never been as happy in any other work. There is no better place than the one afforded by the Business Course to get into touch with the young lives, and to influence them in all ways toward the higher ideals. The Chandler Shorthand is the coming system. Already, it has been introduced into many of the best schools of New England, and new schools adopt it every year. Mrs. Atherton (the founder) is a woman of remarkable character. You cannot but be better for coming into relation with her. She says that her great desire is to influence more of the college girls to take up this line of work, and she cannot yet supply the calls for trained teachers. To fit yourself for this work, you should first of all learn the shorthand and typewriting. At the school, I believe the tuition is $5 a week for tuition in both subjects. Private lessons are $1.50 an hour. Bookkeeping, commercial law, and commercial geography are the other subjects usually taught, with a little business arithmetic and spelling. Bring your minds trained from college to this work and you will be able to grasp it with little difficulty. Salaries range from $500 to $1200, so you see the pay is good. Should you undertake this work and be half as happy in it as I am, you will never regret it. Mrs. Atherton would be very glad to see any of you at the school or communicate with you by letter. The school is open all summer, 221 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. If I can be of any service to any of you in this matter, I shall be only too glad to answer questions or give further information. MARIA BANGS GOODWIN '95, Principal of the Business Department, The Smith College Club of New York City will hold its ninth annual luncheon on Saturday, April 9, at the Hotel Manhattan, at one o'clock. President Seelye, President Rhees of Rochester University, President Lafavour of Simmons Institute and others are expected to speak. Members of the college faculty, alumnæ and undergraduates are cordially invited to attend. Tickets ($2.00) may be obtained from Miss Jennie T. Vermilye, Lydecker St., Englewood, N. J., before April 1. Alumnæ and undergraduates are especially requested to give their full names and class in their applications and also to send the names of friends of their own or other classes with whom they prefer to sit. The Smith College Club of New York City is to give three one-act plays at the Carnegie Lyceum, Saturday, March 26, for the benefit of the Students' Aid Fund. All the parts are to be taken by members of the alumnæ. There will be an afternoon and an evening performance. The plays are, "Nance Oldfield"; "The Romancers", Act 1, translated from the French of Edmond Rostand; "Gringoire", translated from the French of Theodore de Banville. Information regarding tickets may be had by addressing Miss Constance Charnley, 138 East 40th Street, New York City. 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. 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. '98. 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. Ruth Shepard Phelps is spending the winter in the Riviera, Italy. '00. 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. |