Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-02-20
Tmsmin@ine Taets ano fanctes
At the Girls Colleges.


for an intercollegiate debate TO he
held at Bryn Mawr next spring. No
reply has as yet been receievd. but
the senior and junior debating so
eietieG at VassaI 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
win go to Bryn Mawr. Considerable
interest in debating has been evident
for some time. There are two de-
batting societies, "Qui Vive" AMI IT
and Al 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 NJ" Thus each
society is composed, in alternat e
years. of seniors and juniors. Each
society has frequent debates during
the college year, and in the spring
there is 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,
whc supported the negative in the
question: Resolved, That a defen-
sire 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
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
win be necessary and the students
are endeavoring to raise this sum
by subscriptions among their friends.
1t LIS felt that building of this
house would contain class-rooms
where the students would conduct
evening classes, reading-room, and
parlers where the maids and their
friends could enjoy some social life
A J. 14)wnson, a Vassar trustee,
has given the Greek department
money to buy the nine bound
volumes of the "Thesaurus" of H.
StephaRus.-Prof. Abby Leach of the
Greek department was elected one
of the yice-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. 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-
grees granted in June has been re-
ceiyed 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 Hot
yoke college The other theses re-
Gently received INCLUDE Miss Helen
Dean KIM "Maturation and fer
tilization of the egg of Bufo Lent
ginosus.' Mss 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 houSSl W pS
without a women's college. At the
annual meeting of the state fedora
ton the president made the an
nounceme1t 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 eaoh
group is an upper class girl, VINO 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
ISOLATION of collegiate alumnae the
topic of most interest was the de-
STABILITY of national university. On
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