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Wellesley College News
Wellesley College Wellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive The Wellesley News Archives 10-6-1921 The Wellesley News (10-06-1921) Wellesley College Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.wellesley.edu/news Recommended Citation Wellesley College, "The Wellesley News (10-06-1921)" (1921). The Wellesley News. Book 669. http://repository.wellesley.edu/news/669 This is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives at Wellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Wellesley News by an authorized administrator of Wellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive. For more information, please contact ir@wellesley.edu. Wellesley College WELLESLEY, MASS., OCTOBER VOL. XXX. TEN CLASSES PLEDGE PER CENT TO FUND Graduate Average Per Cent Now 100 9S WELLESLEY TO PLAY ALLENGLISH HOCKEY TEAM Athletic may other ways of the All- well be of the latest results all the classes is 96 per cent. The to- The varsity lant at the prospect. line A lecture by Mr. Whittemore, an authority on Russian subjects, and one who has lived in Russia proper and in Siberia for the greater part of the last be given at Billings Hall, on Friday evening, October 14, six years, will at half past seven. 1900 1880 Mr. Whittemore knows Lenin, Trot- 1909 1898 1903 1882 1907 1883 1911 1885 1916 1888 1919 1891 1892 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) WELLESLEY NOT A NEW ENGLANDERS' COLLEGE Show Students Are Cosmopolitan Statistics "Oh, East is East, and West West, and never the twain shall meet," says Kipling, but a certain song writer has remarked, "Wellesley is a cosmos; on is that we FUND FRESHMEN AT RECEPTION Drive to Open October 10 The Service Fund drive begins on Monday, October tenth. It is the only Miss Pendleton Speaks to Barn "Jam" in Evening Events began in real earnest at the appeal of the year for contributions Barn, with the annual reception to the other than the Semi-Centennial Fund, freshmen given on Saturday, October Red Cross membership, and the vari- first. As usual, the Barn was crowded, ous incidental expenses of college life. and the very frequent misconnections It embraces all our gifts to foreign at the various letters caused much educational, medical, and relief work. mirth and some tragedies. Our Sister College in China, Dr. In the afternoon the reception com- Hume's hospital work the mittee included Miss Tufts, Miss Smith, students of Central Europe; it is these that receive our largest contributions. Frances Baker and Nora Cleveland, For this reason, each college in India, member of the must consider carefully what she can give, not forgetting that her must be much larger than in the old days when our appeals were not gift lecture illustrated which we President and Vice-President of the Barn, together with the presidents of several of the societies, while in the evening the officers, assisted by Miss Pendleton and Miss Waite, greeted the freshmen. Two aesthetic dances, by Mary Alice Bushnell, '22, and Marjorie Walsh, '23, The statistics shown by the new freshman class seem to back up this hope will be given by Miss Pendleton were features of the program. Mary Alice Bushnell, in a pink Wellesley song. Miss Knapp, the Col- and Miss Thompson, who has just refrom China, and Dr. Hume's tarleton costume, gave a dance in the lege Recorder, informs the NEWS that turned Wellesley has added to her files the informal talks at the houses, will give manner of the French Ballet School of names of six students from China, two some idea of the sincerity and scope of dancing. Marjorie Walsh danced a Serv- unique piece, rather oriental in charfrom Honolulu, and two from Canada. the appeals which are met by the there acter. Her costume of black tulle and freshmen, The remaining plain Americans, well ice Fund. And for the where gatherings be after-dinner sequins, with a train of rose, was an distributed over the United States, re- will specifically about effective addition to her always gracemore learn may they of that fute another theory beside invaluable work. ful dancing. Kipling; they clearly disprove Welles- this Fund and its Those who danced in spite of the ley a New Englanders' college. As op1 PLOTS FOR OPERETTA posed to 114 from the Northeastern States, there are 176 from the Middle of Nebraska) and New York is 8 first is Brief Sketches Must Be Sub- mitted At Once conditioned. almost breath-taking mob found "jazz" was not a minus quantity. music, furnished by William stead's orchestra of five Harvard that The Olmmen, was new and popular. In the afternoon, Miss Smith told the representation, Massachusetts second, and Pennsylvania third. The total census of 1925 numbers 402, a small proportion of the many hundred original applicants, but it is also the total number of those who can be accommodated. Be it added that not one of these ARE NEEDED from the far West. in first health, ill and Wrangel personally. Rural Economics at Harvard in 1916well, and is famil- 17; instructor in Economics and Soiar with the life, art, and struggles of ciology at Harvard and Radcliffe in the people. His topic is "Russia of To- 1917-18; and assistant professor of day and the Salvaging of the Intellec- Economics and Sociology at Wesleyan REMEMBER THE SERVICE BARNSWALLOWS GREET The Atlantic region, 27 from the South, 69 from the North Central section (west semester on account Mr. Henry B. Hall is conducting her classes. Mr. Hall took his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard in 1918; he was assistant in college the of University in 1919-21. Another new member of the depart- ment is Miss Elizabeth E. Hoyt, a graduate of Boston University. Miss Hoyt has had considerable experience in social and economic investigation in the four years during which she has been pooled. all agree." Several changes in the Economics Department have been made this year. As Mrs. Bernard has to be absent from He speaks Russian 1890 1881 Members of Department Spend Summer Abroad Four sky, Denikin, tal amount pledged up to September up is not announced as yet, but the tual Class." Mr. Whittemore has recently been 27, 1921, is $2,744,492.03, which ex- teams are practicing daily for the in charge of the refugees in Constantigreat which will game be played near ceeds the quota by more than $40,000. nople, where he is returning on the Helen Forbush, The standing of the classes on August the end of October. '22, day following his lecture here, after a Head of Hockey, is in charge of 31 was as follows: months in America. stay of two all arrangements. 