The 47 Workshop has given two performances this year. The first was a memorial to Dean Mary Coes, "Will o' the Wisp," by Doris Halman, and "The Colonel's Comuppence," by Katharine Clugston, were presented. The second, a memorial to Thornton M. Ware, was "Eyvind of the Hills," by Jóhann Sigurjónsson, a modern Icelandic play on a semi-historical character, which has been acted before in Scandinavia and in Germany, but not in America. The Workshop was assisted in the production by Dr. Hermansson of Cornell University and Mr. W. S. C. Russell of Springfield, who gave advice as to Icelandic manners and dress. The Workshop is a laboratory theatre, maintained through the generosity of persons interested in the drama, where plays written in Professor Baker's courses, and sometimes other plays unlikely to be produced elsewhere, are given a private performance before a selected audience of invited guests by a permanent company of excellent amateurs under the personal direction of Professor Baker.

Swarthmore College.-Swarthmore College has been given $125,000 by the General Education Board; conditioned upon the raising of $750,000, by the College. Cornell College, Iowa, and Depauw University are the other recipients of Mr. Rockefeller's generous gifts to education.

Of the $725,000 provisional fund necessary, Swarthmore already has $585,000 subscribed in advance in a campaign to raise its endowment. Fifty thousand of the sum hitherto subscribed was given for the specific purpose of aiding in the erection of a new dormitory for women.

Swarthmore College has decided to retain its annual Sophomore Show. This decision was made after the discussion of the show by the faculty committee. Dr. Maude Bassett Gorham, championed the show as a means of creating a love of the theatre and the play. The loss of time for rehearsals had been the serious objection. The production this year was Percy Mackaye's, "A Thousand Years Ago."

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. The income of the Ellen H. Richards Research Fund is used for research work on problems involving the applications of Chemistry to the wide field of sanitation. Applications will be received for three classes of appointments, two of which are presented here:

(a) As a research assistant who shall give entire time to the research work. The compensation varies from $60 to $75 per month, depending on the training and experience of the applicant. In general, appointments are made for the entire Institute year.

(c) As a half-time research assistant, the other half being available for study in courses offered by the Institute for which the assistant has had the required preparation, as shown in the Catalogue. No charge is made to such assistants for tuition. fees, but under this arrangement it is not possible to obtain an advanced degree in one year. The compensation is one-haif that of a full research assistant.

Applications for appointments under (a) and (c) must be made before April 1 to the Department of Chemistry.

Trinity College, Washington, D. C.-Among recent entertainments at Trinity were the following: Professor Van Hulstyn, head of the violin department of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, accompanied by Mr. Thatcher, also of the Conservatory faculty, gave a very interesting recital under the auspices of the Auxiliary Board of Regents of Trinity College for the benefit of the Anna Hanson Dorsey Scholarship fund. Mr. Joyce Kilmer gave a reading from his poems to the students of the College. On January the tenth, Dr. E. D. Hardy, Superintendent of the Washington Filtration Plant gave an illustrated lecture on Washington's water supply. The lecture was given under the patronage of the members of the chemical society. Glacier National Park was described in a lecture illustrated by motion pictures, by Mr. Lawrence D. Ketchell. Many quaint and amusing anecdotes of the Blackfoot Indians were told by the lecturer.

The swimming pool was officially opened on January the nineteenth. The building, which forms the first part of the new gymnasium to be erected later, is constructed of Port Deposit granite trimmed with Indiana limestone; it is 143 feet long and 55 feet wide. The pool is finished with white enamel brick tile and is well lighted by a large skylight covering almost the entire pool. The marble showers, the floors of white terrazzo, the green enamel finish of the lockers, the manicuring

parlors, the solarium with French casement windows combine to make the building a place of beauty and a source of joy and of healthful exercise to the students. The building is largely the gift of the Alumnae and friends of the College.

The Washington Chapter of the Alumnae Association of Trinity College gave its third annual dance at Rauscher's on February the fifteenth. The dance which was for the benefit of the Gymnasium Fund was very materially aided by the cooperation of the Trinity students.

University of Washington.-Upon receiving the news of the break with Germany the women of the University of Washington organized five classes in Red Cross training, to lead to a certificate as nurse's aide in the event of war.

A canneries convention to which all the fruit canners of the state were invited was held on the university campus, February 8, 9 and 10. Addresses were given by the leading canners of the state.

Statistics from the recorder's office show that of the 1,477 women enrolled last semester, practically one-half were registered in professional courses. Home economics leads with 220 students, education has 151, music 120, journalism 57, and the library course is exclusively feminine with 75. Law claims. eight women, premedic tne and pharmacy twelve.

University of Wisconsin.-The Home Economics Department took advantage of vacant class-rooms and laboratories during the period between semesters and offered a short course to housekeepers. Women from various parts of the state-from farms and from city homes-became ardent students in cooking and sewing and attended faithfully the lectures given on keeping budgets, on caring for children, and on most of the problems. that the home-maker has to solve. After these classes were over, the physical education department offered a recreation.

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Next summer during the summer session at the University, Mrs. Mathews, our Dean of Women, expects to give a course for Deans of Women. Only women now holding positions as Deans or engaged to hold such positions next fall are eligible for the course. The work will be based partly on Mrs. Mathew's book, "The Dean of Women," but will cover also some fields not touched on there.

FROM THE

BUREAUS OF OCCUPATIONS

MARCH, 1917