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FRAMINGHAM AND WELLESLEY, MASS., JANUARY 24, 1918
EFFICIENCY. WELLESLEY S COAL SITUATION.
Emphasizing the fact that scientific manage- Considering tin- great shortage and high price ment was a point of view rather than a mech- iii' iuel which has been troubling the present ad- anism Mr. Shelton outlined four fundamentals in ministration, it might be well for us. who .in- here "iii.il.. its organization in his lectures at the Barn Jan- in college and call do so much to Q(
uary 14 and 15. These were: Science in the piece mar" the nation's prosperity, to havi ! of work, meaning an average individual's out- of the coal situation h\ our own community. Do put doubled; scientific selection of the work; you realize that in healing tile Campus houses training of the worker; cooperation of manage- and buildings, exclusive of the Astronomy Obser- ment and men. Proper dovetailing of these four vatory, Zoology Laboratory and Fiske, the Wel- principles insures an, organization of experts, lesley Power Plant consumes thirty-five tons per which produces correct division of labor, reduces day, and that including those named above, which ignorance on the part of the worker, and gives the are warmed individually, forty tons or $100 worth public a lower price. Mr. Shelton believes in the of coal are used? Figure up what an expenditure functional system as the best means for bringing must be made for heat during an entire year! As about this much-needed scientific basis for business, has been said, this statement concerns only the buildings on Campus, not because it gives the workman more points of con- but does cover any of tact with the management. This serves not only the Freshman dormitories in the village. Tlie to broaden the laborer, but also to provide a Wellesley Power Plant is equipped with eight furnaces check on the higher officials. In its best sense huge from which heat is conducted by to the various houses. scientific management is a composite of all pre- steam Wellesley is, one might say, practically tint by coal. Electricity
for is In the second lecture, Mr. Shelton laid special lighting purposes generated by coal, ele- vators are run, water is and heated, all stress on the fact that scientific management is pumped by the power gained by the burning of coal. In not a panacea, it will not cure all the ills business Tower Court and Clafiin. dishes are washed, food is subject to. This explains the apparent failure is cooked, ice cream is frozen, by electricity gen- of this efficient system of organization in some erated by the burning of coal Thirteen are cases; it will not prove valuable unless properly men understood and understanding^ managed. That employed in the Power Plant to keep this great system in running order, and they must be paid in these latter cases it has been a decided success NINE RECITALS BY FAMOUS ORGANISTS. for their work. is shown by the great lessening in the number of Let us try to "do our bit" to conserve the re- strikes in the plants working under this system. Through the liberality of Mr. Edwin Fambaro sources not only of Wellesley but of the country. Mr. Shelton showed that one need not think of Grene it has been possible to arrange for a series Many suggestions have been made concerning the scientific management as applied only to the in- of nine organ recitals in the Memorial Chapel, steps wisest for the college ailininist ration to take, dustries. Because it rests so completely on a beginning Thursday evening, January 34-, and con- but none have as yet been deemed effective. If common-sense basis, we can note its applicability tinuing weekly. The first recital will be given we, however, will remember never to leave our even to colleges. by Mr. W. Lynnwood Farnam, organist of Emanuel windows and doors open at the same time, thus Because of the great interest which all of us Church, Boston. The recital begins at 8 o'clock. keeping from might well have for the the cold air entering by the windows subject of "Efficiency" Peooeamme. permeating the entire building, we will be doing today, as well as the live and concrete method of Introduction and Allegro WolatertKohne much. Let us use our minds to the extent of seeing these lectures, it is to be regretted that more (From "Sonata in the style of Handel") to it that either a window or a door may be open students did not avail themselves of the privilege Cantilene (Symphonie Romane) Widor both. electricity of hearing Mr. Shelton. —never The careful use of is Intermezzo (Sixth Symphony) Widor also an important point. Do not waste it ! When Adagio (Second Symphony) Widor you leave your room, turn out your light— it saves Rondo—"Soeur Monique" Couperin coal. Consider and help! E. M., '21. TRIP T TO THE LIGHT FANTASTIC. Sonata, N o. 6, in D minor Mendelssohn I Choral and four variations WHAT IS POETRY? II Fugue After the Glee Club Concert on Saturday night, III Finale (Andante) A prize of fifty dollars is offered for the best February 23, there will be dancing until 11.80 Sempre Semplice (C major) Karij-Elert and most beautiful original definition in poetry, P. M by permission of C. A. Whittemore, Fuel Scherzo (G minor) Bossi of poetry. This contest has been inaugurated by Conservation Commissioner. He decided per- to The Poetry-Lovers of New York City and is open mit dancing until this hour because fires be may to all. The winning manuscript becomes the banked so that very little The second organ recital in the series will be fuel will be needed, and property of the Poetry-Lovers and publication even the orchestra, given in the Memorial Chapel on Thursday even- if it be conscientious and ener- proceeds will be donated by them to the work of getic, need not feel the ing, January 28, at 8 o'clock, by John Hermann cold. Also, the Tech- the Red Cross Ambulance in Italy, the country Wellesley concert is being Loud, organist of Park Street Church, Boston. given for charity, which particularly dear to poets and poetry-lovers. The brand of entertainment permits the use of coal. judges will he Edwin Markham, George E. Wood- Grand Chorus in B flat Haigh berry, Florence 'Wilkinson, Ridgely Torrence, Madrigal Vienn Edith Wynne Matthison and Robert Frost. The Morning Serenade Lemeire JANE GILPIN—TAKE NOTICE. jury thus represents not only the fields of cre- Introduction and Passacaglia Reger ative poetry, poetic criticism and the teaching of Ecstasy John Hermann Loud poetry but also the art of the spoken word in When signing up for your spring sport, remem- Improvisation poetry. ber riding! Here in have an op- Wellesley you (Theme to be selected by the audience) The conditions are as follows: The definition to ride and training portunity excellent horses, the Allegretto in B minor Guilmant is restricted to thirty-five words, all words counted, you receive is above that of the usual riding Phantasie in E flat 8cant-8aens and may be fewer than that number. Competi- master. It goes without saying that a girl who tors may send in more than one definition. Man- can't ride should learn, but also the girl who uscript must be signed by a nom-de-plume only, already knows how to sit temporarily on a horse CHRISTMAS GIFTS. accompanied by the name, address and nom-de- ought to seize her chance and acquire more most gratefully fifty plume of the writer in a separate sealed envelope technique. You have no idea how many frills a Miss Bates acknowledges Dupriez, a little warmth already and must be received before noon, February 28, good rider is acquainted with. dollars for Mme. also twenty-five dol- by The Poetry-Lovers, 133 West 11th Street, New New tickets for the new term are to he issued. on its way to Belgium, and further her de- York City. Watch the bulletin board. Friday evening, Jan- lars for Dr. Harriet A. Rice, to for the wounded soldiers of the west The result of the competition will be made uary 2.?, there will be an informal indoor meet voted labors known on March ^. in the Riding Hall THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS
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Dorothy S. Gree Assistant Editors. Alice Wharton, Katherine Donovan, 1918. Jeanette Mack, 1919. vith the full name of the author. Only articles thus Mary B. Jenkins Ruth E. Crosby, 1918. Margaret W. Conant, 1919. iigned will be printed. Initials or numerals will be Adele Rumpf, 1919. Eleanor Skerxy, 1920. ised in printing the articles if the writer so desires. Dorothy Collins. 1919. Emily Tyler Holmes, 1920. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for Dorothy G. Mii Ruth Baetjer, 1920. >pinions and statements which appear in this column. Contributions should be in the hands of the Editors >y 9 A. M. on Monday. r by a board of students of Wellesley College Subscripti ;. Single copies five cents each. All contribute s should b t and should be addressed to Miss Dorotithy S. Greene.* All Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Offi ass., and at Wellesley College, Wellesl.
