CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS From Drawings by Alice Barber Stephens
I NEW ACQUAINTANCES
II THE FRESHMAN RECEPTION
III THE FIRST "IDLER"
IV PAMELA'S PERSEVERANCE
V COLLEGE CALLERS
VI SETTING TO WORK
VII ALL KINDS OF GIRLS
VIII THE MID-YEARS
IX TWO CATASTROPHES
X DISCUSSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
XI EFFORTS TO HELP
XII HARVARD CLASS DAY
XIII VARIOUS AMBITIONS
XIV IN DISGUISE
XV ANGELINA
XVI WHO WROTE IT?
XVII A PRIVATE DETECTIVE
XVIII WORK AND PLAY
XIX THE OPERETTA
XX JUNIORS
XXI A FORTUNATE ACCIDENT
XXII ANNABEL AND CLARISSA
XXIII CLOUDS CLEARED AWAY
XXIV SENIORS ALL
XXV A STRANGE MEETING
XXVI THE HOUSE PARTY
XXVII NEARING CLASS DAY
XXVIII COMMENCEMENT AND THE END
HELEN LEAH REED'S "BRENDA" BOOKS
ANNA CHAPIN RAY'S "TEDDY" STORIES
Myra Sawyer Hamlin's Stories
New Illustrated Editions of Miss Alcott's Famous Stories
Transcriber's Notes
Copyright, 1902,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved.
Published October, 1902
UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
TO
MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ,
THE HONORED FIRST PRESIDENT OF RADCLIFFE COLLEGE,
WHO HAS HAD NO SUCCESSOR IN OFFICE, AND
WHO CAN HAVE NO SUCCESSOR
IN THE AFFECTION OF RADCLIFFE GRADUATES
“One morning half a dozen girls clustered before the bulletin board”
“One morning half a dozen girls clustered before the bulletin board”
Brenda’s Cousin at Radcliffe
A Story for Girls
BY
HELEN LEAH REED
Author of “Brenda, Her School and Her Club”
“Brenda’s Summer at Rockley,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY ALICE BARBER STEPHENS
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1903
That the young girls for whom it is written may see in “Brenda’s Cousin” a clear picture of Radcliffe College undergraduate life is the sincere wish of the author, who hopes also that her fellow-graduates may overlook the one or two slight anachronisms necessary to a contemporary picture.