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s last formal chape MANAGE JUNE PLAY lectures PERMANENT STUDENT LEAGUE OF NATIONS is series of >e led by President n May 22, Professor 8:15 A.M., Friday, May 31. The faculty Lyef group in Mos- Barrie's "Kiss For Cinderella" eniors, who will march in formal Hawley Bill Changes Disarmament Cause of Debate cow. These writers and artists of the academic procession, are to assemble at practical express the strong spirit of Agreed Upon in House At First Meeting of Is Production Chosen For j'clock. Constructivism which dominates Rus- Seniors and Guests sian thought today. Tretyakov, their At 3 P.M. on Tuesday, May 28, de- Model Assembly leader, writes plays, scenarios and books ate closed in the House of Represen- PLAN TWO PERFORMANCES on scholarly subjects. His metamor- itives on the Hawley bill for revision MEET AT CAMBRIDGE f the tariff, according to the decision

is of ..he change of f a Republican vist author typical i shores of Lake Waban conference held last The organization of the first perma- B swallows' new play, Kiss for r am A mood from the violent Russia of the led at 7:15, Friday eveni eek. The conference met at 10 A. M. nent Students Model League of Nations Cinderella, by J. M. Barrie, will be the revolution to the constructive spirit of 31, as the inter-class crew ra> n Thursday, and when the House met for the Eastern Bay State region and first production of the new executives. the present. Float Night, the second boat t 1 P. M. it was evident that Republi- the first meeting of the Model Assembly It has been coached by Miss Edith Lyef means literally "left front," but first, then the first crews. Al Agassiz House, in Margaret Smaill of the Department of took place at Cam- the spirit of the group is not futurist. therefore put through the House Reading and Speaking; and Theodora bridge, on Saturday, May 25. The busi- The critics affiliated with the move* will i fixing the time for a vote before the )f organization and election of of- Douglas. 1931, is Chairman of Produc- ment call for "more facts, less fiction"; Democrats should again abandon the the i The pageant, which appears their they term aestheticism a narcotic. chamber to Republican colleagues. of the meeting, was preceded by a mock Tretyokov's satirical drama, Roar, Republican leaders hoped that the il meeting, and followed by the China, followed upon a scholarly five acceptance by their party of the nine- of the Assembly which consid- portation of three small girls from meeting volume treatise of that country. Stepa- le changes proposed by the Ways Hunnewell School's Sixth disarmament. Discussions, which Grammar enes from the tale. nova, Tretyakov's wife, staged the play Means Committee would assure the pre- Grade. The program cover was de- lasted until late in the evening, with a setting which allowed two passage of the bill. The vote of tl sented ideas bringing out the stand of signed by Louise Seedenburg '32. Tree Day takes place at 3:30 P.M., on planes of action, coolies in the front of publican conference, moreover, defeat- the nations represented and gave, as The play will be presented at 8:45 Saturday, June first, weather permit- the stage, the British gunboat in the large majority the motion tha was its purpose, some realization of an P.M., June 14 and 15 in Alumnae Hall. ting. It is open to the public this rear. The gunboat, while not realisti- the House vote on separate items o: actual Assembly meeting of the League. Tickets for those undergraduates who year. The pageant, The Feast of the expressed that the Stu- will cally presented, gives the atmosphere the bill, helped to facilitate its passage Hope has been have received permission to remain Lotuses, is a gorgeous spectacle of the of the imminently threatening ma- Lat only a few days were al- dent League, in imitating the methods be sold at the El Table June 3 and 4. Orient in the time of Kublai Khan and chine. Its guns point at the audience, debate would also prevenl of the League of Nations, will in the Marco Polo, after which there is the and at moments of great tension in the disagreement, the Republican leader: future, with its important meeting at Cinderella Betty Zumbro Ceremony of the Spade. play, the entire boat moves forward Yale next year, foster as well as clarify Policeman Cast Katherine interest in international affairs. several feet. The ninety-one changes of the Haw- Old Gentleman in Shop ..Joan Piersen brief talk of welcome, Dr. Mayer Meyerhold is the most famous of the In a Mrs. Maloney Betty Hobbie Applications For ley bill proposed by the Ways anc with of Tufts College commended the stu- producers who are experimenting Means Committee succeeded in solving Marion Mabelle Street interest in League af- In 1922 he produced The Society Membership dents for their the drama. many difficulties. Concessions to Godmother Anne Belle Wickham pointed out to them that Magnificent Cuckold, as an uproarious fairs, and Virginia Queen Onderdonk their meeting would prove valuable in satire on the western "triangle" play. At a brief meeting of the classes o] Goehst ;r, onions, and potatoes were te King Emily several ways: in giving an opportunity (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Marjorie Glicksman 1930 and 1931 in Billings Hall or for this purpose. Especially wek Lord Mayor to copy League methods of procedure, a Alice Thursday afternoon, May 23, the chair- 'e cattle a Lord Times Abrahamson and duty chance for expression of spontaneous man of the Central Committee ex- Dr. Bodie Joan Piersen , valorem on hides, Professor Palmer Enriches opinion, and a way of meeting other Dorothy Richard plained the present society system anc Danny both of which we i taken off the free students with similar interests. Probationer Julilly House the society presidents Treasure Room's Collection list. The duty on Then, with the delegates as specta- Ellen Adele Wesley e removal from the tors, the council of the League of Na-

Mr. Bodie Theodora Douglas The i spoke of the free list of leather boots and shoes, tions, meeting in extraordinary session, Censor Marie Foulkrod ceding systems that were given a rate of 15 per cent marked in the Treasure Room by the which considered the problem of the Bolivia- Marie Dorothy Hall Wellesley, and of the introduction of valorem. Corn-belt farmers had addition of many interesting and val- ad Paraguay dispute. Beauties the present one in 1920 through the in the rate on uable books, manuscripts and auto- also urged an increase Mr. Constantine Ladis, of M. A. C, Betty Hansen Louise Neill efforts of the Joint Intersociety Coui black strap molasses; the duty on this graph letters, for the most part pre- took the part of M. Briand as president Julilly House Edith Khoury cil. The Council did its best to mal sented by Professor George Herbert of the Council. The representatives Gretel Arndt the new system an effective compromise Palmer, who has given to Wellesley from Bolivia and Paraguay presented and Ladies between the "rushing" system of Lords College his Collection of Early and the accounts of their respective coun- Doris Sargent Ruth Wagner period before 1910, and the extremely Rare Editions of English Poetry. It is tries. The chairman of a committee to Flavilla Morey Susan Shepherd median: through his generosity that this col- investigate the situation reported her Leslie Hudson Eleanor Wheeler Under the present system a Central conclusion that the dispute should be lection is continually being enriched. The problem of sugar raits \v;.i Grace Powell Aileen Shaw Committtee. composed of a Faculty Pan-American Among the association items recently which called for keen controversy handed over to the Ruth Craig Audrey McGrath chairman without vote, and a senioi Council for settlement. This solution added are important additions to our among the Republican groups. The Emmie Reuss member from each of the six societies was unanimously accepted by the coun- Browning treasures, A first edition of farm bloc favored the 3 cent work the applications of pro- cil. John Kenyon's Poe?7is with a presenta- receives both spective members and the votes of thi Permanent organization was effected 1929 Commencement Program tion inscription: "To Miss E. B. Barrett with the author's affectionate regards' societies (the voting being done with- when the secretary-general read the out formal discussion in the societies) Covenant of the Students' League, mod- and New System of Reunion is a rare volume. It was to this cousin There is an absolute academic standard elled on the Covenant of the League at John Kenyon, that Mrs. Browning dedi- sion, but the decision of the ma for eligibility to societies, worked Geneva, which after some discussion cated Aurora Leigh and it was through was to abide in all these cases by the The following events constitute the was him that Robert Browning was pre- by a committee of Faculty, and als> was accepted by the assembly. It 1929 Commencement Program: rates determined by the Ways and Russia and the sented to her. A beautifully bound "good citizenship" standard, judged also voted that Soviet Friday, June 14 Means Committee. copy of a first edition of James Russell College Government. Failure to be Of the many changes made b; Arthur Barnhart of Har- Houses open to alumnae, 2 P.M. Lowell's A Fable for Critics contains placed in a society may meeting. Mr. Committee the majority provided Tor- elected president of the As- The Societies will hold Annual Meet- an autograph letter from Lowell to vard was increased rates. Articles of wearing sembly. ings and Luncheons at noon. Robert Browning. A copy of Joseph Central Committee apparel made of cotton were increased; 1904 Tea, 4-6 P. M„ for all reunion and His Brethren written under the produce the greatest happiness of the The chief I agenda of the duties on all varieties of rayon classes at Alumnae Hall. pseudonym of Howard by Charles Wells greatest number of individuals waste, fiber, and fabric, were raised Class Reunion Suppers. when he was twenty years old has the Wool rates, with which manufacturers June Play. Alumnae Hall, 8:00 P.M. inscription "Richard Henry Home (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3 The Barnswallows Association will 1820." Home was a friend of steps that present Kiss for Cinderella, J. Mr. Russell sketched the A by Browning who collaborated with her in cieties. No applicant is placed ii have been so far accomplished, the dis- the New Spirit of the Age. 184< society for which she does not apply, Elections Symphony Orchestra armament of the Central Powers, and Saturday, June 15 (Continued on Page 6, Col. 2) nor in any society which does not vote the subsequent steps toward reduction Class Meetings. 9-12 A.M. for her. The Central Committee me The Wellesley College Symphony of armaments in other countries. Con- Luncheon will be served at Tower Court bers are pledged to absolute secrecy Phi Beta Kappa Officers Orchestra announces the following ditions are at present favorable, he for those coming to Saturday's events. that applicants can state the reas its officers for next year: concluded, for further progress, since for their choice fully and frankly i Mary Hemenway Alumnae Association. protection is afforded under the Cove- Eta of Massachusetts Chapter of Phi President Margaret Blackburn Annual Meeting and Luncheon at in perfect confidence. 367 bilateral treaties have Beta. Kappa announces the '31 nant, since instructions Vice-president Eleanor Riddle 11:00 A.M. A definite list follows, of to further world security, the following officers: been made their Secretary-Treasurer Alumnae Procession will form on Nor- to 1930 and 1931 for procedure since the international court system Sarah Dunlap '32 umbega Hill at 1:30 P.M. After be- applying for society membership. prevents unnecessary conflicts, and Vice-President Bertha M. Steams ing reviewed, alumnae will proceed 1. Each person should make si since the general disposition of peoples Treasurer Louise Overacker that her name is included, and is c< The league has learned to Alumnae Hall for the Annual Tree Day Notice is toward peace. Meeting of the Wellesley College rectly spelled, on the list now posted in its nine years of work that security All Classes meet in front of and disarmament are mutually depend- RAILROAD TICKETS Chapel at 3:15 can be secured only President's Reception. 4-6 P. M.. Presi- 2. If she has any questions what ent, and that both societies o Seniors in Caps and Gown The representative of the dent's Lawn. For Alumnae, seniors, ever, the presidents of the gradually. before the In Ad Building the chairman of the Central Committee Sophomores in White Committee therefore placed assembly a resolution that the mem- June Play. As above. Second per- would be glad to try to answer them. i Juniors in League adopt a system of JUNE 3, 4, 5 Other people should not be asked. Pastel Shades bers of the (Continued on Page 5, Col. 3) Page 3, Col. 3) (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) (Continued on — W WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

