JAN 3 1 mi PRESIDENT’S OFFICE MY GIRLS AND 1 1 . We are good, friends, we are, My girls and I; Such f riends, with mickle care The days go by. The nod, the smile, the beck, the call. The music-making laughter, all Brighten each corridor and hall. Girls are so spry l II. We know each other well, My girls and I; This man—too old to tell — These maids so spry. Oft, rvhen in judgment I must say “’Turns naughty,” of some thoughtless way, , I smile to think, in younger day Just so did I. III. We often disagree, My girls and I. How could it elsewise be With girls so spry f And then I scold and preach, and they Just pout a while and say, “nay, nay,” And then are good that livelong day, Those girls so spry. IV. We love alike, we do, My girts and I; For they to right are true, Although so spry. And should some real gr ief distress, Or burdening sorrow heavier press, How quick, with helpful tenderness, My girts are nigh! V. ’ I 1 is sad that, we must part, My girls and I; That old to youthful heart Must say good-bye. Yet while these glad days come and We quaff their joys, ’ lis better so, And leave the morrow’s cup of woe For bye and bye. VI. One day these hcdls shall lack Their merry glee. I see them draped in black Because of me. And some will gather ’round my bier, And some dear hearts, once harbored here, Far on life’s main will Conway hear A nd, weep a wee. VII. I can but think that we, My girls and I » Shall meet beyond the sea That, bounds life’s sky. For, if I reckon not amiss, Cure love is treasure, e'en in bliss, And garnered in that home from this, Shcdl never die — WM. W. 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W. SMITH CHANCELLOR RANDOLPH-UACON SYSTEM o *0 JU JO .«oo § o~E ,_: 'oo * 30 * 06 7 w o boJi ' 00 “C U c-Q C X S Q £1 tfa . 00 2 ”-§ *-* '00 00. £ C'TJ == 00 o C . ^ £-§= o n to ^ 3 - o • s. L^HiS' x - 13 £ i t>-g c §-_2 0 s. NTS ¥0 r*' 00 C .Sg~§ ^ 5 00 0 /J ^ c O “O > d^ > O (1 C _3 C c o -rflf o ^ 3 ~“C bo 8 -S o c arc w £9 o). £;_— -=*“0 O <3 ® , ■ C « oJ 2 £ S ^75 >£ o hn ® 00 - ^=: C cb w’’’ 13 jN rtj J- ^ ^ A <3 -r o' u u U xb 0 < 3-2-c-ri to-cx c 3 ., a o 0 .. ^'g _ c _£ ^ $?0 — 00 ^ 2 P^tQS ^ ^ 3 = . oJS ”> When Conway cadlj, Ding dong, ding dong, To alum beds thrall j, rx. • 1 The Golleg e as a Home *T The official catalogue of a college deals chiefly with its organization, membership, requirements for admission and| gradu¬ ation, announcements of honors offered and conferred, of courses of instruction, terms and stipulations. "j But there are many things besides these that parents and prospective students are concerned to know. Such are: 1. The conditions affecting health and comfort. 2. The intellectual, aesthetic and moral atmosphere. 3. The daily social life. * These are matters of no minor importance. For health must be protected first of all, and comfort is important for a young girl at this most delicate and significant period of her life; and just as the air we breathe and the water we drink purify us by their purity or defile us by their contamination, so the intellectual, aesthetic and spiritual forces which surround us in our college days are potent for good or ill in all our future. Moreover, the opportunities for helpful social intercourse are not the least of the advantages of a good college. For it is at college that the most important and lasting friendships are made. A student mingling freely with her fellows gathers what they have to give, forms ties and begins associations that are destined, probably, to affect her whole future life. * To the enlarged presentation of facts concerning these three points at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, this booklet is devoted. HISTORY n T That we may better understand the spirit of the Cottage, we must needs know something of its brief but brilliant history. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College was a conception of Chancellor Smith, of the Randolph-Macon system, in response to a proposition from business men of Lynchburg that a Randolph-Macon in- || stitution should be located in their city. In ninety-four days after the pro- jedt was broached to the citizens of Lynchburg generally, $220,000 was sub¬ scribed for its execution, and twenty months later the college was opened with thirty-six boarding students. It was but a half-building, but in it was a whole college. For from the first it was determined that the require¬ ments for the A. B. degree should equal those of the best colleges in Virginia for men. The thirty-six were given true college work and required to measure up to the highest standards for men. The third session the limited boarding accommodations were filled with eighty-four students, and for the fourth year enlargement was necessary. The front was therefore finished, and in 1896 the building was as shown on opposite page, sheltering, one hundred and thirty-four students. THE BEGINNING! 