Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Officers of Administration Emily G. Lambert, A.B Bursar of Barnard College Anna E. H. Meyer, A.B Registrar of Barnard College Katharine S. Doty, A.M Assistant to the Dean, Occupation Bureau Mabel Foote Weeks, A.B Assistant to the Dean, Social Affairs Helen P. Abbott, A.B Assistant to the Dean, Residence Halls Mary V. Libby, A.B 4ssistant to the Dean, Admissions Information Bertha L. Rockwell Librarian of Barnard College Henry A. Griffin, A.B.. M.D Comptroller of Barnard College GuliELMa F. Alsop, M.D College Physician Agnes Fowler Director of Commons William H. Carpenter, Ph.D Provost of the University Frederick A. GoetzE, M.Sc Comptroller of the University Rev. Raymond C. Knox, S.T.D Chaplain of the University William H. McCastline, M.D University Medical Officer Twenty-four

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VIRGINIA CROCHERON GILDERSLEEVE Dean and Professor of English A.B., Columbia University, 1899; A.M., 1900; Ph.D.. 1908; LL.D., Rutgers, 1916; Assistant, Barnard College, 1900-1903; Tutor, 1903-1907; Lecturer. 1908-1910; Assistant Professor. 1910-1911: Dean and Pro- fessor, 191 1-; Phi Beta Kappa. Twenty-three

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k k k k k kkk k k k h k hkkkkkkk David B. LeViness 1871-1927 Reprinted from the Barnard Bulletin of February 4, 1927 WHEREVER my mind ranges picking up impressions of the past, I see standing at the very center of every student enterprise the nervous, eager figure of Mr. LeViness — mending the footlights for this play, arranging a new light- ing system for that dance, working overtime to put up the little stage in the old Brooks Hall dining room, filling the torches for Greek Games. There is scarcely a student ac- tivity that does not owe its happiest successes to the skill and unstinted devotion of that generous, eager friend. My earliest recollections of him concern those first days at Brooks Hall in 1907 when about fifty of us moved into an unfurnished building and for a month or two faced con- ditions which were a great test of our patience. When the workmen were slow and our need became too insistent, Mr. LeViness would appear and hurl himself in a sort of holy war upon the difficulty, and having settled it, would stop for a few cheering words in my office. He knew how to get on with people. In spite of a quick, impulsive nature, he knew how to do justice to different points of view. This won him the loyalty and devotion of the men who worked under him, and he could count on them to rise with him to any emergency. His relations with the faculty were unusual. He had made them all his friends, not only by his zeal and willingness to put his resourcefulness at their service, but by his strong and interesting character. He had a flavor all his own and we used to like to talk with him and hear his thought- ful, pungent views of people and situations expressed in his nervous, explosive, indi- vidual speech. But perhaps his most remarkable quality was his devotion to the college. He had a very rare power of identifying himself with the institution he served, or rather of forgetting himself wholly where its interests were concsrned. I have seen him after a momentary lapse into discouragement straighten himself and say, This col- lege can depend on LeViness as long as he lives. And so it could and did. He spoke of the college always with something of the hush and awe that one would use in speaking of sacred things, and yet there was nothing sentimental about it. He was an intensely emotional man but his emotion served only to set in motion and to drive his splendid practical energy. The student organizations will miss this loyal friend. He sympathized strongly with young people and would take unbounded trouble to help them carry out their plans. Sometimes when we tried to spare him by denying some new demand of stu- dent committees he would hear of it and offer himself, saying, Miss wants it, and you know how it is, Miss Weeks, we must have things go just right at Barnard College. And so we came to accept all those generous offers and to count comfortably on the devotion of this warm-hearted, energetic man who always thought our needs more important than his own Mabel Foote Weeks. kkk kkkkk km km hhl kkkkkk