Radcliffe College - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Class Prophecy 5 G read, Titus, in the latest edition of the - World's Historyf how those sixty-four girls journeyed to Mars in Ruth Patclfs. airship. Ruth had turned her attention from automobiles to 8l1'Sl11pS after her tenth auto had been destroyed by fire. Having arrived at Mars, the girls became so delighted with the place, that they decided to remain there for ten years. Oh, those wonderful ten years! lt was in the days of So-Long-Lou, who, an ambitious king from the first, became, under the influence and with the help of those Radcliffe women, one of the most prosperous kings that ever ruled in Mars. Ethel Sinclair, who had married an American judge, and her friend, Mrs. Leighton, who had married when only a Child, gave So-Long-Lou valuable advice in questions of economics. . When the girls first came to- Mars they were afflicted with a strange disease, of which the most noticeable symptom was hic- coughs, but this lasted for only a short time, for Henrietta Locke and Eleanor Kyle concocted out of some strange chemicals a soothing antidote, known afterwards as the L. K. Pain Killer,'.' which not only secured for the girls immediate relief, but also insured them against all sickness, as long as they should remain in Mars, ' The week after the arrival of the class, a basket-b-all game was played between the ladies of the court and a picked team of Radcliffe girls, consisting of Lucile, Charlotte, Leita, Maebelle, Eleanore, Helen Roberts, Helen Lovejoy, Mary, and Lucia. Maebelle had great difficulty in obtaining an impartial ump-ire, for, fro-m the first, the inhabitants of Mars had shown partiality to the Radcliffe girls. But she solved the difficulty, at last, by inducing an ex- Harvard football captain to come to Mars and act as umpire on that occasion: After the game, which resulted 32-I in favor of Radcliffe, Eleanore, the captain, marshaled the team up to the throne to receive congratulations from So-Long-Lou, who was greatly pleased at the athletic ability of the girls. In fact, he was so pleased with Mary's playing, that he made her' the court physical culture, teacher, with a salary of 33,000 a year. For the other eight girls he found positions to teach gymnastics in various colleges throughout Mars. ' Two days after the game, a debate on Woman's Rights was held, and again the contest was between the' court ladies and the Radcliffians. The class chose four of its bestiplatform speakers, Helen, Gladys, Dorothea, and Katherine Tyng. D'ot t was not as ardent an upholder ofthe Rights as the others, but she was .24

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Class Prophecy B G obliged to he one of the speakers, as Lucile had broken her nose in the game two days before. The court ladies argued against sntfrage,l,mt. alas, their arguments were not as strong as the Rad- clitliansf XYhen the first Radcliffian speaker had finished, the king had Coit-On to the ideas of the Suffragettes. Gradually, he began to Holden clearer in his mindg and, by the time the last speaker had taken her seat, he began to Clapp, waving all ceremony aside. Not any 'Tyng' can influence me from my decision, he cried, thc RadcliHians have won the day, and, henceforth, in all our colleges, women, owing to their supreme intellect, may be exempt from entrance, mid-year, and final examinations. When So-Long-Lou made Mary Carty the court physical culture teacher, he made Mary Appleton private tutor to his youngest daughter. for Mary had had a longer experience in teaching than any one in the class. It took her nearly three weeks to teach her pupil to say 'K Ich and Nicht instead of Ish and Nisht Z but she received a good salary, and was, therefore, patient and happy. XVhen the young princes of the court became too- boisterous, Hilda Johnson taught them the value of gentle courtesy and quiet manners, for which So-Long-Lou, to show his appreciation of her efforts, gave her the title Lady Iohnsonf' As time went on, Mars grew financially and socially. Three beautiful buildings were erected in honor of the Radcliffians, and the cost of each, as estimated by the mathematician, M, Agnes Davis, exceeded SI,OO0,000. One was a History Hall, where every desired bit of information concerning history might be found. But what interested most the people of Mars was the collection of three life- sized paintings done by Florence Ramsey, which hung in the gallery of the hall, one of Elizabeth Freeman, one of Alice Hannon, and one of Alice Chadwick, all authorities in history. Gver the entrance to the hall, Emily McDonald, who had become a celebrated electri- cian, had set in electric lights to form the words Sullivan, that's Me. The hall was named after Flos, because she was the founder and the president of the Mars Historical Association. The other two buildings were no less beautiful, one was the Hannon Athenaeum, erected in honor of Louise, the p-laywrightg the other, the Mars Public Library. In the Athenaeum, p-lays were given every afternoon by the stock company. Ada Blake made her greatest hits the first winter in the title role of Unsteady,Tim,,' a farce written by Louiseg and in the leading role of Marion Win- neck's play called The Georgicsf' 26