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fhi Library,
Mary Herainway Hall,
«lellesley, Maes.
News
Wellesley College
WELLESLEY, MASS., OCTOBER
XXXVI
VOL.
27,
1927
m.
COMING EVENTS
light
October 29th. at eight
o'clock, in
Alum-
nae Hall with the presentation of the
Carrying
Informals.
Pall
out
rr v%
f
Shakespearean Programme for the
two of the plays
will center
about
s
phase of the dramatist's life,—the
with
the
Anne Hathaway and
second
fabled
with
Dark Lady,
comedy,
Gammer
his
of
pursuit
London.
in
first
Stratfo
Thi
Gurton's Needle, will
also be given as a characteristic piece
pre-Shakespearean drama.
of
lor
JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS
SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS
MILDRED HINMAN
SHIRLEY SMITH
MARY FRANCES NOYES
President
Vice-President
Top Row: left to right—Mir
Eleanor Wheeler, Jane Maxwel
.
Corresponding Secretary
Recording Secretary
Treasurer
Executive Committee:
Bottom Row: Elizabeth Nash,
Fact.;
"Times" Betters Conditions
JULIA LILLY HOUSE, HELEN NEWELL, BETTi' HANSEN
BETTY QUIMBY, LOUISE SCHMIDT
RUTH BANISTER
Song Leader;
Rates for
Work
MUSICAL PROGRAM FOR SUNDAY
After
t
splendid performance of the
Times, which make the exds fairer. Last year
ach college took an
devised by its independent
This year a uniform exam
made out by the executive committee in
New York, will be given to all contest-
work
rates
well done, should
if
given
cooperate
pro Christo
Palestrina
(Innocentes pro Christo infantes
believes that the students'
Union
Will
below.
demand
interfecti
sunt;
ipsum
sequuntur
during
0320)
morning.
the
give twenty-four hours' notice
Articles
ranging fn
through leather goods, handbags and
Please footstools to bureau scarfs will be
if
pos-
exhibited at the sale for the blind at
Shakespeare House on Wednesday, November 2, from 11 A. M. to 6 P. M.
Arrangements for the sale have been
25c and up per hr.
made by Miss Louise V/aite. who is
actively interested in the work of the
sible.
Taking care of children
Asleep
$1.00
:
State
)hich
Household Work
Cooking
40c and
4(
Waiting on table
Dishwashing
3!
is
have the privilege of exam will determine not only the winend of this week a ner in each college, but also the intersister college Yenching collegiate champion, for the best papers
will be forwarded to the New York
Commission
for
the proceeds will
its
meet her. Miss Myfanwey Wood committee, The intercollegiate prize i
has belonged for several years to the S500.00.
missionary circle in Peking as a repre$250.00 for prizes is alloted to eacl
sentative of one of the English mis- college and will be distributed at thi
sionary societies and when she goes
the local committees
back it is to a position on the faculty
Hodder, Miss Overacker, Mr. Mus.
of Yenching. This year she is spending
and Mr. McBride are the member;
Wellesley's committee.
The policy
in Union Theological Seminary in New
be, according to Mr. McBric
York and is keenly interested in seeing award the whole $250.00 to one person
what she can of American colleges, esamong the papers there is
pecially our colleges for women.
She
:kedly superior. If several good o
has consented to talk to us informally
at, the sum will be divided i
All
next Sunday afternoon, Oct. 30.
le prizes of $150.00, $75.00. and $2£
;.
id
^
it is
hoped that The best paper will in either event
meet her
t to the Intercollegiate Contest.
vited to
MUSSOLINI AND THE VATICAN
sad event, added Mr. McBride, t
paper shows marked excellence,
Committee reserves the right to wi
hold all prizes.
ARGUE AN HISTORIC QUESTION
Sewing and mending
Laundrj' work
..4(
4(
Italy.
The Vatican favors withdrawal of the Act of Seclusion by which
the pontiffs have immured themselves
unless weekly wages are arranged. in the
Vatican since 1870. Temporal
rights it is believed would extend the
(Continued on Page 2, Column 3)
power of the church. The question of
membership of the Vatican in the
Mini!
in
for
League of Nations, of embassies, of an
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
outlet to the sea, of a widening of the
TEACHERS'
ASSOCIATION
Vatican walls,
all
are discussed.
Mus-
the
versity,
who
The new Botany building will be
formally dedicated by the College on
Friday, November 4.
An interesting
program for the day has been arranged,
beginning with a reception and inspection of the building from 10:00 to 12:30.
At 2:30, following a buffet luncheon for
the invited guests at
Tower Court, a
series of short addresses
by prominent
Botanists of the country will be given
Page
2.
Column
t
Roumania this
Roumanian
Professor Manning was
traveled in
as guests
to
will
issociation Office (Wellesley
I
under the leadership of Professor Manning. Heed of the Depa;'ment
of Slavic Languages in Columbia Unifeasors
entertaining the
guest from
by notifying the Christian
office immediately of any
is not done to your satislequests for students' help
nade by telephoning the
members of tlie Faculty who have
spent some part of the last year in
travel.
Professor Sophie Chantal Hart.
summer
WeUesley
the
you kindly
Visits to d
this
New York
choir at musical vespers last Sunday,
an interesting program is anticipated
Woman's Educational and Indus-
trial
Leave a Colorful Trail
year in the conditions of the Current
Events Prize contest engineered by the from
The General Aid Department of the for the morning service October 30th.
Christian Association of Wellesley Col- Prelude: Pastorale
Franck
lege, after careful study of the rates .'f Te Deum; 45R
H. Lawes
the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau of Motet (unaccompanied): Innocentes
the
Experiences of Faculty
of Current Events Contest
There have been several changes
The General Aid Committee
New
Janet Geddes,
,
JOSEPHINE MAGHEE
ELIZABETH SCHIPPER
Factotums;
Reports
Alice
Fact.; Matilda Aarons, Treasurer.
of
the
isioned by the Carnegie
Founda-
organize the party to return the
a group of Roumanian professors who traveled in America under the
auspices of the same foundation.
They were introduced by the American Minister to Queen Marie, who held
a reception for them with her eldest
daughter, the Queen of Jugo-Slavia, and
her youngest daughter, Princess Ileana.
