Western College - Multifaria Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

Text from Pages 1 - 170 of the 1910 volume:

The Western Multifaria Western College for Women Oxford, Ohio i 0 JOHN GRANT NEWMAN, 4 D. D., President of the Western College, in recogp '- nition of his devotion to the college, of his staunch sup- :g port of all student enter- prises, and still more, in grateful appreciation of the line strong man- hood that makes him the friend of every Western student, the Class of I910 dedicates this first issue of the Western Multifaria Foreword ALL the material lies before us, ready for the presseall, that is, except the Foreword, which must be written noweat the last moment. And what shall the editorial greeting be? The publi- cation of an Annual has been the pet project of our class, and all for the honor of I910 has been the labor of this year. When we first considered the publication of such a book, we realized little enough of the hard work and responsibility before us. But last fall, with vacancies on the staff to be filled. with the burden of work heavy upon us, there were days of anxiety and discouragement. However, pros- pects brightened. as they have a way of doing at The Western, and work was begun with renewed determination. All through the busy fall and winter we have worked; we have been through many dark mo- ments; but now the days of our anxiety are nearly past, our work is almost done, and as we view with reasonable pride the manuscrlpts before us, is it cause for wonder that a glance into the future shows all bright for our project? Through our efforts the publication of a year book will be an established thing at The Western. and Western girls give of their best to what they undertake. Then when we remember that it is to our loyal little sisters that we resign the editorial labors that have consumed our time. we are yet more assured of the success of the Annual of the future. Ours has been the work of laying the foundation and now we submit to you as the fruit of our en- deavors. this hrs! number of the Western Multifaria. We would say in excuse for errors and mis- takes, only this-that our inexperience and the newness of the enterprise have placed upon us well nigh insuperable limitations, so we would ask you to overlook or pardon our mistakes and give to I912, to whom we have bequeathed next yearis Annual, the same loyal support you have given us. Acknowledgment LTHOUGl-I we have personally thanked all who have helped us in our work, we wish to make public acknowledgment of the loyalty and help of the students and alumnae of the collegE. No project can succeed Without firm support on all sides, and while the staff has worked hard, much of whatever success we have attained is due to aid given by non-regulars. The class has stood ready with help at all times; from l9l2 we have received the same loyal support we always find in them. The Alumnae have responded splendidly to our appeal for contributions for their department, for subscriptions, and for advice. Kodaks and pens have been busy in our service. To outside labor altogether are due the many campus views that help to make the book attractive, as well as much of the literary material. To all Who 'have helped in any way We wish to say we appreciate your service and we thank you. Table of Contents Foreword ................................................................................................ 7 Acknowledgment .................................................................................... 9 Western's Outlook ....... 7 .......................................................................... l3 F acuhy .................................................................................................. l7 Senior Class ............................................................................................ 27 Class History .................................................................................... 33 Grant of Powers to Seniors ........................................ Last Will and Testament of Senior Class ............................................. 37 As We Know Them ............................................................................... 38 Class Prophecy ..................................................................................... 39 Junior Class R011 ................................................................................. 50 History of '1 I .......................................................................................... SI Sophomore Class Roll ............................................................................ 56 Class of 'IZ ............................................................................................ 57 Freshman Class R011 ............................................................................. 62 Freshman Class History .......................................................................... 63 Sunniness ................................................ , ............. .............................. 65 Preparatory Class Roll ......................................................................... 69 Preparatory Class History ...................................... .. 70 Organization of Student Government League .......................................... 74 Student League Officers .......................................................................... 76 Western Oxford Editorial Staff ........................................................... 77 Editorial Staff for the Multifaria ............................................................ 80 Young Women's Christian Association.........A...e..e.................A...A.....u.. 8! Agora Club ............................................................................................ 86 Round Table ....................................................................................... 88 Aims and Organizations of College Clubs .............. Agata and Round Table Programs ........................................................ 90 Uebchcn ................................................................................................ 9! 11 Discretion Is the Better Part of Valor Song of Western Freshmen A Great-Aunt and a Maid The Wild Dog of the Mountains .......................................................... '00 The Northern Queen ................................................................. IOZ Tlhe Rim: of the Ancient Mariner ................................................. I04 I Go A-Fishing ........................................................ l06 A Spring Song .............................................................................. 107 Graduates' Recitals ...................................... I 1 1-122 Weslem Traditions ............................................. l24 Sophomore Play ..................................................................... , ...... 128 Bobby Shaftoe ........................................................................................ I29 Athletics ........................................................................................ lZl-l 38 Organization and History of Alumnae Association ............................ I 39 Leila S. McKee Welsh .......................................................................... I40 The American Girls' School at Constantinople ...................................... 14! The Western of the Seminary Days and of the Praent.....e.......e-........el42 The Old Girls Chat With the New ........................................................ I 44 Grinds .................................................................................................... '49 New Publications ............................................................................ ISO That Reminds Me .................................................................................. 152 Good Manners and Good Form .............................................................. I 53 Pretty Girl Questions ........................................................................... I54 Late Books ........................................................................................... 155 Extracts F rom Dean Sawyer's Diary ................................................... 156 Rules for Western Curls ......H157 Leb' Wohl ..................... , ...................................................................... 153 Advertisements ................................................................................ I 59-1 66 Western's Outlook President Newman Y uvision of The Western's future? And all in six hundred words? Impossible! However. some hints even at great things are possible Within the limits of few words and small space. A skilful artist with a few strokes can outline distant mountains if you give him the chance of creating perspective by the use of a few objects in the foreground. In building a college there must be two factors: The tangible and the intangible; the visible and the invisible; the greater of these is ever the latter; but both are essential. When one thinks of this division of material, the visible things begin to take shape very rapidly before the mind's eye. The danger is that they may occupy too large a space in the range of vision. Let no one accuse me of being a materialist. These things are only to form perspective. These visible things in- clude the college plant and everything that gives it shape and being; they include friends with their money; this idea means a cultured faculty; it means a band of alumnae, loyal and enthusiastic; not least though last, it means a student body. But to have all these agd these only, would not be to build The Western College as I see it is to be. These things Western is slowly acquiring. Within ten years she will be blessed with live more buildings. They will be structures exactly in keeping with the beauty of the invisible which they will help to create. They will be: Science Hall. Gymnasium, Music Hall, Chapel and Residence Hall. And then will follow a fine Library building and an Art building. 13 The Western College for Women is going to make a mighty appeal to good men and women of means all oven the land. Its endowment will become adequate. F iftecn years will not make Western rich in this respect. Indeed. I am not sure that The Western College wants to be rich in money. But two decades more will repay the struggles of the past with $I .000.000 in endowment. But what of students and studies? Let The Western ever remain a small college. My vision of it is that its ambition shall be not to secure the most students, but to do the most for them. Fifty teachers and nine students to each teacher would seem ideal. The courses of study must be kept strong, symmetrical and cultural; yet wisely and vitally practical. And yet. if this is all. my vision stops with the valley. The spirit is the vital thing. Let Western ever be demo- cratic in spirit. Let the poor girl and the wealthier one stand on equal footing. measured by and measuring up to, the tallest heights of their minds and hearts. Let Western ever keep in perfect harmony with plain living and high thinking. The Western College has a purpose. If it lives and grows as my vision sees it. it shall live and grow for the help it can render the world. Service is its motto. This thOught and not that of money or of buildings. should lire the brains and thrill the hearts of all who come to enter its halls. Here we reach and rest upon the heights. Her in- spiration is from above; but her work is real in a real world. 14 :1:- -I3'il- g H u amr-t-cxm F aculty JOHN GRANT NEWMAN. A. M., D. D., President Maryville A. B. 1888; A. M.. I894; Union Theological Seminary, New York City. 1893. MARY ALMA SAWYER, A. M., Litt. D.. Dean Mount Holyoke College, 1879: A. M 190': Miami University. Lift. 13.. I907. MARY LORINE HALL. Professor of Art Cincinnali Art Academy, pupil of Duveneck: Chicago Art Institute. 1896397. pupil of Vamdcrpod LUCY ELLA KEITH, Ph. 3., Professor of Bible Mt. Holyoke. 1892; University of Chicago. Ph. 3., I901. LOUISE I. PORTER, Instructor in Bible A. B. The Westm College. ALICE AUGUSTA PORTER, Professor of Piano Cincinnati and Chicago Conservataries of Music; Vienna, I898399: Berlin, l902-'04. 17 F acu lty Continued LULU MAUDE ELDREDGE, Instructor in V nice Des Moines Musical College. B. M. Gn pianoL 1899; Chicago Musical College. I90I-'03'. Drake Conservatory of Music. B. M., I904; Berlin. 1905306. JOSEPHINE. UNDERWOOD MUNFORD. Instructor in Piano Pupil of Leschetizky. Vienna. 19044907. GERTRUDE. WARNocx, Instructor in Piano Post Graduate Course in Piano, The Western. l903-l 909. CLARA FRANCES MALLORY, A. B. Instructor in Pipe Organ, Harmony. Theory and History of Music, Mount Holyoke College. A. B. I399: Graduate New England Conservatory of Music, I905; Post Graduate I906. HENRY C. F ROEI-ILICH. Professor of V iolin and Ensemble Playing HARRIET EUDORA GLAZIER, A. M., Professor of Mathematics Mt. Holyoke. A. 3., 1896; University of Chicago. A. M., 1908. 18 F aculty Continuld ALICE M. LIBBY. A. B., Instructor in English Literature Wellesley. A. 3.. 1889; University of Oxford. England, l903-'04. HELEN TAPPAN, A. B., Instructor in M athemaiics Western College. A. 3., 1909. F LORENCE F 15H, B. L.., Professor of English Oberlin College; Wisconsin University. B. L., l397. ANGIE RAY CLARK, A. M., Instructor in English University of Illinois, A. 13., 1904; A. M., 1907. MINA BELL SELBY, A. M.. Professor of German University of Iowa. Ph. 13., 1883; A. M., 1887 EMMA GOSAU, Instructor in German Hamburg. Germany. 19 Faculty Continued ANNA ADELE CHENOT. A. 8.. Professor of French University of Chicago. A. B.. '09. MARY F RANCES LEACH, Ph. D.. Professor of Chemistry and H ygienc Wchigan University. B. 5.. 1893; Ph. 13.. I903; University of Gottinken, 1897398; Polyhechni- cum, Ziim'ch. $984900; Fellow in Physiological Chemistry. University of Michigan. 190IF'04. MARTHA ANNA VEEDER. Ph. 3., A. B., Professor of Physics Cornell University. Ph. 3., .1895; University of Cape of Good Hope. South Africa. A. B., l899. MARY DEARSTYNE MACKENZIE. Ph. M., Instructor in Biology Syracuse University. Ph. 3.. 1902: Ph. M.. 1907. ELEANOR HAMILTON BARTLETT, A. B., Instructor in Domestic Science Mt. Holyoke. A. B.. I905: University of Chicaga. 1907-08. ELIZABETH CROWTI-IER, A. M., Professor of History University of Glicago. Ph. 3.. l899; Columbia University. A. M.. 1906. Faculty Continued KATHERINE Mom: COCHRAN, A. B., Instructor in Greek Vassar, A. B.. l890; Amicam School of Chassical Studies, Athens, 1902-'03. ELIZABEIH LORRAINE BISHOP, A. M., Instructor in Latin Vassar, A. 3.. 1397; A. M., 1898; University of Chicago. I907. MARY E. WOODIN, B. 5., Instructor in Latin Wellesley College. B. 5., 1890. GRACE LYMAN, Ph. 3.. Instructor in Philosophy Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy, I900; Clark University. l90l-'04; University of Chiv cago, Ph. 3.. I907. MARIAN KEESE. A. 8., Physical Director ML Holyoke, A. B. CLARA PIERCE, Cashier San Jose State Normal School. 1902. 21 Faculty leinuld GRACE. EMILY DERBY, A. B.. Librarian Western College, A. B., 1905: Illinois State Library School, l905-'06. MAY ANDREWS REYNOLDS. Ihfirmary Western College far Women. 1896; Orient Institute, l899. SOPHRONIA BULLFINCH PIKE, Director of Domestic Department Western College for Women. I875; Chautauquanmol of Domestic Science. l899. SADIE. ELIZABETH REED, Housekeeper Helen Peabody Hall. Oberlin Collegb. HARRIET JAMES, Matron oi NemrHalI JOHN T. ARMISTEAD, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds 22 LILIAN WYCKOFF JOHNSON. President of Western College, '04-'06 23 HE class of WW was the last class to enter college under the administration of President Lilian Wyckoff Johnson. and in having had even a few weeks under her strong inHuence we consider ourselves most fortunate. Probably all of us still remember our thrill of awe and admiration on that first morning in chapel when the faculty filed in, austere and dignified, in cap and gown. We recall, too. how that awe disappeared and in its place came a deeper admiration and the beginnings of love, as Doctor Johnson spoke her sweet. warm welcome to the hundred forlorn new girls. whose hearts were a little lonely and sore. And-who ofus will ever forget that first Vesper service on the lawn? There were homesick heartaches for some of us-but there is some pain that has in it so much of sweetness that we are better for having suffered it. and all of us, as we listened to the President's words of comfort and loving counsel. felt a new impulse to better things. By the time Dr. Johneon left us, we new girls had begun to feel that in her going the college was sustaining a great loss. and that the woman whose sweet. strong personality could so win our hearts in a few short weeks. deserved all the praise we could give her for her unselfish. unfailing devotion to The Western. ' . I ----- 1 . x ,1 l 1 lh- . 7 -1! U... .fb-F-nxgw-m u.- Am.ap ..k COLORS: Two shades of green. FLOWER: Fern. Senior Class MOTTO: Find your life purpose and Hing yourself into it. OFFICERS President, HELEN LOUISE BROWN. V ice-Presideni. ALICE DEVER. Secretary, ALlNE F RANGES STEVENS. Treasurer, LAURA WILSON. CLASS SONG I Our college life's a forest wirie With ilowers and Howing streams. Which we must cross e're We reach the plains. 'W'hich stretch to the land of our dreams. Four years ago we entered here With hearts that did not fail, And day by day and year by year Followed the winding traiL CHORUS The way is long. the goal is far, But true sn.1r.cess is tail. To travel hopefully is more Than to arrive at the goal. Since thouso wise and true hast Led Along the joyous way. Oun- praise. omr loyalty. om love Dear Western abicie fat aye. II. We followed on and as we went We heard the wood-birds sing Of life and love and messages, Which wandering breezes bring. We've plucked the flowers of joy and strcngth And faith that cannot fail; Our eyes have seen the vision bright While fOHOWing the trail. III. Tiho' oftentimes the arching pines Shut out the bending blue. We've yielded not our quat-and signs Of brightening light brake thro'. The guide along the wandering way Is duty, plain and right. And pointing high 'thH keep for us Our college vision bright. HELEN Lows: BROWN. Ger- mantown. Ohio; Agata; Annual Board; President Seninr Class; Hero in Much Ado About Nothing. it was on October 16. l586. thnt the family of a country physician rejoiced in the arrival at a daud'lter upon whom the name of Helen Louise we: be- slnwexi. This cognamen served Ill necusary purposes until she had Fused through the various stages of life from pinufare day! to High School days. But ime medietely upon her arrivel nl weltem some few chosen friend! hit upon the more appropriate nune of Brownie, end Brownie Ihe hu been ever Iince. She says the greater put of her early life was spent in sleeping and we have grave fun that a tendency was thu: estab- lished which CIII never be quite eradicated. Her graceful eme and sweet- neu void of pride Might hide her faultl. if fault! Ihe had to hide. ELLEN Cows. Clus Treas- urer '07-'08; House Chlinnln Peabody Hall, 13930; Agata: Annual Band; Tree Day Play. This Itaid and dignihed mem- ber of Wm first made home happy March I9. 1886, and we have it on good authority that almost before she was used to her surroundings. the remarked: Well. I declare. this i: a pretty fine place I've gal intnl it is this spirit of healthy optimism which has remained one of Nell'l most marked characteristics ever since. This, together with her sturdy adherence to principles anal her indestructible calm and self-poiae have made her pop!!- in and invaluable, not alone to her elm. but to the whole stu- dent lelgue a: well. for unlike prophetl, house chairmen are not without honor in their own country. And mimeu of henelf thn' chine full. iSAaELLA DAY. San Anlelmo. California; Round Table; Wat- ern-Oxford Board. '08-'09; An- null Board; Sophomore honors; Tree Day Play. 50 quiet and unassuming ha: thil demure and modest maiden been ever since she came among us that we scarcely lmow eVEn yet more than the timid Priscilla on the surface. She has been a faithful, conscientious student, quietly but steadily gaining honors. Of late months she has blossomed forth as a composer of elua songs and most of the superb collection sung by the :extette in the famous perform- ance at the close of exam week came from her ready pen. We understand she has literary aspi- rationl. and of late we have come to believe she would succeed ul- mirahly on the stlge-after her lhll'e in the Schedule Com- mittee It the afore-menlioned vaudeville. Whatever work she takel up. l9l0 most heartily willie: her success. Gentle words. quiet words. are die:- all, most powerful words. Portsmouth. Ohio: President of Agata; Vice- Aucr. Devan. House '09-' l 0; President Senior Class; Chairman New Hall Tree Day Play. Alice began her college career under her father's care. When she objected to Peabody Hall moms and parental intluence was atided to her objections. she was soon transferred to New Hall. where Ihe has lived ever since- this year as House Chairman, a hard place which she is admir- ably Ible to Kill. A certain air of pmitivenus as of one who says, I am Sir Oracle. deceive: many people as to Deve'e real nature. She has been a capable. energetic member of I9l0 and this year he: carried of the duties and ruponsibilitiel of her numerous ailices with the utmost credit to herself. She is one of the strongest girl: in the class, a good. faithful studenth one We expect to make good no matter what she tries. for if executive nhili should flil her. she has I truy philosophical bent which will carry her thru. 50 well to how Her own. that what she will! to or say - Seems wisest. virtuoulent, best. MAIEL Euznz'rn Dlazu. Wolcott. Indiana; Tree Day Play. Behold our scientilic member! Hours and hour: of every weel: she spenIi-L in the Iabcntory region: of Alumnae Hall; bent over retort: and test tubes, or with dissecting instruments. on knowl- edge nf Biology bent, Mabel tinds greatest pIeuure. She i: a hard student. a science Sharla yet in spite of all her work, she can always End time for anything I910 asks of her. Devoted to her friends, ready to give to them of time, sympathy, help, she is wall liked in the whole school. but most elpecially in the class where her worth is best under- stood and appreciated. Mabel in alwayl busy. always more to 110 than anyone eke. yet by dint of much rushing about she seems to accomplish it all in the long run. If prophecy were our forte we might predict that she will one day he a devotee of Wood's Hole Ind perhaps even prenide over Weltern Ill!- oratoriec. This world. belongs to the energetic. VANCE. EWING. Germantown, Tennen- tee; n; Editar-in-Chief; Western .gleord: Sophomore llunol'a; Tree Day ay. Voted the best student in the class. Min Ewing in not to he lightly com- mentecl upon. She began her career of prodigy-dum almost immediately upon her entrance some twenty-one years ago. into the family of a Tennessee minister- Rumor has it that she was early soothed to sleep by having read to her Para- dile lost. Paruelaus and others of the more advanced nursery rhymes: it it to this early inlhtence we attribute her prqlicicncy in all things literary. Vance i- anolher of our honor students, partly ' by virtue of her phenomenal memory, which. hnwever. she so completely 2:- haunt: upon her work that none of it il left for the petty details of every-day life. But aside fmm her tendency to for- get everything tmm class meeting: to so- cial engagements. Vance is really quite a reliable penon-indeecl, l9l0 boasts no more loyal and capable member. Apt with he:- pen, quick-wittecl. clever. orig- inal. Vance has made heme popular alike in clan and college. From mom till night she plots and plans Some greatness to achieve. HELEN GALT. Sterling. Illinois; Agora; Business Manager Annual: Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing. We have it on good aulhotity that Galt was really a very happy child until she was about four years old. and then the cares of life in a home EulI of brothers anti sisters became so great that mile: have come but with!!! ever since. After graduating from Sterling High School she came to Western and cast in her lot with I910. It has taken most of us four years to know her, but we have found it well worth four years to really know her for the strong. capable girl she is. She has hloaaomed forth amazingly since the bean soliciting ads for the Annual and writing to publishers and engravene-in fact we have even heard that some of her extensive business corrspondence has developed a personal tendency and i: not yet discontinued. She says ahc will teach next year. and if she does. or indeed whatever she clues we have learned she has the qualities to win success. To her friends the is True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. 29 VIRGINIA lnwm GRIFFITH. Columbus. Indiana; Agata: Choir: Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Jinny's lint remark to her admiring family was I've got to hurry and grow up! l'm going to be jult that buy! Al- though physical limitations hindered her from doing much at once. she early be- came proficient in the m of conversation -perh3ps monologue would he better- and this proEciency she's never Virginia was voted the neatest girl in the class. but that is only one of her many distinctions-Didn't lhe get Excellent mice in Philosophy papers? And hasn't she made a pronounced hit in Spring held? Oh, there is much we might say for Jinny. but why say it? Truly. she speaks for herselfll However. she is a loyal. energetic member of the class. and one We all like to call our friend. She's sweet and attractive and lovable. and what more can We ask from one small maid? lost. A happy soul that all the way to heaven has a summer's day. LAURA KENT. Shelbyville. Indiana: Choir; Agara: Don Pedro in i'Much Ado About Nothing. Although few of us really know her. even after four yean, Laura is one of the heat lihecl girll in the class. She seems to have a marked leaning toward the philos- ophy department and has taken every course oEeted in that line-for explana- tions of this strange tendency We might state that she was unanimously conceded to be teacher's pet in the clan vote. This year she has had charge of telling fruit and ice-crenm for the Ieniora and -1nirabile dictuI-the food enterpriu has proved for the Brat time highly lucrative- thanks to Laura's careful management. Rumor has it that she is one of the melt popular of the seniors with the younger girls. and we are not surpriled. for we have come to recagltlle and value her at. one who aspires To be of service. rather than to be colt- spicuoul. FRANCES Moms LANDEBS. Kirkwood. Miuouri: Round Table; President Stu dent Government League; Annuaanard; Sophomore honors: Tree Day Play. For a generally capable, lovable, all- round girl. l9l0 cummendl Frances. Although she had her freshman year with '09 she remained at home the following year and returned in '07 lo Enish with us. So thoroughly one of us has she become that we have gladly conceded her more than one clue nor, Last spring the student body showed its wisdom and gout judgment in electing her League Presi- dent. Besides being one of Olll' bent ntu- Jents. France: is athletic. Active in Clue. Club and Y. W., and is nne of lhe most popular girls in college. Grace is in all her steps. heaven in her eye: In every gesture, dignity and love. FERN MCKINNEY, Wingate, Indiana; Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing. Another quiet. unassuming maiden whom l9l0 know: how to value though not In understandt Fem is a conscientious stu- dent. majoring in history: to clan and cnllege. a Rudy worker when- ever occasion demands. and--but perhaps even the Annual ItaE isn't privileged to repeat vague rumor: that can't be given a substanttal basis. at least until after Senior Howl. -so you'll just have to wait and see if they've true. She doesn't say uo-pelhaps she thinks Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how l'llllD . she is loyal- 80 RUTH Scm-r MILLIGAN. Spencer, ln- diana: Tree Day Play. If anyone wonder: at Ruth's unusual hrillianey just let us tell you that much of her fme record is the result of over- dose application to work. She has been a faithful student, hut she gives her help readily and willingly whenever class The An- nual Bonn! received not a little valuable work, fun or frolic is afoot. assistance from her. Whence thy learning? Has thy toil o'er hooks consumed the midnight oil? MYRTLE QUANTIC, Riley. Kansas; Choir; Glee Club; Agnra; Tree Day Play; Annual Board. Myrtle spent her freshman year at Baker University. but was wise enough to recognize the superior advantages of a woman's college, and came to estem in I907 to become one of the class of 1910. We have learned to know Ind lava her and would give Baker a hearty thank you for the gift to our ranks. Of course. everyone knows that Myrtle's interests lie pre-eminently in the held of law and those of us who know the secret CH of the ATA pin occupying the appropriate place above her heart. look forward to a happy life for her Is a Ham Frau. This woman hath some Witching charm. Ros: RANKINS. Cnvington, Kentucky; Ago ; Choir; Annual Board; President Y. W. C. A.: Tree Day Play. lm't she a pretty child? some ad- miring relative is supposed to have ob- served when Rosie was a wee little girl, whereupon she looked up with a smile and a pleased sure 'nuit? As early innuencu count for much on can readily see why Rmie has always liecn our sunny. cheery maid with her ever ready sure 'nutf? She received her early training in the High School at Covington. Ky.. and very good training it must have been if we may judge at all by the way she has made good in college. She was admirably lined for Y. W. president and Ella that place with the same ease and efficiency she shows in all she under- takes. The class agree: that she is the sweetest girl of our number and pray. who should know better than we who have lived most closely with her? Heart on her lips anal soul within her Eyes . n Soft :3 her clime and sunny as her shes. ALICE RECORD, Pikeville, Kentucky; Western Oxford Board; Round Tahle; Tree Day Play. Maiden with the meek brown eyes. Alice came to Western in the fall of '06. We pettecl her and loved her. failing to realize at all her grown-up seltjor a year or more-she's such a tiny miss and so very quiet. But of late months we've realized her worth more fully: she is sweet, true-hearted, clever in an unex- pectedly humorous way, anal thoroughly refreshing and wholesome. The best things often come dam: up in the smallest packages. 31 FRANCES ALINE, STEVENS. Spartan:- burg. S. C.; Annual Board; Choir; Claudio in Much Ado Abnut Nothing. Our impetunus, keen-witled southern girl is Aline. hniling lust from Texas, then from Clmlim. She data on science, leans to math. and says she will teach next year. We can't quite imagine Aline in the role of a school marm -We fear her keen sense of humor might prove fatal to discipline; but certain it is she will succeed in whatever Ihe tries. for she worlu like a Trajan for any project in which she is really interested. She is bright. clever. attractive, and WW i3 glad she belongs to us. 1 am not only witty in myself But the cause thlt wit il in other folk. EDITH M. SIm'H, MLhaEey. PL; Round Table; Vice-President League: Clan President '08-'09; Wellern Oxford Board '09-'10; Tree Day Play. Edith hails from Pennsylvania and is inordinately proud of the fact. Any characterization of her apart from Vivian in well nigh impossible, for not content with being mnm-mntaes they are so in- separable always an to he scarcely con- ceivable apart. Edith is pretty. sweet- temperecL lovable anHell, if you want to hnnw what 19l0 think: of her just reliect upon the fact that she was our Junior president. We have all been not a little concerned of late about the ori- inal of a line picture which has adorned her dresser this year, butewe'll have to wait to learn any secret that may be con- nected therewith. Is she not planing fair? anucz Mum: Tusstn. Jackson. Ohio; Tree Dly Play. About twenty yeem ago a little girl opened a pair of big hrown eyes in the home of a minister. Having been duly named Florence Marie. she proceeded to grow up rapidly and so successfully as to be able to enter Western gates in I906, Florence has always been one of the clan hnhies -being its youngest member- and a very popular baby she has been, having made many friends with her bright mile: and cheery wayI-and her ready willingness to do her share in class work. 'Til beauty truly hlent whose red and white,- Nature'l own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Ivtr A. TRUMAN, Lngnmport. Indiana: Editor-in-Chief Annual, Sophomore honors: Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing. Just about as soon as our Editor-in- Chief had opened her eyer-and even then her eyes were big and bmwnoshe said. Get me a pen. I want to write a story. and she's been writing stories eve: since-tnostly romances. There are some who say she's at present living one. but of course, We can't exactly say. This maiden wu hum at Logansport and there pursued her ambitious way through grade school and through the High School. Here she has panned through various stages of college life, from the usual ver- dant Fruhman. she became an inquiring Sophomore. then a Winsome Junior, and now the has become a tweet. womanly Senior. Everyone in college known Ivy for her penonality I! both strong end It- ttactive Then she il Always ready ID help a lonely little thman. or n 'hlue anybody. In short. we all love her-hrst because she deserva it, and then beeuuae we can't help it; She it most fair And thereunto Her life doth rightly harmonize. 