Chapter 2

At the beginning of school the seventh form were guests of the eighth form at the opening League party. We danced a great deal, and we laughed at the Wild West show and the autoride of by-gone days. Then we climbed to the top floor for refreshments and more laughing.

On the eleventh of February to return the courtesy, we invited the eighths to a valentine party. After decorating our guests with gay caps, we danced for a while. The event of the day, however, was the valentine boxes. There were three fat ones stuffed with valentines for us all. By the time we had exclaimed over them, we were ready to have refreshments. Cheers of appreciation ended the party.

CHAPEL PROGRAMS

This year we have been visited by both a princess and a duke. The princess came from Damascus and gave us an ancient story of her city--the story of Naaman the Leper. The duke, who was from France, showed us pictures of beautiful old French buildings, which he is trying to keep from being destroyed.

Early in March our own class took part in a chapel program by demonstrating some lessons in musical appreciation.

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Piping merrily _William_ the _Piper_ floated down the meadow _Brooks_ seated at the _Helm_ of his boat. Being a _New-man_ in this country he stopped to ask his way of a _Miller_. The miller directed him across the _Lee_ to a little town called _Goldsborough_. There he stopped at the inn of the _Van Nest_. After a good sleep, a shave with his _Gillette_, and a hearty meal of _Thomson's_ baked beans and _Wagner's_ canned _Pease_, he was much refreshed.

The next morning he continued his wanderings, but unwittingly he trespassed on the land of a farmer named _Hineline_, who threatened to take him to the village of _Simonton_ and throw him and his _Junk-in_ jail. Finally he made his peace, but he had to leave his boat behind.

"However, I'm not so unlucky," said he, "for I have stout _Douglas_ shoes to tramp in, and my faithful dog, _Benjamin_, to bear me company."

JANE HELM AND CATHERINE PIPER.

SIXTH FORM

TOP ROW--_Mary Louise Parker_, _Miriam Lucker_, _Isabel McLaughlin_, _Mary Rogers_, _Betty Short_, _Janet Bulkley_, _Jane Fansler_

MIDDLE ROW--_Rosemarie Gregory_, _Carolyn Belcher_, _Sally Louise Bell_, _Grace Ann Campbell_, _Barbara Bagley_, _Ella Sturgis Pillsbury_, _Marie Jaffrey_, _Elizabeth Mapes_

FRONT ROW--_Betty Lou Burrows_, _Charlotte Driscoll_, _Gretchen Hauschild_, _Helen Beckwith_, _Eleanor Smith_, _Peggy Thomson_

_Phyllis Foulstone_

FIFTH FORM

TOP ROW--_Mary Ann Kelly_, _Anne Dalrymple_, _Mary Dodge_, _Barbara Healy_, _Harriet Hineline_, _Anne McGill_

MIDDLE ROW--_Barbara Anson_, _Jane Arnold_, _Mary Thayer_, _Mary Foster_, _Marian Carlson_, _Edith Rizer_, _Edith McKnight_

FRONT ROW--_Betty Jane Jewett_, _Geraldine Hudson_, _Ione Kuechle_, _Virginia Baker_, _Deborah Anson_, _Louise Walker_, _Catherine Gilman_

FOURTH FORM

TOP ROW--_Martha Miller_, _Martha Bagley_, _Mary Malcolmson_, _Patty Greenman_

MIDDLE ROW--_Susan Wheelock_, _Patricia Dalrymple_, _Helen Louise Hayden_, _Nanette Harrison_

FRONT ROW--_Mary Partridge_, _Olivia Carpenter_, _Katherine Boynton_, _Anne Morrison_, _Dolly Conary_

_Margaret Partridge_, _Frances Ward_

THIRD FORM

TOP ROW--_Elizabeth Lucker_, _Sally Ross Dinsmore_, _Joan Parker_

MIDDLE ROW--_Rhoda Belcher_, _Penelope Paulson_, _Harriet Helm_, _Ottilie Tusler_

FRONT ROW--_Elizabeth Williams_, _Susan Snyder_, _Mary Lou Pickett_, _Anne PerLee_

_Charlotte Buckley_

SECOND FORM

TOP ROW--_Mary Anna Nash_, _Nancy Rogers_, _Katherine Dain_, _Blanche Rough_, _Betty Tuttle_