Queen Marie impressed the
visitors with
her charming, vivacious, seemingly impulsive manner which hides, as those
who know her well say, the keenest
business head and most sagacious intuition.
The meeting took place at
Sinai, named after the mythical mountain, which, Miss Hart said, "reminded
me of the Yosemite Valley with its
straight
cliffs
fantastically cut.
to a great height."
in a tent
end of
on the
rising
lying
plain, waiting for the
his suffering.
The party
3
The king was
traveled in a special train
"American Intellectuals TravelThey entered Roumania through
labeled
ling."
CHINESE RUGS OFFERED FOR
a great pine arch
marked
"WELCOME"
SALE BY WELLESLEY ALUMNA
English and soon reached Oradea
Mare, the first town after the boundary
Friends of Mrs. Franklin C. Fette
glad to welcome her back to Wellesley last week. On October 24th, she
an exhibition and sale of Chinese
and other importations at HathThe rugs are
y House Bookshop.
product of the industry Mrs. Fette
developed in Peking, during the
From there they went to Cluj in
Transylvania, where there are several
Unitarian churches supported by Boston
;re
in
line.
churches since redistribution of church
in the lecture room of the new building.
lands after the war made such aid
the Fascist paper
At 4:30, Dr. Lepeschkin, dean of the
They were taken over the
Wellesley College Teachers' Association, edited by his brother is optimistic.
Russian People's University at Prague
Carpathian Mountains by
will be held Saturday. October 29, 1927, "Probably the Roman question will
and visiting professor at Washington
at Wellesley College. A buffet luncheon solve itself," says the Popolo Romano,
University, St. Louis, will speak in
nacessible spots by a single track logwill be served in the private dining
room of Tower Court, at 12:30, which
us that there be no foreign
Into the chao; leaving Wellesley.
(Continued on Page 2, Column 1)
*)ri*n th
the closing aduall be followed immediately by the
It is believed that the
tic and mediaeval conditions that pref the day will be given by Dr. C.
will be thoroughly thrashed out in
business meeting and the program.
Mrs.
vail
Gager, director of the Brooklyn
Italian Senate on the instance of
The speakers of the afternoon will be
Fette introduced the most hygienic and
Botanic Garden. All members of the
.tor Vitel, sometime in November.
Professor Arthur O. Norton of the Demane methods. To the artistic side
College are cordially invited to the two
1 :30 P. M.
Sat., Nov. 12th
partment of Education at Wellesley Colher business she brought an intelliLepeschkin and Dr.
Don't Miss It!
lege, who will tell of the new Nursery
all that was finest
appreciation
of
gent
Don't Be Passive— Be Active Gager. The subjects of these lectures
Special Riding and Jumping
School at Wellesley; Miss Frances
rugs of the best periods of
announced at a later date.
Exhibition
Knapp. whose subject is The College
Chinese art. Because of the great inGame play hockey and basketFast Hockey and Basket Ball
Freshman; and President Pendleton.
of Wellesley people in these lovely
ball Saturday afternoons
The twelfth annual meeting
of the
FIELD DAY
Matches
who
will describe
and explain changes
in the curriculum recently adopted at
the College.
(Signed)
Over 75 enthusiasts turn out
Every Week.
Refreshments Served After-
Hathaway House is plaiming to
Preshmanphomore Literary Club will meet to carry them in stock. They make lovely
,
cuss
Modem
the
Scandinavian
fiction.
Caroline R. Fletcher,
Secretary.
•
Selma Lagerlof and Hansum.
bedside rugs in the smaller
sizes.
The
larger rugs are suitable for
many
pur-
for wall hangings.
Novel Competition Stunt
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS
OLD BOSTON MARKET PLACE
IS
ither are our
SCENE OF HISTORIC CHANGES
most
and Ireland
Sicily
ground and tradition of Boston! There
js no other place in the United States
quite like it, to combine the idea of
Jndependence that tlie hall stands for"
the district which was in colonial
days the most fashionable and is now
in
The
bombardments
a
One
m
war.
high
the
"We
cily."
Some
,tlons.
Shackford of the Enghsh
Department, who spent the
EXCEPTIONAL PRICES
teresting
Here you see ducks, saw The Playboy of the Western 1
play interpreted by Irish
Miss
,
Sherwood
the
were particularly
from packages and odd-shaped cheeses Irish brogue superimposed on Russiai
Mr. and Mrs. Loomis alsi
Here you see
decorate the market.
enchanting pleasure trip ii
butchei"S walking around with huge
Italy and Golden Sicily "with its mar
carving knives in their apron strings.
Outside vendors are hawking their
the classical. Saracen, and Nor
goods and pushing their push-carts
Etna they found of particular
from one advantageous place to anthe market lay open and was
central resort for business and
sui
"sauntering and strolling in the vi
of England, found the villagers
markably courteous and kind, and ready
all kinds
players, a delightful presentation witl
lages
associated
poets.
Coleridge. Keats, Browning. Si
Thomas Browne. They prowled
aroun<
small places, seeing the English peopl
and studying conditions, particularly
in relation to
country
They
life.
vis
because of the Sicilian legend Thomas Browne, found Cornwall,
asleep with his knights i
sides its archeological interest, a
Their particular work on tii
beauty in its gray cottages and pn
s a quest for illuminated Ai
They travelled
sion of flowers.
lur
first
the
AT
older
the
She Egyptians at their best.
of them in the people."
mentioned an incident which she reAll of the Wellesley travellers speak
lembered of a coachman singing Kate with warm appreciation of the courtesy
Killarney into the sunset as showing extended to them in the various counthe pecuUar quality of the Irish atmos- tries visited. Professors Sherwood and
rabbits and sometimes reindeer steaks
Thursday was market day and
gossip.
of
Ireland and Si- painting and sculpture in the museum
as a revela1 more significant
she said. "Ireland with its physithe
the skill and artistic abiUty of
;y, haunting of legends and
sentatives of
At
Filene's Wellesley Shop
Exquisite Crepe de Chine Underwear
—
several Irish scholars
busy center and send out along them phere. They met
among them Miss Hull, who
the marketing traffic. Inside Paneuil
1 an outstanding history of
Hall is the middle corridor strewn with
Berger.
sawdust and lined on either side with Irish literature and Professor
great authority on Bardic verse.
booths wliere merchants and repreLbbey Theatre In Dublin, they
firms all call out to advertise their wares.
