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GRADUATE DEPARTMENT

WELLESLEY'S PROFESSORS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Isadore Douglas, 1910J2 1

IN MEMORIAM : SOPHIE JEWETT Professor Margaret Sherwood 7

LIFE IN A GIRL'S CAMP IN ITS RELATION TO LIFE IN COLLEGE Harriet Farnsworth Gulick, '87 8

GRADUATE STUDY AT WELLESLEY Florence Risley, 1905, M.A. 1911 11

AN APPEAL FOR COLLEGE SETTLEMENTS Eleanor P. Munroe, 1904 15

THE OUTLET 16 UNDERGRADUATE DEPARTMENT

JOINING THE ARMY Evelyn E. Jamieson, 1914 18

THE GREENHOUSE MAN (poem) Berenice I Van Slyke, 1913 22

THE STREETS OF BERLIN Elizabeth R. Hirsh, 1914 22

OCHRIDA BLUE (poem) Translated by Associate Professor Locke 25

TRANSPORTATION OF ARAB RECRUITS Marion Gray Warner, 1916 25

A PLEA FOR AN AWAKENING Sylvia T. Goulston, 1914 26

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VOL. XXI. WELLESLEY, MAY I, 1913. No. 27

GRADUATE DEPARTMENT.

WELLESLEY'S PROFESSORS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS.

To compress the multiform activities and ley, and she took her master's degree the achievements of our Wellesley professors first year that degree was conferred at into the brief space of a few magazine pages Wellesley, in '82; her study has been con- is assuredly an impossible task. When tinued at RadclifTe, Athens, and Cam- one is confronted with the fact that they bridge, England. have studied in almost every place where Professor Hawes, the head of the Latin study is possible; that their books include Department, whose special subject is so- text-books, novels, books of travel, books ciety in the time of the Roman Empire, has for children, histories, and volumes of poe- studied in Leipsic, as well as at the Amer- try; that their articles appear in most of ican School of Classical Studies in Rome; the American magazines and some foreign indeed, she spends almost every summer ones; and that their outside interests are in the Latin countries— Italy, France, Spain, of the varied sort that might be expected or Roman Africa. The Associate Pro- from such a group, one feels that only in a fessors in this department, Miss Walton, a volume of "Who's Who" proportions graduate of Smith, whose doctor's degree could justice be done the subject. It may comes from Cornell, and Miss Fletcher, be possible here, however, to suggest some whose work has been at Wellesley, Rad- of the reasons for Wellesley's pride in her cliffe and Harvard, have also studied at the Faculty. American School in Rome; while Miss \\ al- The degrees held by our Professors and ton's Archaeology, which she teaches as well Associate Professors represent twenty-six as Latin, has taken her further afield, to American colleges and four foreign schools Leipsic, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, London, and universities; while many other foreign Constantinople, and especially Athens. universities are represented by shorter peri- The Professors in the Departments of ods of study. To take up the departments, Modern Languages are equally well beginning with one of the oldest, that of equipped. Professor Jackson of the Ital- Greek: Professor Chapin, who has been ian Department was born in Italy and has acting dean since 191 1, has studied in the lived there main years. Professor Mil- University of Michigan and at Cambridge, ler of the German Department is a gradu- England, besides working much in the ate of the Hanover Normal College, and American Classical School at Athens. Of has studied at Gottingen; last August she the Associate Professors of Greek, Miss was present at the convention of German- Edwards is a graduate of Cornell, her doc- American teachers in Berlin. Miss Scholl's tor's degree being from the same univer- work has been at Berlin, Heidelberg, and sity; she has also studied at Bryn Mawr. Zurich, from the last of which comes her Miss Montague is a member of the class of doctor's degree; Miss Wiplinger has just '79, the first class to graduate from Welles- returned from studying in Berlin, her pre- THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

vious work having led to a B.A. at Bern of English history, and has succeeded in and a doctor's degree at Freiburg. Pro- getting hold of much interesting material fessor Colin of the French Department has for the college library. studied principally in Paris—in the Univer-. In the Department of Biblical History, sity of Paris and the Sorbonne, among Professor Kendrick, who is a gradute of others; her doctor's degree was taken at Wellesley, holds her doctor's degree from Leland Stanford. She was decorated by Boston University, and Associate Profes- the Ministere de l'lnstruction Publique of sor Locke, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke, has France, and consequently ranks with the degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology French University professors. from the Hartford Theological Seminary. Both Professor Macdougall and Asso- Of the English Literature Department, ciate Professor Hamilton of the Music De- Professor Bates, and Miss Shackford and partment have studied at Brown. Pro- Miss Conant, Associate Professors, are fessor Macdougall's degree is the honorary graduates of Wellesley; Miss Shackford one of Doctor of Music; he is also by ex- holds also a doctor's degree from Yale, and, amination an Associate of the Royal Col- since her chosen subject is Mediaeval liter- lege of Organists in London, one of the ture, has studied much in England, France most important organizations of musicians and Italy. Miss Conant's doctor's degree In the world. is from Columbia. Professor Scudder and In the Art Department Professor Brown Professor Waite did graduate and under- and Associate Professor Abbot have been graduate work at Smith, and Professor continuously associated with the develop- Waite also studied at Yale. Professor ment of recent art criticism, both in this Sherwood is from Vassar, with graduate country and abroad. The practical work of work at Zurich, Oxford, Radcliffe and the department, while considered important Yale, her doctor's degree being from Yale. and in many cases essential to sound ob- Associate Professor Lockwood is a gradu- servation and criticism, is entirely subor- ate of the University of Kansas, and holds dinated to its purpose of illuminating the a doctor's degree from Yale. Mr. Young study of the history of art. This method is a graduate of Harvard and has studied study, originated by Miss Brown at the abroad. His special subject is American Slater Museum, Norwich, Connecticut, was literature; he has been working on various brought by her to the college in 1897-98, problems connected with the interpretation and has borne fruit in the vitality which of the ideal behind our democracy, as ex- has always marked the department. pressed throughout American letters. Professor Kendall of the History De- Professor Hart, the head of the Depart- partment has her degree of Bachelor of ment of English Composition, has degrees Laws from the Boston University Law from Radcliffe and Michigan, while Miss School, and has studied besides at Oxford Perkins has had both undergraduate and and Radcliffe; all of which has been supple- graduate work at Bryn Mawr. mented by first-hand investigation of pres- Professor Burrell, the head of the De- ent-day international situations by travel partment of Pure Mathematics, and Miss in Turkey, India and China. The last Merrill and Miss Vivian, two of the Asso- journey, in which Jack, the small Irish ter- ciate Professors, are all graduates of Welles- rier usually to be found near the history ley. Miss Merrill has done graduate study office,—was a companion, has resulted in a at the University of Chicago, at Gotting- book "A Wayfarer in China." Next sum- en, and at Yale, where her doctor's degree mer Miss Kendall hopes to spend in Russia, was conferred; Miss Vivian holds her doc- getting some impressions of the social con- tor's degree from the University of Penn- ditions there. Of the Associate Professors sylvania. Miss Chandler is a graduate of of the History Department, Miss Orvis and the University of Michigan. Miss Moffatt are graduates of Vassar, and Professor Calkins, of the Philosophy De- hold their doctor's degree from Cornell. partment, who is a graduate of Smith, has Mrs. Hodder, whose study has been done worked at Clark University with Dr. San- at Syracuse University, the University of ford, and at Harvard with Dr. Royce, Dr. Minneapolis, Radcliffe and Cornell (her doc- James and Dr. Miinsterberg. She has tor's degree being from the latter), is en- passed the examination for the doctor's gaged in special work in the Tudor period degree at Harvard, but Harvard does not THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. give degrees to women, so her doctors' de- the Canadian Rockies and Alaska, another grees are the honorary ones of Doctor of through the Southwest to investigate can- Laws from Smith and Doctor of Literature yons and mines, and more recently a from Columbia. Professor Calkins has tramp through Switzerland for the purpose the honor of being the first woman ever of studying glaciers, has made Professor elected president of the American Psy- Fisher thoroughly familiar with her sub- chological Association. Professor Case is ject. Professor Robertson, the head of the a graduate of the University of Michigan. Zoology Department, did undergraduate Miss Gamble, whose undergratuate work as well as graduate work in the University was at Wellesley, has studied at Gottingen of California, her doctor's degree coming and holds her doctor's degree from Cornell. from that university; Miss Thompson, in Miss Gamble has done a unique work in the same department, holds her doctor's her especial field of experimental psychol- degree from the University of Pennsylva- ogy. She has accomplished results which nia, where her undergraduate work was no one else has attained, and her work is done; Miss Hubbard has studied at Mt. well known both in America and abroad. Holyoke and the University of Chicago. Professsor Coman, the retiring head of Of the Botany Department, Professor Fer- the Economics Department, has her degree guson and Associate Professor Wiegand of Bachelor of Philosophy from the Univer- have done undergraduate work as well as sity of Michigan, while Miss Balch has work for their doctor's degrees at Cornell. worked at Bryn Mawr, Paris and Berlin. Of the other two Associate Professors, Mr. Professor Norton, of the Department of Riddle is a graduate of Harvard, taking his Education, is a graduate of Harvard; Dr. doctor's degree there also; while Miss Snow Skarstom, of the Department of Hygiene did undergraduate work at Goucher, and and Physical Education, studied in Swe- took her doctor's degree at the University den and at the Harvard Medical School. of Chicago. Professor Bennett's degrees came from The books and publications of Welles- Boston University. ley's Professors are far too numerous to Finally, the various science departments list completely; but as most of them are re- also show a wide range of university train- viewed in the College News upon their ing in their professors. Professor Whiting, appearance, perhaps a mention of the most who has been head of both the Departments recent and the most important will suffice. of Astronomy and Physics and has done so Professor Muller's "Carla Wenkebach— much in building them up, did undergrad- Pioneer," is a bit of biography which is of uate work at Ingham University, studied especial interest to Wellesley people since abroad in Berlin and the University of Professor Wenkebach taught German in Edinburgh, and holds a Doctor of Science the college for nineteen years. Miss Mul- degree from Tufts. Professor Hayes of ler's "GKick Auf" is soon to appear in a the Departments of Applied Mathematics revised and enlarged form, having proved and of Astronomy, is a graduate of Ober- one of the most popular readers in the lin College. Miss MacDowell (Depart- United States; and she has on hand at ment of Physics) and Miss Davis are both present several works in the province of graduates of Wellesley; Miss MacDowell pure literature. Professor Coman, whose holds the doctor's degree from Cornell. list of books includes 'The Industrial Professor Roberts of the Chemistry De- History of the United States," has recently partment is a graduate of Wellesley, and published 'The Economic Beginnings of 7 her doctor's degree is from Yale; Asso- the Far W est," in two volumes, a book ciate Professor Bragg studied at the Mas- which is attracting wide-spread commenda- sachusetts Institute of Technology, as did tion for its close study and its originality, Professor Fisher of the Geology Depart- as well as for its interest. Professor ment. Miss Fisher has supplemented her Coman and Professor Kendall have done college study by working largely in the two books on English history in collabo- field. In 1897 she was one of those at- ration; Professor Kendall's new book on tending the International Geographical China has already been mentioned. Miss Congress in Russia, where for four months Balch's most important work is her very the czar threw open the empire to geolo- able treatment of "Our Slavic Fellow gists and geographers. A long trip through Citizens." THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

