Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-01-19
DELAWARE COLLEGE

Many Pleasing Functions Held Dur
! ing The Week
The MISSION STUDY CLASSES
| On Tuesday Dean Robinson gave an
illustrated lecture on the yellowstone
Park" before the Women Club of Cecil
ton.
Miss Mary Esther Mitchell. of Boston
is spending few days with Miss Wins
low at the Women's College.
OPEN NIGHT AT W. C. D.
Saturday night was "Open Night" at
the Women's College. Miss Isabella
Wales of Wilmington was expected to
sing at the Women's College on Satur-
day night, but as she was prevented by
bad cold clever impromptu entertain
ment was improvised. Miss Kathryn
Stevens and Miss Hilda Stevens played.
and DR.. Sypherd read a number of charm
ing French-Canadian poems by William
Henry Drummond. An hour of dancing
followed.
Y. w. C. A.
Sunday evening Miss Helen Bancroft
led the meeting of the Young Women's
Christian Association. Miss Mary J.
Wright, the delegate to the Annual Mem
ber Conference held in Philadelphia from
Thursday to Saturday, glve her report.
The Women's Collegteis grouped with
Moravian. Beechwood, and Ursinus COL
leges; and this year the annual member
was elected from w. C. D. The meet
ings were held partly in the Witherspoon
Building, Philadelphia, in the Mary
Lyons Schools, at Swarthmore. The
time was devoted mainly to conference
and meetings where present needs
among girls were discussed. Not only
the usual home and foreign work of the
Association was touched upon, but also
some of the new features, like the Pa
triotic Leagues and work in Hotess'
House, were explained. Miss Wright
said that she returned from the confer
ence realizing more than ever before
that us member of the Young Women's
Christian Association she belonged to
the biggest sorority on earth.
MISSIONS STUDY CLASSES
Mission Study Glasses opened Thurs
day night. The entire student body has
their choice between a Home and a
Foreign Mission class. Following the
policy of the Y. w. C. A. this year to
get the girls better acquainted with
outside friends, especially the faculty
and faculty wives Of Delaware College.
Mrs. Claude C. Spiker has been asked
to lead the foreign missions class, and
Professor C. Clarence Short, the Home
Missions. Both have accepted and the
classes started with full attendance.
Mrs. Spiker's class will study Africa
especially; using that land as a back
ground, they will consider the effect of
the great war on other heather coun-
tries. Professor Shorts class will spend
q portion of the time in q study of the
Mountain whites. and is beng done for
them.
CHAPEL TALKS AT w. C. D.
Chapel talks and exercises this week
have been timely and interesting. Mon
day Miss Kathryn Stevens spoke on
Current Events and emphasized the ne
cessity Of using wood instead of coal.
Tuesday Miss Rich outlined the condi-
tions in Armenia, setting up to the ne
cessity of their own personal effort to
do a share.
Wednesday morning Miss Ware talked
about things that might be eaten by
men, but are not in America. Eat
more reptiles" she urged the girls, the
reptiles to include edible turtles, lizards,
and large snakes. The girls were not
especially charmed with the idea, but
Miss Ware reminded them that terrapin
is the greatest delicacy on the market.
After Miss Wares talk, the Dean add
ed that a friend had told her that if
New York was shut up from importa-
ton of food stuffs, the inhabitants could
live for three months on the starch in
the roots of the cat-tail in the marshes.
Thursday Miss Winslow gave the girls
''Fifteen Minutes with Walt. Whitman
reading bits of his virile, inspiring verse.
Friday Miss Marie Ritz sang num-
ber of solos accompanied by Miss Anna
Ritz, one of the Freshman Glass.