Evening star., 1928-12-09

daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert W..
Willard, graduate of Central, and
Dorothy Caldwell, daughter of MIR. and
Mrs j. K. Caldwell, a graduate of the
National Cathedral School for Girls,
were awarded scholarships. The scholar
ship committee of the Wellesley Club
is headed by Miss Sibyl Baker.
The Bryn Mawr Club has sent Wash
ington girl to college each year since
1928. In that year ErneStine Jennette
of Central High School and Beatrice
Pitney, daughter of the late Justice
Mahlon Pitney of the Supreme Court,
were awarded scholarships.
Miss Pitney was graduated from Bryn
MaWr in 1927 and is now secretary OF
the National League of Women Voters,
with headquarters in New York, where
mittee on international cooperation to
prevent war. In 1925 Miss Elizabeth
Bethel, daughter of Mai. Gen. Walter
A. Bethel was awarded the scholarship:
in 1926, Miss Alice Glover. daughter of
Mrs. John Milligan Glover, and in
1927, Miss Elinor Totten, daughter OF
Mrs. Priscilla S. Totten. The Bryn
Mawr scholarship holders are selected
by the scholarship committee of the
washington Alumnae Club, headed by
Miss Elizabeth Eastman. in cooper
alton with authorities of the college.
Bryn Mawr and Wellesley are two OF
the Oldest women's colleges in the coun-
try. The former was founded in 1880.
Bryn Mawr has always believed in the
value of small classes and limits the to-
tai enrolment of undergraduates to 400
and resident graduates to less than 100.
Wellesley College was founded in 1875,
with the announced purpose of giving
to young women opportunities for edu-
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vided in colleges for young men,"
The officers of the Bryn Mawr and
Wellesley Clubs of Washington are as
follows: Bryn Mawr Club-Mrs. Alvin
B. Barber, president; Miss Peggy
Burch, secretary; Mrs. Jack Tate, vice
president and treasurer. Wellesley Club
Mrs. E. G. Nourse, president; Miss
Helen L. Lyon. vice president: Miss
Pauline Chobot. secretary, and Miss
Virginia Weakley, treasurer.
The International Association of Art
and Letters had for its program at the
salon Wednesday evening, at Hotel La
Fayette, speakers from two of the In
dian tribes of the Northwest and a
United States Army officer who was
for years engaged on the frontier and
at one time acted as secretary to
Sitting Bull. The Princess Zitkala Sa
of the Sioux Tribe, granddaughter OF
Sitting Bull, who, as Mrs. Gertrude
Bennin, is well known as lecturer and
worker for her people, gave a resume
of life from childhood to maturity and
| appealing stories of her tribe. Mrs.
| Helen Fitzgerald, who has been adopted
into the tribe of the Blackfeet In
dians. recited poem of her own after
describing the reason for the cere-
monial sun dance. Maj. Ahearn's ac-
count of his service and association
with the several tribes he was con-
nected with was graphically interest
ing. The Indian songs contributed by
Mrs. Eva Whitford Lovette, her pupils
and Choral Club, were on Indian
themes. For the hour with great
story tellers" that will be given at the
association headquarters in Mrs. Stod-
,dard'S private studio Wednesday eve
ming, next, it was announced that the
books reviewed will be "Autour des
Thrones que J'ai WI Tomber," by the
Princess Louise of Belgium, in Eng
lish; THE New Temple" by the Nor
wegian author, Johan Boier; Berco-
vicci's Biography of Alexander" and
"This Side Idolatry," by Roberts, which
was touched upon at the last review.
Columbian WOmen.-Dr. William
Allen Wilbur, provost of the George
Washington University, was the speaker
at the meeting of the Columbian Wom-
en- Tuesday afternoon. The ladies of
Columbian College, of which DR.. Will
bur was for "a years the dean, acted
as hostesseS during the social hour
which preceded the meeting. The pow
er that has developed in the world is
centered in America in our time, Dr.
Wilbur pointed out. And with this
power, he said, come obligations. "The
aim of all human relations is more
spirit of loving kindness toward ones
fellow men is the only thing that will