Sixty-odd, a personal history, Part 33

Author: Sessions, Ruth Huntington, 1859-
Publication date: 1936
Publisher: Brattleboro, Vt., Stephen Daye Press
Number of Pages: 878


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bound to affect our own household. The great increase of students had outstripped the housing-provisions on the campus and made the building of new dormitories imperative. Outside houses were numerous, some of them filled by invitation and occupied by seniors who secured chaperons and managed expenses. It was difficult to insure the keeping of rules, although heads of houses did their best to cooperate with the administration; social rivalries threatened the democracy which had been strong at Smith College since its earliest days. Most of all, however, it had become clear that so large an in- stitution demanded further centralization and regulation, as a stronger backing for the student-government which was answering more and more effectively to the demands made upon it. The presi- dent and alumnae were convinced that there should be campus- accommodation for every student of the college, with uniform laws and privileges. The heads of private houses were already contem- plating this eventuality and were beginning to make plans accord- ingly. I had long expected the change and heartily appreciated the need for it.


But the idea of turning our time-honored mansion into an apart- ment-house was hopeless. Even the resourceful builder who had solved such problems hitherto, could realize it. The great central chimney stood like an obstinate giant in the way of all plans, and could not be blue-printed out of the foreground; the low rooms and narrow halls were prohibitive; the heating-apparatus and plumbing unadaptable. A faculty-house, too, was out of the reckon- ing, since for the most part the older teachers were settling in apart- ments, and the younger ones in small groups. Yet for a valuable landmark with so many historic associations, to be pulled down and done away with, seemed a cruel sacrifice. I knew that I must give up my work before long, and take an extended rest from care, but I did not know how to bring that about. All this was the problem of so many other women that one could not talk about it nor com- plain, but it underlay the bright life at "109" for months, until at last I gained courage to take my anxieties to President Neilson, whose large-heartedness and kindness brought it to a settlement; the college would by the house at the terms I offered, as a "going


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concern," furniture and all, and set me free to drop all burdens, finding a substitute even before the end of the season, if I felt I must give up at once.


It was clear that this plan would be best. I had six weeks in which to go through garret and cellar, ridding them of the accumu- lations of years; at the farm, that time was used in making necessary alterations, putting in a furnace, and otherwise preparing the Phelps house for residence in cold weather. It was better to keep busy than to allow too much leeway to one's emotions, for now and then presentiments of a great lack and emptiness in my life came to me darkly. To live without the tonic of association with youth; the swift motion, the eagerness, the mirth, the welcoming faces, the flash of a gay good-morning, the knock at one's door for a good- night; how could one keep young and hopeful in spirit, failing those daily confidences and reminders? In late afternoon there would still be a soft light over Paradise Pond, groups coming up from the boat-house, crossing the street, loitering on the sidewalk, with sound of laughter and hurrying steps along the porchway; I should picture it many, many times and long to be with my children of the college; but it would be part of a vanished past. Unless, per- chance-and that was always a bright thought -- I might live to go back into it all as an onlooker, some day, and see, in the personal- ities of their daughters, what sort of mothers my girls had made; that vision restored my courage and shed a hopeful light upon the immediate prospect (which after all was not a gloomy one) with its promise of rest, and time, and freedom from care. It would be much easier to have the parting come when my girls left for their vacation, with plans ahead and home-coming a joyous anticipation. I made much of the fact that I should be only six miles away and easy to reach, and that they would always find me at the farm, whither they had often gone for a night's camping-out on the hillside or a day's picnicing in the woods. I bade them farewell when the day of spring closing came, with its usual excitement. As the baggage-men were tramping through the Hilarium and up the stairs, an open- faced, cordial young fellow stopped for a moment.


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that, 'cause you've let us set the victrola going when we carried up the big trunks; it makes it so much easier, you know. I hope the next one will do that too." I felt a regret and a heart-warming both together; it was one of the nicest goodbyes I had.


By two o'clock the few belongings of my own which were to go with me were gathered in a lower room. There was no necessity for keeping my helpers, and I did not want to prolong the parting, for they were loyal friends, and we had worked together with satisfac- tion and affection; they, too, had pleasant vacation-plans. When they were gone, and I was alone in the empty house, there was time for a long letter to Archie, who was to come up to the farm for the week-end, and to my sister Molly; part of the plan was that she should spend the rest of the season with me, and we hoped very much that Arria would come back to us before another Christmas.


