Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
GIRLS 0WNbANQUET
College Alumnae Gather at An
nuaI Social Function.
VOCAL MUSIC A FEATURE
Addresses by Club Members on Va
riety of Topics-List of
the Guests.

Vassar girls, Wellesley girls, George
Washington girls and girls of Brown.
Oberlin, Indiana, Chicago. Bates, West
ern Reserve, Goucher. Smith, de PAW.
Wisconsin and other colleges and univer-
the fair sex is exclusively educated.
gathered in Rauscher's last night, for the
seventh annual dinner of the College
Women's Club. an association of alumnae
in Washington.
Mere man. was conspicuous in the as
sembly only by his absence. Sweet
voices blended in songs that lacked some-
what the vim of college boys gather
ings, but produced exquisite harmony.
The printed menu is a wonderful affair.
A brown alumnae Constance Common is
recorded therein as illustrated. There are
cartoons of special significance, and one
which is Of general appreciation, telling
of the suffrage parade about Inaugural
ton time, March in March" The suf-
fragist who bears the banner wears a
college mortar-board and gown.
To drive home the supremacy of wom-
an there is another drawing which al
lows the feminine to stand on top of the
world.
Themes of Addresses.
Miss Julia Lathrop, director of the chill
dren's bureau, again told OF how little
money she had to do things with and how
much had been accomplished and how
much more was designed-without further
financial prospect-in furtherance of the
scheme of her department of human en-
deavor
"Reminiscences of a Congressman s
Wife was the theme of the wife of a
representative from Texas, Mrs. James B.
Slaydt n, who has been compelled to be in
Washington every year since her husband
was elected to the F'ifty-fifth Congress.
And Mrs. Raymond Brown considered. in
side and out, the subject of Equal SUI
frage.'
THE College of the Women Of Tomor-
row. was a forecast of the future educa-
tional inn ortance to be attached to the
mental development Of women, by Miss
Sophie lren Loeb.
Miss Janet f.. Richards had a message
on The Woman in Politics.
The glee club sang a number Of col
lege songs, and the entire alumnae body
frequently contributed selections.
Mrs Lyman Il. Swormstedt, a Young
Wellesley graduate, president of the or
ganization, was the toastmistress.
Officers and Committees.
The banquet committees included:
Officers-Mrs. l.. B. Swormstedt, pres-
dent, Wellesley: Mrs Z. Dana Durand,
first vice president Oberlin: Mrs. A. c.
MuhSe, second vice president, Indiana;
Miss May I. Cooke, secretary, George
Washington: Mrs. John Barber. treas
urer, Chicago.
Committee on tickets-Mrs. Thomas T.,
Robertson, chairman. Bates: Mrs. villa
nina Morrow, Western Reserve; Mrs. ID.
*. Shute, George Washington; Miss Isa-
bel l.. Towner, GOucher.
Ushers-Mrs. A. C. Muhse. chairman,
India IA Miss Catherine r. Custis, Vas
sar; Miss Maud c. Gunther. Goucher:
Miss Anne l.. Pierce George Washing
ton; Miss M. F,unice Wead Smith.
Nusic-Mrs. l. herman, chairman. We'll
lesley: Miss Katherine NJ. Raber, George
Washington.
Decorations-Mrs. c. f. Sebenthal,
chairman, De PAW; Miss Della S. Jack
son, Wellesley; Mrs. Clarence w Kanolt.
Western Reserve; Miss Grace L. Temple.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Program-Mrs. e. Dana Durand. chair
man, Oberlin: Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley,
George Washington.
Menu-Mrs. Herbert D. Brown. chair
man, Cornell: Constance Conner Brown.
illustrator; Miss Mia F: Allen. George
Washington: Mrs Louis w. Austin Wis
consin; Miss Elizabeth B. Leech Vassar