, Wellesley Sollege News Entered at the Post Office in Wellesley, Mass., Branch Boston Post Office, as second-class man r, VOL. XXIII. WELLESLEY, OCTOBER 22, 1914. NO. I. tl is 1 rhythm COLLEGE CALENDAR. striking resemblance to the originals was marked. pound. Thi d loprn n 1 stablish After this, Mr. Castli madi a short bul "hesitating" seen through the in- an taken to - .I'M in- '- 11-' ' 1 pi 1 foi 1 ampli I Saturday, October 24, Society Program meetings. speech, "wiili no purpose in speaking" as was lone- on acci no d b Sunday, October 25, Morning service: Dr. Edward fectly apparent, bul finally announced dancing i. .. tie I doubh rhj thm; Moore of Harvard. compel iiion open to the audience. \ few pli beal diffen in Vesper service: Special music. entered, bul all wen gradual!; eliminated except two whom Mr. riations in mi lod 6 trial in h: y, (7 Wednesday, October 28, Christian Association Helen Moms .in, I Carlolta Smith, to rhythmic patti n il meetings: Castle presented the silver 1 up. 1 'no ri 1 il sting I iieetion with this la mi thod, Dorothy Murphy, I9I5- A greal deal ol credit for tin' performance is due to note that Prof, low defines rag-timi Billings Hall: Lucy Buck, 1916. all the participants and also to the committee com- 1 1 t girls: merel) In I" aul iful di 1 Sara Snell, 1916. posed Of I lie follow ing thus constructed, is more than Miss Whcclock. Chairman, Dorothy Rundlc, 1916. mad." Rhythm, St. Andrew's jusi the shock. Il maj !" likened to the (Catherine Andrews, 1917. I'll*. '017 initial Church: nee surface of the sea with it- greal tidal waves, and it Mary Pfeiffer, 1916. Dorothy Beard. (ohm., Curtis. waves, whose contoui is broken everywhere Subject: "What Docs the Communion Serv- Ruth Powell. Grace Keenan. lesser 101X. with countless tiny ripple-. ice Mean?" 191(1. Perhaps the mosl pleasing pari of Pro Friday, October 30. Art lecture bj Ralph H. Cram. Helen Pump. Minnie Gould. Gow's talk was his wealth oi musical illustration, Art Building, 4.30 P.M. Marx Elliott. Helen Judson. both vocal and insiriiineiil.il. Although he in- Billings Hall, 8.00 P.M., reading of Henrj nor .1 troduced himself as neither 1 player singer, VIII, by Edith Wynne Matthison and Charles CRAM. RALPH ADAMS discount this con- Rann Kennedy. the audience was inclined to servative estimate of his abilities, and thoroughly On Friday afternoon, October 30, a1 4.30, Mr. enjoyed the simple and natural way in which he SATURDAY EVENING VAUDEVILLE AT Ralph Adams Cram, the distinguished architeel made his points effeel ive. THE BARN. and writer, will lecture in the Farnsworth Museum H. J. S., 1915. on "The Planning and Architectural Treatment of On Saturday evening, October 17, the Bain College Buildings." audience was most enthusiastic. The first informal This lecture was given in Boston, last winter, FIRST SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT. Barn affair was extremely clever in plan and in exe- and had been secured for Wellesley before the lire. cution, as one girl said "more fun than a real It was afterwards deferred, but is all the more ap- The first of the four subscription concerts im vaudeville." propriate this autumn. cessors 10 the traditional artist recital-, wa- held The first number aimed to instruct as well as to Mr. Cram has lately been called to be the Heel in Billings Hall. Friday evening October [6, when amuse. "Pathe's Weekly" of important current of the Department of Architecture at the Institute Frederic Martin and Alexander block gave a varied events was sel« ted because of the great prominence of Technology, and is one of the greatest architec- solos. Mr. Martin's program of -ones .01, 1 violin given to Wellesley on this particular week. Welles- tural designers of the country. work was particularly enjoyed in his rather unusual ley's Record Crew appeared in costume and in An exhibition of his architectural works is now selections from tin "Id classics, which showed action — record action thai was fearful and wonder- open in the gallery of the Farnswoitli Museum, 1 lc- study resulting in admirable handling of the audience. After this the careful ful to landlubbers in tober 15—November 7. resonance, flexibility, intensity and range. Mr. painful process of Senior Legenda photography Bloch played with brilliance and despatch, possibly was portrayed for the instruction of the lower overemphasizing technique at the expense of in- classes. To Seniors, this was too true to be funny, FOR THE FIRE FUND. terpretation. The Wicniawski "Polonaise" was but the rest seemed to enjoy it. ni"si thoroughly appreciated of his our eyes went the Passing Show of perhaps the Then before It will be remembered that in the spring after which have haunted us three selections. 