All alumnæ visiting the college are requested to register in a book kept for that purpose in the Registrar's office. The list of visitors since the last issue is as follows:

All alumnæ who wish to secure tickets for Senior Dramatics should send their names to the business manager, Florence H. Snow, Hubbard House, stating whether they prefer Thursday or Friday night. Seats will not be reserved for alumnæ for Saturday night.

Contributions to this department are desired by the last of the month, in order to appear in the next month's issue, and should be sent to Josephine Sanderson, Hubbard House.

'93. Roberta F. Watterson has recently become the head of one of the branch libraries in Brooklyn, New York.

'95. Jessie A. Fowler is spending the year in Mexico. Her address is San Gabriel, Denango, Mexico.

Elizabeth Dike Lewis has announced her engagement to Professor Clive Day of the Department of Economics of Yale University.

'96. Mary C. Hawes sailed February 27, on the Romanic from Boston for Naples. She will spend five months travelling on the continent.

The item in the October number stating that Harriet Palmer was married on June 15, to Dr. Albert Ernst Taussig, should read Harriet Palmer Learned, etc.

'97. Irma Richards has announced her engagement to Mr. Rodney Knapp of Binghamton, New York.

'98.

Frances P. Ripley has announced her engagement to Mr. Nelson W. Willard, Professor of Greek at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. Florence Ward has announced her engagement to Mr. J. Converse Blagden.

Gertrude Chase is teaching in the East Bridgewater High School. Rejoyce B. Collins is teaching in the Girls' Collegiate School in Los Angeles.

Ethel Craighead received her M. A. degree in economics from Columbia University last June, and is now teaching geography, English, civil government and economics at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural School for Negroes and Indians at Hampton, Virginia.

Bertha Heidrich has announced her engagement to Mr. William Miles, Princeton '99, of Peoria, Illinois.

Elizabeth McFadden is one of the cataloguers and assistant librarians of the Public Library of Cincinnati.

'99. Carolyn Adler has announced her engagement to Mr. Alvin H. Lauer of Cincinnati, Ohio.

'00.

Ruth Shepard Phelps is spending the winter in the Riviera, Italy.

Mary Taggart is spending the winter in Pasadena, California.

'01. Mary Howland Bellows is teaching French and English in the High School of Walpole, New Hampshire.

Mathilda Heidrich was married February 9, to Dr. Theodore Herbert Page of St. Louis. Her home for the next year will be in Gold Hill, Colorado.

'01. Clara Knowlton has announced her engagement to Mr. Frederick Strong of Portland, Oregon.

Laura Lord has announced her engagement to Mr. Robert Leighton Scales of Dartmouth College.

Margaret R. Piper is teaching in a High School in Windsor, Vermont. Helen Shoemaker has announced her engagement to Mr. S. Lewis Elmer of Bridgeton, New Jersey.

Ethel Stetson was married February 23, to Mr. Norman Williams Bingham, Jr., of Bangor, Maine.

Louise Worthen is teaching at the Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts.

'02. Emily D. Huntington is doing Y. W. C. A. work in Passaic, New Jersey. '03. Eva Becker is spending the winter in the South. Her address until June is 2008 Morgan Street, Tampa, Florida.

Frances McCarroll has announced her engagement to Mr. Franklin Boyd Edwards, Williams '00.

Clara Phillips is teaching kindergarten in Springfield, Massachusetts. Florence M. Rumsey is teaching mathematics and history in the Arms Academy, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

Marie Weeden has announced her engagement to Mr. William Langford.

BIRTHS

85. Mrs. Leonard Wheeler (Elizabeth B. Cheever), a daughter, Eunice, born September 25.

'96. Mrs. Thomas F. Burgess (Laura Crane), a son, born June 10.

'97. Mrs. Ernest DeW. Wales (Franc Hale), a daughter, Elizabeth, born

January 7.

A FRESHMAN'S CALENDAR

Last Ten Days Before Vacation.

Ten little paper dolls hanging in a row.

Pull one down each day,-my! how slow they go.
Each doll stands for a day-when the days have passed.
Most every one is going home-vacation time at last.
Nine dolls-cut history, written lesson too.

Eight dolls-flunked in math,-made me awful blue.
Seven dolls left now-studied-washed my hair.
Six dolls on the wall-flunked math again-don't care.
Five dolls-it's Sunday. Was asked to-day to walk
With a senior friend of mine. We had a lovely talk.
Four dolls only left upon the wall;

Three dolls still remain-dropped in basket-ball.
Only two dolls left now-will they ever go?
Never in the world before did time drag so slow.
One doll left now-the time has almost come.
No dolls left now-at last I'm going home.

MARY COMFORT CHAPIN 1906.

At the open Phi Kappa meeting, February 5, Dr. Henry van Dyke lectured on Robert Louis Stevenson. He spoke as a lover of the man, as all who know him must speak, for in 1850 there was Lecture by Dr. van Dyke born in Edinburgh, Scotland, a man who all his life lived, widely, gladly and thoroughly, and who, in 1894, died with "his work unfinished but his adventure completed." Into the harshest of Scotch climate came a delicate child whose struggle for life was constant but who was "not to be snuffed out easily". He stumbled, fell and doubted, but he never gave up, and thus he taught the world how fine a thing it is to be brave.

Stevenson was a predestined maker of books. With his delicate constitution came the necessity for travel, and the outcome of this was his first literary production, “An Inland Voyage", written in 1878, after a canoe trip of some months, and followed soon by "Travels with a Donkey", the diary of still another journey. Thus began the rapidly growing popularity of Stevenson. With the years came essays, stories and poems, best among them "Virginibus Puerisque ", Prince Otto", 'Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde", Treasure Island", "David Balfour", and "Child's Garden of Verse together with his most interesting and fascinating letters, the best since Thackeray or Lamb.

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But never did Robert Louis Stevenson admit that fiction at all competed with real life. Books were dull things in comparison with the realities of every-day existence. So he felt that stories must be most carefully written. They must be a complete dramatization of life, holding by a simple unity, easy to read and easy to understand, the threads converging in an "essenced scheme" with a knot here and there for adventure's sake. And this plan he followed, focusing his words accurately on his subject and setting them