New-York tribune., 1910-02-06

Even in this world twenty years does
MOI make g college old Yet when some
OF the graduates of the first class of Bar
nard get together the other day they hob
,sobbed and reminisced like octogenarians.
The cause of this sudden desire 20 bring
their dust covered memorabilia and SOU
venir collections TO the light after years
Of neglect is that Barnard College Is to
celebrate its twentieth birthday on Febru-
aFv l. together with the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of President Fred
erick Augustus Barnard for whom th1 col
ieee was named This means, of course.
thai historians are rummaging among an
cient chronicles pertaining 10 the colleges
carly DAYS and casting an interested eye
l.r,or the pioneer students and instructors
They are attracting almost as much AT
sertion now as they did twenty years aso-
when they were regarded VIII ave anu
admiration by q curious word that couldn
quite understand what Giris should want
with a university desree.
We were always on tie defensive in
those DAYS. ridiculously rorma! and COL
servative in everything we did. said Miss
Mary Stuart Pullman. now one of the lrus-
tees Of the college. We were 50 cettr-
mined TO show that We were in earnest, ana
felt the responsibility OF maintaining tae
dignity Of the college so Aeenly. that We
behaved With the utmost GecorIlI ~ al
occasions, even going 50 far as 10 caA
cscn other by our last names Win me
Miss attached. Il wasn't until long after
We were graduated, and some Of US hal
changed our titles. that We dared call each
utnef- 2ey our first names
we tried 10 create atmosphere and 10
establish precedents." chimed n Mrs. =
Pollitzer. who used 10 oe Alice kohIi-
some Of them have lived. too We began
he -odvssineau Mysteries, an ordeal
through which all freshmen have 10 pass,
and our color crimson. has been used bE
every fourth class down to the present
time.
This class Of 1875. though ii started out
With thirteen members, considers itself
r,,jrs fortunate Its hall of knowledge was
h-o1nstone house at No 345 Madison
avenue. near Columbia, which was then at
za+h street. For a time it was the only
class IN the entire college. but like only
children Ct doting parents it didn't lnind
So ISOLATION. Tor II was pretty much spoiled
1,,. trustees and faculty. and not hemmed
- hx anv fcrhiddins rules or orders What
r7srdships had to be endured In the way ot
INADEQUATE equipment were gladly over
locked.
The pioneers started cut with susto 10 90
I'll the academic and unacademlc thinss
.-sdjtiopaI, connected with colleges. IheE
gave PLAYS organized a Greek letter fra
7e-T7it,. chose a pin. selected flower aho
even wrote cheers ana songs. But We
we're an abominably unmusical class said
one. and poor poets too, no matter What
sort OF Greek and Latin scholars Nc may
Aave been.
As for tho first class day. the programme
~as as complete and elaborate IS hat of
anv class that followed. As the expenses
were heavy the trustees donated the de''-
crsfiofas and the invitations and the girls
rrovided tire arnusements-'
As the college building vas crowded j}eE
hadn't many facilities for enter aiming
there, hut generally they used thor own
homes or those of The trustees. which were
always open TO them. and they enjoyed
much closer personal relationship with
.herr and with the faculty than Is possible
NOW. Dr. Arthur Brooks. the president OF
The board Of trustees at the time was cne
cf their best friends, and they made lin