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Call No.: SC 43
Repository: Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Bertha Drew Hartzell, 1876-1950
Title: Scrapbook, 1893-1899
Quantity: 1 file box
Abstract: Scrapbook of Bertha Drew Hartzell, Radcliffe College Class of 1898.

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BIOGRAPHY

Bertha Vincent Drew was born and raised in Newton, Mass. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe in 1898, having served as Class President and been active in musical groups. Following her graduation she went to Germany, where she studied music and the German language. On her return she undertook graduate study in German at Radcliffe (1900-1901). After a year of teaching at Brookline High School she married Rev. Morton Hartzell, whom she had met in Europe. After his death she obtained a degree in Library Science from Simmons College (1918). She served as librarian at Simmons and at the Dana Hall School before becoming supervisor of training at the Boston Public Library, where she remained until her retirement in 1946. In her leisure she was active in church, music, and library organizations. She died in 1950.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The scrapbook contains cards, invitations, examinations, notices of meetings, clippings, poems and songs.

INVENTORY

• 1v. Scrapbook
  For partial index to this volume, see index below.

• 2. Invitations, cards, correspondence. "College Pin Regulations"; poem re Radcliffe student who takes course at Harvard, ms.

• 3. Clippings, programs, cards, examinations. Classical Club program: "Antigone", 1899; Emmanuel Club program: "Der Neffe als Onkel"; examinations in English and History; Der Deutsche Verein program: "Wenn Frauen weinen"; Glee Club program: "The Orietals", 1898.

Additional catalog entries

Partial index of subjects in volume 1

• Athletic Association, dance, 1895, 60.
• Basketball, notices of games, 60, 61, 105, 106.
• Cercle Francais, Le, notice of meeting, 80.
• Christian Association, Radcliffe, notice of meeting, 104.
• Class of 1898, notices of meetings, 18, 56, 59, 104.
• Classical Club, notices of meetings, 26, 80, 113.
• Deutsche Verein, Der, notices of meetings, 26, 80, 130.
• Emmanuel Club, "The Awakening of Doris", program, 1895, 77.
• Emmanuel Club, "A Lover in Duplicate", program, 1896, 77.
• Emmanuel Scholarship Fund, "Mother Goose Dramatized", program, 1895, 21.
• Emmanuel Scholarship Fund, "Scenes from Cranford", program, 1897, 111.
• English Club, notices of meetings, 80, 113.
• Examinations: English, 1894, 8; 1895, 39; French, 1893, 4; 1895, 37, 42; Geometry, 1893, 5; German, 1894, 6,44; 1895, 37, 38, 40; 1896, 84; Greek, 1894, 7; History, 1894, 7, 36; 1895, 41, 43; 1896, 84; Latin, 1893, 3; Philosophy, 1896, 84; Physical Science, 1894, 6
• Gilman, Arthur, resignation of regency, 92.
• Glee Club, notices of meetings, rehearsals, and concerts, 67, 82, 96, 114, 115, 118; concert programs, 1895, 30, 31; 1896, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 116; 1897, 118.
• History Club, notices of meetings, 109, 110.
• Idler Club, notices of meetings, 25, 56, 64, 66, 78, 80, 107, 108.
• Mandolin Club, programs, 1896, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73.
• Music Club, concert programs, 1895, 74, 75.
• Philosophy Club, notices of meetings, 25, 81, 113.
• Poems and songs, "Radcliffe Song", 114; "The Only Man", "The Mermaid", "Who is She?", 114.
• Radcliffe, history, 1894-1898, clippings, n.d., 9, 13, 14, 79, 88, 92, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104, 124, 125, 128.