1914 with all those ghosts the lire, Mr. Charles H. Woodbury generously con- full: Restoration Following is the programme in for months— 1916's long yellow Fund tributed six landscape sketches in pencil (framed), I'KooK IMME. stick of Pencil moved in company with a livelj valued at $75.00 each, for the benefit of the Fire I. molasses candy, and behind them came our "Vac- Fund. Of these, three have been sold (one bought dust-colored robes and a Old Classics. uum ("leaner" in long by the Tan Zeta Epsilon Society for its house an 1 .'. Beethoven it be Creation's hymn. .L. von hose dangling by her side. All these, may one by the Zeta Alpha Society and presented to never told her love—"Canzonet," Joseph Haydn said, were painfully realistic, the College). The remainder are to revert to the She events passed to comedy. The impatient husbandman (From "The From current we artist if they remain unsold on November 1. on the postet Seasons") Joseph Haydn "Queen of the Movies" appealed Mr. Woodbury is a landscape and marine painter loathsome light (From "Semele") .is a young and loving couple arranged themselves of world-wide reputation and his pictures are sought Leave me, reel. George Frederic Handel in various poses in the frame of the The ac- for collections in Europe as .veil as in America. More sweet is that name I From "Semele") companiment to this setting was one of the best No one handles the pencil with greater brilliance. 1 ., orge Frederic Handel features of the evening—a song by Jeanettc Wolfe Will not some friend of Wellesley help the College vaudeville Encore, wanderer's song Schubert that was as good a representation of and at the same time gain an art treasure, by buy- written word rannot singing as we wanted The ing? Has not some student the money with which II. r.f singing; it had iii Paganini attempt to desnibe this method to secure for the walls of her College room, one of Concerto for Violin D major Tor Aulin to be heard to be appreciated. these exquisite drawings' Encore. Humoreske Nor were we without celebrities on the Barn III. for Harry Lauder gave us a most entertaining stage, PROFESSOR GOW'S LECTURE. Songs in German and French. sketch. Dorothy Huggins, in Scottish plaid and An die Lever Franz Schubert kilts, was a favorite among the audience and won Franz Schuberl Wohin. songs. The enthu- On Thursday evening, October 15. Professoi much applause by her Scotch Paysage Reynaldo Hahn talk so widespread that the audience Gow of Vassar gave a delightfully informal siasm became Chanson—La folic Lille de Perth Georges Bizet of accumu- "joined in the chorus" of "Roaming Through the which he described as the "passing on [V. Gloaming" with enjoyment and volume. lated enthusiasm," on the subject, "Rhythm, the Si '1' is. - \ iolin stunts did not fail Life of Music." Rhythm, he said, is not per The ever present acrobatic Wagner-Wilhelmj to die act of attention Albumblatt. us. Ringling's best weie there to fill us with envy music, but merelj an appeal Polonaise in D major Wieniawski It is only as is brought at their strength and grace (?) and were followed through a sense. rhythm other Y. by several couples who did the Flirtation Walk as into understandable relation with the ele- -sone.- iii English. that it becomes itself musical. Modem if they cnjo\ ed it. ments of music Edward Elgar is recurrence of periodic The Pipes of Pan The last number was an exhibition of modern The essence of rhythm the Edward MacDowell dancing by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle (Patty attention. The mind groups repeated shocks into Th, Sea the various Robin Goodfellow ' Irlando Morgan Travers and Alliene Dorothy) and some of the twos, threes, fours, thus giving rise to simple and 1 1 Miss Blanch Bloch, accompanist. Castle House danceis. This was well done, and the forms of duple and triple rhythm, THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. and while you may thus get fresh air to Boarb of Ebitors breathe, you will hardly find at the movies "Glnfcergrafcuate department <3rat>uate Department that quiet which brings peace. Again you may say that solitude is far removed from this Elizabeth Pilling, 1915, Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth W. Manwaring, Editor campus. it seems at times, we admit, but there Charlotte C. Wyckoff, 1915. Associate Editor Cazenove Hall, Wellesley, Mass. So MAGAZINE EDITORS are such places fairly near us which can be dis- Edith J. Foley, 1915 Muriel W. Brown, 1915 BUSINESS EDITORS covered if you are willing to open your eyes to them. Katharine C. Balderston, 1916 Miriam Vedder, 1916 Ruth Chapin, 1915 Manager The country around Wellesley is too fine to miss REPORTERS P.uth Miner, 1916, Assistant and can be to you all, as the English hill country Barbara Aldrich.