Aside from their ability to foretell SOPHOMORES SCORE 40 POINTS GALLIC POSTERS ARE WINNERS IN EXHIBITION 23 VOTE AT MUSEUM IN ANNUAL FIRD DAY. MAY are rather undesirable. One is seated Page 1, Col. at a desk, in the familiar atmostphere The Graphic Press On Thursday afternoon. May 23 of suspense that accompanies the is- •udiciH.e- ml Field Day wai Pi>pu\;i designer the : on first and second choi suing of the question sheets, when it "Printers, Linotypers windmill, the only realis- posters exhibited nnasium grounds. The the wings of a European commercial is discovered with horror that one has slides, wheels agreement, shown tic detail. Steps, and there. The general not prepared at all. or else for the events were started off at 3:30 by the Virkotypers actors use equally defi- form the setting, and the by definite majorities and wrong subject on the wrong day,. Per- Faculty-Student baseball game, from provides material fo: them in athletic fashion. The activity nite minorities, haps one has slept through the crucial which the Faculty emerged triumphant relative to the speculation on the aesthetic of the machinery is Hour! The relief of waking is hardly with a score of four to one! The stu- tenseness of the drama, thus giving a of the Wellesley girl. The c! compensating. A NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTION to psychological as follows: dent team was effectively attired in visual accompaniment 1. Nord Express—32 votes action. HOMEPORT GIFT SHOP 1=1 The Death of Terelkim 2. Etoile du Nord—31. prize the Faculty won a bunch of 3. Zoo— 14. in 1922, for which Stepanova des 8 Centre Avenue 4. Whippet Race— 12. the LENDING 5. Windmill— 11. LIBRARY After the baseball game the first principal of plete lack of NEWTON, MASS. the 6. The First of May—6. 57 Central team competitions in lacrosse, tennis, decorative setting, and St. 7. Advertisement for the Phone Newlon North 0077 use of functional carpentry archery, track played off. and were tover—5. chinery present to be acted DR. DWIGHT R. CLEMENT Three classes tied for baseball cup. all Twenty-two other posters received 1928 the Dentists typo- except 1931 received a share of the from one to five votes. Of the DR. STANLEY E. HALL graphical posters (which were not in i DR. COPELAND honor. When all the competitions some realism ne stark symbolism MERRILL DENTIST separate list) , the Bauhaus poster fo: recent- were over, the sophomores had won the Rodchenko eiley Sq. an exhibit by the architect Poelzig, anc for The Bed Bug Waban Block Wellesley 3 day with forty points, the freshmen poster for the American contemporary the German Miakovsky's of Tel. Wei. 0666 were second with twenty-five and film Seventh Heaven were tied for first Russia. But t tire is double-edged, DR. PAUL E. EVERETT juniors and seniors received twenty and shows the men of five points respectively. It is interesting OSTEOPATHY Dr. F. Wilbur Mottley, M. A. the Marxian state, who are "repellent PHYSIOTHERAPY Ing girls for athletic prowess anc Mouron-Cassandre. done DENTIST Painting, except as a useful art. i HOURS: 2:30 P. M. to 5:00 P. M. sportsmanship during their college ca- des Wagon-lits. Rodchenko, having fol Waban Block Tel. Wei. 0300-W condemned. fav- Colonial Bldg. Wei. 1212-1 reers: Elizabeth Burdick, Jean Harris Express, is a to abstraction t< lowed the tendency Paris. Elizabeth Knight, and Frances Pierce. with his "pun its logical conclusion smoothness of Varsities and Awards of Cups and W's design," Black on Black, took the nex Sat-ten We wish to thank you line and a simplified technique, admir- Shoppe equally logical step and gave up paint for your patronage and say LACROSSE—Varsity team ably suited to the presentation of the Restaurant Unique ing altogether, except occasionally ir 1st H.^Jean Harris '29 machine. good-by until next year. its useful function of costume design 54 CENTRAL STREET 2nd H.—Anna Kennedy "30 Third, fourth and fifth places all When the complete purity and conse^ Tel. Wellesley 1233-W 3rd H.—Jane Adair '32 went to posters from the series of the Reliable Tailoring Co. quent unintelligibility had been at- Luncheon R. A.—Sue Shepherd '29 English Underground. Sixth and sev- Tea Dinner 25 Central St. Welle.ley eturn to the old lit- enth were two Russian posters, stronger L. A.—Evelyn Gliddin '30 S1.50 Roast Chicken Dinner er.tin*".- ' the implete denials of art pleasing than those C.—Frances Pierce '30 and perhaps less Artists have become Sunday 12:30-2:30 R. D.—Margaret Habermeyer '32 have passed through the Wellesley students selected the poste Week day 11:30-7:30 L.D.—Louise Bender '31 they voted for first choice for their vei 3rd M—Florence Harriman '31 incomprehensible, to real artistic merit, or perhaps becau: Capt.—Alice Nash '30 Rodchenko of the Maxfield Parrish blue used : Pt.—Elizabeth Beckwith '30 has applied the principle to furniture their backgrounds, is something whic G.—Jane Chidsey '29 ;rs' club room, simple, se- will never be revealed. Subs—Mary Coyne '29 A DOUBLE PERMANENT WAVE scient llically comfortable. After the exhibition closes at the A Marjorie Smith '30 Photomontage, the art of composition Museum, the posters will be shown Class Cup—1930 ith photographs, is practised. the rooms of the Advertising Club Front Done on Spiral Curlers Individual Cup-Jean Harris "29 Boston in the Hotel Bellevue. "W"—Jean Harris '29 Constructivism in Architecture Back on Croquignole Curlers The architectural methods are sim- TENNIS— Varsity team WEIRD PRACTISES TO APPEASE ir to those of the Bauhaus. Simple 1. Elizabeth Lineberger '31 GODS OF EXAMS ARE REVEALED and eminently practical, Ginsberg de- 2. Janet Smith '32 scribes this as a fool-proof method, for 3. Nancy Ott '32 utility dictate to the thousand years Powder Puff Salon 4. Mary Carruthers '30 began and 59 Central Street 5. Shirley Smith '30 dairy made for a movie by (.>nh-hientiient dawned 6. Elizabeth Knode '31 Wellesley Tel. Wei. 0472- Burov, is functional. His laboratory he Dark Ages we still find, not 7. Elizabeth Tompkins '30 the Wellesley Botany astern Pennsylvania but in o: 8. Elizabeth Knight '30 Building, of which photographs taken most advanced—we hope—corners Sub—Le Sourd '31 by Miss Helen Hamilton of the Art lis very advanced continent, lini Class Cup—1932 Department were shown. Though de- superstitions. The approach of Wellesley Shop "Ws"—Shirley Smith '30 signed with a view to utility, heavy when one hesitates to place Elizabeth Knight '30 pilasters which support Gothic arches, the i Qod, 50 CENTRAL STREET BASEBALL—Varsity team doorway, and a function- ppleim-nts one s prayers. Louise Conway '31 ee foot parapet have been added antine, with an appeal to brings various Mary Coyne '29 beyond the demands of necessity. other gods there may be, fetishes to light. Virginia Felter '31 le movies are the supreme art of '32 : most evident is a profound be- for Summer Miriam Pitts is VALUES ern Russia. Sergei Eisenstein n luck. Those who are accus- Josephine Foster '29 greatest of the directors, and Pu- tomed to going unprepared t# class or Edith Heidingsfeld '30 dovkin, producer of The End of St. Knit suits, #13.75 Beatrice Hofman '32 Petersburg, is his chief rival. The pur- 3-piece outfits in plain coloi J. Else Kauzmann '30 Eisenstein's productions is utili- terned pull overs, misses' and w Carolyn Witmark '32 Subs—Ellen Kelly '31 collcctivistic emphasis Lmpurt- Eleanor Parkhurst '31 of the public rather than the COOL dresses, #5.95 Class Cup—Tied by '29, '30. and '32 actor is the working basis. Instead of Dimities, celanese, silks, printed or plain, ours freedom from study immediately p Individual Cup—Miriam Pitts '32 the appeal to sentiment, the direct im- less, misses' and women's, $5.95 receding the final hour and a fifteen "W's"—Josephine Foster '29 ipon the audience, not by linute walk in the air to complete the J. Else Kauzmann '30 the imitation of feelings on rocess. This began in most cases as Dressy summer dresses, #16.50

