Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 132 of the 1898 volume:

I Q Hi Cud 2 , fff. Cbc ]Y[ortarboard published by Cbe }vm 0Y Class of Barnard College HU this is the natural consequence of teaching a girl to read. — Che Rivals. JNew ork Q, ty 1897 THE REPUBLIC PRESS NEW YORK TO MRS. ABRAHAM A. ANDERSON AND TO MRS. VAN WYCK BRINCKERHOFF THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED Q oarfc of (Bfctfore. Susan Isabella Myers, ..... Chairman. Louise Fuller De Hart, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Ida Eloise Wells, Stella George Stern, . . . . . Art Editor. Q uetneBB (JttanagerB. Helen St. Clair, Clara de Lissa Berg. 4 FEARING that our publication may not be recognized under its new name, we, the editors, assure our readers that The Mortarboard is the official successor of The Barnard Annual. • « « The end of all art is to please. With this sentiment in mind we have aimed to give to The Mortarboard frivolity without flippancy, mirth without malice, a college atmosphere without pedantry — in short, to make it truly representative of the lighter and brighter side of our college life. • « « In view of our laudable and lofty ' aims, our friends, we hope, will forgive any seriousness or other faults that may have crept in unawares. If we have erred on the side of levity, be it known that the sin is merely the result of too strenuous efforts to live up to our standard. The Editors. 7 Q0oart of TtxmhtB. Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Hamilton W. Mabie, George A. Plimpton. Chairman Vice- Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Mrs. Abraham A. Anderson, Mrs. Francis B. Arnold, Miss Helen Dawes Brown, Mrs. William C. Brownell, Silas B. Brownell, LL.D., Mrs. George F. Canfield, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Frederic R. Coudert, LL.D., Mrs. Seth Low, Hamilton W. Mabie, Mrs. Alfred Meyer, Mrs. Henry F. Osborn, George A. Plimpton, Mrs. Henry M. Sanders, Edward W. Sheldon, Mrs. James S. T. Stranahan, Mrs. James Talcott, The Rev. Roderick Terry, D.D., Frederick S. Wait, Everett P. Wheeler, Miss Alice Williams. Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, Mrs. James J. Goodwin, Mr. James Talcott, in the name of Josiah M. Fiske, Mrs. Seth Low, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Esther Herrmann, Mrs. F. P. Olcott, Miss Mabel Slade, Mrs. J. S. T. Stianahan, Mrs. F. E. Hackley, Mr J. B. Bloomingdale, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. This office is at present vacant owing to the death of the Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D. 8 Mrs. Robert Abbe, Mrs. Frederick P. Bellamy, Miss Mary Billings, Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, Mrs. Henry Clews, Miss Helen Gray Cone, Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, Mrs. Julien T. Davies, Mrs. John F. Dillon, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, Miss Jeannette L. Gilder, Mrs. Edwin L. Godkin, Mrs. Almon Goodwin, Mrs. James J. Goodwin, Mrs Arnold Hague, Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, Mrs. Henry Holt, Mrs. Alfred M. Hoyt, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, Mrs. Francis P. Kinnicutt, Mrs. Wm. Lambert, Mrs. Charles Lanier, Mrs. Herman S. LeRoy, Mrs. C. S. Longstreet, Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, Mrs. William Moir, Miss Louise Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. F. P. Olcott, Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, Mrs. Daniel M. Rollins, Mrs. C. A. Runkle, Mrs. Russell Sage, Miss Agatha Schurz, Mrs. Augustus D. Shepard, Miss Mabel Slade, Mrs. A. B. Stone, Mrs. Algernon Sullivan, Mrs. Louis Tiffany, Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, Miss Amy Townsend, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Henry Villard, Mrs. Edward Winslow, Mrs. William Wood, Mrs. Lorenzo G. Woodhouse. 9 ©ean. Emily James Smith. Offtcere of ' Snsitviction. Eugene Howard Babbitt, A.B., Instructor in the Germanic Languages and Literatures. William Tenney Brewster, A.M., Tutor in Rhetoric and English Composition. Henry Jagoe Burchell, Jr., A.M., Assistant in Latin and Greek. Gary N. Calkins, B.S., Tutor in Zoology. George Rice Carpenter, A.B., Professor of Rhetoric and English Composition. Jonathan Brace Chittenden, Ph.D., Tutor in Mathematics. John Bates Clark, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Political Economy. Frank Nelson Cole, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics. Harry Alonzo Cushing, Ph.D., Tutor in History. Arthur Morgan Day, A.M., Assistant in Political Economy and Social Science. Thomas Scott Fiske, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. 10 Franklin Henry Giddings, A.M., Professor of Sociology. Emily L. Gregory, Ph. D. , Professor of Botany. William Addison Hervey, A.M., Tutor in the Germanic Languages and Literatures. John Ethan Hill, Ph.D., Tutor in Mathematics. James Hervey Hyslop, Ph.D., Professor of Logic and Ethics. A. V. Williams Jackson, A.M., L.H.D., Ph.D., Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages. Charles Knapp, A.M., Ph.D., Instructor in Latin. Nelson Glenn McCrea, Ph.D., Instructor in Latin. George Clinton Densmore Odell, Ph.D., Tutor in Rhetoric and English Composition. Herbert S. Osgood, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of History. Curtis Hidden Page, Ph. D. Tutor in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Edward Delavan Perry, Ph.D., Jay Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. Herbert Maule Richards, S. D., Tutor in Botany. Ralph Curtis Ringwalt, A. B. , Assistant in Rhetoric and English Composition. 1 1 James Harvey Robinson, Ph.D., Professor of History. Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy and Finance. Richard Mayo-Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy and Social Science. Carlo Leonardo Speranza, A.M., B. es L., Adjunct Professor in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Calvin Thomas, A.M., Professor of the Germanic Languages and Literatures. Ernest R. Von Nardroff, M.E., Instructor in Physics. Hermann T. Vulte, Ph.D., Tutor in Chemistry. James Rignall Wheeler, Ph.D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. Benjamin Duryea Woodward, B. es L., B. es S., Ph.D., Instructer in the Romance Languages and Literatures. ' r 3nsfrucfors of £ofumBta (UmuerBtfg WHOSE COURSES ARE OPEN TO SENIORS OF BARNARD COLLEGE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS. Nicholas Murray Butler, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Psychology. William Henry Carpenter, Ph. D. , Professor of Germanic Philology. James McKeen Cattell, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology. I 2 Adolph Cohn, LL.B., A.M., Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures. James Chidester Egbert, Jr., Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Latin. Livingston Farrand, A B., M.D., Instructor in Physiological Psychology. Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Ph.D., Professor of Rabbinnical Literature and the Semitic Languages Louis Marie Auguste Loiseaux, B.S., Tutor in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Harry Thurston Peck, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. Thomas Randolph Price, A.M., LL.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature. Charles Augustus Strong, Lecturer in Psychology. Henry Alfred Todd, Ph.D., Professor of Romance Philology. Norman Wilde, Ph.D., Assistant in Philosophy. The Reverend Abraham Yohannan, Lecturer in Oriental Languages. Clarence Hoffman Young, Ph.D., Instructor in Greek. Absent on leave. 13 pernor Cfaaa aXXct yap jjovdd idnv uai r filv. Class Flower, . Class Color, President, . Vice-President, Secretary, . Treasurer, Historian, . Officers. Jacqueminot Rose. Crimson. . Louise Brisbin Dunn. Maude Wilcox. Louise Shaw. Alma Cordelia Hall. Edith Rice Sackett. 14 (tttemBere. Agnes Baldwin, .... Newark, New Jersey. Adelaide Wells Brown, Brooklyn, New York. Edith Phoebe Bucknam, Brooklyn, New York. Mary Bergmann Dobbs, New York City. Florence Anderson Dowden, Newark, New Jersey. Louise Brisbin Dunn, Jamaica, New York. Estelle Elkus, .... New York City. Grace Lovina Fen ton, Pulaski, New York. Alice Medora Ferry, Mount Vernon, New York. Nellie Priscilla Fletcher, New York City. Cordelia Alma Hall, . New York City. Anna Mary Locke, Indianapolis, Indiana. Myra Emilie Matthews, Orange, New Jersey. Mary Baldwin More, . . . . Moimt Vernon, New York. Edith Rice Sackett, . New York City. Louise Shaw, . . . . . Hackensack, New Jersey. Aline Croquet Stratford, Brooklyn, New York. Anne Porter Sumner, New York City. Lillian Mary Uppercu, . Elizabeth, New Jersey. Adaline Caswell Wheelock, New York City. Maude Wilcox, .... Pelham Bay Park, New York City. 15 9 TliHioX E X ? g PE S? pa Class Flower, Class Color, President, . Vice-President, Secretary, . Treasurer, Historian, . 3(umor Cfase. Scarlet Carnation. Scarlet. Officers. Susan Isabella Myers. Ida Eloise Wells. Elizabeth Heywood Wyman. Anna Irene Von Sholly. Jessie Wallace Hughan. 16 (tttemBere. Fannie Isabel Alward, Clara de Lissa Berg, . . . . Rosalie Bloomingdale, Edith Helen Boetzkes, . . . . Louise Fuller De Hart, Anne Richardson Hall, . Katharine Stockton Hawkins, Adeline Merle Heinold, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Marjorie Jacobi, . . . . . Louise Elizabeth Lacey, Ella Roselle Lathrop, . . . . Agnes Crawford Leaycraft, Frances Estelle Martin, . Anna Emilie Helen Meyer, Susan Isabella Myers, . Eleanor Frances Osborne, . Grace Isabelle Pollard, . . . . Helen St. Clair, .... Jane Isabel Sargent, . . . . Stella George Stern, .... Anna Irene Von Sholly, Ida Eloise Wells, .... Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, Emily James Smith, .... Elizabeth, New Jersey. New York City. New York City. Brooklyn, New York. Jersey City, New Jersey. St. Joseph, Missouri. New Brighton, New York. Jersey City, New Jersey. Brooklyn, New York. New York City. Brooklyn, New York. Bridgeport, Connecticut. New York City. Newark, New Jersey. New York City. New York City. New York City. East Orange, New Jersey. New York City. Montclair, New Jersey. New Orleans, Louisiana. Flushing, New York. Rahway, New Jersey. Bloomfield, New Jersey. Honorary Metnber. 17 rpeiv fi ovh ea IlalXai AQS vy. Class Flower, Class Colors, President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, Historian, . White Carnation and Asparagus. White and Green. Officers. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. Cerise Emily Agnes Carman. Edith Parker Striker. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. 18 Mary Morrell Brackett, New York City. Cerise Emily Agnes Carman, . . . New York City. Ida May Demarest, ..... Jersey City, New Jersey. Agnes Lillian Dickson, .... Jersey City, New Jersey. George Mary Drew, ..... Grange Valley, New Jersey. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, . . New York City. Grace Harriet Goodale, ..... New York City. Adelaide Camilla Hoffman, . . . Brooklyn, New York. Elsie Mabel Kupfer, New York City. Elizabeth Hoffman Mapelsden, . . . Brooklyn, New York. Helen Marion Oakley, ..... Jersey City, New Jersey. Ruth Cecilia Overton, .... Brooklyn, New York. Alice Jane Gray Perkins, .... Schenectady, New York. Aurelie Marie Reynaud, .... Mount Vernon, New York. Jane Isabel Sargent, . Montclair, New Jersey. Ella Rosina Seligsberg, .... New York City. Anna Mabel Smith, ..... Jersey City, New Jersey. Alte Stilwell New York City. Edith Parker Striker, East Orange, New Jersey. Mary Brown Sumner, .... New York City. Amelia Wohlfarth New York City. Mrs. H. A. Gildersleeve, .... Honorary Member. 19 20 (WtemBere. Florence Theodora Baldwin, . New York City. Willina Barriek, .... Flemington, New Jersey. Margaret Crawford, .... Jersey City, New Jersey. Snsan Matilda Germann, . Brooklyn, New York. Mary Loockerman Goldsborough, Easton, Maryland. Helen Agnes Kane, .... Brooklyn, New York. Stella Frances Kingsbury, New York City. Florence Leslie Kyte, Fanwood, New Jersey Florence Lippincott, .... New York City. Jessie Jamieson Macbride, New York City. Ruth Kirker Macbride, . New York City. Hilda Newborg, ..... New York City. Florence Oppenheimer, . New York City. Martha Ornstein, ..... New York City. Ellinor Ten Broeck Reiley, . New York City. Sarah Bertha Rosenstein, New York City. Florence Miller Sill, .... New York City. Sissie Straus, New York City. Mary Caldwell Woodhull, . Craigsville, New York. Julie Wurzburger, . . . • . New York City. Mrs. Van Wyck Brinckerhoff, . Honorary Member. 