WELLESLEY. MASS., MAY 29, 1930

Will Meet Briand TO Alumnae Proposes Plan BARN WILL GIVE FACULTY SAILS For 50th Anniversary For League Of Europe MAETERLINCK PLAY FOREIGNSTRANDS The Versailles Treaty, the Locarno

; \\ ill vvlrhnt;.' ; Pact are filed away. Even the London ival Conference is a thing of the "Sister Beatrice" Miracle England Offers*Wide Field For First ,st, and the world settles itself for Research Of Many Kinds brief respite from diplomatic under- Play Produced By Barn- id a half days, beginning with a takings. Yet on a certain memorable ry. and track. In the nature of swallows On This Stage And For Travel eakfast at twelve noon on June 17, Sunday, May 18, a day marking the ic, there will be a mass volley- id dosing with ;hii Interna-iionul Din- f one epoch of history, a day, as game and hit-the-pin baseball !T on June 19. More than two hun- the TVeuJ York Times observes, "When CONFERENCES en the faculty and members of PRESENTED ON JUNE 13, 14 JOIN WORLD ed and fifty alumnae and former stu- Reparations Committee ceased to jcieties, Ice cream cones will be •nts have sent for registration blanks, le. There will be no admission id interest in the event is nianitesttd icial problems left by the World charges. r=j present their June play on Friday and t from '79 to '29. were taken by common consent ulty will be absent from Wellesley on members Float Night, May 30, will begin at Saturday evenings, June 13 and 14, at June 17 will be "Wellesley Day." of the hands of the governments eight o'clock. Tickets and programs The Alumnae Association, its growth put on a commercial basis through sabbatical the whole year, or for their ae on sale at the El Table on ditorium. Maeterlinck's Sister Bea- and achievements during fifty years of operation of the Bank for Inter- Thursday and Friday, May 29 and 30. trice, the first miracle play attempted existence, will form the topics of dis- anal Settlements," the Memoran- The floats will picture the legends of by Barnswallows, is being substituted Miss Bertha M. Stearns, Associate vith Mrs. Louise McCoy North, dum of Aristide Briand, Premier of Rhine, and will be accompanied for the Greek Drama which would Professor of English Composition, will of the first officers, and Miss France, proposing the union of all msic from Wagner's Ring Trilogy. naturally be produced in accordance Ruth Goodwin, '98, a former president European nations was issued to the do research in several of the large li- order of events is as follows: th cycle of pla; Association, as the speakers. In The the States and Eng- braries in the United 7:45 2nd Crew Race tvs' program. :ernoon there will be a definite ies. And the world marches connected with the setting of Sist, land on problems attempt to "bring the alumnae up to 1st Crew Race The of periodical literature, of Class Crews development date on Wellesley," and to acquaint the Parade a extended regional pact, hailed by eighteenth and early nine- of the neighborhood of Louvier. A fairly com- during the ae with work of departments Formation W lany as the most important event in teenth centuries, especially that pro- Crew Songs recital of the story is given in there has been change or actual le diplomatic world since the launch- duced by or for women. Many of the 1933 Boat Christening John Davidson's famous balTad of the se of subject matter, or develop- lg of the charter of the League of early English periodicals can be studied At Dark: Pageant old legendary ballad along new lines. The "General ations by President Wilson, is, never- 1. s a symbolic note in Examination," which for the last three Rhine Maidens leless. not new. The French states- !; Virgin's representation of the offered a subject for spirited 2. Entrance of the Gods into ian Sully propounded similar ideals mind Valhalla God. In contrast to the miraculous discussion, will appear as the first topic i the seventeenth century, the Ger- periodicals must be sought in the col- inity of the play is the depicting of the afternoon session. Dean Waite 3. Siegmund pulling his sword ian philosopher Kant in the eight- lections of local historical societies in the struggle 11 4. Ride of the Valkyr of a human soul for re- analyze the purpose of the exami- But : first the United States." 5. Magic Fire a definitely con- Mr. Lawrence Smith, Assistant Pro- The productions committee, aided the experiment, so far as it can be 6. Siegmund forges his sword concrete proposals, by Miss Edith Margaret Smaill, is judged by the trial of three years. The 7. Siegfried slays the dragon assisted, doubtless, by the use of the concen- trating on the lighting other subjects of the afternoon are: 8. Siegfried's journey to the existing League as a model for the or- effects to heighten the emotional scenes the Here-Now of Physics," Professor ganization of Pan-Europe, and the fact of (Continued Col. Louise McDowell, '98; and "Physical 9. Siegfried's funeral that the charter of the union which on Page 8. 3) 10. Brunhilde and the funeral Education," Professor Ruth Elliott. he advocates is already envisaged Alumnae Meetings Precede pyre Wellesley Day" will close with a din- Article XXI of the League covenant Dr. Macdougall Announces at which President Pendleton will The Memorandum consists of a pi Functions of Commencement Fireworks the guest of honor and chief speaker. Varsity Crew and amble, four chapters, ai Concerts In 1930-31 Series r .subject will be some phases of the As many girls as possible are asked Commencement this year, as every policy of the college during sit with their class under the num- federation is emphasized in the pr< other, will be preceded by a round of trs of the life of the Alum- eral, in order to improve the singing. amble, which also offers three assu alumnae activities. There will be nae Association. 