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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1913)
The Omaha Sunday Bee PART TWO EDITORIAL PAGSS ONE TO EIGHT PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO EIGHT ' VOL. XLHI NO. 9. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1913. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Pretty Omaha Girls Who Will Go to tern Schools MLn m ' t 'Bavjn . ' 33 i i.Ji' - mmm I! OB AC1I succeeding' year sees an other generation.' of Omaha youngsters going away to school, following ' the endless cycle of education, and training that means the perpetuation of cul ture and accomplishment. Eastern schools have always had a goodly attend ance from among Omaha's young women, and this year will see the number added to by some of the mos.t popular of the young nisses of the city. Western girls are al ways very popular in the eastern schools, because of their genial ways and the en thusiasm with which they viejw life, and ithe :Omaha girls have shared in this popu larity. Fully a scpre will be added to the list within the first weeks of September. Many of them have been away for the summer, but are now returning to prepare for the school work. Some of those who have been in the east have already sent their trunks to tho school and others nro now busy with their plans for the winter. Great preparations are now being made agamSt the day of departure, for that is come to bo one of tho big days in the year the day when the young folks get away to school. One who has never been around the Union or Burlington stations at the time when the youngsters are starring can form any notion of the throng that an nually leaves the city for the big schools abroad. But tho parents know what it is they are part of the hustle and bustle, of the flurry and worry and the jolly little noiaes and other distractions that mark he occasion. Going away "to school is no longer fraught with the anxiety that onco marked it, for the conveniences of travel and communication have robbed the ex perience of most of its discomforts, but it is still of importance to the home and to the boys and girls who go. That is why those who are starting for the fiist time this year are busy, right now with the plans that must be perfected against the coming of September, when the fight will commence.. Miss Regina Connell, who is one of tho popular members of the younger sot, will leave September 8 for Boston, where she will enter Dana Hall. She will go . east with her brother, Herbert, who will enter his senior year at tho Harvard Law school. Miss Connell is a most charming young woman as well as beautiful and her viva cious spirit will add much to the school. Three Omaha young women who were members of the class of 19i3 of Brownell Hall are listed among those who will at tend eastern schools this fall. Miss Alice Jaquith will leave September 8 for Boston and she, too, will enter Dana Hall with Miss Connell. Miss Jaquith is visiting Miss Isabel Vinsonhaler at Prior Lake, Minn., and will return to the city a few days before she leaves for the east. Miss Jaquith is a beautiful brunette while MiBS Connell is a striking blonde. Miss Marian Towle, a member of tho class of 1913 of Brownell, will leave Sep tember 11 for Bradford, Conn., where she will enter Bradford college. ?Xiss Towle has spent much of the summer in Colorado and returned last week to pack her trunk for the coming school year. She has a host of friends who will miss her sweet per sonality very much. Miss Mabel Allen will be tho third mem ber of tho class of 1913 of Brownell to en ter an eastern school. Miss Allen will leave fcr tho east September 2Q and will go to Bryn Mawr, Pa., where she will en ter the Baldwin school. She, too, has many friends here, having Jived in Omaha the greater part of her life and will bo missed very much,. Miss Allen made an excellent record in her work at Brownell Hall. Briar Cliffe-on-tho-Hudson has formany years been a most popular school with the Omaha girls. Miss Mary Megeath is 6ne of the girls who will spend her first school year in tho east at this school. Miss Vir- 0)0 giuia Offutt will return to enter her second year at this Bchool and many pleasant hours will bo enjoyed by these young women ther. MiBS Stella Thummell will leave' tho lat ter part of September for tho east, where she will enter her second year at Ely Court, Miss Thummell has spent the summer at Richard 's Landing with her parents and is expected home about the first of Septem ber. She will leave for the east September 15. She was a member of tho class of 1912 of Brownell. Another member of this class who will leave shortly for tho east, to enter college is Miss. Halcyon Cotton. She will ontor Vas sar. Miss Cotton decided to rest a year be fore entering upon her work at college. Miss Marjorie McCord will leave tho lat ter part of September, to enter her second -r.- . nr 7 TIT year at Miss Spenco's school. Miss Mc Cord is a most charming young woman and has a great fondness for athletics. She has been one of tho enthusiastic young tennis pluyors at the Country club this summer. , Miss Katherino Baum left in Juno for the east and at that time her planB wore made for her to-remain in the east and en- tor Miss Spenco's school. Miss Baum has spent tho summer with her parents at At lantic City. Of thegirls Bhown in tho pictures on this rtnrA oil Iiii4 4"wk mM !l- i "I 1 I'lv tut. uui wwu uiu gumg uwuy 10 BUXIUIU for tho first time, entering tho colleges as froshraon. They are just recruits to tho great army of Omaha boys and girls who annually march in the ever-swelling army of young Americans who are acquiring ex perience in the higher walks of educational culture. Omaha peoplo aro among the most liberal patrons of the colleges of tho world. In addition to tho splendid schools that aro located right hero, as well as those of tho state, at which the great Uni yersity of Nebraska stands at tho head, and where from 250 to 400 Omaha boys and girls aro entered as students eaoh year, dozens and dozens go to tho older schools of tho east for training. Many of the younger aro sent away to institutional pre paratory schools, and are fitted their for college, so that the ranks of higher culture are continually being recruited from, tho homes of the city. It is this devotion to tho better things of life that has mado Omaha groat and iB maintaining the stand ard-at its; high mark- w