Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Proof Professorial OR The Journalist ' s Joy It was indeed luck that assigned me an interview with the great Cinema Star, heroine of so many hair- breadth thrillers, character farces and heart-tragedies which have charmed away the public fees for years. Miss Facultas Barnardium received me to the distant accompaniment of a small Remington-Underwood orchestra. Her costume was nondescript, — great artists rarely stress the trappings of one pose,- — but augmented, of course, by that little gold key which represents the transit from pit to green-room. This emblem suggested to me my first question : What key can you give for your unprecedented success ? Taking it bye and large, indeed in the very last analysis, — which, by the way, I intend shortly to make public in a brief pamphlet — ( her voice seemed sud- denly to grow almost British in its tense efficiency) I attribute my success to careful study and concentra- tion on detail. The little things make the great. For example, — (her voice fell hurriedly to a philosophic bass) some people like codfish, — some custard; this principle leads to an infinite variety of interpretations, does it not ! Some audiences are merely interested in one ' s antecedents, — ' Where do you come from. Baby dear? ' and all that sort of thing, — so a full summary of my academic achievements invariably appears on the programme. Others demand autographs, — ' Surtout l ' orthographie, la logique, la force ' you know. Her accent was ravishing. Others, she went on, like visual representations of competition, so I arrange race-tracks in the lobby where card-board images of Needa Farra, Rugless Chairbanks, and Vairy Thickford vie with me as to box-office receipts. We announce the results with great attention to the climax, which is withheld until my earnings have beaten every known record. This method is usually crowned with pyramidal, Goethean success. Then again it is a well-defined, scientific prin- ciple that has enshrined me in the public heart. Pale- ontology explains Ontology, — that has always been my intellectual stimulus. As these words meant very little to me, I asked Professor Barnardium to tell me in more popular terms just what was needed in a film star to assure such titanic popularity as hers. She rose at this, and with Napoleonic arms seated herself on the corner of her desk, — one foot in the scrap-basket where rejected con- tracts lay piled. Her tones grew positively Southern as she answered : There ' s just one thing in drama: You must get over the foot-lights. Stage business, good lines, — you soon get over them, but getting over the foot-lights, that ' s the chief thing, — as far as that goes. But how far does that go? I reiterated. As far as you want it to. A good, old-fashioned melodrama with plenty of hot blood and cold steel is much better, — read your Aristotle, — than a lot of stuff that stays in its bindings — literary drama, — as far as that goes. With a new sense of enlightenment I put the next question : The home environment, — how does that affect the screen star? At that Miss Barnardium seemed to grow frankly nervous, tapping the desk with her pencil and thus quite upsetting me until I realized that it was a wooden one, provided for the purpose. Personally I have a profound belief in the assistance of janitors. When- ever I feel a trifle of ennui or lassitude I send for my landlord, — a very human fellow, — or even for the young and somewhat radical poet, — or I should say man of letters who lives underneath me. There is a certain charm about casual conversation on affairs of the spirit which I find very helpful. Quite satisfied with this concise answer, and with a few involuntary tears in the corner of one eye, I asked just how far the character study in the scenario can affect the silent drama. Miss Barnardium ' s voice dropped to a musical if somewhat hoarse and mediaeval baritone as she an- swered, A character can make a play. Of course I don ' t count scenarios in this estimate, — only the fin- ished product, — but if a character is really a character; well-prepared and human, then I safely can prophesy a play. I confess a certain predilection for rewriting, — the divine frenzy can rarely be relied on, — but in the last, — the very last analysis only a character can make a play. I left with a sense of profound reverence and a conviction that one character did indeed account for the success of her dramatic vehicles : the versatile per- sonality of Facultas Barnardium ! [ 24 ]