AT
of
les
Underwear Week
Is
the
sandbags and barbed wire on
In Egypt several rooms of
streets.
great Cairo Museum were found to
given over to the famous TutenkhaLoomis IS asn exhibits lavish, sumptuous, costly
; department of
beyond words,—exquisite too. in design
were
Wellesley.
spoken, and below the hall, the town
market. There the buildings now stand
This
significant wnters.
Combine Study With Travel
in
Somerset, Norfolk and Suffolk counties,
the country people came to Boston and thurian manuscripts in preparation fc
a Iconography
walking and motoring in a leisurely
bartered their products for the wares
The pillory, stocks They have been studying the nature c way. They spent some time in London.
of the tradesmen.
ustrations of Arthurian Romance
and whipping-posts were kept in the
they J
Havi
attempt to see if artists preserved
market for public punishment. In 1657ial known to them in other
59, the State House was built in the
A particular discovery
heart of the market place and became than by text.
'
Loomis mentioned \
the centre of business. This building
the art galleries. They are particularly
was set on pillars ten feet high and piece of ivory, in wliich the carve
appear
preserved
a
detail
that
did
not
jutted out from the pillars three feet.
and surroundings, and
Both Mr.
The market was in the open space indelight
in
exploring
market house
by a mob
aroused over the question of markets
side the pillars.
The
was demolished
in
old
new trend
1736,
the
In
J
,
the
thought by
qf
By
cs in their fields.
Round Table
dis-
finding that
Arthur had
of
origin in the representations of Christ
:
i
CENTRAL STREET
50
TIMES"
round table in the Last
OF CURRENT EVENTS CONTEST
has been enlarged, and rebuilt after the
In 1824. Josiah Quincy Supper scene. Mrs, Loomis began tlie
fire in 1762.
study of the influence of re(Continued from Page 1, Col. i)
built the market which is next to
inconography on the secular,
These two buildings
Paneuil Hall.
Another factor which makes this
jmis has started a new approach
make the Boston Market Place. Quincy
and literary texts by discoveries year's contest happier than last is its
Market is made interesting by the decearly announcement. The examination
with Celtic myths.
oi*ation on the walls of such verses as:
is
scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
"Our second Charles of fame facete
j,rthquake Described
April 28, 1928. Thus, contestants may
On loin of beef did dine:
he auspices of the American
t reading the papers now, in prepOriental Research Associate
ion.
Any undergraduate is not
Curtis of the Department of
ehgible but urged to at least try
History and Mrs. Curtis. Associate ProThe examination will be limited
fessor of Bibhcal History, spent the
;r in Palestine. Syria, and Egypt.
)te Mr. Curtis in a recent interthe Committee will be
iContinued from Page 1. Col. 5:
"We reached Palestine the day
questions at any time, a
he earthquake and saw many evi:
is sufficient demand, i
of the havoc wrought by it. discussion meetings once a wee
Tlie government f
ging railroad.
important
buildings
were
closed.
nished a military guard to protect tii
Monday morning Current Ever
PLEASANT ROOMS
Dwight R. Clement
Dr.
Dentist
available for Guests
MISS MARGUERITE RUTHE
DENTAL HYGIENIST
MRS. JOHN MILNE
12 ABBOTT STREET
Dr. F. Wilbur Mottley,
possible
by
attack
WABAN STREET
Telephone 0218-W
DR,
STANLEY
E.
HALL
Dr. Francis S. Keating
DENTIST
this
the lights of Odessa
Bulgarian border, retui
Dentist
i
national costume, and at the variou:
nearly demolished.
Travel
i
lat
,rt
.V
wire, etc.
Syria,
Titelscu,
Minister
speeches;
of
noted
For
many members
was
much more
found curiosity about American student
—the
points of
loyalty of
many
alumnae and the
questions.
delivered a speech on
Miss Hart
so
than
is
to
American Litera-
ominous
Watchmaker and Jeweler
Eastern
SIDE-HOOK GIRDLES
for the future
are taking an anxious
have
open their eye'^
in the affairs of the world
coUetre students to
t-f-
in
United
unchanged, ancient z
Oriental to reward one for the effort
The beaut
of the long journey.
Palestine was pleasing because u
pected. The bare Judean hills are
turesque at any time of day and
on entrancing colors at sunset
Palestine, many improvements are
ing made by the British, but the British
much
in evi
823-W
IVY CORSETS
I.ITES
ALL-IN-ONE GARMENTS
Brocaded Materials $3,50
LACE BANDEAUX
FOR WOKK
in
is
the University of Jassey in
which she said "Walt Whitman, Mark themselves are not
ture
is
Tel.
THE WABAN BLOCK
WELLESLEY SQUARE
climate of Palestine and
surprisingly comfortable,
(
enough that
life,
Lady As.i.lanl
The
Egypt was warmer, but very bearable.
No books of description and no pictu
can give one any real conception
the Bible Land. After seeing it w
one's own eyes the Bible becomes mi
more intelligible and interesting.
for
it
men who
summer. A constant cool breeze from the Northwest
reheved the noonday heat, and morn-
the
I
ERNEST FORSBERG
Over
coUe^^es are competing. The inadeacy of the knowledge students posss about the world is not only em,rassing.
States frequently
M.
Wellesley
I
Dus expenditure of the Times.
Miss Hart said, in describing her journey
She went on to say that the Roumanian:
are proud of their descent from the Romans of Dacia, as the country used t(
be called when a province of the empire. "Folk as well as classic traditioi
is jealously guarded." said Miss Hart
"and I realized it very strongly whei
Queen Marie received us wearing th(
by
Block
iban
bandits.
Government ship took us down
Black Sea from a port mthin si'jht
M.A.
Dentist
1
;
from
Wei. 1157.M
Tel.
95c to $5,09
Page
1,
Column
Negligee Garters $1
Initialed
IVY CORSET SHOP
Typing per hour .50c and up per hr.
Typing per thousand words
50c
Car fare is charged for work outside
.
OSTON
NEW BEDFORD
WORCESTER
You Can Now Buy
Wilbar's Shoes
Wellesley.
James
must return to her dormitory by 9:45
P.M. or by midnight if she is chaperoned. Later than midnight it is preferred that she spend the night.
