' College flews WELI.ESLHY, MASS., WhljNtSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, I9OT Student Government Meeting Elena of Italy I in, ,i thi the Studi nt Governmi 1 year, winch ci ntered ; i interest, was held Friday afternoon, Jan- ment and uai "i I by Miss Tafl in th, abseno of [i ford, who was ill. The minute- of thi .last meeting were read and approved. The the usual motion ide and carried that flow- the B m ,ow"\ ?"'] ers be enl ti Hanford from the , U. nd individuals. a oi lation. The secretary then read I report of the Executive Board: eighteen C]yi cases had been discussed. The report of Anonymous Contribution the House Presidents' Committee fol- Society Tau 7. e "earn lowed: since December there have been [° Doughnuts 138 serious errors. 10; semi-serious er- -p ota i and nine rors. 235 permissions granted Mhs Taft introduccd Mi privileges lost. Miss Taft then reminded ] e ;s Goodwin, president c i every one that onlv girls living in the Association, which houses are permitted to ride 'amotion at the ideal quadrangle1 ^ r , ,r , the Students Building should embody. on the street cars after hah past seven. Realizjng the practical obstacles which we The real business of the meeting, a dis- must recognise to overcome. of the patience needed to r; cussion of the plans for the Students' •» - ^ •, ,• 1 • 1 1 -, r Though was then introduced. t Building, r,% comes rapidlv> the i^^oo, wia read the list of the Undergraduate Com- In these latter days it has been our come ?iow i y for t h ere is little mittee. Caroline Vose. 1910. Chairman: outside ofWellesley graduates and students in privilege to witness acts of heroism and Willye Anderson. 1909. Isadore Douglas. Wellesley affairs, andour appeal must be devotion duty on land and sea, but hero- ,,• niostlv to women. But to 11 r\„ „.i Applegate,\ „ 1 „.,. r9 io, Alice Ake, 1911, Dorothy ,.,.. hoM ^ ^^ strings _ ^ ^ ism and devotion to duty arc not con- ]()|J ey which they have fined to soldiers and sailors. We have Miss Vose, chairman of the committee. the Committee of which does not include - seen a wife and mother leave the safety read the report sent to • N«erfKl«**rie ca- Trustees, for the investigation of a Welles- «* of her own home and her little ones to will bind the coll:- and the ley Students Building in which conditions a]umnae stand rea | join her husband in carrying, humanly of eleven colleges and universities more or raised by our own self-sac and comfort to speaking "succour, help less comparable to our own were dis- our ideal of Wellesley mac- ••" .college girls shall have equal oppor- those who arc in danger, necessity and cussed. Of these eleven colleges, six . , , , . „ .,,. unities socially. Buildings, two ex- . tribulation." already have Students , Wf Qmno% accomplisn ; one \l pect them in the course of a year, and f,,,, ;ij %KOT^ to ke tne The great ones of this earth have has- we w ma ^ •' is now working toward this end. The of the future better than tened to recognize their devotion to duty today^andm so domg. ;• cost, privileges and accommodations of " and ''" offering to Elena of Montenegro. Queen "^ ^, discussed, with \wM was then °£ JS*. and stars and of Italy, telegrams of praise extra emphasis laid on the fact that The Treasurer of the Orders of Merit, but her afflicted people of no college has the support of a Students sociation. Miss Palm, tc The key- plans had come to the A Sicily and Calabria are giving her her Building been found a burden. *»* *£»**** heart's desire, their loyalty, love, and ad- note of our need is ed in an accent • J J"** ••Practically . miration. from the Harvard Lmon. fof the Alurrm the The present Queen of Italv. daughter every college activity centers in Un- hitherto had no 1 a perma- ! Prince of Montenegro, ion." nent address And of the reigning | aud- was born thirty-four years ago. Her The building is to contain a large *£ J--M quietly spent, but later she in place of our inadequate Bam. childhood was itorium n, anent secreta- informal " was sent to the convent school in Russia a lounging and reading room for den ts Building. As all alurr i where the voting Grand-Duchess and noble social acquaintance and finally a kitchen ' realize the need, ar befits The needs and ladies of the empire are educated as , and small dining-rooms. t^duIie^TSn *£? a^Te! convent, she was such conveniences were en- their rank. On leaving the possibilities of ^j^g her trirough a rapid social schedule ">- the pres- ;i mother, the Princess Milena. , larged upon and compared with