The New York herald., 1921-06-29
100 American
Students to Sail
for Dante Fetes
Party Composed Mostly Of
Young Women to Place
Tablet on Tomb of Poet.

To participate In the celebration in
Italy of the 600th anniversary OF the
death Of Dante. more than 160 students,
mostly young women. of the romance
languages In the leading colleges and
universities In this country Will sail to-
morrow on board Leopoldina.
1t will be the first official visit OF stu
dents of the United States to Italy and
because of this fact the Italian Govern
ment has granted official recognition to
the party.
The students have been designated by
the National Dante Committee to place a
memorial tablet on the tomb of Dante at
Ravenna as tribute from the institu-
tions of learning in the United States.
The tour. arranged by the Italy America
Society. is also designed to strengthen
the friendship between the two countries.
The party will sail to Havre, and after
day in Paris will proceed by rail to
Turin and Genoa and thence to Naples
and Rome.
His Holiness Pope Benedict will re-
ceive and bless American students OF
Christian faith.
Prof. Bruno Rosell or Vassar College.
and Irwin Smith of the Italy American
Society will accompany the party as
the society's official representatives
The party will spend day in Bologna.
where it will be feted by the students OF
the great university, and three days III
Venice. Two days will be spent visit
Ing the battlefields and three days In the
Italian lakes. After a brief stay In
Milan the party will return to France
by way of Switzerland and Will sail
for America on August 20.
The bronze tablet was executed by
C. P. Jennewein. an American sculptor
who studied In the American Academy
at Rome 1t bears an inscription written
by President Emeritus Charles E. Eliot
of Harvard University. which reads
From the American students OF the
twentieth century to Dante Alighieri.
1265-1321. poet, philosopher, scholar" "
In the party are the following per-
sons from the colleges and universities
named:
Columbia University, George Terence
Alt: Barnard College. Miss Marguerite
Gerdau; Brown University, Miss Mary
G. O'Neill Smith College. Miss Margaret
Yeomans; Radcliffe College. Misses
Sarah r. Armington and Marian G..
Whitside: University of Pennsylvania.
DR.. Theodore Miller and Pasquale To-
rraca.
Wellesley-Misses Mildred c. Hesse,
Margaret T. Maxwell and Evelyn Tilden.
Princeton-Miss Emily Luckens. Ed
mund Shackleford Delong. Herbert o.
Peet, ]. X. Burnham Hockaday and AL
bert YeomaEs.
Bryn Mawr-Misses Esther b. Beach,
katherine M. Cowen. Elizabeth Kales.
-2ebecca Reinhardt and Winifred Wor-
tester.
Vassar College-Misses Ruth G. An
thony. Elizabeth II. Bill, Barbara l..
Utter, Jane Revere Coolidge. Eleanore
Degooier. Catherine Fl. Farrell. Marga-
ret NJ Fits. Marguerite Ford. Marhha
f. Foulk. Mary NJ. p. Castor. Virginia
s. Gordon. Helen Greene, Mary Green
ough. Ruth D. Grew. Evelyn f. Hawkes.,
Dorothy Alexander Heinlein. Margot
Hesse. Eleanore Holmes Holloway. Mary
Howe. Katherine B. Hyde. Margaret
Hubbell, Anna Martin Johnson. Elsie
Boyd Jones. Ethel Lackwell Jones. Eliz-
abeth Taylor Jones' Irene Kattwinkel,
Helen B. King. Margaret H. Laidlaw,
Elsie Fairfax Lea. Millicent Hacker
Lewis. Mary Maccoll. Dorothy Greenleaf
Mckenzie. Theodore Mead. Meta M.
Megeath. kntha Miller. Martha Moore
and Margaret Ogden.