Sweet Briar College - Briar Patch Yearbook (Sweet Briar, VA)

Text from Pages 1 - 182 of the 1910 volume:

■■HMB W M H % ? r The Briar-Patch NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN .,, Contents II HON BOAKD OF DlKECTOBS Faculty Beloved Sweet Briar, Poem To the Thirty-Six Senior Class Officers Statistics History Extract from a Diary Mi. Elijah Fletcher ' s Diploma. Junior Class rl ' OUp Class Roll 1 [istory Sophomore Class. ... I (roup (lass Roll History Fresh man ( lass Group ( las Roll History Student Government Association. V. W. C. A Athletics Officers Boat Club Tenuis ( lull Senior-Sophomore Basket-Ball Te Junior-Freshman Basket-Bail Tea Sub-Special Basket-Ball Team... Championship lame Field Day Fairies, Poem Sweet Briar Magazine The Briar-Patch Dietrick ' s Best Deal, Story The Shadow ( nun. Story The Minuet, Poem The Turning of the Stream, Story A Joke Within a Joke. Story In the Light of the Emders, Story. -11 12 13 17 IS -21 22 -31 32 33 34 35 36 30 10 41 42 45 40 r-48 40 80 87 93 105 Co our pr est Dent ©t jWaq 2L 9Senet tct rufjose eeample of noble ruomanbooo bas been an inspiration to our class, roe oebicate tbis, tbe first uolttme of our 15riar4£ atcb, as a token of our respect, admiration ano Ioue J HK— W ' W 1 H JI Willi _-W .._ r?j r ffl)fficer0 of instruction anD aomtnistration MARY K. BENEDICT, A. B.. Ph. D. PRESIDENT AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AMI PSYCHOLOGY .1. MITCHELL HUMPHREYS, A. M., Ph. D. PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES MARY HAELEY, M. D. PROFESSOB OF PHYSIOLOGY AMI HYGIENE AMI COLLEGE PHYSICIAN WALLACE EUGENE ROLLINS, A. P... I!. D. PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AM) COLLEGE CHAPLAIN LEOXIDAS WAKEFIELD CRAWFORD, Jr., A. B., M. A. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH S. CAY PATTERSON, 1 ' .. S. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS HELEN F. YOUNG DIRECTOR OF MUSIC VIRGINIA RANDALL Mc LAWS DIRECTOR OF ART CAROLINE LAMBERT SPARROW, A. 1!.. A. M. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY ANNA LEWIS COLE. A. li.. A. M. INSTRUCTOR IN FRENCH RUTH B. HOWLAXD. Ph. M. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOB OF BIOLOGY ' JESSAMINE CHAPMAN, B. S. INSTRUCTOR IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE ft •Absent on leav ETHEL ( I SHIM; GARDNER INSTRUCTOR IN MUSK XORA BLANDING ERASER, A. li. INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN ( ONNIE M. GUION, A. 1!. INSTRUCTOR IN CHEMISTRY during 1909-10. f . MARTHA PLAISTED, A. B. INSTBUCTOB IN ENGLISH HELEN COLLINS ROLLINS [NBTBUCTOB IN MUSIC CAROLINE HILL CRAWFORD, B. M. INSTIil I I ' DIl IN VOCAL MUSIC EUGENIE M. MORENUS, A. I:.. A. M. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS CAROLINE NOBLE SHAW. A. I ' ... B. S. INSTRUCTOR IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE MILDRED SELFRIDGE, A. I!. INSTBUCTOB IN FBENC1I WILLIAM BLAND DEW TBEASUREK AND BUSINESS MANAGES FANNIE CARROLL SUPEBINTENDENT OF THE HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT •  ♦ To the Thirty-Six YOU students who saw the lights of Sweel Briar blaze for the ii the evening of September 27, L906; you who have gone way; you who have known the hardships which besel the l great things; to you, thirty-six, belongs the name of pioneers. F perseverance, your energy, and your love, you have begun the plan i we are now building and upon which future generations will contini None I ' ni vim may know whal it means for thirty-six i irls, in in the ways of college life, to be gathered together in new buildings because of their very newness, with an unfamiliar faculty to begi their own careers but that of a greal college as well — for ours will college some day. Vmi hail mi traditions, no organizations, no laws — nothing upon build. Yet, ere a month had passed, ymi had assembled together to yourselves into the Student Government Association, ami to draw up purtant document— our Constitution. Thanks to you, thirty-six, the uf Sweel Briar have always had the privilege id ' governing themselves lint your work was not ended with this organization, for others needed. Accordingly, the Athletic Association, the Dramatic ( ' In Young Women ' s Christian Association were organized by you. .Mai hour did ymi spend pondering over petitions, laws, and by-laws, ai warm discussion took place in those small mass-meetings that year. lint, dear sindeiiis, though your lot was a hard one, though diligently, yours was nut a life void of all pleasure. Can ymi forgel which your Choir and Glee Club received from all who came to Sw Can you overlook the fact that mi May Day ymi crowned your queen ; around the May-pole to the little song, Gaily now we twine the 3 Can you forget the dances of that year? Yes, dear students, th consider these pleasures typical of the true finishing school, we th them, we thank ymi that we can combine in our college life academic the social pleasures, which the so-called finhhiiuj schools enjoy. Now, you of the thirty-six, who are no longer with us, may w of the changes which have taken place? For changes have occurred— in fact, that the Sweel Briar of L910 would seem a different place to itn.il : to build, perienced appalling not only )t a o-reat which to organize that were soon and the 1 many a HI toiled the pi eet B Mi ►le? ' Lgh nk vmi for e tell vi HB %Wi ) e Le1 us tell yon how these changes cam; ' about. The first change, which the old students noticed when they returned to College in the fall of 1907, was an attractive orange and green Noah ' s ark station instead of the little -lied which had served to shelter them from the rain the year before. There st I. too, another omnibus bright and shiny with the words Sweet Briar I ' nllrti, fully six inches tall. This second ' bus was needed, for instead of the little hand of thirty-six, Sweet Briar now boasted of ninety students. The year of 1907-08, however, is not characterized by the formation of new organizations, in fact, no one movement of the students stands out preeminently. We cannot, however, consider this a period in which no growth took place, for the organizations which were begun during the preceding year increased steadily in strength. Old constitutions were amended, and new life animated the Athletic Association and Dramatic ' Ink The Student Govern- ment Association, too. with the increase in numbers, was forced to pass new rules and inflict new penalties. During this year the faculty undertook a plan which ha- since added much to our life here. This plan was the fitting up of Dr. William ' s office as a tea house in order to earn money for the establishment of a northern scholar- ship. In the afternoons when classes are over the students find their way to this wayside inn. where they laugh and talk as they enjoy the good things there. Thus, though tin- year was not one of marked growth it was not by any means one of stagnation. The third year, on the oilier hand, was a year of the beginnings id ' things. In the first place a lame new dormitory. Randolph Hall, was added to accom- modate our one hundred and eleven students. These students seem to have within them the true college spirit, for very - ilasses were organized and (das- teams formed. The interclass games were indeed exciting ones, particu- larly the hl-t one when tile College team wa- defeated by the Specials on Monday, April 5th. u this date our tir-t Field 1 lay exercise- look place, after which a handsome silver cup was presented by the faculty to the Athletic Association, and the name of the champion of the day engraved upon this trophy. Later in the spring, also, an exciting tennis tournament showed us that the Athletic Association had indeed become a living organization. Hut these were not the only athletic achievements, for three clubs, the Tennis Club, the Boating Club, and the Coif Club were formed under the supervision of the oeneral association. In the Young Women ' s Christian Association there was no lacls of enthu si asm. I iifiiiiz,- the Christmas season the members of this organization planned a Christinas tree for the Indian Mission nearby, while in the spring it raised enough money to send two delegates to the Asheville Convention. Dramatics, also, came t the front. Instead of existing as one club 3 it now funned two chapters, The Billikens and The Merry Jesters, thus making competition play an importanl part in awakening enthusiasm. Another club, which has proven extremely helpful to its members, is the Current Events Club, begun by the head of the History Department during the spring of this year. But let me tell you something more of the class spirit exhibited during the year 1908-09. As in all other institutions, there was a continual struggle of Sophomores and Freshmen. First one meeting then another was broken in upon. Sophomore banners waved gloriously in the breeze, to be taken down by the Freshmen. Plots conceived by one side were discovered by the other. Suspicion lurked in every corner, until weary of this manner of strife these classes decided to expend their energies in a more intellectual manner. Accordingly, a Debating Club was begun, and a constitution framed, providing for interelass debates. Oh! dear students, you should hear the eloquence which is called forth by the weighty subjects which these classes now discuss. Thus passed the year 1908-09, but now comes the year which we consider the most noteworthy of any — it is the year 1909-10. In this year there has been growth from the smallest to the largest of the organizations, new events have occurred, and important things will come to pass ere this year draws to a close. For the first time we have a boat-house — how you envy us now! ISlow we have our own book shop where we pay cash — oh, dear! Xow we have a separate Choir and Glee Club; now we can boast of a .Mandolin Club and of State Clubs; this year our first magazine has appeared; this year the first animal, so dear to the hearts of us all, comes forth; our first Founder ' s Day also was celebrated during the fall of this year; for the first time in our history we have, together with the Student Government Association, the honor system; at last, the long-looked-for hockey field is in view; and workmen have already begun the work for another new dormitory; again two out-door plays are being pre- pared for May day and for June. Indeed, thirty-six, the whole atmosphere is one of work, life and vigor. ft r Rut I have not mentioned to yon the greatest achievements of our four years here. I have nol told you of an event which will take place in dune, and which will bring pride into the hearts of every student who lias lived within these walls. Can yon guess? 1 believe yon can. for you have Keen thinking, too, of this event. Y ii have been preparing, too, to come again to Sweel Briar to see our firsl Seniors as they bid us farewell. These five who are so soon to lc ave us were, as you were, pioneers. From the first they have been with us. Thev have bome the responsibilities of the firsl four years of college, and now they are to leave us with niir love and admiration to go into the broader paths of life and to show to all who know them the first fruits of a College whose name is beginning to stand for the highest, noblest, and best of our native land. May not one of the little band of thirty-six be lacking on that day when these five, whom we all love, must leave us. Jennie Hurt, 1911. IMMIH HI Senior Class Colors: Green and Gold Flower: Daisy Motto: In ne cede malis, sed contra audentior iro MEMBERS LOUISE MA LAINE HOOPER President ANNIE WHITNEY ( UMNOCK Vice-President FRANCES PAYNE MURRELL Secretary and Treasurer EUGENIA WHYTE GRIFFIN Prophet AXXIE MARION POWELJ Historian HONORARY MEMBER Dr. Mary K. Benedict fc! A X I E W ' ll I ' I ' .N EY ( ' ( M ICK Anderson, South ( ' arolina iih  apt ' ' I ' . I in ficent of Executive Committee Student Governmenl Associa lion, 1907-08; Treasurer Studenl Governmenl Asso ciation, 1909-10; Executive Committee Athletic Asso elation, 1907-08; Vice-Presiden1 Athletic Associa lion. 1908-09; Head of Basket-Ball, 1909-10; Presi- dent Class, 1908-09; Vice-President class, 1909-10; Glee Club; President Debating Club, 1909-10; Secre- tary Dramatic Club, 1908-09; Literary Editor Briar-Patch; Class Basket-Ball Team. 1909-10; Varsity Basket-Ball Team. 1908-09; Billikens; Sec- retary of Class 1906-07, 1907-08. Eugenia Wiiytk Gkiffin Salem, Virginia And mistress of herself, though China fall. Executive Committee Student Government Asso- ciation. 1906-07, 1007-08: Secretary Athletic Asso- ciation. 100(3-07, 1007-08: Dramatic Committee, 1006- 07, 1907-08, 190S-00: Secretary V. W. C. A., 1007- 08; Tea-house Committee, 1908-09, 1909-10; Varsity Basket -Ball Team. 1908-09; Class Basket-Ball Team. 1909-10; Glee Club; Billikens; Manager of Dances. 1008-00, 1000-111; President Dramatic Club, 1909-10; Sweet Briar Magazine, 1909-10; Art Editor Briar- Patch ; Class Prophet. Annie Maeion Powell ' viln ' illi ' , Virginia 1 woman nobly planned to warn, comfort, and command. President Young Women ' s Christian Association, 1!)H7-(IS: Vice-President Student Government Asso ciation 1907-08; President Studenl Government Association, 1908-09, 1909-10; Editor-in-Chief Briab Patch; Associate Editor Sweet Briar Magazine, 1909-10; Class Historian; Varsity Basket-Bail Team, 1908-09; Class Basket-Bail Team. 1909-10; Glee Cluh; Billikens. V Senior History T (In Villi W( cla IA till— history tells of a class peculiarly unique — unique because is the first graduating class of Sweet Briar College. Oh, reader, s your heart not burn within yon when you contemplate this fact; niiler that we feel, in this our year of final achievement, the ml honor of membership in the ( ' lass of 1910, the firs! graduating is new College of our Southland? Do you wonder that we are impressed with our own importance, that we feel a pardonable amount of self-satisfaction and pride? This pride in being a pioneer class would, T fear, have been no whit diminished even had our achievements been less at Sweel Briar. lint. Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen, pardon the conceit, we have striven and we have achieved great things. True, we have nut always been victorious in Athletics; in our aspirations we have not snared mure than ten feet above the ground, and we have nol burned the midnight il in our efforts to excel our rival class, but these have mils pale into insignificance by the side of the many noble, heroic deeds which we have performed, bnt which, alas, modesty, time and space forbid me in enter upon. In September, 1906, we entered Sweel Briar College and began our careers. At first the mad was long and hard; disorganization •rv side. We realized, with a pang of disappointment, that the deal college life, of which we had read and heard so much, was not In he mind ready-made in a new college, bul that it was to lie attained only hrough the labor ami perseverance of the firsl class brave enough to tread ts untrodden soil. To the Class of 1910, therefore, belonged the responsibility and molding college life and college traditions. days and months passed, and we watched the various organizations ml grow in our hands, disappointment gave place to joy, responsi- ivilege. With pride and exultation we realized that our ( ' lass and e were developing hand in hand, both acquiring each day greater lignity and honor. Truly the Class of 1910 was blessed above all other classes! hint not, reader, that our path of glory was one of unalloyed think net that all of our trials and tribulations wen nfined to that fall nf 1906. Then we had disorganization to combat, later, as we delved traced with Dale the organization of Parliament ami with Zeller momentous was on ev of fc As the ility t( ar Col But tl happii into L( and Rand the organization of thought, we pondered within ourselves if, after all, disorganization were tiol preferable to its opposite. Nor were these our only ohstacles — Prose Composition, Analytical Geometry, Anglo-Saxon and numerous other torments and persecutions must be passed before we reached the goal. Twice a year we fell our courage wane, our spirits flag and we trembled for our little band of five, but fortune smiled upon us and, thanks in a generous use of cram, bluff and study, we have come safely through the ordeal; we feel in our grasp the much-desired A. 11. Perchance some of our members are weary and worn, possibly all of us have Inst a bit of the vigor of our youth, lint what is this trifle compared to whal we have gained from these four college years ' . We have experienced and enjoyed the verdancy of Freshmen, the conceit of Sophomores and the irresponsibility of Juniors, but the Senior year is the lies), by far the best, after all. When, as Freshmen, we entered College our sole aim and ambition was to complete the course so formidably set forth in the catalogue. Now, as Seniors, we realize that Ibe most vital parts of our life at Sweet Briar are not included in this catalogue. We have mastered tbe text-books, but text-book lure may leave us to-morrow, aye, even now it is gone, bttt the development and growth these years have brought ns are our possessions now and always. It is in our Senior year that are drawn closer ami sealed the ties which fur four years have been drawing ns together. Here are made fast ami firm the deepest friendships — friendships that will last when tbe Class of 1910 is scattered and gone. Here we learn f give our faculty the respect and love that has been miserly dealt out in the years preceding. To ns then they were teach- ers merely, stern text-bunk expounders; now we see them as our friends and guides, new we love them as these to whom our welfare is dear, as those who care fur our interests and ad vancement. Life ' s lessons came to ns here, our college years have not been in vain. The college history of 1010 is over. During the years to come she will be followed by other and more brilliant classes, but to her will always li- ascribed the glory and honor due a pioneer. No other class, however brilliant, can stand in exactly tbe same relation to her Alma Mater, no other class can ever sing with unite as much heartiness — Here ' s to the davs that we have known, Here ' s to the days to tic Here ' s to tl liege we call our own — Here ' s to S. B. C. ■■■■■■ Extract From a Diary ' March, 19-30. MY poor old Diary, to think T haven ' t touched von for a month! But so much has happened in that time that now I will have to start in at the beginning and tell yon all. It was a raw and dreary afternoon in the middle t ' February when, tired (Hit, 1 was sitting alone in the library, luxuriously indulging in a cup of tea and gazing into the glowing coals. In the morning ' s paper I had read of the bril- liant wedding of one of my old college mates to a distinguished foreign noble- man, so, now recurring to this in my thoughts, I gradually began to review in memory all those dear old golden days at Sweet Briar. Absorbed in such memories, I -was greatly startled by hearing a queer noise outside of the window. Goodness, what on earth made that screeching sound? I exclaimed in an irritable manner. I had just recovered my composure and was on the point of pouring another cup of tea when the same peculiar sound was repeated. Well, I said, I ' ll find out this time what that noise is. As I started in the direction of the bay-window, the noise came for the third time. I looked up, and the sight that I saw made nie doubt my senses. Had I gone crazy, or merely become a child again with childish dreams coming true ' . For whai do you think was there on my window-ledge I None other than old Mother Goose seated on the back of her big, white goose! Mother Goose with her high peaked hat and broom, just exactly true to her pictures! At the sight, all of my boasted self-control left me, and while I was en- deavoring to catch enough breath to admit of a scream, the old dame leaned forward and beckoned to me in the mosl kindly manner imaginable. In answer, I sprang forward and opened the window. Ah, my dear, exclaimed Mother Goose, it certainly took you a long time to do that. I had to rap three times upon that window and I was lie- coming impatient. However, my deal ' , gel your wraps and mount behind me, for I want to take you on a trip. Come on, don ' t keep me any longer. But, Mother Goose, I began. I Now don ' t begin to make excuses, she interrupted, bu1 gel your hat and wraps and I ' ll lake you to see the members of your graduating class of nineteen-ten. Wise old Mother Goose! She knew I could resist thai trip least of any oilier that she mighl offer. I quickly turned hack to the room, snatched up a pen and wrote a few lines to tell of mv departure, and then