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

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30 THE LLAIVIARADA ITCHU1 Volume Buildings and Grounds The Campus, commonly known as Goodnow Park, covers nearly all the territory of South Hadley except a few reservations such as Gridley's, Ramsey's and the Art Nook. There are two lakes, either of which, when covered with ice, is guaranteed to hold sixteen girls. At the boathouse can be found four rowboats. Miss Talbot's canoe is not available to the general public, since only the members of the faculty are permitted to take their lives in their hands. There are abundant opportunites for walking to Holyoke during the winter months, as the cars are often stored in order that the highways may be cleared for snowshoeing and skeeing. MARY LYON HALL This structure contains on the hrst floor Mr. l3oyce's headquarters, where general information is dispensed free of charge. ln the reading-room are to be found all the leading periodicals with the exception of lVIunsey and Life. These may be referred to in the faculty parlor of Pearsons Hall. The pleasures of spending a leisure hour in the reading-room are heightened by vocal and instrumental music from six practice rooms and the melody from the three-manual organ in the chapel. On the fourth floor of the building is a large airy room used for examinations. A study in octaves is greatly felicitated hy the use of the piano in Assembly Hall on the Hoor below. ln this hall less important social functions such as class meetings and alumnm teas are held. L 1 is it A it Y , ' The library, an im-posing structure in brick, is open to all who prefer to breathe carbon dioxide rather than oxygen. The book shelves are accessible to all students. The books themselves may be used by those students alone who are willing to shorten their meals in order to reach the building before the librarian. It is urgently requested that great care be used in handling the rarer specimens such 'as Harper's Latin Dictionary, the Golden Treasury, and the contents of

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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

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Tenth Volumel THE LLAMARADA 31 the lfdwards library. Rocking chairs are provided by the college, also step lad- ders in the appendix, for climbing to the window sills for study, in page all rho chairs are in use. The Hoor of the library is swept daily so that the students may sit here while studying. R lEC1'l'A'I'ION ll Ai.l.s Williston and Shattuck Ilalls contain the mansions of unrest for the four classesg also the various science laboratories. In that of chemistry, the art of existing without breathin ma be acc uired. ln the zoolot' laborator ma be found Dr. ' ' -- Y l Y Y Y app s tat whose internal workings are out ofgear,'l a brainless cat, and shark's brains in pickle, which may be enjoyed by all entering Williston. In the museums are the haunts of the better known specimens such as the ichthyosaurus, the ornithorynchus and a few other animals that were to be found formerly in the vicinity of South Hadley. l,LAN'I'1'l0USliAND liO'1'ANICAI.GAli1lIENS The plant house is abundantly furnished with rubber plants and palms. lflowerpots are very numerous and at certain seasons of the year they are filled with radishes and lettuce, cultivated by the members of the tloriculture class. Beds of pansies scattered over the lawns greatly beautify the landscape. All the trees are labelled with Latin names as well as less pronounceable lfnglish ones. Under a weeping willow, amor-bas, gonionemuses and frogs sport in a little pool for the benefit of the Zoological department. Domus l'i0R'l'UNA'I'ISSIMARUM Fiction This building, established through the benelicence ofllr. Clapp, is one ofthe most substantial buildings on the campus. Situated as it is at the foot of the botanical gardens, on the bank of Lake Nonatuck, its bright coloring adds much to the general attractiveness of the campus. ' 'liHE OusEavA1'onY This building, its site on the brow ofa noble hill overlooking Mount Tom, the sunset point, and the Connecticut valley, contains the usual appliances for star- gaving, also many instruments useful in deeper astronomical study,such asa prism and a curtain on which are thrown pictures ofthe heavenly bodies. The illusion ofthe lady in the moon is forever dispelled by study through the splendid equatorial telescope. Comets, meteors and Sllll-SIJOTS are on constant exhibition.