At present Mr. Norton is compiling work has been a monograph called "A historical sources for the revival of Classic- Conjecture as to Thomas Haywood's al Studies in Italy in the fifteenth cen- Family." Just now Miss Bates is busy tury, the book to be along the same lines with the manuscript left by Miss Jewett. as his previous "Readings in the History Professor Sherwood's books are nearly of Education," which gave selected docu- as numerous as those of Miss Bates. Many ments from Mediaeval university records, of her charming short stories appear in the with comments. More immediately, per- Atlantic Monthly; she has written as well haps, Mr. Norton is concerned with for the North American Review, Cornhill studies of contemporary education, clinical Magazine, Scribner's, etc. Her last publi- studies of various types of children, etc. cation is a dramatic poem, "Yittoria." Some time ago, Professor Macdougall It is interesting that one of her first novels, of our Music Department was interviewed "Henry Worthington, Idealist," was one of in London concerning the surprising way the first books to be written about problems music was taught in American colleges; of modern social conditions. which is significant of the fact that only Miss Shackford has published "A First in America is music study placed on the Book in Poetics," and "Composition-Rhet- same basis as other college work. In this oric-Literature." In 1898 she had the honor direction women's colleges have led the to receive the first award of the Cook poetry way, so it is pleasant to find our Professors prize at Yale University. She has had of Music doing such "interesting publish- verse, critical studies, book reviews (espe- ing." Mr. Macdougall's "National Graded cially on her chosen subject of Mediaeval Course in Seven Books," is a series which Literature) and articles on travel appearing is widely used by teachers, and Mr. Hamil- in such magazines as the Dial, Atlantic ton's "Outlines of Musical History," and Monthly, and Modern Language Notes. "Sound and its Relation to Music," are text- Her latest book, on "Legends and Satires books for colleges and secondary schools. from Mediaeval Literature, " will soon be Piano music, songs and anthems, the lat- out. ter often sung first by the college choir, Besides many critical editions Miss are constantly being written. In this Scudder is known for her romance, "A Dis- connection it is interesting to note that ciple of a Saint, "and for "Social Ideals in Miss Bates' "America the Beautiful," English Letters," and "Socialism and sung by the college on national days and Character," which are widely used. For Student Government birthdays, to Mr. the Everyman series she has supplied two Hamilton's setting, and lovingly called introductions, and is now interested in 'The Wellesley 'America," is being the issuing of translations from Arthurian brought out by Ditson with four settings: Romance. Mr. Hamilton's, and those of Mr. Fisher, Miss Conant has published an interest- Mr. John Carroll Randolph, and Mr. ing study of "The Oriental Tale in England Sleeper, the minister of the Wellesley in the Eighteenth Century," one of the Congregational Church. This same Columbia University studies in Com- "America" is to be sung (to still another parative Literature. Miss Waite has done setting) at the Fourth of July celebration, editing, notably "Ben Jonson's English at Portland, Maine. Grammar;" Miss Lockwood has edited It is impossible to do more than refer to many of Milton's prose writings, and has Miss Bates' other published work. It contributed much to scholarship with her comprises books of travel, such as "Spanish "Lexicon of the English Poetical Works Highways and Byways;" stories; critical of John Milton." Miss Hart has edited work, including "English Religious Dra- various classics; Miss Perkins got out ma," and various critical editions; poems the recent "Vocations for the Trained which appear from time to time in period- Woman'' for the Women's Industrial and icals; and stories and poems for children, Educational Union, and wrote, too, a " Rhet- of which "The Canterbury Pilgrimage" is oric" which is entering its second edition. to come out in a holiday edition this fall. For the use of classes in Biblical History Among the publications of the Boston Miss Kendrick has arranged, with the help Drama League last year was a pamphlet of other members of the department, on the Irish plays by Miss Bates; her last various "Studies in the History and Relig- THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. ion of Israel." Her booklets, "The Chris- Department, Miss Davis has been experi- " tian Life" and "The Christian Church, menting with color photograph y. were published primarily for the College Professor Robertson has investigated Christian Association, being topics for the morphology and embryology of the daily reading, but the former especially is bryozoa, and is now an authority on the now being much used outside of Wellesley. bryozoa fauna of the Pacific coast of North There is no need to comment on Professor America and Japan. Miss Hubbard, also Calkins' widely used text-books: The "In- of the Zoology Department, is at work troduction to Psychology" is in its second now in her fourth Moor laboratory on edition, and the "First Book of Psychol- the inheritance of variations in certain ogy," as well as "Persistent Problems beetles; investigating some problems of of Philosophy" are in their third editions. evolution as well as the laws of in- Professor Calkins writes for the Journal of heritance, in that field of genetics which is Psychology, the Philosophical Review, for attracting so much attention to-day be- pedigogical journals, and German scientific cause of the practical work of eugenics. magazines. Among the Wellesley College Miss Thompson is investigating the brain Studies in Psychology Professor Gamble structure of three different genera of ants; has "The Choice of Stimulus Words for her work is entirely on histology. In the Experiments in Chance Word Reaction," Botany Department, Miss Ferguson's au- which is an authoritative study of the re- thoritative work on the life history of Pinus construction method in memorizing, and was highly commended by the Association represents seven years of study in the for Maintaining the American Woman's Wellesley laboratory. Professor Gamble Table at the Zoological Station at Naples has also had published recently in a collec- and for Promoting Scientific Research by tion gotten out by the Westboro State Women, and was published by them. As- Hospital for the Insane a paper on" Mental sociate Professor Wiegand has contributed Deficiency, "which was done with Dr. to many botanical papers; after this year Alberta Guibord's help. As the foremost Wellesley can no longer claim him. as authority among psychologists on smell, he goes to Cornell to organize there a Miss Gamble reviews each year for the Psy- large Botany Department under the Agri- cological Bulletin any work that has ap- cultural College. peared on taste and smell. In the world outside of Wellesley our Besides her text-books of Mathematics, professors are known in other ways than Professor Hayes has published "Letters by their publications. Professor Chapin to a College Girl," and "Two Comrades." had a lectureship at the American Classical Professor Whiting's laboratory manual in School, Athens, in 1898-99. In the Col- Astronomy is one of the first and most lege Extension lectures given this winter in useful contributions toward promoting Wellesley, Professor Whiting, Professor the study of Astronomy by the scientific Gamble and Dr. Skarstom have been use of photographs. among the speakers. Lectures on litera- Profes- Very important experimental and re- ture are to be given in the spring. search work has been done by members of sor Gamble has also lectured recently at our Science Faculty. Professor Fisher has Mt. Holyoke. Professor Fisher has been investigated the "partition process" for appointed by the University Extension of the lateral movement of rivers; a process Boston to give a four-year course of lec- before Teachers' not hitherto known, the study of which tures on geography the Science. Associate Professor "compels a new conception of river action." School of In the Astronomy Laboratory Professor Scholl lectures in Boston to a group of grad- uates on the Drama of the nine- Whiting has been measuring spectrograms of German teenth century; Professor M tiller spoke last stars, which have been received through summer to the State Teachers* Association the courtesy of the Lick Observatory. al Manchester, N. H. Professor Scuddei An important new piece of apparatus is that has more requests for lectures than she has for obtaining the Zeeman effect, by which time to give, on Literature, or on Economic it is possible to prove that the sun is ac- Socialism before church audiences. Though tually in a magnetic condition; thi> has Miss Scudder's chief interest is in the been studied and set up. In the Physics interpretation of letters, she continues to 6 THE WELLES LEY COLLEGE NEWS. devote much time to the service of Col- Professor Bates is also a member of the lege Settlements, the eastern branch Poetry Society of America; and like Miss of which she was instrumental in found- Coman is a director of the International ing. She is Director of the Denison Institute for Girls in Spain. Professor House work among immigrant Italians; Coman has given much of her time to that the work is especially prospering this year work this past winter; she has also been on because of a Lowell Lecture Fund grant the State Committee of the Consumers' for lectures in Italian which was secured League and the Executive Committee of by Professor Mary Wilcox, Professor Denison House. Prof. Macdougall is one Emeritus of Zoology at Wellesley. of the founders of the American Guild of Or- Miss Balch speaks this spring before ganists and was for a time Dean of the New the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences England chapter. He is also on the Board on Immigation Policies—Miss Balch being of Management of the Boston Art Club. one of a committee which is trying to get Of the professors who are now on leave the appointment of a state commission of absence many are doing interest- which shall investigate conditions among ing things. Miss Perkins, of the Depart- immigrants in Boston. She spoke recently ment of English Composition, is teaching before the American Association for Labor at the American College for Girls in Con- Legislation on her investigation of the stantinople, and sending interesting articles minimum wage problem. Miss Orvis is on Turkish questions to the New York Post. interested in the Progressive Party on the It will be remembered that the college educational side, especially in connection in Constantinople has had another Welles- with Italian immigrants. At the January ley Professor on its Faculty, for Miss Vivian meeting of the Philosophical Association, of the Department of Mathematics was a paper by Miss Case on "Hegel as an there for three years, during two of which Observer of Thought" was read. Miss she was Acting President. Associate Pro- Homans will give a paper this summer at the fessor Moffatt of the History Depart- Fourth International Congress on School ment, and Professor Roberts of the Hygiene, in Buffalo. Earlier in the sum- Chemistry Department are spending the mer she is planning for a two weeks' con- winter in Heidelberg, while Mr. Riddle ference of the graduates of her depart- of the Botany Department is also working ment, the object being to bring spe- in Europe. Miss Coman will also be cialists of distinction before the Alumnae, abroad next year, though to Wellesley's and to discuss the advance made in hy- regret it will no longer be as a professor giene and physical education in this and of the college; she will be in England, foreign countries. Mr. Hamilton with France, and Belgium, studying problems Mr. Foster will take charge this summer of social insurance at Miss Jane Addams' of the Music Department of the Common- request. Professor Bates will probably wealth Art Colony, at Boothbay Harbor, be in Spain Me., an Arts and Crafts school of about No mention has been made of the years four hundred. of faithful class room work that lie behind As might be expected, our professors these names, though this is after all the im- are members of every sort of learned portant part of being a college professor. society, and have places on various impor- There is no space, either, for praise of the tant boards. Professor Chapin is on the many members of the Faculty who are not Managing Committee of the American professors but who have done important Classical School at Athens. Professor and interesting work; or for the long roll Hawes was on the Managing Committee of past professors, and the work of organiz- of the American School of Classical Studies ing departments which is still going on. at Rome until the consolidation of that For all of this we have most grateful appre- school with the American Academy in ciation. The aim of this article, however, 1912. Miss Walton is on the Council of is rather to emphasize what is so often the American Archaeological Institute, from overlooked: the wide range of study our the Boston society. Miss Hart is a trus- Professors bring to their work and the tee of the Woman's Educational and In- many things they are doing continually dustrial Union, and with Miss Bates is a for the world outside. member of the Boston Authors' Club. Isadore Douglas, 1910. THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

IN MEMORIAM. Sophie Jewett.

By still lake shore, or oak wood sere, One time there walked a lady here In garments green, whose ripples still Blend with the grass of field and hill. Through the dim blue of autumn haze, Through quickening spring's enchanted days, Erect, serene, she came and went On her high task of beauty bent. For us who knew, nor can forget, The echoes of her laughter yet Make sudden music in the halls. For aye these academic walls Give back that cadenced voice that reads Poetic tale of knightly deeds, Her head thrown back in swift-born pride In one who for his faith had died; A sudden splendor in her eyes At finding act of sacrifice.

Earth had her merriment and tears, Her fine resolve, her quick-stung fears Of crawling selfishness and sin, Her quicker faith that good shall win. This brown world bringing joy and pain In days of gold, in lashing rain, Through all its myriad-minded strife She loved with warmth of human life, Revelled in every line and hue Of beauty sea and forest knew.

Sharing her sorrow and her mirth, We knew her part of blessed earth, Yet knew she lived, eternally, The soul's hid life one may not see. Withdrawn, apart, by night and day, Her footsteps climbed the holy way, Up heavenly hills of longing, where The spirit takes the road of prayer.

Nor dare we doubt that she, who then Trod the far world beyond our ken, Walks now, unseen, this earth of ours, Aware, as once, of sun-touched flowers, And hylas' plaintive cries, that bring The pain and peace of earliest spring; Of June's sweet fragrances, and all The subtle loveliness of fall. In gentle rain, in brightening air, Lo, she is here, and everywhere! Nearer than sight, or whispered word, Yet ours, though untouched, unheard, As eager as of old to share The beauty that one may not bear, So fine its poignancy of joy, Still busy in her old employ Of poetry, verse finely wrought That sets to music noble thought. 8 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

One had to seek her then, but see! Forever waits she silently Where bitter need or trouble calls. Alway I hear her light foot-falls In crowded streets, where hunger waits At its unnumbered, swarming gates; And step by step with human ill Her healing footsteps follow still. Whenever sudden anguish cries I see the sweetness of her eyes, Where quivering shades of sorrow blend With vision of the perfect end. Margaret Sherwood.

LIFE IN A GIRLS' GAMP AND ITS RELATION TO LIFE IN COLLEGE

Editor's Note:—It is of interest to know that dle, in short to live close to friendly Mother the author of this article, Harriet Farnsworth Gu- Nature through nine happy weeks of the Kck, Wellesley, '87, has, with her husband, Mr. Edward Leeds Gulick, successfully established the camp season. Aloha Camp at Fairlee, Vermont, and that she is Before asking what the relationship thus so ably fitted to tell us of the work, the life of such a life to college life may be, it is and spirit in one of the best known camps for girls. well to know a little more about the rou- Within ten years there has developed tine, customs and ideals of camp life. The a new and wonderful kind of summer camp routine is apt to be much the same vacation for the American girl which is in many girls' camps. I will tell of the having a deep influence on her whole life. life in the camp which I know. Only recently, summers seemed ideal The notes of the army bugle rouses all if we could spend a few weeks in the coun- campers at seven and they must move try, possibly climb a mountain, row on a quickly, for "assembly" will sound in ten lake occasionally, bicycle about the town, minutes, and then from highland and and have a horseback ride once or twice, midway, from lakeside and lodge the girls never forgetting always and everywhere come flocking to the tennis-court for a to be immaculately dressed in dainty ten-minutes setting up drill, deep breath- light clothes. Now, almost any day in ing exercises, a run about the court, mili- summer, you may meet on the mountain tary marching or a lively folk dance, to trail, along some lovely wood road, or the notes of the much used piano nearby, tramping through the woods, a group of helped by the agile violinist at the front sturdy girls, led by an older young woman, of the court. But that is soon over, and footing it gayly along the way. If you for those who came to calisthenics in bath- look pleasant and smile at them, they ing suits, a good plunge in the lake awaits may even give in your honor their camp them before they return with the rest cheer, as with dusty feet and tanned, for more leisurely and careful dressing but rosy faces, they quickly pass you by. before breakfast. These girls in New England camps come After a hearty meal at eight, all the camp from all over our country, chiefly from is busy from the newest of girls to the city homes to beautiful camp sights veteran-old camper, putting all in "ship- among the pines, along the lakes of Maine shape" order; making beds, sweeping and New Hampshire, or from the equally each her tent floor, picking up every stray beautiful, but less exploited state of Ver- bit about her tent that might reduce her mont. If you could hear their conversa- chances of winning the much-coveted tion as they pass, you would quickly find banner given at the close of the season, for that these sturdy trampers come from the best kept tent. At nine o'clock the homes of refinement and luxury, and that notes of the "assembly" bugle again they are hugely enjoying sleeping in tents, echo across the lake and all gather for learning to swim, to drive, to row, to pad- morning prayers and a sing. The best — ——

