Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 102 of the 1894 volume:

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THIS THE FIRST NUMBER OF THE BARNARD ANNUAL IS DEDICATED TO MRS. SETH LOW , BY THE BOARD OF EDITORS. Hoard of Editors. Helen Bbigham Crocker, ' 9-1, Chairman. Alice Lillie Seligsberg, ' 95, Alike Croquet Stratford, ' 97, Alice Goddabd Chase, ' 96, Clara Lydia Clarke, ' 96, Sedy. Bertha Steele Van Riper, ' 90, Financial Manager. Board of Illustrators. Gratia Whithed, ' 95, Ettie Walter Stettheimeb, ' 96, Maude Wilcox, ' 97. ' m — desire this, the first volume of the BARNARD Annual, to be to the public an illustration of the life at our college, containiug glimpses of its serious aspect and pictures of the pleasures without which even the most earnest workers cannot exist ; to our fellow students we wish it to be a modern satura calling to their minds our happy college days. If we shall have shown to others one mite of what our college is to us, we shall feel that we have repaid a small part of the great debt we owe to Barnard. 3 Board of Trustees. The Rev. Arthur Brooks, D. D., Chairman,. Mrs. Joseph H. Ghoate, Vice- Chairman, Hamilton W. Mabie, Secretary, George A. PlIiURTON, Treasurer, Mrs. Francis B. Arnold, Miss Helen Dawes Brown, The Rev. Arthur Brooks, Mrs. William 0. Brownell, Silas B. Brownell, LL.D., Mrs. George Canfie-ld, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Frederic Bv. Coudert, LL.D. Noah Davis, LL.D., George Hoadly, LL.D., Mrs. Seth Low. Hamilton W. Mabie, Mrs. Alfred Meyer, Mrs. Henry F. Gsborn, George A. Plimpton, Jacob H. Sohiff, Mrs. James S. T. Stranahan, Mrs. James Talcotfc, The Rev. Roderick Terry, D.D., Everett B. Wheeler, Miss Alice Williams, Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood. Associate Members. Mrs. Robert Abbe, Mrs. Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, Mrs. Henry Clows, Miss Helen Gray Cone, Mrs. Wnrthrop Cowden, Mrs. Julien T. Davies, Mrs. John F. Dillon, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, Mrs. Charles Fairchild, Miss Jeauuette L. Gilder, Mrs. Edwin L. Godkin, Mrs . Almon Goodwin, Mrs. James J. Goodwin, Mrs. Arnold Hague, Mrs. Henry Holt, Mrs. Alfred M. Hoyt, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, Mrs. Francis P. Kinnicutt, Mrs. Charles Lanier, Mrs. Herman S. LeRoy. Mrs. C. 8. Lougstreet, Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, Mrs. William Moir, Mrs. F. P. Olcott, Mrs. George Haven Putnam, Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, Mrs. Daniel M. Rollins, Mrs. C. A. Runkel, Miss Agatha Schurz, Mrs. Augustus D. Shepard, Mrs. Roswell P. Smith, Mrs Algernon Sullivan, Mrs. A. B. Stone, Mrs. Louis Tiffany, Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, Miss Amy Townsend, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Henry Yillard, Mrs. Edward Winslow, Mrs. Lorenzo G. Woodhouse. Founders. Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, Mrs. James J. Goodwin, Mr. James Talcott, Mrs. Seth Low, Mr. J. Pier rep out Morgan, Mrs. Esther Herrm an, Mr. J. M. Fiske. 4 COMMITTEES, House Committee. Mrs. Francis B. Arnold, Mrs. John F. Dillon. Mrs. James Talcott, Mrs. F. P. Olcott. Finance Committee. George A. Plimpton, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Jacob H. Sclrrff, Mrs. Setk Low, Mrs. George Haven Putnam, Mrs. Alfred Meyer, Mrs. J. S. T. Stranahan. Scholarship Committee. M ' ss Helen Dawes Brown, Mips Alice Williams, Mrs. James Talcott, Mrs. C. A. Runkel, Mrs. Francis P. Kinnicutt, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, Mis. Henry Holt, Press Committee. Mrs. Henry F. Osborn, Mrs. Alfred Meyer, Mrs. C. A. Runkel. Academic Committee. The Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D., Mrs. Seth Low, Mrs. Henry F. Osborn, Mrs. William BroAvnell, Hamilton W. Mabie. Executive Committee. Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Hamilton TV. Mabie, Miss Helen Dawes Brown, The Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D., Mrs. Alfred Meyer, George A. Plimpton, Silas B. Brownell, LL.D., Mrs. Henry F. Osborn. Chaplains. The Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D., The Rev. Edward Coe, D.D., The Bev. Roderick Terry, D.D., The Bev. C. C. Tiffany, D.D., The Rev. Walpole Warren, D.D. Faculty of Barnard College; The Rev. ARTHUR BROOKS, U. D., Chairman of the Faculty. EUGENE HOWARD BABBITT, A. B., Germanic Languages. CHARLES SEARS BALDWIN, A. 3VL, Ph. D., Literature and Rhetoric. EDWIN MORTIMER BLAKE, Ph.D., Mathematics. GEORGE R, CARPENTER, A. B., Rhetoric. PRANK MOORE COLBY, A. M., History. MORTIMER LAMS ON EARLE, A. M., Ph. D., Greek. THOMAS SCOTT EISKE, A. M., Ph. D., Mathematics. EMILY L. GREGORY, B. L., Ph. D, Botany .■- JAMES HYSLOP, Ph. D., Logic and Ethics. A V. WILLIAMS JACKSON, A.M., L.N. D., Ph.D., English. CHARLES KNAPP, A. M., Ph. D., Latin. JAMES MACLAY, C. E., Mathematics. NELSON G. McCREA, A. M., Ph. D., Latin. CARLO L. SPERANZA, LL. B., A. M, Romance Languages. ERNEST R. Von NARDROEF, E. M., Physics. HERMANN T. VULTE, Ph. D., Chemistry. ARTHUR WILLEY, B. Sc., Zoology. BENJAMIN DURYEA WOODWARD, B. esL.. A. M., Ph. D„ Romance Languages. N. W. LIGGETT, A. B., Registrar. C DEPARTMENT OF GRADUATE WORK. Banta, Effie, B. A., Wellesley, Brooklyn. Barney, Elizabeth, B. A , Columbia, Collegiate Course for Women, Clark, Mabel P., M. A., Bryn Mawr, Corliss, Florence, B. A., Smith, Emerson, Bath, B. A., Bryn Mawr, Grieve, Lucia Graeme, M. A., Wellesley, Hepburn, Emily, B. S., St. Lawrence University, Howell, Jean Kirk, Ph. B., M. S., Cornell, Levy, Laura Grace, B. A., Columbia, Barnard College, Pearson, Agnes, B. S., Cornell, Pettit, Anna Stockton, B. S., St. Lawrence University, Pinney, Grace, B. A., Bryn Mawr, Potter, Lydia Van Housan, B. A., Michigan, M. A., Columbia, Pullman, Mary Stuart, B. A., Columbia, Barnard College, . Budolph, Adelaide, B. A., Hiram, Sands, Georgiana, B. A., Vassar, Sebing, Emma Goodeve, B. A., Smith, Southworth, Effie Alinira, B. S., Michigan, Stabler, Louise Merritt, B. A., Columbia, Barnard College, Litchfield, Conn. New York City. Englewood, N. J. New York City. Mt. Vernon, N. Y. New York City. Brooklyn. THE BARNARD ANNUAL, Senior Class. To tell of the many virtues of tke Class of Ninety-four would be a task requiring all the pages of the future numbers of the Barnard Annual till some distant date — say until the college removes to Bloomingdale. Moreover, this boasting tone would be en- tirely out of harmony with the retiring spirit of the class, for, from the time of en- tering college, we have steadily endeavored to efface ourselves and to hide our shining light under the bushel of a shy and unob- trusive demeanor. That our efforts have met with well-earned success may be infer- red from the remark of a Freshman, who, after being a feAV weeks at Barnard, said to one of us, Are you really a Senior V I didn ' t know there were any at Barnard ! Much to our satisfaction, we were not the first but the second class to enter Bar- nard College. We thus escaped the respon- sibility of the greatness thrust upon our predecessors, the illustrious Class of Ninety- three, while we could still pride ourselves upon being among the pioneers of the first fully affiliated woman ' s college. Our number, the historic and mythic seven, has remained constant throughout the four years. I met a clever Barnard maid (She would not tell her age), Her bearing mild, her manner staid, Her look both bright and sage. How many class-mates, Barnard maid, I pray you, may there be? How many? We are seven, she said, And smiling looked at me. And who are they V I pray you, tell. She answered, Seven are we, And two of us can read Greek well, And two write poetry. Two of us work both day and night On mathematic lore, And one who walks by Ethics ' light, Confesses it a bore. We chose the violet for our class flower, as most emblematic of our nature, but con- sidered ourselves quite good enough already to dispense with the luxury of living up to a motto. Someone, however, applied to us the pat phrase of Pope, Good without noise, and the epithet has clung ever since. It seems rather paradoxical that we should have been the first class to make the experiment of going to certain recitations at Columbia in our Senior year. To tell the truth, it cost us a pang to overcome our natural diffidence. We looked forward aghast to finding ourselves surrounded in class by thirty or forty men, and the pros- pect of reciting before them fairly stag- gered us. Judge, then, of our relieved sur- prise when live of us went up to Columbia for the hist recitation and found in the class only one man ! The reaction from our pre- vious fears was so great that we felt ready to face any number of men after that. As far as we are concerned, the experi- ment has been wholly successful, though it has dispelled some of our preconceived notions of the scholarship of Columbia men. From comparisons often previously made between our work and theirs, we had been gradually flattered into the belief that the men never opened a book until three min- utes before the recitation, that they were ex- clusively devoted to the use of trots, and that their English essays were always unin- telligible. We had looked forward to the effect of our silent influence to lead our brothers from the error of their ways and to stimulate them to more scholarly methods. But alas for the hopes of the would-be re- former! We discovered, to our chagrin, that our erring brothers remembered all the THE BARNARD ANNUAL. things we had forgotten since our Freshman days, and much midnight oil has since been spilled in our ambitious attempt to keej) pace with them. The less said about the Senior theses the better, save as a warning to others. The momentous loth of March was survived, and, now that (as we fondly hope) only a few weeks separate us from our Bachelor ' s degree, we feel moved to give a few words of advice, gleaned from our own experience, to those who are to follow us. First, O ye Seniors of the future, do not for a moment entertain the idea that the Senior year is a sinecure. Do not be so misguided as to choose electives that will require six essa r s apiece during ' the term. On the coutrar} ' . be wisely prodigal and practise no petty economies in the matter of midnight oil. Bear in mind that The heights by Seniors reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were writing theses in the night. ' ' Above all, Beware Ihe Men of March. In closing, the Class of Ninety-four wish for all succeeding classes the same har- monious relations with the college officers, the same affectionate sympathy with one another, the same spirit of loyalty to the Alma Mater that have attended their own modest course. IV. YEAR CLASS. VIOLET — The Violet. President, .... Agnes Irwin. Vice-President, . . . Eliza el ones. Secretary, .... EVANGELINE EOLLINSON BlUDGAlsT. Treasurer, .... EsTELLA DEMABEST. Bridgart, Evangeline RoMiusou, .... Jersey City Bryson, Ella Fitzgerald, .... New York City Crocker, Helen Brigbnin, .... Demarest, Estella, ..... Nanuet, N. Y. Irwin, Agnes, ...... New York City Jones, Eliza, ..... Brooklyn Landau. Laura. ..... • ' THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Junior Class. Three years of mingled sweetness and bitterness we have passed within the loved halls of Barnard College. What hard-won wisdom and experience have been gained in that time ! The days of abject despair are over. Gone are the hours when the work was beyond our ability, and dread instruct- ors frightened away the few ideas left us when we reached the class-room. Now, no work is too hard — -now, no longer can an in- structor inspire us with awe. When a class has arrived at such a state in its career what need is there for self-praise ' ? Freshmen think they own not only the college, but the universe. The Sopho- mores, however, vigorously dispute this claim. As for the Seniors — every one real- izes their greatness. This is their hour of triumph. Now they rule their little world, but next year they may be unheard of in the vaster world. Then, perhaps, no one will consider them, now they are the cyno- sures of all eyes. But the Juniors, the happy Juniors, have become so great that it is in truth unnecessary for them to praise themselves. All the world sees that they are the one and only class with both a glo- rious past and a glorious future. Hi. YEAR CLASS. OTV Q ' GO ROSE COLOR— The Sweet Pea. President, ..... Florence Colgate. Vice-President, .... May Hinton Pollock. Secretary, ..... Antonie Junge. Treasurer, .... CELESTE SWENSON. Historian, ..... Alice Lillie Seugsberg. Brombacher, Caroline Garnar, .... Brooklyn Bryant, Elizabeth Eggleston, . New York City Colgate, Florence, . . Lockwood, Louise Benedict, . Stamford, Conn. Parsons, Mabel, . . . New York City Pollock, May liiutou, . ... Seligsberg, Alice Lillie, . . . . Swenson, Celeste, ..... Flushing, N. Y. Whittled, Gratia, .... New York City disposed unto them, have we, it seemeth, given exceeding offense unto our elders. It grieveth us sorely to be so misunderstood, but this reflection doth calm our perturbed souls, — that seldom doth a reform bring praise to him who would first introduce it. The words of the poet do also comfort us, Ex tincli amahimur. Surely, knowledge maketh one familiar even with the gods and bringeth him to de- spise what he did formerly revere ; so are those things once esteemed by us wonder- ful and mysterious become easily appre- hended in the bright light of that truth and wisdom which now daily filleth our souls. Trigonometry enableth us to defy the mighty sun, aye, even to measure his ' })( Reflectcth on Her Character. Thus became we Sophomores, wise fools, as tradition averreth, but whether wisdom or foolishness doth most predominate hath not yet been clearly proven. In diverse manners hath our first Sophomorical act been construed, some maintaining it absurdly foolish (or unreasonable, which is near akin thereto), others avow- ing that wisdom was our guide. For inasmuch as we did refuse to make a sport of the youth of the lower classmen, but were of a mind to befriend them and show ourselves kindly greatness. Rhetoric dissecteth every treat- ise, teacheth us, also, what appeals do touch a man ' s heart, and what his reason. The unapproachable wisdom of Socrates ' s self now seemeth mere folly and vanity. So doth knowledge, prceserlim cauLum dignus adsumere in that she hath enrolled us in the number of her friends, establish our be- lief that wisdom, not foolishness, is our character. But one doubt remaineth which suffereth us not to make loud boast of our powers. That official test which beareth the title, Final Examinations, and which occurreth in May, will separate the chaff from the wheat, and prove us whether we be wise or foolish. 11 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. II. YEAR CLASS. Sapirc audes. YELLOW. — Chrysanthemum. President, Anna Cole Mellick. Vice-President, Alice Godpard Chase. Secretary, Mary Rogers Roper. Treasurer, Clara Rebecca Meltzer. Historian, Jessie May Wendover. Lnase, Alice txoaclaici, T ,.„„lrl .... Jjioolvlyn Llarke, Llara Lyuia, Orange. N. J. Clews, Elsie, X T , ... V ..lr Z 1 . ' --.. New 1 oi R City Hainmersloixgli, Carrie, C 1 ft Harris, May Bradford, iMusliiug, in. jl. it l A I . rj; ,, ,n _ Hart, Ada n incle, New York City Junge, Antonie, T. i nn 1 1 T 11 XJ 1 UUK1 ) 11 Kiiisila, Juliet, i on tiei is, x . i . Aixeiiiciv, Aiiiiii v oie, M«ii il«iiv N T iUU 11 T CI .111 , i . O ■ Meltzer, Clara Rebecca, New York City Place, Louise, Potter, Eva Sherwood, Brooklyn Roper, Mary Rogers, Pelhara Manor, N. Y. Stettheimer, Ettie Walter, New York City Stone, Mary, Brooklyn Sutpheu, Anne Janet, Newark, N. J. Uppercu, Lillian, New York Cily Van Riper, Bertha Steele, Brooklyn Wendover, Jessie May, NeAvark, N. J. Wolff, Gertrude. New York City. Since the Freshman year of the class of : 97 is now nearly passed, we are all exer- cised in mind by the thought of the coming examinations. But the test which shall determine whether we are to advance to the enjoyment of a Sophomoric existence does not make us utterly dismayed, firstly, because at mid year we passed a similar ordeal, and again, since at present we possess a marvellous and unlimited supply of knowledge. Such a statement as the last will inevitably be challenged, but we are only too glad to produce our proof of it. To enter upon a generous and detailed explanation, however, would be an arduous and unnecessary task ; for even the most cursory review that we may give must needs convince the sceptic of our unparalleled brilliancy. Assuming that she who has rounded out eight full months at Barnard can en- dure to recollect her early attempts to climb the tree of knowledge, pray what limb did she first grasp ? The guardian D ANNUAL. of her secrets, the class historian, would reply with excellent seriousness and high truth that our maiden plucked the fruit at once, aud we should unhesitatingly cor- roborate her statement. We have delved into the mysterious de Mysteriis. The secret of the only correct Latin pronuncia- tion of a cultivated Roman, a dignified Roman, of the Ciceronian-Augustan Age is guarded by everyone of us, lest the prec- ious, evanescent possession might break its bonds aud ilee to the ghostly realms from which it was conjured up. Dis gratias it still abides with us. Mathematics has become plain to some of us ; to others it has not. It is astonishing what tricks an innocent looking equation can contain. To differentiate the real from the unreal, the known from the unknown, and to fathom the curious relations existing between variables and their limits cause some of us to succumb. But we have not been stupid enough to waste our verdancy upon a discussion of the value of non-Euclidian Geometry, or upon a consideration of a scientific, yet art- ful Rhetoric. We have had time to dis- cover why the parrot instead of Pallas ' s owl is the patron bird of Barnard. We have learned how to enter Columbia ' s library without being laughed at more than an in- finite number of times. Nay, some have even discovered Bohn ' s library. Then,besides attending the classic dramas given at col- lege, helping Santa Glaus to find his way to that mysterious house, which is not lost in great New York, since it stands next to Dard ' s, and preserving an exact and meri- torious proportion between cuts and at- tendance at recitations, we have had time to invent a yell, Zip donner nacherl Hoorah, Hyrah, Zip come leven, Barnard, ' 97 ! and to choose a motto, which, we flatter ourselves, is faithfully representative of the spirit of our age. He who is far astray may paraphrase our exquisite Euripidean line as, Even woman has a show. But we, the class of ' 97, are content to ignore that vile insinuation, and seeking all truth to pass happily on, dXXa yap ecttiv (.iovGcx kocl ijp.iv. 10 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. I. YEAR CLASS. aWa yap sgtlv fxovffot Ka ffjxiv CRiriSON. — lacqueminot Rose. J. 1 collLclJuj .... 