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38 Visual Education
Boston University on March 19th to Commemorate the tercentennary of the landing of the Pilgrims. This festival is in place of the annual Klatsch Collegium, which is held in the College of Liberal Arts.
A masque dealing with the life of the Pilgrims, in which over 70 people will participate, will be given in Jacob Sleeper Hall and will be the central point of interest. The masque, which was written by Miss Esther W. Bates of Eoslindale, Boston University, '06, who is a pupil of Prof. Baker of Harvard, will consist of three episodes.
Episode One deals with the life of the Pilgrims in Merrie England, showing their persecution and final departure from their homes for Holland. During the interlude between the departure of the Pilgrims for America and their arrival in the land of freedom, comes a very effective dance of the elements by twenty of the University girls, portraying through music and interpretative dancing the fury of the wind, thunder, lightning and rain, that greeted the Pilgrims on the cold, New England shores.
Indian life and Indian war dances are the features of the Second Episode. In spite of hardships and the thinning of the ranks, the brave Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving in the new land, with Massasoit and his braves as guests. One interesting incident in this episode is that while the elders are holding a prayer meeting to give thanks for their preservation, the younger members of the colony resurrect a smuggled fiddle, and enjoy a country dance.
In the midst of the Thanksgiving dinner, a ship arrives from England, bearing the charter for the new colony and amid great rejoicing the formal establishment of New England is announced.
The last Episode deals with modern Pilgrims to America. All nationalities, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Syrian, Chinese, Japanese, Alsatian, Bohemian, Roumanian, Serbian, Armenian, Turkish, Hindu and Eussian, are represented in the colorful pageant. As the climax, the Goddess of Liberty reveals herself to them as the leader of both the pilgrims of 1620 and the new pilgrims of 1920.
Dvorak's "New World Symphony" and MacDowell's "1620" will be the musical themes of the masque and the various emotions and experiences of the Pilgrims will be interpreted through special dances under the direction of Miss Rachel Hardwick, director of physical education for women.
During the festival each room in the College of Liberal Arts will be given over to various divisions of the University for headquarters. The Woman's Graduate Club will entertain in the Colonial Room with Pilgrim tableaux under the direction of Mrs. Walter Hartstone of Brookline. There will also be a Dutch room and an Indian room.
A processional including all the students, faculty and administration department of the College of Liberal Arts will procede to the Crown Room, where the Queen of the Festival will hold court.
It is expected that fully 1,500 guests will be present at the festival and they will be invited to join in the revels of the university students.
Miss Dorothea Truitt, of Brookline, B. U. '21, who is the president of Gamma Delta Society, the social club of all the girls in C. L. A., is student head