21 Helen Culbertson Annan, ....... New York City. A.B., Bryn Mawr College. Marianna Catherine Brown, ...... New York City. A.B. , Vassar College. Ella Fitz Gerald Bryson, ....... New York City. A. B. , Columbia University. Katherine Scott Burns, ....... Brooklyn, New York. A.B., Ohio University; A.M., Ohio University. Clara Maria Burt, . . . . ... . Plainfield, New Jersey. B.Sc, Welleslcy College. Louise Sewall Cheeser, ...... Worcester, Massachusetts. A.B., Smith College. Elsie Worthington Clews, . . ..... New York City. A.B., Columbia University. Emily Matilda Coddington, ...... New York City. A.B., London University. Lydia Sarah Cody, ........ Cleveland, Ohio. A.B., Boston University. Florence Colgate, ........ New York City. A.B., Columbia University. Louise Connolly, ........ New York City. B.Sc., Columbian University; M.Sc, Columbian University. Elizabeth Brown Cutting, ....... Brooklyn, New York. A.B., Vassar College. Dora Bay Emerson, Bertha Cecilia Freidenberg, Caroline Ellen Furness, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark, Rose Bertha Gruening, Mary Bradford Harris, Carrie Hammerslough, . Mary Browning Henderson, Edith Josephine Hulbert, Mabel Hurd, Eleanor Isabelle Keller, Alice Mapelsden Keys, Mary Melinda Kingsbury, Florence Corliss Lamont, B.Sc, Wellesley College. A.B., Vassar College. A.B., Vassar College. A.B., Bryn Mawr College. A.B., Vassar College. A.B., Columbia University. A.B., Columbia University. A.B., Wooster College. A. B., Vassar College. B. L., Smith College. M.P. , University of New York. A.B. Columbia University. A.B., Boston University. B,Sc. , Smith College. Rockford, Illinois. New York City. Poughkeepsie, New York. New York City. New York City. Flushing, Long Island. New York City. New York City New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Englewood, New Jersey. New York City Elizabeth Frances Nammack, ...... A.B., Columbia University; A.M., Columbia University. Lucia Morrill, ...... Center Conway, New Haven. A.B , Wellesley College. 23 Mary McMurtrie, Charles Howard Parmly, Mabel Parsons, . Louise Place, Eva Sherwood Potter, . Bertha Haven Putnam, Ruth Putnam, . Amey Tace Farley Rowland, Ida Louise Saxton, Emma Gertrude Schleier, . Alice Lillie Seligsberg, Helen Frances Slade, Jessie Frances Smith, . Margaret Sterling Snyder, . Alice Sterne, Ettie Stettheimer, . A.B., Bryn Mawr College. EE, Columbia University. A.B., Columbia University. A.B., Columbia University. A B., Columbia University A.B., Bryn Mawr College. B L, Cornell University. B.Sc, Mount Holyoke College. Ph.B., Syracuse University. B.L.. Smith College. A.B., Columbia University. Ph.B., Vermont University. A.B., Vassar College. A.B., Radcliffe College. A.B., Smith College; A.M., Columbia University. A.B., Columbia University. 24 Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. New York City. New York City. New York City. Brooklyn, New York. . New York City. New York City. New York City. Yonkers, New York. New York City. New York City. Thetford, Vermont. New York City. . Newark, New Jersey. New York City. New York City. Helen Isabel Whitson, ....... Brooklyn, New York. A.B., Smith College. Elizabeth Sprague Williams, ...... Buffalo, New York. B.S., Smith College; A.M., Columbia University. Zaidee Williams, ........ New York City. A.B., Columbia University. Harriet Winfield, ........ Newark, New Jersey. A.B., Wellesley College; A.M., Columbia University. Clara Louise Ziegler, ........ Oberlin, Ohio. A.B., Oberlin College. 25 Madeleine Beer, Mary Montague Billings, Laura Billings, Irma Olga Boskowitz, Mabel Choate, Anna Maria Cooley, Mary Imogen Crandall, Alice Duer, Mrs. William Einstein, Mrs. John S. Ely, Mary Cecilia Fairfax, Mrs. C. H. B. Fielitz, . Emilie Fries, Anna Granger, Cornelia Katharine Hall, Franklin G. Hills, Elizabeth Hopkins, Anna Weir Hubbard, Ida Louise Husted, Frances Harens Ives, Marjorie Jacobi, Adelaide Isabel Katte, . Emilie Olivia Long, . New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. Brooklyn, New York. New York City. Havana, New York. New York City. . New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. New York City. 20 Helen Nina Merriam, .... Twin Oaks, California. Jeannette I odd Morrett, . . . . New York City. Margaret Lewis Morgan, New York City. Anna Louise Nevins, . . . . New York City. Belle Pappenheim, .... New York City. Constance Parsons, . New York City. Mrs. Charles Chauncey Parsons, New York City. Margaret Hewitt Parsons, . New York City. Mrs. Joseph M. Price, .... New York Lity. Mrs. I. E. Reiman, . . . . New York City. Adeline Mays Richards, New York City. Frances Schroeder, . Brooklyn, New York. s XT 11 1 J Cecue Heller Schwed, .... New York City. Amelia D. btead, . . . . JNew York City T7 ,i • tt TT Katharine Van Home, .... . Jersey City, New Jersey. Alice Ellis Van Kirk, . New York City. Gretchen Von Briesen, .... New York City. Julia Cooper Watkins, . . . . Montclair, New Jersey. Ada Watterson, .... New York City. Mary Evelyn Werts, . . . . Jersey City, New Jersey. Louise E. J. Zerban, .... New York City. 2 tubmte in (Music Helena Josephine Albro, New Rochelle, New York. Lily Althaus, .... New York City. Mrs. F. C. Axtell, .... Short Hills, New Jersey. Frances Raymond Bartlett, Brooklyn, New York. Mary Hammond Burnham, New York City. Mary Helen Catlin, Morristown, New Jersey. Mary Livingston Chase, Scarsdale, New York. Mrs. John Bernard Cole, New York City. Elisabeth Donaldson, .... New York City. Mrs. Wm. H. Duff, New York City. Mrs. Albert Hendricks, New York City. Ida Leigh Hilton, Nyack, New York. Constantine H. V. Julier, . . . . New York City. Butina J. Kahmweiler, New York City. Caroline Kriegshaber, .... New York City. Mrs. Howard Mansfield, New York City. Mrs. Arthur Meyer, .... New York City. Jessie Ormsbee, .... . Brooklyn, New York. Lily Purrington, .... New York City. Mrs. I. E. Reiman, .... New York City. Mrs. Clarence C. Rice, .... New York City. Edith Thompson, .... New York City. Mrs. Berenice Thompson, Brooklyn, New York. Anna Caldwell Whitehead, . New York City. 28 Q efa B?p0tfon £§ xphx of Happa ttappa (Bamma Jrafermty. (QtemBere. Mary Bergmann Dobbs, ' 97. Louise Brisbin Dunn, ' 97. Louise Shaw, ' 97. Maude Wilcox, ' 97. Adaline Caswell Wheelock, ' 97. Clara de Lissa Berg-, ' 98. Marjorie Jacobi, Special. Ella Roselle Lathrop, ' 98. Agnes Crawford Leaycraft, ' 98. Anna Emilie Helen Meyer, ' 98. Susan Isabella Myers, ' 98. Eleanor Frances Osborne, ' 98. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, ' 99. Alte Stilwell, ' 99. 30 Hmka.P.hit.n. of CtyaptttB of Happ a Happa amm x ffiakxnxty. Rpt a At pt-t a TTniversitv of Pennsvlvania Priiladelnhia Pennsvl vania . . 111 V V I Ol L ¥ V_ X X V 1 I i I . X V 11 HI, X 111 lil ' .lL ' 1 IJ 11 I t I , X . 1 1 1 1 . i IV ill 1 1 L L . RffTA IiFT A i 1 1 j i . i i i_. i. - 1 j . St Lawrence tJniversitv C anton Npw Yort , . . v ' La IVil TV 1 Jl Ivw V 111 V - 1 . ' 1 L V, 1 U 1 L ' ' 11 , X 1 V- V V X J L IV . Beta Epsilon, Barnard College, New York City. Bfta Rta i J Hi X 1—J 1 A , , L eland Stanford TJniversitv Palo Alto California , a . 1 v V 1 i I 1 1 ' . 1 LCI 11 1 1 ' X ' . 1 - ill V V- 1 ill L , X til V XXX L , V ' CV 1 11 ' XXX XCXa 1J £j L A JT A 1 1 i l A , . , ' AT ' on tpf TTnivpr if v AA7r.n tpr Ohio , . . V V UUjICI J 111 V CI OlLV , VV UUo LCI , V lUv. Beta Iota Swarthniore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Rfta N tt XJ JBi 1 A x U j . Oli ir. ftt atp TTni vpftii tv f p 1 n in Tin q Ohio . . V X11U vJldL U HI V olLV j wUl Uxll L UO. VyillU. Beta Tau XJ Hi X A 1 AUj ■ SvraoiKP Tin i vpf itv Svtppiigp N pw VrtrV ■ ■ vj y x cxc lx w xxx v cx oil. y , y cfcv lx oc , 11 v vv x j 1 jv Rl?T A TT T? ' 1 ' A i- d X A x nJ!i 1 Am . r riipflor. AQQAPiJirp O Ti a TitPT f liip?! o n T11inr.ic . . 11 ILaV U llooULla VvllaU LCI T V lllLagUj llllllL lo. Bfta Zfta Towa State ITnivprsitv Iowa ditv Iowa a • a a XV VV CV V_J L - L L V V 111 V VI Oil ¥ X V_ VV CX W U y , X _ VV tX« Chi, A TiriTiPQnta TTnivpr itv TVf inn pp noli A TinnPGntfl . . l. X lllllvoU LCI C XX XV vl OX L V j XVX lliXXVwClL UlltJj ±vx XXI ll OU Lex . Delta, Indiana T T n i versitv Bloom in P ton Indian a . ( a a X 11VX1 CXXXCA V 11 L V VI i ' l L y , 1 -1 VV 111 111 LV ' ll , X X X V4. A C4 X X CX Tl1inr.it; TpQlpvaTi TTnivpr itv Rlnnmin o tnn THinnit? . iiixiiwio VV voivy ex xx j xx xv uioit y , x iuuiii xxx g l uii ■ x xxxxxv x o, Eta, TTni vpftiitv nf A Ti POTiGin TVIftfliGnn i PonGin . , . J LL IV LlOlL V JL. VV lOvWllvlli j ItXAVXIOUII , V V lOV-vll OX XX . fr A M fcff A Run vJ ivxivx xx. n v. , , , A11po Vtpnv r nllpcrp IVTpprlvinp Ppnn vlvflnip ... A IXC 11 CXXX V w 1 XC li C , I ' l V CX V_X V 1 IlLj X CXX XX OV X V CXX1 X da Iota, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. K a pp a TTi11crlfi1p f rYllpcrp TTillorlfilp ATiphicrpn xXlllOvXCtlC V UllCi ' C x X XXX ovXCXXC, XVX XC 1XX i; CX1X. Lambda, Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio. Mu, Butler College, Irvington, Indiana. Phi, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. Psi, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Sigma, Nebraska State University, Lincoln, Nebraska. Theta, . Missouri State University, Columbia, Missouri. Upsilon, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Xi, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan. Omega, Kansas State University, Lawrence, Kansas. 33 QWpIJa ©micron (pu QttemBere. Agnes Lillian Dickson, ' 99. Anne Richardson Hall, ' 98. Jessie Wallace Hughan, ' 98. Edith Josephine Hulbert, Graduate. Helen St. Clair, ' 98. Stella George Stern, ' 98. Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, ' 98. 34 £§e {p B. t $xcb§mcm Secret Society. Sounbeb (TtouemBer, 1896 Florence Theodora Baldwin, Helen Cole, Stella Frances Kingsbury, Florence Leslie Kyte, Florence Lippincott, Florence Oppenheimer, Julie Wurzburger. 37 Martha Ornstein, Ellinor Ten Broeck Reiley, Florence Miller Sill, Sissie Straus, Katharine Van Home, Evelina Werts, Sounbeb (gprif 7, 1892. President, .... Adelaide Wells Brown, ' 97. Vice-President , . . . Louise Brisbin Dunn, ' 97. Secretary, .... Eleanor Frances Osborne, ' 98. Treasurer, .... Cerise Emily Agnes Carman, 99. dSreeuttoe Committee. Mary Bergman Dobbs, ' 97, Susan Isabella Myers, ' 98, Edith Parker Striker, ' 99, Florence Miller Sill, 1900. £ eff; Bownment Committee. Adelaide Wells Brown, ' 97. Chairman (ex-officio), Estelle Elkus, ' 97, Rosalie Bloomingdale, ' 98, Ella Rosina Seligsberg, ' 99 Florence Leslie Kyte, 1900. (preee Committee. Aline Croquet Stratford, ' 97, Louise Fuller DeHart, ' 98, Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, ' 99, Florence Leslie Kyte, 1900. 38 Sounbeb ©ecemBer 5, 1895. President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, £reeuftt e Committee. Helen C. Annan, Mabel Hurd, Alice M. Keys, Mabel Parsons, Helen C. Annan. Alice M. Keys. Mabel Hurd. Mabel Parsons. Louise Place, Amy F. F. Rowland, Alice Sterne, Helen J. Whiton. Helen C. Annan, Marianna C. Brown, Mrs. F. G. Bryson, Katherine S. Burns, Clare Marie Burt, Elsie N. Clews, Florence Colgate, Louise Connolly, Elizabeth B. Cutting, Dora B. Emerson, Pauline D. Goldmark, Rose B. Gruening, Jeannette Brown, E. M. Boyce, QJtemBere. Carrie Hammerslough, Mary B. Harris, Edith Josephine Hulbert, Mabel Hurd, E. J. Keller, Alice M. Keys, Mary M. Kingsbury, Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, Mary McMurtrie, Mabel Parsons, Louise Place, Eva Sherwood Potter, JE)onorarg QttemBere. Lucia G. Grieve, Elizabeth F. Nammack, Emily James Smith, 39 Bertha Haven Putnam, Amy F. F. Rowland, Alice L. Seligsberg, Jessie F. Smith, Alice Sterne, Etta Stettheimer, Helen J. Whiton, Elizabeth Williams, Zaidee Williams, Harriet Winfield, Clara L. Ziegler. Isabella A. Reimer, Flora M. Taylor, Dean. Sounbeb SeBuiarg, 1894- Officers. President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer Eleanor Frances Osborne, ' 98. Edith Rice Sackett, ' 97. Agnes Crawford Leaycraft, ' 98. Adaline Caswell Wheelock, ' 97. (UXemBere. Agnes Baldwin, ' 97. Clara de Lissa Berg, ' 98. Edith Helen Boetzkes, ' 98. Mary Morell Brackett, ' 99. Adelaide Wells Brown, ' 97. Edith Phcebe Bucknam, ' 97. Louise Fuller De Hart, ' 98. Mary Bergmann Dobbs, ' 97. Florence Anderson Dowden, ' 97. Estelle Elkus, ' 97. Grace Lovina Fenton, ' 97. Alice Medora Ferry, ' 97. Maude Wilcox, Nellie Priscilla Fletcher, ' 97. Cordelia Alma Hall, ' 97. Adelaide Camilla Hoffman, ' 99. Ella Roselle Lathrop, ' 98. Agnes Crawford Leaycraft, ' 98. Susan Isabella Myers, ' 98. Eleanor Frances Osborne, ' 98. Edith Rice Sackett, ' 97. Ella Rosina Seligsberg, ' 99. Aline Croquet Stratford, ' 97. Lillian Uppercu, ' 97. Adaline Caswell Wheelock, ' 97. ' 97- 40 Proedros tfie Bree6 €Pu6. Sounbeb (ttotjemBer 14, 1894. Anne Porter Sumner. (WtemBerB. Agnes Baldwin, 97. Eleanor Frances Osborne,  9 8 Clara de Lissa Berg, ' 9 8. Louise Shaw ' 97 Marjorie Jacobi, ' 98. Aline Croquet Stratford ' 97 Susan Isabella Myers, ' 98. Anne Porter Sumner, ' 97 . Adaline Caswell Wheelock, 97. JJonorarg q tmkte. Mortimer Lamson Earle, Ph. D. Edward Delavan Perry Ph D Emily James Smith, . . . Dean _ 43 £0e Qgamar Coffege ttyaphx of t% e Coffege Sounbeb 1895. Offtcere. (Brobuofe (gfecfor Mrs. James Wells Finch. (Unbergrabuafe (Bfecfor Clara de Lissa Berg, ' 98. QRecorbtng JSecrefarg, Maude Wilcox, ' 97. ($bfHBorg £ommtffee, Dean Emily James Smith, Dr. Emily L. Gregory. 