03. Emma Miller is teaching in the Rumford Point High School. Rumford Point, Maine. Rena Paulina Moore is teaching elocution, German and English in the private school of Mr. Phillips in Paterson, New Jersey. Loella Newhall is teaching in the seventh and eighth grades, and also has charge of the English and Latin classes in the High School in Stowe, Massachusetts. Marie; Oller will have charge of the science department in Halifax Ladies' College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Maybelle Packard is teaching English in the High School department in Poughkeepsie, New York. Carlotta Parker will remain at home in Portland, Oregon, keeping house and studying. Stella Packard taught in the New York Vacation Schools this summer, and during the winter she expects to work in a Children's Settlement in New York City. Eva Augusta Porter is teaching English in St. Gabriel's School, Peekskill, New York. Laura Post has entered the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Beulah Potts is studying music at her home in Columbus, Ohio. Alma Reed is taking a special course in Latin and German at Bridgewater State Normal School. Almeda Reed has entered the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses. Florence Ripley expects to spend the winter at home. Helen Robinson will spend the winter studying music at her home. Her address is 618 16th St., Des Moines, Iowa. Elizabeth Russell is studying domestic science at Teachers' College. Elizabeth Sampson is teaching English and history in the High School at St. Albans, Vermont. Address, 3 Brown Avenue. Josephine Scoville will spend the following year in Pasadena, California. Marion Smith was married June 30, to Mr. Reuben Moffat Lusch of Anna Treat will spend the winter at her home, 283 Pleasant St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Viles will be at home in Waltham, Massachusetts, for the winter. '03. Alice Warner is to remain at home in Wethersfield, Connecticut, for the year. Alice M. Webber expects to remain at home during the coming year. Her address will be 687 Washington St., Brighton, Massachusetts. Marie Weeden's address for the winter will be The Mansion House, Hicks St., Brooklyn, New York. Elizabeth Westwood will be at 936 St. Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. She intends to write for the New York papers. Edith Wyman is spending the winter at her home. Alta Zens is in Paris at present. Her winter will be passed in study and travel on the continent. BIRTHS '91. Mrs. Hobart Karl Whitaker (Nellie Comins), a son, Karl Comins, born August 24. '97. Mrs. Lyman W. Griswold (Grace Kimball), twins, Grace Pyncheon and Theophilus, born June 8. '99. Mrs. Thomas Franklin Galt (Clarace Goldner Eaton), a daughter, Clarace, born September 19. DEATHS '92. Marion Drew died August 1, at Marlboro, New Hampshire. '97. Edith Blake died August 4, at Long Lake, New York. ABOUT COLLEGE As the undergraduates return to college after three months of recreation, certain results are visible during the first weeks of the fall term. The first is purely physical. The majority of students return with greater vigor and energy than they possessed in the spring. The second is perhaps an outgrowth of the first, namely, an enthusiastic desire to shine in all those courses of study upon which they have just entered. Some Results of the Now far be it from me to deplore this most excellent desire, but taken in conjunction with the afore-mentioned physical exuberance, it is becoming a menace to the peace, not to say dignity, of our recitation halls. Let me elaborate this statement by a concrete example. In a class of about seventy upper class girls, some fifty of the number feel it their bounden duty to sit in the front row. For when asked to recite their words flow forth with infinitely more volume, ease, and grace, than when they are seated half a mile away from the desk. In some respects this sentiment is most noble. For it shows such a distinct advance from the freshman belief, "He that is first shall be last", and the subsequent desire to seek refuge behind the hat or hair of those in front. But in this concrete example I have chosen, one realizes that the sentiment is not as noble as it seems. For a quarter of an hour before the time when the previous class will emerge from the desired room, a large crowd gathers in front of the door,-a crowd composed of fortunate students who do not have recitations during this hour. They are armed with an abundance of books, to be used not only for mental, but also for distinctly material purposes. The noise outside the recitation room must in all probability annoy the class within, but that is nothing to the insult received, when the door is opened, and such a tide of rushing students pours in that the outgoing girls are well-nigh knocked off their feet. The front seats that are not immediately occupied by triumphant figures are fortified by books, fountain pens, etc., so that the intimates of the victors may share the advantage. Ah! There is a great deal in knowing how to choose one's friends, especially when the front row is in question. In regard to the strength required to obtain these desired plums, I venture to state that when at last seated in the front row, my tardy friend by my side, I feel as if I had been in a gymnastic contest, and won a cup. After the first two days of this violent exercise some original spirits conceived the idea of beseeching certain of the class reciting the hour before to remain sitting in the front until they themselves should arrive. This quieter method was successfully carried out in some cases, but after all it is not a just solution of the problem, which is at present worked out on the basis of "first come, first served". And since the first-comers number about forty girls, that is no true solution. Now what can be done concerning the occupation of these seats? It is a question which most of the students must face some day or other, for sooner or later they will desire to take a front seat. Some suggest the classes be arranged alphabetically, beginning with the end of the