32 LAURA E. WIBON. Nim, Iinois; Student Volunteer; Tree Day Play. Laura was one of the ICE to knock at Westem's gate in I910. Fresh from high school she came. eager for the new life and learning. She hat always been one of I9l0'l heat .ttudents. but one who we are proud to say doesn't Allow her studies to interfere with her college education. She it always ready to dress up and make fun -her lucceu in this art will he remembered by nil who saw her as one of Tony's cronies in the Junior play. am! a: the magician in the Senior farce. The clue certainly appre- cintea Laura's worth, for it has made her treasurer for two auceenive years. and we think the present comfortable financial state is due in a large measure to her ef- forts. A mid is the of quiet way: A student of old books and says. VIVIAN Woonmw. Lynchburg. Ohio: Choir; Glee Club; Benedich Tree Day Play. The other half of the Smith-woodrow Em-Vivian came to Watery: u a Senior Prep and so was here to wel- come us in 'OHot a few of us reman- bet the way Ihe helped us get settled and learn the way: of college life. She sing her way straight into our heart:- indeed people are prone to lose sight of her personality in admiration of her won- derful vuice-of which we believe the college ii almost more proud than V. her- self. Her manifold duHet-praclicing Ind nsitting in the vocal department have deprived us this year of the eflicient help she has given in other years. If to her lot some ahare of female ennn fall Look on her face Ind you'll forget diet: ail. Class History Nthe fall of I906, gathered from various and sundry High Schools all over the country, a hundred very new girls found their way to The Western and were hailed as the largest fresh- man class ever entered here. After the usual assortment of blunders common to new girls. the usual number of homesick weeps, and the inevitable readjustments to new surroundings, We organized with Rowena Drew as president, and thereupon became a real part of the college. Our first great day was College Day. The powers that be having issued a decree of llPeace, perfect peace, there was nothing to do-though we longed most ardently for a fray- but to fall in with their Wishekto all outward semblance. In the afternoon, however, all our pent-up enthusiasm found op- portunity for expression on the athletic field, where we defeated the hitherto invincible sophomores in an exciting basket ball con- testethus were the two shades of green triumphant on the occasion of their first public appearance. If College Day had demonstrated our athletic prowess, the Thanksgiving play, The Mouse Trap, established our prey tige as dramatic artists--yet were we fain to yield the palm to the faculty after their performance on Thanksgiving night. The next event of interest to us was Senior Day, when for the first time the class of '07, whom we all secretly adored, in- dividually or collectively, donned their caps and gowns; as the songs and toasts of praise proceeded we were Fired with a desire that we, too, might struggle and attaineor at least attain. And so we sang with a right good will: And we hope that till we're seniors Who shall greatly all surpass. We shall follow in the footsteps Of our present senior class. 33 So well did our large unwieldy class conduct itself that after seniicannuals we had the honor of being the hrst entire class to receive in the middle of the year upper-class privileges. Then after spring vacation the students Were granted the right of self- government, and no small credit is reflected upon so large a class of new girls that the system proved so complete a success. Faculty government days were pastt'those clays when we were wont to steal softly thru the corridors. knock gently on the door of a friend's room. and perchance be forced to spend valuable thrilling moments in the cub while a vigilant faculty patroled the corridor, or even. fateful moment! entered the room and dragged us forth in disgrace from the seclusion we had been forced to seek. It was all at an end, and if we sighed sometimes for the spreads of other clayswor nightkwe gave no sign. And so under the efficient rule of its first president, Gertrude Brown, 0?, the Student Government League became a real force in the col- lege world. Freshman picnic came at lasteand clo Western girls ever forget one detail of their freshman picnic? Certainly, not we! Didnlt we practice yells and songs, and our intricate drill for Tree Day? And after we came back, was there not abroad among us a new feeling of comradeship, the uclass, spirit, of which we were just beginning to learn the meaning? Tree Day came at last, our new flag, proudly bearing the numerals I910, floated aloft for the lirst time, and we planted our tree with fitting cere- mony. When the play was over and the day had ended, it was voted by common consent the best Tree Day Western had ever ween. Commencement Week came on apace. We looked on with wondering awe as the seniors went about with countenances more than half regretful. But when step exercises Were over, and they had given up their caps and gowns to 1908, a little of the hurt of parting came even down to us and lingered until the last day was gone and we went our separate Ways for three short vaczie tion months. The fall of 1907 found more than half of us back again feeling all the weight of responsibility common to sophomoresh proud in the consciousness of being old girls -for each and every new girl. The entering class proved metal worthy of our steel, and though we lost the College Day game to them, we counted it no disgrace to lose to such a foe. Early in the year we presented Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works, Which was voted a great success, and that, with our Hallowe'en play. Princess Kiku, and the Japanese festival .which followed, promised Well for 1910's ability to amuse and entertainea promise well fulfilled at Thanksgiving when, ac- cording to custom, the Sophomores are the hostesses at the ban- quet. Almost before we had recovered from this festivity. Christ- mas was at hand, and then after vacation we were in the throes of semi-annuals. If there were time I could tell you of parties and picnics and merry making throughout the yeareof our orig inal farce, A Reunion of 1910 in 1935, for instancwbut truly. publishers, like the proverbial time and tide wait for no one. not even a class historian, so I pass all this by. Commence- ment came all too soon, and then once more vacation. Only thirty-four of us were here to begin our Junior year. When we had become accustomed to Junior seats in chapel, and to being considered Hupper class girls, we highly enjoyed the novel sensation of being elder sisters to the dear young Freshe men. F reshmen of the class of 1912. Tree Day. Thanksgiving, Christmas holidays. even semi-annuals passed swiftly. Senior Day came and went. leaving us a little solemn as we remembered that our last year was near at hancl. Our Junior play She Stoops to Conquer. was a success in every way and well fulfilled the promise of our earlier efforts. Junior Breakfast, too, was pronounced mOst enjoyable, notwith- standing the fact that the inclement weather necessitated at the very last. complete change in our plans. But our greatest triumph was yet to come. It was during this year that the need for raising the endowment fund at once became imperative, and ready and eager was the response of the students to Westernls need. The Seniors pledged the money meant for giving the Senior Reception, to a scholarship fund we had voted to establish. F ired by this example of unselhshness, the other classes made yet greater efforts until at last Dr. Newman, seeing our enthu- siasm, generously offered a silver loving cup to the class securing the greatest amount for the scholarship before June. On Com- mencement Day this cup was awarded to the class of 1910, as having done the most excellent work for the scholarship fund. When the 1909 Commencement was over we felt truly over- whelmed with a sense of loneliness and of our own inefficiency to Fill the places of the girls with whom we had worked side by side for three years, and whom we had grown to love and honor as being foremost in all good things. It was with grateful hearts that a few of us returned last fallefor were we not to be the hrst class to graduate from the 'lEndowed Western P Were we not going to publish the very first college Annual? And-had We not been given the ideal room in Helen Peabody Hall for Senior Parlor? Our ranks were so thinned that at first our hearts sank. but because we were Western girls and dared not fail, they rose again and we set to work as best we might, humbly determined to be all that Western could expect of us. Time has passed with rapidity before un- equalled; College Day, Thanksgiving, Semi-annuals tnot that they're three of a lcinrD are past; Senior Day is over-we have donned our caps and gowns, and listened with a fair show of cheerfulness to the songs and toasts we coveted three years ago. A little strange seems Senior-dom when it comes--perhaps new girls who have envied us might be amazed to know how many weary moments there have been when we have longed to be uyounger girls ourselves for just a little while. But Seniors we are-Ellese new caps and gowns prove that, and were aught else needed. there is growing daily the realization that all too soon these sweetly sad spring days will pass and long before we wish to go. the class of I910 must leave their Alma MaterwllLost now in the wide, wide world. Not much have we accom- plished. perhaps, not all we would have done, surely, yet as We look backward over our four years we can but feel, in spite of failures or mistakes, we have naught to be ashamed of, much to be glad in, and in nothing more than that we have been Western girls. and Seniors of the class of 1910. Grant of Powers to Seniors Oflice of the President WESTERN COLLEGE, OXFORD, OHIO WHEREAS we 'have noted well the capable. energetic dis- position of the present Senior class and realize that they are wise enough to be trusted with certain rights, we take great pleasure in granting unto these grave. reverend and potent Seniors the following privileges: I. They shall be allowed to occupy the two front rows of seats in the middle of the chapel. where they may also sit erect with heads thrown back to the angle necessary for fixing their eyes upon the face of the speaker; this position they shall he allowed to retain so long as the minister or lecturer shall choose to speak. 2. They shall be permitted to remain in their rooms dur- ing study hours. to turn off their lights promptly at ten olclock, and to remain within their rooms until 6:30 a. 111.; thus shall they be shining examples for all under-classmen. 3. They shall :be allowed to occupy the chairs most 00 easy of access at the table. to carveor otherwise serve their table mates, and to be uniformly amiable, polite and entertaining, carv rying the whole conversation if necessary. 4. They shall have the privilege of going uptown any morning. provided their forenoon sessions are too full to allow them to avail themselves of this privilege. 5. Some of them shall act as Domestic Supervisors. hav- ing the pleasure meanwhile of being called cross. liho-ssy or 36 other complimentary and consoling names; others shall be al- lowed to run errands in the capacity of bell-girls; two, as Uncle Semis assistants, shall deliver mail and be loved or hated, accord- , .9 ing as they do or do not bring letters from various he s. 6. They shall also be permitted to draw from the library bound magazines Which they shall never have time to read. 7. They shall be allowed to have parties every Saturday evening. provided only that their Mondays are too full to per- mit of their enjoying themselves on such occasions. 8. At every reception during the year, except the Senior Reception, they shall be permitted to introduce ten people at least down the receiving line, and after they have done this, they are to be exempted from partaking of the refreshments, while the freshmen and sophomores are required Ol to dispose of two servings each. 9. Finally. and as the greatest privilege we can bestow, they shall be permitted at all times to conduct themselves in such a way as to be examples of propriety. studiousness and general perfection, for all under-classmen. All Seniors convicted of not taking immediate advantage of these privileges will be called before a joint meeting of the faculty and the Central Board and severely reprimanded for in- gratitude. Last Will and Testament of the Senior Class xx I E, the Senior class of l9l 0, being of mature age and sound and disposing mind, do hereby indite this, our last will and testament. ARTICLE I To our friends the enemy, the class of l9l l, we do give and bequeath the following possessions: Item I The property looated in the north wing of Pea! body Hall, near the aperture commonly designated by the name of The North Door. said property being knOWn as Senior Parlor. Item 2. To this class we bequeath also our senior privi- leges, elsewhere enumerated. Item 3. The Tree Day Play, Senior Reception, Senior howl and all festivities which pertain to seniordom. Item 4. Our hearty good wishes for your senior year. ARTICLE II To our beloved sisters, the class of 1912, we do give and bequeath: Item .7. Our class song, uOur College Life's a Forest Wide. Item 2. The publication of the Annual With all its at tendant joys to-wit: l. The Editor's Uneasy Chair, her shattered nerves and mined disposition. The Business Manager's extensive correspondence and 'her pet expression, stung again. The desk we have never had. The college credit we do not receive. Our names to head your Alumnae subscription list. mew .N 37 6. Our Art Editor and her assistant whom we took from your ranks and whom we take this opportunity to commend and thank. Item 3. To you also we bequeath the right to warn, guide, admonish and train up aright our youngest sisters and yours, the Preps. Item 4. We do leave with you also our sisterly love and precepts. our thanks for your ready help and loyalty, and our very best wishes for your upper class years. ARTICLE III To the class of I913 we bequeath our example, our love, and our hearty good wishes. ARTICLE IV To the faculty we do give and bequeath the rest and resi- due of our estate, including our gratitude for their guidance and help, and our deep affection. We would recommend that in the disposal of the aforesaid urest and residue? they should give: Item I. To Dry Newman-the following selection of hymns: l. uBlest Be the Tie That Binds. 2. iiHark, Hark, My Soul! 3. All the iithree-line songs in the hymnal. Item 2. To Dean Sawyereour nervous systems, now in perfect accord with Western bells. Item 3. To Miss Lyman-w-our peace of mind and happi- ness, lost somewhere in the Meditations of Des Cartes or Kantis Critique of Pure Reason. ARTICLE V To our Alma Mater we do render our thanks for the joys and sorrows of the past four years, and our tested and proved loyalty for all time. SignedeThe Class of l9l0. As VVe Know Them HELEN BROWN- You've waked me too soon, I must slumber again. ALICE DEVERlllOrder is heaven's llrst law. VANCE EWINGluMy memory is the thing I forget W'ltl1.n VIRGINIA GRIFFITH- Tl'ien she will talk! Ye gods, how she will talk. MYRTLE QUANTleJ'How sweet, how violent is love! F LORENCE TRESSLERlllI giggle, giggle as I go. VIVIAN AND EDITHlllTogether we stand, divided we fall. LAURA KENTlllHow charming is divine philosophy! Some Senior Statistics Brightest-Frances Landers. Sweetest-Rose Rankins. N eatest--Virginia Griffith. PrettiesF-Myrtle Quantic. Wittiest-Aline Stevens. Most athleticlHelen Galt. Most scientificlMabel Dibell. Most musicallVivian Woodrow. 9N9f- PPNT' .0 Most pOpular-Helen Brown. .0 Most literary-Ivy Truman. Best studenthance Ewing. l2. Teacher's pet' -Laura Kent. -. .- . 38 Class Prophecy A GIRL stool looking about her in the garnet of the old home to whidh she had just returned, after graduating from The Westem-the largest and best mdowed college in the west. It was a ch's-agreeable. rainy afternoon, and Vance had slipped off by herself-while her house- party guests were taking a hit of much needed sleep-vto while away the time with whatever magazine or books she might chance to find. I wonder what's :in that queer old trunk of granchnother's. she mused. Mother told me I might go through it some lime. so why mt today? Here's a Westem-Oxford queer little pamphlet! and down on the garret Hoar she went. settling herself for a good trummage through the trunk. Here she was found a halfAhour later by Viwginia and Helen. two of her guests. What on earth are you doing. Vance? callecf Helen from the low doorway. Oh, girls! Heres a copy of the very first Multifaria; you know grandmothefs class was the one that published the first Annual. Was your grandmother rin that class? cried the otheT two in one voice- so were oursF, And the Multifaria was soon being scanned by eager eyes in search of the class pictures. Here's my grandmother -eand Helen pointed proudly to the pic- ture of a sweet-f-aced 9H. ' thVirginia Irwin Griffith, read Virginia. I was named for her, 39 Vance. and Helen was named for my grandmother, see, here she isn-Helen Louise Brown-she was the senior president that year. Meanwhile. Vance had pursued her investigations into the depths of the trunk and presently brought forth a long envelope. exclaiming eagerly, A class letter, as rm alive! Grandmother was probably the last person to get it and' Targot' to send it oneyou know sihe was pm verbialJy absent-minded. But then, gemium always are! Come, let's End out about all these people! Let's see. here's Alice Deverpwoh, I've heard of her. PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, May e, l9l5. Dea-r Girlszel'm not going to say how glad I was to get the class letter. I remember how tired we used to get at school of hearing mini? ters refer to their joy at looking into our bright and smiling faces. Do you all find your college experiences helpful in your active life in the world? My only gain from my arduous duties in disciplining New Hall, is a few gray hairs which I carefully conceal. But I'd be willing to be House Chairman. V. P. of the class. and Agora praidentewhy, I wouId even endure exams. in Senior Lit. and History of Art. for the sake of being a Senior again. and seeing all of you at one more hilarious party in Senior Parlor. I've been doing nothing exciting since I wrote last. but I have man- aged to keep busy. The very month after I returned from abroad I was elected president of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs. Then, too. I am at the head of a group of settlement workers here in Portsmouth. and enjoy the work; last but not least, I am helping in a night school. which our pastor. a young man about thirty. is establishing. And girls, it is in- spiring to work with such an earnest. devoted man! But that reminds me, we're to discuss 'a few problem together tonight anti I must get the chahng dish ready to make him a rarebitethe poor man gets such indigestible etuE at his boarding house! Yours as ever, ALICE. Now. here's grandmother's. Vance. read it! urged Helen. PROVIDENCE. R. L. May -, 191 5. Dearest girlHel-yone of you! It was so grand to hear from you all again. letters. altho Jim was waiting for me. That brings me to the point! Girls. I'm engaged! It was announced last week at the sweetest pink and white luncheon! But maybe you'd like to know how I happen to be here, since when I wrote last I was teaching elementary Psychology and Philosophy in the home High School. Well, you know I never was strong for work. so when the youth of Columbus had learned to grasp the truths of Des Carta and Kant. and to distinguish between the tastes of Saratoga chips and pickles, I decided I could take a rest, so I came here last December to visit my brother. By March I was wearing a Frat pin. by April a ring. and next month I'm to take my next and last degree-ean M. R. S. 1511'! it exciting? I'm to be married in white satin-and have orange blossoms. of caurse-Oh! I wish you could all be here! But I can't write any more for Jim is coming and 1 must make myself beautiful. With loads of love. Your own JINNY. Here's one from Salt Lake City. Utahelsabella Day. why she's principal of that line girls, s$w140n't you know? SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. March -. 1915. Ben Gilbel canIt write very much. I havenlt time. but I will write a little note for you. I think I wrote you last that I had finally given up the foreign missionary idea and Was coming out here as a mis- sionary to these poor mistaken Mormons. I like the work. especially the giTIs' school-vitIs a veritable uLittle Western already. though it's been in existence only a year. I wish a few of you were here to help me- Wouldn't we work wonders? Then Pm at work on a book of poems to be published 500nm of the senior vauzieville songs will be published in a set of College Songs for Special Occasions. Besides this. I do a. I just devoured the 40 great deal of writing and much club work. Yes, I know you'll Iaudx. Ivy. at my doting so -mn.y things since I never did get my Annual work in on timbut experience works great changes. I can't write more now, but if any of you come west be sure to pay me a visit. as I can't come to the reunion in June. Lots of love. ISABELLA. My conscience! here's one from the Fiji islands, girls? May e. I9I5. Dear I9l0! Well, girls; !here I am at last! My fondest hopes are fulfllW you know I always wanted to :be a teacher-nussionary in some foreign held. and now ifs been several months since I came to this station among the Fijis; as I settle gradually into my work I enjoy it thoroughly. I am hoping other Western girls may come here, so that some day we may have a Western colony to carry on the work. The Fiji is the most civilized of the South Sea Islanders. ancl the outlook is surely en- couraging. It was very hard to leave America. and I was enjoying my slum work in New York, where Ruth Milliganewho. as you know. is teaching Biology in one of the large High Schothelped us sometimes. But now that I'm here. Fm more than glad I came. Do sand the class letter often. girls. for I get pretty homesick to hear from you. Always lovingly. LAURA E. WILSON. Now here's a 'joint' one from two of the girlhwritten by Edith Smith! I BERLIN, April e. I915. Deal Girls:$an you realize it's been five years since we left dear old Western? And we've not had the cIass letter since the first year we were out, when I was teaclung Latin -at home! V. was in Chicago, and the separation was awful! So you may guess how glad I was when she came to vm't me the next summer and we found we could go to Europe together. Our time has been more than full. V. has been busy With her work and I have been taking courses in the University and keeping V. cheerful. We have travelled every :summer-uone in Sud-tzerland and Italy. another up thru the lake district? But soon we are going to sail for America! y Last week V. sang 'for the Kaiser and the court, and oh! girls! I msh you could have been there! Her voice and manner are superb! She has been given honor after honor, but she is still the same dear girle not. spmleci one bit. You must all hear her next wimter with the Metro- politan Opera anwa wish we could Item in Cincy. ItIhas been a delightful four yam. and I shall hate to be parted from V. Stall we're glad to be coming lmme, and' I may li-nd some consolation for her absence in. the faithful devotion Jim still evinces. But V. is back from her work and we must dress for the theater. With our best love to you clear girls. EDITH AND V. nNHW. herds Frances Landerwread her's, Vance. while I hunt grandmother's. Me. GEORGIA, Mch. w, 1915. You Dear I9I0 GIIIPDIJ I tell you of my line European trip? We had a. party of twelve and oh! it was simply grand! We visited Germany, France. Italy, England, Scotland and Ireland, and it was wonderful! Mother says I make her tired with my enthusiasm! How often I that of you all and wished you were with me. Well. when I came back. I accepted a place as head of the M- School for Girls, ancl truly my year as League president has been a bless.- ing to me. But whenever I reprove the girls about reception manners I calft help remembering the time in my senior year When the Dean had to speak to me for sitting under the clock while the young men were going for their coats-and then I smile instead of frowning as. I suppose I should do. There! Chapel gang is ringing and I must go. Devatedly, FRANCES. HereIs grandmothefs! GERMANTOWN. OHIO, May e. IQIS. Dear Girrlsp-T'he line class letter reached me a few days ago. and after I'd read it I felt exactly as if we,cl all been together at a class meetv ianly there were no money matters to bother me-you remember how I worried for fear we'd not have enough money for Senior Reception. But now my mind is engaged with a social event a little different from that reception. I am to be married in June, girth, yes, I know I always said I wouldnit, butt I have found from long experience that a doctor is a nice person to have near you-and I think my doctor espe cially nice. We are going abroad on our wedding trip. and will see all' the places and pictures we studied about in Hist. of Art-won't it be nice to have someone to save me the trouble of pronouncing those horrid long names? You know I never could say them. 41 IsnIt it splendid about Jinny? You know we always liked to do the same things at the same time. and here were both to be married next mnthl And arenIt; you all glad to hear of VE success? Goodness, girls! I nearly forgot to tell you I've been helping George -t:hat's my doctorein his work in the settlement. You know. F rances. you always said I ought to do that ancl new I am! IThat grammr would do cwdtit to a Western freshman, I thinkD But Tm just that sleepy I haven't good sense, so I've got to mach veet mit die bed. With love to each of you. Your devoted BROWNIEA IIIsn't she pretty! .saicl Vance softly. Now let's reacl the rest. MEDULLA OBLONGATA. N. D.. Mch. w, l915. Dear l9lU:-If you're sumrised at the name of this town just let me tell you that before I came here it was known by the terribly common- place name of Smith but rm as fond as ever of good. substantial psychical names, so I changed the names of both college ancI town. Those dear old Western clays! I know you brandecl me as u lqeemlierhr, Pet because I took all the course in Miss Lyman's Depart- ment. but I didn't mind hot I was fitting myself for my life work. I like it immensely and there awe large elective classes in all my subjects. We have finely equipped laboratories and I think with pity of our class when we had to use Senior PaTl'or for lab. But that was a line year, anyhow. and I'm glad I'm to go back there next year as Miss Lyman's assistanL Isn't that Iine? So interesting! Yours affectionately, LAURA KENT, A. B.. A. M., Ph. D. My, What a string of titles! New read this one-ehe was the editor of the Annual that year! CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, May e. I915. Dearest Girlszepretty good season for engagements I would say! Isnit it splendid about Jinny and Brownie? Well, this has been an event- ful yea! for me. Leis see! When I wrote last I was doing a series of articles for the Outlook, wasn't I? One day the ether wired me to come at once to talk with him. I was pretty much frightened for I couldn't imagine what: he wanted, but I went. It proved that he had liked my work and wanted me to take a trip around the world visiting all the important educational and mission centres and write them up for the magazine. Of course, it was the chance of a lifetime. and I took it. It would take too long to describe the tribu- sides it will all be in the Outlook for the next few mills. When I came back. that man I ,IESSECI up about at Senior Howl. decided after so long 'an absence that there was to be no more separation. 50 we were quietly married last fallmno white satin in mine. Jinny, just a simple traveling suitaand after a very short trip settled down here in Chicago. Ilve given up journalism. but am still to write a. little-storia chleHy-a-lor Harpefs and Scribner's. IIVe really nothing else to tell you, for I daresay you won't care to know how many rooms I've dusted not what we're to have for dinner- which reminds me I must begin that at once. If any of you come to Chi- cago, be sure to save a visit for me. Always lovingly, IVY. Here,s one headed THE WESTERN. April o. l9t5. Dear l9l0:aThe class letter was forwarded to me here today and I can't tell you how glad I was to hear from you all. Now about West- ern. You can't imagine how happy I am now that I'm Territorial Student Secretary! This is my lirst oHieial visit to The Western, and I confess I was more than a little frightened last night when I had to lead Y. W. Then this morning-awould you believe it. girls? I walked in with the Dean and led Chapel! Things here are much as they always were--except the new buildr ings-burt youill see them in June. Dr. Newman still says: Will you kindly hear the notices. and only this morning the Dean was obliged to remind the girls to keep their voices down. Of comse. you all knew Miriam Horrcl is back as organist, and we've had one grand time Iiremv iniscing. I wish I could tell you more, but I mustnIt make you homesick for the dear old Western. so I guess I'd best quit. All of you come in June and I think we can have a line reunion. For the present-good-bye. aningly. Rose. CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS. May a. l9l5. Dear Girlyalt was so good to 'hear clear old Western news! Now. g'rls, don't be surprised if I tell you a bit of news! It was mighty hard to give up my class in Physiology and Math. there in North Carolina. but laws. chillen'. what's a girl to do if a. man follows her clear from the Western gates down south, urging her every step to marry him? I just had to do it, so here we arkancl Ilm about as surprised to End myself here as you can he to hear IIm here! Merciful peacock. but it's hot down here! I lived in that vile north so long I can't stand hot weather at all any more! But I like Team's and I think I'll stay here the rest of my life. I wish you could all Visit me. I think Iill have a house-party. Just now tho' l,ll have to quit-this Is a dumb letter, I know. but I'm ever Yours for The Western. ALINE. Pr SaFem McKinney called on me here the other day. She's travelling through the south for her health. I reati her the letter and she sends you all her love. 'iNow. here's Mabel Dibellashe's a science shark the Annual says. Dear GirlstI was so glad to receive the class letter that I am an- swering it right away, even if my mom does look like a sight. Well, I have my wish at last. and here I am teaching in a small academy in the west. I am Professor of Biology. if you please. and I will have the pleas- ure. I suppose, of dissecting animals with my sewing scissors. for there simply isn't any apparatus here at all. But then the kids are line. 0! what do you think? The funniest thing happened. The first week I was opening a lawge bottle of milk-of-lime and somehow or other I let it slip and spilled a lot on myself. and what is worse, a lot on the Professor of Physics. who had just come in to help me Fix things up. I was so embarrassed. but he was so nice. and he asked me to a lecture that eveninghOh! a romance. girls. I had the hardest teacher's examinatioan was sure I had Hunked. but I got the certificate, anyway. The Botany was so hard. I have to wear my cap and gown to chapel every morning and lead the service once a week. There is Ilhe bell for class and I clon't know a thing. In haste. MABEL. And now I'll read Alice Record's. Grandmother roomecl with her two years. BOWLING BROOK. TENN. Maudi l0. Dear Girls-You never will be able to imagine what I am doing. You know I had been teaching in a womanhv. college in Virginia, but I became so interested in the question of woman's true position in the world that I changed all my plans. I think my interest in the question of iiwomani rightsi' began with my study of uThe Princess in Senior Litera- ture at school. So When the opportunity came to become a lecturer on the subject I aceeptecl with alacrity. I am now giving lectures in Tennessee. I suppose you would call me a stump speaker, but the time will come wher every woman will have the ballot. Life as a teacher in a woman's col- lege was too quiet for me. I wanted to be out doing sometiung, making my personahty felt in the world. I suppose most of you are planning for homes of your own, but none of that for me. I could not stand to be so circu-msoribed. I am planning now to write the Dean and ask if I can lecture on the Lyceum Coume and speak to the clear girls in chaper-afor they must know of this new emancipation. Yours in the cause, ALICE RECORD. J , NEB., Mch. 10. 1915. My Dear Girlyelt seems as if I never should find time for this hatter, but tonight. although it's eleven o.cIocIIE. I'm going to write my share. en the last letter went around we were still boarding, but now we have a home of our own here in J--, a IIourishing little town. just the place for a young lawyer. I am doing my own work and I enjoy it. too. I have my sweeping and cleaning clone. but I keep the house in order and do the cooking. and Iim glad I took Domestic Science. too. for if I do say it myself, I sure can get a good meal. Besides my home duties I keep up my club work and am interested in settlement work in Lincoln. I sometimes help with the Boys' Club and often sing for the Travel Club. That one year I put in doing slum work before I was married was surely an eye-opener to me. To be frank with you. girls. I only did that to show you I wasnIt such a coward as you that I was, and now I'm glad I did it. We are coming east this spring and I hope to see you -aII-all but the June bridehat the reunion in June. Yours affectionately. MYRTLE. CALVESTON. TEXAS. May 30. 