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

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The LI amaraca Department of Physics From the beginning of the seminary in 1837 until as late as 1898 a course in Physics, or in Natural Philosophy as it was called, was required of all students either in their Junior or Senior year. The work of the department was amplified for many years by special lectures given by a visiting professor. The supply of apparatus, very small at first, was increased from time to time, so that the present equipment is exceedingly good. In 1887 Laboratory work became required and in that same year elective work was offered. Up to 1891 one person gave a part of her time to the subject; since then the staff has been increased to four. In the year 1893-1894 the department was established in its present quarters in Shattuck Hall, a building which it shares with the Chemistry department. After the sub- ject was open to Sophomores the work gradually expanded until, in I 899, eleven courses were offered. In 1907-1908 Physics was, for the first time, made elective for Freshmen, so that now work may be elected in the department during all four years. MISS LAIRD Elizabeth Rebecca Laird, Ph.D., Professor B.A., University of Ioronto; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; University of Berlin; Fellow in Physics, Bryn Mawr; Holder of President’s European Fellowship from Bryn Mawr; Fellow of Amer- ican Association for the Advancement of Science; member 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 Hadley, Massachusetts. Violet Louise Holcomb, M. A., Instructor B.A., Colorado College; M.A., Radcliffe; Phi Beta Kappa Society. 43 Ashley Avenue, West Springfield, Massachusetts. Margaret Calderwood Shields, B.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke. St. Johnsbury, Vermont. 21 On leave of absence for the second semester.

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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

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The LlaroaraDa Department of Astronomy A course in Astronomy was included in the required work of the seminary from the beginning in 1837 until the granting of the college charter, when all courses were made elective. The first telescope, six inches in aperture, was purchased in 1853, and sheltered in a small observatory near the site of Williston Hall. In 1881 the John Payson Williston Obser- vatory, the gift of Mr. A. L. Williston, was completed. Its principal instruments are an eight-inch ( lark telescope, mounted equatorially, and a three-inch meridian circle. In 1902 a lecture room was added to this building, and facilities for ele- mentary observational work were greatly increased. Miss Bardwell, the first director of the observatory, began her work here in 1 866. After her death in I 899 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 op- portunity to see objects of interest with the telescope. MISS YOUNG Ann Sewell Young, Ph.D., Professor B.L., M.S., Carleton College; Ph.D., Columbia University; Goodsell Observatory, Northfield, Minnesota; University of Chicago; Yerkes Observatory; Columbia University; Professor of Mathematics at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington; Research Assistant at Yerkes Ob- servatory; Member of Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America; Fellow in Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science. Winona Lake, Indiana. Anna Laura Oathout, B.S., Assistant B.S., Carleton College; Time Service, Goodsell Observatory, Northfield, Minnesota. I 11 Winona Street, Northfield, Minnesota. 22