1 t Q MtOOI n ill! r V LLc-I lBkiCLGliG, ADELAIDE VVELIiS XHtOWN. UCui C lull V , r P t ' O t cm VP 1 JL1 vtLOUi. . ( ' i T I i in I A T Af A TT ATT Baldwin, Agues Newark, N. J. Bloomingdale, Rosalie Stanton, New York City. Brown, Adelaide Wells, Brooklyu. Bucknam, Edith Phoebe, Li Deming, Grace, Williamsbridge, N. Y. Dobbs, Marj Berginann, New York City. Dowden, Florence, Newark, N. J. Eddy, Marie, New York City. Elkus, Estelle, ( if Fenton, Grace, (( (t Ferry, Alice Medora, . Mi Vernon, N. Y. Fletcher, Priscilla, Brooklyn. Hall, Cordelia. Alma, New York City- Hobbs, Bertha, East Orange, N. J. Matthews, Myra, Orange, N. J. Osborne, Eleanor Frances, New York City. Sackett, Edith Helen, . CC ii Shaw, Louise, . Hackensack, N. J. Stratford, Aline Croquet, Brooklyn. Sumner, Anne Porter, New York City. Tanzer, Helen Henrietta, II a Wailack, Gertrude, a it Wheel ock, Adaliue Caswell, a (I Wilcox, Maude. Pclham Manor, N. Y. THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Although tlie irregular students of any institution are generally considered to be those who, from one reason or another, are not pursuing the prescribed course of study, and in consequence are rather looked down upon by the lofty under-graduates, the idea has at last been conceived that those designated as specials, are in reality a superior order of beings who, because of their brilliant intellect and rare attributes, are set apart and above the regular classes of students — at least, this is the opinion held by the specials ' themselves. That the specials of Barnard College are placed above the regular students is, however, literally true, as anyone who daily wends her way to the third or fourth floor would be ready to affirm with as much quickness and des]; atch, as that with which a really bright and intelligent man puts his signature to the petition to be presented to the State Convention in May. The third floor is the destinati on of the Chemistry student, and here, in an atmos- phere impregnated with chlorine, nitrous and sulphurous fumes, the latter in so large a proportion as to be unpleasantly sug- gestive, the devotees to science toil away. Good, independent work is done. The student learns for herself. There is no unnecessary explanation, no undue ampli- fication of methods for work. The student in Botany goes to the fourth Moor. Here the same atmosphere of work (minus the suffocating fumes!) is found, and a dignified silence is maintained during laboratory hours. The special students are as much in earnest as any of the under- graduates, and earnestness is one of the first requisites to successful work. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that the special students enter so little into the life of the college. Perhaps an organization among themselves would bring them more into sympathy, primarily with one another, and finally, with the life and aims of the college as a unit. 15 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. Atwater, Jane Leonard, Bryson, Lorraine Marguerite, Burnett, Katherine Cleveland, Collins, Anna Eaton, Dow, Bertha Me Lane, Dunn, Florence Louise, Elder, Harriett Bigelow, Flynn, M. Gertrude, Foote, Anna Ellen, Hunt, Ellen Alzina, Knight, Mary, Kuorr, Rosa, Kraemer, Henry, Locke, Anna Mary, Menkin, Hay, Parsons, Mary, Sliadell, Estelle, Shaixglmessy, Teresa Cecilia, Sturges, Kate Bronson, Taylor, Alexandrina, Waterson, Ada, Wessells, Helen Doremus, . Brooklyn. New York City. Brooklyn. New York City. Jamaica, L. I. Pittsfield, Mass. New York City. . Indianapolis, Ind. New York City. Beading, Pa. Thompson ville. Conn. Englewood, N. J. Mamaroneck, N. Y. New York City. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. Appleton, Mary, ..... Ely, Grace Genevieve, .... Knorr, Rosa, ..... More, Mary B., Botau, Antoinette, ..... Thomson, Mary, .... Van Everen, Grace Abbie, .... Nutley, N. J. New York City. Mt. Yen ion, N. Y. New York City. ti it Brooklyn. UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION of BARNARD COLLEGE. established 1893. President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Gratia Whittled, ' 95 ones iuwin, ' 94. Helen Brigham Crocker, ' 94. Caroline Garnar Brombachek, ' 95. Claha Lydia Clarke, ' 96. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Eliza J. Jones, ' 94, Chairman. Bertha M. Hobbs, ' 97. May Bradford Harris, ' 96. SELF-GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE. ' 94. — Evangeline Bolliuson Bridgart, Chairman, . . Eliza J. Jones. ' 95.— May Hinton Pollock, ' 96. — Louise Place, ' 97.— Edith Helen Sacketl, Louise B. Lockwood. Mary M. Stone. Estelle Elkus. 10 tl,,.lf„J ' i,ilu THE BARNARD ANNUAL. THE NOVEL CLUB. Established 1894. Swenson, Celeste, Trustee, Brom backer, Caroline Garnar, Bryant, Elizabeth, Colgate, Florence, Junge, Antonie, Lockwood, Louise. Parsons, Mabel, Treasurer. Parsons, Mabel, Pollock, May Hinton, Seligsberg, Alice Lillie, Swenson, Celeste, Whithed, Gratia. THE HAPHAZARD. Alice Goddard Chase, Chase, Alice Goddard, Clarke, Clara Lydia, Clews, Elsie, Collins, Anna Eaton, Hammerslough, Carrie, Harris, May Bradford, Hart, Ada Hinde, Hunt, Ellen Alziua, Kinsila, Juliet, Mellick, Anna Cole, Meltzer, Clara Rebecca, Executive Officer. Junge, Antonie. Place, Louise, Potter, Eva Sherwood, Roper, Mary Rogers, Stettheimer, Ettie Walter, Stone, Mary, Stratford, Aline Croquet, Sutphen, Anne Janet, Uppercu, Lillian. Van Everen, Grace Abbie, Van Riper, Bertha Steele, Wendover, Jessie May, Wolff, Gertrude. THE DEBATING SOCIETY. Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, Baldwin, Agnes, Bloomingdale, Rosalie Stanton, Brown, Adelaide Wells, Bucknani, Edith Phoebe, Dobbs, Mary Bergmanu, Dowden, Florence, Elkus, Estelle, Fletcher, Piiscilla, Aline Croquet Stratford. Adelaide Wells Brown. Matthews, Myra, Osborne, Eleanor Frances, Shaw, Louise, Sumner, Anne Porter, Stratford, Aline Croquet, Tanzer, Helen H., Wallach, Gertrude, Wheelock, Adaline Caswell, Wilcox, Maude. 19 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. BETA EPSILGN CHAPTER — op — KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA Established 1891. —1894 — Agnes Irwin, Eliza J. Jones, Helen Brigkana Crocker, Laura Landau, Ella Fitzgerald Bryson. —1895.- Gratia Whitlied, Florence Colgate, Louise Benedict Lock wood, Mabel Parsons, Caroline Garnar Brombacker. —1896.— Antonie Junge, Mary Rogers Roper. -1897.— Mary Bergmann Dobbs, Adaline Caswell Wheelock. Kappa Kappa Gamma. In the year 1870, at Monmouth, 111., was organized the fraternity of Kappa Kappa Gramma, whose members now outnumber those of any other frater- nity. The names of many prominent women are included in its ranks, among whom we ma} mention Julia Ward Howe, Eliza Putnam Heaton, Pru- dence Arnott, Mary A. Livermore, Lucy E. Wight, Mary B. Jewett, E. Jane Ne- bou, Kate Shelby, and Emily Hudson Burnham, the Grand President. In all, its chapters, including the active and inac- tive ones, number more than forty. There are four hundred and fifty active mem- bers, and more than sixteen hundred alumu a . Since its beginning, the fraternity has been remarkable for energy and zeal. No better illustration of this can be given than the first Pan Hellenic Convention, which was brought about mainly through the efforts of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Delegates from all the women ' s fraterni- ties met at Boston in 18 ' Jl, and the con- v ention was so successful that it was fol- lowed by another at the Columbian Expo- sition in Chicago. There is a magazine, The Key, pub- lished quarterly, a Calendar also, and a Directory. There is also a song-book, the second edition of which will presently be issued. The colors of the fraternity are light blue and dark blue ; the flower is the fleur-de-lis ; the stone, the sapphire ; the badge, a gold key. The Beta Epsilon chapter was founded at Barnard College in 1891, the members of the first class of the college, -)3, be- coming charter members of the fraternity. It still remains the only secret society at Barnard. 20 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Barnard College. tHUEE years ago, at the National ■ xt- Council of Women held in Washing- ton, I believe I stood quite alone in claiming for the affiliated college the essential prin- ciples of both the coeducational college and the separate college for women. And tins in the face of the Western educator who boasted that those bright, enthusiastic, largo-brained, and big-hearted young women of the West, those young women who have in their eyes the distant horizons of their prairie homes, will have nothing to do with annexes. The world progresses : last year one of the leading ' women in the educational world included the affiliated college among the three tolerably clear, consistent, and accred- ited types of education. For which we are truly grateful. I can well imagine that the being who first called the spirit of Compromise into the world was preparing for himself a great sur- prise. Where he intended only to escape violent opposition, he found to his chagrin that he must also renounce enthusiastic support. At best the only platform open to him is one of courteous indifference. For instance, the founder of the affiliated col- lege system doubtless flattered himself with the thought that he should win all sides, for (would he argue) we abolish the actual contact of the sexes in the class-room, which is the criticism aimed against the co- educational system; and we maintain the educational standards of the old, established institutions, in the failure to do which lies the weakness of the separate college for women. But alas ! the coeducationalists vigorously oppose the separation of the sexes, and the believers in the separate col- lege wax equally wroth at the acknowledged dependence upon a college for men. Nevertheless, as I take it, the true essen- tial of the coeducational college is the iden- tify of standard, not the identity of sex. I never could really believe that the boast of the coeducational college could be that the men and the women receive their instruc- tion at precisely the same instant, and in precisely the same class-room. Surely I am right in maintaining that the important point is that the instruction is- the name. Therefore the coeducational college and the affiliated college are working hand in hand for the preservation of one educational standard for both men and women. And in the same way, I never could bring myself to believe that the essential principle of the separate college for women could be to prove that women can get along very well without men, or that women can succeed in securing for themselves magnif- icent buildings and large endowments. To me the true essential of the separate wo- man ' s college is the simplification of the so- cial machinery — the consideration of certain influences and questions that do not belong- to intellectual or educational training alone. And in this we find the affiliated college joining hands with the separate college for women. Barnard College is the most highly de- veloped type of the affiliated system existing to-day, her graduates receiving at the hands of the parent University the same recogni- tion that it gives to its own graduates. It seems simple enough to explain that Bar- nard College is nothing more than a ma- chinery existing for the purpose of extend- ing to women the privileges of Columbia College ; that educationally it ; ' .s Columbia College, its only separate existence being executive and financial. And yet it is in re- ality the most difficult thing in the world to have the educational identity of the two iu- 21 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. stitutions really understood. For instance, I was introduced the other day (by au Asso- ciate Member of Barnard College) to a young lady who was registered at Barnard Col- lege, but who was not a Barnard student as she was working for a Columbia degree. I did my best to convince the speaker and the student that there existed no other kind of Barnard student than the kind described — that a graduate of Barnard wins the Colum- bia degree or fails to graduate from Bar- nard — and yet it wns quite impossible to dispossess the young lady of the notion that it sounded more distinguished to proclaim herself a student of Columbia registered at Barnard! It was absurdly petty, if you will, and I trust it is an exceptional in- stance, yet it shows the general lack of ap- preciation of the fact that a student of Bar- nard College means nothing more uor less than a female student of Columbia. Presi- dent Low, in his Annual Report for 1893, says : It will be noticed that the degree of A. 13. was conferred for the first time upon a graduating class from Barnard College. These young ladies have the right to feel that they are as well entitled to the degree as any of the men upon whom it has been bestowed in Columbia ' s long history. Indeed, I am not so sure but, if one con- siders the crowded and uncomfortable con- dition of the Barnard class rooms, lunch- room, and study, and the half-hook doled out in the cloak-room to the daintiest of bonnets, one might not assume that these young ladies have more than earned that right! However, we are sure that it is only a question of a short time before Barnard will offer the physical as well as the educa- tional advantages of Columbia. To go back to history, the influences that led to the foundation of Barnard Col- lege are the same that led to the foundation of the affiliated colleges in England. First, we find chaos — a certain amount of instruc- tion presumably, but no standard whereby to judge it — a total lack of aim, of purpose ; second, we find a demand for a fixed stan- dard ; third, the standard is set by the ex- tension to women of the University examina- tions ; fourth, the standard once set, it is found impossible to attain it without adc- cpiate and special instruction ; fifth, and last, a college is founded in order to pro- vide this instruction. The year 1SS5 is the date of Columbia ' s first effort to clear away the chaos of wo- man ' s educational opportunities in New York. The Columbia degree was offered to any woman that could pass for four years the required examinations. Those were days of heroic trial, of patient endeavor, of rare fortitude on the part of the women of New York, as I have good reason to know. But it was soon acknowledged that even the superiority of the feminine mind could not make of eight examinations an adequate substitute for four years of college life with all that it means. Therefore in the autumn of 1888 a memorial was prepared and pre- sented to the Trustees of Columbia College, not asking for coeducation, as had been urged by previous petitions to the Board, but for official sanction to a Society for the Instruction of Women by the Professors and Cther Instructors of Columbia Col- lege under a management entirely satisfac- tory to your honorable Board. The Memorial was approved by the Trustees of Columbia February, 1885), aud the Society went to work without delay to secure funds and a house. In July, 1889, it was incorporated by the Regents of New York State as Barnard College, and the fol- lowing October its doors were opened to a 22 THE BAKNARD ANNUAL. Freshman class of eight students. The lad- tier was raised, making ' accessible the dizzy heights of the academic degree. Before us chaos ! Will that recall the cel- ebrated prophecy of royal egotism? Well, I shall not erase it. Certainly it is not too much to say that the establishment of Bar- nard College has immensely simplified and rationalized the education of women in New York. Ask the schoolmistress to tell you of the uncertainty, the confusion, and the lack of direction existing in the girls ' schools of New York during the period of ante-Barnard days. In the trenchant lan- guage of one who has gone from us, and who is sadly missed, The idea of education for women in New York city seemed to be to study French and music forever and ever, and to add other things if possible. The head of a well-known girls ' school writes of the influence exerted by the pres- ence of Barnard College : There is now evident in the schools a purpose to form, not a complete structure of frail if graceful proportions, but a durable foundation for future building. Now, just a word on that historic first class of Barnard. As the poverty of a judge is the best proof of his honesty, so the smallness of this class was the best proof of Barnard ' s integrity, of her determination to exert a real and beneficial influence upon woman ' s education in New York. We look back with a wonder that is akin to awe when we realize the heroism of this decis- ion. Think of the temptation to prove our right to be by big classes, and overflowing rooms! It was truly pathetic to observe the effect of years of chaos upon the current notions of women ' s education. It was an every-day occurrence to refuse applicants for the post-graduate courses who could not have qualified for entrance into the Freshman class. More and more, through bitter discouragements, did Barnard realize that in her firmness la} ' her only possible salvation — the only possibility of bringing system and order into confusion worse confounded. Five years have passed, and it is a delight to compare the intelligent, clear inquiries made at the office to-day with the faltering, vague, impossible ones that poured in at the beginning. People seem to understand what we are aiming at ; women prepare quietly and come before us ready for their examinations ; schools co- operate gladly and without friction. We have earned a place, and we mean to fill it. It is impossible in these few pages to give any adequate idea of the difficulties that beset the early days of Barnard. En- thusiasm, Belf-sacrifice, Disinterestedness, Generosity, Faith, Hope, and Courage — these have all played their great part in the struggle. It is a heritage which the Bar- nard student may well be proud of, may well cherish as a sacred incentive to the higher life. Annie Nathan Meyer. 