What is the matter with Wellesley and Suf- ARE YOU A SLACKER? course. Usually they du find an itk-al to strive for. frage? The Wellesley College Equal Suffrage But, although many girls wait until their under- League has had two meetings so far, with an aver-
There is no one in college who does not know standing is mature before they venture into col- age attendance of fourteen. Fourteen girls out and appreciate the Wellesley motto. It is a lege, many come very young, being scholastic-ally of sixteen hundred who are interested enough to motto that today means more than ever before. ready but not spiritually so. Anyhow, all these go to a meeting and hear a good out-of-town Why, then, are the Wellesley girls failing to meet girls are Americans and after a mental review of speaker. Of course, the obvious answer to such
its challenge? Why is there so little spirit of true their reason for being in college and their "pur- a question is the war. We must put all our time service in a college such as this? And why, most pose in life," each girl begins to enjoy a little and energy into war work. And yet if we are of all, is there so little real war relief work done of the "college life" of which she has read, and going to keep that "balance" about which we hear by the girls themselves? Of course the girls forgets her more serious intents except at in- so much, must we not do something else besides knit on every occasion, but it is not always on tervals of six months, say, when she has a bad grey or khaki wool. They also give money when quiz due or hears that a friend or brother has Then comes the question, "Why Suffrage?" If urged, coaxed and cajoled into doing so by the reached France. we are to keep up that intelligent attitude on hard-working collectors. They do surgical dress- The college, being also American, gives to stu- which we, as college women, pride ourselves, we ings and sewing for the Belgian children—or at dents as much personal liberty as their lack of must be interested in Suffrage. For, whether we
least they pretend to. It doesn't seem as though self-respect permits, arranges that each girl do a wish it or no, equal suffrage is one of the big issues they were very enthusiastic about it when sixty certain amount of studying and acquire knowledge of the day, and as educated individuals we must
out of a class of nearly four hundred signed up to along a few branches which it considers—and has know something about it. do it, and when on all-college afternoons there are always considered—highly important, then believes Now that New York State has given its women sometimes as many .as three girls at a time who its responsibility at an end. the franchise, and the Federal Amendment has are "doing their bit." The excuse frequently given But if the student is normally sensitive, in about passed the House, Suffrage does not seem so very
is that there are so many charities and worthy her junior year her conscience asks just what at- far off. causes to give to, and so many things to do to tainment she is reaching by her present code of This year the Wellesley College Equal Suffrage "help" that there isn't time for everything. There life and nine times out of ten, the girl under- League decided not to have its meetings entirely may not be time for everything, but there is time stands the lack in herself, and knows that she has devoted to arguments for and against suffrage, but to be patriotic, to show what you're made of, and not won those definite standards which she will to have speakers who would present the less well of just how much use you are in the world. need after college. Something has been wrong, known side of suffrage work. At the first meet- About seventy-five per cent of the girls in col- but what? She used to have a motive which she ing we were told why suffrage is important, even lege do absolutely nothing aside from casual knit- was going to follow, what became of it? Was it in war time. Miss Gertrude Barnum, the indus- ting, to help their country in this war. Instead her fault if it got buried in the turmoil of college trial worker of the Boston Equal Suffrage As- they buy candy and sodas and crowd the tea- life? She—a lady—did she eat it? Or did the sociation, spoke about her work among the alien rooms. It is all very well, they think, for others tiger eat it? Well, say you, it is more human women and industrial workers of Boston. to abstain, but why should they? They talk to distrust the tiger. So you see we suffragists are not simply con- about the war and say how "awful" it all is, and But if each student has, when she arrives at fining our energies to getting the vote,—we have then they go into Boston and buy tickets for a college, or before she leaves, a certain particular broader, more universal aims. "show." Why? It isn't the fault of the college. line to follow, there is no reason why she should The college league has not more than six meet- In no other place could there be such an incentive not equip herself along that line, if she will urge ings a year. Wont the girls who are interested, to forget one's self in doing for others. The herself to remember and follow that very elusive (and there must be more than fourteen), turn traditions, the whole spirit of Wellesley, is one of thread. If she cannot accede to its goal through out at the meetings, so that we can dare ask good service. Likewise the blame does not rest upon a general education, she should go to a college speakers to address us? the committees in charge of war relief work. The which specializes in such training. Whoever looks 1918. members of these committees work untiringly and for a technical business school equipment in a II. enthusiastically. Without them just what would college which offers a general curriculum, is at Can Wellesley Economize in Fuel? the war relief work be? The fault of the whole a useless task. The two cannot be combined, for Why so much heat in our college dormitories, matter lies in every individual girl who does not in a business school there is no time for the arts buildings, and society houses, especially at the conscientiously do her share, who knows that she which the broader education includes. But it is present crisis of so very serious a coal shortage is shirking. No one admires the quitter these said that in the business world a woman who has that all factories—even those manufacturing the days. Why not come to the front and do your had an all-round college education with a busi- much-needed ammunition for our army—must part, even if it is but an hour's work every week ness course following it is much better equipped bear this "one of the sacrifices of the war"—as on surgical dressings? than the girl from business school only, who has President Wilson says—and shut down? All our not had the opportunity to develop her personality. buildings are doubly over-heated; and here we THE LADY OR THE TIGER? On the other hand, the girl who expects her rest, peacefully sweating ourselves by our piping college to outfit her completely for a definite work, radiators, set apart from the suffering world temple, while our Many college men and women—or boys and but will not so much as remember her ideals ex- like little gods in a sacred sigh for them, is not going to emerge a country strips itself to the bone to gef coal to girls—are indisputably dissatisfied with their col- cept to — even important, to lege career, perhaps especially because of these model of effectiveness. The college can only shape relieve the poor, and, more preparing her to reshape our war-goods to the other side. What war times. They feel that the college is hampering her in a common mould, transport indifferent to the of them, compressing them into one common type herself later as easily as possible. It takes a right have we to be so needs this important time? instead of fitting them for their after-college definite personal effort to build up a backbone, our own country at How us this past vacation, had our homes world, Now, such a state of affairs is wrong, even in college. many of are now? undoubtedly. But does the chief blame rest upon Does the tiger expect too much of the lady? heated as hot as our dormitories More Wellesley, the college administration or upon the individual? Should the tiger trust the lady? Should the lady than one girl, since her return to has tiger? upon the difference in the two tem- There is at Wellesley as varied a collection of trust the remarked know," I heard one girl types as you could imagine, with a variety of peratures. "Why, you here, I thought I ideals as to collegiate training. Some desire say, "when I got home from should die! The house seemed so cold I was purely scholastic attainments, some hope to be FOR SALE all I to wear a fitted for the business world, some are only hop- shivering around the time. had sweater around for a week—indoors—everywhere ing to "grow up" here—to broaden, to gain under- A few exceptionally fine fox furs at attractive standing of their fellow humans by forcible con- I went before I got acclimated to the new tem- tact with them. Some do not know what they perature. Why even the hotels and clubs seemed just ice-cold! Even mother laughed at me! she want of college, but hope to find out during the Telephone NEWTON SOUTH 1103-W I THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS
always called me the refrigerator, because 1 adore the icy-cold, as a rule. But I simply couldn't stand it this time. I do believe our dorms are over-heated, or something." And one of the mothers, staying at the Inn, remarked, ALICE MAYNARD "Well, 1 am afraid the college is softening you Announces girls by keeping your buildings too warm. They are much hotter than the Inn; and the Inn is plenty warm enough for anyone, it seems to me." A unique assemblage of That's just the point! We are getting "softened" GOJVNS — while the country needs fuel. The heat could be considerably reduced without anyone feeling BLOUSES any ill effects from it; for the great majority of SUITS girls express the opinion that they would feel SPORT SKIRTS much better, more alert and energetic, if the SPORT SWEATERS average temperature of the houses were much MOTOR COATS lower than it now is. And the others, if need be, could don their pretty knitted sweaters. Wellesley TOP COATS is over-heated and much-needed fuel wasted! Why? DISTINCTIVE FUR COATS Again! With all the country's important fac- and tories shutting down on specified days, to save NOVELTY FUR SETS fuel for even more important projects, why can- Also not Wellesley add her bit to their efforts? Why cannot society houses here close their doors at ART NOVELTIES this critical period, as those in other colleges are Not to be found elsewhere doing; and perhaps the college itself close down one day, or one half day, a week, and add the fuel saved to the country's meagre supply? It would be possible to shut off the steam and lights 546 FIFTH AVENUE from the non-resident college buildings, from Corner +5th Street Friday night to Monday morning—dropping Sat- NEW YORK urday's classes, and having the students study in their own rooms rather than at the Library.