At five o'clock I went to meet the treasurer of the college for a final business transaction-the sale of the house. I have dim recol- lections of a shady office, of some pleasant gentlemen, of signing ny name once or twice on dotted lines pointed out to me, of shaking hands rather formally and cordially. Then I came out into the sunny street, without the faintest idea what I should do next. I ran into my friend Mrs. Sleeper. We had met crises of various descrip- tions together in the course of the years, and I felt that Fate had led her to the spot.


"Well!" she said. "Have you been finishing up the business- part?"


"I certainly have," said I. "I haven't a debt in the world, nor a care, nor a single thing to bother about. And I've a queer, light- headed feeling, as if my feet weren't really on the ground; anı I walking straight?"


She laughed. "You can't fly just yet."


"Will you come and have supper with me somewhere, and then -- we'll see what we can do."


"I know. Let's go to the moving pictures. In the college vacation, you know, they always have some play that the country people like. Tonight it's a revival of The Old Homestead. The place will be crowded, so we'll get there early and talk till it begins."


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"Perfect. It's restful, at a picture show, like lying on the deck of a steamer; no past and no future, no regrets and no plans."


We supped at The Manse, and talked of dress-making, of city planning, of Bertrand Russell. We lingered over our coffee. At the theatre there was indeed a crowd of people, from all the neighbor- ing villages; men, women and children. "Not an intellectual in sight," we observed to one another. We laughed with them at every joke; for all I know, wept with them in tragic scenes. After it we had a pleasant walk home, and I left my comrade at her door and let my- self into my silent dwelling for the last time, and fell asleep, not in the west room which was now swept and garnished for my successor, but in an east chamber, with windows open to the sunrise.


ON THE STOOP AT FORTY ACRES. July 15, 1936


I have come over here to look at the sunset. The long gallery is empty, for the inhabitants are away. In the west, a sinking sun is still above the crisp horizon-line; the luminous green of the ineadows stretches to a shining river, beyond it is the white spire of Hatfield's meeting-house, with its gilded vane and the long line of elin-shaded roofs. This place is still, yet now there are moving fig- ures here and there. Two young people who have just stepped out from between the willows, with oars over their shoulders, are George and Arria; they are coming up from the boat, marching in the old hexameter-rhythm which our brothers taught us when we were children. I can see Arria's blue boating-dress, and the straw hat pushed back from her forehead. They pause a moment under a huge elm which Father called the perfect wine-cup; its branches still droop in graceful symmetry.


A lithe fourteen-year old girl with a crop of curly brown hair for all the world like that of her next-older brother, swings herself down from the gnarled branch of an apple-tree. It is Molly, and she lands in a clump of wild tiger-lilies, soft red and orange, which have


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always grown on that orchard-bank; they were never allowed in the garden where grander blooms were tended and favored, so they have kept aloof for a hundred years and more, and make a tall back- ground for the slight figure. Molly, the shy, the keen, the daring critic, the amused looker-on!


Our father and mother, two white-haired people, are walking between the rows of hollyhocks, farther back. They stand now, look- ing upward at a flock of circling swallows in the midst of their mystic sunset-dance. Already, one by one, the swallows drop and disappear into the unused chimney over the ell. At the window sits Aunt Bethia, remote, self-abnegating; her face, with the long upper lip, the high cheek-bones and brilliant eyes, a replica of the countenance of her grandmother Betsey Phelps. Beyond, on the road, a boy and girl are walking together, thrilling as their hands touch. Cousin Ellen is waiting for them on the steps of the Phelps house. They are walking away, but the others are coming toward me now, the last of my generation, who can never be lonely when they answer so read- ily to the call of memory. For, as Havelock Ellis says, the meaning- less turmoil of the moment falls silent before the things which come out of the past and are incorporated with the texture of one's own soul.


Overhead I hear a young man's voice, chanting; it is James, at the little window of the prophet's chamber. The text of an old eve- ning psalın comes to me, with a long rising and a falling note as the monks of the Middle Ages intoned it; Nisi Dominus aedificaverit do-mum: in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant e-am.


