The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

gle PORTRAITS anu groups OIL tWOs lukco
and even OF four, although the class
had been out but ten years
Here's a picture of our class baby"
PASS along this photo. will you?
Our youngest son."
"How many babies have your"
Tell us about your husband"
did you bring him with your"
If the cranks who rail- against the
higher education for women could hear
the reunion enthusiasm over the class
babies they would realize that college
women are good. healthy minded. nor
NAL women after all.
The graduate of ten years who boasts
group of four sturdy youngsters is
crowned as the leader in achievement
and is called upon for a toast on the
strenuous life. With charming sim
plicity and naivete she recounts how
on the spur of the moment she con-
scented to give toast and then. fright
ened by her own audacity, fell back
upon her husband for comfort "Oh.
Tom, what shall do? I promised to
give toast at reunion. and I know L
can't do it. I'm all rusty on that sort
of thing"
To which Tom shrewdly replied:
"Oh, don't worry. When the time
comes just get up and talk. I never
knew you to have any trouble doing
that!"
An entertaining account followed of
the one year of simple life enjoyed by
this .matron before the strenuous ele-
ments began to appear; of the regular
appearance of an additional strenuous
element every two years since, and of
the chagrin of the eldest. a six-year-
old boy, when he heard that Santa
Claus had left him a third sister. AN
other grill And that's not the worst
of it either. 1t would be just like
mamma to get us another one next
Christmasi" The mothers of the class
appreciated the quotation heading this
mother of -four's toast: I'VE shall rest.
and faith we shall need tile down
for an con or two"
Other toasts followed on the simple
life, the country life and the single
life-the last introduced by the toast
mistress with the anecdote of the old
maid who said, WAL. I guess as how
the old maids lots the happiest. arter
all, when we've once quit strugglin'-
The concluding toasts were from the
last bride and the two prospective
brides
There are successful business wo-
men in the class; women who are do
ing good work in professional lines
teachers. librarians and doctors and
grees in their own and other institu
tons. But the prominent place at the
reunion was held not by those who
had taken the degree of A. M, but by
those entitled to be called Ma! And
there could be no better indication OF
the healthy trend of college education
for women.
There were six other reunions at
vassar that year. One class held a
very enthusiastic reunion by moon
light around the class tree. OF the
$50 graduates. 125 were back. Each
carried long wand from the end OF
which swung a green lantern. and be-
meath the soft light from these the
alumnae executed a quaint torchlighr
dance around the tree. singing their
class songs and serenading their ia
vorite classes. The neighborfng
paths were soon lined with interested
spectators. Occasionally half a dozen
alumnae whose class had been seranad-
ed would attempt a song in response.
and the green lanterns would have a
salute or the girls under their energetic
leader would give college yell
And a wonderful decade 1t has been.
A dozen new buildings have sprung
up on the campus-a record which few.
il any, of our colleges can equal. Even
before you leaFe the trolley on your
way to the college the changes begin
to appear On the left. Just outside
the grounds, is the College Inn. built
and managed by two alumnae of 'ss
for the accommodation Of the students'
guests; on the right. two new houses
in professors row. The old hedge
seems somewhat older and has been
forced to yield a second opening for
nearer approach to the new dornni-
tories The lodge is as Familiarity
homely and dear as ever. but once
through its gates and you are con-
fronted with unfamiliar buildings sn
every side.