This is just a suggestion; but, if it could be worked out in some way, the fuel required for heating and lighting these buildings, and in over- Lord Emily Trimmer MISS BALCH AT COLUMBIA. heating the dormitories, might profitably be pa- 1st Servant .... Ellen Richardson triotically given for the country's need. 2nd Servant . . . Eleanor White The wide-spread rumor that .Miss Balch had A. W., '19. Paulina Rose Schwenger died, or tried on die, by her own hand appears Act III. Scene II. to have sprung from an item in a southern news- Leontes SOCIETY PROGRAM MEETINGS. Marguerite Brenize paper, six months agn, announcing the tragic end Cleomenes .... Katherine Motler of another E. G. Balch. Our Emily Greene Balch Dion Ruth Dunn is, happily, very much alive. She is passing the THE AGORA. Lord Emily Trimmer winter in New York City, mainly occupied in Lecture by Professor Hoerule of the Department Officer Josephine January graduate study at Columbia, in giving courses of of Philosophy at Harvard, on Reconstruction Servants Eleanor White lectures on Current Events, and in preparing for After the War. Ellen Richardson publication a book, already announced, called The lecture was followed by general discussion. Hermione .... Helen Swormstedt Approaches to the (licit Settlement. This book, Paulina ...... Alnah James to which Norman Angell supplies an introduction, Lady attending Hermione Isabelle Ireland states and discusses all terms of peace proposed CHI. ALPHA KAPPA from December, 1916, to September, 1917. The Paper: Euripides, The Favorite Tragedian. volume, furnished with an elaborate bibliography, Louise Stockbridge. TAU ZETA EPSILON. reprints in an appendix the text of such of those Part of Act I, Iphegenia in Taurus. proposals as are not readily Paper Titian . . . Marjorie Beach, 1918. peace accessible. Iplu'gi-nia .... Norma Josephson 1. Lavinia, by Titian; Berlin. Eager, like all the world, for the consummation Orestes Anna Morse Model, Elizabeth Barrington, 1918. of a righteous peace on .stable foundations, Miss Pylades Elizabeth Barbour Critic, Lidora Putney, 1918. Balch is loyal to the aims of President Wilson Herdsman Elizabeth Pickett .... Sub-Critic, Susan Armstrong, 1919. and desirous to see our country count with all Chorus: Mildred Perkins, leader; Jane Mat- its moral forces on the side of democracy for all 2. Portrait of a Man, after Titian; Frick Col- thews, Mary Elizabeth Chinn, Margaret McW'tugh- peoples. K. L. B. lection, New York. ton, Helen Andrews, Helen Atkins. Model, Elizabeth McGill, 1918. Music by Rose Phelps. Critic, Ruth Harding, 1918. THE MASEFIELD POETRY PRIZE. Sub-Critic, Margaret Post, 1919. PHI SIGMA. 3. The Doge Loredano, by Giovanni Bellini; Since the present senior class shows so many Paper: Frtdtric Mistral, Epic Poet of Provence. National Gallery, London. possible candidates for the honor of the Masefield Eleanor Towne. Model, Gladys Watkins, 1918. Poetry Prize, it has seemed best to the committee Synopsis of the Christmas Masque, The Cross- Critic, Marjorie Stickney, 1918. in charge of the award to ask that all seniors who r°<*d> they Katherine Donovan. Sub-Critic, Beatrice Putney, 1919. desire to compete submit for judgment what Repetition of Scene I. The Crossroads. consider their best work. Not more than three Paper: Rhythm in Mafic and Poetry poems should be submitted by a contestant ; these Clarice Lewis, 1919. need not be new work, and may have been pub- SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY. Illustrated in song, Miss Hetty S. Wheeler, 1902. lished. They should be addressed to The Mase- Winter's Tale. A field Poetry Prize Competition, and placed in the Act II. Scene II Resident Mail on or before February 82. It is Paulina ZETA ALPHA. Alnah James desired that a pseudonym be used instead of the Emilia Ireland Paper on characteristics and tendencies of English Isabelle real name of the contestant; a sealed envelope Ladies attending Paulina Social Drama as shown in works of Pinero and Dorothy Coleville bearing the pseudonym on the outside and enclos- Jones Dorothy Grafly Katherine Vose ing the real name should accompany the poems. Gaoler Blanche Doe cussion and reading The committee hopes that Mr. Masefield him- Gentleman Ellen Richardson .... Marie Thibadeau self may consent to make the final decision of the Act II. Scene III. Harriet Webber. award. If that is impossible, some other poet Leontes Marguerite Brenizer Isabel Whiting. from outside the College will be asked to assist Antigonus Helen .... Snow M;irt!l.'l J.ITIC Jmlsi the committee in judging the work submitted. !