44 Qtrf ur QBroofie feikxatp § ot d] . Sounbeb (ttlarcfr 1895- President, Vice-President, . Secretary and Treasurer, Fannie Isabel Alward, Edith Helen Boetzkes, Louise Fuller De Hart, Anne Richardson Hall, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Louise Elizabeth Lacey, Officers. (Ukw0er0. Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, Ida Eloise Wells, Katharine Stockton Hawkins. Agnes Crawford Leaycraft, Grace Isabelle Pollard, Jane Isabel Sargent, Helen St. Clair, Stella George Stern, Anna Irene Von Sholly, Ida Eloise Wells. 45 (Specimen of Amateur Scene-Painting.) Aiai-Hm ' s Background for Iphigenia in Tauris. JE)onorarg (tttemBets. Dr. Charles Knapp, President, . Directors, Mr. Henry Jagoe Burchell, Jr. Officers. Stella George Stern, ' 98. j Jessie Wallace Hughan, ' 98. ( Fanny Isabel Alward, ' 98. Fanny Isabel Alward, ' 98. Clara de Lissa Berg, ' 98. Edith Helen Boetzkes, ' 98. Louise Fuller De Hart, ' 98. Agnes Lillian Dickson, ' 99. Anne Richardson Hall, ' 98. Adelaide Camilla Hoffman, (Utem0er0. Jessie Wallace Hughan, ' 98. Edith Josephine Hulbert, A.B. Katharine Stockton Hawkins, ' 98. Elsie Kupfer, ' 99. Louise Elizabeth Lacey, ' 98. Ella Roselle Lathrop, ' 98. 99. Agnes Crawford Leaycraft, ' 98. Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, ' 98. Martha Ornstein, 1900. Grace Isabelle Pollard, ' 98. Ella Rosina Seligsberg, ' 99. Helen St. Clair, ' 98. Stella George Stern, ' 98. Alte Stilwell, ' 99. Anna Irene Von Sholly, ' 98. 46 ounbe QMarcfr 1895- feeaber. Helen St. Clair, ' 98. Q cmjoB. Cerise Emily Agnes Carman, ' 99. Anna Irene Von Sholly, ' 98. QCHonboftn. Helen St. Clair, ' 98. (Butfatr. Agnes Crawford Leaycraft, ' 98. 49 Zfy ( arnarb Cofeege (gtcjcfe Cfu6, Sounbeb £ cfoBer, 1896. Secretary, . . . Adaline Caswell Wheelock, ' 97 (tttem8et0. Clara de Lissa Berg, ' 98, Mary Bergman Dobbs, ' 97, Ella Roselle Lathrop, ' 98, Agnes Crawford Leaycraft, ' 98, Eleanor Frances Osborne, ' 98, Adaline Caswell Wheelock, ' 97. 50 Sounbeb jjcmuarg, 1897- Secretary and Treasurer, .... Stella George Stern. (glcftfce (Wtem6er6. Stella George Stern, ' 98, . . New Orleans, La. Anne Richardson Hall, ' 98, . St. Joseph, Mo. Mary Loockerman Goldsborough, 1900, Easton, Md. QtBocibU (tttetnBere. Katharine Stockton Hawkins, ' 98. Agnes Lillian Dickson, ' 99. r%t _ H jC5 A Alice Jane Gray Perkins, ' 99. IT? „T T T Harry Alonzo Cushing, Ph. D. 5t (Breafer (ttet or8 £fu6. Proposed — the day after the Southern Club was founded, (Brfrdcte from (propoeeb Conefttufton. ARTICLE I. NAME. The name of this club shall be the Greater New York Club. ARTICLE II. OBJECT. The object of this club shall be two-fold : (a.) To increase among the students of Barnard College, a curiosity in, interest about, and reverence for the city known in history successively as the Island of Manhattan, New Amsterdam, New York, and Greater New York. (b.) To increase among the people of Greater New York a curiosity in, interest about, and reverence for the institution known as Barnard College. ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP. There shall be five kinds of members — active, associate, honorary, honorary-associate, and special. ARTICLE IV. ELIGIBILITY. Section I. — All students of Barnard, who are natives of Greater New York — that is, New York proper, New York improper (z. e. , Brooklyn), and surrounding districts, may become active members upon application. 52 Sec. II. — Any student not a native of Greater New York is eligible for associate member- ship upon the following conditions : (a.) She must have six grandfathers on the paternal and four grandmothers on the maternal side who were born and resided throughout the whole extent of their lives (summer vacations excepted) within the limits of Greater New York. (p. ) She must give evidence of her true Greater New York spirit by — 1. Being able to name all the mayors of New York City and Brooklyn from the founding of said cities to the present day. 2. Evincing her ability to stand erect without a strap in the cable-cars on the Fifty-third Street curves. 3. Being fully competent to surpass in argument any member of the Southern Club. N. B. — It should be understood that by argument is meant not logical proof, but enthusiasm and lung power. Sec. III. — Any member of the Faculty of Columbia University is eligible for Honorary or Honorary-Associate membership upon the conditions for Active and Associate membership respectively. Sec. IV. — Special members shall be those members of the Faculty who are not eligible on any of the aforementioned conditions. ARTICLE X. CELEBRATIONS. There shall be two kinds of celebrations — balls and birthday parties. There shall be two balls every year: one on the date on which Hendrick Hudson passed Forty-fourth Street on his way up the Hudson River; the other commemorating the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Birthday parties shall be held on the birthdays of celebrated New Yorkers, such as William M. Tweed, Theodore Roosevelt, Peter Stuyvesant, Colonel Waring, Seth Low, Thomas C. Piatt, Charles H. Parkhurst and David B. Hill. 53 Boet Qtrftcfe QjUeoctaftom feoefeb SeBruarg 29, 1897. Motto — No place for nothin ' and nothin ' in its place. QUemBers. Active. Passive. J. W. H. (Member cum laude, March i, 1897). . Head, hat and courage. S. G. S. . . . . . Heart. ' 99. ....... Health. ' 98. ....... Constitution. Daily Themes. . . . . . . The Point. Scrap-basket. ... . Balance. Rhetoric C. Briefs. ..... Fasteners. Applicants for membership must present certificates, duly signed by James, testifying to their ability to live up to the motto of the club. Loss of certificates entitles the perpetrator to membership cum laude. Extracts from the constitution would have been appended if that document could have been found. Member on Probation, (That which ought to be lost), Mr. Cushing ' s Autograph Album. Sounbeb 25$en ' 98 Began (tflemtefrg. drink, pretty creature, drink. Active Members, . . The Chemistry Class. Associate Members, . The rest of the College. Chief Treater, . . Miss Stern. Chief Treatee, . . -Al noXXai Dutch Treat ers, . At dXXai Abstainers, . . . Ov Sepia. 55 Industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, tradition, private records and evidence, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover some- what from the deluge of time. — Bacon. 56 DURING these four years we have made many researches concerning the perfect historian, and believe him to be as scarce as the dodo. Such, however, has not been the conclusion regarding the perfect history; for, during this time, the one which we ourselves have been enacting so nearly approaches perfection as to be far above the power of any historian, good, bad, or indifferent, to make more or less glorious. So, for a Senior History, it is necessary only to be absolutely veracious, and not to draw upon the imagination. The people we speak of are not ideal creations (though some are supposed to be so), but beings of flesh and blood in greater or less degree. The events actually happened; nothing has been added except a slight coloring for which no extra charge is made. I shall proceed chronologically. Freshman year we gave the best entertainment that ever had been given in College, so everyone said. No expense was spared. We had a Christmas tree, with a superb gift on it for every one in the whole place. They (the gifts) all came from The Whiting, and the poetry was composed to suit each, especially for the occasion, by Mr. R. W. Gilder, Mr. G. E. Woodberry, Mr. Richard Hovey, and others, who come high. The cards were decorated by Gibson. By this we soon established our reputation. At the end of the year we did a good deal in the class-day, when it actually took place, and with ' 95 did much to promote its bare existence. Sophomore year we had a frightful time, studying, but came out with astonishing records of scholarship. Ours was the first class ever to take honors in anything, to win the Chemistry prize, or to be represented in the athletic exhibition in Berkeley Gymnasium. This last is too much like work to be omitted in this connection. We practically started the function called Barnard teas, which then received an impetus which has kept them still in motion (?) and for which some still live to bless us. Furthermore, we are unique in having seen Barnard primitive (now we must happily confess, a tradition) develop under the Dean who came when we were Sophomores. We have always been a class prompt in action, except, of course, in certain great matters which must move slowly. We were without a constitution for four months at least, and were fully six in formulating and organizing a Literary and Debating Society, which last most Freshmen do in two weeks. But since all weighty questions were finished up in the first year, thereafter we have turned off more business in a small time than anyone else ever. The first two weeks of a term we get all the entertaining off our hands, and, by being ahead of the rest, make the first as well as the most fixed impression. Moreover, it usually happens that we accomplish most of the revolutions for the College ; 58 are the pioneers who are the first to have courses practised on us. So, we fall to and make the rough places smooth, put up signboards, as it were, and eliminate all objectionable features. How many hours this takes of oral argument and masterly debate, of petition, original composi- tion, and indignation meeting, we only know, but all appreciate. No one else will ever have eighteen briefs in a year or fifteen history reports all around. What we have been through by no means affects our scholarship, which is better than anyone else ' s anywhere. Reference is made for moral character and ability to anyone in the whole place. It remains to describe at some length our Junior Ball, the first of the series so devoutly wished for by all who were there. It was accomplished with simplicity of arrangements admired by all, and did not present an aspect of having been stewed over for months. More- over, we did not depend upon three newspaper columns of patronesses to pay for it. It was held at the largest assembly-room in town. The columns and staircase were twined with ropes of pink roses and smilax; the chandeliers were hung with the same. Palms were in groves everywhere; Seidl ' s full orchestra played. The menu will have to be omitted on account of its length, and because it would be unintelligible to many, as several dishes were invented specially for the occasion, the recipe of which is always to be kept secret. The same can be said of the costumes. Though the cotillon lasted till after four in the morning, we showed our marvelous recuperative power by appearing promptly at our classes at 9:30; in fact, most of us were there for chapel fifteen minutes earlier. Thus versatile are we. So much for what we have done for the College. It has naturally been a source of gratifi- cation to us, but in addition we occasionally take a little exclusive enjoyment. Every twenty- ninth of May we have a meeting, with a variety show provided by home talent. First we blow soap-bubbles or engage in some other recreative employment of similar intellectual diversion. No games of pure skill are allowed. Then we sing songs, and gossip. I always read a history of the year, full of beautiful sentiments, couched in a style at once chaste, correct, and elegant. We have all we can eat, and then all promise to write to each other every week all summer, and our official parting takes place. This year we shall separate from more than just one another, from the lower classes who are almost necessary to us, and all the other associations. But in one way we are favored. We shall never have the pain of coming back to the old building and seeing all the hive at work, and being made to realize that our place is taken, that we have for all practical purposes vanished off the face of the earth. Instead, when we leave, a whole epoch of the College will close, just as if the two events were intimately connected, and the old College, which we knew, really could not get along without us, and so had removed to a situation suitable to compensate for the loss of us. And herein our feelings and recollections as well will have compensation in large measure. 