ISBN: 9780217201087

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Meer...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... as we were assembling for prayers. In Miss Lyman''s increasing feebleness the service devolved on Miss Lepha Clarke acting as assistant lady principal. We music teachers sat in the choir and the organist often chose the hymn. One of our number asked the privilege of selection that morning, and gravely presented the book to Miss Clarke, the hymn chosen beginning,--Lord, what a wretched land is this That yields us no supplies. Miss Clarke''s composure remained unmoved, and she forgave the audacity of the offence, but laughingly begged the experiment not to be repeated. The Founder''s friend, Mr. William Smith, of Smith Brothers, was connected with the college for two years, one before the opening in equipment of the steward''s department, and the next year in superintending its successful operation. There was no separate laundry building, and the basement was fitted up with proper machinery for this under his direction. Every detail of his important department was instituted and established by Mr. Smith. He also arranged for the system of steam heating--a new thing in this city at that time--through the entire building. The tables in the dining-room were alternately a short one seating ten, and a longer one seating fourteen, with a teacher at the head of each. The small rooms near the entrance were designed by the architect as cloak-rooms, but were utilized at once for practice at table of French and of German conversation. The corresponding rooms above near the chapel door were also diverted from the original plan, and still do primeval duty as linen closet and storage place. Notices given out at morning prayers in Miss Lyman''s time, later were read in the diningroom up to 1892, when a bulletin board was placed in the second corridor center, doing... Frances Ann Wood, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Earliest Years At Vassar; Personal Recollections Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<