New-York tribune., 1896-12-08
SOROSIS AT BREAKFAST.
AFTER sUMPTUOUS REPAST THE
MEMBERS DISCUSS SCHOOLS AND
WAYS OF LEARNING.

WAYS OF LEARNING.
10 AMERICAN WOMEN REQUIRE THE BENEFIT
OF FOREIGN STUDY TO COMPLETE WELL
ROUNDED EDUCAT1oNY' WAS THE
QUESTION ABLY HANDLED.
sorosis held it's regular monthly meeting at
the Waldorf yesterday. and after the usual break
fast at y o'clock the ladies assembled in the new
ballroom 10 consider the following question. pro-
posed by the Committee on Education:
do American women require the benefit OF
foreign study to complete a well-rounded educa-
tion?''
II presented by Miriam Mason Greeley.
chairman Of the committee
MRS GREELEY'S PAPER
Mrs Greeley referred to the fact that 1t was
fifty years almost a day since that noble minded
woman, Margaret Fuller. sailed forth across the
Atlantic to gain In Europe the impetus toward
profound study which her own land did not ahord.
Her venture" continued Mrs. Greeley. was re-
garded by her contemporaries as something awe
inspiring and phenomenal. and II may be that
there were some fearful souls who recognized In
her tragic end on our trcacherous Jersey sands
retribution for the unlawful thirst for knowledge
which made her dare leap the bounds OF geo.
graphical environment. To-day the simplest Amer
lean schoolgirl may follow In her footsteps II she
90 desire and the portals of oxford and Cambridge
IN Berlin. stand open for her 10 enter. But what
Of the home-a bding student. for whom the family
purse may prove too short, or the farnily remoh-
STRANGE too strong. TO permit her TO leave her
native shores? Shall It be maintained that she Is
seriously Handicapped in comparison with her fel-
low-student who has n European steamer ticket!
The opinions you hear expressed Will be based
very much upon the plan OF the affabe Mr. Samuel
Weller In regard to speng-that 1t might very
properly depend upon the taste and fancy OF the
speller.'
The subject was taken UP in the following order:
development OF the Individual" Annie Beaston
America the Torchbearer" Emily Palmer Cape.
The Study OF Music" Laura Aver Lombard.
Training in Practical Affairs" May Florence
Park.
Art Students in France" Elizabeth Champney.
MISS BEAsTONS REMARKS.
Miss Beaston said:
1T Is not question OF Europe or America out
Of what best draws out the latent power OF the
Individual and in this conection Emerson has
truly said that there is Europe but what we
carry there That only IS education which inspires
a love OF knowledge. and though our young men
and women are saturated with facts which our
machine system puts into them. II Is question X
they are really educated.
MISS CAPES VIEWS
Miss Cape took much the line as Miss
Beaston
We live in a canned-food age" she said "Edu-
cation has come to be mere condensation or
facts and facts do not develop the higher part OF
US. But new era does seem to be coming. and
America is taking the lead. Therefore. think, we
get as much at home as abroad. and II is certain
that nowhere in the world have women such oppor-
tunities as in America
STUDY IN AMERICA.
In the absence of Mrs Lombard. her paper was
read by Mrs. Greeley and In 1t she maintained
that Europe was the only place In which TO study
music II had the best masters and the best music.
Music and musicians occupied a higher plane thah
among us, and special facilities were given 10
students 10 acquire knowledge cheapiy.
PARIS FOR ART.
Mrs Champney made a similar assertion with re-
gard 20 ar; In a paper which was read. In her alb
sence. by Mrs. Florence de Graf Shaw There Is an
atmosphere in Paris she thinks. which does exist
here. and the student breathes in inspiration and
sympathy while for moral influences they are
said she had left her SON and daughter there with as
litt.e apprehension as when she had sent them 10
Miss PARK, speaking of the relation Of foreign
travel to efficiency in business said that she nad M
subject and that they had all answered that the thing
necessary 70. The business & man S5 Sr be broad ho re
zon'' supposed be gained by foreign travel 1t was
apt TO be rather dangerous than otherwise IN DUST
ExTEMPORANEOUs DISCUSSION.
The ex,emporaneous discussion was participated in
by Mrs. Jennie June Croly. DR.. Jennie de Ia NJ Lo-
zier Dr. Harr.ette Keatinge Mrs. Maria Mccullough.
DR.. Chaplin and Mrs. Minnie G. Douglas
DR.. Kcatinge thought 1t made very li,tle dnerehce
where one obtains ones education but that American
women couldn't be expected to respect an AmeIGaI A,
degree $ much a foreign one: their educauoh
must be imported like their gowns and bonnets
Mrs. Croly maintained that there was sometnins ~
be gained IN Europe that could not be found any
where esc. and Mrs. Lozcr said that culture was me
ability TO look into the soul Of things and that might
be obtained in q New England village or sought TOT
In vain all the earth.
Preceding the discussion the following programme
was rendered.: <,,
Song Love Token" (Thome). Mary c. Ball lien-
retta TuthilI accompanis) recitation. The Little
Singer" (Henry Firth Wood, Lydia Wood Mrs
Wood also gave THE Big Enough Family as an
Among the guests present were Mrs: Moot OF Buf-
falo: Mrs Horat!o King. Mrs. b. H. Campbell. vice
president Of the Woman's Club Of Elizabeth: MISS
Burdette OF the New-Engand Womans CUP, or
Boston; Mrs J. W Allen and Miss Allen. OF the FIiz-
soelh Monday Club; Mrs. Y D Joline; Of the s; New
dent Of the Westhed Club; Mrs. Maurice Macfarland
Of the Twentieth Century Club, OF Detroit; Miss
1Icn of fna RnH