Lasell College - Lamp Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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,T .1 C99 rf? lil' rl Q :fs I is iw pp H Iii ,f sg! lf' ,Q u Pagaaix l In 1896, Mrs. Blanche Crosby Martin came to Lasell to teach a reading course which at that time was required of all students. Mrs. Martin was one of Lasell's most charming personalities. She was a large, hearty woman, very queenly in appearance, with a booming laugh. The purpose of her course was to give the girls greater reading ease. Her course included such studies as articulation, cultivation of the speaking voice, gesture, and phil- osophy of expression. But Mrs. Martin's greatest concern was that girls gain self-confidence and poise. At the beginning of each class period she would have her pupils sit forward in their chairs and say, I am rich and young and handsome. I am rich and young and handsome. Then each girl would walk down the aisle by herself and say in a pleasant manner, I am tall and beautiful. I am tall and beautiful. They would repeat the phrases over and over so that eventually they did feel young and handsome, tall and beautiful, and they would hold themselves in just that way. With the passing of the years, Lasell saw its girls come and go. Every class shed tears at their graduation, not believing that their college years were over. But later on these old grads were able to relive somewhat their college days through their daughters. They followed the growth and progress of Lasell eagerly, happy that their Alma Mater was becoming always larger, always more important. The college grounds, which when the school was first built covered six acres, grew to more than thirty. A number of resi- dential homes, near the Seminary building, were remodeled to accommodate Lasellites. In these old homes had lived the lead- ing citizens of Boston. Now each became the dwelling place for a dozen merry girls whose laughter transformed these digni- fied, austere residences into gay, laughing places. Other things have changed, too. The once shiny black carriages driven by erect, precise young men come to call on their ladies, are now the sleak convertibles of tall, lanky youths come to take their girls dancing. Lasell has grown and grown. It has added to its Campus Winslow Hall, the Infirmary, the Barn, Casino, the Labs, and the Nellie Plummer Library. Last year we laid the corner stone to our New Dormitory. We watched old Woodland Hall be- ing torn down, piece by piece, and now there is nothing left of its huge, gabled roof and sloping floors but what lives on in our memories. Lasell through all these years has helped young women dis- cover themselves, has guided them toward high ideals and has given them the tools for making a success of their lives. And now Lasell has come to celebrate its One Hundredth Birthday Party.

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