Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 68 of the 1903 volume:

Sm . B ' . ' 'B 1' I Q . A Q 4 .-AMAA 4 Q I iii' Lp.: '-ll n -I 1 Xf KA. 'sz 1 I r 435533 '5 ,v: ' ' . , .-Y '- 2. V , O ' H A Q4 , M I -F 14g-f . O.. - v I . . . n H . w Q QB51LTBlZ1f1l1lIQ Qzdizated to 1112 031215525 uf L 9 U4 and 1 9 U 6 CC K 3 gag S College Yell .E Zip la! zip la! Boom! ha! ha! Rockford College! Rah! 4 The Editors Editor-in-Chief Advertisements 4.211 -' Q 1 Z jwdvzwf ,af Assistant Editor ' 7 - Humorous I Literary Editor f ,Krew , Q7 Business Manager M Ar Q I JL! Assistant Business Manager College and Alumnae i. S , Organizations AMW Assistant Business Manager ,. .. . W . - . Q 1 1 - , Q , ,!Q, w 1 X I 9 The President of Rockford College N October 18, 1902, Dr. Julia H. Culliver was installed as President of Rockford College. The exercises were held in the chapel of the College at three o'clock in the afternoon, and were opened and closed with singing by the Clee Club. Addresses were made by the Rev. William DeWitt Hyde, D. D., LL. D., President of Bowdoin College, Miss jane Addams of Hull House, Mr. john H. Sherratt, President of the Board of Trustees, and Miss Gulliver. Distinguished repre- sentatives of other colleges and many alumna and friends of the College were present. Thus bringing together men and women interested in education and in Rockford College, the occasion aroused inspiring memories of the past and stimulated hopes and plans for the future which are already beginning to be realized in the growth and development of the College. Since 1890, with the exception of one year spent in study, Miss Gulliver had been Head of the Department of Philosophy and Biblical Literature in the Seminary and in the College, and during the prolonged illness of Miss Emily K. Reynolds, she had been Acting President. Miss Crulliver is the daughter of the Rev. john Putnam Culliver, D. D., LL. D., President of Knox College from 1868 to 1872, and Stone Professor of the Relations of Christianity and Science in Andover Theological Seminary from 1879 until his death in 1894. Dr. Gulliver was perhaps best known as a reformer, a close personal friend of Governor Buckingham, the war governor of Connecticut. Before the founding of any of the prominent Colleges for women, he was an earnest advocate of the higher education of Women. The devotion of Dr. Gulliver to the cause of education has been continued in the work of his daughter. Miss Gulliver received her first degree as a member of the first class of Smith College, 1879. ,After some years spent in study, largely under the direction of her father, she received from Smith College in 1888 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Prom 1890 to 1892 she held the position of Head of the Department of Philosophy and Biblical Literature in Rockford Semi- nary. The following year she spent in Germany doing advanced work in philosophy at the University of Leipsic under the direction of Professor Wilhelm Wundt. From that time Miss Gulliver has been Head of the Department of Philosophy and Biblical Literature in Rockford College, and, much to the satisfaction of all, continues her Work in ethics and Bible. The first work published by Miss Gulliver was Dreams, a thesis presented to Smith College and published in the jezerezezf of Speezeleriwe Plziferephv in 1879. This was followed in 1884 by The Substitute for Christianity Proposed by Comte and Spencer, which appeared in The New Eezgfemeier and Tefe Review. f' Tito Melema was published in The New World in 1895, and in 1897 The Value of Goethe's Thought of God to Us. Also in 1897 appeared Miss Gulliver's translation of Wundt's Facts of the Moral Life, in which she was aided by Professor E. B. Titchener of Cornell University. ln New York, 1900, appeared her Temptation of Mr. Bulstrode: A Study of the Sub-Conscious Self. During these years as a member of the faculty, and now as the President, Miss Gulliver has been thoroughly identified with the interests of the College. lt was with hearty good will and enthusiastic faith that she was welcomed by trustees, faculty and students as President of Rockford College. 7 VN D NS' W Q 1 2 Q Q l 4 J I V, .QXJ N C-2....N' Q-sb xg? NSN . X, ,gm - f 'gl fi 5 + f fm ff f' ' L. :lifff I V ff 2 K P l Lf I x 1 f .N 4 L A V QQ k J R y A Alma Mater l U . There was once a wise, earnest and kindly mother who lived in a grove of oaks on the banks of a great river. 'iNow, when this beautiful young mother began her life on the wooded bluff she was not very Wise, perhaps, in books or in the ways of the World, but her heart was pure and true and womanly. So she gave to her daughters all that she could of knowledge, which meant all that she herself had been able to gain, and she offered to them a still greater measure of the wis- dom that is of the heart and soul, of which she had a goodly store. Thus she lived on the banks of the river, and her daughters with her. And the daughters looking out to the sunset over the murmuring water and the waving forest beyond, wondered, as all young souls must wonder, what was waiting for them beyond the protecting grove. Then when the time came that they must go out in the world, they went half joyfully, half sorrowfullyg hoping, shrinkingg gazing eagerly into the great, wonderful world, yet looking back wistfully to the dear protecting mother, sitting quietly with the younger sisters who were yet with her. And the coming years proved that from the first the mother had given to her loved ones a full measure of the wisdom which she so valued, for none are more loyal to her than these eldest, who went out many years ago. So the years went on. The forest toward the sunset gave way to stern-looking factoriesg but the sunsets were still gold and crimson, and the peaceful river still glided past the brightness, to disappear in the mysterious shadows of the bend below. The beautiful mother grew more learned, and sometimes, perhaps, she looked severe and forbidding, but underneath it all, she still cherished the pure and the true and the womanly, and she still valued wisdom itself above rubies, and counted knowledge as the handmaid of wisdom. . And as the years passed there was also a change in the outward semblance of the maidens sitting in the oak grove. So it happened that some of the elder sisters, returning to drop a caress on the brow of the mother, said in their hearts, Surely, these merry girls have no need of us, no claim on us, for we are not of them. We will go away and remember the mother of our youth as one apart, one who has gone beyond our reach. And the maidens, pausing in the swing of their busy life, stopped and pondered, When we leave, will it be possible for us to forget our little part in the life of the mother? And can we ever forget to care for this story which we are help- ing to make? Surely not, truly, this sister can never have been a real soul daughter of our beautiful mother. But others of the elder daughters, returning, were wiser, and those whom the World counted best and greatest were among them. They looked beneath the changing surface and saw the 9 same eager young spirit, still seeking knowledge in its varying forms, and above all, wisdom. And to these the younger sisters opened their hearts, and elder and younger grew to know and love each the other. So the mother, who lives through and in her daughters, was helped and cheered by the love and sympathy of her childreng and the scattered daughters, Wandering in spreading and dividing paths, were yet held together by a lasting bond and turned with ever increasing loyalty and grati- tude to Alma Mater. 1 - '--W ,Ili-'f - - --I 0 'Q' '29 Amin. l vw ' , Y Nb -I Q p K g 20 l Z 4i! , 'xfQ- ' 42 ' ' . Ai f'.i ' 44. 