Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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.

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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. ..... • '