The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE.
officers Elected and Various Matters
Discussed.

The annual meeting of the Indiana branch
of the Association Of Collegiate Alumnae
at Mrs. May Wright Sewalps residence yes
terday was attended by representatives OF
Bryn Mawr, Vassar Smith and Oberlin
colleges. and of Northwestern, Kansas,
Michigan, Cornell and Wesleyan UNIVERSE
ties The committee on membership re-
ported sixty-three women in Indiana who
are graduates OF fifteen colleges eligible
to membership, and a number more who ara
not yet definitely located.
The legislative committee reported that
in response to a call from the local coun-
Gil it had sent to that body a request that
the Legislature be petitioned to raise the
standard of entrance requirements at In
diana University; also petition that di-
plomas from the colleges admitted to the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae be ac-
cepted in lieu of county examinations for
teachers licenses The local council CONF
mittee sent these petitions to the educa-
tional committee of the General Assembly,
but in view of the many puzzling questions
that came before that committee it was
thought best to defer this action and con-
centrate energies upon the bill for COM
pulsory education. This bill as presented
and passed was practically the bill drawn
up by Judge Black, as attorney for the To-
cal council, and presented by that body to
the educational committee of the General
Assembly. The association decided to confer
with the Womens University Club and by
their combined efforts try to remove some
of the limitations that now hamper the
State Board of Education and make 1t pos
sible for all educational institutions to comN
before it on an equal footing.
The committee on plans of work for the
year proposed that the association hold a
series of meetings to post itself upon the
modern educational ideas and movements
to have at each meeting a talk by some one
actively engaged in directing some depart
ment of educational work. beginning with
the kindergarten and working up through
the primary schools, industrial training
and schools for preparing for college. The
committee was directed to arrange for the
execution Of its plans. For the benefit OF
new members, Mrs Sweall gave q brief his
tory of university extension in Indianapo-
lis, as started by this association and after
ward given into the hands of an enlarged
center. At the close of Mrs. SewalFs re-
marks the association voted 500 from its
treasury to the university extension work.
The officers elected are: President, Miss
Harriet Noble, of Vassar College; secre-
tary, Miss Amelia Warning Platter of WeS-
leyan University; treasurer, Mrs. Ida Blood
Hasselman, of Kansas University; commit
te on printing, Mrs May Wright Sewall OF
Northwestern University; committee ON
membership Miss Janet p. Shaw of Ober-
lin College, Miss Florence Day of Smith
College and Miss Amelia Waring Platter OF
Wesleyan University; committee on plans
of work, Miss Martha Doan of Cornell Miss
Julia Harrison Moore of Smith College and
Miss Julia e. Landers of Bryn Mawr.
Miss Flora Bridges, of Oberlin College,
read an able paper on continued interpre-
tation OF old allegory, in which she
showed that woman in her enlarged work
OF to-day is continuing what has been go
ing on through all ages. She Is the first to
feel a need and then the one to inspire man
to action and often lead in that action.
Miss Amy Tanner, fellow at the Univer-
sity Of Chicago, gave an interesting ana
instructive address on a modern education
standard-the child considered before the
class In this she set forth DR. Dewey's
ideas as the being worked out In his
school, where the child is trained through
his activities prompted by his interests Be-
tween the morning and the afternoon ses-
sions Mrs. Sewall, assisted by the Classical
School girls. served a luncheon