, but by the direct psycho- TRACK—Varsity team sensible thing to do, recommended by logical effect of the physiological re- Silk piques with a plain spo Margaret Bell '31 arents, teachers and hygiene instruc- power to the impression. chiffons, misses' and women's. Elizabeth Burdick '29 Excellent pictorial composition and Elizabeth Freiberg '32 p against this form of last judgment, perfectly timed rhythm add to the Linen dresses, #3.95 Elizabeth Lincoln '30 ut success in the past has in many picture as Potemkin, Virginia Macomber '31 ises brought a fear of not doing it. yiews of different ele- Margaret White '31 On the other hand, there are several Subs—Catherine Durant '31 ho do not dare stop studying until Miriam Stokes '31 Regular #1.85 stockings, #1.40 direct physical recoil. In Class Cup—1931 Ten Days that the stock, arrangement with The Shook World, it These are $1.85 in our own but by Individual Cup possibly prom by intellectually, just depicting the revolution of 1917, the the maker, they will be $1.40 on Friday. Saturday and Mon- Elizabeth '29 he "always does and it has Burdick shades. rowd dominates the picture. At pres- worked before!" day. Chiffon or service weight, fashionable sun tan "W's"—Elizabeth Burdick '29 nt the violence of these earlier pic- certain Senior puts on as Elizabeth Lincoln "30 A much ures has given way to the new con- bright lipstick as she can use. Another Cardigan sweaters, #4 ARCHERY Educational use she would for a tea. A Rad- Very high grade wool made into plain and patterned light Class Cup—1931 In showing new cliffe sophomore informs us that Wel- misses' and women's, $4 '31 weight cardigans, Individual Cup—Isabel Weber o the peasants. lesley isn't alone in its temporary re- "W"—Dorothy Hayden '29 ersion to the middle ages, for she 20'i deduction on jewelry 10% deduction on children's modern lways dresses as a formula for success, rigation are successively shown. Bun 1 the worst garments she can find. You may deduct 20% from the Seniors y^ deduct 10% from the )..n,-Iry ,., our slock model dairy was built for this film, i A Junior—and many members of the |,r„, „. .ill pr j M of a„ chiMrel ^ c | thes, l separator seems faculty will tell her that she is not {or one week, Friday to Thurs- girls' dresses, coats, sweaters a"

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From the beginning One of the pleasantest tales which WE are Slavery's ence nearly two weeks ago, the Senate has been heard on campus is of Ma- and House conferees on the farm relief dame Andrieu who celebrated the com- washable frocks . bill have been in deadlock. Last Sat- pletion of the General Examination by urday's break came when the Senate inviting the seniors who are majoring one. and cod liver oil cake and conferees refused to recede from theii in French and who live in Tower to eal were added to the free list. insistence that the House should take eat a fudge cake with her and so to The changes in the bill did not a test vote on the farm export deben- regain a feeling of cheerfulness and C.95 fulfill th ture plan, which the Senate inserted on conviviality after the grilling of the pletely publican groups, its own farm relief bill. According to the House contention, the debenture ent to make more sanguine the plan affected the revenues, and there- veek ago Monday, at the Inn the hopes of party leaders for the passage

fore its insertion in the bill was a vio- to France The i bell I sophomores who are going BAA Hey—Hey! It's the carefree yell of lation of that provision of the Consti- entertained the seniors who spent last n notably disappointed, dropp all measures tution which declares that year in Fiance, and plied them with opposition, fixing their hopes originate in !v'\ selves made of stunning cottons, wash- for raising revenue shall questions concerning the exigencies of in the Senate. :> „•}. House. Senate conferees, how- able silks, in the smartest fashions! the The in a foreign land; doubtless their £g\ ever, declined to discuss any compro- will be happier because of the extra \>* IfflW And they lead gay lives—these last mise until the matter had been put to

silk stockings which ' American , supply of . \ . . a test vote in the House. The result is they will now take with them to the ki a hopeless deadlock. A three months" 'Cnniinued from Page 1, Col. 3) / land of costumes and pai'fumerie. \v oSsR adjournment proposal has been put (MTpf !%M\ Sketched left: Pique ensemble, bright Application cards and pledges are forward if the Senate agrees to three the Bureau of Inform- demands Phi Sigs showed their forgiving be found at '.': " which .', proposals, foremost of i'" "'"' plan hospitable nature on Thursday on, white cards for 1930 and orange that they abandon the debenture jjltti) Uuihl Silk print sleeveless frock, many for 1931. let the farm relief bill be passed. evening by inviting the members of and JtH{\ color flowers. Cleverly tailored. Each, Zeta Alpha to picnic with them by the Read the pledge carefully and %\ Obstri Communist operation shores of the pond just beyond South ler its meaning before copying it of railways and of the gold and plati- Natick and the smoking line. Earlier e application card and signing it. Phi accessories — num industry was the penalty for ; year Zeta Alpha challenged (j Anil "Summery"

1 which three former aristocrats, officials Sigma to a spelling match and this was hi.lri 1930 i under the imperial and Kerensky re- coals-of-fire i-e he i in: )orTt. forget to date the appHca- leather, hand-braided edges; gimes in Russia, were put to death on id much food, but no competition, | bright color May 25 in Moscow. The Soviet govern- Dt even a capacity contest. All applications must be received ment declared that these men were [=] e noon on Monday. September 23. sports clothe-. Each .1.00 guilty of counter-revolutionary plotting should be addressed to "Chairman The rehearsals for June play were for the restoration of capitalism. of the Central Committee, Bureau of given with peculiar settings last week; r=j Information, Wellesley College." (This plexion shades. Plain weave, 1.00 the Kiss for Cinderella was as still con- dot weaves, 7.95 The League of Nations is the chairman is not yet Net. jacquard. amusing and as charming as ever, al- ause new government of sidering plans for the appointed.) Helen S. French, though the Policeman fell in love with 40,000,000 minority peoples. A special Summer Sill.' Sets—of tailored h.in.kuu Ch;iirm;in <>i tin- Central Committee, Cinderella behind Egyptian pillars. committee, whose most important snntan frocks anil sweaters. Set. 2.50 Senor Quinones de Leon of Spain, and M. Adatchi of Japan, has just met in