putting on hat, coat, and gloves, 1 mounted with much trepidation behind Mother Goose on her p el steed. Oh, it isn ' t necessary to squeeze me to death, said Mother Goose, as I frantically twined my arms about her, for this way of riding is as easy as sitting in a nicker, and nut anything like as uncomfortable as those old-fashioned air-ships which are still so much in vogue at the present day. This reassured me somewhat, but still did not nearly prepare me for the absolutely delicious sensation of goose-riding in mid-air that I experienced as we started upward on our flight. After the first amazement hail passed, I be- came keenly alive to the facts of my queer situation, and greatly infatuated with its novelty. Looking below, I saw the dim outlines of my little town, and as I looked these outlines gradually melted away and gave place to what seemed an endless amount of green. You have probably been wondering, said Mother Goose (though strange to say, such a wonder had never entered my head), how I happen to know of you and your class-mates. However, unknown to any one, I have taken a groat interest in that now world-famous college of Sweet Briar ever since it opened its doors in the early part of this century. My interest, seemed to center especially in the first graduating class. Since then I have kept up with each of its members. It occurred to me the other day that I might make myself known and give one of you the benefit of one of my annual trips, so I decided to stop by for you. My, my, continued she, what a remarkable career that little class of five has had! What names the members have made for themselves! I know you must be anxious to see your friends again. Only have a little patience now, and in several hours ' time, I will land you safely at the home of your nearest class-mate. We will take the girls in turn as we come to them, and the first stop we will make will be at an Powell ' s. ) Why, I said, is she still Xan Powell V Indeed she is. She is one of the few women who have sense enough no1 to marry, lint don ' t ask any mere questions and yen can find out all about Xan when yen see her. For a long time after this we rode en in silence. Gradually it began to grow dark and from far below faint lights began to twinkle. As we advanced these lights grew brighter and more uumerous until they looked like myriads of fire-flies. Why, Mother Goose, I exclaimed, almost in awe, what wonderful place is this we are approaching? I expected suc h a scene to astonish yon, -he replied. Why that, my child, is New York City. Don ' t fall off, for we are going to land in just about one minute. Even a- she wa- speaking, I could feel we had begun to make a gentle de- scent. We went down and down, and finally came to a stand-still. We had alighted. I found, en a very small balcony off from an upper window of a tall building. Mother Goose leaned over, tapped upon the window-pane and emitted a series of sounds such as she bad first used to attract my attention. Several seconds passed and then I saw coming toward the window one of the familiar faces of by-gone days — Xan Powell. When Xan raised the window I stepped in, and I leave it to you to imagine the look on her face when she recognized me. for an instant neither of us moved nor -poke, and then such greetings! We were both so excited that Xan didn ' t even notice Mother Goose, and in fact 1 was on the poinl of forgetting her when she called : I ll return for you, Eugenia, to-morrow afternoon at the o ' clock. Good- bye until then. And before I could speak she had gone. Well. Diary, Xan and I talked ami talked. We discussed and reviewed every detail of the past, and exchanged personal histories from the year nine- teen-ton. Xan, I learned, was now holding a position in Columbia University never before held by a woman. She was Professor of Philosophy. Xan told me all about her experiences as school-teacher after finishing college, and also of how she had gained her M. A. degree, and of the years she had then spent in gaining her Ph. I . degree. She worked hard, ami at last when almost despairing, she met with success. She solved her problem, viz., to prove thai the general conception concerning the Platonic Doctrine of [deas had been universally misundersl I. Such a scholastic piece of work gained for her the chair of Philosophy a1 lolumbia. She was always busy, she said, and besides seeing her old friends, had no mind for anything else outside of her work. In appearance, Nan was aboul the same as she was twenty years ago, excepl hard work had caused many gray hairs. These, however, were still arranged exactly as the brown ones had been ai Sweel Briar, and, accordingly nol a single one was one-thousandth of an inch from its correct position. She was still wear- ing glasses, only two pairs now. The next morning was Sunday, so we spent the day very quietly. We were still talking when I heard the call that I recognized by this time as peculiar to Mother Goose. Looking out I saw thai it was indeed she, so I was forced to make hurried adieux to Xan. When 1 had mounted again behind .Mother Goose, I told my kind benefactor of my visit and the pleasure it had given me. She seemed greatly pleased and then informed me of our next stop. Two of your class-mates are abroad, she said, so we ' ll now go to see Annie Smith, nee Cumnock, who is living in Columbia, South Carolina. Bui Eugenia, she continued, I won ' t be able to locate her exactly. However, if I put you on the main corner of the principal thoroughfare, I think you will find her about four o ' clock. True enough, 1 did find Annie there and in such a strange way. I had hardly taken my stand at the appointed spot when I heard the sound of a l ass drum, a horn, and a woman ' s strong contralto voice. Turning, I perceived these strains came from three members of the Salvation Army, who were standing near me. 1 began to listen to the song the woman was singing, and as near as I can remember it, it went like this: There was a man whose name I think Was I! — r — o — w — n. lie talked against Prohibition and He voted for r — n — m, lie helped to put the poison in His neighbor ' s c — u — p, And then he had the face to say He was s — a — v — e — d. Oh it ' s g — 1 — o — r — y to know You ' re s — a — v — e — d, I ' m h — a — p — p — y because I ' m f — r — double e. I once was b — o — Ti — n — (1 In chains of s — i — n. But now I ' m full of j — o — y Because I ' m pure within. The words were so peculiar that they interested me greatly. I began to study the singer ' s face, and on the last line the truth dawned upon me that this was Annie Cumnock. Eagerly I rushed toward her. She did not recognize me until I had called my name. Then, after we had exchanged salutations, she to the man who had been beating the drum. lie was a little man set off by a heavy suil of bright red hair. • ' John, my dear, Annie said in tender tones, this is one of my old class-mates, and this, she added, addressing me and bringing up the other mem- ler of the party, is our dear sister Jemimy Smith. We all shook hands and entered into quite a conversation. This was put to an end by Mr. ainl .Mrs. Smith saying they had to move on to the next corner. They insisted heartily that 1 come with them and do the collecting, and after- wards a mpany them home. However, from what I had heard about their strenuous work, I decided it would lie best for me not to accept their invitation. So pleading previous engagements, I thanked Mr. and Mrs. Smith for their cordiality ami promised to look them up again the next time I came to Columbia. I returned to the spot where Mother (loose had put me down, and found the good old dame awaiting me. She laughed a long lime over my experience, and told me not to forget the fact that 1 hail conversed with the most famous leaders of the Salvation Army in the world. Prepare yourself now for a trip to England, was the next remark of Mother Goose. England! Why, can we go there on this goose? I was utterly dum- founded at the thought. Such a speech shows that you are not very well up on modern methods of aerial traveling. My goose beats any airship that has ever been fashioned tor crossing the Atlantic ' . Why, almost before you know it, child, we will be in the old country. And true enough, such was the case. I bad found ii besl nol to ask questions of Motber Goose, so we were nearly ready to land in I- Ion before she voluntarily told me whal I bad been dying to know. Do you see thai big marble palace in the distance ? she inquired, pointing with her wand. I assured her that I did and she continued: That is the dwelling of the Lady Algernon Reginald Up de Starl Pancake. Vmi will remember the lady as Louise Hooper. Why, id ' course, I rudely interrupted, I was reading of her marriage when ymi lapped mi my window. How little 1 dreamed I was going to see her so soon. I hope ymi wmft find her very much changed, said Mother Goose, but yen knew three matrimonial ventures are enough to change anybody. After this remark I felt extremely dubious concerning the kind of welcome 1 would receive at the hands of Lady Pancake. When I reached the palace grounds, it was with faltering steps I went up the long avenue to the palace itself. My fears were in no ways relieved by the endless retinue of liveried lackeys who finally admitted me into the dwelling. It was purely an accidental happening, I learned, that milady had no engagement for this afternoon. I sent up my card and then wondered if Louise would deign to honor me with a glimpse of herself. After exactly fifty-five minutes of waiting, a soft, luxurious swish as of heavy silks trailing slowly across the floor announced the fact that her ladyship was really approaching. A flood of college memories came over me, and I rose to meet Louise. But the vision that entered the room was so entirely different from what I had expected that I nearly fell into a faint from astonish- ment. Aw, Eugenia, came in slow, carefully drawled accents, ah am so very chawmed to see you. I caught my breath and advanced to take the outstretched hand. I don ' t know what answer I returned, for 1 was too busy looking at Louise to remember. Instead of a dark-haired woman of forty that I had expected to see, here stood before me a blonde of the most pronounced type, dressed in a costume suitable for a girl of twenty. I tried to gather my wits together, and after quite a long while succeeded. I found that Louise showed, as much as her affected A rffalMfeHttMM N ft languid style would permit, a great deal of interest in all that I had to tell her concerning her friends in America. She in turn told me of her life since nine- teen hundred and ten. I can ' t write all of it down, Diary, but some day, with her permission, I ' m going In turn it into a book. Sufficient to say here, Louise had just married Sir A. R. U. de S. Pancake, and seemed extremely pleased with herself for having done so. She showed me a picture of her husband, Sir Pancake, and yon will have to excuse me, Diary, while 1 smile. He was a funny little man of thirty years and was not over five feet five inches in height. With a monocle in one eye and the haughtiest of banality smiles, yon would have taken him for the ruler of all lands, if you had not at first taken him for an absurdity. Louise was very hospitable and promised to give me the honor of sitting with sonic of the highest of English nobility it ' I would stay for dinner that evening, but I felt if would be too greal a demand on my nerves, so I thanked her kindly, but took my departure. All right, if you don ' t like so much formal elegance, I ' ll take you to where things are less formal, said my kind guide when 1 related my story to her. And then I knew our last destination. For the only one of my class- males that now remained to be seen was my deal- former room-mate, Frances Alurrell. I had kept up with her rather well. The year after graduating we had gone together to the Philippine Islands, and though I bad returned home at the end of two years, Frances had remained. Three years later she had written me of her marriage with an army officer. Naturally, I was most anxious to see her again and meet her husband. We rode on, or rather we flew on, in silence for a long time. At last the town of .Manila came into sight, and not long after .Mother Goose left me at Frances ' home. I couldn ' t help being disappointed at the sight of the house. It looked as if it had mice been very comfortable and rather pretty, but now there was an air of dilapidation over (lie whole place. The house needed painting, many of the railings were missing from the banisters, and the appearance of the lawn was something disgraceful. There were four or five children playing around, all of them with unkempt hair and torn clothing. I tried to get the children to pay some attention to me, but as I failed utterly in this endeavor, I went up the steps and pulled the broken bell. A frowsy maid admitted me and took my card. A minute more and I knew iliis was really Frances ' home. For a lighl step came running down the stairs, and from its buoyancy I knew Frances was glad 1 had come. I was not wrong in this surmise. Frances was as glad to see me as I was to sec her, and we were soon talking as we had done twenty years ago. 1 couldn ' 1 aecounl for the untidiness of the place until Frances told me thai she and her husband, Captain Mure, who was an army officer in the engineering division, were hoih vitally interested al the presenl in compiling a book on higher mathmatics! Of course, this explained the appearance of children and house. I had a wild desire to express my views then ami there on the subject, hut. fortu- nately, I controlled my tongue. Nut long after, Captain Mure came in ami I liked him very much, even though he was dreadfully serious looking. However, he was as gracious as Frances herself, ami I was delighted when Mother Goose said she would wait for me to pay them a visit. This visit was so very pleasant that at the end of ten days, when Mother Goose came for me, she almost had to tear me away. Ami now, you see. Diary, I have returned and am pouring into your sympathetic ear the story of my wonderful journey. As for dear old Mother Goose, I can never thank her enough for her kindness to me. I verily believe, though, that her generous nature felt rewarded in seeing the pleasure she had given. And now. Diary. I want to t( 11 yon a secret. This trip had a more far- reaching effect on me than ever Mother Goose could have anticipated. It made me satisfied and content with my own lot, even if I am flic only non-illustrious member of old Naught-Ten. And. furthermore, it made me realize that true happiness is of far more value than fame, and such happiness is to he found most often at one ' s own hearthside. Prophet. n ■U Fniyersifatis A 1 1U HIS MOWT i S, RmyfPiJBTctaiR . UiiiMli ■ 1 C1A—L VJMtltfffl- ( { ( TfY( t tY( ( YYy y y iYY YYYYYY AYYYv rY YY.) YM YYYYY yAy y yY. ' Yy y ,I t YY .iun f ui Y,YYY Y y f 7Y Y f..( ; YYY J (ft ( YY Y, , ( J( y yYM AyAj i A. ,± J (YY YY-i YY A . YY C YYYYYYY ' ( J ' M AUY. Ayy y YY Y rxivERSJ T XVX .iYY yA yYYYY YA YY ,ll j ;;JiH { AyYSYYY YYYYYY « l ( i ftt . y f A Y ,J- i ' iA ' fYJ. A(Y AyJYY YJ JyYy yYYYYA YYY (Ay( . - yY(YYY.)A i uy YYy ' -(YYYYYy { ' . fYY Y i ,iiy yyAy.) YY y i.jYYYY( ' (A YtY YY f.tY YYC Y ' yYYY YC, (Y ,. , YYY.JyYYY JJ,i Y ( ' AY. (YAY.i , YY YfYYYY a YfY Y .iYYYY( lYYYYtl ..„„. . It is interesting to note thai the diploma of the University of Vermoni was presented to Mr. Elijah Fletcher, one of the found- ers of our college, in the year 1810, jusi one hundred years before the first class will graduate I ' r the college which he made possi- ble. A facsimile of his diploma will be presented to this class. HB I HBH Junior Class Colors: Green and White Flower: Mountain Laurel Motto: Fide et fiducia Yell: Vive La! Vive la! Vive la! Say! Who are we! Rah, Hah, Ray! Hee-ro! Hee-ro! Eee-ro! Hi! Nineteen Eleven Do or I ie ! OFFICERS JOSEPHINE WADSWOR1 II MURRAY President MARY VIRGINIA PARKER Vice-President ALMA WHEELER BOOTH Secretary EMMA WILSON MORRISS Treasurer JENNIE HURT Historian MEMBERS ALMA WHEELER BOOTH EMMA WILSON MORRISS MARGARET TAYLOR BROWNING JOSEPHINE WADSWORTH MURRAY JENNIE HURT MARY VIRGINIA PARKER HONORARY MEMBERS REV. W. E. ROLLINS MR. N. C. MANSON . A av r iMilTiliWIirmiHi Junior History Preface Til K writer in preparing this volume has kept constantly in mind a two- fold purpose; namely, to give to tin- world in an interesting, vet brief, form tlic origin, development, and purpose of the remarkable Class of 1911, ami to place in the hands of all Freshmen ami prospective Freshmen the story of a ( lass whose deeds are worthy of their admiration and imitation. If. therefore, this volume should prove of interest to the reader and at the same time serve to some extent in piloting beginners of those four perilous year- into the peaceful haven of Seniorship, the author will feel that her task has qoI been in vain. .1. 11. Sweet Briar Jollege. Volume I In studying the history of all college elasses, one finds that each elass in its development follows certain genera] Laws. For example, each begins as the Freshman ( ' lass, turbulent, restless, irrepressible, and depending upon both its physical strength and superiority in numbers, hut ends as a Senior ( ' lass, dark- robed, calm, ami fully conscious of its mental prowess. Between these two periods of turbulence and calm there are two other periods, however, through which every class must pass in its life history, one is a period of conceit, of glorying over its inferior- and of rebellion against its superior- — this the period characterized by the dreaded word Sophomore. The other is a stage of irresponsibility — a time when the Class is pleasure lov- ing, happy-go-lucky, and utterly unreliable — at any rate from a Senior ' s standpoint. These, then, are the natural laws governing the life of every class which survives the struggle for existence ami departs from the Held of action well armed in diplomas, degrees, and a four years ' experience of college life. The Class of 1911 is remarkable in that it has not followed these usual law- of growth, for in the first place, this noteworthy class did not experience that first year of Freshman turbulence. Very wisely it omitted this trying pari of its life and existed a- -ix separate individuals a whole year until, stimulated by some unknown force, these six students the following year organ- ized themselves into the Sophomore Class. But there was never any of the Sophomore spirit displayed by tliis class — another diversion from tlio general rule — for this was a class which, though conscious of its true greatness, was nol prone t flaunt its merits in the breeze. It is true that it chose for its flower the mountain laurel, yet no more appropriate flower could have been selected, for was not this Sophoi v Class the first to plant its standards of green and white upon the two comers of the Academic Building and upon the Refectory where they waved triumphantly until the jealous Freshmen cut them down ' . And did these brave six fear to enter an assemblage of fifteen Freshmen, even during ' the quiet hour? So numerous are the achievements of this class that to relate them would weary the brain. Wise was this class also, for instead of strengthening its hand with petti- coat power, its members armed themselves for any event with the skill and wisdom of a minister and a lawyer. However dangerous an undertaking- in the future may be, with such honorary members they realized that all would go well with them. But more than wise and more than great, this class was re- nowned — so greatly renowned that four sister classmates from a distant college came to sec for themselves the wonder of its deeds, and these four Sopho- mores returned, as the Queen of Sheba did, feeling that the half had not been told them. Now, my reader, 1 must not dwell too long upon this important period of this remarkable class, I must tell you of its Junior stage. Here, again, we find that this class leaves the usual course, for these Juniors cannot he called irresponsible. On the other hand, so dignified, so earnest, so reliable are they that even the boisterous Freshmen were not ashamed to be taken by them to the baby party which these Juniors had prepared for their baby class. The Sophomores fear to trespass upon the rights of this young class with the Juniors or its guardians. Even the reserved Seniors respect this class and depend upon its members for words of wisdom. Lucky it is for the Seuiors that their sojourn at Sweet Briar is now drawing to a close, for who knows but that the Juniors, if given another year, might so outshine the former class that its glory would be decidedly dimmed. Indeed, the historian must not indulge to too great an extent in supposi- tions, yet she cannot refrain from stating that this class will go out from Sweet- Briar in June of the year 1911 with a record which will not only startle all who hear of it, but make for itself a permanent and prominent place in the history of the world ! For the benefit of my reader, T will add that an account of these deeds will nnnear in Volume TT of the history of this class in the late soring of the year 1011. HlSTOTCTAX. k - t. 4 i.i.