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PRACTICAL HELP FROM CHRISTIAN AS- SOCIATION. YO U HA VE HEA RD Concrete methods of character building wt i the subject of the discussion meeting led by Elisa- beth Osgood on January 16. In these war times and to MISS characters are especially needed, FRASER'S strong HELEN personalities we should encourage develop such inspiring lectures. You have wished that your people at home the following characteristics: sympathy, relia- bility, lack of self-consciousness, ability to put could hear them; perhaps they will since her tour covers the entire one's self in another's place; and we should strive country - you can find out by writing for a definite goal. The hearty response of the to Mr. Shaw. In order that Miss audience increased the helpfulness of the meeting. WOMEN^MRWORK Fraser's message may reach as many Margaret Haddock at the village Christian As- people as possible as soon as possible, sociation meeting, January 36, urged us to go "over the top" to the new semester with courage, she has written a book to which hope and gladness, loving our fellow-travellers President MacCracken of Vassar has and guiding our course with Christ as our ideal. written a foreword. Will you help By making this our aim, each and every one of us may be sure that success awaits on the other to make it known either by ordering tide. a copy from one of the bookstores named below or by sending to the MORNING CHAPEL. Publisher for some circulars to send to your friends? Rev. James Austin Richards of Boston showed us on January 20 how wrong it is to make the On entering your bookstore you excuse of Aaron, "I poured gold into the fire, and will recognize Miss Fraser's book by lo, there came out this calf,'" although such lies are unintentional. When the causes of the war are this cover design considered, as alleged by the various nations, all HELEN FRASER, their excuses are much the same as Aaron's, lay- Mo. 16 Illustrations Foreword by President MacCracken of Vassar ing the blame on some external circumstance. And not only nations but individuals as well, in their 25th Publisher check for of the net sales to the College social and personal relations show that some of On March the will send a 2U% sending in the largest number of orders; 15% to the College winning second place; 10% to each Aaron's nature influences the world today. of the Colleges winning third, fourth and fifth places. These checks to be donated to the War M. M. D., '21. Service work of the Colleges. Be sure to order before March 20th from the bookstore named or direct from the Publisher IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR ROBERTS. so that your College may receive credit for your order. Resolution Adopted by the Academic Council. On sale January 26th at Wellesley College Bookstore
In the loss of our beloved colleague, Dr. Char- lotte Fitch Roberts, Professor of Chemistry, Wel- G. ARNOLD SHAW lesley suffers an intimate bereavement. Her Publisher to the University Lecturers Association achievement as a scholar, her thirty-five years of fine and faithful teaching, her able services on GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL NEW YORK the most of our committees and, for a long period, as secretary of the Academic Council; above all, her personal qualities and character have left deep ing of her and talking of her and loving her just in the Home? Your fairy books are not in impress on the College that she loved from girl- use as did." now, and even if "little sister" is almost hood unto death. we old enough loss want She conducted her department with unassuming To her kindred and to all hearts whom her to them, compare her amusements in your leaves desolate tender our true sympathy. home with the empty lot of the babies ease and power. To her associate teachers and we in the Convalescent Home, and decide that "little assistants she gave the fullest confidence and the sister" has enough playthings, besides having largest freedom, ever ready with help and cheer 4 U. your fain- and wisdom. To her students she gave not only books. This is a call almost all of us can answer. Can't we swamp the C. A. office with fairy strict training and sound knowledge, but frank' Can you think back about ten or fifteen years tales and scrap books? trust, warm sympathy, blithe companionship, ago, and remember what you like best to do? drawing no artificial line between these her young- Can't you see yourself sitting on the floor, or* H. B. A. er friends and her comrades of the Faculty. Her huddled in a chair looking at picture books, or own spirit remained so youthful that she could reading fairy tales? And will you ever forget the be at once a keen, inspiring instructor and a de- time 3'Ou had to stay in bed for three whole weeks TO SAVE COAL. lightful playfellow. What would you have done without your books? All about her felt the sunshine of her presence. The stories and colored plates so occupied your Village Christian Association Meetings will In greater or less degree, as we knew her more time and thoughts that you almost forgot you The , or less, we were aware of her buoyant mirth, her were sick. for the next few weeks be held in the parlor at in Girls, if you can recall how pleasure wit without a sting, her readiness repartee much Eliot instead of in St. Andrew's Church. and rhyme, her genuine dramatic gift, her sane fairy tales brought to you while you were ill, and wholesome attitude toward life, her courtesy, imagine how much joy they will bring to the her tenderness, her modesty, her generosity, the crippled children at the Convalescent Home at shy remoteness of her inmost self, her faith in Wellesley Hills. The children are forced to re- WELLESLEY INN humanity and in Christ her Lord. Long a member main at the Home for many weeks, and stories are HOURS FOR MEALS of the Congregational church in the village, she their great delight. When you enter the door, Breakfast 8 to 10 was one of the links uniting college and town. they beg for stories, and when you leave they beg Luncheon 12 " 2 Her quiet deeds of kindness and of mercy are to keep the books you have just been reading to D.nner 6 " 8 more than any of us knew and more than she re- them. The older children want stories like Alad- Afternoon Tea membered. din and His Wonderful Lamp, Snow White. Jack In the words of one supremely near and dear: and the Beanstalk, and the babies want picture loving books. there are several "Ail that was winsome and whimsical, and cards and scrap Then Dr. Irene Blissard (Surgeon Chiropodist) formerly of sensible; all her gay courage, her refusal to be special pleas. Joe wants a book " 'bout Peter Wellesley has opened a Marinello Shop for the scientific sentimental or tragic, her openmindedness, her Rabbit," Rosetta wants "a red book," and Helen treatment of the Scalp, Face, Hands and Feet at 86 charity—oh, surely it must live in all our hearts wants "any book 'bout faries." Wont you help
and we must keep it warm and bright by think- the children enjoy a few of the long hours spent Boylston St., Little B'ld'g, Room 919, 1 . 1 ~ J
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Thousands by the United States income tax laws of pre- tax law, are Anthology is now being vious years or by the State income Mr. Macdougall will play the following fifteen The 1917-18 College a much fuller numbered among those who are required to file minute programmes after chapel during midyears: compiled. Wellesley should have in the past and returns under provisions of the new law. This Tuesday, January 29. representation than she has had . individual whose to submit their best verse to law requires every unmarried Overture to Masaniello Auber students- are urged order to insure income during 1917 was $1,000 or more to make Sketch Dubois the Editors of the Anthology in mailed to Henry T. a sworn statement setting forth what his or her Marche Militaire Schubert this end. Poems should be Department, The income amounted to during the twelve months Wednesday, January 30. Schnittkind, Ph.D., Editorial Boston, ended December 31, 1917. It requires that mar- Gigue J- 8. Bach Stratford Company, 32 Oliver Street, 1918. ried persons whose income in 1917 was $2,000 or Carillon de Louis XIV Neustedt Mass., not later than March 15, your patriotism more shall file returns. March from Aida Verdi There is also a chance to show better under- Policemen, firemen, public school teachers, and Thursday-, January 31. and to help to give the immigrants a history by dramatizing all other employees or officials of a city or a town March from Eli Costa standing of United States American history. or of the state or a county, who have no other Theme with humorous variations in the very simply some, subject in Association of Boston income than the wages or salaries they receive styles of J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, The