| Show WOMANS POINTS ABOUT THE STUDENTS IN THE HARVARD ANNEX lady and leopards heads domed should help women in public eions female orchestra taste in simple gowns none of the students live at the school but while they are in the building they are on the most intimate terms and a feeling of sociability among the students is encouraged by the anahori ties any young woman who wishes to become a student in the college must write to arthur oilman the well known author and educator who is secretary and he finds out all about the student and her family the ages of the applicants vary from eighteen to forty years after the student has passed the entrance examination and has come to cambridge what is called the students committee of the college is called on for the performance of an important function this committee is trusted in with the responsibility of either selecting the home in which the student is to live or supervising the students selection all this applies of course only to the case of the student who comes from a distant state or a not very adjacent city or town of new england ui me at me annex who have no homes in cambridge board in private families in that city of the ago students at the annex this year there are about fifty who live in this dav the other or more students come from such places as roxbury and cambridge and somerville and newton their homes are in those towns and when they get through with their work at the annex every day they go home outside of the supervising interest which the authorities have in the social life of the students there is another interest that manifests itself in all lands of pleasant ways the young women are encouraged co regard their instructors as persons who are more laihem than official pedagogues gues and then the students have no class spirit no social sets no barriers to kindly intercourse for several years a certain ceremony has existed at the annex it is the getting together at the commencement of the college year of all the students the new students assemble at the invitation of those who have been on the last years lists of the college and everybody has a jolly good time everybody gets acquainted quain ted with everybody else at these gatherings it is the commencement reception cep tion and there are dancing and the usual adjuncts to a social affair bat the invitations are strictly confined alakl to tho students themselves on this particular day the annex building is delivered over to the students every room in the house is theirs to do as they please and they usually please the refreshments are supplied by the annex housekeeper and the students who give the invitations pay for the fun ice cream and cake and chocolate and from to students this is the list of sweets to be enumerated in describing the make up of the reception the eye of man has never looked upon the scenes at these gatherings and probably never will and the chronicler of annex social history must be content to accept bis information second hand afternoon teas are a conspicuous feature of the social life of the annex these teas were held in the parlor on thursdays the year before last and on wednesdays last year at these teas there are present the professors of the college and their wives and anybody else to whom the young women are kind enough to send invitations they dont begin to have these teas until after thanksgiving day before long the annex will hare as many clubs as is usual in a regular college boston globe lady and ie he ads passenger in a brooklyn street car the other day was surprised not to say startled on glancing up from the newspaper he was reading at seeing opposite him in the car and just over the top of his paper the yellow and black head of an enormous leopard the animals ears were laid back and its lips drawn apart in an ugly snarl that showed its white teeth and its blazing yellow eyes glared fiercely ier cely at the astonished passenger the man dropped his newspaper rather suddenly and was confronted by another pair of staring yellow eyes and more gleaming teeth his surprise was very evident for he had been completely absorbed in his newspaper but he quickly recovered and smiled when he saw a very pretty pink and white human face between the leopards heads the heads formed part of the attire and not a small part of the adornment of a pretty young lady they were real leopards beads the fur a bright yellow dotted over with big black rings and they had belonged to two full grown animals one was made into a cap which fitted closely over the ladys head tho upper row of sharp teeth two of which were about an inch and A half long nearly touched her forehead while the great yellow eyes glared fiercely down from the crown of her head the other head which was a little larger and of even more ferocious aspect was made into a muff both were exceedingly lifelike and the effect was quite novel and at first glance rather startling the same lady was seen the nest day wearing a wrap made of leopard skin and the man who had seen the heads found himself wondering if there was not perhaps an interesting story of the ladys prowess as a huntress connected with tho trophies she wore new york sun tor traveling women of special interest to lady travelers in england is the establishment of the lady guides in cockspur street this venture ia only about a year old and the enterprising ladies who started it were roundly laughed at by their friends who though the project a visionary one but the success of the plan has been abundantly proven the ladies in charge undertake to do everything that a stranger in london would wish to have done they |
