The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-04-28
Helen TAFT IN
MAY DAY REVELS
WILL JOIN WITH BRYAN MAWR
GIRLs-oLp ENGLISH FETE
FOR COLLEGE ENDoW-
MENT.

New York, April 27.-with the
daughter Of the first family Of the
land among their number, 400 Bryn
Mawr girls are busy preparing to en-
terrain an American audience on May
7 with a reproduction OF the revels,
games and plays Of May Day in Old
England on their college green, ac-
cording to reports received here today
by the Bryn Mawr Alumnae asso-
citation. The proceeds Of this unique
fete the students have volunteered TO
add as their share TO the million-d dol
lar endowment required TO perpetuate
the work Of the college. Hundreds of
graduates with their husbands, broth
ers and families are now planning a
pilgrimage on this occasion to the
picturesque home Of their alma mater
from communities all over the eastern
continent.
Distinguished diplomats and officials
from Washington. delegations OF girls
from many preparatory schools, part
les of reunited classmates and neigh
borhood clubs Of Bryn Mawr grad
yates are today making plans to
charter special trains from points
within a radius OF a thousand miles
direct to the greensward beneath the
ivied gothic towers where the histor-
ic revels of May Day will be held.
Mrs. Taft has promised to be one Of
the patronesses Of the fete, and with
Baroness Uchida, wife OF the new
Japanese ambassador, and Baroness
Serge Alexander Korff, both Bryn
H..
from the capital Special interest is
being taken in official and diplomatic
circles over the appearance which
Helen Taft will make in the cast of
Pyramus and Thisbe. which will be
one of the sixteenth century plays
performed by the girl undergraduates
during the afternoon.
Under the direction Of Elizabeth
DAILY, a niece of Augustin DAILY, re-
hearsals of these May Day revels are
now taking all the spare time Of the
four hundred girls, who, costumed as
milkmaids, morris dancers and Chin
ney sweepers are preparing to sing,
dance and act. An innovation will be
the morris dances of Elizabethan times
which will be revived by bands of
Bryn Mawr students with bells on
their ankles and carrying kerchiefs
and slaves. Tea and luncheon will be
served to the guests on the green
during the day.
AS their own contribution to the en-
dowment fund Of 100000, which
Byrn Mawr needs to assure her ex-
banding work, the undergraduates
have decided to devote the proceeds
of their pageantry. Already Helen
Taft's class of sophomores has turned
over $4,000 of personal subscriptions
to this cause, and the freshman class
has raised another thousand dollars.
Besides their efforts to make the May
Day entertainment a signal success,
the Bryn Mawr girls are running err
rands and doing little services about
tn campus for fees which they are
turning into these funds. Two grad
yates have just volunteered to con-
tribute the $525 which each has re-
ceived as a fellowship. With such
spirit being shown at the college, the
alumnae who have undertaken to Sc
cure the million dollar endowment by
the second day of next June are today
becoming confident Of the success of
their ambitious project to insure
Bryn Mawr education for any Ameri-
can girl in future without increase of
tuition or lowering of the standards of
the college.