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. Wellesley College ]\euis Entered as second-class matter November 17, 1916, at the post office at Framingham, Mass., under the act of March 3, 1879. VOL. XXVIII. FRAMINGHAM AND WELLESLEY, MASS., MAY 20, 1920 No 29 Monsieur Andre Allix "Good Luck Penny' reaches Wellesley Awarded Certificate at Wellesley $500. of Service NOTED FRENCHMAN LECTURES ON PASTEUR. IMPETUS GIVEN TO ENDOWMENT FUND SERVICES OF AMBULANCE RECOGNIZED. DRIVE. M. Andre F. Allix. official lecturer fur the "Fede- The Good Luck Drive, the work of Mrs. Waldo dea Etats-Unjs et du ration do rAlliance Frang&ise -Mr. Henry D. Sleeper, Director of the American Hid other members of Phi Sigma, resulted in a interesting, as well as an inform- Canada," gave an Field Sen-ice Headquarters in Paris has sent to record-size "Good Luck penny." About five hun- evening, Hay 1", ing, talk "ii "Pasteur," Monday the .students of Wellesley College, through dred dollars was obtained from the Tsianina con- Pro- Chapel. "A Paris news- in the Houghton Memorial fessor Hart, a handsomely embossed certificate ic I. to -tart the coming Endowment Fund Drive j»->»ii1l- of France paper," la- began, "asked the of Service in recognition of the work of the Wel- For $(f,000,000 on its waj Lo mccess. It is gen- the greatest of Frenchmen. whom they considered lesley College Ambulance in Prance. After an erally supposed that the money will go toward Victor Hu^'o third, Napoleon The results placed initial gift of three hundred dollars a- a nucleus defraying the initial expenses of the drive in the si ml. and Pasteur first." for an ambulance fund made to Professor Hart fall, though tin.' amount was given freely to the for Pasteur's One of the most potent reasons through the kindness „f .Mr-. John Tawlc authorities lo be used as they wish. of liis patience in ex- great successes lies in extreme Andover, the rest of the money was very quickly "He v. as the most obedient of perimenting. HONOR SCHOLARSHIPS ANNOUNCED raised by students and Faculty of the college, in si. tight his results not pupils l" experience." He answer to an appeal published in the New*. This FOR 1920- remarkable ability once but many times. He Had certificate which will he placed among the war Honor Scholarships have been established the disprove it. The by in besting his work, in trying to archives of the college reads as follows: College for llie purpose of giving recognition to a toil was arduous; it- recompense a profound joy- high degree of excellence in academic work, and in finding the truth. "He- [dared salt on the tails of showing appreciation of loyalty to the high Certificate of Service of the elusive birds of sience." said the lecturer intellectual standards that the college seeks to 1914 quaintly, "and brought them down to earth.'' 1918 maintain. "Pasteur was the lirst man," continued M. American Field Service ;„ /-'mnce Attention is called to the following points: Allix, "to see that in the visible world then is to 1. These honors into two classes. The students another world, invisible without the everywhere The Student* of Wek Cotle in the first, or higher class, are termed Durant aid of a microscope." He saw one time two bot- Scholars. Students in the second class are termed friend* of the tles, filled apparently with the same liquid. One Wellesley College Scholars. American Field Service refracted light to the left, the other to thy, right. 2. These honors are awarded to seniors on the donors Cor It was in trying to find the reason for this phe- of Wo. 121 basis of two and one-half years' work, and to nomenon that he discovered the existence of Bearing inscription "WeUesley College" juniors on the basis of one and one-half years' microbes. scientist put work. The first use to which the young Ambulance No. 1:24 was sent in April, 1915 to 3. The standard in each case is absolute, not disease that his great discovery was in curing a Section Saintaire N"o. 3, operating in Alsace, with competitive. had attacked the ilk worms in the region of poste-de-secours at Hartmannsweinterkopf and 1. All courses in the College ire on the same Lyons. His success there encouraged him in his Miltlach: in Lorraine: in the Verdun Sector, with footing. were caused by conviction that many diseases postc at Bras during in the first battle of Verdun: 5. A small amount of non-credit work will not microbes. Here arose a difficulty. Pasteur was and at Pont a' Monsson, with postes in the Bais from these honors. profession debar not a doctor; his countrymen in the le Pre. In December, 1916, having been returned ii. In general, a condition in college work will All looked upon him as an interfering meddler. to