553.4 . ,YN Q 1 f , aj .4 at wi, V iew i' ' if we so 5 pw -at 53 fl -i f l I0 The Old Girl 4 TWO VIEWS OLLEGE opened yesterday- Friday. lt is now Saturday morning, nearly time for luncheon. Apparently Middle Hall has been left to the tender mercies of the small groups of lonely, painfully verdant Freshmen who stand or sit here and there, as if not knowing what better to do, vaguely waiting for something to happen. A carriage stops outside and a tall girl steps out of the door as it is flung open. As she comes up into the hall, looking neither to her right nor to her left, her authoritative manner, her air of familiarity with the place, and her supreme indifference to the looks of curiosity which are her only greeting, all prove that she is something apart from the common mortals that surround her. Surely she is the President of the College, or anyway one of the Trustees, whispers one Freshman to another, who, merely shaking her head in reply, stands gazing at the dark stairway up which her I-lighness has vanished. While the Freshman is still looking up into the darkness, she sees coming down the stairs another girl whom she recognizes as a Sophomore, but whom she has not yet met. Almost overcome by fright, she yet ventures to ask, Will you please tell me if the lady who just went up stairs is the President? The Sophomore gives one gasp, shrieks, Noll and as she rushes up stairs again to spread abroad the latest Freshman break, she stops just long enough to say, Better luck to you the next time you see an Old Girl! 4 h c One year old! She wondered if all first anniversaries were as reflective as this one. It did not seem twelve months since she had put on her cap and gown for the last time and had stood in line waiting for her sheepskin. I-lers had not been what is known as a weepy class, yet only by counting the roses in a great jar at her side, had she been able to keep back the tears as she listened to those tender words beginning, Dear Children. All this was a year ago. To-day she had come back for her first alumnae reunion. Was she changed? Was the Alma Mater grown cold? No and yes. 'She had had a year of experience, as the teacher's agencies would say, and one must change with thatg but the Alma Mater, was she not the same kind, though sometimes unresponsive, personality who had welcomed her five years before? l-low well she remembered that first week in number thirteen, as she looked back at it now, and the fight she had made against homesickness. She smiled into the duskiness of the bare room. What is Freshman homesickness compared to that of the baby alumna? As a Freshman ll she had felt forlorn but not forsaken, for she had known that twenty-three others were in the same plight. Company certainly is an antidote for misery. But she had lacked even this poor conso- lation when four years later she had left behind her not only home, but her dear Alma Mater as Well, and had stood for the first time facing her classes The ordeal of being the 'fnew teacher came vividly back to her. She saw herself on that first Monday morning, standing at the head of the long flight of stairs as that endless stream of nameless humanity filed curiously past her. She could still feel their searching gaze noting the details of her white shirtwaist and black tie. She could almost hear their comments as to the length of her skirt and the way she Wore her hair. She wondered if they knew immediately that she had never taught before. Does the college Freshman suffer such pangs? But that first month had at last dragged itself out, and gradually those giggling girls and awk- ward boys had become her appreciative friends and trusted comrades. It was they who had in some measure filled the place of those other friends back in old Rockford. But blue Mondays and restless Fridays no longer troubled the Old Girl. She was back in her former haunts. To be sure, the Freshmen had regarded her with cool indifference and had won- dered how long ago she had been there. But that mattered very little, for many of her old friends were back, and, although she knew she was no longer a part of the college life, yet she felt athome. The room she had was not hers, it was a long, narrow room on the second floor which looked bare enough in the white light of the June moon. Not a poster, not a photograph, relieved the monotony of bunch after bunch of staring red carnations: the closet had no curtains: the bureau was without a cover, yet all this made her feel that she belonged here, for, like the college family proper, she was allowed to make the best of inconveniences so that the older old girls might occupy the more habitable guest rooms. , l-low dear it all was to her! Yet there was a change. The question which had so agitated the girls in Middle Hall that morning was not so vital to her as it had been a year ago: or, at least, now she could see both sides so plainly that she wondered how she could ever have cared so much either one way or the other. So this is my first anniversary, she mused: in two more years I shall be even less closely bound to the girls personally, but perhaps all the more closely to the Alma Mater herself, whose personality is the sum total of all those who have been sheltered within her warm walls. l-lere the subdued tuning of banjos interrupted her meditation, and from the front steps floated the familiar strains of that old serenade, She Sleeps, My Lady Sleeps. As the melody of those fresh young voices sounded in the quiet campus, now proclaiming that they'd been workin' on the railroad, and now that they were loyal to their own Alma Mater, the girl in her bare room felt for the first time alone, for this was not for her. She knew that up in the library was gathered a group of whispering girls who could distinguish whose was the rich baritone voice, and whose the l2 high tenor. She did not know, yet she was glad she had heard the serenade. Then, when Goodnight, Ladies, was followed by a last cheer for Rockford and a final tribute to that neigh- boring college, she turned sleepily toward the hall to dream that she was a Junior throwing a Senior's commencement roses from the Gym. window to a football eleven in shining yellow suits, singing in the road below. So, in her dream, she had her wish and was once more a part of that eventful and joyful College world. She was no longer the despised or respected Old Girl. -M. P. 1. -.O O .'o ' 9: O P hfqaigg z s 1 944.531 n A . iv S1 il ffff fill 1. 212 i pl 1 wg gg :fr fi 7 ' tif , I 331' f,?.g,,.:gg 3 J' 'A ffl? Ngo . sigh' If 5 l , 1 gl 've f I 5, 3315? t- Slg . 0 2. 1:1 o q-Figs: . JI' s.b.' ,lv t V. Q :Ash ' L. v HR. ' ' '51 5331-1 ' 13A lN51gMNj.ll all I R-o- c -it - F- o-R-o R..i,....R..i,..i.R..i,... W... Glee Club past year marked the beginning of a new enterprise at Rockford College, the f. AW organization of a glee club, consisting of about sixty voices, trained by Mrs. Daisy Force 'sg Scott, head of the department of vocal music, assisted by Miss Parsons as accom- 5 Jg. panist. In addition to singing at all college functions, the club made three public 5,2 I L9 appearances during the year. The first was a vesper service in the Second Congrega- ' W-ig.. tional Church of Rockford at which Mrs. Scott, Mr. George Nelson l-folt and Miss Mae ' 119 V Snyder assisted as soloists. This vesper service was repeated one week later at the First Congregational Church. The third appearance was an Old Polk's concert given inthe Second Congregational Church. The club was assisted in this concert by Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Bollman, Mr. Myron Barnes, Mr. Carl Ross, Mr. Ross, Mr. Charles Olson and Mr. Harold Clark. The success of the first year in the history of the organization has been due to the sympathetic and capable leadership of Mrs. Scott, and to the able accompanist, Miss Parsons. The club has contributed largely to the musical and social life of the college. .G Fireside Talks lsn't it Shakespeare or Mark Twain, who says in fine irony that eventually a woman's hap- piness centres in a fireside and a cat? Could Shakespeare have peered into the future and have seen our fireside and our cat, wouid he have made that caustic generalization? We wonder. If Mr. Clemens could have