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

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10 THE LLAMARADA it such a power in the student life, that college may be not only a factor for culture, but also for character. The simple chapel service is one of power and impressiveness. The reverent hush before the service, the perfect harmony of the service, and its adaptation to the spirit of the time as at Christmas and Easter, make such a beginning for the day as few girls are willing to forego. In the social life President Woolley- is no less active. She has time in the midst of her other duties, to re- ceive at receptions and in many other ways to show her interest in our • good times, by attending our class plays and even our basketball games. Her interest is jxist as strong in individual girls, and her memory of their faces and names wonderful. She realizes, however, when play should end and work begin, and in our work she would have us always remember the high ideals of scholarship for which the college stands. Her emphasis is upon the necessity not only of careful and accurate work but also of joyous work. Outside of college. President Woolley’s interests are many and varied. An educator herself, she is interested in whatever pertains to the education of women. She is a member of the association for ac- crediting women in foreign universities, of the American association for maintaining a woman’s table at Xaples, and of the College Entrance Examination board. She has time with her many other duties to work in her special subject and is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis and of the Religious Education Association. She is a loyal supporter of the American Institute of Social Service and the College Settlement Association. President Woolley’s personality impresses itself upon all who come in contact with her. Her loftv idealism is dominant in all her work and «■ carries us beyond the petty worries that may beset us. The warmest sympathy, the sunniest optimism, faith, and reverence mark her character. With her administrative and executive ability is joined the gracious dignity and breadth of culture of one who is always womanly as well as scholarly. None of us can go out from college without feel- ing that our lives have been fortified and enriched because we knew President Woolley.

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THE LLAMARADA 9 President Woolley AN APPRECIATION IN 1901, with the beginning of a new century. President Woolley came to Mount Holyoke, and in these years has completely identi- fied herself with every interest of the college, and has won the ardent support and loyalty of every girl. South Norwalk, a town in Connecticut, the state where her Puritan ancestors had settled in 1665, was President Woolley’s birth-place. She studied at Wheaton Seminary, and after her graduation taught there before entering Brown University. She specialized at Brown in history besides doing much work in Latin and German, and was the first woman to be graduated from the university. After a year of graduate work at Brown, she w'as called to Wellesley as professor of Biblical Literature, and remained there five years. In 1901 she gave up her work at Welles- ley to become the president of Mount Holyoke. From Brown she has since received the degree of Litt. 1)., and from Amherst the degree of L.H.D. It was President Woolley’s problem to preserve for the constantly growing college what was best and noblest in its rich inheritance, and at the same time to stimulate it to a still fuller and richer life. To read one of President Woolley’s reports is to see how deeply she feels the need of a larger endowment and of buildings for science and music. She feels deeply, and she works untiringly, as in her efforts to make the new library possible. Not only did she never lose heart herself because of disappointments, but she kept others from getting discour- aged. During these five years, recognition of high scholarship has been advanced by the appointment of honor scholars from the Sophomore and Senior classes and by the establishment of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Every phase of college feels her pervading influence. She aims to bring the noblest ideals into the religious life of the college and to make

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11 THE LLAMARADA Board of Trustees Rev. Judson Smith, D.D., Boston, Sidney E. Bridgman .... A. Lyman Williston, M.A. Edward Hitchcock, M.A., M.D.. LL.D. . Rev. John L. R. Trask, M.A., D.D. Charles A. Young, Ph.D., LL.D. G. Henry Whitcomb, M.A. Mrs. A. Lyman Williston, M.A. Charles E. Garman, M.A , D.D. Rev. Henry A. Stimson, D.D. Hon. William Whiting, M.A. Hon. W. Murray Crane Elbridge Torrey .... Sarah P. Eastman .... Hon. E. W. Chapin .... Robert L. Williston, B.A. Joseph Skinner, Ph.B. Hon. Arthur B. Chapin, B.A. President Northampton Northampton Amherst Springfield Hanover, N. H. Worcester Northampton Amherst New York, N. Y. Ilolyoke Dalton Boston Wellesley Holyoke Northampton Holyoke I Iolyoke Chosen by the Alumnae Miss Mary P. Dole, M.D. . . . Greenfield Mrs. Mary Lyon Dame Hall . . Detroit. Mich. Mrs. R. B. Arnold .... Chicago, 111. Miss Mary Emma Woolley, M.A., Litt.D., L.H.D., President of the Faculty Miss Mary P. Dole, M.D., Secretary A. Lyman Williston, M.A., Treasurer Robert L. Williston, B.A., Assistant Treasurer