-!x3 i2?-i ♦ .  • ■v Hi - Sophomore Class Colok.s : Gold and White Flower: Daffodil Motto: Scande in culmen OFFICERS FRANCES M. MATSON President ELSIE L. ZAEGEL Vice-Pbesident LOULIE M. WILSON Secretary and Tbeasuber MARY B. PINKERTON Historian- members HAZEL G. LANE BARBARA SHAND FRANCES N. MATSON LOULIE M. WILSON- MARY B. PINKERTON ELSIE L. ZAEGEL HONORARY MEMBERS MISS CAROLINE SPARROW MISS VIRGINIA R. McLAVYS A Sophomore History SOON after the beginning of the school year 1908-09, fifteen girls at Sweet Briar College discovered thai they were no longer unattached individuals, lmt had become thai corporate body henceforth known as the ( ' lass of 1912. hi the joy of this discovery, far from that timidity and shrink- ing from public notice, which is the traditional manner of the Freshmen, we burned to impress upon every mind the fact that we gloried in our low estate. After much deliberation it was decided that the information should be conveyed by means of that fresh and fender color that has ever been symbolic of the youngest class. So at the appointed dinner time the members of the class, (dad in flowing academic robes of brighl green with caps to match and carrying their future diplomas tied with green, marched into the Refectory. From the first we had instinctively felt that we had enemies in the ( Jollege — the Sophomores. We found by later events that we were not mistaken. For in the midst of a class meeting, when interest in discussion had relaxed our vigilance, the Sophomores with a sudden rush attacked the door, and, in spite et ' determined resistance, broke into the room. At the moment we did not retaliate, but patiently awaited an opportunity for revenge. Evidently, however, the Sophomores had not finished playing their hand. On rising one morning, we saw living on each corner of the Academic Building ; ml mi the roof of the Refectory, huge banners of green and white flaunting in tin ' breeze the name id ' Sophomore. We knew that we must tear these banners down or die in the attempt. With no thought of danger, two from our number, i ill a third in guard the foot of the ladder, climbed to the roof of the Academic Building and cut down the hateful flags. But a greater task lay before them. The banner mi the Refectory was still unconquered, and in approach it, they must walk along the ridge pole of the sharp roof. But the same undaunted heroines climbed out to the banner, and as the rest of the college came into the Refectory fur lunch they were seen astride the ridge-pole chopping at the flag. It was soon down, and, with the two from the Academic Building, was burned, after a joy ful procession around the campus. The next morning a notice mi the bulletin board requested us to confine our activities to places not more than ten feet above the ground. A truce was declared, and we rested in peace mi our laurels, with the satisfaction of feeling that we had n history of the College. The lasi celebration of our Freshman year was the We made the future Freshmen heirs to our green caps and to their tender care our class roses which had been given i When the Class of L912 assembled in the fall as Soph number sadly diminished in six. However, we assumed I mil- elevated station, ami determined to instrucl the youth the twenty-six Freshmen. How much success crowned our e from them. Lately the realization thai we will he Juniors next ye; ami we have carried our endeavors into more serious ti; class has won the first series of debates this year. We fig in Student Government, ami ( n the magazine staff. We sh the honor of the basket-ball championship, ami last year mi for Field Day came out with next to the highest number i Next year we will he Juniors and our behavior will I Last year we were Freshmen and we were young am Sophomore is a thing apart, fret ' from either newness or r; lot is joy. .Ma mrmmmm i Class of 1913 Colors: Peacock Blue and Green Class Bird: Peacock Motto : Honor ante honores OFFICERS MARGARET L. DALTON President MARY TYLER Vice-President ESTHER H. C( IRXWALL Secretary BESSIE GRAMMER Treasurer MEMBERS DONNELL DUNBAR AVIRETT ( umberland, Maryland NANCY BEALL Yonkers, New York MARGARET BOLEY Cleveland. Ohio EUGENIA M. BUFFINGTON Evanston, Illinois I. ICY CHENEY Defiance. ( lliio FLORENCE COFFIN Birmingham, Alabama SARAH COOPER Hopkinsville, Kentucky ESTHER HAZARD CORNWALL Short Hills. New Jersej MARGARET L. DALTON Winston-Salem, North Carolina CORINNE DICKINSON Richmond, Virginia ELIZABETH FBAXKE Louisville. Kentucky BESSIE M. GRAMMER Philadelphia. Pennsylvania SUE KEARNEY HARDIE Birmingham, Alabama HELEN HIBBERD Wheeling ' . West Virginia ELEAN( Hi KOOX Houlton, Maine 47 . r EVA HORNER Asheville, North Carolina HELEN LAMFROM North Baltimore. Ohio LUCILE MARSHALL Cleveland, Ohio MARGARETHA RIBBLE Wytheville, Virginia LAURA PORTMANX Canton, Ohio BERNICE RICHARDSON Leominster, Massachusetts FRANCES McPHERSON RICHARDSON Charleston, West Virginia SUSAN MARGUERITE SHAFER Hagerstown, Maryland JEAN STAPLES Buffalo. New York FRANCES SUMMERS Hopkinsville, Kentucky MAYO THACH Birmingham, Alabama MARY VAN VALZA1I TYLER Hagerstown, Maryland ADELAIDE WHELESS Beaumont, Texas KKP.Ki ( A WHITE Walton. Xe v York HONORARY MEMBERS MISS CONNIE M. GUION MISS MAKTI1A PLAISTED I ' . i ■ t Pilgrim Freshman ' s Progress BREATHLESS and exhausted she had reached whal she considered the pinnacle of the mountain range Knowledge, which pinnacle she had gained by the winding, rocky path Preparatory School. The struggling climb had left its marks in the furrows on her fair, white brow. From her eyes came a strained, expectanl gaze, but on her parted lips was a triumphant smile as she looked proudly below on the path she had recently traveled. From her shoulders seemed lo have fallen the cumbersome load of Latin Prose !omp ( and ), English Themes, and Geometry Theorems. High was held her head and her heart sang out, I have conquered, what a wise girl am ! ' . ' . and with a deep sigh of satisfaction she sank on the ground to rest. Ere long, however, there appeared before her, as if by some magic, the tall and stately form of a woman clad in a black and flowing gown; on her head was a four-cornered hat, and in one hand she carried a ribbon-tied scroll, and in the other a lamp of knowledge. The majestic, lady looked down with pitying eyes and spoke in a rich, low voice, saying, 1 am the learned Mother, Sweet Briar. Come, poor deluded child ; the steep height you think you have scaled is but a mole hill, behold, the real mountain is before you! Make baste! Take up your burden and follow me! Startled and dazed Freshman, for ' tis she whom the stately dame addressed, jumped to her feet, shook herself and said, I must have been dreaming; surely 1 have reached the summit of Mount Knowledge, how can there be any more for me to know!! But alas! she soon perceived ' twas no dream; for there beside her lay a pack by far larger and heavier than the one she had formerly carried, and, woe of woes! from ir on all sides bulged out the wicked, deformed faces of Latin Prose Com]) and English Themes — those despised, but neverthe- less faithful, ever-present companions. Before her rose an almost precipitous cliff which towered up, up, up until lost in the clouds. The face of the cliff was seamed by a path winding, rough, and perilous, and above on a ledge si 1 the commanding figure of the Lady of the Scroll and Lamp. She beckoned and pointed above. Some voice within Freshman seemed to say, Yours not to reason why, yours but to start and try. Now our traveler was a dauntless miss, with deter- mined face she lifted the ponderous pack to her shoulders, strapped it tight, and , A vw ) p. with one withering look on the path below she turned her face and steps toward the beckoning hand. Those first stretches of the ascent were hard, oh, so hard! and the path so strewn witli sharp stones and so beset with briars that oft Fresh- man thought turn back she must. To add to her miseries beside the path and reaching far out grew the thorny bush Uncongenial Roommate, whose stickers and rough branches scratched and wounded poor Freshman when she attempted to pluck its seemingly beautiful blooms. Oft the path divided, oft she lost her way in the labyrinths called Student Government in which the road for a time would seem to lead on easily and delightfully then suddenly a high impenetrable wall would loom up on each of whose bricks was inscribed the four letters D O N ' T. Here Freshman, forced to turn back, would try another road, which in many cases she would find ended in the same uncomfortably abrupt manner. Thus she was toiling slowly step by step when suddenly she noticed ahead of her a sister traveler. Oh, thought Freshman, how much easier a companion will make this hard climb! Now this other traveler ' s name was Sopho (short for Sophia) More. Alas. Sophia, as Freshman soon found, was not of the sweetest disposition; for whenever she looked down and saw our poor, struggling climber she shrieked horrid, cruel things and once she went so far as to hurl a stone (pitcher) upon which Freshman, the dauntless, brave, and valiant loosed from the soil a huge, round boulder (bowl) and hastily hurled it back. Oh, how Sophia quaked as she dodged this missile! She trembled in her very boots for fear and was ever after a docile harmless creature, at times quite companionable. After this small but brilliant engagement the ascent seemed a bit easier, and but for the load that galled at times Freshman would have been quite happy. Soon she met another traveler, a sweet-faced, sympathetic maiden, who said her name was Junior, and her words were a balm to Freshman ' s wounded spirits. Sweet Junior took Freshman by the hand and said, Come, tired child, to the land of Babyhood, a land of sugared cakes and Teddy Bears! Lay by the cares of this everv-day climb, and frolic, gamble once more! ' Tis needless to say Freshman joyfully went, and returned greatly refreshed and invigorated. The trail our weary traveler now followed ran around the mountain to a bit of level open field and a deep sigh of relief escaped from the depths of her heart as she trod on the soft turf. But no! — such peace could not last long — ' twas a deceptive field of bog, mire and quicksand, and soon Freshman found herself ankle deep in the slough called Mid Year ' s. Ai first she tried to retrac her steps, but ;ii every step she sank deeper and deeper. She looked forwan Sophia Mure, sweet-faced Junior and reverend Senior were all faced toward tin farther side. Said Freshman, 1 musl follow, so with gritting teeth am stumbling feel she turned and struggled ahead. Never before had the loai been so heavy, never before had its little demons been so pestiferous. C misery, why did I comer ' Would thai I were dead. such were the pitiful cries uttered by Freshman as she strained and battled. Finally summoning all her strength, with one last valiant effort she reached the farther shore. Am the last time I saw her she, dripping and exhausted, was disconsolately con- templating the endless path that again lead up a precipitate mountainside. Eugenia JM. Buffington, Historian. A r goung (DcHometrs Christian 3s0octatton OFFICERS LOULIE WILSON President li; ( l-:s MATSON Vi. ■!•: -President VIRGINIA ETHERIDGE Se -kktahy CORINNE DICKINSON Treasurer CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES FRANCES MATSON Membership MARY PINKERTON Devotional EUGENIA BUFFINGTON Missionary JENNIE HURT Extension MARY V. PARKER Intercollegiate BESSIE GRAMMER Social ( OR] XNE DICKINSON Finance t ♦ ' ■ r 3tf)Ictic association OFFICERS MARY V. PARKEK President A I. .MA W. IK kith Vice-President MARY TYLER Secretary HELEN LAMFROM Treasurer HEADS OF SPORTS ANNIE W. CUMNOCK Basket-Hall MARTHA TILLMAN Golf FRANCES P. MURRELL Tennis KATHLEEN G. COWGILL Boating f - IBoat Club KATHLEEN COWGILL MARGARET COBB MARIE ABRAMS DUNBAR AVIRETT JEANNE ALEXANDER ALMERIA BAILEY BEATRIX BALDWIN ELLEN BALL DOROTHY BAN( ROFT NANCY BEALL MARY BELL ALICE BIGELOW VIRGINIA BLUE JENNIE MAY BOICE MARGARET BOLEY LILLIAN BOWMAN EMMA BRADFIELD BESSIE BROWN FLORA BRYAN EUGENIA BUFFINGTON CLYTIE CARROLL LUCY CATLETT LUCY CHENEY MARY CLARK .MARY LOU COBB ELIZABETH COCKE FLORENCE COFFIN ESTHER CORNWALL ISABEL CORNWALL C LYDE CRANFORD VIRGINIA DALE MARGARET DALTON NELLIE DAVIDSON HELEN DIXON RUTH DOWD RUTH DREW MARGARET DUVALL MEMBERS HENRIANNE EARLY VIRGINIA ELY ADDIE ERWIN MARY ERWIN VIRGINIA ETHERIDGE ELEANOR FURMAN BESSIE GRAMMER MARIA GARTH EUGENIA GRIFFIN MARY GROOVER CORINNE HAMPTON SUE HARDIE MILDRED HARRIS ELLEN HAYES HELEN HIBBERD EVA HORNER JULIA HUFF EDITH HYSLOP MARY JOHNSON MARY JONES BYRD KNOX ELEANOR KOON .MARGARET KOSER HELEN LAM FROM KATHERINE LANIER MARIE LIEBER MARIE MAHONE LUCILE MARSHALL FRANCES MAI SON- ISABEL MAURY EMMA MORR1SS EMILY MORRISS LUCELIA McCLAIN KATHERINE McDONALD LOU EMMA McWHORTER ANNA NORRISS MARY PARKER LUIME PFEIFFER JOSEPHINE PROCTOR KATHERINE QUINBY NELLE REDDISH MAGGIE RIBBLE BERNICE RICHARDSON FRANCES RICHARDSON- EVELYN RIGNEY ELLEN ROBINSON ( AMMIE RODMAN IDA ROSS MARGUERITE SHAFER BARBARA SHAND ETHEL SHOOP SUSAN SLAUGHTER JEAN STAPLES RUTH STAPLES MARY CLIFTON TABB MARY TANDY- NELL TANDY MAYO THACH EMMY THOMAS MARTHA TILLMAN- MARY TYLER HENRIETTA WASHBURN MERTIE WATSON- REBECCA WHITE LOULIE WILSON ELEANOR WINGFIELD EDITH WOODSON LINDA WRIGHT ELSIE ZAEGEL ♦•• Tennis Club FRANCES I ' . MURRELL. FRANCES RICHARDSON . .. Head Treasurer GRACE CARROLL CLYTIE CARROLL LU V ( IIF.XEY MARY CLARK EMMA CLYDE MARGARET COBB ELIZABE1 II ( HIKE FLOREN E COFFIN MARGARET COLEMAN SARAH COOPER ESTHER, CORNWALL CSABEL ( ORNWALL KATHLEEN COWGILL CLYDE ( RANFORD ANNIE CUMNOCK ELIZABE ' J II (RAVEN MARY LOU I ORB MARGARET DALTON NELLIE DAVIDSON HELEN DIXON RUTH DREW ALICE DUKES HENRIANNE EARLY LOUR1NE EIKENBERRY VIRGINIA ELY VIRGINIA EIHERIDGE ELIZABE ' J II FRAXKE ELEANOR FIRMAN LOUISE CLASS RFSSIE CRAMMER ELIZABETH GREEN MEMBERS EUGENIA GRIFFIN MARY GROOVER RUTH 1 1 A X l OCR SUE HARDIE MILDRED HARRIS ELLEN HAYES LOUISE HOOPER EVA HORNER JULIA HUFF JENNIE HURT LOUISE HURT MARY JOHNSON [SABEL KETRING MARGARET KOSER BYRD KNOX MARIE LIEBER HELEN LAMFROM ISABEL MAURY MARIE MAHONE LUCILE MARSHALL KATHERINE McDONALD EMILY MORRISS EMMA MORRISS VIVIAN MOSSMAN JOSEPHINE MURRAY HAZEL MYERS FRANCES MAT SOX ROSE OWEN McDAVID ANNA NORRISS MARY PARKER NELLA PATTERSON LUIME PFEIFFER LAURA RORTMAN ANNIE POWELL JOSEPHINE PROC ' IOR KATHARINE QUINBY NELL REDDISH MAGGIE RIBBLE BERNK E RI( HARDSON EVELYN RIOXEY IDA ROSS CAMMIE RODMAN MARGUERITE SHAFER ETHEL SI lool ' LUCY SIMS JEAN STAPLES FRANC ES SUMMERS DOROTHY SWAN RERA STEPHENSON MARY CLrFTON T TABB MARY TAND Y NELL TANDY MARTHA ' I I LI. MAX MAYO 1HACH EMMY THOMAS MARY TYLER LOULIE WILSON ELEANOR WINGFIELD REBECC A WHITE LINDA WRIGHT SI A I FLOW WARD ELSIE zaf:gel ■ pa - .A 3funiot JFres|)man Ceam MARY TYLER Captain MARY V. PARKER Business Manages JENNIE HURT, MAYO TEACH Goals MARY V. PARKER. MARGARET DALTOM ( enters MARY TYLER. SUE HARDIE Guards BESSIE GRAMMER, ESTHER CORNWALL Substitutes I § u (imperial Cetim OFFICERS ( ' . LUCELIA McCLAIN Captain KATHLEEN ( OWGILL Business Mas m.i :b ELLEN HAVES, IDA ROSS Goals KATHLEEN COWGILL, MARGARET DUVALL Centers C. LUCELIA McCLAIN, [SABEL CORNWALL Guards substitutes EMMY THOMAS ADDIE ERWIN DOROTHY BANCROFT MARY C. TABB ELIZABETH CRAVEN I V ♦... Fall Championship Games WIIKX ir was decided that a scries of Basket-Ball games would 1 ' played among the three teams the practice, which had been going on steadily :il] the fall, became even more strenuous than before. Each team, determined to win the much-desired championship, added a vim and vigor to their practice which aroused an increased spirit of friendly rivalry throughout the entire school. Accordingly, when the time arrived for the first game in the series, which was between the Junior-Freshmen Team and the Sub-Special Team, the excite- ment was at fever heat. Iii the midst of much cheering for both sides the whistle was blown, which brought a sudden hush over the whole crowd, and the ball was tossed. Keen eyes followed the erratic sphere as it passed rapidly from hand to hand in very cleverly worked-out passes. Many brilliant plays were made on both sides. However, the Sub-Special Team by their superior team work got the upper hand of their opponents and the game ended with a score 13 to 8 in their finer. Idie next game aroused even mure enthusiasm, because this one was to decide definitely the championship fur 1909. Before the game was called the excitement among the onlookers was intense. Many favored the Sub-Special Team, giving vent to their enthusiasm in [ndian-like fashion. .Many were equally as desirous of victory fur the Senior-Sophomore Team, and so gave abundant evidence id ' their feelings in similar style. Amidst a quiel which was only broken by the spirited cheers of the respective adherents the ball was tossed again. Tt fell into the hands of the Senior-Sophomores and soon demoniacal yelling followed a score. As each goal was made both tennis seemed to In me more and more in earnest, each determining that the next goal should he theirs. So tin ' game progressed and with its progress skill and agility were exhibited in plays that made the hills resound with yells. Unfortunately, near the end of the game the Sub-Special Team suffered quite a loss when one of their guards was injured. However, in spite of this handicap and a score already very much againsl them they kept up courage and fought bravely until the end of the second half when the score was announced 11 to . in favor of the Senior-Sophomore Team. At this announcement the intense feeling burst into paroxysms of joy, and the L909 champions made a triumphal march from the field of battle. Field Day for every 1 tl ur posses- •I IJ IN Field Day of L909, the firsl al Sweel Briar, we feel thai athli the greal poinl for which ii had been striving during its v years ' history. The girls at Sweet Briar have always, sine tirst year of the College, had an intense interest in athletics, whr natural when we consider the almost wonderful advantages which to promote our interesl in this respect. Our campus stretches as far can reach in every direction, providing generously suitable spots particular spurt. Near the Academic Building, shaded by Cherry are the Tennis Courts; al a little greater distance down the road, Windbrake, is the Basket-Ball Field ; on the farther side of the Adn Building, the Hockey Field, and beyond this lies the lake. It would indeed if we were not enthusia stic over the advantages which are in sion to make athletics one of the chief interests at Sweet Briar. Thus it was that last year was such an important one in our ey it marked the tirst real recognition of what has been achieved at Swe the way of athletics. The chief features of the day were as follows; In the morning there was a Basket-Ball name between the ( Sub-Freshman Teams, the Sub Team coming out victorious, despiti resistance on the part of the College, with a score of 14 to 4. In the afternoon, beginning at three o ' clock, the contest reopeni High Jump. Here Ellen Hayes easily won first place with a 3 feet !