1915. Dear Gi-rlee-The class letter has at last found me and I am going to write at once and send it on. for it has been delayecl in its many for wa-rdings. It was so good to hear from you aII-and I tell you I am proud to have belonged to such a class that has turned out so beau- tifull . yWhen I last wrote you I was teaching in a. small college in Michi- gan-but I found that I was so wom out last spring that I decided to spend this yea-r in seeking some rest and health in the sunny chme. I have had a mighty good time this winter travelling all over the south. Last month a party of us went over to Cuba and I surely de enjoy that ex- perience. I tho! of what Miss Gill toIcI us and decided things he'd- lmn proved a very great deal since then for really the people are quite mvzhzed. 43 I expect to teach again next year. I shall probably be in Mexico City-I like the climate there so much. With lots of love to all. FERN. NEW YORK CITY, Apr. 28th. 1915. Dear Girlszel have only time for a little note but I don't want to delay the letter 90 I will promise to write more the next time. You see in the same mail with the class budget came a letter from the pn'ncipal of the High School in Yukon. Alaska, asking me to accept the position of teacher of Biology in his school. And he wants me to leave at once so that I can get there a week before the school opens. This means that I shall have to catch tomorrowis boat out of New York. I am so anxious for this new experience. In the next round of the letter you shall hear of it all With love. RUTH. Florence Tressler-she's the JcIass baby.' read hers. NEW YORK HARBOR. March e, 1915. My Dear CIassma-tesz-Who would ever have thought that I. the youngest of you all. shouIcI haVe been the first to break the bond of spin- stethood-but I was. You all knew, didn't you. about Thomas? He was so much older and wiser than I, though. that I little dreamed he'd care for me. However, a little more than a year ago we were married. and now we're living here at N. Y. Harbor. where Thomas has a government position. I IOVe the ocean. antI quite frequently one of the steamers brings passengers to and from the Holy Land. so I see Miss K-- occasionallye thatis one nice feature of being here near the sea. Although I'm very happy I often think of Western and long to meet you all there again. But domestic duties call me from such memories. 50 goodbye. riear girls. Your youngest. FLORENCE. Aren't there a Iot of them married? That sounds good. doesn't This is Helen Calt'bshe was Business Manager of the Annual. CHICAGO, ILL.. Mch.. 1915. Dearest Girlszelt was certainly good to hear again after missing the class letter two yearkall because none of you knew my married name, so I suppose you want to know what I've been doing these two it? years. Well. I left my Indiana school as you know, to study Roman topography and while in Italy I met Jack-mthen Mr. Locke to me. As we were d-aing the same sort of work We were much- together. and after we returned to America he was teaching Iess than a hundred miles from home. whidh made it nice while I was at home getting ready. But I was glad when Jack was offered a professorship in the depart- ment of Ardhzeology at Chicago University. As you know my fondness for Chicago you can imagine how glad I am we're living here. We have a lovely home and I have plenty of time for my music, which gives Jack as much pleasure as it does me. Now let's have the letters go faster, for when I read them it seems IIkFI mean as ifethere'd been an arrest-not of development. but of lime, and we're all back at school. With love for all of you. Devotedly. thALT- Dear Girlsszou shouici all see me now. The training I received at Western as house chairman has come in very nicely for now I am a member of the faculty of a very fine young ladies, boarding school. 0! yes, I have plenty of lover things to do, nice agreeable things. For in- stance. pulling two girls out from under the bedwe from the cub and matching off with several platters of fudge. Then every week I meet with the girls and hold heart-twheart conversations with them, trying to lead them out in Miss Lymanis most approved style. I have to keep study hall and you should see me look severely over my glasses at giggiy young 44 girls. But after all. I like this school better than the one I was in before. for it is much larger and is better equipped. Last summer I spent with my brother out west. I kept house for him and I became famous on the ranch for my pancakee-thanks to Western again. While there I learned to ride a broncho and one of the ranchman tried to show me how to lasso. but I gave it up. or rather 'he did. He was a fine looking young man, howeveT. I suppose you have all heard of what our little Alice is doing. Of course. I Was very much surprised at first. but really. girls, I am be- coming converted myself. I am going to visit Alice next summer and who knows but that I may ibecome a suffragette myself. There is a dreadful voice across the eorridor so I must investigate. Sincerely yours, NELL COLES. u'tVeren't those funny times. said Virginia. dreamiiy. uI wonder how it seemed to be at Western in those days. I have often heard grandmother tell about the times she and Jinny used to have. And dfdgigu know they visited each other when they were both over sixty years 0 . They had a wonderful class, retumed Vance. Grandmother de- clares that every one of them did something to be proud of. I do hope we all turn out so beautifully. But, girls, 30 you realize that we have only onedhalf hour in Which to chess for dinnereeand you know how long it takes Helen to comb her curls? JUNIOR CLASS Junior Class R011 ASHMAN, JEANNETTE ISABEL BARR, NANN CLARK BENNETT, EDNA MAY Boccs, NANNY ISABEL BOLAND. SARAH MILDRED BOYLE. MARY GLADYS BROWN. MILDRED MAY BURTON. EDITH CAMPBELL, NELLIE DEAN CARR. MILDRED MARGARET CURTIS. JESSIE. MARIE DE RHODES, HAZEL MAY DUNCAN, EMILY JACK FITCH, HARRIET DILLAWAY HATHAWAY. MAROE E. HENDRIX. GRACE MARIE HOFFMAN. AGNES HORREL, MIRIAM SUSAN HOUSTON, RUTH ELLIOTT HUGHES. RUBY JUDY, EDITH ESTHER LARINAN. LILLIAN CECILIA MCCUBBINS, MYRTLE LINGLE MARTIN. ETHEL BELLE MENDENHALL. MARY Louxss; MOORE, MARY GUTHRIE PATTON, MARY LOUISE PALMER, BERTHA SADLER, LUCILE MARY SAWHILL, F LORENCE SAWYER, RUTH MARIAN SCHENCK, ELLA SYFERS SCHWAB, ABIGAIL EWING SHROYER, HAZEL IRENE SMlTH. EVA LEWIS SPILMAN. MARY INGALLS SWINDELL. MlNNlE HARRIS TEETERS. LILLIAN WILSON THOMSON, ADELAIDE KIDDER WARNOCK. CHRISTINE WASON, ISABEL MARY WOODWARD, GRACE ARIE The History of ill AD we arrived in an aeroplane there would have been oc- casion for writing; but we didn'te-uit was Just the long fellow. Had we inspired an ode in the Oxford Herald there would have been something to write about; but we didn'tethat was left to '13. In other words, this undertaking paralyzes me. Somehow the word history stupefres me; to consider the deeds of my contemporaries thus early chronicled; to think that posterity shall witness their advent coincident with that of so slightly cele- brated a thing as the fire-escape, petrifies me. However. if I might fall into a dream or tumble into a trance, or lose myself in a vision wherein mystery would disclose that the departure of the class of 19' I is likewise to be simultaneous with that of the ma- chine-then I should say, Many happy birthdays, and many. very many joyous new years to the fire-eseape! I shall submit myself to being a very Gulliver for you. reader, and travel over regions which offer more diversity and joy than Brobdinguay or Lilliput. I shall not be able to otter you the exact spirit of our first adventure, that of being a fresh- man; there was something leisurely and calm about the details of an exploit undertaken in the days when Billy and the ark set our time standard, which has been lost since we have taken to sac; rificing our walks, talks and meals, to a pace. the spirit of which can better be exemplified in that of the town auto. So influenced by environment. I must mention speedily how the present Juniors chose their blue and white. their forget-me-not, and planned for their first College Dayethe initiai stimulus for class enthusiasm and Western loyalty. How it was amidst a confusion of waving 51 canes and Huttering ribbons that our garlanded goat, as mascot. rushed upon the field where our basket-ball team was in a short time to conquer the Sophomores and establish the verity of our song, 0 you must be a member of the Freshman class or you can't win a contest if you try. Little wonder there was a thrill- ing serenade that night. followed by a long enduring enthusiasm which occasioned the organization of a class glee club, making its first public appearance at the Christmas Junior bazaar. Now. to omit mention of the increasing respect, admiration and affection for our sisters of '09, which was revolutionizing our natures, is due to the fact that I am a prey to time; and that I must hasten to say that We soon abandoned this mute adoration long enough to concern ourselves with 'a dramatic effort, uAlice In Wonder- land, wherein we recalled the fancy, imagination and childhood of all Western sages. Then Spring witnessed the climax of Freshman happiness in the joys of Tree Day. There was the great class flag to be made which was to be unfurled over a group of girls exhilarated and jubilant at the sight of the significant 19I I ; there was another serenade to be thought of; there were the shepherdess costumes to be created for adorning us in our fantastic drill; and the most glorious day in the year was to be planned forepardon, poet-breathes there a girl with soul so dead, who never to herself hath said with thrilling memory, the picnic at Brown's! ewithout which there could have been no Tree Day. The remainder of the Spring truly leaped away. Weim scarcely finished weeping at the summer parting when we were back marvelling at ourselves that We were old girls t you know how every F reshman has a passion to be an old girl so that she can kiss everyone in the fall and ask to see her new clothes and those that are made overl. and ready for a second journey. We were still rejoicing that we had finished algebra and trig. when a new occasion for happiness came 'in our College Day victory over the Freshman team; minstrels. as we had appeared in costume, never sang more gleefully than when we altered our old song, 0 you must he a member of the Sophomore class. etc. Days passed swiftly until we enticed the public to our Hallowe'en nautical fair and opera Pinafore. This was but a necessary step towards the memorable Sophomore Thanksgiving Banquetet which con- cluded the famous verbose combat between two of our faculty. It is to omit many charming experiences to leave our life and times. until by athletic activity. our basket-ball team could be saluted as the college champions. We next turned our regard to present fmances and decided to aid the endowment fund by olfering an uOld Folks; Concert. There were also further ef- forts to the rescue: Oxford merchants began to tremble when they saw a couple of us advancing to supplicate them for money -but it is only just to add that they received us with graciousness and generosity. Turning from so happy an event I shall not dwell upon the only sad one of the year, the graduation of our sisters. The anticipation of being sisters ourselves. and the pros- pect of a light Junior dom, endowed. us with a happier atti- 52 tude than usual toward the early September days of this year. Our two great functions so far have owed their being to thoughts both prospective and retrospective: entertainments to our very welcome U suppress a hundred desires in a term so mich Freshe men. and a repetition of Pinafore to our loyal supporters in Ox- ford. And for our minor performances: must I restrain the per- vading Junior tendency to tell y0u everything we have learned in Psyc? It grieves me not to explain to youhow you may be annihilating the race in an approval of pickled pears, and how on early winter mornings, when the room is black, the snow is packed on your'window sill. the wind is beating your pictures against the wall, your fuse has burned out. and even the steam seems afraid to enter the frigid region, you may rise promptly and cheerfully all thru the force of habit! Such felicity could not have been ours those blizzard mornings in years before we had investigated the science of the mindeso again we change our old song, 0. you must be a member of the Junior class or your name's in lthe book' even if you try. So, What if we didn't come in on an aeroplane. or inspire the village hard, we seem to be making discoveries and history. And since evening Dom offers no more terrors, and we have learned the Livy outline and the complex feudal system, and seen the endowment fund hnished. and Sunday breakfast post- poned until eightelet us be prophetic and foretell the coming of one more most brilliant and successful year for the class of 'l l. EMILY JACK DUNCAN, 'I l. ..LnE R w mo . ..JH , P. x o w S . E H .h, T. SorHomom; CLASS Sophomore Class R011 APPLEGATE, ELEANOR ARMSTRONG, MARJORIE BOUICK, MABLE BENJAMIN. JOSEPHINE BONICK. MABLE. BOWEN, MARY LOUISE BROWN, EDITH BROWN. ELLA CARSON. HELEN COLVILLE, HELEN DEVIN. MILDRED DURHAM. MARTHA DUSHANE. MARY F IELD. HAZEL. HETZNER. GRACE HOLDEN. HAZEL HOOVER, SIBYL HOWE. HAZEL HUBBELL, MARGUERITE. ISHIHARA, leu JACOBS. METTA JAKWAY, HOPE JOHNSON, ELLA KINNARD. FRANK LEE MARR. MARY MUNZ. VIOLA OLDSHUE, GRACE OLMSTED, LOLA PAYNE. FREDERICA RANKIN, Lois REED. MARGARET RODENBECK, LINDA RUIHLEY. PEARL SAWYER. RUTH SMITH, FLORENCE STALEN. VIOLETTE STOTZER, CLARICE STOTZER, JEANNETTE THOMS. LENORE. WAGNER, CATHARINE The Class of ' l 2 N the tiry and scorched Western hills. that hot September clay in 1908. the only green and verdant objects which met oneis gaze Were we, the Freshmen of l9l2. then making our debut into the college world. Eighty-three strong we came. filling longfellow after longfellow. How strange, how insignificant we felt in the midst of those excited and joyous old girls. Haw little we dreamed that We Would ever be of enough importance to demand a. class history! However, once within Western, feelings of strangeness began to vanish; Everything was clone for our pleasure; aur dear sisterst the Juniors. entertained us. making charming fathers. mothers and nurses as they took us, the infants of 'IZ. to our hrst party. In those hrst weeks we were full of the joy and the novelty of college, and full of our importance as Freshmen. But soon with a dull thud came the realization that uall that iclle are not students. There were many things to be learned; one must acquire a certain amount of skill in manipu- lating the dish washer, in managing a truck; to say nothing of learning how to study. These things we learned so speedily as to permit attention to be turned. almost immediately to class organization. A profound secret was ours from this time until the momentous occasion when, under the arch of old rose and white. we entered the chapel on College Day. That Col- lege Day-shall we ever forget the joy of it? Did ever a class carry its colors more proudly? Dial ever a class sing the songs Host? strayed? or stolenn more heartily? Did ever a class bear disappointment more bravely than we, as we lost the Freshman-Sophomore hasket-ball game? Our next public appearance was made in a different line. when the class presented on Thanksgiving evening. the play, Mr. Bo . I de- sire not to boast, but truly it met with an unusual hrst night success Unclcily no second. night followedl and it will long be remembered as one of our greatest elforts. During the long winter months we retired from the public gaze and I will but give you a peep at us, the Freshmen. who instead of playing, devoted Our time to those puzzling questions of Latin and mathe matics. so that we passed our Erst semi-annua-ls vvitliwah. Well, we are still here. With the spring. however, we came forth from our sanctum and be- gan to devote some of our time to athletics and small wonder. for did we 57 not have so much athletic material that. all for the glory of old rose and white, we won the Field meet? Secrets now began to fill the air again. In those wondlerl'ul spring days we were plotting anti planning for there was the class Hag to be made, the tree day stunt to be plannecl. and, at the foundation of both of these. that glorious picnic at Brown's to be enjoyed. When all these preparations were over came that bright and sunny Tree Day, when, with all pride and joy. we watched: our Hag go up, when we did our stunt, inunortalizing our clover blossom. and when, last of all. we planted our class tree to keep our memory here green. This Was our last appearance in our Freshman year, for being deemed superfluous ornaments, we were sent home before Commencement week. However, nothing daunted by this seeming lack of appreciation, we returned this fall only half as great in number, but fully twice as great in feeling of importance. Our second Tuesday evening back we entertainerl our sis- ters. the Seniors. showing deference to their dignity by asking them to impersonate stately colonial dames and gentlemen, which they did with no end of success. Society was dropped for a time and once again preparations for col- lege day began. We had fewer secrete this year than last. but we kept them just as well. Again the day came. again we lost the basket-ball game, but with a. 'better fight than ever, and again our stunt was one long to be remembered. We placed before the waiting crowd on the athletic field, a pageant of the Western College History, from its foundation to the com- pletion of its endowment fund. which made all hearts more loyal to Western. On Halloween evening our class presented to the college Miss Fearless and Company. a most delightful little farce, which was followed by a trip to the Country Grocery and uSpools: Island. or to be a trifle more prosaic by a bazaar in Alurrmae Hall, where most interesting. as well as most refreshing things, were sold. Perhaps. however, the event best remembered by all was our Thankrr giving Banquet. Never was such a feast placed before Western as that which the class of 'l 2 gave on nanksgiving. and never did such a toast mistress preside as our president! Need I add more to the honor and fame of this class while the memory of that banquet is still vivid in all minds? S. HOOVER. .. t 4 7 5 5 LL J ' t ll LK L x L ' fgiu LLLL l L 5' T+- x e? r leg? L. W THE FBESHMEN FRESHMAN CLASS ALLEN. NELLIE ARMSTRONG, MILDRED ASHBY, BERTHA BARR, MABLE BAILY. CLORJS BALLARD, CHARLOTTE BEVERIDGE, ELEANOR BOYD. F RANGES BRADT, MARGARET BRITTEL. BESSIE. BROWNLEE, HELEN CARY, ROWENA CARL, RUBY CARGILL. MARTHA CALDWELL. MARY CLARKE, EVELYN CHICK. MILDRED COUTANT, EDNA COLLMER, ALMA CRAWFORD. ETHEL CROUSE. LOUISE DAVIS. SYLVIA DAVIS, LAURIE DAX. EMMY DEVIN, ISABEL DOWLING. MARGUERITE DUGAN. FLORENCE ELLABARGER. LEORA ELMORE, LAURA FEREE. RUTH F ISHER. CLADYS F reshman Class R011 FOSTER, F RANGES FORNEY. MELISSA GIBSON, MARGARETTA GREEN, HELEN CIFFEN, EDNA GUEST. MARION HARTMAN. Isom HARVEY. NANCY HELLIWELL, LILLIAN HELLIWELL, MARION HOFFMAN, BERTHA HOLLIDAY. MARY HOLLIDAY, ELLA MAE HUELSTER. FRANCES JACKSON, ISABELLA JOHNSON. ELSIE KELL, ESTHER KERR, EDITH KIMPLE. ISABELLA KING. MURIEL Koows. KATHLEEN LAMBERT. MARION LANE, ALTINA LANDIS. MAY LONG, BESSIE LOVE. MABEL MARTIN, HAZEL MILLXGAN. MARY L. MILLER. PATTIE MEYERS. RUTH MILLS. ALGA MILLIGAN. MARY B. 62 MUELLER. GRETCHEN MURRAY. PAULINE MURRAY, HELEN MCKEE, LEILA MCELDONNEY. GLADYs MCGUFFIN, MIRIAM NEWTON. HULDA OLIVER. REBECCA PRICE. NELLIE REVENAUGH, FLORENCE RICHELDERFER. RUTH RIGGS, ELLEN ROBE. RUTH RUNYAN, GRETA SHEEHAN, MARY SHEPARD. MINNIE SHOTWELL, MAE SIMAN, HAZEL SMALLEY. RUTH STARLJNG, MAURINE THODE. CHRISTEL TURNER. GENEVA WATKINS, JOAN WAYTE. GERTRUDE WAHL. GERTRUDE WRIGHT. RUTH WILcox, LAURA WILSON. EDITH WOODS, MARY WOODHULL. ARIMA F reshman Class History TH EOREM- F a F reshman class composed of at least 75 regular members. and pos- sessed with much class spirit and average brilliancy. enters college; and during the Erst year keeps equally balanced! three phases of college life, namely, a good standard average in work. a successful fullillment of all social life. and a glad upholding of all college precedents; at its graduation in the spring of the fourth year. it will be approaching as its limit, perfect honor. trust and influence for the best. in the circle of the universe about it. Let W F A. a variable represent the Western College Freshman class of I913 in '09-'I0. Let side W A or precedents equal side A F or social life equal side F W or work. To provaeAt the emi of four years this class will be approaching, as its limit. perfect honor, trust and influence for the best. in the circle of the universe about it. Proofz-To prove the limit of a variable. it is necessary and suf- ficient to prove that the difference in absolute value between the variable 63 and the constant. can become and will remain less than any assigned con- stant however small tCollege Algebra Principlet W F A, the Freshman class. entered at Western College in I909, is composed of 67 regular. and 30 conditioned members. It is possessed with much class spirit as proved by its speedy organization. Its side F W. or Work, includes for the first year Livy. De Amicitia. Horace. College Algebra. Trigonometry. Essay, Bible. Literature. to- gether with the usual elective language, sciences or history. tprovecl by College CurriculumJ It also stands for a standard average 34. tFrom the oHicial recarit .xlf side F W stamis for such work in '09 and 'lO, it will increase two-fold tas in FigJ each succeeding year tAxiom: All Western stu- dents increase at least two-fold each year in standard of world. Its side F A. or Social Life. includes both the religious and the purely social functions. It means that during the first year the class of l9l3 held regular weekly class prayer meetings. that they were faithful in attendance at church and chapel. that the majority of the members be- longed to the Y. W. C. A. and that nearly half of the College Choir was composed of Freshmen. It also means that they responded with pleasure both to the welcome reception on Sept. 8. given them by the Y. W. C. A.. and the Children's Party on Sept. 14, which was a perfect circus and a jolly welcome. quite pleasing to the younger as comiiig from their older sisters, the Juniors. On College Day, Oct. 12. this class received and entertained in a pleasing and most interesting manner. As hostesses they were resplendent in their new crimson and white, their guests were much delighted and enthused over the excitement of the Saphomore-Freshmen basket-ball contest, and when the Freshmen emerged from the game with their wonderful victory. they quite establishect their reputation. 0n the evening of November 24 this class presented a. most pleasing Operetta. Bobby Shaftoe, after which their sisters. the Juniors royally entertained for them the next day. Thanksgiving. they served. without spilling. the Sophomore banquet. That tiny they also assisted in the toasts and the musical program. On Jan. l2 and 19 President and Mrs. Newman en- tertained this class in a most charming manner. On Senior Day, Feb. 22, they also assisted in the toasts and music. nor was one member lack- ing when there was a call to decorate or entertain. And with equal en- thusiasm diey entered graciously and gracefully into all the many birthday parties, tea parties, picnics and impromptu social gathexings of the year. .If F A stands for such success in the social life in '09 and ilO. it will increase two-fold! has in FigJ each succeeding year hColgiege Calen- dar and Histories of all graduate classes from Western in the mall Its side W A or Precedent: includes College Day, Class Play, Serv- ing Thanksgiving Banquet. Senior Day. Tree Day and Commencement, all of which this class gladly observed. It also includes Domestic Work. Honor System. Silent Time, Slippers after Seven, Tray Notes at the Hour Bell. Excuse Blanks widiin Twenty-four Hours. Exercise Reports. Mrs. Roetigs's Oyster Sandwiches, Retreat Violets, Tuesday Nights with Miami Brothers. Those Glorious Serenades. The Longfellow. and The Ark, to all of which this class firmly adhered. 64 .If W A stands for such glad upholding of College Precedents in '09 and 'I0. it will increase two-fold has in FigJ each succeeding year hWestem College. History and Axiom: Once a Western Freshman; al- ways a True Western Daughterl .Since the 3 sides of W F A are equal Gay hpr. and each has been proved to be constantly increasing, W F A is constantly increasing and appmaching its limit. W F A represents the Western College Freshman Class of i9l3 in 509-10. . uThis class is constantly approaching its limit. which is perfect honey. trust and influence for the best, in the circle of the universe. This class may constantly approach, but never reach this limit hAxiom and Law of Life: No man is perfect in anything. . .This limit fulfills the requirement as given in the delinilion above. .-.The Western College Freshman class ,09 and il 0 at its graduation will be approaching as its limit perfect honor. trust and inHuence for the best, in the circle of the universe about it. Q. E. D. Sunniness McPherson Dr. Neil In response to the request that he write a few lines suggesting one thought cuan- tigl to the success of a Cnilcge Freshman. we have the following article by Rev. Neil McPherson, Panoz- of the Tabernacle Prasbylerian Church of Indianapolis. We be- IiEVe that the Upper Classmen also. who have missed this bit of advice as Freshmen, may glean. even now, a helpful thought for possible itormy days in the future. NE of the richest assets in a young woman's life is sunniness. To be able to meet the disappointments of life with hopefulness and joyousness in indicative of personal powen The woman who can- not get beyond her private losses and griefs but is forever foisting them upon her friends is weak. Hamlet said, the time is out of joint, when only 'his fortunes were out of joint. Some folks think that the world is coming to an eat! when only their faith is coming to an emf. A woman,s desponclency ought never to be allowed to vih'ate her judgment. The noblethearted mother forgets her griefs and her losses because of the glad- ness and lihe prosperity of her children. Life's larger views ought always to dominate individhal experience. The general prosperity of the wmld ought to gladden our hearts and make the gloomiest soul optimistic. To feel that the worlci is moving irresistibly towards a richer manhood and a nobler nationhood ougzt to touch every life with a joyous inspiration. But whether we accept this or not, We ought not to foist our private griefs upon others or allow these griefs to stain our conceptions of noble living. Dickens tells us that when Mrs. Cratchet thought it was time for her husband to return home from the work she put aside her sewing and pressed her face with her hands, saying. the color hurts my eyes and it makes em weak by the candle light. but I wouldit show weak eyes to Bob Cratchet for the world. She pocketed her private pains and met Bob Cratchet with a sunny disposition. There's power in that. Try it. Uo BARBER. ALTA MAY BARROWS, ALICE. BEASLEY. EDNA GOLDTHWAITE, MARGARET P reparatory Class R011 HAYMES. BESSIE HOLLIDAY, ELEANOR LAMBERT, MILDRED MEEKS. MARY Moss. ETHEL USP ORR, FRANCES ROHLFING. IRENE STEIN. MARGARET WATTS. ELIZABETH Preparatory Class History N the morning of September eleventh, nineteen hundrecf and nine. when the seats in chapel were assigned, the thirteen members of our illustrious preparatory class came together for the first time. We were rather a dejected looking class for several days, and sat during chapel. gazing enviously at our Freshmen neighbors. But our lonesome feeling soon left us. when Dean Sawyer and a friendly Sophomore called us to- gether for the purpose of organizing. We elected our class chairman and diaperone unanimously and felt for the first time that we were a part of the college. . But as College Day approadled and the other classes were prac- ticing songs and yells for the game. onee more we felt left out and alone in the world. Just a week before the eventful day. however, our friends, the Sophomores. once more rescued us from disappoinhnent and disgrace. We were admitted into their circle and were allowed to help with the best College Day stunt ever given at the Western. Again at Thanksgiving we were an important feature. when our chairman opened the program of toasts at the banquet. Thus we have drifted along together. the thirteen members of an unusual class. under the leadership of our sbters the Soph- omores and bound together by the close tie of companionship. I am sure that by united eHorts we can make a hrm foundation for the most illustrious Freshman class in the history of our college. 70 if. y W wig, . int: :73? :82, t E ' E. I E ' ll? :5. ' ?:3 -. Organization of the Student Government League GERTRUDE VAJEN BROWN. '07 T is with a feeling of mingled joy and pride that we. who were in school at the Western College in the Spring of 1907, look back ane go over in our minds those first days of organization and construction of Student Government in our college. Though at the time we looked forward with hopeful hearts, sometimes doubting hearts. no one realizect fully at the time. the meaning of what we were doing nor could we know just what it was going to mean to our Alma Mater. No one going as a visitor today into the halls of Western College could doubt the wisdom of the Dean and Faculty in resolving to place the mle and order of the students within their own hands. A description of the various feelings, expressions and exclamations of surprise on the part of the Western girls when Dean Sawyer on the morning of March H, I907, after brief chapel exercises, told for the hrst time of the resolution on the part of the Dean ancl Faculty to grant to the girls the privilege of self-government, would be impossible. Some were most happy. some doubtful. some 'even sorry, but our Dean was wise enough not to allow the matter to be weighed too carefully. but set each one to work immediately to plan and carry out the organization. The class presidents were instructed at once to call class meetings to elect representatives to help draw up the Constitution. all of which was done on Tuesday and Wednesday of the same week. On Thursday noon Miss Harriet Congdon. then Professor of Greek. as chairman of the Constitu- tional Body. called a meeting which gathered in the Round Table Room after dinner. three Faculty members. Miss Congclon. Miss Fish, Miss Chenot, two Seniors, two Juniors, two Sophomores. two Freshmen and one Preparatory Student. After the reading of the uGrant of Powers. Miss Congdon in a brief talk impressed on the mind of each one the magnitude of the present opportlmity of the Student Body for larger growth and the responsibility of the Constitutional Body in drawing up the Constitution which would lit the requirements of conditions in our school. For the next week that group of twelve members met at every possible time and they 74 were a proud lot of women when the next week the Constitution was pre- sented in typewritten form to each class, where it was read. voteti upon and signed by every girl in school. As soon as the Constitution had been signed in the various class meetings, the nominations for the oHicers were made in the Junior and Senior Classes and members of the Central Board elected. In the Student Body, Miss Congdon was elected as the hrst Faculty Representative of the Central Board and those who were on the Central Board will always remember her faithful and unsparing interest and activity of that time. On Friday the twenty-first of March for the first time the Western girls went to the polls to vote, electing their Presi- dent. Vice-President and Sec'y-Treasurer. It was a novel experience for all and there was great fun because of the so-called woman suffragists. The next week the President called a meeting in New Hall. where Miss Mary Mason was elected House Chairman. Many will remember that gathering When the President was forced to enter actively on her duties by presenting to all the necessity for quiet. dignified action. A like meet- ing was held that same day in the parlors of Peabody Hall. anti Miss Martha Hackett was unanimously elected. These two young women. after much planning and consulting, called together the various corridors where proctors were elected. One thing still neetiled to be done to complete the machinery of organizationethe calling together of the Central Board. Which was accomplished the night before departure for Spring Vacation. Each one left that hrst meeting of the Central Board with a feeling of greatest happiness because of the quickness of our organization and the bright prospects that were before us for beginning in earnest our Student Government after vacation. No one tried to deny the responsibility of it all and it was that feeling of responsibility on the part of each girl that made the Erst three months of Student Government such happy ones. They were hard three months in some ways, easy in others-for there was no one who had not had at least six months in which to see and know West- ern standards. We cannot tell all that happened during those first three months. April. May and June-the various Board meetings. conferences and talks with the President and Advisory Committee. election of officers for the next year and preparations for the fall work, but the happy ending of our hrst attempt at Student Government made all feel that every girl had put her shoulder to the wheel hand by her faithfulness had opened the way for larger opportunities for future Western students. On Monday evening of Comencement week, the Student Govern- ment League gave an entertainment on the lawn in front of Peabody Hail. The girls appeared by classes, wearing distinctive costumes. The Seniors, all i'essed in white. appeared hrst, wearing their famous Tree Day npeppy hats. since the poppy was their class Hower. They won hearty applause as they drove forth from the unknown in a large wagon with a piano concealed among them to furnish the accompaniments. The Juniors, wear- ing crimson sashes over their white gowns. followed. The Sophomores gave a very pretty march. a dozen of their number who were dressed in rutEed costumes of yellow and white crepe paper and crowned with daisy wreaths led the march which ended by all forming the figure of a daisy with the wreathed members as the heart of the HoWer. How proud we were of that large Sophomre class who left college last year, I909. the 75 largest class our Alma Mater has sent forth. Hue Freshmen were drased in Japanese costumes. carrying Japanese lanterns. but the poor Freshmen though brave in heart. were driven from the scene of action by a sudden shower which. however. lasted a very few minutes. The Senior Preps came forth last and though the baby of the Western family, made us all very proud that our children muld sing so well. They told in their song of the stately Senior, the gay frivolous Junior. the athletic Sophomore, who won the loving cup, the verdant Freshman, who came to college with curls down her back, accompanied by her high school diploma and her mother, and last of all. the infant Prep. The class exercises were followed by a pretty flower dance and the crowning of the Queen. Miss Mary Clark. who had been elected as Pres- iclent of the League for the next year. A Japanese lantern procession fol- lowed. which gave brilliant eEect on the lawn in the darkness. Great ap- plause came from the audience when the line of march formed an immense vivid W. Our hrst entertainment ended with scenes in pantomime from Hiawatha and all withchew from the lawn, happy over our first appear- ance to the Alumnae as the Student Government League of the Western College. Student League Officers F RANCH LANDERs, 'IO. President EDITH M. SMITH. ,IO, Vice-Presidenl. HAZEL i. SHROYER, ,09. Secretary. JEANNETTE. B. ASHMAN, Treasurer. INCE its organization the League has taken several forward steps. S It has been granted the executive and judicial authority over the con- duct of individual students on and off the campus. The honor sys- tem has been established in conducting the Final examinations. but the League is young and the proportion of new girls is such that it has been deemed wiser to build more securely on what has already been attained. rather than to strive to increase prerogatives. The foundation stone of Student Government is honor. without which it can only end in disastrous ruin. Neither can this sense of honor be conEned to a few individuals; it must be something that each member of the League possesses. for Student Government above all institutions, depends upon the ability and the will- ingness of each individual to carry out its ideas, spirit and laws. This strict sense of honor in little things. if not learned in college or before. is something not likely to be acquired after graduation. A woman must step into her place in the world with principles well formed or she Will be-car- ried along with the current and will not make that stand for good which is expected of every college man or woman. F or this reason Student Gov, emment is a great advance in college administration. for it trains in a very practical way for the life that follows student days. It emphasizes honor, loyalty. and obedience to law and order; it marks the difference be- tween absolute right and expediency; it binds the members of one college family together through the desire of every American body of people to' govern itself. '76 The League plans to have a special speaker some time during the year. The Honorable Wade Ellis, Attorney General of Ohio. lectured in I908. Dr. Francis L. Bishop. of St. Louis. adclressed us on Prophylac- tics in I909, and Dean Fitch. of Oberlin. spoke to us on Sincerity. Sympathy and Loyalty. in the fall of I909. On the nidlt before Tree Day, which comes about the middle of May. the president-eiect is crowned queen of her subjects. The ceremony of last year 'was one of the prettiest celebrations ever held at the Western. After dark on the 18th of May. I909, the students gathered in a large semi-circle before the steps of Peabody Hail. The president and the president-elect preceded by Hower girls and followed by representatives of the Senior class and the members of the old and new Central Boards, came down the steps and took their places on a throne erected for the pur- pose. The president, Miss Celine Neptune. spoke a few farewell words and gave the insignia of office to the new president. The classes paid homage to the new queen in various ways. A Mayvpole dance was given by the Juniors, the Sophomores came as a band of minstrels. twelve Fresh- men girls game a most beautiful hoop dance. and the preparatory students presented the college with a new Western flag. After a few words by the presidenl-elect, the ceremony was closed by a very eHective lantern drill in which all took part. Western Oxford Editorial Staff 9 VANCE EWING. 