All Angels' Church in May and June. During July and August he had charge of Trinity and St. Paul's parishes in Hoboken, N. J., Diocese of Newark, and throughout the month of October performed the duties of Acting Chaplain in St. Luke's Hospital. THE REV. HENRY A. Dows Respectfully reports that during the Convention year he has officiated as Chaplain of the House of the Annunciation in New York City. |