Chapter 11
Week 4, Instructor Calendar, September/October 1896
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Founder’s Day started out in the full glory of a warm, sunny day in late September. First, there was the longer-than-usual chapel service, during which the school anthem “Forward, Woman, to Thy Calling” was sung. Then this year’s winning student poem was read aloud by President Langdon.
After chapel and a special Founder’s Day breakfast feast, the student body gathered at the quadrangle to weave the customary chrysanthemum chain. It would be presented to the freshman class as a token of welcome and official acceptance, a mark of respect after the first grueling weeks of pranks and other mischief that had been played upon the new girls. This year, the chain would then adorn