98% 100% 99% 1879 JOIN ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT LECTURE Hand Information English Hockey Team. This team from the holds the championship of England, central bureau directing the campaign. The report concerning the and while in the United States will alumni shows that ten classes have play against Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Bospledged 100 per cent, and that all ton School of Physical Education, and The opportunity to see but two have received pledges from 90 Wellesley. per cent or more of their members. such swift playing is an unusual one, The average number subscribing from and the Athletic Association is jubi- proud NEW INSTRUCTORS RUSSIAN AUTHORITY TO Game The biggest event in the Fall proBoth those who have worked so enFund and those gram of the Athletic Association will who have pledged their interest and be the visit to Wellesley in No. 2 1921 Association Anticipates Mr. Whittemore Will Give FirstBrilliant thusiastically for the loyalty 6, News If Wellesley is to have an original Barn from its founding Haskell, and Miss Tufts history of the by Miss emphasized the spirit of cooperation which has always existed within the the students to think out a suitable Barnswallows Association. In the evening, Miss Pendleton told plot and send in a brief sketch of it not to have to Frances Baker, Stone Hall, on or a clever joke (guaranteed (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) before Wednesday, October 12. operetta this year, the work of writing one must be started immediately. The Barnswallows Association urges connected with the National Industrial Conference Board and also in her social work with immigrants for the Boston Y. M. C. A. Miss Halsey left Wellesley last June for the purpose of completing hei for her degree at the Univers (Continued on Page HOUSE OF 8, Colum; REPRESEN NA- TIVES TO CONVENE Opening of Law-Making Bodies Replaces Mass Meeting A formal opening of the House of Representatives which will be held in the Chapel on Thursday afternoon, October 13, and of the College to which all members Government Association will be invited, is to take the place this year of the annual mass meeting. Harriet Kirkham, '22, chairman of the Continuation Committee of the House, is planning the meeting which will resemble the opening of our national Congress. The members of both the Senate and House will be there in a body, and Emmavail Luce, President of the College Government Association, will preThe old custom of reading the side. the constitution of the association will be dispensed with, and there will be only a brief review of college government at Wellesley. The executive board of the Senate announces the following appointments for the year 1921-22: Chairman Madeline Chairman nating of Proctoring Committee, Pritzlaff, '22. NomiMargaret McCul- of the All-College Committee, loch, '23. Advertising er, '23. Manager, Hope Park- THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS EDITOR IN CHIEF ELIZABETH M. WOODY, Business Manager SUSAN GRAFFAM, Associate Editors BEATRICE JEFFERSON, DOROTHY M. WILLIAMS, Assistant 1922 1922 BARBARA Assistant Circulation DOROTHEA COMLY, MARGARET WATTERSON, 1922 ELIZABETH ALLEN, 1923 MARGARET HOOGS, 1923 HELEN STAHL, 1923 LOUISE CHILD, 1924 BARBARA CONGER, RUTH HELLER, 1922 Manager BATES, 1922 Circulation Editors 1922 ELIZABETH SANFORD, . LUCY JOHNSON, Manager 1923 Advertising Manager 1923 RUTH WHITE, 1923 Assistant Managers FALES, 1924 MAY 1924 1924 ANNETTE WRIGHT, 1924 Published weekly during the college year by a board of students of Wellesley ColSubscriptions, one dollar and seventy-five cents per annum in advance. Single All contributions should be in the News office by 9.00 P. M. on copies, six cents each. Sunday at the latest and should be addressed to Elizabeth Woody. All Alumnae news should be sent to Laura Dwight, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. All business communications and subscriptions should be sent to the Wellesley College News, Wellesley, Mass. Entered as second-class matter, October 10, 1919, at the Post Office at Wellesley Branch, Boston, Mass., under the Act of -March 3, 1S79. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 30, 1919. lege. News of the death of Mr. Walter Hunnewell on Friday, September 30, was received by the college with sincere grief. The loss of so interested a neighbor and sympathetic observer and benefactor is deeply felt by the college. AN OPPORTUNITY AND A TRUST In college, however, there often time. stir to be — — Webb class of 1891 has seen the need — — Lack of Restraint this year. Applying the text "Where there is disno vision the people cast off restraint" held a party at the pit. Dr. The Juniors gave a tea at Pomeroy to our present civilization, on Thursday afternoon to welcome Charles A. Dinsmore of Yale Univerthe new members of 1923 transferred sity, delivered a well organized and from other colleges. The living room inspiring sermon in chapel last Sunwas beautifully decorated with flow- day morning. Defining vision as "not ers for the occasion. a hallucination but an insight into Marjorie Wright has been elected real life, a seeing of truth and right- On Thursday evening Noanett trict Senate member. Mrs. Wheeler, Pauline Coburn, and 1925 living in Eliot gave a tea for the 1924 Eliot girls Sunday, October 2. Elizabeth Richards, '21, Katharine Twiss, '21, and Phoebe Hall, '21, spent the week end in Wellesley. 