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

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THK LLAMARADA 9 colleges to offer work in the history of mathematics, the subject being included in the requirements for a “major” as early as 1892. Besides the well-known histories of mathematics the department library contains a valuable collection of famous mathematical works belonging to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The equipment of the department includes a set of plaster models illustrating the theory of quadric surfaces and surfaces of the third order, thread models of developable surfaces and screw surfaces, and models relating to the theory of functions. O J Sarah Kffie Smith, B.S., Professor B.S., Mount Holyoke; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Michigan; University of Chicago; Member of Association of Mathematical Teachers of New England, and of New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools. 19 Walnut Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts Eleanor C. Doak, Th.B., Associate Professor B.A., Coates; Th.B., University of Chicago; Cambridge University; Instructor in Mathematics at Coates College, and at Dc Pauw University; Member of Association of Teachers of Mathematics of New England. 506 North Sixth Street, Terre Haute, Indiana Mary Esther Trueblood, Th.M., Instructor Ph.M., University of Michigan; University of Gottingen. 6 Maple Street, Springfield, Massachusetts Emilie N. Martin, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., Th.I)., Bryn Mawr; University of Gottingen; Fellow in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr; Holder of the Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship from Brvn Mawr; Member of the American Mathematical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mary Evelyn Wells, S.M., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; S.M., University of Chicago. 12 Tolies Square, Naugatuck, Connecticut Department of Cfjcnii£trp A few years before the opening of the seminary, Miss Lyon attended a course of lectures on chemistry at Amherst College, “that she might be able to illustrate her teaching with experiments,” and in the first issue of the catalogue, 1837, we find chemistry among the studies required of Seniors. During this time the lectures were given by college professors and the class work was under the charge of Miss Lyon. In 1868 the lectures were given by one of the teachers, Miss Shattuck, and it is to her enthusiasm that the present development of science in the college is largely due.

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i8 111K LLAMA RADA Louise Rogers Jewett, Professor of Art Yale School of Fine Arts; Academic |ulian, Paris, under Lefebvre and Benjamin-Constant; Member of Copley Society, and of Archaeological Institute of America. 892 Main Street, Buffalo, New York Gertrude Stewart Hyde, B.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Norwich Art School; Art Students’ League, New York. 268 Washington Street, Norwich, Connecticut Florence Winslow Foss, B.A., Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke; studied in art centers of Europe; Holder of Bardwell Fellowship, 1905-06. 17 Elm Street, Dover, New Hampshire Mary Adaline Lemer, Instructor Normal Art Diploma from Pratt Institute. 213 South Front Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Sarah Keese Arnold, B.A., Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. 751 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois Department of Mathematics The beginning of the Department of Mathematics dates from the Hist year of the seminary, the catalogue for 1837 38 announcing among the “Requirements for Admission” Colborn’s First Lessons and Adams’s New Arithmetic, to be followed in the Hist two years by Playfair’s Euclid and Day’s Algebra. In 1854. a course in trigonometry was added. Four years later the entrance requirements were increased by the addition of algebra through simple equations, but not until 1886 does plane geometry appear in this list. Early in the eighties was introduced the series of stimulating text-books prepared by Professor Olney of the University of Michigan, and students were often encouraged to attempt the general geometry and calculus. Several years before the announcement of electives in the catalogue is lound the statement, “Further mathematical instruction is provided if desired.” In 1888, when the college department was added, the courses in mathematics taken by seminary students were often substantially in advance of the catalogue. At the present time the required work of the Freshman year may be followed by twenty elective courses, giving fifty hours of credit, and covering the field of mathematics from the elements of analytic geometry and calculus to modern geometry, applications of the calculus, and the theory of functions. Mount Holyoke was one of the first

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20 THE LLAMARADA Mary Elizabeth Holmes, B.A., Associate Professor B.A., Wellesley; I niversity of Chicago; Member of New England Association of Chemistry Teachers; Association of Collegiate Alumna?. Mystic, Connecticut Anna Lockhart Flanigen, Ph.D., Associate Professor Fh.D., University of Pennsylvania; London University College; University of Berlin. 222 South Forty-third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania M. Helen Keith, M.A., Instructor B.S., Mount Holyoke; Diploma from Teachers’ College, Columbia University; M.A., Columbia University; Chicago University. Braintree, Massachusetts E. Charlotte Rogers, B.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; Chicago University. 80 Asylum Street, Norwich, Connecticut Emma Perry Carr, B.S., Instructor Ohio State University; Mount Holyoke College; B.S., University of Chicago. Coshocton, Ohio Winona Alice Hughes, Fh.B., Instructor Ph.B., University of Wooster; University of Chicago; Bryn Mawr; Member of Central Association of Science and Mathematics. 271 Church Street, Marion, Ohio Sarah Annette Quimby, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. 253 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts Jessie Colby Locke, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. Waterbury, Connecticut On leave of absence Department of pbpoics A course in natural philosophy, or physics, was required from 1837 to 1897 in the Junior or Senior year. The work was amplified tor many years by special lectures given by a visiting professor. The supply of apparatus, small at first, was increased from time to time, and in 1887 laboratory work became required and elective work was offered. Before 1891 one person gave part time to the subject; since then the staff has been increased to four. In 1893-94 the department was established in its present quarters in Shattuck Hall. Alter the subject was opened to Sophomores the work expanded, and in 1899 eleven courses were offered. This year, for the first time, physics has been elective tor Freshmen.