still and may soon be with us again. We think less of the lovely spring evenings wasted with a stupid book under a Tartarean light, and more of those evenings spent on the back campus with a congenial spirit, in companionship the closer because of approaching separation. We dwell less on wading through interminable snowdrifts and risking life and limbs on frozen sidewalks, and dwell more often upon the joys of a skate on Paradise after a lot of work is safely done.

The charm of college revives gradually under the spell of memory, work and play reassume their proper relation and proportion, and our hearts turn again toward college, with an eagerness which grows hourly. We have all experienced it, and we know its outcome; so let us not be downcast when those on whom we had centred our hopes and interests threaten coldly and inexorably to leave us desolate. We know they do not mean it.

The elections for the Students' Building Committee for next year are as follows: May Barta 1902, Chairman, elected at the last meeting of the present committee; Blanche Hull 1902, Frances Stuart 1903, and Margaret Hotchkiss 1904, elected at the last mass meeting; Margaret Wells '95 and Janet Roberts '99 form the alumnæ committee. The Trustees of the college have been requested to appoint their committee. The fund has recently been increased by the generous gift of $500 from Eleanor Hotchkiss 1901, and by the gift of $150 from the Smith College Monthly, through the Board of Editors for the class of 1901.

LOUISE CALDWELL 1901.

On Tuesday evening, May 28, Mrs. Goodrich of the Boston School of Domestic Science, spoke in Chemistry Hall, under the auspices of Colloquium. Her subject was the need of applying scientific knowledge and methods to all branches of housekeeping, in order to make it most healthful and economical.

The May meeting of the electoral board of the College Settlement Association was held on Saturday, May 4, at the New York House, 95 Rivington Street. Smith was represented by its College Settlement Association alumnæ elector, Susan Foote '96; Annie Duncan 1901, our undergraduate elector, was unable to be present, and her place was taken by Helen Walbridge, 1902. The meeting began at nine thirty, and the morning was occupied entirely with business. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Miss Katherine Cowan; Vice-president, Mrs. Simkhovitch; Secretary, Miss Mabel Curtis; Treasurer, Mrs. Elsie Clews Parsons; Fifth Member, Miss Helen Scribner. The report of the treasurer showed increased college subscriptions for this year, Wellesley heading the list and Smith coming next. The question of the extension of the Association by the affiliation of a social settlement in Hartford was discussed. It was decided to refer this matter to a committee which should report on its investigations in the fall. In this connection Mrs. Simkhovitch spoke of a possible broadening of the Association by an extension of the work to the universities. She was made chairman of a committee which should be partly composed of men, and which should consider the future policy of the Association in this respect.

It was voted to appropriate $400 for the founding of a fellowship, the holder to be in residence at whichever house she should choose, and her work to be superintended by a committee which was appointed by the chair.

Luncheon was served to the electoral board, and afterwards a report was made by the chairman of the committee on sub-chapters. She reported the addition of seventeen new sub-chapters.

The subject for the afternoon conference was "The value of training for practical social work". The conference was opened by the report of Miss Foote, who gave an account of the economic courses offered in the different colleges, and of their practical benefit. Some of the other speakers were, Miss Emily Balch of Wellesley, Mrs. Kelley, Secretary of the Consumers' League, and Professor Herbert Wells of Vassar. The common opinion of the board was that some more practical courses in field-work should be offered by our colleges, in order that the economic courses, by their practical character, should prove a bond between the Settlement Association and the colleges themselves. HELEN WALBRIDGE 1902.

PROGRAM FOR COMMENCEMENT WEEK

Dress Rehearsal of Senior Play, Thursday, June 13, 7.00 P. M.

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