1924's Marion Lehman, ex-'23, has entered Formal notice by the outside world activities of the Barn should of the in the freshman class, as against 410 eousness and a beholding of the splendor of the unseen through the seen," Dr. Dinsmore revealed the necessity for new a chaos, of in "this which world of casts form and beauty, of classic naked vision poetry out fiction in its realism." "Self determination," continued the these is vision." Dr. Dinsmore concluded his address with the hope that "underneath all at this time last year. The following members of 1921 are completing the Ave year this world upset there is a new vision hygiene course: Helen Sherman, Viv- of God a deeper vision that the ian Collins, Josephine Rathbone, Char- rights of man are greater than the lotte Berger, Gwendoline Wells, rights of property." Gladys Fox, and Harriette Winner. Miss Maria Iacovino, a young soTEN PROFESSORS RETURN TO prano, whom Miss Caroline Hazard WELLESLEY has introduced to the college, assisted in the music at musical vespers, Sun- Fourteen Leaves of Absence Granted day, Oct. 2. She also sang at vespers Several officers of the college are for the Tau Zeta Epsilon Society. returning this year after absences: BORN Josephine Batchelder, Associate Ex '21 to Gertrude (Phillips) MurProfessor of Rhetoric and Composidock, a daughter, on September 25, at tion. Johnstown, Penn. Katharine Lee Bates, Professor of MARRIED English Literature. Ex-'23, Helen R. Bristol to Corodon Grace Davis, Associate Professor of S. Fuller, on September 3, 1921, at Physics. Foxborough, Mass. John Duncan, Professor of AstronEx-'23, Margaret Longfellow to omy. Raymond Ridgway, M. I. T. '20, on Margaret Ferguson, Professor of Wednesday, September 28, at West Botany. Newton. Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway will Edna Moffett, Associate Professor at Wellesley — dent optimist. In order to present anything so sucfor at least one room in the library cessful as these two plays, there must not designed exclusively for study of the assignment variety. Every one be a great number of people to choose from; in other words more students of us has found herself, with a few The more experiextra minutes, wishing that she might should try out. enced and talented students usually browse among new fields a little less do try for parts, but often those who ordered and formidable than the stacks. The Brooks Room has been have never been recognized as histrionically gifted allow false modesty furnished for just this purpose. In it may be found books on almost every or indifference to keep them away. But sometimes one of these demure subject, travel, adventure, philosoones tries out and, because of the fact phy, poetry, the choicest collections of several private libraries. Here that her appearance is exactly fitted to a certain role, gets the part and live in Freeport, Illinois. also are great, deep chairs, quiet corsurprises herself with her powers as ners which seem made for an hour an actress. TEN CLJtSSES PLEDGE with Stevenson, and a fireplace wide The present condition of the Barn enough for the most exacting lover (Contin ued From Page One) of its crackling glow. The only re- is not ideal, it is true, for the carrying out of stupendous dramatic pro100% strictions are that no fountain pens 1896 or textbooks may be used in the jects and would even be likely to discourage enthusiasm did not one look 97% room, and that no books may be taken 96% 95% forward to the promised Student1894 1884 from it. 1886 Meanwhile, the 1897 1902 The room has been given as a trust Alumnae Building. 1895 thing to do is to make the Barnswal1920 to the college, and no one is to be 1904 1899 lows too ambitious for the present placed in charge of it. 1908 Barn so that they will pop over into If this trust is violated, and any 1912 books disappear from the room dur- larger quarters with bells ringing and 1915 ing the year, the opportunity will have flags flying. 1918 to be withdrawn. 94% 93% 92 NEWS TRY OUTS The class which has given this 1887 1910 1889 room to the college hopes that it may The Editorial Board announces that 1893 become a true center of repose and the meetings for juniors, sophomores, 1901 enjoyment, and that it will furnish and freshmen who wish to enter the 1905 many golden hours in the lives of NEWS competition will be held on 1906 those who study at Wellesley. Friday afternoon, October 7, at 4.40 1914 Our leisure time between the rush P. M. See posters at El. Table. Average 96.4% The Yale Minister Decries Prevailing of an overwhelming number give every student a new zeal to make the present Barn plan even more sucof applicants for the small amount of cessful this year than last. To do so, time which might doubtfully be desigseveral star offerings, which seemed nated as leisure. Now a new and wellast year so happily cast as never to come champion has come to join the lists with Sinclair Lewis, Miss be equalled again, will have to be Coombs, and dare we say it in spite eclipsed. The Thought of The Tragedy of Nan and the Japanese plays of the ominous warning from Vanity may well give pause to the most arFair? the Atlantic Monthly. seems ing in VISION the University of Cincinnati this year. speaker, "and not the interest of hueveryday activities can Edith Mayne, '21, is studying here manity is the key note of politics lead us into enchanted countries. for a master's degree in Plant Physi- while self expression rather than serOtherwise, who knows but that we ology. vice is the cry of the city." may wake up some day, like DunSt. Hilda's Guild had a pit party He then listed the institutions of sany's poet-hater, to beat our hands Wednesday, October society which enkindled vision as the 5, for the pur"all day against the gates of Fairy- pose