Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-03
COLLEGE CAPERS
PROVES TO BE A
BRILLIANT Event
Wellesley Club Entertainment
Brings Out Large Attendance
is Enjoyable Affair

One Of the most brilliantly attend
ed events for some time was the ceie-
hratiCn OF college Eapers" at the
National Guard armory last evening
by the Wellesley club Of Hawaii AMI
its friends. assisted by the patronage
CT the College and University clubs.
Everyone was there, from the govern
or and Captain Berger down to the
tiniest Chinese girl selling candy in
the aisles and the big crowd vent
a long way towards filling the huge
budding.
The hall was profusely decorated
with bunting of all colors and along
the wall on either side were arranget
the toCths representing the different
colleges, where members of the clubs
assembled. One Of the very prettiest
Of these was our own College of Ha-
waii booth which ras lovely with its
green and white pennants and palms
and Easter lilies The Cornell booth
was very effective in its red and
white color scheme while the Prince
ton men had a most attractive recep-
ton room done in orange and black,
relieved by an enormous skin repre-
senting the Princeton tiger" The
Massachusetts Institute of Technolo-
gy and Harvard besides several 9TH
ers of the colleges were we'll repre-
scented. The Wellesley booth was very
much to the point 1t consisted CT a
charred and falling building frame.
suggesting the object of the affair
which was to increase the Wellesley
fire fund. A number of young society
girls assisted as ushers In vari-colored
caps and gowns. -s:5...* ~.
The program opened very auspi-
ciously with the dignified academic
procession and granting of degrees by
the chancellor Of Aloha college. Mr..
Robbins Anderson as the chancellor
and Mr.. James Wilder as the beadle
succeeded In furnishing a great deal
of amusement during the perform
ance. The fire drill by the wellesley
girls impersonated by students OF the
Honolulu School for Boys. was most
sludicrous Will Warren represented
his alma mater. the University of Cal
ifornia. after which eight university
OF Michigan grads gave laughable
chair drill. Miss Nora Swanzy danced
to Mrs. Elsa Cross Howard's accom-
paniment for "Bryn Mawr, while Cor
nell offered skit, :" How to be a Saw
age, in which the glee club singing
and the 'Frosh" dance were features.
The elimination of a Chinese Col
lege Romance, given by the Chinese
Students Alliance, was a very credit
able and interesting number on the
program. This was followed by col
.lege songs by the Kamehameha school
glee club and dance by Spanish stu
dents for Columbia which were 10th
enthusiastically received. Then came
the play. Hasty Pudding !. written
and acted by James Wilder in his col.
lege days at Harvard, and which
brought down the house last night
when Mr.. Wilder again essayed the
part of the financially embarrassed
undergraduate. At the conclusion OF
the program Junior prom" was an.
ncunced and the remainder Of the
evening was spent in dancing.
Mrs. Walter f. Frear, The ladies
who assisted her. and those In charge
ct the different booths are certainly
to. be congratulated on the brilliant
success of the undertaking.
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