The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-06-18

Az io'0 this morning the women stu
dents of Brown university held interest
ing and enjoyable ivy day exercises on
the campus at Pembroke. which were
largely attended. Miss Blanche Luella
Smith OF Providence, president Of the
senior class opened the exercises with
and address Of welcome in which she said
In part:
ITO you. this Is one ivy day OF the
many Ivy days which you have attended.
To US, 1t is the Ivy day OF all ivy days;
day peculiarly our own. IL means 10 us
the attainment of our desires, and II
means the end; the end OF our career as
class; the end OF our prestige az Sc
niors. That We have not always led in
the life of the college is inevitable but we
have endeavored 20 stand for what is best
and truest in the college world and have
we but left reputation for probity and
good fellowship our desires are not en-
tirely unfulflled.
To-day as we look back upon our four
years OF work and OF play, OF sadness and
of Joy, we say that the struggle Is worth
while. When the degrees have been con-
ferred and the tassels changed from the
left TO the right side. the women's col
lege in Brown university will have added
40 more loyal hearts TO Its list of
alumnae."
Miss Louise Baggott Morgan also OF
Providence, was the speaker after Miss
Smith and she responded with an address
TO the undergraduates in verse form Her
address was divided in four parts. The
first described the daily routine of
freshman: the second dealt with a sopho-
more and her experiences; Junior was
the heroine of the third while the fourth
and final one told OF the senior and her
thoughts OF the four passed years
PRESIDENT AND DEAN SPEAK.
President Faunce and Dean Ida Shaw
King followed Miss Morgan with brief ad-
dresses In which they commended men,
bers of the graduating class for their
good work and wished the other classes
equal success.
After the deans address the class ivy
was planted and Miss Bessie Alice Gatie
OF New Bedford presented the trowel TO
the junior class with the following
speech
To-day. we as seniors have planted our
class ivy. To us the act is one OF the
deepest significance in our college career
1t not only marks the completion OF our
work in the undergraduate world, but
infinitely more IL leads us on TO other
spheres of activity, and reveals TO US the
larger possibilities OF the graduate world
For one brief year we have been priv-
legged to have within our possession this
trowel, the symbol OF responsibility, OF
sincere desire for the best welfare of
Brown, and of the highest ideals and
principles, which we as Brown women
should sustain.
lit now devolves upon US to present the
trowel to the class of 1908. our successors
May you, juniors, in receiving II, support
loyalty the spirit which II represents,
guard well the principles for which 1t
stands, and strive most OF all to perfect
the honor and glory OF your alma mater"
ACCEPTS THE TRowEL.
Miss Bertha Guild Coffin. in accepting
for the class of 1908, and said In part:
I'm accepting this trowel from you,
1907 with all that IT stands for.
we realize that II is only on the
stepping stones of our dead selves that
we rise to these higher things. So we
look back over the three happy .care-free
years OF our course thus far. and the con-
sciousness comes to us that certain or
our privileges and pleasures are gone.
1--WE shall miss you from our midst.
and yet we know that you are handing
down to us the sphere of the senior year
because you are fitted now TO take up
the larger life beyopd the college, and
therefore. we accept this trowel. SYM
boil of the senior year with the hope that
we may be as faithful as you have been
in planting here high ideals, and In
guarding those handed down TO you from
cthers-that when we come to where you
stand today we, too, may be htted Tor
our work beyond these college walls"
At O'Clock this evening the senior
class will hold its annual reception in the
new gymnasium.
MEETINGS AND REUNIONS.
At $50 this morning the annual business
meeting OF the Rhode Island Alpha of
Fiji Beta Kappa was held In the admins
uation building.
The associated Alumni had their annual
Yneeting at 2:90 this afternoon in Man
ming hall, and at o'clock the Rhode
Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa held
meeting in Sayles hall, at which Prof.
Bliss Perry, Lit. D., editor OF the At
lantic Monthly. delivered an address on
''The Academic Tenyson."
CLASS REUNIONS.
Beginning today there will be at
various intervals through the week,
reunions and gatherings by several of the
classes of the past. These will be re-
stricted largely TO those who can celebrate
their triennial quinquenal, 18th, 10Th and
25th anniversaries. The list OF those
classes that will hold reunions Is as fol-
lows:
CLASS OF 1867.
The Oldest Brown class to hold re-
union will be that OF 1867. The members
will meet at the University club tonor-
row evening for banquet, and II Is ex-
pected IA out of the 2l living graduates
will be present. Those in charge OF the
arrangements are III. ". A Joslin and G.
p Dorrance.
CLASS OF 1882.
In celebration OF the 18th anniversary
OF their graduation. members of the class
of 1852 will dine at the Hope club this
evening, as the guests of James Richard
son and Prof Walter Ballou Jacobs.
There are at present about 30 In the class.