of getting acquainted with the home, the church and the college. land and to find that they are shut new freshmen members. "The purposes of college are three; and the country empty and its kings Marjorie Turner, ex-'24, has entered to impart information, to give traingone hence?" the University of Iowa this year. ing in discipline and to instill a vision At present there are 401 students of higher life, and the greatest of and BOOMING THE BARN Someone has said that a man can be measured by his use of leisure NEW The sophomores who lived in Webb House last year gave a pit party on Monday evening for the freshmen liv- BUSINESS STAFF 1922 PRESENT CIVILIZATION NEEDS COLLEGE NOTES % ' of History. Alice Ottley, Assistant Professor of History. Vida D. Scudder, Professor of English Literature. Eunice Smith-Goard, Assistant Professor of French. Seal Thompson, Assistant Professor History. of Biblical The following are absent from col- lege this year: Frances Bernard, Assistant ProEconomics and Sociology. fessor in Mary Bliss, Assistant Professor in Botany. Alice Brown, Professor in Art. Mary Curtis Graustein, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Olive Dutcher, Associate Professor of Biblical History. Katharine Edwards, Professor Greek. (Continued on Page Seven) of THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS W Alumnae Notes Alumnae and former students are urged to co-operate in making this department interesting, ly sending all notices promptly to Alumnae Office, Wellesley (College) Mass. MARRIED '18 Fannie C. Rane to Lowell Fitz Randolph, September 13, at Waban, Mass. '18 Ruth Jeannette Hastings to Dr. Walter John Wiese, September 6, at Spencer, Iowa. '19 Margaret Powers Littlehales to Philip Gossler Vondersmith, July 16, at Washington, D. C. '19 Dorothy Weinschenck to Glenn Dewey Gillett, June 9, at Cambridge, Mass. Esther T. Johnson to Kenneth Plymouth, Mass. '19 Marion Lord to Clyde W. Stewart, June 4, at Saco, Maine. '19 M. Sidney Roy to Howard Goodrich, at Hannibal, Mo. '19 Cole, July 14, at Kathryn '19 Smith Aaron to L. Bauer, August 6, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. '19 Helen Merrell to Robert Staughton Lynd,' September 3, ham, Mass. '19 Laura Esther Moles at Framing- to Dr. Clar- Raymond Jacobson, September Wheat Ridge, Colorado. ence at 1, '20 Katharine Lindsay to Gorton Thayer Lippitt, August 20, at Ocono- A Gateway—-Electrical mowoc Lake, Wisconsin. Marjorie De Venne to Malcolm Lane Munsie, September 17, in New '20 York Z^NLY a forty-foot gateway bounded ^"^ by two brick pilasters and ornamental lamps, but it is unlike any other gateway in the entire world. For back of it is the General Electric Company's main office building, accommodating 2300 employees. And just next door is its main laboratory with the best equipment for testing, standardiz- command of caThen down the street a ing and research at the pable engineers. —are mile long electrical other buildings where products are thousands of electrical Through messages and representatives from a score of other factories and over fifty branch offices come and this gate City. At home, 301 Bexley Hall, Cambridge, Mass. ex-'20 Beatrice Candee Stevens to Charles Francis Emerson, June 4, at New Haven, Conn. — go every hour an endless chain of coordinated activities carrying on and enlarging the scope of over a quarter cen- tury's work for the betterment of mankind. What a story this gate would dustry and of ambassadors from other and —and from foreign lands. The story would be the institutions To Winifred Hawkridge Dixon, a daughter, Ann, June 21, at Brookline, Mass. '06 To Ethel Bosworth Redeker, a daughter, Margaret Louise, April 13. '09 tell, if it could, of the leaders of the electrical in- industries BORN '10 ter, To Grace Kilborne Kerr, a daughDorothy Kilborne, July 10, at Seoul, Korea. To Louise Ruddiman Thatcher, a daughter, Dorothy Ruddiman, August '10 3. To Marion Jewett Carpenter, a John Alcott, August 1. '15 To Linda McLain Hawkridge, a son, Edwin, July 18. '16 To Helen Heafield Bacon, a son, Robert Cram, Jr., August 25, in Bos'11 made by the workers who daily stream through. history of electric transportation, and lighting, industrials electrified electricity in the electric home. son, ton, Mass. '16 To Edwina Smiley Hertig, a son, in June. '16 Schenectady, N. Y. General Office 95-450D MISS PENDLETON LEADS FIRST mid-week meeting of the MEETING OF CHRISTIAN Association on Wednesday ASSOCIATION September Speaks on the Friendship of Christ 29. if evening, Miss Pendleton took as her text the verse, friends, Christian "Here are my ye do the things which I The friendship of Jesus and what it command you." She drew a parallel between the deep friendships formed has meant and can mean to His folin college, in which we give and relowers was the subject chosen by ceive affection, sympathy, understandPresident Pendleton for the opening bility of having all these things great- our spiritual relations. Moreover, as our friends stimulate us to our best efforts, so friendship with Christ leads us to express In action our best selves. At the beginning of her address, President Pendleton led the meeting in singing verses from several hymns showing ly intensified in the influence of Christ's friendship on ing and co-operation, and the possi- the writers. To Madeleine Gibson Dyke, a daughter, Emily, in July. '17 To Isabel Woodward Stanley Herbert, August Mass. '17 Rice, a son, 23, in Allston, To Anna Longaker daughter, Mary Ann, July Pettus, a 9. To Frances Phelps Korth, a son, Arthur Phelps, September 6, in New York City. '19 To Dorothy Colville Dann, a '17 daughter, Dorothy, July 19, at Carbon- dale, Pa. '19 To Dorothy Taylor Knight, a Vivian Taylor, Hutchinson, Kansas. daughter, July 7, at THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS CHOIK CHOOSES NEW ME5TBERS DE. HUME EETURNS FROM WORK IN INDIA Six Freshmen are Admitted Wellesley Service Fund Helps Hospital