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W£LL£SL£V 3%iLL£OE LitfrtAKY WELLESLEY, MASS. tDeUedc XLVI 2 311 WELLESLEY, MASS., 1938 MAY 6, No. 25 9 Students Enact 39 Prom Holds Spotlight Sigma Xi Opens Greek Tragedy as Men Arrive for Gala Event Newest Chapter Groups Unite In Presenting By Dr. Urey, Nobel Prize Winner, Production Jane Strahan Senior class president, Luclle Johnson, Wellesley's Will Speak At Exercises Tonight the class of 1939 reaches the will direct the march, and Catherine Of Euripides' Drama On Uses Of Isotopes acme of three years of anticipation— Sladen will lead. The card dances, PLAYS LEAD JUNIOR PROM! About six o'clock this twelve in number, will begin at 10 p.m. MRS. GRAHAM DR. TAYLOR IS LECTURER evening all reports predict a new high Spring will make a showing inside in excitement as the as well as out, decorations Greek students and dancers enacted Juniors and their consisting Professor Baitsell and Dean Ellery, privileged prom maids launch into pre- of a full fledged garden at the far end the fourth Greek drama ever pre- National Heads, Will Preside parations for this night of nights. Th; of Alumnae. Glenn Miller and his or- sented at Wellesley, Euripides" Iphi- At Formal Installations genia among the Taurians, Thursday roving reporter has discovered that chestra will beat out swlngtime for the In afternoon, May 5, in the outdoor prom dresses cms year run to blues Juniors, with entertainment by singer an earlier Issue, the Wellesley theatre. Doris News announced the decision of the and yellows (class spirit, perhaps) , and Kerr. The orchestra will play Patricia Parfltt Graham '34, who National Council cf the Society of the prom dates are as proverbially de- special old favorites requested, the most Sigma Xi, to install chapter played the lead in this year's pro- scribed—tall, dark and handsome! The a of this popular to being date "Stardust," honorary scientific society at Wellesley duction, was also the star in the first beauty crop of freshman prom maids "Loch Lomond," "Martha," and "Night college. The installaticn exercises will Greek play, Euripides' Trojan promises to be as deft as ever with and Day." The class of "39 will step take place May 12 and 13. Women, which was given In 1934. It corsage pins. for the first time to the edge interesting to note that the devel- of the Dr. Hugh Stott Taylor, David B. is Festivities begin with dinners Prom professional field by having presentation of Glenn Jones professor of chemistry and chair- opment of Wellesley's at Davis, Severance and Tower court Miller feature Its beloved brain child- the actual de- man of the department at Princeton Greek plays follows at 7 p. m. The doors of Alumnae hall ren, the junior show songs. velopment in Greece; that is, the first university, will give the annual lecture will open, with music starting at At exactly 12 p.m., the maids play was presented in an informal prom In honor of Miss Charlotte A. Bragg, 9 p. m., and President Mildred H. Mc- will take on official duties and serve manner, with the spectators sitting on Professor Emeritus of chemistry, the Afee, L. Ewing, Dor- CATHERINE SLADEN Dean Mary Dean supper to the ravenous prom trotters. a hillside. evening preceding the Installation prop- othy Christine M. Robathan, Hunter, Chairman of Junior Prom The prom will end at 2 a. m., leaving In 1935 Sophocles' Electra was pro- er. Dr. Taylor has received many honors president of the Junior class, and the jolly juniors with the prospect of duced in a similar manner, while the as one of the foremost physical chemists Catherine Sladen, of chairman Prom, warning to all mempers of the other a long week-end anywhere from the 1936 presentation of Aeschuylus' Pro- of the world. Among these honors will be in the receiving line. The Grand classes—come early fpr reserved stand- Cape Cod beaches to the New Hamp- metheus took place in the partly are the award of the Nichols medal of march will begin at 9:45 p. m. (a ing room outside the windows, and shire mountains! completed amphitheatre where the au- the American chemical society and elec- bring knitting!) to the strains of the dience sat on temporary wooden seats tion as a Fellow of the Royal society newly initiated 1939 marching song. was one as did the audiences of one period of Mrs. Ewing Decides 1938 Joins Alumnae of London. Last fall he of the development of the theatre in six Americans to be made a member of the reconstituted Pontifical academy Greece. The Guest day program in Room Drawing Dates mlle, eoulancer will In 100% Membership King