Woman's Education play submitted from the state, county, city or town, are exempt Johann Strauss, Gounod and Wagner offers a prize of $100 for the best the provisions of the law and need not file Siegfried Ochs and will appreciate all efforts. from oppor- returns. Friday, February 1. Further information concerning both board Following is the schedule of office hours ar- Torchlight Dance Rubinstein tunities will be posted on the News bulletin ranged by the Income Tax officials for this town: March from Tannhauser Wagner opposite room 16. Take time to read these notices In Lower Town Hall, 9.30 A. M. to 9 P. M. Saturday, February 2. for they will give suggestions. Deputy Collectors who will come here are Gavotte from Mignon Thomas administer oath and they will exe- March "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar PARK SQUARE THEATRE. authorized to cute the returns for taxpayers without charge. They are authorized also to receive money orders APPOINTMENT BUREAU. To all who remember the laugh sensations, payable to John F. Malley, Collector, "Twin Beds" and "Fair and Warmer," and few or checks, for the income tax due. These taxes are payable January 18, 1918. indeed are they, the announcement that the same at the time returns are filed. Deputy Collectors The recent address by Professor W. T. Sedg- producers will send their latest laugh festival, are not permitted to accept cash in payment for wick on The Need of Trained Workers in Public "The Naughty Wife," to Boston at the Park any taxes. Remittances in the form of money Health Activities must have led many to ask where Square Theatre on Monday, January 28, will be orders or checks payable to the Collector only opportunities for training in such service might hailed with pleasure by all theatregoers. And will be accepted by the Deputies. be found. A correspondent writes of a course when these same producers proclaim their attrac- Peter J. Carey', Deputy Collector. for ten or fifteen students to be arranged by Dr. tion as fitting successor to their epochal joy- William H. Park and to run from about March feasts that had such long runs in this city, the IN BEHALF OF C. A. CONTRIBUTIONS. IS to June 15, provided that the enrollment is conviction grows that none needs to go without sufficient. The fee for the course is $75. It would laughter while this new farce is available. There is an impression in the minds of many be possible to use the laboratories of the Bellevue "The Naughty Wife" is that rarity among its who make use of C. A. contribution envelopes Medical School, while Dr. Park's connection with kind, a farce with an idea. It concerns the man- that they must use every envelope supplied for the Health Department of the city would give ner in which a husband meets with the situation the purpose by the Christian Association, no mat- him opportunities and materials which could not placed upon him by the possession of a flighty, ter whether they are handed in weekly or not. be equalled by any private laboratory. The pre- whimsical wife who is carried away with the at- It is to correct this impression that this notice is requisite would be a year or its equivalent in bi- tentions of another man. She consents to elope written. The C. A. envelopes are issued by the ology, chemistry, or physics, and, of course, those with him, and upon the husband learning of the Missionary Committee for the convenience of con- who have studied bacteriology have a distinct ad- prospect, he takes the unusual stand of aiding in tributors, who may put in their dime or nickel vantage. Of course, Dr. Park cannot guarantee the elopment, even so far as to accompany the weekly, and have it recorded beside their number. positions, but he is said to have placed so far couple to their haven to see that they are com- If two or three weeks' contributions are to be every college woman who has come in. This re- fortable. handed in at once, there is no reason why a sep- sult depends upon the openings which may occur. This action brings contretemps that cannot fail arate envelope should be used for each. Imagine Two graduates of the college are permanently to be humorous, and as treated by the author, the dismay of the committee who counts the placed in this work and the probability is that Fred Jackson, and by the company playing it, so money, when they come upon six or seven en- graduates of 1917 would be welcome. Dr. Park plentiful are the incitements to laughter that velopes of the same number, each one containing could probably be addressed, First Avenue and there is a continuous succession of laughs from a nickel! The thoughtful contributor who was 20th Street, New York City. beginning to end. That there are situations most thus accurate causes the committee exactly six unusual in the farce goes without saying, and or seven times the necessary work, as the case No. 20. Mr. James L. Phillips, secretary of the these situations are what made of the attraction so may be. Perhaps also the recorder finds four en- Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau, Munsey Build- substantial a success in New York. velopes each containing five pennies, and has ing, Washington, D. C, wishes two to five women Selwyn & Company are bringing their company twenty times the normal amount of labor to go college graduates to fill clerical positions in the intact from the Harris Theatre, New York, and through. On one occasion seven envelopes each Citizenship Bureau, of the State Department; ser- it is headed by such able players as Charles containing ten pennies were handed in all at once vice to be for the remainder of the war and pos- Cherry, Lucile Watson, Francis Byrne and Bev- by one girl! We may all be anxious to get rid sibly longer. Requirements are: age over 21 and erly West, all Boston favorites. Seats are on of our superfluous pennies, but there are surely preferably over 25, a college education, ability to sale two weeks in advance, and mail orders will more thoughtful ways of doing it than by unload- write correct letters and instructions, good judg- be carefully filled if accompanied by self-ad- ing them on the committee, who handle five ment, executive ability, knowledge of typewriting dressed envelope and the necessary 10% War hundred envelopes or so every week. If every and stenography desired but not essential. Sal- Tax. girl who uses contribution envelopes would put ary, $1,200 to $1,800. Anyone applying should in as few coins at once as is possible, she would notify Miss Caswell, quoting the number affixed, THE INCOME TAX. save the expenditure of a great deal of unneces- that credentials may be sent. sary volunteer labor. No. 21. Dr. P. E. Prentis, Acting Director of Residents of Wellesley and surrounding towns, A Committee Member. Employment for Illinois, who operates a local required by provisions of the War Income Tax division of the U. S. Employment Service, wishes Act, to make returns to the Internal Revenue to receive applications not only from college grad- Department of the income they received during Cotrell & Leonard uates intending to teach but also from those who the year 1917, will be afforded an opportunity to might become mechanical engineers, designers, make and file such returns with the aid of deputy ALBANY, N.Y. draftsmen, chemists, and metallurgists. Applica- collectors delegated by John F. Malley, Collector tions should be addressed: "Teachers and Profes- of Internal Revenue for the District of Massa- sional Service Division, U. S. Employment Service, chusetts to assist new tax payers in this section 845 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois," in- of the state. Makers of dicating the kind of work desired in order that These representatives of the Revenue Depart- the proper blank may be sent. A self-addressed ment who are prepared to dispense information envelope (iVmSVi) with a three-cent stamp relative to the requirements of the new law and CAPS, GOWNS and HOODS affixed should be enclosed for reply. The last to make out returns of the tax payers will be Class Contracts a Specialty clause in No. 20 should be noted. here January 24, 25, 26, 1918. ! — ; THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS •FRENCH FRIED. You {Reprinted from the Goucher ' tear Ma and Dad: A piece of news is oft more liard and makes ne much more sad, if suddenly the blow is felt The Mess Sergeant of any mess in any can- tha ' warning one has had. And since it is tonment, after the first French lesson: the time of year when shocks are apt to come, and since I love you both so much, I'll now pre- "Bungsure, my brave horns. Come he porty yourselves this bun morning?" Since entering up here this fall, I've learned Chorus of "Tray good, sarjong. How's vous an awful lot; besides accomplishments I had, just portying?" oodles more I've got. I've learned to knit most Sergeant—"Oh, pretty bun! Nooz avong a perfectly from socks up to a sweater. I'm sure the Head of Red Cross herself can do no better. swell breakfast pour vouz to mangzhay.