The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-18

The campus at Pembroke Hall was
filled this afternoon at the Ivy day ex-
ercises of the seniors. A tent was plac-
ed upon the campus and seats wer
arranged about the speakers.
The exercises OF the afternoon were
opened by an address by Miss Helen
Louise Given. the president OF the
class. she welcomed the many visitors
to Pembroke Hail.
The address to undergraduates was
by Miss Minnie Catharine Mahy, OF
Providence. In part she said
Mr.. President, Gentlemen of the
Faculty. Ladies and Gentlemen of Penn
broke University anI the Mems Annex,
In connection with the Pembroke Uni
versity- Behold me representative OF
the class OF 1900. standing at the close
OF the nineteenth century, the last OF
those hardy pioneers who endured the
horrors and priyations of the Valley
Forge on Benefit street that they might
found Pembroke.
Before / dwell on the inefiiciency OF
those TO whom we leave this sacred
charge, l have a few friendly words for
the faculty. just TO show them that we
appreciate their Kindness i'm having
asked so many of US TO take their
courses over twice. But right here
difficulty confronts me. / am not quite
sure whether We nave faculty or not.
1t is indeed that the times are out of
joint when the annex is looked upon
as the headquarters OF the faculty,
while the university proper must be
content with the samples which IL
sends over. To be sure. we're not COM
planning about the samples; they're all
pretty and look as though they might
wear we'll. and We have them in poth
light and dark shades Some would be
very nice for the evening or they
would only take more dancing les
sons), and others wouiu be lovely for
the seaside or country. especially by the
moonlight But what's the use OF sam
Piles II you can't match them! we've
tried our best for the last four years
and have succeeaed In matching oniy
one out of the whole lot
Freshmen. the morning on which
you first dawned upon our horizon was
ominous. DO you remember how IL
rained and rained and the rain was
never weary? DO you remember how
you roamed about the corridors like
frightened ghosts, with the braids
that mamma had braided and the curis
that big sister had curled so that you
would look sweet on the first day?
"Sophomores. your case is not quite
so hopeless / do believe you are more
like us than any other class in college.
To be sure. you made a little mistake
at first and voted 10 have chaperones
at all your class suppers, but We soon
set you right on that point. You nave
also taken another step for when we
cannot too highly commend you. espe-
ciaily as your experience during the
past year has shown il 70 be very nec-
essary. II there are TO be any or you
left 10 graduate. i refer 10 the forma-
ton of an Anti-Man's club. We formed
one ZOO, when we We're sophomores' out
in our Junior year several OF our
staunchest members put their teet
down and vowed they would resign II
We didn't drop Anti and so the poor
old lady had TO go. Now II Is JUST
straight man..
juniors try and set good example
to the lower classes by making az me
a showing in chapel every morning as
we have done. Your crowning achieve
ment was your Prom. at which You
dared 10 reverse the time-honored or
der. and instead Of having seven wom-
en- to one man, You had seven men 70
one woman.
brothers of the annex. dear Co-Eds
from the hill, IL Is eminently fitting that
you should come after the juniors, TOT
that's what you do in real life.
"You tell us that We are biue-stock-
ings. that learning has robbed us or our
natusai charms, that Diana has pam
ished Cupid from o1r halls, but gentle
men, we deny the allegations. HOW
many times, o, stubborn man. nave We
you at Pembroke In ieafy
bowers, flooded by rose-colored light. In
fairy noks, shaded by palms and ferns,
with seats just big enough for two!
Have we not also, with true womanly
instinct. remembered the correct aven-
ue TO your hearts and always given you
plenty to eat?
Seniors. you must go and meet the
world, but be sure and telephone ahead
that YOU are coming. Some few OF you
who have managed to retain your nat
uraI charms we 60 the way your
went, and in spite or all
your mathematical training VIII add
one to one and say II equals one. BUT
in that new century that
stretches like an unknown continent
before us. large place or a small one
is to be our lot, let us fill II as becomes
daughters of old Brown. true to our
selves. to each other. and to our Alma
Mater: true TO that faithful friend who
is about TO leave us after years OF un-
selfish, earnest toll, in the upbuildlng or
our cause; true to the memory or tnaI
kngly man. who has already gone forth
from among us, whose name. IL we had
our will. would have been written In
the stone above our door and which, as
IL Is is engraven in more enduring
on the tables OF our hearts;
true o. him who has taken up the brok-
en- threads and is so bravely and pa
tiently. day by day. striving to weave
them into the pattern of his own hsgh
and pure ideal.
TO THE UNDERGRADUATES.
The address to undergraduates was
followed by musical selection and the
planting of the class ivy on the wall or
Pembroke hall. Miss Martha w. Watt
then on behalf Of the senior class. pre-
sented the trowel used in planting TO
the junior class. Miss Alice l.. Ward.
IN receiving the trowel on behalf or the
junior class said:
THE celebration of this day comes
to a college girl but twice throughout
her career. Its meanings are very
many and its significance OF the great
eft importance to us, as students ana
women, and TO the friends. who have
watched and guided our career. as IN
terested observers.
1T means. seniors. that you have fin-
ished the preparation; that you are en-
tering the active life OF service, stlll
To- learn, as individuals. but not to-