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flIMss IRannette Ibopfcins ¥ ¥ ¥ a o NCE upon a time, during the first happy year of the organiza- tion of the Agnes Scott Institute, we had with us a poetess whose best productions were dedicated to our dear principal, Miss Hopkins. Would that her muse were mine, now that my pen fails to indite the thoughts of my heart. If it could express my heart ' s language this poor tribute of love and reverence would be a glowing eulogy worthy of its subject. Six years have passed since that first year, since those so fortunate as to be Agnes Scott girls then, sat under Miss Hopkins ' s patient, gentle tuition and her firm, unwavering but tender rule as principal of that beloved institution. Miss Nannette Hopkins was educated at Hollins Institute, Va., receiving a full diploma from that institution. After graduation she had charge, for one year, of a small school at her home, Warm Springs, Va. After this she was associated as Senior Assistant for five years with Mrs. J. B. Winston, Principal of Valley Seminary, Waynesboro, Va. In 1889 she came to Georgia to take the position of principal in a school at Decatur, then known as the Decatur Female Seminary, but afterward as the Agnes Scott Institute. This position Miss Hopkins has continued to hold until the present time. Now, do you who do not know her, imagine the principal of the Agnes Scott Institute to be an ogress ? Never, even in the loneliness, homesickness and gloom of their first experience as boarding-school girls did Miss Nannette seem to her pupils other than a guardian angel. Does any old girl who may read this remember the comfort Miss Hopkins gave her during her first days at school while wrestling with entrance examinations and dreadful longings for home ? Ah ! a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind, and who can say we didn ' t love Miss Hopkins better because she told us she had been homesick on- just such an occasion. We fortunate old girls knew Miss Hopk ' ns under favor- able circumstances, we were nearer to her and to each other than in those days of the Agnes Scott ' s larger growth. How patiently and carefully she drilled us in her beloved mathematics, and how vividly ye historian remembers the scoldings she didn ' t get because of her unusual density in that useful but unat- tractive science. But this long-suffering forbearance, instead of fostering lazi- ness in her pupils, incited them to deeds of study of which they had never before dreamed; and to have her softly utter, I am very much gratified by your im- provement, was equal to laurel wreath and laudatory sonnets to an Olympic victor. After the Agnes Scott ' s first year Miss Hopkins ' s duties forbade her doing any class work, so her mantle as a teacher of mathematics fell upon other and worthy shoulders, and while students loved these successors they missed Miss Hopkins ' s presence in the class-room. A wonderful little woman a certain admirer said of her not long sincev and wonderful she is. In thinking of her personality one who knows Miss Hopkins well is reminded of Mrs. Browning ' s lines: Such a blue inner light from her eyelids outbroke, You looked at her silence and fancied she spoke; When she did, so peculiar yet soft was the tone, Tho ' the loudest spoke also you heard her alone. Gentle as a May morning zephyr, dainty as a violet, vet her influence is all- pervading and powerful as a sovereign ' s. Blessings upon the little woman ! Her girls will never forget her, and those who have known her longest feel sure of their places in her memory, worthy or unworthy, for they know she will not let their faults erase their names from off her heart.
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Calendar 1896 SEPTEMBER 2 to 7, Registration. NOVEMBER 5, Mnemosynean Reception. NOVEMBER 28, Thanksgiving Day. DECEMBER 17 to 23, Examinations. DECEMBER 23 to 30, Christmas Holidays. JANUARY 12, End of Fall Term. JANUARY 13, Beginning of Spring Term. FEBRUARY 22, Washington ' s Birthday. MARCH 5, Open Session of M. L. S. MARCH 17 to 23, Examinations. APRIL 26, Memorial Day. 1897 MAY IS to 21, Pinal Examinations. MAY 21 to 26, Commencement Week. MAY 21, Mnemosynean Reception. MAY 23, Commencement Sunday. MAY ' 24, Recital. MAY 7 25, Alumni Address. MAY 26, Commencement Dav.
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