spent a happy evening with us at our Friday evening talks, and maybe could have petted Miss Kingsburys prize tabby, and could have thawed and beamed under the irresistible charm of a crackling blaze and a homey, happy lot of girls, would he, could he, go out into the cold, cold world and freeze into his old, cynical self again, and say trite things of a cat and a fireside and a woman's happiness? Hardly! Our fireside talks are the best evenings in the week. There is a certain charm in a fire place, a homey atmosphere, that makes everyone happy and contented and genial. It has been our great pleasure to be entertained during the past year by Mrs. Etta Mardin, on Education in Turkey, Prof. Towney, of Beloit, on The Epic of the Inner 1.ife3 Prof. Hat field, of Northwestern, on New Wine in Old Bottles, james Speed on Nature Study, Dr Dana Munro, of the University of Wisconsin, on Student Lite in the Middle Agesf' and Mrs. Alice Peloubet Norton, of the University of Chicago, on The Place of Domestic Science in the College Curriculumf' thus giving us a more beautiful perspective of lifeg showing us a broader world in science, and giving us a better knowledge of things than we could ever gain alone. So we can all stand as the proving exception to that sarcastic statement, of doubtful origin, about a girl, a cat and a fireside. 14 i i ., ie. ,S ' l awhxi A -.N ..v ,gg k :559 I fX Xl Xx A J l -, ly FJ ,Zi X Qi f N X 'l X Seniors Q29 President .... . . CARA F SWENSON Secretary and Treasurer . COLORS. l-lip za l-lip za l-lip za 1 .- . . OLIVE K RAFTREE Light blue and yellow YELL: ' TOO Z3 TOO Z2 TOO Z2 roo za ree! roo za ree! roo za ree! 9-O-3 15 ...Q ' 14 L. Z -. I WYWY- - 'X X I x yn VH ,N Y Fw i H Qxfbfq xX. ffl X Xf f ix WX X Es 2 X Y Juniors x I 21 I dT H F Tifewui Q f ' 'N Y 1 U C Y G M R lifgdlRgkfldg l e! t + I Xx bk X xx ALJ ' QW Sophomores President . . . . LULU R1EDEsEL Vice President . . . . MABELLE MILLER Secretary and Treasurer . . . ALICE COONRADT , COLOR: Crimson YELL: ? 1 7 I P 1 of yiuwrfv .1 r I x J 1' 4, 5-Jr' ,V . N Y 1. .ga .L 3 .z f' .' A A 'IIN Y u I f' -'P 277 H - fffff ' f e M X XF Ewa. if fl N7 ff My jx Freshmen ., i,. S yj .M 9 XX x 'I President . . . Avls TALCOTT f'f7f 'f Sec'y and Treas. . LYDIA Gi-ROGERS K ! f ' . COLOR: Yellow. , f fe f f 'fy' YEL1.: If If-Q f X 2 Naught six! naught six! 7 Q Tix, tix, tix, W fn! ' fl V Naught ', i X 'X u Rah! Rig! 7 X f f X 6 .XMI I f X ffl I I XX X lg! ff ' ,g gi ei , e yo My ea Edie riff lf?77N Preps. 1, , President . . . We would like to know 1 L V 1 ' Vice President . . We still would like to know J V 1 ' I Secretary . . . We Want to know. my 'H if - P Z Treasurer ........ We still Want to know ll If 4 v . X it CoLoRs: Nevertheless, inasmuch as We have never 2, lil X seen them floated, We cannot tell. A xl P- lx YELL X 'x if-'Xl K Z it t N91 W l lv I I: f Fix But you couldn't hardly notice it at all r , a ' -, ' 1 ' lT 5577 PREP, Sono: px- X. X M,,,,f Baby s Fishing for a Dream lFRFt-wfx ' Ph CL ml r - -- o.,. A, rr . ' I 1 l ssifgx i l P7 r r W .55 b If ' A 1' l i r e 'RRP X, K Q Xl' 2.5.5-,f':ff'L'-e x ' A I l - xl ll X X lx l fxffi lf-A1 ll ,..,4'ffff W - wxxcs lfsllfffig N W X xi :sri C Y - --:W 5 it Q fkf! J' at ,X X Xfvx X ' , '- . ' ff 144, I ? Aux. -Fc 1: Q M '1Q.:ii- 3 P ' f' P K 1 f ' If , -. f ' Af X: , .f A: Y 7, . , 1 I , X eq sg A 2, N 'xx X E 1 X x 3 fd - x: 1 , r: ' . 7 A Modern Cicero 4 Wi T was night, and I was hard at work. Suddenly a cold, clammy hand was V placed in mine and I beheld opposite me - -l the manikin from the Q ' ai Science Lab. With a contemptuous glance-heightened by the gleam I :L from his dissected eye-he stretched forth his left arm, from which the muscles hung in strips. Write as I dictate, came the command from his repulsive tongue. if I obeyed. How long, ye college maids, will ye continue to abuse your I-louf Committees patience? I-low long will your impudence balk them? To what end does J cu. .inrestrained audacity vaunt itself? Does not the vigilance of proctors, the fear of punishment, or the many house-meetings baffle you? Do you not see that your self-government is at stake? Ch the times! Oh the customs! Our president knows it, our girls all see it, yet it goes on. Goes on? Nay, more-it even flourishes and grows stronger. There Inu been-aye haf been- once a time in this school when the faculty had control, but alas! 'tis a thing of the past. 'Twas in the days of yore! I-lave they allowed the edge of their authority to grow dull? A decree has gone forth severe and weighty: it is not the laws that are at fault, you-you - I say it openly-you students are at fault! You live, and you live not for abolishing, but for spreading the evils. Oh ye immortal gods-not one law violated, but many,-all. Do you dare deny it? Why are you silent? Here, here, right in your own members, your own hall, these vices flourish-mid- night spreads, lights after tardy, whistling and shrieking in the halls, lateness to dinner and breakfast and so - I made a noble effort to rise in defence of my beloved schoolmates. Something held me down, and with one mighty scream, I awoke. 20 Wisdom versus P. V Q0 JE S f ' f Once on a time the Wise and the Foolish lived togeth . under lx K K Q' Roof, and the Wise sought to teach the Foolish both by Precept and . ff? ff X O Example. But the Foolish took much Delight in the Vain Things of ggi the World and refused to be led. Then suddenly Winter came on X them, the Snow fell and the Winds blew and lo! the Wise O ay fi lu nigh unto Death-smitten with the Crippe. Then up rose I-I F A WISEST ONE OF ALL and hastening from Room to Room sought 5 ' the Cause of this Sudden and Horrible Disaster. Can it be, O Wise A i I l l ll Ones, she exclaimed despairingly, that you have followed the E 'nple T X of your Vain and Frivolous Sisters? Can it be, and her Voice s T' to ' X l N a Whisper, Can it be that you cling to Summer Garb and refuse to Oc My V Warm? But the Wise Ones sadly shook their Heads, for they were Warmly and Unbecomingly clad: yea, even to Thick Hose and High i Shoes and the Wise Ones murmured sadly, Since there is no Cause l there is no Hope and we must die. But THE WISEST ONE OF . ALL urged them not to Despair. Perhaps, she said, even now One of the Foolish Ones languishes upon a Bed of Pain behind an Engaged Sign. If so, you have contracted it from her, for Grippe is the Most Contagious Disease known to Medical Science. Then she hastened away. She met many Foolish Ones hurrying from Building to Building in Elbow Sleeves, Perforated Hose and French Heels, every Face glowing with Health, and her most. vigilant Search found No One whom the Dread Disease called His Own. Thus the VJ inter passed by and Spring found THE WISEST ONE OF ALL Haggard and Worn. But the Foolish Ones appeared Bright and Radiant, for had they not been Swell and at the same time Preserved their Health. Fools rush in where Wise Ones fear to tread, But, strange to say, the Fools come out ahead. 21 There is a man at old R. C.. And he is wondrous dandy, He trots around from morn till night And at his heels is Andy. 22 3:4-Q 5417 ws rf,-r 6 if .lx 500 gal. .gm 1' X . xl' 1 . .1 ' f --'i -' .X it :lr , --.I V. ,, txs C-4:5 N .- . l F -r, .-1. r ..x .5 -15 1 :,! I .. ' -lm' 1. I .- .xg I , . 5 .1 - 3. -,. l. I- -. -v-- '. 4... . .x 1 -5 . ',w. s Y-: --.-' 4-TX fix .LA ' x , .2 -,Q ,,. XY 19' 23 0. -'. 's91 -A N--v-Q' t I Q 5 1 Q I N - Kappa Theta J LEONA GAIL POWERS CARA FRANCES SWENSON I-IORTENSE ELDER FANNIE A. NORTON MINERVA AGNES HUTCHINSON MABEL DOROTHEA SOHULTZ HELEN ESTELLE JANES ETHEL GEORGE GALE PORTER ' FLORENCE MYRTLE GREEN LEILA JANES GORA E. I-IOEFER ESTELLE MARTIN CATHERINE MOMENEMY EDITH LEICH MASTERS ANN ELIZABETH THOMAS OLIVE CROFOOT COLORS: Scarlet and Silver. YELL 5 Zip, bang, gip, boom, bah! Kappa Theta! Rah!! 25 Boornalacka! Booma lacka! Boornalacka bH We are the Iota Eta Pi! Bu fe fe Shortcake! 