1893 4 With this increase of rooms for students were added a large library hall and a laboratory for Physics and Biology. The Chemical laboratory was enlarged and its equipment greatly improved. As the number of students increased additional professors were elected. The sub-collegiate work was discontinued and the College gained place among the fourteen classed by the U. S. Commissioner of Education in “ Division A ” of the colleges for women in the United States. In 1899 yet more room was needed, and the buildings were completed according to the origi¬ nal plan by the erection of the west wing. In this were dormi¬ tory accommodations for about a hundred students and separate laboratories for Physics, Biology and Psychology. Here Dr. Smith felt that he might rest. The original con¬ ception of a first-grade college for two hundred boarding students with laboratories, library, gymnasium, etc.,offering a full, strong A.B. course equal to the best open to men in Virginia, had been realized. And yet the pressure continued. Lower classes were cut off. Entrance requirements were raised; the full standards of the best Northern colleges were set up, and yet the demand the completed froxp: isbg for admission continued and grew year by year ; all available rooms in buildings near the college were rented, and still each year a large number of applicants had to be declined. Reluctantly Dr. Smith yielded to the spirit of the age; his small college must go. Randolph- 5 Macon Woman’s College must step forth into the arena of the great national colleges for women and open her doors to all who wished to enter. And so, in 1903, “East Hall,” a dormitory accommodating one hundred students, was added, and the College was launched upon the larger seas. The new dormitory was almost immediately filled. In September, 1905, every room was engaged and more than a hundred late applications had to be refused conside¬ ration. The enrollment was stopped at three hundred and fifty for lack of room. But the College was now fully in the field and there could be no step backward. Hence the Trus¬ tees determined to meet the demand, and authorized “West Hall,” a duplicate of East Hall, to be be¬ gun in time for use September, 1906. The wide and widening usefulness of the College attracted notice and won friends. Miss Melissa Baker, of Baltimore, the completed plan willed $7,000 for its work ; Dr. Rolfe Millar, of Front Royal, established a scholarship with a gift of $2,000 ; Major C. V. Winfree, of Lynchburg, Virginia, gave an Astronomical Observatory; Norfolk College Alumnae established a scholarship with $1,500, and in February, 1906, Mr. Andrew Carnegie offered to erect a Science Hall if other friends would add $20,000 to the 6 i endowment fund. The offer was promptly accepted, the $20,000 was raised in sixty days, and the building was occupied September, 1906. Immediately following this gift, Mrs. Fannie M. Jones, of Lynchburg, a previous benefactor, offered to erect a library building to match the Carnegie Hall. THE PLAN ENLARGED This has now been completed and connected by colonnade to main building and West Hall, making the completed front seven hundred feet from east to west, as shown in the picture following. 7 W1NFREE OBSERVATORY REAK VIEW FROM: A. DISTANCE Wm# MEMORIAL WINDOW IN JONES LIBRARY HALL PROF. DAYI8 PROFHHBOK OF MUSIC The increase of students required larger chapel space, and so in the summer of 1906 that part of the building was enlarged to double its former capacity. By the generous cooperation of many friends a large pipe organ, to be known as the Schehlmann Memorial Organ, in honor of Prof. Louis Schehlmann, Professor of Music in the College from 1893 to 1903, was also installed in the new chapel. PROF. ADAMS PROFESSOR OF PIANO AND ORGAN CHAPEL STAGE INTERIOR OF CHAPEL The summer of 1906 was made yet more busy by the erection of a large steam laundry on the college grounds, which has proven a great comfort and service. Thus in one year four large new buildings were added and the chapel doubled in size. It is easy to see that such rapid development created a spirit of enthusiasm among the supporters of the college. This was stimulated by equally striking progress