nPAR@ ` ╓TEXT ` ╚Putnam, Emily James Smith1865╨1944educator and historianBorn in Canandaigua, New York, on April 15, 1865, Emily Smith got her early education in local schools, from tutors, and by following her own curiosity. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with the first class, that of 1889, and then attended Girton College, Cambridge, for two years. In 1891╨1893 she taught at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and in 1893╨1894 she was a fellow in Greek at the University of Chicago. In 1894 Smith was appointed first dean of the five-year-old Barnard College, which had been headed since its opening by Ella Weed, chairman of the academic committee. Over the next six years she succeeded in greatly strengthening Barnard╒s academic standing by establishing a more equitable relationship with Columbia University. Columbia professors were made more accessible, other scholars of similar qualifications were added to the Barnard faculty, and Columbia╒s graduate courses, libraries, and other facilities were opened to Barnard women. During that period she also taught courses in Greek literature and philosophy. In April 1899 she married publisher George H. Putnam, and the next year she resigned as dean. During 1901╨1904 she served as president of the League for Political Education, and in 1901╨1905 she was a trustee of Barnard. In 1910 she published The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of Her History, a major historical study of women in society. In 1914 she resumed teaching at Barnard, first in the history department and from 1920 in the department of Greek. In 1926 she published Candaules╒ Wife and Other Old Stories, a study of Herodotus. (She also published translations of Selections from Lucian, 1892, âmile Fauget╒s Dread of Responsibility, 19l4, Marcel Berger╒s The Secret of the Marne, 1918, and Raymond Escholier╒s The Illusion, 1921.) She helped establish the New School for Social Research in 1919 and from 1920 to 1932 was a regular lecturer there. She retired from Barnard in 1930 and a short time later went to live in Spain. The outbreak of civil war in that country forced her to leave, and she lived thereafter in Jamaica. She died in Kingston, Jamaica, on September 7, 1944. vstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ $ 5¬ < !I ∙ 5¬ · !I f !I ñ !I _ !I ä !I └ !I ╓ !I φ !I !I !I 3 !I S !I _ !I link `
