Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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THE MICROCOSM 1926 Qtnglish Bcpartment ROBERT MALC-OLM GAY, Professor of English and Dean of the Graduate Division. A.B., Poly- technic Institute of Brooklyn, 1900, A.M., Columbia University, 1901, Litt.D., Dickinson College, 1912. Formerly: 1901-1909, various positions in secondary schools, 1909-1918 Goucher College, Baltimore, 1911- 1918, Extension Lecturer Johns Hopkins University, I 1912-1916, Johns Hopkins Summer Session, 1921-1922, Extension L.ecturer, Courses for Teachers, Boston Uni- versity: 1905, Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University. Societies: Association of English Teachers of New Eng- land, English Teachers' Lunch Club of Boston. Publications: Contributor to various magazines- and reviews, and to Atlantic Classics 2nd series, etc., Writing Through Reading, Fact, Fancy and Opinion. 9 MYRA COFFIN HOLBROOK, Associate Professor of English. A.B., Vassar College, A.M., Wesleyan University. Formerly: Instructor in English, Virginia College, Roanoke, Va., Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. CHARLOTTE FARRINGTON BABCOCK, Assistant Professor of English A.M., Ph.D., Radcliie College. . A.B., Formerly: Teacher at Miss Carroll's School, Boston, Teacher at Misses Smith's School, Cambridge, Private Tutoring, Assistant in English at Simmons College, 1911-1912. Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Radcliffe Alumnae Association, Radcliffe Club of Boston, Modern Language Association, College Club. IDA ALICE SLEEPER, Assistant Professor of English. A.M., Radcliffe Col- lege, 1904. ' JANE GAY DODGE, Assistant Professor of English. A.B., Radcliffe College, 1904, A.M., University of California, 1914. Formerly: Instruaor in English, Mills College, 1909-1913, Vassar College, 1914-1919, University of California Summer Session, 1917. Society: Phi Beta Kappa. MARGARET ISABEL WILSON, Assistant Professor of English. Graduate, State Normal School, West Chester, Pa., A.B., Indiana University, A.M., Ohio State University, Graduate Work, Columbia University. 28

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x 1926 FACULTY FLORENCE TOLMAN BLUNT, Assistant Professor of Library Science. A.B., Mount Holyoke College, 1896, B.L.S., New York .State Library School, 1903. Formerly: Reference Librarian and Classifier, H-averhill Public Library, 1903-1915, Instructor in Simmons College Summ.er School, 1910-1915. Societies: Sigma Theta Chi, American Library Association, Massachusetts Library Club, Bo-ston Special Libraries Association, Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association, College Club, Boston. ELIZABETH KNAPP, Lecturer on Libra-ry Work with Chilolren. B.L., Lake Erie College, 1900, Simmons One Year Course, 1904, Simmons B. S., 1911. Formerly: Librarian of Sewickly Public Library, Sewickly, Pa., Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Chief of Children's Department, Public Library, Detroit. HELEN MAY BURGESS, Instructor in Library Science. A.B., Vassar, 1918, S.B., Simmons College, 1919, Special course in children's Work, Cleve- land Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, 1920. Formerly: High School Librarian in Cleveland, O'hio. Societies: American Library Association, New England School Library, Associate Alumnx, Vassar College. CHARLOTTE HIBBS, Assistant in Library Science. A.B., Colorado College, 1919, S.B., Simmons Colle-ge, 1925. l 27

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1926 FACULTY BARBARA MURRAY HOWE, Assistant Professor of English. Graduate of Oxford University, England, A.M., Radcliffe College, 1919. Formerly: Instructor at Wheaton College, 1914-1915, Eastern Illinois State Normal. School, 1915-1916. 'I JANE LOUISE MESICK, Assistant Professor of English, A.B., Mount Hol- yoke College, 1909, A.M., Columbia University, 1913, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1921. Formerly: Head of Department of English, Glendale College, Glendale, Ohio, In-- structor in English, Wells College, Instructor in Ethics, Simmons College. Societies: Modern Language Association Twentieth Century Club, Women's City Club, Boston, National Education Association, American Association of University Women. ALICE LOUISE CROCKETT, Instructor in English. A.B., Radcliffe College, 1904, A.M., Radcliffe College, 1911. IVIIRIAM FRANC SKIRBALL, Special Instructor in Public Speaking. A.B.,. Goucher College, 1915, A.M., University of Pennsylvania, 1916, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1918. Formerly: Instructor in English, Alfred University Summer School, 1916-1917, In-A structor in English, University of Illinois, 1918-1920. Publication: Ibsen in England. ALBAN BERTRAM DE MILLE, Instructor in English. King's College, A.M., Harvard University, 1904. L Formerly: Instructor in English, King's College, Nova Scotia, Head of History De- partment, Belmont School, Belmont, California, Head of English Department, Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., 1921. Societies: Secretary of New England Association of Teachers of English, English Teachers' Lunch Club -of Boston. Publications: English Literature in the Nineteenth Century, Representative Ameri- can Poems, Editions of Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius -Caesar, A Tale of Two Cities, The Cloister and the Hearth, Tom Brown's Schooldays, The Sketch Book, Three English Comedies. JUDITH MATLACK, Instructor in English. A.B., Smith College, 1920. Formerly: Teacher of College Preparatory English at Miss Walker's School, Sims- bury, Connecticut. 29