Picture of Glee Club
be disassociated from Patrons’ Day it remained a highlight of the spring calendar and became the antecedent of “Spring Party.”
After the spring of 1891 students could no longer look to the Hamilton Female Seminary for dates because that school had come to an end. For a brief period in the middle ’90’s, a successor, Emily Judson Hall, was in operation, but for the most part, they turned to local girls or, for special occasions, they sometimes invited guests from outside. There were the perennial suggestions for coeducation or even what might be called a “co-ordinate college”
but all of them were rejected by the Trustees who in 1892 voted that no women should be accepted as students in any department though the few young ladies already in the Academy might complete the course. Perhaps the most compelling reason for this attitude was the difficulty of finding additional funds which educating women at Colgate would require when they were already having problems in meeting regular expenditures.
Throughout the ’90’s student publications and musical groups-the glee club and others-continued to flourish. The editors of the Madisonensis called for new Colgate songs and vainly attempted to revive the old “Alma Mater”
of the 1860’s. In the fall of 1895 the first