Work The following new members have been chosen to sing in the Wellesley College Choir: First Soprano Margaret Leavitt, '23. Ruth Matthews, '23. Louise Durst, '24. Katherine Beeman, Edith Goodwin, '25. '25. '23. Alice Sniffen, '23. Laura Burgher, '24. Nancy Davidson, Ruth Kent, '25. '24. Josephine McAlexander, Katherine Harbison, '25. '25. Contralto crowded beyond capacity and the hour for her to enter the hospital was 4.30 A. M. Besides their yearly gift of $1200, Wellesley gave last year $3500 from the Service Fund for medical men and work children in Ahmednagar. the hospital '24. '25. India. FOR Crocheting Shopping Bags, TableMats, Rugs, Etc. Twenty-seven Colors Dr. in 150 Yard Balls. to the hospital in Julia Bissell Softness of texture plus to went strength wearing qualities, adaptabilty for needlework and exceptional and stiffness, color effects explain why jute is replacing paper, raffia and cane handicraft, and its substitution for higher priced yarns. The ease and rapidity with which manipulated gives every it can be promise of making jute needlework the last word in novelties and as such makes its appeal to the women. The approach of Christmas assures an unlimited demand for the holiday season. in Eleanor was also on Dr. E. S. Picken Coming to C. A. the hospital staff for years, hut left in 1915 to be married, and in 1919 Do you know about the Hospital was invalided home. Both Dr. Bissell for Women which Dr. Ruth Hume, of and Dr. Picken returned broken in the class of 1897, established at Ah- health, but crowned with the love mednagar, India? If you don't know, and gratitude of countless Indian and have never heard of it, come to women. At present, the Ahmednagar the meeting of the Christian Associa- Hospital is in charge of Dr. Harriet tion Wednesday evening, October 12, Clark of Seattle, and Miss Elizabeth pioneer work. Stevenson Picken, '95, 1895 in India. JUTE YARN been represented in the medical work in decided the auspicious SIGNET For twenty-six years Wellesley has HOSPITAL WORK IN INDIA TO BE EXPLAINED tients' friends, gates. search of the doctor. "When will she return?" was the question asked, "for if she gives even water, that cures our women." '24. the astrologer, consulted by the pa- doctors and nurses worn to a shadow. After nine consecutive years of ar- Anti-plague inoculation, at first most duous work in India, Dr. Ruth Hume, unpopular, has proved so effective '97, has returned to this county for a that Dr. Hume and Dr. Picken have She first went to had more than they could do to hanyear of furlough. India in 1903, to the hospital for wo- dle the crowd waiting their turn at Mohammedan came Adelaide Robbins, '23. Delnoce Grant, '24. Marion Russell, Laura Withers, Prances Milton, is She has found challenging work in that land of recurring epidemics and she has rendered preeminent service in the operating room. Recently she herself has had to undergo an operation and to lose the forefinger of her right hand which had become seriously infected. The confidence which Indian women place in the missionary doctor is amazing. Once when called away for days on an urgent case, a Second Soprano Muriel Crew, Superstitution and ignorance are to Educational and preventive work is During frequently re- be expected in a land where hardly emphasized. curring epidemics of cholera, small- one in a hundred of the women and pox and bubonic plague, the hospital In one case girls can read or write. Dr. » // unobtainable your local from dealer, write us for samples and directions. at 7.30! Johnson, superintendent of nurses. Eleanor Stevens Picken, who Our Wellesley doctors in India have has been associated with Dr. Hume, given of their medical skill with an is going to talk about the great work ardent love transcending barriers and Dr. which this hospital does. ministering in the name Now is the time to get acquainted of the Great Physician. The hospital with the things with which the Chris- brings healing for pain-racked bodies They and cheer for burdened souls. An imtian Association is connected! Come portant part of the hospital work is a are all worth your interest! and find out where a part of your training class for nurses. The gradpledge to the Service Fund goes! uate nurses are serving in various C. W., '23. government and private institutions. ?t»u— — difficulties, —«* .in WRIGHT & DITSON j 67 KINGSTON $50.00 in Prizes FROM ARTICLES MADE FROM Signet Jute Yarn HE number and character of useful articles that can be crocheted from this yarn in col- Marlnello Shop apparently so unlimited that in order to bring out all the original articles and deors WELLESLEY SQUARE SPORT CLOTHES) Hairdressing Shampooing and Electrical Treatment an are Facial Massage, Marcel Waving, and incentive for out-of-doors indulgence, j Water Waving They are practical j street wear, travel and GRACE TAYLOR "THE WABAN " and attractive for all uses in the | open. Wellesley 442-W SUITS, signs that can be thought out, BIRD-CAGE TEA ROOM ETC. WRIGHT & DITSON AND FOOD SHOP are offering cash most attractive or original shopping bags, mats, rugs or other articles that are submitted to us on or before November 15th, as follows: 1st prize $20.00 2nd prize 10.00 3rd prize 5.00 The only conditions of this contest are that at least two colors of Jute Yarn (other than the natural color) must be used in crocheting each article submitted and that the articles that are awarded the prizes remain the property of STONE & FORSYTH CO., 67 Kingston Athletic Outfitters WASHINGTON STREET BOSTON we 15 prizes of $1.00 each SPORT SKIRTS 344 is prizes, totalling $50.00, for the eighteen SWEATERS HATS BOSTON, MASS ST.. St., Boston, to whom the articles be sent. Carried for you at Wellesley by | Post Office. Wellesley Spuare Tel. Wellesley 217-W E. A. DAVIS & CO. should " THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS -'iriNiiiiiiiiNiimiii Eyes Examined Lenses Ground and all Greenwood's OPTICAL REPAIRING done. of