Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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sackcloth and ashes, and live in the basement of the Chemistry Building for the rest of its natural and artificial life. As for Latin and Greek and Philology, their chairs were all there; was that not enough ? The recollection of those dry morsels of wit gleaned from Horace and Tacitus was too much for even ovu- most humorous mooils. W ' e turned with a sigh to the gentle sympathy of that one who told us, as Freshmen, how many times to yawn before going to bed, and how many blankets were needed for a cold night. It w as maintained by some ungrateful ones that this was going a little too far; but what might have become of our precious healths later in our college career, when literature courses dwindled down to not more than eight olumes of Dickens per recitation? Even then, in the pride and lUihh of Juniority, we were filing regularly to Lectin-e Room I, where Professor James or Professor Titchener, or, mayhap, the eminent and transparent Professor Hcjffding, was revealing his pages to us in a great wave of light. Those were times when our correspondence gained way, even if the great wave of light did not, or when we had time enotigh to meditate on a coming special topic in French while our worthy instructor studied her lesson. Far back in the darkest corner of that dark corner a little group of chairs by themselves — the seats of History and Economics. Why were the owners not in chapel. ' Why did the chairs themselves seem almost to hide away from view ever since that June when it became an open secret that the sixty-page final papers (not guiltless of bringing dark circles under our eyes and a suspicion of gray on our temples) were all returned on the ery afternoon of tlie day they were passed in? How we wrinkled our brows then as we wondered how one even-be-he-or-she- marvelous instructor with two classes of twenty-five each could read and correct thirty hundred large, closely-written pages in five hours ' time, with or without luncheon 1 But wonderful things were happening constantly then, and some of them were sad as well. How this reflection called up to us the remembrance of that course in Geology (no lab. periods) which we all religiously elected for a snap, upon the advice of upper-class friends, and straightway proceeded to flunk. Ah, that was surely the most sorrowful experience of our existence I And then sometimes our thoughts would lightly rise to those ethereal regions where Art and Music float in a sort of vagueness. But at this point the heavy voice of the organ always began to chide us, and as we rose, regretfully, we gazed our last on the tlark corner and the empty chairs.

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Officers of Instruction and Government. NAME. Ethelred Abbot, B.A., N ' assar Assistant in cliarge of Art Library. ADDRESS. Wellesle}-, Mass. Emilv Gkeexe Balch, B.A., Biyn Mawr Instructor in Economics. Prince Street, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Bertha M. Ball. xtyxe, B..S., Mass. Institute of Technology, 72 Washington Street, Hudson, M ass. Instructor in Zoology. Emilie Jones Baiikeu, M.D., New York Medical College, 27S Central . venue, Fredonia, X. Y. Resident Pliysician and Superintendent of the Eliot. Katherixe Bates Ph.B., Cornell ' ( M.D., New York Medical College ) ' Assistant in English. Dardenne, lo. Katherixe Lee B. tes, M.A., ' ellesley Professor of English Literature. 95 West Street, Portland, Me. Malvixa ] L Bexxett, B.S., Boston University Instructor in Elocution. 49 Linnaean Street, Cambridge, Mass. Mary Bowex, Ph.D., Chicago University Instructor in English Literature. ' 3 Centreville. Iowa.