Carleton College - Algol Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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teaches us to look with a purer vision into broad fields where our influence may count for true womanhood. It is like a vision to us. We realize more adequately what privileges and op- portunities are oursg what duties and responsibilities follow themg how the college girl is blessed with that for which many others are longingg and we are filled with the determination to strive more earnestly for the fulfilling of those high ideals in our own lives. And as we go away after the sweet voice has bidden a loving goodnight and spoken a warm invitation to come again soon, we feel that this and other experiences like it, will be precious and blessed memories in all our lives to come. THE READ The fellows who are accustomed to gather in Gridley Hall parlors on Sunday evenings to hear Miss Richardson read an interesting story or a few chapters from a book, have some- thing to which they can look back with pleasure when college days have passed, and much of their life at Carleton has been forgotten. When the chilling wind is whistling about old 24

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CHAT WITH MISS EVANS On Sunday nights, Miss Evans' room is bright and cosy. The fire burns cheerfully on the open hearth, and as the girls' come in, in little groups like flocks of birds, they are greeted by a pleasant, smiling face and a loving voice which speaks its Welcome from the heart. Seats are found on chairs and stools, and all about the floor, and then the talk begins. Sometimes We learn to look with a new and clearer vision at some great work of art in which heretofore perhaps, We had failed to see the beauty and the meaning. Sometimes it is the .beauty of Nature and of the common things which lie all about us, While We go blindly on not seeing, that is pointed out to us. Now we are told of many Wonders of foreign lands and of varied and interesting and sometimes ludicrous experiences in visiting them. Again the talk is of great and inspiring lives, perhaps those of some of our own Carleton alumni who as missionaries and teachers are heroically struggling against great odds, and making their iniluence and Works a blessing to humanity. There is a Genius in this room Which makes a girl's life seem nobler, more Worth the livingg which gives higher ideals, and Worthier purposes, which makes us dissatished with our narrowness and selfishness, and 23

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ll 1 4 . ,- Gridley and the snow is falling fast outside, the bright grate-fire and the comfortable sofas look very inviting to the boy who is trying to decide what he shall do all the long evening. When he comes in and gathers with the rest in a semi-circle about the room, and settles down for an hour of solid enjoyment, he feels as though it were next to being at home. Miss Richardson always has something interesting picked outto read, perhaps it is a short story, perhaps a book. This winter she read us the autobiography of Jacob A. Riis, and. we felt as though we were acquainted with the man when he came in January to lecture. In the spring when the weather is pleasant and the sun does not set till late, the little company retires to the east steps, or the lawn on the east side of the Hallg and there, as the shadows lengthen and twilight approaches, they listen to the reading. Miss Richardson's reads have been a feature of Carleton life which the fellows for a number of years back have enjoyed, and their words of commendation show how much they really thought of it and appreciated it. Both from these and from the present students a great deal of gratitude is due to Miss Richardson who has sacrificed so. many Sunday evenings that her Uboysn might have a pleasant time, and perhaps she herself .does not know how'much good she has done by giving her hearers higher ideals and better motives, as well as so many pleasant evenings. 2 5 P