Moses Porter's labor was not in vain. The house has withstood fire and flood and earthquake for almost two centuries; the founda- tions underneath me will hold another hundred years. The Lord must have been its Master Builder. And there was another line in the psalm; Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum. That was what we said when my brother's eyes were closed to this mortal world a year ago.


The sun has sunk behind the hills and left a golden sky above them; one last ray touches the valiant weathercock pointing north- west. The long cool bars of cloud lose their rose-and-violet tints,


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but the orange lilies make little points of light against the darken- ing background of the orchard-bank. I feel a twilight dampness; there come the tiny flutings of the frogs. Tomorrow will be a splen- did hay-day, and perhaps John will mow the alfalfa in the lower meadow.


If what faded had its glory, then what lasts will be invested with still greater glory.


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Chart and Index


Captain Moses Porter M. Elizabeth Pitkin


Elizabeth Porter M. Charles Phelps 1


(of Hadley)


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1772 Charles Porter Phelps M. Sarah Parsons


Elizabeth Phelps M. Dan Huntington


1821 Epes Sargent M. Mary Lincoln


Charles


Charles


Sarah


George Fisher M. Elizabeth


Francis


Bethia


1


Elizabeth


Edward


Marrianne


John


Caroline M. Rev. Stephen Bulfinch Arthur


Theophilus


Theodore


Mary


Catherine


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Charles Porter Phelps-second wife-Charlotte Parsons


İ John Sessions M. Elizabeth Fisher 1


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George


Theophilus William Charlotte


Arria James Archibald Sessions M. Ruth


Susan


Mary


Hannah Roger John


SOME DESCENDANTS OF MOSES PORTER


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William


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Annie Ellen


Frederic Dan Huntington M. Hannah Sargent


INDEX


Abbott, Lawrence, 163 Addams, Jane, 311 Adelynrood, 377 Adler. Felix, 921 Agassiz's School, 11 finslee's Magazine, 335, 366


Alcott, Lonisa, 98-99 Alexander 11, Emperor of Russia, 226-227


Allen, Annie Winsor, 321, 324 Amherst College, 112, 163, 17.1


Ancestors, 8-10; see Family tice


Andrews, Mary R. S., 105 Andrews, Charles, 63


Andrews, Paul, 393. 395. . 119


Andrews, William, 71


Anthony, Susan B., 106 Appleton, Tom, 22-23


Armistice, 100 .Armitage, Jacob, 306 Athletics, 36g


Atlantic Monthly, 36, 151


Bach, 229-230; passion music, 233; see Music Bachschule, 229, 239 Bacon family, 57 Baedeker, 213


Balze, Miss, 22 Bamby, Joseph, 250-251


Barn, the, 113-111; footnote, 113


Beecher, Miss Catherine, 101


Beecher, Henry Ward, 309 Belfry family, 229-230


Bell, Helen, 22


Bell, Lieutenant, 202, 210 Berenson, Elizabeth, 69 Berenson, Senda. 369 Bernese Oberland, 239 Bianci, Martha, 163 Bible, the, 151; Higher Criticism of, 279; sce Religion Bird House, 326 Bishops, 16-18; meeting of, 148 Bismarck, 221 Blacksmith, 133-131 Blackwell, Dr. Antoinette, 100 Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, 199 Bliss, Howard, 163 Blizzard of 1888, 276 Books, see Reading Boston bag, 17, 23


Boston, 1-53; Beacon Street, 3; Berkeley Street, 6, 7; Bostonians, 170; Boylston Street, 1, 2; Common, 3, 32, 237; Music Hall, 38; Public Gardens, 2-3, 4, 32; speech of, 18-19; State House in, 3, 409 Bowditch family, 1, 10 Bowles, Samuel, 157 Boylston Street, life at 98, 16H., 101 Brackett, Miss Anna, 102 Breshkovsky, Madame, 390


Brewer, Fanny, 356


Brewer, Hannah, 356


Bridgman, Sidney, 135, 365


Brooklyn Eagle. 329 Brooklyn Woman's Club; 313


Brown, Alice, 391 Brown, Mary, 365 Bryant, Clara, 167, 170


Bullinch, Ellen, 129, 185, 225, 300 Bulfinch, Thomas, 128


Bülow, Hans von, 2.15 Burgoyne, Gen., 365, 370 Burton, Marion Leroy, 382, 389, 392


