Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-02-17
At the Girls Colleges.

! for an intercollegiate debate to- be
held at Bryn Mawr next spring. No
reply has as yet been receievd, but
| the senior and junior debating so
cieties at Vassar will hold on Satur-
day the first of the trial debates
which will determine who shall be
chosen TO represent the college in
the proposed debate. Six girls have
been chosen from each society for
the trial. The best six will debate
again, and the best three of these
will go to Bryn Mawr. Considerable
interest in debating has been evident
| for some time. There are two de-
! batting societies, "Qui Vive" and ct
and M House of Commons" To the
/ first of these members of the even
number classes are eligible in their
| junior year, while the odd number
| classes enter ''T and M" Thus each
| society is composed, in alternate
| years, of seniors and juniors. Each
| society has frequent debates during
| the college year, and in the spring
there is competitive public debate
| Ou 0O4AC CNOLOll1CF VI pO14C1CC1l dtlCo-
ftion, between the two classes, four
girls from each society representing
the society. Last year the debate
was won by the seniors of Out Vive,
who supported the negative in the
question: Resolved, That a defen-
sive alliance between Great Britain
and the United States would be Tor
| the best interests Of the United
| States"
/ Eighteen classes have been organ
lied and are taught by the students,
for the maids employed at Vassar
| college. These classes are held IN
! the rooms of the students who have
volunteered their services, and in
clude instruction in the common
school branches, French, German,
| drawing, embroidery and dancing
| If these classes succeed they will be
| a strong argument in favor of tile
maids club house, which the stu
dents wish to build il they can
secure the necessary funds; $4,000
| will be necessary and the students
are endeaYoring to raise this sum
| by subscriptions among their friends.
1t is felt that building of this
sort is greatly needed. The club
house would contain class-rooms
where the students would conduct
evening classes, reading-room, and
parlors where the maids and their
friends could enjoy some social life
A. ]. 1.ownson, a Vassar trustee,
has given the Greek department
money to buy the nine bound
volumes of the "Thesaurus" of H.
Stephanus-Prof. Abby Leach of the
| Greek department was elected one
of tho vice-presidents of the associa-
ton of schools and colleges Of the
middle states and Maryland, at the
recent meeting of the association in
| Syracuse.
| Bryn Mawr college has perhaps
granted too few doctors degrees in
it's comparatively short existence to
consider the results an indication of
any tendency. It is, however.
worthy of note that of the 13 printed
dissertations so far distributed by
| the college. seven deal with scientific
subjects and four with philosophical
ones. The last of those for the de-
grees granted in June has been re-
ceived at the college Office, thus max
| ing the degree effective 1t is Miss
Elizabeth Rebecca Laird's "Absorp-
ton Spectrum of Chlorine reprint
ed from the Astrophysical journal
| for September Miss Laird is now
associate professor at Mount {. Hol-
yoke college. The other theses re-
Gently received include Miss Helen
Dean Kin5 "Maturation and fer
tilization of the egg Of Bufo Lenti-
ginosus," Miss Emile Norton Mar
tins "Imrrimitive substitution
groups Of degree fifteen and the
primitive substitution groups of de-
gree eighteen" and Miss Mary Bill
well Breeds on "The polybasic acids
of mesitylene" Miss Breed has re-
Gently been made dean of women
and assistant professor of chemistry
at the university of Indiana.
! Connecticut is no longer to be
without women's college. At the
annual meeting of the state fedora
ton the president made the an
/ nouncement that a movement was in
progress toward such college.
The woman's league of Michigan
university is particularly gracious
and social organization that will
serve as an example for other col
leges to copy. 1t has heretofore
been divided into groups of 10, and
now changes to groups of 20, made
up of 10 first year and 10 upper class
girls, and each upper class girl has a
| freshman of her group given into her
special care. At the head of each
group is an upper class girl, who IS
called s'the secretary of the group,
and the secretaries make the social
committee of the league. These
groups make it impossible that
any newcomer should feel left out
At the recent meeting of the as
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