'IO, Editor-in-Chief. i1 JEANNETTE Ausm. 'I 1. Business Manager. 3 LENORE THOMS. 'lZ. Asst. Manager. Associate Editors. 7ALICE RECORD, 10. ' LILLIAN LARINAN. l l. A515131111 SMITH, 'IO. 6 FLORENCE SMITH. 'l2. 77 EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial Staff for the Multifaria 3 IVY A. TRUMAN, 'IO, Editor-imChief. 7 HELEN GALT, 10'. Business Manager. F RANGES LANDERS. 10. HELEN BROWN, '10. ,1 ALINE STEVENS, '10. 6- MYRTLE QUANTIC, 'IO. 14, NELL COLES, 'lO. Rosa RANK lNS. '10. II ISABELLA DAY. 10. 30 1115ABEL Bones, '1 l. 11 GRACE HETZNER. '12. HELEN GREEN. '13. CHARLINE jAMIESON, 14. ID JEANNETTE STOTZER, Art Editor. 3' PEARL RUIHLEY. 12. Asst. Art Editor. HELEN PORTER, Alumna Editor. The Young Womerfs Christian Association W0 girls who returned to college in the fall of '897 brought with them a hre of enthusiasm which had been kindled at the Summer Conference at Lake Geneva. Wisconsin. They were eager to start a new movement which they had learned about in those golden days of inspiration. They aroused interest among the girls: and another delegate was sent to the State Conference in Toledo. A few days after her return, in November. the College Secretary. Miss Simms, visited the Western and organized a branch of the Young Womerfs Chris- tian Association. She instructed them in the work of the new cabinet and helped arrange the committees. It is interesting to note that our Miss Louise Porter was the corresponding secretary of that first cabinet. In the Western Oxford of the following February. the editors mention the great interest which was taken in the Social Settlement work in Cincinnati. and the sending of a Christmas'box for the poor children of the city. Throughout these thirteen years the association has grown and has re- mained a strong voluntary factor in the deepening of our spiritual life and in making of us efficient women. The work of the association is not easily definable. but the undercurrent of happiness and the strong living of Chris- tian girls both are the cause and the result which are discerned by'thought- ful observers, and on which we all come to depend. whether consciously or unconsciously. On each Wednesday evening comes the student meeting which aims to touch practical questions of the college life. Some meetings in the year, like the Easter service, or one night of the week of prayer. are conducted by faculty-members of the association. Money for the yearly budget is obtained from the weekly pledge and yearly dues which are collected by the courteous finance committee from habitual systematic givers, who have grown to be such. however. not in a single night, but as a result of ctue emphasis and frequent reminder from the finance committee and the treasurer. Each year the association has sent some girls to the Summer Conference at Lake Geneva. and. in the 81 past two years. at Mountain Lake Park, Md.-, because it remembered the initial impulse of l897. and that individual, girls full of enthusiasm and abundant life make an association of the same sort. The visits of secretaries and other friends at intervals during the year have been valuable for keeping us in touch with the association work at large. Miss Sewa , territorial secretary; Miss Joy Smith. secretary for Cincinnati University, and Miss Dickey. secretary of the City Association of Hamilton. 0.. had each her claim upon our interest. The starting of the association for High School girls in Hamilton, under Miss Dickey's direction, was a new phase of work in our vicinity and we were glad to meet with their First cabinet to give them an idea of our college committees and to assure them of our friendly interest for the future. Mrs. Top- ping's visit was especially delightful, because we knew her to be the beloved teacher in Japan of Ishihara Kiku Sam, who has spent the year with us. In her Sunday evening address Mrs. Topping gave us illuminating bits of description of kindergarten work as it is carried on by Christian mission- aries in Japan. Another missionary was Miss Osborne. who told us in a simple practical way of the real pleasures of the missionary life and of her own joy in teaching in a school in China. The greatest opportunity of the year. and one which resulted to the advantage of that increasingly important branch of association work. Mis- sion Study. was the opportunity of sending our full quota of four dele- gates to the Fifth International Student Volunteer Convention at Roch- ester. It was a privilege that could ill have been missed. since we all re- ceived the inspiration of those five days from December twenty-nine to Jan- uary two, in the later general review of the convention, and the individual meetings led by the delegates. A renewal of the interest in Cincinnati Settlement work which char- acterized the first years of the association has been obtained. last year and this. by the enthusiasm of Mr. and Mrs. F. 0. White. who superintend! the Union Belhel in the city. Last spring they visited Western. and in proof of the pleasure and the awakening which they gave to the college girls. quantities of wild violets, picked from the rich profusion of the Violet Bank along the Tallewanda. were sent to the mission. We hope the Violet season may be good each year for the sake of the factory girls who cannot enjoy the glorious freshness and breadth of beauty which SUI- tound us here. The Senior class was invited by Mr. and Mrs. White to come by fours during the winter and spring and spend Tuesday evening and Wednesday in observing the weekly clubs, gymnasium classes and other helpful features of the settlement and its allied work. This oppor- tunity was greatly appreciated. There is one other side of the association which makes its appeal to the social nature of every girl. It expresses itself in the annual welcoming social at the beginning of each college year, am! in the birthday parties which come at intervals through the year to mark those events which are always so carefully observed at home. To join in a celebration with all the other girls who have birthdays in the same month makes life so much due merrier and gives each one the happy feeling that she was not born under an unlucky star at all, but under most propitious circumstances which predestined her to meet in this atmosphere of sisterly fellowship. There is also a bond of good feeling maintained between the cabinets of the three associations of the Oxford community. Oxford College. Miami University and Western. 82 Acou CLUB MILDRED ARMSTRONG 2? MARY GLADYS BOYLE '7 HELEN LOUISE BROWN Hi: ELLA BROWN 30 MILDRED MAY BROWN ZwELLEN DUBOIS COLEs ELIZABETH CROWTHER 3? ALICE DEVER 25MILDRED ELIZAQETH DEVIN ISABELLE. DEVIN 21 EMILY JACK DUNCAN LAURA ELMORE. '5 MARTHA VANCE Ewmc ID HELEN GALT HELEN GREEN 6 EMMA GOSAU 3.1 Vmcmm IRWIN GRIFFITH :20 EDITH ESTHER JUDY Agora Club ROLL OF MEMBERS ,3. GRACE. HETZNER FRANKIE KENNARD Lucy ELLA KEITH LAURA KENT KATHLEEN Koons .3 MARY ELIuBETl-l MARR JOHN GRANT NEWMAN 9' MYRTLE HANNAH QUANTIC IJ'RosE ELOISE RANKINS q LOLA OLMSTEAD MARY ALMA SAWYER 7 ABIGAIL EWING SCHWAB 1b HAZEL IRENE SHROYER J'EVA LEWIS SMITH I'I-FLORENCE LOUISE. SMITH 17' ADELAIDE KIDDER THOMPSON g MARY EASTMAN Woonm ARIMA WOODHULL X Lows: 'Povrc. v H Lvtult Sadlcw 1? 610.79. hallo? 1 q Marx Luusc. Buwcn 2 nun Mm; mar 86 Rou ND TABLE Cum DR. JOHN GRANT N EWMAN DEAN MARY A. SAWYER sts HARRIET E. GLAZIER 13 MISS MAUD ELDREDGE a sts MINA B. SELBY 5 JEANNETTE ASHMAN 2! LOLA BAUMGARDNER 1.? ISABEL Boccs :oNELLIE CAMPBELL lb JESSIE CURTIS q ISABELLA DAY q MARY DUSHANE 9,3 MIRIAM HORRELL RUTH HousmN 19 RUBY HUGHES H FRANCES LANDERS HleLlAN LARINAN Round Table HONORARY MEMBERS .3 MISS GRACE LYMAN I MISS Josapme-z MUNFORD MISS GRACE EMILY DERBY I :- MISS KATHARINE COCHRAN ? MISS ANNA HELEN TAPPAN 2,: MISS ALICE M. LIBBY MEMBERS 2.4 LOUISE MENDENHALL 6 MARY MOORE q VIOLA MUNZ lb Loxs RANKIN oLALICE RECORD r7 ELLA SCHENCK H MAY SHOTWELL r! EDITH SMITH 8' JANE. THOMPSON ,o LENORE THOMS 17 CHRISTINE WARNOCK Ba GRACE. WOODWARD Aims and Organizations of College Clubs LL of the clubs of Western are for one and the same purpose, namely the training of young Women to greater work in similar organizations eutslde of college. There is much to be done in the clwbs here, but there :5 much more in the great world outside. Literary and social sube Jects must necessaiily occupy the minds of the hame-makers and the workers who go out of from our college, so the clubs of Western are giving the training to its members which shall be of great benefit to them in the future. Practical intellectual workers are much needed in our womenis clubs of to- day. 111:: Agora Clulb of Western College was organized in November, eighteen hundred and: ninety-four. It was admitted into the State Federa- llon in January. eighteen hundred and ninety-five. and into the General Federation in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. The aims of the club have been high anct have been well carried out in the years of its flourishing existence. The purpose of Agora is to study not only the great literature of the world, but to keep its members in touch with world-wide questions. A great variety of subjects have been taken up, which have proved most beneficial as well as most entertaining. The club room has been the meeting place of many happy, social gatherings of its members. The Round Table Club was organized in February nineteen hundred and three and is a member of the Ohio State Federation of Clubs of the General Federation of Clubs, New York. The aims and motives of this club are much the same as those of Agata. The study of the questions of the day, of literature and of art, occupy its members prohtably and pleas- antly. The desire of the club is to keep its members in close touch With the outside world and its questions. Debates have afforded much excellent training for the members. The club room is a very popular place. for it is so located that it is easy of access for all the studlents in college. The club has been devoting its time to the many great social questions which are so vital to our nation today. These subjects have led to many interesting in- vestigations. All of the clubs are of great benefit to the members as places of social training. Also, much good practice in the art of public speaking is gained by those taking part in the programmes. The committee that has charge of the programmes aim to give all the members opportunity to take part. Aside from the excellent instruction given by the members of the clubs. we often have outside speakers who come to give lectures or readings. Among thm we had Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker. :1 well known reader. She 89 gave an excellent and entertaining reading and was entertained at a recep- tion given in her honor by the clubs, Agora and Round Table. Mrs. Johnston, formerly Dean of Women at Oberlin; Professar Clark, of Miami University. and Miss Annie Laws, president of the General Federation of Clubs. all gave interesting and beneficial lectures. The History Club The students in the History department are invited once a month to meet for discussion or reading of papers on some historical event. or to listen to the reports of articles of historical interest in the current magazines. The program for the hrst meeting was as follows: Henry Hudson's Contract with the East India Company. Readings from the i1..th of the Half Moon. Indian Accounts of the Half Mocnf1 The HudsoneFulton Celebration. At the second meeting a report was given of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American Historical Association in New York City during the Christmas holidays. The attention of those present was called to the founding. aims and work of this association. The mem- bers of the club have charge of the daily bulletin from the newspapers. The Classical Club N November of I90 7. the Classical Club was organized at the Western. Its purpose, as expressed in the constitution. is to promote an interest. on the pa-rt of the students of the Western College. in all branches of classical study. This first year the club presented two scenes from Plautus. and an open meeting was held, at which Miss Katherine Cochran delivered an illustrated lecture on A Trip Through Greece. In I908 the most important address of the year was given by Prof. Clark. of Miami University, on the Acropolis at Athens. This year the club has heldf its regular monthly meetings. at which such subiects as, The Classical Course as a Training for Business Life. that;e grade at Delphi. and the Art of Translating. have been con- 51 r . Agora Programme Churches of Paris: Notre-Dame. St. Denis. La Madeleine. Nolre-Dame hy Victor Hugo. Outline and Review of the Book. Music. T112 l.guvre: Sculpture. Paintings. N oted Tombs and Ctmeteries: Versailles. Debate: Resolved. That the French were justified in their hatred of Marie Antoinette. Music. Place de la Bastile. Tuilleries. Modem French Musicians. Sevres Porcelain Manufactory. Gobelin Tapestries. 90 Round Table Programme The Immigrant at Home; Conditions Leading to His Im- migration. Present Immigration Laws. Music. Foreign Population: In Cities. In Country. Padrone System. Debate: Resolved, That Immigration to the United Slates Should Be Further Restricted. The Tenment House Problem. Social Settlements: . Description of Hull House. Social Settlements: in Cincinnati. Music. Care of Dependent Children. The Wage-Earning Women of United States. Factory Labor. Liebchen 0 a passerby the Benton camp might have appeared quite deserted T that lazy August afternoon. The men had gone to hunt for grouse. Mrs. Buc-heim and her sister lay reading in hammocks hidden behind a clump of wild syringes, and the Bucheim's only child. a blue-eyed. curly- haired baby of three or four years. played among the pine needles which carpeted the ground. It was an ideal place for a camp. Beautiful beyond power of deseription with that majestic beauty seen only in the Rockies. The breeze murmured lazily in the huge pines, the blue Colorado sky seemed never bluer, and the intense mountain stillness was broken only now and then by the whir of wings as a huge pair of eagles flew to and from their nest on the top of a nearby peak. or by the distant call of a coyote. Isn't it restful, Martha? sighed young Mrs. Bucheim contentedJy. I am so glad we came. Everyone toltl me camping would be dreadful with a baby to look after. But Frederick is such a good child, I knew he would be no trouble. He loves it, too, I am sure-w-donit you. Iiebchen? she added. turning to the child. I loves you, miitterchen. he replied. running to kiss her. iiever and ever so big a love! Fee hungry. too. he added. Oh, so you love cookies. as well? said his mother, smiiing. Weil. run to the tent and get some out of the box by the door. The child tripped off and disappeared within the tent. Fifteen or twenty minutes passed and he did not return. Liebchen! called his mother. Oh. liebchen, come back to miitterchen! Receiving no reply she walked over to the tent herself. As she steppeci within she gave a terrified scream which brought her sister to her side. HOh. Martha. she exclaimed. F rederic is gone.r Where can he he? . He has probably wanciered out the back of the tent and is playing here among the trees, replied her sister reassuringly. But careful searching failed to reveal any traces of the missing child. Liebchen! called the mother frantically. Oh, Iiehchen. come back to miitterchen. come hack!u Every bit of surrounding Woods was care- fully explored and at length even the roar! which ran along in front of the camp. Finally, as the two women were becoming almost mute with deepen the men returned and a systematic search of all the surrounding country was made. There was no water near by. save a mountain Spring. in which the Child could not drown. and it seemed impossible that so young a child 91 could have wandered far. But all through the weary night the fruitless search was continued and the anguished cry of the despairing mother, more plaintive than the call of the coyote with which it mingled. rang out upon the air; Liehchen. oh my Iiebchen, come back ! At dawn the father. his face drawn and set, leaped into his saddle and rode away down the trail. The second day he returned. having made all possible speed over the rough mountain roads,-bringing with him a party of men and a pack of trained bloodhounds. With hopeful hearts they gave the dogs the scent and scarce dared breathe as they saw them take at once to the road. On they ran, noses to the ground. perhaps a quarter of a mile, when suddenly all stopped short. leaped straight into the air and howled. Again and again they were led back to camp and given fresh scent. but it was useless. Their strange actions were each time re- peated, and nothing could drive them beyond that spot. After several days the search was given up. camp was broken and the griefestricken party drove sorrowfuliy away. As they started forth upon their eighty-mile ride to the nearest town. above the rumble of the wagon there Heated back. ever and anon. the one word. liebchen! That was all. and yet so full of a mother's anguish was it that the wild beasts must have huddled closer to their young when they heard it. For many days offers of immense ransom appeared in every newspaper in the land. but no one ever came to tell the waiting mother whether her child wandered OE and was picked up by some wild beast to be devoured in its den; by an eagle, to be torn to pieces upon some lofty crag, or by an Indian to meet a fate perhaps more terrible than either of the others. :5 :1- :5 ar- ac Every one in the great city hospital loved the little lady in black. That Was her name. A few there were, perhaps. among the nurses who knew her real name; but to the children-for it was always the children's ward the visited-she was always the lady in black. Strange it was they did not call her ugranchna. for her hair was snow white. yet some- thing told the children that the lady in black was not a grandma, and their love for her was as the love given to a mother. Every morning she came as soon as the doors were opened. One day, however. she was late and another visitor was there before her. This was the head physician's son. a little lad scarce more than a baby, who had been aliowed as an especial birthday treat. to come and play for a time with the sick children. As the lady in hiack entered the ward, the affectionate little fellow ran to meet her. intending to take her hand and lead her to his mother. But be- fore 'he had reacheti her uthe laciy in black fell to the Hoot in a faint. Nurses ran to her and hnding their efforts to revive her unavailing. they hastily carried her to an adjoining room and summoned the house surgeon. uComplete collapse, was his verdict. Probably the beginning of a long sick spell. His words proved only too true. A slow fever, which had doubtless been at work for weeks, set in immediately. Delirium fol- lowed and the fragile body soon became so greatly ravageei that the patient lay in a semi-conscious state for some days At length, the nurse sought out the great head physician. Come and see ithe lady in black? .. she said. for every day the children ask for her. She is ill with typhoid fever and the house surgeon says her condition is improving. But I wish that you would come and see her anyway. for she is still quite delirious and calls continually for some one. I believe if this person were brought to her she would rally faster. but her voice is so indistinct we cannot understand who it is. I am told that she has no family. replied the doctor. uihieverti'te- $31 shell gladly come, for I have heard much of her kindness to the l ren. So saying he followed the nurse to the bedside. How weak and frail the little lady looked lying so quietly upon the white iron bed! But how big and strong was the splendid man bending over her! Surely his keen eye could look within and detect the real trouble, thought the anxious nurse. Presently the thin arms were reached out restiessly and the lips be- gan to move. Liebchen. said the weak voice. liebchen. The phy- sician beside her started violently. His face became drawn and pallid. He clenched his fists while great drops of perspiration fell fyom his fore- head. Again the frail voice sotmded. iiebchen! uMy liebchen! Then trembling. the great man took one wrinkled hand in his. stooped low over the bed. and. with mouth so city he could scarce articulate. he gasped. miitterchen! Then again. louder. in her very ear. umiittei'chen! Oh. miitterchen! At the word a smile lit up the pale face on the pillow. She must get well, Opening her eyes. she murmured, have you come, hebchen? My lieb- ehen? Then with a sigh of content she fell into a deep and peaceful slee t P Two months passed and again the lady in black came to visit the children's ward. But she was not the samwen the children felt that, and yet they loved her better for the change. So sad she had seemed be- fore. but so happy amt smiling now. Then. she had always come alone. but of late the great physician brought her in upon his arm. One day the busy cioctor stopped long enough to tell the children a story. It is the story of a little boy. he said. who was carried off by an eagle. As the eagle was fiying to its nest with the helpless child in its taions. it paused a moment upon the mountain side to rest, for the child was a chubby little lad and heavy. An old Indian, keen of eye, and accurate of shot. who had been watching the great bird in its merciless Hight, seized this oppor- tunity and shot it. Then. climbing up the steep mountain side, he rescued the unharmed child and carried him home to his tribe. far away on the other side of the mountains. The Indian knew not whence the child had come, and to all queries. the poor frightened baby could only cry, 'mutter- Chen: or say that his name was iliebchenf And thus it came about that he was kept by the Inohians, who gave to him the name of Eagle and made him a dress of feathers picked from the big eagle. This pleased the little boy very much. and so. not unhappy. he lived on with the Indians, grow- ing from habyhood to boyhood, anti knowing nothing of his former life save the memory of twu words. 'miitterchen' and 'liebchenf and the story of his rescue from the eagle. which the old Inciian often related to him. When he was about ten years old, a party of men travelling in the mountains, saw the child. and taking compassion on him. one of them bought him from the Indians. took him home with him and adopted him. The little boy was very happy wiHi his new father and mother. but it was not long until both died. Nevertheless. the child went on to school as his foster parents had desired. and became at last a doctor. But after he had grown to be a man with a little boy of his own, he one day found the shadow lady who had always come to him in dreams. the dearly loved 'miitterchen,' of his babyhood. And that day. chilch-ent concluded the doctor, placing his arm around the lady in black. was the happiest day of his life. ELLA S. SCHENCK. 'l I. Discretion is the Better Part of Valor 5454! Ted turned cautiously in the direction from whence the call had come. keeping. however. a wary eye on the teadher's momentarily turned back. His chum. Tod. held up two fingers and grinned inquiringly. Sure: whispered1 Ted, understandingly. To one acquainted with boy ulingo, two Fingers held up, means the swimmin' hole. After school the two cronies fairly tore home. They separated at their respective gates. promising to meet at the covered bridge. But alas. as Ted entered the kitchen. his mother eyed him sternly and said. ilYou git that potato fork. an' dig them potatoes just as quick as you know how. Aw. mom. shoot it. I promised Tod to go swimmini Its so hot! You did, eh! And after I told you just this morning you couldn't! Well, and she strode to the corner where hung a bundle of lithe hickory persuaders. And as Ted knew that his mother not only believed in. but also lived up to. very thoroughly, the old adage, Spare the rod. and spoil the child. he ducked suddenly under her upraised arm and escaped unscathed. Slowly and disappointedly he got the fork and trailed drearily down to .the potato patch. Never before had the rows seemed so interminable; and he had just made a beginning. when he heard Tod's familiar whistle. Turning, he saw him perched on the fence. clad in as few clothes as the law allows. idly swinging his bare heels against the rails, and' whistling derislvely. Gee, kid. what'chu work-in' fer? Thought yu, was goin, swimmin'. Aw. shut up. snapped Ted. I can't go. ding it! I gotta' dig potatoes. Aw, cowdy. oowdy calf! 'Fraid yer mother'll lick yu'. Baby, baby. onward. coward. mammis little Teddy-boyfi chanted Tod, tauntingly. Dare you to come! . u e ' . What yu' talkin' about, hustled Ted. I am t, afraid of a lickin'. I was just waitinl fer you. Come on. Let 5 go. And dropping his fork with a carefully. careless fling, he vaulted the fence, and the two disappeared into the adjoining field of com. In a few minutes they emerged beside a willow-fringed pool, with shelving banks, where three other boys were already splattering and shouting. Last one in's a niggerahaby. yelled Ted; and with a ripping of buttons. a wriggle and shake. and a jump, they were in. 93 Whee, it's colcl. But it certainly does feel good. uBet I can duck you. Bet you can't. And then ensued a furious struggle, in the midst of which Tod happened to glance along the bank. Striding along through the trees came a tall. angular woman. gripping hrmly and significantly, one of those fatally familiar hickory switches. uCheese: it. kid! Here comes yer maw! One glance. and Ted started frantically for the bank. You better not. warned one of the boys. knowingly. she'll ketch yu' without no clothes. Tecl saw the wisdom of this suggestion; and then. as his mother came up. acting on a happy inspiration, he took a long breath and sank beneath the surface. under the shelter of the overhanging bank. You seen Ted? she asked. glancing suspiciously from one to another of the small boys standing in the water with nothing showing but their heads, dripping hair plastered shinily down. and looks of cheruhic innocence on their faces. No, ma'am. answered Tod respectfully. we haven? saw him. If she had been on the sandy beach opposite, she certainly would have saw him. And had- she not been so angry. she would have laughed. for there under the bank, head under water, crouched Ted. red-faced, holding his nose in a tight grip. with only a string of bubbles. slowly rising to the top, to indicate his presence. As it was.-and luckily for Ted. too.-the small dog on the opposite bank, madly jumping up and down. and barking excitedly. roused no suspicions in her mind. With a last searching look. and a disgusted snort. she abruptly turned away; and vanished among the trees. Come on out. She's gone. uGee. blurted Ted. popping to the top. if she'd a'stayed- a minute longer. 13 albusted. Wish? I'd a'lmowed she Wanted them po- tatoes for supper. Then, meditatively. Guess I'll see if I can slip in and git on two or three pairs a' pants before she ketches me. She cer- tainly can whale a teller some. rubbing his legs reminiscently. HAZEL Howe. '12. Pendletonis First Slumber Party ES. I just guess itlll have to be a slumber party. Them receptions is too much like church socials, and that there six o'clock dinner Marthy gave was a good deal like one 0' our Missionary Society suppers. 'eepting the table was all fancy an' there wasn,t near so much to eat. Course, we folks had a snack at noon, but land sakes. think a' wait- in' till six for your dinner and then just havin, a bite. F act is. Sarah. I most starved the whole time I was at William's. City folks is so funny. But I surely did see some society. and as I was a sayin'. I guess I'll have to give a slumber party. Pendleton ain't never had one of them. I guess. and I think it's my duty to Ho somethin' real new an' excitinl to wake this town up an' make it sociable. Miss Steele settled back in her chair with the air of a martyr, calmly resigned to her fate. and waited for her hostess to say something. Mean- while. however. evincing her utter indifference to any opinion that lady might offer, by staring straight through her at the window beyond. 0' course. I ain't never been to the city, visitin'. Mary, but I don't just see how a slumber party would ever wake anythin' up. said Mrs. Thompkins hnally, in an exasperatingly placid tone. lnwardly she was consumed with dread, lest there might by some chance, be a speck of dust remaining on the polished window pane, which seemed to be absorbing Miss Steele's attention. Oh. thatls just because you don't understand about dem. You wouldn't talk so if you'd ever been to one. answered Miss Steele with studied superiority, slowly bringing her gaze back from the window to the other woman's face. Then. rising. nVVeIl, I must be goin'. I feel. now that Ilve decided. like I must be gettin' at. I guess I'll have it next week. .bout Thursday. so as everybody'll have their washin' and ironin' done an?! prayer meetin'll be over. But don't say nothin' about it just yet, Sarah. Well, gooddbye. And the plump little lady was gone. Huttering Clown the Thompkins' steps. with her head cocked knowingly on one side, like an important brown sparrow. But as she rounded the lirst comer, out of sight of angular Mrs. Thompkins, Who she knew was lingering on the porch. a look of utter amzement and terror overspread her features. Well. Mary Steele. said she, addressing herself. I hope you're happy! You old simpleton, you've surely been an' gone an' done it. this 'time. I should think you'd get over lettin' that woman rile you clean out 94 0, all your senses. You know precious well that you made up your mind this very mornin' that it wasn't your duty to have a party anal let !em clutter your house all up. just because you've been in some society. But just let Sarah Thompldns crook her linger at you an' you begin struttin' around tryin' to show off, like an old turkey gobbler! A slumber party! An' next Thursday! 