The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-07
WELLESLEY COLLEGE.
Senior Election Caused Exctemen;-ca t
and Gown at Commencement.

| Senior Election Caused %xcltement-Cap
and Gown at Commencement.
Wellesley College, May "Wednesday
afternoon all College hall was astir with
excitement and uproar over the seri-
Gus business of election of senior presi-
dent; for, be it known, the senior pres
ident, elected by the juniors this May,
holds office not only during the entire
senior year, but she also always re-
mains president of the class, after it's
members have gone out from the college
as alumnae.
Often some half a dozen meetings
have to be held before the president is
finally elected, but the juniors this year
dispatched the business in one meet
ling. From AS until $50 the juniors
| were Gagged in lecture room l, while
outside all the other three classes wait
ed in excited groups. Cheering and
songs helped relieve the monotonous
waiting.
At $50 almost every one except the
present senior president (the new pres
| ident does not go into office until falD
| fed to dinner. as it looked as though
| elections would be indefinitely contin-
| ued.
But no sooner had the girls gotten
seated at the tables than clapping and
! cheering was heard, and almost every
one in the huge main building dining
room made a speedy exit to the centre,
| where the new president, Miss Hannah
! Hume of New Haven, had already re-
ceiVed large punches of class flowers
from each of the class presidents, and
was then receiving the congratulations
of many friends, in the midst of deaf
ening cheers.
Miss Hume was escorted in state to
| the dining room, and cheering and fes-
| tivities lasted sometime into the even
ing. The juniors went out serenading
| in the evening, and visited Miss Hume's
house
The efforts being made by the former
students and alumnae of the college to
raise the college debt is to be most
warmly encouraged and commended.
| Wellesley college, unlike most colleges,
has no general endowment fund, but
depends for support upon tuition fees
and gifts.
| This arrangement has made it neces-
sary from tire to time to borrow
money. But il is confidently expected
that this vigorous effort of the old girls
will meet with all success, and that
| the college will be placed on a sound
1
and a sum left over for a permanent
endowment Il is thought 5000, 900 will
probably accomplish all this Two
gifts of $500 each have already been re-
rill, 49, alulnnae trustee is national
ceived. Mrs. Winifred Edgerton Mer-
chairman. and under her there are sub
committees in the various states
The pamphlets sent out telling of the
scheme closes with the following
words:
''The veal. 1900 marks the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the opening of the col
lege. In what more fitting way can We
commemorate trts-e event than by hav-
| ing freed our Cohege from-its encum-
brance and by providing it with CON
| siderable endowment"
| Miss Rosencranz and Miss Suther-
| land, both of the class of '99, gave a
| large and very pretty reception, In Lou
| Zeta Epsilon hall, on Tuesday after
noon, in honor of Miss Florence Bren-
tano, formerly of the class Of 1900, who
is visiting at the college.
The class of '99 is the first to estah-
! fish the precedent of wearing the cap
rand gown at commencement exercises
| Wellesley seniors have worn caps and
gowns for several years past, but there
| has always been objection, when pre-
vious classes have tried to institute the
custom of wearing them for commence
ment But '99 with her accustomed en-
ergy and persistence, has at-last gained
the privilege with the sanction Of Mrs
Durant and the faculty
The society, Alpha Kappa Chi, gives
dance Monday afternoon in the barn,
from to 6.
Rev. NJ. d. Buell. of Boston will
preach tomorrow.