5I.f?4'.Tffweoff'.v '7'?'1-,-' D6 vi-Pm - 'Raw Chi Theta Psi 4 FLORA E. EDDY GLIVE KEITH RAFTREE BESSIE BROWN MARCIA VAN DUZER MARY PENFIELD SI-IELDON ALMA BROWN LYDIA GARDINER ROGERS CZARINA GIDDINGS MAROUERITE STRONG MARY S. HUNTER AVIS TALCOTT FANNIE TALCOTT IRWIN ELIZABETH CLARK WARD ALICE TWOOOOD COONRADT MARIE L. CARTER COUSIE FOX EMMA M. CIEILADEK MAEELLE JEANETTE MILLER MINA A. CLARK LULU A. RIEDESEL CAROLYN PIPER GENEVIEVE THORNELY COLORS: Black and gold. YELL: I-IOO! Rah! I-Ii!! Chi Theta Psi! Rah! Rah! 27 Heard After the Old Folks' Concert 27 Hallelujah! give us a hand-out! Hallelujah, amen! Hallelujah! give us a hand-out, We're hungry again. 28 l 77 Heard at the Street Carnival 4 ' ! Lai!! ,Sm gf X , ' I-lave you seen her-Minnie the Wild Girl? Captured T if Z iQeL,' in the wilds of Madagascar-she feeds entirely on the raw l,- H' Q ' XV' I W X ' ' ' 1 flesh of- Oh, listen to the band! Aren't those Q j E X 5-!eQ,J+,v band boys dears? Right here you will find them ! W Right- this way! Every time you hit a nigger baby on the head, you get one five cent in lChance of your life time- seeing the automatic wonder-Chiquita, the living doll! You pull one string andl Pleasa lady me tella you fort-? Only costa twent centa-'T Chewing Candy! Chewing Candy! Freshly made every minute! If you try it once you'll never try any otherT l-lave you been to the l-ligh Dive? lf not you want to hurry! Confetti ! Confetti ! Everybody wants more Confetti! You'll find it right here- right now-in Any time's a good time, but now is the best time to buy your tickets for the Country Store! The lucky number draws the greatest prize ever offered for-- I-lave you tried it? A chance for every one- H Do Uno the Snake Eater? lf you don't you ought to! Bites off theln I , . s ! Eff -f. 'I ! If I. Q 3 2 ,J fl: A 5 me E. 'QL if if W ' ' ' . nur- r .5 ga ,Q 3 H '. 751 yi J 'Q' f ,Q 5' ' il -'ff ? Ein- ' -b Egg... 1: 'f',.f.X N , ' 4 O a The Flower Pa' The flowers came in two by two, The flowers ,tney came in by the score- A rose so pink and a corn-flower blue, The poppies red, the grasses green, A daisy white, a sunflower tall, Two tiger lilies next were seen, A lily fair, a buttercup small. Four bleeding hearts all red and white, 'The flowers came in three by three, Pinks, thistles, orchids, and tulips bright, There was jack-in-the-Pulpit as gay as could be Gay apple blossoms and fragrant sweet peas, With his cousins the pansies and violets wee. And still we could name them with greatest ease And just behind them, more and more, If we only thought our naming would please. ' 2 9 A 2 M I K l IFEX ,P- ,XJ , l i l 1 J X C fgxix l lf Xf- V r f. x 4 X t5x'1l Fl x i' gli , f l l it to is Xu Washington Party February Twenty:second A at A song to the girl of the minuet, 'x N K ,cm With her flowered gown and pow- it Q dered hair l The college girl we quite forget, As we Watch her sister, quaintly fair. A tiny patch, where the dimple plays At hide and seek with her rosy lips, To her gallant suitor fresh charm displays, As he kisses those dainty finger tips. The buckles flash from her slippered toe, As she poises there with stately grace, To make the curtsies sweeping low, That hide for a moment her dainty face. For such a maiden, who would not dare To take up arms and fight for fame, If only the honor she would share. And accept his offer of heart and name? A toast to the dame of long ago! To her we grant our highest praise, For Washiiigton himself, we know, Would share with her this day of days. -M. 30 1 f' v E.. i 1 i 'x 1 I' , x J X N J ,f lk XA N tix , i ax f iff X X,.z Q x X x KN lfi X- so J Q. ix X x fl H 7 t ,i if X X l l X f ' X l i I i il 3 i 1 R i i I l l ,Ak f I A , i T f fjifx Nl Xi X i l Q f r A X P.J. X Ai X iff 'O2. , i X ff. ' I 1 r I J . ! The May Festival Oh I mother, there were lots and lots of girls there, and they all had white dresses on except those that had pink, and some had their coats on, too. They let me carry the wreath on a white, shiny pillow. I guess it was silk, and it was made of violets-just lots of violets sewed 'round a hole to make a hat without any top in it. The queen wears it. You know the queen is the prettiest and nicest girl there, and she had violets sewed all round her dress, too, and it was long and white, and she had some more little children to hold up her train when she came down the steps. She looked awful pretty. I looked 'round to see if they were coming and my wreath fell down and all the girls laughed, but the queen didn'tg she picked it up and wasn't cross at all. I'd like to be a queen, but I can't, 'cause lim going to be a king. But I'm going to' marry a queen just like this one and I'm going to have a throne, too-that's what she sits on-underabig tree with lots and lots of pink flowers on it. Then when she got there the old queen-she isn't really old, only her dress wasn't so pretty- took my wreath and put it on the queen's head and kissed her. Then the new queen put a Wreath of forget-me-nots on the old queen's head. Another boy, who had a sailor suit with real anchors on it, had this wreath and he dropped it twice. . a Then everybody kissed the queen's hand. I-Ier eyes were all shiny like yours are sometimes, and I liked her awfully well. Then they had the May dance with lots of purple and white streamers, round a tree, and the girls wove them all in and out, and it looked awfully nice, only there was a big girl in front of me and I couldn't see very well. They kept kissing the queen's hand and seemed so sort of happy and glad. I should think they would be sorry they couldn't all he queens, but I guess they like the queen real well. Any- way, they all took her picture, and I was in it, too. They are going to send you one. Motfaer, I wish you would be a queen sometime, and me carry the wreath. I'd like to try it on, though I don't suppose kings wear 'em. -IVI. P. J. 31 PRESENTED B Mrs. Hardcastle . Miss Hardcastle Miss Neville Dolly Sir Chas. Marlow . Young Marlow . Hastings Hardcastle Servant Mat. Muggins ACT 1. Q Scene Scene ACT ll. Scene ACT III. Scene Sorority Plays SHE STOOPS TO CONOUERH A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith Y KAPPA THETA, DECEMBER I3, 1902 CAST OF CH ARACTERS . Miss Elder Miss Martin Miss Masters Tony Lumpkin Jack Slang 4. Simon X L. C. Powers . M. A. Hutchinson . . Miss L. Janes Ralph . . F. A. Norton C. McMenemy Jeremy I C. Porter Roger l ' ' H' E' Janes A. E. Thomas Tom Twist. . C. E. Hoefer K. E. Ceorge Stingo llandlordl . . O. Crofoot D L. Janes Diggory . . . M. D. Schultz SYNOPSIS 1. A room in Mr. Hardcastle's old mansion. ACT IV. A Scene I. Parlor in Mr. Hardcastle's house. 2. Public room in the ale house. 1 Scene I. Parlor in Mr. I-Iardcastle's house. I. Parlor in Mr. I-IardcastIe's house. ACT V. - Scene 2. Carden in rearof Mr.HardcastIe's mansion. 1. Parlor in Mr. Hardcastle's house. i Scene 3. A room in Mr. Hardcastle's mansion. PRESENTED Mrs. Diller Marion Richards . Florence Wakefield AN IVORY MINIATURE APlay by Czarinaj.Ciddings BY CHI THETA Psl,APRi1. I7, I CAST OF CHARACTERS . Miss Biller Miss Irwin . Miss Raftree 903 4 Criggs la deserterl . F. E. Eddy I . E, L. Jamieson A. L. Coonradt M. B. Snyder . A. H. Olson . B. Brown . A. Talcott C. Thornely Marie Goodrich M. I.. Carter Kitchen in Col. Richard's house. Sitting room in Col. Richards house. Sitting room in Col. Richard's house. Evelyn Wakefield . Miss Miller . . ! Mammy . Miss Rogers Soldlers' Union 'I Colonel Richards M. S. Hunter l Laurence Maxwell C. J. Ciddings I Wakefield . . E. C. Ward Union Officer . Leigh Carter E. M. Chladek Piccaninny . . Ned . . L. A. Riedesel Southern Soldier SYNOPSIS ACT I. Place' Sitting room in Colonel Richard's house. ACT III. Place: Time: Morwng of a day two weeks before end of Civil AC Time: Following morning. ar. T IV. PI : ACT Il. Place A Northern Camp. Tihffg: Few days later. Time: Evening of same day. ACT V. 