Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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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

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solved the problem. The solution was passed on ; the crisis was past ; and all were enjoying the pies. After dinner we gathered around to compliment Mary on her brilliancy. Very modesly she said, I ' m teaching fractions in the fifth grade. October i 5 At class meeting this afternoon, we elected the other class officers and our honorary member. Clara Sanderlin is to give the words of greeting at commence- ment ; Florence Ingram is prophet; Gertude King, reader of the will; Fennell Crawley, poet ; Nell Ingram is to speak the farewell words ; and I am historian, Peggy. Think of Polly Perkins having to write the class history ! Please put on your thinking cap, dear, and give me some points, for they will be sadly needed. Miss Dunn is our honorary member. As usual Roy Rogers moved that we adjourn. You know this is one of our jokes. I believe we couldn ' t adjourn at all, if Roy didn ' t make the motion. Our class pins have come They are little beauties, and we are proud to wear them, though most of them are, at present, ornamenting favorite teachers or intimate friends. Hallowe ' en I just wish you could have been with us to-night, Peg. We had the most fun ! We had a delicious supper, all sorts of good things to eat, and every table had a jack-o-lantern on it. The servants were dressed as ghosts, too. It was the time of Seminar meeting, but on account of the importance of the night, it was postponed. Last night Nell and Florence Ingram gave us the grandest box ! Such a spread I never saw. Our honorary member was there, too. We were all very prim and proper with her at first, but we soon found that she was a school girl herself. There was a very interesting guessing contest. Miss Dunn won the prize, a box of Lowney ' s, and Henrietta Dunlap the booby, a turkey wishbone, tied with a big bow of red ribbon. In the course of things, our honorary member asked us if we had a yell ; as we hadn ' t she made us one. Here it is : Rixki, ixki, ixki, ix ! Rah ! rah ! rah ! Rixki, ixki, ixki, ix ! January naughty-six ! Rah ! rah ! rah ! We practised it vigorously several times, and then went out in the halls to let folks know we had one. What do you suppose Price Starling did to-day . ' Broke the clapper of the Training School bell. It was her week to ring bells. This was her last day, and, delighted over the fact, she rang too vigorously. December 4. Some of us have changed work, and some, supervisors. Anna JoUiffe still has her sixth grade spelling. It is nothing unusual for her to keep in ten or twelve in one day. What do you think Lucy Hiner did. ' Asked to teach geography the second half-term ! What she finds so facinating about it, I cannot see. Do you, Peggy.? Guess what the professor of history told Estelle Price to-day. He said that she was one of the best history teachers he had ever had. Do you wonder that she holds her head high ? 24