59 A. READ AT THE FIRST CLASS MEETING OF SOPHOMORE YEAR. Muse who singest the woes of the hardy hero Odysseus, Nai ' ve Nausikaa and her maidens skilful at football, Singest the downfall of Troy and the wrath of the dauntless Achilles, Grant me the power, O Muse, to chant in Melpomene ' s measure, To tell of the college of Barnard and sorrows of innocent Freshmen. Eighteen ninety-four was the year, in the month of October, When from the maples the leaves come fluttering gently and floating, Then from the gutters are gathered and swept by the white-robed street-cleaner. This was the month when to Barnard there came in the bloom of their childhood Twenty-four terrified girls. Oh, Ninety-eight, such thy beginning! Rattled and pale were we as we entered the study-room precincts, Where the pink blank-books in piles awaited the penmanship frantic. Yet we survived the affray, and, weary and worn with endeavor, Some of us bearing, alas, our scars in the shape of conditions, Earned we our well-earned rewards — our cards of matriculation, Vowing we never would lose them, but always remember our numbers. Valiant and bold were we then, as we knew we were really collegians, Claiming the study-room lockers, and talking in groups in the hallways, Blissfully disregarding self-government rules on the blackboard, Teasing the hapless instructors — alas ! for the follies of Freshmen ! Even the mysteries grim of the Sophomores could not affright us, Since they followed with cake and ice-cream the ghosts and the dirges, Fearing our infantile nerves might be injured by terrors of hazing. Soon we assembled our forces in class-meetings long and protracted, While from the fourth floor back, far down to the registrar ' s office, Floated the sounds of the fray, the vigorous taps of the gavel, Calls for the ayes and the noes, and frantic implorings for order. 60 Nor in class-meetings alone was the flow of our eloquence wasted : Daily with ardent discussions we favored our patient instructors, Rashly assailing Horatius, and even great Cardinal Newman, Defending old-fashioned Dickens, and laughing at Arnold and Ruskin, Hearing submissively, sometimes, the words of our reverend teachers. Many and bitter the lessons we learned from these merciless tutors, Tutors so expert in squelching our youthful ideas and opinions. Woe to the poor evildoers who tried to evade their displeasure, Attempting to translate at sight, because of an unprepared lesson ! Beautifully vague! comes the comment, attended with smile so sarcastic; Villianous! thunders the voice, ' tis enough for the ghost of Horatius To rise from his grave in disgust and avenge such a fearful translation. Woe to the maidens audacious, who hoped to write themes that were pleasing ! See how the pitiless critic has mangled their paltry effusions, Poured his red ink in gallons o ' er painfully written descriptions, Crossing out figures of speech, or begging to leave wider margins. Woe to the luckless maid whose crime was an accent omitted ! Woe to the damsel brave who dared to upbraid Lobochevsky ! Little indeed did instructors pity our fears and misgivings, When, in despair, and bereft of our dearest, most cherished illusions, We straggled at last to the study to brave the final accounting. Little, indeed, did they care if we passed or flunked at the Midyears, Provided they could impress on our intellects rough and uncultured A sense of the beauty of particles, love for the modern Hellenic, Horror of grammars and bitter disgust at the future condition, Disdain for the editors learned, awe of the great Lobochevsky, Knowledge of how to determine just when to say doughnuts or crullers. Of how to identify pancakes and people who came from Chicago, A decent respect for the beauties of Cardinal John Henry Newman, Love for sweetness and light and the great and adorable Matthoo, Hatred for all the traditions we learned from our childhood ' s instructors. Tune now thy lyre, O Muse, to sing of delectable morsels, Soothing our troubled spirits — such coffee, such bread, and such doughnuts, Provided when lessons were over and direful hunger oppressed us. Ah, how we willingly parted with nickels and sundry ten centses ! Humbly entreating the favor of sharing the savory banquets. 63 And how delightful it was, at the end of the day ' s recitations, To waken the study-room echoes with laughter and solemn discussion ! Many the happy hours we spent in our childish amusements, Upon the refrigerator discussing affairs of the Nation, Or at the top of the house in our nice little Freshman sky-parlor, Seated on low wooden chairs like those in the free Kindergarten, Hearing the strains of the hand-organs, dulcetly sweet and melodious, Watching the poodle-dogs passing, and also the passing Columbian, Crossing the Alps with old Hannibal, melting the mountains with vinegar, Hearing Andocides ' s fibs and philosophizing with Horace, Preaching the Golden Mean and drinking the modest Sabinum. Many the afternoons social w e spent in the study-room festive, The oi 7ToXXoi entertaining and talking to friends and relations, Che e ring our hearts and our labors with tea poured out by fair maidens. Many the awful occasions we joined in the terrible conclave, Listened to rules of self-government laid down by virtuous seniors. Many the trophies we gained in contests of wit and of learning, Many the praises we won for skill in the casting of shadows. Now, in the words of Eneas, the night will have come down upon us, The stars will have risen in heaven ere I come to the end of my story, And so I must pass by the exploits of ' 98 ' s heroines mighty, Our president wise, who, like prudent Odysseus, guided us safely Through perils of college and all the vicissitudes common to Freshmen ; Our maiden with intellect massive, O joy and delight of instructors; Our brave acrobatic young ember who wanted to jump through the window, But only succeeded in smashing the glass ; and the learned young women Who loved their Liddell and Scott and their Gow ' s Companion for Classics. Many the wonderful deeds that ' 98 ' s maidens accomplished. Finally when in the spring the days grew balmy and pleasant, Calling the worn-out students to mountain and farmhouse and seashore, After the little circus which finishes up the year ' s labors, Held we our parting luncheon, and, joyful with revels and feasting, Though from the number, alas, who had entered with us in October, Three of our friends had we lost, and sadly mourned as departed, Hailed we ourselves as Sophomores — Freshmen, thank goodness, no longer. 64 B. READ AT THE SOPHOMORE TRIUMPH. Tune once again, O Muse, thy lyre for the students of Barnard, Thou who didst follow our fortunes through Freshman woes and adventures, Per varios casus, per tot discritnina rerum. (Note that in stealing this line, my friends, I am really quite classic, For Horace could steal a whole satire and no one be any the wiser, And since he could do nothing wrong, it ' s quite proper for me to do likewise,) — Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum. Grant to us now, O Melpomene, here by the wine-faced ocean The barren, unharvested sea, ee 7roAv t Aoi6 fioio QaAa66t}$ To pour out our woes to the waves like ancient Iphigenia. When in the month of October, we straggled once more into college, Strengthened by months of vacation for climbing the ladder of learning, Somewhat diminished in number, for some alas had deserted, Still once again we assembled our class in thy halls, Alma Mater. Now, as great Homer, the bard, recounted the names of the triremes, When in the harbor of Aulis the Grecian chiefs had assembled, So may I number the maidens who dared once more to encounter Latin and German and Greek and wrath of unknown instructors, That through the years of the future their names may be ever remembered. Sing of the dauntless De Hart, our president, reverend, mighty, Skilled in the laws of debate and the practice of rules Parliamentary, Ninety-eight ' s sophist supreme, whom Protagoras even might envy. (This is a compliment, friends, witness Grote, volume 7, page 60.) Next in command is sweet Susy, the maiden who loves her Alcestis, Who never gets into a scrape, and who always has studied her lessons. Then a loquacious pot, our damsel with mind philosophic, Who argues on Omar Khayyam and frowns down Plautus and Terence, Who waxes on Stevenson eloquent, never smashes her test-tubes, Cruel companion at chemistry, Clara, the expert at squelching. Sing now, O Muse, of fair Agnes, the maiden of countless brass buttons, She who conducteth the harmonies sweet of the Banjo and Glee Clubs, Teaching in fourth floor sky-parlors the students of Barnard to warble ; Helen, the ninety-eight prodigy, product of far-away Harlem, Helen, who seldom doth study but gathers in A ' s by the dozen, 65 Envy of all of her classmates, the skilful at cramming and bluffing. Many the valiant maidens who gathered from far-away regions, Fanny and Frances and Grace from the land of the warlike mosquito, Edith the Bensonhurst fraulein and Adeline Heinold the gentle; Roselle, and A. E. H. Meyer, and Bloomingdale, name that reminds us Of the mansion of happiness destined for us in the year ninety-seven. Nan of Missouri, ins crutable maiden who loveth her history ; Ida, the logical damsel, who never gets blue or gets rattled, Who cutteth her history tests to discourse on predestination. Sing of the valiant Von Sholly, and Katharine from far Staten Island, And those two sensible maidens who broke from the thraldom of Wellesley, And fled to the sweetness and light and the welcoming halls of fair Barnard, Maidens of beautiful Brooklyn, Louise and our humble historian, And Stella the ninety-eight poet, the member from sunny New Orleans, Who embroiders on linen at college, and sits up all night to read Horace. Touch now a glorious string, O Muse, and sing of the costumes, Sing of the caps and the gowns that were worn by these Sophomores learned, Sing of the mortarboards heavy, that weighed on our intellects massive, And kept them from growing too fast and scaring our friends the instructors. Sing of the tassels of silk and the robes of flowing alpaca That tripped us when going up-stairs and cooked us when weather was sultry; Sing of their learned solemnity, also their rakish expression, When in the ardor of study, our caps became a bit tilted. Oh, how impressive we looked; we thought it superfluous, truly, To add to the solemn effect by acting in dignified fashion. Poor little Freshmen ! we pitied them, torn from their homes and their nurseries, Trying to solace their sorrows by games of Who ' s got the button ? Playing at Tit-tat-too on blackboards sacred to Latin; Yet like the Spartan parents, we gave them a stern education ; Ah, will they ever forget that umbrella rush back in October, When by heroic treatment, we taught them that dignified spirit Characteristic of Barnard, c. , c, c, Or the mysteries awful and grim, with the ghosts, the masks, and the groaning, Or the dance which we gave them at last when their souls were sufficiently conquered? Many, alas, were the faces we missed from their class-rooms accustomed; Many the unknown instructors who lectured us now in their places, 66 Yet there were some friends left, continuing still to instruct us, Showing us beauties of Horace, and errors of nameless professors, Reading our paltry effusions, and swearing we all had grown lazy ; But with the new recruits came a new infusion of learning. Ah, how our young minds were stored with all sorts of nice little catchwords. Tennyson now is ' distilled ' and Keats has a great deal of ' gusto ' ; Keats is glorious — especially stars, and now, by the way, that reminds me, Once when in Athens I heard a young lady read Byron quite nicely, And her nose was pronouncedly Grecian, in fact, quite a charming young lady. But that isn ' t much to the point. Well — Carlyle was born in, etc. Great was the knowledge we gained of the proper way to take snap-shots ; Of how to make silver by mule-power; of why we should never use hair-dye; Of what were the curious compounds, the strange weirdly-colored concoctions, Made by sulphuric acid projected on various dress-goods. But in spite of the vast information our fast-growing brains were imbibing, All was not yet as it should be. Our sorrows, my friends, were not over. Bitter it was when the one who led our young minds into Plato Laughed in her silvery tones at our poor little stupid translations, Wondered in pretty surprise that we never had read Kant and Berkeley, Asked if we ever used trots, and sai d that we sounded like Jowett. Direful indeed our distress when appeared a fierce apparition, Devouring reports by the thousand, demanding historical novels, Gayly rejoicing in flunks, and heeding us not in our struggles, Wearily, woefully working and wailing o ' er woes and Westphalias. (W oft-times repeated signifies sorrow and terror, As you will see in the notes on Tite, tute, etc.) Many the festive occasions when Sophomores bore themselves proudly, Teas and frolics and dances where maids and instructors disported, Also the great dedication where faculty hoods shone resplendent, Caps and gowns wandered through Harlem, and yells of Columbia resounded; Many the clubs that were formed, the aiou-hui for the ancients, ' ' Sans-Souci for the moderns, the Glee Club for musical members ; Now when the year is fast closing, though all the world is against us, Though we have lost reputation, are giddy, senseless, and flippant, E ' en though our history exam, we cannot recall without weeping, Still ' tis with sadness we part from our Sophomore year and each other. 