in other lines. The faculty kept pace with the increase in equipment. Professor after professor was added, and the curriculum was enriched with addi¬ tional elective courses. The college, too, began to be known abroad, and the appreciation of outside educators increased the confidence of friends at home. The action of the Carnegie Foundation in placing Randolph-Macon Woman’s College on its accepted list upon the formal report of its committee that LAUNDRY “Randolph-Macon Woman’s College has maintained entrance requirements which are quite equal to those in the best colleges for women in other sections of the country, and its buildings, equipment and endowment measure up to the Neiv York requirements for colleges ”— gave strong endorsement to the United States Bureau of Education, which had for years placed it in the “A” Division of Colleges. This was followed by the statement of the New York Department of Education that— "The highest registration of any of the women’s colleges by this department has been accorded Randolph- Macon.” These reports established the educational standing of the college by the verdict of the highest expert authori¬ ties, and gave to every student added dignity. Such is the history of the past fourteen years. It has wrought a college strong and progressive, and a faculty and student body full of enthusiasm and confidence in the future. THE COLLEGE GUARD 12 LOCATION Randolph - Macon Woman’s College stands thus as a representa¬ tive of the South among the fifteen colleges for women in the United States, which are classified in “ Division A ” by the United States Bureau of Education. It is situated at Lynchburg, in Piedmont Vir¬ ginia, in a beautiful park of fifty acres, extending from Rivermont Ave. to the James River. This is the choice residence section of the State—picturesque, healthful and of inspiring beauty. Lynchburg is sheltered by protecting mountains on the north and west, so that the winter temperature is the same as that of points much further south, Lynchburg being generally on the isothermal line with Charlotte, N. C., Spartanburg, S. C., Atlanta, Ga., Meridian, Miss., Little Rock, Ark., and Fort Worth, Texas. Water Supply. —The prime importance of pure drinking water has been fully recognized by the city of Lynchburg. Our water is brought from a mountain source 22 miles distant. It is of finest quality. The average temperature for December, January and February for the last 33 years was 38° Fahr. Winding through the campus, picturesque with dell and copse and open vistas, are walks aggregating two miles or more, giving exercise in protected seclusion. The tennis and basket-ball grounds are usually open for play until Christmas. There are generally about two weeks of snow with its accompanying fun. 13 fOSsa PEDLAR RIVER DAM, SOURCE OF CITY WATER SUPPLY PLAYING IN SNOW Three trunk lines supply twenty-two passenger trains, daily, to the city. Telephone and telegraph lines connect the college office with the business world. BOAT HOUSE The James River furnishes a four-mile boating reach of smooth water, and the College Boating Club has its house and boats at the north end of Campus-neck. 14 STARTING OFF DAILY LIFE The theory upon which the college is organized, is that a college edu¬ cation is of great worth and should demand the student's purposeful and persistent effort. We assume that education thus pursued as a business should claim seven and a-half hours daily for the six week days, or forty-five hours BIOLOGICAL LECTURE ROOM BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY per week of real effort for thirty-six weeks each year, exclusive of holidays. Of these forty-five hours, fifteen are assigned to recitation and thirty to prepa¬ ration. Every regular student, then, is assigned to five classes, each meeting three times per week, or equivalent work. A student will therefore usually have three recitations to prepare each day. 15 Besides this are the regular gymnasium and other recreative exercises, to which two hours daily are allotted. These may be di¬ vided between gymnasium drill, tennis playing, boating, walking and basket ball or other exercises. OUT-DOOR EXERCISES GYMNASIUM A BASKET-BALL CLASS CONTEST BATTLE VICTORY THE HOMES There are two separate dormitories, East and West Halls, identical in construction and accommodating one hundred stu¬ dents each. On the upper floors of the main building (in the center) are rooms for two hundred students. These are all con¬ nected by a corridor and colonnades extending from end to end, six