0. dear! O. dear! Irelapsing into the First person in her distressJ What ever am I goin, to do? All I know about 'em is that Marthy never let Ethel go afore this year. 'cause she didn't think they was goocl for school girls. An' Ethel said they was things where you sat up all night anl talked an' et. An' I won't dare write an ast Marthy ,cause she'd think such going's on awful fur me. An' Ethel's in Californy an' I told that Thompkins woman next Thursday, an' she'll tell the whole town afore night! 0, dear! O, dear! And Miss Steele stumbled blindly up her own steps and hid her anxiety behind her eminently respectable front door. Mrs. Thompl-tins setting out the cold potatoes and meat from dinner for the evening meal, fulfilled Miss Steele's expectations. beginning her self-appointed task of spreading the news. by telling Mr. Tompkins. Mary Steele's been here this altemoon, Sam. an' what do you think she's igoin' to do? uVVell. seein' as she's just back from visitin' her brother's folks agin. I 'spose she's a-seein, her duty to Pendleton, as usual. I ain't never been sure about bein, able to put my linger on Mary's doin's, and since the last time. when she made us all send samples 0' our well water up state for 'em to hunt for bugs in it, I ain't got courage enough to even try a guess about her. Mr. Thomp-kins' tone spoke of former painful dis- illusionments, incident to Miss Steele's reformatory measures. ., 0, it ain't anything that'll bother you any. Sam Thompkins. so you needn,t be gettin' so high an' mighty. I ain't overly fond 0' Mary Steele. but she has took more interest in this town than most 0' you lazy men folks, retorted his wife. taking up the cudgels in defense of her sex. Then. returning with feminine logic to the subject in hand. she continued: Well. 3115 Ema she,s goinI to give us some society. a slumber party. next Thde ay. What in the kingdom's a slumber party? asked her still skeptical husband. Well. here in our kitchen. with none around. I don't mind tellin' you that I ain't got a ghost of an idea myself. But don't you breathe it to a livin, soul. I 'low I'll find out before Thursday. answered Mrs. Thompkins with determination. k' Why didn't you just ast Mary? innocently inquired Mr. Thomp- ms. His wife shot a withering glance at him. HThat just shows how much sense men have got. Do you. s'pose I'd give her the fun of ex- plainin' to me? Why. she just stopped off here today to blow to me 'bout her visit. an' do you think I'd help her to any chanet to do some more showing 0H? Goodness knows, I'd like most awful well to know for sure what a slumber party is. An' do you know. Sam. I'd like to End out. too, how much Mary really knows. It kind a' struck me, maybe she was just puttini on 'bout bein' to so many of iem. And when I think it over. I'm mortal certain she never intended to have no party, at all. till she stopped in an' got to blowin'. 'Cause she looked so awful queer after she spoke about it ani she seemeti in la dreaclful hurry to leave after that. But come on. now. to supper or 'you'll be late to deaconis meetin'. An', anyway, I want to get things reti up. so as I can run over an, tell Mrs. Warner and Mrs. Brown. In the ensuing clays it: became very evident that if MI. Thompkins, and perhaps others of his sex, had lost faith in Miss Steele as a leader, the women of Pendleton were still willing to follow her. The invitations to her slumber party threw the feminine portion of the towa's population into spasms of excitement. Everyone-was asking: What is a slumber party? Mrs. Thompkins. assuming a very knowing air and tactfully avoiding any direct questions as to the extent of her own knowledge on the subject, hacl sought but in vain for an answer to the query. On Sunday at: church. the goocl pastor listened with astonishment to the 'buzz of talk Which arose immediately after the benediction. won- clering if his sermon haci been especially good or especially unorthodox. Little groups of women were gathered everywhere in the aisle. Only M155 Steele and Mrs. Thompkins seemed to have been unimpressed by the dis- course. and went hurrying away. On Monday morning the slumber party retarded the process of hanging Pendleton's linen out to dry. by a full half hour at least. At Missionary Sewing Circle on Tuesday afternoon. there was an undertone of suppressed excitement and very little real work. Miss Steele was absent and Mrs. Thompkins sat off at one side and worked in a most industrious and forbidding manner. Then Wednesday night, things came to a climax. After prayer meeting. when Miss Steele was seen to depart. Mrs: Warner gathered the other good ladies of the church about her in an exalted group. 95 You see, she explained. I just thought when everybody was talkini about slumber parties, that I'd just write and ast Carl up to the university about 'em. Well, here's what he says: iWe fellows donit have slumber parties, mother. but the girls at the dorm talk about them and l have gathered that they are affairs at which you stay up all night and talk. with refreshments between sentences.' 0' course, explained the fond parent. ithat's just Carl's way 0' talkin, when he says all night. But I guess we neednit be so scared of a slumber party if it's just talkjn' and eatmt, Well. I must say, observed Mrs. Brown with emphasis. I think it would look a whole lot better if we was to take our sewin' an' be doin' somethin' instead 0' sittin' around all evenin'. This remark caused a lively discussion. some of the ladies siding with Mrs. Brown and others fearing that it might be improper to sew at a slum- ber party. Mrs. Brown and her contingent won at last and the group departed. talking Volubly. A solitary figure followed them after a moment. and as she passed into the darkness a woman's voice remarked exultantly. uVitall. I did fmcl out. just like I told Sam I would. Alf not a one of 'em noticed me standin' there talkin' to Deacon Gibson ibout the new pulpit cushion! Course I'll take my sewin' now. since theyite agoini to. just as if I'd always knowecl that was the thing to do. An' I'mr surer than ever. now. that Mary Steele don't know anything about slumber parties. 'cause this donit sound one hit new or excitin'. After the longest clay in Pendleton's history. Thursday evening finally arrived. Miss Steele, arrayed in her shiny Sunday taHeta. made a final tour of inspection about six o'clock. She was restless and visibly excited. As she surveyed1 the parlor chairs all primly ranged along the wall. inspected the plates and edi'bles set in order on the dining room table, and bestowed a glance on the spare room. where the guests were to leave their wraps, she observed softly to herself. Well, I do hope none of ,em has found out for sure, tho' I'm mor- tal certain Sarah Thompkins suspects somethin'. I blowed so big about slumber parties bein' ditterent an' here so farls I know. they're just like our socials after all. Well, anyway, the stayin' most all night will be somethin, new. Tll not give 'em a bite to eat till nigh on to midnight. an' I guess that'll be excitin'. At seven the ladies began to arrive. each clad in her best. and each carrying a bag or bundle. For the first paralyzing moment these latter tilled Miss Steele with the fear that they haul come as hidden by the vety misleading invitationFtO slumber. But when the fust ones descended the stairs she was greatly relieved to see them bringing ciown their sewing. altho she wondered why Ethel had failed to mention that particular feature to her. The guests rose nobly to the requirements of the situation. talking volubly in their determination that Pendleton should acquit itself with credit at thier-its first slumber party. However, several of the ladies seemed nervous and ill at 'ease and audible sighs of relief greeted the appearance of Mrs. Thompkins, armed with a ponderous work-hag. Her presence seemed! to give sanction to the whole proceeding. and the talk flowed merrily on. Their hostess. after the first startled instant had run hurriedly up after her own sewing and was now working and talking busily. As the time passed the workers began to grow restless and when the clock on the dining-room shelf struck ten. several of the ladies started. and Mrs. Brown whispered to Mrs. Warner: I guess Carl must have made a mistake about the eatin'. Hadn't we better be goin, soon? But some one had just mentioned the fact that Penctleton's young unmarried preacher had a call. and conversation was soon at Hood tide once more, especially among the mothers of eligible daughters. The clock struck eleven and Mrs. Warner. feeling herself by virtue of Carrs erroneous letter, in duty bound to take the lead. rose re- luctantly. I reckon I better eshe began. Set down an' be still? finished Mrs. Thompkins in a commanding undertone at her side. and the quaking leader subsided. Several of the ladies who had begun to fold up their work, started to work again fever- ishly. Mrs. nompkins shot a maliciously knowing glance at Miss Steele, and that lady. her head held high and her cheeks burning with the strain of the evening's excitement. rose and departed for the kitchen, shutting the dining-roam door forcibly behind her. Once safe beyond it. her face assumed a determined expression. I'll make Sarah Thompkins pay for that. she said. She thinks I ain't got nuthin' for 'em to eat an' she was afraid they'd go home afore I had to own up. I'll just. stay out here an' putter around now tilt clear midnight an' let her have a good long wait! Back in the parlor. her adversary turned in lofty disdain on Mrs. Warner. There. Anne. ain,t you glad you dichft go? Law. you folks most disgraced Pendieton forever. And she turned her back disgustedly on 96 the whole room and sewed away in silent indifference. The ladies. overw whelmed at their narrow escape from such a terrible blunder. seemed struck dumb with chagrin. Only Mrs. Brown found courage once to lift her voice and remark in a loud whisper: Well. I don't think Sarah thought she had anything to eat. any more than the rest of us. She just wanted to stay and make Mary oncomfortv able. A shocked hush followed this almost sacrilegious utterance and the minutes dragged on. Shortly after midnight. Miss Steele, now actively engaged in prepare ing the refreshments, was interrupted by a knock at the dining-room door, which was on ordinary occasions the regular entrance to the house. On opening it she was much astonished to tind a group of Pendleton's worth- iest citizens ranged on her steps. Mr. Thompkins. coming forward. acted as spokesman. Miss Steele. do you know where the women folks went to. from here? When it got ten o'clock I got oneasy an' went over to Brown's. Sarah wasn't there an, neither was Mrs. Brown. 30 Silas an' I went on ,round an' none oi the women's home anywhere. Miss Steele bestowed a most gracious smile on the delegation and said in honeyed tones: Walk right in, gentlemen. It's a slumber party. you know. an' you stay most all night. I'm just giving the ladies somethin' to eat, and if you'll juss set down an' wait they, be ready to go. after a spell. As she picked up two plates which she had deposited on the dining table and started for the parlor door, she exulted to herself. nNot a one of 'em. not even Sarah Thompkins. really knowed, or they'd have told their men folks not to look for 'em at ten. Law. won't they be fussed when they see 'em all settin' here a-waitin'! And she threw the door between the rooms open with a jerk. But the guests Were oblivious to the craning heads peering over Miss Steeleis shoulder. A deathly silence. broken suddenly by a harsh. rasping sound greeted the hostess. and she nearly dropped her precious grape wine and her best china. Her social reform had failed like all the others! The ladies of Pendleton had forever disgraced themselves and spoiled her slumber party! They were asleep! In some cases audibly so! 'Ihe front door slammed and then Miss Steele perceived that there was one empty chair. Mrs. Thompkins. disdaining to wake her companions. and refusing to share their defeat. had fled just in time to escape the tell-tale arrival of her husband, leaving the question of the real nature of a slum- ber party unsolved. in both her own minFand Miss Steele's. JEANNETTE ASHMAN, 't l. Should you ask me whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions. With the imprint of much folly, With the trace of wayward fancy And the disregard for logic? I should answer, I should tell you, F mm the great state of Ohio, From the land that lies near Oxford. From the campus of the Western. If still further you should ask me Saying, Where is Western College? Tell us of this place you mention. I should answer your inquiries Straightway in such words as follow: uIn the vale of Tallawanda, In the green and silent valley. By the pleasant watercourses, Stood a college, Western College. 'Round about the Western College Spread the campus. gently sloping. And beyomi it stood the beech-woods. Stood the groves of singing beechwtrees. Green in summer. brown in winter. Ever standing, still remaining. And the pleaaant water courses, You c'oulcl trace them trough the valley By the rushing in the springtime. By the mud-bed in the fall; And beside them stood the college. In the vale of Tallawande. In the green and 'beauteous valley. There the maidens sang of Western. Sang the songs of Western College. Sang its wond'rous fame anti merit, How it grew and how it prospered. That the maidens all might study, Song of Western Freshmen tWith apologies to Henry W. Langfellowl That they might be wise and learned. Ye who love the haunts of maidens. Love the sunshine when they're smiling. Love the shadow when they're cross, Love the mutmuring of their voices. And the chattering like magpies, Love not wisely. but too well; e Listen to this simple story, To this tale of life at Western! 1 To the hilltops of the Western. Where the college is erected. Came the class of nineteenathirteen. Timid F reshman, shy and verdant. Took her place among the 0ch girls. Among the Juniors, Sophs and Seniors. Filled with awe was every Freshman When she saw her Alma Mater. For the very air about it Seemed' to breathe forth erudition. And the imprint of great knowledge Gleamecl from every Senior's brow, Gteamed like stars of radiant brightness. Filled with joy was Western College When she looked upon the Freshman. Saw 'her youth rise up around her. Full of promises of good; Saw the meekness of her manner; As she trod the paths of knowledge. Welcome, said she, Welcome Freshman. To die college of the Western! Come and make your place among us. Very learn'd are our Senioirs, Gay our Soph'mores, kind our Juniors. Very soon you'II learn to know them. 97 And to love the Western College. Day by day, the timid Freshman Questioned, listened. waited. answered, While the haughty class of Soph'mores Boasted of her former prowess. Of her many splencticl athletes. Her indomitable courage. I-Ier invuInerable team. Soon up rose the verdant F reshman With a threatening look and gesture. College Day was fast approaching, When the Freshman shows her colors. Sings her songs in merry glee, Meets the Sophomores in contest. Plays the game of basketball. Then she cried, 0h. haughty Sophomore, I will win from you this contest, I Will make myself the victor. I will conquer and oiercome you. Long and hard the Freshman practised. Then began the final conllict 'Twixt the Freshman and the Soph'morez And the air rang with the cheering And the shouts of the beholders. And the Freshmanls glorious crimson Flashed and gleamed throughout the game. She twice contested with the SopHmore; Then she conquerecl and oiercame her. Thus the Freshman won the contest II. 5You shall hear now. how the Freshman Studied for examinations Crammed most zealously for finals That she might not Hunk completely. First she bought a box of Putrnan's, Made a place upon the table Close beside the jar of pickles, And the plate of dainty wafers; Then she hung out an engaged sign And she turned unto her studies, O'er her textdbook pondered ever. Pon'derecl long like any sage. In the first hour of her studying, Through the realms of Lit. she wandered, F tom the songs of ancient gleemen To the tales of modern bards; Ate up nearly all the Putman's, And then sighing wished for more; Then she gazed upon her note book. Gazecl in blank despair upon it. Munched a wafer while she read it. Striving to remember facts; IIAlma Mater, cried desponcling. uMusst degrees be won in this wise? In the next hour of this grincling, At her tiesl: she sat and pondered Over math.. the all-perplexing; Soon she turned halfvopen eyelids Full of shadowy dreams and visions. On the fair alluring landscape. On the gleaming of the water, On the splendor of the sunset. And the trig'nometric functions Vanished from before her mind: Then she spake in tones as moumful As the far-off sound of waters. Spake in tones that were not joyful. Sighing softly. spake in this wise: Oh, my studies! my poor text-book! You would teach me words of wisdom. You would teach me truths so precious. From the pen of William Granville. From the Ph. D. who wrote you; But I'm weary of your angles, Weary of your many functions, Weary of your tiresome tables, Of your graphic presentations. I will cast you from my presence, Thou tormentor of the Freshmen. If my prayer pass not unheeded. Thou wilt fade away and- peristh.u Then upon the floor the maiden Cast her Trig. and pads and pencil. Cast them from her in disgust. Jumped up from the irksome studies. Calling all her fair companions. Forth they went upon the campus. Following the winding foot-path To the home of Mrs. Miller Where they spent their dimes and nickels; Then peace came unto the Freshman. And she smiled as home she wandered Smiled behind her Hamburg sandwich. III. In the vale of Tallawanda 98 On the green and beauteous campus. In the pleasant Summer morning Stood the Freshman, stood ancl waited. All the air was full of fragrance. All the earth was bright and joyous. And before her. through the sunshine, Passed the merry Western maidens, Passed the groups of white-robed maidens. Laughing. singing in the sunshine. From the brow of this young Freshman Gone was every trace of shyness. On heT face a smile of triumph. And a look of exultation, As of one who in a vision Sees what is to be, but is not. And her friends smiled as they saw her And they said, Farewell forever! Said, uFarewell. oh. little Freshman! And the Western College echoed. Fare thee well, my timid Freshman. You have listened to my message, You have heard my words of wisdom. You have learned well what I taught you. It is well for you. my daughter; Now, farewell, Oh. little Freshman! Then departed the young Freshman To the regions she had dreamed of. To the islands of the Blessed, To the kingdom of the mighty. To the land of Sophomores! LILIAN A. HELLIWELL. '13. A Great-Aunt and a Maid A STORY IN TELEGRAMS LOUISE MENDENHALL, 1 I. Chicago. lune I5, f898. To Mrs. Tom Knox. Mapleton, Indiana. Will arrive at I0:30 tonight for a month's visit. Am bringing Tip. GREAT-AUNT DISNEY. Maplelan. Ind, June 15. ,98. To Mr. Tom Knox, Huntington. Indiana. Great-Aunt Disney and Tip come tonight. House topsy-lurvy no maid. Have scoured town for help. You know how much depends on appearances. Hire girl for month and send on first train. Good for gen- eral help and fond of cats. ELEANOR. Huntington, Ind. June '5. '98. To Mrs. Tom Knox, Mapleton, Indiana. Found a jewel good locker. Jones recommends work. Promised to leave on afternoon train. TOM. Maplelon, Ind, June 16. '93. N ame. Sally. Success ! To Mr. Hooker, Huntington, Indiana. Snap. Rich old woman with cat. SALLY. Huntington, 1nd,. lune I6. '98. Miss Sally Leonard. Mapleton. Indiana. 0. K. MR. HOOKER. 99 Mapleton. 1nd. June I9. '98. Mr. Tom Knox, Huntington. Indiana. Prospects ruined. Sally kicked Tip. Great-aunt left. angry. missecl Sally. $I00 purse forgonen by great-aunt, missing. ELEANOR. Dis- Huniingion, Ind, June l9. '98. To Mrs. Tom Knox, Mapleton. Detective on case. TOM. Don't worry. Will wire later. H untinglon, Incl, lune 20. ,98. Mr. Tom Knox. Indianapolis. Discovered Sally. Bill Sykes in disguise. Cot back ninety dollars. $500. part of reward for him, yours. R. HAMMEN. Detective. Indianapolis. 1nd, June 20. '98. Mrs. Tom Knox. Mapleton. Met great-aunt here. Candy for Tip, sweetened her up. Return- ing with me. Has promised check. Money found. also reward for Sally. Everything fine. TOM. The Wild Dog of the Mountains NOWN to the mountain toll: of Kentucky as The Wild Dog at the Mountains. to the prison authorities as Number 1239. a man sat on the edge of his hard cot in a cell of the state peniten- tiary. His head was bowed in his hands and his breast heaved with the great throbbing of the man's heart within. On the bed beside him lay a small black book. worn and soiled with much use. and from the man's lips came the words he had just read: uYet I say unto you this man went down to his house justified. Moved by a sudden impulse, he echoed the ptblicanis prayer, Lord. be merciful to me. a sinner! But the call of the warden: Form line! 1239 at the head here with '062! broke in upon his meditations; he raised his bowed head, squared the broad shoulders that had learned to droop a little under their prison garb. and went from his cell to take his place with 1062 at the head of the work gang. As the warden looked at him. the strange story of the prisoner's life. in all its pathos and tragedy, recurred to him. He had been given a life sentence for murderebut murder that the mountaineer counts just revenge. His brother. then only a lad of twenty. had been sentenced to death on the testimony of a lying attorney; an attempt at rescue had been made but successfully foiled; the man had stood moved. except for a tightening of the lines about the strong, sen- sitive month, while the body of his brother swung into the air, then dropped lifeless. Then quietly, calmly. he had lifted his revolver. tired two well-aimed shots. and the perjured attorney and the judge who had given sentence, lay dead. Turning to the olhcers who rushed toward him. their revolvers covering him. he had said: You don't need your guns. I'm going with you. Then facing the throng of desperate. black-browed men crowding about him. ready to save him at whatever cost. he said: uNo. boys! They killed Jack. I killed Ihem--that's our way. but it ain,t the law's. I'll go like Jack did, maybe. 100 far I've killed two men. the kid. Turning silently away. uncomprehending. but unprotesting. obedient even in this. they had left him. their leader. the Wild Dog of the Moune tains. He watched them out of sight, riding slowly up the long trail. and if the vision ofia fairdhairecl little girl flying down the path to search among the men for daddy sent an added pang to his heart, he gave no sign as he went quietly away with the oflicers. Because they discovered his brother's innocence, the authorities commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. And now for ten years he had lived the intolerable mo- notony of prison life. this line. sturdy specimen of mountain manhood; the confinement and the weight of guilt had dimmed a little the brightness of his dark eyes. given an oddly pathetic droop to a naturally firm, straight mouth. and touched with grey the black hair above the strong heavily lined face. Go back to your mountains. and-look out for Good behavior finds reward even within prison walls. and for live years now. Wilson Crane. guilty of double murder. had been l239- trusty. granted unusual privileges. After the day when the Prison Lady brought the gospel message to his heart. he had ceased to desire escape and had come to tegard his punishment 'as a means of atonement for what had become to him. a crime. But the longing for his mountain home and his fair-haired daughter had come on anew these bright spring days. As he faced the lowering brow and- cunning eyes of '062 this morning. he saw at once that something had stirred in that evil heart. As soon as the warden moved away and the work-gang in lockstep was proeeed'ing to the gravel pit, 1062 poured forth wildly. eagerly. a plan for escape, unequalled in ingenuity. Crane, as a trusty, could. if he chose. assure success. With the air of the heavens on his hot brow. the mountaineer's heart leaped to meet the vision of his child in the little mountain hut. or flying to meet him on the trail. In an instant he would have yielded. but through his mind Hashecl the words: This man went down to his house justified. Yes, if he was ever to clasp the little one to his hungry heart again. he must iigo down to his house justified, and through firmly set teeth, as he fought down the temptation. came again involuntarily the unuttered words of the publican's prayer. The wnrden's voice rang out with sharp command. No talking in rank! To work there. 1062! and no further con- versation was possible. For days thereafter the two men were never near enough to talk; days they were of bitter struggle for Wilson Crane-days when the cool breeze that lifted his dark hair from his hot forehead. seemed to bring with it the soft irresistibly alluring odor of the mountain wild Rowers. The thought of the child on the mountain. grown now almost a woman, without her father's care, came again and again to bring a fresh agony of longing. The days wore on. the temptation ever present. and the cry of the man's life grew to be the prayer of the publican, the great longing to go down to his house justified. 101 At last a day came when the warden's cry rang out. I239-super- intendent wants you. Wondering, the man left the gang and went quickly to the swerin- tendent's dingy oHicei As he opened the door in response to the grulily kind Come in! of the official. he saw first of all the face of the Pn'aon Lady. Still wondering, Crane stood before them-these two friends of hihuntil the superintendent said, with hearty rejoicing in his voice. With the help of this kind friend. Crane. your case has been considered by the governor. and this morning I received orders to release you at once on parole. limited alone by your failure to keep faith. You are a free man as long as you will be. A few $ays later. Wilson Crane. a free man. went up the mountain trait. his am about his fair-haired little girl and I say unto you, that this man went to his house justified. IVY A. TRUMAN, '10. The Northern Queen T had come at lastethis. that she had feared for years. It was in- evitable. yet she had hoped it would not be. The little sittingcroom seemed desolate already, as she sat by the window and faced her sor- row. How could she have ever fancied it would be otherwise? Robert was like his father; in him was the strong yearning for the water. As a boy he had loved it. and as he grew. his longing to he a sailor, as his father had been before him. increased daily. She had noticed that Robext was restless of late. and her motheris heart warned her it was coming. Then the blow was struck. Robert. wildly enthusiastic. had rushed into the sittingvroom that quiet afternoon, and had joyously told his mother that Captain Hector would take him on his next trip down the lakes. Bravely she had smiled as she listened to the lad; had at last given her consent; had waved to him as he ran down the foot-path; and then she had gone back to face her sorrow. Her thoughts were far away. She remembered how she had come as a bride to this northern port on the shore of Lake Superior. over thirty years before. Her husband, Robert McCraig. had brought her to this very cottage. nesthng so closely under the shaggy. dark pines, and lying close to the ever-pounding waves. Which he loved with his whale heart. Happy years they were. and proud she had been of her stalwart. sailor husband. She had grown to love the water. and its various moods. Then. ten years ago. Robert had kissed her good-bye, and she had seen his ship sail grandly cutenever to retu-m. From that time on. she had hated the waterethe dread enemy that had taken her sailor from her, her Robert. who lay far beneath it's roliing waves. After that. all her life centered in her boy. her son, Robert, the living image of his dead father. She wanted him for herself. for she dreaded to be alone in the little cottage on the shore. But she had feared the water would call the lad. as it had his father. and now she must give him up. With bowed head she yielded to that which had to be. and prayeti God to keep her boy safe. Four years later. the postman came whistling cheerfully up the foot- path to the lonely little home among the pines. In his sack he carried a letter which he gave into the trembling hands of the eager woman. It 102 was from Robert. now a man of twenty-two, who for the past four years had braved the dangers of the Gyea-t Lakes. Her eyes filled as she tried to make out the post-mark. She always feared to open a letter from a distant port, for she dreaded what might have happened. With eagerness and hesitation combined. she drew out the folded sheet. It was short and to the point. Mother, Darlingzm-I still love the water. but I love you more. This is my last trip. and then I'll stay ashore with you. Your loving son, ROBERT. His last trip! Stay ashore! She could hardly believe it. Again and again. she read the letter, and thanked $606. for His loving kindness. 5:- ar- :5 Wave-beaten and wind-biown, the steamer uNorthern Queen slowly came into sight of Duluth. its home port. The storm had raged for the past three days. and it was a weary, heaIt-sich crew who saw the canal piers rise on the horizon. The water. angered and battled so long. still struggled to drag the sturdy steel freighter to its depths. Ugly. dark waves raised her high, and dragged her low. but ever slowly. she staunchly held her course. Nearer and nearer came the piers, those mighty walls which stretched far out in the lake. breaking the force of the inrushing water, and marking the entrance to a safe harbor. Wilder grew the sea. as the vessel drw nigh her goal. Rising and falling, yet going ever for- ward. she reached the piers, when a crashing blow from the treacherous wave, which had seemingly helped her on. swung her headlong into the north pier. There was a tipping, tearing sound. and as the boat was hurled back. a yawning hole was seen in her how. Bravely. she tried to make the entrance again, but now with broken steering gear. she was a helpless toy in the hands of those merciless waves. They forced her out towards the breakers, away from the goal she sought. Broadside to their cruel onslaught. she drifted nearer and nearer the cruel. surf-beaten shore. Then she grounded. but still she fought. and her crew fought with her. The wind and waves beat hard, again came a grinding crashethe mighty lake freighter had broken in two, and across the middle of her deck a gap was seen. The wind became colder and colder. and the icy water brought death in every blow. Then. the after-cabin was hurled high into the air. and down into the foaming water. and. at the mercy of that merciless sea. were five of the crew. who had croucheci for shelter on the leeward side of that cabin. Among them was Robert McCraig. It was death to remain there. unsheltered. beaten by wind and wave, with ice forming all about them. But God only lmew what would happen if they tried to reach the forward cabin and safety. Yet these men were brave and hardy. and life was clear and hard to lose. There was but one way to safety, and that lay over the broken deck. On shore. hundreds of spectators had gathered. and vain attempts to launch the life-boat had been made, but it was useless. The sea which had broken the mighty steel freighter easily crushed in its cruel jaws the trailer craft which daringly tried to ride its waves. It was death to cross the sloping deck. but the rail! That uttered a hand-hold. Then. with grim-set face. arms taut and rigid. an old sailor left the group huddled about the icy smokestack on the rear deck. Brac- ing hard against the rail, and seeking a foot-hold on the slippery. treach- erous steel, he started on his terrible and perilous trip, over the wave-heaten deck, over the widening gap, to the forward cabin. where shelter was still to be had. A shout of encouragement rose from those on shore. but it sank to a groan of despair as'near the middle of that stricken ship. a wave dashed high above his head. hiding him from those on shore for a minute. But he held his ground and dated another font. Again. the remorseless sea hurled itself against the man who fought for life. Again and still againuhe won and gained the forward cabin. Then another started on his dangerous trip over the broken deck. It was a lad scarce eighteen years old. His muscle had not the hardened vigor of his comrades. but his heart was brave. The wave struck him and knocked him from his feet. but struggling harch he regained his foothold. Again and again. the waves struck him, the icy water pierced him through and through. It was harder now to cling to the steel rail, yet, he must not let go. Once more the lad was swept off his feet, his torn. bleeding hands lost their hold. first one and then the other, then into those seething. raging waters he slipped to a dreamless sleep. Robert McCraig came next. He thought of his mother in their home on the shore; he grit his teeth and started. His muscles strained. but held true. He knew the force of that mighty enemy, but he had fought before and could fight again. Towering waves launched theme 103 selves headlong; the icy blasts struck him with angry, hateful blows; a bmken mast came crashing down almost upon him. Inch by inch he gained till he reached the middle. Here. the rail was gone. and only a desperate leap could span the chasm. which had widenecl with every wave that surged over it. Robert stood rigid on the ectge. between death and hope, waiting a chance. He must make it-arecklessly and daringly he jumped! On the icy steel he found no foot-hold, but he clung to the broken rail till the next wave had passed. Then on again; it was slower now, but the goal was near. A quick clash, then. bruised and battered. he reached the cabin. The men left by the smokestack had not the strength to try. and dusk came down and the way to safety closed. All night. the crowd on the shore kept Eres burning briskly as beacons of hope. to those who waitecl for a death which seemed inevitable. All night long the men on shore tried to reach the doomed ship. The life-line was shot out again and again, but the wind broke its force. anti screaming defiance, hurled it back. All night long the waves roared and raced down the shore, and mockingly crushed' the defiant Iife-boat, which again dared to try. All night the insistent. ever-pounding, angry waves struck their helpless, beaten enemy. But morning came at last. for dawn will break on the longest night. and the long-hapecl-for help came. The angry water had spent its force and only roared defiance as the lifeeboat neared the ship. As it turned towards the shore the people saw there were but live who hacl lived tihru that night of terror. and one they knew well. Robert McCraig. Dusk was slowly gathering as Robert turned up the old familiar foot-path to his home among the pines. The light from the little window that looked towards the sea threw a broad path into the growing darkness. A bound and he stood on the porch. another secona, and he held tight to his breast that darling mother of whom he had thought as he fought for his life on the decks of the Northern Queen. That evening together they stood and gazed upon the waters, peace- fully murmuring and sparkling under the silvery light of the moon. From afar came the steady, rolling boom of the surf. Clear against the horizon was outlined the black hull of a wrecked ship. Robert shuddered; he knew it was the uNerthern Queen. the brave boat that had struggled in vain. Her crew? Unknown. unnamed. forgotten Lie the sailors of the sail. MARJORIE ARMSTRONG. I9l 2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tWith apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridgd It is the Ancient Mariner And he stops me in the bait; By his lantem's glow I knew the man And by his figure tall. He holds me with his skinny hand. uThere was a girl. quoth he. nLet go. unhand me, gray-haired man! Eftsoon his hand dropped he. He holds me with his glittering eye. I durst not move away, But listened. meek and mild. The Mariner hath his way. I sat me down upon a trunk. IVacation time was neaQ And thus spake on that queer old man. That Ancient Mariner. The night was late. the balls were dark. And quietly I went Through each and every corridor. On duty still intent. So on and on and ever on I went the long night through-', And here I sighed and rose to go. The city bell tolled two. And thus I sighed and rose to go, Yet could not choose but hear. For thus spake on the night watchman. That Ancient Mariner. 