67 r. WRITTEN FOR THE JUNIOR MID-YEAR LUNCHEON. Hear now our prayer, O Melpomene, come from the slopes of Parnassus, Come from thy peaceful vales to the tumult of old Forty-fourth Street. Grant me hexameters plenty to satisfy Juniors insatiate, Singing the epic of Barnard, the triumphs of valiant collegians. Thou, too, O Muse, who presidest o ' er history ' s pages so dreary, Clio, descend from thine height and help me to chronicle truly. Grant me the wisdom of Fyffe, the wit and thegenius of Putzger, To indicate fully each point, explaining each so-called allusion, That Ninety-eight ' s history humble may live through the years of the future, Serving with Seebohm and Gardiner to torture unborn generations. Tell of the joys and the sorrows, temptations and trials of Juniors, From the summer day far in the past when we wakened the echoes of Seacliff, Marching in solemn processional over the sands of the sea-shore. Burning the Trig. with delight and arranging the effigies gloomy; Then, as the flames mounted high, breaking forth into chorus exultant, Watching our enemies writhe in the pitchy ooze of the pyre Soon, when October once more called the summer girls home to their labor, Wandered we back once again to unknown Junior adventures, Welcoming back with delight the two we had mourned as departed : Her who in rustic Montclair had instructed the infants of Jersey And her who had left us to wander afar in the land of fair Hellas, Watching Olympian contests and deeds of American athletes, Breathing in grammar and syntax from balmy Athenian breezes, Learning her lyric metres from waves of the dashing Egean, Envy of all her poor classmates, here in the hot dusty college, Toiling o ' er grammars and lexicons, wading through text emendations. Welcomed we, too, the sweet maiden who wisely forsook Ninety-seven, Joining our Ninety-eight circle, and loved by her classmates adopted, Forgetting our pristine hostility, serving with soul patriotic. Sing now. O Muse, of the battle, the mighty strife for electives, Battle of maids and instructors with sometimes a OeojuaXi ' a, When the Dean herself swooped down majestic decreeing for one or the other, Ruthlessly cutting off optionals, wisely adjusting our conflicts. 68 Tell of the wonderful courses we longed for, the plans we abandoned ; Tell of the subjects at last accepted in sheer desperation. No longer we rushed in a body from one lecture-room to the other, As in Freshman and Sophomore years, for here were our several ways parted. Sing of the classical maidens still faithful to tragedies Grecian, Weeping with poor old Electra, so ottyiXoS, arexvo?, ayajuoS, Swearing o ' er metres corrupt and losing our hearts to Orestes, Learning like Sherlock Holmes to identify families from foot-prints. Tell how we now once again renewed our aquaintance with Homer, Reveled in battles and gore, and studied Andromache ' s headgear. Also the family jars of the household of gods on Olympus. Many the gentlemen classic we read and emended at pleasure; Horace, thank goodness! no more can bore us with epodes and satires; But Juvenal, Martial, and Cicero, still, ' twas with zeal we attacked them, Learning the Romans had flats with janitors, private halls, air shafts, Electric bells, telegraph service (the text here is somewhat disputed), Reading five poems of Martial to find that he lived in — well, some place, Searching for Cicero ' s logic, and trying to find him amusing. Some of us, venturesome damsels, e ' en sighed for more Latin to conquer, And traveled up rickety stairways to puzzle out tombstones archaic, Testing before ' twas appointed the virtues of co-education. Then there was English XV. where we learned all the symptoms of tooth-ache, Learned to love Temple editions and fifty-cent seats at the theatre, Zealously read all our plays and tried hard to pass without flunking. Italian, of music and romance where tales of adventure delight us, Tales of the gallant Orlando, and funny things (not in the text-book). Grant me the virtue, O Muse, to sing of the great daily theme course, Sing of those gems of description, those character sketches impressive. Sing of the method Socratic and horror of themes sentimental. Oh, how we strove to be serious one week and flippant the next one, Learned to hate L roads and trolleys, to love Barrett Wendell, and Pater. Many the subjects we treated with arguments clear and convincing, Babies, aLd puppies, and books, small boys, and religion, and morals. Sadly we weep for the world when we see all this wisdom unpublished. Sing of the Ninety-eight martyrs, the maidens with mind patriotic, Who spent twenty-four hours a day devouring American history, 69 Learning just how many votes were cast in the year ' 57, Learning the age and the price of each Congressman from the beginning. Tney seem to enjoy it most truly — de gustibus non disputandum. Still there were times when we all met again in delightful reunion, Cramming the courses required — our history, oh, how we labored, Tracking the quitting ambassadors, learning the Treaties of Paris, Desperately trying to bluff, and failing in hopeless confusion ; Sometimes, too, trying to cut, shall I say with result more successful? Then there was Logic that taught us that not-men were also not-horses, Or rather that men were not horses, and therefore not-men were all horses. Though the process was somewhat confusing, at least we all learned that we never Should state what we knew to be foolish or use a concrete for an abstract. Many the hours attentive we spent in Psychology lectures, Fighting with James (Professor) and learning to wink and look cross-eyed, Hearing of trances, and spooks, and tales of uncanny Miss Piper, Vying with one another in telling the biggest ghost stories, Making our hair stand on end at Miss X and her eerie epistles. Ah, how we struggled and grappled with problems materialistic, Twisting our poor streams of consciousness, turning our minds topsy-turvy ! Sing of great Rhetoric C. , and sing of the briefs so convincing, Tell how we tried to expand, to develop and find truer issues, Hunted through library shelves for archaic Congressional Records, Grubbed in the dustiest corners in mad, wild search for statistics. Sing of those fasteners many preserved in somebody ' s collection, The rise in the price of red ink, and the fall in the spirits of Juniors. Last but not least, Pol. Econ. , where we plunged into problems financial, Settled poor Bryan forever, decided all questions of banking, Silenced the lonely bimetallists bravely upholding their party, Falling back vanquished and faint, but returning afresh to the contest, Waxing in argument hotter, unable to know when they ' re beaten. Sing now, O Muse, of the times when lessons and books were neglected, When we stopped in our weary climb on a round of the ladder of learning, When we played, and chattered, and danced, and ate, and drank, and were merry. Sing of the great corner-stone and mighty procession of students, When faculty donned their gay robes and played at see-saw on the side-walks. Sing of the dainty reception where gracious hostess received us, 70 Sending back sugar plums sweet to the students who stayed home to study. (This sounds like Euripides ' s sigmas, but really it ' s quite accidental). Then there were numberless teas where we ate and gossiped as usual, Trying to make ourselves heard and thread our way in the tumult, Sometimes serving our friends with cupids and hearts and sweet couplets ; Oftimes only with chocolate and tea and wafers prosaic, Sing of the tender young Freshmen, those timid and sadly squelched beings ; Sing of the great cobweb-party we gave them far back in November When many in terror stayed home, afraid we were planning to haze them. How charming and pleasant it was to chat with the few who were present, And then, when our guests were all gone, the remains of the feast to demolish ! Many the social affairs when we met in the study-room parlors, Welcoming Specials and Grads. to the arms of our dear Alma Mater, Guessing the Sophomore plays and testing our knowledge of bill-boards, Sipping our cafe frappe from spoons that had come straight from Huyler ' s. Now since our pages are lengthening filled with hexameters countless, Soon must our history close e ' er it rival Livy or Mommsen. So we pass over in haste our Ninety-eight spread so informal, The Senior who served us so sweetly, the toasts and the sallies so brilliant ; Our clubs where we hotly debated and labored so hard on our papers Or presented classical dramas arrayed in the toga artistic ; Last but not least in importance our Mortarboard meetings so jolly Where business and pleasure combined and editors learned made merry With crackers and cheese and brown bread, all flavored with wit bright and sparkling, Those racy and keen scintillations which ne ' er found expression on paper, But somehow could never be caught and pinned down on the Mortarboard ' s pages. Now we dismiss you at last, O Muse, for your labors are over. Swiftly return to your valleys and clear Pierian fountain, Roaming o ' er Thessaly ' s hills and forgetting the College of Barnard ' Till some time in Ninety-eight ' s future we call you back once more to aid us To sing of our Senior year and our last days at college together. Qttnef£;(tttne WE have always been renowned for our originality, and we feel grieved, now that we are obliged to assume that ordinary, conventional characteristic of Sophomores — a good opinion of ourselves — some, perhaps, might unkindly call it conceit. Yet, when we review our college career, how can we avoid realizing the remarkable brilliancy of the Class of ' 99? We began our Freshman year quietly and modestly, unconscious of the great powers within us. But we were not long allowed to remain in ignorance of our extraordinary qualities. At our first entertainment, when we greeted our friends of ' 97 with the joyous harmonies of an original choral ode, our guests were struck with admiration. ' ' What an enterprising and talented class you are! they exclaimed. Nobody ever did this in college before. And then when we chose our motto, rpeiv ju ' ovh hoc ITdXXa? ' A ijvrj, and our colors — green and white — we heard everwhere through the halls of Barnard, ' ' The originality of those Freshmen is astounding! Such a unique motto ! Such unusual and aesthetic colors! As for our intellectual attainments — why, after the Mid-year Examinations, the whole College crowded about the bulletin-board, all agape at the marvellous record of the Class of ' 99. At the Dedication Ceremonies we turned out in full force; and, in spite of all the com- ments we heard upon our fine and scholarly appearance, we carried ourselves, throughout the day, with the sober dignity befitting our position. But the Final Examinations were the crowning glory of the year. In Mathematics we again proved ourselves invincible, not an E in all the class; while in Greek, Latin, Rhetoric, we won fresh laurels. Our instructors parted from us with sad, regretful faces. It was no task, they assured us, but a pleasure, to teach such a brilliant class. On our return to College last fall to the added dignities and responsibilities of the Sophomore year, we were assailed with compliments from every side. I ' ve never seen such an original and clever class as ' 99. Why, any one of the crowd of brilliant students in your class would be a credit to any college. Really, ' 99 is certainly the most remarkable class that Barnard has ever possessed. No, there is no help for it. We must abandon originality and adopt the attitude of other Sophomores. Our friends, our fellow-students, our instructors, the College authorities, all force it upon us. We must admit, however reluctant we may be, that no Barnard class was ever so brilliant, so talented, so distinguished, as the Class of ' 99. 