Pagan tombstones the word Vale" or Vixit" is found, contrasting strongly with the hope of the Christian for a life after death. This difference points to one of the reasons for the spread of Christianity.

There are over 70,000,000 graves in the Catacombs, and it is well established that many people lived there.

Perhaps no social occasion of the college year is anticipated with more pleasure than the Fall Plays. The announcement of the first one for November 19th was accordingly welcome. "Sunlight and Shadow," the play selected for the occasion, a choice objectionable for the College stage, in the opinion of some, was rather in the emotional line and therefore unusually difficult, but in spite of that was well presented.

The success of the play was largely due to the perfection of details. The stage management was unusually smooth: apparently there was no prompting; the actors spoke distinctly and, above all, were eminently suited to their parts. The minor characters were unusually well worked out. Miss Hastings took the part of Scollick, the man of all work; Miss Graham appeared as a boyish lover again; Miss Gertrude McArthur showed good acting as Janet Felton, the villain of the play; and Miss Crampton gave us a type of the genial but rather dull country doctor.

Miss Parker, as Helen, the unselfish sister, daughter, and friend, entered quite into the spirit of the character and her representation was one of the delightful features of the evening. Miss Gillmer made a very charming spoiled child, and helped to lighten up the somewhat dreary parts. Miss White, in her role of George Addis, the disappointed lover, gained the entire sympathy of the audience. The part of Mark Denzil was the most difficult, and Miss Palmer is to be congratulated on her rendering of it.

The tedium of waiting between acts' was pleasantly relieved with songs by Miss Newcomb, Miss Allbright and also by Miss Chase, of Brooklyn, whose clear, sympathetic voice delighted many hearers again on Sunday.

The committee is to be congratulated on the success of their efforts.

At the monthly meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association, Sunday evening, Nov. 20, Miss Ida Wood, Alumna Elector of the College Settlements Association, spoke on the College Settlements.

The Settlement in New York was started by four college women, at 95 Rivington street. It has grown and now includes 96 also. The home is the special feature of the work. The Settlement works through other organizations as much as possible. It gives the people of the crowded tenement house district an idea of home life and pleasures.

The College Settlement in Philadelphia is situated on what was reputed to be the worst street in the city. Among its phases of work are a carpenter shop, a sewing circle and a New England kitchen, or rather something resembling that.

The scientific side of the work, such as investigation of the tenements and the conditions of life of the poor, is very important. The Settlement Fellow in Philadelphia is finding out what people eat and what they pay for it.

The Settlements need a humanitarian impulse and trained intelligence. A new revelation of the unity of the human race is coming. One half cannot go on and leave the other half behind. The College Settlement aims to bring together widely separated classes of people. It stands for social democracy.

The transformation which those parts of the building open to guests Friday evening, Dec. 2, underwent, fully satisfied the expectations aroused by the bustle and hurry throughout the house during the day. At half-past seven the guests were assembling in the chapel to lively strains of music from the orchestra. The glee club opened the exercises of the evening by a song. The Philalethean Society was justly proud of their president, Miss Whitcomb, as she made her graceful introductory speech, presenting to us the speaker of the evening, Mr. Francis Hopkinson Smith, who is known to us in three capacities-as author, artist and after-dinner speaker.

In the charming sketches of his travels and adventures in Spain, Holland and Mexico, Mr. Smith displayed in an eminent degree the versatility of his talent. The inimitable humor that played through the whole showed him the after-dinner speaker.

The exquisite eye for coloring and effect, which made his bits of description veritable word-paintings, showed him the artist. Everybody was sorry when he finished.

After the lecture, a reception was held on the second and third floors. The dining room was prettily decorated and thrown open for promenading. The Glee Club added much to the pleasure of the evening by their singing, which was heartily encored by their audience.

COLLEGE NOTES.

At a recent meeting of the Association of the Colleges of the Middle States and Maryland, held at Swarthmore, Dr. Taylor was made President of the Association. He read, before the meeting, a paper on the subject, "To what extent is Student Government available in College Discipline?"

The Board of Trustees met at the College, December 2d.

Married, Miss Helen Rosa Meriden Lossing (daughter of Mr. Benson J. Lossing,) to Mr. Frank Edgar Johnson; November 17th at Christ Church, Poughkeepsie.

The new students' hall is very nearly completed, and will be occupied immediately after the Christmas vacation.

Since College re-opened one hundred and seventy-six new books have been added to the library.

During the past month the following clergymen have held service at the College: Mr. Hart of Rochester, Dr. True of Rochester, and Mr. Deforest of Detroit.

PERSONALS.

'73.

Miss Ella Weed is a member of the Advisory Board of the Educational Exhibit of the State of New York at the World's Fair.

'75.

Died, November 7th, at Baldwinsville, New York, Mrs. Olivia Bigelow Curtis.

Married, December 7th, 1892, at New York, Miss Minna Wilkinson Millard to Mr. Cebra Quackenbush.

'76.

Miss Mary Jordan was in Oxford this summer. has an article in the October Atlantic on

Miss Jordan

The College for

Women."

'80.

Miss Mary Olmstead sailed November 14th, as a missionary to India. Her new address is Akola, Berar, India.

Miss Cora E. Canfield and Miss Lucy Tappan spent last summer in England and Wales. During August they attended the University Extension Lectures at Oxford.

'88.

Miss Marion Ransom is teaching in Miss West's School at San Francisco. She takes an active part in the philanthropic work of the city, as president of the "Free Kitchen-Garden As. sociation" and as teacher in a "Boys' Club."

Miss Helen Francis Weeks expects to spend the winter traveling in California.

'89.

Miss Helen Honor Tunnicliff is taking graduate work at the University of Chicago.

Born, in July, to Mrs. Wallace-Holton, a daughter.

'90.

Married, November 10th, at Cleveland, Miss Mary Dunham to Mr. Charles H. Prescott.

Miss M. E. Cochran sailed for Europe November 26th.

Miss L. S. King is studying for the second degree in the graduate department at Brown University, which was opened this year to women.

Miss Hamilton is studying in the English Seminary, at the University of Cincinnati.

Miss Muerman is teaching German at Miss Webb's School in Wilmington, Delaware.

Mrs. Alwilda Clark-Ziegenfelder is taking a course of lectures at the University of Chicago.

'92.

Died, November 4th, 1892, at Falmouth, Kentucky, Theodosia Oldham.

Miss Kate Taylor is first assistant at the High School in Hinsdale, New Hampshire.

Miss Helen Putman, '89, and Miss Estelle Putman, '92, are in Dresden. Miss Helen Putman is studying music.

Mrs. Blanche Wilder-Bellamy, '73, Miss Francis Todd Patterson, '88, and Mrs. Howard G. White, a former student at the College, are among the twenty-one women managers of the New York State exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition.

Born, at Oil City, Pa., on September 14th, 1892, a daughter to Mrs. Jean Kauffman-McCuen, a former student.

Born, on November 7th, 1892, to Mrs. Lillian WickershamCoe, a former student, a son, Harold Wickersham Coe.

The following alumnæ have recently visited the College: Miss Cushing, '74; Mrs. Backus, '73; Miss Liggett, '69; Miss Gould, '92; Miss Homans, '92; Miss Ward, '92; Miss Packard, '92; Miss Hench, '92; Miss Brush, '92; Miss Sargent, '92.