Part V – My College Years:

“When my exams are over I will sing ‘Glory Hallelujah'”

Towards the end of her first semester, Ruth Parker outlines the end of semester schedule and some of the diversions she enjoyed to distract herself from exam stress.

^{_{Ruth Parker’s letter home, January 24, 1914. Click on image to read the full letter.}}

End of term: Where will you be?

Where will you be at the end of the school year?

As the school year begins and you begin to join campus organizations, compete as a Lyon on athletic teams, perform in Chapin Hall and dig into your course work, we hope you will come back to ASC on the ground floor of Dwight Hall for inspriation as you evolve into your College self.

Welcome to Mount Holyoke College.

_{^{Barbara Wellington, the captain of the basketball team, sits on the steps of a building holding a Kewpie Doll and smiling, circa 1910-1920}}

Further Reading:

Cole, Arthur Charles. A Hundred Years of Mount Holyoke College: The Evolution of an Educational Ideal. New Haven : London: Yale university press ; H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1940.

Edmonds, Anne C., and Press Stinehour. A Memory Book: Mount Holyoke College 1837-1987. South Hadley, Mass: Mount Holyoke College, 1988.

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from Their Nineteenth-century Beginnings to the 1930s. 2nd ed. Amherst: University of Massachuchusetts Press, 1993.

Lowe, Margaret A. Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930. Gender Relations in the American Experience. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.