Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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he Vassar Mark. And yet it is certain-that one does not spend four years at Vassar without bearing the Vassar mark. -Wolcott lfCZI6Sl7'.'?7'. 225 The Vassar girl is distinguished by versatility and adaptabilityf, HVassar girls know how to do thingsg they are effective-generally helpfulf, The Vassar girl is gifted with the ability to accomplish most with the least expenditure of time, imoney, and material. U The Vassar mark seems to be an energetic self-reliance, together with a hatred of sentimentalityf' 'fThe 'all-round enthusiasm' that characterizes the Vassar undergraduate in her choice of studies, her general reading, and her recreations, finds its natural outcome in the 'adaptability' that distinguishes the Vassar alumnze among college women. HThe lVassar mark' is, on the practical side of life, executive abilityg on the social side, scwoir faz'1'e,- on the scholary side, a tendency to work out the abstract into the concrete, and on the whole, a cosmopolitan attitude toward life and literature. l'There is no idiosyncracy common to Vassar alumnae which malzes them different from other educated and refined womenf' 20

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Faculty Editorial. L95 To Whom it May Concern: Greeting 2- VVHEREAS, It has been wilfully and maliciously maintained by certain of our countrymen, with a view to terrifying from our precincts seekers after individuality, that we by means of four years steady pressure stamp upon the personality of each unsuspecting student a permanent cast of mind known to the world as the Vassar Markg WHEREAS, If this allegation be true, justice demands that said mark be accurately described and advertised in the College catalogueg Be if resofvezzf That the Faculty of Vassar College offer to whomsoever will clearly define and scientifically prove the existence of said mark, the honorary degree of BA. QBeliever in Annihilationofwonian'scharmingdiversity.D I9

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M. N. SANDERS, P1'm1'dwzf. 1 Senior Class. R055 AJVD GRA 14 LA FRANCE ROSE. J Class Qfficers. E. S. HULST, Wee-P1'cs1'dm!. ADICINS, ll'lARV EWART, . ANDERSON, BELLE B1NCLEv, ARNOLD, HANNAH VVINIFRED, BALLANCE, FLORENCE, . . BANKS, HARRIET SRETC1-1LEv, C. D. KINKEAD, Sfc1'6z'a1jf. R. M. NlANN, Y31'eas1n'cr. Class Members. BARNES, CLARA ADELIA YVRIGHT, . BAvL1SS, l.ILIAN, . . . BEAC1-1, LAURA FIENNIE, . . BERLIN, I-1LL1AN SOUTHARD, BOORER, LOUISE Ro1z1NsON, BOXVMAN, INA C., . . . BRANCH, LAURA lllARCUERVl'E, C. D. KINICEAD, Poe! . Granville, Licking Co., Ohio . . . . Melbourne, Ky . . . . Wfyoming, N. Y . 216 Randolph Ave., Peoria, Ill . . . . Englewood, N. J 111 Trenton St., East Boston, Mass . Bay Park, Rocky River, Ohio 615 George St., New Haven, Conn 817 Adams St., lfVilmington, Del 306 VVest Broadway, Louisville, Ky . 1618 Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa 2I . . 71 E. 3d St., Corning, N Y