St Mary of the Woods College - Les Bois Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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,g. J' R I 5 - .gi ' . l . - A-A .Q LES Bois 'if g- -W . , e,,, e,-,,,.w4f! me-ff,..f . . , ...'- ,...t..... .,..... She must be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. She must know her world. She no longer feeds the tramp who begs at her doorg she contributes to the Associated Charities and becomes a member of the governing board that she may see that her largesse is wisely used. She no longer teaches her children, she is a mem- ber of the Board of Education and makes sure that the teachers to whom they are entrusted are specially trained for the work from the kindergarten up. She is to be found in the city councils as alderman and as mayor, in State Legislatures, and one of her is now in the Congress of the United States. Many of the chairs in our Colleges and Univer- sities are filled by women, and I use the word filled advisedly. Some of us are still trying to create and maintain homes-and when we find that nobody will stay at home with us, we go out and try to purify the neighborhood movie Standing as I do, midway between the old regime and the new, seeing the good, looking forward and back, may I paint for you my ideal woman, the one who can say, Behold I have gained five talents more ? It is the ideal Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Col- lege girl. Along with her ologies and fisms, she has achieved a calm philosophy. She knows that selfish- ness is ignorance, ignorance of the fact that the greatest happiness is derived from kindness to others, she knows that to labor is to pray, that her deeds bear fruit, and that in that fruit are seeds that in their turn bear fruit. She knows that her brain was given her to use, and that she herself is responsible if she fails to use it. Ah! who shall say how much she knows? She is an unselfish worker, and she leaves the rest with God. In so far as we measure up the standard of ideal womanhood, do we create the image of the ideal St. Marys Alumna. To St. Mary-of-the-Woods we ren- der our love and homage. And now just a word about our Scholarship. What we have received, we would like to pass on. Through our efforts we would like to have each year, at least one other girl starting out into the world bearing St. Marys' standard. Our President heads the roll of honor with one hundred dollars. That is fine, but perhaps it is more than many of us can do. I think there are few of us who cannot give ten. I feel sure that it would mean more to our College and to ourselves to have one thousand ten-dollar gifts than one hundred hundred-dollar gifts, because it would mean universal interest. If you can give largely, by all means do so, that we may the sooner reach our goal, but we need a gift from each one. Success to our Scholarship! A gallant ship in a boundless sea, A friendship, true as true can be, A comradeship that will stand the test, A oneship, each with all the rest. 1773 M, 71' - F, Y- A , .. A, Y- -, , ,. UT,,'- A, - U.. -.1 .. -,,.,,... . - , , .. , -Q ., N ,-. ,. -. x Thirty-nine

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L. 14 :5 ' . W , M .J ,, .,...1 ' - W ff LES BOIS A Spirits By Gertrude Hom Gregor, '02 The following is the text of the toast delivered by Mrs. Gertrude Horn Cregor, '02 at the Indiana Alumnae Luncheon in Indianapolis, April 12, l917. Q Madam President, Dear Alumnae: In the correspondence concerning this honored appearance, our good Mrs. Mitchell cheerfully left the choice of subject Q to me, suggesting how- ever that it be bright and light and brief. After some mental ma- noeuvering I decided upon Spirits, as a sub- ject broad enough to permit me to say What- ever I would about do- MRs.GER'1'RUDE HORN CREGOR, '02 ings and b9l1'1gS in heaven and earth and under the earth, a subject as bright as the day, yet as light as the thistle-down weight of a thought! And brief? Well, that all depends. You are to judge Whether my Spirits are brief. I assured Mrs. Mitchell that I Would not treat the subject philosophically, as a churchmang nor William Jennings Bryanly, as a prohibitionistg neither will I treat it poetically, as a Milton. Mrs. Mitchell replied accepting my topic, providing I promised to comply with the recent law and evoke no table-tapping stunts, etc., that would call out the patrol. So with the Spirits of Religion and the Spirits of the Spirit- ualists and Spiritus Frwmenti all banished, :I ap- proach nearer the haunts of my Spirits I have always been interested in the spirit lore of other days and other lands, and I fain would dwell on the stories of the Lorelei of the Rhine, of the sirens of Homer, or of Puck, that tricksy house sprite of early England, or of the banshees, lepre- chauns, and other little people of Old Ireland, or the stories of the trolls of the Norwegians, who are pictured now as dwarfs and again as giantsg or the Krampus of the Austrians who comes on the sixth of December with a bunch of switches to give bad chil- dren a last warning before Christmas 5 or on the ffl! jf . ..-. --vs . . 'ff' 'ap . ,f , .,.,. g --.., -. - 1 -1- A .,q, AY., V . ,nf- ,pd I' t - 'Ol' y 0118