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time, some of the old campers have called every sleepy camper may take "forty this, of the whole happy day. Then an- winks," but if she won't "wink," write nouncements are made and delightful a wee note home, before the reading hour, trips and parties are planned. After a when the girls gather under the trees brief service the singing begins. Oh with embroidery or craft work in hand the good old sings at our camp! None of to listen to some good reading from some the non-initiated know the fun of those choice new story, or some standard old camp sings, led by piano, cornet, and book, new to the listeners. But mean- violins—a most creditable orchestra—pre- while the camp is forming plans for all sided over by a musical genius, that in sorts of fun and games for the afternoon, but a few days makes the stolidest of excursions on foot or on horseback, a trip non-singers want to sing! The camp to a neighboring girls' camp, a steamer songs are written by the girls and coun- ride around the lake, a boat ride with cillors, and it is well if you have a quick some of the girls, or best of all—to some memory, for there are many jolly songs a quiet paddle along the lake shore with to learn and new ones are being often a few friends. At 5.30 the supper call added to the long list. The singing ceases brings all scattered camp daughters back as soon as any readiness to stop can be to their hot supper with furious appetites, seen among the girls and all scatter to Then come the lovely camp evenings, their numerous appointments till the with basket-ball, or tennis, or a bonfire swimming hour. These appointments are in the ravine with camp songs and a good for the craft work of the morning, taught story, or a sing on the lake, when every freely to all campers by expert teachers, available water craft will be full to over- basketry, stencilling, leather-work, bench- flowing, while we serenade some neighbor work, jewelry and book binding. The or well-wisher of our camp, till in the girls elect which they prefer. It is hardly deepening twilight again the bugle notes possible to over praise this kind of work are heard echoing from bluff to mountain, at girls'— camps. Our girls come to us so and each prow turns to the home shore often "tired of books and lessons and and from each little craft is heard the the dead routine of school," but glad and favorite sound— "Good-night—time sounds eager for some work to do with their a warning call, sweet sleep descends to quick hands and deft fingers. Surely all all—Good-night." Milk and crackers are play and no work would make Jill a dull ready for all, and all they want as each girl! The campers grow steadily in their goes by the dining-hall to her tent. Then fondness and enthusiasm for this work, taps come at nine and lights are out and By the last of the camp days, we fairly all is still except for a few giggles and an have to "shoo" them away from the emphatic "hush, shsh" from an honor girl; work benches, they become so enthusias- all is still but for that little rebel, the whip- tic over the beautiful work, which is to poor-will. Such is an average day, but go as a happy surprise or a Christmas gift this leaves out much, the many camp for dear ones at home. But after all, the dances, the evenings of charades, the 11.30 bugle starting the swimming period stunt parties, the circuses, the reading is, perhaps, the most popular hour of the of the weekly Bugle,—the camp paper, day. With a life-boat to watch the deep the trips to the mountains,—Cube, Mousi- water swimmers, and an expert swimmer lauke and the Presidential Range,—the instructing beginners, we try to eliminate real camping out for a night and sleeping all dangers from the lake. The fun and on the ground, doing one's own primitive frolic runs high and it is a joy to see how cooking and getting a bit of the feeling quickly the prim little city girls are trans- of our primitive ancestors as we broil formed into expert young mermaids. After our bacon and tend the camp-fire, the swim, unlike their brothers at boys' But just how are all these good times camps, the girls often sit about drying related to college life? their long locks in the bright sunshine. In camp a girl learns genuineness. She But all must be neat and tidy by 12.30, gives up her distinctive clothes for the for then, hungry as bears in spring time, time, her elaborate coiffure and her more they flock to the well-loaded tables. Then elaborate hat, and dons a camp uniform, comes a quiet time after dinner so that drops her hair down in two pig-tails and 10 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, finds herself one of many with the superfi- do things with others, independence, re- cial unessentials eliminated. What she liability,—all apply to life in general as gives to the camp will not depend on the much as they do to college life. It seems coffers at home, but on what she is herself. to me, however, that the opportunity We care little whether my lady drinks which the camp gives a girl to size herself out of a golden goblet at home, but we up, as it were, is something which in- care much that she should pass the tin fluences her college life more particularly, cup of the trail to her councillor and camp perhaps, than anything else. In the mates before drinking greedily herself. democracy of camp life, a girl soon finds Her own attainments count for little un- out what she really is, and what she can less she can convert them into something do, and the poise and confidence that for the life or happiness of her summer comes from this knowledge is one of her community. greatest assets in college life." Resorting to the method of the ques- Another from a larger eastern college tionaire I asked camp girls at Wellesley, says: "It teaches a girl the meaning of Smith, Vassar, Holyoke, Bryn Mawr and fair play, which is a lesson she must learn Chicago University this question: Has before she comes to college. There are your camp experience had any influence games at camp and there is the feeling on your college life? If so, what? One of being on one's honor at everything camp daughter writes: "Camp makes a one does. If a girl comes to college at girl more democratic and not so easily seventeen or eighteen, where there is prejudiced by dress and general appear- student government, she must, above all ance, but she looks for what is in the girl. things, be truthful—play fair. Athletics, College life is much more selfish than camp of course, are a training for college teams life, for things have to be done and each and the regular hours are simply aids to one has to plan for herself, while at camp formation of good habits." the spirit is much sweeter and not so crit- Another, after speaking, as all do, of " ical." Another writes, Indeed I do learning how to get on with many girls feel that camp life is a fine preparation for constantly about, adds: "Camp taught college. First and foremost, because you me how to adjust myself to this community have learned how to live with girls, and life, and I have been deeply grateful for what things to care about and what it many times, too. Camp teaches some things to dismiss. . . it helps you to of the community spirit, and you can't get a true perspective. Perhaps, best help regarding other people's rights a of all, it teaches you to be unselfish with little more, and seeing more clearly the other girls around and to keep your temper needs and rights of student government. in the little affairs that are so often an- It was good, too, to know camp girls noying. Moreover, it teaches you to go already at college; it at least made the in for things and work at them for the sake way easier for me to find so many camp of working. It gives you the true kind friends when I came as a Freshman to of enthusiasm. Perhaps many would have college. The biggest part of all is the added learned this at school, but I learned at self-reliance and adjustability, and I don't camp how to get up stunts and manage believe a boarding school, with its rather parties, etc. You have learned at camp strained atmosphere, could do it so well." that in a community of girls, one can be Another writes breezily: "How can I informal. Often I have seen a Freshman express the wonderful experience that my stand back and shyly wait for an intro- camp has given me, ever since, a little girl duction, while the camp girl has already of twelve, I got out at the steps of the gone ahead and made acquaintances just camp and was introduced as one whose because camp has taught her that among only appreciation of the beautiful scenery girls their common institution, which is along the Connecticut was, 'Oh, my land.' their excuse for being there, is enough Before I went to camp, I knew but one introduction." girl well. At camp I first chose the ones A college girl from Chicago writes: with whom I came in contact, without "As I think them over most of the benefits taking further thought. It took me a from camp life, —health, greater considera- long while to learn that the girls whom I tion for other people, increased ability to most admired were the ones I should try THE WELLES LEY COLLEGE NEWS. 11 to know, that it was not necessary to Another prominent college girl writes: wonder whether they would let me play "Emphatically camp did prepare me for with them. Now, in college, I know one college life, but to explain just how, is is judged by the company she keeps. not quite so simple. There are, of course, Seventy-five or fewer girls at once where the physical advantages gained at camp, one is used to only one, is almost over- which prepare a girl for college. She gets whelming. What would a thousand have a reserve of strength and steady nerve been to me, had I not had my camp ex- that help her immensely to withstand the perience! I am sure camp taught me to nervous strain of college life. And then, realize that it is not the conspicuous too, this strength enables her to do much things that always count, and to get the more and to get more out of college. good that college offers in my own way. But the most important way in which The routine of camp is a pleasure to re- camp, or perhaps I should say our camp, member. I am glad I have had experience as I do not know other camps, prepares in dividing my time, when I see poor, tired, a girl for college is in the opportunity that overworked girls, who do not know when it gives for frank comradeship with college they need rest, who cannot realize that women. It is an inestimable advantage, the mind and the body, to keep healthy, I think, to know intimately people who must have complete quiet at times. Some have done or are doing what you are ex- girls here do not know the treasures in a pecting to do, and camp, as no other place long walk over hill and dale, along the that I know of can do, influences a sub- brookside, through the woods, when all Freshman immensely. Perhaps what I thoughts of lessons are behind." mean could be summed up in saying that Another adds: "Camp life taught me she gets the true college spirit, in the best how to get along without mother, how to meaning of that much-abused word. fight homesickness and to* get out of my- Harrtet Farnsworth Gulick, '87. self."

GRADUATE STUDY AT WELLESLEY.

"Pythagoras, the light of Magna Graecia, eminence where no human teachers are lived for a time in a cave," and a- good above us, no human companions our peers. many persons with a turn for etymology Graduate -life—for it is not so dull as to will trace your "graduate student" directly be all work—is a different matter from to "Pythagoras" by those same cave marks merely a fifth or sixth year at college. It which, they aver, are but too apparent in represents a different adjustment of the the derivative. They sniff the mould obligation upon the teachers and the and damp in his pale cast of thought, and taught. Professors justly expect both pity his unaccustomed eyes dazed by the a more insatiate and a more enlightened bright world. Ah well, I have no turn for spirit of inquiry in their students, and etymology, but I have a weakness for these in turn look for a greater freedom caves, and who shall say there is no grain in the use of their time. Under the direc- of truth in all this? Certain it is that tion of a college course, if the parties to the Pythagoras was searching for wisdom contract have been reciprocally dutiful, and that he chose for his helpers leisure, a student has travelled in various realms the best teachers, and sympathetic com- of knowledge panionship. What else do we? It was for "And many goodly states and kingdoms wisdom that, "exempt from public haunt," seen," he listened to the sermonizing of the stones, read the running brooks, and delighted in until from his own experience he comes to the company of his own good thoughts. imagine truly how vast is the whole world Even in our day there is no ban upon one's of knowledge. But who that has travelled own thoughts, and we still learn gladly has not longed to abide, not only to gape from those teachers of the hillside and at "towers, domes, theatres and temples," field: but we have not yet attained that to mark the strange manners and speech, 12 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

and pass on to gape and wonder again; nor of surgery, nor chemistry, but of every- but to stay until the faces of the people thing rightly." The too often expressed take on their rightful look of kinship with and too, too often felt disparagement of their greatest works, until the alien himself other than the chosen subject of study becomes a neighbor where must be my apology for a little homily, "all were neighbors and hand lay warm in since it shows how many of those who hand." pursue graduate work are likely not to catch it for many a. day. These are they Graduate study is the abiding in that who dart down every little wilding path pleasantest spot of all, where is new work and mistake soul-withering erudition for to do, new life to live, and where, too, wisdom, or the course of least resistance for splendid characters—a noble array—have the course of all-conquering genius. come before, lingered, and established breath and much ink are spent themselves in their own right as scholars. Much in praise of the "all-round development" In undergraduate study we hear these a college training stands for. However, this scholars talked of in the circles of our over-proclaimed rotundity must be looked elders, we are led up on all occasions to it will quite lose its first make our bows; but among ourselves to or centre by too much stuffing on the non-aca- we regard them as crusty and eccentric demic side. It is a perverted notion landlords upon whose great estates we of 'all-round development" that lets it poach with scarcely a twinge of conscience. be expected from any amount of extra Initiation into graduate work involves academic interest in social work or social the acquiring of a decent and courteous play, politics, or the fine arts, without a respect for the property of others and a first and greater interest in not one only decent and humble respect for our own but varied academic subjects, properly daily efforts at proprietorship. more theoretical than practical. What I do not mean to say that a rampart eyes are fit to read the poets that have not or moat or any such thing divides all been trained to see clearly and accurately graduates from all undergraduates, and what is before them, to mark the sea until they are in they are entirely out. when it is "wine-dark," to note the rubies In spite of the efforts of the college to es- in the gold coats of cowslips? What are tablish uniformity in entrance require- ears that cannot hear ments, everyone recognizes the disparity symphonies to in the preparation of entering students; "the small gnats mourn and in spite of the good Mater's best Among the river shallows?" care, an almost equal disparity remains at Who that objects to the severity of ab- the end of the course. The powers for- stract reasoning can hope to be consistent fend that these mental seedlings should and effective in the planning and execu- be set and trimmed into a formal hedge, tion of any work of art or affairs? To their growth one inextricable tangle, and borrow Newman's quotation from John every shoot lopped off that puts out to Davison, "A man of well improved catch a sweeter breeze, a more embracing faculties has the command of another's light! Yet it is the constant wish of the knowledge. A man without them, has college to give individually that care not the command of his own." and nourishment which in the end shall On this foundation of trained faculties, make all of equally study stock, each graduate work builds up that true self- after its kind. Some students early rec- possession which comes from the mastery, ognize the unity of knowledge and the through prolonged labor, of some one relations between the parts; and for such, difficult subject. Leisure and inspiration graduate work is a straight road and a are the mainstays of this as of all prolonged fair, leading through whatever region to labor; and the degree in which they are that one goal of truth where science and offered should determine one's choice of philosophy are one. Ruskin defines a college or university for higher work. university as a " place where only certain The patience essential to a scholarly re- persons come to learn everything; that gard for truth can hardly be learned is to say, where those who wish to be able without leisure. To expect students con- to think, come to learn to think: not to tinually to accept big, new ideas in the think of mathematics only, nor of morals, lump, is to induce rashness and super- THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 13