23 THE BARNARD ANNUAL ? Jlill|l|P? IMF ' IN M E MORI AM . ELLA WEED, DIED JANUARY 10, 1894. 24 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Jilla Weed. cj LLA WEED, to whom the working or- s r ganization of Barnard College is due, was graduated from Vassal ' College in 1873. As a child she was not strong and so was not sent to school until after she was ten years old, but she had already developed a vigorous taste for reading, having had the advantage of tumbling about in a library, as Dr. Holmes says, and at sixteen she was prepared for the Freshman class of Vassar, and further, had read all the Latin required for the Freshman year. At college she held an ecpial rank in class work and in all those outside interests in which fellow students and classmates are at the same time judges and competitors. Especially in the Delta Chapter of the college literary society to which she belonged did she take an import- ant and representative position, gaining in its service fertility of resource and command of her own powers, and an exercise and transmutation of the ideas awakened and knowledge acquired from week to week, and year to year, in the regular curriculum. The last address that Ella Weed made to the Associate Alumme of Vassar last June was upon the practical advantages of this society to the Vassar student in giving an outlet for activity of the mind, a chance to react upon that received, and m checking the tendency to mere receptivity and passiv- ity, which is the natural danger, the real un- practicalness of a college training, of which we hear so much, and which is much more of a danger in women ' s colleges than in men ' s, owing to fewer outside interests dur- ing the college life. The striking qualities of her own mind were activity and balance, and she instinctively sought what furthered these, first in her own student life and later in that of those to whom she was a guide. Her educational work began with the first year after her graduation, when she was offered an important position in a girls ' school in Springfield, Ohio, in connection with Mrs. Worthington. She was wont to say she learned of Mrs. Worthington all she knew of teaching ' — a most happy meet- ing, then, of teacher and taught, for she was as quick to impart as she was to receive, and in her later work those best fitted by personal knowledge to judge counted her influence over the bright, young minds just beginning her own profession of teaching as not the least important part of her in- fluence. .She had a large-hearted, easy gen- erosity of character that made her quick to acknowledge and to render aid, and with her openness and impressionability, life for her was a constant give and take. After seven or eight years of successful work in Springfield, domestic and jjersonal considerations caused her return to her home in Newburgh for a j r ear of rest. She was likely at that time to have turned to literary pursuits, having finished a bright novel, A Foolish Virgin, but the imperious need of work, imposed upon her by her rest- less brain, urged her into activity before she had regained strength enough for anew initiative. Work she needed, but it had to be work to which she was already ac- customed and which should afford her the rest of accustomed routine. She, therefore, accepted a place as teacher in Miss Mackay ' s school, where she had been prepared for college. In 1884 she entered Miss Annie Brown ' s school, in New York City, as head of the day school. Here, as in Springfield, al- though teaching was a large part of her work, the most original, permanent and per- sonal part was on the administrative and organizing side in deciding what should be the aim and scope of the curriculum. To 25 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. this work she brought matured thought and experience, and though she would have been the last to claim anything of finality for what she did, she yet knew what was the next step then needed to be taken and how to simplify and strengthen the ordinary course of studies, and while strengthening the course to lessen the physical strain upon the student, and the mental irritability in- volved in pursuing too great a variety of subjects. When Barnard College was established, Miss Weed was one of the first women called upon for aid and counsel. Her ac- quaintance with New York socially and edu- cationally was of the greatest service to the new undertaking. In working with others she had the gift of never seeming to have prejudged the case, never seeming to bring- to a discussion her own conclusion already formed. She could keep a epiestiou open in her own mind until the right moment for a decision had arrived, and thus a discussion with her was always vital and animating; in it she was evidently receptive to all that could be said and the conclusion, which in the larger number of cases would be for- mulated by her and which would often de- pend for much of itrr weight on her exper- ience and past thought on similar subjects would yet very evidently grow out of the discussion itself and be really the pro- duct of all present. In committee work she was so epiick to receive, so ready to give, she lent such cheerfulness and gayety to the work in hand, she so thoroughly enjoyed reducing chaotic detail to order, that one might say she was really only to be truly known by working with her. In the selection of the corps of instructors her judgment and personal experience were of great service to the college, and having selected her assistants she knew how to lend them her cordial support and appreciation. And, again, in keeping the standard of admis- sion to the college exactly what it is at Columbia, it was her judgment which pre- vented the acceptance of any equivalent for the prescribed Creek, either in the require- ments for admission or in the regular course — in spite of what could be urged as to the special difficulty for a girl to get, outside of college, any training in G reek and the effect that insistence upon this requirement would have in lessening the number of applicants. She believed that the cause of women ' s ed- ucation , and education in general, would benefit by putting just such a pressure on girls ' preparatory schools and she threw the weight of her conviction and experience on the side of those who wished to retain Creek. That she helped preserve for Barnard stu- dents what they would appreciate as a privilege, but might have otherwise missed, for the reason that it is difficult for a girl to obtain the preliminary training in Greek, is shown by the fact that from the moment that Greek becomes tin elective in the college course almost without exception every student has so far made it her choice. Once fairly begun there is a general hold- ing to Greek, perhaps because it affords to a special degree the cultivation of an apti- tude for language which is characteristic of most women. Miss Weed knew by her own experience the exactness and flexibility in the use of words gained by the study of Greek, and she felt that there w r as besides an opening field for the teaching of Greek by women in preparatory schools, that it was a study early recognized as enjoy- able by the student, and that it would be later increasingly found to be practically useful. Her power of directing and advising the students, her ready sympathy with their 26 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. aims and desires, gave her personal influence au enduring weight. With all with whom she came into contact her quick and accurate judgment, instinct with warm affection, but unclouded by emotion, was felt to be her leading characteristic. She was full of en- thusiasm in her work, but enthusiasm which was justified by the success of what she un- dertook. She had the temperament of the optimist, but with all her quickness she could await success and had the patience to postpone what was desirable if the material means of fulfilment were lacking, but she would make no compromise as to the quality of the work if it were once attempted. And as to the quality of any work she was an ad- mirable and sound critic. No notice of Miss Weed would be at all adequate which should omit mention of her personal qualities, iu which lay a large source of her influence. She had a most winning address that predisposed in her favor and in favor of what she advocated everyone of any sensitive sensibilit} ' . In spite of illness aud a larger measure of other than physical suffering than falls to the lot of most persons, no one knew her to complain. She always seemed light-hearted, and gave herself to others so fully that her self-sacrifice was hardly suspected. Few thought of her need of affectionate sym- pathy and, in consequence, her own had in- ordinate demands made upon it. Her smile had a charm that one remembers as dis- tinctly as any other trait of her personality. She enlivened as well as illuminated every group of which she was a member. Her work in life was not more serious — and it was of the most serious — than her way of taking it was light and gay; and she leaves behind her a memory of hope and courage. V. S. BliOWXELL. HORACE, ODES, BK. I, ODE XI, TRANSLATION. Leuconce, seek not ; it is not right to know What lot the gods may send to mortal men below. Of Babylonian numbers make not a useless test. Whate ' er the gods send, suffer ! it is by far the best, Whether many winters almighty Zeus hath planned Or this to be thy last, sent by his mighty hand, Whose storms e ' en now are beating the great sea, Spending their awful strength on rocks so bold aud free.. Strain well thy rosy wine, and with life ' s problems cope,. And, since thy life is short, cut off a distant hope. For even while we speak revengeful time flees past. Cheer up ! and use this day as though it were thy last.. 27 THE BAENABD ANNUAL. The Constituency of Barnard College. ;1HE establishment of Barnard College £ 5 and the graduation of its first class have, during ' the past live years, made fre- quent in New York the question, for whom is it intended and from what class of women is it to draw its students ? It has been questioned by some whether, of those women who arc dependent upon their own efforts for their support, there were many to whom a college education furnished the best preparation. It has also been asked, of what use is a college education to the large number of women in New York who are not likely to be compelled to earn their own living aud whose sphere of life, in all prob- ability, is to lie in the family or in New York society. A particular class for whom Barnard is intended is diligently sought and with no great success. For such a search is based upon an essentially false conception of a college education. It is looked upon as a valuable technical or professional possession, suited to one class of purposes and to no other. But a view of the variety of men who have received and used the education at men ' s colleges is, perhaps, the best disproof of such a conception. There is nothing more frequently said of a college graduate than that he is unpractical, and that he is suited for no one particular thing. He himself feels it on the day after he has received his degree, when he sees those who were boys with him filling places for which they are especially adapted, while he stands with broad knowledge and training, hardly knowing whore to turn. He seems to be prepared for nothing, while he is ready for anything. He has laid the foundation and now he waits to see what building he shall put upon it. The glory of a college education is claimed to be not its definite adaption, but its indefinite adaptability. No one need ask what a man or a woman is going to do with an education, and even many a one gaining his education could not answer .such a question, and a college need no more be embarrassed or confused by the question of the future of its students than need a hospital when it is asked as to whether the bodily health which it gives is to train athletes or is to be used in the best and wisest ways, as circumstances may determine. With the growth of specialization in training for life within the last twenty years, this relation of the college to general edu- cation lias become very evident. Short cuts to the professions have in many cases, been found necessary, and have been made pos- sible. And this process, while it is to be re- gretted and discouraged, has brought to light the fact that the tie between the college and professional education was not so ab- solutely essential as it was sometimes deemed. And within the colleges the following of special lines, which the developed elective system has made possible, has still farther pointed the contrast between general and special education. A college education to-day, where the elective system is largely developed, may be used for special purposes, and when it is so used, it is the best assurance of thorough special preparation. But such special use in no way precludes, but rather emphasizes the general thought of education and culture which the college has ready for those who, in their youth, have no clear picture before them of their future life, and which it bestows to a very large extent upon even the most complete specialist who comes to it for instruction. THE BAHNAHD ANNUAL. It is this view of a college life as the basis of a broad aud liberal training ' , which renders the opportunity of enjoying it of peculiar interest to women in New York. If more than ever before, on account of the sharpness of business and professional competition, young men are saying, either wisely or foolishly, I have not time to go to college, ' ' or If I go, then it must be with one special line of preparation promi- nent in my mind, the college as a basis of general culture is peculiarly adapted to women, whose lines of future life are less clearly defined, and who only know that they must be ready for many a duty or emergency, which at present is not at all clear to their minds. Women who have not their own living to earn are surely the ones who are least pressed for time, and to whom the advantages of college life on their largest side are most available. We may agree with what is often said that, for the largo number of women in New York outside of the laboring classes, the family and society constitute the probable sphere of life. If we make those two over- worked but significant words, family and society identical with anything higher than drudgery and frivolity, the training of the college is the best prepara- tion for them both. The family, ought to mean the closest and dearest relations of life, the mutual association of old and young, the opportunity to supply just what others are not able to get for themselves, the contri- bution by each member of that which he has gained by the best cultivation of him- self for the completed family life. .Society ought to mean that contact of men and women by which they understand each other better, free themselves from the narrowing influence of their special occu- pation and make more evident the unity of all life which is regulated by high motive and the hatefulness in human association of all that is low and mean. To be fitted for the family and society, therefore, means a large and generous training. The spec- ialist is more at home in smaller associations with less general aspects. The view of men ' s thoughts, in other times and places, the knowledge of the progress which the world has made, the acquaintance with previous handling of these subjects which are prominent in every generation, the accurate estimate of cause and effect, the familiarity with more than one branch of knowledge, the sympathy with present move- ments, and the understanding of their re- lation to the past, the comprehension of physi- cal discoveries, and of their application to im- mediate uses, those are the demands which contact with the world in the family and society are ever making. They arise in the daughter ' s assistance to her parents, in the association of the wife with her husband, in the training of children by their mother, in the varied intercourse of such society as a metropolitan city offers. It is probably as large a demand as is made upon any human being in the world, and it needs, therefore, the largest answer ; it is one whose special features will change from decade to decade, and it therefore requires a supply for its need which shall be peculiarly easy of adaptation. The training of the mind and the large- ness of view which belong to a college seem to meet such a demand precisely. The experience of what has been useful in the past dictates the material of the educa- tion, and anticipates the needs of the future which are so large and general. Variety of study prepares for variety of application, and studies which lead the mind in directions which it would not other- 29 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. wise have taken, prepare it for that large sympathy which is to be a demand upon it in its future experience, and which wrenches so sadly the mind without flex- ibility, while it is the