New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-27
COLLEGE WOMEN'S CLUB.
1T MEETS AT THE wALDORF-AsTORIA AND
REPORTS A PROSPEROUS SEASON.

1T MEETS AT THE wALDORF-ASTORIA AND
REPORTS A PROSPEROUS SEASON.
The small ballroom OF the Waldorf-Astoria was
filled beyond its seating capacity yesterday after
with the members of the College Womens
Club and their invited guests. II was the last
meeting OF a prosperous season. and Vassar shooK
gratulatory hands with Wellesley. Smith with
Barnard and Radcliffe Cornell with Mount Holyoke
and Wells. Oberlin with Evelyn. Buffalo Medical
College with the Womens Medical colleges OF New
York City and Baltimore. the New-York University
Law School and the Chicago University. while as
ISOLATE members represented by alumni OF the
New-York University, Columbia Harvard, Yale.
Princeton. Cornell, Amherst, Brown and Williams
beamed warm approval.
As guests arrived they were cordially welcomed
by a receiving party composed of the following
officers and members Miss Irwin Martin Mrs. o.
D. NJ. Baker Mrs. John NJ Spencer, Mrs. Robert c..
Brown Mrs. Herman Meyer. Mrs. Vernon Davis.
Mrs. Edward r. Johnes, Miss Georgia NJ. Penheld,
Mrs Edmund s. Stout and. Mrs. Samuel McComb.
The meeting was called to order at o'clock. and
was presided over by the president. Miss Irwin
Martin, who gracefully and automatically called
attention TO the work already accomplished by the
club. its objects and its plans for the future.
Its objects" she said. ARE G To loan money
without interest to students, graduates or under
graduates Of any Of the leading womens COLLEGES
~ To bring about stronger and more nelpful re-
lations among all college-bred women for greater
individual enlightenment. and for the general ad-
vancement OF the higher education Tor women.
49, To further continual intercourse among the
members, In accordance with the highest STANDARDS
OF progress and refinement
ANY present or former student graduate or non
graduate OF all high-grade women's colleges, Ameri-
can or foreign or Of co-educational colleges. and
any woman who is has been teacher at such
institutions. may become regular member, pro-
vlded she is acceptable to the club.
She then spoke OF the clubhouse that the cuo
Is soon hoping to build. and stated that when II
became an accomplished fact there should be a
smoking room off the library on the main moor Tor
no of no
club" she said, is established a broad basis.
and we want the house to be not only a college
centre. but pre-eminently womans centre. where
self-supporng women, artists and teachers, from
all the world may find welcome" -
The speaker OF the afternoon. DR.. Charles H.
Eaton. made a happy response TO Miss Martin $
alluslon to the smoking room, In his address on
Woman and the Intellectual Life"
THE truth is. The said that the women OF To-
day bearing the burdens of intellectual IRE
and more and more men are being relegated 10 the
Easements and smoking-rooms while the women go
up into the light and nearer the uplands of NE
musical selections by Paul Dufaut, tenor: Nine.
Laura Danziger Rosebault, pianist; Miss Laura
Christine Blackwell, soprano, and Miss Bertha
Cushing. contralto. Miss Ada Frances Howard
presided at the piano. Tea was served at O'Clock
Among the guests present were Mr.. and Mrs.
George w Holland. Mrs. James f. Childs, Nine.
Luchetti. Mrs y Wyckoff Vanderhoef Mrs Angus
Cameron. Mrs Josiah Taylor Marean, Mrs jan
ver lie Due, Mrs. Ruth Prime. Miss Sara Duryea-
Mrs. Charles H. Eaton. Mrs. Louise Chandler Moul-
ton Mrs. Frederick Hasbrouck and Mrs. Bouchee.