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Show MOTHER WHO TAKES ' ' BABY WITH HER TO i COLLEGE IS, GRADUATED CHICAGO, June 1G. Three years ago Mrs. Howard Vau S. ' Tracy of Evanston, took her baby daughter to college with her I i and today she, was gradual ed i:roni Northwestern, university at the head of a cla&s of S7S with the degree of bachelor of arts and honorary membership in a scholarship fraternity. Besides completing her college course in three years and caring car-ing for her baby she did all her own housework. During the day she said a professor frequently held the baby while she attended classes. " Mrs. Tracy entered Northwestern university in the fall of 1917. Four months later her baby was born and while in the hospital hos-pital she made up a semester of French and returned to classes in three months. Her husband is in business in Chicago. " I intend to return next year to study for a master's degree," she said today. "Instead of spending my afternoons playing bridge whist or at social affairs, I study. But. do not suppose I am a grind for my husband and I run down to the city frequently to sec the shows and attend dances. "In the evening while rocking my baby to sleep I tell Mother Goose stories and think out my philosophy lesson." The degree of doctor of laws was conferred this morning on Dr. Milbank .Johnson of Los Angeles, and Dr. Henry Taylor Terry, Ter-ry, professor of law emeritus of the Imperial university of Tokio. |