104 At length across my path there came A maiden fair of face. And tho she seemed some fearful ghost I sped toward her apace! uAnd as we ran in the quiet night, As I pursued her through the haIL And as she ran with fearsome Speed, Her hand let something fall. I hastened straightway to the spot. Intent to see what 'twas. Aha! I cried. the Dean shall hear How her maidens break the law's! uXVhaJ: was it. Ancient Mariner. The aHrighted maid 'let fall? Why look'st thou so? 011. than upon the Root 1 found at last-a muHin! Full many a night I made my rounds. My lantern by my side. Still in the long dark corridors Watched that no ill betide. But I had done an evil thing To fright that poor maid so. For all the girls had heard her tale And were henceforth afraid To venture forth in search of food In the weary long night hours. All in a hot and sultry night- CTwas 'fmal' week in June- My lantern Hickered and burned low And not a sham came from the moon. Darkness, darkness everywhere. And all the boards did creakh Darkness, darkness everywhere. Nor any light to seek. About. about in darkness dread. White forms 'gan dancing in the night; The forms were ghostly, dim And gowned in shimmering white. Alone, alone, all. all alone, Alone in a dark. dark hall. And never a ghost took pity 0n me as I did fall. uThe many forms all dim and white. Ever anci in danced they; They beckoned me with their white hands. I strove in vain to obey. I'I sought to rise. I sought to cry. But never a movement made, And ever and on they beckoned me And my heart was sore afraid. Within the shadow of a door I saw a face appear! The self-same moment I could rise. And the ghostly forms did see Co softly off and quit at length Their silent beckoning me. And now as the moon did slowly rise I stood in its pale glow. I cast a glance in the maiden's face, And she was laughing so! 105 IForgivc. forgive me. maiden fair!' I cried in penitent mood. 'Oh. never more will I frighten thee When thou guest in search of food.' And then I heard the maiden's voice. And heahd her softly say, 'You've scared him. girls, you did it well, Now get to sleep straightwayf What loud sound bursts upon my ear? The town clock striketh three, And all the maidens sleeping are. Save only me. Farewell, farewell. but this I tell To thee. oh. Western maid! He watcheth well, who seeth not Nor maketh maids afraid. He watcheth best who seeth not A girl on mischief bemh For girls can Jreadful tortures work, And fearful punishment. The Mariner. Whose eye is bright. Whose hair with age is hoar, Is gone. and now I tum at last Into my own room door. And gayly now and unafraid We venture forth at night; The Ancient Mariner doth fear More ghostly visions white. --'10. I Go AaFishing T all lies before me. or, rather around me again. not as a picture. not I with the dimmed outlines of a memory, but the whole of it, the sun. the woods. the water, as if I were now a part of it--Ihe day when I first went a-Iishing. The woods were wet, deliciously wet. with limpid little pools cupped in the green leaves and showering down upon us in a shimmer of distilled sunshine, when the wind touched the branches. It was one of those dark-and-bright days When the sunshine is a-quiver with doubt and the cloud moments hovering in anticipation-a day when at the end of any pathway. fairyland may lie. The fishing was only a concession to this too purposeful era. when one is required to produce a motive for everything. like the Iiporpoise in Alice. Now that we had left reality of the grosser sort hehincl us and had entered the Enchanted Woods, the pretext. incorporated LU in rod and line. was abandoned. The others wandered away in charmed mo- tiVelessness through the gold-fleckedl green of the woodseevery one but For I had never fished, and the occupation was fraught with 3. del- icate suggestiveness. a sanction from the touch of the fingers of romance. I remembered the 01:1 lisherman who found the baby princess. and the fisher boy who left his mother's cottage to seek adventures, and won his way past witches and magicians to the palace of the lady of his vision; and having been often of their company. I, too. must needs go a-hsh-ing. So I swung myself into the lowest angle of my friend. the Dryad Tree. leaned my head affectionately against the moss-inlaid trunk. and me. 10G dangled my line in the waterwamber it was where the hand of the sun was resting, emerald beneath the trees. and in the shadow the deep, in- linite purple of amethysts. Then I launched my boat on illimitable waters eHshing for my dreams. Unless I were very still. they would not come to me, my darling, silver glinting dreams; but after patient waiting, a quick pull! Ahealmost-enowl No longer eluding. half-seen. no longer swiftly gliding or lazily lloating in those dim dream waters, one by one I tossed them. captured, Hung into my air. beside me. But when I stopped ancl lookecl at them. the bright scales were dull; lifeless. heautiless, mine Ifor they had yieldecl to my crude wilD they lay beside me in my boat. But when I saw them-m-the dreams I had caught and held, in my lust of reality-my heart darkened! to know that they were dead: that only in dream waters could they breathe and live and glisten. The others came back. as slowly and irregularly as the last rain drops, which were falling, one by one, from the linger tips of the dryads. One reached her hand to me as I slipped to the ground. and asked: uDid your fishing prosper? Not yet. I said, thinking of other things. try again--to-catch--even dreams. IIAncl I think I shan't NANN CLARK BARR. A Spring Song 0! come with me to Weslern's hills. Where breezes play; Where meadow-larks in roundelay. With cardinals and orioles gay. Awake the long spring day. 0! come with me by Westcrfs brooks. Past violets blue; Where in profusion meadow-rue, Anemones. and rcd-bud. too, All gayly nod at you. LOUISE. CROUSE. '13. 107 Cum: k'tl 0 an unusual degree in a college which does not make music its primary aim. the Western possesses, together with girls of un- usual talent, a spirit on the part of its members at large, of keen and intelligent appreciation. Miss Porter. head of the piano department, is a teacher of long experience and study, to whose thorough musicianship the Western owes much. She is assisted by Miss Munforcl. Miss Wamock and Miss Thomson. who are all able performers and teacherst Miss Mallory, as teacher of pipe organ, shows her high musical education and personal ability. Miss Eldredge, instructor in voice, is an exquisite artist, whose work is unfailingly thorough and finished. She is assisted by Miss Wood- row. who will undoubtedly achieve great success. The musical organizations of the cullege consist of a choir of forty voices. a quar- tette and a glue club. The glee club gives an annual concert, and occasionally takes little trips to other towns. Informal Monday evening musicals are also of frequent occurrence. Last spring the musical year closed with four recitals by the candidates for gradua- tion. Of these the first was given by Miss Peterson and Miss Woodrow. the second recital by Miss Thompson and Miss Ralston, the third 'by Miss Christine Warnock. and the fourth by Miss Gertrude Warnoek. a post-graduatc in music. 110 Graduates, Recital BY MISS ELIZABETH PETERSON MISS VIVIAN Woonaow THE. WESTERN COLLEGE. OXFORD, OHro SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 22. I909 AT SEVEN-THIRTY O'CLOCK Graduates in Music PIANO ELIZABETH PETERSON JANE ELIZABETH THOMSON CHRISTINE. WARNOCK VOICE OPAL VIOLA RALSTON VIVIAN Woonaow PROGRAMME My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair .............................................. Haydn Jubars Lyn: ........................................................................................ Handel Rondo in G major ................................................ Beethoven Vergebl-iches Stindchen ................................................... , ...... Brahms Sandmiinnchen .................................................................................. Brahms 111 Lieblidm Wangen ................................................................... Brahms Auf dem Wasser zu singen ...m...... ......... Schubert Der Neugierige .............................. 7 ......................... ...., Schuberl Ungeduld ........................................................................................ Schubcrl Nocturne. 0p. 62, No. 2 ...................................................... Chopin Scherzino, Op. IO, No. 3 .............................................. Paderewslfi Her Love Song .............................................................. Mary Turner Salter Morning Glories .............................. A..r.,V...Mary Turner Salter june .......................................................................... W alter M arse Rummel The Sea ...................................................................................... MacDoweH T'hy Beaming Eyes ................ , ............ MacDowell Love Has Wings ................................................................ James H . Rogers Farewell Ye Mountains Urom Jeanne d'Ach......,........V...... .Tschaikomsky Romance in F sharp ........................................................ Schumann Etincelles Sparst ........................................................ Moszkomski Wie na'hte mir der Schlummer ............................................................ Weber Urrom uDer Freischiitz'j Sonata .................................................................................... Grieg Allegro Moderate Andante Molto Alle Menuetto, ma pow piu lento Molto Allegro Graduates, Recital BY Muss OPAL VIOLA RALSTON MISS JANE ELIZABETH THOMSON THE WESTERN COLLEGE. OXFORD, OHIO TUESDAY EVENING. MAY 25. I909 AT SEVEN-THIRTY O'cLOCK Graduates in Music plANO ELIZABETH PETERSON JANE ELIZABETH THOMSON CHRISTINE WARNOCK VOICE OPAL VIOLA RALSTON VIVIAN Wooonow PROGRAMME Sonata, 013.50. No. 3. Didone Abbandanata Saena Tragic$ ................................................................................................ Clemenli Introduzione-Largo patelico sostenuto Aday'o dolento. Allegro agitate E can desperazione Where'er You Walk ............................................................ HEndcl En Courant ...................................................................................... Godard Romance ............................................................................................ Schim Si oiseau j' elais .................................................................................. H easel! Trauma: durch die Dimmerungw Slindchen .................................... Biue ........................................................................................ Franz E5 hat die Ros: sich beklagt .................................................. Franz Stills Sicherheit ........................................................................ Franz Im Herbst ................................................................................ Franz The Eagle? ................................................................................ MacDmveH March Wind ............................ M acDamelI Polonaise .................................................................................... MacDolvell June Morning .............................................................. V ictor Ham's Lady Laughter ............................................................ Victor H am's The Naughty Tulip .......................................... M ary Turner Salter The Chrysanthemum .......................................... Mary Turner Salter Mr. DIeam-maker ....................... R. Huntington Woodman An Open Secret ........................................ R. H unlinglon Woodman Morning Hymn ........................................................ Georg H emcbel Fantaisie-Impromptu .......................................................................... Chopin La clochc ...................................................................... Saint-Sh'ens Me voici dans son boudoir Migno10... ......; ..................... Thomas He clasp: the crag with crooked hnndl. Clone to the sun in loneb' lands Ringed with the azure world, he Itands, The wrinkled lea beneath him crawlc: He watches from his mountain walla. And like a thunder bolt he flllI. Tennymn. Graduates Recital THE WESTERN COLLEGE, OXFORD. OHIO SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 29. 1909 AT SEVEN-THIRTY O'CLOCK Graduates in Music PIANO ELIZABETH PETERSON JANE; ELIZABETH THOMSON CHRISTINE WARNOCK VOICE OPAL VIOLA RALSTON VIVIAN Woonkow BY MISS CHRISTINE WARNOCK ASSISTED BY MISS GERTRUDE WARNOCK Miss JESSIE CURTIS 113 PROGRAMME Sonata, Op. 7 ................................................................................ Beethoven Allegro mollo e con brie Largo Allegro Rondo Aria Gram EmanD ............................................................... V erdl' Etude, Op. 10, No. 3 ........................................................ Etude, Op. 25. C-sharp minor ............................................................ Chopin Etude, Op. l9. A major .................................................................... Poldim' Intermezzo, Op. I l 7. No. 1 ........................ Brahms Aufschwung ................................................................................ Schumann Ave Maria ................................................................ Bach-Counod Sunshine Song ........................................................................ Cries Papillons ...................................................................................... Schumann THE WESTERN COLLEGE, OXFORD. OHIO TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 1. I909 AT SEVEN-THIRTY O'CLocx Graduates in Music PIANO ELIZABETH PETERSON JANE ELIZABETH THOMSON CHRISTINE WARNOCK VOICE. OPAL VIOLA RALSTON VIVIAN Woonaow Piano Recital BY MISS GERTRUDE WARNOCK 03cm Graduald ASSISTED BY MISS CHRISTINE WARNOCK MISS ELDREDGE. PROGRAMME Fantaisie-Polonaise .................................................................. Ioachim Raf Liebcsh-aume No. 2 .............................................................................. Liszt Liebatraume No. 3 .............................................................................. Liszl Nocturne. Op. 27. No. ZChopm Immmptu. Op. 29. No. lChopm With a anroseCneg A Swan ................................................................................. Grieg From Monte Pincio ................................................................ Cn'eg Concerto ........................................................................................ Schumann Allegro aifettuoso Intermezzo. Andantino grazioso Allegro Vivace Orchestral parts on second piano 114 Gun: CLus Glee Club Concert N Tuesday night, February 15th. the Glee Club gave its annual concert, assisted by Miss Christine Wamock. piano. who is an '09 graduate in piano, and Miss Opal Ralston, voice, who is an '09 graduate in voice. and who also received her A. B. from the Collegiate anartmenl. The quartette sang with good interpretation and there was perfect blending of the four voices. Much credit is due Miss Eldredge. thmugh whose splendid training and management. such an excellent concert was made possible. ffhe concert was followed by a receplion, at which Dean Sawyer. President Newman. Miss Porter and Miss Eldredge, together with the members of the Glee Club. received the guestsj PROGRAMME Summer Night .................................................................................... Berwall GLEE CLUB Piano-Gavotte and Variations ............................................ I. P Rameau Frogs' Singing School ..................................... , ...................... H. N. Bartlclt Bells of Shandon ........................................................ George Nevin MISSES Woopaow. BOYLE. THOMSON. HOLDEN VoicPAus meinem grossen Schme'rzen .............................................. Franz Bitte ........................................................................................ Franz Es hat die Rose sich Beklagt .................................................. Franz Meine Liebe ist griin ............................................................ Brahms 116 Sapphische Oqie .................................................................... Brahms Im Herbst .............................................................................. Franz Maiden and Nightingale .................................................................... Renard Minuet ............................................................................ Patty Stair Wynken. Blynken and Nod ........ Worth GLEE CLUB Piano-bPapillons Op. 2 ........................................................ R. Schumann Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes ............................................ Unknown The Alphabet ., ...................................................... W A. Mozart O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast ................................ M endclssohn De Cappah Moon .................. , ............................................. Shelley Dean Ye Cry. Mah Honey .................................................... Noel GLEE CLUB VoiWOpm Secret .................................................. Huntington Woodman Mr. Dream-maker ........................................ H unlinglon W aodman Chrysanthemum .............................................. Mary Turner Salter Mother Sleep ................................................................ Liza Lehman Morning Hymn ................................................................ Henschel Greeting to Spring ............................................................................ 1.5trass QUARTETTE Pianw-Polonaise Op. l4, No. 2 ...................................... A. Rubinstein Sailor's Christmas .................................................................... C. Chaminade rendered program. given by Miss Miriam Allen. of Galion. Ohio. pianist. and Miss Helen Warrum. soprano. of Indianapolis, pupils respeclively of the well known Indianapolis teachers. Mr. and Mrs. Max Leckner. THE, opening number of the Concert Course for this year was the well PROGRAMME Hneisleriana Op. 16, No. 6 .......................................................... Schumann Preludes Op. 23. Nos. 3 and 21 ...................................................... Chopin Per Ia gloria USriselda. I723 .................................... Bonancfni Sonata Appassionata Op. 57 ........................................................ Beethoven Allegro assai Andante con moto Allegro. ma non troppo presto Kranp Vergasenheit ................................................................ van Frelt'tz His Lullaby .................................................................... Carrie facobs Bond Flower Song Uraus'd ........................................................................ Gounod Rigoletto Paraphrase ..................................................................... Liszt Wie na'hte mir der Schlummer Freischutzl... ........................ van Weber Octave Etude Op. 44. No. 4 ...................................................... Lescheiizkp ARTISTS' RECITALS. PIANO RECITAL Nov. 6. 09. BY MISS MYRTLE ELVYN Prelude and Fugue. A Minor .............................................................. Bach Tranmribed from Organ by Liszt. Etude symphoniques. Opus '3 ...................................................... Schumann Paslorale AngeIuQ .......................................................................... Carellr' UQe-arranged by Godowskyj TWO Songs Without Wordh Spinning Song ......................................................... Mendelssohn HERO Rhapsodie E. Flat Major. Opus I '8 ................................................ Brahms 117 Ballade A Fiat Major. Opus 47 Nocturne, Opus 37. No. 2 ................................................................ Chopin Polonaise. Opus 53 Nocturne Uor the left hand aloud ................................................ Scriabin: En Antoinnc ...................................................... ..,.....Moszkomskl' Arabesques on Strauss' Waller ................................................ Schulz-Erler uOn the Beautiful Blue Danube. Nov. 27. 09. SONG RECITAL BY JANET SPENCER, Cantmlto Diem: Grands RadaincstQ ............................................................ Handel Violette ............................................................................................ Scarlaui O F atima .................................................................................. Weber Danzi, Danza! ................................... Durante Wie sollten wir ......................................... Strauss Die Wasserrose ............... , ......................... Strauss Wenn ich friih ........................................... Schumann Sappische Ode .................................................................................. Brahma Der Schimed .................................................................................... Brahms Le Moulin ........................................................................................ Pierult L'Esdare Debrussy Rondel ............................................................................................ chrusay Les Clothes .................................................................................... Debrussy Hymn an Sahel ...................... ...................Cearges Ballad of the Trees ........................................................................ Chadcn'ck The ButterHy ............................................................................... La Forge Gas to Sleep ..................... ...................Fi5her A Disappointmmt.........-...V .................... Ham's Ecstasy ............................................................................................ Rummel Graduate Organ Recital MILDRED M. BROWN ASSISTED BY RUTH MORGAN. Soprano LOUISE SCHMlTT. Pianisl Of the Cincinnati College of Music. Sonata ........................................................................................ Rheinberger Phantasie .......................................................................... Pastorafe Vocal-Le Petit Berger ...................................................... Claude Debussy Melody and Intermezzo,m........................................Horatio Parker Impromptu .................................................................. H . H ofmarm Etude far Pedals alone .................................... Eng. Je Bricqueville VocaL- Symphony V ........................................................................ Wider I and V movements. Toccata at F uga in D minor .................................................................. Bach 113 Graduate Organ Recital MARY LOUISE BOWEN ASSISTED BY MISS ELIZABETH HAUK MISS EVELINE BROWN, Accompanis! Toccata et Fuga .................................................................................... Bach SongFELIZABETH HAUK Andante from Symphonic Pathetique, No. 6 ...................... Tachaikowslty Benediction Nuptiale ............................................................ Eduard D'Evry Rustic March .................................................................... Polfbio Fumagalli Sonata No. 8. Op. 91 ................................................................ A. Cuilmam Adagio Con Affetto. Andante Lostenulo. Intermede e! Allegro Con Brio. SongF-ELIZABETH HAUK Op. 66 .................................................................................... Otto Malling Erster Weihnachtstag. Zweiter Weihnachtstag. Neujahrsmg. Toccato from Sonata XIV .................................................... I. Rhcl'nberger 119 The following is the Program for the Students' Recital on December 6th: Piano-Sonata. A major .................................................................. Mozart Theme and Six Variations. Mmuetto. Rondo Ture. JESSIE CURTIS Song-Sunlighl Waltz .. ..A ,..V...A .Ham'el Ware NANQBJQM OrgaHonata. No. 8 Scherzo .................................................... Cuilmant MARY LOUISE BOWERS Violin Tri0+50mmerlusn Andante .............................................. Schumann Ballet hmmged by MoHaQ ................................................ Cluck LEILA MCKEE. MARTHA CARGILL AND Lms RANKINs PianwaL'Avalanche ........................................................................ H cl let The Two Lark: .............................................................. Lescheiizlw VIRGINIA GRIFFITH Song L'Ete .............................................................................. Chaminadc GLADYS BOYLE Piano-Nocturnc. Op. 37. Na. 1 .................................................... Chopin Ballet Music .......................................................... Meycr-Helmund LEORE THOMS 120 Violin Trio--Joyfu1 Summertide .............................................. C. Schumann LEILA MCKEE. MARTHA CARGILL. L015 RAleNs Pianwlmpromptu. B flat .............................................................. Schubert NELLE. CAMPBELL Song Hindoo Chant ...................................................................... chbcrg Nymphs and Sylvians ...................................................................... Bcrnbcrg MYRTLE QUANTIC PianPKamerinor Ostrow Portrai0 ........................................ Rubenslcin EVA SMITH Song-Minuet ............................................................................ Pally Stair Maiden and Nightingale ...................................................... Renard COLLEGE GLEE CLUB Organ Chn'stmas Music .................................................................. Malling Die Hirten auf dam Felde. Die drei Weissen aus dem Morganlandc. Bethlehem. MILDRED BROWN Piano Recital BY TINA LERNER Jan. ll, '10. Alceste ....................................................... , ................ Ciuck Saim-Saens Intermezzo. A major .......................................................................... Brahms 'Rondo Capriccioso ....................... Mendelssohn Prelude. F sharp minor ......................... Chopin Nocturne. F major .......................................................................... Chopin Waltz. Op. 34. A Hat .................................................................... Chopin Scherzo. C sharp minor ...................................................................... Chopin Witche$ Dance ...................... ....MacDoweH ................. Maize Etude, A minor ............................ .. .Paganini-Liszt Nieme Freuden ChopiM ................................................................ Liszt Wedding March and Dance of the Elves MendelssuhM .................... Liszt Western HE. morning of May I9. I909. dawned fair and beautiful, and T the Western girl rejoiced in its brightneSs; the blue sky was wel- comed by all. from the dignifled Senior, vainly striving to stifle the ever-recurring thought, My Last Tree Day. to the little Freshman. happy in the realization of long-anticipated joys now at hand. The morning was made merry by the arrival of load after load of guests. and the contagion of happy excitement and joyous greeting per- vaded the whole place. About nine-thirty every one who wasn't already on the front steps. came out to watch the annual ceremony of the flag rais- ing on the lawn. The Seniors surrounded their beloved Hag of yellow and white, directly facing the front of Peabody Hall. Lovingly they watched it as it was slowly raised to a prominent position between two tall dark pines, and as it iloated gently on the breeze, they sang to the praises of its daisy-starrecl glory with voices that faltered ever so slightly on the last notes. The class of I910. ever loyal to two shades of green. gave their greet- ing to their banner. as it swung into place to the right of the first. On the opposite side, the Sophomores raised the song of the blue and white to their fair Hag. reHecting in its soft folds the tints of the May sky with its small Heecy clouds. Last of all, with a rush as of a lively breeze from a pink clover held. came the girls of I9IZ. proudly bearing in their midst their beautiful new banner. With what rapture did they see it slowly unfold, until it was re- vealed in all of its blooming loveliness, a real pink clover blossom among banners. AH shared their joy. After luncheon. served in Peabody Hall dining-room. came the cen- tral feature of the daye-the presentation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The honors of Tree Day are shared between the Freshmen and the Traditions Seniors, and Hrst of all. in the afternoon program. the Freshmen gave a very pretty chill on the lawn. They were chessed in white and were large white hats wreathed in clovers. They carried graceful baskets filled with the same Howers. A poem. The Legends of a Tree. was given by Miss Florence Smith. and an address, Ideals of a Freshman. by Miss Grace Hetzner. Following these exercises was the play, presented by the Seniors. The natural beauties of the campus. the vividly green hills tolling away on all sides, the glimmer of the sunlight on the tiny lake. the grand old sentinel pines-all formed a magnificent background. while a clump group of line maples furnished the immediate setting. The play was very well presented, the character interpretation good, the costuming effective. The entire cast was as follows: Orisino. Duke of Illyria ................................................ Wilhelmina Munson Sebastian, brother to Viola ................................................ Laura E. Koons Antonio. 3 Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian... .......... Helen Hershey Valentine ? gentlemen attending ................................... Bethel Irving Curio on the Duke ................................................ Edna Stinson A Sea Captain, friend to Viola .................................... Lillian C. Schreiber Sir Toby Belch, Uncle to Olivia ............................. Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek ......................................... ........... Helen Tappan ....... Bess A. Burhans Malvolio, steward to Olivia .................................................... Claire Dixon F abian ; servants to Olivia .......................................... Dora E. Eddy Clown ............................................................................ Gladys Boyle Olivia, a rich countess ........................................................ Marie M. Davis Viola. sister to Sebastian ................................................ Catherine Dighton Maria, Olivia's womanm. ,,,,, ....................................... Helen E. Hacket Following the play the student body in academic procession, led by the Freshmen. proceeded to the Freshmen Tree, planted to the left of the walk between Alumnae and New Hall. The tree was christened by john Grant Newman. Jr... and the exercises closed with a Freshman song. Commencement week was ushered in on Saturday, June 5th. Alumnae and friends of the Seniors had already begun to arrive. On Saturday night the German Elepartment repeated the play which had been given on April 13th. That familiar tale of fairy-loving childhood, Dornroesehen. was presented with very pretty scenery effect. The rose- hedge blossomed, the old tower clock sounded, as the handsome prince. well represented. imprinted the kiss upon the forehead of the Sleeping Beauty. The next day was Baccalaureate Sunday. a fitting and beautiful sermon on that occasion. On Monday came the annual step exercises. At four-thirty the Seniors. in caps anct gowns. took their places upon the steps of Alumnae Hall and proceeded to relate in song and story the joys and pleasures which had been theirs for the past four years; they made public their last will and testament, and finally as tho, loathe to relinquish their place in Alma Mater. descended the steps. handing their caps and gowns to the Juniors, who expressed their acceptance of the new honors and responsi- bilities in sang. On Monday evening there was a recital and the president's reception. Tuesday was Alumnae day. Their regular business meeting was held in the morning. The girls of today listened with deep interest to the reminiscences of these girls of earlier years, who were all girls again to each other the minute their feet touched Western ground. Some of them showed the silvery touch of Time. it is true, but they were all keenly alive with a youthful interest, in all the changes in Western wrought by the years. as on every side they heard the war-cry of those strenuous clays: The Endowment Fund. the Endowment Fund. It must be in by the thirtieth of June If Dr. Newman has to make a trip to the moon. And liberally, indeed. clid many respond to the call. On that day also many who were interested attendect exhibits prepared by the Domestic Science department ancl 'by the Arts and Crafts classes. At four o'clock the Tree Day play, Twelfth Night, was repeated for the pleasure of the guests. Near the close the performance was stopped by a. sudden thunder storm. Dr. Newman preached At seven o'clock in Peabody Hall an elegant alumnae banquet was served. to which all the students were invited and which all heartily enjoyed. In blight pungent toasts the brilliant future of Western was painted and her lofty ideals again declared. The exercises of the iifty-fourth Commencement took place in the chapel at ten o'clock Wednesday. June eighth. The address was delivered by Mr. Mornay Williams. of New York City; it was a fine appeal to the high life of service. Thirtyone girls received their diplomas and the degree of Bachelor of Arts. and five, three in piano and two in voice, re- ceived diplomas from the Department of Music. The silver loving-cup promised by Dr. Newman to the class doing the most excellent work tlogwiagd the Mary A. Sawyer Scholarship, was awarded to the class of It was a triumphant Western rejoicing in the attainment of victory after a long hard fight. proud in the possession of her new endowment, that welcomed back to her doors on September eighth. I909. many enthuv siastic old girls and over a hundred winning new girls. That very first Wednesday night. the Y. W. C. A. as usual, gave a reception for old and new girls in the parlors of Peabody Hall. All day long the corridors had echoed with the wildly eager greetings of old friends. while the Freshmen. unused to their new surroundings, decidedly puzzled as to courses, schedules and bells. and mayhap a wee bit homesick wilhai. had been waiting to see the Dean and trying to get acquainted. But the evening was entirely given over to the Freshmen. and hold girls with little groups of new girls in tow, strolled from room to room in friendly comradeship. exchanging informal introductions right and left. Before separating for the evening the hills echoed with the strains of Queen of the West, Let Echoes Ring. and In Ohio on a Hill-top. sung in the good old Western way. On Tuesday evening, September 14th. as is customary. a reception was given for new members of the faculty. Dr. Newman and Dean Saw- yer at the head of the line. heartily greeted everyone. Miss Fish and Miss Chenot were gladly welcomed back after their year's absence. Congrat- ulations were extended to Miss Tappan. I909. as a member of the fac- ulty, and to Miss Thompson. I909. pupil-teacher. Miss Keese. the new physical director. and Miss Sparse. fellow in chemistry. were admitted with pleasure into the Western circle. One Tuesday evening late in September. occurred two parties of a widely different nature. In the basement of New Hall. the jolly Juniors. transformed into dancing bears. elephants, camels. monkeys. circus riders. rope-walkers and fortune-tellers, kept their little Freshman sisters in a gale 125 of merriment for two long hours. The latter attired as small boys and girls did justice to their childish fondness for pink lemonade and popcorn. and finally went home with any lingering trace of homesickness effectually banished. Remote from this noisy circus ground in the parlors of Peabody Hall, surrounded by an atmosphere of old-time courtesy and gallantry, the sopho- mores received their sister classes. the Seniors and preparatory students at a colonial party. The softly-shacled lights lent a charming grace and beauty to the quaint daintiness of lichus and powdered curls and handsome lace- frilled satin coats, and the leisurely stateliness of it all completed the spell. College Day, on Tuesday. October twelfth. is the hrst big college event of the year. By this time the Freshman class is fully organized. and the basket-ball teams of Freshman and Sophomore classes have been prac- tising with great faithfulness and vigor. The exercises of the morning were held in the college chapel. where the address was delivered by Rev. Thomas Knox. of Cincinnati. The events of the afternoon took place according to schedule upon the athletic field. The Seniors. wearing mortar-boarcls. in their class colors, two shades of green. Iecl the way to the Held. escorting the speaker of the day. the trustees present, and the President and Dean. Following them came the Juniors. distinguished by their hlue belts and neckties. Here all awaited the arrival of the two lower classes. who were each greeted by songs and yells by her sister class. The Sophomores gave a clever pageant, in which the history of the Western from her seminary days clown to the coming of the Newman President was realistically depicted by a series of Hosts which called forth enthusiastic applause. In martial array. clad in crimson helmets and sashes. the Freshmen marched to the field in the form of a hollow square, from which as they ap- proached the lballfleld. their team, carrying the hall. rushed forth. Then followed a brisk game, at the close of which the soldier Freshmen came off conquerors. By night the soldiers had become minstrels and serenaded very appreciative listeners. The gay young Sophomores always provide some amusement for Hallowe'en. and the class of l9l2 certainly lived up to their privileges. They presented in a delightful manner a very pretty and amusing little play. Miss Fearless and 00.. in which the class president. Miss Mary Marr. took the leading part with great credit. Afterwards everybody pro- ceeded to Alumnae Hall. where the same ingenious Sophomores had mar- velously made over the history recitation room. clustered about as it is with associations of all the ages, into a genuine country store, with its varied display of merchandise. and its postofliee in one corner. The Latin 126 room was now Spook Island. the camping spot of the fearless young ladies of the play, and here they offered all sorts of eats for. sale. A fortune teller with all her weird paraphernalia had taken possesswri of the precinct sacred to Homer and Plato, and in the literature room. whlch pro- claims Shakespeare from its very walls, were--more lieats. Thanksgiving away from home and mother may not have a very propitious sound. but Thanksgiving at the Western has been. and always will be. a very merry and thankful occasion. Thanksgiving eve is set apart for the i'maiclen appearance of the Freshmen in dramatics. I913 ac- quitted herself very swccessfully in the Operetta. uBobby Shnafto. anksgiving banquet. always in charge of the Sophomores. was beautifully arrangeci and served, and was enjoyed to the full by over two hundred students and guests. At the close of the elaborate seven-course dinner. the toast-mistress, Miss Marr called upon each of the classes and the faculty in turn. all of whom responded with bright ancl original toasts. The evening was the occasion of one of those rare. but for that reason more enjoyable. procluctions-a faculty play. The Hou5e Boat on the Styx was given in a most original way. full of local allusions. Needless to say. it was most highly appreciated by the audience. Shortly before the departure for the Christmas holidays, when the thoughts of all were turned to gifts and giving. the Seniors gave a bazaar, at which many pretty articles, from Japanese plates to fancy aprons were for sale. The Christmas spirit pervackd everything that last week. and on Monday evening before vacation each dining room enjoyed a gaily dec- orated Christmas tree. while a truly Santa Claus distributed presents to eadil girl from his pack. and everybody helpecl sing the swaet old Christmas caro s. l February 22nd was celebrated as Senior Day. This is the time when the Seniors first don the academic cap and gown. which is then won upon all academic occasions throughout the remainder of the year; A service was held in the college chapel in the morning. the address being delivered by Dr. Neil McPherson. of the Tabernacle church. Indianapolis. who is the honorary member of the class. The theme of his able discourse was The Sorrow of Sellishness, as seen in George Eliot's Tito. Following the service came the banquet. President Newman. as toastmaster. called upon the various speakers. From the Freshman class. Miss Armstrong. on Seeds; Sophomore. Miss Holden. Buds: Junior. Miss Schenclt. Flowers: Senior, Miss Brown. Fruit; faculty. Miss Libby, Cultivators; Dean Sawyer. Harvest. In the evening the Sophomores gave a dance for the Seniors in New Hall. with which good time was brought to a close one of the moat evenl- ful days of a Western Senior's life. Pride and Prejudice of events along the course of the college year. and is looked' forward to by all acquainted with Western life as a very important occasion. Accordingly. when the announcement was made that the play to be given by the class of 19 on March 9 was a dramatization of lane Austexfs novel. Pride and Prejudice. anticipation ran high. The presentation was truly a remarkable one to be given by a caste of college girls. The actors showed splendid training and were a credit to Mrs. Franklin McKleeskey and Kate Wisner. who directed the re-h hearsals. The masculine roles were taken in a really dramatic way, and the interpretah'on of character throughout gave proof of talent and in- sight in the actors. The cast of characters is as follows: THE Junior play is one of the milestones which mark the progress CAST OF CHARACTERS Mr. Darcy bf Pemberly. Derbyshireh .................................... R. Houston Mr. Bingle 03f Netherheld, Hertfordshire. Darcy's friendL..M. Harrell Col. Fitzwilliams hco'usin to Darcyh ............................................ G. Boyle Mr. Bennet hof Langboum, Hertfordshireh ............................ E. Bennett Mr. Collins hcousin to Mr. Bennet. and next in the entail of Long- boum Estateh .................................................................... M. Spilman Sir William Lucas Gnlimate friend and neighbor of the Ben- netsh .................................................................................. E. Schenck 127 Col. Forster holonel of the regiment stationed at MerytonLG. Hendricks Mr. Wickham Um officer in the regimenD ................................ A Schwab Mr. Denny hanother officer in the regimenOW ..........................M. Carr Harris 011: butler at Longbournh ........................................ M. McCubbins Mrs. Bennet hwife of Mr. BenneD ............................................ Edith Judy Jane Eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. BenneQ .................... Ruby Hughes Elizabeth Uheir second daughterh ............................................ Jessie Curtis Lydia Uheir youngest daughterl.......... ....... Minnie Swindell Lacly Lucas Uvife of Sir Williamh ........................................ Lucile Sadler Charlotte Lucas Maughter of Sir William and Lady Lucash ........ .................................................................................... Mildred Brown Miss Bingley hsisler of Mr. Bingleyh ............................ Louise Mendenhall Lady Catherine de Bong haunt to Darcy and patroness of Mr. Col- limd .............................................................................. Nell Campbell Hill Uh: housekeeper al: Longbournh ................................... Eva Smith Martha hhe maid at Mr. Collin's parsonageh .................... Lillian Larienan This was line only play of the year open to the public, except the one given out of doors on Tree Day. so all of the friends were invited. and the Juniors were spuneci on to even greater eHarts by the presence of a large audience to witness its success. Sophomore Play HE class of nineteen-twelve presented Miss Fearless and Com- pany. a farce. on Tuesday evening. November second. nineteen nine. A group of college girls go camping across the lake from a camp of their boy friends. with the resolution not to see or communicate with them -a line of ten dolI-ars being the penalty. The boys resolve to see the girls somehow. so disguise themselves as two dumb women. In the end it is discovered that each girl has to forfeit ten dollars and a happy understand- ing between each girl and boy results. Throughout the play Miss Euphemia Addison. a very nervous old maid chaperone afforded great amusement. Miss Sarah Lovejoy. a most understanding person gets the best of Miss Euphemia. and Katie O'Connor. the Irish maid, likewise has a mind of her own and tantalizes Miss Euphemia. The Ghost. Just Lizzie. is the solution of ghosts on Spook Island. 128 DRAMATIS PERSONAE Miss Margaret Henley. an heiress ............................................ Mary Marr Miss Euphemia Addison. her chaperone ........................ Lola Baumgardner Miss Sarah Ldvejoy, from the Lost Nation .......................... Lenore Thoma Katie O'Connor, Miss Henley's servant ................................ Hazel Holden Miss Barbara Livingston ...................................................... Grace Hetzner Miss Bettie Cameron ............................................................ Florence Smith Miss Marion Reynolds .................................................. Marguerite Hubbell Miss Henley's guests Just Lizzie. the Ghost .................................................... Jeanette Stotzer Miss Alias ....................................... Lois Rankin Miss Alibi ..................................................................... Linda Rodenbeck Silent Sisters: Jack Eggleston and Jim Reading Bobby Shaftoe Bobby Shnttoc'l gone to sea, With silver buckles on hi: knee, He'll come back and marry me, Pletty Bobby Shaftoel N the night of November 23, Bobby Shaftoe and his noble crew launched out upon the Western stage amid the applause of many fair maids upon the bleachers. If the ship did not sail with the majesty and sedateness of the uI-Icmse-lmat on the Styx. it was because the crew had not had the experience of those uAncient Mariners. The class of 19I 3 were young explorers. for no other class had ever ventured upon operatic seas in its freshman year, but without doubt the success of the exploit has won fame and renown for both the crew and the company who sent them out. No sooner were they under way than all felt confident of success. for here was a play well fitted. 129 Little Betty withstood the ardent love-making of the lonely Earl. and loyally defended her absent lover against the gossip of the village maids; the ancient dowager. Countess of Mucklemuchkin. hobbled upon the stage and told us in her squeaky voice that her present activity was due to the fact that in youth her exercise reports were well Filled out and in on time: and Jeems, the old valet of the Earl. amused us with his tactful and non- committal way of saying. Yes. my lord; no. my lady. Old Labsterpot. the progenitor of Betty. was a very piscatorial fisherman, who preferred to fish umtlltitmdinous polysyllabic words ftom his iiJohnson's Dictionaries. rather than to fish for the lump Iugubrious eel; while Bobby .was so brave and handsome he soon had the whole audience in love with him. After the pleasant cruise. the old salts of His Majesty's ship Pinafore. royally entertained the crew and friends. to show their appre- ciation and sisterly interest in the class of 191 3. ' w: 113773.21'1'Lm- HI College Day OLLEGE Day is one of those cssenlially enjoyable Western clays. C It always comes in the early Fa when the leaves are dying. but when Freshman class spirit is young and scarcely so well under- stood as after the memorable basket-blall game of the afternoon. Mothers. fathers, friends and relatives of the Western come from afar to witness this game. and also to partake of the plentiful lunch served in the Beach Woods. On College Day. I909, the girls arrayed in various colors. with Hags and class ribbons waving wildly in the air. gave Vent to their excitement in ceaseless class songs and yells. The well matched teams rushed forth and began the game. The Sophomores were beaten. but their team work was admirable and highly commendable. Score of game for Oct. 12. I909: Sophomores. T2; Freshmen. I3. Referees and umpires: MISS K2555. MISS TAPPAN. 133 FRESHMAN TEAM SOPHOMORE Tam Basket Ball Game N Wednesday morning. Nov. 3. I909. an expectant crowd ,ofiiirls O lined the athletic field to witness a basket-ball game bcMeeILxE the rival classes 'H and '12. It was an exciting as well as a tisd- nating game. Both classes have splendid teams. consisting of some ofithe strongest and most athletic girIs at Western. The Juniors as yet remain the unconquereI basket-ball champions, but on this morning their pride came very near suffering a disastrous falL The Sophmnores never showed more splendid team work. and the worthy Juniors came out with only one point to spare. Score: pts. Juniors, ' I Z ............................................................ I 2 Sophomores. ' I 3 .................................................... I I HIS JUNIOR TEAM Field Day HIS is the most athletic day at Western. It comes in the early spring, and takes up a greater part of a day. Guests. particularly those of the feminine sex. are invited to come to the field and view the most interesting exhibitions of skill in bali throwing, ctashes. fifty and seventy-flve. hurdling, high iump and relays. RECORD OF MAY 6th. l909. FlF'I'Y-YARD DASH--Time, 8 sec.eFirst.--H. Tappan. '09. SEVENTY-FIVE. YARD DASHeFirsteM. Armstrong. tlZ. HIGH JUMP-FirsteTie betWeen H. McCoy, '09, and M. Mun- son, ,09. BROAD JUMPeFirsteMunson. '09. SHOT PUT-FirsteArmstrong. ' I 2. Low HURDLEseFirsteColville. ' l 2. BALL THROWeFirst-L. Rankin. 'IZ. CLASS RELAYeFirst-Freshmen. '12. CLASS SCORE 0F FIELD DAY. MAY 6. i909. Seniors. '09 .................................................. 32 points Juniors. 'IO ........................................... I point Sophomores, 'I I .......................................... 3 points Freshmen, ,12 .............................................. 33 pdnts TENNIS The tennis courts are located on the athletic held. which is a large. smooth plot directly back of Alumnae Hall. They are so placed that they attract the luckiess. wandering eye of the Latin or Greek student. who. while vainly trying to coniugate a but halfrremembered verb, hears the constant ringing anci echo in his haIf-tumed ear of deuce. thirty. love Efteen. .iyour ad, game. 138 Tennis being the most popular of the less strenuous games. affords much pleasure to the college girl. The courts are always full from early fall until the snow falls. and again in the spring until June. A tennis tournament takes place each year, and at all times in the day the tired and flushed competitor wends her way hailward. Miss Caroline Healy. '10, and Miss Frances Lenders. 'IO. are two of Westernis tennis champions. HOCKEY. Field hockey is one of Westernis new athletic attractions. The hockey field is carefully marked 05 on a plot just north of the basket-ball field. EIGHTH PERIOD FIELD HOCKEY COME. ALL Is one of the most attractive signs to be found on the athletic bulletin boards this year. The game is slightly strenuous and affords much pleasure to the truly aihietic girl. CROQUET This is the very latest game which Western offers. and we must say the most pepulat. too, for who but our teamed professors themselves in- dulge therein? There are three croquet grounds, one directly in front of New Hall. and two others between Helen Peabody Hall and Alumnae Hall. Different parties from four to six play quite amicably together on one of these plots. Organization and History of the Alumnae Association MISS LOUlSE PORTER N June. 1380. there gathered. almost from the ends of the earth, a happy company of one hundred and twelve women who had come back to their Seminary home to help celebrate the twentyelifth an- niversary of its opening. The warmth of the welcome they received; their gratitude for what they had gained here. realized more fully in their years of absence; their pride in the growth of Alma Mater. a growth continued in spite of many. and as it seemed. insuperable hindrances: their apprecia- tion of the wonderful possibilities the future seemed to hold-all these feel-- ings demanded, and found expression. Amid the joys of reunion and reminiscence that Filled those two days. anti made them, perhaps. as busy as the days of commencement week are now. time was found for several business meetings. These resulted in the organization of those present into the Alumnae Association of the Western Female Seminary. Its objects. as stated in the constitution, were to deepen the interest of old scholars and the different classes in each other; to place those who have been con- nected with the Seminary. in a united helpful relation to it; to keep alive and quicken the interest of all in Christian education. Miss Auretta Hoyt. of the class 01 '58, was elected president. Miss Alive Milligan. ,69. then a member of the faculty, secretary. Not only was organization elfected. but the object set forth in the constitution was illustrated by plans for immediate and definite work. At the time of the organization. a resolution was adopted with great enthusiasm to endeavor to raise. within five years. the sum of $5,000 as a special memorial offer- ing. to become the nucleus of an Alumnae fund. to be securely invested. and the income applied to the education of those who expect to devote themselves to Christian work. Soon after commencement. a circular letter was issued by Miss Hoyt to all the alumnae. reporting brieHy the important events of the great anni- versary. enclosing a constitution and urging all to join the recently formed Alumnae Association. to organize branch associations Where a sufficient number lived in the same community. and above all. to work individually and Ltnitedily for the completion of the fund of $5,000. Many paragraphs in this letter, and in the urgent ones that followed it in the next Five years. have a familiar note to those who have known in later years of the long continued efforts put forth in behalf of Alumnae Hall, the Helen Peabody Fund. the various other memorial funds. and most recently and most stren- uously. the general endowment fund of $250,000. The $5,000 Alumnae Scholarship. the hrst undertaking, was not completed in five years but in eight, and the report which announced the fact, announced also the receipt 139 of $180 in cash. $275 in pledges. for the new building. tour beautiful Alumnae Hall. now nearly ten years och. As the spirit of seIf-sacriheing devoted love has been manifested in all these undertakings. and in many minor ones that have blessed and beau- Iilied the college. the methods also have been largely the same. The sug- gestion as to local branch associations was promptly followed by the grad- uates in or near Chicago who organized in September. 1380. The Ine dianapolis girls were quick to follow the lead. and were organized be- fore the first annual meeting in June. 1331. At present the roll call of branches at the general meeting in June is responded to by reports from the following localities: Indiana. Washington, D. C.. St. Louis. Minnesota. the Ohio Valley. Kansas. Kansas City. Oxford. Colorado. New York. Southern California. Puget Sound, the Miami Valley and the Wabash Valley. The last branch was organized under the enthusiastic leadership of Mrs. Sarah Belle Howe, '65, who was the first president of the htst branch. the one at Chicago. The success of the Association was insured from the first by the faith and zeal of the first president, Miss Auretta Hoyt. and the untiring sec- retary, Miss Alice Milligan. In the death of Miss Hoyt in 1883. the Association was greatly bereaved. The work was most ably continued by Mrs. Sarah Belle Howe. and she was followed in the presidency by Mrs. Olivia Meily Brice. '66: Mrs. Sarah Pond Baird, '63; Mrs. Mary Adams Draper, '60; Mrs. Mary Miller Reed, '68; Mrs. Susan Ballard Rich- ardson. ,76; Mrs. Harriet Whallon Woodbury, 175. and Mrs. Lucy Belle Rifenberick. '66. who is the present president. In the first annual report published in 1381, the name of Miss Caro- line D. White appeared as assistant secretary. In the next twenty years. during which she served the Association first as financial secretary. then as treasurer. her name became very familiar and dear to all alumnae. ap- pearing as it did, not only on official statements. but attached to the in' numerable kindly notes which were so welcome, and which were to many. not only a happy reminder that though far away and long away, they were not forgotten at The Western, but were also the chief personal bond that kept them in touch with the life ancl progress here. Except in tmessential matters of phraseology. the article in the hrst constitution setting forth the object of the Association remains unchanged. It expresses the objects constantly and consistently sought. and sought with a degree of success which can he unclerstood only by the alumnae and non- graduate students who. through it. have enjoyed the good fellowship of worlt and play centering about their one object of common and devoted interesteThe Western. Leila S. McKee Welsh N the early 70's there came to the Western Female Seminary a frail. delicate child. somewhat younger than the youngest student. In spite of her years she was admitted. It happened that Miss Peabody. the principal of the school, had with her at the time a little nieee for whom she was caring. The two children became fast friends and were soon known as Helen's babies. Leila McKee's early association with Miss Peabody was thus neces- sarily close and intimate. No better avenue could have opened to mutual understanding, love and respect. For the child, as she expanded into the fair uppersclass girl, it meant appreciation of the ideals of heart and mind upon which her beloved seminary was grounded. Fur Miss Peabody it gave opportunity to know the intellectual vigor, the depth of heart and soul. the social power. the adaptability. the wisdom, the capacity for leadership. of the young girl Wham she was later to call to succeed her. Following her graduation at Oxford in '77. Leila McKee entered upon a college course at Wellesley. Of the fates of fortune overtaking her there was, perhaps. none so propitious as that which placed an interval of teaching between the Junior and Senior years. It broughtther to the close of her academic training with that added maturity and experience which doubtless enabled her to make the most advantageous preparation for the larger work to come. Wellesley was at the time in the making. Its most remarkable leader. Alice Freeman, was establishing forever the type of American woman col- lege president, and setting the indelible stamp of her own lofty ideals upon the higher education of girls and women throughout the country. One so keenly alive as Miss McKee to the import of the big things around her could not fail to be influenced by all this. nor could her own generous. noble spirit and simple geodness remain long alien to the like temperament of that rare woman whom she came to love so dearly. One has but to read the recent Life of Alice Freeman Palmer to see constant points of re- semblance between the two women. It was very shortly after the close of the work at Wellesley that Miss McKee was called to be head of the seminary at Oxford. The education of girls in the Middle West had advanced but slowly and there was opportunity now for it to make marvelous strides. This opportunity Miss McKee saw and was able to meet. By sixteen years of earnest zeal and faithful labor of body. mind and heart, she developed the Seminary into The Western College for Women. Twice during that time. first 140 in I894 and again in I904. the charter was ehanged.-as the full col- lege drank was gradually approached and finally attained; two new build- ings were added, the number of teachers increased. the tuition raised. and the scope of the work in every way broadened and expanded. The changes were wwought without upheaval. by a masterly combination of caution and daring. which kept the institution always free of debt. but always growing. With the greatest reverence for the ideals of the past was combined rare faith in the opportunities of the future. and the marvel- lous ability to so cement the two that of them both was builded one im- pregnable structure: Miss McKee's dealing with individual students was not less sagacious than her administrative pbiicy. Personal power is a dominating factor everywhere. but in no place does it hear such large Fruitage as in a school. Her personality was marvellously influential and embodied the most stim- ulating ideals. It was her great gift to ca forth the Ihest in everyone with whom she came in contact. Her very presence insured dignity, gentleness. unselfishness. inspiration. That she drew to herself an enormous circle of admirers is unquestionable. It is. however. more noteworthy that to an even greater degree she won them to the high ideals for which she steed. making these seem both desirable and possible. Her justice and quick sympathy. perhaps above all, her faith in human nature and trust in he d'ividual rectitude. insured success in codperation. One of her heart-to- heart talks banished the courage to fail and lent an overmastering sense of purpose and a desire for the exalted course. Her quick wit and sparkling repartee made the shortest interview a moment to be coveted. She com- mended the fundamental virtues in the most Winsome ways; her religion breathed of peace anti freedom. Her instinct for brightness invested even the homely things with charm. and in the memory of her girls the most ordinary events are suffused with the warm glow of joyous participation in their occurrence. In June of the year I904, Miss McKee resigned her presidential of- Bce to become the wife of Mr. James B. Welsh. of Kansas City. Mo. Into the new field of activity she has taken the same gifts which char acterized her previous career. and in the broader social life is giving herself as unsparingly as formerly among her students. A gracious hostess and an active. public.gpirited woman.she has taken rank as a first citizen in her new home. May she live forever! EDITH CLAWSON, '03. The American Girls' School at Constantinople BY MISS ISABEL Donn. HE college girl in the old city of Constantinople. the city that has been a maker of history. and a centre of the world affairs for so many ages. is necessarily an interesting creature. But she is not so very different. after all, from the col- lege girl that walks through the Western corri- dors, or plays tennis- on its grounds. Visitors to the American College for Girls at Constanti- nople often remark with surprise: Why. they seem just like college girls at home! Their curriculum has some points of difference, especially in the mat- ter of languages, for each one of our girls must study at least four lan- guages-mher own. modem language. and her ancient language has Ancient Greek. Slavic. Ancient Armenian. or ArabicJ English and French. The American. English. French and German girls must study tor their ancient language. either Greek or Latin. But perhaps you would be interested to spend one day with the college girls here on the Bosphorus. They get up at seven o'clock and have a thoroughly Oriental break- fast Gust coEee and rollsi at half-past seven. Then they go to their dormitories for a. short time. for most of our girls do not have separate rooms. partly for lack of space. and.partly because it is the custom here to sleep in domlitories. At half-past eight the first recitation begins. and it may be Browning. or mathematics or biology haceompanied by discus- sion and laboratory world or it may be Byzantine art or philosophy. or any one of the usual studies of a college course. The whole college. of about one hundred members. gathers for prayers. at ten minutes past nine. while the Preparatory School, consisting of eighty more students. 