hundred and seventeen feet in a straight line, and forming a most striking and picturesque feature of the buildings. Four round-trips through this hall make nearly a mile walk Each of the three dormitories has its own dining-room, pan¬ try, cold-storage room and kitchen. These are under the super¬ vision of the Head Housekeeper, a person of importance upon whose superior ability and skill much of the daily comfort of the household depends. DR. MARTIN HBAD OF* BAST HALL. DR. LANK HBAD OF* WEST HALL — SCENE IN GRAND CORRIDOR, 017 FEET LONG tmmm Assistant housekeepers of experience have direct charge of the service in East and West Halls. Each building has its own infirmary, its official head, its matron and chaperone. The college physician, Dr. A. W. Terrell, goes the rounds of the college each morning, and is also ready to respond to call by telephone when¬ ever need may arise. Dr. Terrell has his private hospital in Lynchburg, and can supply trained nurses at once if needed. SCENE IN WINTER MRS. BLACKWELL The intellectual atmosphere at R.-M. W. C. is particularly inspiring not only because of the scholarship of the faculty, but because its body of students is also select. The high entrance requirements exclude children and other persons unpre¬ pared for true college work, and repel t riflers. Many of those who enter are star graduates of high schools and full of ambi¬ tion for scholarship. In such company Dr. I'ATTILLO CHAIRMAN OF FACULTY THE FACULTY each student is stirred to do her best, and the habit of energetic and methodical application is soon formed. The college provides a course of instructive lectures, free to students, by attraftive speakers on Literature, Science, Philosophy, Art and Music, and artists of highest rank seek to put Lynchburg on their programs. There is abundant stimulus to literary and artistic excellence. 20 COLLEGE IvIDS IN CAMPUS NOOK COLLEGE SPIRIT There is something distinctive about the spirit of R.-M. W.C. students. First, there is great loyalty and enthusiasm. This is due partly to admiration for the standard of admission ; it is an achievement and an honor to be admitted as a student; and partly to the largeness of college life, its broadness, liberality and freedom from espionage and petty restrictions. Students feel that they are respected and trusted. Their participation in the government through their College Committee, the increasing influence in college affairs as one advances from class to class, culmi¬ nating in the dignity and real authority of the Senior, stir self-respect and develop girls into women. THE ATMOSPHERE The one thing that seems most fixed in priority of importance in the mind of the President of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College is the maintenance of a wholesome and invigorating atmos¬ phere of scholarship, culture and true religion without sign of sectarianism. Character is made the chief end of effort; character based on reverence for truth, informed by love, fortified by in¬ telligence and graced by habits of kindness and courtesy. The law of love is a frequent theme- Far above the plane of physical forces, intellectual power is throned ; but above this is another, a higher plane of life, where spiritual power works its miracles. The highest education is the education of the highest, and the development of spiritual power is an object of supreme endeavor SOCIAL LIFE Besides the set exercises of the college, there are many forms of voluntary activity among the students, which are both interesting and helpful. The Franklin and Jefferson Literary Societies vie with each other in developing debaters and essayists, holding one meeting each week. Sometimes elabo¬ rate plays are given for the entertainment of the college body. The college classes give receptions to their affiliates and the various sororities, and ribbon societies provide many occasions of social reunion. 