1=1 ances in regard to the general nature pro- rani nf Tm. D;iv. SaUirdnv official meetings, reunion suppers, and The program for Wednesday, June 1. Boston Symphony Orchestra big procession starting from a alumnae Continued on Page 6, Cols. 1 and 2) Wednesday Evening. October 22 Norumbega Hill. The June Play, Sister 2. Victor Chenkln Beatrice will be presented on Friday and pastel shades, to Tower Rare First Editions Given Thursday Evening, November 20 and Saturday nights. On Sunday the Fine Volumes Evoke Interest Green, where the pageant will take Professor George 3. Myra Hess Baccalaureate address will be given by place. The last step-singing of By Palmer Thursday Evening, December 11 the Reverend Boynton Merrill. There In Student Library Exhibit 4. Roland Hayes will be an hour of music in the chapel Among the re< Reverend Arthur M. Bradford, Treasure Room are three letters o: Saturday Evening, January 10 on Sunday afternoon, and a vesper ser- Those who haunt the Library have, great interest given by Professor Palm 5. Buda-Pesth String Quartette vice in the evening. Monday, after com- perhaps, lingered over the cases where Church in Providence, Rhode Island Thursday Evening, January 22 mencement, will end with the tradi- er. One, dated December 13, 1701, i: • bits from students' libraries are will preach at the chapel on Sunday written by Laurence Hyde, Earl of 6. Cleveland Symphony Orchestra ihibition. An old family Bible, June 1. Rochester, second son of the first earl Monday Evening, February 16 loaned by Margaret Bell, has an in- Dr. Bradford is a graduate of Yale of Clarendon. The letter states that a 7. Alexander Kipniss teresting history. There are several old University, where he received an hon- certain Sieur de Balandrte may stay in Wednesday Evening. March 25 German books; among them one on orary degree in 1925. He is a membei Holland, and that the Earl will try 8. Florence Austral and caterpillars, loaned by Gladys Max- of the Board of Trustees of the Uni- to obtain a pension for someone else's John Amadio 2:00 P.M.—Houses open and another, loaned by Dorothy of versity. He is a graduate Union wife. The Earl is mentioned In Dry- Thursday Evening, April 16 Richard, a Textbook of English His- Theological Seminary, and he receivec den's Absalom and Achitophel as tory, printed in Leipzig, 1729. An ex- the degree of Doctor of Divinity al Hushai, "friend of David in distress." Dr. Macdougall announces the Alum- llent copy of a once famous book, a Middlebury College. The second letter, dated April 12, 1766, nae Hall concerts for next year. Seve- satise on European settlements and into the In 1909 he was ordained is one by Joseph Warton, addressed to ade in the Indies, by Abbe Raynal, Congregational ministry and was for a for Page the Reverend Mr. Bowles, asking (Continued on Page 6, Columns 3, 4) 5, Col. 3) loaned by Jean Hall. It was printed the the headmaster: Dublin. Exshaw and White in 1784, Church in Springfield and pastor School, in Dorsetshire. The third Presidents id illustrated by Thomas Cook. Describe System the church at Rutland, Vermont. He Dre recent one, is from the Average Student Budget Among the rare copies of modern has been at the Providence Churcl Bismarck, written at Frank Of Societies' Organization books are several loaned by Ruth Estimated By Economics 101 furt-am-Main, May 25, 1854. It con. ieit, with bindings by Sangorskl He is well known as a college preach cerns the question of rent for Schon- brief Jutcliffe, the finest binders of the At a meeting of the classes of er and visits Yale, Amherst, and Mount The average Wellesley student spends 1931 and 1932 in Billings Hall on the Mon- Holyoke as well as Wellesley. not reduce the rent of the estate be- about $1895 in the nine months of day afternoon, May 26, the chairman conclusion [=) cause of his obligations. If the brick college year. This is the of the Central Committee explained the from a study of their own budgets by The Agents of the Railroad Company kiln were put into working order, present society system and the society the students in Economics 101. Esti- will in 20, Ad Building, on declares, the estate would pay for 11 by Muriel be Room presidents described the work of Bashlow. Helen Palmer their year's expenses were the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and there would be no necessity mates of adds to the collection several letters Their average 12:00 the rent. made by 133 students. autographed June 3, 4 and 5, from 9:30 to reducing The chairman spoke of the two pre- by such famous men as expenditure proved to be $1894.41. While 1:00 to 3:45 P.M. Besides these letters, eight more : Henry Van Dyke, A.M., and ceding systems that have existed in Robert Frost, Chris- most of the budgets were All students desiring railroad tickets editions were given by Professor Wellesley, and of the topher Morley, Robert Buchanan, and the introduction of baggage Rudolf of any sort over any road, or the present one in 1920 through the Eucken, the German philoso- Mnklni.' checks and transfers in any city, m efforts of the Joint Inter-society Coun- avail themselves of the opportunity cil. The Council did its best to make first arrange their transportation for 1 TREE DAY MARCHING the new system an effective compromise investigations, 1924-25 to 1926-27, the June Play, "Sister Beatrice" summer vacation. All payments m '33 '30, '31, '32, between D average expenditures were period before 1910, and the extremely Tickets On Sale $1855 and $1895. These figures do not MEET AT \l> BUILDING mechanical system of 1910 to 1920. A Monday and Tuesday, June 2 and 3, give a complete record of expenses for at the El Table 3:15 MAY 31 Central Committee, composed of a Fac^ Please Pay Your Service Thursday and Friday, June 12 and '30 and ulty chairman without vote, and a sen 13, Fund Pledge hing bought during the sum- Other Classes ooks are to be closed June 2 Wear Pastel Shades 'Continued Page 8, Col. WELLES LEY COLLEGE NEWS