MIDDLE ROW--_Betty Lee_, _Elizabeth Hedback_, _Elizabeth Ann Eggleston_, _Ruth Rizer_, _Jane Loughland_, _Katharine Rand_

FRONT ROW--_Janey Lou Harvey_, _Katherine Warner_, _Donna Jane Weinrebe_, _Elizabeth Booraem_, _Margie Ireys_

_Barbara Brooks_, _Helen Jane Eggan_

FIRST FORM

TOP ROW--_Melissa Lindsey_, _Dorothea Lindsey_

MIDDLE ROW--_Mary Ann Fulton_, _Laura Booraem_, _Carolyn Cogdell_, _Peggy Carpenter_

FRONT ROW--_Bobby Thompson_, _Martha Pattridge_, _Betty King_, _Jane Pillsbury_, _Calder Bressler_

_Whitney Burton_, _Betty June Tupper_, _Jean Bell_

KINDERGARTEN AND JUNIOR PRIMARY

TOP ROW--_Jean Clifford_, _Archie Walker_, _Jimmie Wyman_, _Mary Jane Van Campen_, _Sally Jones_, _Vincent Carpenter_

MIDDLE ROW--_Morris Hallowell_, _Janet Sandy_, _Ogden Confer_, _Beatrice Devaney_, _Ann Carpenter_, _Frederick Jahn_, _Barbara Taylor_

FRONT ROW--_Phyllis Beckwith_, _Yale Sumley_, _David Warner_, _Jamie Doerr_, _Elizabeth Hobbs_, _Gloria Hays_, _Lindley Burton_, _Frances Mapes_, _Henry Doerr_

_Sheldon Brooks_, _Billy Johns_, _Betty Webster_, _Barbara Hill_, _Patty Rogers_, _Emmy Lou Lucker_, _George Pillsbury_, _Jane Pillsbury_

COLLEGE NEWS

Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, February 23, 1926.

Dear Janet:

When I received your letter asking me to tell Northrop what her alumnae at Smith have been doing this year, I had a sudden sinking sensation, since I felt that the achievements accomplished by some of us have not been startling. However, upon digging for evidence, I have discovered that Northrop need not feel ashamed of us after all.

Dorothy Wilson sings in the Junior choir, is a member of the Smith College glee club, and of the Oriental club--one which is connected with the Bible department--and has been chosen business manager of the Smith College Handbook--"Freshman Bible"--for the class of 1930.

"Pete" McCarthy, also a Junior, who vehemently claimed that she had nothing to tell me about herself, I discover is fire captain of her house, a member of the French club, and chairman of the spring dance committee.

On Washington's Birthday, at the annual rally day performance, Mary Truesdell and Lorraine Long, dressed as sailors, with the accompaniment of the Mandolin Club, clogged for us in multifarious rhythms, ways, and manners--or however one does clog--to the astonishment of all of us, who never before dreamed that professional talent actually existed in Northampton.

Elizabeth Carpenter is president of her house. As for the rest of us, Lucy Winton, Eleanor Cook, and me, all I can venture to say--and they agree with me--is that, like the proverbial green freshman, we have been plodding along at studies occasionally, and at all other times we have been eating, sleeping, or amusing ourselves to the nth degree.

I can't wait to see the new _Tatler_ to find out what you have been doing this year.

Please give my love to everyone.

Very sincerely, PEG WILLIAMS

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South Hadley, Massachusetts, February 18, 1926.

Dear Margaret Louise:

If I should attempt to tell you everything we are doing here now, I'm afraid that I should go far past the limits of my little column, for our occupations are so multitudinous and varied that there is hardly an end to them.

Right now, notwithstanding the ever present pursuit of the academic, the whole college is having the most glorious time hiking over the countryside on snowshoes, risking its dignity and perhaps its neck in attempting the ski jump on Pageant Field, and "hooking" rides with the small village boys on their bob sleds down the long hill on College Street. South Hadley is such a tiny town, anyway, that it is just like living in the country with lovely mountains all around.

