Download or read book The Record of the Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, Vol. 57 written by Hampden-Sydney College and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, Vol. 57: Summer-Fall 1980 In an age when women's liberation has broken down most barriers already, women have to try a little harder to find a challenge. For Melinda Smith, daughter of hampden-sydney chemistry professor Homer Smith, that meant taking Latin courses at the College while still in high school taking them so successfully that she was offered admission to Eta Sigma Phi, the classics honorary society. The society's ranks had been breached by women before Mrs. Graves Thompson is an honorary member and several Longwood students, among them Elsa Harvey Parsons, wife of Brad Parsons '78, are elected members but never by a non-college student. There is no rule against high school members, Since the only qualifications are good character, devotion to the classics, and grades of 13+ or better in 3 semesters of work in classics. The challenge comes in being the only one of the seven initiates this year who wasn't a hampden-sydney student at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.