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

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f I v Boart) of Directors Rev. Caiu. E. GrammeR. S. T. D.. President Philadelphia. Pa. Mr. D. a. Payne. ] ice-President. Lynchburg, Va. Mr. N. C. Manson, Jr., Chairman Ex. Committee Lynchburg, Va. Mr. Fergus Reid Norfolk, Va. Mr. R. L. Cumnock Altavista, Va. Mrs. Charles R. Burnett Richmond, Va. Prof. William E. Dodd Chicago, 111. Crecutttje Committee Mr. N. C. Manson. Jr.. Chairman Mr. Fergus Reid Mr. D. a. Payne. ■ T.- . L..t ' «■■■■ ■- .-v.. .-v ji»:;v .i. 4 Mi«iMMajiw mx-. -. IHSH HHBffiSmBSmmiH

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' - • ♦:.♦ %•♦ Gifts to your College KEARS agu when Sweet Briar was a stately country home, there lived in the old house a shy, quiet, blue-eyed girt. There limid thoughts of life, of wurk, of music came to her ; there ihe learned to love the beauty of flower and tree, of valley and mountain. She played her gentU games among the great box-wood bushes and listened to the happy chorus of birds thai sang in the old garden. Later she studied French, Italian, music, algebra, history, philosophy, and became, for her day, a cultured young girl. Then, just as she touched womanhood, ihe slipped away from the home she had loved so dearly and which her going left desolate. Her father and mother laid her frail body to rest in the beautiful God ' s Acre that crowns our protecting hill; but her spirit lived on and became the animating impulse from which our college grew. Daisy It ' illiams brought into being this college, born of love and sorrow, a college dedicated to the ennobling of the lives of all the young tvoinen who enter its gateway. The college is yours,- -its tender memories, its high ideals, its beauty, its rich comradeship, the inspiration of all that icorld of thought and knoicledge which it opens to you. It is yours not only for today, but for all the future years because it will leave its lasting impress upon your life and thought. What return may you make to your college for all that it gives to you? First, give to Stveet Briar the joy of your youth. Youth has courage, it has vision, it has strength, and your college has need of these things. Prove to those about you that knoicledge increases happiness and that wisdom and understanding go hand in hand; that learning may be a foyous thing, aid that joy is one way by which we may serve the world. Give to Sweet Briar always your faith. The details of the day ' s work may often seem to you to obscure the high purposes of your college course. Believe always in the ultimate value of what you come here to accomplish. Believe in those things for which Sweet Briar really stands — knowledge at.d truth, and the dominance of the spiritual over the material. Believe in the future of your college and try to make it worthy to ta. ' ce its place in the development of the young intellectual life of the country. Give to your college loyalty in thought and word and deed; hold dear the good name of Sweet Briar. Make others see Sweet Briar as you see it and value it as you value it. Go forth from its portals determined to carry its ideals with you into the larger life of your community. Be ready to answer every call it nuiy make upon you, now and in the future, for the strength of a college is the loyal devotion of its students and its alumnae. —EMI LIE r. MclEA.

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n jfacultp PRESIDENT EMILIE WATTS McVEA. A. M., Litt. D.. LL.D. Katherine Lummis, Ph. D Stanford University Deiin find Prufessor oj Latin Mary Harley. M. D Woman ' s Medical College of the New York Infirmary Professor oj Physiology and Hygiene Sandford M. Salyer, Ph. D. Harvard University Professor oj English Hugh S. Worthington, A. M University of Virginia Professor oj Modern Languages Helen F. Young Pupil of Teichmuller in Leipzig for five years, of Schreck. and of other German and American Musicians Director oj Music Virginia Randall McLaws Student in the Charcoal Club of Baltimore; Student and teacher in the New ork School of Art: Pupil of Henry Caro-Delvaille, Paris Director oj Art Caroline Lambert Sparrow. A. M Cornell L niversity and Lfniversity of Chicago Projessor of History ■ Ruth B. Hov vland, Ph. D. Yale University Projessor oj Biology Eugenie M. Morenus, Ph. D Vassar College and Columbia Liniversity Projessor oj Mathematics M. Elizabeth J. Czarnomska, A. M Smith College and Columbia Liniversity Projessor oj Biblical and Comparative Literature Frederick William Steacy, Ph. D. .Columbia University Projessor oj Psychology Ivan Eugene McDougle, Ph. D Clark University Professor oj Economics and Sociology i Al)!;i-nt mi Ifav