The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-27
ALunSI DAY AT oHAUrAuoUA.
New OmceFs and New Clsss-LeetuFo o.
WOmanso Position.

New OmcsFs and New Class-Leeturo On
WomaA's Position.
At was Alumni day ct ChautauQua yes
terday and ABOUT thirty members of the
Puget Sound Alumni Association were on
the ground. These held meeting in the
forenoon and elected the following off,
GERS: President, w. H. Reeves. Seattle.
'ss; FIRST vice president. Mrs. Ella B. Cum
mings, Tacoma, SO; second vice pre.i-
dent. Mrs. Robert Abrams. Tacoma. 'ss:
secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Samuel
Greene. Seattle. '93. These. with Jonathan
Smith. Tacoma. 81. and Mrs. c. r. Fish,
back. Seattle, 80. constitute the executive
COMMITTEES. and it ID proposed to meet
alternately ct Seattle and Tacoma during
the winter.
The class OF 81 was organized yesterday,
Rev. h. f. Dunlap having the first appli-
cation blank.
At Up. m. the largest afternoon audience
of the season gathered in tho pavilion 70
listen 70 Fred Rice Rosell. class Of 96.
deliver IN address on "Xantippe's Side Of
the Story" which was frequently ap-
plauded.
In opening the speaker said that IN IN
vestigation Of ancient history showed that
the only information about women that
appeared worthy to b chronicied was that
'.Xantippe was the wife Of Socrates" and
asked if there would be any different his
tory of the women Of that day. - COM
pared with that of the men. He divided
his lecture into three parts. or questions:
of man ?''
IF not, is she worthy of and has she the
right to an equal station with man p
How shall she attain an equal sta
toni"
Under the firDt division Mr.. Rowell
traced woman's history briefly, and cited
instances where her works had eQualed
those of man, but that such instances were
not matters Of general history. and only
known to those who had taken pains to
gather them. He showed that her legal
standing had only lately become nearly
equal to mans, and that her political
standing was still unchanged.
The speaker, under the second division.
showed what the pioneers in this move.
ment encountered and how they we're met
on every hand by SCOTS and derision; that
they had finally succeeded in getting
liberal education for women, and that
they were now competing with men and
having marked success.
In the third division he answered the
question show" by saying that il is the
duty of women. a. q class, TO demand the
rights of citizenship. They should be the
educators of their sons in citizenship -
we'll as in other rudiments of education.
The woman who demands the right to
vote should have it, and il is the duty Of
her sisters to assist her in obtaining 1t.
The lecture closed with IN appeal to
women to demand the right of citizenship.
not a. ''undevelored man." but ~ occu-
plying the position outlined In Tennyson's
"Princess." from which he quoted at
length: 1.-THE woman's cause - mans;
they rise or sink together"
Today begins q three days session OF
the w. G. T. U. school of methods, and
large numbers are expected.
On Sunday Rev. Arthur Smith. who has
been missionary in China for twenty-one
years. will occupy the pulpit. Mr.. Smith
has just returned. and is the guest OF his
orother-in-iaw, Rev. w. C. Merritt. Of Sno-
homish. This will make the closing Sum
day Of the assembly As pleasant as the pre-
ceding ones.
Prof John Trey, the celebrated arts: OF
San Francisco. no had . large and sue
cessful class at the assembly last season.
will give his new lecture, Facts and
Fancies From an Artists Disry." IN Seat
tie next Monday evening for the assembly.
Prof Trey will at the same time have on
exhibit his famous collection Of pictures.
This entertainment 10 for the benefit OF
thu assembly