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

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more spent in study in the European art centres, in Greece and the Troad. She then began the work in History of Art which she has carried on for fifteen years, continuing her studies in almost yearly visits abroad and enlarging her collection of illustrative material, until it may safely be called one of the best private collections in the country. Miss Randolph’s fine enthu- siasm in study and her ready grasp of the related facts and principles in the historical develop- ment of art have been a means of growth and culture to successive classes at “ Lake Erie,” in the School of Design, Cleveland, and elsewhere throughout the Western Reserve. It is not strange that her own Alma Mater coveted her services and called her to Mount Holyoke in 1892, with the understanding, however, that one third of the year should be given to “ Lake Erie.” The teaching of History of Art at Mount Holyoke and “ Lake Erie” has been characterized by breadth and depth. The philosophical method of Germany has had a prevailing influence. If any should criticize the attempt to cover in a single course the whole ground of Ancient Art and of Modern Art to the seventeenth century, it may be answered that it has been a study of relations rather than of details. It has also been practical as well as theoretical and fundamental. Students, who have accompanied Miss Randolph, in journeys abroad, have been well prepared to profit by the experience, and have come home interested to carry out some special line of work, based upon the broad and solid foundation of their previous study. The elective courses at Mount Holyoke already offer such an opportunity, a well-defined, more detailed review in archaeology and of periods and schools of art. For such advanced special courses, however, more room is immediately required. The space used in Williston Hall is not only limited, but crowded with the work of other departments; the art gallery, on the third floor, insufficient and poorly lighted. An Art Building, is greatly needed at Mount Holyoke, to include galleries, suitable for the exhibition of casts and pictures, a large well-lighted lecture hall, with a series of smaller rooms for laboratory work, in Art History, and for the storing of valuable books and illustrations. And, in direct connection, studios for the required and elective classes in drawing and painting. In this time of new buildings for Mount Holyoke such an immediate, pressing need should not pass unrecognized, certainly of vital importance to the art department of the college. The materials for this sketch, in much the same formas here presented, were kindly furnished by Miss Evans, principal of Lake Erie Seminary. The final statement, as to the needs of the art department of Mount Holyoke College, is from an appeal written by Miss Randolph, in December. 1896.

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Couise ?itz=Randolpb LOUISE Fitz-Randolph was born June 25, 185 1, in Chautauqua County, New York, whither, when that region was but little settled, her family had moved from near Newburgh-on- the Hudson. The pioneer instinct may have been an inherited one; for we read of the Rev. Francis Bell, one of the ancestors of Mrs. Randolph, who went as first pastor from Boston to the colony of Stamford, Ct., “with few worldly possessions, but with the Bible under his arm and the love of God in his heart.” The Fitz-Randolph family is of Scotch descent. Miss Randolph entered Mount Holyoke in 1869, and, four years after graduation, began teaching in Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, Ohio, where she still continues her instruction during a part of each year. Few, if any, attempts had been made to adopt History of Art to the needs of college curricula when Miss Randolph began the work. The course which has thus been developed under her study is one of peculiar breadth and symmetry. After spending the year ’ q-’So at the Boston University, she went abroad for nearly three years, visiting the various art centres of Europe, and extending the journey as far east as Constantinople. Five trips have followed, varying in length from three months to two years, and making possible a long and repeated study of the best examples in architecture, and of the masterpieces of the great galleries. Miss Randolph has also studied at the American School of Archaeology at Athens; and during continued residence in London and Paris, has enjoyed exceptional opportunities in attending lecture courses by Prof. G. G. Zerffi, of the South Kensington Art Schools, M. Callignon and M. Maspero of the College de France, and others scholars of equally acknowl- 15