Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-06-20
SMITH COLLEGE.

Week opens With the
Presentation of the Senior Dramat-
ics-The Exercises of This Week. |
New Haven Girls at Smith-Hartford
Girls-Four to Graduate This Year |
commencement Tomorrow.
NOMINATION. Mass, June 19.-lSpeciall
commencement week at Smith college in
this city opened Friday evening with the
presentation of the senior dramatics in the
Academy of Music. It was a strictly full
dress affair and the elite of the city and
the surrounding country were present in
large numbers, quite large number from
Amherst being In attendance. The piece
presented was entitled "Passe Rose," by
Arthur Sherburne Hardy and was voted
by all great success. It was dramatized
by Misses Ada E. Herriok, Susan E. Coyle,
Frances N. Bancroft. Annie N. Paul.
The story of the play Is as follows:
Gin of Tours, captain serving under
Chaflemagne, meets Passe Rose in the
wood Of Hesbaye and gives her a golden
collar which has come to him from the d.
vision of the spoils at Ehresburg. Fried
gis, the Saxon porter, seeing the collar IN
the crowd before the abbey, recognizes it
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from whom he was separated after being
taken prisoner at Ehresburg. Passe Rose
goes to the court, finds Rothilde, learns
that Gin, whom che loves, is bstrothed to
the kings daughter, Agnes of Solier, and
obtains papers containing an account of
conspiracy formed against the kings
life by Rothilde and Prior Ssrzius.
These papers, coming into Gins pos
session, are discovered within his tunic
by Rothilde when, some days later, he is
wounded in the hunt. As Rothilde tells
the Prior of this accident, Passe Rose, con.
cealed near by, overhears her and sees that
Gins life as well as the Kings in now In
danger. When the Prior is gone Rothilde
discovers Pssse Rose, springs upon her
with drawn dagger and in the ensuing
struggle is killed. Passe Rose reveals the
plot to the king, and Agnes, finding that
Gin loves Passe Rose, yields him up to her.
Miss Katherine Olive Graves, who played
| the part of Rothilde, was said to display
the greatest dramatic ability, while Mabel
Lucretia Prouty as Passe Rose easily came
second. The music, much of which was
| composed for the occasion, was very sue
cesstul. The play is to be repeated this
| Saturday. evening.
The bsccalaureate sermon was preached
Sunday afternoon at o'clock by President
| Seeleye of the college, and the ivy exer-
discs occurred at 10 o'clock Monday morn
| ing. There was an address of welcome by
Miss Frost, president of the class of '94
| The ivy song. ''Fair Smith" was sung by
| the class, and the class Grafton was deliv-
| cred by Miss Katherine Ware. The ivy
ode was sung at the planting of the class
ivy.
The art reception took place from to
D. M, and at 7 o'clock last evening the
| Glee club promenade took place on the
campus in the open air. The campus was
prettily decorated with Chinese lanterns
The reception by President and Mrs Seeleys
followed from to 10 o'clock. The com
mencement exercises proper took place yes
terday (ruesdsy) morning at 1890 o'clock
The orator of the occasion was President
De- Witt Hyde, D. D. The music for com
mencement was by the college choir.
There are four New Haven young 1adieI
in the graduating class: Miss Francis W
G. Chandler, Miss Elizabeth S. Dickerman
Miss Mary A. Hsrtwell and Miss Teresin'
Peck, daughter of Professor Tracy Peck O.
Yale. In the first class Their
are Miss Hewitt and Miss E. J
Lloyd, from New Haven, and i,
the second class, Miss A. W. Barlow ant
Miss Margaret Manson. In the JUNO
| class there are Mics NJ. L Beecher and Mis-
| Theodore Van Name.
There are also several young ladies from
Hartford In college here as follows: FRS
elase, Miss NJ E. Bissell, Miss Helen Brown
Miss g. N. Dustan, Miss L. J. Galacar
Miss L. o. Hunt, Miss M. 81. johnson, Mis-
Agnes Smith, Miss F. NJ. Sturtevant. Il
the second class, Miss E. M. Stone.