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Vllllj' 1, ffgfmlflll ' -' 'F-X l 5 V' rl ,fi 423.711 ,Q ' I-ll 'ill--Ll. -A'-TF: W-AMMT' l'- 1llI,Lf'?',-Qi we: ft :U it .girgia ff2.i2:Q,.l,.a+r1 e .3 W 4 U The Palm Garden I know an old lady,- Not the one in the shoe,- With dozens of daughters, But she knows what to do. She feeds them and scolds them And gives them advice, While clothed in her white robe And cap she looks nice. This little old lady, 'Tis sad to relate, This Spring has receded Into a sad state. She owns a palm garden lWith three palms at leastj Where nothing is lacking Save the usual feast. It is blooming with pansies And gay with red flowers, While vines running riot Increase with the hours. Instead of the tables All shining and bright, A barrow of posies Stands there in plain sight. And the little old lady, With trovvel in h ln the midst garden Each dav .er stand. But i' the viands That tne name woul , ..pry She gives a gay posy To each passerby. 'B The Twentieth Century Version 4 Bluff! For the day you conquer Freshman Fright, And gain a name for working late at night, Shall make your Sophomore hours a dream of ease, And render even junior Burdens light. All hours a dozen lessons bring, you say: Yes, but forget what you learned yesterday. To-morrow will efface to-day's Exam., And take the bitter of the Flunk away. Come eat the Spread and join the Festive Ringi A Jar of Olives plucked from off the bough, You know not but to morrow's Mail may bring A stein of Milk, a Pan of Fudge-and Thou A Check to buy a Senior s cast-off Theme To sit beside me singing college songs- To save you thus from writing anything. Oh this, indeed, were Paradise enow. Alas! that joy should vanish when we close The college doors behind us. Each one knows How little of the book lore will remain: That time will soon her Ignorance expose. Would but some kind professor seize the slate That bears those gloomy records which relate In what we've failed, in what we've gained the Then deftly change each three into an eight! Then when, O fond Alumna, you shall pass Among the Freshmen cooking o'er the gas, I bid you pause and point to them the spot Which you made once-a token of your class 34 prize, M. P. J. 'oz Domestic Science 4 Oh! my dear, if you could only see me!! One scald! Three cuts!! Five burns!!! To say nothing of the stuff I have spilled on my apron and the holes I have burned in my dress! I seemed fated from the moment I entered the Dom., Sci. Lab. this afternoon. We were making yellow cake and pudding sauce, and we wanted it especially nice because we were going to have visitors. Well, nothing seemed to go right. If I picked up a spoon, I immediately dropped it, if l took up a knife, I cut myself, I spilled flour, I upset milk. I broke the yellow of an egg in with the white. I left the spoon in the sauce-pan until it was so hot that I have a lovely burn on every finger of my hand. Not content with burning myself, in taking the pan off the stove, I let the handle turn and spilled every drop on my apron, on my dress, on the floor, on the stove, anywhere, everywhere!! While I was performing thus my cake burned and in my haste to rescue it I knocked against another! girl and upset a whole fortunately on myself instead of on her. . 3Si6i s K if IPI ,c ' -- CO!-LAEI sw. Beau ' WDMAN xx I f ,f I X , I I xk K Fi r! X t A I I l it W f xfizgn KA 'xc bowl of beaten white of eggT, These are a few of my trials. I really could almost fill a book with the rest of them but I shall have compassion on you. Of course this isn't an every-day occurrence, but it seemed my luck, and, since it afforded amusement to the other people, I suppose I should be content. Your Much-Mutilated Sister. in 'Gif QA ea on 35 Ifllfllkx Program 4 EXHIBITION OF SCIENTIFIC CooKERY AND ITS RESULTS Department of Domestic Science, Assisted by the Departments of Art and Music AT THE CLOSE OF THE WINTER TERM, MARCH 18, 1904. 1. Demonstration by a Cook in Complete Costume with Model Outfit. ICostume and grouping especially designed by the Head of the Department of Art.I 2. Bread-making--Drill accompanied by Music. 3. Competitive Trial in Cake-making. IPrize: A Clark's Crispy Toaster.I 4. A Model Dinner-Pantomime. 5. Before and After Takingn the Domestic Science Course-Tableaux. ta l The Kitchen Before. tb l The Family Group Before. fall H H After. 'bil After. 6. Illuminated Statistics, showing Cal The Growth of Domestic Science. tbl The Increase in Length of Life and in'Physical and Mental Vigor in the State of Illinois. since the Introduction of Domestic Science into Colleges and Universities. N. B. At the close of the exercises. specimens of cooking done by the class in Domestic Science will be offered for inspection ibut not for sampling.l THE my AMER The Domssfzc scz.f5Nce'Sf-'IQEAD I L Y 4 E I r W PLEASE . SNK r.i.i'it , .. , , 'gzip ' ' Wsgitmnwk 5 CK CLASSES wil. ff0l'KEQi+L ' I-opp N O 0 Q 05-Q ,N 1 I L ' 1 ' gl? I f gg 36 A Warbler's Wrangle 4 , '17 W wATcHED them from my window. Hg was terribly agitated, while Jfve seemed to smile at his folly and irritate him the more. if NX Q 'A Twitt, twitt, fer, twitt-ter, he called up to her. She balanced her- '4' R 4 self on the little twig, cocked her head to one side, but answered never a ' word. I-le hopped angrily forward and raised a ruffled wing threateningly. Twitt-twitt-er ter ter, he cried. Y She watched him scornfully and then appealed to the world at large. Twee-twee, was there ever such a man, twee, twee, because the tailor bird sends in the bill, be blames me, his wife, twee-ee! and she looked for sympathy from a great green worm on an opposite branch and turned her back on her lord. l-le sputtered and fumed and was profanely silent, but whatever he said, or whatever he did, it disturbed not his lady at all, at all. She glanced into a shiny leaf to see if the tailor-bird's work was well done, or she flirted outrageously with the great green worm, and when he would call, Twet-twitt-twitt-er, she'd mockingly trill back, Er-r, er-r, er-r-r-r, er! and swing in her leafy home. Was there ever such a wife? he shrilled. Was there ever Jzzrb a man? she sang, and then threw a kiss to him over her wing and flew away-perhaps to a bird bargain sale. i p M-M. s. 'oe J! Out in a dreamland, Mabel- What her dreams were, we don't know- Near, her roommate lay and pondered l-low far would her money go? From her revery she was startledg Foolish Mabe! Such thoughts to mar, That isn't the way you spell his name, lt's spelled with a double r. 37 The Mother come to her many times a year, a month,a day, and she is always ready, always there with the light on her hair and a light we cannot fully know in her eyes- and the pearls of comfort in her hand, always. We may come to 4 her with a rush and a careless laugh, holding foolishly high our cups of love and truth and the joy of living, spilling in clusters of rainbow beauty the overflowing bubbles of youth. Or we may steal in quietly, the joy all spilled and our cups so empty that the sun throws only a shadow, and a tear runs down like a frightened thing. But, however we come, or whenever we come, she is always ready, and into each cup she drops a pearl. And we catch our breath, for the bubbles spread and are still as it rests there a moment, so full of peace, so tranquil, so pure ! Then it sinks lightly, but it is not lost, for as the sun-bubbles come again in their red and gold exuberance, each one reflects that pearl lovingly, reverently, and we know the Master of Life has planned it all. ii , E N, 5 1' 1 A u N 38 Rockford College J! We belong to Rockford College, She has stood for years full fifty, The College of the West, In forty-nine begun, We shout for dear old Rockford, And many are her students The highest and the best. Who have mingled work and fun. We are striving, ever striving And for fifty years and fifty, To shed abroad her light, Will she flourish ever bright, While we wave her colors brilliant, While we wave her colors brilliant, The purple and the white. The purple and the white. 