pitcher of ice water taken by her [ unt ner particular to Venice and there she met for the first ent state of affairs. And in concluding is set t (Continued on page 4) the report, the committee laid particular I ^ed on page 5) , COLLEGE NEWS 1RCW8 soman's fl&cfcical (College Collcoc ot |>cnnsv?lv>ania $£fMM00H»y lo Operative year lo re Jcni. AH bUMi ihOUld be addressed lo -., hospital liulldlnl Paper Napkins iger.l N8WS. All subscriptions >IiunU be sent 10 Miss Sally Kuil particular! to catalogue. i \i M- KinL'. I a MARSH ILL, D Box 900 21st St. and North College Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa. Made under most cleanly conditions, of finely creped, pure white paper, i h Typewriting for College Stu- with graceful designs appropriate to printed in fas>t colors, Subscrlr lidnor.Sallii- K dents promptly and neatly done every holiday, itanti Elliabeth Nofslnger, 1910 at 6 Grove St. Taylor's Office No other Napkin possesses these characteristics Ice Cream. Cake, Coffe $• ; Lemonade EDITORIAL ; &*+ ASK One of the greatest problems which \& FOR DENNISON'S confronts us individually here at college is && :: ^\V h.ii to read. Our time for such recreation is limited and the iDcimittii oMumifudiniiui do. i that we ground i o extensive L. hardly know where to begin. We eithei Dr. D. H. FULLER 26 Franklin St., Boston Dentist ]., att< mpl to devour everything Next to Wellesley Inn Tel. 145 s: 8.30— 5.30 Daily. Tuesdays excepted' we laj hands on or thai is recommended to us, without pausing to assimilate our Model Hand Laundry newly acquired knowledge or adopt anew St., "Wellesley it into channels into which it is incapaci- 61 Curve train of though! to our general philoso- tated by nature, training or inclination to Perfect laundering in all its branches. our desire to read only what is i.Im ; or, in travel. It is not necessary to confine our We solicit work which requires the ser- of the greatest instructive significance and reading to a limited number of familiar vices of skillful launderers. value, we force ourselves to peruse vol- authors, and it is very true that fields of umes far remote from our interests and thought entirely unexpected by us are of- understanding—the sort of books one lays P. E. SALIPANTE fered up by a chance book or article. If. I Tel We aside with a '•Thank Heaven that's fin- CROVE ST. howi . '. we enmr across such a book, we First Store from the Station ished." This kind of reading, undertaken immediately realize that it means some- Choice Fruit and Confectionery foi Hi. laborious purpose of "improving thing to us, and that it has a definite place have just received a fresh line of new Figs, Dales one's mind," is of no real value to us. It We in our thoughts, but if it is beyond us or and Nuts, and also we makea specialty ot Swiss Cheese concert which we go to because Olive Oil and English Crackers. is like a make anj personal appeal, we think ought and where the music College Trade Attended to Promptly. Free Delivery we we ought also to realize the situation and lay thunders in our ears like so much noise. it aside until we have "read up to it'' or striking no answering chord in our na- thought up to it. If we persist in this ture. promiscuous sort of reading, we lose more seem to feel that it is incumbent up- We than half the significance of it. It is as if read all the more recent publica- on us to a person whose mind was not equipped by the day. in order to afford our- natun for the processes of philosophical subjects for conversation, and we selves thinking, and who had absolutely no train- a sneaking sense of disgrace if we have ing in that direction, should plunge into are to a. Unit that we have not read forced the vagaries and intricacies of modern a certain popular novel. Books are for philosophy. He would lose the true mean- enjoyment and For the development of the ing of it all and most of it would seem to along congenial lines, not for the mind him mere blasphemy. Why nut confine purpose of tiring the brain and weakening our reading to our own more vital inter- its powers of original thought by forcing ests? It is far better to be an authority .mi a few subjects than to have a smatter- ing of all. Since we have so little time for reading, why not make the bi w 1 1:1 1 we have? If we wish to explore, we can explore systematically and more or A. Bendslev less cautiously. We can cultivate a taste Successful for any line of study if we begin at the right end. But if we are going to take Natick things up let us not do it superficially.