• inches. Next in order was the Standing Broad Jump in which Loulie tirst place with a record of 6 feet 4 ' inches. After this followed the Hop, Step and .lump, in which Loulie Wilson w again the successful contestant with a record of 23 feet 5 inches. In the remaining contests Ellen Hayes won first place, in the Runni: Broad .lump with 11 feet 4 inches, in Hurdles and in Hundred with a record of 15 seconds. Tims when the day (dosed the presentation of the loving cup to Ell Hayes, the champion of 1909, marked the point toward which at been striving. and llson won )ash llcti . ft jfairies Roll back, roll back, ye vapory mist-.. From the vales which now you clothe, And show me the dell where the fairies dwell. And the elves ami trolls repose. Where night by night, by the i nbeam bright, They clatter and dance with delight, And day by day at the dawn ' s first ray They scamper and vanish away. Show me the place where the rivulet Hows Over rock, over sand, and through dell; Where the elf doth float yellow-leaf boat Round the coves he so loves so well. And night by night by bis fire-fly light He steers and rows with bis might, While day by day be i is. so they say. In some dark subterranean bay. Show me the place where the moss-carpet lies So soft, so cool and so green; Where round and round as the valleys resound The chant the praise of their ipieen. Where night by night with their fairy-feet white They dance fairy dances so light, And day by day the long slanting ray Hunts in vain for some mischievous fay. Jennie Hurt, 1911. =► mmMNH • s I ) OSrtar- ' Patct) ANNIE M. POWELL Editor-in-Chief FRANCES I ' . MIRRELL Business Manageb EUGENIA W. GRIFFIN Art Editor LOUISE M. HOOPER Literary Editor AXXIE W. :UMNO( K Literary Editob Dietrick ' s Best Deal DIETRICK CAMERON walked slowly along the red turnpike, which ran past the mansion of the Honorable Peter Hollowhan, and on three miles further to the Tavern of the Three Hears at the crossroads. Ii could be easily seen, even by a casual observer, that Dietrick was in the toils of deep and troublesome thought, for he stared straight at the muddy Virginia road as he trudged along, knitting his brews in a must portentous fashion. It was certainly not the mud puddles in the read which were troubling him, for it was his usual custom to walk straight through them with the supreme in- difference which belongs to the wearers of high boots, whistling as he went. But to-day it was evidently not the same Dietrick. As usual though when he came along this road he was even now returning from the home of little Mistress Polly Hollowhan. For, as wielder of the pedagogic grindstone, Dietrick spent each morning a very short three hours at the home of this young woman, who was possessed of the brightest and blackest eyes, the most witching smile, and the most bewildering mass of curls upon her daintily poised head, it was said, in the countryside. The fact was that Dietrick, and it was certainly through no particular fault of his own, had lost his big Scotch heart to the little maid. Just at this moment, however, the question was revolving itself in his mind a,s to which Miss Polly hated most — himself or the Commercial Arithmetic, which he administered daily. And he had an awful fear in his mind at this moment that the greater share would certainly not be to the Commercial Arithmetic! He, of course, did not blame her for her choice in the matter, for the simple reason that he could not blame her for anything. But it did seem strange that she should be so entirely untouched by every manly virtue which he displayed. Was he not a Scotchman of the very best clan in the old country, strong, and maybe not so handsome as that winsome Will Longly — but handsome enough for any man! Did he not own as much land and more than her father and brother at this moment ' . Yes, he knew how to make his money ami keep it too. Had he not looked to his affairs well, lending money saved from the practice of his profession, even when he had first come to Virginia, to the players at the Tavern — and then receiving his own again with interest! And not only that, he bad gotten a number of mortgages besides, and by handling them in bis own particular A I m ' way, Had gotten into his hands some of the best land in Southampton. But she, the little minx, appeared to have absolutely no more regard for his money than she did for him. Hadn ' t she just told him of her intention never to marry, and that she had already started her collection of cats and parrots in order, when she arrived at the awful age of twenty, to be able to set up a model old maid establishment. She had even said thai she did not care for men, excepl of course her father and David. And she had added many more such things. Poor Dietrick ! At last he arrived at the crossroads and entering the courtyard of the Tavern accosted with assumed cheerfulness the driver of the lumbering old stage coach, who stood there impatiently cracking his whip and calling out for the passengers. Then passing on he entered the public room beyond. Ir was rather dark, but very cheerful within on this dreary afternoon, lighted, as it was, only by the bright fire crackling in the huge chimney, while the pewter and brass on the high mantelshelf and the mugs hanging from it shone dimly. Several men lounged about the fire, glasses in their hands, all very comfortable and very jovial. Ililld, Dietrick, called one, can ' t you come and have a glass, and meantime tell us which you find harder — the lady ' s head or heart ' . For Dietrick ' s affairs were nothing if not common property, and there was many a jest as to the reason he had not long ago deserted his profession when he had become a man of some property. With a ready wit he turned to answer the laugh at his expense, when he heard his name called from the other end of the room. Turning he encountered a young fellow who had just risen from a table about which sat or stood in various position- several other men, among them a stranger whom Dietrick had never seen before, lie heard the clink of dice and a low exclamation from the stranger leaning over the table. As the young man came nearer Dietrick recognized him as David Hollowhan. lie was an attractive young fellow, little more than a hoy, Imt whose winning smile and frank manners had drawn Dietrick to him. lie could see now, however, that he was in trouble of some kind. Coming close to Dietrick he drew him apart from the rest of the room. Lowering his voice almost to a whisper he said : ( ' an you lend me £40, Mr. Cameron, for the stranger you see over there has just now fleeced me. But now I think I see a turn of luck, and with a small sum like that I can repay him in kind ere he leaves! He must needs be n royal player Indeed, if be bas done as yon say, David. 1 should lil« ' full well i sec ymi repay him in kind ! Take the moneys, lad, and all I ask is some little security. Yes, I will give you either security you like my allowance will be due soon, and besides you knew I have some lands of my own. How would a mortgage do? Finely, my lad, arid just you sign this and we will sit the notary on the morrow, replied I ie1 rick. I wager that will be an easy matter, and only lei come forth from your g 1 waller the money of which we talk, and we will arrange the papers in the twinkle of an eye. Leaning against the window David signed quickly the paper which Dietrick had drawn from his pocket. Handing it to him, he said: Ninety days, you say? Yes, that ' s quite long enough and my allowance will be due long ere that time falls, tra la, friend. lie left Dietrick gaily, joining his companions again at the table. As Dietrick passed over to light his pipe at the fire he thought he heard an evil laugh from the stranger as he pocketed the first heap of poor David ' s money. But he himself was quite safe. Why should he worry? — the boy ' s father was worth many pounds and he would help him out. He possibly wouldn ' t oven have a chance to redeem the mortgage. It was three months later. In fact, to be accurate, it was the very first day of the glorious month of June. Mistress Polly had been flitting about the rose-tilled garden, looking so very like a dainty little butterfly as she skipped from flower to flower, that she was only to he distinguished by the tiny blue spot of her sunlionnet among the white and pink and yellow of the roses. She had been secretly wondering why, mi such a wonderful day as this, her father was so cruel as to he willing for her to he persecuted, tortured by that horrid Mr. Cameron in the schoolroom. She was sure she must know pretty nearly everything he did now anyway. For surely she could do all the sums in long division, fractions, and interest — knew at least halt ' the words in the Btur Back, and — but why didn ' t he come lo-day she wondered ' . lie was the one who was playing truant this time. It must he terribly hit: — she won- dered why he stayed away. She had been so horrid yesterday, she knew, and now she became quite sorry when she thought of it. Her father had always said he was such a tine business man, and with a greater allowance of souse than men generally possessed at his ago. Never mind, she would he as kind as possible when he came again. Hut suppose he should not come! fur a little fear was beginning to creep into her heart that he had really meant it when ho had said yesterday that he could lmt love her, and be near her, and ho loved not one whit in return, for that he could not bear. But she did love him, her heart told her that she did despite her cruel words. But ho was so different from all the other men she had ever known, so masterful ! Who had ever heard of a man demanding a girl ' s love instead of pleading for it! It was quite evident, as he had said, that he had had no experience in such matters. She laughed softly even now as she thought of the funny way in which he had said. Mistress Polly, I love you and I shall now deem it a great honor that you marry me. What girl, she wondered, would nol have laughed at such an awkward suitor? Oh, hut why had she laughed — here she had made herself miserable for life! And at this thought she dropped down by the walk on the grass between the overhanging rose hushes and buried her pretty head in her amis, otherwise filled with roses. Thus it was thai Dietrich found her when he came down the walk a few moments later. At the sight of the little maid sitting there in such dejection, and with such sobs shaking her that she had not even heard his step, who can say what consternation, what manly compassion in turn filled his heart? Who could blame him for what he did ' . lie even forgol himself so entirely that he sat down on the grass by her and, taking her little hands in to his own great ones, he whispered : Polly, my love, was it because you feared I would not come that you were weeping? His voice grew gentle as he said the words. But Polly no sooner heard them and perceived that ho- thought she cared the least scrap in the world whether he came or not than she immediately sat bolt upright, drew her hand away and said: .Mr. Cameron, I hope you do not think that a woman of my age would cry over such a trifle as your not coming! No indeed — of course that wasn ' t what I was thinking id ' when yon came upon me so suddenly just now. Her quiet wits came to her rescue just here — 1 was only thinking of poor David. Oh. you were, said Dietrich disappointedly. Yes, I was wondering how I could get father to he kinder to him. You know, Mr. Cameron, Davie is a dear lad and only wants some one to understand liim and help liim and he is as gentle as as my brindle cow, thai you see over thorp, in the river pasture, all by herself. You ' ve never been down to see ' Clover ' have you, Mr. Cameron? Well, just wail ami some day David ami I will take you, for 1 call her half Davie ' s anyway, You see thai pari of the estate is David ' s, just as thai beyond is mine when I am a grown up woman, for it belonged t our uncle, and he left ii to us. lint when Davie go1 l be a whole twenty-one, two years ago, he gave me thai hit of pasture land over there for ' Clover ' to graze on — so of course since then she is the finest cow on the farm. That piece of land on the river, yen say? echoed Dietrich. Yes, wasn ' t if too fined of him, she replied. But that ' s the hind he gave me a mortgage on three months ago this very day, said Dietrich. Oh, poor David, hut of course he can have it hack and ' Clover ' can go elsewhere to graze. For certainly Davie must pay his debts. And only yester- day father grew angry with him and 1 heard him tell him that he would let him have no more money and when next he ran himself into debt he could extricate himself as besl he might. The time is out this very day, said Dietrich practically. Oh, yes, of course, ami I ' m sure ' Clover ' won ' t mind going in with the rest of the cows, rejoined Polly bravely. Then there came a little pause while Dietrich sat staring grimly into the distance, and Polly looking sadly at the toes of her little slippers which peeped up from the grass. Then he relented. How could he have been such a beast he wondered, as he glanced down at her and saw just the tiniest suggestion of a tear which she hastily brushed away in hope that he had not seen ' . lint sin- was too late he had seen, which was betokened by the lowering id ' his dee]) voice and the tenderness with which he said : Polly, why do you so wish to make me love you, only to cast me off, only to breah my heart? For you know it, my love, my darling, that I love you better than life! You know that 1 do not wish your hit of land — hut it is you, you for whom my heart yearns, though I cannot tell it you in just the way women folk like best. lint you — you do not Love me one-half so well as that silly brindle cow! And do you know yesterday you even told im — What, Dietrick? That you even lulled me! But I don ' t. What? Vim don ' t? questioned Dietrick eagerly. No, [ ' ve changed my mind, ' 1 replied Polly very gravelv. And ymi think you might love me the least bit? My own Polly, how happy ymi make me ! Even more than that, replied Fully cheerfully. A little while afterwards as tiny strolled slowly down the walk toward the house Dietrick mighl have been seen to draw from his pockel a small scrap of paper ami tear it to small hits, which he carefully threw among Polly ' s ruses. So lie it, said he to himself, but what man would nol he in my boots! ' ' Vnd the brindle cow grazed mi ami mi in her river pasture, ami never heard of the s]iM]n ( . SI change of ownership- for Dietrick always was a good business man. Louise M. II ke. 1910. The Shadow-Child F:)K a long time I had heard, on the far side of the hedge, a sera the dead leaves, and in the pauses a child ' s voice singing wor The singer, I thought, musl be the gardener who had tied up cosmos tlowci ' s that yesterday had sprawled over the ground in th where I sat. A1 the thought, I saw it was true, tor a child came opening in the hedge, brushing the leaf-mould from her shorl -kin- ; hack long curls from a high forehead, and blue eves set far apart. the ground beside the crumpled flowers and began to smooth the through her earth-stained fingers. Do yon live here? I asked, for I had thoughl the house en owners dead. The child quickly raised her face with a faint sin wide eves. She looked down the green box-walk, through the dark ye at the closed shutters of the house beyond, before she answered — Yes. Do yon allow people to go through the house? I went on. Yes; let me show it to you, she smiled, almost eagerly. The child ran before me down the walk, where she waited on beside the door which was half-opened on a dark, cool ball. We w started up the white-railed stairs, but on the lowest step she checked Somebody told me once, she began shyly, that a little girl long time ago — a little girl who died. Let ' s pretend I am that lit you are visiting me in this house ? As 1 preceded her up the stairway — Rememher, she laughed, that you ' ve just come in your ol it ' s waiting for you now by the turn in the hedge. Can ' t you hea stamping? We waited in the dim silence of the upper hall until 1 fane hoofs pawing the hard clay road. 1 could see nothing in the glo child found a door-knob beside me. We entered the room, where the darkness while the child ran to open the shutters. This, she began, as I stood dazzled by the sudden rush of s the best bedroom. gmmi J £ As my eyes grew accustomed to the ligbl I saw a tall four-poster with flowered curtains. Then- was fresh matting on the floor and pink cosmos flowers in a glass jar. Do you like it? she asked eagerly. Xmv we ' ll go to my 1 m. We went down the stairs, past a tall gilt mirror, and paused at a half-open door. This is the library, hut wo can ' t go in. Papa ' s in there writing. Wo tiptoed hastily by, hut 1 turned my head and through the crack saw a man ' s shoulder bent over a table. Was this the little girl ' s ' . 1 asked as we went into the dark, close-shut room. Yes, said the child softly. lint you ' re forgetting. It ' s my r oom and my desk and my flowers in the windows. As she spoke heavy furniture stood out dimly among the shadows, and the lighl in the square panes came through green loaves and pink transparent petals of flowers. The child called me to the bed and I saw that it was heaped with little piles of linen and silk ami satin, folded and uncut. These were he] ' -. she said gently. The other little girl ' s? She had a great many lovely things. Yes, the child replied slowly, hut I think she would rather have had some other children to play with. 1 lucl forgotten our game in thinking of the other girl, who would have been almost an old woman now if she had lived. I looked across at the child, who stood on the other side of the bed, folding a piece of pink-sprigged lawn. She looked up with a little start when I said — Shall wo go on ? Oh, yes, she smiled; I ' ll show yon my harp. T followed her through the hall again into a room of dim furniture wrapped in linen covers. She lifted a comer of one to show me the bright brocade beneath. A greal square piano tilled one angle of the room, and beside it the gold harp frame showed through its worn green cover. The child patted the torn ease. Do you play on it much? I asked. I did. I mean I haven ' t practiced much, and some of the strings are broken. Come over here and I ' ll show you the Japanese cabinet. She started across the room and I turned to follow her, hut stopped to look again at a picture that I had seen tirst only as the vague outline of a face. It grew clear now as the portrail of a child a little girl with long, quainl curls and a gentle face. I looked from it to the child i ling back from the cahinet. A little wind banged the shutter to, and in the sudden twilighl thai it made I could see her only as a shadow among the shadows. Is that the picture of the little girl 1 I began, and stopped. Thai died, finished the child, and that yen didn ' t knew in the garden, and everybody else that comes here knows ' . So when I saw yon didn ' t I thought I ' d pretend I was real. She looked wistfully around the room in which she had been real. We walked silently back to where the door we had entered opened on the sunlight. Outside under the yew-tree arch the child looked back once before she was lost among the boxwood. Behind me the door swung open on a bare and empty room. CJje c imict Slippered feel that lightly go. ( (raeeful bow and curtsy low, i in the measure stately, slow, Of the minuet. Falling searf and flutt ' ring lace Float and fly with airy grace On the tripping, even pace Of the minuet. Merry hearts I hat gaj h beal To tin-! tunc of dancing feet. Moving through the music sweel Of the minuet. i trace of daj i hat now are dead. ( harm of liours that long since lied, (dine again in stately tread Of the minuet. MaISY I ' l.NKKIiTuX. I91S The Turning of the Stream PATRICIA was in a quandary ; one could easily tell that: the little pucker in her forehead was entirely out of keeping with her usual happy expression. It was a beautiful morning in late fall. Highgate had never looked prettier. The long driveway bordered with tall oaks, the squirrels playing among the dry leaves, and, further en, the flower garden, with its cosmos, dahlias and other autumn blossoms, contributed their -hare in the general charm. Yet it is to he wondered if Patricia were conscious of any of these charms as she leaned against the tall pillar of the front porch on that brighl ( ctober morning. After all, what did it matter? Why should she worry? lie wasn ' t worth worrying over. At this thought she gave a haughty toss of her head, a toss which loosened the tiniest of golden ringlets from its fastening and left it waving in the most fascinating manner. I!nt it was evident that lie was worth worrying over, for the pucker remained, as did also the troubled look in the large brown eyes. Well, she couldn ' t keep Mr. Lewis from coming; that was certain. For years it had been the custom for the village school teacher to take turns about staying with his patrons, and since her father insisted upon sending .lane to the village school, she supposed it was necessary that they should undergo the inconvenience of the school teacher ' s presence when their appointed time came around. lie had already spent one week at Highgate. That was the trouble — ever since that week two months before Patricia had thought of little but Mr. Lewis. It was not that she cared for him; no Summerville would ever care for a village school teacher, but he was different from the other men she had known. At first she had thought his matter-of-fact, sensible speeches rude in comparison to the eloquence and flowery speeches of these other men; then -he had been mildly interested, and now, well, it would be hard for her to analyze her