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LOUISE HOYT GREGORY Assistant Professor of Zoology A.B., Vassar, 1903; A.M., Columbia, 1 907 ; Ph.D., Columbia, 1909. GERTRUDE DUDLEY Associate in Physical Education 1896, Assistant in Physical Education- Chautauqua; 1894-96, Anderson Normal School; 1896-98, Director of Physical Edu- cation and Teacher or Physiology, Miss Mackei ' s Private School; 1898T909. In- structor and Director of Physical Educa- tion for Women, University of Chicago; 1906-1907 (summers), Dean of Women and Lecturer, Yale Summer School; 1909-1916, Assistant Professor and Director, Uni- versity of Chicago; 1916-1917, Associate Professor and Director, University of Chi- cago; 1917, Associate Professor and Direc- tor of Physical Education for Women at Barnard College. Al so HENRY L. MOORE Professor of Political Economy A.B.. Randolph-Macon, 1892; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1896; Barnard, Professor of Political Economy 1912-. GRACE A. HUBBARD Associate Professor of English A.B., Smith College, 1887; A.M., Cor- nell, 1892; Smith College, 1892-1904; Bar- nard, Lecturer, 1905-1910; Associate Pro- fessor, 1910-; Phi Beta Kappa. MABEL FOOTE WEEKS Associate In English A.B., Radcliffe, 1894; Dr. Sachs ' School for Girls; Barnard, Adjunct Professor, 1907-1910; Associate, 1910-; Mistress of Brook ' s Hall, 1908-. MARIE REIMER Associate Professor of Chemistry A.B., Vassar, 1897; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, 1904; Vassar College, Graduate Scholar, 1897-1898; Assistant, 1898-1899; Fellow at Bryn Mawr, 1899-1902; Student at Uni- versity of Berlin, 1902-1903; Barnard, Lecturer, 1903-1904; Instructor. 1904-1909; Adjunct Professor, 1909-1910; Associate Professor, 19I0-. Phi Beta Kappa. MAUDE ALINE HUTTMANN Assistant Professor of History B.S., Columbia University, 1904; A.B., 1905; Ph.D., 1914. ELEANOR KELLER Assistant Professor of Chemistry A.B., Columbia, 1900; A.M., Columbia, 1905. I 23 ]

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Other Officers of Instruction Emily James Putnam., A.B., Associate in History. John Douglas Adam, D.D., Associat e in Religion. Grace Langford, S.B., Instructor in Physics. Juliana S. Haskell, Ph.D., Instructor in the Germanic Languages and Literatures vVilliam Haller, Ph.D., Instructor in English. William S. Messer, Ph.D., Instructor in Classical Philology. Luther Herbert Alexander, Ph.D., Instructor in the Romance Languages and Literature Clare M. How ard, Ph.D., Instructor in English. George Walker Mullins, Ph.D., Instructor in Mathematics. Ethel Sturtevant, A.M., Instructor in English. Minor W. Latham, A.M., Instructor in English. Florence de Loiselle Lowther, A.M., Instructor in Zoology. Charles C. Mook, Ph.D., Instructor in Geology. Alma deL. LeDuc, Ph.D., Instructor in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Grace H. Goodale, A.M., Instructor in Classical Philology. Kenneth W. Lamson, Ph.D., Instructor in Mathematics. Bird Larson, B.S., Instructor in Physical Education. Lucy Gregory, A.M., Instructor in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Helen H. Parkhurst, Ph.D., Instructor in Philosophy. Hester M. Rusk, A.B., Instructor in Botany. Margaret Burns, Instructor in Physical Education. Agnes R. Wayman, A.B., Instructor in Physical Education. Georgia Haffner, A.M., Instructor in Economics. Marion E. Richards, A.M., Lecturer in Botany. Emilie J. Hutchinson, A.M., Lecturer in Economics. Estelle H. Davis, Lecturer in English. Harry Todd Costello, Ph.D., Lecturer in Philosophy. Hugh Wiley Puckett, Ph.D., Lecturer in the Germanic Languages and Literatures. Laura C. Brant, A.M., Lecturer in Physics. Lucia H. Smith, A.B., Lecturer in Chemistry. Blanche Prenez, Lecturer in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Edna Henry Bennett, A.B., Lecturer in Zoology. Grace Potter Rice, Ph.D., Instructor in Chemistry. Dr. Lorle Ida Steciier, Lecturer in Psychology. Florrie Holzwasser, A.M., Lecturer in Geology. C. Evangeline Farnham, A.M., Lecturer in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Katherine M. Cooper, B.S., Lecturer in Physical Education. Helena Geer, A.M., Lecturer in the Germanic Languages and Literatures. Georgina I. Stickland, A.B., Assistant in Psychology. Isabel Foote Leavenworth, A.B., Assistant in Philosophy. Hedwig A. Koenig, A.B., Assistant in Chemistry. Cornelia L. Carey, Assistant in Botany. Mary L. Ely, A.B., Assistant in History. Mary R. M. Griffiths, A.B., Assistant in History. Valrosa V. Vail, A.B., Assistant in Zoology.