Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-02-20
fsmtnMtne facts ano fanetss
At the Girls Colleges.

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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 IT |
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 IT 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 a competitive public debate
on some economic or political ques-
ton, between the two classes, four
girls from each society representing
the society. Last year the debate
was won by the seniors of Qui 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 N
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 the
maids club house, which the stu
dents wish to build if they can
secure the necessary funds; $4,000
will be necessary and the students
are endeavOring 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, a reading-rOOm, and
parlors where the maids and their
! friends could enjoy some social life
A. ]. l.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 the vice-presidents Of the assOcia-
ton of schools and colleges of the
middle states and Maryland, at the
! 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. 1t is, however,
worthy of note that Of the Is 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-
gTees 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 KIM "Maturation and fer
tilization of the egg of Bufo Lent
ginosus,' Miss Emile Norton Mar
| tins "ImErimitive substitution
groups of degree fifteen and the
primitive substitution groups of de
| gree eighteen.' and Miss Mary Bill
we'll 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 a womens college. At the
annual meeting of the state fedora
ton the president made the an
nOuncement that movement was in
progress toward such a college.
The wOman's league of Michigan
university is a 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
freshman of her group given into her
special care. At the head of each
group is an upper class girl, who IS
called 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
sOciatiOn of collegiate alumnae the
topic of most interest was the de-
ability OF a national university. on
which subject both President Thwing
of Western Reserve university and
Mrs Mary Wright Sewall spoke at
length. Mrs. Sewall was in favor of
having such a university in Wash
ington, for, said she:-"One Of It's
Libraries would be the existing Con |
gressional library: its museums |
would be found in the Smithsonian !
institution, in the fish commission. !
in the botanic gardens, in the patent |
office in the army MEDICAL museum. !
and in the huraau of efhnO1oey while |