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

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IN the fifty-eighth year of the College of Mary Lyon came the Ninety- niners to that place. Now the College of Mary Lyon is in the city of Alma Mater. And in all the days of that college there were none like to the Ninety-niners, for they were strong and mighty and feared neither man nor woman. And the Ninety-niners made a league and covenant with each other after the manner of that city ; and they caused the scribe to write it in a book that the Ninety-niners every one should set her mark thereto. But the enemy came with craftiness and stole it away. Wherefore the children of that city mocked them, saying, “Where now is that constitution which ye have made?” But the reason of this thing was because of the wickedness of the children of that city. And the Ninety-niners took unto them elders which should be for guides unto them,—a certain bachelor whose surname was Merrick, and Abbe who was master of the arts, and a doctor of philosophy whose surname was Hamlin. And besides these took they unto them William, whose surname was McKinley, who was the chief ruler of all the land. And it was winter. And there was much snow in that place. And the Ninety-niners said one to another, “ Let us now go a-sleighing.” But when they arose in the morning the snow was gone up from the face of the earth, Wherefore they went not. 23