Calxt, "Peter" and "Nora," 213, 211, 218


Cail, the, 301, 507 Calligan, Mary, 285 Calvinism, 9 Cambridge, 11, 357 Campbell School, 378


Camp Devens, 393


Carmen, 197, 237 Catholic Church, 252


Caverno, Julia, 359 Cedar Square, see Roxbury; Sargent


Chartists, 250 Cheney, Edna, 102 Children's Aid, 391 Chimney swallows, 120-121 Choate, Helen, 250


Choate, Rufus, 22, 298


Choir, in Windsor, 212, in Leipzig, 229


Christian, Prince, 21.1, 250 Christianity, 95; sce Religion


"Christmas closet," 25


Church, sec Religion, Lutheran, Catholic, Episcopal Clinch League for Industrial Democracy, 307 Churchman, the, 305 City of Brussels, 197, 201 Civil Service Reform, 303


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Civil War, gilf. Clarke, Bishop, 46 Clarke, Christopher, 356 Clothes, 22, 82, 167 Cobleighs, the, 83


Coccius, Herr, 217, 221, 310 College girl, 367, 369-370, 378, 398, 408, 415 Composers, sce Music Congress of Women, 1875, 98ff. Consumers' League, 313-320, 329-331, 336, 363 Cooke, Mary, 17, 48, 383 Corinthians 2, 3.11; 383, 121


Cornell University, 178 Courtship, 19, 180-182


Coxe, Bishop, 47 Crosby, Einest, 321 Croly, Jennie, 101 Crown Princess, of Germany, 225-226 Curtis, Annie, 302 Cushing, Eleanor, 359


Damrosch, Walter, 184, 346


Denison House, 391


Devereux family, 57


Dewey, Admiral, 312


Dexter, Annie, 219, 239


Diamond Nell, 77-78


Dickens, Charles, see Reading


Dickinson, Austin, 163


Dickinson, Emily, 163-164


Dickinson, Lavinia, 163-16.4


Dickinson, Ned, 163


Dodd, Marion, 409 Dows, Jane, 182


Dreier, Mary, 300


Dresden, 291-235 Dudley, Helena, 394


Eastman, Max, 409 Education, see Huntington, Ruth Elvey, Sir George, 203 Emerton, Prof., 383 Emmanuel Chunch, 1, 12, 39


Englewood, N. J., 274, 277-278, 285-286


Episcopal Church, 12, 210, 250 Equal Suffrage group, 100 Excursion days, 1.41ff.


Fabians, 323, 339 Fairchild, Charles, 310 Family tree, 424 Faneuil Hall, 36 Farming, 379 Faust, 235, 2.47, 218 Fellowship of Reconciliation, 394 Ferry, North Hadley, 1.42, 1.45 "Fine Art of Liking People," 175, 370, 390 Fine, Jean, 321 Fish, Hamilton, 280


Forty Acres, 12, 109ff., 183-189, 240, 271, 328, 344, 419 Foster, Barbara, 411 Free Trade, 157


Gage, Miss Mary, school of, 29-30 Gannett family, 1, 39-40, 64 Ganong, Prof. William, 360


Gardiner, Prof. Norman, 360 Garfield, President, 238


George, Henry, 276, 305-306, 322, 337-338 Germany, 216H .; in 1914, 387


Germar, Fräulein von, 234


Gewandhaus, 240, 244 Girls' Friendly Magazine, 327 Girls' Friendly Society, 316


Goethe, 227; see Reading


Grammar of Assent, 184, 210


"Grant and Colfax," 66-68


Grant, Gen. Ulysses, 31


Gray, Asa, 117 Griffith, Emily, 268, 357


Hadley, see Forty Acres


Hale, Mrs. Philip, 72


Hamilton, Miss, 201


Hampshire Bookshop, 409


Hampshire Gazette, 409


Handel and Hayden Society, 38


Hanscom, Elizabeth, 359-360


Harper's Bazaar, 83


Harvard University, 8, 11, 12, 94, 102, 116, 155. 181, 384, 390 Hatfield, 113


Hatfield House, 359


Haymow, the, 146-149, 186


Hazard, Dora Sedgwick, 6.4


Heermans, Forbes, 85-87


lleidelberg, 2.19 Held, Ernst, 71-72, 105, 221


Henshaw House, 364-372, 381, 416


Herrnsdorf, Fräulein Doris, 216, 221-222, 224, 227 Herrnsdorf, Fräulein Isidora, 2:6