were most common this year, for they on her research. She hopes to i

were reported by fifty-two students, trate on the music composed fi

nearly 40% of the group. A consider- that preceded the violin. Few c

able number, however, were able to get (Continued from Page 1, Col. 1) 'e as yet been through the year on smaller amounts. The plans of Professor John Dun worked over nor have they been scored. Twenty-one spent between $1000 and of the Astronomy Department, wh< Miss Slut-prr plans to spend the sum- S1500, four spent between $500 and be absent the second semrslrr. ,m mer months in New York working for

S1000, while three spent less than $500. x yet uncertain. the most part on the Drexel Collection. On the other hand, thirty-nine stu- Professor Sophie Chantal Hart. In September she sails for England, Wellesley Shop dents reported expenditures of between Chairman of the English Composition where she will devote herself to work in $2000 and $2500, ten of from $2500 to Department, expects this sumrr the British Museum, in the collections 50 Central St. $3000, three of $3000 to $4000, while one join the Sherwood Eddy seminar group at Oxford and Cambridge. After her spent over $4500. The smallest budget with which President Pendleton trav- winter's work in England she expects to was $263.55, all college charges being eled last year. She will be with them tour the continent during the following covered by scholarships. The largest was $4513, of which $2174 was spent for number of lectures on social and eco- The clothes, $487 for recreation, and $348 nomic situations will be given by men History Department, has very vague for food away from college. qualified to speak with authority. The plans as yet, because of her sudden de- M For the average student, college remainder of the year will probably be cision to leave. She sails June 8, and two-piece charges took one-half of her expendi- spent in the study of comparative lit- expects to do work in the British Mu- tures. Clothes, costing on the average eratures, particularly the Russian and seum, in the Public Record office, and $454.50, made up 25% more of her bud- the Scandinavian. ir the Bureau ot Historical Research at KNIT get. The next largest item was rail- the University of London. Here she road fares, $149, or 8% of the total. goes Recreation accounted for $64, or 3.4%, at the Columbia School of Journalism although perhaps to this should be during the next college year. She has in Italy and France. been engaged this year in writing a-sporting went for "extra food." Gifts cos a book on certain phases of English COLLEGE WOMEN WILL DEVOTE and incidentals $33.52, while and American journalism, and her work AUTUMN WEEK END TO THOUGHT trailed immediately after, with e in that field is considered extremely of $33.40. Organization dues came valuable. She will be in England dur- At Adelyiirood. Massachusetts, under amount of $32.93. laundry costing ing the summer months, but will return the leadership of Angus Dun, of the $19.75 $26.99. medical expenses of $21.30, drug- Cambridge Theological School, a group store expenses of $16.37, and newspa- Professor Julia S. Orvis of the De- of college women will meet from Sep- pers, magazines, stationery and stamps, partment of History expects to spend tember 5 to 8, 1930. The plan is costing $13.85, made up the rest of the her free semester travelling in Europe, And takes so many smart features although her plans are as yet indefi- but instruction in the art of prayei with it. tuck-in, short sleeved , nite. Conditions in those post-war Students Compare Records and time for meditation, prayer, and fUred Nhirt with low placed fullness, a states which grew out of the Austro- companionship : Economics students were inter- are its objects. at a modified natural waist- The Hungarian and Russian empires will be narrow ccpalian ested in comparing the records of their members of any college. the object of her study. - line and an open-V neck. Soft flecked dergraduates. and recent graduate Miss Mary J. Lanier. Professor in the woolen, black and white, blue, rose, budgets. Last spring the Massachu invited. The only expense after n Department of Geology and Geography, green and white $19.75. :-i'tts charge for board Minimum Wage Commission set i and Miss Seal Thomson. minimum wage for self-supporting wo fessor of Biblical History. \ country some time during

in ] . and < lent. They plan particularly to visit he Black Forest region of Germany, The Panama nd the Bavarian Alps. Both will re- For a year this means a budget of train abroad for the first semester of $761.80, in contrast with that of the av- $7,50 erage Wellesley student of $1894. The Professor Mary Ferguson of the Bot- allowance was $127.40 for a ny Department is planning to spend year, only a little more than one-fourth he summer in the English Lake Dis- that of the Wellesley student for nine L'ict, and also to attend two interna- months. The average Wellesley stu- ional congresses, the first, which will dent, moreover, is spending in this year leet in London, of Horticulturists, the 9 only $34 less than the amount required Henri's the College Girls Rendezvous econd, the Fifth International Con- to support a workingman's family of gress of Botanists at Cambridge, as a in New Yor/^— five in Philadelphia. $1928, according to delegate from the American Botanical a 1927 estimate of the Philadelphia Bu- Society. After these sessions, Professor reau of Municipal Research. This Ferguson will do some research work at tricts, the elite young college again brings up the question raised by gather to enjoy Henri's famous French e John Innes Institute, returning Mr. Mussey in the NEWS a few years ter in the year, for this purpose, to e United States. Research Among Old Manuscripts Following the line of interest C.A. DISCLOSES FUTURE PLANS in sev- teenth century music which has com- AND PRESENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS anded notice in the past few years, Miss Helen Joy Sleeper, assistant pro- in the Music Department, has To . plans for the coming year's work meeting in Shakespeare Society House. during her leave of absence, which will on Monday evening. May 19, to iny facilities. Black cobra which in the music manuscripts of that grained cloth. 18 x 9 inches. period. Already considerable research Black cobra; black or brown mittee members, and the new college r'-'in hide . . . $26.00 officers were invited, as well as anyone s time, and many of the old mad- particularly though not officially inter- rigals and songs have roused the inter- ested in C. A. activities. est of college glee clubs. But up to this Copies of this year's budget and of . . . Youth has been studied, and i The type that Miss Sleeper hope goes down to the their duties, as well as any future plans which they considered of interest. Lucinda Lord of the Religious Meet- sea in ! ing Committee announced that Dr. mection in Every Room Buttrick will be the leader of next year's Religious Emphasis Week. Kath- Where YOUNQ women livcu arine Allan of the Conference Commit- Tu. HAT was the call tee told of Poland Springs and Silver at Palm Beach and Palm Beach Bay, and the ever-present noble work sponsorship usually decides cf selling ice cream cones to pay for New York Wellesley Club which of the Paris will Of especial interest was the an- 140 EAST 63rd STREET lead at our northern resorts. nouncement of a new committee which (Five minutes from Grand Central Station) Patou originated is tentatively functioning under the the idea of name of the World Fellowship Com- NEW YORK CITY wearing that combine a mittee, and has been responsible this and shorts. There are past spring for bringing to the college SPECIAL SUMMER RATES Mr. Dick Hill and his valuable talks on many versions of this the race problem. Daily Weekly fashion in our bath- After the informal reports of the va- Single $3.00 $15.50 $55.00 ing suit shop, rious committee heads, suggestions were Double 5.00 25.00 90.00 asked for concerning next year's C.A. sixth floor. program. There were some helpful re- Club Office 18th Flour

the ] h._T juninr.s; Cool Roof Balconies Club Dining Room with charsre privilege R. H. STEARNS CO. WELLE SLEY COLLEGE NEWS

FOCUSSED ON THE SCREEN -\E. T. Slattery Co.]