By now Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke are quite like old friends, for most of us had a personal interview with one or the other of them when we hiked one of the ranges last fall on Mountain Day. Mountain Day, by the way, was a red letter day, for the Freshmen particularly. It was one of those gorgeous blue October days when we could hardly stand the thought of having to be inside, and, almost like a gift from Heaven, Miss Woolley unexpectedly announced in morning chapel that she would leave it to the students to vote whether they would have their holiday then, with its incomplete arrangements, or two days later when it was scheduled, with beautifully laid plans but with possible showers. The girls were simply bursting with excitement by that time, and the vote was carried unanimously. Not one class in prospect for that day, but just a chance to start out with a lunch on your back to "parts unknown"--oh, it was wonderful!

Another big part of our college social life here in the fall and spring is college songs and class serenades. During September and October we had one out by the "College Steps" once a week. I shall never forget the first time we gathered under a full moon, about nine o'clock, and our senior song leader started us off by having us sing all the songs we knew about the moon, with the singing of parts much encouraged! Even if the harmony was a little doubtful in spots, taken as a whole the result was "perfectly heavenly"--to one enthusiastic Freshman. Then a few weeks later the Freshmen were called to their windows one evening to hear "Sisters, sisters, we sing to you," and looking down, we saw the whole Junior class assembled underneath the dormitory windows. Then in due time our turn came to "surprise them," but it wasn't, evidently, kept a "deep and dark" secret as we had hoped, for at the end of the first song we were literally showered with candy kisses hurled down from above.

These are just a few of the kinds of things we do outside our academic work; not to mention the picnic breakfasts at "Paradise" in the warm weather, sleigh rides or hikes to Old Hadley, a quaint old town near here, Winter Carnival, or all the excitement that comes with Junior Prom time. Then, you may be sure, the "little sisters" are pressed into service!

What I think, however, makes Mount Holyoke mean what it does to us is something that is almost impossible to describe, but something that is just as real as any phase of our life here--and that is the college atmosphere. It is created, in part, by Miss Woolley's wonderful chapel services, in part by the sheer beauty of the country in which we live, and, lastly, by the fine spirit of the girls themselves, the college community.

Very sincerely, DORIS DOUGLAS, '25.

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To the Editor of the 1926 Tatler:

We who once formed a goodly part of Northrop's illustrious student body, but who now attend Vassar College, send our heartiest and most affectionate greetings, to the pupils, the faculty, the trustees, and Miss Carse!

In the first part of the year, when those of us who are Freshmen were busying ourselves with getting adjusted to our new environment, new studies, and new acquaintances, we had no time to reflect on our past activities. But now that we have become acclimated, we take great joy in remembering our years spent at Northrop, and realize, more and more, all that she did for us. We owe our present life and opportunities to Northrop's splendid teaching and background. The Northrop League gave us a moral background which we shall never lose. Our companionship with each other gave us friendships which can never be lost, even though we may be separated.

Northrop Alumnae who are Sophomores and the five who are holding up the honor of Vassar's class of '26, still feel Northrop's influence very strongly, and are forever singing her praises. They feel that the training in concentration and in well-divided time received at Northrop has proved invaluable throughout their college course.

The large number of us here at Vassar, set aside as "Northrop girls" feel that we have a great responsibility resting on us. We have a standard to live up to, a standard caused by the good name sent out into the world by Northrop. May we live up to that name, may we carry on the standard of Northrop School.

JOSEPHINE CLIFFORD, BETTY GOODELL.

MEMBERS OF LEAGUE COUNCIL FOR 1925-1926

OFFICERS OF THE LEAGUE

MARY EATON _President_ VIRGINIA LEFFINGWELL _Vice-President_ BARBARA BAILEY _Treasurer_ FLORENCE ISABEL ROBERTS _Secretary_

CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES

MARION HUME _Athletics_ MARGARET LOUISE NEWHALL _Publication_ BEATRICE JOSLIN _Entertainment_

CLASS PRESIDENTS

EVELYN BAKER _Form XII_ BETTY LONG _Form XI_ MARY LOUISE SUDDUTH _Form X_ HELEN TUTTLE _Form IX_ ELEANOR BELLOWS _Form VIII_ JANE HELM _Form VII_