most delightful exer- cise for that one which has been taught to look in many directions. This is the preparation which the stud- ies and training of a college education offer to New York women of every class who are able to obtain it. Its associations have the same value. In a large city every- thing tends to the separation of those whose interests vary. Artificial methods are established to bring together those whose lives tend to separation. But they are very spasmodic and ineffective. Such a general purpose with the opportunity for innumerable specific applications as a college affords to all its students is to be found nowhere else. Past training and future prospects blend together for a few years in the common purpose of gaining the best education which is available. In different ways the purpose is followed by the students of a college, but the unity of that purpose is always felt and gives an insight into the life of others, such as can be gained by no other relations. It has proved itself to be a tie among men which survives and which softens wide differences of life ; it promises among women to be equally useful in extending the possibilities for knowledge and sympathy in directions where the activities of one ' s life would sel- dom carry her. Not how one is going to use an education but how one is acquiring it is the question which is asked of a student within the walls of a college. Its catalogue of students brings together names which will scatter into very different paths of life in future years. It is that short period of union created by similarity of pursuit and unity of belief in the power of education which impresses itself upon all their future relations. And not only among themselves but among the men and women whom they meet in the world, they will show the truly social spirit of their college days. The constituency of Barnard College, then, in such a community as New York and its surrounding cities and towns is un- limited. Its extent will prove itself more and more perceptibly. The growth of its classes has been, and will be, not only in numbers but in variety. These early years, which this first number of the Barnard Annual commemorates, have seen a unity of character and method among its students wdiich must be largely modified as the years go on. But the growing variety will be indicative of the place which the college is called to fill. The contact of many and different minds will call for the clear knowd- edge by each student of her own motives and purposes which is the best possession of a human mind and which is the result of a large and liberal training. And it will be better understood that for no one class of lives, but for every possible position in life, the education which the college offers is the best preparation. Arthur Brooks. «-SM - • ; • ODE XXX., BOOK I. OF HORACE, A TRANSLATION. Oh, Venus, queen of Cnidus and Paphos, Neglect thy favored Cyprus and draw nigh Unto thy precious shrine of Glycera Adorning thee with odorous incense rare. And with thee, too, should come thy glowing Boy, The Graces girdle-free, the comely nymphs, Hermes, the golden-tongued messenger, And Yoiith without thee living but in vain. 30 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. The Educational Work of Barnard College. VIRNARD COLLEGE began its aca- demic existence in October, 188 ' J. Being ' now in its fifth year, it has classes representing each of the four stages of collegiate life and a small enthusiastic body of alunin.se. It lias also a graduate department of the same age as the under- graduate department. Furthermore, the college gives instruction not only to regu- lar students, candidates for the baccalaure- ate or a higher degree, but also to a con- siderable number of special students pur- suing courses in botany and chemistry. The object for which Barnard College was founded was to furnish in New York an opportunity for women to obtain collegiate and university training equal to the best anywhere afforded to men. This object, Barnard ' s friends believe, has been attained through its affiliation with Columbia Col- lege. Barnard ' s instructors are almost all drawn from Columbia ' s faculties. Colum- bia conducts and passes upon every ex- amination held at Barnard and awards to Barnard ' s students its own diplomas as cer- tificates of a proficiency equal to that of the men graduated at the same time under the same conditions. The absence of special students from the ordinary undergraduate classes of Barnard College has excited frequent comment. The only special students admitted are those pursuing special courses in botany and chemistry; and the terms under which Barnard acquired laboratories in these de- jmrtments require the admission of such students. In this regard one can not do better than quote from the report made in November, 1890, by Miss Weed : Before the end of the first year it had become very apparent that the most important problem before the Academic Committee was, whether this new means to women ' s educa- tion should represent a systematic course of study, or whether it should be a haven where any woman, of any age, could study anything, The tendency of American edu- cation to specialize without any general training, and for no reason except the choice of an immature and unreasoning preference, was never more clearly shown than in the applications for admission to Bar- nard College. Girls of sixteen wanted everything, from a course in law to elemen- tary French lessons. During the first year a few specials were admitted to the classes already formed. They were required to take at least three courses, subject to the approval of the Faculty; but, however seri- ous the aims and work of these girls, the drift was away from any systematic plan. After careful consideration, the Academic Committee; decided that if Barnard College were ever to lay a broad foundation of general training for special work of a high order, the College must at once and for soiue years accept only regular students in its undergraduate classes, and face the fact that these students must be few in num- ber. The system of education at Barnard is neither that of the separate college nor co- education. Her students enjoy the advan- tages which Columbia ' s age and wealth have secured for men. The university library, the public lectures, the collections in science and art, are all accessible to them. They have the benefit of instruction by Columbia ' s large staff of experienced teachers. The collegiate work of the two institutions is, however, altogether dis- tinct. In university work, a term which at 31 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Columbia includes the work of the Senior vear, the conditions are different. Although Barnard maintains distinct courses in a number of subjects, in which the students are sufficiently numerous, to do so in all subjects is both unnecessary and impos- sible. T) ie university faculties of philoso- phy, political science, and pure science offer about three hundred advanced courses, each of which in general attracts but a small number of students. The Trustees of Columbia College have authorized the first two named of these faculties to admit to their courses women qualified to attend them, whether candidates for a higher de- gree or not, if matriculated in the Senior class or graduate department of Barnard College. The faculty of philosophy has opened thus a very large proportion of its courses, covering a wide range of subjects. The faculty of political science has not availed itself of the authority granted to it in this respect. In the case of the faculty of pure science no such provision has yet been made by the trustees. Graduate students have, however, facilities for ad- vanced work in the botanical and chemical laboratories: and, in several other depart- ments in which students have applied, courses are given parallel to those at Columbia. The courses in botany deserve sj ecial mention. They are not reproduc- tions of similar courses at Columbia, and, in a way, stand by themselves. The next Senior class at Barnard Col- lege will have the privilege of selecting from about sixty courses, of which one third will be given at Barnard, the remainder at Columbia. The number of students at Barnard Col- lege is shown in the following table: Seniors 7 Juniors 9 Sophomores. . .20 Freshmen . . . . 23 59 Undergraduates 19 Graduates. 78 28 Specials in botany and chemistry. fOG Total. The graduate students come from the following institutions : Columbia, 4 Bryn Mawr, 3 Michigan University, . . 2 St. Lawrence University, . 2 Wellesley, 2 Smith, 2 Cornell, 2 Vassar, 1 Hiram College, 1 In instituting a comparison between the number of undergraduates and that at other colleges for women, it is proper to inquire how many of their students are fully ma- triculated candidates for a degree, and fur- ther, how many of such students have offered Greek for admission and are pur- suing a course into which Greek enters as a part for at least one year after admission. Without being able to answer these ques- tions, it may be useful for purposes of com- parison to state that the Harvard Annex, now in its fifteenth year, gave during the past four years the B. A. certificate to 38 students, of whom nine received it in 1893. Bryn Mawr, now in its ninth year, con- ferred during the past four years the B. A. degree upon 70 candidates, of whom 29 were graduated iu 1893. Apart from the influence which Barnard College exerts upon and through its own students, it has in another way a direct 32 THE BARNABD ANNUAL. educational bearing. This is by means of its system of examinations for women. Under this system young women who pass all or a part of the entrance examinations to Columbia receive a certificate from Colum- bia College. If the examination is partial the certificate is signed by the Dean of the School of Arts; if complete, it is signed by the President of Columbia College. The complete certificate admits, of course, to Barnard, but the object is to make Columbia put her stamp upon the work of girls ' schools. Nearly all good schools wel- come an outside and unprejudiced test of their work. It is often asked how the work of womeu students compares with that done by men. After live years of observation, the writer is compelled to say that Barnard College has failed to demonstrate, or even indicate, the intellectual superiority or in- feriority of women. It is interesting, how- ever, to note that Barnard College has never yet had occasion to enact a disciplin- ary measure, or to administer discipline, and that it has never had an idler among its students. During the present year Barnard has sustained a loss which has been felt severe- ly on every side, but perhaps most severely of all on the educational side. This was in in the death of Miss Ella Weed, the brilliant and accomplished chairman of the Academic Committee of the Board of Trustees, to whom more than to any one else are due the educational organization and adminis- tration of Barnard College. The writer feels that he may most appropriately add to this brief statement of the educational work of Barnard College the closing sen- tences of Miss Weed ' s report of May, 1892: The true experiment at Barnard is this: Not alone equal honors for equal work — and that is much - not the identical standards and tests for young- men and young women — and that is much — but it is this, that it is making the higher education a natural, simple phase of the life of New York girls. There is prob- ably one class of friends of Barnard College who see this phase of its work as others cannot. They are the women who know life at other colleges from their own ex- perience, and who see with deep gratifica- tion how absolutely free from ' pose ' is the attitude of these earnest young women who are working out unconsciously a great and fateful problem. The community can not be expected to see this until the experi- ment proves, but the time will come when a modest, thoroughly trained body of young women, graduates of Columbia, will be a power for Barnard College which will turn towards its doors a great and ever-swelling tide of earnest young girls, urged thither, not tearfully restrained by their parents. This means more than a degree. Fifty edu- cated young women living by the standards about them in New York, who have gained the ediication without breaking the home circle, will be an unanswerable argument for Barnard College. Tuohas S. Fiske. THE 13 A EN The First Period of Barnard College. ii(i ITK tlie death of Miss Weed the V V Hi-tit period of Barnard College •came to an end. This brief period, cover- ing little more than a single college genera- tion, was marked by certain unique charac- teristics which, in the nature of things, can not, and should not, recur. We are accus- tomed to speak of it as tentative, formative, experimental ; and so, of course, it was. But no instructor can forget that the day of small things has advantages which more than compensate for these drawbacks. In fact, we shall better understand the mean- ing of these four years if we consider them, not so much a period of experiment, as pre- eminently a period of intimacy. Most of the students and most of the in- structors in Barnard College at the time of Miss Weed ' s death had been with the col- lege from the beginning. This fact fostered the feeling of loyalty which was promoted also by the democratic organization of the faculty, and especially by the unifying per- sonality of Miss Weed. No one of the young men who was drawn by Miss Weed ' s unfail- ing humor and patience, by her unerring tact and her wisdom of sympathy, into long talks on women and books, is likely to for- get how much he owes to that intimacy. Part of the unique value of these talks lay in the fact that they had to do, not with col- lege education in general, not even with particular classes, but with Miss A. or Miss B., who could be considered separately be- cause she was known intimately. When you cease to discuss the education of wo- mankind and begin to consider the needs of a particular woman, the problem comes within grasp. As to the former, the Bar- nard instructors have grown with each year more modestky reticent ; as to the latter, they have learned what they know largely :i ANNUAL. through intimacy with Miss Weed. How really fur the students also Miss Weed summed up the life of the college, how manifold to them was the value of in- timacy Avith her, it is not necessaiy to ex- plain. Quite as real, though of course es- sentially different, has been the intellectual intimacy between instructor and student brought about by small classes. What the college man vaguely longs for when he hails his professor ' s invitation to call, or makes excuses for invading the study, the college woman realizes when there are only ten in class and those ten sit about a table. And the individual appeal is quite as valua- ble for the instructor as for the student. What professional solemnity can with- stand a table? What sounding plati- tude, useful in the crowded lecture-room, is proof against a question at your elbow? And what stimulus can be greater than the eager assertion of individual need, or the quick combat mind to mind ? The electric kindling realized hitherto only in secondary education or in postgraduate study, and not often even in these, has been almost a necessity at Barnard from the Freshman year to graduation. Given all the factors of good conversa- tion, the problem of how to teach literature to a class solves itself. If the lecture be of much value anywhere, it is obviously but a waste of opportunities here. Here is a reading club of trained students, of which you are the appointed guide, philosopher, and friend. The conversations require of you three times as much preparation as lect- ures would, and the chances of airing your- self diminish to the vanishing-point. But the whole discussion moves in the definite and the concrete, and you are roused and the class is roused, and the light comes ten ways instead of one. The sentimental dis- 34 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. sipation of Sterne, the virility of Browning ' s passion, Wordsworth ' s austere purity, and the high song of Shelley, cease to be ab- stractions and regain their informing power. What is thus eminently true of the teaching of literature, is true also, in vary- ing degree, of teaching in other studies. And this aspect of the early years of Bar- nard will doubtless remain most prominent in the memories of the first instructors. Certainly they cannot wish to prolong the period of small classes. Certainly they can not forget that it was the period of inti- macy. Charles Sears Baldwin. THE COLUHBIAN FOUNTAIN. Behold! it stands there in the morning light, Dazzling in whiteness, noble, grand, and bright. This great art-work sprung from one human soul Aiming, inspired, to reach its final goal. Not as of marble, cold and still and drear. But warm, true, living, present, standing near. Yet all the purity of marble white Does it possess along with strength and might. Each single figure seems to move alone, Endowed with life, force, action, all its own. But lo ! there is a perfect harmony And all together act in sympathy. Behold ! it stands there iu the bright moonshine, Still whiter, still more exquisitely fine ; With all its former force, yet more subdued And with a softer, calmer light imbued. A thousand twinkling lights afar and near Bring out its beauties to the eye more clear. See how it stands there in the calm moonshine, A very teacher of the things divine. 