"Hilarium," 381, 385 Hill, David B., 309 Hill, Mattie, 69 Hingham, 8, 167-173


Hinrichs, Frederick, 308-311


Holy Cross, Companionship of, 377


Holy Cross, Order of, 279, 290; see Hun- tington, James Hospitals, 79 House of the Good Shepherd, 79-81 Howe, Julia Ward, 33, 101, 104 Hunt, Jonathan, 36.4 Huntington, Arria, 11, 13, 75ff., 91, 116, 201, 211, 217, 219, 239, 315. 379, 383, 394 Huntington, the Hon. Charles, 356 Huntington, Dan, 9


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Huntington, Frederic Dan, 1, 2, 6-7, 10; Rector of Emmanuel church, 12, 17-18- 21, 26, 34, 39, 40-41; becomes a bishop, 16.53; in Syracuse, 65, 67, 75, 79, 88-91; at Forty Acres, 110, 114, 116, 118, 122. 1244; in Northampton, 135-136-138, 118-149, 150-155, 240, 253, 271, 279, 300; in Cail, 304-262-201, 319; death of, 373-377


Huntington, Mis. Frederic, 11, 12, 21, 23. 26, 32, 40, 48, 119, 138, 178, 281; death of, 378


Huntington, George, 12, 94, 116-117. 161- 162, 278, 345, 374-377. . 120


Huntington, Mrs. George, 412


Huntington, James, 11, 26, 31 37, 47. Gi; religions ideas ot, 91-95-112, 131, 132, 157, 190; becomes a monk, 241- 250, 276, 279, 288, 290-292; with Knights of Labor, 303-304-338, 412 Huntington, Mary, 15, 23, 42, 50, 60-61, 82, 158, 379, 383


Huntington, Ruth, birth, 11; childhood in Boston, 1-52; in Syracuse, 53ff., 177- 182; at Forty Acics, rogff .; in Hing- ham, 167-173; meeting with Archibald Sessions, 18gt .; London, 206-210; study in Germany, 2160 .; teaching in Utica, 266-269; engagement of, 261


Education, in Boston, 29-30; in Syra- cuse, 61Hf. Music, study of, in Boston, 41-45; in Syracuse, 71-73; in Germany, 221f. Marriage, 270. (See Sessions, Ruth Huntington)


See also Music, Reading, Religion Huntington, William Reed, 306, 376 Huxley, Mr., 381


Imitation of Christ, the, 188, 254 Indians, 69-70 Indian relics, at Hadley, 111-112 Influenza epidemic, 399 Irving, Henry, 209 Italy, 252-253


Jackson, Miss Mary, school of, 61, 66, 68, 88, 98 James, Henry, 103 "Jerusalem crickets," 16 Johannesgarten, 248 Jones, Rufus, 394 Jordan, Mary Augusta, 359


Kelley, Florence, 314 Kemble, Fanny, 38 Kent, 385 Kerensky Revolution, 390 Kernan, Mr., 310 Kimball, Everett, 378, 404 King, Edward, 319, 321


Kneeland, Harriet, 364 Knights of Labor, 250, 303-30.4


Labor, in rural New England, 122ff.


Labor conditions, 290-291, 313, 341, 363


Laighton, O-car, 207


Leavenworth, Gen., 60


Ice, Gerald Stanley, 7, 360


Lee, Jenette, 360


Leipzig, 21611. Letters to Turnip, 159, 176


Leiderkranz, 73


Lincoln, Abner, 8, 170


Lincoln, Abraham, 32, 35


Literature, see Reading


Littell's Living Age, 36


Little Dorrit, 16ilf.


