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

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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.

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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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THE LLAMARADA 21 Elizabeth Rebecca Laird, Ph.I)., Professor B.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; L niversity of Berlin; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae, of the American Physical Society, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. South Hadley, Massachusetts Mabel Augusta Chase, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., Oberlin; M.A., Cornell University; University of Chicago; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. South Had!ey,Massachusetts Violet Louise Holcomb, M.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Colorado College; M.A., Radcliffe; Phi Beta Kappa. 43 Ashley Avenue, W est Springfield, Massachusetts Margaret Calderwood Shields, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. Saint (ohnsbury, Vermont Department of .cUtrononm A course in astronomy was included in the required work of the seminary from the beginning in 1837, hut soon after the granting of the college charter all courses were made elective. The first telescope, six inches in aperture, was purchased in 1853 with money collected by Mr. Dickinson, of Durham, Connecticut. The small observatory which sheltered it stood upon the campus, a little to the north of the monument. In 1881 this telescope was sent to the Huguenot Seminary of South Africa, and the John Payson W illiston Observatory, the gift of Mr. A. L. Williston, was completed. Its principal instruments are an eight-inch Clark telescope, mounted equatorially, and a three-inch meridian circle. In 1902 a lecture room was added to this building, and facilities for elementary observational work were greatly increased. Miss Bardwell, the first director of the observatory, began her work here in 1866. After her death, in 1899, she was succeeded by Miss Young. Since 1902 there has also been an assistant in the department. Upon the first Wednesday evening of each month the observatory is open to visitors, and residents of neighboring towns, as well as students of the college and their friends, are given an opportunity to see objects of interest with the telescope.