4 There is a College of renown, of renown, The pride of good old Rockford town, Rockford town, Fame swings her praises everywhere, For none with her can quite compare. CHORUS: She's a College enterprising, Expectations realizing, As she keeps serenely rising To the top, tip top. I-lurrah, the purple and the white, the purple white! I-Iurrah, they dazzle every sight, every sight! We will lift them up till the wondering world shall know That we belong to Rockford, Oh! Full many a man of gallant mien, From Mount Olympus old and gray, gallant mien, old and gray, Bewildered by a passing dream, Those pristine gods have moved away passing dream, moved away I-las registered at Rockford, Oh! With nymphs and graces from afar, The list is there, in black, you know. To seek the Rock, and here they are. 39 Purple and White 4 A song to the white and the purple, The colors so proudly we Wear, The banner that floats in the sunlight, Whose fortunes we loyally share. Cbaruf- Rockford, Rockford! I-lere's to her colors so fair and bright! Rockford, Rockford! I-lere's to the purple and white! A song to her campus inviting, A song to our college days golden, Where sympathy gleams like a star, Full freighted with work and with play, Where sunshine dispels every shadow, All fragrant with friendship unsullied, And sadness is driven afar. They sped on their swift wings away. Rockford, Rockford! Rockford, Rockford! I-lere's to her campus so fair and bright! Here's to her college days fair and bright Rockford, Rockford! Rockford, Rockford! Here's to the purple and white! Here's to the purple and white! A song to the future, no matter What fortune may send us, you know We stand by old Rockford forever, And praise her wherever we go. Rockford, Rockford! Here's to her future so fair and bright! Rockford, Rockford! l-lere's to the purple and white! 40 l Won't You be Sorry? .U Won't you be sorry When you've left your dear R. C. And never Will return there any more? For Andy 'll still be Waltzing 'round those halls as oft before, To fill the empty pitcher at the door. Won't you be sorry when you'Ve left ,u 'l'Q your dear R. C. l' And never will see Doctor any more, For there still will be quinine and brown Ubywlf pills and things galore, X l l l R When she sees the slippered feet there lx l l N at the door. Xi 2 ,QQ X5 l 4v2i'X Won't you be sorry when you've left your dear R. C. 'X 1 And the tinkle of that bell you'll hear no more, ff' E When you've gone down late to breakfast as the clock was fx , striking nine, And where zoauid I be zofzile yazfre a-doing it? S J! ff , Our dear old King was a merry old soul, QQ And a merry old soul was she, X x All day she'd sit, And busily knit, f At her side the kittens three. HQ 41 Before and After Taking Archaeology Q! 73-in-tgx, 0, 'ggi' H P 5- Stir! fs If X Q9 N0 f 1 im 'T' is St !?'31fil?f3f itfvb C 5 0 s go ce. A We . QE - ' Q V K - 't ' I: I ' .e I .bil 5 , 1 :gsm O I 1 f X I 1 qv. ,K Ll E I U . 'fl R -'K ,L 4 l , ,4- 5. - 0- 3 - 4 5' 1 .4 Rte 0 'vw fb A. Q ' ' ' 'fd wr- 9, , YA fl XG m . I R i s V W I ,. I YS!! ' -fx ,ff 1 . ' 4.4 , : ss 4: b,l lf: 1 Q c. , - K Q A ' 4 el.. Q2 ' . I U '51, . I 4 to Rockford last fall, I was much impressed by one whom l met. She was an unusually pretty girl, Well-fed lookingg a friend to everyone, ready to say anyone who felt like listening, yet not at all fresh. The more l saw the girl, the better I liked her and I determined not to lose sight of her. But as the term Went on, my senior duties inevitably separated me from my Freshman. l saw her only occasionally as we met on the way to the dining room or to vespers. One evening, shortly before the Christmas holidays, as I was com- - ij f Iwi JY HEN Icame back of the Freshmen, round, plump and something jolly to ing down the hall humming a bit of Dolly Varden to myself, I saw a bent figure crawling up the steps toward the library, hands shaking with palsy, reached out toward me. Two bleared, blood- shot eyes glared from between yellowish parchment cheeks, around which straggled locks of whitish hair. Could it be that the college skeleton had escaped from its closet? Buta familiar giggle reassured me, and l exclaimed, throwing my arms around the horrible figure, Mabel Dorothea Clara lVlaria Frederika Rosinal ls it you? l-lush l was the whispered answer, l'm on my last note book! l've been taking archaeology! l've seen Pagan and Christian Rome with Lanciani, l've ruined and excavated Rome, l've walked through Rome with Middleton and seen the remains of Ancient Rome. l've studied Augustus and Septimus, Servius with Spartianus and Suetonius, and am now finishing my sixth note book 3 She sank gradually to the floor, and as l lifted her head, she murmured 1 In coffins vile, the herd of slaves But now we'll breathe a purer air Were hither brought to crowd their graves: And walk the sunny library fair, And once in this detested ground, Where once the floor with bones was white, A common tomb the vulgar found. With human bones, a ghastly sight. n flpofogief to Frfmrir. There is a young miss named Calula, The funniest girl in the school-al To tease and to chaff, To make people laugh, ls the aim of aspiring Calula. 42 Should you ask me whence this story, Whence this legend and tradition, With the odor of the campus, With the rushing of Rock River? ' should answer l should tell you, From the wee and great big birdies, From remarks exchanged by teachers, wr-' x 1-T...- Y Till the middle of September, When our friends return once more, To disturb our rest and quiet. Let us then be just as happy Flitting, never hiding from them, From these ove r-zealous students, For no one is near with spy- glass To seek out and gaze upon us. From the laughing words of students. Every morning stretching skyward We may see instructors gaping Wondering whether little robin Will see fit to show herself. Almost all that they behold there Are the bright eyes, oh so timid, Wishing tif they did but know itj To be left in peace and quiet. When the day of the Commencement I-las passed by and facs have scattered This is what you hear from tree-tops, From the bushes, flowers and Woodbine: Oh how careless now we may be xt'xQffsx Y- X . 3 - '.: r, ,,Q?i'3 ii11:. ff' 'Wifi 1 5 I W si? ' 0 ' i A!A newbilvfonf CCGM vgf 43 QUT' COLZ.e Qffemerefy HERE L ,E The BASKet- - ' S fgegkg RL A. S Tuo ENT SRCTFD To B Cewgeefm WT OFF IN HE-TPRINXE ThE Mimory bg - f QF ' 1'F:Qziv:Ag':S 0 . . HAR! nun HouNDS Q I f SHE DIE D OF FIVE U11-3 ty L-ll 1 'f ixlge - 1 mf- xv qw 'Y -' , 44 af P X XX Xgg in N H3 A? Q 13, 'ff Ni ff iff! zz if , k H I ll! Sk ,, .1 H if? P., if r X I 'MTN A Typical Physiology Exam. 4 l. Give names, number and composition of the teeth of a gale. II. Describe in full the schlerotic coat, cornea, contractile aperture, refracting media, and biconvex capsular body found in the eye of a needle. III. Caj Give number, names and position of the ribs on the sides of a question. Qbj Give names and position of the bones in the jaws of death. IV. What are the uses of the axial skeleton, zygapophysis and vertebral oponuerosis in the back of a book? V. Locate and describe the helix, ossicles, auditory meatus and calcareous skeletal plates in the integument of an ear of corn. -sl We Wonder 4 What she ate in Rome? What is a crush? Who hazed Sarah? Where is 'O5's class spirit? When is the Annual coming out? Where our bamboo tree grows? Why jessie lsadorable? Where the faculty valentines came from? What the 'O5 yell is? What is the gas bill? Who is the caller? Who was her mother? 46 Don'ts for Future Man Dances 1. Don't begin to plan it more than six weeks ahead. 2. Don't hold more than three meetings a day for planning. 3. Donlt get so excited over the unusual function that you neglect both studies and exercise. 4. Dont plan too extensive decorations or refreshments. lt may take more than a five dollar assessment. 5. Don't ruin your eyesight earning the where-with-all. Rather economize on your allowance. 6. Don't say you haven't anything to wear when there's a girl in school with two dresses. 