*' I've learned to play the mandolin; I play the uke Lance Corporal—"Yeah, ilay knee pa so rotten. quite well. And when it comes to plays and such, Maize avay you any cream pour the cafe?" I am the reigning belle. Last fall I practiced with un- The Mess Sergeant turns away muttering an a ball till on the golf links I could shine; since Smartness in costuming printable French word. then—inside— a horse I ride. With habit on I di Liberal portions of "French Fried" are passed look fine! begins with the corse. Since Christmas, I have learned to skate. I've around at the mess table, somewhat after the fol- been out every night. It mattered not to us hint If the foundation — the cor- lowing mode de parler: cold, we didn't care a mite. And much more ton, set —is properly designed is fitted "This French parleying grande stuff!" but best of all are friendships that I've made. and carefully with a figure- I'm very sure that joy from these will never from full knowledge of the need, the result is all that picking le lang up aussi a bunch of regular fran- me fade. But, oh, the academic ! Truth says one may hope for from the I must admit I didn't have the time, and so I cais soldats." view-point of appearance, haven't learned a single bit "II Taut to be facile pour nouz to paraly with comfort and health. So if they send me back to you, you'll know those paulyous quand nouz get en les trenchay." You'll I'm not to blame? know your money's For even a last year's "Yeah, nouz wont avong any trouble parleying been well spent and you'll love me just the same? frock will fall with grace avec those paulyous after douz or trays other les- over a Redfern Corset Affectionately Jan sons." that is correcllX) fitted. "Passy vouz le salt ici, you grande stiff up voila a l'autre end de la table? Que the trouble avec THE BALLAD OF SUSAN JANE. The maid sat in the living room "Oui, that's que je say too." Winding the long, grey thread; le pain "Slide bas too voila. Nous ft ant to "Oh who will knit a high helmet. are quite as pretty to look avay kelkeshose to m mgzhay. Make it apide- For my sweet sailor's head?" at as they are comfortable mon!" to wear. Their satisfaction Then up and spake another maid is assured. "Ilay bun de parla; only francais a th table Of countenance serene; de jewnay." "Oh, Susan Jane is the best knitter, $3.50 up "Oui, ilay not so m d if vouz can only lensay She knits quite like a queen." of le right mots to say." At High Class Stores "E'en though I'd like her to oblige, "Je can ponsay de le mots 1 laiz knee pa les I can't" said Susan; "for francaise ones." I'm giving euculele lessons "Oui, that's le main trouble. Mai nouz ought To help out in this war. to pick les mots up pretty quick OLD NATICK INN, "Oui." Nine pupils have I on my list SOUTH NATICK, MASS. "Beaucoup obliged.' Five private lessons each; One mile from Wellesley College. And so you see I cannot do "Knee pa mention it ." A thing but teach, teach, teach!" T«l N.tick 8610 MISS HARRIS. M.n.gt, On Friday was a pit party Beyond the broad golf links; LOOK FOR THE BLUE SIGN But Jane at home remained; •The Goucher College Weekly in introducing tins Susan article from Trench and Camp quotes the New York "I'd better teach, methinks." aKHelleslep Eta »oom & :foob &>fjop Times Magazine for January 6 as follows: "Trench '93 '94 ' I. COOMBS. and Camp is a newspaper combining the delights of ALICE G. COOMBS GRACE amateurdom, in the shape of writing and pictures by On Saturday the friends rushed in: Square, Over Post Office. with the professional touch Wellesley Telephone the soldiers themselves, "Oil. haste! Train time is near!" of a bona fide newspaper. It is published in the thirty-two cantonments throughout the United States But Susan Jane said "Not today; Council of under the auspices of the National War My pupil's due. I fear." the Y. M. C. A. It appears weekly, each issue con- H. E. CURRIER sisting of four pages printed in New York which are identical for all the camps and four others containing On Sunday Johnny came to call, 14 GROVE ST. WELLESLEY news and illustrations of purely local interest for each And asked dear Jane to wed; camp. The ups and downs of learning French are productive of much humor from the men at the camps. The maiden gasped, she blushed right red Here is sample of what is being done to the language a "My pupil!" she said —and fled! TEXTILE MENDING CASH'S WOVEN NAMES of Racine and Corneille at the cantonments which ap- F. J., '20. LEWANDO'S CLEANSING AND DYEING — THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS THE OLD KIT BAG. on? I'll say just one thing more, though, and and from any of your friends who would like 1 that is that if I Were ordered home after my six write to Noti —This column is to an unknown U. S. soldier. received months of service I should from abroad. Help the edit go secure in the fact Most sincerely, that I cou.ld do work there which would be quite .ng enough to print. Coin ribul ions .should be addressed Carle ton. as useful as the work I am doing here 10 the Editor of the Old Kit Bag, and sent to the and quite Corporal C G. Baker, AiCus Urhcc, Chapel Basement, or handed to one of the as much my share as the burden of the war. 1st Co., 101st Ammunition Train, A. E. F. That is an absolutely truthful statement and will perhaps Hotel de l'Univers Tours, prove my sincerity better than anything else I could say. So just remember, Extract from a letter from a French December 3, 1917. you good poilu: " Dear Miss Bates,— people, that we over here appreciate the fact J'ai cherch6 dans un dictionnaire et that it is you who make it 'ai pas trouve le nom de Ever since I came over here I have meant to possible for us to be Wellesley, Mass. . . . ! '21. write you to tell you of such a pleasant little F. W., happening which I thought would interest you. We had reached France after a very unusual ITALY'S PART IN THE WAR. We surely do have good times too. Our choir trip compared with peace time trips. A boatload and singing has dwindled more or less owing to of two or three hundred persons with one idea Professor Charles Upson Clark, Director the combined effects of our director's temporary of the to help France—and a twinge of danger—the sub- School of Classical Studies, American detachment for other service and the lusty efforts Academy marines is enough to make trip — any unusual. in Rome, will lecture at Wellesley of a quite unique and wholly French specimen of on Monday Our trunks were piled ten high in the middle of evening, February 4, on the subject, Italy's Part the genus cold which has attacked nearly all of a little open steamer and we were clustered in the War. us at one time or another and which hangs on as around and over them in every square foot of Professor Clark, who has recently persistently as France hangs to the throat of the come from space. No one could budge and there we sat or Rome, has been given leave Bosch. But we do not lack for amusements. There of absence for the stood from one to ten while we steamed up the purpose of presenting this subject are "movies" three times a week (including cur- in America. river to the dock. By seven o'clock it was dark He not only has the official approval of rent events and Mary Pickford), one of the M.D.'s the Italian and we were cold and hungry. Nothing to see, Government, but he has been given official assistance gives us a little talk each week on what is going nothing to eat, nothing to do and all talked out. by the Italian Government in securing on in the world, there are many good concerts material. So I said to Betty Scott "Let's sing and forget." The proceeds of his lectures will be devoted to in town, and at present there is a season of opera And we did, and which you suppose the relief work in Italy. on. Our Thursday evening dances are becoming one that went best? Yes, yours! A man from The lecture will be given on quite the most popular form of amusement not Monday evening, Colorado dug in his bag and snapped his electric February 4, at eight o'clock, in Billings Hall. only for our own unit but for all the members of torch on a little copy of it so that they could sing All members the various English speaking communities round of the College are invited. every verse. Betty and the girl from Atlanta and Adeline Belle about, mostly of course boys in khaki. It seems Hawes. the one from the Middle West knew it better like a glimpse of heaven to them, they say, and than our other national anthems but they wanted their joy at even hearing an American woman's WHO ARE THE ARTISTS? it right. They sang it three times and it sounded voice is something to bring tears to your eyes. If very, very lovely to me on that top-heavy boat only enlisted men could join us it would