200 Years Ago

• We lay before our readers an account of the studies now offered at the Round Hill School under the direction of Joseph G. Cogswell and George Bancroft, assisted by the following gentlemen: Charles Beck, Latin and gymnastics; G. H. Bode, Greek and German; C.C. Felton, mathematics; Donato Gherardi, Latin and Italian; Francis Grund, mathematics; M. N. Hentz, French; William Hutchens, writing; W. D. King, elocution; A. X. San Martin, Spanish; and A. G. Villeneuve, French.
• The Female Classical Seminary at Brookfield has enlarged their operations for the rest of the term. Lectures in chemistry, botany, mineralogy and geology will now be offered, in addition to philosophy and astronomy. Several additional boarding houses, occupied by genteel families, will be open for the accommodation of young ladies. All branches of a literary and polite education, including French, Music, and Painting, are taught.

100 Years Ago

• A very attractive and somewhat expensive sundial has just been placed on the Smith School grounds between the main building and Dickinson Hospital. It is a gift to the school from the 1925 graduating class. A bronze dial caps a concrete column of classic design, which in turn rests upon a deeply sunk concrete and rock foundation.
• Declaring that college girls are yet children and should be protected from themselves, Judge John B. O Donnell of Northampton asserts in a letter to the Gazette today that if he were president of Smith College, he would ask the trustees for permission to forbid the use of tobacco by students and women on the faculty, and if the trustees refused, he would resign.

50 Years Ago

• The four private colleges in the valley, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst and Hampshire, are showing a slump in the number of applicants. College officials point to the tight national economy, as well as a decreasing number of graduating high school students across the nation, as the reason for the drop in college applications.
• Clarke, Glade, and Kim Hall, children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Percy of Hampton Gardens Drive, have been selected for news carriers of the month for April, May and June. The three began with 22 papers. Now we ve monopolized the whole of Hampton Gardens and the stores, said Kim gleefully. It took us about six months to build it up.