The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-24
HELEN TAFT WILL
JOIN THE REvELS
Daughter of President in May
Festivities at Bryn
MaWr College.
GRADUATES TO FLOCK BACK
TO THE OLD INSTITUTION TO
TAKE PART IN AFFAIR WHICH
Is TO RAISE A FUND FOR THE
ENDOWMENT.

New York, April 23.-With the
daughter of the first family Of the land
among their number, 400 Bryn Mawr
girls are busy preparing to entertain
an American audience on May 7t..,
with 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 associa.
ton. The proceeds of this unique
fete the students have volunteered to
add as their share to the million dol
lar endowment required to perpetuate
the work Of the college. Hundreds
of graduates with their husbands,
brothers and families are now planning
pilgrimage on this occasion to the
picturesque home of their alma mater
from communities all over the Eastern
continent
Distinguished diplomats and Off
cials from Washington, delegations OF
girls from many preparatory schools,
parties of. reunited classmates and
neighborhood clubs Of Bryn Mawl
graduates are today making plans to
charter special trains from points with
in radius of thousand miles direct
to the greensward beneath the ivie,l
gothic towers where the historic revels
Of May Day will be held.
Mrs. Taft to Attend.
Mrs. Taft has promised to be one of
the patronesses of the fete, and with
Baroness Uchida, wife OF the new Jap
anese ambassador, and Baroness Serge
Alexander Korff, both Bryn Mawr
graduates, will head party from the
capital. Special interest is being ta-
ken in official and diplomatic circles
over the appearance which Helen Taft
will make in the cast of "Pyramus and
Thiebe, (which will be one of the six
teenth century plays performed by the
girl under graduates during the after
noon.
Under the direction of Elizabeth Da-
ly, niece of Augustin DAILY, rehears-
ais of these May Day revels are now
taking all the spare time Of the four
hundred girls, who, costumed as milk
maids, morris dancers and chimney
sweeps ARE preparing to sing dance
and act. An innovation will be the
Norris dances of Elizabethan times,
which will be revived by bands of
Bryn Mawr girls with bells on their
ankles and carrying kerchiefs and
slaves. Tea and luncheon will be
served to the guests on the green dur
ing the day.
AS their own contribution to the en-
dowment fund Of S1.OOO.OOO. which
Bryn Mawr needs to assure her ex-
panding work, the undergraduates
have decided to devote the proceeds Of
their pageantry. Already Helen
Taft's class of sophomores has turned
over $1,000 of personal subscriptions to
this cause, and the freshman class has
raised another thousand dollars. Be.
sides their efforts to make the May
Day entertainment a signal success
the Bryn Mawr girls are running er-
rands and doing little services abOu:
the campus for fees which they are
turning into these funds. Two grad
yates have just volunteered to contrib
ute the $52J which each has received as
a fellowship. With such spirit being
shown at the college. the alumnae who
have undertaken to secure the million
dollar endowment by the second oa
next June are today becoming conf
dent of the success Of their ambitious
project to insure Bryn Mawr education
for any American girl in future with
out increase of tuition or lowering oi
the standards of the college.