opinion of him. At one moment she thought she disliked, even hated, him. At another, she thought it would be very entertaining to have him to talk to. Well, be was coining to-morrow, and she must map out her course of action. It was the attempt to do this which had brought the pucker to her forehead. Should she avoid him; should she show him she thought him brusque and ungallant, or should she forget her dislike and listen to his eon- 7 A ■■■■ ■■I H HIBB versation He talked very well, and he knew about so many things. One evening of his former visit stood out especially in her memory. All the family had sat on the porch and listened to Mr. Lewi- ' stories of hi- Vermont home, lie hail talked t the family, but — it could uot have been her imagination — he had looked straight at lief, and she had thought him rude. During that week she had often found him looking at her. and each time -he had felt herself blush in the mosl provoking, uncalled-for manner. Everything had seemed to conspire to throw .Mr. Lewis and herself together — even the creek on the lower part of her father ' s plantation. It was necessary to cross this creek in going from Highgate to the schoolhouse, and during this weed-;, of all times, the heavy rains had washed the bridge away. For two whole days .Mr. Lewis had been kept away from school and inflicted just that much more of hi- presence upon her. Well, since lie hail to spend another week at Highgate, -he was glad his visit happened to fall at this particular lime. Her father would leave in a few days fur a business trip to Washington, and she never felt quite comfortable without some man in the house. The next day Mr. Lewis arrived at Highgate and was most cordially welcomed by the whole family. Patricia ' s father, who was himself a Lrilliant conversationalist, found Mi-. Lewis very entertaining. Her mother appreciated hi- grave thoughtfulness and old-fashioned courtesy. For Jane he was some- what of an elderly hero, -nine one who wa- never too busy to help her with her lessons, to admire her barnyard pets and i take an interesl in the hundreds of little things so dear to the heart id ' a ten-year-old hiss. Patricia had decided in -et aside her likes and dislikes and to treat Mr. Lewis just as -he would any of the visitors her father so frequently entertained. Some of these visitors were at Highgate now waiting to accompany Colonel Summerville on his trip to Washington. These men were all fund of the Colonel ' s pretty daughter, whom they had known since her babyhood. Until their departure Patricia, fortunately, -he thought, saw little of Mr. Lewi-. Her presence was everywhere in demand. Captain Beverly was insist- ent in his requests for her songs; old Mr. Woodson must have the last i-sue of The Gazette read and re-read to him. while AI r. Thornton would amuse himself by tin- hour gazing at his fair listener and recounting tales of his miraculous escapes from those hated redcoats. On the day of their departure Patricia had heard her father tell Mr. Lewis to take care of his family. feel f suits ' hat th Intel Ii is a comforl to know you are with Ihein, Lewis, be sai thai I am leaving them in safe hands. Then she had heard her father say in a worried tone: I fear Mr. Blake intends trouble. Captain Meredith this n me lie had heard rumors of seine sorl of a scheme. I wish I coul and gel even with thai rascal Blake, but this trip can ' t be pul off a Besides, I ' ll only he away a week, and 1 don ' 1 suppose he can do inn in that time. I never was anything of a lawyer, though; this th always seemed to nae useless. Settle your disputes face to face- policy. Patricia at the time had wondered at this conversation. matter? Why should her father be so incensed with Mr. Blake, tl the adjoining plantation? She had intended asking him aboul it. excitement of his departure, she had entirely forgotten the tnattei she would never have thought of it again had she not, several eve heard Jane lamenting that Mr. Lewis could not go to walk with her because he had to go to see Mr. Blake. Patricia ' s inquiring mind was at once inter- ested. What possible reason could there be for Mr. Lewis ' visit to their erratic aeighbor? Could there ! ■ any connection between this visit ami her father ' s conversation? As soon as her father returned she would ask him to explain matters. She- would not ask .Mr. Lewis; that would look decidedly too inquisitive. Could she have known .Mr. Lewis ' thoughts and actions during those few- days following her father ' s departure, who knows what joys that week might have brought to the soul of the reserved village school teacher! On the very morning after Colonel Summerville had left for Washington, Mr. Lewis had seen, in an obscure corner of The Gazette, a notice which assured him that Mr. Blake intended trouble; furthermore, that he intended it much sooner than Colonel Summerville expected. Unless something were done at once, the Colonel would return to find himself hurled into a law suit with his unscrupulous neighbor, who was endeavoring to wrest from him some of his most fertile acres. What could he, Mr. Lewis, do to prevent such a calamity, for calamity it would lie to the care-free, pleasure-loving Colonel? That afternoon the children of the village school were delighted when Mr. Lewis announced that he was going to dismiss them several hours earlier than usual. lie had found it necessary to go to the county seat, eight miles away. V UMd ... mi important business. The next afternoon he had declined Jane ' s invitation to walk and started for Mr. Blake ' s. The Summervilles had never had any intercourse with the Blakes, although for twenty years they had lived on adjoining plantations. Mr. Blake, further- more., was Qot popular in the community; his neighbors had always lived more or less apart from him; so it was with a feeling of greal satisfaction that he observed the respected teacher approach his door. .Mi ' . Blake was in an unusu- ally good humor that afternoon; he was particularly well pleased with himself. Had he no1 fur years gazed secretly at that strip of land with envious eves; Now, by a brilliant little scheme mi his pari, there was at least a strong probahility of his obtaining it. and withoul costing anything but a lawyer ' s fee. Colonel Summerville was away and the suit would he fairly launched before his return. .Mr. Blake smiled to himself at the thought of how easy it had all heen. Fine weather. Mr. Lewis, tine weather we are having, said he, as he rose from his chair and advanced to greet the teacher. Yes, very tine weather. Mr. Blake. responded Mr. Lewis, in his grave fashion, as he took the chair offered him. G 1 season for crops, continued Mr. Blake. I just tell yon, Mr. Lewis, my crops can ' 1 be beaten; why, that corn down there on that lowland will bring fifty bushels to the acre. There i-n ' i a planter in Virginia can heat thai. I ' ve started gathering my apples, too. I m going to ship them next week; they ' ll bring a round sum, I can tell you. Mr. Blake rubbed his hands with satisfaction, but before he had time to enumerate any more of his possessions Mr. Lewis interrupted him. Mr. Blake, he said, I came to see you on business. Business? Well, now, that sounds interesting, hut Mr. Blake did not appear in the least interested: his thoughts were still on his acres and his gold. It is in regard to that piece of land for which you are planning to sue Colonel Summerville, said Mr. Lewis, in the coolesl possible manner, and I ' ll tell you in the very beginning, you may as well give up the attempt ; your little scheme won ' t work. You couldn ' t have secured a vi ' vy skillful lawyer. Mi-. Blake, for I have examined the deed, and regardless of which way the creek flows, the land is unquestionably the Colonel ' s. It is there in black ami white; the creek is not the only boundary designated; the deed runs fifty rods east by twenty-five rods north. ' ' Interest, mystification and finally rage had passed over Mr. Blake ' s face during this speech. Several limes he changed his position, shifting his weighl uneasily from one fool to the other. Mr. Lewis could with difficulty suppress a smile ai his discomfiture, but, after a moment ' s pause, he continued in the same calm voice: Besides, Mr. Blake, even if the creels were the only boundary, I happen id have proof thai the creek changed its course, nol so much on accounl of tin- heavy rains, as on accounl of your rascality. Ii is very simple to cul down a tree, Mr. Blake; to build a dam, and turn a creek in a new channel; but, after all, outwitting an honest man is not as easy as you think. When yen are going to perform a deed like that you should never take any one into your confidence, net even a servant; yen can never tell when they are lining to betray you. Mr. Lewis paused, as it ' waiting for a reply, but Mr. Blake was inn much surprised for speech. His only exclamation was, Well, I never! This he repeated several limes, each time with more emphasis. There was an awkward silence; then Mr. Lewis rose to take his leave. Mr. Blake, he said, 1 should advise you to see your lawyer at once and call off that suit; that is, unless you wish to have your rascality published to the whole of Albemarle County; and, let me advise you again, Mr. Blake, think well before you try to outwit an honesl man. Good evening; I wish you success with your crops, but not with your law suits. As Mr. Lewis walked down the path and closed the gate behind him he saw Mr. Blake still standing ' where he had left him, and heard him mutter with even more emphasis, Well, 1 never! Mr. Lewis ' visit to Highgate was over; that afternoon he was going to establish himself with another patron. He was standing on the perch thinking of tin pleasures of the week when Colonel Summerville, who had returned the day before, called him into the library. Well, Lewis, he said, in his jovial manner, why didn ' 1 yen tell me about all this? Here you have saved me from a law suit, and I never should have known a thing about it but for my old friend, Captain Meredith. 1 believe that child Patricia did tell me you had paid a visit to Mr. Blake, but that was before I had gotten well into the house, and I was so glad to get home I did nol stop to pul two and two together. Mr. Lewis felt his heart give a great bound. After all, Patricia could not be entirely indifferent to him; she bad mentioned bis name to her father almost A lefore she had welcomed him home. At least, she was enough interested in him tn wonder why he had gone to Mr. Blake ' s; it must have been interest in him, for she could have known nothing ahoul the law suit. Colonel Summerville was still talking: I can ' t fell you how much indebted I am to you, he said. As [ have told you, law suits are not in my line. I had rather give ld Blake the land than harangue with lawyers. I wish I could have seen you talk to him. You must have given it to him straight from the shoulder. His lawyer mid Captain .Meredith he had never seen Mr. Blake as completely subdued. Well, Lewis. 1 don ' t like to mention such commercial matters, but I do feel that 1 want you to accept something for your services to me. Why. just consider the trouble you have saved me. Now, if yon would accept the amou.nl I should have put into the lawyer ' s fee ' ■ Colonel Summerville paused, uncertain how hi proposition would be received by the reserved man before him. Mr. Lewis had been thinking; possibly the Colonel noticed his abstraction and imagined somewhal the trend of his thoughts, for he showed no surprise when Mr. Lewis said, in his delib- erate manner: Colonel Summerville, what I have done is not worth mentioning, [f one can call it a service it is only a service which any man would gladly perform for his friend. The service of one friend to another cannot be rewarded in money, but there is a way, Colonel Sunimerville, in which yon can not only reward me, hut make me your everlasting debtor. I tear you will think me hold when I explain. What I ask is for nothing less than the hand of your ughter. A broad, genial smile passed over the Colonel ' s face. If Patricia is willing, Lewis, you have my consent. If you are as suc- cessful in love-making as yon are in business matter-, there is little doubt of your winning her. You are worthy of her, and that is what 1 would say to few other men. Highgate was resplendent with all the glories of springtime. Patricia again leaned againsl the tall pillar of the front porch, ju-t as she had done on that bright October morning. This time, however, there was no pucker in her forehead, no trembled look in her large, In-own eyes. The usual happy expression was there, for Patricia had mapped out her course of action. A. M. P. ■■ A Joke Within a Joke ACT I— Scene I. Time — Night. Scene — . 1 college girl ' s room. Door to the right. Tiro couches are put together, forming a cosy corner. An electric light hangs above couches. On the couches ore fire girls. Luru is reading the Saturday Evening Postj Alice. the Ladies ' Home Journal; Margie, Carrie and Florence arc talking. Hi a table in center o] room. Bettie and Eleanor are trying to write. Margie — Oh, dear, I do wish you all would le1 me go to sleep. I ' m so sleepy. Caebie — Well, I ' ll declare! Did anybody ever see you when you wen mil sleepy Maegie (indignantly) — Why, Carrie, aren ' t you ashamed to say that! Ymi know perfectly well I have reason to be worn out to-night. I took exercise for one hour and three minutes. The rest of you only took the required one hour. There! Bettie {tooling up from writing) — Neither of you know what real exer- cise is. played basket-ball nearly all the afternoon. You should try that as a cure for insomnia, Margie. (Returns to writing.) Maegie — No, I thank you. I ' m sleepy enough as it is. Caeeie — Gracious, speaking of exercise, didn ' 1 1 walk, or, rather, plough nver to Amherst yesterday in three feet of mud ' . Eighl of us went, and never in my life did I have such a time getting anywhere! We came hack by the railroad track, ami if was almost dark when we reached the College. Poor .lane was frightened almost out of her wits. Floeence — You ought to have been with me on the lake instead. 1 rowed until I positively though! I was going to have neuritis in both arms. Lira (looking u from Saturday Evening Post) — Isn ' t the Saturday Evening Post the best paper! And don ' t yon dote mi Roberl Chambers? This new story of his is most exciting. Florence — I haven ' t read if. Do tell me about it. ■M MMj Lrii.v — Oh, the girl who is perfectly darling lias fallen in love with a grand man who is absolutely indifferent to all feminine charms. And the girl is so attractive. She drinks cologne and does all sorts of queer things and has oodles of money. Oh, I ' m so thrilled! Eleanor i looking up from writing) — Well, 1 mnsr say that doesn ' t appeal to me. ( Returns h trilling.) Alice {looking up for first lime from Ladies ' Home Journal) — Listen, girls, the style of hairdressing i- going to In- very simple this summer. ( Reads I The style of hairdressing for the coming season will be comparatively simple. All outside accoutrements necessary fur the latest coiffure will lie three rats, a cap, a braid, a tew curls, ami puff-, may or may not be worn. 1-n ' t thai dandy ' . I ' m sure, judging from the picture, that the style will he very he ning. (Hands magazine Id the girls mi couches, trim, with Hie exception of Lura, i agerly bend over it. | Margie — That would he terribly becoming to the rest of yen girls, hut I know ii wouldn ' t look well on me. Carrie — Nonsense, Margie. How can you tell till yen try? Eleanok {looking up again from writing) — In the name of wonders, how can I write a story fur English with you all talking at such a rate? You ' d better get to work, or else get a g 1 book ami read it. {Just as she finishes n knock is heard on door, and before any one has lime In answer, a lull, light- haired girl. Jhirun. enti is. i Dubam i entering i — Hello! Cakrie — Hello yourself. Bettie {looking up from writing) — Hi! Eleanok {looking up from writing) — ( ' nine in. Duran — Much obliged, hut I haven ' t time. 1 just wanted to ask Florence if -he would come spend tlie night with me to-night. Please, do. Florence {addressing Florena I, for Edith i- going down to Mrs. McBurn ' s to stay with Mis- Alston, and I ' m afraid to stay by myself. Florence — All right. Duran, I ' ll see about it. Duran — Tres bien; don ' t forget. {Exit Duran.) Margie — Do you know that makes about the twelfth night out of the past fourteen that Edith Simpson ha- spent with Mi— Alston. Isn ' t that funny ; I.ri.w ( who had ml doivn Saturday Evening Post nl entrance of Duran | li gets me. (Slight pause.) I tell you, girls, let ' s play a joke on Edith. Somebody think of a good one. Alice — Let ' s dress up in sheets and scare her as she goes down the path. Bettie— Oh, no. Thai really mighl frighten her sure enough. Florence — Yes, that is dangerous. I ' ve read lots of horrihle stories on just that very subject. Alice — Well, try to think of something else. Bettie — We might get the Postmistress to semi all of Edith ' s mail to .Mrs. McBurn ' s, and thai would make her a few hours late in getting in. And you knew how she leai ' s her hair if the mail is a minute late. Caeeie — Yes, but mail is Governmenl mailer, and I don ' t believe Miss Smith would help us, as you suggest, Bettie. Eleanor — I ' ve got it. What do you say to taking Edith ' s trunk down to .Mrs. McBurn ' s to-night and leaving it on the porch? Alice — Good ! Bettie — Let ' s do it. Margie — Grand idea. Luka — I have rope enough to lower it out of the window. We oughl to be ready in junipers and dark skirts by quarter to ten and then sneak out quietly so nobody will suspecl anything. And especially should we beware of the Student Government President — Inez Z. Do you all like the idea? Florence — Why, I don ' t believe I ' ll do it. Alice, Carrie, Bettie. Margie, Eleanor — We ' ll do it all right. Lttra — Then, Florence, if you want to stay at home you can keep Duran out of the way, so she will truly he able to tell Edith she doesn ' t know who played the trick. Will you do that ( Floeence — Yes, I ' ll try to. Bettie — Lura, you and Eleanor let the trunk out of the window, and Carrie, Alice, Margie and I. together with Patricia, whom we ' ll get, will receive it below. Yes, that will be fun. (Laughs.) Alice (loolcing il watch) — It ' s time we were getting ready. Suppose we move on. Eleanob — Remember, now, don ' t let any one sec you. Be under the window at nine-forty-five, and Lura and I will be ready with the trunk. (Exit nil girls Iml Florence and Eleanor. ) ( ' urtain. ) Scene II. Scene — Another dormitory room. To the left a door, and in rear of room, two windows. The only light in room is from a deeply-shaded reading lamp on table. As curtain rises two girls in jumpers and dark shirts are bend- ing over a steamer trunk at our of the windows, tying n rope aromid trunk. They speak in stage whispers.