New-York tribune., 1905-06-28

the adjacent circle The honored Wellesley custom
OF reading from the Melanothon Bible. in Latin
YVES carried out by President Hazard.
President William De Witt Hyde of Bowdoin
College, Wellesley's commencement orator, spoke
graphically on Apollo or Idas: The Choice Of the
College Woman - Propounding the question Are
college women happier unhappier than other
peopleE' President HYDE made answer: 1iIf they
remain college women conscious Of their differ
ence from others, they of all women most
miserable; but Il they forget that they differ
eut and use their trained powers for
plete Identification with the common human lot
they may be the happiest people in the world.
IF the college woman tries TO shine down the
world like q god from above IN artistic elevation
or socialistc reformation. she Will make herself
ridiculous; II she shares It's homely human inter
level with the worlds toilers. she Will be
honored and beloved. To travel. to get impress
sions OF art and music to read and accumulate
stores Of literature and science: 10 write articles
and give lectures; to lead agitation and work out
social reforms. That is the Apollo ideal. Woe to
the college woman who goes out from college with
that ideal supreme Blessed is the college woman
who accepts the Idas ideal-the humble sharing Of
the common human experience as one of the rank
and file like modest candle lighting its little
sphere in the surrounding dark. After a long ap-
premiership with Idas. bearing your share of the
worlds burden and sorrow. you may then be able
to express the worlds feeling in letters COM
fort its heart in social service
1.-THE first duty Of the college woman is to forget
pie. If you dare to feel superior, if you draw
yourselves apart, if you condescend even to pity
and to serve, there will be no lost wretch in the
slums, downtrodden drudge in the tenements
no obscure toIer at the looms, who viii have and
deserve to have sadder, heavier heart than you
Now that the old arstocracies OF church and state
are broken down, let not aristocracies
Of wealth and culture corrupt and enbitter both
despisers and despised Economic compusion
quickly makes democrats of college men. May
you do freely what your college brothers do from
oompulsion; may you be comrades of all who labor:
the sisters of all who serve.
Two hundred and five candidates, presented by
Dean Pendleton received the bachelor Of arts de-
gree, and. in turn. eight candidates, presented by
Professor Mary w. Calkins, received the master
Of arts degree. The latter follows: Miss
Mary C. Caldwell, Of Wellesley; Miss Grace Louise
Cook. of Wellesley; Miss Grace E Davis, of Welles
ley: Miss Mary A. Emerson, OF Boston; Miss Isa-
bella H Fiske OF Wellesley Hills; Miss Isabella T.
Machan, of Decatur, Ill; Miss Gertrude c. Sch6p-
perle, of Oil City, Penn, and Miss Hetty s. Wheel
er, Of Bridgeport. Conn.
President Hazard announced that the OF
SIS, ,s74 "a had been contributed toward the fund
raised to meet the Carnegie library offer of 1925 00O
also the award Of the Alice Freeman Palmer fell
lowship. for 1905'06 TO Miss Grace Mead Andrus
B. A Cornell University, 0S, and student for doc
torate in Sage College, 1S03-'05, and the Billings
music to Miss Lucasta ]. Boynton, graduate stu
dent this year in Wellesley College. Refreshments
were served after the chapel exercises
To-day will be observed Alurnnas Day, with
annual election of officers and the alurnnse lunch