21 Indeed, with three hundred and fifty young women of congenial tastes, living in close touch with each other, there is always something attractive in hand. The college life is full of activity and interest. And these are girls you want to know. They come from the most influential families, chiefly, as yet, of the South ; they are homo- COLLEGE CLANSMEN geneous, refined, thoughtful, ambitious ; in a word, superior. Nowhere else than in such a college will a young woman ever meet and be intimately associated with so many helpful and inspiring comrades. It is worth while to be of such a body. A “ SPREAD” The serious side of college life is seen in the class-room, where steady diligence and hard study find their stimulus and reward. There the student meets teachers enthusiastic and capable to inspire and direct their efforts. We think that there is, after all, a royal road to knowledge, and our teaching motto,is: “Learning made interesting is learning made easy.” But, be it easy or hard, it is worth all the effort it may cost. A. NEW CLASS ROOM Prof. SHARP LATIN Prof. ARMSTRONG ENGLISH Dr. DORTER PHYSIC'S Dr. BLACKWELL ENGLISH LITER A TURK DR. CAMPBELL GERMAN DR. COLTON FRENCH AND SPANISH In addition to the Literary Courses leading to the A. B. degree, it will be seen by the catalogue that the College offers strong and extensive work in Music and in Art. Prof. Davis, Director of the Department of Music, has been presented on page io. The Head of the Art Department is here intro¬ duced, and a section of the main studious shown in the accom¬ panying cut. The department has attained distinction by the work of its students. ART STUDIO Cupples Peets, Ed. Heliantlius PROGRAM OF A DAY 7.00 a.m. Rising Bell 7.45-8.30 Breakfast 8.45 Chapel 9 a. m.-i. 10 p. m, Recitations i.io-r.55 p. m. Dinner I - 55 ' 3-35 Recitations 3.35-6 Games and Gymnasium 6.30- 7 Supper 7-7.30 Social Meetings 7.30- 10.30 Study 10.45 Lights out /** MONG the student activities of the College are the monthly ] ublication of the 'Al College Magazine, “The Tattler,” and the production of the College Annual, “ The Helianthus." These give full employment to the literary and artistic talent of the student body. Lucy Moore, Editor Tattler TYPICAL INCIDENTS or first ten wrCKs of 1906 Sept 12 Session Opened 14 Y. M. C. A. Reception “ 15 Organization of Liter¬ ary Societies 22 Seniors Take Sophs, on Hay Ride 29 Juniors Receive Fresh¬ men Oct. 2 Dr. Janvier Talks on India 6 222 Reception 18 Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Entertain Seniors 20 “’Op - o’- Me - Thumb Entertainment for Student Body 24 Alabama Club Enter¬ tained 27 Dr. Castle of Harvard Lectured on Art 31 Hallowe’en Frolic Nov. 2 Performance of “Everyman” 5 Gadski Concert 17 Senior Banquet 21 Musical Recital by Students 29 Thanksgiving Dinner, Speeches, &c. STUDENT’S ROOM HERE WORTH AND WORK AND TALENT REIGN Perhaps nowhere else than in such a college does a student stand so completely on her own merits and force. Character and ability go to the front, and adventitious advantages are of little value if unsustained by personal worth. One of the songs sung on class night by the class of 1907 will illustrate this demo- cratic sentiment: r . Oh ! Miss Longpurse to College came, She did, she did. Arabella Marie was her Christian name, (Stupid ! stupid !) Her dress was rich, her diamonds rare. And she stared a very superior stare. But cash couldn’t buy capacity there. Nor elect to the Upper Ten. She stared a very superior stare. But was not of our Upper Ten. 3 . Miss Steptoe Style \would College try ; Oh my l oh my l With skirt en train and pompadour high. So high ! so high ! She was so swell that she caught a dude beau. The dirt and the fop made quite a brave show. But real heart she had none, and so She was not of our Upper Ten ; For skirt en train and pompadour Don't elect to our Upper Ten. 4. Oh ! little Miss Honest to College came. She did, she did. And nobody bothered to know her full name. The kid, sweet kid. She was just “ Little Nell," our College pearl. She rvas student and lady and jolly good girl. And she curled her exams, a beautif ul curl. She’s the sort for our Upper Ten. She’s a princess in soul and fit for an earl. And she leads our Upper Ten. 2. Miss Antique Pride to College came, {Big-wig! big-wig!) Van Buy ter- Lee- Fairfax she hyphened her name, A png! a prig! They were clever folk in the far away. But the family force didn’t last to her day. And haughty mien and snobbish way Don’t elect to our Upper Ten. She hyphened her name in a lordly way. But was not of our Upper Ten. * 5. Now hear me, all ye student maids. Oh hear ! oh hear ! Show, Pride and Style are sorry jades Up here, up here. Leave all such baggage on the train. Bring Truth and Love, Ambition, Brain, Do all your work with might and main. And you’ll be Upper Ten. Here Worth and Work and Talent reign. And make our Upper Ten. LITTLE WELL c f Wtl( To all right-minded and ambitious young women to whom such opportunities and surroundings are attractive, we give hearty welcome, generous confidence and large liberty. Our utmost endeavors shall be exerted for their welfare and happiness. FINIS ORIGINAL DRAWING OF AN ART STUDENT