} Eleanob — There, mine ' s tied. Lura — All right, so is mine. Are all five of the girls down there? Eleanoe [leaning out of window) — Yes, they are all then ' . Let ' s lower it now. ( Both girls bend over, lift trunk to window ledge, and, each holding an end of rope, lower trunk from window. They laugh guardedly as il goes down, and from below romr suppressed giggles, i Ltjea — Have you got it ' . ( Waits a minute, then she and Eleanor begin to pull up the rope. | Eleanob — Come, we must hurry. I ' ll leave the rope in my mom. (Exeunt both. They have hardly left room when door opens and Duran enters. Wanders aimlessly around room, then picks up a book.) Duban — I believe I ' ll take this down to Florence ' s room and read. (Exit, humming. After she leaves, a knock comes on door, and, after being repeated, door opens nod a small, slim, hut dignified-looking girl enters. Has rather light hair arranged on top of head. Wears glasses. In hand carries a Domestic Science note-book.) Inez Z. — Edith, aren ' t you at home? Well, I musl say this is a pleasing retreat for a tired body on Monday night. Goodness, it ' s restful here after Carson and the Bowery. (Looks at pictures on mantel, then turns as it medi- tating and muses for a moment.) I believe I ' ll just slay in here and study for that Domestic Science test. I Sits at table. Adjusts light and carefully opens note-book.) Now, where was I ? ' Hi, yes, at the recipe for making enough mils tor line person for one meal. I ' ll read thai over aloud. (Reads.) For (me person with a medium-sized appetite, two mils made according to the fol- lowing will he ample: One-fourth of a cup of flour, one thirty-second of a - 1 1 } ► df milk, one-half yolk of a moderate-sized egg, one sixty-fourth f an even and level teaspoonful of sail, one-sixteenth of a teaspoonful of yeast, ami a piece of lard nine-tenths of an inch long by three-fourths of an inch high by one-half of an inch thick. Sift flour three limes before adding to general mixture. The entire cost nf lliis plate of two rolls will lie three ami two-thirds cents. ( Looks up.) New I wonder if I can say thai off. (Closes book and begins.) Fur two persons with a very large appetite, one roll made according to the following will he ample: Four cups of milk, one thirty-second of a cup of flour (enumerates each ingredient mi finger), two eggs, sixteen teaspoonfuls of yeast, one sixty- fourth of a teaspoonful of sail which has been sifted three times. (.1 this juncture a lantern ' s light flushes up from window and heavy footsteps are heard beneath. Inez stops uml listens. A man ' s voice, sounding us if owner were murmuring l himself, comes up from beloio.) Voice Without— Well, I ' ll he fkhbergasted ! What air them gals up to? I think I ' d better introspect this matter carefully. Ton my word, that was a trunk I seen them lettin ' down from this window. Well, I ' ll he flabbergasted! One of them gals was sho ' dislopin ' . My, my, Peter Oats, you have sho ' got important work afore yon this night. Try to net your wits (dear. (Inez rustics In window uml sticks her head out.) Tnez Z. — Why, Uncle Peter, what ' s the matter? Voice Without — Mattel- ! Why, it ' s the terriblest matter you ever seen. A gal has done disloped ! Inez Z. — — h! Isn ' t that horrible! Put do you know that to be true, Uncle Peter? Voice Without — Know it? I done seen it. I ' m plumb sho ' . I ' m goin ' righl now down to tell Dr. Benedict. Inez Z. — No, don ' t do thai. This is a matter for Student Government, and as I am the President of Studeiil Government, I ' ll attend to it at once. Leave the matter entirely in my hands. Uncle Peter, and I will attend to it at once. (Inez Z. draws in her head and rushes excitedly from room. Exit. The light from outside lantern flashes around once or twice. ) ft Voice Without — Yes, siree, I calcalate that ' s the proper thing for me to do. Glad of it, too. Takes a heap of desponsibility from my shoulders. ( Voice dies away. Door opens cautiously arid seven girls in jumpers and dark skirts enter. Firs! they look carefully around, then all sit on floor and begin to laugh. Whenever they speak it is in stage whispers, i Cabbie — Wasn ' t it killing the way the poor old night-watchman tried to follow us. Ha-ha. (.1 giggle. ) Patricia — And when Dr. McBurn ' s dog began to bark so furiously, 1 felt certain that l r. McBurn would come out to see what was the matter and catch us. {Here all laugh rather loudly and are interrupted by Que hurried entrance of Florence. She is laughing also.) Florence — Ha-ha, here ' s a juke within a joke. I met Inez Z. a few min- utes ago and .she confided in me the horrible story of a liirl eloping. Uncle Peter had seen her. ( Ts interrupted by giggles. ) And Inez Z. has gone in see the members of the Executive Committee, though why I cannol imagine. Won- der if they are going to start nut in ho1 pursuit of the runaway? i.l laugh delightedly, i Ki.kanoi; — Oh, I wish we could keep up the joke. Alice — We can do it. Let ' s pretend one of us was trying to elope with the assistance of two others when the rest of you caught its and made us come back. Just do this and give that poor Executive Committee something to do. Bettie — Fine ! Luea — Grand ! Patbicia — I )andy ! Maegie — But won ' t Edith be back in the morning before the meeting and tell about the trunk ' . Bettie — No, she won ' t, for her first class is at ten-twenty, ami we all know Inez Z. will have that Executive meeting immediately after breakfast. Fact is, I knew if she could persuade the other members, she would have it before breakfast. Luea — Somebody kind of outline the plot. Alice — In order to have more of a story attached, let ' s have the girl run- ning ntl fur seine ether silly reason, so she can make her story just as absurd and long-drawn-out as possible in the Hireling. We mnsl hoodwink thai augusl body as much as we can. Pateicia — I appoint Margie to be the girl who tried to run away, and she can make up her own story. Ai.i. ns I ' . [son- —Second the appointment. Luea To make the story a little more definite, Patricia, yon and Alice were the girls helping Margie to run away, and the resl of us brought her back. We can decide on details of the plol after lights. (Looks at watch.) Gee, it ' s time for them this minute. Alice — Yes. but somebody lias got to go tell Inez Z. uow thai the girl has been found and brought back. Yen go, Eleanor. Eleanoe — All right, ( ' nine down to my room in fifteen minutes and I ' ll give you the answer and we can finish plotting. ( Lit hi suddenly go out. ) All in Unison — Oh ! ( Quick ' urtain. ) Scene III. Time — Twelve hours later. Scene — A room fitted up as an office. By a table til one end of room sits the dignified Inez Z. Six girls, representing members of the executive com- mittee of Student Government Association, sit in an exceedingly stiff manner around another table placed in same end of room as the table of Inez Z. Other chairs are arranged in a fixed order annual the wall. Entrance is in rear of stage. [nez Z. (Sealed. Clears throat and twirls a pencil between two fingers) — Xow girls, remember the great importance of this case and weigh all of your evidence and material carefully. Margie was certainly running away assisted by Patricia and Alice, when Eleanor, Lura, Carrie and Bettie discovered the trio, and, by frightening them, forced all three to return. Ir was indeed a uoble and right thing for those girls to do, and for them to come at once to me and report the matter, too. (.1 knock mi do or.) Enter. (Margie enters first ami is followed by Lura. Carrie, Bettie, Florence, Alice, Patricia ami Eleanor.) ■■■HI £ Inez Z. (in a very severe tone) -Be seated, please. (All sit down. Are exceedingly grave, and Margie, the accused, has very red eyes and is inclined to whimper and weep at intervals throughout meeting. Is now nervously playing with n handkerchief.) Inez Z — Will the accused please stand up. (Margie arises in a frightened manner, glances around, and then buries face in handkerchief as if weeping.) Don ' t carry mi like that please. Miss Eagleton. (Said in a severe tone. Here Inez arises. I It is unnecessary for me to tell this honprable body that Miss Eagle- ton, with two accomplices, who were bearing her trunk, were discovered lasl night in the act of running away. They were discovered by those three very uprighl young ladies. (Nods at Eleanor, Lura, and Carrie.) Why such a disgraceful attempt should have been made, we will now hear from Mis- Eagleton ' s own lips. And please remember, .Mi— Eagleton, to tell me the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. will sit down, but you will remain standing throughout the meeting. ( . •■: sits down amid breathless silence. The con- spirators assume a very serious air. Then Margie whimpers, and Bettie and Alice cough violently. Inez clears throat again and continues.) To begin with, why, Miss Eagleton, were you trying to leave such an ideal spol as Sweet Briar? We can only conclude that there must be a man in the case. Margie (tearfully and eagerly) —Yes, oh yes, that ' s exactly it. Only then- is not one but a great many of them. (.1 this mini great interest is shown In the members oj executivt committee. Margie looks around nervously.) 1 was running away because I ' ve had such a number id ' scares while here at college. [nez Z. (surprised) — Scares? I don ' t understand. Explain yourself. Maegie i a liesitating way i — Well — er — it I can stand the awful nervous strain. 1 — er — will start at the beginning and tell all. Oh! — (shudders). Inez Z. (in an irritated way) That , s what I want you to do. Margie — Well, the first horrible frighl I had was when that dangerous man-thief came who pretended he was selling fraternity pins. (Continues in a somewhat tragic and frightened manner.) Will you ever forgel how queerly that man talked in the afternoon in Randolph parlor? lie met me in the hall and asked {alums! suits) if — this — er — was a man ' s college, and — er — if the President didn ' t have a red beard, i Eleanor alums! snickers aloud. Covers il a i In a cough.) I knew the man was crazy, then. Ami that night when I beard he had stolen Roberta ' s purse, and when Miss Benedict and the watchman came through the dormitory searching for him- well, I jusl nearly died. I gol six of my friends I ( e in my room and search every single drawer in the whole room, and take up the rug and everything, while I si I on the threshold ready to scream. And when they didn ' l find him, 1 nearly collapsed I was so disappointed and frightened. ( Puts handkerchief to face and shudders. ) Lura (from side lines) Give her jusl a mi mile. Madam President, because she is so nervous. Makiiik (looking up) — Never mind, I ' ll go on. I had hardly recovered from this shock, when one i ming al three o ' clock I was awakened by loud, blood-curdling screams of help, help, murder, thieves! I ' m sure (addressing audience) thai you all remember thai night. {In a tragic tone) Never, never, can I forget it. It was when Louise Thompson heard burglars knocking on her d •! Think of being awakened by a thing like that. Yes, siree, they were certainly there knocking. (Weeps.) You — er — may — er — say il was yon (addressing Inez Z.) having a night-mare and knocking on — er — wall, but you will never convince me it wasn ' t burglars. ( Buries face in handkerchief as if weeping. ) Inez Z. (in a conciliating ' tone) — But remember the watchman searched the dormitories. Margie (somewhat animatedly) — Yes, but the burglars could have run away by that time. And you know, I would have left college then if it hadn ' t been for the prompt action of the Bowery Bum Blues, which Lura so kindly brought over the next night and stationed outside of our doors. Oh, they were brave iris. I can see them now standing outside of the doors with their paper caps and broom-sticks held jnst like real guns. (Draws herself up and holds right arm and hand as if carrying a gun on right shoulder. The next second she arts in a frightened manner.) 1 got the company to come in my 1 m and search the drawers. And that ' s one reason I don ' t want to stay here, because I have to look for burglars so often that I can never keep my room at all straight. Inez Z.— Oh, hut Margie (interrupting) — Yes, I know, but it isn ' t only men but it is snakes too! Gracious (shivers), I was going down to the Administration Building and about a yard in front of me I saw a perfectly monstrous black snake. I turned and ran so fast I came near fainting from relief at the sight of Mr. Dew, who was coming around the corner. I told him ahout the snake . A B | HHB | BHBa a r N ■- - and I heard he got his gun and killed it after hitting it twenty-four times. Oh — er, I dreamed of snakes for months afterwards. {Shivers and hides face in handkerchief. ' ) And the more I go on, the worse things become. This time it was mi the lake. (Shakes all over, i 1 was out rowing with one of the girls when I suddenly looked up over that hill, which is near the dam, and 1 imag- ined I saw Indians coming over the crest. And they were just shooting tomahawks and brandishing arrows. ( Waves arm in air violently for a second, i I could feel them sticking into me, so (breaks down and finishes sentence with face in handkerchief ) yon — can — just — imagine — bow — I — er — felt. Inez (in an incredulous tone) — Indians ! Why 1 never beard of such a thing. Ami here at Sweet Briar? Maegie (indignantly) — Y ui never beard of Indians here at Sweet Briar? Why, there ' s the Indian mission no1 three miles from us. And they are what ' s left of a native tribe of Cherokees. Mr. Gray himself says su. Surely you know about them. Inez (surprised) — Why, that is su. Of course I know about those Indians. (In a sympathetic lour adds) Poor Indians! I ' m going over to the mission to help fix them a Christmas tree which our Young Women ' s Christian Associa- tion is going to give them. But (addressing Margie) you oughtn ' 1 to be afraid of these people. Margie (simpers) — Well, but I am. And I ' m afraid of ghosts too. I had to stay in the Administration Building one Friday night, and just as sure as my name is Margie Eagleton and I am standing here, I beanl Daisy Williams play on her harp just as the clock was striking twelve. I always bad been sure that Daisy returned every Friday night and played on her bar]). ( Weeps. ) Inez X. (crossly) — I don ' t see how you could have been so frightened by all of these things. Margie (h, h-iii j up) — And that is nol all yet. The last thing that made me decide to run away was an incident that occurred one nighl mi the way to Mount St. Angelo. My class was mi its way over to a party given by Dr. and Mrs. Walker. It was a dark, rainy night, and when we got oul of the path just beyond Faculty Row. I didn ' t see but I felt a shadow behind me. From then if followed me right on until I reached Mount St. Angelo. I was too frightened to tell a soul. I simply held my breath from there mi until I came to Dr. Walker ' s. After the party was over I would have died rather than ■■ walk back, bul as I had to do the latter, I just held my breath all the way home too. {Turns Id I nez Z.) Lei tne resl one si nl until 1 recover from my nervousness. I. K . X. (in a kindly tcne) — Certainly, sil down. Would you like some water? Margie (sitting, handkerchief to face) — No, I thank you. One of Executive Committee t Another (stage whisper ) — This is certainly a must wonderful case. My mind is fully made up fi i her story alone. 1 don ' t think any witnesses arc necessary for this trial. Another Membee (whom the first member addressed) — never had such a responsible position before in my whole life. Yes, 1 have decided too. (As she finishes last sentence Margie arises.) Makgie (calmly) — And now comes the very last. All these scares made me determined to leave Sweet Briar, as much as I loved it, because I feared if I staid I would soon fill an early grave. I was afraid to do it, but I had to. And when necessity forces, well, you just have to do anything. That ' s what 1 did. Two of my friends kindly offered to go with me as far as Coolwell and carry my trunk, so I could catch the two a. m. train. And oh (addresses Inez Z. and executive committee. Clasps hands and speaks in a tragic tunc), I beseech ye, just judges, do not think hard of my two friends for their noble and just act. ( Weeps for fraction of i second then raises head and continues in a resigned way) Von know the rest. We let the trunk out of the window, and had just gotten a good start when those three girls (points nl Lura, Eleanor and Carrie. who have a hard lime trying to keep a serious face) met us. I thought they would sympathize with me, so 1 told them all. But alas, they tried to persuade us to return. This was of no avail. ( Here heroines excited again. ) And then, wonderful tu think, these very girls became my rescuers. They told us of five awful-looking men they had just seen skirting along the woods. They were blood-thirsty men and had huge sword-blades. And they were on their way to Coolwell. (Almost shrieks mil this Ins! word. .1 this juncture a loud knock coines on door. It opens immediately a ml a girl rushes in. Hesitates a fraction of a second, then says) — Edith — Oh, is this an executive meeting? Well, let me tell you a horrid trick somebody played on me. (At Edith ' s entrance, the conspirators exchange talks they look horrified.) I was spending the night re mi the front porch this morning ! found niv steamer . nil the conspirators, including Margie, make a grand i out. 1 tie: Z. rises, us do executive committee. All bewildered manner. Edith continues after u short •ry I broke up the meeting. Excuse me. ( Exit Edith.] In chair [nun which she had arisen) — Well — er this this morning. ( ( ' uHain. I E. W. Griffin. flBMMI In the Light of the Embers THE big hall clock was just chiming eleven as I finished the last page of my story. With a sigh of regret that the absorbing romance was ended, I closed the book, pul oul the lights, and crossed over to the big, open fire. It was Christmas week, and I was one of a party of girls and teachers who were spending the holidays ai college. We were staying, not in the dormi- tories, Imt in the more homelike atmosphere of the old Sweet Briar House. To-night when I finished reading I remembered that every one else had retired early, and consequently 1 was the sole occupant of the whole lower fl ■. ' !n I he one hand, the thought made me feel a hit uncanny because of the many supernatural stories connected with the house; hut, on the other, my story hail put me into such an imaginary, dreamy frame of mind thai 1 was loath to go to bed. A deep chair before the tire extended a most welcome invitation, so, sinking into its luxurious depths, I decided to watch the blazing logs. The flames cast a weird, uncertain light over the old room. Now and then a log slipped as its former support crumbled to ashes. Then rays of 1 iii.li t leaped forth, illuminating for an instant different objects in the room. At one time a ray transformed a hit of gold from the mirror ' s edge into the burning eye of a dragon. At another, it changed the mahogany claw of the table into the brown, bony hand of a skeleton. For a long time I watched with absorption these wonderful metamorphoses. At length two particularly vivid streaks darted forth. One fell upon tin- portrait of the child Daisy, now dead for so many years; the other upon the long-silent harp standing in the recess of the window. Then the two darts converged and at once disappeared. This rather unusual action aroused my thought. I glanced at the harp. and then, turning- to the left, directed my gaze upon the features of the solemn- faced little girl looking down from her massive gold frame. Strange I had never before noticed what a very wistful expression she had. And, stranger still, that T had never noticed the object upon which her yearning eyes were so intently fixed. I started to investigate, and a few minutes later discovered that it was the harp which held her attention. I glanced again at the portrait and the change T saw in the expression was marvelous. The face was joyous, and the eyes, now gazing in my direction, seemed to be thanking me for some great favor done. In fascination I stared at the picture. As I stared, the object of my gaze began to descend gradually to the A r floor. Reaching the carpet, it stopped, and from its emhrace stepped forth the little maid of fourteen summers whom I had hitherto regarded merely as a picture from some artist ' s brush. What a mistaken fancy, for here she was a living, breathing child! A child, tun, whose face was not solemn and melan- choly, but which was, en the contrary, radiant and beaming with the light of some hidden joy. For a second the little picture-girl stood still. Then with noiseless tread she started across the room. Oh, yon dear little girl, 1 impulsively called out, won ' t von come talk to me V lint heedless of my remark, she moved on, and turned her steps toward the harp. When she reached it -lie deftly drew off the cover, and, with a little sigh of satisfaction, lovingly laid her cheek against its side. The next moment -he began to pluck the strings gently. What a picture the child made as -he played! Never, never can 1 forget the scene. The look of rapture that overspread the childish face a- -he drew her tinners across the strings was as saintly and perfect a- the expression ot a .Madonna. And how wonderful were the strains of music that floated out at the touch! At first a single little melody, full of pathos and pleading, stole forth. Timidly it began to pour out its story, and, finally dying away, was followed by other melodies, sometimes in slow and sometimes in hurried succession — each one telling a certain part of the tragic romance that the music as a whole was depicting. Each new strain vividly told its part, and after the last one all former melodies returned and blended into one harmonious crescendo. I was held spellbound. Then the music carried me so completely in its wake that I began to quiver violently from head to foot as if held under some tremendous nervous strain. For support 1 reached for the arm of the chair. As I touched the velvet I was so startled that I sprang to an uprighl sitting posture. For an instant I gazed around in a bewildered manner. Then, my senses returning, I looked with strained eyes toward the harp. With difficulty 1 discerned its