'6
and
455
Bureau
Bootery
—at
Wellesley Square
Wiltars
Christian Associatioyi
Personnel
E, Lee's
WASHINGTON
ST.
*/?
All .(yie
BOSTON, MASS.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS
Margaret Merrill
Margaret Stacey
Helen Waterbury
SOCIETY INITIATIONS
OCTOBER
22
Mary
Alice
For
For
White
Chemistry the smelly
part. Biology the messy part.
According to reports Just received by
Dean Waite. giving the results of work
done by American College Juniors at
the
Alpha
Zeta
Edith Gluck
Ruth Graham
Elizabeth
Harriet Hardy
Curtiss
Katherine Hobbie
Dorothy Alexander
Lydia Louise Allen
Mary Allen Blackford
Margaret Higgins
Lucy Shaw
Taylor
Mary
Marie Eckhardt
Stella Brewster
Edna May Gifford
Haniet Creighton
Jean Goff
Louise Lange
Emily Cornell
Katherine Eastman
Elizabeth
Prances Morrison
Mary
Elizabeth
Cannon
Harriet Chapin
Emily Goehst
Helene Ham
Jean Markley
Adelaide Noble
E. Catherine Parker
Eleanor Wheeler
Mary Wheeler
machine
pite the
illustration
for intelligence in
fact that the yearly
Wellesley students
$15.00 up
FUR
COAT
by
Den-
visit
185.00
—a dressy as well as sports coat
of
a troublesome interruption to regular work, the factories
are most hospitable,
the
GrattonPrin
Knight Company of Worcester, even
the
academic, has
serving tea to the group which they enbe kept open from eight in the morning
It is believed that nc
until midnight.
Rev. Charles Arbuckle of Newton Cenother college library in the country reter addressed the meeting of the Chriss open so long, and Princeton ittian Association at Washington House
in the 180 years of its existence,
Wednesday night on "Why I Am a
lever before had such regulations.
(Continued on Page 8. Col. 3i
The adoption oi
is
Fine, selected skins uf Australian opossum.
Double shawl
:
You
satin.
will
Shedd
Eleanor Street
Hilda Wright
Rosemary
Wyman
Florence
Chew
Molly Danforth
Harriet Delicate
Helen Pink
Margaret Hamiltor
Jean Henninger
=^F=^r=Jr=JF=^r='r=Jr=JF=Ji:
With
Of this number 9 are graduate,
medical School, 17 Thayer School and
1928
Elizabeth
new curriculum plan has
educed excellent results in providing
Vassar's
Sally Patton
Helen Straus
Elizabeth
Whitney
and History are increasingly
with Latin and Mathematics
1
r,
wane.
the
Among
the other innova-
OF BOSTON
Will
lie
Dt
BOSTON
WELLESLEY INN
is
to include lectures
Oct. 27th and 28th
WlellesleiP (Buest
Sport Hats
9
MRS.
LADIES' HAIRCUTTING
the example of Bryn Mawr. this summer established a Summer School for
Women Workers. Being a non-resident
has a more moderate budget
it
many workers who might not
to
attend a
home
correctly.
THE PERRY HOME
8
responsibiUties,
Barnard School extremely
accessible.
The
Si.
entrance lo
Mrs. Prank L. Perry, Hostess.
40
the latest creations,
Open Evenings
JOHN
Tel. 0718
al!
hair thinned.
For Appointment
Campus
Call Wellesley 0017-J
F.
CENTRAL STREET
LOGAN
GERBER BLOCK
from Home."
26 students represented
New York and
difficulties,
and
showed a
CHIC MAID
NEW FALL DRESSES
was so successful that the students have
planned work for winter classes with
the New York group of Bryn Mawr
WOOL CREPE
SILK KNIT
WOOL JERSEY
giris.
Tau Zeta Epsilon
COLLEGE NOTES
Mrs Graustein
Long
Price 50c
Dover Road. Wellesley
Near Washington
resident
found the
That pretty wind-blown bob and
Call Wellesley 0449-R
high degree of intelligence. Economics.
English and Elementary Science were
open to all students. The experiment
$15.00
POIRET SHEEN
talked to the Mathe-
$22.50
KASHA
Club on Friday evening at A.K.X.
summer meetings of the AmeriMathematical Society and the
jnatics
the
i
Rachel Hayward
Eleanor Hoyt
Ellen Jane Lorenz
HUGHES. Ho
STKEET.
the Barnacle of October 14. we
that Barnard College, following
many language
Angus
Geraldine Badenoch
Jane Chidsey
Hortense Dutcher
Mary Grace Fosnot
B.
WABAN GUEST HOUSE
Prom
learn
school because of
Isabel
MARY
=Jr=i[=ir=Jr=Ji=ir=Jr=Jt='r
WABAN
Helen Benton
Margaret Cashman
Mathilda Aarons
Elinor Anderson
Mouse
Abbott Street
CORSAGE BOUQUETS
despite severe handicaps in health
1929
BROOKLINE
ST.
and demon
; promising students to actually fly.
The machines and the bonuses for the
pilots will be provided by the govern-
have been able
Eunice Bennett
Barbara Billman
Abbie English
Dorothy Haworth
Elizabeth Marquis
Elizabeth Noyes
CHURCH
1012
/ernight and week-end guests.
the largest industries in
1928
for
of
or
McGill University, following the genTh.
al trend, has turned to flying.
Light Aeroplane Club will in
Alice Bennett
O'Gorman
Ruth Pearl
Constance Smith
chijfoii,
1.95
1.75,
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school,
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daily
WETlnlEm'S
opportunity for a wider choice of elecaccording to Dean Thompson.
Brown
Fanny Catlett
Ruth Hollister
for
afternoon;
for
rhiffoir.
evening.
aeronautics, opportunity will be given
Shakespeare
"gartcr-run guard."
its
weight,
vice
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After a thorough course in the theory
Wagner
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given
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Games
part.
University
the
month
^
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noisy
the
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Tech-
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irs
at
laboratories
and obser-
attending scientific convocations, wherever she went awakening
gossip,
wish that you interest in the new college for women
me place other than and making a host of friends for
spend these particula: Wellesley. Even during the last year
of her life, though physically frail, she
gave five talks before clubs and other
vatories,
bought yours so
these six evenim
and
talk
work she
and many
absence
Europe, studying
Edinburgh, visiting
and
Berlin
many famous
America.
in
of her
THE POET SPEAKS
When we
and
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN CONSECUTIVELY BY A
STUDENT
think of her as colleague
friend.