35 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. The Botanical Department. j1HE botanical laboratories at Barnard,  f which well repay a visit from those interested in scientific matters, occupy the fourth floor of the present college building. Two large rooms on this floor are used as general laboratories for class work. Of these, the back room is assigned to beginners, aud here the students are taught the use of the microscrope and spend their first year in gaining a general acquaintance with botanical subjects. Owing to the large number of beginners, it has been difficult to provide a separate microscope for each student or even a separate table, and it is only by a most careful arrangement of hours that all can be accommodated. The large, well-lighted front room is used by the more advanced students, who are naturally more favored in the assignment of places and microscopes. On one side of this room is a case contain- ing various chemical reagents, a valuable and interesting set of models made in Germany, dissecting microscopes, and other apparatus for laboratory use. Opposite this case is another for a series of Prof. Ivuy ' s anatomical charts, which are of great assistance as illustrations for the lectures of the course. Some of these charts are always hung on the walls of the two gen- eral laboratories, and serve both for dec- oration and for instruction. A sterilizer is provided for the use of those students making a study of bacteria. The micro- tome is always an object of interest to the visitor; with this extremely thin sections of plant tissue can be cut with an accuracy otherwise quite impossible Considerable care is recpiired in the handling of this in- strument and it is not till the fourth year that the students are taught to use it. In both these general laboratories there are growing plants, both high and low in rank, and there are always opportunities to watch their germination and growth. Besides these two general laboratories, there is a hall-room that serves as a private office for the head of the department. In this there are places for two students, who, having finished the regular four years ' course, are devoting their time to special investigation, in this room and in the ad- vanced laboratory are cases of the most necessary books of reference. A larger collection of botanical works and magazines is open to the students at Columbia College Library, where they have the same privileges as the students of Columbia. The middle room on this same iioor is used as a store- room where are kept various materials, — a set of Ellis ' s fungi, numerous alcoholic specimens, aud a small herbarium. There is no need for a large herbarium at Barnard, as Prof. Britton, the head of Columbia ' s botanical department, offers most freely to the Barnard students the use of their ex- tensive collection. The botanical department at Barnard opened at the same time as the college in the fall of 1889, but for the first two years there were assigned to it only two of its present rooms. The department opened with a single student, who, it may lie worthy of remark, was a married woman. Others came in one by one, till at the close of the first year there was a class of eight. There has been a constant increase in at- tendance as the value of the botanical work at the college lias become more widely recognized, till the present year has brought an entering class of twenty-two and a total in the department of some forty students. By the generosity of certain members of the Torrey Botanical Club, a sum of money was supplied for the original equipment of 36 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. the laboratory. Since then, the growing needs of the department have been in part met by the liberality of Mr. Sigmund Neu- stadt, who has contributed for this purpose several hundred dollars at various times. Mrs. Esther Herrman, too, lias shown her interest in botany and in the welfare of the department by establishing a fund of §1,000, the income of which shall be used for pay- ing the tuition of some deserving student. The head of the department, and the one to whose able instruction, untiring energy, and enthusiasm its success is due, is Dr.Emily L. Gregory. Dr. Gregory has spent a num- ber of years in study abroad working under Professors Wigand, Reinke, and Schwen- dener, and she received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Zurich. .She has given instruction at Smith College, Bryn Mawr, and the Univers- ity of Pennsylvania. At the opening of Barnard College, she accepted a call from it, and has since devoted herself to the establishment of its botanical department. The regular course in botany offered by Dr. Gregory extends through four years, of which the last two are regarded as graduate work and lead to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Four students are at present applicants for this degree. The first year ' s course is designed as an intro- duction to the study of botany, and all the departments of the subject are touched upon lightly so that the students gain a clear idea of the general scope of the science. There are some six or eight weeks of in- troductory lectures on the elements of plant anatomy and physiology. During these weeks the use of the microscope is taught. The remainder of the year is spent in gain- ing a general survey of the vegetable king- dom by studying plants selected to illustrate the advancement from the lower to the higher types of structure. The first term of the second year supplements this work by giving a cursory description of the chief groups of plants in systematic order, using Warming ' s text-book as authority. In the second term the elements of plant anatomy are taught. The first term of the third year is devoted to advanced anatomy; and the second term, to the physiology of nutri- tion, including such subjects as the entrance of liquids and gases into the plant and the changes by which they are converted into food. In the fourth year the lectures are on the physiology of growth, and papers are required of the student treating of the questions brought up in the third year ' s work. During the latter part of this year each student is expected to take up some special subject to learn how to do original work. Students after completing the fourth year are admitted without tuition fees to the laboratories, where they are made welcome and furnished with micro- scopes and tables to continue their special work of the fourth year or to take up some new line of investigation. They have thus all the advantages that a private laboratory of their own would offer, and, besides these, they find in Dr. Gregory one whose advice and assistance are always helpful and ever at hand. At present two of the students that finished the course last June are thus continuing their work in the laboratory. This brief summary of the work is quite inadequa te to show the pleasure and en- thusiasm that are roused throughout the whole course. The students gain a new and ever increasing interest in the plant life about them, in woods and fields and even in the green patches to be found on city walls and sidewalks. While special students are not as a rule admitted to the regular college classes they have always been ac- cepted in the botanical department, and in this way many have been enabled to pursue a delightful course of study and investiga- tion that would otherwise have been impos- sible for them. Young and old, married and unmarried, are alike full of enthusiasm and eagerness for their work; housekeepers, teachers, and Avomen with many social de- mands on their time find here a pleasant change from their ordinary life and a study absorbing in its fascination. Louise Merritt Stabler, ' 93. 37 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Social Life at Barnard. At first sight, one would be inclined to count social life as one of those things that are not at Baruard College. This first im- pression, though false, is a very natural one, for the students of Barnard have no college life in the strictest sense of the word ; that is to say, they do not live to- gether in the college building or even in the same community, but, on the contrary, in their own homes, many of which are out of town. The students, then, are thrown together only at their recitations and dur- ing their few free hours in the little study. This latter opportunity for social inter- course has, moreover, recently been dealt its death-blow iu the inexorable decree of the Self-Government Association — a decree issued in all the pride of that newly-estab- lished body — that all unnecessary conver- sation in the study during recitation hours must cease. There remain, however, many last words to be said by everyone before silence can be agreed upon and the un- necessary conversation reduced to a mini- mum. But, in spite of all this and in spite of the fact that the college-world is a very busy one, such a thing as social life has managed to struggle into existence at Bar- nard College. Its first efforts were very feeble ; so feeble, indeed, as to make it doubtful what it was that was trying to de- monstrate its existence. The trustees, see- ing that something was trying to assert it- self at Barnard, in the kindness of their hearts conceived the idea of setting things going by the giving of a tea. It was given. The kindly trustees, the willing faculty, the grateful students were there. Students and faculty did their best to talk airy noth- ings over their tea-cups and to enjoy the novel experience of meeting once a year on social grounds. But, somehow, things did not go. The students had a littlefoffthe feeling that they were wild animals at the Zoo, whom all these kind people had come to see fed ; and, though the interest and good-will that had prompted the tea-giving were appreciated, no marked increase of social activity at Barnard was the outcome. In the second year of its existence, there was established at Barnard a Chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, and the IDroceedings of its members, though strictly secret, constituted at first the greatest so- cial factor in the college. The interests of the barbarian element of the college were completely ignored, and this was, perhaps, only natural, since every single regular member of the college — and there were nine of them — was also a member of the Creek Letter fraternity. The monthly so- cial meetings of the Chapter were at first none of the liveliest ; the aim, perhaps, was too high, the discourse too weighty and philosophic to come under the head of fun. But, in the following year, a lighter element was introduced, and the social meetings of the society became uproar- iously funny through the organization of a dramatic club. It was not, however, iintil the Chapter had discovered, after four or five successes, that its ingenue knew all the tricks of the trade as well as the most unso- phisticated maiden from the real stage- land, and that its low-comedy characters, its Lish waiters and saucy housemaids were not to be approached in point of make-up and facial expression ; it was not, in fact, until the Chapter had fully realized that to keep so much fun to itself was not the best way to make the whole College long for ad- mission to the fraternity, that it decided to give one grand performance to which all the students should be invited. 38 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. The time fixed for this great event Avas the last .Saturday of the Christmas holi- days. No student of Barnard can have for- gotten the date, hut for the rest of the world it may be as well to state that it was the sev- enth of January, 1898. The preparations for the play were most elaborate. To begin Avith, the actors were confronted Avith the un- looked for necessity of learning their parts. When this thought first struck them, the cast as a unit were for tendering their resignations. In time, however, they Avere prevailed upon to concede this point, in vieAV of the fact that the performance Avas to be a public one, and rehearsals were resumed Avith but slightly dampened ardor. Wigs, costumes, properties, of all sorts — from the gas-stove and agate kettle that did service as a Avitch ' s cauldron to the tiny doll-effigies of the Faculty — were as perfect as time, ingenuity and a noble dis- position to make auything do would ad- mit. The play chosen was The Shakes- peare Wooing, a travesty in AA r hich the chief beauties of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and the Merchant of Yenice are inextricably blended. The piece Avas re- Avritteu by a devoted member of the com- mittee, so that, in addition to its Shakes- pearian charm, it abounded in allusions to Barnard College and the facts, fancies and fables that gather about the queer little ways of its Faculty. A whole forest of Christmas trees was hired to do duty as Birnam wood and to shut off from the eyes of the audience the incongruous back- ground of blackboards and maps that would so ill have consorted Avith the love-making of Romeo and Ophelia or the conferences between Launcelot Gobbo and the Three Witches. The tutorial platforms were dragged together to form a stage, hemlock and cedar boughs Avere brought from the country to strew over them, and below them were scattered footlights of a very ingenious and highly ineffectual kind. Shakespearian quotations, on little cards tied up Avith blue and white ribbons and tiny gold and silver bells, Avere given to all the guests, and delightful pen-and-ink sketches of witches, broomsticks, and cauldrons bore the names of the dramatis personce. The play, Avhich had been no end of fun to all those concerned in its pro- duction, was enthusiastically received by the audience, and was pronounced a great success. It Avas folloAved by music, dancing, and the eating of cake and ice cream that is the inevitable accompaniment of all college functions — on the principle, per- haps, that no one is ever bored Avhile eating, — and the afternoon wound up with a Virginia reel that Avas cut short Avhen in full swing by the ill-timed arrival of a deeply astonished member of the Faculty, who withdreAY with as much haste and em- barrassment as he thought fit to display. So great Avas the success of the venture, that Beta Epsilon Chapter decided this year to folloAv its oavu precedent and give another play to the whole college. The day selected for the performance was the 31st of March, and great was the consterna- tion throughout the chapter when it Avas discovered on the 22d that no play had as yet been chosen by the Committee. How- ever, the invitations were sent out to all the college, and the hopes of the procrasti- nating Committee ran high that luck would be Avith them on the great day. And, thanks to the admirable acting of the cast, it was. The play, a travesty of Faust, with the parts adapted to the Faculty, and the scene laid at Barnard College, met with astonishing success. When, at the close of the performance, the actors stepped 39 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. down from the boards and mingled with the audience, it was amusing to watch the little groups of satellites that gathered about them, as if they still retained some of the effulgence of their prototypes in the Faculty. Among the classes themselves there is a good deal of sporadic entertaining. The Freshmen each year are the first to receive attention, and various are the means em- ployed by Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores to make them feel that they have a share in the college life. First, there are the awful Eleusinian Mysteries, wherein the fearful responsibilities of her office are re- vealed to the oftentimes unwilling Fresh- man. Then the Juniors invite the new class to some pleasant function, and, the ball once set rolling, each class begins to think of entertaining the other three, until, about Christmas time, there comes a lull that is more or less unbroken till the middle or end of April, when the farewell entertain- ments of the Seniors and the triumph of the Sophomores start things going once more. These class-entertainments are very in- formal and very good fun. Sometimes it is a play that is given by one class to another, sometimes a character party, where all the hostesses represent heroines of fiction, and the invited guests have to guess by whom they are being entertained. Again, the entertainment may be a Dutch wedding, with bride, groom, pastor, and wedding- cake complete, or it may be a Greek tragedy with a full chorus and all the unities duly observed. Or. again, the clever Freshmen may conceive the idea of a Christmas tree, presided over by a jovial, round little Santa Glaus, with eyes like laughing coals of fire, who presents to every student some gift, accompanied by the most pat little grind. Whatever the enter- tainment is, it is pretty sure to be fun, aud cpute sure, as has been said before, to wind up with ice cream and cake. Aside from these inter-class festivities, the second half of this college year has seen the rise of three societies. The first of these to be organized was the Haphazard Club, a society started by the sophomores, but destined ultimately to take in special students and worthy members of the other regular classes. The club was started in February, and its object being the purely social one of having a good time, and no business meetings being provided for, it is bound by no hard and fast bonds of red- tape and a constitution. The meetings are to take place every fourth Saturday, at the home of one of the members, and it is to be the privilege of the hostess to invite a few of her own friends from outside of the college. The afternoon ' s entertainment is arranged for by a committee of three, who have the power to invite to each meeting new members selected from the college at large. At the close of the entertainment, a new committee is appointed. The fourth member of the committee, known as the Standing Member, takes the place of a president of the club. Two very successful meetings have already been held, and the Haphazard Club has started out with a spirit and enthusiasm for which its mem- bers are to be most heartily congratulated. The club further announces its intention of giving one public meeting each year at college, to which all the students, both regular and special, are to be invited. The prospect is a charming one, indeed. The second club to be organized this year was the Freshman Debating Society, which meets every second Wednesday, and debates for one hour. The subject debated at the first meeting (the only one held so far) was on the resolution, That intellectual 40 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. activity is the result of material prosperity. chapter, when the master of the secret After an interesting debate, conducted with reads it aloud to the club. When the ten the utmost order, the question was decided chapters are finished, the whole novel will in the affirmative. When the three judges be read aloud before the club, the mem- had rendered this decision, discussion be- bers guessing the author of each chapter came general, and the meeting was closed as it is read. A prize will be given to the by the appointment of speakers and judges person making the greatest number of cor- for the next debate, the subject of which rect guesses. In the same way, a vote will was The Income Tax. The Freshmen betaken as to which chapter of the novel seem agreed that the debates are full of is the best, and the happy author of this interest, and the speeches good, though best of the best will thereupon be crowned not of fatiguing weight; and they are with a garland of laurel. Four meetings of resolved to make the Soeiet} ' a success. the club have already been held. Within the last month the Juniors When the social life of Barnard has have organized a third club, the object of grown to such prominence even in the which is the promotion of intellectual cramped quarters of the little college frivolity. The membership of this society, building, it may be a cause for wonder which is known as the Novel Club, is con- what will be the mad freaks indulged in lined, for the present, to the Junior class, when Bloomingdale opens a wider Held for and the plan of operations consists in the the development of the gregarious propen- writing of a novel, chapter by chapter. sities of the students. Perhaps by that To one member only is the secret of the time inter-collegiate athletics may be in authorship of the chapters known, and it is full swing, and Barnard may surpass its own her privilege to assign to the other mem- wildest expectations in the fame of its bers the parts they are to write. The hitherto voiceless Glee Club and silent club meets after the completion of each Musical Society. 