PEREGRINATING PRESS and Saturday, THE PkiyhoiiM- Scarlet, with Evelyn Brent and the i Slightly

s Brook. The picture concerns it- rine Lee Bates, under the auspices of with the activities of a group of the New England Poetry Club, on May jewel thieves. The second feature will was the award of prizes given an- Warner Baxter in The Romance a^ain, he found a new orange one. lally for poems by members of the of Rio Grande, in which he is supported appropriately the Kathar- by Mary Duncan and Antonio Moreno. Amity Blooms in the Spring Club. Very Bates Poetry Prize was awarded is adapted from Katherine Spring athletics have been vigorously Alfarata Bowdoin Hilton, Wel- Gerould's novel. The Con- leading up to today's field day. The And here's and lesley 1922, who received also the first quistador. Two songs written specially class games have been played off, final games for this production i all that remains are the to the o v i which are to decide the class cham- Next ind.-iv. Tuesday, and Wedncs- pionship. Rumor has it that the classes M iy, will bring Janet Gaynor and seem so evenly matched that unusually Farrcll to the Playhouse in Grand few bets have been laid this year. All's Charles interclass lacrosse at least; High Society Blues. In addition, there fv:f-r.d;v ; the classes of 193C forty as- e the regular short topics. •dnesday, May 21, it rciially invited U juniors Old sorted freshmen, sophomores, held at Alumnae Hall. As 1930 took Walden Park and seniors motored to particular interest in the Council. SPORTS HEADS CHOOSE TEAMS for a picnic supper. FOR FIELD DAY COMPETITIONS Seniors ! »&& is given the pleasure of seeing her heard the passing Tuesday, May 27. >n evolution. After this Miss Pendle- song competition. Class teams, which will c« of another annual n, Miss Waite. Miss Tufts, Miss his Field Day and Float Night, And last Friday. Mr. Zigler joined Knapp, and members of the faculty nnounced. juniors on the chapel steps and per- opportunely arrived. Everyone sure of this, haps, though Perry isn't expressed herself and himself without joined them in their songs. undue urging, and the remarks of the »»& faculty— Perry almost forgot, he isn't The following officers have been

3 scholarships awarded an- the Trustees of Wellesley

C\-i .'-! members of the graduating further research and study go to members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Katherine Dapp ?len Walker. Katherine Dapp, -we nope you II like the major has been history, will study English History next year in the University of London. Helen Walker, Showers of May chemistry major, will do graduate Commencement Perr; irk toward a Ph.D. The alternate given oy Hf. was invited to the one r a scholarship in case eitht Hemingway, Elizabeth Pitts for Jane ese two is unable to carry ou at Slattery's in the "Vil." and had such a good time playing »ns now made, is Helen Boose, whose bridge and eating sherbet, that he ijor is Greek, and who plans of sneaked into A. K. X. the afternoon graduate work at Yale. Who said there wasn't a white in the "Vil"? Just 88 8 take a peek at the well-chosen group of crepe de chine himself chief shower and enjoyed Pool Full Half and georgette frocks Slattery has selected to speed you there, too. Here Perry's hostesses were on your way out into the "wide, wide world"! They're Louise Emlaw, Betty Knight, Louise Bailey, and Katherine Shankland. simply stitched and flared with nicely finished pipings or 888 pleats. Just ideal " and " frocks, ^O-SO —all whit Skulk J. to 20, O/

Last Wednesday. May Total $8594 37 Others 16. JO, 35.00 and upwards. next year as 1 ted its officers for :0 boasts the largest collection, ks to the very' generous S1000.0C Herzog Vice-President Louise of Mrs. Fox. of Flint. Mich 1933 Secretary Mary Elizabeth Smith Treasurer Gladys Hershey Purveyor Alta Mary Wiggins The Swimming Pool Margaret Barnes s Housekeeper now has about $105,000.00; $200,000 is Sla 888 the goal. Thus we have already al- Last Friday. May 23, Perry heard of most half a pool! a college organization which had a sur- 888 apologizes for ending as well plus in its treasury—the Mathematics Perry Wellesley Shop a botanical note, but Club. After having a chicken-salad- beginning on Boston Brookline and-fudge-cake supper, it still had a surplus, and with it purchased a dem- onstration slide rule, which it presented The Graphic Press t) the mat-hematics department. The Mathematics Club also wishes to an- Terry the Pressman^ 8 Centre Avenue nounce its new officers: NEWTON, MASS. YOUR RACCOON President Melita Holly Vice-President Katherine Atwood Treasurer Virginia Francis Furs, Fur-Trimmed Winter , Secretary Emily Neal Engaged Junior Executive Claudia Jessup 15 Mary P. Simpson to Mr. and Winter Sports Togs Faculty Adviser Miss Copeland IS E. Davison, Cornell 13. 8 88 29 Barbara Pease to Mr. Philip The Science Club also held a meeting Sheafer Riggs, Carnegie Institute Technology '27. last Friday night at Agora. Helen Store Them With Hart was appointed temporary Married ex-'29 Margaret Adams to George Weiss, May. LAMSON & HUBBARD Board for the coming year. Eliza- Press '22 To Betty Watt Brooks, a son beth Bradstreet will take Mrs. May's first child, Stanley Hunter Watt, O p:ace as Assistant Director of Publicity Flattering Fox Coats

The members of the Cambridge Plant Club, the oldest plant club in America, Knitted or Washable Sports Things were the guests of the Botany Depart- ex-'09 Mary E. Oesting. ment for tea last Friday. They at- Swanky Travel or Campus Coats lecture on Plant Breeding tended the COLLEGE NOTES given by Professor Ferguson to the In- H. SEILER CO. Chic and Accessories troductory course in Botany, and were J. Caterers linee 1S71 taken on a tour of the greenhouses, the Engaged 30 Mr. William Botanical Garden, and the Hunnewell Emfiie B. Sinkler to When in Boston iline at Seilcr' members Stephens. Harvard '28. Arboretum. Several of the 8C HUBBARD had never visited Wellesley. and all ex- '31 Miriam Stokes to Mr. August 200 Boylston Street LAMSON pressed great pleasure in the beauty of Edwin Danker, University of Pennsyl- 38 Park Square our campus and gardens, WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

tions on such subjects as tariffs, cur- WELLESLEY economic COLLEGE NEWS WAY BACK WHEN rencies, communications, matters, etc. And the conclusion, after WELLESLEY, MASS., THUF WE BECAME WORLD-CONSCIOUS is the hope of the peoples of Europe, strongly advises the canalization of In the dim, dark ages before the allowing a development piecemeal and twentieth century appeared' in sight, incoherent to take place. Weilesley graduates were trying con- To the people, in fact. Briand really scientiously to be interested in human addresses his plea, and on their as- nature on a broad scale. Thus speaks sistance he relies for the ultimate achievement of his project. For al- the Weilesley Courant for 1899, ii though the pact would obviate the ne- cussing the Commencement Exercises

