New-York tribune., 1902-05-04
HUNORS OF CLUB LIFE.
jokes FEARED BY TOO MANY WOMEN SAYS
A SPEAKER AT MOUNT HOLYOKE
ALUMN1E MEETING.

White haired ana fresh faced girls all
graduates OF Mount Holyoke sat side by side at the
annual meeting Of the Alumnse Association OF that
institution yesterday The Oldest was student
under Mary Lyon In 1874, and women who were
rocynmates the famous school back In the hfties
andN sixties sat beside girls who graduated
last year.
Records Of the year showed that the association
has added $500 to its $1,000 endowment fund for the
Elizabeth Bardweu Graduate Fellowship Fund.
This fund amounts to over 5000 and is being
utilized by a graduate student II has given
$50 also to the American School at Athens and 500
10 the art department at Mount Holyoke. The
committee in charge OF the matter OF placing the
name OF Mary Lyon I'm the Hall OF Fame reported
progress. Miss Day. chairman OF the educational
committee. reported the recitation rooms badly
crowded Mount Holyoke. great need Of
library. and need OF additional furnishings in
Wilder Hall She also spoke OF the adoption of the
intercollegiate entrance examinations at Mount
Holyoke. which much more difficult than those
formerly used. She strongly commended the new
system Of raising the educational standards and
condemned the practice In vogue In many places
Of admitting by certificate
The movement 10 build a college hau at Madrid
Spain. for the International Institute for Women
was described. Different colleges Will cooperate
in this work and different rooms will be furnished
and named after each, and Mount Holyoke which
feels special interest in the institution because Of
the large number Of its alumne who have taught
there, will furnish the chapel. The students
all pledged 10 s. apiece for the purpose and it
related that three Brooklyn girls raised their
per capita during the last Easter vacation by
The annual meeting of the General Association
Turkey, India ard Hawaii, as we'll as ali parts of
this country, VIII be held at 10 a. m. June II. in
the chapel at Mount Holyoke.
MI The W toloTi4s oicers Wee elected President
Edwin f. Ward and Mrs Peter \. Wclch; Brook
Iyn, Iy Miss NJ Josephine Brink and Mrs W. II;
= W CIeyed rorrsni6s rsGoTIs secrftary' ME- ME-
Carrie Smith, auditor. Mrs. T. O. HoVpV.
Miss ) Ella Boynton; chairman of the education
committee Miss Lydia Day; chairman of the
tertainment committee, Mrs. NJ. f. Johnson; chair
man man OF OF the pr2sramqe mn committee Miss Emma
Mabel Eaton; board Of directors terms to expire
9: +: Phelps Miss Myrai Chatterton Miss May l.
Phillips. Mrs; }. Douglas Walton ard Miss Anna
in 1888, Miss Laura A. Buckingham
tourned to one of the dining rooms, when. after
iunchlng most gayly toggtheT they listened to a
p. p ormsbeei Of Brooklyq Mrs. ormsbee defined
antiseptic conducins to the happiness Of the pos
SCISSOR. and assisting 20 dspel the msts Of trouble
There is a TOO great tendency on the part OF
IN tb cht ~ bIh ~ iibicb ,a 10 @ cS5u fg a JIM
tail very serious consequences. In clubs. in the
greater world without we are prone to regard the
And YET women have dared to be humorous with
the pen, if not with their tongues One has only
same genius Mrs (iaskGls cranson. Jane % Aus
tens shreWd analysis and characterizations Mrs.
creations of Rose Terry Cooke and Marietta Holly
be of that
"A good many women have persuaded themselves
that they can't endure pUnS and that Jokes
not dignhed l have two friends who have
read humorous papers before clubs They have as
sured me that they would never do IT again. The
strain of dead silence too great"
She quoted Mrs. Philip Carpenter a saying that
she heard the story day that St. Peter was so
considerate of the husbands of cubwomen that he
always gave them seat up in front and two halos
She went home and told her husband Mr.. Carpen-
ter happened to be hunting in the bureau drawer
that ne would rather have ante-mortem socks than
halOs