The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-27
TN AID OF LEARNING.
Miss Helen Dawes Brown to
Lecture Here for Found
ing a Barnard
Scholarship.
ALL THE LITERARY CLASSES OPEN.
Two Merry Social clubs on the.
Heights-News of the
Week.
ALL THE LITERARY CLASSES OPEN.

On Friday afternoon. November II, at
given In the Bergen Reformed Church,
Bergen and Highland avenues, on Rus
kin as a Critic of Modern Life and as a
Teacher of Beauty" by Miss Helen
Dawes Brown. The lecture will no
doubt be most interesting and instruc-
tive, but this is not the reason why it is
announced so long in advance. and with
sucn an air of importance.
IL is because the proceeds are TO be de-
voted to the founding of a scholarship In
Barnard College for the Jersey City High
School. Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer of
New York, in q statement before the
Odd Volumes OF this city last year. told
how highly the Jersey City High
School was estimated at Barnard
on account of the fue record
made by the three young women
who have entered from the school; Miss
Eva Robinson Bridgart. Miss Louise
Grace Farrant and Miss Bertha Van
ARiper. 1t is perhaps unnecessary to de-
scribe Barnard further Than to recall it
TO mind as an annex" to Columbia, the
only woman's annex Ia the country to
confer upon It's graduates the same de-
grees as those given the men completing
the same course. Ths same professors
conduct classes In both collsges-in fact,
there is d perfect parity between the two.
The founding of such a college was the
fondest dream of the late Professor Bar
uari, and it is fitting that 1t should bear
his honored name.
JERSEY CITY THERE ALKFADY.
Then, too, it is fitting hat u scholar
chin nr1t Hn nofnh1iuha In Nh- IT,
School. from the fact that when The
college for the first time off cred, in 1690,a
prize of a hundred ana ifty dollar
scholarship to the girl who should pass
the best entrance examination, 1t was Il
graduate of that years class in the j. G.
HIS. Miss Bridgart, that won the prize
In a competition among young women
from ali parts OF the country. Miss Lulu
6. Farrant, a High School valedictorian.
entered aud graduated with the first
class ever formed In the college. Miss
Bertha Van Ripper Is now one of the most
promising students of the school. 1t Is
her intention after graduating here, to
spend q year at Girton or Newnham In
England, The demand for oollege-bred
girls in the professions, especially that OF
teaching. is becoming every day more
imperative. and the need for endowed
scholarships correspondfnglY great. Sucn
an ~enterprise as this. tneu. which aims
TO award each year d $3.50 scholarship to
she girl passing che best examination
from the High School cannot be too
strongly commended. The tickets are
selling rapidly. / am glad TO say. Miss
Agnes SweenY Will sing and Miss Maud
Fowler, the talented young viotiniste.
will play. Both these artists
were heard last year, with
| the lecturer, Miss Brown. at the
Carteret Clubhouse. Miss Brown is a
recognized authority in literary criti-
| eisrn. her WORK on the subject having
been received with much favor. Her
novel, "The Petrie Estate" has just
| passed under the tender mercies of the
| reviewers.
s4r7 LITERARY CLASSES. ,
Interest seems to be diminishing in
the Thursday Morning Literary Glass,
4 composed of young ladies' on the Heights.
The last few meetings have been poorly
attended.
AID interesting and enthusiastic liter
AIRY class of young ladies has been organ
lied among social circles of Bayonne.
Miss Lulu 6. f'arrant II the instructor.
"The Odd Volumes" the we'll known
tliterary club of the Heights. met last
Wednesday at the residence of Miss
| Grower.
The first OF Mrs. Waits lectures is be-
ing held this afternoon at her residence
on York street.
THE BIJoU CLUB.
The Bijou Literary Society, a club COM
| posed OF Young girls of the Heights and
Lafayette, has reorRanizsd for It's third