ATHLETIC COUNCIL

MARION HUME _Chairman_ JOSEPHINE REINHART _Form XII_ CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS JANET MORISON _Form XI_ BETTY JEWETT JANE WOODWARD _Form X_ VICTORIA MERCER NANCY VAN SLYKE _Form IX_ RUTH DE VIENNE _Forms VIII and VII_

TATLER BOARD

MARGARET LOUISE NEWHALL _Editor_ JANET MORISON _Business Assistant_ NANCY STEVENSON MARION MCDONALD _Form XII_ VIRGINIA LITTLE _Form XI_ MARTHA JEAN MAUGHAN _Form X_ NANCY VAN SLYKE _Form IX_ ANNE WINTON _Form VIII_ PAULINE BROOKS _Form VII_

FACULTY ADVISERS

MISS CARSE MISS BAGIER MISS SADLEY MISS FEREBEE MISS MCHUGH MISS BROWN MISS SVENDDAL MISS PEASE MISS LOCKWOOD MRS. ARMSTRONG

THE NORTHROP LEAGUE

It hardly seems necessary in this, the sixth year of the League's existence, to explain its purpose. I think it is sufficient to say that the League is an organization which, under Miss Carse's sympathetic guidance, has come to control the student activities of the high school and the seventh and the eighth grades. It is true, of course, that the League is governed by its officers, but the League itself is what the large body of the girls make it. The pledge, an expression of its standards, seeks to hold each girl to a high sense of honor, loyalty, and self-improvement. This, briefly, is the purpose. As nearer perfection is reached, in the struggle for this goal, the League gains in power. Thus it is that the League is the result of the effort of every member.

MARY EATON.

Report of League Treasurer Given at the Parents' and Teachers' Dinner

Should any girl of Northrop wish to prepare herself for a position that has to do with the handling of money, I should advise her to begin campaigning by lobbying for the office of Treasurer of the Northrop League. However, the reputation of the detailed work of this office is such that there are few who are ever over-anxious to receive it. This was my feeling at first, but now when I realize how much I already know about making out checks, keeping accounts, and the intricacies of banking, I feel it is all worth while. By Commencement I shouldn't be surprised if I could fill the important position of messenger in a bank.

The first thing that comes up at the beginning of each year is the collection of the annual League dues, which are two dollars and fifty cents. A total amount of about three hundred dollars was handed in this year. This is put under the "operating fund," and takes care of all the League expenditures, except those of the Welfare Committee.

There are four departments of student activities drawing from these League dues, athletic, entertainment, and printing and stationery. Also, this year the League voted to back the Tatler board up with one hundred dollars. At the first council meeting of the year a budget is made out for the different committees of the League. This budget is based on the expenditures of that committee for the preceding year. Until nineteen twenty-five, the Welfare work was taken care of by collections running through the year as the various needs arose. This year a new system was adopted, which took care of everything at one time. We foresaw a need of money for the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Community Funds, for the Near East Relief, and the French Orphans; therefore slips were given to each girl with these different needs listed. She was expected to put an amount after each, which amount she pledged to pay in cash or in deferred payments. So far eight hundred and twelve dollars of the nine hundred and two dollars and thirteen cents pledged has been handed in. This plan is much more systematic, and saves the trouble of conducting so many drives.

All money transactions of classes and committees whether receipts or expenditures go through the hands of the League treasurer. A system of books is maintained. Each class and committee keeps its own accounts. Then the League treasurer has a large cash book in which she also keeps all the receipts and disbursements of the classes and committees. At the end of each month the balances are put in a simplified ledger. It is from this that the monthly and annual reports are made. When a bill is received, it is paid only by the League treasurer after it has been OK'd by the chairman of the committee responsible for it. When money is handed in, a receipt is given to the bearer. At the end of each month the books are balanced and checked with the bank statement. Also the check book is verified with the bank balance.

Although the League treasurer is custodian of the class funds, each class has a treasurer who keeps her own accounts. The classes have their own dues to pay for all their expenditures. At the end of each month, after the class treasurer has balanced her book, it is checked over with the accounts of the League treasurer for that class to see if they agree.

A checking account is kept at the Northwestern National Bank and the savings' account at the Farmers and Mechanics Bank. We have had almost three hundred dollars in the savings account, but two hundred dollars, which is last year's League gift to the school, has just been withdrawn and added to the Chapel Fund.

