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

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TH E 'LLAMARADA Eepartment nf lilrgaira From the beginning of the seminary in l837 until as late as l898 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 i887 Laboratory work became required and in that same year elective work was offered. Up to l89l one person gave a part of her time to the subjectg since then the staff has been increased to five. In the year IS93-IS94 the department was established in its present quarters in Shattuck Hall, a building which it shares with the Chemistry MISS LAIRD department. After the subject was opened to Sophomores the Work gradually expanded until, in l899, eleven courses were offered. ln i907-l908 Physics was, for the first time, made elective for Freshmen, so that now work may be elected in the department during all four years. . Elizabeth Rebecca Laird, Ph.D., Professor B-A., University of Toronto: Ph.D., Bryn Mawr: University of Berlin: Fellow in Physics, Bryn Mawrg Holder of Presidents' European Fellowship from Bryn Mawr: Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. South Hadley, Massachusetts Mabel Augusta Chase, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., Oberlin: M.A., Cornell Universityg University of Chicago. South Hadley, Massachusetts Charles L. Brightman, Ph.B., Instructor M.A., Ph.B., B own Un'versity. r I South Hadley, Massachusetts Lucy Wilson, B.A., Instructor B,A.. Wellesley. Bloomington, lllinois Ethel Silver, B.A., Assistant B,A., Mount Holyoke. Silver's Mills, Maine 29

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.39 THE LLAMARADA Eepartnnrnt uf Ghvmiatrg ,fa N A few years before the opening of the seminary Miss Lyon attended a course of lectures on Chemistry at If Amherst College that she might be able to illustrate her teaching with ex- periments, and in the first issue of the catalogue in IS37, Chemistry is among the studies required of Seniors. At first the lectures were given by pro- fessors from various colleges, and the class work was in charge of Seminary teachers. ln I868 Miss Shattuck took -- -- MISS HOLMES charge of both lecture and class work, MISS CARR and it is clue to her enthusiasm that the present development of science in the college is largely dur-. The work of Miss Mary H. Berry led to the building in 1892 of Shattuck Hall, which contains the laboratories of Physics and Chemistry. Experimental lectures have always been continued. In l907 the work was thrown open to Freshmen, so that a four-year course in Chemistry 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: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: Graduate Scholar in Chemistry, Univer- sity of Chicago: Fellow in Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania: Member of American Chem- ical Society, and of American Association for the Advancement of Science: New England Association of Chemistry Teachers. Mystic, Connecticut. Emma Perry Carr, Ph.D., Associate Professor B.S., University of Chicago: Ohio State University: Mount Holyoke: Ph.D., University of Chicago: Holder of the Mary E.. Woolley Fellowship, t908-I909, University of Chicago: Holder of the Loewenthal Fellowship l909-l9l0, University of Chicago: Sigma Xi Society. Coshocton, Ohio Dorothy Anna Hahn, B.A., Instructor B.A., Bryn Mawr: University of Leipzig: Fellow in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr: Head of Depart, ment of Chemistry at Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. South Hadley, Massachusetts Mary Violette Dover, Ph.D., Instructor B.A., M.Sc., McGill University, Montreal: Fellow in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr: Ph.D., Konij- lichen Universitat, Breslau, Germany. 194 Hunter Street, East Petersborough, Ontario, Canada Marion Claire Johnson, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke: Phi Beta Kappa Society. 292 Pleasant Street, Leominster, Massachusetts Angie G. Albee, B.A., Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. 7 School Street, Bellows Falls, Vermom Lotta Jean Bogert, A.B., Laboratory Assistant AB., Cornell University: Simmons College. Ithaca, New York Alice R. Griswold, B.A., Graduate Fellow B.A., Mount Holyoke: Northfield Seminary. Massachusetts, I904-1907: Mills College, Cali- fornia, I907-l909: High School for Girls, Reading, Pennsylvania, l909-l9ll. 28 I97 Collins Street, Hartford, Connecticut

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TH E. LLAMARADA Bepartment uf Aztrnnnmg A course in Astronomy was included in the required work of the seminary from the beginning in l837 until the granting of the college charter, when all courses were made elective. The first telescope, six inches in aperture, was purchased in IS53, and sheltered in a small observatory near the site of f Williston Hall. In l88l the John Payson Williston Obser- ' vatory, 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 l902 a 4 p., A ,J fs ,VVV 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 IS66. After her death in I899 she was succeeded by Miss Young. Since i902 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. MISS YOUNG Anne Sewall 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 Observatory: Member of Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, and of the Nan- tucket Maria Mitchell Association: Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Winona Lake, lndiana Louise Jenkins, B.A., Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke College. 264 Main Street, East Haven, Connecticut 30