The New York herald., 1921-07-01
100 Students Sail
for Italy to Aid
inHonoring Dante
Columbia, Vassar and Other
Colleges Send Representa-
tives to Celebration.

party of $50 students from many OF
the leading colleges and universities OF
this country sailed yesterday for italy
on the French liner Leopoldina to take
part in Italy's commemoration Of the
The largest representation was from
Vassar. moro than fifty girls from that
college being on board, Barnard, Prince
ton. Wellesley. Columbia. Brown,
syvania were also represented.
Courtesies have been extended by the
Italian Government to the students and
their instructors which give the party
the Italy America Society with the idea
OF strengthening friendly relations be-
tween the two countries.
The part played by the students in the
bronze memorial tablet on Dante's tomb
at Ravenna. This bears the inscription,
written by Charles w. Eliot, president
emeritus OF Harvard: From the Ameri-
can students of the Twentieth Century TO
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321-Poet, Phil
osopher. Scholar" Students in nearly
every college here contributed to the
fund.
The leaders of the party. which will
visit Paris Naples. Venice. Lucerne.
Rome. and Ravenna, are Prof. Bruno
Roselli of Vassar, and Miss Irene l..
Carter and Irwin Smith OF the Italy
America Society.
Also on board the liner was Mrs. Maud
Swartz, secretary of the New York State
Womens Trade Union League. who is
the first delegate to leave for the second
meeting of the International Congress OF
Working Women at Geneva. October ii.
To Sail on the iceland.
The iceland of the Red Star Line will
sail tomorrow with a full list of first
cabin passengers many of whom will
land at Cherbourg. Mr.. Charles Symon.
Counselor Of the Belgian Embassy at
Washington, will be one Of the excep-
tions, as he will go on to Antwerp Some
OF the other passengers will be Mr..
Bayard Henry, general solicitor for the
| Pennsylvania Railroad Mr.. and Mrs.
Harden L. Crawford, Mrs. William NJ.
Fleitman. Mrs. II. w. Morse and Miss
Katherine Morse, Miss Margaret Trim
BILE, Miss Margaret de Forest. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederic Horner. Miss Lucy Horner
and Miss Betty Horner, Miss J. $. Lind
say and Miss Ruth Mantz of New York
Judge II. F. Remington of Rochester.
Judge F. G. Swayze of Jersey city, Mrs.
Avery Coonley Of Washington and DR..
c. Z. Locke of the Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital Boston.
Mrs. Z. w. Edwards and Miss Helen
Edwards of Cincinnati will start to-
morrow for France on board the La
fayette in connection with the work of
the American Committee for Devastated
France Others on board will be Arch
bishop Lorenzo Laussl, Father Gaspari,
his secretary; DR.. Leriche Of the Uni
versity of Lyons, Mr.. J. Champenois,
who is connected with the department of
education of the French Government;
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas 3. Clark. Jr.
elsie Ferguson). DR.. and Mrs j. G.
Hoppin, Mr. Courtlandt Hoppin. Mr..
and Mrs. John S. Melcher and Messrs.
John .. and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
sons of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stanwood Jordan
Of 2 West Sixty-seventh street also will
be among the outgoing passengers for
Europe tomorrow and will be abroad
until September.
Mrs. Force Going Abroad.
Mrs. william H. Force and Miss
Katherine Force will sail next Tuesday
by the Aquitania and remain abroad
until the autumn. In the meantime they
are stopping at the Ambassador Hotel
Rear Admiral and Nathan c. Twining
will start next Monday for London
where he will take up his new duties
as Naval Attache of the American En-
bassy at the Court of st. James's
Mrs. Charles Gilmore Kerley Miss
Priscilla Kerley and Mrs. Jabez Burns
have arranged TO sail by the Mauretania
on July IA. They will visit Belgium.
Switzerland, France. England and Scot
land and sail from the other side by
the I,apland on September is.
Mrs. Henry T. Scott of Burlingame.
Cal, now at tho Ritz-Carlton. will sail
next Monday to spend few months IN
Europe
Returning by the Aquitania. which is
due tomorrow, ere Mr. and Mrs. Will
| lam Goadby Loew and tho Misses Flor
ence and Evelyn Loew. Col. and Mrs.
Arthur Woods and Mrs. Edwin Mende.
| Mr. and Mrs. Loew and their children
were in England for the international
polo match. Thew Will go TO Newport
! soon after their arrival. Col. and Mrs.
WOODS were abroad several weeks. They
will open Cotswold. their country place
| In Stei lington. n. Y. Mrs. Mende. who
| is the wife Of Or. Edwin Mende OF Bern,
Switzerland. is a daughter of the late
| Gen. Horace Porter and was prevented
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