be per- The speed at which readers of the News habit- rushing along in the darkness with only the dim fect, but army regulations forbid so we have to misty lights of the shore. ually turn to the Parliament of Fools seems to be be content with doing what we can for them in greater than ever now that Wellesley's artistic the way of entertainment, etc., and confine the genius has found expression in its columns. The Molly Dewson. dancing to the officers. cartoonists may feel that they have added much American Red Cross, to the attraction and value of their college paper Bureau cf Refugees, and doubtless the readers will learn their names 4 Place de la Concorde, Paris. Dec. 15, 1917. with interest. Those who have had work printed I received your letter dated Nov. 7th on Dec. since vacation are Louise Hunter, Margaret Miller, The following extracts are taken from a letter 10th. Was tickled to death to hear from you. Genevieve Thomas and Virginia Tyson. In the just received from France. The writer was a You can well imagine how welcome letters are near future, the News will enlist the already supervisor in the Holyoke City Hospital and went over here. We left Westfield on October 2nd. proffered services of Hazel Aaron, Mavis Barnett, over last summer with the Massachusetts General Landed in England and, had a very pleasant trip Julia Brannock, Elizabeth Bull, Averyl Dickin- son, Jr., Hospital Unit. The point of view is extremely through. We remained three days in a large city Margaret Horton, Allison Kingsbury, Rainold interesting and just at this time when so many and enjoyed ourselves immensely. We saw quite Evelyn Nay, Frances Pettee, Dorothy and seem to feel that they must be "over there" to be a little of the English homes and English life. Elizabeth Shipman. really patriotic her words are a splendid encour- We visited the theatre, went to a dance and met agement to those who are trying to their bit at some good looking girls, rode on top of the trams REPORT OF SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN. home. and had a good time generally. We saw the Katharine Stan-lev Hall, '09. women sweeping the streets, acting as street car The News and Magazine take pleasure in an- conductors, bar maids, mail carriers, etc. We nouncing the results of the recent subscription were just beginning to like the place when we campaign. Although we hoped to be able to an- Base Hospital No. 6, had to leave. We are now in (sunny?) France. nounce a fabulous number of new subscribers, we Dec. 23, 1917. The location of our camp is a fine one. It com- are fairly well satisfied with the number gained, perfectly To be honest, we are more or mands a view of the country for miles around. which will help our pocketbook considerably, and less over-stocked at the present time with "ex- We are quartered in cement barracks, but expect also show the lucky girls what they have missed ecutives." point is My that it seems poor economy to remain here only until we receive our trucks. all the fall. The number of new subscribers to to bring over here for ward work some one who Last Friday I took a long trip to a beautiful date is as follows: News, 55; Magazine, 29; club on the other side could do easily and well work city. It was a city I had always wished to see, subscriptions, 28. which a nurse who take would beautiful care of but doubted whether I should ever reach it or patients couldn't do to save her life. So often I not. We were there from Saturday morning PASTELS BY MRS. CRITTENDEN. think of the last line of Milton's Ode to Blindness, (7 A. M.) until Sunday night at 8.15, and what "They also serve only who stand and wait." It's we didn't see or do we think was hardly worth Once again Mrs. Crittenden is delighting the perfectly true if standing and waiting is also doing. We rode all over the city in a taxi, visit- college with her charming work. As always there accompanied doing all by in one's power to serve ing about every place we had ever heard of. is color, directness, charm, verve; but this time in the place where she is put. This war isn't Stopped at a fine hotel and just thoroughly en- they are applied to subjects quite new in our going to end or today tomorrow—more and more joyed life fo'r two days. There a quite a number of knowledge of the artist. The Bird Studies, the workers are going to be needed and why isn't it French peasants near here and we eat at their result of careful sketches at bird fanciers and as great a share to help train those workers on the cafes quite often. Tonight four of us went down close drawing in the museum, are fresh, original, other side of the water as it is to be here? You town to a cafe and had an omelette with 40 eggs in entertaining. "Henry's Family," No. 34, is treated at home are doing your share when you do work it. From what we gather from the newspapers it with a simplicity of vision worthy of Manet, and which makes it possible for the country to go on looks as if the drafted men were getting the best the views of New York Harbor and of the Hud- even when it is stripped of so many thousands of of the deal all around. However I think we are son show possibilities in American scenery quite those who ordinarily do its work. As a matter all glad here to think that we enlisted voluntarily. personal to the artist. of fact from all I can hear now from America I imagine that we are going up into the moun- AH who would forget for a little space these we in France are faring quite as well and working tains from here and I doubt if it will be any- dark days of the world, will linger in the Farns- no harder than those at home. where near as warm there as it is here. worth Museum where Mrs. Crittenden's pastels Mercy, what an essay on—well, just what is it I must close now. hoping to hear from you soon are now being exhibited. THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS Do your bit and be both stylish and comfortable in costumes of Silk. The quality Silks wear like cloth and look far handsome r ALUMNA REGISTER. You are sure of quality and style leadership when you buy The Alumnae Office wishes to thank those who have been so kind about sending in changes of MALLINSONV address for names on the lists recently published 1 1 Silks de Luxe O and posted. The Office still lacks the following addresses, and will be grateful for further help Be sure that the in regard to them. As proof is now being read, identification marks prompt information will be especially appreciated. are on the selvage of Khaki-Kool and Irs. Willis A. Anderson (Clarimond E. Potter). Pussy Willow and on 1885—Mrs. Charles E. Curtis (Emma F. Puring- the board or box of ton). Will tT The Wisp 1889—Miss Mary A. Winston. and Indestructible 1893—Miss Maude E. Severance. Voile. They are Mrs. Vincent E. L. Verley (Eliza O. Foster). there for your pro- 1895—Miss Ada Krecker. tection. 1896—Miss Eva Loudon. Miss Alice R. Callaway. Ask for the new Mrs. A. Edward Allen (Elizabeth E. Jones). Silks, Roshanara 1900—Miss Charlotte B. Herr. Crepe, Ruff-A-Nuff, 1904—Mrs. Edwin H. Vincent (Lilian A. McDon- ald). Amphora, and Slen- 1905—Miss Kate G. Wilson. dora Crepe. Mrs. Herbert French (Myrtle Goodman). 1908—Miss Elizabeth Niles. Mrs. Harry B. Bean (Grace Wagner). H. R. MALLINSON & COMPANY 1909—Mrs. Russell U. Bleecker (Hester Perry). 1910—Miss Beatrice L. Stevenson. "The New Silks First" Mrs. Arthur G. Wonall (Genieve Hodgman). )N AVE. - 31st STREET NEW 1911—Mrs. Harry Schurman (Bernardine Kielty). Miss Viola C. White. 1913—Miss Josephine A. Welte. '1-2. Crease-Keator. 1914—Miss Mary C. Wood. On November 28, 1917, DEATHS. at Germantown, Pa., Rachel Keator to Orlando 1915—Miss Florence H. Tenny. '78. On December 26, 1917, in Baltimore, Md., Crease, Jr. Address 6129 Wayne Ave., German- Carrie P. Fowle, Mt. Holyoke, '77, special town, Pa. ENGAGEMENTS. student at Wellesley, '77-'78, mother of Eleanor '13. Candlyn-Ridgway. On December 29, 1917, F. Fowle, '14. '11. Elizabeth V. Coan to Edwards C. M. Rich- at Albany, N. Y, Dorothy W. Ridgway to T. '83. On October 31, 1917, in Brooklyn, N. Y., ards, Yale Forestry School, '10. Frederick H. Candlyn of Durham University, Mrs. Crosby H. Wheeler, mother of Emily Crosby '11. Dorothy Mills to Rev. William Payne England. Wheeler, '79-'80, and of Susan Wheeler Friend, Roberts, Yale, '09, St. John's University, Shang- '14. Hellman-Gardner. On January 1, James '85-'86. hai, China. Maryfrank Gardner to Richard Hoge Hellman, '85. In Louisville, Ky., Richard Wilson Knott, '14. Liu Leland Stanford, '12. Address: Fung Hin to Chengfu Wang of South Prescott, Ariz. husband of Jennie Qilmore Knott. Manchuria, brother of Mr. C. T. Wang, vice- '14. Beal-Stone. On December 21, 1917, at '86. On December 1, 1917, in Evanston, 111., president Chinese Wellesley, Mass., Margaret Stone of the Senate. to Robert Wash- Anna Behlen Homer, special student, '84-'86, burn