7. Don't be discouraged if the first man invited can't come. Ask a Beloit man ! E 8. Don't make out your program till you are sure of your man. 9. Don't save more than two-thirds of the dances for your own H man. Be unselfish. 'O. Don't lose any sleep over the matter, and, moreover, don't give vent to your feelings in your sleep. Q l. Don't fail to remind your man that the table in Middle l-lall may prove treacherous if used as a chair. 22. Don't invite a man who can't dance. lt complicates matters and causes discomfort. Q3. Don't mind if your man doesn't arrive until the first four dances are over. There may be method in his madness. Q4. Don't promenade down to the river. You may fall in. Q5. Don't sit out the dances, remember you are paying for the music, and DON'T, Ol-I, DON'T, STAY AWAY FRDM Tl-IE MAN DANCE. Ward B Our Bess, she vas von kiggling girl, l-ler kiggle dot's infectious. She vould disturb dot saddest mood, Vhenever she sat next us. To Madison she vas invite, I-ler gown, dot vas shust out of sight, Mit dose lace tings all trimmed around Und shirring for von swell background. Dem fellers dey vas mootch erstaunt, Dot schwell girl to encounter. But vhen to kiggle she began, Den dey vas mootch erstaunter. Dey took her back unto dose train, To Rockford den dey schick her: Und vhen she ask for vhy dis vas, For uns too mootch you snicker. P7 There once Was a girl named Gale, Whose locks were both feeble and paleg Why! her hair was so white, You would think at first sight, That it must have been bought at a sale. We have a Wise house committee Who ever sing this same ditty, When on any floor You open a door: Shut that or you'll get your exitteef' Said one old to one young, Don't abbrev. There was a fair maid at R. C., Ii you do you are apt to deceive, And bright as the brightest was she: And, besides, you'll pay dear, But, like many a folk, QI know from exper.Q When it came to a joke, For having the rep. you'll achieve. Her expression was blank as could be l-lere's to our junior, Hortense, Though a girl of good judgment and sense, l-low oft in her chat This sentence falls flat. Why, I believe l could make that, make that, Why, I believe 1 could make that. Here comes our tall maiden from Blair, Who wears birdies and rats in her hair, And whenever she speaks, 'Tis with laughter and shrieks, Till the proctors all run in despair. 48 Quotations l 4 DoDoE: Variety is the spice of life. JANES: I'm but a stranger here, heaven is my home. MONRAD: Poor prattler, how thou talkestf' MILLER: And thou hast sworn on every slight pretense GIDDINGS: All the earth with thy voice is loud. COONRADT: H For her nose was sharp as a pen. IRw1N: To live, to sleep-no more. IVIATHIESON: Proud and haughty: scorner is her name. GREEN: I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live. ,U Remorse 4 A man sat down one sultry noontide hot, And wished that he could find a real cold spot. A cyclone came with stormy sweeping blast, And of this heated land he saw the last. It blew him straight to Greenland's icy shore, Where black and white and shaggy bears galore Are standing round to chew and swallow men, And then he wished that he was back again. y -E, E. 'o 49 DINNER. .1 One to make ready, two for to run, Three to stand Waiting, and four for the fun. 4 Caffe hall was llaxen' The day was cold and dark and dreary Cifals eyes were blue, As Olive pondered wan and Weary, Cala S name was Swenson' Thinking, thinking, thinking, Swede they Called llel' lee' Where on earth to dry her hair. Kittie pulling at the Weights, Suddenly it flashed upon her, Pulling minus spunk, To the .cupalo to yvander, i Never for 3 moment thought, Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, Dummy het. would flunk. J Lzttff tllffllllllllg 'what fear tbfre. GI-EE CLUB ELECTION- There was a young maiden so wise, When each one votes for President, Her ideals reached to the Ski6S. And her nomination makes, 5116 read 5ChOpCDh2LlGr I-ler unformed thoughts are always bent, All UP irl 2 tower, By the Stand her leader takes, And learned by heart Emerson's lies J Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, Smell, smell, smell, From the glucose chimneys tallg On glucose or paper-mill day: And We would that our tongues could utter And we wish that a good, kind wind would come The thoughts that arise in us all. And blew it angther Way, 4 The question has been raised, Why was that girl so hazed, Oh, dear old Andrew, That girl who used to sing in Where have you ran to Middle Hall? With that old bucket of thine? They tried to change her taste, I , , For she had so small a Waist, Stll your Wlle' That you couldn't hardly Kmder OV Slflfev Notice it at all. 4 Which hinders the filling of mine? LUNCH. Ring out, wild bells, and stop our woe, Ring crazy bells, get up your speedg We girls are dying for our feed, Ring out, late bells and let us go. 50 r EN, Commencement June 12:17, 1903 JE ANNUAL REUNION OF MUSIC ALUMNfE Friday Afternoon, in Middle Hall CELEBRATION OF FOUNDER'S DAY Saturday Evening, in Chapel Hall BACCALAUREATE SERVICE Sunday Morning. in Second Congregational Church Organ Prelude Anthem, The Lord Said QTMMQ Invocation and Lord's Prayer Responsive Reading and Gloria Solo, He is Kind, He is Good CMHSJEUEID Hymn, A Mighty Fortress Scripture Lesson Anthem, The Lord is My Light QParkerj Pastoral Prayer, Choir Response I Hymn, H Spirit oi God Sermon, Baccalaureate, Rev. F. E. Dewhurst Prayer Hymn, Lead Us, O, Father Benediction Organ Postlude VESPER SERVICE Sunday Evening, in Middle Hall COMMENCEMENT CONCERT Monday Evening, in Chapel Hall 51 CLASS DAY EXERCISES Tuesday Morning, in Chapel Hall Song of the Class of '03 Tree Planting President's Address, Cara Swenson Tree Song Song to Rockford College Spade Address, Marcia Van Duzer Farewell Song CLASS PLAY Tuesday Evening, on the Campus THE TEMPEST ALONZO, King of Naples .,,.... ........ . . Catherine McMenemy SEBASTIAN, his brother . .......... ..... L ulu Riedesel PROSPERO, the rightful Duke of Milan . ...... . . Gail Powers ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan . . . . . Flora Eddy FERDINAND, son of the King of Naples . ...... .... G ale Porter GONZALO, an honest old counsellor of Naples . . . . Marcia Van Duzer GALI VAN, a savage and deformed slave . . . . . Mabel Schultz TRINCULO, a jester ......... . . . Helen Janes STEPHANO, a drunken butler . . . . . Alice Coonradt MIRANDA, a daughter to Prospero . . .........,,,... Olive Raftree, ARIEL, an airy Spirit . ......, .... ..............,, C a ra Swenson IRIS, CERES, -IUNO. ..............,... Fan Irwin. Bessie Mathieson, Marie Goodrich NYMDHS 5 Eva Jamieson. Edith Masters, Fannie Norton, Lydia Rogers. Hortense Elder, ' ' ' ' ' I janet Dobson. Mabelle Miller. Elizabeth Hislop. Estelle Martin COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Wednesday Morning, in Chapel Hall Solo, Miss Emily Parsons Solo, Mrs. Daisy Force Scott Selections from Emerson, Rev. P. H. Bodman President's Address to Graduating Class Solo, Mr. George Nelson Holt Miss julia H. Gulliver Prayer, Rev. P. M. Snyder Song, Mrs. Scott and Mr. Holt Address, Miss jane Addams Doxology ALUMNXE DINNER AND REUNION Saturday Noon, in Chapel Hall 52 Violets for Remembrance U CG-B ro LTOGETI-IER it had been rather a hard day. Jackie had pulled Baby's hair until Baby had made desperate efforts to swallow the button hook. The connection was remote but it served, and when we found Baby she was black in the face and-the button hook was lost to sight. Q-QT: It seemed to me so ordinary, so hopelessly commonplace. Everyone's g0Q,4 Q' baby, doubtless, had shown sooner or later a taste for uneatable button ' Nil' 55 f' .QQZ d. . . . . hooks. Every jackie had, I suppose, in the course of his youth, pulled 1 3? v Baby's hair. I had hoped in my college days, when hopes are high, that my children would develop some signs of originality. Naughtiness is tiresome at best, but to have my babes behave in the regulation naughty Way, was unpardonable. Still, when you look at Baby, you can forgive almost everything. She