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WOMAN'S WORLD.
POINTS ABOUT THE STUDENTS ~
THE HARVARD ANNEX.


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Taste In Bimple Gowns
None Of the students 1.-Two at the
school. bat while they are In the build
ing they arc on the most intimate terms.
aud feeling Of sOciabilily among the
students is encouraged by the authori.
ties
Any young woman who wishes TO be.
come student in the college must
write 10 Arthur Gilman the wei known
anthor and educator, who IL secretary,
and he finds out all about tine student
aud her family The ages of the appli.
canls vary from eighteen 10 forty years.
After the student has passed the en-.
trance rHuuiuatiDn and has come 10
Cambridge. what Is called the students
committee Of the college is called on for
the performance Of an important fame
ton. This committee is intrustcd with
the responsibility Of either selecting the
home in which the student is 10 live Or
supervising the students selection. All
this applies Of course. only TO the case
Of the student who comes from dis
tant state or not very adjacent city OF
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 aud Som.rvile and Newton
Their homes are in those towns, and
when they get through with their work
ut the Auucz every day they 20 home.
Outside Of the supervising interest
which the authorities have in the social
life Of the students there is another in.
terest that muileais itself IN all kinds
Of pieasaat ways The young women
are encouraged 10 regard their instruct.
ors az persons who are more 10 them
than official pedagorues. AGd then the
students have no class spirit. no social
sets, no BARRIERS to kindly intercourse
For several years a certain ceremony
has existed at the Annex. IL Is the get
ting together at the commencement Of
the college year OF all the students. The
new students assemble at the invitation
Of thos, w1o have been on the last years
lists of the college. ana everybody has a
Jolly good time. Everybody gets ac
quairted with eyeIybody else at these
gatherings. 1t is the commencement re-
ception. AMI there are dancing and the
usual aGjuncts 10 "A aocial affair. Bat
the invitations are strictly confined.
alas, 10 the students themselves
On this particular day the Annex
building is delivered over TO the stu
dents. Every room in the house is theirs
10 do as they please, and they usually
please The refreshments are supplied
by the Annex housekeeper, and the stu
dents vino give the invitations pay for
the fun Ice cream and cake and choco-
late. and from 100 TO $50 stndents-this
is the list Of sweets to be enumerated in
describing the make up Of the reception
The eye Of man hus never looked upon
the scenes Mt these gatherings. and prob
ably never will, and the chronicler of
Annex social history must be content to
accept his Information seconl hand.
Afternoon teas are conspicuous feat
ure of the social life of the Annex. These
teas We're held i,r 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 to
send invitations. They don't begin to
have these teas until after Thanksgiving
day,
Before long the Annex Will have as
many clubs Us is usual in regular col.
lege. Boston Globe,
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