Sweet Briar College - Briar Patch Yearbook (Sweet Briar, VA)

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Board of Directors Rt. Rev. A. M. Randolph. LL. D., D. C. L President Norfolk, Virginia Mr. N. C. ManSON, Jr Chairman Executive Committee Lynchburg, Virginia Rev. Arthur P. Gray Secretary Lawrenceville, Virginia Judge Leigh R. Watts Portsmouth, Virginia Rev. Carl E. Grammer, S. T. D. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mr. Fergus Reid Norfolk, Virginia Mr. Charles E. Heald Lynchburg, Virginia

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when you get accustomed to it. She seems to have hked French better, for the next day she writes, I took a French conversation. He (the professor) does not talk much, but asks me words which generally I do not know. Mr. K. gave me a dictation; he said the English and I wrote it in French. I had not very many mistakes, and he said he would give me something more difficult next time. During the winter of ' 83, Mr. Williams ' s health became very bad, Mrs. Williams was called to New York on business, leaving the entire care of Mr. Williams to Daisy. A spirit of tender, unselfish love breathed through the fre- quent letters she wrote to her mother at this time. Unusually gifted, she spared no pains to attain what was highest in her education, but never very strong, the care of her father and the strain of overstudy seemed to have been too much for her. Her system became weakened and almost before her mother realized her condition, this child of sixteen short summers had left the home once so dear to her, to become the living memory and inspiration of the college founded as a memorial to her. A. W. B. ' . r.04

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Officers of Instruction and Administration Mary K. Benedict A. B. l ' ' a,sar Colleen: Ph. D. Yale Unlvanil}) President and Professor of Philosoph} ' and Psychology Mary Harley M. D. Woman ' s MeJical College of ibc New York Infirmary Physician to the College and Professor of Physiology and Hygiene Wallace Eugene Rollins A. B. Unh ' enihj of North Carolina: B. D. Yale Unlvcrsll ) Professor of Biblical Literature, and Chaplain to the College Leonidas Wakefield Crawford, Jr. A. B. Trnuty, College. Norlh Carolina; A. M. Columbia University Professor of English Hugh S. Worthington A. B. anJ A. M. University of Virginia Professor of Modern Languages S. Gay Patteson B. S. Teachers ' College, Columbia University Associate Professor of Mathematics Helen F. Young Pupil of T eichmuller in Leipzig for five years, of .Schrecl(, ami of other German and American musicic Director of Music Virginia Randall McLaws Student ' m the Charcoal Club of Baltimore, student and teacher in the Nem York School of Art Director of Art 11