The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-09
CROWDED COLLEGES.
ambitious Girls Are Knocking in
Vain at the Doors.

Vain at the Doors.
New York. Oct. THE rapidly increas-
ing demand for the higher education Of
women is something astonishing. Thirty
years ago only two colleges for women
existed. Elmira and Vassar, Mount Holy
oke being then only a seminary Elmira's
first graduating class numbered seventeen,
while Vassar's could only boast four learn
ed young bachelors of art. To-day a sin
gle class at Vassar numbers over 200 stu
dents. and, Notwithstanding the erection
in 1893 of Strong hall, and in 1897 of Ray
mond hall, both large dormitories, also
the additional accommodate ions provided
in the main building by the recent going
up of Rockefeller recitation hail. and the
presidents and several professors houses,
another new dormitory must be built at
once TO make room for the candidates
constantly applying for admission.
And this state OF affairs does not ex-
list at Vassar alone, all the women's col
leges are telling the same tale. Smith
College was founded twenty-three years
ago, opening with only twelve students.
1t now enrolls 1000, and is the largest
womens college in existence, although its
entrance requirements are severe and II
mas not OIGTGu any extensive elective IN
ducements, having adhered strictly to its
regular course requirements. 1t began with
one or two buildings, il now numbers
twenty-five, with three more about TO go
up, and still there is not nearly enough
dormitory room for the army of young col
legians, and more residence halls are to
be added
Mount Hoyoke, which has passed
through various educational stages, and
now ranks among the foremost institutes
of learning, rose like the phenix from
the ashes of its disastrous fire two years
ago. Five new and wonderfully handsome
dormitories built last season are nov oc-
cupied, but, although no new candidates
have been accepted since last April, be-
cause of lack of space. these buildings
are fun to overlooking, and two more
halls could easily have been filed by the
necessarily rejected students.
Wellesley, with its immense body of I'M
dergraduates and score of fine structures,
cannot house all its girls, many Of whom
live In the village and walk out TO chapel
and lectures every day.
The latest bulletins from Bryn Mawr
announce that the five halls of residence,
Merton, Radnor Denbigh and Pembroke,
East and West, are over-crowded and two
large houses. Dolgelly and Cartreff. be
longing TO the college, have been thrown
open for the undergraduates.
And these are only few of the leading
feminine colleges; the Woman's College Of
Baltimore, the Sophie Newcomb of New
Orleans, Wells College, which is Mrs.
Grover Clevelands alma mater; the West
ern Reserve and a dozen others all found
ed within the past twenty-five years, are
splendid proofs Of the progress and popu-
larity of a college course for girls.
If more evidence is needed. turn to the
affiliated colleges, such as Radcliffe with
Harvard and Barnard with Columbia,
where the privileges are identical for men
and women alike; or to the great coedu-
cational universities of the West, where
Ann Arbor The Leland Stanford, Jr, ODER
lin, the University Of Chicago and innu-
mersble other swarm with brainy young
women The University Of Chicago alone
has three big dormitories for its fair sex,
while numbers OF IT'S girls have TO room
In the city.
SO great is the want Of more facilities
TO meet the cry for the collegiate educa-
lion of the gentler persuasion that the Col
lege Womcns club Of New York Is about
to take up as one Of its objects the rem
stating of Evelyn College, the index of
Princeton University, which closed les
doors year ago from scarcity Of funds
as large endowment Is necessary 10 run
any college. the tuiti, fees never being
sufficient 10 cover ana uai expenses. The
three irst steps taken viii be the erection