is, of course, the prettiest baby in the world, with big blue eyes and short, fluffy, indescribable curls, and a mouth that one Wants to kiss all the time. I rock her crib slowly and watch the faint rise and fall of the coverlet as Baby sweetly sleeps. That coverlet, how I prize it! I can read a loving thought in every stitch worked into that bunch of violets, for my college chum made it for me, and those are Rockford violets worked on the white silk right by Baby's wee pink fists. Baby's breath comes in long trembling sighs, and as the violets dance and quiver before me I seem to go back many years and hear thousands of tiny voices softly whispering in the twilight to me and a voice, the voice of a violetwhich seems louder than the rest, yet soft and alluring, begins: You remember it was after the big game. Northwestern was yelling itself hoarse, and thumping great, mighty thumps on Chicago's back, and Chicago, like the thorough gentleman he was, thumped back just as cordially. The whole World was there in happy, laughing bunches, it seemed to one girl,-a girl who stood apart from the rest, watching it all. She carried a huge bunch of purple violets that made her violet eyes more violet still as they looked over it and out from under a broad sun hat that tried to hide her face, and as Jack Howard came up the steps from the field and saw that laughing face under theybroad-brimmed sun hat, and met tvvo beautiful violet eyes, he stopped and forgot he was looking for his sister's chum, forgot everything but that there were Northwestern's colors and he must answer them. What loyal man wouldn'tP pleaded the violet voice. Baby turned uneasily and opened her big blue eyes. The whispering voice waited until she closed them again, and went on. The girl laughed gently and then cried in a rush, 'Isn't it glorious, GLORIOUSP' Jack, still 53 looking deep into his college colors, echoed, 'Gloriousl' 'The game, I mean,' panted the girl.' Ah, I thought it fine! I called and called for Northwestern and,-well, it has been the best day in all my life.' 'You are for Northwesternf at random-he wanted to hear her voice again. 'Yes,' she nodded coniidentially. 'You see l'm with Nelle Howard and her brother is captain of that team,' and the girl looked proudly up at him over the violets. 'Then'-jack looked over the violets, too-'then you wore the violets for Northwestern? 'No,' she teased, 'violets are neutral. Don't they teach color schemes at Northwestern? They have red hearts you know-' 'May l not keep them.' he asked, 'and make them Northwestern's?' 'But Ii' 'just a loan,' he begged. 'I will return them tonight if l must. You will surely be at the hop,' and he smiled wisely, for he knew he was to meet his sister's chum at the hop, and then of course- There was a rush and racket below and Jackie'svoice drowned out the violet's Whisper. Oh Nlommer, Mommerf' he called, coming up the stairs, see what Daddie's brought, and he burst into the room, holding out both hands, filled with Rockford violets. So-jack had remembered that day, too! 1 ' ' ,An J. 'L , , Q, TT 69 QQ 62,15 .Q I a r My Gfxil i 9255 Q C' 9, ' vfa75A 54 L'E.nvoi PRESIDENT GULLIVER T is as though we were all gathered together around the fireplace in Reception 'J l-lall-a great family party, all the cosier and warmer for the chill of the early autumn night without. The walls are tapestried with summer visions, rich and of infinite G variety. From my corner l see islands, coves, bays, arms of the sea winding 4 in and out of greens that now sing softly together and now shout aloud for joy. Out on the mirror-surface of the water into the rose of the sunset,go the little boats with gleam of sail or rhythmic rise and fall of oar. Against the darkening sky of the east, the fir-trees silhouette themselves delicately, and the water at their feet engraves their image in its innermost depths, point for point. Through some subtle magic of association, healing fra- grances come waiting toward us, come also the fairy chimes of hermit thrush, as chary of publicity as the new Pope. Yonder is another scene-a breakfast table, where every morning a gentleman with hair pure White and genial face appears, and every morning he has in his hands wild roses, one for his wife and one for each of the other guests who happen to be his companions. ln sunshine or rain, whether fair or foggy, he always brings the benediction of the roses. Not wantonly culled, those blossomsg rather selected with care to avoid picking any premature buds that should also have their chance to bless the World with beauty. Anent this, the voice of a friend comes to my ears wondering whether the fir balsams mind having their finger tips cut off for fir balsam pillows. There breathes out of these tapestries a certain tenderness for the wild-flowers and the Wild-woods, a certain sensitiveness causing one to refrain from the profuse gathering that leaves roadside and hillside bared for all later comers of their brave pageantry in scarlet, in crimson or in gold. They bring to mind the loving portraiture of Monseigneur Bienvenu in Les Miserables, who was indulgent toward God's creation, and who seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: Who knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth? Gne morning he was walking in his garden supposing himself to be alone 5 but his sister, following unobserved behind him, saw him pause and gaze at something on the groundg it was a large, black spider, and she heard him say, Poor beast! it is not its fault. A family party--this: trustees, faculty, alumna, students, are gathered here. Better than pictured dream or story is the kindliness, the wisdom, the unselfish devotion of the older faces, the loveliness and beauty of the younger ones. With grateful hearts we think of the minute super- Vision, the patient care all through the vacation days that has made our new chapel possible. We are filled with new courage and hope as we catch the friendly glance of those who have been 55 drawn hither by the love of their Alma Mater, and who have brought with them other children to be nurtured by the same mother. I-low good it is to look upon them all-our Alumnae, wives, teachers, physicians, librarians - intelligent, influential and happy! Rockford has reason to delight in her own. One face there is of such spiritual power that it seems to gather into itself and embody the best for which Rockford can hope to stand. To her applies Victor I-lugo's description of Monseigneur Bienvenu, to which we have already referred : l-Ie lived without disdain. X X Hideousness of aspect, deformity of instinct troubled him not, and did not arouse his indignation. l-le was touched, almost softened by them. lt seemed as though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of the life which is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. Happy the college that counts Jane Addams among its graduates! Upon her younger sisters, who form the present student-body of the college, We believe that something of her mantle has fallen in their efforts to attain a refined and self-controlled woman- hood g to live the love that suffers long and is kind 1 that vaunts not itself, and that thinks no evil. The growing personal initiative and warm-hearted zeal that is leading them to spare neither time nor effort to build up the college in ways of new and increasing usefulness, augers well for the future we most wish for them-a future in which they shall ever be ennobled by working for that which is greater than they, in which nothing human shall be alien to them, in which they, too, shall strive to examine the road over which the fault has passed, and, Christ-like, shall learn neither to break the bruised reed nor quench the dimly smoking wick. ,, , as -Qs X je A 'gigs s g If '15 - .4 W 'v A .- ' J- -4 - ' 1 N 'ull -S - f wr -is - Q - r ' 4 - .9 iw - ffl' 'Yao ' 5 - '.X'W-sf, frfi . N l Y . N . ,'.--rj 'L ' D. . 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