New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-11
AT VASSAR COLLEGE.
DEGREES CONFERRED ON ONE HUN
DRED AND TWENTY-FOUR YOUNG
WOMEN TO-DAY.

ysssar graduates to-day the largest class in her
history Degrees will be conferred upon 124 young
women, OF whom the honor graduates are Clara
Eliza Axtell Nashville, Tenn; Isabel Hannah Dun
ham, Cleveland Ohio: Helen Celia Heath, Con-
cord N Il; Emily Hinkle. Poughkeepsie, N Y;
Elizabeth Forrest johnson, Utica, y. Y; Grace
lucia Kent, Newark, n. J.; Elizabeth Moore, St
Louis Mo-; Luella Orr Denver. Col; Winifred
Sophia Riblet Erie Penn; Elizabeth Manley
Smith, Portland, bfe.. and Bessie Davis Wilson.
Brooklyn. N 7.
Honorable mention is given to Fanny Proddow
Simpson. New-YoTk: Bessie Jackson Talmadge,
Hammondsport, \. Y: Susan Amelia Tanner, Erie'
Penn. and MiIIcent Todd. Amherst. Mass
Scholarships will be awarded Elizabeth For
rest Johnson Utica, y. Y Margaret Adelaide Pol
lard Reene y H: Elizabeth Manley Smith. Port
land Me-. and Bessie Davis Wilson. Brooklyn,
n. Y.
Never BEFORE" say the college authorities has
the faculty realized thoroughly the evolution
Of the college from mere experiment OF one
building to the present proportions Of more than
dozen splendidly equipped buildings, with walks.
drives and landscape gardening that suggest some
Old World institutions
Vassar has recently been enriched by three ne"
Scholarships Miss Helen Gould has offered two
scholarships to the graduates Of the public schools
OF Tarrvtown and Irvngton, and candidates Tor the
same will be examined in the fall
The aIurnse of the Abbott-Spingler Institute have
given an $500 scholarship. The Abbott-Spngler
Institute longer exists 1t was FOUNDED Dy the
forebears Of Dr. Lyman Abbott. and paved the way
10 the conditions made il possible for Fassar TO
occupy the position it and kindred colleges hold to-
day in the educational movement Immediately
after the close Of college excavations will begin for
the erection Of two buildings. a chapel and
library Both viii be ready for occupancy When
college reopens in October.
The new APPEL is the gift of Mrs Charles Pratt.
Of Brooklyn. a Vassar graduate, and Mrs Mary
Thaw Thompson. OF F1ttsourg, also an auInns CT tt
will be erected the path leading from Presl-
dent Taylor's home TO the lake II will be Norman
IN architecture and admit Of memorial decoration,
with which it viii doubtless be enriched from time
The library is the gift Of friend Of the college
who imposes secrecy upon the trustees No limit IS
everything that will make 1t MODEL IhsIIuttoii
and equip II thoroughly 10 meet the colleges &c
mands. The library VIII lace the man ouitunS; $40
will be crowned by an Immense dome ana f haEe
wings on either side. Located some distance from
Rockefeller Hail. il will be the crowning feature OF
what is of the most attractive college sites
Despite the opening of two dormitory build
ings-one in the fall, another in the sprlng-manE
students still forced 70 mo quar- ers ouss e
campus. and so large has oeen me oeIau io 70
trance year that the same condltlon as 10
dred students enrolled the last year Fans
are maturing 20 raise the additional S2O0oo imposed
by the Rockefeller gift Of similar sum LOT 'he
erection Of Rockefeller Hall -, =, -
A number Of changes In the faculty Will De an
nouHceo t9nay n,ofessor Of rnathematics is uni
yersally regretted DR. Gentry mas oeeh a iflehpet
She resigns 10 assume the assistant principalshlp
OF an endowed private school. r., ,
The 6ramatic societies Of Fassar gave four pays
the last year the Greek play. Aristophaness II he
Birds" being the most ambitious beyor9o fIIn,
psys ing The sf71dents The editors elected
troll The Vassar Miscellany next schooI year are
ion p CoobT Flzabefh r. Dimoch and Evelyn G.
Gardiner. The last two are new fnsrnoerS tns
business MANAGERS viii De the a aSss have been
made for class and tree day exercises