ficiality—those direct contradictions to the As for inspiration, that second and more nature of scholarship. Certainly an in- important factor in prolonged labor, it finite capacity for taking pains-whether may and happily does come often from or not we call it genius— is the victorious books, often from the "collision of mind foe of mediocrity,while rashness and su- with mind" in the class room, often from perficiality are its boon companions. Of personal example and encouragement. course this desired leisure is not one Nowadays when one may have his "twenty in which to dawdle, to let schemes bokes" without going threadbare for them, and theories evaporate for want of con- or may read for the asking thousands of densing effort, nor one in which to amass volumes in any town library, it would encyclopaedic information under the de- seem that inspiration from books is as lusion that it is scholarship, and that it likely to come in one place as another. will reward with loveliness that "infinite And yet something could well be said for love of learning" which is the student's the lessening of friction in a woiking best mentor. Desultory zigzagging through college library, where through the con- a course of study, so far from enriching, stant sifting by those who know, the enervates and slackens the powers so most reliable books are kept nearest to that it becomes increasingly difficult to hand. The inspiration that comes from thwart the tendencies of the Mr. Brooke class room discussion is very far from neg- or the Mr. Casaubon, in one's mental ligible, and cannot be quite replaced by constitution. any other. Where all have worked, all At Wellesley the attitude toward this are interested and alert, each will be very important factor of sufficient time is sharp to find the weakness in another's a generous one. While it is possible for argument and on his metal to maintain good students and diligent to take the his own. As in good sport it is better M. A. degree in one year, yet it is to run and lose than not to run at all, usual and wholly without opprobrium among one's peers it is better to be refuted to spend two years in carrying the same than not to have ventured to think. But number of courses. This policy dis- better than books alone, better than dis- tinctly raises the quality of the graduate cussion alone, which if unguided is too fre- work; for it is only reasonable that grad- quently misguided, is the generous leader- uates simply by virtue of being graduates ship of them that go on from strength to cannot do markedly better work with fif- strength and pause only to cheer us in the teen hours than seniors who have their way. What I should like to be able to hands pretty full with that number or less. say Newman has already said in his essay Another advantage of this policy is the on "The Rise and Progress of Universi- chance it gives to make use of such a city ties" in a way that can bear many repe- as Boston, the richest in intellectual tra- titions. Books are well enough, but when ditions of all American cities, whose early people "aim at something precise, prestige is maintained in such living something refined, something really lu- monuments as the public and semi-pub- minous, something really large, some- lic libraries, museums, lectureships and thing choice, they go to another market; clustering institutions of learning. I they avail themselves, in some shape or need add not a word of Wellesley's exul- other, of the rival method, the ancient tation in having all this at will and her method, of oral instruction, of present own fair seclusion besides. Anthony communication between man and man, of teachers instead of learning, of the Wood—whom I have some reason to personal influence of a master, and the quote tenderly—who loved his own Oxford humble initiation of a disciple, and, in most entirely, makes his requirements consequence, of great centres of pilgrim- for a university: "First, a good and pleas- age and throng, which such a method of ant site, where there is a wholesome and education necessarily involves. What- temperate constitution of the air; com- ever be the cause, the fact is undeniable. posed with waters, springs or wells, woods The general principles of any study you and pleasant fields; which being obtained, may learn by books at home; but the those commodities are enough to invite detail, the colour, the tone, the air, the students to stay and abide there." life which makes it live in us, you must. 14 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

catch all these from those in whom it thing to stand without the pale and see lives already." these who are already masters The graduate department at Wellesley "Work apace, apace, apace, apace," is still small in numbers, so that few and quite another to be initiated by courses, if any, are not shared with seniors. their own hands into the mysteries of There is a recognized benefit in this ar- productive scholarship, to have them rangement; but it is generally supposed often as tolerant and kind and unerring to operate from above downward. A coworkers. Whatever may be said of little leaven of older, presumably more material equipment in libraries and in responsible and more eager students, lifts apparatus for scientific experiment, it is and expands the interest of the under- the personal relation between master and graduates; and the result is noticeably disciple which counts for more than all better work. However, from my own else in advanced study. And it has been observation I believe the benefit has an so from the beginning. The schools of upward direction as well. Superiority ancient Greece and the universities of of intellectual power is as likely to be on one mediaeval Europe were merely the con- side as the other; and even supposing the course of learners wherever famous teach- graduates have the start by longer appli- ers established themselves. Men crossed cation, I think the younger students' seas and mountains and endured hard- very lack of experience serves to check ships to reach and abide in Bologna or an excess of technicalities with which Paris or Oxford, not for the "wholesome graduate work is often taxed, and to and temperate constitution of the air," ward off the danger of missing the obvi- "the woods and pleasant fields;" but ous out of zeal for the hidden. Still because in this or that place living teach- working upwards, the presence of grad- ers, —masters of the quadrivium, doctors uate students in a class tones up the of the law or medicine, expositors of the character of the instruction given; it is Fathers, were giving themselves indefati- impossible for a teacher to give his best gably for learning's sake. to languid students, and no less impossi- So long as comparisons are what that ble to withhold his best from eager ones. merciful man Dogberry says they are, I If there are advantages to graduate need not indulge in any between Welles- students at Wellesley in being few in ley's graduate department and others. class rooms, there are far more and indis- It is enough to have spoken whereof I putable advantages in their closer com- know concerning the ideal cherished there munication with those guides, counsellors of intellectual expansion, as Sir Thomas and friends in whom the "colour, the More has it, "the free liberty of the mind tone, the air, the life" of the subject and the garnishing of the same;" an ideal live. Their researches in library and laboratory, their examples as investiga- in which intellectual grace and beauty tors and students, as champions of true and generosity are implicit. thought are an inspiration; yet it is one Florence Rtsley, 1905. THE W EL-LESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 15

SENIORS, ALUMNA AND THE COLLEGE SETTLEMENTS ASSOCIATION!

When you turn your tassels to the right, to take responsibility shown by the fact 1913, and step into the ranks of Welles- that the club rooms and gymnasium of ley's Alumnae, aren't you planning to our New York Settlement have been march in the army of our College Settle- turned over entirely to the care of the ments Alumnae Chapter as well? If you Association known as the Young Men's have been College Settlements Association Clubs! members in college, of course there will Think of the Baltimore Settlement, be no question, and if you haven't, we new and small, but very valiant, holding want you just the same! 'Tis a splendid many clubs and classes in painfully cramped way to prove your college loyalty and quarters! service your interest in social besides, Think of the valuable training in co- so when you are asked this spring to operation gained during weeks of working pledge your membership for next year, and playing together in vacation time at please say "yes." Mount Toy or at Chalkley Hall! should certainly Our Alumnae Chapter Think of the Philadelphia settlement's loyal in its support of the Association, be struggle to raise $1 ,300 to purchase the house for have Wellesley graduates as head we now in use by its Front-street Branch! workers in two of our four settlements, When we consider that about 1,500 people Miss Geraldine at Denison House, Gordon belong to the constituency of this house, Boston, and Miss Eva Louden at the the investment seems quite worth while.. Locust Point Settlement, Baltimore, to Think of all these things, multiply them say nothing of our Fellow, Miss Marion by the hundred, and you will have some Loker, 191 2, now working at the Riving- idea of what forces our settlements are ton-street House in New York. Last year and may become in their overcrowded we raised but that is a trifle $1,033.50, city communities. Then won't you decide in comparison with our numbers and the to help Wellesley carry her fair share in tremendous needs. By must 1914 we supporting the work? make our contribution at least $1,500, and If you are an Alumna who has never this can be done if the outgoing class and joined, a subscription will be gladly re- the less recent Alumnae rally enthusias- ceived now by the treasurer, Miss Jose- tically to our aid. phine Thayer, 11 West Street, Milford, Think of the comfort given to the 820 Massachusetts. people under the care of the resident nurse at Denison House, last year, and keep If you are a Senior, a pledge is all we ask this in mind that 4,705 visits to the sick were spring. made during twelve months! Eleanor P. Monroe, 1904, Think of the young men's gain in power Alumnae Elector. 16 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

THE OUTLET.

I wonder if those who object to the where experience with people has been student body's Saturday exodus to Boston limited. They cannot but feel the per- realize what those trips are going to mean sistent presence of culture which permeates to the girls in later years. It seems silly, everything. Even the newsboys have an I might say, harmful, at first glance. But Irish—or Italian—Bostonese accent. how many, who bewail the custom, have If, then, the girls flock to Boston on lived far away from the centers of art Saturday, may it not be in answer to an and culture long enough to become hun- unconscious call within themselves? For gry for that which is to be had in Boston? six days they have lived in an atmosphere To these I need not appeal. of the femininely academic, happy and The girls may not realize what wonder- absorbed in the purely theoretical. That ful opportunities they are having to store half-day's relaxation of change of sur- their minds for meagre years when col- roundings ought to fit them for the re- lege has become a memory, but uncon- sumption of the serious work of their lives, sciously they are doing what will help just as work in the gymnasium does. It to make life a bigger, finer thing for them ought to help them to keep in touch with later on. For even the most frivolous the work-a-day world outside the walls musical comedy has some saving grace, of the purely intellectual. And speaking whether it be a lilting melody or only the for many graduates and former students associations of the city itself. It is a with whom I have talked, it would seem human experience in the life of a great and a great mistake to limit the Saturday famous city outside the walls of bookish trips to Boston. theories and abstract problems. College girls are not boarding-school This may not seem applicable to girls girls. They ought to be able to choose who have lived their lives in large cities wisely what they need and want. If they and have never known a time when music, do not, it would seem wiser to help se- art, literature, the drama, were unob- lection rather than limit opportunity. tainable. But practically no girl not a All of those with whom I have talked Bostonian has ever lived in, or will again are unanimous in saying that the Satur- live in the atmosphere she feels, uncon- days and Mondays spent in Boston are sciously, perhaps, in Boston, unless she among the most stimulating and enlighten- stays there. ing experiences of their college lives. They For the Western girl, it is a revelation. stand for the realities of life viewed from It is a new world with strange people and the height of the theoretical, to which she widens her horizon by brushing shoul- said theory was applied. ders with the crowd in the subway or on And because these trips to Boston mean the streets. She is in an atmosphere not much to them, it would seem unfortunate dreamed of at home, no matter where to limit the single half day which is now that home has been. Nor is this experi- at the average student's disposal, thereby ence limited to the Western girls. It is endangering some part, at least, of the true of most girls from all over the country, humanizing influence in the college girl's except possibly New England, but es- academic career. pecially so of girls from small communities A Western Graduate.

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OUR VILLA IN CARTHAGE.

Carthage, Tunisia, March 18, 1913. swept over us. He explains volubly that have our meals sent up from the It is not every day that one engages we may a room at a hotel and finds oneself in hotel or may come for them at any hour possession of an entire villa, and yet this we wish, shows how to drop the Venetian shutter over the door at night, and assur- is what has happened to us. Carthage revealed itself to our astonished eyes as a ing us that he will return with hot water spot so lovely and so beseeching that the immediately, he vanishes. single day we had planned for it was not We stare at each other as in a dream. nearly enough. So we stopped at the little We are in Carthage—and we look out over hotel, said we might return in a day or the shimmering water, over the fields with their tumbling heap of ruins and the road two, inquired if we could get a room, and were assured that we could. where the flocks are wending homeward. in are in posses- Perhaps it was my French which was We are Carthage, and we responsible for the result, or perhaps it sion of a villa, a garden, a terrace and green was because few Americans come to this latticed gate! small Mediterranean town, and fewer stay. We make a minute examination of it But whatever the reason, this evening all, and discover that the house has been when we arrived, the smiling proprietor freshly whitewashed, the flower beds fresh- seized our bags and led us, not into the ly weeded for our arrival. hotel, but up the country road a little Above us on the right is a walled mon- way, through a white pillared entrance, astery; far away on the left gleams the up a newly mowed path, to a small square next hillside village. Before us is the bay villa with tiled and balustraded porch where once lay the ships of Tarshish which and long Moorish doors and windows. He were the talk and wonder of the world. flung open the door: behold a sitting-room, And, here too, is the beach, where "on with center table, rugs, hanging lamp, such a night as this, stood Dido with a easy chairs; behold three spotless, softly- willow in her hand, and waved her love tinted bedrooms, a bath, a tiled kitchen to come again to Carthage." with shining white porcelain stove! Be- Hark—the same birds that in ancient are hold, outside a neatly swept garden with days were heard by emperor or clown sanded walks, a small hedge of orange singing as they sang three thousand years open- trees in fruit, a summer house and an arbor ago— still charming magic casements with climbing pink geraniums! Here and ing on the foam of perilous seas. there are white seats which prove to be We are in Carthage, in our own villa, fragments of some ruined Roman capital and garden with a terrace and a green space as or column, and there is a green latticed latticed gate ; our own for a brief gate opening to the road behind. The men may reckon time, but forever ours proprietor inquires anxiously if we are in the reckoning of memory. stay here alone, and probably afraid to Agnes Rothery, 1909. thinks that our speechless headshaking is due to our lack of fluent French, rather (From Agnes Edwards' Diary of Travel than to the whirl of emotions which has in the Boston Herald.) 18 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. UNDERGRADUATE DEPARTMENT.

JOINING THE ARMY.

