Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-06-28
AeAssIz HOUSE, UNIQUE AMONG cLusHousEs.

Henry l.. Higginson and Mrs. Quincy
A. Shaw are her daughters-and by
more than LOO present and former
Radcliffe students and other friends OF
the educational undertaking in all
parts Of this country and abroad.
The new building is intended to
meet some of the peculiar needs of
woman's college conducted on uni
yerslty lines. with many students who
come to Cambridge Itrom some dis.
lance every day and many others who
live far enough from the recitation
halls so that they need place in the
college grounds where they may pass
their leisure hours between lectures,
either in study, rest or recreation,
may leave their wraps and eat
luncheon. Perhaps there is nowhere
else so near an approach to a real
woman's clubhouse--that is to say, a
clubhouse for women like the typical
social club for men, There is the
same air of comfort and freedom IN
the big, high-studded rooms with
tha4r dark oak wainGcoting, their
paneled walls, deliCately tinted ana
hung with portraits, and their heavily
upholstered furnishings.
The only restriction of membership.
so to speak, is that a girl must be a
Radcliffe student to be admitted to
these privileges. Everything in the
buildings is freely to be used by every
Radcliffe girl Indeed, the main pur-
pose of the house is to afford a COM
mon meeting place for student and for
graduates when they return to Cam,
bridge in later years-a purpose to be
appropriately realized for the first
time this year, when members of past
classes return to their alma mater
TOR the commencement that marks the
completion of its first quarter-century
The need it meets in student life was
first pointed out by Miss Agnes Irwin,
dean of the college, in her annual re-
port some eight years ago, and has
until now been partially filed by
scattered, crowded rooms in several
Of the buildings in the yard"
Oulwardly, the architect, Mr.. A. w
Longfellow, ira nephew of the poet.
who was long a fellow-teacher with
Professor Louis Agassiz at Harvard
and his intimate friend-has given
Agassiz house the hospitable appear
ance of the colonial mansion. built OF
Harvard brick faced with white mar,
BILE Within, the rooms are all OF
generous proportions. There is a
common room" which Miss Alice
LongfellGw has appropriately callea
the heart of the house" measuring
the fun width Of the building and two
stories of its eight, with great stone
firepla,es at either nd and book
shelves and reading tables. There is
a lunch room. where 16S students
can be served al one time, and below
are the Kitchens and cold storage
equipment. There are dozen smaller
rooms that will be used for study as
s. eff as recreation: meeting quarters
/ for he score of clubs that share the
students interests at Radcliffe; rest
rooms in which girl may mo
absolute quiet or even be isolated IN
case Of illness, should she prefer
( living here to remaining in a lodging
house a locker room for 500 girls
and back Of all an auditorium with 45C
seats. its stage equipped as perfectly
as would he needed in professional.
theater. and constructed so that Il
may produce the effect 4 an academic
stage as. wen as of one for theatricals
Throughout the house the rooms arc
/ arranged In suites. so that number
Of small meetings may be hei'
! simu .taneously. or two or three apar'
men-s may be thrown together il de