kinds kvj HAYDEN, A. B. Wellesley Square DO YOU KNOWS (A Great Drama Human " THE WABAN up one Do you know what makes girls their beds at the dawn " flight What Tarns, Sport Hats and Dress Hats at Moderate Prices G. J. PURDY, Prop. —Pressing—Altering Hairdressing Parlors Over Wellesley Bank it It is Rage. ladies grow is? Do you know why young pale at the news it is? ;= But days of reck'ning always come Unto the sinful and the dumb. The pins into my skirt I stick; (It really did found, I It is girls get a day, BLOCK, WELLESLEY .U Nil H|| UH If Why they hours ? sit (" without speaking for my tore I sigh, roll a Madame Whitney's The Waban Bldg.I Stockings of Every Description ! Coombs, '94 Wellesley Square Over Post Tel. Office. hair, D. A. Gallagher (1925) DRESSMAKING Wellesley G. Over Express Office Wellesley Square BOOK III Arrival of the Great Powers A. C. a Feller Needs a Friend" When at I. THE NORMAN By H. B. Lovely Gift Novelties +._ Grace $$$$$'$$$$$!") languishing eye Fine Lingerie Flight Alice G. Coombs, '93 (Continued from Last Week's Issue) At the moon in the heavens above? Why they start as though stung when the phone hell is rung? Do you know why it is? It is Love. "When $9.50 Hours 11.30 A.M. to 7 P.M. of play, OUTLINE OF HISTORY Do you know why they Boyshform Brassieres - Wellesley Tea and Food Shop !!&$• llll Treo Girdles Up One at $5.50 look rather chic.) upon my quest Bewailing as likely to stray? — — — KU— » — — — II— 'Hats that are different" Searched E. and W. and S. and N. two And nightfall found me, in despair, Tel. 138-J NN 4 see our Fear. And boxes of candy and flowers? D.R.CLEMENT Why their minds in the classroom are DENTISTS — MM—KM— Come and 1 Do you know why some letters DR. NATICK, MASS. pin, my in MAIN STREET 3 eye." another lad (Two pins make one feel doubly glad.) in The second one was gold and blue; (I think it was a. 2 N.) head? Do you know what Do you know why Telephone Wellesley 160 WABAN stores fruit Another my A tug-of-war (Alas the day!) Of a quiz by their teacher so dear? And when around my waist I felt, Why a mouse bounding 'round makes I found that I had lost my belt! them shake in their cots? Then into moaning broke I forth Miss Ruth Hodgkins C.E.TAYLOR they'll de- among women shoves a fiend at the Wellesley 471-W Office. Tel. the little pearls. "Your joolry takes (He was a B T n.) age, When ALL KINDS OF FURS REMODELLED 548 WASHINGTON ST., Wellesley, Mass. Next to the Post that is with Ambition's fires then seized my brain, Do you know what comes over the Though otherwise I am quite sane; Another emblem makes just three face of a girl Who has stood in some line for an (Donated by an 2 A E.) FASHIONABLE LADIES' TAILOR RIDING HABITS A SPECIALTY Cleansing it set the graspingest of girls.) I said, leave Wellesley thrive on? Well, I'll tell you; 'tis Hunger, am friend. CAN A. The pin was Emotions) (I So to breakfast on time scend? Specialty Shop SONG OF SORROW THE HAT SHOP Room 21 DR. of and Millin ery THE- PARLIAMENT* OF* FOOLS Jeweler and Optometrist VISIT 1IIIIIIU1IIIIIIUIIII you're on a squad and have to go to bed at 10 o'clock, And your lessons pile up mountain high and all your sighings mock; When a kind friend sends you salted nuts at which you can but stare As your fond roommate devours them and you sadly eat a pear; When you have to take an icy plunge and leave a pleasant dream, And all the time, you're scared to death that you won't make the team. Well, that's a sad experience, 'bad enough your heart to rend And that's the time of all times when a feller needs a friend! Get osculations between returning upperclassmen. Appearance of caps and gowns. General effort to reach center of Barn. Public D. Homesick E. Departure for Mary Hemenway. F. Arrival at A. Rise and Fall of Allowance Rise: Opening of bank account. B. Interlude: Mary Hemenway. UPHOLSTERING DONE AT CERBER'S 40 CENTRAL STREET On Your Way to the " Vill Clothing Altered and Repaired at To Rent PIANO (by hour or Semester) tea Guest Room book-store. Closing of Pay Day. MRS. WHITEHOUSE BOOK V The Future A. I. IV Appearance room and Fall: CHAIRS AND BED.COVERS, spell. BOOK C. your History repeats "The of History Little Gray House" under Quad itself. Hill ., 4(><c^o<c^(K^>«(><z>0(><z>)o<cr>fl(^^ in— !$• PHOTOGRAPHS AND GIFTS The Green Bough Tea House t Specialty Shop X Styles £ Prices J 597 Washington Street, Wellesley, Mass. Afternoon Tea 2 to 5 P. Dinner M. 6 to 7 new - - and pleasing j K your purse <? that suit { I P.M. SUE RICE STUDIO AND GIFT SHOP I Sunday Dinner 1 MISS C. E. SELFE 10 to 2 MISS C. -Ull !IH llll* „_=, —4 - - Wellesley Phone your appointment Wellesley 430 ROUSSEL —— Grove Street II ' 4(KT^(><C^()<r>00<rr>0(KrZ>0{HC3>^ THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS BARNSWALLOWS GREET FRESHMEN From Page One) (Continued For College Girls been repeated within four years) based on "Alice in Wonderland." She insisted, however, that in spite of the "jam" the Barn meant good fun and good work, and she extended her heartiest welcome to the incoming Barnswallows. Miss Waite, after assuring 1925 that they were the class "par excellence," suggested that for one's "avocational education," the Barn was unsurpassed. Frances Baker formally welcomed the freshmen to all the fun and frolic for which the Barn is famous. Behind her words, urging everyone to become CORSETS and BANDEAUX Get Ivy Corsets Boston in the vill or in UNITED CORSET SHOPS, 8 Inc, GROVE STREET, WELLESLEY AND 182 was making actively interested in dramatics, and all the the Barn ever an indispensable factor cordiality spirit in college life at Wellesley. BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON Alfred Sheffield, Associate Profes- sor of Rhetoric and Composition. Edith of CHARITY ORGANIZATION COURSE OF GREAT VALUE did know the time Ruth Lindall, Work '22, in little we really obtainable in the various lines of social work and visiting institutions New Among Titles Roxana Faculty