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Rh THE OREAD.

AUGUST. 1891.

F.A.W. SHIMER. . . ADELIA C. JOY, Publishers and Proprietors.

SOCIETY DIRECTORY

Officers of the Reunion Society. President - Mrs. Vona Mackay Bede. First Vice-President— Mr. A. B. Hostetter. Second Vice-President -Mrs. Elva Calkins Briggs. Third Vice-President—Hannah Nichols, M.D. Secretary—Miss Laura Coleman. Executive Committee—Miss A. C. Joy, H.S. Metcalf, M.D., Miss J. M. Hall.

Officers of the Alumnae Society. President—Miss Sarah Hostetter. Vice President —Miss Harriet Haldeman. Secretary—Miss J. M. Hall. Treasurer— Mrs. J. M. Rinewalt.

Y. W. C. A. President—L. Roggy. Vice-President—Ethel Stanton. Corresponding Secretary—Mamie Taylor. Recording Secretary—Nellie Stevens. Treasurer—Jessie Hazelbaker.

Oread Society. President—Jessie Riley. Vice-President—Lizzie Roggy. Recording Secretary—Sadie White. Corresponding Secretary—Jessie Pottle. Treasurer - Belle McLean. Librarian - Lulu Kelly. First Teller - Sarah Bole. Second Teller— Berta Forrest.

Mt. CARROLL SEMINARY again sends through the OREAD its mid-summer greetings to the absent members of the family, the strangers soon to be welcomed, and the students, teachers and friends of other days linked to it by unnumbered ties. The family, as is usual in summer, is widely scattered. A goodly number are inhaling the tonical air of the White Mountains, or being invigorated by the stiff breezes of the Atlantic, while others are under the supposed nerve-quieting influence of the calm Pacific. Some of the children are "down South," in Missouri and Mississippi, sighing, we fancy, for the cool breezes that are supposed to be up North, not, we are obliged in truthfulness to say, always to be found at headquarters.

The vacation is quickly passing. June, with its roses and its graduates, has given place to July, that month so suggestive of a medley of oratory, patriotism, cheap oratory, cannons and fire-crackers. Even August, with its droning, hot days hardly lags for a Seminary student, and, before fairly settled for vacation, September calls us back to the piano and the brush. What an army of school workers there are in these days of opportunity. Hope and expectation are big, even though there comes sinking of heart with the leave-taking and anxiety in the homes that furnish the recruits. There is something of the good comradeship of the boys in blue among us of the army of peace, and so, with a little tightening of the hand-grasp, we give greetings to the seminary or college student who with us is struggling toward the heights of, if not worldly success, the best of womanly culture.

THE year that has so lately become a memory is considered one of the pleasantest and most prosperous of the school's history. The students, having come for a purpose, worked continuously with enthusiasm and earnestness. They were loyal to each other, to the school, and ever ready to extends helping hand, to give sympathy in joy or sorrow, and this with little thought on the part of most of social position outside of school life.

We do not know of any institution where each pupil rests so entirely on herself for her position or her popularity. The young ladies who are the inheritors of hundreds of thousands neither ask nor expect favor, while the one who has not a penny is without honor only as she fails to merit it. The former are glad to be recognized for their own worth, while the latter scorn to be defeated when so generously encouraged.

THE YOUNG WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION exerts an invaluable influence in the school. The meetings con-ducted by the Association Sabbath evenings have been well attended and full of interest. The society since its organization has always been represented by delegates and others at the State meetings, and these young women have brought back enthusiasm that has extended to all who have come under their influence. It is a pleasant thought that Christian young women in seminaries and colleges throughout the land are thus linked together in Christian work.

THE OREAD SOCIETY has been well officered and well managed during the past year. With that statement it goes without saying that good work has been done. An entertainment, at which a miscellaneous program was presented, was given at holiday time, and, later, two useful and interesting lectures, one on Rome by H. W. Ragan, and another on "Shakspere's Characterization of the Abnormal," by Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson.

MISS SLEE, through the proprietors of art stores and the influence of personal friends, particularly Mr. McFarland, of Davenport, obtained two or three art loans during the past year that were of real value to the studio pupil and a means of pleasure and culture for all who had an opportunity to study the pictures thus exhibited.

FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. A PRIZE!

THE Mt. CARROLL SEMINARY offers to place in the hands of every Principal of a Graded or Public High School in Illinois, one scholarship, covering a four years' course in this Institution (of the cash value of $20), which he may give as a prize to the young woman who attains to the rank of the best student, intellectually and morally, giving a promise of superior excellence and usefulness.

The President of the Seminary invites correspondence with Principals throughout the State who may be interested in this offer.