outlines ami saw there was no figure by its side. I turned to the left and perceived that the picture of Daisy hung in its accustomed place on the wall. The tire. I found, was giving mil its dying rays. The room was exceedingly cold, and I was shivering until my teeth chattered. I arose from my chair, and as I did so the clock chimed half-past twelve. How quickly the time had flown! Could it be possible that I hail been dreaming before the embers! No, I rather believe I had been an eye-witness to Daisy ' s return home. For was it not Friday night, and had I not been alone in the Gray Drawing-Room at twelve o ' clock; Ki genla W. (Jkiffi.v L910. •••■ .V r paint anD patches OFFICERS EUGENIA WHYTE GRIFFIN President EMMA VIRGINIA SHOOP Vice-President MARGARET DALTON Secretary VIRGINIA DIANA ETHERIDGE Treasurer MARIE ABRAMS JEANNE ALEXANDER DUNBAR AVIRETT BETTY BALDWIN ELLEN BALL DOROTHY BANCROFT MARY BELL JENNIE MAY BOICE ALMA BOOTH BESSIE BROWN GLADYS BROWN FLORA BRYAN EUGENIA BUFFINGTON LILLIAN BOWMAN META BRYAN MARY CLARK KM MA CLYDE MARGARET COBB MARY LOU COBB ELIZABETH COCKE FLORENCE COFFIN MARGARET COLEMAN SARAH COOPER ELIZABETH CRAVEN ESTHER CORNWALL ISABEL CORNWALL CLYDE CRANFORD KATHLEEN COWGILL MARGARET DALTON NELLIE DAVIDSON SARA DENHAM CORINNE DICKINSON MEMBERS RUTH DOWD RUTH DREW HENRIANNA EARLY ADDIE ERVIN MARY ERVIN LOURINE EIKENBERRY VIRGINIA ETHERIDGE ELIZABETH FRANKE ELEANOR FURMAN EUGENIA GRIFFIN MARY GROOVER RUTH HANCOCK SUE HARDIE MILDRED HARRIS ELLEN HAYES LOUISE HOOPER EVA EORNER HELEN H1BBERD JULIA HUFF JENNIE HURT EDITH HYSLOP MARY JOHNSON MARY .l( INKS HELEN LAMFROM KATHARINE LANIER MARIE LIEBER MARIE MAHONE LUCILE MARSHALL ROSE OWEN McDAVID LOU EMMA McWHORTER EMMA MORRISS EMILY MORRISS VIVIAN MOSSMAN JOSEPHINE MURRAY FRANCES MURRELL KATHERINE McDONALD MARY PARKER LUIME PFEIFFEB A XX IK POWELL JOSEPHINE PROCTOR LAURA PORTMAN MARY PINKERTON KATHARINE QUINBY CAMMIE RODMAN IDA ROSS FRANCES RICHARDSON VIRGINIA SHOOP ETHEL SHOOP LUCY SIMS REBA STEPHENSON FRANCES SUMMERS MARY CLIFTON TABB MARY TANDY MARGARET THOMAS EMMY THOMAS LUCY TYLER MARY TYLER MAYO THACH MERTIE WATSON LOULIE WILSON ELEANOR [NGFIELD MARY ANNA WHEELER ELSIE ZAEGEL ' Slice in ftKonDerlanD ' TO TIIK NEW OIliLS CAST: .j | .p Bessie Grammes THE DU IHESS Virginia Shoop THE COOK LomsE HooPER THE B BY Marie Abrams THE CHESHIRE CAT Margaret Browning THE FROG FOOTMAN Alma Booth THE FISH FOOTMAN Nan Powell THE II ITER Margaret Codg THE MARCH HAKE Martha Tillman THE DORMOUSE Emma Thomas THE QUEEN OF HEARTS Eugenia Gbiffin THE KING OF HEARTS Frances Murrell THE KNAVE OF HEARTS rENNIE BuBT THE THREE GARDENERS Vddie Ervin, Mary Ervin, Edith Hyslop THE EXECUTIONER Margaret Thomas Tlie Pack of Curds. Act I. Scene 1 — The Duchess Kitchen. Scene 2— The Mail Tea-Party. Scene 3 — The Croquet (lame. Dramatized b Mrs I ' M -listed. infill 4; BESSIE GRAMMEB MARIE ABRAMS Chief Biij.iken .Secbetary and Treasurer MARY BELL ALMA BOOTH MARGARET BROWNING EUGENIA BUFFINGTON MARY CLARK ISABEL CORNWALL ELIZABETH CRAVEN AXXIE CUMNOCK MISS PLAISTED MEMBERS RUTH DREW All] HE ERVIN ELIZABETH FRANKE EUGENIA GRIFFIN MARY GROOVER LOUISE HOOPEB JENNIE HURT HELEN LAM FROM ELSIE ZAEGEL IN FACULTATE LUCILE MARSHALL FRANCES Ml ' RRELL EMMA MORRISS JOSEPHINE MURRAY MARY PARKER MARY PINKERTON ANNIE POWELL LUCY SIMS MISS GUION A Cbe 90ouse Crap ' BY W. I). HOWELL Presented by t lie Billikens CAST: MR. CAMPBELL Luctle Marshall MRS. SOMMERS Eugenia Buffington AIDS. MILLER Elsie Zaegel MRS. CURWEN Elizabeth Curweh MRS. BEMIS Bessie Grammes MRS. ROBERTS Elizabeth Fhaxkk JANE. THE .MAID Isabel Corn-wall Scene takes place in the drawing room of Mrs. Sommers. v Cfje e crrp Jester Chapter VIRGINIA SHOOP MARGARET COBB President Secretary and Treasurer BETTY BALDWIN DOROTHY BANCROFT LUCY CARNEY MARGARET COBB MARY LOU COBB ELIZABETB COCKE MARGARET COLEMAN KATHLEEN COWGILL CLYDE CRANFORD MEMBERS MARGARET DALTON MARY ERVIN VIRGINIA ETHERIDGE ELEANOR EI UMAX EDITH HYSLOP MARY JOHNSON LUCELIA McCLAIN KATHERINE McDONALD EMILY MORRISS NELLA PATTERSON IDA BOSS I; EISA STEPHENSON MARY CLIFTON TABB MAYO THACH EMMY THOMAS MARTHA TILLMAN MARY TYLER A IN FACULTATE MISS BENEDICT MISS GUION Cfje e errp Jesters in trje LanD of heart ' s Desire ' RY WILLIAM YEATS Presented bv Paint and Patchi SHAWN MAIEE, Ills WIFE MAURTEEN, FATHER OF SHAWN . BRIDGET, WIFE OF MAURTEEN... Mart Tyler . . Makgabet Cobb . Margaret Thomas . Km my Thomas FATHER HART, PARISH PRIEST Margaret Dai.to.x FAIRY Mart Khwin Sceiu — In the cottage of an Irish peasant. «►■ May Day MAY DAY of L909 was truly a wonderful day al Sweel Briar. If possible, it was even inure beautiful than (lie two May Days which had preceded it. Everything, in the realm of the lovely Queen jusl runic to the throne, seemed to conspire in making her reign indeed i I ideal beauty and joy. That is if we excepl thai naughty Zephyrus who insisted on getting ou1 of chains despite the greatesl forethought on the part of every Loyal subject and courtier, and making his roistering presence very distinctly fell by all at the Coronation. Otherwise, however, all was in harmony with the joyous anticipa- tion of the throng which breathlessly awaited the appearance of the new sover- eign. The clear, blue heavens, the bright sunlight, the green sward sprinkled with bright-eyed flowers, the blossom-laden branches of the trees which bent in eager expectation — all seemed to he portents of the ushering in of a new and gladsome era for the kingdom. At length, just as the anxious crowd had begun to despair of her appear- ance, a trim little page with a bugle almost as large as himself ran gaily from the farther boxhedge and blew a blast, loud and long. He seemed fairly bubbling over with the gladsome news which he bore, that the Queen with her court was at hand. Xo sooner said than a vision of truly wondrous beauty burst upon the eyes of the beholders — the Queen, the Queen burst from the throats of the multitude. Yes truly, it was the Queen herself, a vision id ' love and beauty, clad in her royal robes of office. But she was not alone, for elose in her wake followed maidens bearing great branches of snowy blossoms and scattering petals as they went. While there followed after them a great crowd of happy subjects who had gone out to meet the Queen, and who now returned with her, singing songs of gladness in her praise. Ascending the throne, she was decked by her maids with all the insignia of royalty. Then rising in all the glory id ' her youth and beauty she spoke : My faithful subjects and my .May Day court, and yon friends, all who have crowned and garlanded me with flowers to he your Queen of May, I thank you and I ask your help that I may be a Queen worthy to wear your rose and your crown. And you, blithe company, who are gathered at our Court of May, T bid you welcome. By virtue of my crown, my garland, and my May Day sceptre, I give to you my royal command, ' Be merry, 1 pray you, and till with gladness all my reign of this May Day. ' . A hh b bb ■jBHWjBjaa X? ' And finally, in token of their happiness at her coming, the subjects gathered ut the .May pule, twined in beautiful rose and green, and dancing about it, Gaily now we twine the May pole With our colors ruse and green. Singing merrily to springtime, To fair springtime and our Queen. But this was not enough, they must even do something more to honor her, so when the dance was done she was conducted, with her court, to a wonderful dais arranged in the dell. Here she sat. surrounded by her beautiful maidens and witnessed the spectacle which was presented by the hold Robin II 1, with his Mei-rii- Men. who had even consented to honor the occasion of the coronation with his presence. There, with the lovely doll as ;i background, they presented the i|iiaint sr of plays, which so delighted the Queen that Robin II 1 with all his men was invited to accompany her when she returned to the palace that rht. if 1 And I have heard that the joyous day ended with the greatest, mosl royal anquets. • v Founder ' s Day FRIDAY, November the nineteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, was a memorable one in our history. Then it was thai Founder ' s Day was cele- brated for the firsl time, Pes entrance into our history was a triumphal niic. To il it honor the Seniors donned, fur the very first time, their new caps and gowns; the Faculty appeared in full Academic regalia; Dr. I ' ' .. I!. Craig- head, President of Tulane University, was here; our good friend Mi ' . X. C. Manson, Jr., was present, and more than half a hundred young men came from various institutions to join in the dance which was such a distinel feature of this happy occasion. The chapel was the scene of the first part of the exercises. Our chaplain thrust even more of that personality, uniquely his own, into our evening worship on that particular evening, for it was with this devotional service that the pro- gramme was opened. Following close upon the chapel service, the students re-assembled, seated this time by the Juniors, who left conspicuously empty certain reserved seats to the right of the chapel. At seven-thirty o ' clock the staccato notes of the inarch heralded the approach of the Academic Procession. The Seniors led. Their stately tread, solemn faces and black gowns suggested a funeral procession, lint this idea was soon dispelled when the Faculty followed, displaying the rich colors of half a score and more of our leading colleges ami universities. The turn in the aisle suggested the rainbow and when our President brought up the rear, lo, to he sure, there was the pot of gold in the hood which graced her Joseph-like gown. Miss Benedict ' s opening remarks were, as her words always are, just to the point. She emphasized the appropriateness of this particular day by telling us that exactly one hundred years ago this coming June Mr. Elijah Fletcher received his degree from the University of Vermont. Thus, just an even century after his graduation, the institution which he made possible would send out its first graduates. In honor of our founder, she further added that these first graduates would receive diplomas modeled after the one which Mr. Fletcher had himself received. To tell the story of Sweet Briar ' s early history, Miss Benedict then introduced Mr. Manson. Mr. Manson ' s big mind is tilled with facts relating to our early life and these facts he is ever glad to relate. On this evening he just bubbled over. Pie A was talking about a subject in which his interests are deep and to an audience of young ladies whom he loves as a father. This interest and love bound to- gether his facts so that they flowed in a stream of real eloquence so warm and fervid that a flame of patriotism and college spirit and pride was kindled in our hearts, which flame hurst forth in a round of applause perhaps never before in the history of our institution so demonstrative and spirited. President Craighead ' s message was propheti — a prophesy based upon his observation and study of the present equipment of the ( Jollege, both material and intellectual, lie found much to praise in its wise and able management, its broad and liberal policy. His remarks about our President made us esteem her with even deeper regard, for in his remarks he gave us information which her modesty would always withhold, yet information which made us believe more firmly in the future of our College. Hence we were very fortunate in having a man of such wide educational experience with us on this occasion. His praise was tempered with criticism, so that in recognizing our advantages he pointed out our disadvantages and indicated the danger of certain tendencies. How- ever, the spirit of his remarks left with us a desire to appreciate more deeply the one and to avoid the mistakes that might encourage the other. A song from the Glee Club closed the first part of the exercises. In reverse order from that in which it entered, the Academic Procession moved from the chapel and the scene shifted to the refectory. Here the second pari of the programme opened with a reception. In the receiving line stood liss Benedict and the members of the Executive Board of the Student Government Association. There was a warmth and a cordiality in the grasp of these half dozen extended hands which made one feel instinctively the real spirit of the occasion and thus enter at once into its joy and festivity. The dance which followed was as graceful as it was pretty. The grand march was led by Miss Eugenia Griffin with Mr. Albertson, of Washington and Lee University. Dancing was continued until two o ' clock the following- morning, by which time Founder ' s Day had established itself with anticipatory permanence in our calendar.  ♦ ♦ .  ■nm HMMOTi Social Events TIIK first social event of the year was the Y. W. ( ' . A. reception to the new girls mi Thursday , September 22d. This reception was held in the Administration Building by the old students, assisted by the faculty. After the more formal side — and we were glad to notice that much of the usual formality and stiffness was absent on this occasion — all adjourned to the Refectory. There each new student was cordially greeted by the Y. V. C. A. cabinet, A dance brought this delightful evening to a very happy end. On the evening of November 1st, when the students issued from chapel they found the whole place pervaded by a spirit of mystery. No one knew the cause. Gradually the new students had disappeared until there was not one in sight. ( Jould they have been spirited away in some mysterious manner i Before the old students had had time to consider this question very much a crowd of ghosts and apparitions burst upon them. Each student was seized by a ghost, who quietly beckoned her to follow. Across the arcades they passed, on to the Refectory doors, which were haired ami guarded from within. Ai last, a dark figure unbarred the doors and admitted one ghosl and her companion. After a while another couple was allowed to enter, and so on until the whoh nipany lunl passed beyond the dreadful doors. Within, in the dimness of another en- trance, dark figures crouched at tlic stairway could he discerned. Seated upon the stairway, another obscure figure presented each visitor with a sheel of paper. which, she mumbled, would admit her into all the realms of the infernal region. Without a word the accompanying ghosl moved on. past skeletons, bones, ami pallid faces, down another fight of steps, when — oh. horror of horrors! — they were surrounded by hideous devils with horns and tails and arching eyebrows! These fiends seized both ghost and visitor and shot them down a steep plane into another dim region. As they scrambled to their feet, ghosts ami devils running up danced them around and around in a bewildering whirl. Suddenly, as if by magic, the lights flashed on, ami there si 1. instead of devils and ghosts, our own new students. In order to refresh their guests, who had undergone such terrifying ordeals, gnat baskets of popcorn and apples had been prepared, while the doughnuts and cider added the finishing touch to an ideal Hallowe ' en party. What could Sweet Briar do without the Walkers? On the evening of Thanksgiving all the students and faculty were invited over to a bonfire at St. ♦ '  ' I Angelo. There they saw a bonfire indeed! After enjoying games around the fire, the crowd of hungry girls- and hungry faculty, too gathered in the halls and parlors of the beautiful home, where the Walkers displayed their usual hospitality in serving delicious cakes ami hot chocolate. The Sophomore class on the evening before Thanksgiving invited the three classes, with their respective honorary members, to go with them on a hay-ride. Of course every one accepted — Sweet Briar people always do and the wagons were jostling slowly along before eight o ' clock. Very much shaken up, bu1 still in g 1 spirits, th icupants of the wagons alighted in the middle of the woods, kindled a huge fire, and circled ahoul it to toast marshmallows and to tell ghost stories. Some of these stories, t i., would have done credit to Poe or Maupassant. There arc some people who do not advocate college training for women. However, if these same unbelievers could have been present on Saturday even- ing, October 2d, at the baby party which the Juniors gave the Freshmen, they undoubtedly would have changed their minds, for when one considers that these Juniors, who, in their black dresses and white nurses ' caps, ministered so beautifully to the needs of the Freshman babies were themselves Freshman babies only three years ago, one must admit that only college training could have produced this sudden metamorphosis! On the eve of Washington ' s birthday the entire body of college students found themselves thanking fortune for the noble patriotism of the Freshmen. The explanation of this statement is to be found in the fact that on that day each was the recipient of an invitation in verse, wonderfully and fearfully composed, in which they were bidden to a dinner that evening in the Refectory. At the appointed time, clothed in apparel suited to the style of the occasion, the college students, on their arrival at the Refectory, were met in true colonial style by the Freshmen and a perfect wonder of a dinner. The table was resplendent with many trophies of the General ' s chequered -areer, among which the cherry tree of veracious fame was very prominent. After the dinner the company was much cheered by the announcement that the best was yet to come in the shape of a theatre party. Delight soon took the place of astonishment in the minds of the guests when Miss Buffiugton appeared as a star in the role of George in a burlesque by Miss Portman. With this wonderfully successful dramatic effort the evening came to an end. And if there is any doubt as to the fact that George put an end to that tree, there is certainly none as to the Freshmen. 