HILIP dear, I think perhaps took it into his head he wouldn't go. We U we'd better have that shade spent a whole morning persuading him lowered. The sun is in father's —mother and I in tears all the while. face." When he finally did go, he looked so " Yes'm." After breaking his egg into a black he spoiled the whole picture. Time •" cup, Phil slowly unwound his long legs after time— from the rung of his chair and shuffled list- At each succeeding word of reminis- lessly over to the south window. As he cence, Tom Ferrin burrowed his head returned to pick up his napkin and finish a little farther into the stock page of his egg, he tweaked Frances' hair rib- the newspaper. Finally with the story bon quickly. which he had heard six times since "Gosh, what a bow," and he curled Aunt Ruth's arrival, he crumpled his his feet up under him again. paper furiously, stared blackly at her "Frances wouldn't let the sun shine for a minute, then fell to crunching his in her face 'cause she's afraid she'll have toast, alternating each mouthful with a freckles when she graduates." This from rather martyr-like glance toward Aunt observing eight-year-old Marion. Ruth. "It's a cinch she has to look as decent Again mother felt the danger line as she can, because nobody can hear a was being approached. Practice along thing she says. Ain 't got no voice at such a line had made her proficient, and all—poor little thing," and Phil prepared to now she rushed forth with flushed cheeks snap his napkin at her by way of emphasis. to the rescue. This was a more difficult Mother, in order to avoid a very immi- matter to remedy than that between Phil nent quarrel, addressed her remarks to one and Frances. combatant. "Father, did you know Frances is to "Phil, you haven't taken out the have an oration?" furnace ashes yet. If you expect to be "A what?" he demanded as though allowed to fix up that wireless station, his wife were announcing that their daugh- you'll have to help me around the house. ter was making her debut and needed sev- Now John Stewart's mother told me eral new ball gowns. " just yesterday . . . . "An oration—no, not Fourth of July, Phil was already rummaging over the but when she graduates from school in buffet top for his car book and book strap. two weeks." "Is this all the lunch a working man Tom Ferrin turned a surprized, bewil- gets?" and he jammed the dainty package dered look on his daughter and regarded into a coat pocket, stuck on his checked her in blank amazement for a second. Was cap, and tore down the front steps for the that. . . that baby to graduate from car just leaving the corner. high school? She was small, and pretty. The assembled family watched his de- Her light blue bow set off her fair skin and parture with very evident relief. Family hair—she couldn't be old enough for that. breakfasts on hot, "muggy" May morn- Why, she was making an awful mess of ings are not, as a general thing, either her egg as usual—it was preposterous to particularly harmonizing or enjoyable, and think of that baby getting through frac- this one seemed a little more than the usual tions, let alone geometry. Nevertheless exchange of family pleasantries. the baby put down her egg spoon and "My, my—his father all over again," perked up her big sailor tie proudly. Aunt Ruth remarked, as she caught "There are sixty in our class and only sight of Phil triumphantly catching onto four have orations," she announced. the rear platform of the car. " Fine—dad's proud of you—taking after "I remember when Tom was just your mother—aren't you? Can we all sit about his age and father had planned in the front row?" to have a family group taken. Tom She pulled his moustache playfully " — — " •

THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 19 as he bent over her chair on his way to nation, but now it's nothing but plain stub- the hall. bornness. I never saw such an ornery little "My goodness, mother—how old is boy, and I believe he is worse now. You Phil?" just spoil him, Helen. If he was my hus- "Sixteen last July," came from Aunt band, I'd give him mutton until he did Ruth, promptly. like it. You just indulge him. What does "We're getting old, we're getting old, he know about suffrage? Just what he mother," and he glanced at his watch. has learned from some of those young "Was that car going down or up?" and fellows in the office. Why don't you he hurried to the bay window. take him to some lectures on the subject?" A moment later, hat and paper in hand, "I've tried," answered mother, he stuck his head in the hall door. taking the withered bouquet from the "Need anything from town to-day?— table, "but once Marion had a sore can't get home for lunch. What's your throat and we couldn't go, and twice essay going to be about, Frances?" he wouldn't go. You know last spring There was a distinct pause while mother when we were in Philadelphia, we went on brushing his coat assiduously. heard Miss Pankhurst and I was"—here Finally Aunt Ruth began she paused to put in fresh flowers and "Now Tom, just —because you don't view the effect, "I was positively ashamed believe in it yourself of my husband. He made the most "But I don't know what it is." tactless remarks. At the reception " It's, it's—," and Frances wrinkled— up the afterwards he told Mrs. House that table-cloth in angry little puffs "it's if he could see one attractive, really stylish I didn't choose it — It's woman's suffrage." woman who believed in suffrage he might be ! If it had been silent before it was converted,— Imagine doubly so now. You could hear Cora Aunt Ruth set down her cup of coffee washing dishes in the kitchen and the and preened herself. ice-man filling the refrigerator. "He has you and me." "Of all the subjects to give a child "But— I — I —you know I don't really like you," he burst forth, emphasizing believe in it. . . . I mean I do, but his remarks by hitting the door— jamb Tom is so very much against it. And with his folded up newspaper "perfect it's such a bad example to the children nonsense. I'll not have you writing to have arguments." on such a subject. Why didn't they At this point mother was called to give you the Rise and Fall of the Consu- find Marion's book strap, which had late and Empire for something easy?" been used as a puppy leash by Phil and "It's one of the most up-to-date sub- was accordingly missing. When she jects, Tom," put in Aunt Ruth. came back from kissing the two girls "Suffrage—bah," and the paper ripped good-bye Aunt Ruth had a whole up one side. "Nonsense!" and he array of arguments, but mother fore- hurled it behind the radiator and banged stalled them. the door. "I wonder if we can use those cante- Frances and mother hurried out after loupes we bought yesterday. It's too him. hot for soup these days, yet the children "I didn't choose it, father," called need something nourishing when they Frances, tears in her eyes, but, like Phil, go to school. I don't like Marion's he had caught on the bottom step of the hair that way"—as they waved to her car. from the street,— "but she will wear it so." "I had hoped Tom could help Frances "Does Tom ever go to the Woman's with her essay, but that seems to be out Club lectures?" asked Aunt Ruth. of the question now," remarked mother, "No, he doesn't see the children much gathering up crumbs by Marion's place anyway." and folding Phil's napkin. "He is so "Humph, I thought so," and Aunt prejudiced." Ruth drained her cup completely. "Prejudiced," put in Aunt Ruth, "plain It was two weeks later and the early stubborn I should call it. When he part of June. The hot midday sun was a little fellow we called it determi- beat down mercilessly on the little south 20 THE WELLES LEY COLLEGE NEWS. porch outside the dining-room. The that for many weeks the plucky child had shades were lowered and a tiny elec- stayed after school on hot afternoons tric fan buzzed. Aunt Ruth fanned her- working to be able to "convert" father. self between bites as she sat in father's big This converting father was begun by chair. Marion, her fat little face red Aunt Ruth. It was impossible, yet and shining, devoured unheard-of quan- nevertheless diverting. tities of cottage cheese and lemonade. Why wasn't father home? Probably Suddenly the door burst open and father, that was the office machine coming up very hot and dusty, with his panama on the hill now—no, it wasn't; well, she must the back of his head, popped in. go and hunt a pair of shoe laces for Phil. "Just stopped for a minute, dear, on It didn't take men long to dress, so there our way to look at that Bayview prop- was no need to worry. erty. Looks like a big deal with the Out in the cool of the country under- Salt Lake people. Could you just give us a neath some enormous old elms, father snack of lunch? Osborne is in the ma- was devouring, as only a city man can, chine outside." The pretty, dainty little country ham and eggs. table with its vase of pink rambler roses "Wish we'd had time to try that old was sadly rifled when mother finished gath- stream just for luck," he said, "but if ering up sandwiches, fruit and cake. you'll bring out the deed now we'll sign "It's a scorcher—you women ought to it and be on our way. Our machine isn't a be glad you can stay at home to-day," he 191 3 model." explained as mother went in search of When he sat down at the red clothed a basket. table in the stiff "front room," he dipped " It's almost too hot to go to the card club in his pen reflectively. What was it this afternoon," panted Aunt Ruth. that was happening to-day?—was it their "I'm not going anyway," replied anniversary?—mother's birthday, or the mother. "I've got to get this family's card club? He ran through their social best clothes out on inspection for to-night. program as he dated it. The tenth of Phil has outgrown every pair of sus- June—surely it was a red letter day. His penders he ever had, and Marion's dress is hand stopped in the signature. too short, Frances's underskirt will show "I'm the biggest ass," he blurted out. —it never fails—and besides, her hair "To-day is the high school graduation won't go up. I've heard her mingling ejac- and I'm twenty miles from it." ulations and her essay every morning for They started immediately for the ma- a week while she was fixing it. I've pretty chine and nearly ran over an officious capable, but when it comes to getting hired man who held open the gate. The five human beings dressed so they machine seemed fairly to crawl through will be a credit to me, and remain so the dust. Although the sun had gone until we get to the armory, especially down, it was as hot as before. They when one of them debates for forty- took off their hats and put them on the five minutes whether to wear four or sack of rhubarb presented by the hos- five roses and whether she should have had pitable old farmer, and did their best to higher or lower heels, is a task be- defy all speed laws. Some trouble with yond me." a broken plug did not help at all, and Ferrin A few hours later mother rested for a felt called upon to remind Osborne that few minutes in a willow chair on the he was extremely clumsy with his hands. porch. It wasn't quite time to dress, but They both tried to fix it, but Ferrin, who Phil must be called from the empty lot knew nothing about machinery, gave him- across the street. Upstairs everything was self up to sitting under a wild rose bush, spread out on its owner's bed. From the listening to the crickets and wondering if library she could hear Frances droning Frances were yet reduced to tears and her oration. If the child didn't stop prac- Aunt Ruth to moralizing, or, even worse, tising she would be a nervous wreck giving reminiscences. Both were very prob- with her voice ruined. She did hope bable. she could get along with it all right — A glance at the town clock assured them It would please Aunt Ruth so. She they would have no time to hurry home, hadn't heard it herself, but she knew since the exercises had already begun. —

THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 21

Another glance into a mirror in the foyer of he caught "classed with criminals, imbe- the auditorium convinced him that he had ciles and degenerates," and applauded vig- better not try to sit with the family. He orously. He spent the remainder of the didn't have his ticket, and the man in the time trying to sink down into his seat to box office probably wouldn't believe that hide his dirty collar and tie. the dusty, red-burned, collar-wilted individ- When she finished he fairly outdid him- ual was father of one of the performers. self applauding, and Frances's face behind He bought a ticket to the gallery and her armful of red roses was pink and smiling. clambered over two daintily gowned He knew nothing of what happened later women to a vacant seat. A glance at the only he felt very hot and bored. Some of program reassured him—Frances came next the essays were so childish, he reflected. —there it stood, "Frances Elizabeth Ferrin Although he searched everywhere for —The Freeing of Women," in black, bold his family in the throng, he was just in time type. Would that squeaky voiced boy to see Frances hop into a machine with the never finish? Frances was at least pretty youth of the squeaky voice and ride away. and graceful, if she did speak on that per- She was growing up, after all. He re- fectly absurd subject. A further glance luctantly caught the first car home, know- assured him of mother, Phil, Aunt Mary, ing that they were assembled in the living and Marion all in their best clothes in the room to greet him. He delayed going up second row—all looking a little worried, a the steps as long as possible. At the screen little proud, and rather anxious about the door Frances, all smiles and roses, met him. vacant seat in their row. He felt as never "Father, I never could have done it if before, even in his most sentimental mo- you hadn't smiled at me so encouragingly ments, the power of the Vacant Chair. —you're a dear—if you are all dusty." A thunderclap of applause greeted the "Tom Ferrin," and mother put her arm youth's conclusion, and in a second Frances, in his, "you're an awful sight, but I've a prettier than ever in her paleness, came confession to make. I forgot to tell you to the front of the stage. Her big blue to remember this evening and we saw you bow was gone and her hair done low in her afterwards, but we came home without you neck. Ferrin realized more than ever his own to punish old dusty you. Aren't you proud discomfort when he saw her cool white dress of our daughter?" and shoes. For a minute she seemed un- "She's all right, if she doesn't know any- able to say a word, but stood, hands clasped, thing about suffrage," put in Phil. perilously near the edge of the platform. "Aunt Ruth and I agree she was the best Then she looked—could it be?—straight on the program. She does know something at him, and began. At least he thought about suffrage. In fact I'm a helpless vic- she began—her gestures from time to time tim. I've been converted,"—and he pullled indicated something of the sort, but not a mother and Frances close—"by a pretty word reached him. She looked so pretty, woman. You've done what Sylvia Pank- she must be saying something interesting. hurst couldn't do, little girl, and I think He hung as far over the balcony as he dared all pretty women should vote," as lie dis- and grew rather uncomfortable when she entangled a thorny rose and Frances's head never took her eyes from him. Once when from his shoulder. the people behind him had settled down "Another recruit," groaned Phil. and the electric cars had ceased to roar by, Evelyn E. Jamieson, 1914. 22 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

THE GREENHOUSE MAN.

(After Josephine Preston Peabody.)

Outside the snow lies white, And swift he tells me tales It drifts and piles where it can; Of a hidden far-off land, But here it is warm and light Where .a mortal cries and wails Where I watch the greenhouse man. To be freed from the fairy band.

His hands are long and brown, A leaf-green fairy man He loves (his eyes are blue) Blows soft an elfin tune; Each flower's colored gown. The roses sway—again I know I do, don't you? I almost think it's June.

I wonder if he thinks The wind shrieks round the door; It's all like fairies here? It whistles and shakes where it can; The reddest fairy winks But here is fairy lore And calls me, "Hear me, Dear?" Where I watch the greenhouse man. Berenice Van Slyke, 1913.

