The herald., 1893-07-17
WoMEN's GIFTS TO COLLEGES.

WOMEN'S GIFTS TO COLLEGES.
what Massachusetts, Women Have DOM.
For Educational Institutions.
Those who inspect the statistical charts
and the bound volume of historical and
educational monograms contributed by
the women of Massachusetts to the Chi
cago fair will gain new idea Of what
women have done for the cause of higher
education. The facts contained will be
revelation to most people, who have
only an inadequate idea of what women
have accomplished in this way. One Of
the most extraordinary showings is the
table containing list of the SUNS Of
lAoney given to Massachusetts es
by women. 1t is as follows:
Harvard university ...... ,........> Ss
Institute of Technology. gy............. 90
Williams college e.................. lG.u,l 80
Boston university. y................ 90,A0 0l
Amherst college. e.................... 1900 20
Smith college. e........................ All 90
Harvard annex. ex...................... 100000 90
Mount Holyokes kesS................... 9A,k20 w
Tufts college,. Observation-Disclosures. lbh750 90
+Wellesley college. N1,000 90
+Combined gifts of Mr.. and Mrs. Durant
Here is total Of 81, ,a2S, ,07S. 10, a mu-
nifcent sum, and larger by many thou
sands than the total gifts made to all
the colleges in some of the older states.
Harvard university received more THAI
half of this amount, and yet that insti-
tuition has only recently admitted young
women to its courses and even now docs
not give them the same advantages as
young men. To President Eliot's request
that women contribute 100000 to en-
dow the woman's annex of Harvard un'
versity it might be pertinent to ask wi
it would not be right to use for this pur-
pose part of the 81 ,2OO, 900 given by
women in past years to the funds of the
university. The scholarships, the botanic
garden, the divinity school, the library
and the departments that have been en-
riched by this bounty of women show
how well they can discriminate in their
gifts.
This does not include all, however,
that women have done for education in
Massachusetts,. Public libraries haverc-
ceived gifts amounting to 1851 ,198, ard
public and industrial schools have been
given $122,000. Another way in which
education has been aided by women is
by gifts to the free kindergartens, which
have received $344,579. Even this d
not cover all the money women l.
given to aid others in getting an ed,
ton, many being too modest to allow
amount of their gifts to be known, but
it is enough to show how strong an inter
est women have taken in colleges and
ol, This .,,fo - -
origin either. AS early as 1854 Bridget
Wynds gave Harvard college CA, and in
l718 Nine. Hutchinson gave the same in
stitution e10. These sums look small
beside the recent bequests to Harvard of
$220,000 by Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg and
s169,925 by Mrs. Ellen Gurney. But it
is the spirit and the ability and not the
size of the donation that measure the
value of the gift.
these expressions of woman's interest in
education to the present time, when col
leges are opening their doors to female
students and placing them on the same
level with male students. All have not
done this, but some have, and others will
be compelled to follow. The results of
college training for women have moro
than justified the efforts made and swept
away most of the prejudice that once ex-
listed against the higher intellectual
training of women. The New York Sun
not long ago gave the following illustra-
ton of what a college bred woman can
do. 1t said: zone college woman in
New York, wife of busy physician,
does all her husbands reading for him
both of current literature and medical
publications. With the trained intelli-
gence peculiar to the thoroughly educat-
ed woman she grasps the salient points
of the articles, and in few words gives
them to him at dinner or in the afteS-
noon drive"
With such proof Of how college bred
woman can enter into an intelligent part
nership with her husband and the proofs
given in the exhibit at Chicago of the lib
erality of women toward colleges there
will be q general agreement that the day
has passed when the demand for equal
facilities for the higher education Of wo-
men can be brushed aside as unworthy of
notice. Philadelphia Press.