To the Wellesley College News:
Whether we go to the Pall Poets'
the
of
Readings from motives of pleasure
that made it natural for her to play
of necessity, we hopefuly anticipate
the part of "Frivola" in Miss Roberts's
ing able to hear what is said. unl
play; the genius for friendship which
brought to the college so many enriching gifts.— the Lady Huggins Collection. Whitin Observatory and Observatory House.
We remember the
The
:
1
—
,
of malediction al
CIVILIZING STUDENTS
had never before realized, this feeling out
"demand that was so powerful that it banished
education be made the main business pletely his taedium vitae. He believed and
the
of
colleges
—
—which
but they also demand that
the public join them in lamenting their
for deans
failure to establish education
a
not
"the colleges are
that
—which
They say
too much."
little
is
excitedly
le
They are the mothat we wl
educating
American youth. But what of that?
Should they.be educated?" We gasped
at such rank heresy—and from a college professor, too. writing in The November Harper's But
new
and that he
point of
to
to
taste
employing our beings
would
we
Personally,
much
certainly as
the
exert the
the
this
must be signed with the
of the author.
)
we would
history,
be used
will
distress
how
if
Initials or
strong
Even
convictions
real toler^ot a sec to write,
problems a end on and have t
impersonal, dispassion- Lhe game. Honeym
seeing, scientific in the best
then on to the Lie
spor:
I
the world.
Readings,
same
noise
name
the writer so desires.
man,
He's a dear.
Harvard Law.
at
last.
Not so sweet as
And
fills
:
Ellen F.
Jim-darling:
Edith S. Tufts.
Eliza H. Kendrick.
"Just another
day
watching and waiting—."
John C. Duncan.
Grace E. Davis.
And— and— wishing.
to flunk this
Louise S. McDowell.
I
semester.
think I'
Will
noticeably complaining.
one withdraws from that lofty heigh
the entire assemblage d oe not turn as
one girl to supenntentl h exit.
Kasperl, hero of Pole Popenspaler,
I make a plea for Dn
Reading to and
hence a favorite with students of
which we may listen In undisturbed
German
peace.
~
1929.
H^
II
SARAH FRANCES WHITING
102, is
staging
principal of a Berlin p
vokes puppet plays
teach
lessons in hygiene.
members
of
.
A TIPSY STORY
Typ'writer
spree
lasst nite
°' '"'lit tr#veled
into town
pupils
i^ Found it"s wey to 1 notable brawl
pri
The kees danced up & down
i
"In the play invented by the
Kasperle takes the place of
physician during his consultation hoi
cipal
We.
be sure the writer ad-
—Dartmouth
temporarily.
and her
science.
THen it Drank sme ink That
wus bad ta drink
%Shuned not fliRtatious
Wellesley College, desire to
ailments of
our sense of loss in the death
I
ON WITH THE DANCES!
of civilizing youth.
the Academic Council.
3table than a departing figure with
of
^
rule to Poet's
Surely the few empty seats
thereby would be far more
accompaniment
and the
extend our sympathy.
For those who must leave early, there
a place from which an honorable
treat is possible— the balcony.
The
numerals
^g're driving to the Cape.
best beloved sister
pplication of the
com-
great
suggestion of unendurable boredom.
full
So.
ol
i
statements in this column.
Contributions should be in the
hands of the Editors by 10 A. M. on
give
y for things!
disconcerting village as in the college, always to be
mentary instead of extended
cally through the entire hour.
Council
!S
took everything,
pealing of the 5:30 bell cannot be
great an annoyance, being but
while not
The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for opinions and
credit to the study
art,
the
aside
all tradition, is entitled to
little
column
books!
so
sensitiveness of temperament.
from our
of value
parage athletics in the least>-help to
him?
that
—and
For forty years sh
have
Free Press Column
from experience
in amateur dramatics, on college teams
and publications, in college associations
and clubs. He may learn to appreciate
music in the Glee Club, the drama in
a dramatics club, but in what respect
does football, for example,— not to discivilize
which
hat if we may not stay the whole
accomplished some- period we had best not appear a
Common courtesy would suggest the
thing worthwhile, done our best.
gets not in th
dues
persons
creaks and squeaks
of
audience,
who. by
the
'
This seems a little too much to swallow whole. We agree that a student
much
waking whether
these interruptions must be to the poet, counted on in any endeavor for
nary stirring of our
possible
then students,
mi
ice for others.
As i
h on the barbed
he gave
Dear Bill:
spoiled for the majority of the audience wise counsel to many a student facing
difficult personal problems.
squawking of th(
As an aclike that again!
tive member of the Village Church she
was one of the few members of the
baffled
wait for
but in his outside activities. On
ing college, the average student
We are willing to wager
ready to assimilate information, and
individual who is willing to
participation in the small world of stunecessary will power to do
dent activities prepares him for aswhich separates what we do
similation of information in the larger
best, will taste a satisfaction,
world. College does civilize liim to the
point of assimilation, the writer admits,
but not so much through courses of
study as through other activities.
derives
3st
selection,
,
clatters? Mr,
Mr. Bacon's poems,
Leaving
necessary
to their highest
How rarely do we
ordinary extent?
present-day criticism of the American feel that we have done our best and
how frequently do we feel that with
The writer goes on to explain
in his opinion, the college student
time taken from that wasted On things
not primarily education, but
that did not even bring us pleasure,
find a
midst
in the
depended
permissible
is
gracious hospitality dispensed alike to
colleagues and trustees, to
friends and guests of the college,
How
temerity
whose highest capacil
being
his
college.
Sarah Frances WhitEmeritus of Physics and
colleague.
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
ing, Professor
To the Wellesley College News:
Informals and
Pall
ig
Astronomy.
dancing
ithabigalthough sil ent
ington
Lat -## it Drove far mile
and actmg with
Appointed Head of the Department
"The
proved so gratifyPhysics in 1876. the second year of
lat other schools may follow suit. Last night
6 It @shon in gayle
college, she opened in 1878 the
The children derive much amusement
ist @rray
cond physical laboratory in the
the college
Kasperles antics and are uncon- Thist morn wit bleary i
to the indignant query United States for student experimentaof the fact that they are being - Mi typewriter went
on a
title was changed to
girls during the last
:
line.
