The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-22

mediately after dinner, and the service,
consisting of the reading Of Scripture,
prayer and a hymn, lasts twenty minutes
only 1t Is a sweet and peaceful interlude
in the busy rush of the day, and doubtless
its strict observance has an influence on
character an influence which should reas-
sert itself in after days. Lenten services
were being held at o'clock during the
evenings of my stay. I dropped In one
night and saw seventy-five or hundred
girls in attendance. The religious life at
Vassar finds vent in many philanthropic
and charitable enterprises. Some of the
young women have mission classes at
Poughkeepsie. Many are interested in col
lege settlement work and in the projects
Of Jacob Riis for alleviating the condition
of the poor; much is done for the entertain
ment of the servants employed about the
college.
The chapel is a fine place of observation
for the visitor. One gets general impress
sions there. not attainable elsewhere.
Chapel is especially desirable as a view
point on Friday night, when the girls wear
their prettiest gowns. No girl is allowed
to carry a wrap to the service, the result
of which regulation is to heighten very
much the aesthetic effect. To person Of
Imagination there Is always something
moving about numbers. To see eight hun
dred girls together is more than interest
ing.
INDIANAPOLIS STUDENTS.
Indianapolis has paid to vassar this year
the compliment of sending there twenty
girls. Last year Miss Hadley, of Indianap-
oils, won the coveted distinction Of elec-
ton to the presidency of the senior class.
This year Miss Mary Pratt has been select
ed to fill an editorial position on the Vas
sar Miscellany. Distinction of a less definite
sort has come to other representatives of
Indiana. These are the girls now in at
tendance: Lillian Atkins, Bertha Balls, Ha-
gel Backus, Bessie Baker, Eleanor Carey,
Mary Carey, Bertha Ellis, Henrietta Fren-
EEL Caroline Frenzel, Claribel Kahn, Mar
garet McCulloch, Ruth McCulloch, Cerene
Ohr, Lydia Parry, Mary Pratt, Margaret
Rockwood, Margaret Shipp. Nora Taggart
and Lydia Wallace.
The balance between work and play is
nicely kept at Vassar. If one is intellec-
tually ambitious one finds every incentive
there for study. In the way of entertain
ment the college provides an excellent
course of lectures and three or four mu-
sicales a year. besides encouraging every
kind of sport Skating is the favorite sport.
In the skating season everybody, from the
president of the college down. seeks the
ice and the skating carnival held once a
year on a February evening with band
of music from the suburb" of Poughkeep-
sic adding it's attraction is regarded by
the girls as the great festivitiy OF the
year. Four plays a year are given by the
dramatic club of the college. and in the
production of these goes much thought and
time and pleasure.
The thought grows upon the visitor that
life at Vassar is a healthful, pleasant life.
The impression of its gayety concentrates
itself for the writer in the memory of a
soft March night--the moon high in the
skies-little velvet airs slapping one gently
on the face-the campus an enchanted
place under the stars and filled with girls
hurrying toward chapel-the old invitation
in 1.-The sense of things
Boys and girls come out to play,
The moon Is shinGfng bright as day!
And the seniors came-in a great long,
surging irregular line. with hands joined.
sweeping everybody before them and be-
side them. and singing jolly songs! 1t is
not perfect things only-fowers and SYM
phonies-which arouse thoughts too deep
for tears Coon songs and ragtime can
do II. MAY LOUISE SHIPP.