THE STREETS OF BERLIN. BERLIN streets have none of the the waist of the be-aproned maidservant; self-consciousness of our Ameri- the laborer drinks his beer and eats his can ones. There is no conten- Schwarzbot outside the Bier halle; in tion as to rank among them, for short, all lower-class Berlin literally car- an all-wise, all-powerful Reigerung ries on the business of life in the streets. has settled things once for all. Streets Quite the opposite is true, of course, there never say, " Isn't it ridiuclous that I of hochwohlgeboren society. The fine am a street, when you can all see I should lady does not venture upon the avenue be a boulevard at least? " Streets are Gas- until every veil pin and every glove but- sen, Strassen, Alleen, Damme or Chausseen ton is fastened to her satisfaction. I as the case may be, and there is an end of do not believe she would even use her it. True, the Damme and Chausseen handkerchief on the street. When she sometimes have a look of haughty superi- rides, as she almost always does, for whole ority, but the air seems inherited as with portions of the city are threaded with some of our fine old Colonial estates. Each carefully tended bridle paths, she is a thoroughfare frankly admits its own sternly-boned, eminently conventional fig- status: there is no sudden doubling out ure. of sight of an unsightly and ragged end. In spite, however, of the many uses Shops, if they are squalid and dejected, to which they are put, the streets of are openly so; they masquerade behind Berlin shine with cleanliness. In the no barricade of pretentious signs. The poorer quarters, down in the Street of people, too, whether or not from some the Holy Ghost or Bishop's Alley, the inborn conviction that a Prussian can wind may trace a tiny whirlwind of dust do no wrong, carry on their most inti- over the smooth cobblestones, but else- mate business in the streets. A family where one can see one self mirrored in draws a lumbering cart piled high with the shining asphalt. This, too, is due to household goods unconcernedly along the ever-vigilant Polizei, an institution the most thriving business street of the universally feared and obeyed. If one West End; around the corner a mother throws a bit of paper on the ground, chastises a wayward son in the good old- it is in imminent danger of the lock- fashioned way; children, with the inso- up; persons of a dare-devil disposition lence of the Prussian rather than the have been known to drop their street- innocence of their years, repair deficiencies car tickets, crumpled very small, into of their dress along the curb-stones. The the gutter, but I always carefully pre- arm of the butcher-boy goes easily around served mine. I remember seeing some THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 23

long streamers of confetti lying on the of the Tiergarten, the sight of the stately sidewalk the day after Silvesterabend, houses on the farther side, with the and my knees shook under me. Fancy brown water so motionless within its the effect of an apple-core or a banana narrow confines, strikes one like an old peel! On rainy days there is, unavoid- picture. Further down a tall yellow ably, I suppose, a thin overlay of ooze pier catches a warm ray of sunlight and on the wooden blocks; it is fascinating warms it into life. If one follow the then to watch the gray-uniformed street Spree still farther down towards its cleaners, three or four abreast, roll the mouth where other branches join it, one yellow mud along with their rubber seems to step into the Middle Ages. Great mops. heavy, flat-bottomed boats are being The buildings add much to the general poled along by strong silent men. Occa- appearance of cleanliness and neatness. sionally one glimpses the head of They are nearly all of cement or of a a curious woman thrust out from a hard gray-white stone, and of uniform scuttle. Often she has a peasant's head- four-story height. In the same street, dress, and there are peasant's clothes the buildings have the same general drying on the line stretched between the architectural features; details may vary, corners of the deck. She will meet but one house looks much like its one's stare with a sullen, frightened look. neighbors. This does not happen by Little rowboats dart about among the chance. A wealthy banker once wished flatboats; their chief aim is the confu- to build an Italian palace on the best sion of the boatmen; unloading fruit and residence Allee, but the city fathers vegetables is quite a secondary concern. refused the necessary permission because One has drifted with the Spree to a house of that sort would not the Museuminsel. The Kaiser Friedrich accord with the prevailing architectural Museum planted firmly at the top of it, style. I can picture their horror at where the two arms of the slow-moving Fifth Avenue! The effect, while clean river come together, faces one hostilely and airy, is monotonous; one welcomes like some mediaeval fortress. Yet just the vivid splash of color of the unusual behind it workmen are raising a start- brick house, and the gay little plots in lingly white Greek temple, and to the the squares, while if it were not for the left across the bridge are the long low slender spires of the churches and the lines and warm hues of the Kinderklinik! round tops of trees, the sky line" would It lies curiously, this Museum Island, nosing be quite unbroken. I into the commercial quarter, and turning Yet the streets are most picturesque. its back squarely on the palaces of emperor At almost every other street corner and prince, although some of its art galleries there is a little oddly shaped square, to that side are not so ill-mannered. gayly planted with bright flowers. Groups of students swing past on their Children play there, of course, dirty, way to or from one of the quaint restau- bedraggled little imps with serious rants where one may get a good dinner faces, and beautifully dressed little for fifteen cents, "bier inclusif," selbtver- aristocrats with their Spreewald nurses. standlich. Their jaunty air and free These have retained their curious na- step would proclaim them, did not the tive costume,-—the short, full skirt, colored caps, slashed faces, and large bright pink or blue or red—buckled shoes, and impressive leather portfolios. Two velvet jacket, and wonderfully starched girl students appear; they, too, would and folded white head-dress, with a be difficult to mistake. The stamp of a tiny apron to match. The wrinkled great purpose is on their brows, obscured flower-women with their gay wares light by no interfering curls or strands of hair; up the street-corners and their "Janz the fire of intellectual fervor blazes schen—kofen sie een" gives the ear the from behind their eye-glasses. They dis- same thrill that the Spreewald costume play a fine disregard for the niceties of causes the eye. dress, and one feels that they must be The Spreeufer, too, no matter where very noble and virtuous. But Vice, one meets it, is sure to be picturesque. swinging his walking stick across the If one comes upon it from the cool depths the street, is so much more attractive! — —

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Perhaps one follows them as far as to-morrow. The shops are open until the yard of the University. There the nine o'clock—the restaurants never close. sombre pile frowns dusty and academic; In winter the streets are garishly lighted a group of laborers repairing the Dorotheen up from three o'clock in the afternoon Strasse seems to offer more variety. until nine the next morning. Life does not There are about twenty of them,—short, really begin until the electricity is turned sturdy, silent, clad in clothes of a non- on. The shop-windows glow; crowds descript color and character. A cart stream up and down the main streets, in their midst supports a huge, glowing leisurely, interested, chattering in a hun- brazier of copper, from which the smooth dred languages. Wicked, leering little Japs handles of pickaxes and drills protrude pass grave Chinese ministers of ; state with in all directions. A keg of black tar leather portfolios; sometimes a couple of drips slowly into a wide-mouthed pail. Oriental children, clad in wondrous-col- Several workmen are seated around the ored fabrics. Officers and soldiers punc- brazier in the cart, others stand about, tiliously receiving and giving salutes, or in ungraceful attitudes. The red glow detachments of infantry or cavalry return- of the coals lights up their bronzed ing to barracks, add gay notes of color and

faces: one fancies a group of gnomes sur- sound ; trim Americans, chattering in their prised at Vulcan's forge. Away to the high-pitched voices, vainly try to push

left four workmen are solemnly driving ahead ; the occasional party of English a stake. Each in turn lifts his mallet with their queer clothes and pleasant high above his head and with his whole voices, deliberates at the street cross-

strength brings it down upon the stake. ings ; German housewives with their arms Perfect economy, not a superfluous action, full of bundles forge stolidly ahead, aloof not a stroke fails of its goal. Suddenly tools from the crowd. The German man, on are thrown aside, and everyone throws the other hand, lets his eye linger loving- back his head. Passers-by stand still ly upon the crowd, as if it were in some and gaze at the sky. A curious whir- sort the work of his hands, and he had ring sound, and— presently the long, tan- a right to be proud of it. colored airship, "Das Militarluftschiff!" Life is at its height about the "middle glides into view. Having satisfied them- of the evening," anywhere from eleven to selves that it is still whole, the pedes- three. Then Berlin loses whatever peculi- trians lose all interest in so common a arities it possesses and becomes purely cos- sight, and leisurely go about their busi- mopolitan. The same procession flickers ness. by as in every large city,—restless youth, No one hurries in Berlin. It would and disillusioned age, ladies bearing a be as bad form as to greet a fellow-stu- startling resemblance to the Secession post- dent at the University or to refrain from ers flaring on the walls beside them, lone, the "Hoch, der Kaiser!" I have spent hurrying street women with their bitter three-quarters of an hour in registering painted smiles, merry crowds of students, a letter, and then thinking to make up returning playgoers,—all eager and restless. lost time by taking the train down town, The lights shine steadily, the wind blows I have waited fifteen minutes in a driz- a fresh breath down the avenue, and the zling rain—it is always drizzling in Berlin, tree-tops sigh mysteriously. Uncompre- —for the right car, only to have it sail hendingly one feels the wild longing, by, while the conductor complacently the pulsing and the throbbing; Life is remarks "Besezt!" The seats are all beating in one's ears. One does not taken and the passengers can't have know what it all means,—one does not some one jostling them in the aisle, be- care to know—but one is ready to cast cause that person is vulgar enough to one's fate with that of the flickering pro- be in a hurry. But why should these cession. The spectator will no longer people hurry? They have all day, and watch the streets, —he will be of them. all night, and if that be not enough, all Elizabeth R. Htrsh, 1913. THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 25

OCHRIDA BLUE.

Six or seven years ago some verses called Ochrida I know of a lyre beneath Ochrida blue Blue were published by A. Balabanoff. The al- Bejewelled with rubies of ruddiest hue, lusions seem to me so timely that we reprint them. And whoso shall pluck it from waters so They have been set to a beautiful melody. cold Translated, with editorial foot-note, from the Shall straightway make verses of beauty Bulgarian daily, Mie. The capital of the Balkans untold. under the great Tsar Simeon was on Lake Ochrida His name to the ages with glory shall ring, and tradition tells of ruins buried beneath its waters The Bard of the Balkans, as singers do sing. A. I. Locke.

I know of a sceptre 'neath Ochrida blue, I know a wee cottage by Ochrida blue, Bejewelled with rubies of ruddiest hue, All covered with grape-vines and hidden And whoso shall pluck it from waters so from view, cold Within the wee cottage there sits a dear Shall straightway be crowned in Solon maid, stronghold. What pearls in her mouth, and what gold From Danube to Marmora he shall be king, in her braid! The King of the Balkans, as singers do To you be the sceptre, the lyre and the rue, sing. To me the wee cottage by Ochrida blue.

HOW THE TRANSPORTATION OF ARAB SOLDIERS, JUST ENLISTED INTO THE TURKISH ARMY, WAS MANAGED. THE shores of the little harbor of straight for our ship! Boat after boat Tripoli were thronged with count- followed, and, as they drew nearer us, we less gaily clad Arabs, all waiting could see how very crowded they were, to be taken to Beirut, to join the each one holding about forty or fifty men. Turkish army. The tiny Russian ship, The Arabs, all standing, presented a most on which we were passengers, was the extraordinary picture in their gayly colored, only vessel in sight, and therefore was the long, loose robes and with their scarfs center of interest. For a ship of its size, bound to their heads by coils of rope, it already had an enormous number of wound round and round. Upon approach- passengers on board. Those of the first ing our ship's ladder, the little boats class were crowded into a tiny cabin in the halted, and a dark,- impetuous officer stern of the ship and had one little deck, sprang out. The step from the boats to the just large enough to allow them to assemble ladder was a high one, the robes of the to see the worse condition of their neigh- Arabs were very long and loose and bors. These were the deck passengers, naturally got in the way, and, as a final who lay huddled together on the deck incumbrance, each Arab carried with him below, so crowded that there was not even huge bundles and numerous bottles, evi- room to walk through between them, dently all his worldly possessions. Almost every spare inch of space being occupied every Arab tripped on his robe and fell by blankets and bundles of food, for these down, half on the ladder and half in the passengers had to sleep out on the deck at water, all his possessions tumbling with night and were not furnished any food by him. Thereupon the officer, instead of the ship. Looking down into the hull of giving a helping hand to the unfortunate the vessel, Turkish soldiers in their tan one, lifted his whip and struck the poor uniforms could be seen, playing games, creature, who was vainly endeavoring to singing or dancing in their weird way, or struggle to his feet, such a blow that he eating their portions of bread and water fell down again stunned, only to pick him- out of huge common bowls. self up the next minute to be out of the How great then was our surprise, to see way of more unfortunate ones. However, small boats, filled with Arabs, heading the Arabs never seem to get discouraged, 26 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. but take all harsh treatment as a matter unable to move, much less to sit down, and of course. So it was with each one. The without a bite to eat. Yet no discontent whipping continued steadily and yet was was shown. On the contrary, they seemed scarcely noticed by the Arabs. As a re- very happy and full of life. In the after- sult of all the stumbling and whipping and noon, when one of their officers made falling, their entrance into our ship was them a speech, they were so enthusiastic very slow, but, at the same time, most and shouted so loudly, that the whole ship interesting. seemed to tremble from the noise. The thought that bothered us was how At last the beautiful harbor of Beirut all the many, many Arabs could find room came within sight, and, as the little boats for themselves in our already crowded flocked around our ship to take us ashore, ship. But the soldiers were treated very the Arabs' shout of joy rang still stronger much like so many cattle, and as long a and clearer, seeming to say, "We are there was standing room for them on the happy, no matter how we are treated. We ship, they were expected to be contented. are contented with the management of Standing room! It could hardly be called our military affairs, because we know of even that. All the hundreds of Arabs were no better way. If you wish us to find fault, jammed together on the bow of the boat. you must teach us." There they had to stand all day long, Marion Gray Warner, 191 6.

