New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
European Savants
Attend Institute
Held i'm Berkshires
Noted Scholars From Old
World and New Enter
tanned at Williamstown:
Dances at TacOnic Club
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

BERKSHIRE HILLS, Mass, July 29."-
Distinguished visitors from Europe,
Asia and South America were the
guests of honor, for whom DR.. and
Mrs. Harry A. Garfield gave re-
cepton in Williamstown yesterday
afternoon, among them being members
of the Institute of Politics and 800 men
and women who have gathered in the
college town for the conferences. There
were present from abroad Mr.. Lionel
Curtis, Mrs. Curtis and Mr.. Philip Kerr,
of London; DR.. Joseph Redlich, of
Vienna; DR.. Rkitaro Fujisawa, of To-
Kio; DIR. Manoel de Oliveria Lima and
Nine. de Oliveria Lima, Of Rio de ia
neiro.
Assisting DR.. and Mrs. Garfield and
Miss Lucretia Garfield at the recep-
ton were Professors Karl E. Weston
Walter Wallace McLaren, Carl w.
johnson, James w. Bell, Mr.. Willard
Evans Hoyt and Mr.. Perry A. Smedley,
of Williams College; Professor Phillip
NJ. Brown, of Princeton, and Professor
Jesse S. Reeves, of the University Of
Michigan. Presiding at the tea tables
were Mrs. William Page Andrews, Mrs.
Weston, Mrs. McLaren, Mrs. johnson
and Mrs. Smedley.
The visitors admired the beautiful
old Colonial house occupied by DR.. and
Mrs. Garfield with its magnificent
early American mahogany furniture.
DR.. Garfield has asked all Williams
town hostesses to make their dinner
parties for institute visitors informal
and to have them early, SO the guests
can attend the lectures, which start
at 8:15 p. m. The most elaborate en-
tertainment so far arranged is the old
fashioned Southern barbecue which
Rear Admiral Robert NJ. Berry, U. S.
N, retired, and Mrs. Berry, who are
at the Greylock Hotel, are to give at
Shadowbrook farm in Williamstown
for 100 members Of the institute next
Wednesday.
Most of the noted visitors in Will
Jamestown are in unpretentious homes
of professors and dormitories, DR.. Gar
field having refused offers Of great
villas on the surrounding hills. He be-
lieves companionship and friendly re-
|ations will be promoted the more by
town, where they can walk back and
forth to lectures and conferences.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Parmalee Prentice,
who hastened home from London for
the opening of the institute, are among
the leading entertainers in Williams
town. Dances were resumed at the Ia
comic Golf Club tonight and they will
be held Saturday evenings until Sep
tember 2 inclusive. Mrs. William T.
the committee in charge and associ-
ated with her are Mrs. George A.
Cluett, Mrs. Willard Evans Hoyt and
Miss Laura Dwight. Among those
who registered at the club this week
and who were on the golf course each
morning were Mrs. Robert Martin, of
Belfast, Ireland, who is spending the
summer with her mother, Mrs. John
Sinclair; Mr. Frederick L. Allen, Of
Cambridge, Mass, Mr. Charles E.
Merrill and Mr.. and Mrs. Russell C.
Jones, of Branxvile, N. Y.
Arrivals for August at the Greylock
Hotel in Williamstown include Sen
ator William S. Culberson and Mrs
Culberson, of Texas; Mrs. Livingston
Perry, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles D. Sabn,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bradley Lord, Of
New York; Commander F. A. Todd,
u. S. N, and Mrs. Todd; also MIR. and
Mrs. II. r. Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. C.
G. Billings, Mr. and Mrs. s. P. Delano,
Mr.. and Mrs: Louis G. Dalton, of Now
York; Mrs. Charles A. Mum, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Ramsay. of Washington,
D. c.. Mr.. and Mrs. II. H. Thomas, MIR.
and Mrs. A. c. Buckley, of Summit,
n. j. and Mrs J. NJ. McVickar, Of
Princeton, N. J.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White had the
two largest dinner parties of the week
entertaining at each one more than
twenty of the younger set at Elm
Court. Mrs. Whites house guests in
cluded the Misses Barbara Whitney,
Phyllis Baldwin, all of whom attended
a picnic party given by Miss Adele S.
Hammond on Monument Mountain in
Stockbrdge.
Others who entertained at dinner
were Mr., and Mrs. Frederick G. Crane,
at Dalton. for Mrs. Washington A.
Roebling, of Trenton, N. j.. Mr.. and
Mrs, Giraud Foster and Mrs. Frederic
Crowninshield. Mrs. John Stewart Nc
Lenna entertained large picnic party
at West Otis.
Mrs. Crowninshield is one of the
promoters of a rummage sale to be
held at the Stockbridge Town Hall
August 10 for the benefit of the
Ascension Farm School at South Lee
Among others in charge of tables are
Mrs. Norman Fl. Davis, Mrs. Arthur
w. Swami. Mrs. Owen Johnson, Mrs
Henry McBurney, the Misses Heloise
Meyer, Mary Parsons and Ella Coursen.
Entries for the annual golf tourna-
iI'Gue vi lHe w y6HIeHuCh country CluD
at Great Darlington, which is to start
August 2, include Mr.. Dwight Part
ridge, Mr.. Hamilton Kerr, of New
York: Mr.. George A. Varney. of the
Columbia Country Club, Washington;
Mr.. John Shepard jr, MIR. John Shepard
Sd and Mr.. George C. putton, of Bos-
ton, and Jesse Fairchild. of Providence
Mr.. and Mrs Chauncey M. Depew
are making their tenth annual visit
for month at the Aspinwall Hotel in
Lenox, whore also are Mrs J. Henry
White ehouse Of lrvington, and her
dauphter, Mrs. Frank B. Perdonnet,
Dr. Carlos F. Macdonald, DR.. and Mrs.
Nathaniel Fisher, Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
ard Thomas, Mr.. and Mrs T. G. Con-
verse, Mr.. Maitland Bartlett, Mrs.
Henry Gansevoort Sanford, Mrs.
Trimblc de Roode. Mrs. Stephen Mil
lett, Miss Mary G. Millett, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Alexander, of New York;
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Talmage, Miss
Louise and Miss Gladys Talmage, of
Brooklyn.
At the Maplewood Hotel, Pittsfield,
are Mrs Lawrence Wells. Dr. and Mrs.
A. R. Gardner, Mrs Mark Franklin,
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace S. Parsons, MIR.
| and Mrs. Frederic Cool Mr. and Mrs