alphabet, since the names of those propagating this idea begin with P. Others affirm that quietness and dignity would be maintained if placards reserving the seats were attached either the night before or early in the day. Personally I think it is a matter to be referred to the S. C. A. C. W., for the question could amicably be settled on the basis of Christian unselfishness. Then the students would enter the room decently and in order, in the spirit of the thought, "I would like a front seat, but I know there are others who desire it more." Then we should all become Sir Philip Sidneys and the whole atmosphere of the room would change. Instead of the hot air of excited piggishness, would rise a cooling breeze of lofty unselfishness. But this is only a theory. Meanwhile, in practice, the problem of the occupation of front seats is yet unsolved. We, the class of 1903, being of sounder minds, and, thanks to our exercise cards, as sound of body as when we entered these halls of learning, do hereby bequeath all our property, both real and personal, as follows: The Last Will and Testament of the Class of 1903 To the three remaining classes all our interest in that syndicate controlling the student body, the council. It is the only one of its kind that with a capital basis still labors with the masses under it. To 1904, for private and personal use, such of our unlisted securities, as lie in the hands of the faculty, to witness: One hundred shares of "Pull". The value of this stock is generally overrated, as its market value fluctuates. Five hundred shares of general approval and 100 shares of mutual forgiveness, preferred. The interest of the latter to erect a tablet to that child of fancy, for so brief a while a member of the class of 1904 and who, like Macbeth's victim of like name, had to be sacrificed to the prejudice of a minority. To 1904 also, 500 shares of Hot Air common to add to what they already possess of that commodity. This has been one of our most lucrative holdings, its dividends being unfailing and its value always above par. To the same heirs shall be given all our holdings in the Smith College Monthly. Its assets will exceed its liabilities provided they can be collected. To 1904, perforce, we give our rights in a certain watered stock called Front Seats in Chapel. We expected a good deal from them, as we were among the first "let in on the ground floor", but its value has been depreciated by manipulation in the hands of outsiders, a kind of speculation existing among underclassmen as to the sensations obtainable in these seats and a forehanded desire for perfection in the practice of leading out. 1904 shall receive furthermore our entire stock in the association for the Perfect Production of Shakespearean Plays. It pays large dividends, whose judicious use, we think, would more appropriately lessen the labors of those we love than those of foreign missionaries. To 1904 and 1905, jointly, we bequeath 75 shares of Union Pacific, the interest to be used in the distribution of silver cups. To 1904 and 1906 we leave all our stock, the exact amount undetermined, in Amalgamated Rubber goods, a commodity which is at a premium at Prom. time. It was our one consolation for being unfeelingly reminded by the faculty that, as seniors, we had put away childish things. To 1905 we give 1000 shares of Mutual Alliance, to be held in trust for 1907. A part of the dividend thereon shall be expended by the trustees in purchasing food for the jabberwock, who eats only green things. For the new athletic field we give ten government bonds. The excellent showing of the army under the "Corporal" has indirectly added to their value, since the military condition of any country affects its prosperity. Of our personal property, we bestow our banner, won in two drills, upon 1905, bidding them preserve it loyally, proudly, and honorably, as has ever been our endeavor. To 1904, to encourage their manifest and praiseworthy interest in psychology, we bequeath all our philosophy books, with apologies for their worn condition; our favorite easy chair, from whose soft depths we have familiarized ourselves with the problems of housing the poor and with the pictures of the old masters. Our parting advice is to treat it gently, lest like other easy chairs of our experience its comforts vanish through examination. To 1904 we grant our royalties on the great college novel, produced by the Novel club, whose novelty is only exceeded by its improbability, and we wish distributed among all our past class officers our coupons from the Mutual Uncertainty society. To the trustees of the college we give stock in a plant that manufactures self-winding clocks that, ticking off the time of the college usefulness, shall never cease. To the faculty we bequeath our not inconsiderable amount of Intellectual Life Insurance, since they have usually recognized this policy to the exclusion of those we have held in the Travellers and the Social Life Insurance. We believe in future compensation for the premiums paid to the latter and in an eventual adjustment of all claims. To the same bequest we add stock in a long distance telephone company, which will establish a better connection between them and the student body. To the commonwealth we bequeath a certain sum for the building of a moving sidewalk, which no one can get off of while it is in motion. To various preparatory schools throughout the country we give certificates in the National Bank of Knowledge. These are more valuable than certificates in private banks, because the National Bank submits to examination. To the president, we leave respectfully and lovingly our most valuable possession our stock in the elevated railway of noble life, to whose stations he has given us daily guidance. Its rails are welded from the iron of faithful effort and the steel of courage and honor. It runs parlor cars for the few, day coaches for the majority, and brings the stragglers in the slow freight. Yet all who travel it arrive eventually at the terminus of realized ideals-a kind of happy hunting ground for all the joys and virtues. |