A PLEA FOR AN AWAKENING

ERY often we are told that the learning: and it is supposed to be a sort of V "life" at college is what makes breeding place of good taste, of refinement, ^ the four years worth while. Most of cultured criticism, and intelligent crea- of us are firmly convinced that tion. It would not be hard to devise an it is so. We do not fail to give due impor- establishment at which a girl might live tance to studies, but we appreciate particu- quite elegantly, if she chose, and find plenty larly the advantages of meeting with our of time to complete her musical education fellow-beings. Naturally, conceptions of in comic operas without skipping the serial "life" vary. Most of us pass through all stories in all the current magazines. It the stages of spreads, Socialist clubs, and would not be required that she read Gals- suffrage lectures, not being at all sure which worthy or even know that John Warfield is most typical. And after a while some exists. She would owe it to nobody to of us come to the realization that what we think a thought or form an idea beyond her seek is association with people who are elected horizon. She would be under no in- thinking and doing things. We begin to tellectual obligations whatsoever. But a look for those of our fellow-students who college is founded on a different basis. seem to represent the vital forces of college Since it heads the institutions for general life. education, it ought to affect its students so A severe jolt startles the earnest seeker that they may become real influences in after intellectual refreshment at most the thought and progress of their small colleges of to-day. Something is not quite communities and, consequently, of the as it should be. The majority of these girls whole country. are not giving or taking from the college No college can bring this about by the all that they might. The young Socialist mere strength of its courses and the worth of in "Stover at Yale" declares that one pays its professors. The standard of scholarship good money for tuition, not to give but to is not a determining feature. Here at Welles- get. But we are apparently doing neither ley our rewards are not easily won, and to any appreciable degree. Phi Beta Kappa is a recognition of attain- The question at present is: What ment not to be lightly regarded. Our girls does college do to justify its claim to the do good work as far as work goes. And title of an intellectual centre? Surely it there lies the trouble. When work stops, ought to have that title. A college is, ac- that is the end of it. The final touch put cording to all traditions, an institution of to a paper is, in reality, the final touch. THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 27

Work and play are entire strangers, and, if drivel, instead of at least aiming for some- they meet now and then, it is but an oc- thing better? The charge of cowardice is casion for one to nod coldly to the unpleasant, yet cowards we are. We're other. The relation that should exist afraid, afraid, afraid! We fear the con- between the two, that happy amica- cealed smile of the Senior we admire when ble state in which clear, good thought we give forth what she thinks a "highbrow" becomes the keenest sort of play, and the opinion. We fear the scorn of the youth most enjoyable play shows the effect of who comes to see us when he finds that we thought—this is practically lacking. We do not dislike Ibsen. We fear the papers decide that we need relaxation. We read with their cartoons of suffragettes and the Gouverneur Morris' latest rubbish. Why? acquaintances who believe us poseurs. We Because it is considered good form to be will not allow people to say with arched acquainted with all current literature, re- eyebrows," Oh, she has been to college!" gardless of merit. We have been told in that explanatory tone that damns our almost as long as we have lived in college four years and our bachelor's degree. that everyone needs a "lark" sometimes. Why are we ashamed of bearing the im- Glancing hastily at the theatre column, press of the college we sentimentally sere- we go to see the "Firefly" in preference to nade as our Alma Mater? If we do not the Irish Players, because "we've thought want to reflect her teaching, why, oh, why, enough for one week." We fail to grasp do we overcrowd an institution which we the significance of true relaxation. We are hindering in the fulfilment of a sacred do not see that inane trash stultifies in- trust? How can this foster parent, dedi- stead of invigorating; that froth is no cated to our intellectual development, be more refreshing than nothing at all. consistently loved and respected if she We talk of co-operation and co-ordination. sends us away superficially a little cleverer But in this business of brains, we fail to but fundamentally not a whit saner than co-ordinate, to relate our work to our lives. when we arrived? For example, we write one good, intelli- We are individually to blame if our col- gent statement in criticizing a piece of fic- lege does not succeed in her purpose. W7e tion for a literature course. Do we think are at fault through our own failure to ap- of applying that same standard to one of preciate true standards, to discriminate, the charming novels we read on the train? to select. A class of girls notable for small Our psychology, our history, our language talk and dress rather than for force and courses offer purely academic interests. individuality becomes powerful within our We do not attempt to link them with our walls. Some of us even thank Heaven for common lines of thought—they are too much the fashionable dolls whose appearance will like the "best parlors" of New England save us all from the reputation of being fame, not to be enjoyed every day but re- " frumps." But the young woman who has a quiring assiduous duty and not too fre- few ideas unconnected with the latest dances quent exhibitions to visitors. she whom we call the typical college girl, is Then, too, there is another field in which nevei a frump. She has too much sense not we make no attempt to formulate stand- not to make herself as attractive as possi- ards of taste. Occasionally we turn our ble, knowing that a dowdy, unkempt wom- clever minds to creative work. And we an has no charm, however massive her abuse those clever minds so shamefully that brain. And she impresses the world with it is a wonder we are permitted to keep her good taste in dress, as well as in speech, them. It is a precious trust, that power amusement, and thought. Unfortunately, to make, to do. often are we worthy How this young woman is not so strongly in evi- of it? While we are at college, being dence in the colleges as she should be. She young, we must perforce imitate. And is the type that ought to predominate, following a curious human twist, we do not that ought to represent the college. After always imitate the best. The enormous we begin to realize where we fall short of waste of good brains and good ability is her appalling. the desirable, she will soon make ap- How is it that some girls of indisputable pearance. mental possibilities prefer cheap books to It is odd that a community as wide- 7 T good ones? W hy do they talk, see and write, awake as W ellesley should be so long in 28 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS opening her eyes to the present situation, use. We are everlastingly reforming forms But the fact that we alone are not to be and we make no effort to strengthen the blamed does not lessen our responsibility, bond between our lives and our work, and, We are naturally progressive. We talk in this way, to create that atmosphere of continually about changes, we wrangle intellectual zest and activity which ought over point systems, and honor systems, to prevade and enrich our college life, and non-academic activities, until the SyLVIA T GouLSTON> Igi , words become lairly tattered Irom over- THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 2& NEWS OF THE WEEK.

night, April 21, by Mrs. Florence Kelly, the Nation- al Secretary. A bare summary of her forceful state- ments may be of interest to the large number who missed the opportunity of hearing her. This year, there will be held in Antwerp the second quinquennial conference of the International Consumers' League. At the first conference, held in Geneva in 1908, twenty countries were repre- sented. By 1910, England had put into successful operation a minimum wage law for four entirely unlike trades. In Australia such a law exists in practically all trades. Just at this time in America, there is "a great prairie fire of a movement" in that direction, which is taking a wrong course in all too many cases. It is a hard problem, to manage in- dustrial legislation in forty-eight states with such varied constititions. "The Progressive Party came along, adopted the idea, cut off its head and tail, and made a hideous cripple of it. Now the Consumers' League tries to rehabilitate it." In- stead of carrying the whole spirit of democracy into industry, as England has done, the Progressives have made their bills apply only to women. In confining trade boards to women, a most inportant social benefit has been ignored. The trade board should keep track of the men, and their IDA H. APPENZELLER, ability or President of Christian Association, non-ability to support their families. If we are enlightened and conscientious CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS. con- sumers— if we do not add to the Saturday and President: Ida H. Appenzeller. Christmas rushes, and if we go to the inconvenience Vice-president: Elizabeth Limont. of insisting upon Consumers' League labels—we Missionary Committee: Miss Nichols. shall have a moral claim upon proper industrial Religious Meetings Committee: Miss Stone. conditions. We must get men into the legislatures Treasurer: Ruth Lindsay. and the courts who understand and can interpret Mission Study Committee: Margaret Christian. our ideals. Our fundamental principles are wrong. Bible Study Committee: Helen Husted. If we had the ideal that all industry ought to be as Social Committee: Calma Howe. agreeable as any of college, we have the wealth Extension Committee: Eleanor Boyer. and the technical devices to carry it out. Men General Aid Committee: Frances Alden. purify the air in their factories for the benefit of Corresponding Secretary: Mary Torrence. their laces and candies, and regulate their temper- Recording Secretary: Katharine Balderston. ature for the best preservation of their, meat and furs. They can do as much for human beings. THE WORK OF THE CONSUMERS' The revolution of thought which will bring such LEAGUE. ideals into industry will be no greater than the revolution in attitude toward slavery, "It will be a hundred-year job to transform the which characterized last generation. The attention the shopping mob into enlightened, intelligent the of social and industrial people," someone warned the inaugurators of the the college to the problems of the day is a great asset in realizing this aim. Consumers' League at the time of its formation, fourteen years ago; but he was met only by the There are three things which consumers must do, this ideal of pleasant, cheery reply: "Then the sooner we get started, the to bring about humane, better." industrial conditions: first, to know what present What the purpose of the League has been since evil conditions exist; second, to insist upon legisla- that courageous beginning, was made clear to us tion against those conditions; and third, to be will- in a lecture in College Hall Chapel, on Monday ing to pay for the change. 50 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

VOTE FOR ILLUSTRATIONS. afternoon of April 26. The score was 17-5 in favor of 1913. The teams were as follows: It has occurred to the present board that the I9I3- 1914 News would be more interesting if illustrated. P. Ada Herring Gladys Gorman We have voted to have it so, if possible, and the C. Josephine Guion Kathryn Schmidt Committee on Publications has passed on our pro- 1st B. Stella Ream Frances Robinson posal. It now remains for the student body to 2d B. Helen Ryan Marjory Boynton agree to it. We ask for your hearty support, and 3d B. Elizabeth Brown Marjorie Menamin for your vote "Yes" or "No" on the following R. S. S. Gladys Cole Marjory Day amendment, on May 2, at the elevator table. L. S. S. Marjorie Cowee Elizabeth McConaughy Amendment I to Constitution of College News: R. F. Gladys Smith Henrietta Gilmore The Wellesley College News shall be per- L. F. Janet Moore Ida Appenzeller mitted to contain illustrations in both its weekly Substitutes: Helen Logan Dorothea Havens and monthly issues, as follows: Helena Stewart 1. Approved pictures of Barn, Class and So- W'S were awarded to ciety plays, of Field Day, May Day, Tree Day and 1913. 1914. Float. Ada Herring Gladys Gorman 2. Approved pictures of individuals prominent Josephine Guion Kathryn Schmidt in college (as is now allowed). Stella Ream Marjorie Menamin 3. Other pictures of general interest (such as Elizabeth Brown Elizabeth McConaughy pictures of new buildings). Marjorie Cowee 4. Decorative cuts. This shall be permitted so long as the News is COLLEGE CALENDER. able to meet the expenditure caused thereby, and no longer. Saturday, May 3, in the afternoon, May Day Festival. BOCCACCIO MANUSCRIPTS IN THE Evening, 19 14 Social. LIBRARY. Sunday, May 4, Houghton Memorial Chapel, 11 A. M. Preacher, Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. Some of the most valuable Boccaccio manuscripts Vespers, 7 P. M. Address by Rev. Tissington in our Plimpton Collection are being exhibited this Tatlow, General Secretary of British Student week in the second floor corridor of the College Libra- Movement. ry to commemorate the six hundredth anniversary Monday, May Shakespeare Society House, 7.30 of Boccaccio's birth. Among the most famous 5, P. M., Deutscher Verein will give a Farce. are two manuscripts of "The Life of Dante" dating Tuesday, May 6, College Hall Chapel, 4.30 P. M_ from 1477, and some remarkable annotated reference Address by Professor Norton for all students in- books. No member of the college should fail to tending to teach. examine this exhibition. Wednesday, May 7, Christian Association meeting BASEBALL GAME. at College Hall Chapel, 7.30 P. M. Leader, Ida Appenzeller, 1914. Subject: "A look forward." An enthusiastic audience watched the Senior- St. Andrew's Church, 7.15 P. M. Leader, Frances Junior baseball game at Hemenway Hall on the Bogert. Subject: "The brotherhood of man."

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SPRING FEVER. 1913 has burned its Forensic, and 1914's guard- ing days are over. But those days are not handed On the afternoon and evening of April 23, a down to 191 5. They are over for good! We can Sophomore-Freshman frolic enlivened the routine only bewail them now, and say, "Wasn't it won- of college life. We would avoid the Dragon Pub- derful!" And we suppose that bye and bye folks licity, and touch but lightly on the exchange of will say: "Yes, you know a while back they used class presidents, and the sundry automobile and to have 'Forensic Burning.' The Juniors tried to bicycle rides enjoyed by members of both classes. burn it, and the Sophomores guarded, or some- Neither will we describe the parade, or the signs thing like that." illuminating Center next morning. It is of what Yet, spring fever does and will exist, for though such a spring frolic typifies that we would discourse. authorities may change laws, they cannot change At this time a year ago, we were still faithfully girl-nature. And there's a something in us that is keeping up the Wellesley tradition of Forensic not forever satisfied wr ith nice little parties, and Burning. Sophomores were "on guard" delight- — Sunday-school picnics. Though Forensic Burning ful and mysterious performance! They had whistles may be abolished, there's a kind of spring fever and flashlights and passwords, which were insig- that—who can keep down? nificant in themselves, but which stood for some-

thing that is, to our mind, essential. When a whistle blew, girls came running together who had THE AWARDING OF W'S. hardly known each other before; they whispered, consulted, planned. 1914 got acquainted. Girls who couldn't play hockey or basket-ball, who couldn't There is an undercurrent of discussion about write songs, who couldn't do anything unusual awarding W's, which reaches little climaxes at or distinctive for their class, had suddenly a chance certain times of the year. After Indoor Meet you to serve it. They became a vital part of it, class hear people say: "Why should a girl who already spirit grew, and inter-class spirit waxed strong. has a W in Indoor Meet, be given one again? Why Nobody had time to be lazy or have the more should a girl get two Ws in basket-ball? People languorous forms of spring fever. There was a are never given but one Phi Beta Kappa key for healthy, invigorating excitement in the air. Life excellence in studies. Why should not the W be was just like an adventure! just as high a prize in athletics?" And then some- Nor did we let the academic suffer. Guarding one answers: "Yes, but good athletics deserve periods stand out most vividly in our memories, a W just as much one time as another. Awarding yet they only came once or twice a day. And in them is a wonderful incentive, not only for keeping the long stretches between, we did our lessons training, but for every girl's best effort." faithfully, as the class-room records prove. It was Both arguments sound convincing, yet neither a point of class honor to do them. In our opinion, entirely satisfies, unless we are decided already. the Forensic Burning excitement gave an added To answer the question satisfactorily we must zest to lessons. It acted like a tonic to rouse us decide how valuable we want our Ws to be. If from that lethargy too often felt on sunny clays, and only awarded once in a sport 1 hey are more valuable; to make us put a keen effort into everything we if given twice in the same sport, their worth is undertook. lessened. Why not have the W, once awarded, a a

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something to ever after live up to, an honor too Sailings from Boston. high to be reconferred? As for getting Ws in different sports, why not Franconia, May 13 Laconia, May 27 have them different? This is done in men's colleges, Franconia, June 10 Laconra, June 24 and it seems wisely. Sports would then be more Franconia, July 8 distinctive, and a girl's devotion to her own special and Fortnightly sport greater.

