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

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The Llaroarai Department of Mathematics The beginning of the Department of Mathematics dates from the first year of the seminary, when Colborn’s First Les- sons and Adam’s New Arithmetic were required for admission, and Playfair’s Euclid and Day’s Algebra were studied dur- ing the first two years. In 1854 a course in trigonometry was added; early in the eighties was introduced Professor Olney’s series of text-books, and students were encouraged to attempt general geometry and calculus. Several years before the an- nouncement of electives in the catalogue, is found the state- ment, “Further mathematical instruction is provided if de- sired.” At the present time the required work of the Fresh- man 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 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 the department library contains a valuable collection of famous mathematical works belonging to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I he equipment also includes sets of plaster and thread models for illustration in the various courses. Sarah Effie Smith, B.S., Professor B. S., Mount Holyoke; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Michigan; Uni- versity of Chicago; Member of Association of Mathematical Teachers of New England, and of New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools. 19 Walnut Street, Newburyporl, Massachusetts. Eleanor C. Doak, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A.. Coates; Ph.B., University of Chicago; Cambridge University; Instructor in Mathematics at Coates College and at Dc Pauw University; Member of Association of Mathematical Teachers of New England. 506 North Sixth Street, Terre Haute, Indiana. ’:’Mary Esther Trueblood, Ph.M., Instructor Ph.M., University of Michigan; University of Gottingen. 6 Maple Street, Springfield, Massachusetts. Emilie Norton Martin, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; University of Gottingen; Fellow in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr; Holder of the Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship from Bryn 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; Member of American Mathematical So- ciety; Holder of the 86 Fellowship 1906-1907. 12 Tolies Square, Naugatuck, Connecticut. George Daniel Olds, LL.D., Lecturer B.A., M.A., LL.D., University of Rochester; Studied at Universities of Heidelberg and Ber- lin; Instructor at Albany Boys’ Academy; Professor of Mathematics, University of Rochester, and Amherst College; Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Mathematical Society, and of the Council. 3 Orchard Street, Amherst, Massachusetts. On leave of absence for the year. 19

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The LiamaraOa Department of Art and Archaeology MISS JEWETT Lectures in history of art were given at the seminary as early as 1874, and in 1878 history of art became a regular part of the course of study, f rom almost the opening year in- duction in drawing has held a recognized place. With the growth of the department an appeal for an art building was made in 1896. In 1902 the Dwight Memorial Art Building, erected at a cost of $75,000, was opened to classes. The building includes lecture rooms, department library, studios, galleries of sculpture and painting, and a room devoted to the Clara Leigh Dwight Collection of Elbridge Kingsley’s engrav- ings. The library now includes nearly 2,500 volumes. Col- lections of photographs, prints and lantern slides have been carefully selected, and over 9,000 photographs are now used by the department. Through the gifts of alumnae and friends the collection of casts has come to include representative ex- amples in pre-Greek, Greek, Roman, and Renaissance sculp- ture, with some architectural models and casts. There is also a good beginning in original material, Greek and Roman coins, ancient vases and vase fragments. The staff of instruction now numbers six and offers sixteen courses in art and archaeology. Studio work is done in connection with nearly every course. Dwight Hall has proved admirably adapted to its purpose of art study and exhibition. Books and illustrative material are brought side by side and the advantage is increasingly afforded of using casts and photographs with journals, reference books, and all standard authorities, ready at hand. Louise Fitz-Randolph, M.A., Professor of Achaeology and History of Art M.A., Mount Holyoke; University of Berlin; University of Chicago; American Schools of Class- ical Studies at Athens and at Rome; Head of Department of History of Art, Lake Erie College; Lecturer in History of Art, Western Reserve School of Design; Member of the Archaeological In- stitute of America, and of the Classical Association of Western New England. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Louise Rogers Jewett, Professor of Art Yale School of Fine Arts; Academie Julian Paris, under Lcfcbvre 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; Norwich Art School; Art Students’ League, New York. 268 Washington Street, Norwich, Connecticut. Florence Winslow Foss, B.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; Studied in Art centers of Europe; Holder of Bardwell Fellowship, 1905-1906. 17 Elm Street, Dover, New Hampshire. Ethel Vera Crosby, Studio Assistant Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston; Instructor at Montpelier Seminary, Vermont. Warren, Massachusetts. 18

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Llamarafca Department of Chemistry 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 in 1837, Chemistry is among the studies required of Seniors. At first the lectures were given by professors from various colleges and the class work was in charge of Seminary teachers. In I 868 Miss Shattuck took charge of both lecture and class work, and it is to her enthusiasm that the present development of science in the college is largely due. The work of Miss Mary A. Berry led to the building in I 892 of Shattuck Hall, which con- tains the laboratories of Physics and Chemistry. Experimental lectures have always been continued. In 1907 the work was thrown open to Freshman, so that a four-year course in Chem- istry is now possible in contrast to the Senior requirement of the time of Mary Lyon. Mary Elizabeth Holmes, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.A., Wellesley; PhD., University of Pennsylvania; Graduate Scholar in Chemistry, University of Chicago; Fellow in Chem- istry, University of Pennsylvania; Member of New England As- sociation of Chemistry Teachers; Associate of Collegiate Alum- nae. Mystic, Connecticut. Anna Lockhart Flanigen, Ph.D., Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; London University College; University of Berlin; Harvard University. 222 South 43d Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MISS FLANIGEN Emma Perry Carr, B.S., Instructor B.S.,University of Chicago; Ohio State University; Mount Holyoke; Holder of Mary E. Woolley Fellowship, 1908-1909, University of Chicago. Coshocton, Ohio. Winona Alice Hughes, M.A., Instructor PhB., M.A., University of Wooster; University of Chicago; Fellow in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr; Harvard University; Cornell University; Normal Training School, Pueblo, Colorado. 271 Church Street, Marion, Ohio. Julia Langness, Ph.D., Instructor B.S., Carleton College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Fellow in Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania; Instructor in Fargo College, Fargo, North Dakota, and in Dakota Wesleyan Uni- versity, Mitchell, South Dakota. Baltic, South Dakota. Dorothy Anna Hahn, B.A., Instructor B.A., Bryn Mawr; University of Leipzig; Fellow in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr; Plead of Depart- ment of Chemistry at Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. South Hadley, Massachusetts. 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 for the year. 20