The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-05
OUR FAIR CwOLLEGIANS.
Bright Jersey City Girls
Who are Making Good
Records.
WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED
Vassar, Pennington and Dobb's
Ferry-Matters Which Interest
Society.

The catalogue of fair colleeians which
The NEWS published last Friday by no
means exhausted Jersey City's list of
learned maidens. Here are a few more
well known students.
Vassar College has had more than its
share of free advertising. When the
hard worked funny mans" brains were
tired out from evolving ice cream jokes
and church fair jokes and mother-in-law
jokes. he turned his brains in the direc-
ton of Poughkeepsie, and refreshed aim
self with paragraphs as to Vassar's fond
ness for spruce gum and aversion to
darning stockings. 1t Is bad enough for
a pioneer to brave bears and Indians, but
to face a horde of paragraphers and an
avalanche of jokes requires consider bile
stamina. and Vassar girls have it.
In the Sophomore Glass is Miss Laura
Whyte, of Gienwood avenue. The
graduates of '89, Jersey City High School,
remember two sisters VINO sat together,
studied together, lunched together, and
together dug out Greek roots and Latin
declensions. The dark curls of the elder,
Miss Laura, used to be seen bending over
leXicons and pages of tangents, s1nes and
c~o-sines, and, it may be noted. waving in
the van when any frolicsome schemes
were on hand. AT the graduation. she
carried off the honors awarded to mathe-
matics. aud in September. 1890. entered
the freshman class at Nassar, Ihe
younger sister, Miss Alice, will enter the
same college next September. In direct
contrast to the elder, she has wavy golden
locks, and eyes of a soft. deep brown, but
the Notwithstanding trait is developed IN
her to the same extent, and she wears a
.,@11 r,nInl NJ IN nnIan An III W r.
bears the inscription For first rank in
Latin n Greek" Both sisters are ardent
musicians, and when one takes her violin
and the other touches the piano. there is
sure to be a concord of sweet sounds"
NO IMPEDIMENT A NECESSARY.
Tim was when to be the poSsessor OF
an M. D." a woman had to marry him.
Now, praised be civilization, she can go
to medical college and get the initials
without the incumbrance. Miss Thirza
NJ. LIE Vance is one of the Jersey City
maidens who will soon be qualified to
write the letters after their names, for in
June she will complete her course at the
Woman's Medical College of the New
York Infirmary on Fifteenth street.
Medical skill appears to be a family
characteristic, az Miss LIE Vance's brother
is a we'll known and successful physician,
and her record already indicates that she
follows IN his footsteps. The early birds
that fly over the Pennsylvania ferry Can
see the Misses De Hart, of Mercer street,
making their morning pilgrimage to the
same college. The raDt expression OF
Miss Florence's violet eyes proclaim her
an earnest and devoteh follower of a
noble calling, and as for Miss Cfara's OPP
tics, no amount of porting over Dig DOCKS,
whose names l don't know how to spell,
would quench their sparkle. In 1893 the
sisters will com plete their course, but as
Miss Clara will not be of age. she cannot
receive her coveted diploma until the
following year.
YALE's ANNEX.
Everyone knows about Harvard annex.
but if you should ask n Yale man to To-
cate Yale Annex, he would instantly re-
plv, AT Pennington" The famous
school of Miss Porter at Farmington,
Conn, where so many Presidents augn-
tiers have received their education, is a
sort of close smut paradise whittier the
Yale man turns his longing eyes when
| professors frowu and examination af1tct
his soul. AT regular intervals a delegn-
ton from the college descend on Farm
inoton and serenade the maidens, and on
field days or when some rival team is
spending its aluable time in trying to
down Yaie's eleven, you would think
that a Temperance society had gone into
session. such u mass of blue ribbons decor
ate every girl in Pennington. Jersey
City has sent many of its daugh-
tiers to this institution of learning.
The daughters OF the Rev. w. II. Dur
wee, Misses Susie and Lily. completed a
course there, and Miss Jean G.. Mcbride
of Communipaw avenue spent TWO years
within its walls, but ultimately gradu-
ated from Miss Meaks' chool in New
York city. Miss Lucy Mcbride is now at
Farmington, or rather was until illness
brought her back to Jersey City. where
she will eInain until after Easter. Tall
and slender. with golden brown hair and
deep blue eyes. there is sure to be a SEN
sation among the ranks of debutantes
when she is introduced to society. The
Misses Dixon of Jersey venue are also
studying ut Miss Porter's.
OTHERS AT DOBBs FERRY.
At the celebrated seminary at Dobb's
Ferry, New York, is Miss Liza Smith of
! Mercer street. For several years past she
has been a class-mate of Miss Lucy Nc
| Bride at a private school in this city, aud
has spent several months i'll travelling
| through England and the Continent. 1t
is safe to predict Miss Smiths career on
her entrance into society-even now she
Is well known among the younger men,
bers of our social circles, and when she is
''fron scholastic trammels free" there
| are bound to be great things in store.
Miss Blanche L. Fuller of Mercer street
is one OF the few Jersey girls who can
| show a diploma from Wellesley College.
| She graduated with a record such as has
| seldom been made even in this famous
| hall of learning, and honors of which any
girl in the United States might be proud.
| Miss Fuller is a niece of Mrs. Manana De
| Hart, M. d., and at present makes her
home with her aunt at her residence on