Smith College - Smith College Yearbook (Northampton, MA)

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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

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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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Florence Dustin, known to her intimates of the Washburn House as Candle, hails from Gloucester, Mass. In spite of her small size, she has gallantly kept pace with Ninety-Seven , besides specializing a little in Amherst. Gertrude Dvar shows that she comes from Cambridge and literary ancestors by the scribbler ' s cross on her hand and her verses in the Monthly, not to mention her patent lightning process in writing lit. papers. She once was a good Episcopalian, but this year has gone to live on the Rialto with Edith Blake and Mansfield, Emilie Emerson left us Sophomore year, and continued her course at the Northwestern University at Evanston, 111. But a year there only increased her preference for Smith, and she returned to us Junior year. She came back late Senior year, but her init- ials may explain the ease with which she has done the required work in the face of these obstacles. 20