Radcliffe College - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

Page 13 text:

LIVING ROOM

Page 12 text:

Class History x 5 1 111' 'S While on the subject of Athletics, we cannot refrain from men- tioning,-although the best ought to be left for last,-the first- in-four-years victory over Smith not by 1911 but in 1911. This and another are surely the two red letter days in our historyg the sec- ond, when the Craig prize was presented to Florence Lincoln, February 24th in the Agassiz theatre. Louie Hodge, Captain of the 'Varsityf' and Florence Lincoln, author of The End of the Bridge, have lived like President Eliot, to read their own obituaries. If it had not been for Florence Lincoln, we could not have revelled in the sentiment of having the last Idler our Senior year, written by a member of the class, and also our Sophomore play, 'lAnne,' which 'is to be remembered for two reasons. It was Florence Lincoln's first play and Marjorie Smith's lirst appearance. 1911 has produced a dramatist and an amateur whom we feel will soon rank with Ruth Delano, Charlotte Adams, Marion Hayes, etc., in the nrst category of graduate actors. In dramatics, also, we have furnished the College with its Matinee Idol. Those of us who saw the Idler, The Rose of Plymouth Town, our Fresh- man year, remember it as the Hrst but by no means the last time, Alice Hunnewell made our hearts go pit-a-pat. Turning from our interests to our studies, let us mention with pride, Ruth I-lolden, whose untiring devotion to the microscope, has upheld not only 1911's but Radcliffe's standard in scholarship. And we have had our romance also. Gladys Wells founa that at one class meeting the discussion about class wedding presents was too personal and left the room,-not iinperceptibly. We never shall forget October 27tl'1, 1910, w-hen Margaret Richardson was married in Appleton Chapel, before the whole College. So far just personal class matters have been mentioned, but let us remember that we were at Radcliffe during epoch-making years. We survivedg in fact, helped settle the discussion of the Point System, Sophomore year. Tn fact, while we have been in College, we have had our fill of discussion, particularly this last year, on the subject of shortening the number of Idlers. I4

Page 14 text:

Class History D E Many institutions have arisen in our day. Student Govern- ment, for the first time, was established at Radcliffe our Freshman year. In that year, also, the library and Grace Eliot Hall were new. VVhile the new dormitory, Sarah Whitman Hall, will not be built in our time,-I mean by that our undergraduate years,-yet in 1911 money was left for it and a sum of 310,000 towards scholar- ships. , This year, for the first time, we entered Harvard dramatics through trials, not just by invitaftions. The most important change in college organizations which we have seen was the Amalgama- tion of the Emmanuel Club, the Christian Association, and the College Settlement Chapter. With such a representative as Doro- thy Coit, IQII may feel that it has established the Pillar of the Radcliffe Guild. The most inspiring feature in our history we must all agree is that our last year at Radcliffe was Miss Coes' first year as Dean. This is the first thing we shall tell our Freshmen's Fresh- men and our Freshmen's Freshmen's Freshmen. Miss Coes was always our best adviser, and our college career lasted long enough for us to have her so in name as well as in fact. Through her services before our time and during it, we are proud of the Rad- cliffe of the past, with Miss Coes as Dean, we graduate with such confidence in our hearts for the Radcliffe to be, that I envy the Historian of the future. C.iRo1.1Ni2 Sous. 17