But" unfortunately he ca Training in connection with the Y. W, Europe today; Arouse interest, enihu>i;t

C. A. in Boston: "It is good for a

Weilesley College girl to catch a j of European subject. But- frontiers with all their panoply of Upon the glimpse of a different kind of a life lost armed guards, customs officers, and Our poor pup has Itt protective tariffs; and would do away Six fountain pens, ens the sympathies and makes with the need of artificial economic in- Green ones, derstand that there dependence for many small specialized earnest, true souls in the world, before states, no slight opposition is antici- pated on the part of the stronger pow- whose work she may well sta ers, concerned as to which nation mility." the Even one with an orange Greek-letter societies were fairly well the and a blue organized and Phi Sigma and Zeta theoretical equality of all members, Base. (He was embarrassed wh pha had been officially recognized. The the annually rotating presidency, con- Information Bureau asked him To c iti. eminently self-righteous predecessor trol will, at the outset, lie inevitably in the hands of the strongest. The the NEWS says with some asperity, " psychological effect of mutual trust re- For he is an honorable is earnestly hoped that there may be sulting from the frequent meetings of Gentleman; of the rows on gained during the win Some of the clear understanding of the position a Rows of pens, in shining Incipit Vita Nova representatives of the nations, wherein college courses have Briand finds the highest value of his Array, he could find to incorporate in tr well as of the opportunities of joinir scheme, can grow only with time. None of his darlings, and Sheepskin in hand, the seni practical experience, He wouldn't stoop to take them that are offered Criticism Voiced has been fc One on which another had Since the publication of the plan, questionable weapon the fiery dragons the time tc Chewed during moments of sideration criticism of it has, indeed, arisen on of the wide and wicked world of a whole field of work. It Stress. He chews his this score. The is for this reason that the students' These athletic more general ob- in that she will find the world wide Pencil and Sulks were still jections, however, fall under summer plans have unusual interest pining for a Hare and Hounds other Solitary Confinement, mourning enough for her wanderings for the Club heads. The federation is character- college, and it has been realized to allow them an opportunity fo Pens gone but not forgotten. will discover delightful that the results of the experience and more exercise. "The class crews ar ized as "a European League of Nations SPRING LAMENT gions where the beaten path may investigation are of value for future chosen more for their ability to siix with no teeth to it." Both Europe and students. The Personnel Bureau has and to be ornamental rather than use the world are considered unready for forgotten for the charm of the i been aware of this fact, ful," editorial it, a contention supported I'm black with ir trodden way. We offer our benedictions and within the one critic declared ii by quota- past years tions I've lost my pen, with a more than disinterested eager- other organizations have from Mussolini's recent and become cognizant strangely With disregard ness, when we consider that soon we of the situation, and Legendas were to appear on June bellicose speech at Florence; have been making it possible for picked for and scepticisms are uttered concerning shall ourselves be setting out upon the the sum of seventy-five cents; i students to work in special fields the stability of public same new roads, with the same liope of dur- very demure serial, A Monk of Sieiu opinion, from ing the summer months which alone, it is striking gold. and then bring was running in the paper, and a bin asserted, the union back the results of their could derive Eternal marching songs, and just as investigations calendar was one of the features of th its authority. to the eternal cartoons which annually depict group of those interested in that Italy's attitude toward the project, type of work or thought. This has as voiced by Mussolini, with the college graduate setting out upon By 1923 the footwrlting which was his hints been true in the case of the girls who of the increasing strength a career of conquest, with the poor indulged in by correctives of German have in Mary world quaking been sent to Labrador, to Junior nationalists and their long-cherished before the jaunty cap Hemingway Hall was attracting nation- Month in New York, to the Bryn Mawr thirst for revenge, and militant diploma, should inspire in attention, and there was great is distinctly unfa- School re- for Industrial Workers, and to vorable. The British press, while joicing because Alumnae was nearly ap- The; plauding peated addresses which proclaim to the completed. the formulation of a scheme velopment in this field is the offer of for "rationalizing" Europe, college girl her privilege and responsi- points out And laugh at life and take my ease— College Government Plans were being formulated for a bility as that mythical creature of the to sent a student that the government could scarcely cooperative bookshop With heavy heart Geneva to study at the in 1925; smoking golden age, the wo International join in a federation from which all Cazenove the I do my part hool. The contacts was calling down the should assure us tha and opportuni- dominions, with the exception of th of the And vainly dream of joys like these. s which these experiences gods, and the authorities offer to Southern Ireland, were excluded by the two students holding prominent I have my blessings—well, perhaps,- the individual student who goes are of very terms membered through 1 of its constitution. Great offices offered to tender their resigna- But still, this flow of humor saps J notable, but they gain increased Britain could still, of course, co-oper- It was discovered that Smith My store of strength; if I'd collapse ate with such a federation on issues of far more money for Junior Then they'd relent that mutual concern. Spain feels that she rom entertainment than Weilesley; And wish I'd spent s expected to bring must proceed with great caution on aoth Weilesley and Mount Hol- Less time on NEWS and more on nap this and of i re accomplishment question, because of her relations yoke were offering words of advice —is but a slight one. The four years'— to the United States. WASTE OF HASTE it extravagance. Even France, or perhaps the twenty years' rut is too though proud of her position as birth- The result of statistics gathered by deep a groove to be left easily for place of the plan, is not wholly satis- This is the Bird Club reveals the presence of broader, unknown paths. Habit is fied with it. For finals begin in six days. that we shall h able stray cats making themselves at stronger than love of exploration; and But the current of opinion runs So he bethought him a plan Chesterfield address the ie on college grounds who are soon when old habits must be abandoned highest in Germany. Here National- By which every day's span ie expatriated, Suggests and five established with old environments, one grasps out through the ists stigmatize the proposal as "an ob- Be saved from its chaotic haze. who, as soon as a means has been desperately for fetishes vious He seized new to cling to. umns before its members attempt to perpetuate or stabilize pencil and sheet. Under the protection of Alma Mater the French hegemony." while And drew lines long and neat will have joined the ranks of Welles- emblem of their debarbarization," Liberals one's in life Making highest duty is to read the hold that the federation is an one box for each of the days. ley's alumnae, a prospect that almost inevi- index board every morning; table twice a economic necessity. They insist He huzzahed in his glee. makes us sentimentalize. Yet when we BRIAND PROPOSES PLAN that Germany, in view of her superior "The next thing is to see see them again ferent level for the at the college, even exalted purpose of organization How ; FOR LEAGUE OF EUROPE and faculty of meeting for i the Phil, Away from the requirements of foreign markets, the first morning I find we hope that they will s shift the rou- not should look (Continued from Page to the future and prepare already have assumed all the outward 1, Col 4) herself for the role of "industrial manifestations of our worthy pow- to giving or perhaps c alumnae. them; erhouse to the rest of Europe." The poor pup was in haste. Let them not forget that the mere he plan:—First, business letters instead t fact that it is not di- of The United States, which has been He scratched and erased, hat the college has awarded them rected against But the rut, regrettably, wi a de- the League of Nations. Informed Then of the plan, considers a vol- crouched hack with glee on rut; and the robots, n ndeed, as "an ethical unit dedi- untary union of European states "both his heel. dividual ownership which many alum- cated to the cause trained by a mechanical of peace and co- logical and "My time's nae practicable." and believes all allotted seem to have. Those who have tion," fits into a scheme of the that the proposed And every hour's stayed for pact would carry plotted commencements will realize League; second, that it Tree Day will suggest to the hopeful is not directed even further the For reviewing the implications demonstration of the each messy ordeal" the power of beauty or another of this request. The >t any power or group of powers elusive League of Nations and the So with leisurely pace newly graduated have not yet reached e this union; Kellogg universal miraculously appears to save third, that it is not Pact that reason can supplant force And a smile on his face the stage of appreciative reminiscence, diivrh'd -mei>']-n:v m international relations. Economic Adonais crept out from the dugout but, proud of their degrees, have already members—for the federation i political But lie stopped become arrogant. rivalry, it in his path Why should the mere union in the sense of the United would give way to fact that a woman is most bene- an alumna give j of America. The Valuable Vacations chapters, fol- ficial co-operation. her the privilege, as she lowing thinks it does, in due order, suggest that the Thus the fate of Briand's of being rude to heads of houses upon is of Europe should Memoran- HENLEYESQUE conclude a im is As the summer approaches the her at present in abeyance. and return? Why should the season of preliminary pact pledging But From age-long their efforts the twenty-six spells of working, students begin to discuss reunions make college nations interested have and explain graduates forget toward the realization of the plan; From Friday Gym set free, dis- n asked to reply that they are supposedly polite before July 15, in mem- methods of achieving the federa- We thank, in gleeful shirking. er that a report of the bers of society? We hope that some urging the plan's prog- Whatever increasingly obvious that many girls wisdom of the devel- gods may be s may be submitted to class will initiate a reform in reunion opment of the the Assembly That are using the vacation political aspect first; the all semesters have an end, to supplement League or NationsNation* «f n-~ e™ behavior. Perhaps 1930 will the i have e the eventual organization That national holidays befriend, the theoretical knowledge or in us they have courage. nion; Geneva. The mills and include a list of ques- That once in an eon Memorial Day the gods 1 Neighbors the Day of the Tree! WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