41 THE BABNARD ANNUAL. Girl-Bachelors. Do you live or board ? was the apt question recently asked of a Barnard girl. She, being one of those enviable few, known as the girl-bachelors, answered with em- phasis, We live. There are three of us, and we have the dearest of little apartments, where, day by day, we smilingly meet and conquer the vexed questions of life. Experiments in Physics and various mathematical problems are worked out daily with unflagging ardor. Even though the morning problem always turns on the measure of heat and the added element of time required for the cooking of an egg, and the evening equation assumes the form : x alcohol 4- y tea == a happy hour, do not for an instant suppose that these ques- tions ever grow old. They are fresh every morning and new every evening. Nor is the result unvarying. Contrariwise, indeed. There are large eggs and small eggs, there are seven-day clocks and variable watches, so that an absolute and final settlement of the weighty question is impossible. In regard to afternoon tea, it is a well established fact that the last cup is by far the best. To adjust this matter so that the first cup, which your guest receives, may be as good as the last cup, which you reserve for yourself, has led to many interesting experiments. One solution, satisfactory enough for the present, depends on insist- ing that your guest shall take a second cup. From this course a fair average at least may be expected. What to do with the mouse is still a vexed question with the girl-bachelors, though, of course, they feel sure of the ultimate annihilation of the monster. With a five-holed round trap under the sofa and bits of pounded glass filling the openings about the steam-pipes, one would hardly expect a well-bred mouse to inhabit the waste-paper basket. Yet that is just where he lives. When the shades of night fall upon us, he straightway begins an inven- tory of our stores. We hear him leaping from desk to table, from tea-cup to salt- cellar, ever on his way stopping to explore paper bags and tin boxes. During the night we gradually set outside the door the waste-paper basket, the potato-basket, the sack of nuts, and other delectable things, but he, with characteristic freedom of the will, ignores our designs, and stays behind, cheerfully picking up crumbs. No doubt some of us have known cooks who refused to beat eggs with anything but the latest and most approved egg- beater, and who demanded a cup for a cup and a spoon for a spoon. That such ' abelled house furnishings are necessaries, let no would-be housekeeper infer. A beer nug will hold milk as well as a cream pit- cher, and, because the one is broken, must we needs forego milk? Perish the thought! A chafing-dish may not seemingly be designed for pie, but what better place can one find to preserve it from the ravages of the enemy ? A shoe-horn may not — but why multiply examples ? To the perfect satisfaction of the girl-bachelors, it has been demonstrated that a double, or even a triple purpose will dignify rather than degrade the common things of life. Lov- ingly side by side in the bureau drawer lie the one large loaf of bread, the darn- ing-basket, and a great pile of the bachelors ' note-books. Opposed to this side of the picture is our real, earnest, student-life. Surrounded as we are by loving books, our walls speak- ing of Athens, Rome, and Florence, thought is fostered by the ministry of sight, and our devotion is fed by the little figure of the studious monk, who sits ever patiently working away at his theme. The home-coming at night is fraught with joy, and we account well spent the moments over the tea-cups, when we all relate the adventures of the day. The healthy mind readily converts even bitter things to sweet, and with one consent we exclaim : How good it is to live! 42 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. The Sunday night readings aloud are a pleasant, little oasis in the week ' s -work. Two-thirds of us listen, while oue-third of us reads, and interruptions and private in- terpretations of the text are cpute in order. Sometimes it happens that when the voice of the oue-third of us ceases, the two- thirds, awaking with a start, exclaim, Oh, you were reading Dandet, Avere you? I thought it was Browning. Camille ' s Apostrophe to Rome, in Corneille ' s Horace. A TRANSLATION. Borne, the Great! The sole cause of my hatred and fear — Rome ! for whom thou hast slain him whom I hold most dear ! Rome! thy heart ' s clearest idol, the place of thy birth — Rome! the spot that to me is most hateful on earth. Oh ! would that her neighbors, together assembling, Could o ' erthrow her foundations, which e ' en now I see trembling, That she pull down her walls, and with her own hand Destroy the peace and joy that have reigned through her land. That the wrath of the gods, by my prayers conjured down, With a deluge of fire, destroy the whole town. Could I, ere I die, see these woes on her thrust, See her houses in ruins and thy laurels in dust, See the last of the Romans give forth his last breath — Myself, the sole cause, I would gladly face death. TVTOTICE to the INSTRUCTORS _OF BARNARD COLLEGE. Permission to use excerpts from this Annual as examples of incorrect English must be obtained from the Editors before the Instructor quotes them in class. 44 THE BARN All!) ANNUAL. LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS. 1 The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast ; And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed. 5 And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o ' er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes 10 They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the Hying come, In silence and in fear : 15 They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm the} ' sang, And the stars heard and the sea : And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang 20 To the anthem of the free. 1. The scene so clearly conceived in the poet ' s mind seems to have been this : A deep bay shaped somewhat like a parabolical curve, with abrupt cliffs, except at the inner part, where the rocks were somewhat broken away, affording a place of entrance. 4. Giant. The giants in Homer are conceived as a race in the half-way state between the divine and human. They are remarkable for bodily strength and enor- mity of size. They lived in cities, but plied no trades, and held no boule or agore. 5. A most inharmonious verse. The fault lies in the word dark. Classen would read : And the heavy night hung — hark ! Nonsense ! Jebb supplies mark! Nonsense again. Emend thus : And the heavy night hung darkly, since we are not to regard the rhyme as intentional. 6. Note the anastrophe. 7. We are not to understand that the entire pilgrim band moors the ship, as the ancient vessels had but two anchors, which would not require a hundred people to manipulate them. 15-16. Another one of those impossible feats. Gf. Od. xiii, 68. Note the clever position of the similar words shook and gloom at either end of the verse. 17-20. Deliver us from the sigmas of Euripides. 45 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white waves ' foam ; And the rocking pines of the forest roared— This was their welcome home ! 25 There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band : — Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood ' s land? There was woman ' s fearless eye, 30 Lit by her deep love ' s truth : There was manhood ' s brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? 35 The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith ' s pure shrine ! Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod : They left unstained what there they found : 40 Freedom to worship God. 22. White. Mr. Gladstone, with his usual acuteness, says in his chapter on the weakness of color-perception in the ancients, that they regarded all colors as intermediate shades between black and white. 23. I. e., as if on rockers, like an infant ' s cradle. 25. Hoary — stock epithet. 26. Ainidst — what is its equivalent in Attic? 29-32. Note the parataxis. 29. The latest German editors regard this as an interpolation, since the ab- surdity of applying the adjective fearless to a womau, is evident. 32. Difference between K?)p and Kfjp. 34. Jewels = pEarles. 36. Shrine. From this it has been concluded that no Greek city was without shrines — and rightly. The prevalent notion to the contrary is an error. I, myself, when in Greece, saw many well-preserved remains, and helped to dig up some. 40. The monotheism of the ancients has been a subject for voluminous discus- sions. What is more conclusive evidence than this passage in regard to the fact that the idea was then in its infancy, which became prominent in later literature ? This passage is conspicuous for the absence of the voluutative future. Addendum : The title to this beautiful fragment is now generally believed to have been supplied by Aristarchus in the third century A.D. 46 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. A Sophomore Triumph. For two years we had been working hard, and the future state of perfect happi- ness which was to arrive at the completion of our Sophomore year, when we could say, Get thee behind me ! to our Mathematics, seemed far away. There were only two or three of our class who liked Mathematics and who showed their appreciation by good work. The average mark of the class might not have been so very poor, for the few brilliant students made up in quality for our lack both of cpiantity and quality. One of the class had even been known to write a perfect examination paper — something su- pernatural as it seemed to the rest of us. But the hours of torture were over at last. Never again should we hear, Miss X., will you deduce the formula for the Binomial Theorem V or, Miss Y. doesn ' t seem to have very much to do — I think we had bet- ter give her something with which to oc- cupy herself. In the middle of our last term we were obliged to change instructors ; for Mr. , who had labored with us all winter, was going to Europe. We had had .so??ie experience, the year before, with the in- structor who now took our class, and had found him always ready to frown upon any excuses for an unlearned lesson. But uow there was a great change ; he made pleas- ant little jokes ; he smiled upon the know- nothings as well as upon the know-alls. After a few such lessons we gave ourselves up to our fate. Dr. did not care whether we had worked up the subject or not, so it was evident that he either in- tended to pass all, or to flunk all but the learned few. So then and there some of us, at least, ceased to worry, and, if the truth be told, to study, and possessed our souls in patience ivntil we should hear the results of the examination. The pleasant- est part of our theory was proved to be cor- rect. O, Dr. , will you ever know how we worshiped at the Fiskian shrine, when you passed us all ? Such a termination of our course was surely a legitimate cause for a Sophomore triumph. Many schemes were talked of, but Ave finally decided upon a day spent in the Bronx Baric, where we would burn up Legendre, Conic Sections, Beck ' s Determinants and Manual of Algebra. . . . Forgive the pause, ; but such awful re- collections necessitate a rest. As the Bronx Bark is within the city limits we ap- plied to the Bark Department for permis- sion to hold our class triumph there. We received a permit, with the assurance that a policeman would meet us at Bedford Bark station to show us the way. One morning during the last week in May, we assembled at the Grand Central Depot to take an early train. We carried our abhorred Mathematics for the last time, besides many bundles of all sizes and shapes, which contained our spread. At Bedford Park we met the policeman arrayed in the becoming gray-blue uniform of the park policeman. Some of our class had been in the Bronx Park before, and so knew where the best place was. We took the longest way ; for walking under those great, branching trees with their fresh, springlike foliage was a perfect delight after two weeks of hot examination work. We came to the river, now Mowing quietly along, and then forming into a little cascade as it dashed over the stones. We settled ourselves near the stream, down in a small ravine where there were rocks on which we could build a fire. Above, on our left, was a bridge over the river, and near the end of the bridge our policeman stood as a sentinel guarding the approach to our 47 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. ravine, keeping off all intruders. Here we built our funeral pyre, with the aid of the policeman, who rolled down some sticks and small logs to us. Then with joy supreme we cast Legendre into the midst of the flames. How delightful it was to see the edges of the pages curl and shrivel slowly as if they were loath to cease torturing us — slowdy but yet surely. As a man soav- eth, so shall he also rcaj), and we felt that Legendre was but suffering justly. Several much-hated and brain-tiring propositions we tore from Legendre and burnt sepa- rately, and watched theorem, figure, proof, down to the Q. E. D., writhe in a ?ony and then fall in ashes. Blacker and blacker the whole mass became, but still bore some re- semblance to a book ; when we suddenly bethought ourselves that we would save the mournful-looking remains and send them to our instructor, thus showing - him what gratitude a man may expect who teaches Mathematics. Another part of our ceremonies now de- manded attention. The burning of a hated book is surely nothing but a subject for re- joicing. But the funeral obsequies of a man are different. De rhortuis nil nisi bo- num, even if one were not devoted to the mortuis when living. So our pro- cession formed. Pale and blond, attired in his cajj and gown, we laid our instructor down, while we chanted the funeral dirge : Solemn and slow, Onward we go, Heavy our hearts and depressed with awful woe. Measured our tread, We carry the dead, Him to convey to his funeral bed. E ' er were his hands Paler than man ' s ; Now is his face just as white as the snow ; No more a blush That cheek will flush When he beholds ' 95 Sophomore. Never, T wis, Will he show this Cheek, in that way meek, but aAvfully bored. Mortarboard ' s tassel He ' ll no more shake, When come the days that make all of us quake. Tenderly bear Onward the fair. Move not his shroud, he ' s arranged it Avith care. Wreaths now do spread Over his bed, But hide not the part in the middle of his head. Sound then ye cries Up to the skies! Sound then ye woods with the deepest of groans ! Never again, Never again, Shall we more hear thee, thou d(r)earest of men. Sadly we gaze upon thee, 0sv, Z sv (pronounce phef), Thou beautiful but in- effectual angel beating thy wings in a lu- minous void. The classic cap and the remnants of the burned gown were saved to be sent to the great original of the effigy. The solemnities over, we rested, and sighed with calm content at the thought of our freedom. We could scarcely realize that we had written a final Quod erat faci- endum upon our Mathematics. Was it pos- sible that we should no longer be obliged to drag ourselves across a room to see some poor quaking creature demonstrate a proof in which she too often feared that she might finish where she had started ? It was a great day for us ; it is not so often in life that one looks forward to a certain day for tAvo years, and then has one ' s anticipa- tions fully realized. THE BARNARD ANNUAL. THE HYSTIC THREE. The ancient Greeks and Romans did one and all agree That there were mystic powers in the magic number three, So now to learn the reason you need no longer seek, Why three girls learn Analytics just three times every week. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, at precisely half-past ten, Up two long tiring flights of stairs the maidens climb, and then — Oli, then they sit quite comfortably, and wait out in the hall Till F forgets the Seniors, and the Juniors can recall. Then they enter, take their seats, the instructor hums and haws, The girls, though model students, talk to fill the little pause. Presently the lesson starts, and then they talk no more, For, from that moment on, the instructor owns the floor ; Save when, by kind permission, Miss Van E. goes to the board, And even then it is not long before his voice is heard, — Here ' s a pointer, Miss Van E., you ' ll find it more effective. Miss Van E. then looks quite squelched at such a mild invective. But she ' s not the only victim to be sat upon this day, For Miss B. gets up — Oh heavens ! what is that I hear her say ? X over Z is s even, — Dr. F. cannot stand that. Thinks he, Miss B. shall not go on until on her I ' ve sat. He says, in voice like thunder, Will you never learn to see Mathematicians have agreed to call it X l y Z ? Next he turns upon Miss H. — ' tis too much for his patience — Her problem is correct, but she ' s left out two equations. Besides, these Chinese puzzles I have never learnt to solve, And life ' s too short to make yours out, ' twould too much time involve. Oh, these poor luckless maidens ! one by one their faults he names. The bell rings, and the maidens think their one protector ' s James. 41) THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Barnard students have long desired to suggest a proper form for an examination in Mathematics. They submit the follow- ing paper as the result of much earnest thought in the matter, and would like to add that many of the problems have been already solved by members of the college : BARNARD COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS. Etnal Examination, June 19, . I. Given the distance in inches be- tween Columbia College and Barnard, re- quired the number of minutes late any instructor will be on a slippery morning. [Answer is a variable quantity de- pending upon instructor.] II. To find the shortest line joining the office and the study room at lunch time. A solution by sound is suggested. III. Given the time allowed in any examination equal to T ; and time required by particular student equal to T 1 ; required a solution. Only one case is discussed when T 1 is greater than T. In such a case, let it be remembered that T — T 1 will be a negative quantity, and by the laws of logarithms and examinations T — T 1 =E. TV. Given respective rates of B , C and K in filling a student ' s mind ; how long would it take them, all working together. Answer. — Approximately four years. V. In Latin metre to prove that a short syllable may be metrically long with- out making a quantitative difference in pronunciation. [A large reward is offered for a so- lution. Apply to Dr. .] A POPULAR MAN. [Air : Colonel ' s Song from Palirncf.] If you want a receipt for a man that is popular, Tako of the alphabet all that you can, Stir up the letters, but don ' t be too jocular, — Boil them with roots of the pure Avestau, — Add a dash of Pahlavi, a flavor Teutonic, A smack of High Gothic, a garnish of Zend, A sottppon of Shakespeare, a savor Miltonie, — Set on the fire to simmer and blend. Zeal of the Orient, Saxon in attitudes, Grace of the Angle accustomed to bend, Eyo for the brilliance that lurks in our platitudes, Making us feel that the man is our friend. Take of these elements all that is fusible, Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible, Set them to simmer and take off the scum, And a jJOjndar man is the residuum. 50 THE BARNARD ANNUAL, A Toast. Here ' s to our Alma Muter, Lon ; may she rise! Exalted be her banner Till it reach the skies! I wonder how many of us in Avishing long life to our Alma Mater, realize that she is younger than her children. In fact she is barely five years old, and will not be of age till we are well on towards the forties. But we must count time by heart throbs, and reverence her on the principle that she lives more in one day than we in many. Hers is a sort of aggregate existence. If she lives in every straggle with Mathematics, through every conflict with Greek verbs, in every experiment and occasionally an explosion in Chemistry; and if here, too, the axiom holds true, and her intellectual growth equals the sum of the increments, then, since we are told she lives in her chil- dren, she is already venerable enough. Again, if she has lived only one year for each of the children she has now, she is over a century old. Logicalby, then, she is venerable. Myth- ologically, perhaps, like Minerva, she had no childhood but sprang full armed from the head of Jove, the Jove in this case being not the Olympian with the thunderbolts, but the Columbian with the library. (How- ever, the Olympian, having exchanged his thunderbolts for a copy of the Phaaacians, has condescended to dwell for a time among mortals.) But seriously, we do love our Alma Mater and we shall cherish her more and more for all she has done in raising the standard of intellectual Avomanhood. We realize, too, how much her future glory de- pends upon her graduates. Sidney Smith, in his caustic satire, observed that knowl- edge was fast increasing at Oxford, because the students on entering brought a great deal with them, but took little away; hence it accumulated. Let us. when we leave Barnard, depending upon the instructors and especially upon future Freshmen for new supplies, take Avith us not only the knowledge gained from our Alma Mater, but also characters shaped and strength- ened by her loving hand, to show the world what Barnard has done for us. Then, in gratitude for all the benefits gained from her, we may well raise our banner high, but how make it reach the sky ' ? An easy solution of this problem pre- sents itself. Recent magazines are full of allusions to the height of the modern girl, and our own observations tell us that there are more very tall girls to-day than there used to be. Now we are modern girls, and if we continue to live in an atmosphere of mental elevation, in this city of elevated roads, and to attend this college where even the laboratories occupy such an elevated position, may we not hope among our own number to find a girl so tall that she can raise our banner to the sky ' ? Then too, side by side with the extra- ordinary height of woman, physiologists note a corresponding decrease in the size of the modern man. Granted that this be also true, g ive full play for a moment to your imaginations and see the Barnard student standing erect, waving her banner so high that only the glittering fringe can be seen below the clouds; and on the ground before her, hardly visible from that lofty height, her fellow-student of Columbia gazing with uplifted eyes, in speechless ad- miration of the banner of our Alma Mater i 51 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. THE BARNARD ANNUAL. CHESTNUTS. Wonderful iu tireless patience, With philosophic explanations, Iu lucid words he tries to teach us Appreciation of Lucretius. He makes our class enthusiastic, Revellers in the mind ' s gymnastic, And shows us philosophies manifold, The fruits of lives in days of old. But after a tallc on the Stoic School, And freedom from pain, the Epicure ' s rule, We noticed him leave our class oue day — Nay, oft it happened — the truth 1 say. And can you picture our dismay V We saw him stop upon his way — Just a block beyond the College Hall — To greet an Italian, who kept a stall. Oh, did he discourse of 6 n ' ro ioc, With a newly-found philosophus? And did he prove the need of space That things may move from place to place ? Oh, no! Oh, woe! Our idol fell- How can I this sad story tell? He handed the man a couple of pence, And then he quickly betook him hence. But all the way to his destination He devoured chestnuts for recreation ; For a while he could be a hungry mortal, Until he reached Columbia ' s portal. And so, like Proteus of old-time story, In changing forms he finds his glory. Believe who will, believe who can, The philosopher ' s still a hungry man! — -10m- — The Class of ' 96 beg to petition their much beloved mentor, Miss Bl e, besides her valuable instruction, to take upon herself the supervision of their cloak-room. It has been noticed that of late horrible untidiness has prevailed ; the number of pins in the pincushion has diminished from the rightful number of ten to eight ; the waste basket has been upset twice within the last six weeks ; several distinct drops of water were spilled over the table on March the six- teenth at half past ten, and so forth. In this dreadful state of affairs the class look to Miss Bl e as their helping- hand, confident that her talents lie in this direction, and trusting that she will no longer hide her light behind a bushel, but will let it shine for the benefit of the class of ' 96. 53 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Girls Can Fly, Have you seen the Berkeley Lyceum, On Forty-fourth Street, West V What the Barnard students do there The girls themselves know best. I would uot reveal their secrets, But you really ought to see That line of learned maidens Iu loose trousers, to the knee. Their running aud their vaulting Would put a boy to shame. As for climbing, swinging, jumping! These I shall not even name. They climb — to use hyperbole— Up to the very sky ; They swing aloft on ladders But they never learned to fly. Some things by intuition Come to animals, ' tis true, Human, as well as others, As I soon shall piwe to you. After the lesson ' s over Some girls stay there (on the sly), For, although Eliza ' s warned th em, She has never told them why. One day — it was last Tuesday — When the line had broken rauks, They sought rings, bars, trapezes, And tried all sorts of pranks. Ere long a class of Berkeley men Appeared upon the stair, And they kindly kept cpiite silent For fear the girls they ' d scare. But when the maidens saw them Their shrieks did rend the hall, The men were much embarrassed (?), The maidens flew — that ' s all. 54 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. A FRESHMAN ' S SHAKESPEARE. Here will be an old abusing of . . . the King ' s English. — Merry Wives of Windsor. My Freshman days, when I was green in judgment.- — Antony and Cleopatra. We, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness, and the bettering of our minds. — The Tempest. Is it not a lamentable thing that the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? And that parchment, being scribbled o ' ei ' , should make a graduate? — lie) cry VI. Oh, what professors dare do! What professors may do! What professors daily do, Not knowing what they do ! — Much Ado About Nothing. Banish our James and banish all the world. — Henry IV. Bid me discourse, I will talk forever. — Venus and, Adonis. A Brooklynite, a lad of mettle, a good boy. — Henry IV. Clo. What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl ? Mal. That the souls of professors might haply inhabit peacocks. — ' Iwelfth dSight. The bell, the bell, the lusty bell Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. — As You Lile It. Let me have books about me that aren ' t fat ; Sleek-sided books that let you sleep o ' nightsj Yond lexicon has no lean nor hungry look : Such books are dangprous. — Julias C ' cesar. Pkof. The maid that hath no Horace in her soul, Nor is not moved with concord of his sounds Isn ' t tit for Baruard, but nursery and toys; Let no such maid be accepted. — Merchant of Venice. One maid in her time plays several parts, Her acts being four years. At first the Freshman, Meek and modest iu her new-found sphere ; And then proud Sophomore, with her satchel And grand, superior air, hastening like thought Most willingly to college. And then the Junior, Working like furnace, with countless papers Written on wisdom ' s lore. Then the Senior, Full of wise saws, and learned as a prof., Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in answer, Seeking the bubble graduation Even iu a thesis ' clutch. — As You Like It. 55 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Phe. Good student, tell this maiden what ' tis to study. Lil. It is to be all made of eyes and ears ; And so am I for English. Phe. And I for Mathematics. Orl. And I for Greek. Ros. And I for no study. Lil. It is to be all made of concentration. All made of interest, duty, and observance, All diligence, all patience, not impatience, All thought-fulness, all trial, all observance, And so am I for English. Phe. And so am I for Mathematics. Orl. And so am I for Greek. Ros. And so am I for no study. — A.s You Like It. First Witch. Thrice the number one makes Wo. Second Witch. Thrice and once the number take. First Witch. Round about the data go : Id the calculation throw, A that stands for term the first, N the number there immersed, L the last that we have got, Boil thou first in the charmed pot. All. Double, double, add and double, Problem ' s wo.] k and data ' s trouble. Second Witch. Every little detail write. How much two times two now cite, Ten, less two, you know, makes eight, Never this forget to state. Do not lump it all together, Or we ' ll have some stormy weather. All. Double, double, add and double, Problem ' s work and data ' s trouble. — Macbeth. A FRAGMENT. Once to Greece his footsteps led him, Where his heart e ' er yearns to be, And from thence his classes daily Heard of sights far o ' er the sea. Once quite guilelessly he told us How in that fair land of song, Phoebus in his glory reigneth With a power both full and strong. And our dear Professor wisely, To protect his face from tan, Walked beneath a white umbrella, What a sight for gods and man! ■50 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. PARTING SONG. (To the tunc of Juaiiita). Soon far away our footsteps we shall wend, Is ours another May thus to spend friend with friend? Oh, let naught asunder part us ere this life is done, Helping one another till the goal be Avon. or i, or i i ' xoo ! Thus ' tis written in our hearts. or , or i s ' ail May we live our parts. A TRAGEDY IN HALF AN ACT. Dramatis Persona : Professor Zimmermann. Ghost of Pkof. Z. ' s Conscience. ACT I Library. — 8 o ' clock p.m. — Prof Z. in a chair, napping. — Alarm clock goes off. Prof. Z. (waking up leisurely). What, 8 o ' clock already! I wish it weren ' t. I don ' t think it can be. How can it be 8, when I don ' t think it is? It isn ' t 8 o ' clock (closes his eyes). Ghost. I beg you kindly, please, To get up at your ease, To read those essays you must wake, For it ' s 8 o ' clock, and no mistake. Prof. Z. (re-opening his eyes). Now, who the deuce can that be ' ? The idea of saying I must wake ! Doesn ' t the fool know that there is no such thing as must in the world ? I really must try and impress [that on my pupils. Then again, to be philosophical, it doesn ' t seem to have been anyone at all that I heard just now ; for, considering I ' m not a all sure that I exist, I surely can ' t be sure that I heard anything, so that the case becomes one of antecedent probability, and nothing is sure. Doesn ' t it ? (Sits up.) Ghost. Oh, hurry up now, do, And look these essays through. They ' re enough to drive one fou, Still it must be done by you. (At tbis point the ghost presumably brings the essays to the table, for Prof. Z. isn ' t at all sure that he did it. Neither am I.) 57 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Prof. Z. (opening an essay entitled The Problem of Poverty, and reading to him- self). The Problem of Poetry. Why do people write about such things., when every- body thinks differently about them? (Turning to last paragraph.) We hope, however, that at some future time men will iudidge less in charity, and more in justice. I don ' t think that applies — now, does it ' ? (Writes on cover of essay :) I like this, as far as I can follow ; in most places I fail to get your point. (Pulls out Les Trois Mouscpietaires, becomes absorbed in page 201(5, which he is reading for the 313th time.) Ghost. The deuce ! How often must I say That this is work, and is not play ? Now come along, cheer up, be bright, And put your Dumas out of sight. (Ghost removes Dumas.) Prof. Z. (opening the third essay, after having written (rood on second). The Ascent of Mont Blanc. Oh, I remember that T wrote on that myself formerly. (Writes absent-mindedly :) Don ' t. (Comes to fifth paper.) Let me see, this is Miss T ' s. That girl would write well, if she only did. The Impressions of a Lively Gentleman at the Theatre. That sounds amusing. (Beads half a page.) She ' ll have to explain that. (Writes :) Not always logical. Moral obscure. Try again. (Pulls out his Matthew Arnold, makes notes by the yard.) Ghost. Now, really I ' m ashamed of you, This sort of thing will never do. Of essays you ' ve yet got a slew. Your negligence you ' re sure to rue. Prof. Z. Excuse me, sir, but with your leave I ' ll take the liberty of doing what I choose. (Beads, grows emotional.) Oh, the devil take his dogmas! (Dreadful crash. Dante comes tumbling down from his pedestal. Curtain drops.) A Specimen of a Columbia Professor ' s English, lo be Rendered into Classical Latin. Accordingly, sorrowfully and almost at a loss what to do, the generals descended into the Campus Martins on the day of the elec- tions, and turning towards the magistrates, looked around upon the countenances of the leading men who were gazing at one another, and murmured that their fortunes were so utterly lost and that such despair was felt for the State that no one dared to accept the command for Spain, when suddenly P. Cornelius, son of that Publius who had fallen in Spain, then about twenty-four (24) years of age, declaring himself a can- didate, took his station upon a platform in order that he might be clearly seen from it. THE BAENAED ANNUAL. In the Lunch Room. When Barnard College removes with