Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Anna lVIacKasson Durkin sang her lirst note in high C in the Quaker City, April 25, 1877. Her distinguishing specific difference is a fascinating twinkle in her eye, which it is useless to try to imitate. We deem it our duty to warn the public, knowing that not even Quaker ancestry and training are sufficient to offset the danger arising from the possession of such a charm. Lexington High. Thomas John Elliott. This famous per- sonage honored Catasanqua, Pa., by being born there on a date he prefers not to shed the light of publicity upon. His lung capacity is simply marvelous, and he is wonderfully adept in the art of talking at length without using his brains. His humanitarian proclivities are disclosed by his expansive smile. Hacketts- town, N. J., Seminary. Edith Everett arrived with proper elegance upon the scene, in Manchester, N. H., in the Year of Our Lord, 1875. Since this important event she has lived in Lowell and Boston. Ingenuously traces her ancestry - to ze monkey avec ze swingtailf' Her versatility is .l'fIqJc'll' Iflilld' as the Stage Cof Jacob Sleeperj, the Arts CHub Q, Literature QBeacon j, all bear witness. Was tutored in preparation for college. 25

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Esther Mary Dacey. Born April 18, 1878, in Lexington, Mass., where she has since lived by request of the Town Improvement Society. Traces her ancestry through numberless vol- umes. She is endowed with that timorous- nature that dreadeth the Hunk, and comes to college to get as high marks as Lydia M. B. She enigmatically states that B. U. needs most, a new Spring suit , this discloses the idea uppermost in her heart. Lexington High. James Davies began his singing in 1873, in Stockport, England. In tender youth he came to the new world to seek his fortuneand lived some time in Canada, he tells woeful tales of Indian fights and hair-breadth escapes 'while in that country. Fortune led him on to- the land of liberty and pie, and he reached B. U. via Wilbraham. ' Daniel Clark Dorchester. The intricate mental mechanism of this wonder began to work April 17, 1876, in Groton, Vermont. He has since cultivated a desire to be heard which he humors on all public occasions, always giving the opposing side an incalculable aid. He is fond of eating, especially delighting in mince-pieftyj. His present home is Pitts- burg, Penn. 24

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Ethel Daisy Fisher blushed her iirst blush at Philadelphia, Pa., March 4th, 1877. Since this mortifying episode she has lived in Chel- sea, Mass. Here her biography must come to a halt, for at this point in her answers to the questions propounded she was either overcome with inertia or indisposed to let the public into her secret thoughts. So we draw the curtain. Harriet May Fisk found her nerves on April 4th, 1874, in Graniteville, Mass. Since this pleasing event ten towns have claimed her as a resident as long as the Conference saw tit. She comes to B. U. 'tto look after my small brother and is earnestly trying by con- tinued study to reach the vanishing point. Northfield Seminary. Helen Lincoln Follansbee began to devel- op the dignified demeanor which character- izes her at the present, in Gloucester, Mass., july roth, IS74. Her ancestors are traceable to Revolutionary Times, but she neglects to state whether England, France or America, was the troubled scene. She was taught in the High Schools of Danvers and Quincy, Mass. Gloucester High. 26