Paris for repairs this ambulance was transferred debar, except when incurred in the freshman year there- the more signal was the honor awarded him, to S-San-Xo. 2 and in this command, operated in and made off before the beginning of the junior for, when the academy of medicine elected him as the Verdun Sector, on the left bank of the Meuse. year. a member. with postes at Mort Homme and Hill 304; in the ;. The name- on the list are arranged in al- He discovered the vaccine while working over a Argonne with poste at La Chalade: and again on phabetical order. of a certain cholera that had attacked the chickens the left hank of the Meuse. where it completed Senior Durant Scholars—Class of 1920. region. One of the bottles containing the culture a service of nearly two years and a half with the .Mary L. Austin Bernice L. Kcnyon he had made of the harmful microbes was mislaid French Annies. Mab N". Barber Alison Kingsbury for some time. Urged by his unfailing experi- Mavis C liarnett Florence L. Kite (Continued on page 7, column 2) Anna F. Bigelow Xctta I,e\i Ghosts Chant Triumphant Dorothy P. Black Katharine Lindsaj at Wellesley Dirge Indian Music Margery Borg Gertrude R. I.iitke DRIVE. TSIANINA OPENS GOOD LUCK Brenda P. Cameron Mary S. McCullough MATH BOOK DROPPED FROM Tsianina, the Indian soprano and the American Elzura H. Chandler Sarah G. Mclx-od AEROPLANE. composer. Charles Wakefield Cadman, opened, with Eleanor C. Clark Ethel G. Morris an interesting program of Indian music, in Hough- J. Marjorie Cook Helen M. Palmer ton Memorial Chapel, Wednesday afternoon, May Elizabeth H. Cox E. Gladys Peterson Solemn celebration of 1922's successful burying 12, the Good Luck Drive for the Wellesley College Lucia E. Dearljorn Anna A. Russell of the Math book took place on Tower Court Hill Endowment Fund. Mr. Cadman, who is devoting Mary E. Evens Helen H. Scott at the witching hour (especially witching with liis life to the development of a strictly American Margaret H. Gay Katharine B. Scott day-light saving) of nine, Saturday evening. May school of music, has made a close study of Indian Ruth C. Green Hildegard B. Shumway 15. Five times were portions of the honored books Mings, as the only music native to tne country. Mildred B. Harrison Helen P. Smith of 1922"s president and vice-president buried with- Many of his own lyrics are based on Indian Katharine C. Hildreth A. Maude Stewart out discovery by the juniors on the challenged themes. Tsianina, who was in fact the inspiration Flora L. Hubner Marian A. Stuart day; and the defeated class responded that even- '21" for his opera "Shanewi*," has worked with him Catherine Hughes Florence T. Swan ing to the sophomore cry of "We've done it. for some time. Her beautiful voice is admirably Annice K. Johnson Myrilla Walcutt with the admission that they had indeed, but that her people. suited to the strange melodies of Rachel C. Jones . Cynthia Westcott 1921 rejoiced with them that Math was dead and Indian songs, Mr. Cadman explained, are passed Edith Williams buried. from father to son much as the tribal folk-lore. JuxroB Di'haxt Scholars—Class or 102). Ghosts of Passamo's Trignometrg and Higher no Unlike the old tales, however, they suffer Josephine C Abbott Helen A. McKearin Algebra singing their dirge came forth to meet change through the years. Many of them are very Baliette M. Becker Mildred Masters the juniors and declare their triumph. Winding old indeed, while some, the result of sudden in- Eleanor S. Burch Hope Mathewson up and down Tower Court hill they formed a huge spiration on the part of a gifted member of a Edith Carroll Edith Mayne white W which they outlined with sparklers. The tribe, are comparatively modern. All of them rep- Eleanor M. Case Adela Merrell leading spirit challenged Constance Whittemore, 1921's resent some one mood, some particular occasion. Vivian D. Collins Elizabeth P. Rand president, to tell where and when pieces of 'then the "Invocation to the Sun God" is the ap- Mary M. Dudley Louise D. Reynolds the hated book had been consigned to the earth. page T. column (Continued on pa^'e 3. column (Continued on 1) (Continued en page 6, column 3) 3) — THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS the operetta authors and composers don't ask for Meliesle^ College Hews charity—the result is crude, unconvincing, highly in the would-be Editor-in-Chief Mary C. Dooly, 1921 Business Manager Dorothy Bright. 1921 artificial, and frequently amusing Associate Editors most serious spots. Circulation Managers Clemewell Hinchliff, 1921 We have long been clamoring to have at least Amelia DeWolf, 1921 Alice Richards, 1922 Elizabeth Sayre, 1931 the words of operetta written in the summer.