Leo- May, 1936 included this production GIVE LECTURE-RECITAL In Vatican city. This winter pold III of Belgium conferred on him Prometheus marked first of and the The class of '39 will draw for rooms, The tradition established by the the cross of the Order of Leopold II time that the Madrigal group and the lie. Niadia Bo ger, assisted by according to the customary procedure, class of 1936 in joining the Wellesley services edu- departments of hygiene and art had In appreciation of his to Hugii.' I, tenor, and M. May 9, at 4:40, in the academic coun- college Alumnae association 100% has in 1937 of the co-operated In a production. cation while occupant Conrad; ne, will give a been upheld by 1938. President Mc- University of In the presentation of Iphigenia cil room. The class of '40 will draw Francqui chair at the Afee Is also an eclu 1 at Alumnae hall honorary member. Louvain. among the Taurians, a keynote of May 16 in Alumnae at 7:30 p. m., The team captains were Helen "Speed m da; 11 at 8:30 p. m. Professor Taylor will speak on dignity and rhythm prevailed. A and the class of '41, May 26 in Al Deane, Betty-Jane Dockstader, Bar- and its Significance in Chemistry." The well-constructed plot, full of suspense, nae at 3:40 p. m. entire program, which will be bara Eckhart, Ernestine Hoen, Barbara given in Pendleton hall and slow, dignified, stylized dancing lecture to be Every ho a set qu oted Rich music, will in- Kibler, Elizabeth McNally. Frances Thursday. 12, Is were two elements of the play. at 8:30 p. ni. May for each he member, cl e songs set to music by Debussy, Nearing, Narclssa Reeder, Mary Jane The music was written by Jeanne open to the public. of '39 have and agai: a yd, Roussel, Llli Boulanger, Faure, Robinson, Beatrice Weaver, Martha Friday's events will begin with the Seitz, a graduate student in the de- after the member, drawn' e a^H Bid Jean Fran- Webb, Charlotte Winchell and Janet formal installation of the Chapter at partment, who has made a special a list of vacant r be posted Zlegler. 4:00 p. m. in the Academic council study of what is known of Grer Green hall, with Professor music. The Madrigal group, under room in George A. Baitsell of Yale university, the direction of Mr. Greene, sang the Promenade Evolves the national president of Sigma Xi, and odes. Costumes, provided by the art Through Fifty-nine Years Dean Edward Ellery of Union college, department, were rich and authentic the national secretary of Sigma Xi, as copies of Greek clothing of the 5th From A Simple Reception To Modern Revels installing officers. This meeting Is century B. C. the open to the visiting delegates and to By Susan Swarlz the members of the Wellesley chapter. In addition to the delegates from Noted Artists Will According to the annals of Wellesley center in College hall, where thi pf '18 received at the Maugus Club In other chapters and members a number '79. the juniors gave a reception to the to receive, all the way to Tupelo. ellcsley Hills at the first Junior Prom of guests will attend the installation Perform Next Year seniors in the springtime, the purpose sooner had they finished than by and for the Juniors. The Senior banquet at 6:30 p. m. in Severance of which was "to train the hand, head, started to rain. Hopelessly they tore decorations, left from the night hall. The Wellesley Concert fund, under and heart." Little idea had the decor- clown their morning's work, but with decked the walls as the juniors Doctor Harold C. Urey, Professor of the management of Malcolm H. ous lassies of '80 that their tribute to undinuned enthusiasm renting the lan- nto the Grand march at 6:30 chemistry at Columbia university and Holmes, has announced another pro- the out-going seniors would be hailed terns when the i ired several cing, which ended promptly on Page 4, Col. 1) gram of famous musicians at Alum- In the years to come as the mother of later. One member of the class ^^^Bt night, was not again enjoyed (Continued nae hall next season. Lotte Leh- Junior From, the high spot In a college* rwnrds wrote In the Courant, "I i.slvely by the juniors until the class mann, soprano of the Metropolitan career, that festive celebration which iresumi the promenades grow prettlei Bed the custom. Then began Greet Opera company, will open the con- ushers in on a Friday night the most or at least more elaborate, every year. ^^™mnasium proms, in which Step-Singers cert series on October 13 with a pro- anticipated, longest remembered, anc '"ni in )ii-v I-.]-! furnished to take the men New Officers Of '39 gram of German lledei.