Smith College - Smith College Yearbook (Northampton, MA)

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PRESIDENT NEILSON

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Miss Barbour Of course, we could never begin to tell all she has done for us. For one thing, it is too personal a matter, since she has been so much a part of us. It has been four years now, and we wish it were four years more; in fact, four years ago we wished it could be eight — or more than eight. But then we were so dazed by our good fortune in having her at all that we forgot to give thanks to the Powers that be. And now we are so dazed at the thought of not having her — oh, when were four years ever so short ! We find it impossible to catalog what she has done; we dislike such balancing and evaluating. But if we were asked to name her greatest contribution — too cold a word really — we should sigh and say, Advice. And we should recall class meetings, majors, conferences, office-hours, course cards, petitions — a hopeless maze to which she alone knew the solution. When we consider how many majors she has launched and how many she has put up for repairs — often with difficult change of the entire cargo — then we realize our indebtedness. She has brought about our whole evolution, from the ignoble chaos of our Freshman ignorance to our present state, criticism of which we leave to her. She has struck a nice balance — no threatening, no flattery, no useless advice. We appre- ciate her skill — she has kept us from crying over our failures and from boasting about our successes. The wonder lies in the fact that advice, which would have meant a severance or a tension in any other case, has here brought intimacy. That is, it has formed a link — not a cold, tangible link, but an unseen, living one. And all that is the result of the very careful and personal attention she has given to all our interests so that we are thanking her both for what she has given us and the manner in which she has given it. Seventeen

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The Board of Trustees William Allan Neilson, Ph.D., LL.D., L.H.D., Litt. D. President Marguerite Milton Wells, B.L. .... Frederic Marshall Jones, A.B., S.B. Paul Joseph Sachs, A.B. ..... George Stanley Stevenson, A.M. . John Elliott Oldham, A.M. ..... Harry Emerson Fosdick, A.M., D.D., LL.D., S.T.D. James Handasyd Perkins, A.B. .... Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, A.B. . Ruth Standish Baldwin, A.B. Mary Abby Van Kleeck, A.B. .... Ada Louise Comstock, A.M., Litt.D., LL.D., L.H.D. Josephine Sewall Emerson, B.L. .... Harriet Bliss Ford, B.L. ... Northampton Minneapolis, Minn. Springfield Cambridge Hartford, Conn. Boston New York Greenwich, Conn. Mexico City, Mex. New Canaan, Conn. New York Cambridge Worcester New York Nineteen