The Saturday Evening
Post.
I
I
'
;he
wherefore and the
t-sics
n
the
soul
j
t
in
the
c
cut
his
way up
over the ledge by
'
mty
of exhilaration
1
;
dreamed
of having
strength and pow-
of, the joyous
that for a few short moments he had
lived to the fullest possible extent of
of health learning."
—from Boston
Herald.
Sprhee las nit
But SO, alas did I.
,
resigned the chair of Physics.
ti
Throughout her
And
impossible in the
full
Isn't
people, found the strength
i
the
pumped
In
she retired and was appointed
much better, then, to utilize Alumnae Emeritus Professor of Physics and
Hall and concentrate the girls on the Astronomy.
campus Saturday night, rather than
ler breadth of scientific interest led
scatter them through Boston? Certainthe founding of The Microscopical
ly Alumnae dances never lack for at- Society which stimulated
interest in
tendance. Why curb such a flourishamong the early students.
the lawful
hours.
In the face
when
departments
separated she assumed the additional title of Director of Whitln
Observatory, while continuing as head
oth departments until 1912 when
overhangmg ledge
life.
1904
and Astronomy
may
life
she was awake to
importance of making known to
I add the aged, but still potent plea laymen the wonders of science.
Each
for girl stags?
A girl stag line has
V discovery of importance in physics
been launched so successfully in many
astronomy became at once the subcolleges that it would seem only sportt of a lecture to which she invited
ing in Wellesley. to give the idea a trycollege community that the new
/ance might be made known to all.
was a felicitous example and an excellent send off.— Besides the men love it!
the discovery of X-rays reached
And after all what more can be said? America, she brought out the old
1929.
Crookes tube and with it took one of
in connection with dancing,
the
OF TWINS IN
'31
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS
experiment and variety
Skyscrapers are as inspirs a country scene, and "novelty
proof of genius any longer"- at
Poetry Is
in the United States.
Llized in thought as
of subject.
—Fritz
pearean Plays.
COLONIAL— Earl
COPLEY— T/ie
HOLLIS— Wooden
Carroll
Kimono.
Mr.
Damon
PLYMOUTH— Br oaduiay.
REPERTORY— Machine Wreckers.
SHUBERT— r/te Circus Princess.
and
MAJESTIC— GenHemen
The Lay
TREMONT— Eddie
marked by a new
an advocate
is
of
reaUsm
He read
intelligence in verse.
first
one of his unpublished poems as an
what he
illustration of
trying to do.
is
of the Moundbuilders tells the
story of a young Indian who in investi-
Prefer
Bowling in Honey-
gating
mound
a
and
suffocated
is
imagines a figure in an inner chamber
Chester Morris.
be an imprisoned princess. It is an
imaginative and emotional "story of the
Sleeping Beauty," picturing the Indian
PREFER BLONDES as a natural person. The Family Pottrait was another poem dealing with
Lan
Dear College Girl
is
transcendentalism.
Blondes.
I
form and
well as in
GENTLEMEN
It is an amus"Aunt Clarissa" who
ideas, also unpublished.
you are invited
to
ing description of
that
showing
attend a fashion
blonde
our
Lee.
Lorelei
Ma- was never wanted
i
in life but
who
be-
hei
makes her first appearance on an
liner and carries it off noticeably
<
aided by the knowledge that she
Ast
cupying the royal suite. As the
unfolds, it becomes evident that, while lady, "dreaming
:
Wellesley Inn
:
may
gentlemen
Today
9 P.
of
M.
the
essentials
wardrobe
's
rming
ed
if
— not
apparel
exhibition
and
a
to
college
pieces,
but
that
are
accessories
you follow the vogue.
DISPLAY
will
of
life
a girl again."
Conversation sketched
;
which Hamlet and
Paris where all the gentlemen, including the father and son
French lawyers, fall
an engaging showing of
and the accessories
moments
trying
blonde enis passing strange that
does not grow weary of too easy
Her enthusiasm, however,
conquests.
remains strong enough for her to conpell
ERE WILL BE
and
nde at least prefers only Presbyter- delicate pictures of flowers in dim
Lorelei
from Philadelphia.
s
The poet gave a humorous
pools.
tempted with a diamond tiara, the gift touch to his reading with Sweet-Peas
of Sir Frances Beefcman. and goes Address the Ladies and Greeks, in
through
A.M. and
Moment
i:
Between the Hours
9
prefer blondes, one
be simply overflowing
new things, youthful things, interesting
ngs we can't tell you all about them in
letter, but we do want you to come and
s
the
of
meet and
Blake
each one glad
["hat
the other, and not he. was mad."
Two more serious poems. Last Supper:
resus to Judas and Burning Bush,
jrought to a close a reading marked
)oth by a pleasing personality and by
quer the entire Spofford family, and
she is in a fair way to marrying 5
Henry Spofford. the Presbyterian
when the play drai
a most convincing
her cham
sprightliness is not confined tc
comrades on the stage but i
June Walker
and
Lorelei Lee.
spreads
itself
is
all of
among
Not the
most contagiously.
and
of rising
lit
auc
the
It
seems that Koussevitsky must
compel in his hearers that active participation in the performance which
makes them
When
lea
truly "creative listeners."
the audience gives as wholly of
s it did Wednesday evening the
is bound to be a great success,
program was one to arrest atIt would have taken only a
falling
them.
.
Symphony
Haydn one to make
;
still
preferred
inger."
production, that there was great
that Dorothy, the chaperone.
r
cg^.ffoVeS Co.
Even as
place
in
s
it
it
of
the
"humwas Debussy on
a regular
op of Stravinsky was nearly too much.
The peace of the Haydn Symphony
Edna Hibbard ven in its wildest moments contrasted
steal the show.
splendid in this role that those chronologically and emotionally with
who are still loyal to the bru- the other numbers. The long lined
"
"' '
"
nette contingent coi
grace of its movement, the sprightly
admirable
enti
grounded. The
vigor and the calm of its moods left
;
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Wellesley HilU
well
S.