72 HE history of the Class of Nineteen- Hundred savors from the start somewhat of the unique. K The history of any country usually begins with its discovery and settlement, and, as a rule, the new-found territory is named after its discoverer. But the history of the Class of 1900 begins in June, 1896, with its discovery of Barnard College, and the members of the class are still smarting under the injustice done them, in that Barnard has not been named after them. 1 900 ' s first impressions of her newly found stamping-ground were not as favorable as they might have been. These impressions were probably due to the unpleasant circumstances connected with the first few days of her arrival there. After a week of investigation by the faculty of Barnard, most of the members of the prospective class left for their summer homes, with a feeling of keen regret that in their examination papers they had not clearly defined their attitude toward examination qualifications somewhat in the words of Artemus Ward: I don ' t 73 know nothin ' about no ded languidges and am rather shaky in livin ' ones. There 4 expect no flowery talk from me. In the following September — Qualis apes aestate nova and the rest of it — the members of the Class of 1900 came back and took up their Freshman work. Then came the ' ' settlement of the class. Everyone took a hand in it from highest to lowest. It was the time-honored custom, but 1900 didn ' t relish it. It was enough to be dropped, — No ! I don ' t like that word, we ' ll say plunged — into the midst of a Greek murder trial, impromptu themes and parallelopipedons, without being overwhelmed at the same time by popular cold disdain and the importance of everyone else in the college world except the Fresh- men. And that popular, cold disdain ! Shall I compare it to a hurricane? It was more lovely and more temperate. 1900 was first astonished, then indignant, and then — amused. She proceeded to appreciate herself. She gave herself teas and other larks and formed a very jolly Freshman frat, called the S. P. G. This society was organized on entirely original lines and had a great success. So the Freshman class pursued the jolly soprano of her way until the Mid-years drew near. Then each of the thoughtful members of the class made a summary of her knowledge and ar- rangements for her funeral ; and all were divided between doubts as to whether the grafting of trees and the knowledge of methods of field irrigation constituted a part of the information about old age, and whether for her epitaph that old one would not be fitting : If so soon I was done for, What was I begun for? But the more thoughtless members of the class reached such a pitch of shamelessness that they recklessly attended optional classes and openly chanted through the halls: I sneer at the Fates and laugh at their spite, I sit down contented to sit up all night; And when my time comes, from these halls take my flight; For Freshmen have done so before me. However, the examinations passed off semi-safely, and the only serious result of the Mid- year ' s was that for a week or so after them sundry Freshmen had horrible night-mares. In them 74 they would try perhaps to prove by arguments from probability that the area of a tri-rectangu- lar dodecahedron was to the area-way of a circumscribed Greek house of the time of Lysias, as D, aggregated by E, was to the circumference of a polemarch, advanced in years. So 1900 passed her first mile-stone. And looking back over her first term, she felt both satisfaction and regret. She felt a thrill of triumph as she reflected that her mathematical bump was gradually developing into a hill, yet sighed to think that her rhetorical bump was still a dell. As for her linguistic development, she was assured that it was a large-sized bluff. 75 77 WEb T 120. ..STREET Within the halls of learning I saw a maiden stand, Her dress was academic, And her books were in her hand. It seems she thought herself alone, She did not hear my tread ; She flung her books upon the floor, And this is what she said : I thank my stars I ' m pretty, It ' s a better thing to be, Than the winner of a doctorate Or any old degree. It ' s better to be loved than learned, And only those who ' ve tried The two positions thoroughly Are fitted to decide. Of course I did not linger, I left her there alone. I disapproved her sentiments, I shuddered at her tone ; Yet all day long that wicked, mad, Unscholarly refrain, ' 1 It ' s better to be loved than learned, Is ringing through my brain. A. D. 79 ALTHOUGH in existence for comparatively so short a while, Barnard has, as it is gener- ally admitted and as we believe, established a place for itself both in the city and in relation to colleges elsewhere. Its past attainments and the opportunities in its future are enlarged upon sufficiently to satisfy all who can take a personal pride therein. But, however glowing the glorification or sanguine the prophecy, it invariably ends in a gently deprecating tone, as if it were a sin of commission: But you have no college life, you know; you miss a great deal. We, on our part, generally do not press the matter; perhaps from hazy ideas or none at all on the subject; perhaps from a resolute blindness as to our shortcomings. Surely, nevertheless, it is suitable definitely to inquire into the matter, either to defend or to improve ourselves. Comparison with others will, probably, best bring to light the nature of the thing that we lack. Only when we comprehend this clearly can we pass judgment on it. Radcliffe, like ourself , is ' ' new, yet we never hear it complained of, at least as to this matter. There social clubs are strong and flourishing, and have acquired a wide reputation ; it is never doubted that their society has a less formal aspect in the continued daily comradeship, which is essentially the condition of the other; their relations with the Harvard men are inharmonious, if not positively antagonistic. As to the first two points the difference between us and them is one only of degree, proportioned to the numbers of students in the two places. Like us, they are scattered over town, and are not out in the country by themselves. The other three, Smith, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr, are each of them practically in domination of the town where it is located, and in exclusion therein ; and the same is true, in a less degree, of Vassar. In all these there are not the outside restraining conditions of a city. The girls determine for them- selves the tone of the place, and have made of their college a place to enjoy life to the full — a grown-up boarding-school, a congregation of young lady scholars, or a monastery, as they choose. They benefit by being in the country, are enabled to ride, drive, tramp, and row, and by being in cottages together do undoubtedly see more of one another, quantitatively. The minutest analysis will not reveal any further points of dissimilarity between us and them. The college life must, then, be detected here if anywhere. Now, there is nothing peculiarly collegiate in being in the country, so we may rule it out. The dormitory life, again, develops an excessive intimacy. Indeed, I have sometimes thought that the proverbial practical jokes are the result of a longing for diversion, after seeing one another, and no one 80 else, so in cessantly. Nothing happens under these circumstances which is not common both to boarding schools, to house parties, to camping-out parties, wherever there are exuberant young people. So neither is this distinctively college life. The popular misapprehension is great, however. An acquaintance of mine, a serious-minded, middle-aged officer of instruction in a certain college, considers it a great drawback that at Barnard there can be no pranks under cover of darkness. It is needless to produce examples of what they can do at Barnard when they set out resolutely to unbend. Be this as it may, we will assume that they never do. To be no longer destructive in method, what is a college life? Primarily and obviously, it is a life. A life is that which sustains all the functions of an organism, and renders it capa- ble of growth from within. Anyone who has been an inmate of Barnard, or a member of the college household, as it is called — and the very term is reassuring — has, I am sure, felt a vital influence of this sort. There is there much more than the sum of its forms of purely intellect- ual association: college spirit, it has been called by outsiders, and praised; in our mutual relations we have not given it a name. It is not easy to be specific at this point; life anywhere is known only by its manifestations. There are nowhere formed friendships more profound, or more deep-seated affection — each one has the testimony in herself. And to the world at large there is presented a typical Barnard girl, good, bad, or indifferent it is not for one so prejudiced as the writer to assert, but certainly a type is possible only by a process of fusion. Then, what is a college life particularly ? An attitude that colors the whole intercourse in a definite fashion. A priori it would seem to consist in the best of everything, in the first place involving an ideal in itself exalting to reflect upon. A group of college students is unique in being able among themselves to gratify all possible tastes, pertaining to study, to art, to society, with a big S, to all the avocations of each, say domestic economy, outdoor sports, any sort of frivolous, sensible or serious occupation, and by being in a city can develop each most easily and with best results. Elsewhere it is impossible that there can be such per- manent, wholesome satisfaction in this direction. At Barnard this is the fact: the practice coincides with the theory. Furthermore, all this could come in no other way than at college, as nowhere else can the sum of all tastes be developed to the full, simply because that is what a college is and should be for, appreciation and adaptability. Why then have we not college life, as significant and rich as any? Indeed, we might call on other institutions to produce proof of their claim to this title. Frequently one occupation of these mentioned predominates to the exclusion of the rest, some- times one, sometimes another. We realize that we differ, but are inclined to believe that we are the ones after all who have the bona fide college life, and that anything else is a misnomer. We hope we have because it is so good, the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy. E. R. S 81 Cuptb anb {p(ato. (a student ' s plaint.) Sing ho, for my love ! It was yesterday That she read some Greek with me, With her eyes cast down, And a scholarly frown, As grave as grave could be. Sing ho, for my love ! It was yesterday That she lifted her eyes to mine, With a puzzled look From above her book, To ask for the sense of a line. But alack-a-day ! I could not say, For my heart the while had been With the lustre fair Of my lady ' s hair And the pink of her dimpled chin. Refrain : Sing ho, for my love — Sweetheart, Sweetheart — Sing ho, for my lady-love ! Sing ho, for my love ! It was but to-day That I went with my class to Greek, And a doctor wise, With thoughtful eyes, Opened his lips to speak. Sing ho, for my love ! It was but to-day That he lifted his glance to mine, With a quiet smile, As he asked the while For the sense of a certain line. But alack-a-day ! I could not say, For my heart the while had been With the lustre fair Of my lady ' s hair And the pink of her dimpled chin. Refrain : Sing ho, for my love — Sweetheart, Sweetheart — Sing ho, for my lady-love ! S. G. S. 82 Btfe tn t$t Qj5utft tn j0. WE have been so engrossed during these last months on Madison Avenue in anticipating the delights awaiting us in the new buildings, and the joys we shall experience when the dreams of greatness, with which we have consoled ourselves in the days of small things, shall be fulfilled, that we have not, perhaps, asked the question whether, in these lamented days of small things, there have not been compensations which may perhaps be found wanting in our home at Morningside. It were not wise to sigh for the good old times before they are really gone, but it surely can do no harm to recall just what they have meant, and what the characteristics are by which they will fasten themselves upon our memories. In the ' 94 Annual there appeared an article on the First Period at Barnard, which calls