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

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28 THE LLAIVIARADA lTenlh Volume Through any examination a straight line may be drawn to the Registrar's office. If there be two students in the same course and the wrangle between one student and the faculty be equal to the wrangle between the faculty and the other student, then the grades of the two will be equal each to each.. For ifnot, let one grade be less than the other, then the other grade is greater than it might have been, which is absurd. If all the rooms in a house are taken, then a single room is said to be a double room. When any number of recitations are cut by one girl, if the ulterior reasons on the side of the cutting girl are together equal to no reason, then the cutting girl is declared to be on a tangent to the faculty. The projections of the freshmen are only limited by the interception of the perpendicular lines of rectitude of the Student League. Zoology COURSE I. Wormology. The attempt is made to lead pupils to a desire for knowledge gained by personal and close acquaintance with the object of study. KNO gloves are allowedj COURSE 2. Acatomy. The study of the cat furnishes opportunity for learn- ing the methods of killing small animals without pain, dissection without perturbation of the nerves, curing and tanning hides, and litting up skull and crossbones. It is supplemented by informal talks on What I have unlearned, Who Knows What? and the Ignorance of Man. COURSE 3. Lectureology. Careful study of the anatomy and morphology of the Earthwormus Lecturus, Catsbones talkes, Metabolisma speecha, and Neurologicum addressum, animals peculiar to this locality. Open to any student whose nerves have been previously proved strong enough to stand the strain. Anyone known to have a weak heart excluded. Various clubs hold monthly meetings to discuss the Origin of Man. H The D. S. D's., Daughters of Strongylocentrotus Drobachiensis, the L. T. D's., Lumbricus Terrestris Descendents, the S. P. B. D. M. M., Society for the Propaga- tion of the Belief in the Descent of Man from the Monkey, are among those recom- mended by the department. fuibiln Qtung The aim of the course is to acquaint the student with the development of all normal and abnormal people. This is done by a careful investigation and compari-

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Tenth Volumel THE LLAMARA DA 27 COURSE 6. Llamy l'reparation. Designed to lit students for the large work of writing the l.lamarada. One ohject of this course is the development of dis- crimination as to choice of suhjects. Only such suhjects will he considered as can suitahly he published-as for instance, lfaculty grinds and their applicationg remarks concerning ehapelg food complaints and their direct hearing on our daily life. Con- stant practice in concealing points, hlunting thrusts, and sheathing stings? From those failing in this course are chosen Llamarada editors. Open to Sophomores. Qtaatbtzmttirs To ohtain a degree all students are required to have a perfect mastery of the following Disif1N1'rloNs ANI: Axloms A college is a figure bounded hy a line, all points ofwhich are equally distant from a point within called the l'resident. 'lihe hounding line is said to he the Student Body. Any one ofthe equal lines from the l'resident to the Student liody is miscalled a hac- ulty. An examination used merely as a preliminary to another examination is some- times called a dilemma. A single room has position hut no magnitude. A wrangle is the disinclination of two students to each other. A sophomore is a fact assumed as self-evident. POS'I'Ul.A'l'lES AND l'Rovosi'rioNs The four meals on either side of a dinner are altogether less than one square meal. Any platter of fish on a tahle may he freely moved ahout on that tahle without change of size or shape. Pie is seldom produced. The cocoa on one Sunday and the chocolate cake on the next, if produced ever so far each way, will meet at a common point midway hetween, called chocolate pudding. - The numlwer of times one may cut chapel is a variahle approaching an unknown limit. 'Ural explanation of jokes.

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Tenih Vfilumel THE LLAMARADA 29 son of all recorded actions of Miss Shinn's niece and Preyer's child. At the end of the course each student is required to present a paper on one of the following subjects: - 1. Hysteria. 2. Most approved methods cf testing deafness in a child four days old. 3. Nutritive conditions as illustrated by a typical class at Mount Holyoke College. 4. Fatigue conditions as illustrated by Mount Holyoke students after the hol- idays of exam. week. 5. Minute accounts of muscles involved in Miss Shinn's niece's first attempt to smile. 6. Relative sensitiveness to music of criminals, imbeciles, and women. The course includes a thorough study of statistics, also experiments in the class- room. One hourlthrou hout two 'ears. S 3 Prerequisites: Courses I-8 Zoology. Courses I-3 Physiology. Courses I-4 Philosophy. I . qplngsital Zlhaining BASKIQTBALL 1. PURPOSE. The aim of this department is not primarily to secure the cham- pionship in the interclass games, but CID to make the girls who play attend their classes in gymnastics more readily, fzj to supply work for the college physician, QQ and to train the heart sufficiently to stand the increased speed which is necessary to climb the stairs to a recitation in Psychology. 2. EQUIPMENT. A fine new gymnasium which can be used any time which remains after the forty-seven periods a week are taken by classes, after periods have been given to fencing classes and faculty teams and after time has been assigned for the rehearsals of operas and plays. 3. RIECLUIRED WORK. Several practices per week, the number of which in- creases until girls have to cut breakfast to play. 4. Diasciuvrion or GAME. Basketball is a game resembling football in which the goals are iron grates or baskets placed at opposite ends of a hall or gymna- sium. About the same rules govern it as govern football. It would be impossible for us to give them in this column. Mrx. C. H, Howard