The duties of a treasurer are not over until she has passed to her successor what she has learned during her treasurership and has changed the accounts to the new girl's name. After this has been done, the retiring treasurer is released and must seek new fields in which to carry on. In case a former Northrop League treasurer ever applies to any of you for a position, just remember the "big" business in which she began her training.

BARBARA BAILEY.

NORTHROP LEAGUE WELFARE BUDGET

NEAR EAST RELIEF 1926 FRENCH ORPHAN COMMUNITY FUND THANKSGIVING FUND CHRISTMAS FUND EMERGENCY FUND

This year, when Community Fund interests brought to our attention the need of school collections, of which the Community Fund is but one, we thought to have a single large drive instead of several small drives.

We called in the expert opinion of one who had long worked in social agencies, and worked out a scheme and a budget for one drive covering all our needs. This plan was presented to the League Council and met with approval.

Sheets containing lists of the various funds for which money was to be collected, were given to the pupils to take home for conference with their parents. If a girl wished to give to any one of the various funds, she was to mark down that amount, also putting down the date of payment (any time until February 1); or else the money might be sent right back with the pledges. In this way we tried to make the idea of voluntary subscription the whole basis of our plan.

The total amount of the entire drive, both pledged and paid, is $902.13, out of which $359.58 was paid in full to the Community Fund. The total of the Thanksgiving Fund was $166.10, out of which $106.23 was paid for Thanksgiving baskets which were filled with good, substantial food, and were delivered by a number of the girls, each group accompanied by an older person, to eighteen needy families. The Christmas fund total reached the sum of $180.70. From this, we gave $75.00 as gifts to the house-staff. The Emergency Fund amounted to $151.25. From this, we gave $36.00 to help support a French orphan for whose care we are responsible.

There is also an unapportioned fund. A number of pledges were returned with only the total amount marked down, none of which was divided among the funds. These amounts were put down under the unapportioned fund. From this sum, we drew $30.00 for the Near East Relief. In addition to all this, we are having a continuous drive for old clothes which we place where most needed.

After the various distributions were made, we found that our book balanced with that of the League treasurer.

Handling a situation of this sort has been an interesting task, and I think that we all have greatly profited by the experience, and believe that it has been a preparation for future service to the Community.

VIRGINIA LEFFINGWELL, _Chairman_.

CALENDAR FOR 1925-1926

_OCTOBER_ 2--Old Girls' Party for the New. 16--Riding Contest.

_NOVEMBER_ 10--Book Exhibit. 13--Junior Carnival.

_DECEMBER_ 18--Christmas Luncheon. 19--Christmas Play.

_FEBRUARY_ 5--Parents' and Teachers' Dinner. 12--Valentine Party for Grades VII and VIII. Reading by the Princess Rahme Haider.

_MARCH_ 8--Lecture by the Duc de Trevise. 19--Northrop Entertains Summit. 25--Athletic Banquet. 26--Lecture by Dr. Cora Best.

_MAY_ 20 and 21--Junior Field Day. 27 and 28--Senior Field Day.

_JUNE_ 4--The Junior-Senior Dance. 7--Senior Chapel. Alumnae Luncheon. Class Day. 8--Commencement.

The Junior-Senior Dance, 1925

On Friday morning, May 29, 1925, each Junior awoke with the entire responsibility of the Junior-Senior dance on her shoulders. Ten o'clock found some of the class in an effort to carry out the green and white color scheme, robbing the neighbors' bridal wreath hedges of all their glory. Returning to school they wound the blossoming sprays in and out of a white lattice work, which a few of their industrious class mates had made to cover the radiators in the dining room. They then hung green and white balloons in clusters from the side lights. While this was being done, others were converting nice-looking automobiles into furniture vans. The furniture was arranged on the roof garden, over which Japanese lanterns were hung.

Having finished these tasks, we had by no means completed our work. The supper tables next occupied our attention. These we arranged in the side hall. Centering each was a miniature white May pole wound with green and white streamers. The appearance was festive indeed.

After the lapse of a few hours the weary Juniors returned to welcome their guests, the Seniors.... As the clock struck twelve, the music ceased, the building resumed its former tranquility, and the happy guests filed home.

EVELYN BAKER AND POLLY DAUNT.

We Entertain Summit School