141 meets in another building. In either mommilege or preparatory-you would see Greeks and Atmeniam. English and Turks. Hungarians and Bulgarians. Jew: and Servians. Austrians and Italians side by side, eagerly studying the same lessons. singing together in English. forming the close school friendships that blossom in college and bear fruit all through after life. Three days in the week all the students must talk English. three days French. and Sunday they may talk anything they like-that is the day of Babel. It is necessarily more interesting to study Byzantine History in Can- stantinople. and to learn Creek Art with girls named Aglaia. Euphrosync. Andromadie. Aspasia and Aphrodite: to study Sociology with Turks and Armenian: and Austrians; to meet every day the representatives of so many differing races and civilizations. than it is to study the same things in more ordinary surroundings. Since our largest building was burned down some years ago. our quarters have been so crowded. that many things which our college girls used to do, are now impossible. We have no gymnasium for one thing; but the girls play tennis and basket-ball. and walk in the garden. and man- age to get some amount of exercise. eyen timugh so restricted. They have their societies, literary and social, and are continually getting up some en- tertainment to amuse the college, or to honor a guest. and I wish we might invite you all to see some of these entertainmenFit may be a Bulgarian play or a French recitation, or a Turkish Folklore production. Indeed. taken altogether. the college girl on the Bosphorus spends her day in- just as eager study, and happy recreation. in the same training of mind and body and heart. that we who have studied at the Western enjoyed under its happy roof. The Western of the Seminary Days and of the Present Mas. J. S. FARRIS. Extracls from tam letters of the class of '57. N the early days even the modes of conveyance were less convenient than now. In my own experience from a country village in western New York to Oxford, 1 went by private conveyance to the nearest railroad, sixteen miles distant. thence by old New York 8: Erie Railroad to Buffalo, then by steamer on Lake Erie to Cleveland. changing cars three or four times between there and Hamilton, and as a climax of discomforts and anxieties to the inexperienced girl. from there to Oxford trunks and all by stage. Which for such extra rush of business. consisted of all manner of wagons, some with covers. others without. If it chanced to be raining and one was so fortunate or so unfortunate as to get a corner under cover. the various trunks and parcels on top bumped ancl rattled about seeming to threaten the unfortunates below with momentary destruction from breaking roof and falling baggage. Those were the days of wood stoves in every private as well as pub- lic room of the senunary--each girl bringing in her own wood and burn- ing fluid for tire and lamp: she built her own lire and set up this kind of miniature housekeeping in a systematic way. The wood room in the center of the building had on every floor stalls filled with wood and regularly numbered to correspond with the number of rooms on each floor. When the stall was empty. the occupants of the room corresponding in number. paid for the wood they had consumed and the stall would be duly refilled. We had good times in those days. No one was ever supposed to be a law unto herself. for laws there were and well enforced. so long as we held daily walk and conversation within those sacred halls, or perhaps planned some future escapade. But as we were good girls then, escapades seldom really materialized, though it was by some thought best not to be too awfully good or one might possibly be torn from the room-mate she loved best and put with some wild girl, over whom her excellent example might have a saving influence. Thus we might go on in our reminiscent mood. but that as we have heard. is a sign one is getting old. so in order that you may contrast the present with the past. I will inclose a letter written last fall giving some account of the writefs impressions to those of her class who were not then present. My Ever Dear Girls of '57 :eWhen these ever welcome and delight- ful letters of '08 came to hand. so long ago. it was in my heart to sit down 142 at once and start the ones for '09. l was deterred from this. however. by the suggestion that possibly you would rather I should wait until after Commencement time so as probably to have something more definite to write of the year's doings. especially so far as our college is concerned. Now that Commencement is long past, I will not longer delay, for I know you are uaching to hear not as Mrs. Dennison wrote years ago about uthat husband of mine, but whatever we have found to say about that Presi- dent of Ours. We were all so worried, you know for fear those dreadful men. our Western trustees, had gone and done the final stroke for deadening the life and proeperity of our dear old Western. but now as in time of many another trial overpast. it really appears as if our doubts and fears were unworthily founded. and we might well have spared ourselves much of that questionable anxiety and simply trusted where we could not see. The hrst year of this new dispensation foots up largely on the credit side. The $250,000 Endowment Fund was completed before midnight. June 30th. This had been struggled for I donit know just how many years and we cannot doubt that Dr. Newman's interest. enthusiasm and faith was the crowning inspiration that led to its Enal attainment Even the clear girls of the school fell promptly into working line. and from April to Com- mencement raised by their own efforts over $6,000. The Junior class having obtained the most money, received the prize. a beautiful silver lov- ing cup. of which they may well be proud. but no more so than we of them. There has been no detrimental change in the management of the school. Dean Sawyer, a line. strong, capable. sweetvfacecl and happy- hearted woman, wins and holds the conhdence and love of the entire fam- ily. past as well as present. Dr. Newman is always interesting to hear. as well as good to look at. The girls are sure that he is the only man and wonder how they ever got along without him. At the Alumni banquet Mrs. Rifenberick. President of the Alumnae Association. was expected to preside as toastmistress, but she very adroitly shifted this duty or honor. whichever it might be considered. to Dr. Newman himself. who said he would prefer to decline. but supposed it would do no good. and seemed almost to wonder how it happened that he was there anyway. He said he did not seek the position of President but 1t was urged upon him. He went to the home of his birth to see what influences there might strengthen his refusal or assist his judgment as to possible acceptance. Among other familiar scenes of his childhood he called at the barnyard and the old rooster twhether or no the very same one he knew in boyhouctF-anyway. he looked like hind, strutted about and eyed him. then Hew up on the gate post. Happed his wings in the old way and crowed. You had bet-ter be- ware! the women rule there! Then a little chap. scarcely out of the chicken coop, put in his testimony like this. uFaet-'tis-true-they cer-tainly- do-ool while the barnyard philosopher replied. Well, I-wouldn'trcaare! 1hey rule-every-mh'c-re! And even Dr. Newman's own mother told him he was no son of hers if he was afraid to d0 his duty. 50. he said. I am hertz. and you see how true the warning that was given me. Even at the table it seems I am not secure from the unexpected. such as Mrs. Rifenberick has thrust upon me ,just now! Our girls have been very original and bright to catch up new ideas and by no means fall behind in whatever is lovely and of good report. The athletic field. physical culture. Domestic Science. Arts and Crafts- all that is going, occupy their due and prominent piazza among the sciences and accomplishments providea for the fortunate students of today-as one of our older number said. MHow I would like to 'begin right now and go through school againewouldn't I be able to know and do something? 0f cou'rse, but think of the addeci responsibilities. Most of us find. I imagine. plenty of those already. at first intrusted to us that are not and never have been altogether faithfully met. or tliecharged quite as fully and conscientiou-siy as might have been. 59 Why should or how dare we wish for more at this late day ?-only to do the best we can with what we have left to us from now onwthat will fill our hands and rest our hearts for the day, only one day at a time-can we not be glad? Hoping you are ail finding much to enjoy and nothing to seriously distract or annoy anti that we may each and every one hear From at! the others for many years to come. With much love tn all. 143 The Old Girl Chats With the New BY MRS. JAMESeB. WELSH. LOVE to think of you. dear New Girl. on that quiet autumn after- noon. with the rain softly failing without, and the yellow leaves Hut- tering in through your window and lying in drifts at your feet. I love to think of the kimono and the Morris chair and the thumping steam pipes. I shut my eyes and summon the vision. Alas! I see no kimono, neither Morris chair. We old girls wore wrappers in the seventies; in the eighties we wore dressing sacques. and then matinees. We sat straight upright: witness our straight backs and our strong and healthy daughters. If we chanced to have a sleepy tit. we got excused from shitty hours, turned back the spotless white counter- pane and lay down on the comfort. Then it took up until the next Wednesday night to catch up. Speaking of Wednesdays, has the story survived of a certain Wednesday morning when an illustrious lecturer. stranded from the evening before. strolled into the reading room after breakfast anti sat down at one of the tables? A friendly young woman sat opposite and conversation ensued. What is your program for today? inquired the learned doctor. uOh! this is Recreation Day. Indeed! and what do you do on Recreation Day? We wash. But to go back: we never dreamed of kimonos and Morris chairs, but the thumping steam pipes-ah! there is the touch of Nature that makes the whole world kin. What have we not suffered from those steam pipes? They are better behaved now than they used to be, in the seventies. Dear. blessed Mr. Hin-kle used to say that the devil got into the steam pipes every time he tried to pray. There was a time. you know, when there were no steam pipes, Ibut wood stoves and kerosene lamps. The mail came out once a day in the Ark. Hold! There was no Ark. In the pre-Noahic age our man Friday brought the mail out in the spring wagon; and when the Ark came. oh! the glory and splendor of it! In that day there were no pompadomrs. The word was in the singular number. ana had an indistinct. unpleasant. historic suggestion in it. Rats were an especial Nemesis upon the girls who smuggied eat- ables into their rooms. Cups on the side-boards. dear young sister? Why cups? One does not drink cold water from cups. And if no cups. why side-boarde? Muffins existed in the future tense onIy. As for stiles - Man did deprive us of stiles. They were so far out of bounds as 144 to be invisible to the naked eye. and by the same token, the word picnic was not in our vocabulary. But there was the stage-coach of the fifties and sixties. and the bright new yellow-painted omnibus of the seventies. What a grand rumble and roar it made. to be sure. as it swept down the hill to the lake. rattled across the bridge andl crawled up the steep hill and around the curve to the one building at the top. A trip a d'ay was a lib- eral average. Then the longfellow ,came, and the hospitable. sunny-faced, optimistic Black Maria, mute witness to the groans and tears of suc- cessive generations of despairing Freshmen, in the mellowing days of Sep- tember. or on the cold wintry nights of which you speak. dear New Girl. Alas. how very new; one does not realize until you speak of Elms, Uneedas and Christmas vacation! These all did not appear upon the dimmest dis- tances of our horizon. But taffy! and the pound'! Ah! there our foot is on our native heath. our name, it is McGregor. No need of Jap-a-lac in the day of the very old girl; not yet of vacuum cleaners; no, nor even of Casco in his parlor capacity. The very old girls were sufficient for all these things, with energies to spare. What did we do with our surplus energies. you ask? That's our secret. Perhaps you will never know. At best. you can only guess from the ghostly whispers that come to you from those long, dim, echoing gal- leries of the past. Honestly, now. don't you think the very old girls were a staid and sober and colorless set. so busy keeping rules they had no time for anything else. 1 tell you the very halls and floors of our own Peabody Hall could tell you some secrets; so could the whispering leaves and the tossing branches of the grand old trees on our campus. and the dear familiar spots under the pines and down by the lake. They might give you a peep into the life, the color, the beauty. the dash and go of it all. but what's the use? You wouldnit believe it. you couldn't. Just so the unew girl of the twenties and fifties will look back upon the stupid lives of the girls of 19I0. It takes a long and thorough graduate course to give us the power of visionebackward. so to speak. It will be yours some day. College generations come and go. dear little sister. Hoop skirts and sheath skirts. uwaterfalls and pompadours; honnets and pic- ture hats: the endlessly changing procession passes before us. As it has been since the days of Eve. so must it be until the last of Eve's daughters passes from this earthly stage. But here is a great secret. little sister. Deep down Underneath the accident of fashion, FIdEn'lalS of daily life, the new girl and! the old girl are the very eelf-same identical girl. The same bundle of hopes and God-given aspirations, with the same blessed evolution under the fostering care of Alma Mater into the same noble. beneficent. splendid womanhood. Do you not see that one generation succeeds another. like to itself? Thet your generation will presently give way to the next. still with the family likeness. the hall-mark of Western stamped upon it-the spirit of Alma Mater that asks with uncliminished eagerness: . k 4 x I :2 L ' L- in- 7 l 7' 7 0'00, K 99f: uThe old orcler changeth Giving place to new, And God displays himself in many ways. the changing vocabulary, the in- Doesn't it make you a bit proud to read the scraps of family history as they appear on the pages of our beautiful first College Annual? Bell Docld was ua name to conjure with in the middle seventies. How proud we all were of her, for she was brilliant. witty and jolly. The Commence- ment essay fairly scintillated and- is yet quoted. I notice she does not mention the dog-cat-goat charivari. Ask her what she knows about it. Now. acknowledge. little sister. that you never saw any real con4 nection between c'harivaris and educational work in Turkey. Yet the con- nection exists. and you will hncl it also binding Western to Foreign Mis- sions in India, and to the wide work of the church in our own country. This is history. Turn to another page in our Annual. Here is a letter from our eldest sister-uone of the very first to graduate from the Western. Today she sits in a home darkened by a great bereavement, yet her courage and faith have not for one moment failed. On the day when they laid away her beloved one from her sight, she said to me: God knows I have not been rebellious. I have trusted Him 3rd I do trust Him. This is the anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast. and which entereth into that within the veil. 145 Turn the pages once more and read the record the uolttl girls are making in medical work. Aren't you a bit puliecl up with pride? On a day in June, not far hence, you will receive the sign and seal of admis- sion into the august tanks of the old girls. The tried and true. who have been strong and have clone exploits. Then you will gladly enter in and possess your inhaitance. You will learn to ltnow and revere the great names among the faculty and the trustees and? the big-hearted friends who have served the college from the days of its lusty infancy to this day, and you will join hands with them also. pledging to Alma Mater your con- tinued and increasing love and loyalty and utmost service. For so long as our Western remains true to the principles of her found- ing. so long as she trains for the finest service of God and man, just so long, by sewing Alma Mater. you will be serving Him Who founded our col- lege and who has kept it until this clay. Given such service as this and The Western of the Future is as- sured already, for she will be just the same blessed Alma Mater she has always been, only more beautiful in age than in youth, and crowned with perpetual light and joy. There now. my chat has grown into a uprealtzhment. Olcl girls are sidertraeked as easily as new girls. you see. Well. then. let's call it a remarkH at close of chapel. At that privileged time ilPerhaps it may turn out a song. Perhaps turn out a sermon. In my heart it is a i'song. with verses and verskone for every year of the beautiful rosary of years stretching back to the beginning and forward into the bountiful years to come. and every verse is a song of joy. God bless you. dear little sister. and make you a blessing. Yours, with the abiding love of a very old girl. Can you guess her name? The editors have done their best for the Alumnae department. but all our eEottt to aecure news items-or nearly all-proved vain. as only a few of the clan seeretanee responded to our appeal. The few item: that were contributed we heve decidedoo turn over to the Western Oxford board, to be printed in their magazine. We with to thank the few secretaries who did respond and we regret that there was not a militant number of items contiibuted to make possible that feature of the Work. Grinds Notice I-New Publication HE Senior class, having been wonderfully encouraged by its phenomenal success in all lines, has determined upon the publication of a new periodical, a sample copy of which is enclosed. This publication will be known as The Westernk Own Journal, and a glance at the specimen pages hereunto attached, and the Table of Contents for the first number will show the most casual observer what will be the superior quality of the Journal. 150 The Western's Own Journal Published By The Senior Clus. Western College For Women MISS M- AND THE OUGL It is reported that Miss M- said the Ougi board is worked by one's subconscious mind. Pray whose mind was it. the night she tried it. that caused it to employ so much unseemly language to express itself? That Reminds Me Miss B-n: HMiss Hall. what are octagonal buildings? HEARD IN BIBLE III. Miss Porter: Miss Ge. tell the story of the casting out of the evil spirit. l my offlce, so if you have lost anything you can probably End it there. Dr. Newman: I shall hunt my horse there. Very young Freshman: D1: Leach, How SHOULD THE CLASS KNOW? Miss Selby: Goethe lived for the last sixty years of his life in Weimer. dying there in 1832-Fthen where did he go? Miss Lyman: I will place in the library an autobiography of Hume. written by himself. I Freshmanhmeeting Dean in the hall gives her a hearty Hello Dean. how are you? Where have you been these last few days? Although I failed in my first attempt. but since it is to be my life work ought I not to take up art next year? F. Boyd. If you do not at Erst succeed, try. try again. Dean 5.: If you hold a yellow ticket it means your seat is in the balconyeif The Contents of this Number Cover Designw-Viala Mung .. l The Edilm's Personal Page-Ivyw Truman ........................................ 2 When I Became Engagcd-Myrlle Quank'c ------------------------------------ 3 Who! It Means Io Be 1 Senior-Helen Brain 5 Why Biology Should Be Required-Malrel Debell ........................ 7 Frank Talk: with Students, Faculty and Friends-Dr. Newman......l0 The New Girl's GuidbRose Rankin .............................................. I2 Good Manners and Good F Drm-Francos Lander: ............................ l5 Pretty Girl QualionhVirginia Griffith .......................................... l7 AMusicel Questions Asked and Answered-Vivian W oodrona ............ 20 Ideas of a Plain Country Woman-Nell Coles........................,... .22 That Reminds MrAline Stevens ................................................... 23 Bible Stories-Isabella Day .............................................................. 24 Talks With the Business Woman-Hclen Call ................................ 25 Brief Talks on Philosophy-e-Luuru Ken! V0.26 The Club-Wilh One Idea to Read Papers-Alice Dewar ------------ 27 with your permission. Mr. S. will stay for supperel have coaxed him all afternoon. Dr. Leach: Of course you have spoken to the Dean. Very young Freshman: Do you have to? ' th-o'o-o l Virginia Griffith. while gazing at a History of Art picture: Oh, I know that-that is Christ delivering the peas to St. Keter. Miss P.-: Isn't it a pity there isn't a noun for decline? Miss M-m. jumping in her excite- ment: Why. there ihdeclivity. Dr. Leach: Miss Coles, what do you know about fat? Miss Lyman 00 E. 3., one of colored your ticket is red. you sit on the floor. Puzzle: What did she mean? HEARD IN HISTORY OF ART. Miss Ge: Then there was a place where they kept the apostle tepistlel! Lillie Stone: About Little PeoplhAlice Recard'............................23 What cm Be Done With Old HousesELF-Miss Mallory.........,......30 WHERE i the Senior vaudeViliel: Why. Edith! When you'm'e all blacked up you look exactly like a friend of mine! V. G.: Christ said unto the evil spirit. Come Teacher in Psychology: Name the transitory from him. and the spirit yelled oute instincts. Student: uCuriosity is one. Dean 3.: All lost articles are brought to 152 Teacher: No. not unless the individual has softening of the braineCuriosity lives on. Good Manners and Good Form How long before a wedding should the engagement be announced? . . n Mc y. . There Is no rule governmg such matters. but we would suggest that Since you are a senior. you might wait until Senior Howl. Does one need a chaperon to go uptown. shopping? a r. For strictly shopping purposes a chaperon is superHuous, but for restaurant lugches. it is usually wise to have one. How soon after a play or concert should a young man call at the Western? Miami. On the following Tuesday evening. provided it is not near liexam week, Then the young ladies need all their time for work. Is it necessary at 3 Girls' Glee Club Concert for the young ladies in the club to wear long kid gloves? Perplexecl. It is not bad form, but it is too professional. How soon should one invite a guest from New Hall, after having been entertained there? P. H. Girl. Just as soon afterward as you have an extra place at table and an extra napkin. Is it proper to eat supper in New Hall every Sunday night? Fl I'. If you have enough friends there to make such an arrangement pos- sible. it is all right. Is it proper for a young man to address a letter to a young lady without the prefix Miss? 5 Most emphatically. no. 153 When you are occupying the Guest Room at Western is it necessary to furnish your own bedding? H. S. and M. M. According to a recently aclopted custom it is. When a junior stars in a. theatrical performance is it not proper for an admiring freshman to send Howers the following day? It may be proper. hutmyou know how girls will talk! Is it proper for a young man on slight acquaintance to send a young lady violets every week? St 3. If anything prevents his calling it is a charming courtesy to send flowers. Is it proper ever to wear red or black in the evening. 01' for Senior Reception? Miss B No. by all means use your influence to prevent it. If a friend does your domestic is it necessary to thank her? Freshman. Yes-also see that you pay her back. Should young ladies call on each other in the dormitories. dressed in kimonos? Brown. It is not indicative of bad manners. Is it permissible for a young lady to take her bIeakfast egg upstairs for a shampoo? Yes. if she takes it raw. Would it be bad form for a college girl to spend her summer vaca- tion as a singer in vaudeville? R. Feree. No. not if you use the money earned toward paying for your edu- cation. Pretty Girl Ogestions Exercise. H n B n:-quu should take several walks each day; exor- cise is a requisite in a cure for gout. You must spend at least thirty mm- ultes of each hour in the clay in vigorous walking. Is not medicine which is good for toothache also efficacious in cases of rheumatism? Mrs. R If not. it will at least do no harm. Is it a good thing to use three kinds of soap on my face? M Moore. Yes. if you need it. Is it advisable ever to sit in a draft? Puzzled. By no means-better a close room than too much fresh air. Can you tell me how to curl my hair? H l Pr. Always do it upon curlers at ni$ll and if you will roll the short ends over your pencil during recitations that will be a great help. Send an envelope and stamp to M. Patton and she will give you some helpful in- formation. 154 Late Books How to Be a Successful Bellrgirl ea useful book of information by Miss Ruby Carl. Especial instruction is given for Tuesday even- ing, and all bell-girls would find this little book very helpful. Miss Carl will also demonstrate the success of hermethods and this fact warrants us in heartily recommending the book. uThe Latest Things in Fraternity Jewelry this little book is the joint production of Hazel Siman anti Mary Patton. with elucidating notes by Mary Holliday and others. All those desirous of procuring suc jewelry would do well to consult this useful pamphlet. as it contains several pages of suggestions along that line. Crushes -a highly instructive work, the authorship of which is concealed. It is surmised by the nature of the contents that it is the work of several freshmen, arid we are given to understand that Peggy Oliver knows more about the publication than she cares to tell. The Art of Successful Grinciing --tl'iis pamphlet is highly recommended, since it is written, edited and published by the Society of Grinds. The chief editorial work was done by the officers of the societys Ruth Milligan. pres; Isabella Day, vice-pres.; Hazel Field. secy.; Greta. Runyon. treas.; Laura. Wilson, Hope Jackway. Metta Jacobs and Viola Munz. chief diggers. 155 Theigm PrincessiLaby Marguerite Hubbel. with apologies to George e. The Blue F lower eby Maurine Starling. Full of suggestions for new girls who may he. desirous of obtaining violets on short notice With illustrations by Hazel Siman'. Behind the Footlights'i-a very interesting book showing the patience and perseverance of a young girl needed in reaching the heights of uleading lady. by Lucile Sadler. 'Starh'ng during her college course with a part consisting of only five words and ab. she was not ciaunted. but with determination strove upwards. Success finally crowned her efforts. nInter-Collegiate Athletics -by Abigail Schwab. Miss Schwahis deep interest in intercollegiate athletics. and especially basket-ball, has enabled her to set forth its adVantages in a. most forcible way. When a Woman Man'iesmsEdna Beaseley. This book contains many beautiful illustrations of diamonds of various sizes. A Book of Jokehby Arima Woodhull. Because of Miss Woodhull's knowledge of the art of telling funny stories she has finally been in- duced by her friends to publish this little book. Extracts from Dean Sawyer's Diary Sept. 8. Girls begin to return. Several Seniors are back. I wonder if they'll be as nice Seniors as last year's class? A number of new girls are herball of them seem homesick and lonelyel suppose they want their mothers. poor little things. Sept. e. First chapel service this A. M. The faculty all were their caps and gMFhat's a good planeit makes the new girls have a proper aim: of us. and I fancy we do make an imposing appearance. I notice these new girls are all pretty girls. but they. too, wear those awful hair rolls. 1 never can bring myself to call them rats, it's such a slander on the poor little beasts. Sept. ---. The new girls show a surprising willingness to go down the line. One little freshman told me she had only had to talk with me once and hoped she'd not have to again. Now. what do you suppose she meant? Oct. e. Another College Day. Really. Freshmen are not so bad after all, and this day went oft without their doing any of those foolish things they have done in years past. such as stealing the song of the sopho- mores. Nov. e. Thanksgiving DayeWell. I have lots to be thankful for this year-that fine new carpet in the main corricior of Helen Peabody 156 Hall, the new curtains. the new rug in the vestibule, the vacuum cleaner. those new croquet sets which the faculty are all so fond of. and last but not least, those pretty new red covers on our song books. c. -. Well. theyire gone, and what a relief it is! Now I can have time to draw my breath and not be afraid of not getting to every place on time. although Promptness is the hrst requisite for success. Now I won't be bothereci with girls asking for dates. I do hope they'll get enough of those dates while they're home. What a good trme they'll have. I advised them to take in all the moving picture shows. Jan. e. They're back again! But it is good to see them. But I could hardly recognize some of lhenhthey seem to be doing their hair so differently. It must be just the way they fix it. for 1 can't believe a Western girl would wear false hair. Why! they midat get leprosy! And one Freshman came into my office this morning with a diamond on her left hand. Why will girls be so foolish! Feb. 22. Senior DayeMy! it was a perfect ciay. Didn't their gaps and gowns become them? I hate to think how soon they'll be leav- mg us. March 23. The girls are gone again. Well. I hope they'll have a good time and not come back with those awful enormous hats. Rules for Western Girls I. Thou shalt love no other college above The Western. II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any spreads, or any parties. or any likeness of these, during the study hours; for I, the College of West- ern, am a studious coliege. transmitting the learning of the mothers unto the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that come here, and shewing degrees unto hundreds of those that stay here, and obey my commandments. III. Thou shalt not make any noise in the rooms or corridors. for I will give her a demerit that maketh a noise unnecessarily. IV. Remember the Tuesday evenings, to keep them merry. Five nights shalt thou study and learn all thy lessons, hut Tuesday night is thy recreation night, on it thou shalt not do any work. not on thy chem. nor on thy lit. nor thy trig, nor on anything that is in thy curriculum. For five days the faculty assign the lessons and ail that in them is, but rest on recreation evening. Wherefore the students love the recreation evening and enjoy it. V. Honor thy neighboris engaged sign, that her hours may be quiet in the room that the Western college has given her. VI. VII. VIII. Thou shalt not pony. Thou shalt not go without hats. Thou shalt not Shirk domestic. 15'? b0 IX. Thou shalt not announce false engagements unto thy neigh- rs. X. Thou shalt not disfigure the college walls. nor the tables. nor chairs. nor anything that is the college's. U'Ieard From a Latin StudenD Behold I have a pony. A better never did itself sustain Upon the Eneid of Virgil. I have seen the day When. with this little pony and this good pen I could plough my way through more exams than twenty times your stop. But, oh. vain boast, who can control his fate? 'Tis not so now. Be not afraid though you have seen me flanked. This is my joumeyis end. my examination. M. HELLIWELL. Soliioquy of the Math Student. Fellow classmates and teachers, Lend me your ears! I come to Hunk 1n this test not to pass it. The fun that one has lives long 1n memory, The learning 13 oft forgotten with the day. Thus has it been in my case. M. HELLIWELL. EB' WOHL! t You who have found your way through the pages of this book! The senior class is soon to leave The Western, and we have tried to leave you a book that may remind you, as we know it will remind us, of happy college days. of beautiful friend- ships, and of Western more than all. To all of you we say, not goodbye. that were too sad.-We say leb' wohl, live well. and find here- after happy memories lurking for you within the covers of this book. 158 Advertisements Do you think the very Erst Western College Annual is a success? If you do, just remember that it has cost money to make it one; and remember, too. that our advertisers have helped us to make possible a book worthy of Westem-Remember this and patronize them. 159 The Elder 81. Johnston C0., What? Correct in Stationery? A visit to this department will soon show you real Stationery lletiquette, for we have so many novel forms, or regulation size of paper for all purposes, and will be glad to submit samples of these desirable kinds upon request. Our Commencement Announcements. alsu Calling Cards to enclose with them will interest the boy or girl graduate. And our engraving is absolutely be- yond question-the fungal: oblainable. We ham; ?nund Papers from Bpnd tn the heavy Linen-all snzes . Also inexpensive lmtlal Tablets engraved In blue 0111' Favor Department Is a little world in itself of exclusive imported novelties-all clever as can bewllaproposl for the farewell banquet. DEPARTM ENT STORE Dayton, Ohio Ejbbons ! Ribbons ! Ribbons ! Ifs a ribbon season, sure enough, and of all the lovely Moire, Broche and Dresden, and Brocaded ones here to be made into handsome girdles, neck pieces or for the hair never saw the like. We makg ribbon 5owers for even- mg wear Just to your order. 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