FOSTER DAMON
a critic, poet, and
teacher of poetry, Mr. Damon, in
third reading this fall, illustrated
three aspects in his brief talk on poetry
and
his reading of several of
is
faces.
known
for the far-
seeing vision which prompts his inclusion of contemporary music even of
a radical type in his programs. While
older people think Stravinsky's Petrouchka an example of "musical depravity which should be immediately
by the district attorney,"
younger of us are delighted be-
suppressed
the
"The dissoit different.
nance habit." they say, "demands inhis poems. creased doses" but it hardly seems
cause we find
literature as exploration
possible that we ever ask more senThe
he described poetry as that t
sation than is given us here.
and exotic appeal of the performance deof literature which through sound
rhythm can express things too
and even too powerful for prose. The
decide whether or
exaggerated emotionalism and
le writer who calls
Defining
Mon. and
Tues., Oct. 31
and Nov.
>,lte>^ulfcx^,>Ay^is)l/tJ!s»/^
Recommended
"Service for Ladies'
by the English Department of
life,
,
i
Wed. and Thurs.. Nov.
2
and
3
'The Broncho Twister"
Fri.
and
Sat..
Nov. 4 and
5
'Cradle Snatchers'
a
marked poetry
Wellesley College
.ppeared in
modem
WEBSTER'S
COLLEGIATE
gesting
moods
;
sympathetic istener.
1
The Best Abridged Dictionary— Based upon
WEBSTER'S
pure music another instance of the
nelancholy stupidity and gullibility
I the musical public."
The Debussy Iberia is a characteristic
sample of Debussy's power of sug5
It is
a picture of
dreams and shadows, "of
phantoms."
Even upon the heels of these most
NEW INTERNATIONAL
modern
styled compositions, the
fashioned.
Wag-
Wagner in his time stood
much as Stravinsky
us today and it is now that
to our predecessors
stands to
we are coming
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Le Blanc
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Lohengrinu overture, and the mature
ityle
which
expressed
in
nger
music Wagners
theory of the coupUng
form with new Ideas, are both
examples
Central Street
to the fullest apprecia-
work.
of
his genius.
s
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Theories
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The following
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list
Teach
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represents
tht
who
re'-
of the class or 1927
istered with the Personnel
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in
WHY
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reported that they are en-
gaged in teaching. The Bureau will
appreciate receiving information concerning other members of the class, in
order that the occupational statistic.-.
may
the Rooting Section
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Class of
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1927— Teaching
<>T.T the
least provocation she
express her enthusiasm vocally.
stood up
And
to
every time
she arose the section about her forgot to cheer!
She never admitted
pected
her
it
— of course
what everybody
new Gunther
Judge
won
she
Plorenci
But she susAttired in
Sports Fur she competed with
the players for attention!
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Miss Lucile Atcherson. has resigned in
Gunther
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Ohio for a woman to earn her living
reading gas or electric meters!
t the Sixth Annual Exposition of
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Literature for a concert has also been
and the tremendous probthem to resume norma
-Much of this work will lasi
for planting
I
of aiding
lem
living.
has had to do most of the composing
and arranging himself, since no pieces
into the year of 1927-28.
M. Washington House.
00 p.
Chris-
Miss Sallit
speak on "Stu-
Association Meeting.
5s
:.
of Boston will
Life in China."
During the period of the
Red Cross was giving relief
one other catastrophies a
time furnished aid In four
ters simultaneously. For tht
closing June 30. 1927. the
expended
are cordially invited to avail themselves of the
orchestra,
meeting
in
situation
ill
M
lead.
P.M.
8:00
swallows
that
:
solicit
your
any business entrusted to us will
receive
Alumnae
Barn-
Hall.
"Gammer
present
cans the
Gurton';
rong,
—
it
arise
Action,
Instant
life.
its
is
may
^
lives of many.
must be ready;
It
11,
and
12,
when
this
discussed variprompt, question, Mr. Arbuckle
ous conceptions of the nature of man.
must, he said, be true to the best
of ourselves in seeking always
after the ideal; Jesus is the only expart
the college
ample of perfection that we have, and
tinist in Him.
Red so we should put our
On Thursday afternoon October 20,
members of the Horton House Club
Florence H. Kirkwood.
Student Chairman.
Cambridge.
P.M. Agora House. Miss Wood
Yenching CoHege. Peking, will speak
informally of Yenching College and the
present situation in the Far East.
8:00 P.M. Alumae Hall. Community
Service, uniting all faiths, both Catholic and Protestant, arranged by the
Intercommunity Church Committee of
Dr. Tehyi Hsieh. "RooseWeUesley.
3:30
Music Dept.,
and
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SURPLUS
$250,000
The
of the social
AT WELLESLEY INN
Miss Comegys
club,
the Mathematics department. Miss
Chemistry, and Mrs. Alstrom,
Greek Johnstin,
Botany, are the other members.
Column
great historical
up.
the ad-
officers of
Miss
ministration.
3)
especially rich in classic
Members paintings. Scenes from the Trojan
velt of China." will speak.
of the College are cordially invited to
Battle of Marathon and other
31:
8:15
A.M.
Hall.
Current
num and
members
College Faculty
of
October
Safe Deposit Boxes for rent $5.00 per An-
We
i
this
Won't you remember
.
our best attention.
be essential to the lives
The Red Cross ca
funds.
;
instant,
Needle"— a translation; "Dark Lady of
the Sonnets"—Shaw; "Will Shakespeare" Clemence Dane.
Sunday. October 30: 11:00 A.M.
Memorial Chapel. Preacher, Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal Theological School,
Monday,
We
Checking and Savings Accounts and assure you
the reserve. The Times quotes
be mad(
Payne, the chairman, as saying,
Court. First
the small dining must have a large reserve. No one
Friday, October 28: 8:15 A.M. Morning Chapel. Dean Tufts will lead.
Saturday. October 29: 8:15 A.
Morning Chapel. President Pendletor
will
offered by this bank.
Kappa wUl
Tower
P.M.
6:30
facilities
foreign
for
ch of this coming
Club
but
Red Cross
$8,216,893.31.
$256,962.62,
to Phi Beta
COLLEGE STUDENTS
the specially designed for concert playing
flood,
''When dreary without
meeting Thursday
line Maghee read a reto the Silver Bay con-
e 1930 Class
and legendary panor-
her trip
(promptly)
Billings
Mr. Curtis will review the
Events.
events of the preceding week.
