Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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The Board of Trustees J REV. JUDSON SMITH, D.D., of Boston, PRESIDENT. IREV. WILLIAM S. TYLER, D.D., LL.D., of Amherst. SIDNEY E. BRIDGMAN, of Northampton. A. LYMAN WILLISTON, A.M., of Northampton. EDWARD HITCHCOCK, A.M., M.D., of Amherst. REV. JOHN L. R. TRASK, D.D., of Springfield. CHARLES A. YOUNG, Pu.D., LL.D., of Princeton, G. HENRY WHITCOMB, A.M., of NVorcester. MRS. A. LYMAN WILLISTON, of Northampton. 'KALONZO S. KIM BALL, P1I.D., of Worcester. CHARLES E. GARMAN, A.M., ofAn1l1erst. Pkias. MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., of Amherst. WILLIAM SKINNER, of Holyoke. REV. HENRY STIMSON, D.D., of New York City. HON. WILLIAM WHITING, of Holyoke. HON. W. MURRAY CRANE, of Dalton. JOHN F. ANDERSON, IR., of New York City. Miss SARAH P. EASTMAN, of Wellesley. N, J. MISS CHARLO'I 1'E MORRILL, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Chfffffl 1'-5' me MISS ELIZABETH DAVIS, of Pittsfield. MRS. ELIZABETH STORRS MEAD, EX-OFFICIO. Ruv. JOHN L. R. TRASK, D.D., SECRETARY. A. LYMAN wILL1sToN, A.M., TREASURER. Hleceused. 9 A lumfm'

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W8 -ivy- f,'qlClYElflT i gc--' Jepfembep' R 1: , 2 N 1 R A , 5: dai-v:-Am A 8- 'M 7 1 Av-J Jung-.' ' Jive' f-'five'-Ang,-v-Y ' i' 'J-rv Spring Recess, . Baccalaureate Sermon, Meeting of the Mt. Holyoke Commencement Exercises, . Entrance Examinations, . Academic Year begins, . Founder's Day, . Thanksgiving Recess, Winter Recess, . . . Day of Prayer for Colleges, Second Semester begins, . Holiday, Washington 's Birthday, Spring Recess, . . . Alumnae Association, Tuesday, A. M., june Calendar .sw . . March 30 to April 13, 1898 19, 1898 21, 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 . Tuesday Evening to Friday Noon . . . . . . Sunday, June Wednesday, II A. M., june 22, June 7-9 and September I3-15, . Tlmrsday, September 15, . . Tuesday, November 8, . December 21, 1898, to january 4, 1899 . . Thursday, January 26, 1899 . Thursday, February 2, 1899 . . Wednesday, February 22, 1899 March 2Q to April 12, 1899 8

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English Department as T is evident that good English was almost as solid a part of the foundation of Mount Holyoke as good morals. In the first cat- alogue, as for fifty years afterward, English Grammar headed tl1e list of entrance requirements, and much-stress seems to have been put upon the subject in general. Students were advised to come so well prepared to enter that they might spend more time in composition. The text books in Rhetoric during those first years show that the work done must have been of a high order. The formation of a separate department for this study was, how- ever, a very gradual process. For years the English consisted main- ly of composition work, shared alike by teachers of Chemistry or Algebra, of Latin or History. Hours of chewing pencil ends made Saturday a memorable and fateful word to the students of those days, Along in the sixties and seventies there was apparently little instruc- tion aside from this, but in the years immediately preceding the in- troduction ofthe College curriculum, English began to be given a more important place. Miss Stevens, fortunately for us, turned frgm IO '