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"Hans vishes to eaten xaterxellion 

 py you behind 7 o'clock." was the 

 characteristic invitation that each 

 one of we students received one of 

 these warm, summer evenings. The 

 watermelon eating took, place in Mr. 

 Grolis' empty cottage where the boys 

 had wa.xed the floors for dancing. 

 After a little dance we ate a " 'mil- 

 lion" or so a piece and enjoyed a 

 lively game ol" blindman's buff. 

 Thank you, Mr. Hans. 



The picturesque beauty of our bay 

 is complete with the white wings of 

 the college boat. 



During Miss Helen Givens' \'isit 

 at Mrs. Cogswell's, Miss Mary Cogs- 

 well, one of the resident students, 

 gave a delightful ice cream party in 

 honor of her \'isitor. Pleasant game's ! 

 in the J)r's. beautiful home made the 

 evening pass almost too quickly. , 



Miss Mary also took a large party 

 of Chula Vistans to our delightful 

 suburb, La Jolla. No doubt she 

 will succeed in convincing them that 

 this north end of the bay has at least 

 as many attractions as the south. 



Miss Laura Gearn, who has been 

 visiting Miss Pearl Wagner, has been 

 enjoying a week or two of ' 'glorious' ' 

 fun, boating, swimming and driving. 

 In spite of the fact that she did get 

 her nose freckled, Laura couldn't 

 wait for school to begin but had to j 

 come out to see what we did during j 

 vacation. I 



Vacation is almost gone ! ' 



Miss Belle Jacoby, who has lately j 

 returned from her summer rusti- 

 cating, and our old friend Miss 

 Rosella Fishburn were welcome vis- 

 itors at the college but a short time 

 ago. Belle is so improved m health 

 that she will be able to attend school 

 this year. 1 



"Brother" Jim was given a \'ery I 

 pleasant celebration of his fifteenth I 

 birthday the evening of August 13th, j 



at the Wagner cottage. '"We had 

 a n-ice time," so Mr. Wagner said. 



Charles Williams, a former fellow 

 student paid the college a short visit 

 a few days ago. 



To Mrs. Davidson's kind thought- 

 fulness must be attributed the unique 

 idea of a combination birthd ^.y jiarty, 

 and not only the idea but the carry- 

 ing out of the idea, in a most agree- 

 able manner So many of the birth- 

 days of the folks, little and big, of 

 the college, came in the month of 

 August that something had to be 

 done. Music by Mrs. Jewel, whose 

 birthday came in the lucky month, 

 and music by her wee, blue-eyed girl 

 Prankie, games and dances in the 

 assembly room in Stough Hall and 

 delicious refreshments and then more 

 games and fun and music was the 

 ' 'something' ' done. 



THE AUGUST ST. NICHOLAS, 

 1890. 



St. Nicholas has a charming front- 

 ispiece for August. It is an illustra- 

 tion by Birch to the serial story 

 " Lady fane," and shows the former 

 dancing -master, who has become a 

 greengrocer, recalling his triumphs 

 in teaching the pretty heroine the 

 elaborate steps in vogue during his 

 youth. The story itself is delightful. 

 Some of the summery features arc 

 " The White Mountain Coaching- 

 Parade" of decorated tally-hos in 

 competition for prizes, described in a 

 sketchy ' way by Helen Marshall 

 North; "A Lesson of the Sea," by 

 W. J. Henderson, a simple bit of 

 strong descriptive writing; "A Re- 

 markable Boat Race," wherein Wal- 

 ter Camp describes the Atalanta-Yale 

 race and its sensational feature — the 

 leaping fj-om the boat of Yale's stroke 

 after he had broken his oar ; ''The 

 Sea Princess," a pretty picture de- 

 scribed in musical verse by the artist 

 Miss Katharine Pyle ; "Cupid and 

 Cral)," an odtl little fancy of the sea 

 shore, daintily illustrated by Alber- 

 tine Wheelan Randall ; •' The Auda- 

 cious Kitten," one of Oliver Her- 

 ford's jests with ])en and j^encil. 