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I. SPECIAL TOUR Representation Without Taxation. Boston - London - Paris "Taxation without Representation" has turned and Return. nations topsy turvy. It would cause a revolution 22 days $132.00 up in our college government if it existed. Reverse the slogan, however, and you more nearly approach For Booklets, Rates, Etc., apply to our present state of affairs. The college year is P. N. EVERETT, Manson Bldg., So. Framingham four-fifths over, and oh the Student Government or to 126 State Street, Boston. Bulletin Board is—and has been for some time— long list of names. Just look down that list! There are some eminent citizens among them, who have done a goodly share of "representing." All of them, we venture to state, have voiced their "Aye's" her interesting talk on the work of Con- and "No's" and cast their ballots. Yet none of sumers' League to less than one hundred people. them have fulfilled their duty of taxpayers. What What is the matter with us? Do we think we can- shall the state do with them? not afford the time for such things? If we do, it is I9I5- evident that we need a readjustment of our days

II. (and nights), for any girl, under ordinary condi- tions, ought to be able to arrange her work so as to Concerning Lectures. leave one evening a week for obtaining some All through the year the college gives us the op- knowledge of current events. Or do we consider

portunity to know what the world is thinking and an entirely academic seclusion, away from the work doing, by bringing able and experienced men and and problems of our day, desirable? Surely the women to lecture to us on their own particular modern spirit is against such a narrow view of

work. These lectures are attended by only a mere things, and if we are going to get a preparation here

handful of girls, compared to the number in college. in college for our life afterwards, it is imperative A striking example of this was seen on the evening that we have an intelligent idea of what the com-

of April 21, when Mrs. Florence Kelley, one of munity is going to expect of us as college women.

America's most influential woman citizens, gave But if our absence from these lectures is due to

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Are paid interest and no exchange is charged on collection of checks if the balance is over $300. A minimum balance of at least $25 is expected from all customers. Call for one of our railroad time cards.

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HOURS: 8 to 2. Saturday, 8 to 12 M. ADDITIONAL HOURS: Tuesdays and Fridays. 3.30 to 5 P.M. THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. 33

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laziness or thoughtlessness—do let's brace up! sitiveness to color and sweetness and human joy. The demands of college life are exhausting, but we There is, again, the religious conflict between the must not forget that we need to know about the doubter, the questioner, who refuses to trust himself world outside this little academic and social one to any faith for which he does not find abundant evi-

of ours if we are ever going to be able to live in- dence, and the man of faith who finds in life a deeper

telligent lives in it. 191 5. meaning than his intelligence can analyze or explain. Finally, and especially in our own time, there is an economic conflict between the old order and the new. PHI BETA KAPPA ROUND TABLE. On one side there is the stability of the recognized order, with profound distrust of new experiments; For the past three years the Wellesley Chapter of on the other a judging of the established order by Phi Beta Kappa has maintained the happy custom ideal standards, a growing belief that the function " of an annual Round Table," inviting some notable of wealth is to subserve human needs, a reckless, pas- educator to lead a discussion upon educational sionate demand for a reform that shall bring together problems. This year, on March 21, the society was the wealth and the human need that have been di- honored by a visit from President Meiklejohn of vorced. We can see the vast conflict gathering. It Amherst College, who read a paper upon "The Func- is the duty of the thinker to judge truly and wisely tion of the College," and initiated thereby a spirited the issues involved. and stimulating discussion which the members pres- The training of the thinker competent to deal with rules permitted would ent —had trains and — gladly these questions is—or should be—the mission of the have continued until midnight.. college. If it does this work well, it can have no President Meiklejohn began by showing the fal- time to devote to "vocational " or professional train- lacy of the common notion that the life of the think- ing. And to do this work well is to give the college er, of the scholar, is one of ease and serene detach- course a reality and significance it now, in general, ment. On the contrary, his mind must be, as some lacks. With such training, a youth should go forth one has said the mind of Darwin was, "a perfect into the world prepared to do two things—to fight, -laughter-house of innocent mistakes." In a world and to wait: to work with a will toward the solution where error is so fatally easy and so inexorably pun- of problems which can be solved, to be patient con- ished, the effort of thought brings not peace, but a cerning problems as yet impossible of solution. sword. Thinking is strife, warfare, eager and pas- In the discussion that followed, many interesting sionate conflict. questions arose, such as the relation of various stud- But in what does thinking consist? The process ies to the function of the college, the possibility of analyzed proves to be the attempt to unify, to find obtaining instructors equipped to carry out the pro- the single law binding together scattered phenomena. gram suggested, the value of awakening young people In our own day the thinker must seek to reconcile first of all to the most momentous, the most vital three types of conflicting interests, has three chief problems. Though no one felt that in this brief battles to fight. There is first the world-old conflict evening any issue had even begun to be settled every between the hedonist and the Puritan; between the present felt that he had undergone a of claim of pleasure, the instinctive recognition that one process unsettling wholesome, most the world is good and to be enjoyed, and the claim most prophetic. of the spiritual life, of the ascetic ideal with its insen- J. M. B.

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A. D. MONAGHAN Sir Andrew Aguecheek Helen South BOATS AND CANOES Fabian Letteria Villari Season Club Rates for Students, $3.00 Act III, Scene IV. Boats Repaired and Stored. Office Hours, 5 to 6, Olivia Marian Parsons at Boat House. Viola Olive Croucher Maria Elizabeth Brown SOCIETY PROGRAM MEETINGS. Antonio Ida Appenze ler Malvolio Elizabeth Slattery Society Alpha Kappa Chi. Sir Toby Frances Williams Society Alpha Kappa Chi presented "The Sir Andrew He u South Daughters of Troy" by Euripides, using the Arthur Fabian Letteria Villari S. Way translation, at their program meeting on First Officer Barbara Hahn April 26. Second Officer Mary Rosa Scene: The Greek camp before Troy. Act V, Scene I. Part I. Olivia Marian Parsons Poseidon Linda Henly Viola Olive Croucher Athena Mildred Knowlton

Duke Orsius \. . .Alice Mulligan Part II. Malvolio Elizabeth Slattery Hecuba Ruth Woodward Sebastian Marjorie Cowee Talthybius Alice Hall Antonio Ida Appenzeller Cassandra Madelyn Worth Sir Andrew Helen South Andromache Lucia Bailey Fabian Letteria Villari Astyanax Miriam Shoe First Officer Barbara Hahn Part III. Priest Susan Wilber Hecuba Dorothy Dennis Clown Virginia Moffatt Talthybius Alice Hall Papers: Menelaus Elizabeth Ford Helen Ruth Waldron Plot of Twelfth Night Mary Burd Cecelia Garety Shakespeare News Evelyn Wells Chorus. . . / \ Mabel Barr Phi Sigma Fraternity. Shakespeare Society Program Meeting. On Saturday evening, April 26, Phi Sigma Fra- Twelfth Night. ternity had a Tradition meeting. Miss Montague, Act II, Scene V. Miss Bates, Miss Brooks, Mrs. Edith White Nor- Maria Elizabeth Brown ton, '93, Miss Batchelder, Miss Manwaring and Malvolio Elizabeth Slattery Mrs. Alice Rossington Pickard outlined the history

r Sir Toby Belch Frances W illiams of the society in short informal talks.

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PARLIAMENT OF FOOLS.

"SPRING FEVER." "Tis thot," replied Mr. Dooley," you and me

Hinnessey, has got har-rdened to it. We don't Sing a song of picnics, picnics in the pit, moind th' glaring publicity iv it; but think, Hin- Sophomores a-singing, in a circle sit; nissey, iv th' tumble effec' it has on the tinder Someone in an auto toward South Natick riding, sinsibilities iv th' Wellesley debater. Think how Scout on a bicycle to scene of action gliding; th' porr thing is drogged befure th' public eye, whin '16 in College Hall, having a class meeting, she's tryin' her bist to live a modest but remar- '15 in the pit, all song—competing. rkable loife in th' secluded vicinity iv' me friend

Mr. Shattuck's store. She wishes t' be apart fr'm th' Sing a song of p-rades, p-rades in the spring, base an' sordid wurrld, ixcipt on Monday an' Little sister trying big sister to out-sing. Saturday nights, but th' pa-apers won't let her. Biggest sister loudest cheers to Sophomores' delight, She comes down at sivin forty-nine to a luxoorious Littlest sister grand good sport, spite of gay torch- brikfast iv' prunes, shredded wheat an' omlitt. Out light. it comes in th' Boston Bugles, thinly disguised College all a-stirring to find out what's been done, be th' toitle, "How a Wellesley girl eats her Force," Everybody chuckling over the good fun. with a cut iv th' Prisisint iv Student Govinmint I9I5- at th' top, an' 'tis blazoned across th' continent. THE "FREE PRESS." Her frind, th' iditor iv th' Kansas City Screamer, sinds her a revised version iv it in his own little The Magazine Fool, in looking over some of his sheet, jist t' show her that th' west has its eye on old foolishness, discovered, near the bottom of the her. Nixt winter ye'll see the same thing in th' pile, these Dooleyan sentiments, seeming to point Philadelphia Enterprise. She goes to her mail, to a peculiar relation between his Alma Mater and where neat an' fetchin' advartisements from th' the newspaper business. He reprints them, in leadin' importers of Boston awaits her. She uses order that his present audience may marvel at the thim t' write her frensics on, not bein' able to contrast between those barbarous reports and the shpare th' tin cints nccess'ry to buy a block iv delicate reserve of present-day journalism. theme pa-aper. She goes to her biology class, an' Mr. Dooley on Wellesley Publicity. cuts up a frog with loathin' inprinted on her count'- "Oi see th't th' pictures iv th' Wellesley debaters preaches is in th' paaper," said Mr. Hennessy. nance, an' th' leadin' clargymin iv th' hour " "Poor things, vis," sighed Mr. Dooley. a sermon on Does th' reckless takin' of a harmless 'Tis hard," ventured Mr. Hennessey, "to be life degenerate our college girl, or is it Har-rvard?'' a public character." She is curtain raiser at the Barn, an' th' pa-apers

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has it, "Daughter of a leadin' Kalamazoo citizen THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE SYMPHONY goes on th' stage," with a view iv th' picturesque ORCHESTRA. little Barn where she got h'r early trainin' an' a In Billings Hall, Monday evening, May 5, at cut iv me friend Doonan— it flatters him, Hin- 7.45 o'clock, a concert will be given by the College nessey who drives her t' Boston f'r — her daily in- Symphony Orchestra. This organization conducts gagemint as leadin' lody at th' Hollis. It points its work so quietly that although it is seven years with pride to th' fact besides her arjous juties at old, its very existence is unknown to many members th' t'eayter, she kapes abrist iv her fellystudents in of the college. Starting modestly with a programme her acadimic work. She takes an fthernoon d'hrive of simple pieces (this was in 1907) it now plays the to Natick with a harmless Frishman frim Yale, symphonies of Haydn and other things of the less an' th' nixt mornin' both she an' th' is Faculty exacting modern repertoire. As there are no wood- surprised t' fin' in th' pa-apers that she has eloped wind, brass or bass players in college among the with th' la-ad, an' is now in Chicago. "Chicago iv students, a few professional players are engaged all places," she screams—-she lives in — N'Yawk for each concert to supply the flute, clarinet, oboe, an' writes to th' scurrilous sheet remonstratin'. trumpet or bass parts. Under Mr. Foster's careful But it doesn' do anny good, Hinnessey. They pub- training the technique of the orchestra has im- lish her letter in a spishal ixtra as an added proof proved steadily until it is now able to give a really iv her duplicity." inspiring performance. When one considers that

' 'Tis a harrd life she leads," said Mr. Hennessey. this organization studies only the best of symphonic "Tis thot, Hinnissey. Think iv havin' y'r pic- music and is loyal to the highest ideals, one realizes college large. ture in th' pa-apers riprisintin' you with y'r huir what it may mean to the at Here we have the cause of good music furthered by the efforts parted, whin you have wore it pompydoor f'r and leadership of the students themselves. months. Think iv bein' reported to be participatin' What the orchestra now needs is the support of in a joyous roun' iv festiv'ties at th' Prisidint's the college. The trustees pay the conductor, but house, whin ye are grindin' on a philosophy pa-aper there is music to be bought, professional assistance in a fourt' floor single room in College Hall. Think to be paid for and a few other expenses; the orchestra iv it bein' said that ye come frim a small town in needs to sell three hundred tickets to pay its way. Illinoy, whin yi father's a hivy taxpayer in one iv Tickets are twenty-five cents, reserved seats Chicago's manny remote an' pros'prous suburbs." thirty-five; they are on sale at Room C, Billings "No daughter iv mine" said Mr. Hennessey of Hall, at College Hall center and at the door on the Archery Rood, much stirred," sh'll ivir go to evening of the concert. Wellesley." LOST—KEY TO THE BARN. "Nor mine," said Mr. Dooley, twinkling." And Will the girl who borrowed a Barn key from Mrs. kape y'r sons fr'm th' newspaper offices, Hinnessey." Fair during operetta rehearsals, please return it Winifred Hawkridge, 1906. immediately to Juliet Bell.

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