tated by such schedules, and if there is Free Press Column rk partially or entirely based on COMMUNITY utcome of the examination, it is

Last i almost inevitably lowered because of this column PLAYHOUSE Dangerous Days! student's fatigue and nervous must be signed with the full name hibition of poor taste. Many of us are tin. Arrangement should be made author. Initials or numerals Wellesley Hills of the Just a • days i ashamed to recall the remark regarding provide for such cases, or else the feu of will be used if tlie writer so desires. funds of the psychology depart- examination period becomes intoler- The Editors do not hold them- the weather positively ruin- find able. Some of us should not be ren- responsible for opinions and ment, nor do we anything clever selves ous to and to in the prolonged and smart-alec dis- dered unfit for our best work by hasty furs fur- cramming, while others are blessed Contributions sliould be in the cussion of birth control. Yet we feel trimmed cloth coats as these should be called to the attention intelligently distributed study pe- hands of the Editors by 10 A. M. on enjoy Thursday, Friday and Saturday well. Sunday. of the college so that ensuing Senior Academic Councils may profit by our 1931. t=i error. Such true, yet courteous, por- SOMETHING MUST BE DONE! traits as those of Miss Pendleton, Miss "SLIGHTLY SCARLET* Don't wait Tufts, Dean Waite, and Miss Hart set PHONE HANCOCK 2700 To the Wellesley College News: ccmings the more regrettable. 'Romance of the Rio Grande' Many times lately there have been skit about Mrs. Ewing was clever sr presence in the audience was articles in the NEWS on the subject of . —June Play. Maeter- For Jordan's Fur Storage appreciated. We should be glad to see Reserve Books. Are these articles Sister Beatrice presented faculty invited to see themselves as just the angry outpourings of a few We will call immediately Mrs. Ewing did. The presence of the Hall. non-representative individuals who faculty would doubtless be a stimulus Saturday, June 14: to real wit, and to the elimination of 9:00-12:00 A, M.—Class Meetings. such remarks as were not distinctly books they wanted were out? It would 11:00 A.M.—Annual Meeting and and depart- seem so, when any girl in possession of Luncheon of Mary Hemenway ments represented—even MARSH to the point. Association. JORDAN at least two senses, i.e., sight and hear- Alumnae : necessary, of eliminating the custom Thursday, Friday Saturday 1:30 P. M.—Formation of Alumnae and ing, dares to flaunt an illegally held re- Itogether. 1930. Procession. Norumbega Hill. COMPANY Annual Meeting of Wellesley Col- "THE ROGUE SONG" Not only are these morally corrupt ATTORNEYJORTOE DEFENSE lege Alumnae Association.

