The sun., 1897-02-07
COLLEGE WOMEN CONFAB.
ALUMNB TO DO MORE ron TIE
COLLEGE sETTLEMENT.

Hse to Scramble for Pa-t OF It. Ineems-
Annual Subscripttons SuRRested-Dr.
Mary Putnam Jacobi BIDS tho College
Women Demand Political E,nanciprtie..
The Collegiate Alumnm Association Of New
York City and Brooklyn met at tho College Set
| tlement, % Rivington street, yesterday. and
elected these officers; Miss Elizabeth X. Hoy.
Vasssr, Vico-Presdent; Miss 1. II. Whitfield,
Smith. Secretary tboth reeiected); Miss Eliza
beth b. Cutting, vasssr; Mrs. w. II. Bald win,
Jr., SMITH Miss Ruth Putnam. Cornell; Miss
Nellie NJ. Reed. Cornell. and Mise Anna X.
Green. Nassar. Directors. The Nominating
Committee was Miss Ada Thurston. Miss Kate
Morgan Ward, and Miss Marie L. Minor.
Fifteen colleges are represented In the associ-
alton. and any graduate OF any one of them 10
| eligible to membership. 1t was agreed TO APP
point committee whose special work shall bs
to arouse an Intelligent interest In the associa-
tion and to increase its NON bership.
Miss Sebring presented tho subject of child
| study to the consideration OF the association,
| giving two simple plans Of carrying on the work
| suggested by Miss Sbinn OF California. It was
| voted that the Chair appoint q COMMITTEES to
take up this work.
Mrs. Collier made . brief report on the prog
ress Of tho movement for n FREQ library in
| Brooklyn to rival Boston's Miss Bertha Haven
| Putnam talked OF Cooperation with tho Col.
fifty or sixty settlements in this country, and
| In this city alone eight OF ton. They have been
| started by associations differing widely in char
| actcr and aim, but for the College Settlement
| the college women are, In large part responsi-
| BILE. The settlement movement in this country
originated with somo students at Smith. ana
| soon after they had succeeded In opening the
Now York Settlement an Association Of wo-
mems Colleges was formed. Each college
| tlat
becomes = member OF tho association
and is entitled to two representatives
| on the governing board. At 1rst the whole in
come OF this association went to the New York
assumed control Of two gew settiements, one in
Boston and the other In Philadelphia. To meet
cut down. Al present tho annual income is a
little over So. 900. or this $4,000 goes TO New
lnsnts. The annual eIpenditure "S Of The tho
New York Settlement Is $4,000; of this
By resdent. leaving say 5 to ossa BE- rais.a Rsa
| from New York. Heretofore this sum mas been
eur bd eafn year .haoagn the ndvidnai effort:
| gifts from New Yorkers Tho Executive Com
Dn,t mi,ttee," said -, a. Mise patnam, feels .ha. th.
TO obtain annual subscriptions to the amouns
needed. III. in this effort that we are turning
In raising money from Now York people"
coTni,tse NM - WAS Sppontsdi to undertake this
| enforcement of the Mercantile Inspection act.
| DIR. Mary Putnam jacob made the speech OF the
day. Her subject was Tho Position OF Edu-
Gated Women in tho Modern World" In con-
| cluding. she said:
II never omit tho occasion to emphasize the
conviction that as the number OF educated
women multiplies the absurdity Of excluding
them from political rights becomes more con-
| spicuous. think IL is the positive duty OF every
| woman who has become citizen OF the State
| through the opportunities OF education to de-
manr recognition of her citizenship through
| political emancipation. But the current OF my
| thought has drawn me away from this
! consideration into others more especially
| Few among you probably propose IN
make that the main pursuit OF your lives. But
| all who have attained any knowledge of knowl-
edge are in q position TO engage at least for
| awhile and In some special pursuit. however
| narrowed. ! urge you To do so. repeating tho
delightful enterprise often as NAV prove
practicable. Tho end OF man is action and not
that Is irue. But IL is In the still air OF delight
| full studie that have been elaborated nearly all
| the motives to action that have ever animated
| this vehement world. The rude man. said
| Matthew Arnold, likes to see something going
| on; tho half civilized man likes TO have his feel
ings excited by what is going on; tho
cultivated man wants to understand why
| things are going on. I could not suggest
| to you n more arduous or a more interest
| ing occupation for your entire lives from tho
| moment OF your own matriculation At college
| TO the moment when you shall watch the ma
| circulation OF your grandchildren"
| Everybody was enthusiastic over Dr. Jacobs
| address, and q hearty vote OF thanks was Of
| fered her. Refreshments were served. and all
| present spent an hour getting better acquainted.