Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-04-18
W0MANS WORLD.
POINTS ABOUT THE STUDENTS IN
THE HARVARD ANNEX.


Lady and Leopards' Heads = Women
should Help women-In Public POSI-
lions = LOndOn's Female Orchestra.
Taste In Simple Gowns.
None Of the students live at the
school. but while they are IN the build
ing they are ON the most intimate terms,
and feeling of sociabihty among the
students is encouraged by the authori-
ties
Any young woman who wishes TO be-
come a student in the college must
write to Arthur Gilman, the well known
author and educator, who is secretary,
and he finds ont ali about the student
and her family. The ages of the apph-
cants vary from eighteen TO forty years.
After the student has passed the en-
trance examination and has come to
Cambridge. what is called the students
committee of the college is called on for
the performance of an important func-
ton. This committee is intrusted with
the responsibility of either selecting the
home in which the student is to live or
supervising the students selection. All
this applies. of course. only to the case
of the student who comes from a dis
tant state or not very adjacent city or
town of New England.
All of the students at the Annex who
have no homes in Cambridge board in
private families in that city. OF the 100
students at the Annex this year there
are about fifty who live in this way.
The other 100 or more students come
from such places as Roxbury and Cam
bridge and Somerville and Newton.
Their homes are in those towns, and
when they get through with their work
at the Annex every day they go home.
Outside of the supervising interest
which the authorities have in the social
life of the students, there is another in
.terest that manifests itself in all kinds
of pleasant ways. The young women
are encouraged TO regard their instruct
ors as persons who are more to them
than official pedagOgues. And then the
students have no class spirit, no social
sets, no barriers to kindly intercourse.
For several years certain ceremony
has CAAotCu ~ h4AE AA4uEA- IL - IIC Stt-
ting together at the commencement of
the college year of all the students. The
new students assemble at the invitation
of those who have been on the last years
lists of the college, and everybody has a
Jolly good time. Everybody gets ac-
quainted with everybody else at these
gatherings. 1t is the commencement re-
ception, and there are dancing and the
usual adjuncts to a social affair. But
the invitations are strictly confined,
alasi to the students themselves
On this particular day the Annex
building is delivered over to the stu
dents Every room in the house is theirs
to do as they please, and they usually
please. The refreshments are supplied
by the Annex housekeeper, and the stu
dents who give the invitations pay for
the fun. Ice cream and cake and choco-
late. and from 100 to $50 students-this
is the list Of sweets to be enumerated in
describing the make up of the reception.
The eye of man has never looked upon
the scenes at these gatherings, and prob
ably never will, and the chronicler Of
Annex social history must be content to
accept his information second hand.
Afternoon teas are conspicuous feat
ure of the social life of the Annex. These
teas were held in the parlor on Thurs
days the year before last. and on Wednes
days last year. At these teas there are
present the professors of the college and
their wives, and anybody else to whom
the young women are kind enough t.
send invitations. They don't begin Il
have these teas until after Thanksgiving
day.
Before long the Annex will have a
many clubs as is usual in a regular col
lege.-Boston Globe.