Columbia to Bloomingdale, and the girls have a luxuriously appointed lunch-room along with the other conveniences of the new building, one very interesting feature of our daily life at present will be done away with. The Self-Government Com- mittee will issue a decree that no studying must be doue in the lunch-room, but that the girls must simply eat, drink and be merry, though later they Hunk. Look in with me now upon our present lunch- room, any time from eleven to half past two — for one may always find some hun- gry student eating between tlnse hours. You hear a wild roar of voices before I open the door, and then a partial hush for an instant, because some of the girls, without looking around, think it is the Registrar, come to silence them by an im- perative glance. Please sit here by the door, so that you may escape quickly if the noise deafens you. This is our study-parlor as well as lunch-room, hence the Greek lexicons stand side by side with cups of coffee and plates of bread and butter. That table over by the window is devoted especially to the Freshmen, the Sophomores gather about the one near the mantel, while the Seniors sit sedately about this one in front of us, discussing with equal facility problems in Calcidus, Ethics and Domestic Economy. The Juniors — exclusive creatures— lunch all bv themselves in another room. Listen now to this jargon. Can you oc- casionally catch a word ? Why, I thought all nice girls were Republicans — no, not the milk, the sugar, if you please — did you decide that conscience is an infallible guide to conduct? — yes, she has been en- gaged three years — and he is really the nicest instructor at Barnard — but still, that does not prove the doctrine of evolution conclusively - -there ' s our mouse again, I saw him run under the book case ! (Here- upon one or two girls, true to the instinct of their sex, clutch their skirts nervously, while the rest continue to eat calmly.) Poke him out with this ruler and I ' ll give him some crumbs--oh, don ' t you want to read my Latin to me? — you must take both equations — and don ' t jar the oven after you put it in, or it will fall as fiat as L r. — ' s jokes — look out, you are spilling your coffee on Mali ally — that is Classen ' s view of the passage — I have read that over six times and don ' t know yet what it means — yes, two lumps, please — hark, w hat is that noise in the street ? — don ' t let them see you looking out, it is only a dozen Columbia men saluting us, to let loose their surplus energy — they ' d better save it for Mathematics — I hear that half the class flunked in the mid-year- do shut that door? I won ' t have every pass- ing instructor see what 1 am eating. And so it goes on, studying and gossip- ing and swallowing between sentences. Bread and butter disappear rapidly, and the voices rise higher and higher. Do you wonder that the strain of eating and drinking in such a whirl sometimes frays the nerves of the Barnard girl who can calmly study hour after hour in her own quiet home ? THE BARNARD ANNUAL. An Imaginary Between Mr, X. and Dv. J ' ., who Mil. X. — Are you going to -19th Street ? Dr. Y. — Yes, are you ? Mr. X. — I shall go in a moment. If you ' ll wait, we cau go together. I must leave a book in the office for the Juniors before I go. Mr. X. mounts the stairs, leaving Dr. Y. in the hall, gazing abstractedly at noth- ing. In a short time Mr. X. returns, and the two gentlemen leave the building to- gether. Mr. X. — One of the girls in my class asked me where Pippa Passes were. She thought they were in the Alps. Dr. Y. — Are you reading Browning with them now ? Mr. X. — Yes — I do the reading and they don ' t do the rest — although of course that ' s somewhat exaggerated. Dr. Y. — Do yo u admire BroAvning ? Mr. X. — Immensely! I think he ' s a giant among men, with some of the gro- tesqueness to our eyes that Gulliver had to the eyes of the Lilliputians. The strength, beaut} r , and healthful tone of his real poems is wonderful. But, of course, I do not express my opinion to the class. Dr. Y. — Wait a moment — oh, he isn ' t here to-day! The Italian who generally occupies this corner and whom I patron- ize isn ' t to be seen now. There are two of the girls coming down the street. I suppose they have been at the library. Watch them pretend they haven ' t seen us until we are right before their eyes. Mr. X. — It ' s fun to meet them in the library. They hate to see any of us there — I heard one of them say so the other day, and realty they look as if we took their breath away. Conversation meet in the J aU at Barnard College. Dr. Y. — I don ' t like to meet them on the street. They always make me feel that they are criticising the manner in which I take oft ' my hat. I wonder what they think of us. Mr. X. gloomily). — Nothing very com- plimentary of me, I am sure. Dr. Y. — Oh, nonsense, you know they like you. Didn ' t they all take your course ? I have such small classes. Mi;. X. — They spread themselves out thin. One takes one course, another takes a different one. I hear they had a play down there, a few weeks ago, in which they took us off. I hope I was in it, for I should rather have them make fun of me than neglect me. Dr. Y. — Is there no way in which Ave could find out about it? Perhaps James could give us a few points. He generally knows everything. Mr. X. — It ' s a pity that they do not invite us to any of their affairs. I am sure we should have a glorious time. In other colleges, the girls give teas and receptions to their instructors. Dr. Y.— I wonder what kind of book their Annual is going to be? I do hope it will be better than the Columbian. They say that they want it to be more literary! Mr. X. — There is that man whom I flunked last term. Talk to me, and I ' ll pretend not to see him when he passes. Dr. Y. — I must stop at Sabiston Murray ' s before I go to college, so good- bye. Mr. X. — Good-bye. Shall I see you to-night at the theatre? Dr. Y. — Oh, yes — yes. Good-bye. THE BARNARD ANNUAL. A COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH. He is drowned iu the brook : look but in, and you will see him. — As Toil Like Tt. With many a curve the boards I fret, With many a plane and angle, And many a gentle Freshman get In wilderness and tangle. I point, I draw, I write, I cite, Like congressmen in lobbies, I make the gentle Freshmen strike Against my little hobbies. I potter, potter, as I go, To teach the gentle Freshmen, And they ma} 7 come and they ma} 7 go, But I mark on forever. With many a smile my face I light, With man} ' a smile sarcastic, And many a sudden answer trite I make with thought elastic. I smile, I talk, I sit, I git With bag of ancient making, Wherein are themes by Freshmen writ, For smiles of private taking ; I read and mark them so and so, To teach the gentle Freshmen, And they may come and they may go, But I smile on forever. With many a turn the room I walk, In many a chair 1 settle, And many a smile as swift as hawk Reflects my ways of metal. I slip, I skip, I stalk, I walk, I harp upon good order, Like Injun with a tomahawk Upon our far-oil ' border. I read to them dramatically, To teach the gentle Freshmen, And they may come and they may But I amuse forever. I lean upon the table smooth, I gaze about the classes, I make a mark if it behooves, To show how lesson passes. I read, I fly, sometimes I shy A call on listening Freshmen, Through many a passage I do hie Beyond the time allotted, And I do sate by staying late, To teach the gentle Freshmen — The bell may ring and it may ding, But I stay on forever. 61 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. Scene: Barnard College Study. Time; The Spring of 1891. You remember it, my classmates, that mild, sunny day when we met at the col- lege to celebrate our first festival. The songs of the birds, the gentle influence of the season failed to soften the dire pur- pose in our hearts; for we had determined to pronounce judgment upon the heads of those who had led us up the hill of diffi- culty through our hrst college year. We formed a mj ' stic circle in whose ceuter rose our — must the truth Vie known ? our auctioneers ! Yes, in a novel way were the victims to lie sacrificed upon the altar of Justice. Do you not see it all once more? Is it not strange at what varying prices the articles are knocked down ? Mr. This goes for almost nothing, while Dr. That is commanding exorbitant sums. Our interest rises as one after another the victims are claimed by the priestesses and borne away as prizes. At length Dr. Y. is held up to the view of the anxious spectators. Low sums are at hrst offered, when suddenly, to the astonishment of her companions, Miss X. cries out: I ' ll give co for him ! Now, see the Hashing looks of the other maidens. The whole scene is transformed; excitement and anger grow. Infinity is squared, raised to the 25th, to 100th, to the 1,000th power. Miss X. can bear it no longer and exclaims ' infinity to the infinity power. He ' s hers. When the storm has some- what abated, there follows a sale of the most quiet kind. Mr. Z. has no bidder. Two cents is given, three mills, zero and all to no avail. The auctioneer settles the question by declaring that since Miss X. Avon the preceding treasure she must take this one also to make matters even, at the cost of minus infinity raised to the minus infinity power. The end is not yet come. He for whom many a purchaser has been reserving her wealth is to be the final one. The gold of Croesus is to the very first bid in the same proportion as a drop of water is to the ocean. All previous bargains are inade- quate. Fast and furious waxes the con- test, louder and louder sound the cries. What is to be done? Miss is tall and stately, wise and witty ; we regard her as our queen. Behold her ! Unshed and trembling, her dark eyes gleaming with jealousy, her black hair falling over her brow, she springs into our midst, up- lifts her arms, and, slowly kneeling, gravely whispers : I give my life for him 1 This was in our Freshman year. In these, our sober Junior days, we love to recall those foolish, happy times, so long gone by. Perhaps, we sometimes even now, though so very Avise and learned, wish that we might again be frivolous and noisy ; that instead of setting a noble ex- ample of propriety a nd decorum to modern Freshmen, we might again — Who can say? G2 THE BABNABD ANNUAL. ' 95 ' s EMBLEMS. On e ' xoo is the motto that is graven on our shield ; Sweet pea blossoms as our flower, and the soft pink which they yield For our color we have taken — each itself with meaning fraught And, united to the motto, adding beauty to the thought. On i ' xco — with no question as to whether it will pay ; On i ' xw — let the doing or the giving cost what may; All that lies within our power for uplifting human kind By our help, our sympathy and love, at every chance we find. Pink — the brightness and content with which we make the sacrifice Which will often be demanded where so many things entice; The happiness with which we wish some other lives to dower ; The rosy flush of morning hope, of sunset ' s quiet hour. Sweet pea blossoms mean departure, and they mean it for us, too ; Departure from old mansions to more stately ones and new, Which have slowly been upbuilded by the patient growing soul, Like the poet ' s chambered nautilus, while changing seasons roll. Then we share the College colors, the dear old bine and Avhite, The purity and truth with which we battle for the right. If we ' re faithful to these lessons, though the world should never deign To note our eager striving, we shall not haA-e lived in vain. THE EVOLUTION OF AN INSTRUCTOR. G3 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. ' 9 5 ' b Luncheon. ' 96 is au awfully original class (if yon don ' t believe it see class song), and so we topped off our first year ' s work with an awfully original affair. We gave a luncheon. And in an awfully original way, too, we gave it at Jaeger ' s. Some walked, some went in a horse-car. One girl Hew — she hadn ' t had any breakfast. That girl was disappointed. She saw no luncheon for two hours and a half. This is why. A gentleman came from Paeh ' s and it took him just two hours and a half to get us in a graceful pose (see class picture). Fifteen minutes after we were eating ice cream and cakes (some said the ice cream had whisky in it). Next came squabs and salad, and then ice cream again ! Wasn ' t that queer V The squabs were served with peas and cracked E ' s in which was im- mortalized an awfully original song about Johnny. (It was the same girl that had once volunteered to put some Greek prose on the board.) At this juncture something heavy fell — our only piano virtuoso had dropped her expression. Ijast course. — Mystic Ceremonies. You would like to know them, wouldn ' t you V After that we had some more fun. We murdered a man in a cake dish and he wouldn ' t die. He kept bobbing up and saying, I really never gave girls credit for so much, now, really I didn ' t! But he was mortal and he went down. The pic- ture shows what he looked like when he was fished up. His funeral ceremonies con- sisted in a ball which was started with the best of intentions. Then, after all the fun, we bade each other a pathetic farewell and went home after having spent one of the pleasantest afternoons we had ever had the good fortune to enjoy. We take great pleasure in announcing that a work of enormous value is being- written by a Barnard instructor. The title is Horace ' s Entire Works, Expur- gated. It is peculiarly valuable in that it enables the student at the regular rate of fifteen lines per recitation to complete the reading of the entire works of Horace in the course of one term. 04 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. If there ' s a hole in a ' your coats, I rede you tent it ; A chiefs amang you taking notes, An ' faith she ' ll prent it. ' ' B — b — t ' s a very learued man, And aids you iu every way he can ; Though of subjects there is oue On which his thoughts do oft-times run. Lo ! ' tis phonetics. C. 8 s B n. M. A. Epl. With a classical tip To his classical lip. A frame with laughter shaken, And head that rests on hand. You scarce could be mistaken — His countenance is bland. In voice both low and gentle. As lecturing to the air, His words elude the maidens. Till faiu they ' d tear their hair. Who tells you just to ' solve in blank, ' And makes you be exact ? Who tells you how to arrange your work To make it more compact? His photograph I ' d like to take And write thereunder, ' this is B — e, Oh, there ! I nearly told you. C — p — t — r ! Thou art no servant of priests, pulpits, or penny papers. C — y ! If the world seems cold to you, Kindle fires to warm it. All his facts observed, Set in a note-book, learned and Conned by rote. H — s — p is in Logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in Analytic. J. Mac — alluded to ' proportions, ' He propounded problems old, He mentioned oft ' progressions, ' Always happy when he told Of the mystic, mighty cipher, And of endless planes that pass. With what strange charms of infinity Did he captivate the class? N. W. Lggt. A lady practical, imperative, With mind compact and clear and self-possessed, And reason peremptory and competent S — r — za. He was a verray knitrkt. parlit, gentil M ' C — For he dotes on the Epicureans, And he knows all about the Chaldeans, Hell talk himself hoarse In Philosophy ' s course Through hundreds and hundreds of aeons. Why need I volumes, if one word suffice ? C.VROLUS K . Take a B. es S. and a B. es L. An A. M. and a Ph. D., And three hundred pounds of avoirdupois And our B — i — n W — d — d you ' ll see. 65 THE BARNARD ANNUAL. THE SONG OF ' 97. Tunk. — Columbia, the Gnu of the Oceun. I. 0, Barnard, our loved Alma Mater, The home of all culture that ' s true, The queen of our heart ' s deep devotion, We offer our homage anew. May thy daughters forever be loyal; To thy name may all honors accrue ; May thy banners wave proudly in triumph, Oar red with thy white and thy blue. II. While life ' s pathway broadens before us, Each day brings new truths not a few; We learn here from all that surrounds us, With knowledge our lives to endue; To look out, and onward, and upward; To take of this life a broad view; That Ave may be proud of each other, As well as of red, white and blue. m. Fair Barnard, when far we are scattered, And different paths Ave pursue, May the friendships here formed, e ' re be cherished Mid memories of red, Avhite and blue. May our hearts faithful be to thy service, Our lives to thy teaching be true. Live on, Barnard, forever ! All hail to our red, Avhite and blue ! 66 SONG OF ' 96. V 1. Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! I ah: Rah: Rah! Rix! Rah! 2. We ntv-er vet got in a fix. Goi ==F is— - =p=j z rrz:r :F=fi — s v T+ -F -F zN-Etr-J — , : F - ' . -i . „.F - r F : 5r r: — — ' E Ra - hi in a fix! We are the class of Nino - ty • six ! ( )f Nine - ty- six ! We ' re much too fine in rows to mix, In rows to mix! The tin • est far of E ' en when the Sophs played -5 — — m — m -d— — sz 1 — — _L| y _5_t J ,._L|___u, — Nature ' s freaks, The mighty class of Ninety - six ! Of Ninety-six ! Of Ninety-six ! Of Ninety-six ! Of Ninety-six ! ba • by tricks, Our spirits calm were milled nix. No, No, Nix ! No, No, Nix ! No, No, Nix ! No, No, Nix ! 3. Rix! Rix! Rix! Rix! Rix! Rix ! Rix ! Rah ! Rix! Rix! Rah! In brains pre-eminent we are, We are ! fa . ' la ! For this we ' re known both near and far, For beauty though! — So, so — la, la! || : So, so — la, la! So, so — In, la! :j| 4. Of classes four, the most we do, — The niOit we do ! We ' re starting ever something new, — Oh, something new! Oi clubs of all kinds, we ' ve a slew! Diamatic. Social, Tennis. — Phew!! j|;Whew! whew! whew! — Whew! whew! whe v!:|] To our last talent now we come, Oh, now we come! Original we are each one, We are each one ! So different from the common run, — In short. — in ail we take the bttn ! We take the bun! 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