The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-16
co TO WELLESLEY
Worcester People At
tend Annual Ath-
letic Meet.
GREET MISS HAZARD
A Brilliant Reception Ten
dered tie New Presi-
dent.

Wellesley, May 15.-Wellesley college
was the Mecca of nearly 1000 people to-
day. The annual field day and the re-
ception rendered the new president
Miss Hazard, by the retiring president
Mrs. Irvine. and the faculty, combined
to mark the day with white stone on
many a calendar.
The grounds were beautiful, as they
always are in spring, when the lawns
are emerald and the oaks are fringed
with their first leaves of tender green.
| Wellesley is a popular college in Wor-
cester, and nearly 20 persons from that
city visited it during the day. Miss EN-
ma Waite and Miss Eleanor Whiting
were there for the events of the morn
ing, while the following people went
down by the 1.25 train: DIR. and Mrs.
John E. futile, DIR. and Mrs. Alexander
Lewis, Miss Harriet G. Pierce, Miss N.
E. Whipple, Mrs. Walter Richmond,
Mrs. A. H. Chaffee, Miss Annie Nav
Henderson, Miss Martha F. Goddard,
Miss Lillian Crawford, Mrs. Frank W.
Blair, Mrs. Albert B. Kimball, Mrs. Fl.
K. Shepherd, Mrs. Ball of Topeka,
| Kansas, Mr.. and Mrs. Goddard, Miss
Maud Dodge, Miss Howard, Miss Not
tie Orr and Miss Brown.
The races and contests took place in
the forenoon in a spot near the music
building on the banks of Lake Waban,
and no male eyes were permitted 70
gaze upon them, indeed, attendance
was rigidly restricted to alumnae and
students. The spectators, many Of
them bareheaded, stood and sat in rows
on either side of the race course. Some
of the young athletes wore blue fan
mel blouses with their year in large
white numerals across the breast and
skirts of bicycle lengths, but others
had on blue or white sweaters which
were pulled down snugly over full
trousers. In this rig they looked like
nice young fellows, and their feats
were enthusiastically received by the
onlookers. One amusing contest in
volved the riding of bicycles over Ger
tain course, while an egg was balanced
in wooden spoon with one hand. For
another, ten pins were set at a given
distance apart and In rows, and the
girls serpentined in and out between
the pins; if a rider knocked over a pin
she was disqualified. For each heat the
pins were placed nearer each other and
the skill required to avoid them be-
came greater The obstacle race began
with a hurdle, after which the contest
ants had to pause to write their names
in books, then they were obliged to
pick up certain objects from the grass
and to walk a given distance on all
tours before crawling under the tape.
The reception was held from to $50
o'clock, in the arr building, and Miss
Hazard received with Mrs. Irvine and
Miss Stratton, dean of the college,
while the younger members of the fac
ulty-Miss Claypole, Miss Fletcher,
Miss Evans and others-presented the
guests. Miss Hazard was naturally the
centre of interest. The guests saw
in her a woman probably six feet in
height and weighing 200 pounds, with
black curly hair and a dark complex
ion. She wore black satin brocaded
in white, profusely trimmed with white
lace, white gloves and black ''wiggles"
in her hair. which was worn pompa-
dour The most striking feature of her
apparel was a pair of diamond hoops
which depended from her ears.
All the senior and Junior classes were
invited. Early in the afternoon the
senior class all in pretty light dresses,
filed in and were presented, and later
the juniors went through the same for
mality. The glee club, gowned in white,
sang several times from the little bal
cony that gives upon the art gallery
where the receiving party stood: Among
the people who were present were; Mrs.
Henry F. Durant, Prof. and Mrs. Palm
er of Cambridge, President Capen
of Tufts college, DR.. and Mrs. Webster
of Worcester, DIR. Webb of Wellesley,
Prof. Fay of Tufts college, Prof. White
and Prof Cummings of Harvard uni
versity, Miss Irwin, dean of Radcliffe,
Mrs. Agassiz of Cambridge, Alpheus
Hardy treasurer of the college, and
Mrs. Hardy, Mr.. and Mrs Horace E.
Scudder, Prof w. H. Niles, Signor Ro-
toll Of Boston, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. N. Fiske
of Boston, Miss Harriet Constantine,
formerly of Worcester, Rev DIR. Ar
thur Little of Dorchester, Rev. DR. Nc
Kenzie of Cambridge, president of the
board of trustees of the college, and
President Hosea Washburn of the
Rhode Island State Agricultural col
lege. Cook of Boston served frappe
cakes and coffee in the big lecture hall.
The Worcester party visited the
Shakspere society house, which is mod
led upon the Shakspere house at STRAIT
ford, and the Houghton Memorial
chapel, in which the Worcester Welles-
ley club has especial interest, as it pre-
sented the pulpit While the interior
of the chapel is not completed, it was
far enough along for its beauty to be
apparent. The legend, The gift OF
the Worcester wellesley club" is
carved around the base of the pulpit, in
Gothic lettering, and the whole thing
is a credit to the club whose gift it is
The dedication of the chapel will take
place at o'clock June /, and prob
ably large number of Worcester alum
nae will attend. DR.. J. E. Tuttle has
| been asked to offer the prayer upon
that occasion, and Mrs. futile will also