The sun., 1897-09-26
OPENING OF SMITH COLLEGE.
Tho Number or Students Larger Than Ever
Changes In the FncuitJ.

Changes the FncuitJ.
Chapel at $40 last Thursday morning opened
the years work at Smith. Last fall the students
numbered nearly q thousand. bnt the great size
OF the entering class will bring this years total
well beyond the four figure limit. Nearly 600
sub-freshmcn applied for admittance. but only
45o OF them ran the gant!et safely into the
freshman class The German entrance exami.
nation moved down many. 1t is the hane OF
u literary freshman's existence. Even il
she passes this Shibboleth at the begin
ming OF her course unless her locks arc
straight and smooth, che Is likely to suf-
fer many pangs before the end. for the German
professor has an unaccountable prejudice
against curly-headed maidens, not personally
at all, but in the classroom. They
not learn German. she says, and she
does her best to prove her point the
girls with fascinating ringlets are very often
guilty of breaking tho tenth commandment.
They see their st;aight.hair neiRhbors carried
through the recitation ON howcry translations
while they struggle with the verb and the APP
propriate Accomplishments for die, der. oder.
dds. Some of the vaincst comb their hair like
Puritan maidens, and are seeking an anti.
curler.
German is not entirely responsible however.
for the largesproportion that failed to make the
freshmanlclass this year. All the requirements
have been put up 10 make the number smaller.
| II possible. Smith has been increasing in geo
metrical ratio FOR the last four years and she is
outgrowing her old clothes faster than she can
get new ones. The chapel could scarcely &C
commodate all the students last year. but those
who attempted TO make that an excuse for non
| attendance were brought up with round turn
| This year they may be able to work the excuse
| yided.
The juniors have submitted the freshmen this
Before the opening OF college each suhfresh.
man received n pamphlet giving explicit direc-
tions as What It, to DO when be ), she reached North
tion makes IL be ildering place TO poor little
freshman going there for the first time. These
kindly juniors told her TO go first to the South
| College reading room: There she found tho
| Junior Committee, which turned itself into n
It the freshman learned all about her examina.
tions. about the location OF her boarding place.
and sVeTyshing else ahas pnzSSa m cnege ner bennF
| informed. comforted, and sent on her way re-
| joCing;
| lege opened TO greet the carly comers, and they
| say the gratitude OF the freshmen quite repaid
| them for the sails dances. and picnics which
they gave up for their sakes. This committee
| works under the direction OF the = c. 4. c. w
iae FOR ie!ffs Work but the
| not exclusively pious as II sounds, for It
| manages the freshman frolic. the house dances
| and other functions OF general social nature.
The freshmen are in clover at smith. but the
sophomores have 10 work in giving freshmen
nabSins % Is very seldom t in evidenee. iii kept
as salt for the very freshest freshmen. but tho
ment in any case.
1t was one OF the hundred and fifty left overs
| 4 curly b headed. rosy-cheeked little maid who
came from tho dreaded German entrance eX
animation last June with her handkerchief tC
| her eyes. In the hall she met senior coming
from her last class meeting. with traces OF tear
showing red about her eyelid. and a mois
square OF cambria in her hand. Quoth the littl,
sub-freshman TO the grave and reverend senior
Didn't you pass either r. Replied the senior
"Yes, that's Just the trouble; / have passed
Out though; not in" she added as she walke
away, leavin. to the freshman the conscious
ness OF a break to add 10 her other troubles.
The following changes have been made in tn
Smith College faculty: Professor of Economics
DIR. II. L. Moore, formerly OF Johns Hopkins
Professor in Physics, DIR. II. A. Waterman, fron
, Princeton; Assistant in Ply sizes. Misc Julia Co
lis Morristown y. j.: French Assistants, Mile
, Comtat, from Wellesley: Miss Isabelle WI
liams a Smith graduate; German Assistant,
Miss Eliza OBJ. Rice; Fraulein Luebbers. VIII
was to have been the second assistant, died sue
denly OF typhoid fever just college opened
In the English department: Assistants. Mis-
! Anna A. Cutter. PHI d.; Miss Mary A. Scott Pi
| d.. from VasSar; Latin Assistant, Mary L. Bel
ton, Minneapolis, Minn