I London, only to reject the main pro- pelled by commu: Ceniiiuied i Pai;e 1. Cl SLATTERY WELLESLEY SHOP posal recently suggested by Germany of Residence's office. Sunday, June 16 10-12 CHURCH STREET and Canada. The committee is to pub- lish its report on the eve of the June Service. 11:00 A.M, Council meeting in Madrid, which le new Administration Building, Chapel. Sermon by Rev. EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPHY promises to result in a lively discussion that mirage -like James Austin Richards of Oberlin, AT MRS. VARDS since Dr. Gustav Stresemann, the Ger- Ohio. (Admission by ticket only.) . artistically done at the t t Foreign Minister, will probably man Wood also has been sacrificed An Hour of Music. 3:30 P.M. Me Pe°°Z,r. 1 "d '™1, guLriiso NICHOLAS STUDIO fight for the adoption of his ideas. altar of improvement, though Chapel. (No tickets necessary with reasonable prices. The proposal advocated constant sur- will : for Vesper Service. 7:30 P.M. Memoria 62 Church St., Call Welles! The Arcd. veillance by the Council over the inter- Chapel. (Admission by ticket only.; ests of minorities, and recommended Monday, June 17 that if government against which Commencement. Procession forms at 10.30 A.M. on Norumbega Hill. (Caps satisfy the petitioners, the minorities and gowns must be worn.) Address could frame new petitions and insist by Roscoe Pound, LL. D., Dean of the that the correspondence be sent to the Harvard Law School. (Admission League. The committee felt that this President Anntta Ker by ticket only. No tickets are neces- would be inimical to friendly negotia- Vice-president Claire Faitoute sary for those in the procession, but tions between the minority committee Secretary h Yvonne Smith it is not expected that there will be and the government in question. While rejecting the plan for a con- seats for any class after 1904.) Because of rain the song competition 1:00 P.M.. sultative committee collaborating with Trustee -Alumnae Luncheon. scheduled for May 21 was postponed the minority committee, and disapprov- at Alumnae Hall. until the following Tues-night of May ing the plan that the meetings of the Wellesley Students' Aid Society will latter committee be made public, the hold its Annual Meeting at 4 o'clock the in 24, Founders Hall. League committee suggested that Room ket—They fill Sale of books from our Le interested states publish the reports, Miss Jebb, visiting professor of the Alumnae Assembly. 7:30 P.M., at Library, and some new 1 and empowered the League to issue an- English Literature department, on nual reports on the number of minor- Thursday, gave a party for all members Class Singing about 10:30 o'clock, at ity grievances received. e Shakespeare classes. The two Chapel Steps. The report of the special committee other Shakespearian faculty were there, * its must be ratified by the Council in Miss Shackford and Miss Balderston. day, June 15, for Alumnae, seniors and beginning private meeting in Madrid There were a great many girls there; their guests, is this year combined with June 6. to permit discussion in the reg- they broke up into small groups which the usual garden party, because the public session on June 10. The gave charades. In all six words ular about fact that Commencement is on Mon- graduation Q/fis of vital import- question is considered day Instead of on Tuesday has caused political situation in Eur- ance In the cycus, given in two scenes, each repre- Monday's program to be shifted to since many observers regard the ope, senting two syllables, the fust, Mis> Saturday. The Alumnae Reception has SHOP OF BARBARA GORDON to 1 Balderston driving an auto with Mis; heretofore been given at Tower Court riii' I'lr.iu-st potential Shackford asking about t e oil and Gifts of Charm and Distinction Miss Shackford punishing (lick us) ap- many children; and lastly, the whole 1814-W The relation of the United States to pearance in the Alumnae Procession, ARCADE WELLESLEY word, which they repreSented by giving which can best be seen from Tower Association the scene where Autolycus, the Rogue cussed before the American Court Hill. Marching and set-up are (Miss Balderston) is met by for Adult Education by Dr. James G. considered as well as costumes, which executive director of (Miss Shackford). McDonald, who is will be significant of the class. the Foreign Policy Association. Dr. The Dix Reunion System, being used their Washington McDonald stated that wars, with <) Hotel Martha The Scout Club held its last meeting by Wellesley for the first time this ensuing loss of lives and money, will on Thusday evening, May 23. in a most year, enables each class, in the course A (Exclusively for Women) Americans cease boast- never end until reunions, to be back in college Street pleasant manner. Canoes on Lake of its I 29 East 29th Street 30 East 30th ing that they are better than other na- Waban made up their meeting housi with every class that attended college tions. In accordance with the spirit of and a picnic supper added to the gen during its four years of undergraduate Dr. McDonald's theory speech, Dr. Cultural Advantages Offered in New York. eral joy, after which the following elec> life. The classes of 1884, 1889. 1894, I Hill of New York University stressed HIGHER tions took place: and 1899, which would ordinarily not DAILY RATES — NONE 5,000,000 — . 2.50 the need for education of the Rooms with Running Water . . For One S2.00 '3 1929, are being allowed to President Eleanor Mowry, return in 3.00 . 3.50 aliens in this country, declaring, '3 reunions were Vice-President, Margaret Barnes, come because their Rooms with Prti For One — 3.00 . 3.50 . 1.00 ever that the naturalization of thi Treasurer Margaret Parrot, "3: scheduled for this year under the old portarit minority should not be Secretary Phyllis Scoboria, '3: L^^^^S- ' WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

counted WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS nourish and carefully help cultivate the with collegiate carelessness when they itself be < individuality of fledglings that might visit there. be averaged with t

The other abuse is of a sort shared in it has done during WELLESLEY. MASS., THURSDAY, frequenters of public genius. But surely, to train all thought common with the le nervous tension \ parks and with careless picnickers.. De- unless it shows a glimpse of the end in decidedly reduced, and the e distribution and al- the beginning to prove that it is aiming spite the plentiful would be undoubtedly mi toward a new goal worth achieving luring color of the mixing bowls, scraps of silver paper, burnt matches, and cig- and how many new ideas are born thu record that they had made arette stubs have t their four years in Wellesley w the more remote portions ut much promise at the start—to given as much consideration thought along established anc general examination. into, but if the terrace is t delightful place which it

It was with the aid of their master ART AGAIN Joyce, that a group of students re- belling against Kant first propagated To the Wellesley College News: the philosophy of the new realism. Despite the criticism which has been Free Press Column directed against Shakespeare Society for biting off more than they could been wondering, "If all mankind minus one were of comfortably chew in giving Antony and ne opinion, and only one person Cleopatra, it seems to me that a great was going the money £ ere ot the contrary opinion, man- ind would be no more justified in deal can be said in favor of their Irmini; that one person, than he, the expenses of honors paper, choice. There is something artistically there could not wholesome in their attitude. If one scheme which would financially help On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. set a high goal and fall short of it, the honor students. For to The Editors do not. hold them- the process has been one of growth. To it does not seem entirely selves responsible for opinions and they ha\ ^lu-.-m.-ntt in tins column. to All contributions should be in the seems to to do work i me discourage any histri- hands of the Editors by 10 A. M. on Sunday, and must be signed with onic effort. Two superlatives may be dition to their regular graduation b attached to Antony and Cleopatra. It SHEEPSKINS In a sense these honors papers is one of the greatest tragedies which BD supposed to take the place of Shakespeare wrote, and it is one general examination. The honors of the last days of classes, the approach of Finals and the anticipation of JUNIORS ON THE most spectacular of his The dent is not required to take the general, GENERALS plays. Commencement itself never fail to recall the story of the Wellesley girl but in its place writes her paper and This latter note was fully realized in To the Wellesley College News: who, emerging triumphant from the .'jraduatinn exercises, waved her diploma takes a shorter examination which the the Shakespeare production. The Are they a fair tl department makes out for her. test? Should aloft and shouted, "Mother, I'm educated." A certain sacred virtue, a tragic tone was not sustained through- preparation, however, for the writing Wellesley degree be entirely dependent certain air of finality, a certain social prestige, and a certain connotation of upon one examination? Should out, but this was owing to the youth of the paper and for the shorter e: mental superiority seems to cling to a blue-ribboned piece of sheep-skin, and appearance of the nation has undoubtedly taken dents who flunk that examinatic actors rather obliged to lose their degrees, than to failure handsomely endorsed with full baptismal title. And yet to quote from the time than if she were taking the when a in their effort. This members of the faculty admit recent prize essay in the Hew Republic on College As It Might Be: "The latter difficulty is always present in any the system is still in the experimental undergraduate comes to regard courses as harmless mnoctil.itions leading to play where girls are forced to take To have her paper tyj the all important intellectual vaccination mark—the A. B. degree." Is the men's parts. Judged from this angle and retyped she has sometimes We think that the result of th< it seems to me that the it prestige accorded this "vaccination mark" really as ill founded as article upon general examination should not entire- play as was article and speech upon speech would have us believe? while the majoity ly determine whether or not a senioi presented was done unusually well. of students i A professor of Economics recently remarked that, in his opinion, only ing their generals—without ar should graduate. The system of gen- The atmosphere of Cleopatra's court charge! erals we believe is a good one. A stu- at Alexandria, "A" students should be awarded diplomas, all others should merely be handed warm, soft, luxuriant; The honor student, of cou; dent should be capable of passing i the "certificates of residence" for their four year stay at Wellesley. Granting cool, passionless streets of Athens; valuable, tangible results in re comprehensive examination in he: the the dark, cold worldlessness of the in- justification for a certain portion of the statement and conceding to major subject, but there are many par- side of a tomb; all these different notes the progressive educators the underlying Tightness of their reform programs ticular circumstances which ought tc we should not, however, confuse our point of view in estimating the value importantly white-enveloped mark. en into account if the general is Perhaps I am unduly praising a per- of a Wellesley B. A. degree as it now stands. The error lies in naming made all-important. formance which was at times dull, but yourself as "educated," in burdening the weak-backed initial degree with One argument in iavor of generals I can't resist stressing those notes more than it was ever meant to bear. was that it should catch the student which are more or less forgotten by In 1929 a B. A. degree represents sixty hours of academic appointments, ire are several ways by which the who had done poor work during a certain r student per cent of whieh have heen taken in required subject; and at least might be he'J four years. Is it not failing in The department under which termine then- point of attack. Perhaps nine of which have been spent in one department. It represents also a she purpose when some students fail working might in some way hai have never I am prejudiced! passing grade in a "general examination" uver the major subject. No one been on probation special fund of money with which have even made a B average? The 1930. can considerately say that this minimum of academic work fructifies into could share the expense of the honor failure may perhaps be due to the se- education, or Wellesley's concept of education. It may be only the initial paper with its author. Contribution: vere strain they are under, to pool CHESTERFIELDS—TWO KINDS step for many. Some girls are educated (in so far as you can ever call any- physical condition, or some unavoid- the students working one educated) when they arrive. Foolish as it is to overburden a degree with the depart Some students To the Wellesley College News: ment, and thus the expense, being di with significance it is even more absurd to underestimate the four years work I good all-round records At the risk of being called a Mid- vided, would be much smaller. An during their four years but have not a B A. certificate stands for. Current satire on the complacent graduate Victorian, I venture the following other solution to the problem would done particularly better in their majoi and the lively battle in progress for revision of the present educational be to have a professional typist episode. Being Pre-War at least, I than in other subjects. Is it fair that system have confused the attitude toward the existing regime. Value your by the college for the purpose of confess that Emily Post seems to me typing the four years' records of such stu- honors degree of Bachelor of Arts for what it does total in academic work, adding papers. These are mere to have omitted a clause from her cul- gestions for this to the sum anything that may have been gained en route from the present problem which, though other students go brilliantly through tural mandate. Now I ask you . . . The it may not bother the majority social system. of peo- a general examination in a subject in other day I took an alumna through ple in college, is important to a which they have some special talent, Alumnae Hall. and group of seniors. though Owing to her years DEFENDING SELF-EXPRESSION" developed to a fine point the art of they may be poor in other sub- reputation. I was quite pleased at being discerning the special hobby of each jects? TO SMOKERS the chosen reveal There seems to be an amazing con- professor and basing his method of We think general examinations ttnd mentor who could trast of opinion with regard to stu- work upon it He learns to accommo- d specialization. Stu- to her the halls of her own building. s true, as we said last week, that take particular dents and their attitude toward study. date himself to the requirements rather care in We went through a number of rooms. tew smoking rule has resulted in electing i Alfred Jay Nock in a recent article says than express his own best ideas and irses which will be sure to the icesses or abuses of the She commented enthusiastically on privileges. id them that we are indolent imbeciles. Yet risk miscomprehension and failure. preparation for divisionals. decorations. thoroughly in There are, however, a few details of the She was Dartmouth College has just followed A 12-1E For undoubtedly it is the exceptional conduct of smokers at Alumnae Hall favor of the smoking arrangements. sibilities of the example of St. John's College in greater stress But more, on the instructor who does not feel that there which could easily be improved if a she had remarked establishing five Senior Fellowships of the subject is a "right" way of doing things and a little care were taken. In the first dignity and understanding with which each to be given "complete freedom to "right" way of thinking. And the stu- place, students must remember that the ;he students met th e situation. Just thought pursue the intellectual life at of generals ahead Dart- dent who is right is rewarded accord- library, which by common consent has as she w as becoming most complimen- mouth College in whatever always in the mini manner ingly. The student who is wrong suf- le a quiet resort for the studious. approached osing her electi- and direction he himself may choose. for the our tout Imagine ny feelings when ... rses which she v At the end of the year of his Fel- I one to which aiumnac we walke d in to fine a girl lying on a But who is to determine, except in a complete a well lowship the Fellow shall be given his I their guests often repair. Already cuhural up in the a case of proven fact, what is correct? college course are substituted al visitors have been offended by by dangling over the side. She » as at It is not only in the matter of pro- help the attitude of girls luxuriously en- student pass her ease. St e She The president of the University of cedure. watched us come in. When it comes to ideas and generals. Should not the Pittsburgh in a speech given two! :ed in the softness of the couch, undergraduate vas curiously interes ed in our progress opinions, too often the professor, college failed concern itself with giving months ago declared that all students who to pay any attention to older a . . and curiously enough, she nad realizing his superiority in knowledge entered cultural background and leave absolutel are of necessity four-flushers. They who the room. The 1 no effort t o reach a le .s re- and experience of the subject, regards specialization privilege of using the is to the graduate school? spend the first three weeks of a semes- room one which lay the student as his pupil, and a differ- unfair that een greatly enjoyed, a girl solitary . ter finding out how to please their in- and surely a who is and comfort while I took ence of opinion, left not only unchal- 1 cuiutcuus attention by illness from taking structors and the rest of the time to donors of her through. I couldn't say lenged, is dismissed with a calm "read the pleasing them. ill who come to see their gilt is a day set, should anything. The Alumna said a great it again and I think you'll change your price Dt be allowed to take it small to pay, and one which every till Septem- Is there anyway of suggesting We wonder in just how far he may be should feel is an automatic sr. We think that such matter cases ought gently that a certain dignity is possible, right. Each professor has his personal There are all too many ridiculous, a certain 1 amount of grace compatible preferences in the way he wants a puerile statements made by students with comfort? (And the girl had on thing done. Confronted with such di- which are best overlooked, it is true; We advocate that in order to in- violet colored bloomers!) verse demands the average student has and professors are not psychologists to rightly offended 1930. ! WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

