The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-08
MISS DILLS TRIPLE LACRELS.
She Has Non College and Athletic HOnors
besides a Law scholarship.

She Has Won College md Athletic HOnors
Besides u Law scholarship.
Miss Emma Dill. who has just been
graduated at the head Of the women's
| class in law at New York University, is q
| rather remarkable young woman.
In the first place, she Is about the most
democratic rich girl to be found anywhere
| As the daughter, of a successful lawyer,
James B. Dill. she and her sister might have
been expected 10 I've satisfied with being
mere sociai butterflies, Other girls III their
position would have let il 60 at that.
The Dill girls. az they are known to
| their friends. we're different. Both of them
went to college. Emma Dill was graduated
at Smith, in 1904 with the degree of A. B.
Her sister was "A 1905 girl. Inside Of two
years the elder sister has added the honor
of winning this law scholarship.
Rut that isn't all. "Diliie"-to Use the
nickname which Emma Din's college
friends gave her" was the most remarkable
girl in athlstics that has ever gone to Smith,
She was the pride and at the same time the
despair Of the physical director, Miss
Berrnsen-the pride, because she did
everything SO wonderfully we'll that she
was a JOY 10 the souls of those VINO trained
her; the despair. because she did SO much
better than anybody else that she made
the work of other girls look lke-well,
like three-tenths Of a dollar.
A phut~ ographer. with a Dig camera and
SON large. expensive plates, came up to
tho gymr asium one time TO take pictures
of the different drills at work. These drills
are by the selected eymr asium workers from
the various classes. The photographer took
a lot Of pictures in which Miss Dill, as head
of her drill. appeared in the most con =
spicuous corner of the front rank.
But alas! she was so good that she ac-
tuallv sroiled the pictures. Paradoxical,
but true. II it was a backward bend, for
instarce, Emma Dill Ut COT ciously bent
| further than the rest could manage to go,
and the harmony Of the lines Of the group
was DESTROYED.
In basketball she was a worder. Size
captaired her team which broke all records
Although it is against the policy CT ihe
physical department to permit the same
girl to be the leader in more than one braroh
az athletics. an exception rad to be made
| so much better than the rest tEst she Lad
10 kad. She was, therefore, head Of her
drill nd captain of everything she looked at
With all this, she was hinorg the first
to be taken into one OF the Greek letter
! societies whose membership 10 drawn from
the girls who lead in scholarship.
All OF this. nevertheless, would have
counted as nothing in making Miss Dill
as popular a girl as ever walked the campus
if it had not been for the fact that she was
rs unaffected and as democratic as if-llke
some of the girls who became her best
friends she we're aximring her waythrough
college to ct herself for earning her living.
They stfll tell up at Smith how MIR. Dill
wanted to send an auto up there for his
! daughters to keep on hand, TO use whenever
they felt like it. and how they would have
| none of Il, s1ying that keeping private
autos not INDUCED in by the other girls,
and, therefore, would not lie by them.
Any one who has heard OF Miss Dills
! athletic record, of her democratic spirit
and now O? her capturing law honors. VIII
be likely to imagine q tall, commanding
| Young woman, a cross between Juno and
Minerva. Not a good guess at all.
Slight, fair, with fluffy blond hair, Miss
Dill Il an undeniable temptation to in
diligence in that overworked adjective.
dainty" In her ba sketball suit she looks
like n little girl. That is. she has that
appearance &c the unprepared spectator.
Her opponents in the game saythat 10 them
she doesn't look In the least like a little
girl. They say that to them she bears a
very distinct resemblance to a fash Of
forked lightning.
It is said that Miss Dill has no intention
| of pra ctising law. Like Helen Gould and
| other women who have, or expect to have.
property to mana &c, she has taken up the
study for her own pleasure and proht