125 • ' r ♦ ♦ $Icc Club MISS BELEN F. YOUNG Director VIRGINIA SHOOP AND EVELYN RIGNEY Accompanist LOUISE HOOPER BESSIE GRAMMER I si HEE ( iMIXW ALL ELIZABETH ( OCKE MARGARET THOMAS FIRST SOPRANOS KATHERINE McDONALD EDITH HYSLOP MARY ERVIN MARY LOU COBB ESTELLE GUILLET KM MA CLYDE ELSIE ZAEGAL EUGENIA BUFFINGTON NELLE REDDISH HELEN II1BBERD KATHARINE LANIEK SECOND SOPRANCS ANN IK POWELL EMMA THOMAS SARAH DENHAM MARGAR ET DALTON ROSE OWEN McDAVID LOU EMMA McWHORTER UEBA STEPHENSON EMMA BRADFIELD MARIE MAHONE FRANCES RICHARDS N LUCY CHENEY ANNIE ( UMNOCK MARY PARKER LOULIE WILSON ALTOS MARIE LIEBER MARGARET KOSER RUTH DOWD LUIME PFEIFFER LINDA WRIGHT HENRIETTA WASH BURN . ■■ ■■■■■■■■I RMM BBflfl • Debating Club OFFICERS ANNIE W. CUMNOCK Pbesident MARGARET T. BROWNING Vice-Priosiih.x i FRAN KS N. MATSON Secretary y MEMBERS DUNBAR AVIRETT NANCY BEALL MARGARET BOLEY ALMA BOO ' l 1 1 MARGARET BROWNING EUGENIA BUFFINGTON LUCY CHENEY FLORENCE COFFIN SARAH COOPER ESTHER CORNWALL ANNIE CUMNOCK MARGARET DALTON CORINNE DICKINSON ELIZABETH FRANKE BESSIE GRAMMEB EUGENIA GRIFFIN SUE HARDY HELEN HIBBERD LOUISE HOOPER EVA HORNER JENNIE HURT ELEANOR KOON HELEN LAMFROM LUCILE MARSHALL HAZEL LANK FRAN( ES MATSON EMMA MOKRISS FRANCES MURRELL MARY PARKER MARY PINKERTON LAURA PORTMAN ANNIE M. POWELL MARGARETHA RIBBLE BERNICE RICHARDSON FRANCES RICHARDSON MARGUERITE SHAFER BARBARA SHAND JEAN STAPLES FRANCES SUMMERS MAYO THACH MARY TYLER ADELAIDE WHELESS REBECCA WHITE ELSIE ZAEGEL levies of Debates ) LOUISE M. HOOPER JENNIE HURT Series I Debate 1. Seniors versus Juniors. Subject: Resolved, That capital punishment shall In ' abolished. AFFIRMATIVE: ANNIE W. CUMNOCK NEGATIVE: Won by Juniors. MARY V. PARKER Debate 2. Sophomores versus Freshmen. Subject: Resolved, That college in the country has more advantages than college in town. AFFIRMATIVE: LOUISE M. HOOPER MARY TY L.ER NEGATIVE: Won by Sophmores. ELSIE L. ZAEGEL ELIZABETH FRANK P. Debate 3. Juniors versus Sophomores Subject: Resolved, ' I hat the government of the United States should own and control the railroads. AFFIRMATIVE: MARY B. PINKERTON JENNIE HURT negative: Won by Sophmores. ELSIE L. ZAEGEL MARY Y. PARKER Series II Debate 1. Seniors versus Juniors. Debate 2. Sophomores versus Freshmen. Debate 3. Winners of Debate I versus Winners of Debate 2. Final: Winners of Scries 1 versus Winners of Series II. 132 % toeet 13riar ong Sweet Briar! Sweet Briar! the flower fair, Tlie rose that on your crest you wear Shall never fade, but always bear Thy beauty j sweet Briar! Sweet Briar! Sweet Briar! thy columns white Shine on the hills, a beacon light Of truth to burn with radiance bright Forever, Sweet Briar! Sweet Briar! Sweet Briar! we ini; to thee, May thy foundations ever be Strong as thy liill : thy purity That of thy rose. Sweet Briar! M. PlNKERTON, 1!U2. V . fc. 16. C. (Tune: Ueidelburg) Crowning the red Virginia hills. Fairest of all is she. She to whose health our heart ' s cup fills, Here ' s to S. B. C. Here ' s to the friends that we have known, Wherever they may be. Hero ' s to the college we call our own. Here ' s to S. B. C. Girdled with mountain-walls around, Loved above all is she. She to whose heart our hearts are bound. Here ' s to S. B. C. Here ' s to the days thai we have known. Here ' s to the clays to be. Here ' s to the college we call our own, Here ' s to S. B. C. Class ong of 1912 Here ' s to the health of ■ glorious elc HerrV to the ether, thai we surpass, Here ' s to our Alma Miller ' s praise, Here ' s lei our happy college days, Here ' s id all in Eur and fuss. Here ' s to our classmates, Here ' s to lis. Rah, rah. rah For the grand old class ( )f nineteen twelve! Dear Alma Mater, we all sine, to thee. Dear Alma Mater, where we love to he, Here ' s to the college We love to acknowledge, Here ' s to our dear S. B. V. Dear old pals, jolly old pals. Always together, in all soils of weather. Dear old pals, jolly old pals. Dear old. jolly old pals. Class Ssong of 1910 (Tunk: Yi.ii Don ' t Belong l the Regulars, You ' re Just a VolunU We belong to the Senior class So let ' s all give a cheer — Rah! We belong to the Senior class The best of all that ' s here. We ' ll work for her and we ' ll fight for her Until the very end. When everyboily ' ll take off their hats To the class of niueteen-ten. [ . A Cbe (KJar of tljc Rose anD $xm Of war and maids I sing; that war which first Was waged in chapel. Fierce was it and long. Begin then, Muse, and to my mind recall Tlie causes of this war ' mongst maidens sweet. Among the liills of old Virginia proud There is a collega, fairesl of the fair. This college chose as emblem fair the rose, And for its colors boasted rose and green. For many years these colors shone undimmed (In field of war and in the book -hop famed. Then on an ill starred day a maid more bold Than all the rest dared even to proclaim fhese colors ugly. This, the cause of war. e In chapel then th ' opposing parties met. Midsf (dash of tongues ami bitter strife unholy. Ami then the battle raged — First did come And first did speak our president. In accents mild she (old the cans., of war. Then straightway maiden- with shame were filled To think that any bold enough should be T ' attack those color- fairer than the morn. And some e ' en wept to think their sisters mild Should from wisdom and from judgment stray, Then from each side brave champions stood forth Who fearless did their chosen cause uphold. In vain our president tried the storm to quell— II eiil waxed the fiercer. fill al last A maid for wisdom ami for wit renowned stood bravel) forth. But wait. -he -aid. --till spring — Shall ' pear upon the earth. Till April showers Make all things green and fair. Till roses sweet Do bloom in Daisy ' s garden. Then go forth n,l look upon the rose. Admire il long. Observe its petals pink, its leaves of green, Then say if Nature wise did wrong in this When she combined these colors, rose ami green. Presumptuous maid-, who think themselves more wise Than Nature, look and learn! And ne ' er again In-nlt our color- fair. R. B. IV. an Doe to toe Commf0gatp When yim don ' t get up When the bells resound, And you still snooze on While the girls rush down; When you wonder how You ' ll live through the day, There is yet. a voice Thai seems to say : There ' s the com, old girl, There ' s the com. When you leave your dorm And you go to walk. And it isn ' t enough To stroll and talk; When you feel quite starved And you just can ' t wait — What does it matter If such is your fate? There ' s the com, old girl, There ' s the com. When you are in for fun And you plan a spread. And visions of good things Dance in your head ; When you must have cake And candy and fruit, Pickles and olives And crackers to boot. There ' s the com, old girl, There ' s the com. V. D. E.; L. W. S.; L. W. HM ' TIuNAJiY DEFINITION Question. To pop the question — see pop. fA A Why does the Freshie look so blue? Beg pardon, but that can ' t be true, Or else explain then what you mean, How can sin- be blue when she is green? E. W. G. 139 ) At Sweet Briar there are damsels fair. Renowned for their wondrous hair! All styles and fashions you will see. If you ' ll but come along with me — From most artistic turban swirl To coy and fetching dangling curl. But, oh, those clusters Billy Burke, Arranged with such a fancy jerk. And puffs and bangs and chignons grand Are nowhere matched in all our laud. The Grecian coronet i- here And fluffy ruffles o ' er our ear — These dainty modes will win your heart And ours you ' ll dub a School of Art. English teacher (at — ■ II igh School I— William, tell me what you know concerning the education of the poel we are discussing. William — Well, he went to Oxford, l ut was forced to leave on account of illness. Teacher — Illness? Why, you have made a mistake. ' ' William — Why Aliss — — ! My 1 k certainly said he was forced to leave on account of pecuniary troubles! One evening not so long ago. Our faculty made hearts to glow. By rendering delightful strains ( )f music and uplifting plane-. This straight from their own genius sprang, And varied as (lie speech thai rang From Babi I ' s lofty height of yore. Now cic tlii pleasant eve was o ' er; We felt the joy of skating fore. In Sur La Glace a S. B. C. These grand refrains of Mother Goose Magnificently did break loose, And rose and fell in wondrous lights, And raised u to ethereal heights. lis doughnui day, the poster reads, At Sweet Briar tea house in the meads, And forthwith hungry lassies raid The place, and make such heavy trade, That (••en a score of doughnuts hoi Will not suffice to reach the spot! Still orders conn., until the last Of all that store, which had been vast. Is reached, and nothing more is there To still the cries thai rend the air. Still people sit and seem to hope For that which is not . and to mope, When finally the maids appear With tempting things— for their own cheer! H. M. W. .Miss I!, (hurrying to Library) — Oh, I have to report to- •] Diet of Worms. Miss G. (Freshman) — Why, I thought you had finished biolog the You ought to see a crowd of us, When off for Lynchburg in the ' Ims! We never are more popular, Yet thankful are. we never were! Now if you ' d like to know just why. To this explain I ' ll duly trj — Our friends surround us and embrace, And say: You dear. ' ' with so much grace, That just at first we feel alarmed, Lest something may their minds have banned! But, let me whisper in your ear. There ' s method in their madness here! As off we roll, they beg and plead: Get me a hairpin, me a head. , a Dormttorp ©pisoOe ) ' Twas one night after lights, When all through the college Not a creature was stirring In search of more knowledge. The lights of the proctors Had long since gone out, There was quiet in the buildings And no walking about. But. all of a sudden My heart gave a bound, For the tillni ' was broken By a whistle ' s shrill sound. T ran to the window- Looked int.. the night — The heavens were brilliani With a bright flaming lighl ! I was sure it was ( ais.ni. The refectorj . or Gray, For the fire that I saw Was as bright ,.- broad .lay. I ran into the hall. Mad in my fright. And there I was met By a most pitiful sight. ft There were girls with valise; — ( Somewhat negligee t Frantically screaming As if ' twere Judgment Day. Girls scurried about Both this way and that ; Some carried their clothes, (Why, one wore her hat! ) They grasped in their bands Their treasures most rare, Curls, puffs, and braids — All kinds of false liair! One thoughtful maiden Screamed out in her fright, Skip tu your rooms, quick! Get your trunks out all right! Bui straight to the fire-escapes They all made a rush ; One carried a picture — (Perhaps ' twas her crush.) L j But all, ' twas too funny — Their shouts of dismay — When they, looking without, Saw the fire far away. M. C.j L. W. U A Miss S. (in History class) — Miss P., please discuss the administration of Jefferson. ( Miss P. ' s face is a perfect blank I Well, really, Miss P., you can find it all in your little Hart. Miss W. (mi second day after arrival i in the Infirmary V ' Where is the Refectory? Down I luce every month, a damsel fair [s chosen proctor with much care: In order that, with quiet hall-. Her study may he free from brawls. 80 she doth sit with open door, Lest -■inic faint sound should pass her o ' er; Then presently, on hearing some. She starts to wander with her gun! Ah! here we have a little noise. So let us stop these evil joys. Yes. hut, oh me. what has occurred! Xo sooner has she thus demurred, Than through the transom comes a splash ( If water in a deluifc rash ! Sub-Fresh at dinner fable (after ether members of table had been discuss- ing the magnificence of foreign hotels) — Well, when go abroad, I want to stop at little inoffensive hotels. Special (to a care-worn Senior) — How many issues of the annual do you expect in get out this year? Old student ( addressing a new girl who had come from the shores of Lake Erie) — How did you happen to come to college at Sweet Briar? New girl — I came because I live on a lake and I saw where there was a lake at Sweet Briar. (In an indignant tone) And here I found the Sweet Briar lake was nothing but a ' crick. ' 2 it ' s snow-time, it ' s snow-time, And all the world is white, The K iils are on the hill-side, And the coasting ' s out of sight. Mary ' s had a rib broke. Jane lias smashed her nose, Lucy ' s caughi diphtheria And the frost lias hit her tees. Hut it ' s snow-time, it ' s snow-time, The college is full of cheer, Who minds the infirmary ' s hated full .lust so to-day is here ' . ' E. W. G. Freshman (after carefully scrutinizing telegram just received from fon a) — Well, father ' s handwriting certainly has changed! Member of History I (to English professor) — Do you know, ford, I have to write on Petrarch; what did he do anyway ? Haven ' t you read something of his in English, Miss F. ? Oh ves, of course I have — Petrarch ' s Lives! Mr. ( ' raw- a VHHI ...... s23i£ fc£ti:. ij M -(iri tv iyiH, BflgMBHmMMH ibJt . Mim Virginia Club What is the happiest state in life? Why. West Virginia, of course. Motto: Look from darkness into light, not from light into darkness Flower: Rhododendron Colors: Violet and Pink OFFICERS MARGARET THOMAS President LOU EMMA McWHORTER Vice-President MARY JOHNSON Secbetam FRANCES RICHARDS  N Treasurer MEMBERS VIRGINIA BLUE MARY JOHNSON FRANCES RICHARDSON ELIZABETH GREEN LOU EMMA McWHORTER EMMY THOMAS HELEN HIBBERD VIVIAN MOSSMAN MARGARET THOMAS 14(1 i ■■■Hi ■ s.-- - iJk J £ rtJcuj gork tate Club Motto: Step lively Color: Delft Blue OFFICERS JOSEPHIXF. ADSWORTH MURRAY President ISABEL CORNWALL Vice-President BETTY BALDWIN Secretary NANCY BEALL Treasurer PATRON SAINT CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER HONORARY MEMBERS MISS MORENUS -MISS CRAWFORD MEMBERS BETTY BALDWIN ELIZABETH CRAVEJS JEAN STAPLES NANCYBEALL JULIA HUFF REBECCA WHITE LILLIAN BOWMAN JOSEPHINE MURRAY LINDA WRIGHT ISABEL CORNWALL RUTH STAPLES 150 i T A N D KenTucKy CLuB Get together — Slick together — Pull together! Cardinal and Black ( ' i.un Poem: We are Seven OFFICERS ELIZABETH FRAXKE President MARY TANDY Vice-President FRANCES SUMMERS Secretary MARY CLIFTON TABB Treasurer MEMBERS MARY CLARK Hopkinsville MARY TANDY Hopkinsville NELL TANDY Hopkinsville FRANCES SUMMERS Hopkinsville SARAH COOPER Hopkinsville MARY CLIFTON TABB Louisville ELIZABETH FRAXKE Louisville 151 m ■■■■■■■■i ■■■■■■■1 Colors: Crimsi n and hite Flower: Golden Rod Motto: To love one another we lo nr best, So whene ' er we inert we feast and jest. OFFICERS MARY LOTJ COBB President SUE HARDY Vice-President MARY LOTJ COBB FLORENCE COFFIN MARGARET COLEMAN ROSE OWEN McDAVLD MEMBERS MARIA GARTH LOUISE GLASS SUE HARDIE EMILY MORRISS EVA PIERCE IDA POPE ROSS MAYO THACH LUCY TYLER ♦ ♦ . . mm ■m mi Hearken, do, ye people all, When in the spring or in the fall. In Lynchburg town ye run the paces. Visit all the following places! ESTABLISHED 1HIJ7 The C. H. Almond Dry Goods Co. LYNCHBURG ' S GREATER STORE! THE STORE WITH MANY DEPARTMENTS LEADERS IN SWELL MILLINERY AND TAILORED SUITS We Solicit the Business of the Sweet Briar Students Upon the Merits of Our Merchandise VISIT US, WE WELCOME YOU LADIES ' RECEPTION ROOM AND WRITING PARLOR FOR YOUR USE AND CONVENIENCE MAID ATTENDANT ■i w MJMjwj jM ininint i ■ ; ■ ■ } ■■!■ ii ;  i ; n f THE STUDENTS AND FACITLTY of SWEET BKIAK are hereby given a cordial invitation to make our store headquarters when in Lynchburg. We are always glad to give any general information or serve them in any way possible. We offer for your inspection a stock of High-Class Jewelry and kindred merchandise not to be found elsewhere in Lynchburg, and surpassed by no establishment anywhere. We Make a Specialty of Glass, College, fraternity and Society Rings, Pins, Etc. We would appreciate an opportunity of submitting designs and esti- mates, to which prompt attention is given. Correspondence hunted. D. B. Ryland Company JEWELERS and SILVERSMITHS 809 Main Street LYNCHBURG, VA. Adams Bros. -Paynes Co. The Building Material People BRICKS, LIME AND CEMENT LUMBER OF ALL KINDS — LYNCHBURG i w „ : : ..x x-x°-x-x x--x x X VIRGINIA i % x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- !- x-x x- mmmmm mmm PENICK DRUG CO. 805 Main Street ( LAW BLUG.) LYNCHBURG, VA. £ FRESH HUYLER ' S ALWAYS ON HAND Fresh Cut Flowers Kodaks, Films and Supplies YOU ARE INVITED TO MAKE OUR STORE Your LYNCHBURG Rendezvous OLDEST SEED AND FERTILIZER HOUSE IN THE STATE W. A. MILLER SON Wholesale and Retail dealers in Seeds, Fertilizers and Wool Write for special prices on Fertilizers in a car lots OUR Peggy from Paris Evening Shoe the very newest thing, is cut low in front, without straps, just hugs the heel perfectly and cannot be kicked off in dancing. Has a two-inch heel and is made of satin, and the vamps are simply covered with beads. £3 £3 ££ Price Five Dollars KINCKLE SHOE CO. McGREGOR ' S ! Now in Our NEW STORE 1 000 Main Street Everything in the way of Dry Goods, Fancy Goods Millinery, c. The best lighted and the best equipped store in the city. Come and see us. j. a. McGregor F INE URNITURE OR RATERNITIES Brighten Up Your Room! We Can Supply It Novelties of All Kinds Fleenor Furniture Co. 008-10 Main St., LYNCHBURG, VA. niiucted by specialists, negatives. We print them free, a pie of our wnik. PRICE LIST FREE S3 SS Si0i$  $ , I Base Ball I Basket Ball % Foot Ball % Tennis i is S. O. FISHER Sporting and Athletic Outfitter, Fishing Tackle Camp Outfits, Fine Guns and Rifles 1024 MAIN STREET LYNCHBURG. VA. j « j j«j« «j«  j« « « «j nm H o0 h ChK {hKh h h} h {hKhKh The College Girls ' Store Our Millinery Parlor One of the Handsomest in the South 1910 SMART STTLK The Most Popular Shop- ping Place College Girl Hats A SPECIALTY J. R. Millner Company LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA z THE LEADERS IN z Dress Goods, Silks, White Goods, Laces and Embroid- eries. Carpets, Rugs, Lace Curtains and Draperies DRESS MAKING. SUIT MAKING, SKIRT MAKING A SPECIALTY : : : : Tailored Suits are Made by Skilled Men Tailors : : : : O{H H} H HXH a H K 0 H KH i T W. H. MONTGOMERY t 1 T. KINNIER 4 Kinnier, Montgomery Co. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS IN CHINA, GLASSWARE, TINWARE PLATED WARE, CUTLERY FRUIT JARS, ETC. Lynchburg, Virginia V X We make a specialty of Schools and Hotel Furnishings T T 3. y. I FIVE O ' CLOCK TEA KETTLES l and CHAFING DISHES WE simply wish to call your attention to these two articles because they are so popular with the college student. A purchase of one now means years of service, and can do more to recall the happy hours spent at college than any other keepsake. We, of course, have other things, such as very large and complete lines of China, Glass, Crockery and Brass, —both staple and fancy. Lots of brass novelties, fancy china and bric-a-brac to give your friends. Come in and look at our store; you will enjoy the visit, and so will we. Lynchburg Crockery Company J. A. STALL. Manage 1027 Main Street LYNCHBURG, VA. W. 0. JOHNSON Staple and Fancy Groceries, Confectioneries Nuts, Canned Goods Tobacco, Cigars 1012 Main St., Lynchburg, Va V LECKER ' S ERFECT IIOTOttRAPHS LEASE ARTICl ' LAR EOPLE ! Studio Cor. Main and 9th LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA A. S. WHITE CO. W holesaie Grocers LYNCHBURG, VA. +4| We Cater Particularly to College Trade IN HIGHM5RADE Footwear Isbell, Bowman Co. S£ 903 Main St., Lynchburg, Va. John P. Pettyjohn Co. Contractors and Builders No. 212 Eighth St., LYNCHBURG, VA. 1. 0L QI b PLEASE TAKE THIS DOWN: Hotel Carroll, Home of the Traveler, W. W. LYNN. Mi ..i..i..i..;..i.. .;..;..;.. M M M j H Mi MiMiMiMi M} . J. P. BELL COMPANY GKAIGIIILL JONES 913 main street Manufacturers of MONA HAIR TONIC LYNCHBURG, VA. — = College Seals = | Fraternity Pins, Badges and Fobs | of every description made to order 5 Graduation Gifts IN WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, ETC. x j. x We repair everything in the Jewelry line, in the best possible manner, and guarantee ,|,  ■ « the be t service X BUCKINGHAM FLIPPIN I 913 Main Street LYNCHBURG, VA. I I I THE HOUSE OF QUALITY EVERY NEEDFUL REQUISITE FOR THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN Ready- to -Wear and Millinery Departments SECOND to NONE IN THE STATE DRESS-MAKING Our facilities for turning out fine, high-grade work in all classes of dress-making are BETTER than any previous in our employ two experienced and thorough th a large force of the best trained help. It is season. We ha head designers, our one aim to give the very highest class of workmanship in these departments at the lowest cost, as this section of our estab- lishment is not run solely as a money-maker, but as a necessary adjunct to selling merchandise in the dress goods, silk and wash- goods departments. All kinds of costumes made, such as eve dresses, separate skirts and waists and sem as slated above, are extremely reasonable class work that is always assured. ning, church and street i-tailored suits. Prices, considering the high- TAILORING In onnection with our Store have an EXPERIENCED MAN TAILOR of State-wide reputation. The very highest class of tailored work assured on all suits. ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED AS TO FIT AND WORKMANSHIP. n I • A magnificent stock of imported Silks and Dress Goods carried through- T EDITICS ' . ° ul he entire year. NOVELTIES in evening, church and street silfc- Exclusive suit patterns in both imported and domestic suitings 1029-1031 Main Street, LYNCHBURG, VA. THE Peoples National Bank of Lynchburg, Va. CAPITAL $300,000 SURPLUS FUND $400,000 JOHN VICTOR, President W. PETTYJOHN, Vice-President G. E. VAUGHAN, Cashier W. W. DICKERSON, Assl. Cashier Lowneys Chocolates NOTHING BETTER HARRIS-WOODSON CO. Wholesale Distributors LYNCHBURG, VA. I .£ Norfolk, Va. Richmond, Va. t T D. MOSES CO. Lynchburg, Va. Newest Up-to-Date Millinery Dress Goods Silks, Suits and Underwear High-class Dress-making Department . . Framed Pictures, and Picture Frames to order Everything in RUGS and Floor Coverings Your Kodak Man EITHER PHONE Developing and Printing of Films and Plates Work Unsurpassed and Prices Right Every Need of the Amateur Photographer Supplied MENTION THIS MONTHLY The J. Sussman Photo Stock Co. 223-225 PARK AVENUE, BALTIMORE, MD. X-: X : M-: X H X M ! H— H- I Wood ' s Pharmacy, inc. LYNCHBURG, VA. Next to Hotel Carroll THE MODERN DRUG STORE Meet your friends here ; have a drink and make yourselves at home. We appreciate your NUNNALLY ' S CANDIES, TOILET AR- TICLES, CUT FLOWERS, PURE ICE = CREAM = I To the patrons and friends of this college and all others to whom Modern Methods and Cleanly stores appeal, the STA-KLEEN store caters. 1 Adams Cobbs, Inc. | i RETAIL GROCERS I 618 Main St. Lynchburg, Va. X Chesapeake Ohio Railway TO RICHMOND AND THE WEST Fast trains with through Pull- man sleepers to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. For full information, address JNO. D. POTTS General Passenger Agent, C. O. Railway Richmond, Virginia. We pick up bargains and shovel them out to the trade Ainslie - Martin Co. H «4 L. W. WILSON, D. D. S. Cor. Church and 7th Sts. LYNCHBURG. ::: VIRGINIA T. G. OFFTERDINGER Succe ssor to O ' Brien Offterdingei I 1200 Main St. DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF LIVE STOCK AND FRESH MEATS. iRcmember the placet Cotrell Leonard Albany. New York MAKERS OF Caps and Gowns To the American Col- leges from the Atlantic to the Pacific CLASS CONTRACTS A SPECIALTY (i. Sch inner, Ine. No. 35 Union Square NEW YORK MUSIC DEALERS CATALOGUES AND GUIDES FREE ON APPLICATION