The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-31
WOMEN WIN PLACE
ON ROLL OF HONOR
Cap and Gown Society at Stan
ford University Puts Girls
Names on Envied List

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Jan. 30
The Cap and Gown honor society of
the women of Stanford university has
just announced the results of the spring
election. Three students of the pres
ent graduating class are named to
place on the rolls. The women honored
are Miss Mae Browne of Rhinelander,
Wis; Miss Ruth Lewis of San Fran
cisco. and Miss Elizabeth Lee Bucking-
ham Of Palo Alto.
Miss Browne, who is a member of
the Delta Gamma sorority, has been
identified with class and student body
activities. She is an active member
of the English club member of the
athletic association, coached the hockey
team and captained the squad as well
as an active worker in the Young
Women's Christian association work.
Miss Lewis registers ing the Greek
department from San Francisco She
is enrolled in the local chapter of the
Pi Beta Phi sorority and has been en-
gagged in y. w. C. A. work and coached
and managed the varsity basket ball
team of the women.
Miss Buckingham as an English club
member has taken part in dramatics,
being member of the Maskers' society
and president of the womens confer
ence.
President David Starr Jordan has
just accepted the appointment to
commission which will rival in i'm
portance the international fisheries as
signment made last summer by Presi
dent Roosevelt. He will be chairman
of the advisory fur seal board and Will
work in conjunction with number of
the best known naturalists of the
country toward the making of laws to
protect the seals and blue foxes of the
waters and country about Bering sea.
The appointment comes from Secre
tary Straus of the department of
commerce and labor. The other we'll
known scientists who will serve with
Doctor Jordan were announced as DR..
Leonard Stejenegar of the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D. c.; Hail
Merriam of the biological survey, Ed
win w. Sims of the department of COM
merce and labor, Frederick A. Lucas.
director of the Brooklyn institute, and
Charles ii. Townsend director of the
New York aquarium.
The commission will decide upon re-
ports obtained by specially appointed
naturalists, who Will visit the home of
the seals and other fur bearing animals
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Lectures upon France, and particu-
larly Paris, open to the general public,
have been re-established by Professor
Guerard of the local faculty. These
lectures have, proved large drawing
cards in the past. and it is expected
win be we'll attended this semester.
to be discussed are: Versailles Feb
ruary II; Versailles Louis XIV" Feb
ruary %; st Cloud. ST Germain,v
March Il; Paris at Work" April s.,
and Paris at Play" April 10.
Undergraduates of Stanford university
are agitated over the question of con-
troll of the 1911 Quad, the annual year
book of the coming junior class. New
systems have been tried by the last
classes, and now the sophomores an
nounce that they will institute an en-
tirely different one when they come
into control next year.
Dr. w. F. Snow, head of the hygiene
department here and chairman of the
committee of public health, has been
appointed to take charge of the prepa-
ration of an exhibit which will be made
under the appropriation of the last
legislature and by thes state depart
ment of health. The tour of the ex-
hibit is to be a novel one inasmuch
as the examples and models of sani-
tary improvements will be displayed
from fiat cars. Doctor Snow has mem
bers of the local department working
on the models and has engaged assist
ants in Palo Alto. Accurate models
of localities showing the means byl
which epidenics fiourished comprise the
greater part of Doctor Shows exhibit.
The Economics club of Stanford,
comprised of senior students in this
department. has recently added to the
rolls four students. The new members
are well known They are r, r. Cad
walader of Los Angeles, a football and
baseball varsity man; w. S. Perry of
Palo Alto, S. Buyer of Los Angeles and
J. 2. HemphilI OF Calistoga, president
of the Encina club