Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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gi. ' ELISABETH 'MILLER BARDWELL ar 5' f

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SARAH AVl'ZRll,l,, Laboralofy Asxistanl in Zoology. MAEV PIELEN Kl3l'l'lI, B.S., Lrlboralofjy ,4ssislnl1l in Chdlllhlljl. ANNIE L. R1cuAE1nsoN, Lalnomloljy Axsislanl in Bolalyl. AEEIE R. KNAW, Assislaul l,iIJrariau. CAROLINE BoArumMAN GREENE, Rqgislrar. Miss EMILY M. E1msoN, Mus. E. L. PUENELI., Miss Ac:NEs T. BEMls, SIlf7L'I'iIllL'llflEILlS of Domeslic Department. LECTURERS AND NON-RESIDENT INSTRUCTORS. PROFESSOR CHARLES A. YOUNG, PH.D., LL.D., of Princeton College, .4SlI'0HOIlU'. PROI ESSOli CHAEI,Es H. Hlwllcoclc, P1r.D., of Dartmouth College, Geology. PEoEEssoE A1.oNzo S. KIMEALI., I,II.D., of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Physics. A1,EE1f:o M. FLETQIIEE, of Northamptonj Music. Miss HlXIiliIE'l' L. EI.I,SWOR'l'll, of Worcester, 'Uocal Music. ' Louis COENEN, of Springfield, Uiolin. 14

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ELISABETH MILLER BARDWELL, PROFESSOR or As'1'1aoNoMv, AS born in Coleraine, December fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Her father, Amos Bardwell, was a man greatly honored by his town and always prominent in the administration of its affairs. For two years, from eighteen hundred and thirty-seven to thirty- nine, he represented his district in the Legislature of Massachusetts. Miss Bardwell's early home was on a high hill where, to the north, the nearest three or four miles away, rise the beautiful Leyden Hills, while to the southeast the view stretches beyond Sugar Loaf and Mt. Toby, and to the south, almost to Mt. Holyoke and Mt. Tom. Here in earliest childhood she learned to know and love the beauty of nature. After gaining what the district school had to offer, Miss Bardwell attended Shelburne Falls Academy. She taught her first school at the age of eighteen. From the first she was successful, and her services were always in demand until she left the public school for further study. Wliile she taught the district school, she had what she feels was a most valuable experience. She boarded round, and gained the acquaint- ance with all classes of people that enables her to judge character readily, and at the same time developed the ability to act under any circum- stances, however new and strange. Whetlier from this cause or some other, her judgment has been freely acknowledged by all and she has been for many years the counsellor of the perplexed. Miss Bardwell was graduated from Mount Holyoke in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and in the following year entered upon her duties as instructor here. She had from the first the confidence of fellow- teachers and students. In eighteen hundred and seventy-three, Miss Bardwell did graduate work at Dartmouth College with Professor Quimby. Since the erection, in eighteen hundred and eighty-one, of the john Payson Williston Observatory, Miss Bardwell has been its happy and 17