97. Lois Barnard Vickers has moved from Auburn, New York. Her present address is 212 Wayne Street, Syracuse.

Katherine May Wilkinson will continue her teaching this winter in the Goodyear-Burlingame School in Syracuse, New York.

'98. Frances Bridges is one of the student travelling secretaries for the Y. W. C. A.

Annie Brooks has received an M. A. from Columbia.

Cara Burch will spend the winter at The Hoffman Arms, Madison Avenue and 59th Street, New York City.

Rejoyce Collins is teaching Latin, English and history at the Girls' Collegiate School in Los Angeles.

Vera Scott Cushman spent the summer in Europe.

Josephine Dodge Daskam was married July 25, to Mr. Selden Bacon of New York. Her address this winter will be 110 Riverside Drive, New York City.

Alice B. Duncan has announced her engagement to Mr. MacGregor Jenkins of New York City.

Marion French was married September 8, to Mr. Nelson Hawley of Winchester, Massachusetts.

Mary Joslin spent the summer in Mexico.

Sarah W. Knight was married October 7, to Mr. Lewis H. Thornton. Carol Morrow has announced her engagement to Mr. Lyndon R. Connett of South Orange.

Julia Pickett is teaching in Lake Forest University, Lake Forest, Illinois. Elizabeth D. Tarbox was married July 21, to Mr. John Wheeler Lumbard, Principal of the High School, White Plains, New York.

Harriet Williams is teaching in the Northampton Business College.

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Anne Grey Noxon is engaged in philanthropic work in New York City.

'99. Abby Louise Allen was married June 18, to Mr. John Nicholson Eaton of West Newton, Massachusetts.

Mabel Capelle has announced her engagement to Mr. Edward Betts Brisley of New York City.

Mabel Hyde Workman is Assistant Principal in the High School, Windsor, Connecticut.

ex-'99. Emma Johnson Pratt, Music School, is organist at the South Park Methodist Church, Hartford, Connecticut.

'00. Ruth Albright has announced her engagement to Mr. Evan Hollister of Buffalo, New York.

Elizabeth Comstock, with her sisters, Frances and Kathleen, is living in Syracuse this winter.

Edith Gray Hollis was married June 3, to Mr. Harold Marshall Curtiss. Her address is 158 Congress Street, Milford, Massachusetts.

'00. Caroline King was married November 2, to Mr. Alexander Davis Jenney of Syracuse, N. Y.

Julia B. Paton expects to continue her work in the American College for Girls. Constantinople, this year. She spent the summer on Mt. Lebanon, Syria, in company with her brother and his wife.

Edith Dudley Sheldon is studying Bacteriology under Dr. A. C. Abbott at the University of Pennsylvania, and is teaching Domestic Science at the Berean Industrial and Manual Training School of Philadelphia. ex-'00. Mariella Grant will be home in Syracuse this winter.

Katherine H. Greenland has done some very good work in illustrating two children's books, "In Childhood Land", and 66 Roger and Rose". These books are out, and she is now working in Syracuse, New York, on two new books for children.

'01. Charlotte B. DeForest sails for Japan on November 18, under appointment of A. B. C. F. M., to teach in Kobe College for Girls, Kobe, Japan. Sarah L. DeForest is educational director in the Madison Square Church House, 432 Third Avenue, New York City.

ex-'01. Lucy Nichols will return shortly to Syracuse from California, where she has been travelling since August.

'02. Alice D. Cruikshank entered October 7, the New York State Library School at Albany. Her address until June is 122 Lancaster Street, Albany, New York.

Marie Pugsley was married September 23, to Mr. Albert Eaton Lombard. Her address is 2806 East 31st Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

Lydia Sargent is teaching in the High School, Portsmouth, N. H.

Julia Smith is studying in Dresden.

'03. Alice Blanchard has entered the New York State Library School at Albany. Her address is 48 Lancaster Street, Albany, New York. Rodericka Canfield is at the Brooklyn Hospital Training School for Nurses for a three years' course.

Alice B. Clark will spend the winter at home. She expects to assist her father in his office.

Harriet Collin is substituting in the Fayetteville Grammar School, New York.

Inez Field Damon, Music School, is giving lessons in voice and piano at her studio, 58 High Street, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Genevieve Dyer is teaching in the Arms Academy, Shelburne Falls,
Massachusetts.

Theodora A. Gerould has accepted the position as teacher of history and
English in the Nute High School of Milton, New Hampshire. Her
address is P. O. Box 145, Milton, Stafford Connty, New Hampshire.
Janet Gilfillan expects to remain at home this winter.

Helen Fairbanks Hill is teaching in the private school, Wykeham Rise,
Washington, Connecticut.

'03. Alice E. T. Johnson will study singing and piano, and take dressmaking, this year. She intends to go abroad in May, and stay until October, and then go to the St. Louis Exposition.

Katherine Knox expects to spend the winter at home.

Marion Mack expects to remain at home and study Domestic Science this winter.

Alice Murphy expects to stay at home and learn housekeeping. She will also study music, and do some tutoring.

Vesta Shoemaker expects to be at home this winter.

Alice Butterfield Smith is teaching science and English in the High School at Collinsville, Connecticut.

Eliza A. Ward is teaching in the Snellville Grammar School, Fiskdale, Massachusetts.

Isabel Wight expects to be at home this winter, studying music.

ex:'03. Mary Harriman is instructor in Latin at the Campbell School, WindConnecticut.

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Florence Kenyon is at home in Syracuse this winter, studying music and German.

BIRTHS

'91. Mrs. Frances Cochrane, Jr. (Frances R. Rogerson), a daughter, Cornelia Rogerson, born August 6.

'92. Mrs. William F. Rice (Florence May), a son, Winthrop Huntington, born October 12.

