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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



Established 1875 Incorporate!, Massachusetts, 1892 Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 



To Form an Alumni Chapter. 



Many of our school Chapters are 

 prominent within the school, but stead- 

 ily change in membership. The work 

 is taken up by incoming' classes and 

 carried on as before. 



This is not the best method. There 

 is no reason for losing interest in nature 

 after leaving school. The better 

 method is for the students to take the 

 Chapter with them, and let the incom- 

 ing classes form another. We, there- 

 fore, especially recommend this good 

 example of our Wendell Phillips High 

 School Chapter. The secretary, Miss 

 Milred Hamlin, writes as follows : 



"Some time ago the charter was 

 granted to The Agassiz Association 

 Chapter of the Wendell Phillips School 

 of thi-; city. It is my pleasure, as sec- 

 retary of the Alumni Chapter, which 

 has been organized, to make applica- 

 tion for a charter for it. The Chapter 

 compiises graduates and those who 

 have left the school and were paid up 

 members of the Agassiz at the time of 

 leaving. 



On Monday evening June the ioth we 

 held our first meeting at the home of 

 Miss Stevens, 4401 St. Lawrence Ave- 

 nue. Cards had been sent to seventeen 

 persons that were eligible to member- 

 ship, of whom seven attended. We held 

 an election of officers with the following 

 results : 



President, Robert P. Vanderpoel ; 

 Vice-President and Treasurer, Grace 

 Smith ; Secretary, Mildred L. Hamlin. 



The other members present were : 

 Anna Etten, Katherine Stevens, Mar- 

 gerate O'Connor, Lillian Tilske. 



These seven are the charter members. 



It was decided to hold two meetings 

 monthly. At present we will convene 

 on the second Saturday afternoon, and 

 the following second Thursday even- 

 ing of each month. We have put in our 

 application for club rooms at Fuller 



Park, Forty-sixth Street and Princeton 

 Avenue, but until we obtain them we 

 shall meet at the members' homes. Our 

 field trips will be held on Saturdays, 

 Sundays, and holidays. 



We have planned an extensive nature 

 study course for the summer and as we 

 are all nature enthusiasts we anticipate 

 encouraging results and a pleasant 

 realization of the fact that we have 

 pleased you. 



If Ave can become members of your 

 wonderful organization we will send 

 the necessary funds as soon as we can 

 collect them. 



Trusting that we shall become one of 

 your most active Chapters, we remain. 

 The Wendell Phillips High School 

 Alumni Chapter of The Agassiz Asso- 

 ciation. 



An Appreciation of Arcadia. 



BY JOHN SCHOONHOVEN, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 

 [My visit to Arcadia was so delightful an 

 experience, that it gives me much pleasure 

 to send you the enclosed little "appreciation," 

 as a sort of summary of my impressions after 

 thinking over the visit and the possibilities 

 suggested by the place and its equipment. — 

 J. S.] 



We all have a dream of an Arcadia 

 where every unspoken wish is grati- 

 fied, and each, according to the measure 

 of his nature, constructs that Arcadia 

 as he builds his Castles in Spain. But 

 who of us has found in very truth this 

 land of fulfilled desires? On a summer 

 day it was given to me to fare forth 

 over sunlit, flower-lined, country roads, 

 and to arrive, after many a bewilder- 

 ing hillside turning, at a gateway ieiu.. 

 ing into an Arcadia ready built and 

 waiting to receive me. I entered the 

 doorway little dreaming how near I 

 was to the land of which the naturalist 

 dreams, — a rightly named Arcadia of 

 the nature lover. If you belong to the 

 band of the elect who have had the seal 

 of nature worship placed upon your 



