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01|0 lEm^rfinntan ^JubliaI)p^ by the Ollaaa of 1909 Sinpraon (CoUcyr of (Dratory i9ootou. iHaooarbuoptta aul^ an]uaiutanrp ht fnrPiut, AuH urbpr linnujlit tu minb? aulb ariiuaiutaurr lip furQUt, Aub baua n’ lauPi aiiup? —iSuliprt iBiinui. THE EMERSONIAN 5 O O N T E N T S Page PACiE Quotation t College and Faculty Room !)!) Contents o Photo Students' Council 100 Students’ Association 101 Senior Girl (> Photo Magazine Board 102 Greeting 7-8 Emerson College Magazine 103 Prologue 9 Caricature Literary Department 105 Dedication.. 10 Literary Dejiartment 106-1 12 Sketch Henry Lawrence Southwick. 11-12 Caricature Societies 113 Picture Emerson College 13 PhotoY. W. C. A 114 Emerson College 14—16 Y. W. C. A 115 Chickering Hall 17 Photo Glee Club 116 Picture Charles Wesley Emerson 18 Glee Club 117 Sketch Charles Wesley Emerson 19-20 Photo Canadian Club 118 Photo Emersonian Board 21 Canadian Club 119 Emersonian Staff 22 Photo Phi Mu Gamma Sorority 120 Eaculty Caricature 23 Phi Mu Gamma 121 Picture William J. Kolt'e 24 Photo Characters in Phi Mu Gamma Sketch William J. Rolfe 2.5 Play 122 Picture Harry Seymour Ross 26 Cast of Characters, “Sweet Nell of Sketch Harry Seymour Ross 27 Old Drury” 123 Faculty 28-37 Photo Delta Delta Phi Sorority 121 Seniors 38-63 Delta Delta Phi 125 Senior Officers 64 Photo Knappa Gamma Chi Sorority .... 126 Senior Class 65 Knappa Gamma Chi 127 ’09 Class History 66 Photo Zeta Phi Eta Sorority 128 Senior Stunt 67-78 Zeta Phi Eta 129 Caricature Post Graduate 79 Photo Phi Alpha Tau 130 Miss P. G 80 Phi Alpha Tau 131 Photo Post Graduates 81 Emerson College Club of Boston 132 The Old Guard 83 Caricature Grinds 133 Caricature Junior Class 84 Parody on “Gospor Becerrd” 134 Poem, 1910 85 “A Junior's Sollioquy’’ 135 Photo Junior Class 86 Her Fetter 136-137 Junior \’iews 88-8!) Grinds 138-145 Caricature Freshman 90 Caricature Senior’s Dream 146 Photo Freshman Class 91 Commencement Programme 147-149 Legend of Nineteen Hundred and Eleven93-95 Epilogue 150 Caricature Speeial Students 96 Caricature La Fin 151 Special Students 97 Caricature Advertisements 152 Photo Gym Team 98 Advertisements i-xiii THE EMERSONIAN 7 The Emersonian lioard of 1909, presents this the second volume of the Emersonian to its friends. Wg liope it may meet with your approval. We have endeavored to make it worthy of the class and college it represents, if it falls short remember in judging, it is yet young, its path has* been strewn with obstacles. The “ grinds which a|>pear in the pages have been given in the kindliest spirit and we trust you will aceej)t them s THE EMERSONIAN as slu-h. In days to come may this book brin^' back the ha|)i)iest rec'ollections of student days at E. C, (). I'inally we wish to thank each individual who has con- tributed in any way toward making' this Emersonian what it is. HOARD OF EDITORS. ^ (S’ . ^ ^^^^ ^ ^ ^^ % # frnlngur w OH YOU, THE READER OF THIS BOOK iH) IN IDLE MOOD, OR WISH TO FIND # WHAT RECORD WE HAVE LEFT BEHIND, # WHEREON THE STRANGER’S EYE MAY LOOK. WE BID YOU RAISE, THAT YOU MAY LEARN WHAT IN THESE RAGES WE WOULD DO, THAT YOU MAY SEE THE FALSE AND TRUE, AND IN YOUR JUDGMENT BE NOT STERN. THIS IS THE STORY OF THE DAY WHICH DAWNED FOR US THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN WITH GREAT JOY AND HEARTS AGLOW WE FIR.ST SAW EMERSON’S BRIGHT RAY. ii(!^ YOL ’LL SEE THE FACES DEAR AND TRUE OF THOSE WHO IN THE LIVELONG DAY, # WHEN WE WERE SAD, OR BRIGHT AND GAY # HAVE HELRED US ALL OUR BEST TO DO. HERE ARE OUR FACF^S AND OUR NAMFLS. OUR NICKNAMES, TOO, AND WHAT EACH ONE IN THESE THREE YEARS AT SCHOOL HAS DONE TO WIN SOME MEASURE HERE OF FAME. HERE, TOO, THE OTHER CLASSES ARE, THE CLUBS OF MANY DIFFERENT KINDS, SOME JOKES AND RHYMES and FRIENDLY GRINDS— WE HORE THEY HAVE NOT GONE TOO FAR. AND NOW, DEAR READER, THAT YOU FIND THE RURROSE WHICH IS IN EACH LINE OF THIS, THE BOOK OF NINETEEN NINE, READ ON AND, JUDGING, BE YE KIND. HENRY LAWRENCE SOUTHWICK President Henry Lawrence Southwick llenr_\' Lawrence Sotitliwick was l)orn in ^\'est Roxbnry, ]\Iassaelin- si, ] >elts, j nne JT J is ednealion l)eyan in the free schools, coini)letin«‘ t!ie jirescrihed course at the llarri'^ School, 1 )orehester. Mass,, and yradnat- iny as \ aledietorian of his class front the l)('rehester Ilitfli School in 1880, He attended the Monroe College of Oratory, at the same time holding a position on the I’.oston Herald. d'hc year following his gradnation from the Monroe College in 1887, Mr. Sonthwiek eondneted the class in oratory at iMariha's \’ineyard .Snnt- mer Institute, and in the anlitmn he was made master of eloention and ora- Utrv in the W’illitun I’enn Charter Sehitol, ! ’hiladeljthia. In the year 1880 Mr. Sonthwiek married Jessie Irldridge and the fol- lowing year retnrned to lloston and heeamc jtart owner with Hr. Charles \V. Lmerson of the Emerson College of Oratory, where he wa< the j)rofessor of Literary Interpretation Oratory and Dramatic Art. After spending the years i8od and iS<t7 with Angnstine Dalet 's eom- ]>any, he retnrned to the W illiam Lenn Charter School, y here lor t hree years he tanght as blaster of English. At the close of the third year he, in part- nership Ayith Mr. Kenney, ])iirehased the I'hnerson College. I'rom t'r-l time he seryed as dean of the institnlion nntil the year of 1908, when he was electeil I’rc‘sidcn1 of h.nierson Colh-ge. He is known to the ]):il)lie as a reader and a lecturer, and when he is free from duties at the codege Id^- s?''\ ices are in demand in the yarions sec- tions of the Cnited States. President .Sonthwiek is now residing in Lrooklinc' \' here he and IMrs. Sonthwiek, with their three children, Pnlh, IMildred and Jessie, arc always “at home’’ to Emerson students. Tlteia? is an irre'n’stihle attraction about the Sonthwiek fireside and the cadlege stndcaits a\ail themsehes of eyery oppor- tunity trj enjoy the hospitality of President Sonthwdek and his family. EMERSON COLLEGE 1 4 THE EMERSONIAN Emerson College as an 'Educational Force Much may be, and has been, said in regard to the location of the col- lege in historic and cultured Bost.m, and of tlie great ad'.antages which come to a student from this environment. All this is true; but true also of any other institution in this city. Rather would we emjihasize in this article some of the special, strong and unique advantages which the Kmerson College of Oratory possesses in itself and jiresents to its students. It is not simply an elocution school or a series of studies where students are taught to “speak iiieces" and jiresent the thoughts of others. A\'hen this is said we have placed ourselves outside the ranks of the ninety and nine other schools, bearing kindred names, and stand facile pri/nrps in the list of the few leading schools that make English studies, expressional . interpretative and cre- ative tk.eir major presentation. To enter the college as a regular student the same (pialilications as for any liberal art college are recpiired. The a\ erage student, however, is more mature than the average college student : as age with us is no grade or cri- terion. .Students from si.xteen to si.xty recite in the same classes. Ilere may be found the students just graduated from high school, the college professor on a year's leave of absence, sjiecial students from llarvard or Boston universities, teachers with ten or more years' experience, and those who are looking hope- fully to such service or to other iields where personality and self-e.x])rcssion count. The college is a very cosmoiiolitan school; which is an educational ad- vantage worth recognizing. It is no uncommon thing to tind in <me year students from forty different states and foreign countries. The Canadian Club usually presents a membershij) of twenty-live, and the South is “solid" with more than twice that number. Vcnces from Xew England, Oklahoma, the I’acific States, and the I’rovinces, are heard daily in onr class rooms. There is no o])p(jrtunity for narrowness or provincialism in such surroundings. THE EMERSONIAN 1 5 Of these students a large number are college graduates, or have had normal or partial college courses before coming to Emerson. The work done by them here has won recognition from the old and conservative colleges which grant their degrees, in course, to graduates who are pursuing advanced work under our instruction. Here the speech arts find a home in company with physical and vocal training. Psychology, logic, rhetoric and composition are taught as in liberal- arts colleges, with the added teaching values of normal schools; while anato- my, physiology and hygiene, physical and vocal culture surpass in many ways that taught elsewhere. No matter what a student’s previous training in English has been he finds here new fields for investigation and expression. To write original dra- matic work, and to stage it; to give adecpiate interpretation to worthy writ- ings, to take part in debate or public speaking in an earnest and dignified way, and to express one’s own, or another's, thoughts and feelings in a vital and artistic manner, is taught all who p rsue the regular course.