'94. Mrs. Charles Henry Putnam (Mary B. Clark), a daughter, Matilda Clark, born October 5.

'97. Mrs. Moodytree S. Bennett (Grace M. Page), a daughter, Frances Augusta, born July 23.

'98. Mrs. Paul Putnam Gaylord (Anne Hall), a son, Warner Russell, born May 19.

Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Houghton (Agnes Cowperthwait), a son, Herbert Lincoln, born August 23.

'99. Mrs. Max Broedel (Ruth Huntington), a daughter, born October 9. '00. Mrs. Theophilus Parsons (Florence Whitin), a son, Theophilus, Jr., born August 17.

'02. Mrs. Frank Underwood (Etta Tifft), a daughter, born September 6. ex-02. Mrs. Clarence E. Ordway (Anna Lyman Ripley), a son, John Ripley, born August 3.

DEATH

'02. Lucy Ethel Cooke died October 13, at Watertown, Connecticut.

ABOUT COLLEGE

It is always a question how much a freshman enjoys the Frolic with its introductions and ice-water. She must be haunted by the thought that all these new acquaintances must be remem

The Sophomore Reception bered, or else by the cruel suggestion of her escort that she probably will not know any of them unless she meets them in some other way. Add to this the general strangeness of things, and the mountain of work that looms up before her about schedules, conditions, etc., and she would be hopeless were it not for hearing the Glee Club sing the Faculty Song, and the address of welcome from the president of the Association. These are the reasons for a Freshman's enjoying the Frolic.

But about the Sophomore Reception there is no such question. Of course everyone has a good time, for everyone wears her best gown, meets fewer girls and has a chance to know them better, and then there are real refreshments. The function this year was no exception to the rule of success. Although the freshman class outnumbered the sophomores, yet with the help of the juniors, everyone had a good time.

The Students' Building was beautifully decorated in the colors of the two classes, green and red, with rugs, pillows and Indian hangings in the reception rooms, and festoons and masses of autumn leaves in the main hall. In the rooms to the left of the lobby, the presidents of the classes received, while the dancing was in the assembly hall and on the second floor back of the gallery. It has been found that owing to the size of the hall, three musicians are hardly enough to fill the room, so a larger orchestra was procured and the music could be heard well even upstairs. A number of the faculty and many parents watched with interest from the gallery.

Toward the end of the evening lines were formed for the march, and the grind books were distributed without the use of football tactics, as has sometimes been necessary. The clever hits upon the innocent blunders of 1907 were enjoyed by members of both classes. After twelve dances and four extras the orchestra finally gave the signal for departure, and sophomores and freshmen scattered by twos and threes through the frosty night air to their respective houses with the memory of a most enjoyable evening uppermost in their minds.

BESSIE AMERMAN 1906.

On Thursday afternoon, October 29, Mrs. Bernard Berenson gave a delightful talk in Chemistry Hall on "How to Study the Old Masters". Mrs. Berenson, whose husband is the leader of the modern school of scientific art criticism, was for two years a student in Smith College. She has lived abroad for a number of years and has devoted her time to the study of the old masters.

Lecture by Mrs. Bernard Berenson

Mrs. Berenson expressed her sympathy with college girls and spoke of their advantages from the continental point of view. Charming and delightful as the continental women are, they cannot be real companions to intellectual men.

Art is the last thing that people will take seriously. People get connoisseurs to pass an opinion on their pictures and, because all do not agree, they judge by the result rather than the method, and say that there is nothing in such criticism. Pictures have to be taken seriously, reverently and slowly. The first view of the old masters is apt to be disappointing. We must honestly admit this, for spontaneous admiration of the past is very rare. We arrogantly judge art by our own standards of life; instead, we must learn what to like. One of the greatest difficulties which intelligent people have to contend with is that they have ready-made aesthetic theories and judge from their own vision of the world.

Hypocritical admiration of a picture, merely because a great name is attached, must be avoided. There is mismanagement in almost all European galleries. All sorts of school pictures are called by the names of great artists, and it is almost like saying that Shakespeare wrote Walt Whitman's poems. The galleries are not rightly named and some of the pictures by the great masters are just being discovered.

Then, too, we try to see too many pictures. Our capacity for aesthetic enjoyment is extremely limited, it is only ten or twenty minutes, at most, so we must not blame the pictures themselves if we have not enjoyed them. Another difficulty is the bad taste and arrangement with which the pictures are hung. The fact that the "Sistine Madonna" is hung in a room alone on dark red velvet accounts, partly, for its fame.

If we look at bad pictures we corrupt our taste, spoil our ear, as it were. But how shall we best use our time abroad, and how shall we prepare for it? We must go with patience and reverence and in a receptive mood, forgetting our aesthetic standards. It is better to go with perfectly blank minds than with other people's standards. General writers about art are to be avoided like the pest. Read no definite art books before going, unless possibly Ruskin, who gives one the feeling that art is really important. It is well to know the history of the times, to have a general idea of what the Renaissance meant. We must know the literature to enjoy the spirit of the art. Among the books found illuminating in her own experience Mrs. Berenson mentioned: "Bishop Criton's History of the Papacy", John A. Symonds' "Age of Despots", and " Humanists"; Dante, in Rossetti's translation;

Lorenzo de Medici, Boccacio, and Machiavelli.

The kind of art we see is very important. Poor and cheap art will cheapen and make poor our view of the world. We must try to see the world as the old masters saw it. We must make ourselves sensitive to the art that we can have, we must learn to appreciate old music. If we study literature for its beauty we shall be better fitted to enjoy art. We can train ourselves to enjoy the sensations of delight that art alone in its true essence can give. ELIZABETH MARGUERITE DIXON 1906.