The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-12
5000 YASSAR GIRLS
BACK TO CELEBRATE
rifticth Anniversary a Notable
Occasion for the Col
lege.
ALT MNE FUND GROWING

rouGuKrFPsIE. Oct. 11.-At a meeting
~ the associate alumna of Vassar Col
lcge here to-day in connection with the
celebration Of the colleges fftieth an
n!versary an announcement was made
that the alumn@ fund amounts to S2O3.-
200. M the money is from the classes
and is exclusive Of that given for the
new alumne hall. DR.. Henry Noble
NacCracken. president of the college, an
rounced this afternoon that outside the
alumn.c fund st75.oO0 Of the $1,000, 900
TO he raised had been secured.
Nearly 5000 graduates were 1t the
college to-day to take part in the ami
,ersary exercises. OF the class Of 1866
Ave members are here-Caroline +.
Brayton OF Fall River. Mass. Emily ID.
Bostwick and Ellen B.. williams Of
ithaca, Harriette Camp Dimon Of Utica
and Susan 4. Howell Ostrom OF Goshen.
The classes of 1905, 1911. 1914 and
1915 have the largest registration. Re-
turning for their tenth anniversary. the
class OF 1905 has 1876 members regis
tered.
Among the college heads here are
Marion Leroy Burton. president of Smith
College Frank l.. McVey. president OF
the University OF North Dakota John
Hanson Thomas Main. president of Grin
neil college Henry S. Pritchett, presi-
dent OF the CarneSie Foundation for the
Advancement OF Teaching Arthur j.
Roberts. president Of Colby College ;
william G. Rodgers. president Of st.
stephens College l.. Clark Seelye.
president emeritus OF Smith College :
vivian RlcnChe Small. president OF Lake
Erie College Charles +. Thwing. presi-
dent of the Western Reserve University.
Som. OF the alumna here are Miss
,Jull, l.athrop. Miss Katharine Davis,
Miss Jean Webster. Inez Milholland
Boissevain, Margot Gushing and Mar
earet Armstrong. The various class
headuuarters are in Rockefeller Hall.
classes from 1867 to 1911. In some OF
the rooms pictures of members OF the
lass. with their homes. husbands and
babies, are on the walls. Every gradu-
ties husband present bears "A badge
with his name above 1t.
Two thousand Nassar alumnR crowded
the chapel this morning to listen to the
addresses made at the alumn@ com-
memoratiOn exercises. Louis Lawrence
Meigs. 1891. president of the Associate
umn presided and introduced Presi-
dent Emeritus JtilSs NoHfoV
who made the Invocation. Mary Augusta
jordan. 1876. professor OF English In
Smith. College Ellen Churchill Ssmple.
1852, OF Louisville. Ky, and Julia Chf-
ford Lathrop. 1850. were the speakers.
The first of the student conferences
arranged for the week was held in the
students building this morning. with
sixty delegates present.
At l2 30 o'clock there was an in
formal luncheon Of the alumnR. At l:+5
= business meeting of the Associate
Alunnn was held. at which Dr. Mac
Cracken smoke on THE Anniversary
Endowment"
The pageant OF Athena took place at
o'clock, the first ever given In the
outdoor theatre. The nip in the October
air made n Greek GESTURE n chilly propo-
si.ion. hut the sunshine helped some
what. In the pageant were a large
number OF students under the direction
OF Hazel MacKay OF Washington.
Tonight 'Vassar Milestones.' IA play
OF college life. was given in the students
building.
Tomorrow morning there will be an
other session of the intercollegiate stu
dent conference and academic commence
ration exercises in the chapel.
An exhibition OF physical training Will
be given in the Circle in the afternoon.
followed by "A concert by the Russian
symphony Orchestra. Another concert
will be given In the evening,