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COLLEGE TNEWS Vol. 3. No. 13. WELLESLEY, MASS., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1904. Price, 5 Cents of forty-one dollars and seventy-three cents. Board, and the distinctively collegiate The International Institute League. This money was raised last spring. Noth- department, intended for advanced edu- With the first day of January, 1904, ing has as yet been done by the under- cation, especially in connection with the the International Institute League entered graduates during the current academic University of Madrid. This collegiate upon its first year of actual existence. It year. To this amount of forty-one dollars department will be undenominational, was born, in a sense, with a silver spoon and seventy-three cents members of the respecting the faith of Roman Catholic in its mouth, for it had paid all the bills faculty have added one hundred and students as of Protestants. It will be as incident to organization, amounting to thirty dollars, and alumna?, not of the international as it may, welcoming, in over three hundred dollars, and had five faculty, two hundred and fifty-six dollars addition-to its Spanish students, the daugh- hundred safe in its treasury and as much and thirty-six cents. So although the ters of the foreign legations in Madrid, and more definitely pledged. But this dower students have exceeded the twenty-five- American girls who may wish to avail did not drop swiftly and softly, as silver dollar limit, their contribution makes, after themselves of this new opportunity for spoons are fabled to do. from the tip of all, not a large proportion of the present studying the Spanish language, literature the rainbow. The friends of the cause Wellesley total of four hundred and twenty- and art, under suitable protection in the have labored persistently that this infant eight dollars and thirty-six cents. Why Spanish capital. organization might not enter the world not raise this to five hundred? There is For the Institute has at last effected penniless. A memorial membership in dignity in round numbers. And why not the long-desired removal to Madrid, al- the League costs one hundred dollars, and raise it in novel and pleasant ways, so that though, strangely and sadly, the first several of these have been taken or pledged, the giving maybe blithe and not a burden? service in its own building, on its own —one for Mrs. Gulick, two for mothers This is no new cause to Wellesley. When ground, was the funeral of Mrs. Gulick, of Wellesley girls, and one for a Wellesley the Woman's Board of Missions undertook, the heroic, exhausted woman, who, like graduate who died in the first autumn more than twenty years ago, to maintain Moses, had led her followers to the Prom- after her Commencement. A life mem- Mrs. Gulick's little school for girls in North- ised Land into which she might not enter. bership costs fifty dollars. A Mount Hol- ern Spain, it was from Wellesley they drew Building and ground are the property of yoke graduate has taken one for herself and one of their first and most devoted teach- the educational corporation referred to one for a Mount Holyoke teacher in the ers. In later times, a Wellesley student, above as organized in IS92,—a body which Institute. A Smith graduate—and we interrupting her course for an interval of has already raised one hundred thousand call this right neighborly of her—has taken Europe, chose to live in the school for dollars for the work and is striving to one for another Mount Holyoke teacher in some two years, at her own cost, and work raise more. But the burden has rested hope the Institute. A member of the Wellesley away with that little group of teachers as heavily upon a few. It is the of the faculty has taken one fpr the Wellesley hard as the best of them, leaving a memory League, which is, in a sense, the child of teacher in the Institute. Members of the as fragrant—no, you must do that your- the corporation, to secure new friend.i, gather in the Mount Holyoke faculty have pledged a selves, or something like it, to understand far and near for the caus' to life membership for Mrs. Gulick's sister, how fragrant such a memory can be. smaller contributions, and especially to who spoke to us here so bravely and so And when, in 1892, an independent enlist "the air], interest and sympathy tender!