group concerned with the maladjusted inMyrtilla Avery, Associate Professor by the dividual, the blind, crippled, feebleCharity Organization Society of New minded, delinquent, or- of Art. tubercular, Alice Boring, Associate Professor of York, Ruth Lindall, '22, studied the phans, immigrants, etc. This part of in the New York during the course was exceeingly valuable the month of July. Bach year this but the most interesting days came organization gives a course in practi- three times a week when we did incal social service to ten college jun- dividual family case work. In this iors, "who," says Mrs. J. M. Glenn, we were given cases of relief immefinancier of this undertaking, "will re- diately pressing and were sent out to turn to their colleges as seniors and investigate and suggest solutions for give the other students the benefit of the various problems involved. This their practical experiences and obser- type of work requires all the tact and vations." ingenuity that one prossesses. It is Ruth Lindall was quite enthusiastic said that to be a successful case workabout the course. "We went," she er one should possess all the qualities says, "into the work ignorant of its necessary to be president of the Unittrue meaning and we returned with ed States. Nevertheless if one has Vivian, Professor of Mathe- AN-HYJA S Ginger Ale Its appealing bouquet. fruity blended ginger flavor. Its freedom from capsicin. Its Zoology. Helen Davis, Assistant Professor of Botany. Its Laura Lockwood, Professor of English Language and Literature. Frances Lowater, Associate Profes- Its of perfect carbonation. and healthgiving why you will eventually order it by name at all places Buy San Tower Court. we'll of Beebe that serve or drinks. Stores Frances Meaker, Head Hyja at Wellesley and Tea Rooms and "do it well for — .nii-^iiii — HM— -nil—.mi U N< —— nil ii Edith Naylor, lecturer in Art. Angela Polomo, Assistant Professor of Spanish. »} iiinr Scientific Wellesley Natick, Mass. Co. Tel. Nctick Boston Treatments SCALP HANDS AND FEET Fruit 52 in FOR THE FACE & MARCEL WAVING A SPECIALTY BAKING PRODUCTS Special Rates for Wellesley Students CREAMS & ICES OF EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY ICE Co. Excellent Equipment for Large or Small Parties Society Dinners Class Banquets Receptions Pit Parties Delivery Prompt & Free IRENE BLISSARD 80 BOYLSTON STREET, Little Bldg. Nestle Permanent -u*§* mill mini I| HYGEIA BEVERAGES, Inc. 1 BOSTON g NATICK Only approved Marinello Shop M. McKechnie 10 Main St. |§ Wellesley." CATERING C. Q g Hall. Dllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllll! ,*, n §§ real quality sell McGregor, Head J properties are sor of Physics. Alice Professor DRINK the of ten eastern colleges chosen social conditions of Assistant matics. tures by the most excellent workers Tells of Social New York Representing Wellesley how the sincere desire for the work and about the subject. Part of the necessary training one need not was given to hearing lec- be discouraged." the realization of Smaill, Reading and Speaking. BOSTON, MASS. Rooms 919-920 Waving (Licensed) mini — - — : THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS MARRIED ALUMNAE NOTES (Continued) '15 Ruht Banning to Raymond W. ENGAGED Lewis, September 18, at Colorado Springs, Col. At home: 831 No. Ne'15 Helen L. Moffat to Dr. William vada Ave., Colorado Springs, Col. '17 Helen M. Jones to Stanley E. B. Hetzel of Pittsburgh, and a graduate of Princeton and Columbia Uni- Aston, July 25, in New York City. At home: 269 Macon St., Brooklyn, N. Y. versity. '17 Ruth Balderston to John E. Lip'19 Elizabeth McDowell to Homer '18. pincott, September 17, at Colora, Md. C. Bennett, Dartmouth At home: Colora, Md. BORN Theodora Blake Holmes to WalSeptember 3, at Tucson, '10 To Nan Kent Moore, a daughter, Arizona. At home: Tucson, Arizona. '17 Mary Louise Ferguson to David Marjorie Kent, September 20. '14 To Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, Joseph Howard, August 13, at Lorain, '17 ter C. Smith, a daughter Patricia Stratton, July 30, O. Complete Education YOU see her everywhere —at the '18 Miriam Towle Culbert to RickMaplewood, N. J. '14 To Hazel Cooper Griffin, a son, etson Borden Russell, July 10, at Frederick John Jr., July 7, at Newark, Shelter Island, N. Y: At home: 194 at Central N. J. teas, in the classroom, on the campus, at the games. And invariably her youth is alluringly expressed in clothes that breathe an air of joyous smartness. Springfield, Mass. St., '20 Katharine Taylor to Rev. John Wasson, a daughter, Elizabeth Fuller, Septem- Charles Schroeder, September 15, in New York City. ber 20. '20 Hortense C. Keithly to William '20 To Margaret Hornbrook Winslow, a daughter, Margaret Saunders, A. Spence of Carrizozo, New Mexico, August 10. July 2. '20 Ruth E. Hawkins to Roger R. '20 To Helen Marr Springer, a Jenness, Worcester Polytechnic Instidaughter, Mary, July 16. tute '21, September 17. At home: To '18 Isabel Bassett DIED 7740 Eastlake Terrace, Chicago, For education embraces not only a knowledge of the arts and sciences but the development of an artistic sense of refinement as well. And nothing so admirably reflects that refinement as good taste in clothes youthful clothes clothes that reveal all the natural charm and grace of happy-hearted youth. — The creators of House of Youth apparel have entwined that spirit in every suit,coat and dress that bears their name. Their newest fall styles now being featured by the leading stores, are a revelation in youthful 111. loveliness Jane Lee Santmyer to Frederick Wil- E. Anderson, June 15. At home: 91 '20 '09, 3 Avenue MANY CHANGES GREET RETURNING STUDENTS We Coleman Cottage is Added to Infirmary Gertrude Ware, in September, at his home in Hingham, Mass. Many improvements about the col'16 Mrs. E. E. Moore, mother of lege grounds have been made during Frances Moore Patterson, August 5, the summer months. The new road- New