Heaven, rendered by the chi The Theater ie-al qu.'Pii. excellent harmony. The duet by Vir- ginia Francis and Mary Larkin was Blossom Time. APOLLO— delightful parts of her portrayal. Her sweetly sung, though the diction was Gee~> COLONIAL—Show Boat. performance in the scene where the not entirely clear. Betty Hobbie sang a COPLEY—The Man Who Clian dying Antony is brought to her, showed German song in a pleasant and lively "Cross" —but Steve Brodie didn't remarkable finish for non-professional style. A duet, 'Tis Evening, by Ruth PLYMOUTH—Jane Cowl in Jenny. own a Fur Coat! acting. Cooper and Betty Granger, was nicely Luggage Barbara Hopkins' low-pitched voice sung with a sweet fullness of tone. the peculiar timbre of her tones JENNY and The familiar melody of the Cradle and even if lie had he prob- Mark An- added considerably to her SoJig, which Mary Larkin sang, great- This play is a comedy of modern tony. Her stage presence is always ad- ably wouldn't have taken ly pleased the audience. The full rich manners with many amusing possibili- mirable; confidence and complete mas- Special Reductions tones of Ellen Jane Lorenz and Kath- the chances with it that you ties, which unfortunately are not used tery of the situation aided in the re- erine Hubbard were well fitted to their to the full. Undoubtedly the play will sulting characterization. in duet. Hansel and Gretel.. In her solo are taking every day you be greatly cut and so improved, for at Elizabeth McCulIough as Lepidus of Betty Granger showed an easy stage present it lags too much for pleasure. leave yours out of storage the impressive tonsorial appendage, Fitted Bags Jenny is a beautiful and sympathetic and Elizabeth Farrar '28 as Sextus actress who pities a business man. He Warm weather, dust, Pompeius were both very good. In the and is harried by extravagant and sellflsh Pompey's Bacchanalian scene aboard and moths are constant galley, Wellesley girls showed a really present age plus the eternal sin of lover and his lass. In her solo Ellen Travelling Cases surprising skill in depicting Roman menaces. . . . but you only wife Jane Lorenz; sang with an especially ingratitude towards parents. His revels with "wim" and "wigor." The extravagant, fine clarity of German diction and an have to call HUBbard is scatter-brained and sight of some of our most law-abiding for supposedly typical of the modern citizens, not to mention the four wor- 2700 for absolute pro- wealthy woman. It is from these un- thies of the Ancient World, passing Men and Women circumstances that wishes perhaps, was Ruth Coopi happy Jenny out with such similitude of reality was, to sav ethe business man, and so invites Figaro. Her pleasing ma: to say the least, revealing. him to visit her in Canada. He goes in singing, and Helen McClosky as Menas and Nellie The Worlds Greatest Leatner Stores and finds to his dismay that he is the admiration of Lee Pearce as Enobarbus, furnished tones held the the audi. him. JORDAN MARSH only guest and that Jenny loves ample and good comedy. The famous He tries to be true to his wife, but fails speech of Enobarbus in which he de- and finds happiness with Jenny. scribes the queen and her galley was FOCUSSED ON THE SCREEN COMPANY Jane Cowl was as charming as ever very well articulated and extremely well makes a great deal of the play and done. Angela Higgins as the sooth- quite amusing which would otherwise Two pictures are to be featured sayer, and Jane Hemingway as the ex- be most boring. Her gestures are as the Community Playhouse tomorrow hausted messenger were two of the characteristic as ever. Guy Standing minor parts that were played with care and Saturday. Strange Cargo, a st SUE PAGE STUDIO gives an excellent presentation of the Photographs and finish. Jean Poindexter. '28, re- of mystery on a yacht, illustrates the asp to Cleopatra. turned to bear of chief benefits of the all-talk Wellesley, Mass. a difficult part. They work very well the Tel. Wellesley 0430 The entire credit for the direction together, which is fortunate for many picture. It is no longer necessary goes to Mr. King, professor of English of the scenes are between just the two fa Literature at Wheaton. exaggerate B. B., '30. good supporting c