}' in the recent memorial service. organization was chartered under the laws of the enlightened womanhood of the And there are a few more life memberships of Massachusetts to further, on a non- country.'' - in the treasurer's book, and many more, sectarian basis, this fast-growing educa- Doesn't tl.;-t inelud' you. K. I . B we hope, written on the yet unfolded pages tional work of Mrs. Gulick's. Mrs. Alice of the New Year. An annual membership Freeman Palmer served as its president Christian Association Notes. costs five dollars, and our list of annual and issued an earnest appeal to the col- The first Christian Association prayer members is growing steadily, but there is lege girls and school girls of America in meeting of the New Year was held on Thurs- room for more. Smaller sums can be com- behalf of the girls of Spain. This appeal day evening, January sixth. The meeting bined as group memberships or given di- was effectively followed up in Wellesley was conducted by^ Elizabeth Taylor, who rectly through the general college contribu- by an address from Mrs. Girlick herself, spoke of the many opportunities opening tion. and. in response, over five hundred and with a new year, and of the importance of Wellesley has done well by the League, fifty dollars was then contributed here. improving these chances for strong Chris- which is an excellent reason why she should No. the League brings before you no tian work. Miss Taylor emphasized the im- do better. A college membership costs new cause, only the old cause under a new portance of high ideals to start with. Part a letter from Dr. Hume was read, con- twenty- five dollars, and the representative aspect. Since the death of Mrs. Gulick, of veying New Year's greetings to all the of the student body has already sent to division has been made between the a Wellesley girls and promising news of the our most faithful and liberal of treasurers, mission school proper, which will be con- hospital at Ahmednagar as soon as it is in Helen Sanborn of Wellesley, '84, the sum dticted, as in the past, by the Woman's working order. — COLLEGE NEWS College IRews. BOSTON REPRESENTATIVE GOLD EYEGLASSES — FOB Press of n. A. Lindscy & Co., Boston. KODAKS, Forsythe's Waists, Published weekly. Subscription price, 75 cents a year to resident subscribers; $1.00 per year to Belts, Stocks, non-resitlent subscribers. LORGNETTES AND OPERA GLASSES, All business correspondence should be ad- In our Ladies' Department will be found a dressed to ANNIE V. LUFF, Bu3ines8 Manager All make Suitable Holiday Gifts. College News. full assortment of Neckwear, Gloves and Col- All subscriptions should be sent to Cora L. lars, styles, I. E P I S mannish Imported Hand Made Butler. O U B U S V A M O D E K A T K C E French Hosiery, in silk and lisle. Editor-in-Chief, Carolyn P. Nelson, 1905 Pinkham <& Smith, F. W. B. SELLORS & CO., Associate Editor, Helen R. Norton, 1905 Literary Editors, The Back Bay Opticians, 172 Tremont St., Boston. Mabel Seagrave, 1905 Ellen Manchester, 1905 288 Boylston Street, Boston. Jessie Gidley, 1906 Alumnae Editor, Roxana H. Vivian, '94 ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHS Managing Editors, worth while. It is not so much play that Annie V. Luff, 1904 NOTMAN, work, find it Cora L. Butler, 1904 Edith Fox, 1904 makes us lose heart in our and 384 Boylston St. and 3 Park St., Boston difficult, not good play, for good play, wc Also 1286 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. "Entered as second class matter November 12, know, gives strength and spirit for better 11)0:1, at the. post office at Welleslev, Mass., under work' rather it is idling and wasting time SPECIAL RATES TO WELLESLEY STUDENTS the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. in cheap and unworthy things and so dull- ing our zeal for work. Probably we little It may seem rather late to say " Happy Wellesley Steam Laundry, realize how much time we do waste in New Year," yet the new year is not so very merely talking and chatting about things BLOSSOM STREET. •old. and the editors' greeting is no less that do us no good, rather harm us. There All kinds of Fancy Ironing at reasonable hearty and sincere because somewhat are so many little ways in which each one prices. Collections made Monday and Tues- tardy, so we would say with all our hearts of us loses precious time, ways which are day; deliveries, Thursday and Saturday. " May it be a glad new year for all, and es- best known to each girl herself, that per- pecially for the class of 1904. this year haps it is worth while thinking about them Building:, which is in a way their own." Removed to Our New in this new year and trying to understand We would wish for you all with one who just what we are losing. And for the truth is wiser than we are, "Health, that you 418 and 420 Washington Street, Boston about work and play, too, —let tis look may be able to do hard work; Skill, that more than ever before to "the stars and you may be able to do good work; Wealth, the best books and the hearts of little chil- LADIES' HATS that you may be able to do much work dren." Let vis in our work and in our AND for others." We would wish for you "the FURS play make 1904 the best and the happiest open mind that you may be ready to re- one flight elevator.