Bloomfield, Pa. Mrs. Mary G. Cronin, mother of Marion Cronin, suddenly on August 4. '95 Mrs. George Waymouth, mother of Grace C. Waymouth, July 29, at Cambridge, Mass. '97 Emily P. Baxter, September 4, in Portland, Maine. '98 Judge Frederick David Ely, father of Amelia Ely Howe, August 6, at Dedham, Mass. '07 Marian Crawford, August 16, at Martins' Forks, Ky. '17 Mr. Frank E. Woodward, father '17 Woodward Rice, August 5, in Boston, Mass. TEN PROFESSORS RETURN (Continued from Page Two) way shall be pleased to direct you to the store in your city featuring House of Youth apparel in Margaret Hayden, Instructor in Zo- front of Simpson Infirmary, Tree Alley, is a change that ately noticed by everyone. tagious ward is located' is immedi- A new con- Professor under construction. All the roads on the campus have been newly asphalted and gravelled, and are in splendid condition. The connected with the metropolitan sewage system, an arrangement which will be far superior to the old one. Telegraph poles are also being eliminated, 1— Dressmaker and Designer for Tailored Costumes Afternoon and Evening Gowns Wraps, Blouses Street and School Dresses, Etc. duits are put in to carry the wires. Tel. 696- R House in the village has been entirely remodelled. 20 _ — ~— ..,-. - -.4^... ABBOTT ST., WELLESLEY NEW FRAMES & PICTURES & Frame Shop Wellesley Studio GEAGHAN Amateur Finishing in 24 Hours OLD NATICK INN South Natick, Mass. Large, Comfortable Rooms Suites with Bath Excellent Table Garage Accommodations Seventeen miles from Boston Tel. Natick 8610 Miss Harris, Mgr. of WELLESLEY ALUMNA WAR HONOR RECEIVES Member of '87 Awarded for Service Dr. Harriet Alleyne Rice, 1887, has Tower Court. just received from France the bronze Frances Warner, Assistant Profes- "medaille de reconnaissance franchise' sor of Rhetoric and Composition. in recognition of her medical service Judith Blow Williams, Professor of History. — a few at a time, as underground con- Botany. of —— —__ H. Henriksson college buildings are gradually being Margarethe Muller, Professor of German. Margaret Parker, Assistant Professor in Geography and Geology. Mabel Stone, Assistant Professor of Head . son, and there is a new walk at Fiske. The new heating tunnel connecting Beebe with the power house is still Physics. Alice Ward, _ north of Simp- ology. McDowell, Exclusive Apparel For Misses cutting off the bad corner in Christmas Little Louise L'Opera, Paris request. of of Isabel De Maine. Mrs. Louise Comstock Manwaring, mother of Elizabeth Manwaring, September 25, at Bridgeport, Conn. '04 Mr. Thomas Minns Ware, father '02 in HAUPTMAN "Doris Goes Shopping" an interesting booklet will be sent free at your . in Portland, &. 38 East 29th Street, New York liams, 20, and in moderation of price. SCHULMAN '11, '15 Mr. James S. husband of Katherine Weaver Fairchild Place, Buffalo, N.Y. '20 Eth'el Schaeffer to Kenneth Williams, and father of Dorothy WilAt 25. liams, Katherine U, Williams, and Stewart Thompson, June home: 65 Garfield Rd., Melrose, Mass. Helen Williams Ebbert. '87 Ellen Scott Davison, September '84, — Assistant in French hospitals during the severest periods of the war. The medal, voted in July, 1919, somehow miscarried, but REWARD! now, through the good offices of M. Jusserand, has safely arrived, together with her citation and a charming letter of congratulation from M. le Prince de Diamond and Platinum Ring, Beam et de Chalais, Charge d'Affaires de France. This well-merited recogni- circular, onyx center, on golf tion, coming to so enthusiastic and effi- links, on 3rd, 4th, or 5th holes. cient a Wellesley worker overseas re- Reward offered. flects a marked credit upon the college of which Dr. Rice is a graduate. Lost DOROTHY JOHNSTON 417 Tower Court THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS 8 CALENDAR JVEW INSTRUCTORS From Page One) (Continued Friday, October THE 7 Illustrated talk on China by Presi- Wisconsin, under the direction of Dr. John R. Commons. dent Pendleton and Miss Seal ThompFour members of the department The Barn, 7.30 P. M. son. spent their summer in England. Miss Donnan went to use the materials at Saturday, October 8 the British Muse.um Public Record OfSixth annual meeting of the Wellesfice for a book she is now preparing ley College Teachers' Association: 12.30, Buffet for Lunch at Tower Court, Members. 2.00 P. M., Business meeting at Founders Hall. WELLESLEY NATIONAL BANK WELLESLEY, MASS. for the Carnegie Institution for His- Miss Albright was torical Research. The faculty and students of Wellesley College are invited to avail themselves of the privileges and services offered by this Bank, and the officers and employees are ever ready to render any assistance possible in connection particularly interested in the British solution of the housing problem and other city problems, having in mind especially the gathering of new, first- Sunday, October 9 with banking matters. hand material for her course in Morning Chapel. Sermon by Dr. EcLMunicipal Sociology. munds, President of Canton Christian Miss Newell and Miss Bancker went College, Canton, China, 11.00 A. M. with a group of American social and religious workers and college teachers Monday, October 10 honor of the new reception in members of the Tower Court in faculty, to be held at the evening. Reading by Mrs. Anne H. Spicer, Savings Department They enjoyed the privilege of living at Toynbee Hall, the first of the college mining and industrial centers, and meeting in seminar discussion many of the foremost economists, business men, and labor leaders of England. in Wednesday, October 12 1 TAXI SERVICE ] Baggage Transfer REAGAN KIPP CO. | Jewelers and Silversmiths TREMONT STREET, j Picken. 162 r WATCHES JEWELRY Repairing of a Better Kind F. C. KENIST0N 4 Main St., Natick Tel .264J 1 Trust Co. V BOSTON, MASS. ENUS Perkins Garage PENCILS "J70R the student or SUMNER FROST, HARPER METHOD | Proprietor ! 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