' COMMUNITY of this drama is shown naturally by Miss Cowl madi after speech and action. The actors includ second act, which was very enthusias- ALCESTIS PLAYHOUSE Cherries tic and endeared her to the hearts o: ing Lee Patrick, June Nash and Georg appreciative audience. A difficult play was well presented, the large and Barraud, are all from the legitimat Wellesley Hills The play will doubtless round up intc when Alpha Kappa Chi gave the Al- Canteloupes shape and make a very amusing pro- cestis of Euripides last Friday and Sat- The second picture will be duction, since the subject and the sit- Mother urday evenings. The play is difficult in lull Machree with Belle Bennett, Neil Ham Thursday, May ; Watermelon that it is a short tragedy with the emo- light I r-;ed will ilton, and Victor McLaglen. As tin tions highly concentrated; its import- "Lilac Time" name would indicate, it is the story o Fresh vegetables ant parts are for men, and there is no and Irish girl's life-long sacrifices fo vivid stage setting to interest the audi- her child, given to a wealthier womai Fri. and Sa[., May 31 and „ ence. But the difficulties were for- every day upon their arrival from Ireland. "Strange Cargo" CAMPUS CRITIC gotten before the excellence of the act- | On Monday and Tuesday Clara Bow ing which marked the Alpha Kappa will appear as a chorine in a typical Hot House ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Chi performance. Clearness of diction "Mother Machree story. The Wild Party. Wednesday and and an admirable sincerity of feeling Thursday presents a revival of Harold showed long practice and a thorough Tomatoes the infinite variety of amateur produc- Lloyd's The Freshman and another understanding of the play. steady tions. There seems to be no of Rin-Tm-Tin's famous pictures of i=i Richards gave excellent basis for predicting where will appear Dorothy an the North, The Land of the Silver Fox. "The Wild Party" any portrayal of Admetus. the grief-stricken the virtues and where the vices of We make convenient Friday and Saturday of next week, deliyerie. particular presentation. With only king, who is half crazed by the death "Celebrity" girls from which enlist their stern- June 7 and 8, another film of that ex- to of his wife, who gave her life that he 1=1 souled Romans, Shakespeare Society cellent German company, the U. F. A. Wed. and Thurs., might continue to live. Her interpre- June 5 and 6 have a happier choice than might made will be shown: The Spies. On Friday tation of his broken-hearted dh tract ion Antony and Cleopatra for their annual "The Freshman" The Wellesley Fruit Co. evening also a play is to be given by production, which demands such a covered up by bravery was well done. the Unitarian Young People's Society. manly and martial display of garb and His wife, Alcestis, was beautifully Wellesley Square Tel. 0138 On June 17 and 18, the Playhouse gruffness. played by Jeanne Hoffman, who 'The Land of the Silver Fox'' It is difficult enough for girls to man- expects to present Ronald Colman achieved the right quietness of spirit and age modern male attire and carry it off Vilma Banky in Two Lovers. with which the unselfish queen sacri- well; it is even harder to storm about ficed herself. Her death scene, in THE BLUE SPRUCE LO in greaves and crested helmets. But if Papers and Themes Typewritten °GE the illusion of forces, messengers and which she whispers her last requests ...... 26 Weston Rd., Welle.Iey generals with their "Roman thoughts" and watches death approach, was a was not completely carried out, the set- (Continued from Page 1, Col 5) finely controlled bit of acting. Emily MARY F. COLEMAN tings of the play did contrast the Im- Goehst carried her man's part as Hera- progressive, simultaneous proi perial City and Egypt with clever sug- and gestive details. The use of the pillars, Anne Rogers became Apollo with a The chairman of the French delega- alternately covered with Egyptian pleasant ease. The rather difficult part tion, Mile. Aline Chalufour, hiero- of Rad- White Flannel Coats flourishes of lotus-motif and of the leader of the chorus, a philo- cliffe, voiced her agreement with the classic bareness of the White Silk Coats glyphics, and the sophical old man, was well played by Wedding and Commencement resolution, although she declared that Roman column was a good device. The Helen Kottcamp, and Marie Townsend. Or any kind of White Coat., Dr; security was not, as Mr. Russell said, a tower scene were Cleaned to look like new, and re barge scene and the taking the part of one of the serv- GIFTS shadowy thing, but a very definite and both cleverly suggested and well han- turned in THREE DAYS. troubling one. She asserted also that dled, considering the size of the Alum- the police forces necessary for internal B. L. KARTT Frocks nae stage. The dirge and the triumphal songs defense must be clearly defined before Most satisfactory among the cos- hich the chorus sang were written es- complete disarmament could be pecially for Alpha Kappa Chi by Ran- Iras, the lovely attendants; the Novelty Shop and dall Thompson. Credit for the excel- Professor The colors were particularly satisfying. lence of the play is due to Miss Edith resenting Germany, stated in emphatic CHURCH STREET Cleopatra's golden stain of the last Miss Caroline Fletcher for Moses and terms his country's disagreement with scene was extremely effective. advice in producing tin- their help and the resolution of the Committee. The and Rog- Because of the length of the play sev- dramatization, to Mary Anne Lic(nmpli>hnionts made until now, he of Production. eral short scenes were omitted and Chairman said, are mere talk, without action. M. C. M. '30. others were run together. By alternat- Moreover, it is not mere reduction of ing Cleopatra's palace and the officials' Gbe 35lue SDragon chambers of Rome, and street scenes, VOCAL STUDENTS' RECITAL lectivt; and c-impMe disLimumieii' The ^ * using the gray velvet curtains as a German people are anxious for pe of given background, the action was kept fairly A pleasant hour music was Page 7, Col. 2) 60 CENTRAL STREET, WELLESLEY, MASS. Friday afternoon, May 24, in Billings play seemed unusually long for an ama- Hall by the vocal students of the 11.00 A.M. to 7J0 P.M. Sunday, SJ0 to 7J0 P.M. teur performance. Music Department. Patronize was well varied. It dominated the ; program Theodate Johnson Tel. Welle.Iey 10S9 interesting stage in her role of Cleopatra. A mix- d with an Bright Stars Our Advertisers ture of quick fire tantrums and royal choral song. WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

James T. Fields; Edward J. Trelawny's Dreams and Records of Shelley, Bryon and the Out From Author with an autograph letter from Theories Trelawny to Swinburne inserted; ten Thresher's drawings to illustrate Francis Thomp- son's Tlie Hound of Heaven, one of an she pale at another on fire. edition of fifty copies signed by the June Clearance illustrator, Frideswith Huddart; Barry Through the interim shot our wild Cornwall's (B. W. Proctor) The Flood At Sale! of Thessaly with presentation inscrip- To the infinite-light our mad thought. view of the w< the Committee i tion to "Anne Benson Skepper from Space eternal with pain-hallowed cheek Vocational Ini her friend B. W. P." This is the girl This committe has arranged thirteen Proctor married a year later. Odes mid ler teeth at the havoc we wrought. Silks, Velvets Addresses of Great People, adds to our during the year. These meeting have For the infinite-naught of all bound- Hosiery included a great variety of subjects, Hood's first book. lelation of tlie though three of them were devoted printed in 1634 C^inmarv apologies Made us aim for the other-world teaching in recognition of the large with an inscription on the title-page lghts; Starting June 3rd and continu- number of graduates who go into tha "Ann Wentworth & Lovelace" contains our blood-streaming pathway was profession. The series began with "Op. an interesting autograph. We are very Are looking 1 Tr.rn.ndou, reductions on all the portunities for Women in Public Life,' glad to have the beautifully bound set With shadows we made on the night's newest Silks you'll want for sum- pivsenn <1 Percy's Manuscript Ballads of Bishop If you can f Wellesley, ie verge of discovering the one- and Romances, a reprint in four vol- style-tested silks included in this Legislature This was followed by dis- umes; and Child's English arid Scottish sreat sale and you'll realize one banking, department store Popular Ballads in ten volumes, an That made us eternal and new, training, cretarial work, and applied ipped edition limited to one thousand copies, back to earth and its same- lectures on teaching dealt art. The accompanied by an autograph letter progressive school with work in a from Professor Child. John G. Saxe's To a rumble-seat streaming with dew! Hill; in a high Miss Taylor of Shady Pense'es with a holograph manuscript Bacon; and in reli Thresher Brothers school, by Mr. of a poem by Saxe has a note signed And, knowing i Have a 1933 Little Sister! education, by Professor Marlat by Albert West which states "of the Boston University. In conjunction with amorous poems by John G. Saxe the Sign for a freshman on your 19 Temple PL 41 West St. Think depth ; Month, a the committee on Junior entire edition consisted of eight copies." BOSTON of the talk was given by Miss Tousley Of the manuscripts and letters only Charity Organization Society of New York City. The Departments of :i puL'in -aid IkUKhvn'itu- presented oppor- French and Spanish Wolfgang v. Dresden, Sept. manuscript positions guages; Miss Elliott spoke of of the pc Depart- for which our graduates of the om Percy's Reliques of Ancient ment of Hygiene and Physical Educa- English Poetry printed in 1765, and tion are prepared; and Miss Jackson, o be transcribed by Mary Russell diaphragm and Consultant of the Personnel Bureau, Mitford; a ten page letter from Jean gave a general presentation of the Ingelow; a folio manuscript of Zuleikha fields of work open to women and the le Countess of Blessington; a training for them. The series closed from Charles Sumner and two there is nothing with an informal description of the holograph poems on a quarto page, A day's work of a laboratory technician e Child's Prayers by John B. Tabb. hospital. in a i interest ins addition to the Tenny-

A new feature of the meetings was collection is a ticket of admission the teas held in TZE, at which there le funeral services of Lord Tenny- were informal discussions of a number in Westminster Abbey, October pronounce them, of vocations. The general attendance 12, 1892. f you can read as no one eve was good, but it is hoped that an in- Many of these recent additions to the say things loud and long creasing number of students may take Treasure Room are now on exhibition advantage of this ready method of ac- 2 case outside the Brooks Room Tf you can speak, and speak without quiring useful and, indeed, necessary your throat; information. WRIGHT & DITSON GOLF SETS can fil] the long, forgetful you IVY CORSETS $9.50 up SENIOR PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR AVERAGE COLLEGE STUDENT IS With sixty seconds' worth of "atmo- the Warm Weather Golf and tennis supplies UNFIT FOR ENGLISH COURSES for Forty-six seniors have reported to at FLAGG'S Yours is the stage and all that follows the personnel bureau that they have Wrap-around Corsets made definite plans for next year. oi kr-i.'piiv- in Flesh Voile This classification may be of interest.