Livermore, Mary A., 100, 103


London, 202-209, 206-210


Low, Seth, 302, 309, 337


Low, William, 302


Lowell, James Russell, 37


Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 3144


Ludden, Lydia, 409


Lusitania, 387


Luther, Martin, 230, 234, 212


Lutheran Church, 233-2344; see Religion I.yman, Judge, 356


Mackintosh, Euphemia, 394 Manlius, 61


Manse, the, 419


Marsh, Master Builder, 125-126


Massasoit House, 109


Matty, Mr., 122-124


May, Miss Abby, 102


Mckinley, President, 342


"Melissa," 284-285, 333 Mendelssohn Quintet Club, 73


Mendelson, Dr. Walter, 2443, 219, 253, 276, 338 Mill, at Hadley, 127


Miller family, 51 Miller, Mrs. Gerritt, 100


Mission school, 91


Mitchell, John A., 171


Mitchell, Maria, 100


Modern Christianity: A Civilized Hea- thenism, 91 Monadnock, 141, 143


Monday Club, 358 Montgomery, Col., 217, 225, 227, 234, 238 Morgan, Geraldine, 256


Mosher, Dr. Eliza, 293, 295 Motte, Mlle. Gabrielle de la, 42-45


"Mountain Day," 371 Mount Warner, 111, 174-176 Muirhead, Annie, 243, 254. 323 Muirhead, James, 241, 244, 248, 323, 339 Munsey's Magazine, 335


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Music, 32, 31; in Boston, 38f .; in Syra- (use, 7111., 105, 168, 180: Sessions family's interest in, 181-202, 203; in Windsor, 209-212-221, 223, 229: in Germany, 230H .- 238, 328, 332, 316; at Smith College, 386; in the war, 389- 390, 191


Nathan, Maud, 313, 319 National Gallery, 209


National Woman's Suffrage Association, 406 Neilson, William Allen, 392, 402, 115 New England, see Boston, Forty Acres, Northampton


New York, 273lf.


New York Post, 305


New York Times, 305


Nihilists, in Leipzig, 226


North American Reviewo, 1544


Northampton, 109, 110, 135-136, 355ff. North Hadley mill, 131 "Nurse Harriet," 2, 6, 24, 33, 35, 59, 71


Otto's Grammar, 218


O Henry, 413


Opera, see Music


O'Reilly, Leonora, 287, 290, 300, 321, 311, 391 Organ playing, 74 Oxford Movement, 95, 211


Pinsons, Charlotte, 128


Parsons, Theophilus, 128


Peabody, Robert, 155


Peck, Gen., 66


Phelps family, 66, 128-131; Arthur, 128; Caroline (Mrs. Stephen Bulfinch), 128; Charles, 128, 155; Elizabeth, 9, 336; Sarah, 128, 2440; Theophilus, 129-130 Phelps, William Lyon, 404


Phelps, William Porter, 130-131


Phelps House, 128, 160, 297-299, 355. 379. 397-398 Piatt, Mrs., Seminary of, 261, 265-269 Piutti, Carl, 251 Planchette, 168 Poetsch family, 219, 225, 239, 256


Politics, in Syracuse, 66-68. 98, 177, 157; after 1876, 177, 268; in New York, 301- 305, 30811., 337, 341, 363


Pontresina, 250-251 Porter, Elizabeth, 8, 158 Porter, Moses, 8 Porter School, 266 Powderly, Terence V., 303 Putnam family, 24, 40


Quincy, Fanny, 357; Helen, 323


Radcliffe, 17, 382


Reading, 27f., 89: at Forty Acres, 118.119, 111-116 in 1875, 156; at Hingham, 169, 171-177, 227, 250; at Mrs. Pintt's, 268-269-279, 280, 315; in Northamp- ton, 368 Reform, see Politics Reinecke, 251


Religion, 95-96, 146H., 151-153, 187-188, 191, 201-202, 210-211; in Italy, 252-253,


360-361; at Smith College, 385-386-391 Revere family, 1


Reynolds, James, 321


Romanes, 383


Roosevelt-Barnes case, 71


Roosevelt, Theodore, 302-303. 312


Roxbury, 2.1, 191


Rubinstein, 2 15


Russell, Parson, 110


Russia, 390


St. Paul's School, 390 Sarasate, 2.15


Sargent, Epes, 8, 168; James, 168; Mary, 8, 2.1, 42, 51, 104, 169, 170-171 Schumann, Clara, 246-247 Scudder, Vida, 391, 307 Sedgwick, Charles, 64, 86 Seelye, 1 .. Clark, 155, 319, 361-362, 381- 382