students apparently unaware of their Alu > Hall. To tlie Wellesley College News: own depravity, but they have an in- 4:00-6:00 P. M—President inderstand that the Latin depart- sultingly low opinion of their friends. tion. President's Lawn. sue page studio fc^ is about to discontinue the Photographs 6:00 P.M. Reunion Suppers. Twice today (May 24), people who ;e in Medieval Latin, because so 8:00 P.M.—Second Performance of people are electing it. To those Wellesley, Mass. V^^/ Wellesley 0430 June Play. Alumnae Hall. students who have taken or are now Sunday, June 15: taking this interesting and instructive 11:00 A. M—Baccalaureate Service. ave brazenly dis- is most discouraging. Sermon by Reverend Boynton played reserve books in Founders' Hall. Merrill. Memorial Chapel. If the student body objects to this it is possible that many 3:30 P.M.—An Hour of Music. Bil- practice, we have been badly "taken in" e student body have passed over ^Always \JSbIL ^Always lings Hall. by some of those whom we have voted :ourse without reading more than 7:30 P.M.—Vesper Service. Mem- into office. If the student body assents itle. either because of a prepara- Something New LlLI 'Pleasing 'Prices to this practice. God help us!—our school aversion to Latin or be- Monday, June 16: moral strength is certainly too neglig- they did not understand its full 10:30 P. M.—Formation of Proces- ^IcnMcton :>:V t of i significance. There are probably few sion for Commencement. Nor- ve that the Latin lan- umbega Hill. guage died about 300 B.C., but there <-A shop full of ^Beautiful Qifts Address by Raymond Blaine Fos- that they signed dick, L. L. D. college rules? If you think a rule i; the i rr.slal ( l,..k-> 1:00 P.M.—Trustee-Alumnae Lun- he welfare of the ma- Christlan era Alumnae Hall. ative language, cheon, 4:00 P.M.—Annual Meeting of earth to change it^-but not hell. The Wellesley Students' Aid Society. means is just as important as the end. 24. Founders Hall. If you honestly think that the college Room 7:30 P. M.—Alumnae Assembly. books could be more useful to us if they for yourself and PEN DLETON, INC Hall. were lent on a different basis, why not For you who Alumnae 10:30 P.M.—Class Singing. Chapel speak to the librarians about it, or dieval Art, History, or Literature, this write a free press? I saw a girl come : is most valuable, both for tech- into the Brooks' room and get a book, training in the linguistic aspects which she (presumably) had put in ; Latin of the period, and for a with some others, on reserve for herself, general knowledge of that period. The Latin reading itself is easy, but the

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! hid- reading in the Library is essential. ing place. Lovely! maybe we can each However, the amount of work put into get a permit for a shelf to conceal the ie course is largely up to the stu- sAks TH book that the rest of the class, actuated 34 STPEET by self-interest, might otherwise use Since this field of Medieval Latin F 5 even when we were ready for it. id Literature is a large one and is Whether you like it or not the col- ill practically untouched, it offers a ASP lege is an organization; it is not just growing opportunity for the student the sum of its units, for it is also the and scholar. Therefore, it does seem relations between those units. If any- me that the students should al- one wants to take advantage of the Announcing field tt honesty and decency should compel her than destroy the to preserve rather Fashions very co-operation which she is utilizing. WANTED-IOUAL RIGHTS An Exhibit of College The books have been given to the col-

lege by people who believed that they :> the Wi-Ueslcy College News: complaint is were bestowing a kindness upon an With finals so close that tile, midyears of 1930 so distant Be Held at honest, mutually courteous group. If and To at consideration of them seems ridic- they had meant to give them to indi- ulous, perhaps it appears an inoppor- viduals, they would have done so, but rather than DISPLAY SHOP they hoped to benefit many WELLESLEY schedules. Yet the imminence of a few. Ordinarily, we would call this wretched schedule forces the writer to accepting benefits under false pre- pour forth her troubles in the hope Thursday, Friday and Saturday that her prayers for reformation may If you care about Wellesley and have some day be heard by the gods. For selfishly, egotistically forgotten others June 5th, 6th and 7th she does not see the advisability of in the struggle to get your own work spreading examinations over a period done, perhaps a little introspection will of ten days in June and twelve days in give you a better perspective. If on the ...in the new silhouette and the new January and February, if the majority which other hand, you are an avowed egoist, cannot receive benefit from such a it is your choice and you should expect system. It cannot be deemed advis- are presented in a variety of fash- to be treated as such. No quarter. colours able on trie ground that it gives time for You do what you can for your self-in- intelligent study and correlation rather terest and if you get caught with a to offer the perfect than cramming when the same unfor- ions, carefully assembled tunate person is besieged by four mid- if I and for one. will in future, year examinations in three days, costume for every type of college activity. ie with an illegal reserve 1 four June examinations in two days. der her to be opposed to the If there is a permanent acquisition self-defenst for the ex- , and in Wellesley which results from study aminations, it is greatly decreased o: eliminated by the insane study necessi COLLEGE NEWS WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