i Sunback Dresses fit 1 Teaching 8 Corselets in white linen indolence, and imbecility with thou- with Panties or without Business positions 7 sands of courses in English, and simi- Full time assistantship in PARODIES Printed Silk or plain shades lar gratuitous tomfoolery. I wish as Bareskin Hosiery another college 2 much as anybody to see our pedagogy During any dark passage; Part time assistantship com- $9.75 and $11.75 braced up, and its faults corrected, but The quizz comes $1.00 a pair bined with study 7 everything in the academic Graduate work 6 Itched to in- the resonant, r=> Professional study: tellectual vacuity of the average col- Ivy Corset Shop ti and his girl, there is no use for ELEANOR, INC. Theology 1 thousands of specialized courses 8 Church St., Wellesley Medical School 2 be offered to college In chemistry; experiment Library 2 failed; 1 Museum In this way Albert Jay Nock throws My candle burns at all ends, Nursing 1 — Tor\! down the gauntlet in his article, TJie This surely can't be right. Attention Graduates Coming to T^ew Kindergarten 1 Absurdity of Teaching English. He The book said make a candle maintains that although the inflation But mine's a pool of light! THE PIERREPONT of curricular English is rather recent The Ford you got for $25 last fall; overlooks and peculiar to the United States, col- You are beautiful and faded The Entire Harbor of New York lege students do not need the study of Like an old, exploded tune English as it is presented to them, and Bursting from a healthy engine; 55 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn do not use it when they have it. Al- Or like the water-flooded tanks FOR MEN AND WOMEN though part of the blame for unfruitful century war. English falls upon the professor, still A new 550 Room residence, thoroughly modern the main thing is the stupidity of the Smoulder the lailmti average student, says Mr. Nock. "In- of sulphuric acid A PRIVATE CLUB telligence has he none, but he has a the perfume of And ] with certain low sagacity that inspires him Is foul and cniifuM'd to do just about the appropriate thing FULL HOTEL SERVICE with reference to the main chance." 'eniently located—2 blocks to I. R. T. & B. M. T. Subv The author believes that at present ilf-tones need repainting of the students go to college 3 minutes to Wall Street most with gazing ;row mad to Grand merely because it is the thing to do, and 18 minutes Central fenders bent. not for any love of studying. Since al- 18 minutes to Times Square most anyone can read a printed page ADDITIONAL FEATURES the thing to do was to dignify this per- Swimming pool, gymnasium, solarium, roof garden, library,

That sped to the left, now the right— And swang just above as we journeyed Weekly: Too swift to hang on in its flight. Single accommodations, $10-518

Double accommodations, $18-$24 (with private bath and shower) in tended; tur Reservations made in advance — WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

cation are here sharply criticized, and

Biblio File a method of improvement is suggested.

Young barbarians, according to Mr, '('"unturned Iron) Page 5, Col. 3) Peterk In Julia Graham, come to college with a long- June 1928. Bobbs-Merrill. nent peace; their country is now dis- ing for culture. Pour years in college.

armed; it is Although it must be the legal and moral obli- however, show that the Greek ideal ol gation of the other powers to follow Commencement, education and culture "has degenerated Germany's example and disarm com- path of the guileles into four years of acquiring grades and pletely and speedily. The representa- Weddings, Teas, Mary, is a book that seems well worth tive of Germany presented a resolution other charms necessary for the capture the honor of the Pulitzer Award foi that complete disarmament be carried ol the sheepskin diploma—the Golden Announcements out within a all this year. There is a grace and a hu- period of ten years, by Fleece of the Twentieth Century." the powers. mor in the tale of negro life on the Modern education is no longer syn- Everything in flowers To this resolution the representative great Blue Brook Plantation that Is a onymous with growth and living. In- from Italy, Bonnie Belle Guernsey of to make the month of it consists of "memorizing, during refreshing contrast to modern intensity. Mt. Holyoke, replied that it would be stead and a simplicity of style that is admir- impossible to carry out; she urged the fixed times and in fixed places, the roses sweet. ably suited to the theme. assembly to ignore this plan and accept largest possible mass of department- that of the committee for gradual dis- alized Mary was a light-spirited, happy girl. knowledge." This cannot and . A Russian delegate re- does not appeal to the young person of At the age of twelve she was baptized torted by supporting Germany. today. The undergraduate comes to and brought in he church. There- Mr. Arbo of Newton Theological Sem- after she was 1 in as Sister Mary, ary, representing Great Britain, tions leading to the all-important intel-

and even after r. mbsequent fall from urged the complete abandonment of the '^THEFLOUTHE FLORIST

grace with her rriage to July, she force; a representative of the gree." Such Tel. Well. 0701 I 5& Central A United States, calling his nation less retained the nai idealistic, suggested the International Not ( the ( Police System. Betty Hanson of Welles- done away with. The degree should striped across her record in heaven ley presented the views of Japan: her also be abolished, since "it tends to be- Going Abroad This Summer? she repent the error of her ways. T desire for moderate disarmament which come the object rather than the symbol Have Your Wardrobe Renovated plot is very simple, which allows e will allow her to maintain the security of our educational process." Like lec- she needs. phasis on character. Mary herself tures, it is a vestige of the mediaeval A. GAIN college, and is but an academic relic. admirably done with apparently lit Tailor and Cleanser "FrlKldalre," Hrepla4 many, Ireland, and Russia, the after- In place of the excessive department- effort, while Maum Hannah, and Budda alization, which now occurs at the ex- Ben are as living and delightful. by Prof. H. W. Elliott of Harvard. Mr. pense of integrated knowledge and co- ERNEST FORSBERG In speaking of such plantation Elliott suggested that the Assembly at- herent thinking, in place of the course tempt to follow more closely the views system, Mr. Graham proposes "an in- Watchmaker and Jeweler of the countries represented rather remark on their childishness, their tensive, searching study by each stu- dent of some problem, field, or institu- weird superstitions, their reversions to The afternoon meeting was followed tion in which he is interested." Al- the savage life from which they have by a two-hour recess for dinner and though the student would in this way not yet broken away entirely. All dancing. cover less territory, he would explore it The Thrift Shop Collection these elements are obvious in the book, The evening session began with the more thoroughly. TYPING SOLICITED reading and further discussion of the and Mrs. Peterkin makes no effort at Whether this method is satisfactory resolution proposed by the chairman of to the Wellesley Thrift emphasizing them, but lets them justify can be determined only by experimen- the German delegation. any : themselves. At the end the reader's »e used for the aid of Voting by roll-call of nations gave a vantages. It enables the student to impression of these people is based not great negative majority. Personal learn how to satisfy his intellectual cu- so much on their strange idiosyncrasies. opinion was divided, and an individual riosity. It necessitates small study as on the qualities which show by con- vote showed opinion in favor of the groups and intimate contact between trast the flaws in the white man's civi- resolution leading by a sliqht margin students and instructors. Such educa- For WEDDING and GRADUATION GIFTS The resolution proposed by the Third VISIT THE The reader who is always pictured at Committee read and debate pear as separate and this season as spending his summer in was next PEEK-IN GIFT SHOP gave way to more general discussion. cation would thus consist of learning by 124 MT. VERNON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. participating in the benefits of co-op- Sister Mary among the pos- Scarlet Imported Pottery—Embroidery—Linen, le League adopt a program of pro- sible items on his reading list, for sive, simultaneous, and proportion- prove of ben- while its humor and cheerful handling 5 new system would reduction of armaments, gradually of Mary's sins and conversion do not efit to the instructor as well as the ing to ultimate general and com- for then step from tax the mind, its pictures of the life nt, he could plete disarmament except for such infor- and people on an old South Carolina cture platform and "direct lay be necessary for internal to make education a plantation are well worth remembering. mally an attempt CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL police purposes, and the preservation of perpetual seminar based on a concep- THE Tlie Intimate Journal of George Sand. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE international order under the direction jf thinking and learning as social and translated by Marie ARCHITECTURE Edited League, provided that such ac- processes." LANDSCAPE Jenney Howe. John Day. 1929. taken with the co-operation of School for College While the existing Swarthmore hon- A Professional Intime is a sort of scrap Graduates This Journal s plan. Harvard tutorial system, and the book kept by George Sand between Russia still amued m behalf of Wisconsin experimental college are ad- The Academic Year for 1929-30 open! twenty-nine and thirty-six. It ages of plete disarmament. Pi ile reforms, they do not fill the Monday, October 7, 1929. contains the Journal to Musset, record- by warring tribes not members of the of the present day. The first two ing her passion for the man whom she League, stated the insecurity she would Henry Atherton Frost — Director had deserted and had later sent her a disarmament, while approving it 5 3 Church Street, Cambridge, Mass. for Europe. South America proclaimed colleges. The Wisconsin experiment is Al Harvard Square versations with Dr. Piffoel, which are the condition on which she would vote imaginary dialogues between her mas- Only by specializing broadly in one culine and feminine selves; and various the League and disarm also. large field of interest, only by making letters that were dear to The vote by states gave a majority sketches and vital, practical interests the looms

