New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-20
1oyA1DAUGHrERS OF MI HOLYoKE.
THEIR OLD MOTHER NOT TO BE sHABBILY ATriRhpT
cor DEN BIRTHDAY p EsENT PROMISED.

rrfrrp orn MOTHER NOT TO BE sHABBILY ATriRED--
A GOLDEN BIRTHDAY EsENT PROMISED
Ata recent meetngof the Mt Holyoke Alnmn1 Asso
citation OF New-York at the Hotel Brnns"ck' ho ""o'
of raising Mary Lyon Fund" rs n tribute from 'ne
.Inno 70 the seminary was discussed, Miss Ellen Par
sons gave statements In figures OF the large sums '
have been given other and younger INSTITUTIONS o' '"e
nd,co,ion OF women. snch the Abbott Academy
wellesley Smith College. Bryn Mawr College, etc. ana
aid that a these schools must rghtfnlly be called
daughters Of Mt Holyoke for they owed thelr very
,,cerou n her and their first teachers and leaders had
been educated at South Hadey. "sha they she added
petneny cher daughters go clad In rament OF silk and
velvet while the old mother still walks In shabby attire r.
The various alumne associations OF the United states
have proposed 10 the Mary Lyon fund and present
TO the seminary next June, at the eth anniversary
In a circular issued by the New-York AlumnB Assoca
ton the following statement is made
"while many OF the professorships In colleges
endowed Of you may be surprised to learn that Mt
Holyoke seminary, after fifty years of most excellent
work. whose far-reaching influence is unrivaed
among institutions for the education OF wo-
men, has endowed department OF instruc-
Amherst toege has onehaf Of its professorshrs
endowed in varying from $4,000 TO SJooOo HOE
yoke has received some gifts in these later
years. But the need OF buildings (as the gymna-
sum- library Williston Hail, Observatory ana MUSIC
Ha. the repairing of old buildings and the demand OF
the scientific teaching OF the present Day FOR I've
treasury point has now been reached where consid
cradle endowment for the department or Instruction mas
imperative necessity. II must he obtained or
This pjoDeer among higher schools for women Will fa
behind newer institutions in the advantages II oilers
The trustees the faculty. and surely we may add me
aIumnR are unwilling 10 permit this The school l. NH
every occupied including several new ones recently
vacated the steward From tuition fres the ordinary
expenses of the school met and minor repairs made
But. with rates Of tuton so low this Is an That can De
done increase the tuition fees would exclude many
OF that large class Of promising pupils for whom TINS
institution was in part designed"
FIFTY wears ago on the first sunday in October" said
one the speakers at the meeting referred to- Mary
Lyon had wept tears OF JOY. aud offered up Spcclal
thanksgivings because enough had been found III
New England who would pledge Themselves 10 give
the $50 necessary erect building in which she
could begin her great work for women She had gone
through lite practising the most lgid sen DENIAL ana Nv
ing npon the merst ptance in order that her enterprise
might thrive il has hven beyond her widest hopes
and now ask that those that have prohfed by her
work should pay this loving tribute To her memory oi
raising that very sum- $50 900 for the endowment Of the
chair ocrupcd in addition To the sums
10 I've raised for other departments In the science of
physics especially room. more Instruments. moro
everything must he had Let the daughters OF the sem
mary gather this money her and If ask how to do
IT, let give yOu Miss Lyons own motto: Live one
day at a time and I'LL il with good endeavor.' ,
iT LYMAN Abbott EditOrOf The Z hrisGH Union. said
II is truly said that character Is the end ~ educaiio
The highest office OF woman II that OF busDanu OF
Wife fatherhOod and motherhood. MI. HnlyOKc mas
been fin s i'm asserting that had right 10 edu
cation her account. because ~ her WOnanh1od
her wifchool and motherhood. over aDh over girls
home and worked Their fingers 10 ne bone
To send tneir brothers college II Is time that the boy
in awhile should stay and let hs sister nave HOT
chance"
and the alurr associations scattered far and wide.
A fourishng branch has recently been established
at Honolulu in the sand wich Islands. The New YORK
Association oNpccts the larger part of the fun
of which more $1,000 has already been secured
AMI the officers request I'll Interested In the work OF c
the president of the association. Miss A. NJ. brigham No
1873 Mont St, Brooklyn