MADAME CURIE

The most famous woman in the world, some have said, is Madame Curie, who honors the University with a visit next Monday. Partly because the world still clings to the absurd idea that any woman scientist is an extraordinary person, but chiefly because in Madame Curie it recognizes one of the foremost chemists of all time, her visit to this country has been one round of applause. We Americans have a way of exhausting our distinguished visitors with an elaborate program of events, accompanied by crowds of curious onlookers. Even the Prince of Wales, it is said, found his American tour as strenuous as any exercise he knew. Madame Curie has been subject to the same American treatment. Hospitality, however, is much better overdone than underdone; whence the University's aim to give Madame Curie as warm a welcome as she has received anywhere.