: 18 to 3 in favor o; which to weave our intellectual

The final I of the evening was Disappointment follows on the heels problems into ever-growing, variegated fourteen members of the first page. If the outpourings of pattern" can education be made a life- a love-sick and sentimental soul can The individual vote was affirmative by process of growth and develop- PHEBE RAYMOND be considered fascinating revelation of wide margin. character, or if the few and scanty - TEA - DINNER ing essays in the contest showed a LUNCHEON includes letters to great men can be called a the committee, which Ma- co-education. and Dinners y preponderance for Special Luncheons \ picture of the times, the glamour of in Hunter and Betty Hanson from „.... against intercollegiate athletics, a by Arrangement the title fulfills the expectations roused Wellesley. frater- smaller preponderance against Sunday Dinners and Suppers \ in the hopeful reader. On the other Wellesley had the greatest number of a general protest against the , and Telephone Wayland 140 hand it must occur, even to the most or- legates. Harvard, a leader in the grading system, examinations, and even with optimistic, that the editor's remarks ganization, was well represented, conferring of degrees. It is certain, up almost half of the book, college, Engineering make and im the the least, that students are dissatisfied that what little poor George is left to the Law School, and the Grad- methods, and [i present educational say for herself is generally quite in- hool of Education. Other col- attempting to suggest constructive Univer- consequential, and sometimes even dull. leges represented were Boston plans for a change. The introspections which make up most with its School of Education, For Commencement! of the volume have neither the vitality Jackson. Massachusetts Agricultural ol Marie Bashkirtseff nor the poetry College, Mount Holyok pleasure out of Commencement one of Katherine Mansfield. Great names Radcliffe, Tufts. Whea To get the utmost for appear tantalizingly on the pages, but appropriately and well-dressed finds it necessary to be PRIZE-WINNING ESSAY PLANS Musset, and Chopin, and Sainte- all occasions. SPECIALIZATION IN SUBJECTS tennis dresses, ensembles tor Beuve, are all mentioned casually, and We have party frocks, then dropped. Undoubtedly, since for hot days and a large assort- o not reject the ideal of liberal street wear cotton dresses these papers have never before been which are ideal tor We desire to make it a prints in the darker shades published, and since they do contain a ment of silk sentence sums up the point bits of personal This • few matter that sup- mutual advantage i travelling.- _ plement what has already been given of Howard Jay Graham, winner to the public, the volume will be of in- first prize in the New Republic's Individual Gown Shop terest to those who are concerned with on the subject, "College as It Wellesley Che Personnel Bureau. which was pub- H. Henriksson everything relating to the life and per- Might Be," in his essay 59 Central St. Welle.!^ sonality of George Sand. lished in last week's Neio Republic. E. P. 3*. and methods of modern edu- J WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

Clinton (Mrs. Davidson) Susan H. Brocket! 11 Abbott (Mrs. Older) is only paradise lost before

Helen S. Sidford i speak with wisdom. Today 629 Washington St. Miss Jenkins) SERMON ON DEATH DRIVERED one thing among young peo- Adele P. Krenning BY WARDEN OF ST. STEPHEN'S 603 Washington Street (Mrs. Billiard) Dorothy C. Alexander which is a of ig- Sunday morning, May 26. the 626 Washing-ton St. (Mrs. Poor) nee toward f M. Elizabeth Wills Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell, Warden of. LOST

;. Stephen's College, Annandale-on- Crofton (Mrs. Brandau) Idda M. Jova A Gown in Chapel basement. udson, N. Y., spoke in Chapel. urn to Lucy L. Wright, 416 Claflir As subject for his sermon he chose T(.;\vct C, ui'i )eath." The modern world is ex- kinn . . Margaret I. Bl:u n tremely cowardly about Death; by a conspiracy of silence we disguise that Beatrice S. Madsen Jean Ha, rals ; r<\:i as possible, corpse Norumbega Virginia T. Boyd their AT WELLESLEY INN Pomeroy H. Margaret Langhorst in fine clothes, Beebe Mary Chamberlain :casionally rouged to Shafer Virginia A. Jevne ife-like as possible. We "When dreary without Cazenove Elizabeth Tompkins in our every day lan- 'Tis cheery within" Susie V. Smith guage; people pass away, pass by, do Stone Dorothy Pease verytning but die. And yet it is the Dower Elizabeth T. Peirce nly thing on earth that we all have in Homestead Dorothy J ommon, the only inevitable thing. S'.I\. We see that most externals depart before Death and all certainly depart NEW TRAINING RULES after. That, of course, cannot be proved, but there is just the least gam- The Athl ince that the soul goes on COLLEGE STUDENTS le following changes in training rules:

1. Training will be required for The strongest argument for eshmen and sophomores, and strongly are cordially invited to avail themselves of the after life is that man still has an over- recommended for juniors and seniors. whelming conviction that there is some facilities offered by this bank. We solicit your 2. This training shall consist of: afterwards. We endure labor, a. Eight consecutive hours of sleep. Checking and Savings Accounts and assure you beginning not later than 11 P. M. on, expecting at each stage to find Saturday night the eight hours may that any business entrusted to us will receive our action at the next. And finally start at any time. best attention. tain to the age of 60 or 70 and b. Three regular meals each day with no food between meals except unsweetened crackers, milk or fruit. ng, working, sinning, repenting, enduring years because the perfection Safe Deposit Boxes for rent $5.00 per An- ive anticipated has never arrived.

£ foolish to ask under-graduates i and up.

about religion, for they 1

: expected that with the simpli- carefully wrapped up in cotton wool all fication of the rules, training will be of their brief lives. What do they willingly kept by all participating in sports. It seems advisable to require rejection? For these things they The Wellesley National Bank training of freshmen and sopohomores imagination only. Sex, to them, part of their regular sport work is to be pregnant with Capital $150,000 Surplus $250,000 health at they will gain good soul-filling happiness; they can carry through which they tically over-value marriage. ALUMNAE NOTES college with them. Having learned the benefit of feeling fit, as juniors and Engaged uors they will realize that they can-

; compete with their classmates un- of condition, '18 Blanche S. Doe to Dr. Leon A. s they are in the best rules Stetson, Syracuse University, Hahne- n giving these new training maintain mann Medical College. the college we are trying to standard of health and skill '22 Carol Louise Woodruff to Mr, the high our sports Drink Edward William Beglin. which we all wish to have in i we are counting on the college to '24 Ruth B. Sinclair to Mr. John F. acepting them in the spirit Bell, University of Illinois. p us by which they are given. '25 Elizabeth Van Gelder to Mr, Giovanni Carlinfanti, of Rome, Italy. '27 Louise Barrows to Dr. Jesse Law- rence Can-. STONE AND DAVIS HALLS SOW WILD OATS FORJUTURE LAWNS

Long and vital contact with the Bible has made most Wellesley students PAUSE Am think of grass as a thing that "Today

Ex-'24 Marcia Gluck Clarke to is, and tomorrow is not," and the amaz Russell Wheeler Davenport, Yale ing behavior of the grounds around th May 13. New Dorms has much astounded ob '26 Gertrude Joy to Mr. Irv servers by "is-ing" tomorrow in a plac M^\y

the truth should really be admitted ii THE FELLOW THAT SHOUTS justice to all concerned. It is not grass

that is growing there. Be it known "KILL THE UMPIRE" LOUDEST, •20 To Rachel Jones Nason, that in view of their extreme youth USUALLY WOULDN'T HURT daughter, Mary Louise Jones, May 1 Stone and Davis have just sown theii A FLEA. ORDINARILY HE'S

'24 : is not quite the To Margaret Myers Hayes, a wild oats. But this JUST GOTTEN ALL HOT AND that the ond daughter, Jane Ernestine, Feb. 28. whole truth either. It appears BOTHERED AND NEEDS '26 To Jean Harris Slenker, a oats now growing around aforesaid SO MUCH AS Al David Jay, Jr., April 17. dormitories have been subjected t NOTHING same influence that the famous "prairie ICE-COLD COCA-COLA AND ENGAGED flower" was, and they have become THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES. "cultivated."

But the cloying and restraining in- = found fluences of civilization do not seem to that this pure drink of have stunted the growth of the oats, natural fl THRIFT SHOP COLLECTORS delicious taste and cool been for the demands of Generals and after-sense of refreshment, final papers, per cent of the pop- i Village 93% a little minute long ulation of the New Dorms would have makes Elms (Miss Wheeler) appeared on fair days and at least enough for a big rest. M. Eldonna Jackson 57Vi per cent in rainy weather, to watch the The one who pauses Noannett (Mrs. Clifton) oats growing. The oats and their day £ Carolyn H. Witmark refresh himself laughs Eliot (Mrs. Wheeler) Ruth C. Stehler erheated fellow. Webb (Miss Christian) Virginia E. Hodson the grass that is to come. In the roots Little (Miss Stallknecht) left by the oats the gentle grass can Virginia Wood obtain a foothold, and the oats in dying Washington (Miss Snyder) give of themselves to make the ground Mary Thayer fertile for the more delicate and sen- Birches (Miss Wheeler) sitive grass. In years to come as stu- Lydia L. Kittell dents gaze at the lovely lawn on Stone