Sessions, Adeline, 382


Sessions, Archibald, 18gff., 190, 195-198, 235, 242, 253, 261-265, 280, 285, 286; Young Men's Democratic Club, 302- 311, 313; part in politics, 308f .; in So- cial Reform Club, 321; in law, 326- 311, 348, 385; play-writing, 413 Sessions, Elizabeth, 183, 336


Sessions, Hannah, 279-280, 284, 334, 337, 378, 382, 384, 390; marriage, 393-395- 396


Sessions, John, 311, 351, 379, 390, 398, .112 Sessions, Roger, 327, 332, 343, 346. 378. 380, 381, 389, 393, 493; marriage of, q11 Sessions, Ruth Huntington (Mrs. Archi- bald), articles written, 305; attitude to- ward politics, 308; in Consumers' League, 313-320; in Social Reform Club, 321-325-327, 335; at Smith College, 3551 .; attitude toward war, 388, 401- 11; departure from Smith College, 417. (Sec Huntington, Ruth; Music; Read- ing; Religion) Seymour, Mr., 57, 66 Shaw, Anna, 405 Shelter, the, 77 Sherman, Thomas G., 309 Simkhovitch, Mary, 307, 321 Sleeper, Mrs. Henry Dyke, 409, 418 Smith College, 156, 175, 319, 3551. Sec College girl Smith, Oliver, 155; Sophia, 155


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Socialism, 177, 250, 323-321, 339-310 Social Reform Club, 321-325 Spahr, Charles, 321, 322 Spanish American War, 312 spiritualism, 168 Springfield Republican, 157


Standard. The, 305


Stanton, Elizabeth C .. 100 Stanr, Ellen, 311


Steinert prize, 389


Stoddard, Prof., 360


Stoop, the, 11 1-115, 1.11. 119 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 120


Styles, see Clothes


Sullage, sce Women's Suffrage


Sumuer family, 1


Sunday, at Forty Acies, 153-155 Swarey, Miss, 102 Syracuse, 16, 52, 531 .; politics of, 98, 161, 170. (See Huntington, Ruth)


Tailer, Henderson, 126-127 I ammany, 301-302, 309, 338 Terry, Ellen, 209


Thaxter, Celia, 119, 207-208


Throop, Bethia, 111, 112, 178, 336


Thunderstorms, 113, 137-111


Tilden family, 1 Toynbee, Arnold, 177 Tristan und Isolde, 231


Unitarianism, 9, 27 U'tica, 266-269


Valentiner, Herr Pastor, 239-240 Vanderbilt, the, 58 V'an Duyn, Dr. John, 79ff., 167 Victoria, Princess, 214


Victorian Courtship, 180-182 Village store, 133


Wagner, death of, 255


Wald, Lillian, 321


Wall-flowers, 8.1


Walker, Dr. Mary, 99


Walker, Oliver, 361


War, 1914, 387


War Department, 102-405


Waterman, Prof., 360


Watmough, Miss, 31.1


Watson family, 57 Watson, Licy, 180, 226, 250, 300, 377, 391,408 Wedgewood pottery, 18


Wellesley College, 391 Westcott, Edward, 182


·White, Andrew D., 63, 178, 221


"White List," 31.1:316, 329


Wilby, Miss, private school of, 13


Willians, Mornay, 321


Wilkinson family, 86


Wilson, Woodrow, 388, 402, 403


Windsor, royal chapel in, 203-201, 210-213 Women's Suffrage, Jo6ff., parade, 409, meeting in Northampton, 4109-410


Women, Congress of, 981., 157, 106


Women's Trade Union League, 311


Wood, General, 63


Wood, Dr. Irving, 360-361


Yale, School of Music, 389; of Artillery, 398 Young Men's Democratic Club, 302, 308- 310 Youth's Companion, 305, 327 Zakzrewska, Dr. Marie, 1911f.


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