New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-18
AT THE WHEATON CLUB
Breakfast GiUen in Honor Of Hiss
WOoLey, of Mount Holyoke.

In its twentieth annual breakfast. which took
place yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. the
Wheaton Club of New York did honor TO one OF
the graduates of Wheaton Seminary, President
Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College
The breakfast was in compliment 10 her. Others
seated the long guest table were President
Samuel V. Cole Of Wheaton, Professor w H
Carpenter, Of Columbia. and Mrs. Carpenter
Professor James F. Kemp, of Columbia: Mrs
May Riley Smith. Mrs. Martha Clark Rankin
Miss Charlotte Morrill,. Mrs. st. Clair McKelway.
Judge William H Fox. of Taunton, Mass; the
Rev Joseph Dunn Burrell and Mrs. Burrell, of
Brooklyn: Judge James McKeen and Mrs. Nc
Keen Miss Jessie H Matteson, Charles II.
Levermore president of Adelphi College; Mrs.
Marion Gaylord Atwell, Miss Josephine Z.
Bruce. Mrs. Elizabeth B, Custer and Miss Flora
Foster President Truman ]. Backus of Packer
Institute. DR.. William H. Ward and Mrs S. T.
Walton. who were expected, We're unable TO be
present.
The tables were adorned with the flowers that
wear the Wheaton colors-yellow jonquils and
white lilies and white daisies with yellow hearts
Mrs. Kate Epson Clark. who presided. said she
thought the club owed a vote CT thanks to the
daughters of Wheaton aumna, because they did
SO much for the seminary and the club. One
daughter Miss Howard, who has never been
10 Wheaton herself. arranged the flowers for
yesterdays breakfast; another daughter" at
tended 10 the tables and a third looked after
the machinery OF the breakfast itself.
A reception preceded the breakfast, and
number of addresses by the guests followed IL
President Cole was the first speaker He spoke
of the work done by Miss Woolley at Mount
Holyoke. AN institution founded by self-sacri-
fee" and of the close ties that exist between
that school and Wheaton.
Wheaton is large school, he said, but
We do not wish be large. We try to hold TO
the high ideals which have been bequeathed to
us. ] sometimes think We suffer little from
the microbe which has infected all modern edu-
cation. a girl nowadays doesn't read Virgil
a poet all girls ought TO know-for his own sake
so much. but because she must know him in or
der to get to college. 1 fear many girls get the
idea that Virgil written merely to Illus
trate Latin grammar 1 think we ought to take
each portion of education for its own sake-not
merely as a means of getting on to another
part"
Dr. Burrell who spoke next, said that he was
glad Wheaton had man president. and that he
hoped DR. Cole would keep the girls feminine
He enlarged a good deal on the need Of an edu-
cation calculated TO develop the feminine in
girls.
Miss Charlotte Morrill, said that il seemed to
be her business in life TO attend alumna meet
1ngs Its getting So. she SAID, tnaI Wnen
don't find an invitation to an alumna meeting
in my morning mail 1 think there's something
wrong with the postoffice." Miss Morrill, gave
Miss Woolley a comprehensive welcome to New
York-"to our f1fty-seven varieties Of weather"
and all its other attractions. Professor Kemp
said he wished he had golden key on velvet
cushion with which 10 present Miss Woolley
with the freedom of Columbia. There were ad-
dresses by the other guests of honor, two songs
br Miss Matteson, a recitation by Mrs. May
Riley Smith. and then the chairman introduced
Miss Wooey. But first she repeated compli
Inent which some one at Brown University gave
Clark that she did her work almost we'll as
2 mani"
IF anybody had told me when / received my
diploma from Wheaton, twenty-ttree years
ago" said Miss Woolley. that I'd be coming to
Wheaton Club breakfast in 1907 without an
assistant TO support my steps 1 wouldn't have
believed il Our ideas of what old age is change
as the years pass by"
Miss Woolley recalled former commencement
days at Wheaton. when the informal process
sion. headed by a band. with the faculty and
the students in their bright summer dresses.
wound through country fields, in the sunshine
ALWAYS in the sunshine in those days
Wheaton gave it's girls habits and ideals. It
was there got the habit Of keeping accounts,
and though never have the courage to balance
my accounts I still keep them. never take a
spoonful of soup without remembering what
was impressed on me there-'your family is
Judged by the way you eat soup II gives girls
the habit OF spelling. Above all. II gives the
habit Of work-concentration TO the thing you
doing, the thing you are studying even
though the girl in the room above you is prac-
the room below you is having her singing les
SON.