Radcliffe College - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Class Prophecy B Q Yes, just one, she answered dubiously, but I must ask you to be very quiet when you see her, as she sometimes is violent. What was my utter surprise to find the person in question none other than Catharine Huntington. It seems she was sent there for repeated attempts to make' Roosevelt king, and for insist- ing on Votes for Me11.. ' There she sat, murmuring to herself, Isn't it frightful? Oh! isn't it frightful! That was all I could stand, and thanking the matron for her kindness, I made my way to the street, feeling very downcast. just as I was leaving the building I was cheered up a little by running into my friend Emilie, Burford no longer, as she informed me. She had some peanuts she was carrying to her old pals, and after giving them to the matron, linked her arm in mine and we made our way up the street. 'K'VVell, Em, old topf' I said, tell me all you know. UI don't know much, excepting that I'm married and terribly happy, she answered, blushing. I-low about Marian Blackall? I asked, after squeezing her hand and assuring her I knew just how she felt. H Marian, why she lives in England with her husband, Lord WVhiteso1ne. Quite the fine lady, too. IVas presented at court last year. VVhew! isn't that grandll' I gasped. How about Olive and all the old bunch? Olive, you know, won the world's record for bravery. They say she had the coeur de Leon .... Do you see those two im- posing buildings with the high walls around themf' she continued, after a good laugh. That one is a convent and Corinne Macoy is mother superior. May Riley was with her until two years ago, but received a call and has gone to Spane to live. The other one is a Reformatory for bad boys. Cordelia is at the head of it, and 'her discipline is copied the world around. Florence Adams assists with the largest and most unruly, and lflelen Carver has a course in good nature. The most vicious are like lambs after a week of her training. Peggy was a famous private secretary to President Bryan and finally married one of his cabinet land is quite the belle 31

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Class Prophecy B G This next room, continued the matron, 'I is occupied by one of the mildly crazy class. We have not been able to ascertain the cause of the disease as yet, but we think it is due to overwork at an early period in her life. Listen. You see she sings like that from morning to night. I listened and this is what I heard in a crooning voice: I've been visiting for about a week, ' Up to my aunt's at Lonesome Creek, , I've got the ---- And a new straw hat , And Ilm coming home where my beau lives at. . Shut the window, quick, I sighed, overcome with emotion at the sad state of poor old Nell Barry. The next inmate I was shown was another of the same class. She had been completely upset by the great questions, Who am I, and what am I, which she had learned to ask while studying Philosophy B in college. The matron opened the window and I saw a very sweet little lady peering in a tiny looking glass and asking her image over and over again, Who is Sylvia, Wliat is she? I couldn't resist the temptation and called ,.through'the grating, I' Sylvia is a Knight, just as the matron shut the window with a repr-imand. ' H H This next room, she continued, after I promised not to .speak again, is occupied by a real celebrity. She, also, poor child, is mildly! crazy, brought on, Dr. Postum thinks, by excessive coffee drinking. They say she had every promise of a brilliant political career after she left college and was even offered the position of governor of Honizuzu. But unfortunately her petty vice brought her heref' ' But what is she writing? 1' I asked, fairly weak with sorrow -at poor Lorna's'fate. A , Oh, that, said the matron, I believe she calls it 'The Con- fessions of a Coffee Drinker. Thanks, I said, turning to the matron. Are there any more?', ' 30

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Class Prophecy ' B ' Q in Washington still. Caroline Gorton also marriedg l always thought she believed in government by a man. Ruth is Hedden the Salvation Army in Pekin with Vinita Quackenbush and Rozella Borthwick as First Lieutenants. Goldie Rosenblum is at the head of the Unassociated Cruelties in Brazil. Anna Davidson is ter- ribly happy and contented, too, because she has just made her Markff How about Irene Floyd? I asked, wondering if she were married, too. XVhy, Irene has the biggest snap job of the century. The Kaiser offered her a fortune to sit on the rock of the Lorelei in the Rhine and play siren to the American tourists. Ethel Smith has just written the biggest seller of the season. It is entitled, ' How to Keep the Bloom of Youth and Beauty Witliotit Sleeping: With Special Chapters on My Famous Banana and Peanut Diet' 'II always knew she would become famous, I answered. Yes, said Emilie, they use her book as a text-book in all colleges now. VVe have some more celebrities in our class. Alice Channing edits the Pacino Mozztlzly, and Grace Allen has just taken highest honors in German at the University of Berlin. Edith Fosdick is a private secretary to President Somuchsast of the Uni- versity of Sorbonne. As for Ethel Arens, she is doing research work in Economics down in South Africa. Benita Davenport in- vented the famous Breakfast Food, called Bit-Tidsf' warranted absolutely harmful and indigestible. They use it wholly in the Radcliffe lunch room now. Dorothy Coit is leader of the militant suffragettes in London and speaks in the streets every day. It is very evident that her Green Room training helps her in padding her speeches. Gladys Clark has gone into the Army and is stationed with her husband at the Canary Islands. Gertrude Rideout did likewise and is teaching dancing school at West Point. Alice King is Ambassadress to the Court of the Emperor of Raclland. Of course you know, said Emilie, smiling sweetly, 'zthat several of the girls are living here in this town. We all live with our husbands and large families in model houses and in a model manner. Jessie Maxwell designed our houses and keeps us up to the mark. What she doesnt know about race improvement isn't worth knowing. Mary Reed, Helen Thayer, Laura Wooclxvortli, 32