Tuesday. November 1: 8:15 A.M.
Morning Chapel. President Pendleton
'
Tis cheery within
which she was class represenElections of class officers fol-
to
Chapel
that
belived
"It
he results being announced in
After the
Friday morning.
there
(There will be no Poet's Reading.)
Miss L. P. Smith
will
first
class for its cooperation
during the past
of great
daughter. Jean, April
4,
new president, Mildred Hinman.
Miss Walton of the WeUesley College
Latin Department lectured Monday
night.
October 24 on the Roman
Theatre.
to the
All societies welcomed week-end visits
from those of their alumnae who succeeded in breaking away from aftercollege pursuits long enough to come
iar faces
Wellington, Rosalie Drake, Eleanor
Alexander, Constance Gilbert, Frances
Furber, Prances Bates, and Heler
A.K.X.^osephine Chandler, ElizaMary Elizabeth Ladd, anc
beth Swan.
PHI SIGMA— Dorothy Mason and
Ruth
Dolores
William Klune, June 17.
Died
'85
Emma Purington Curtiss (Mrs.
Charles E.) in June.
'06
Mr. J. M. McClelland, father of
Glenn McClelland Donnell, June 30.
19 Therese Strauss Gale, May 29.
FOR A LARGER RESERVE FUND
this year is making
a particular effort to increase its memDuring the past year, it has
bership.
helped in ninety-seven disasters which,
according to the Nerv York Times, has
The Red Cross
drawn heavily on its reserve account.
This reserve must be kept up, so that
relief work may commence in sudden
public
—
Fajardo,
Powers, and
Sarita
Helen
T.Z.E.— Adelaide Corwith.
Thursday, October 20, the members
of the Ec-^nomics Department entertained the members of the History and
English Literature departments at an
informal supper at Shakespeare. Professor Kenneth Murdoch of Harvard
led
a
discussion on "Contributions
which Economic and Social history can
make to Literature and which Literature can make to Economic and Social
Yet Mr. Koussevitzky'
first love is convincing and
back to his boyhood. He taught
imself a great deal and at the agt
seventeen was urged by his friend:
give a concert. It turned out to bf
phenomenal success, and he was soor
demand all over Europe as a bas: history," Professor Murdoch is a well)loist.
He modestly ascribed his popu- known student of American history and
the
that
American literature, and is also known
was an almost unheard of thing as the author of a "Life of Increase
More than a hundred years ago Mather."
Dragonnetti made
Miss Edith Margaret Smaill. Assisant Professor of Reading and speaking
li
at WeUesley College, speaks to-day (Oct.
brought
prominence. Koussevitzky
27th
at the Woman's City Club in
Boston, on " Drama on the Continent."
1 great player.
ir
his
ites
:
)
1
RED CROSS OPENS CAMPAIGN
before
Osborne,
Virginia Edwards.
1
^
t
I
1
contributions
In rain or shine
For this reason, the Red
in,
Prescott.
SHAKESPEARE
To Alexandra Leith Patterson, a
of such a thing.
The bass
daughter. Nancy Leith, September 16.
always been considered as a "filler•23
To Evelyn Klune Thayer, a son,
harmony of orchestral compc
disasters
were seen:
AGORA — Elizabeth Donovan, Virginia
1927.
•23
come
Thankful Cornwall thanked the
year.
fragments of the original works
Greek painters will be found.
11:00-6:00 P.M. Shakespeare House.
This is one of the most wonderful
Sale of useful and fancy articles made
opportunities that has ever been oflered
by the Blind.
Note:
Exh^bition
of
Art Reprotrusted Americans with such an
opportunity is perhaps a natural seALUMNAE NOTES
quence of their confidence in the
Athens under the
•23
Margaret Hunt Ingraham to Mr. long administration of the director,
George Blake Johnson, Harvard '25.
II, and the assistant- director, Mr.
'25
Eleanor Hamilton Wallace to
Mr. Prank Gilman Allen. Lieutenant
mt information, we learn
Governor of Massachusetts.
which has been given is
26 Lucille-Cloman Norris to Mr,
S250.000 rather than $2,500,000.
George Miller Griffiths of Dallas, Texas.
Married
'21
Annabel Neiman to Mr. Pearson KOUSSEVITZKY GAVE CONCERT
Ellis Neaman. September 15.
ON THE *'Bl]LL-FIDDLE" AT 17
23 Edith Wemple DeNike to Mr.
Orlando S. Cohoes, October 11.
Those of us who h(
•27
Harriet Priscilla Streeter to Mr. Symphony this fall w
Joseph Norman Lyons, October 15.
in the programs notice to the
that Serge Koussevitzky wo
'15
To Ruth Norton Gildersleeve, a
I concert on the double bass.
Morning Chapel.
lead.
"There was a sound of
revelry by night."-LORDBYRON
Once upon
a time an undergraduate came back
from his summer vacation, bought a case of
"Canada Dry" and to his friends said, "Come
."
around to my rooms, this evening.
"There was a sound of revelry by night," as
Lord Byron put it. And if you don't believe me,
look it up in some canto or other of Childe Harold.
This is not a story of flaming youth. Or any.
.
thing devilish.
But just this
"Canada Dry" is the smoothest,
mellowest, most palatable ginger ale you've ever
tasted.
It quenches your thirst.
It has a distinctive flavor.
It mixes well with other beverages.
And it is
It contains no capsicum (red pepper).
:
really f^ood for you.
members
The WeUesley Township
Cross hopes to enroll 5.000,000
1927-28.
in
Charter^s quota has been increased to
membership proportionally.
The two major disasters in which the
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From Nov. Ut
to
Nov. 15th
lege
Red Cross
figured in the United States
were the Florida hurricane and the
Mississippi flood. The New York Times
gives a vivid description of the latter.
''The
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leaves the hair soft and rlossv. eivinir a lari^e luose
where the Red Cross faced "the necessity
of
clothing,
rescuing,
sheltering,
feeding,
and protecting the health
of
now
children of two races and feeding thou-
sands of domestic animals for
weeks, of returning
territory
them
to their
many
home
with shelter, food and seed
to
make
it
more complete
you'll surely
have to know the
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