the history of the college up to the death of Miss Weed the period of intimacy, because, owing to small number of students, any plan for conducting lectures on other than more or less informal lines was impracticable. From this point of view the first period may have closed in ' 94, but, looking at the matter through the eyes of students, we feel that we are still in that charmed domain whose existence is so rapidly drawing to an end. To what are we looking forward ? A life of wider activity, due to more prosperous external conditions, in a well-equipped building where we shall enjoy the advantages of a gymnasium, a theatre, a library, a lunch-room, and possibly, dormitories ; to the new curriculum, offering a more extended variety of study; and to a consequent increase in the number of students. Truly, the outlook is propitious, and we rejoice at the prospective welfare of our Alma Mater. But when we turn to the true life of the college, the inner life of the spirit of the students, shall we find that it, too, will develop in proportion with the outward prosperity ? Those of us who have lived in, and love the old buildings, feel that the new conditions cannot foster deeper love for the college life than have the unpre- tentious beginnings of which we have been a part. There have been inconveniences untold, it is true. We have been crowded and cramped and packed in until we have almost gasped for a breathing-space ; we have had lunch- room, club-room, lecture-room, study, and chapel, all within the same four walls, where it is impos- sible to sit in comfort without being suffocated by the heat, or almost driven out by the 83 cold. But these have been merely external conditions which we have not minded except in a desultory sort of way as the indispensable something to grumble at, for the discomforts have bound us only the more closely together in our resolve to disregard them and to make a college life and college spirit in spite of all difficulties. The rooms which have in turn been characterized in so many ways, are not the less dear to us on that account, but the more so. It may also be true that we have a curriculum narrow in comparison with that which is to come, and that in classes of fifteen or twenty we have not obtained the great breadth of view which might have been attained through contact with classes of seventy-five or one hundred, but, on the other hand, we have known those about us well, and have come into broader sympathy with a greater number by this intimate knowledge with the com- paratively few than could easily have been possible with a larger number. Moreover, through this same fewness of numbers, our mutual relations have been those of members of the college as a whole, not those between class and class. We have ever been one in our interest and spirit, and one in our desire to prove that even in unpropitious surround- ings, when there is a will back of the desire, it is possible to make a productive college life from very scant materials, and that higher education can be successful in the truest sense of the word, even without external stimulus, when the aim of all is to attain to a standard of intelligent, broad-minded sympathy and an influence which shall work for the best that is in the world. A. C. W. 84 £0e junior ' s Comfort a ib Ifyoto (Batneb £0enu (With apologies to Robert Southey and Lewis Carroll). ' ' You are old, reverend Junior, the Freshman said, Your position is dignified quite, Yet you treat every course as a jolly old lark, Do you think at your age it is right? In my youth, my dear daughter, the Junior replied, I feared I might lose reputation, But since I ' ve conclusively proved I have none, I risk it with great exultation. 89 You are old, said the child, one would think you too weak To enjoy such exertion as walking, Yet you pace arm and arm down the hall and the stairs, Forever incessantly talking. In my youth, said the sage, I took Sophomore Greek, And studied the Peripatetics, And their noble example has taught me the worth Of both pedal and lingual athletics. You are old, said the child, one would hardly suppose You could sandwiches eat with facility, Yet you ' ve brought them three years, and consumed six a day, Whence comes this astounding ability ? Said the sage: I once studied Psychology A, And believed in each psychical tale, And the swallowing power I gained in this way, Has never been noticed to fail. You are old, said the child, but you play all the time, And come to class unprepared ever, Yet your bulletin records disclose not an E, What made you so awfully clever? I have answered three questions, and that is enough, Said the Junior, Don ' t give yourself airs. Do you think ' Ninety-eight hasn ' t learned how to bluff ? Be off to your nursery up-stairs. J. W. H. 9 o In Room A. THE proctor arrives an hour and a half late. There were unexpected complications this morning. However, this is an easy paper; I don ' t believe in hard examinations. Let ' s go over the questions together. The first one may be answered by three words, or possibly four. The first word is ' The, ' so that doesn ' t count. The second word begins with M and ends with y. Now the second question may be answered in two words. Oh ! Yes! You surely remember that, Miss B . I gave a whole lecture to that play on the 23rd of January. Shakspere took the part of the Ghost, you know. If any of you were absent, why, of course that question won ' t count. What ' s the matter, Miss A ? You look worried. If you prefer to leave the examination until spring, it will be all right. The marks are only tentative, anyhow. How far are you, Miss C ? First rate, first rate, — very good, yes! Well, if you have all answered the first five questions you need not bother about the rest, as it is almost lunch time. The professor corrects the books on the way down stairs and reports fifteen A ' s at the Registrar ' s office. In Room C. To begin with, I should like to state that the questions must be answered as fully as possible. There are only sixteen, but it would not be well to spend more than three hours on each. Furthermore, I would suggest that, although no one is officially debarred, to be sure, yet, of course, an undue number of cuts may possibly affect the grades materially. I should like to qualify this statement, however, by reminding you that I am not responsible for the rules, so-called. No! I shall leave you to interpret the questions yourself, Miss H . The situation, I think, is clear. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. JANUARY, 1897. 1. Outline the history of the world from the Fall of Adam to the Rise of the Dutch Republic. 2. (a.) Discuss fully Metternich ' s policy and practice in the affairs of Cape Colony, Kamschatka, Oklahoma, the Hebrides, and Five Points. (b.) Show the development by sketch maps. 91 3. (a.) Trace the direct influence of Benedetti upon Bimetallism. (If.) Illustrate by references to his correspondence with his wife. 4. Koniggratz. (a. ) Give names of commanders, staff-officers, lieutenants, and ten privates in the several armies. (b.) Give positions of each at 3, 7, 9 and 11 130 a.m., July 3d, and also at noon on July 4th. 5. Discuss the effect of the geography of Europe upon the history of China. 6. Trace the development of the financial policy of Monte Carlo. 7. Compare the views of Grote, Emerton, Herodotus, and Bryce on the Fall of Rome, with particular reference to the salient points in Fyffe ' s treatment of the question. 8. State the tangible results arising from smoking a pipe in Milan. Illustrate by diagram. 9. Name and explain in detail all the Treaties of Paris and of London, including Protocols and Preliminaries. 10. Explain the significance of the bill which was passed in Austria simultaneously with the French electoral arrangements decreed by the king who was supported in power by the Spanish Hapsburg dynasty. 11. Sketch briefly the character of the French kings contemporary with Omar Khayyam. 12. Indicate fully by a series of maps the territorial changes in Europe from the Aryan Invasion till 1878. 13. (a.) State all the provisions of the Treaty ratified at the close of the war which resulted in the second step toward the disintegration of the Empire of Abu-1- Abbas. (b.) Expand on the fifth clause. 14. Distinguish the terms, prorogue, abrogate, dissolve, disband, adjourn. 15. State attitude and methods of Szechenyi, comparing him with Windischgratz, Capodis- trias, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon, with criticism based upon the degree of success attained by each. 16. Give the itineraries of the ambassadors of the Great Powers after quitting all capitals. 92 ( With respectful apologies to Mr. Kipling and his Cholera Camp. } We ' ve got the ' istory in class, it ' s worse than Rhetoric, The mass of stuff ' e gives us is enough to make us sick. We ' aven ' t time for chapel and we ' aven ' t time for play, And Cushing ' s just informed us we ' ve ten reports to-day. Then strap your books and go, exams are nearin ' (That ' s wot we ' re fearin ' ), We may get D and we may get below, Horatius ' s doin ' all ' e knows to cheer us, We ' re goin ' to go and ask the Dean to ' ear us, (to ' ear us) O, please, because ' e ' s workin ' of us so. Since last fall w ' en college opened ' e ' s been layin ' it on thick, You can ' t escape ' is questions by any sort of trick, ' E keeps the roll so closely and we cannot get away, And we know before we see ' im there ' ll be ten reports to-day. ' Twould make a Freshman laugh to see our way of doin ' things, A-tryin ' to get our lessons for wot each hour brings, The work for Greek and English gets done as best it may, W ' ile we ' re ' untin ' round the bookshelves for ten reports a day. Sometimes we come to college in a very studious mood, We try to find a reference, it doesn ' t do no good, Somebody ' s got that volume, so the loan desk people say, And we ' re just left to w ' istle for our ten reports a day. 93 We can ' t attend the lectures and we can ' t attend the teas, We can ' t go in for honors or do anything we please, We ' ve ' ardly time to comb our ' air, we ' ve got to peg away And never stop a moment at those ten reports a day. We thought w ' en we were Fr eshmen we were quite a clever class, We didn ' t know the changes a year could bring to pass. We ' d ' ave been a bit more ' umble and might not ' ave felt so gay If we ' d ' ad to slave till midnight on ten reports a day. We ' ve got the ' istory in class, we ' ve got it ' ot and sweet, It ain ' t no Christmas dinner, but it ' s ' elped and we must eat. We ' ve got past the point of cuttin ' for we ' ve found it doesn ' t pay And we ' re strugglin ' toward the mid-years on ten reports a day. Then strap your books and go, there ' s no good fearin ' , (exams are nearin ' .) You may get D and you may get below. And them that doesn ' t like it, they can lump it, And them that cannot stand it, they must jump it; We ' ve got to flunk sometime, someway, some ' ow, We might as well begin to do it now. So Sophomores, shut up your notebooks slow, And close your Emerton and Milman, so, Put up the Bryce in its own proper row, Oh, strap, strap up your books and go. ( ' oo ' ll ' elp us ?) G. G. 94 I The Barnard Primer 1 t i BEING AN 1 1 1 1 1 ALPHABET IN RIME 1 s i t £ DESIGNED FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH £ t 1 1 £ £ IN THAT MOST ANCIENT AND HONORABLE £ SEAT OF LEARNING 1 1 | THE COLLEGE OF BARNARD | IN THE 1 i CITY OF NEW YORK £ t . S into Cj pe0 at t$t tgn of t$t (poff (parrot. jjfotrettorb to tfyt (Benffe QFleaber Since in their Desire to offend in no wise against your Most Excellent and Refined Taste, O, Gentle Reader, the Editors deem it not only Courteous but Essential, Humbly to Present this Slight Word of Explanation in regard to The Barnard Primer. They beg you to Note and Bear in Mind, that Slang has been debarred except when demanded by the Metre ; Poor Rhymes are justified by the Paucity of Words in the English Language; Allusions to Personal Appearance have been admitted only when they Rime ; All Eccentricities in Pronunciation may be ascribed to Poetical License. With this Word of Apology, this Most Insignificant and Unworthy Effort of their Muse Is offered to your Courteous Consideration and Just Judgment, By your Most Humble and Obedient Servants, The Editors. 