Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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(iEORUIANA ELIZABETH STEPHENSON ly streuglli is as the strength LILLIAN FREUERICKA THOMPSON ' Nothing if ing heart. impossihie to a vl IRA PEARL VAUGHAN ' ■ Content to lead a simple life where God has placed her. ■■j44 '

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MINNIE E8TELLE PRICE •And cloudy the day, or stormy the night, The sky of her heart was always bright. ANNA KOV8TEK KOUEK.S ' •She had a pensive beaut j ' . yet not sad ; Rather like minor cadences that glad The hearts of little birds and spring boughs. CLARA CHARLOTTE SANUER- LIN ••The quiet mind is richer tliau a crown. BETTY PRICE STARLIN(+ •I ' ve made it a practice to put all my worries down In the bot- tom of my heart and set on the Ud nd smile.

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be IfDistov of the Xast Venn ' s Movh of the January Class of 1900 Taken from letters to a friend. September 2 , 1906 Dearest Peggy : I arrived at this place last Monday, and wasn ' t a bit glad to get here either. Of course, though, after a little I enjoyed seeing the ' -old girls. There has been little excitement as yet. A few of the old girls did go around the other night and make some of the Rats sing the laundry list backwards to the tune of • ' Home Sweet Home, but nothing startling has happened. The most nerve-racking experience, so far, was our first day in the Training School. Shall we ever forget it . ' We put on our best white shirtwaist suits, and our prettiest ribbons, and combed our hair in the most becoming way, and went down to impress ourselves upon the Training School. We chatted gaily until the children marched in. Then we began to tremble and be impressed. When we went in to teach we had to introduce ourselves by writing our names on the board. The children would insist on leaving off the surname and saying only Miss . Never did a set of children ask so many questions in two minutes, as did those new pupils, seemingly so eager for knowledge. While you were answering one child ' s questions, another would pipe up with, Miss, where you from. ' Miss, you going to teach us ? Miss, what ' s your name? and so on, until we wished we were in Jericho, where there are no such things as Training Schools, I believe. Heads of tables were selected to-day and all of the Seniors except Florence Ingram and me have tables. We were glad to escape the labor, responsibility, and honor of carving beef for ten girls. October 3 To-night at seven o ' clock we organized the Educational Seminar, to meet every Tuesday night in the Reading Room. Besides having the regular program, each girl is to report on some magazine. Our professor of psychology is to be chair- man of the first meeting. After this was completed, the class was organized. We elected Florence Ingram president. You remember she was our president last year; we feel sure that she will guide us wisel} ' . I Iary Ford is vice-president ; Gertrude King, secretary ; and Susie Ford, treasurer. We feel quite important, now, as a class. October 10 Price Starling came in to dinner late to-day. She had the look of one who had come, seen, and conquered. You know what that means, Peggy. Somebody was kept in in her grade ! We had pies yesterday for the first time ; three to divide among ten girls. Never did a Chinese puzzle cause more thinking than did the cutting of those pies. The heads of the tables looked at each other, inviting practical suggestions, but it was to no avail. At last a broad smile spread over Mary Ford ' s face, and we knew that she had 23