Smith College - Smith College Yearbook (Northampton, MA)

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Florence Day. — The class of Ninety-Six did its finest deed when it. passed Florence Day on to us. This young Marcella from the Hoosier State has won a reputation as a fine his- torian and a stout prop of the Bible and Ethic classes. Ellen Dodge. — A Western cyclone arrived in Northampton, bearing in its whirl the energetic Ellen Dodge in time to organize our class. Her executive ability and a certain dashing quality have carried through many of Ninety-Seven ' s enterprises. Clara Sterling Doolittle, being fond of experiments, tried co-education at the Chicago University, her Junior year, but escaped un- scathed and learned, to complete her course at her former Alma Mater. To the influence of her middle name, is ascribed her sympathy with the silver party in the recent presidential campaign. 18

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Harriet Isabeli.e Cutler ' s preparation for college was effected in a three years ' course at the Burnham School. To her dimples and the fact that her initials spell a WO rd, — and a Latin one at that — the supersti- tious ascribe her good nature and her good luck, though the former is seemingly dis- proved by the fact that she is now making life miserable for her eighth room-mate. Martha Hill Cutler. — A peep into one of her college note books would tell us much. Their pages, which never lost the appearance of perfect symmetry, even in the wild grasp for the detail of Horace ' s metres and of Dr. Gardiner ' s philosophy, reveal to us a predom- inant characteristic, that to her, order is Heaven ' s first law. Ida DARLING is small, which fact did not prevent her leading the Banjo Club sternly and well for two years. She, like other members of the class, had a sympathetic in- terest in Amherst, and devoted some time to a comparative study of the social life of the two colleges. }1

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Frances Hobbs Drake, of North Hampton, N. H., has specialized so much in Astronomy, that she can give you exact altitudes and azimuth of every heavenly body. In Mathe- matics, too, she is a grind. Her adventures are numerous, and when she relates them, very interesting. Edith Dunton was famed during her Freshman and Sophomore years for her choice of boarding places. She was a keen ob- server of human nature, especially among the faculty, and displayed a truly prophetic insight in the matter of preparing lessons. She was eminent in Whately debates, energetic on the Monthly board, and deserving of much credit for the number of mute inglorious Miltons she discovered in the required themes classes. Grace Nichols Dustan, one of our large Hartford delegation, is distinguished as the girl who never wears a hat, except to church, of course. For all four years she has zealously sung on the Glee Club and is the only mem- ber who can point to such an unbroken record. m 19