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

other college has one like it, though no
college should be without one. The
browsing corner is the idea of the
faculty-when did a faculty idea ever
before meet with such instant student
approval?-and the browsing corner
fills want that was felt, but scarcely
realized.
Wellesley has a great reputation as
the cradle of missionaries. Its grad
yates are said to be laboring in that
capacity in almost every oriental land
whose inhabitants are objects of the
pious zeal of the occidentals. Welles-
ley also is the scholastic Mecca of
many clergymen's daughters and of
those who wish to make teaching a
profession. Miss Caroline Hazard the
president of Wellesley, is herself a
clergyman's daughter, the descendant
of long line of New England scho1-
ars.
Tree day. to Wellesley girl is the
most sadly thoughtful day in her COL
lege life. On that day she bids fare
well to the tree that she and her
classmates planted when they entered
college, the tree that she has loved,
reverenced and helped to care for. On
that day she realizes as, with bowed
head and solemn chant, she sorrowfully
bids farewell to her class tree that
her college life is over; she realizes
| that now. intelligently fitted as she is.
| it is her duty to take upon her own
strong shoulders part of the burden
from her fellow creatures; she realizes
that from this time forth her life must
| be earnest, it must be real; she real
| ICES that she must have an ideal to
strive for and to reach for the good
of the universe. of which she has now
|
| With the coming of float day, how
ever, solemn thoughts are driven quite
away, and the day is given over to
Wellesley's most popular sport-row-
| ing Some time before the contests
are to come off Lake Waban is crowd
ed with canoes filled. with college girls
and famous men and women from all
over the states, for this is the evening
/ of evenings at Wellesley. The canoes
are strung from bow to stern with
Japanese lanterns, heightening the
brilliancy of the scene and bringing
out the bright colors of the flags and
streamers with which the canoes are
decorated The air is filled with a
babel of all kinds of cries imaginable
and class calls of every variety as the
| four college crews glide into their
places. AS these crews have been
picked with the greatest discrimina-
| ton. the excitement becomes intense
when the eight girls, pronounced by
the judges to be the most skillful with
their oars, row proudly up and down
! the course; then the applause and
shouts are deafening. Not until the
victorious crew has been pro1ongingly
cheered by each class does the shout
| ing cease. Then the sweet girlish
voices and the tingle of the banjos
and mandolins tell the guests that this
| is the parting song and that it will
not be very long before darkness will
steal over another float day.
Mount Holyoke's senior mountain
/ day imparts to its closing exercises a
| flavor of both humor and sadness. The
seniors spend a solitary day at a hotel
on the mountain slope There rerni-
niscences are in order, and vows OF
/ friendship are exchanged. The details
of what goes on are shrouded in mys-
1 terry. but one feature of the exercise.
I the closing one. is said to be the call
/ ing Of roll to ascertain which are
the engaged girls of the class.
| It is crucial moment.
At the sound of her name instead OF
1 answering Present a member must
say Guilty or Not guilty" accord
i Ing as she is engaged to be married
: or not Few are so truthful as the