Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-19


 COLLEGE c1cs
 HOLDS ETs Frnsr BANpUDr
 Thirty members of the Norwich Col lege club enjoyed a deflrhffui hanunet I Monday evsnlnr kt the Community h6usa l on Church street. the first that the ciub l has held. Dean Wye of Connecticut Col legs at New London and Mrs. John I'd d- win Wells of New London. president of the state federation of colleges and csI- lese alumnee. were the special Euests and speakers Of the evening
 The banquet was serTef at o'ciock, with the attractive table decorAtions In yeilsv and white and the following menu was served:
 Fruit cocktau
 chisken Pic Mashed Potatoes currsnt ssTy Rons
 Tee Cream cAks club, gracefully presided as toastmistrens, calling attention briefly in her openinE remarks to something of the history of the club. IL was organized fifteen years ago. she said. with a nenbership of 4s and seven Of the charter members were Attending the banquet. Thirteen of the charter still belong 10 the club. WhIch now has | menbershib of B1 and three hohorAry nnesnbers Varied lines of work have engaged the eiS5 h the past but its most important activity has been In providing schoiarshlps at Connecticut coi- l lege- During the past sir years | scholarship has been provided each year and the club now has about t1 900 ia It's treasury towards a permanent sehoi- arship fund. Speaking Of the college rep- resentation ih the manbsrBhlp of the club, Mrs. Peaie said that there are twenty colieges represented and as each college has some dominant characteristic or spirit. she called upon the representa- lives of a number of them lo speak for their colleges.
 Those who responded In this interesting feature of the programme were the. fol
 lowing: Mrs. Franklin s. Wilcox. Bas- sar; Miss Mary Avery, Mt. Holyoke | Mss Alice Browning. wheaton; Mrs. walter B. Crooks. Simmons; Mrs. F. & i Bunneil, Gpucher; Mrs. J. J. Donohue | Cornell; MrE. Peale, Graduate School
 Yale Dr. Lillian Lynes, Arierlcan Col. | leEe of Osteopathy: slrs. F. ]. Graham | Syracuse Miss Charlotte c, GuIliyer
 Smith; Mrs. Charles L. Stuart, Welies ley.
 Mrs. wells was introduced by Mrs
 Peale 10 speak upon the work of the stat federktion. She was listened to witi | much interest as she described the form alton Of this federation of college club eight years ago with its motto of servic
 for the community. Connecticut Is tn
 pioneer in soch q federation, but Cali
 fornia is following and is asking Con
 necticut for directions how to pSceed Its purpose Is to get ali college wonei together for some good to De accomplish
 ed along civic or educational lines. Ii object Is well expressed in the pro granine to make plain highways fror , every corner of the state to every oc
 cupation shown to be rood. Mrs. Well l said that this was a work In whic l all college clubs could join and that tn natural loyalty to individual college al l sociations need not interfere with th
 wider work of the federation.
 ! Dean Nye stirred her hearers with th r fnal addressA speaking upon The Educs : tion of Woman In New England, surnrnal iEed with special reference to Connect
 cut College.
 sketchinE the development of educl
 ton for women in New England. sh ! showed that there was q period of IS . iyears when nothing but primary educs i ton was available for them. Then can ] | 2s years Of the grammar period followe 4 by 50 years when the few fortunate ons s could attend academies. In the neJ ! 50 years up to the present time woTne z began to enjoy and excell In the collei f education offered to men. A wonderf' : day dawned when it was recognized thi every man and every woman could pr F =. IA . important to find out If a man or woms = was better quaiihed for.
 . An announcefnent of the purpose !Connecticut college, she said, had q ciared that 1t meant to furnish oppo |. tunity to study all subjects approved = the best colleges and to meet the q mands of the times In the education L. women. Dean Nye read extracts from
 well known lecture by Dr. Sykes. Il e first president of the college, upon Tl ,- Changing Home, to illustrate the anyA . to the question: What are the deTnan 'e of the times, and said that the collie
 was trying to enable women to brii
 their college training to that highly 1T
 portant industry, the home. That | : college plan seemed to be meeting vi N endorsement was indicated in the co $ stantly increasing numbsf of applican g for entrance. If the present accommod ,f tions in dormitories and class roor x- could be doubled, they could witho e. doubt be filled with desirable studer ts by next September.
 b. The Arrangements for the bandu ct were made by the. executive commit d of the club comprising Mrs A. L. Pea In Mrs. F. S. Wilcox. Mrs, ]. J. Donohi re Miss Ethel N. Sevin. Mrs. ". H. O. es Mrs. G. s. Raymond. and Mrs. ". If u~ffh naf M~a Uueo~ a ed Mrs. Donohue. having especial charge ot the tables and decorations. The How to used in the decorations were sent to { ed patients at the Norwich state hospi ay after the banquet.
 k Miss Doris Bullsrd. Mss Dorothy H n- den. Miss Lucille Spaiding and Miss I ag zabeth Smith served as Waitresses "