Beal. '15. Catherine Oakes to Chandler B. Gardi. mother of Helen Homer, '13, and sister-in-law of '15. Noone-Peck. ner, Harvard, '16, of Everett, Mass. On December 8, 1917, at Florence E. Homer, '86. Concordia, Kans., Ruth Peck to Lieutenant John '15. Jeanette Hayes Kuehner to John Franklin '90. In Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Winfred B. Col- Joseph Noone. Dunnick, Ohio State University, '13, of Toledo, lins (Helen A. Storer). Ohio. BIRTHS. '92. On December 11, 1917, in Andover, Mass., '16. Anna Hammond Burriett to Donald Osbprne '00. On December 14, 1917, a fifth son, Albert Mrs. Mary S. Whitlock, mother of Blanche Whit- Friend, M. I. T., '17, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Benjamin, to Mrs. Robert C. Stevens (Edna L. lock Carlton. '16. Eleanor Cowperthwaite Tyler to Winthrop Seward). '95. On January 10, Mrs. Nathaniel C. Hall Searles Tuttle. '03. On January 6, at Woodstock, Vt., a son, (Harriet R. Lance), sister of Frances Lance Fer- (Clare rero, '93, of Marian E. Lance, '95, and of Julia '17. Alice de Lisle to Sergeant Philip L. Kirk- Paul Eliot, to Mrs. Martin F. Goodwin S. Edith Lance Barnes, '00. ham of Springfield, Mass. Richards). '03. December 12, 1917, daughter, Mar- '96. On January 2, in Brookline, Mass., Mrs. •17. Kara Stanley to Captain Roger W. \1 eeks, On a garet, to Mrs. C. Sixx (Isabella '99- Charles Marr Park (Anna Ballantine, Mt. Hol- Massachusetts Agricultural College. '1ft. D. Gordon, '96, '00, '02-'05). yoke, '66), mother of Cornelia Park Knaebel, of Julia Park, '01, and of Caroline Park, '02. MARRIAGES. '07. On October 30, 1917, a daughter, Margaret '97. On January 18, in Auburndale, Mass., '10. Shepard-Shaw. On June 14, 1917, at Hazen, to Mrs. Lester Hazen King (Mabel Sim- Mary Whitney Thorndike. Aurora, 111., Alice A. Shaw to Willard Cameron mons). '01. On January 2 in Bronxville, X. Y„ Mrs. Shepard. Address: 6.5 South View St.. Aurora, '08. On December 17, at Syracuse, N. Y., a Katherine Sarles Durstine, mother of Florence IU. second son and third child, to Mrs. Edwin C. Durstine Hamilton, '01, and aunt of Mae Sarles, '1-'. Putnam-Diehl. On Dec. 3, 1917. al South Witherbee (Dorothy Hazard). '13, and of Fay Sarles, '1. Natick, Mass., Laura V. Diehl ('08-'09) ti Lieu- '13. On December 9, 1917, at Portland, Maine, '02, On October 8, 1917, in Edgartown, Mass., tenant Miles Putnam of Dedham, Mass. Address: a son, Gordon Lewis, to Mrs. George H. Chapman Gertrude Eager West, sister of Ruth I. Eager Dedham, Mass. (Mildred Loveitt). '12. Sahr-Karcher. On December 8, H i7, at '17. On January 3, at Great Barrington, Mass., '06. On January 6, in Lowell, Mass., Mrs. Pierre, So. Dak., Marguerite Frances Karcher to a daughter. Celcna Whitney, to Mrs. Alice Wilier Lydia M. Foote, mother of Florence R. Foote, Lieutenant Frederick Sahr. Dean ('13-'14). (Continued on page 10, column 1) THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS COLLEGE CALENDAR. Thursday, January 24. 8 P. M. In the Memorial — The month Southern Chapel. Organ recital by W. Lynnwood JANUARY of Farnam, of Boston, Mass. Friday, January 35. 8 P. M. At Phi Sigma, Wear Displays and Economy Events meeting of the Equal Suffrage League. In the evening at the Riding Hall an informal indoor meet. Sunday, January 27. Houghton Memorial Chapel. Our Great Birthday Sale 11 A. M. Rev. Robert R. Wicks of Holyoke, Mass. And other January Sales 7 P. M. Vespers. Address by Miss Grace Hutchins. Subject, Wellesley's Y. W. C. A. Work in China. Spell S-A-V-I-N-G-S on Seasonable Monday, January 29. Midyear Examinations begin. Wednesday, January 30. 7.15 P. M. At Billings and Advanced Merchandise Hall. Christian Association song service. Leader, Margaret Howe. A similar song {See the 'Boston daily papers for further particulars) service will be held in the village at Eliot at 7.15 P. M. The leader will be Marjorie Perrine. Thursday, January 31. 8 P. M. At the Chapel the second Organ Recital. Jordan Marsh Company 8 P. M. At Billings Hall. Frederick C. Walcott will deliver an address on Food BOSTON Administration. (Continued from page 9, column 3) graduates was discussed by Mrs. F. Mason North telescope will be used for observing the planets '06. Eliza- On January 6, in Middletown, N. Y., (Louise J. McCoy, '79) of the Board of Trustees. Jupiter and Saturn and the great nebula in Orion. beth G. Ogden. One hundred dollars was raised on this occasion John C. Duncan, Director. '07. On December 6, in Xeedham, Mass., Dr. for the support of the LTnit. With this money, Kingsbury, father of Alberta Kingsbury A. D. Mrs. Sears is to buy materials from which outfits Bowers. for the members of the LT nit will be made by the TAKEN. '14. In the aviation service in France, Gordon Wellesley women of Madison and the surrounding From the Library basement on Saturday, Jan- Stewart, brother of Helena Stewart Dalrymple. uary 12, a folding umbrella with a plain handle. '16. On December 30, in Wellesley, Mass., Dr. Please return it to the Library basement or to Royal Hatch, husband of Edith Noera Hatch COLLEGE NOTES. 314 Clafun. ('12--13). . On October 10, 1917, in Curityba, Brazil, Mary others on our campus or closely Jlege. Please send notes of in- Also, another on Tuesday, January 15, before P. Dascomb, Oberlin, '60, teacher of Rhetoric and base- t the News Office, Chapel the 9.40. Please return to Library basement or to Essay Writing at Wellesley College 1877-1880, contribution box on the News M. Monday.) 447 Towee Court. and continuously since she left Wellesley, a mis- sionary and teacher in Brazil. Mr. and Mrs. Burr A. Towl of Cranford, New On December 18, in Boston, Mass., Alpheus H. Jersey, have announced the marriage of their LOST1 Hardy, treasurer of Wellesley College, 1895-1914. daughter, Miriam Edith (1918) to Lieutenant Gold watch. Initials D. C. F. Kenneth Pickens Culbert, Sixth United States During coasting on College Hall Hill, east of CHANGES OF ADDRESS. Marines, on September 19, 1917, at Hoboken, Tower Court, last Saturday. Suitable reward for X. J. Lieutenant Culbert graduated from Har- return to Registrar's Office. vard in 1917 and is now attached to the U. S. Aerial Observation Squadron. The marriage was and ATTENTION ALUMNA! announced at once to the parents of both, LOST. Lieutenant Culbert sailed for France September Will the girl large black 23, the day Mrs. Culbert returned td Wellesley, who took by mistake a 1918 has a big surprise for you—something no Tuesday where she will remain. notebook from the library basement one has ever seen before. It contains about a morning, Jan. 15, please return it immediately to hundred mighty clever and some real peppy Several large chestnut trees on the Art Build- Caroline Whiting, 31 Freeman. besides 335 taken from actual life. We ing Hill have been felled during the past week, are particularly anxious to share this surprise preparatory to breaking ground there this spring. with you. The price is $2.50, payable before This is for the Liberal Arts Building, which is April 15th. Send your name and address at once to be the first of the new Administration Series. PERKINS BHBflGE THXI SERVICE to Laura M. Vossler, Bus. Mgr. Legenda, 40 Cazenove. Mrs. Hodder has been appointed one of the Telephone 409-R judges to award the prizes offered by the Na- WELLESLEY WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE. tional Board for Historical Service for the best Outfits for the Wellesley Ukit. essays written by public school teachers of Massa- For Prompt Service chusetts on the subject of "Why the United The Wellesley women of Madison, N. J„ are States is at War." Competent Drivers raising money and making plans to provide out- fits for the members of the Wellesley College Re- Miss Pendleton gave a coffee for Miss Fraser Comfortable Cars lief Unit which will probably be sent abroad this on Tuesday evening, January 22, to which the spring. Mrs. Charles M. Sears (Harriet Decker, War Relief Board and the Vocational Guidance '02) was instrumental in calling together the Committee were invited. LooK for cars marked E. O. P. women of that community for a meeting at which the proposed Wellesley Unit was the subject of The Surgical Dressings Class and the Child- central interest. In this connection, Mrs. Alfred ren's Sewing Class will not be held during the Telephone 409-R for prices to Boston E. Drake (Daphne Crane, '08) reviewed the work two weeks of mid-year examinations. of the Smith College Unit, explained the plans or otter trips, or call at Garage for the Wellesley Unit, and reported upon the On the evenings of Thursday, January 31, Tues- progress already made by the committee in charge day, February 5, and Friday, February 8, the of that organization. In addition, the war re- Whitin Observatory will be open to all members lief work now being done by the Wellesley under- of the college from 7.30 to 10.00. The 12-inch 69 CENTRAL STREET