learn, the long hours and the hardships endured by both pupil and teacher made one realize the needs of these people, still, as Miss Buxton writes, in such ignorance and poverty.

In China, we have this year our first Smith graduate, Alice Duryee 1901, who is stationed at Amoy, China, where our College missionary, Dr. Angie Myers is working. Miss Duryee's letters are full of the interesting experiences and the novelty of this new life of the needs of the people, and of the opportunities for work.

The Missionary Society has kept a record of all the letters concerning the missionary activities of the alumnæ and will be glad to share their letters with others who would equally enjoy them.

ALICE JACKSON, '98.

A statement should have been made in the May number of the MONTHLY that the articles entitled "Western Massachusetts Association of Alumnæ and Non-graduates", "The Zoological Station in Naples", and "Research Work in Spain" were contributed by the Western Massachusetts Association of Alumnæ and Non-graduates. The editor greatly regrets that this omission occurred.

A joint fellowship of $400 is offered to graduates of Smith College for the year 1904-1905 by the College Settlements Association and the Smith College Alumnæ Association. The object of this fellowFellowship in Sociology ship is to open to a well-qualified person the opportunities afforded by Settlement life for investigation of social conditions. No requirements are made beyond residence in a settlement during the academic year and the pursuit of some clearly defined line of work, scientific or practical, under the general guidance of a special committee. The choice of residence should depend on opportunities for the work to be undertaken, and need not be limited to the houses belonging to the College Settlements Association. The time may, with the approval of the committee in charge, be divided between different settlements.

Applications should be sent before July 7, to Mrs. Helen Rand Thayer, Portsmouth, N. H. These should include all data that might be of use to the committee. Applicants should give age and some account of previous education and state the future work to which they are looking forward. They should also describe as specifically as possible what topic or line of work they have in mind for their fellowship year. Applications should be accompanied by credentials bearing on character, on ability, practical and scholarly, and on health.

All alumnæ and undergraduates who are in St. Louis on June 30 are cordially invited to meet the Smith College Club of St. Louis between three and six o'clock in the afternoon, at 4900 Berlin Avenue.

ALMA BAUMGARTEN '98.

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:

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 Ellen T. Richardson, Hubbard House.

'88. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm has brought out a new book, "The Penobscot Man", published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Mrs. Eckstorm is the author of several scientific papers and two other books, "The Woodpeckers" and "The Bird Book". While at college she organized the Smith College Audubon Society together with Miss Florence Merriam, and in this work they were very kindly assisted by Mr. John Burroughs. In writing "The Penobscot Man", Mrs. Eckstorm has had the aid and approval of several of the best-known guides and rivermen of the Maine woods.

'93. Edith L. Taft was married, April 20, to Rev. E. F. Chauncey of New York.

'96. Isabel Adams was married, April 27, to Mr. Frank S. Deland.

'97. Grace Ethelwyn Browne graduates this year from the New England

Conservatory of Music.

'97. Helen Boss announced last Easter her engagement to Dr. Frederic Russell Cummings of Concord, New Hampshire.

'98. Maud Breckenridge has been studying music and French in New York this winter.

Ethel Craighead has been teaching economics, civil government and English in the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. She will teach there again next winter.

Frances D. Dailey is teaching English and Latin in the High School at Council Bluffs.

Alice Duncan was married, June 2, to Mr. MacGregor Jenkins of Boston. Mary Fowler is spending this year in Europe.

Jessie L. Hyde has been teaching in the High School in Palmer, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Johnson is teaching in the High School at Thomaston, Maine. Helen T. Lewis spent three months in Mexico last winter, and had a most interesting trip among the Indians.

Cora Martin is assistant post-mistress at Chicopee Falls.

Mary Pickett is studying in Paris. She will return home this summer, and will teach next year in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Florence Reed was married, May 19, to Mr. Albert Newell Cryan of New York.

Charlotte White Roberts is at San Juan, Porto Rico, her husband being private secretary to the secretary at that place.