BARN WILL GIVE From You to Us From Us to You CALENDAR Class Trees Tell Story Of MAETERLINCK PLAY Wellesley Thrift Shop Freshmen, Past and Present Profits are given to President Pen- (Continued from Page 1, Col. 5) dleton to help college girls Give Anything You Don't Need play. The Day is based, it Wellesley Thrift Shop n which 1930 Tree making most of them. lard to realize that this holiday is Mr. Beveridge, of the music depart- reation of the earliest days of the overseeing the choral and or- is chestral interludes. The program was college. The fact that Tree Day An Opportunity gned by Elizabeth Zumbro, who was older than Commencement, dating winner of a competition among the college graduates with prepara sophomore year of the first from the classes. The cast of the play is as And yet, with professional social work com- year's celebra- Holy Virgin in the Likeness of ,d instruction in Cleveland social ;r Beatrice Lucy Tompkins mcies. Field work in some case; planting of the Beatrice Julia Lilly House Prince Billidose Alice Abrahamson Priest Evelyn Peirce in The This ( stom, as it was originated The Abbess Ruth Stephens School of Applied Social year by Mr. Durant after a gift of Alletta Dorothy Dworak silver pines had been made to the Sister Eglantine Georgina Johnson ge by Mr. Hunnewell, was the cen- APARTMENT WANTED Sister Clemency \ qrailuatt. y>r< 'f essional school theme of the first Spring pag- one or two rooms (unfurnished) ry Louise Menaguale Western Reserve University As a result. Tower Green was with bath and kitchenette, about Sister Felicity Esther Dewing Cleveland, Ohio :hed by the addition of a Norway September 15th, within walking Sister Balkine Elizabeth Keith spruce. Then, in the following year, James Elbert Cutler, Ph.D., Dea: Dorothy Wood second spruce was planted, the two Sister Regina Ruth Hosley i-ming a background for future festi- fEdlth Kenelly Louise Seedenburg SHEEHAN'S From 1888 to 1920 the custom was J " Polly Humeston rried on without change. With the | Lunch and Sandwich Shoppe [Margaret Fraser

Blind ] . . . .Dorothy Richards beech, linden, catalpa, or whatever LUNCHEONS SANDWICHES I Carol Densmore ;ies the students desired, was added * Barbara Ellis Picnic Luncheons To Ta\e Out :hose already present on the cam- Mildred Marcy In 1920, the 553 WASHINGTON STREET, WELLESLEY, MASS. Boy Louise Herzog planting a new oa Page Elizabeth Pitts We use the very best quality of food and every article ;, adopted the large Cripple man Margaret Clapp receives the most careful inspection and preparation. Severance. This method of adoption Small girl Josephine Maghee was not to be permanent, Old woman Mary Grace Stewart in the following year, the old custom Woman and Child Mary McJennett was reinstated with the planting Woman and Child ...Margaret Trotter green ash. From 1921 to the present Coach Miss Edith Margaret Smaill day this latter custom has persisted \ Hotel Martha Washington Chairman of Production Mary Stix without change. (Exclusively for Women) Although the history of tree planting 29 East 29th Street 30 East 30th Street has been rather uneventful, the history Scenery Mary Gage NEW YORK CITY Lighting Dorothy Upjohn of the trees themselves has The Idcnl Residence for Those Coming to Town for Shopping, the Theatres without changes. Because Costumes Beatrice Barasch or to Enjoy the Many Cultural Advantages Offered in New York the older tree Properties Marcia Heald — HIGHF tragic deaths of DAILY RATES NONE — the original ones cannot nov Make-up Dorothy Davis Rooms with Running Water . . For One Publicity Louise Seedenburg on the campus. 1888s English elm, or i with Private 1 Service Helen Lobbett 1911*s Tree of Heaven, for example, SYSTEM Business Elizabeth Patterson PRESIDENTS DESCRIBE have disappeared with the passage of L^^^^^ years, and their places have been (Continued i taken by younger and hardier ones. Other changes have been wrought alsc receives both the applications societies, by migrations, changes of location prospective members and the of often owing to events in college his- of the societies (the voting being done tory. Thus, the alumnae of 1909 whc without formal discussion in thi hunt for their Colorado spruce on the cieties). There is an absolute academic site of old College Hall, will find it standard for eligibility to societies near Alumnae; and those of 1888, theii worked out by a committee of Faculty new elm among those lining the road "good citizenship" standard and also a near Homestead. judged by College Government. Failure Scattered all over the campus, then to be placed in a society may therefore from the Lake to the zoology buildings be due to any one of several rei are maples, chestnuts, and otl as well as the more unusual Japanese lilac and Europea: a of bo1 There's treatment of the choices -:::>} bearing the name of an erstwhile dividuals and societies. No applic freshman class. To be added to placed in any society for whic group next week is an unknown does not apply, nor in any society Lining 1933. Silver does not vote for her. The Central Committee members are pledged to ab- solute secrecy, so that applicants can WANTED for summer occupancy, begin- and frankly and in perfect confidence ning- June 1st if possible, a A definite list follows, of instructions omifovtable house on an at- to 1931 and 1932 for their procedure ir tractive site ; shore, lake or applying for society membership. — mountains. Must have three 1. Each person should make sun bedrooms and bath and maid's that her name is included, and is cor- room and bath. rectly spelled, with the proper clas numeral, in the Directory now postet Harriet Sampson, 1920 on her class bulletin board. 435 East 57th St., 2. If she has any questions whatever, N. Y. the presidents of the societies or the chairman of the Central Committee would be glad to try to answer them. Other people should not be asked. 3. Application cards and pledges are IVY CORSET SHOP Pause to be found at the Bureau of Informa- tion, orange cards for 1931 and white for 1932. A chic elastic step-in for the 4. Read the pledge carefully and debutante. any unhappy things can happen to its meaning before copying it consider told inferiority comple: on the application card and signing it. Dainty French fitted ban- and Doctors, Mid-years and Finals, all dedi- 5. Last year's application cards still "ir im,,l. ,, deaux. For traveling, Venus cated to the cause of m.il "': j hold for 1931 unless new ones are sent Coca-Cola was made for times like these. in. Applications must be dated. Compressed Sanitary Nap- Here's a drink that will quickly invest 6. All applications must be received kins. you with some of its life and sparkle. before noon on Monday. September 22, Give you exceeding joy in its tingling, deli- and should be addressed to Miss Mar- Bareskin , $1 a pr. cious taste. And leave you with that cool garet Christian, Chairman of the Cen- after-sense of refreshment in which a right- tral Committee. Wellesley College. eous megalomania may wax fat and prosper. Laura M. Duright, Chairman of the Central Church Street, Wellesley Committee. IT IS )N A DAY-IT HAD TO BE GOOD TO GET WHERE