Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-01

'Comoined gifts OF Mr.. and Mrs. Durant.
Here is a total of 81, 1928 078. IS, a muniicent
sum. and larger by many thousands than the
total gifts made to all the colleges in some Of
the Oldest states Harvard University received
more than half OF this amount. and yet that
institution has only recently admitted young
women to its courses, and even now does not
give them the same advantages as Young men,
10 President Eliot's request that women con-
tribute $500 900 to endow the woman's annex
of Harvard University 1t might be pertinent to
ask why 1t would not be right to use for this
purpose a part Of the $1,000. 900 given by
women in past years to the funds Of the uni
versity. The scholarships. the botanic garden,
the divinity school, the library and the depart
ments that have been enriched by this bounty
Of women chow how we'll they can discriminate
in their gifts.
This does not include all, however, that
women have done for education in Massachu-
sets. Public libraries have received gifts
amounting to 1851, 1856, and public and indus
trial schools have been given S122 900. An
other way in which education has been aided by
women Ia BY gifts to the free kindergart tens
which have received 1914, 579 Even this does
not cover all the money women have given to
aid others In getting an education, many being
too modest to allow the amount of their gifts to
be known, but 1t is enough to show how strong
an interest women have taken in colleges and
education. This interest Is not of recent origin
either. As early as 1864 Bridget Wynds gave
Harvard college "a, and in Ills Nine. Hutch
inson gave the same institution fl0. These
sums look small beside the recent requests to
Harvard of 1920. 600 bv Mrs Elizabeth Fogg,
and Sl69, 925 by Mrs. Ellen Quincy But 1t Is
the spirit and ability and not the size of the
donation that measures tho value of the gift
1t ia long call from the earliest Of these ex-
pressiOns Of woman's interest in education to
the present time. when colleges 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 more than justified
the efforts made, and swept away most Of the
prejudice that once existed 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: lone college woman in New York wife OF
a busy physician, does all her husbands read
ing to him. both of current literature and
medical publications. With the trained in.
teligence peculiar to the thoroughly educated
woman, she grasps the salient points of The
articles and in few words gives them to him
at dinner or in the afternoon drive"
With such proof Of how acollege-bred woman
can enter into an intelligent partnership with
her husband. and the proof given in the ex-
hibit at Chicago OF the hberaity OF women
toward colleges. there will be general agree
mont that the day has passed when the demand
for equal facilities for the higher education Of
women can be brushed aside as unworthy OF
notice.