New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-18
FINAL EVENTS AT WELLESLEY.
Dramatic Sequence Of Grave and Gay Lead
ing Up to Commencement.


There are many dramatic contrasts IN the last
three weeks OF wellesley's academic year. Juns
brings possibilities OF outdoor tetes for which the
extensive park Of three hundred acres a6undantly
provides. And the final rounding Of thu year is
arranged that the events fail into a sequence
which has almost a rhythm breaking forth with
Tree Day for a chorus prelude. when all OF the
students take part. and swelling TO the last high
note OF commencement and the leavetaking OF the
made aIuunse.
The honors Of the initial rete Tree Day which
occurred the afternoon OF June 3. were. usual
divided about evenly between the seniors fresh
men. To the seniors pertains the first half OF the
festivities, and the freshmen the latter haIf-n
the beginning OF the end Of college days
and IN the other the end OF the probation period.
The entertainment. which open only to the
college community, took place the velvetlike
campus. against which the color effects showed
wildly. A charming poem pantomlne. Vision %
representing the woOing OF Ariadne. carried
out by the seniors. The poem, which foreshadowed
the acting written by Miss Nathalie Smith, was
full OF such fancies
A gIearn OF white among the gray tree bOssl
sof, stealing from The pleasant river shoaIa
Come nyInpha Ike green leaves dutertng through tho
Their feet scarce stir tho tender blades G. grass
The freshman share OF the Tree Day programme
was carried out in a witching concet IN the way
~ flower psntomime. adapted somewhat from the
the ash maiden. There were also delightful dances
by attendant fairies and by groups Of freshmen
dressed deIlneate the flowers Of the last five
years college cIasses-sweetpeas, yellow pansies
violets roses and daisies.
All the gayety OF Tree Day gives way 10 the
closing semester examinations For the ensuing
ten days the students are absorbed IN these sober
realities, ughreued only toward the last by the
annual Float evening affair IN which the
whole college shares and by the first OF the
Wellesley Float is almost countrywide known.
Each student IS allowed ten tickets. a nominal
cost Tho result is that thousands of guests from
and far viewed the attractive spectacle last
Tuesday evening assembled on the banks u Lake
Waban. bordering thu college grounds. There IS
no contest in the Float programme. but there
- a tiro exhibition Of skilled work IN rowing. Each
college class has It's representative crew. and this
year both sophomorcs and freshmen have two
crews. SO good did their practice work prove. As
the boats hoated fastened together-the rowing
over-in the darksuuzS quiet OF the evening. crew
and class songs We're sung. coio-ed lights thrown
across the lake. and the Float ended with fire
works and band concert.
= Wellesley is justly proud OF her Shakespeare So
ciety which gives each year in the greensward
lmphitheatre close to the campus one OF the
Shakespearitn dramas. This year Romeo and
Juuet'-trasedy. Tor the first ttne-was presented
Throughout the college year the society members
had studied play its character Interpretation
and costuming with admirable result. the TWO
performances proved The first. occurring On the
evening OF Jane H. vas eompneH'ry 10, t[on me
,Ttli5e world - see the plav Miss Bessie Allen
rasifent or the society gave prologue quantity
worded. Of which the hrst welcoming paragraph
Wee Pray You, Gentle Visitors piteousIie 70
Heare this I4amentable and -Oncelted Ila5edle OF
Romeo and Juliet. long since wrought oy Master
This prologue and the Actors Names We're
printed on thick yellOw-brOwn paper, with old
English lettering, in black and red Miss Nelson
Juliet developed in marked contrast the differences
between the Juliet OF the drst and or the last acts
The Shakespeare Society alumnR breakfast viii
be held at the Shakespeare House next Monday
College examinations ended on the 10th The year
Of work-hghtened TO avoid the d1iIns or an
luu the outside world. in this guise OF relatives
and friends Of the graduates arrives 10 snare IN
the programme events OF colllIeiittiiei, en-
This afternoon I o'clock comes the Giee and
senior drama tcs-Dtln ouI , OF uoo[ VIZ M &c us
tqmary weather proylso me seniors I9 Js year al
Sunday will bring the sober strains OF oacca-
mon viii be preached by the Rev ~ '. Raymond.
president OF Union College Schenectady, n. Y. At
o'clock there viii De naGeatuI erica Vesers WIN
Monday. again will be a fete day. Class reunions
OF the alumne and society breakfasts Will occupy
the morning hours. At o'clock IN the afternoon
ing EroIn of dornitories and the Farnsworth Art
Building Will be given over 10 the senior garden
fuIlv diversified by the black coated clement Later
i'm the afternoon will come the repetition or the
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evening sunset hour. the seniors viii gather on the
stems Sf Nemoria! Chapel. for the singing Of be-
inve1 college songs President Hazards reception
IN me graduating students and their friends Will
follow later and during the evening there Will be
an orchestral concert near the porte cochere en-
trance TO College Hall.
a. the formal commencement exercises Tues
dav morning in Memorial Chapel, Professor George
II palmer of Harvard University will be the
a., Tor and an especially welcome guest Professor
palmer always is at Wellesley both for his own
salta and because the college cherishes Loyalty the
memory OF its second president, Alice freeman
WIZ The senior class supper at . o'clock Tues
dav afternoon and the alumne observances
throuphOut "Wednesday. the music - sung out. the
last scenes enacted which end the history or the
class OF "a within the walls or wellesley
,bere are len candidates. this present commence
~ mes and the subjects Of their theses being as
g0Iiovcs- Miss Mabel Grace TAYLOR, B. a. Mount
I-nion College 'O a Critical Edition OF Jonsons
Sad SheDberd". Miss Hortense Eugenla Wales
WsTesIey 'g2 Contemporary Criticism or Eliza
behan Poetry; Miss Mildred Mary Ilbbals Paelhc
University 01. "a Study Of towper as the Fre-
CURSOR ~ Wordsworth; Miss Helen NJ Cady,
T}Ianche woodbury.. Wellesley 92 An Expert
mental study of the Reproductive Memory for
Saries of ColOrs": Miss Frances Hall Rousmaniere.
wellesley 'Of The Nature of the Sameness In
volved In an Absolute Unity; Miss Elizabeth Kit
treige Wellesley. '02 Star Names Miss Eliza J.
wilkins wellesley. go The Function of the
chorus in E,uripides' Miss Lulu Geneva Eldridge.
Northwestern University. 1900 The Treatment OF
Nature in Lucretius': and Miss Mary Campbell
Bliss AN Embryological Study OF Violo Mieros-
F,osS5tSatos cor 4ba dA1rea of bachelor Of Artx