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

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Department nf IHbliral literature MISS DUTCHER Bible study was, from the first, re- quired at Mount Holyoke. Recitations were held by different teachers on Sun- day afternoons or during Monday cha- pel periods. In 1860 certain definite sections of the Bible were prescribed regularly for each year. About 1893, as part of the transition from seminary to college, came the transference of re- quired “Bible to week-days under an instructor especially trained. The first electives were offered in 1895, and two years later the requirement was reduced from eight hours to six. MISS MORSE Lilia Frances Morse, S.T.M., Associate Professor B.A., Mount Holyoke; B.D., S.l .M., Hartford I heological Seminary; Member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis; Union Theological Seminary, New York 22 Mount Pleasant Street, St. Johnsbury, Vermont E. Olive Dutcher, B.A., Associate Professor B.A., Columbia University; Barnard College; Bryn Mawr College; Union Theological Seminary; Instructor at the Idaho Industrial Institute; Member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exe- gesis; Summer Study at Columbia University, 1911. 675 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn. New York. Edward E. Nourse, D.D., Lecturer B.A., Lake Forest University; S.T.B., Hart ford Iheolog ical Seminary; D.D.. Lake Forest Uni- versity; University of Jena, Germany; Pastor of Second Congregational Church, Berlin, Connec- ticut; Professor in Hartford Theological Seminary. Berlin, Connecticut Irving Francis Wood, Ph.D., Instructor A.B., A.M., Hamilton College; B.D., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Chicago; In- structor in Jaffna College, Ceylon; Reader in New testament Literature, University of Chicago; Professor of Biblical Literature and Comparative Religion, Smith College; Teacher of History and Philosophy of Religion, Columbia University Summer Session; Member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, cf the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis; and of the American Oriental So- ciety; Local Secretary of Palestine Exploration Society. 25 Franklin Street. Northampton, Massachusetts On leave of absence for the year.

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® I b»IJl A1 is, ■■■1 “ ■ 1 ■ '— ' Qpyartmrut nf Art anil Arrljteulogg—dmirlutirt» 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; Holder of Bardwcll Fellowship, 1905-1906; Graduate Scholarship, Welles- ley College, 1910-1911. 17 Elm Street, Dover, New Hampshire Inez Rogers, B.A., Studio Assistant Alpena, Michigan Ikjiartntrnt 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 1833, 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 C lark telescope, mounted cquatorially and a three-inch meridian circle. In 1902 a lec- ture room was added to this building, and facilities for elemen- tary 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. Anne 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 Math- ematics at Whitman College, Walla Walla. Washington; Research Assistant at Yerkes Observa- tory; Member of Astronomical and Astroph ysical Society of America, and of the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association; Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Winona Lake, Indiana B.A., Mount Holyoke. MISS YOUNG Louise Jenkins, B.A., Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. 24 383 Ellsworth Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut

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11A m A A $ A Drjiartmrut of Sotattg Botany was included by Miss Lyon in the curriculum of the first year, 1837- 1838, and until 1851, was a required subject during two or three years of the course. In 1897-1898 it became entirely elective. Many names are included in the list of those teaching the subject between 1837 and 1851. In the latter year Miss Lydia W. Shat- tuck became head of the department and directed its interests until her death in 1889. Since that time until 1908-1909 M iss Henrietta E. Hooker has been in charge of the department. Miss Lyon s herbarium was the nucleus of the present collection; to this Miss Shattuck added her herbarium and whatever other plants she was able, by her efTorts, to secure. I he botanical gardens were begun in 1878 by Miss Shattuck; and the first gardner, Mr. Charles Bates, was appointed in 1882. The first small plant house was destroyed by the fire of 1896. The present range of houses was the result of the gen- erosity of several individuals, the largest gift coming from Mr. and Mrs. James Talcott, for whom the aboretum is named. Alma Grace Stokey, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Acting Head of the Department B-A., Oberlin; Ph.D., University of Chicago; Member of ihe American Association for the Advancement of Science; Phi Beta Kappa Society; Sigma Xi Society. South Hadley, Massachusetts Asa S. Kinney, M.S., Instructor B.S., Boston University; M.S., Massachusetts Agricultural College; Member of the American Forestry Association, and of the National Geographical Society. 6 Park Street, South Hadley, Massachusetts Edith Adelaide Roberts, M.S., Instructor B.A., Smith; University of Chicago; Wood’s Hole; M.S., University of Chicago. Dover, New Hampshire Anna Morse Starr, Ph.D., Instructor B.L., Ohio Wesleyan University; Bryn Mawr; A.B., A.M., Oberlin; Wood’s Hole; Ph.D., University of Chicago; Fellow in Botany at the University of Chicago; Sigma Xi Society. 315 Fourth Street, Elyria, Ohio Sarah J. Agard, A.M., Curator of Museum A.B., A.M., Mount Holyoke; Curator of Museum. South Hadley, Massachusetts.