Ossining School for Girls - Quill Yearbook (Ossining, NY)

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THE QUILL for 1915 hooksj, and as I passed by the place, I saw the pros- pcmus young proprietor ride off in a beautifully appointed new limousine, with her efficient advertis- ing agent, Eleanor George. ' n I had expected to see the name of Margaret Ham- ilton Paine in blazing lights above the entrance of the Schubert Theatre. I learned, however, that her sueeess on the stage had pleased the public but had failed to satisfy her. She had given it up for a domestic career and had married an unassuming Russian shoemaker, so, instead of seeing her in some Shakespearian role, I caught a glimpse of her, scrub- hing the back porch of a small apartment. On my way to Ossining I glanced at a latest edition. Large black headlines announced that Lonisc M. Frick had won' the world's tennis cham- pionship in an International game. game. I I stopped to see the new improvements for which the Ossining School had become famous. Among the changes, was a new Domestic Science building, where .-Xdeha Floyd was ably supervising classes as suc- cessor to the recently-married Miss Vosburgh. In Ossining, too, was Helen Calam' also situated. Happily married, she had found a use for every phase gi Home-Making course-even that of the Kinder- hl . . A little further up the Hudson, I visited the Gov- ernment Military School where I was enthusiastically flfeefefl by Florence Leisy, the first woman student S293 Qflmiffed to West Point. She looked nobby in- te 111 her trim uniform, and I saw many of the 44 THE f if I' zhegftfi' IDE in f ,' 1,1 alla? stattiilfd laftfl stililfi 5' irsrf aidfmf the 11551 woitizff and lift. Gu' Ya' I son. home. ways if had ta lege Wg X.: lllt id? 0f inte:- dfffliezi y Bm theme! Chit i

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THE QUILL for 1916 Success waits for no man, so I hastened on to New York. My rapid course soon brought me to Broadway and Fortieth, where, in the midst of the thronging populace, several Gypsies attracted my attention. When I had stopped in great astonish- ment, I beheld in the center of the crowd the figure of an emaciated violinist who was none other than Frances Erwin. As I moved nearer, a shriek rose on the air. A wild, bent, white-haired figure broke forth from the throng crying Frances, Frances, I've found you at last! I waited to see the happy reunion of Nell and Frances Erwin, not to mention the reward of the patient suitor, who had in turn followed Nell in her frantic chase for her sister, long since abducted by the wandering tribe, who desired her to bring them the money they were sure her playing would get from 'the people. The nearest building of interest being the Metro- politan Opera House, I stopped for a few minutes of Die Walkure. I enjoyed even more than the opera, the music of the orchestra, which was led by a woman. For Lillia Slayton had succeeded the lately renowned Polacco. In one of the boxes, I perceived Miss Marjorie Schnarr, the recently elected president of the General Civic Improvement League, who had shortly before caused a great stir by her art criticism of city sign- boards of the metropolis. As I rode down Broadway, I noticed a tall, im- posing-looking building whose plate-glass windows bore the inscription D. Moore, Mathematical Text- 43

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THE QUILL for 1916 youthful cadets casting looks of admiration toward the gray-clad figure. In a trip through the new government buildings at Washington, I met Alethea Carpenter, a far-famed statistician on Eugenics, and learned that it was largely due to her- influence' that Congress had in- stituted the National Eugenics Law. . In a rather roundabout course, l visited the city which Genevieve Race was so loath to call home, and on one of the main streets I saw her, a martyr to the musical world, which she had renounced for work in the Salvation Army where many cheery songs and large collections were attributed to Salvation Gen. ' , A Near the mid-west of the country, I investigated the Michigan University where lived Emily'Thomp- son. Never having been quite willing to go far from home, she had refused many offers of marriage, al- ways promising to be a 'csisterv tothe rejected, and had finally established herself as the Michigan Col- lege Widow. I Nearby, the flourishing town of Peoria invited me for a brief tour of its main buildings and sights of interest. There, on the very vehicle in which strangers rode to see these sights, did I find the once- diffident Lucile, a guide in the employ of the 'tPeoria Sight-Seeing Transit Company. - ' Between the central and far western portion of the country, I passed a nameless village, where was said to flourish, under the instruction of Eleanor Carroll, a Co-educational School, innocent of any discipline and of all purpose. I -I .1 I