'00. Ruth Albright was married, April 21, to Mr. Evan Hollister.. Their address will be 762 Ferry Street, Buffalo.

Alfa Curtis Barber announces her engagement to Mr. Arthur B. Calkins of New London.

Alma Hoegh was married, May 11, to Mr. Frederick M. Ayres.

Mary Belle Holt receives the degree of M. D. from Tufts' College on June 15, 1904.

Mary S. Malone will travel in Germany and Switzerland this summer, and visit friends in England in September.

Mary Esther Walton has announced her engagement to Mr. R. H. Wilkinson of Niles, Ohio.

May S. Whitcomb was married, May 14, to Mr. Alden Clark of New York.

'01. Ethel P. Stetson was married, February 23, in Bangor, Maine, to Mr. Norman Williams Bingham, Jr., of Boston.

BIRTHS

'93. Mrs. J. K. Blake (Helen L. Putnam), a daughter, born in April. Mrs. J. Leonard Merrick (Mary C. Fay). a son, born in April.

'96. Mrs. Frank W. Pine (Mabel E. Durand), a son, James Cone, born May 18.

'98. Mrs. Charles Louis Fincke (Mattie Brown), a daughter, Margaret Epes, born April 12.

Mrs. Roberts (Charlotte H. White), a son, George White, born in December at San Juan, Porto Rico.

'02. Mrs. Henry Davis Bushnell (Edith Taber Johnson) Edith Johnson, born May 16.

Mrs. Edward C. Hayes (Grace T. Osborne), a daughter, born February 26. '03. Mrs. R. F. Bliss (Lucia M. Bailey), a daughter, Ella Belle, born May 28.

DEATHS

'93. Martha E. Phelps died February 28.

'98. Leila Lincoln Foster died May 13, of typhoid fever, at Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

'01. Mrs. Walter Dyer (Ethelind Thorpe Childs) died March 10, in Brooklyn, New York.

'02. Mrs. Henry Davis Bushnell (Edith Taber Johnson) died May 17, at

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

ABOUT COLLEGE

On the evening of May sixth the senior class felt that it was at last a "grown-up," as it entered the Students' Building and was cordially made welcome to the annual reception given by the Alumnæ-Senior Reception alumnæ members of the faculty to meet the alumnæ trustees. Miss Cushing and Miss Hubbard received, and after a few minutes of conversation the class seated themselves in the front of the hall.

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Miss Cushing introduced the speakers, of whom the first was Miss Caverno who spoke on the Smith College Alumnæ Association. Miss Caverno urged the seniors very strongly to join the Association. She opened her plea by saying that she had one year described at length to the seniors the privileges of the Association and that later a member of the class, as a young alumna, had come to her and said: 'Why didn't you tell us of our duty toward the Association, and how much there is to do, instead of emphasizing the privileges? I think the girls would join much more quickly if they felt the need there is for them." So now she always tells of what one can give, and not what one can get, and at the end of her speech every senior felt consoled at the thought of so much to do for her Alma Mater even after she has gone out from it.

Miss Cook then explained the purpose and scope of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, speaking of the social benefit derived by a member in entering a new college for post graduate work.

Miss Cutler spoke of the Student's Aid Society, which is of very practical help in lending money to undergraduates. She said that last year seventeen hundred dollars was raised, six hundred from the plays given by the New York branch and that this year they are anxious to have two thousand, which would about cover the present demands.

The president of the senior class then introduced Mary Van Kleeck, who said that having counted how many times a day she went through a door she had decided that these ordinarily unnoticed conveniences are an important factor in our daily life, and represent a pressing need of the college in two places. First, there is need of a second entrance to the Students' Building on the north side, as in the original plan. Second, the north door of College Hall, which is in constant use since the changing of Assembly Hall, should be made wider, as in winter only one side of it can be opened, making an opening just wide enough for one person to pass through. This causes great delay in emptying the hall after chapel and also between recitations.

Emma Dill made the suggestion that the trustees begin gradually to buy up Green Street, since the necessity for more campus room is obvious.