97 is An impossibility, It takes super-Barnard ability. You may get a few, Perhaps one or two, But not ten or twelve, with facility. B is for Barnard the Blest Who gives to her children no rest ; Though our work ' s never done We love her like fun, Our college, the noblest and best. C is for Curious Cranks ; They are found in all stations and ran Some would have us be prigs, Some would have us be digs, And all of them frown on our pranks. D is for Diligent Day, Who cometh with joy to the fray ; And in partisan fights With the free-silverites, He carries things all his own way. E is for Emily James Smith, Dean ; she our ardor inflames For Berkeley and Kant, For Plato and Dant — E and any amount of such names. P is for Flippancy Frowned-on ; ' Tis only in ' 98 found, on The Registrar ' s word And others ' , we ' ve heard, What can they this fallacy ground on ? G is Ior Giddings the Great ; And this is quite all we can state. He has Seniors, ' tis true, And Graduates too ; But not yet has he met ' 98. H is for Hyslop Hypnotic, Who talks of the lens and sclerotic, Of dreams, apparitions, And mental conditions, — ' Till our own mental states are chaotic. I — Iridescent red Ink. The instructors ' invention, we think ; For they use it galore, Make our themes look like gore, ' Till we wish they had naught else to drink. J is for Jovial James Sherlock Holmes ' s acuteness he shames. He possesses wide knowledge Of all those in college — Their ages, their courses, their names. 99 — the Unkind Undergrad. That jumps on us when we are bad ; If we write for the papers, Or cut any capers, We are disciplined. Then we get mad. V is for Vacuum Vast — Mentality overharassed, The state of the brain When driven insane By exams, present, future, and passed. W — Words Weary and Worn That waken the Faculty ' s scorn. When each theme that we write Reappears, labelled Trite, Is it strange we feel flat and forlorn ? is the question unknown ; Twice a year it elicits a groan. When the bell starts to ring We scrawl any old thing, And retire to the basement to moan. Y for the Yard-wide back-Yard ; To have this for a campus is hard ; But next year on the Heights, We ' ll see far different sights, And the Hudson and Grant ' s Tomb regard. I02 Z — Ior the thunderer Zeus, — We privately think him a goose For keeping his home, On Olympian dome, When our New Site is ready for use. C. for all things omitted That were not for this alphabet fitted — And letters were few So what could we do ? We used them all up and — then quitted. 103 Qtn Citation to t$t v wcfo. JUVENAL, SATIRE III, 223-232. [ Modernized. ] If you can tear yourself from the last new play or the circus, Out in Westchester or Jersey a very fine house can be rented For what you must pay every year for a dark little flat in the city. Here is a small, neat garden, a well with all modern improvements; Pure water from Croton itself will be here when the pipes are connected. And we soon shall have gas and the trolley; already the real estate ' s rising. Here, with the hoe as your mistress, live on and dig in your garden, Whence you may furnish a feast for a hundred friends vegetarian. Something it is, if afar, in some newly boomed land of commuters, You are able to call yourself master, if only of one little lizard. J. W. H. 104 C0e (grain of 0e tiazz of f 9$. I. Contributed by A. R. H. 10. Contributed by F. I. A. 19. Contributed by C. de L. 2. I. E. W. ii. Class of ' 98 en masse 20. E. H. B. t- 3- E. R. L. 12. R. B. 21. tt J.I.S. u-4. H. St. C. 13- J. W. H. 22. E. F. O. 1 E. H. W. 14. G. I. P. k 23. it M.J. A. C. L. 15- A. E. H. M. 24. 11 F. E. M. r ?. S. G. S. 16. L. E. L. 25. CI K. S. H. 8. L. F. De H. 17. A. M. H. ✓ 26. E. J. S. 9- S. I. M. v 18. A. I. Von S. 105 Qt tyoint of tx udk. HE formality of going to Huyler ' s is, among Barnard girls, a very subtle thing; but X when it is once clearly understood there is little danger of any mistake. If a girl says, I want you to go to Huyler ' s with me, the case is plain. She has invited you. If, on the other hand, she says, Don ' t you want to go over to Huyler ' s with me this afternoon ? again the situation is clear. Her query is merely a euphemism, meaning, Do you care to spend ten cents to-day for soda-water? Sometimes, however, girls are careless and say, Come over to Huyler ' s, won ' t you? Now, if your finances are in a flourishing condition, all is yet well. You can go and let the matter turn out as it will. But if your pocket-book con- tains only an L road fare and a commutation ticket, the problem is a serious one. Shall you accept and run the risk of an awful embarrassment, or refuse and probably see your friend ' s surprised glance, as she turns away and invites some one else? I. E. W. 1 06 Cram, Cram, Cram, For the finals, Naughty-naught, Or you ' ll not be able to utter, The lessons you ' ve been taught. Oh! Well for the hard-working digs Who ' ve toiled with the shovel and spade, Oh! Sad for the bright-plumaged birds, Who ' ve flittered and frivoled and played. But the students with hopeful steps The final great scales are mounting; The ones, cum laude are passed, The others weighed and found wanting. Cram, Cram, Cram, For the finals with mirth and glee, For in spite of the fact that you cram all you can, You ' re likely to get an E. E. R. L. 107 Qjt |ta j jerfeb Course IT appears that the gravest charge brought against college women is that they know too much, and, though I have never heard this advanced by any one intimately connected with an institution of learning, it is too serious a matter to be lightly passed over. The phrase is not ambiguous; it clearly means too much to be attractive; nor is the accu- sation entirely without foundation. I have known college women so forward and unfeminine that they would betray considerable previous knowledge of a subject, when some member of the stronger sex had shown a kindly disposition to explain it from beginning to end. I have seen them even evince irritation when enlightened upon the higher mathematics by an elderly gentleman, who had perhaps read Euclid in his youth. These things should not be. Why should our Alma Mater send us forth less well fitted than are our more ignorant sisters to cope with the difficulties of life ? There is a simple remedy. Let us be given a Senior course in concealing our knowledge. Surely there are pro- fessors at Columbia, if not here, who could successfully conduct such a course. Let us be taught to be engagingly ignorant. We could still delude ourselves with the idea that even in a woman ' s life a moment might come when intelligence and education would be an assistance and not a disadvantage. A. D. 108 (g (proBfem. [The members of the Rhetoric courses have long puzzled over the relative values of B + and A — . An expert mathematician has offered the following satisfactory solution — Editors.] To prove that B+ is greater than A-. It is evident that the expression (A-), is equivalent to (-A). To prove this assume: A- = -A. Adding 1 to both members of the equation and squaring, we obtain : A 3 - 2 A + l=l-2A + A a Since this equation is identically true, the first equation must be true. In like manner it may be shown that B+ is equivalent to +B. Now, since B is a real positive integer, B ° ° -A .-. B -A In this last expression, substituting for (-A) and ( + B) the equivalent expressions, we obtain : B+ A-. Q. E. D. Corollary. — The mean of (-A), taken to n factors is: ( A)° n It is evident that this expression represents the term mark, under the hypothesis that n (-A) ' s are received. Now when n is even this expression will be positive, but when n is odd the whole expression will be negative, that is to say less than zero; hence it is safer to obtain any number of (B+) ' s than one (A-). Note. — The same reasoning may be applied to such expressions as (B — A)° n but the scope of the present volume does not permit it to be given at length. A. D. 109 A COLLEGE JOKE TO CURE THE DUMPS. I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other. E. H. B. — I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. W. T. B. — Take him for all in all, I ne ' er shall look upon his like again. H. J. B. — A fine volley of words and quickly shot off. G. R. C— Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. J. B. C. — A diligent lecturer deserves eight pence a pint tuition. F. N. C. — He taught them and they learned. H. A. C. — I ' m sure sma pleasure it can gie E ' en to a deil To skelp and scauld poor dogs like we An ' hear ussqueel. A. M. D. — Just as clear as Day. J. C. E. — Who shall dispute what the reviewers say ? J. H. H. — My eyes make pictures When they are shut. no A. V. W. J. — A proper man as one shall see in a summer ' s day. C. K. — His classical learning is great: he can quote Horace, Juvenal, Ovid, and Martial by rote. N. G. McC. — He is very swift and sententious. G. C. D. O. — If you ' d like it put simply — ' Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. E. D. P. — Homer will be all the books you need. R. C. R. — I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understand- ing. C. L. S. — A kinder gentleman treads not the earth. E. R. Von N. — To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, And I mount to the cause, J. R. W.— Make haste slowly. B. D. W. — Happy am I; from care I ' m free; Why aren ' t they all contented like me? The New Buildings. — Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! The Rhetoric Department. — You never say nothin ' without you ' re compelled tu, And then you say nothin ' that you can be held tu. History. — Since you are to bear this persecution, I will at least give you the encourage- ment of a martyr — you could never suffer in a nobler cause. The Teas. — I wish they would be quiet And let me drink my tea. Pol. Econ. A. — This be a theme for him who sings to the men of the present, Sings to the Utilitarians, sings to the makers of money. in Money in all of its forms and all its representations, Gold and silver and bronze and clinking copper and nickel. Eagles and dollars, doubloons and broad satisfactory guineas, Turkish p iastres, and Spanish pesetas, and francs and Austrian florins; Annas and taels and yen and marks and muscovite roubles, Ore and lire and thalers and stuivers and drachmas and milreis, Lakhs of it, stacks of it, piles of it, mounds of it, heaps of it, hills of it, Ay, and the promise of paper that crisply and cunningly crackles, Greenish or brown or blue or white or pleasantly purple, Packed into neat little squares or rudely rammed into bundles, Great fat sweltering wads that bulge with an opulent bigness. The Bell— What harmony is this! Sociology Exam. — No season now for calm, familiar talk. History Exam. — In history we have a literary domain where the imagination may be thought to be always an intruder. Examinations. — Morituri salutamus. (Jttnefg t t 1 ' Companions That do converse and waste the time together. F. I. A. — Mine honor is the knife ' s. C. de L. B. — And some loquacious vessels were, E. H. B.— And some Listen ' d, perhaps, but never talk ' d at all. R. B. — Vera incessu patuit dea. ' L. F. De H. — Her mind is made up and thereafter remains Made up in a manner emphatic. A. R. H.— And what ' s her history ? y K. S. H. — I am weary and overwrought, With too much work, with too much care distraught. 112 A. M. H.— Let me go: You see how simple and how fond I am. J. W. H. — High flights she had and wit at will, And so her tongue lay seldom still. M. J. — Come, let us go to a land wherein gods of the old time wandered. L. E. L. — What female heart can gold despise ? E. R. L. — A rosebud set with little, wilful thorns. A. C. L. — ' Tis love, ' tis love, that makes the world go round. F. E. M. — In quietness and in confidence shall be thy strength. A. E. H. M. — Teach not thy lip such scorn: for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. S. I. M. — Great honors are great burdens. E. F. O. — Fearless in praising, faltering in blame, Simply devoted to other people ' s pleasure. G. I. P.— Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. H. St. C— And still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all she knew. J. I. S. — Then on, then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still. E. J. S. — Disguise our bondage as we will, ' Tis woman, woman rules us still. v S. G. S.— I love— what do I not love ? v A. I. Von S. — There is more owing her than is paid. s E. H. W. — She craves no time for work deferred. I. E. W.— All ' s well that ends Well[s]. 113 THE ONLY ARTIST-PHOTOGRAPHERS. Davis $ Sanford, 246 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK PORTRAITS BY PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECT FROM LIFE IN EVERY SIZE FROM LOCKET TO LIFE SIZE WE MAKE A. SPECIALTY OF Copying and enlarging Old and faded photographs and finishing in the fadeless Carbon. CARBON PRINTS are made in any color and any size. They are not affected by light or time. ij i PRICES ON APPLICATION. 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