Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-10-07
COLLEGE ALuMNE.
Subjects That Occupy the Attention oi
Women After Graduating

Subjects That Occupy the Attention OF
Women After Graduating.
The Association OF Collegiate Alumna
held its three days annual meeting this
year In Boston, as guests OF the Boston
branch Of the society. Tins body OF col
lege women comprises now more than
1900 members. of whom the Boston
branch contains the maximum number,
200, and New York follows with mem
bership of 1853. Its essential condition
Of membership is that each applicant
shall have received degree in arts, phi
losophy, science or literature from col
lege or university Of well established re-
pute, and its purpose and work is to
supplement the work done in women's
colleges and universities aud to investi-
gate all obscure questions connected
with the higher education of women.
Its policy is reflective rather than ag-
gressive theoretical rather than practi-
cal.
As an association il is not confined to
practical work, but collects data,
searches ont remedies, investigates con
ditions and suggests plans of activity
which are carried out by individual
rather than by concerted effort. II is
for the general discussion OF the ques-
tions which are the special study Of indi-
vidnal members that the yearly meetings
are convened an' also for the inaugura-
tion Of new dn,, " work, the extension
OF its varied activities and the develop
ment of its advanced purposes.
In hoe s.f 4,
M. Howe, president of the Boston
branch, said that the educational work
of the society covered a wide field and
included laying the ghost Of the college
girl broken down with overwork. And
in the response to this address Bessie
Bradwell Helmer replied 10 the oft reit-
Grated charge that the college woman,
in her enthusiasm for the higher educa-
ton cultivated the head at the expense
of the hands and heart that 1.-THE uni
versity woman leads in philanthrophy;
she is turning her attention to the solu-
tion Of the social problem; in one quar-.
ter she is busily engaged in university
extensions; in another she is occupied
in domestic science; above and be-
yond all else statistics prove that she is
a good mother, in that greater per-
centage of the children of college wom-
en- survive infancy than do those of any
other class Of women"
One Of the important reports of the
session was read by Mrs. Barns, the
''Study of the Development of Children" :"
which the speaker particularly recon-
mended to the college bred mother
whose breadth of education permits her
10 grasp the significance of scientific
principles and methods and establishes
within her mentality the pre- eminent
requisite in an observer of child life
accuracy.
Alice Freeman Palmer outlined the
work Of the eastern and western divis-
ions Of tine alumnn in raising funds to
give advance education TO women by
means of scholarships Four years ago
the first Fellow was supported and sent
To Michigan university by the western
association. and since then the Alumn@
association has supported Fellow either
in this country or in Europe. Last year
graduate Of Boston university was
sent to Europe and obtained great
honor. Two Fellows, one in Berlin and
the other taking special course at Cor.
nell. are this year supported by the as-
sociation, whose purpose in this work Is
to train women to be experts in special
branches for the professorships in won.
ems colleges.
A paper on Education Woman's
Factor in Industrial Capabilities" WAS
read by Eleanor L. Lord, presenting a
strong argument In behalf Of equal sal
aries for equal work for men and woin-
en-. The final session was convened at
Wellesley college to listen 10 the status
Of collegiate education for women in
this country by Mary Osborn Hoyt, and
that of foreign countries by Martha
Foote Crowe.-New York sun.