The age-herald., 1900-01-31
-OsbY Talks of Student
 Associations in the South.

Miss Cora N. Crosby Of Boston, one of the secretaries of the student department of the American committee of the Young Wcmen's Christian association, was Tn the city yesterday, leaving later for Tusealoo- ga, where she will bring the work of the association before the young women stu dents at the Annex and the Tuscaloosa col leges Miss Crosby will return to the city Thursday. She is visiting all the Alabama towns where individual associations have been formed. Miss Crosby travels in the south exclusively, and it is extremely in- reresting to hear her talk of the work in which she is engaged Yesterday morning at the Pollock Stephens she talked most enthu9lastlcal of the co-opoeration on the part of the young women students and the encouragement that she met on every side.
 Miss Crosby is graduate of Welesly, receiving her diploma only year or two ago. so that she seems especially fitted to- speak to young women and tn------fsse.1Tstand just what appeels~-0 che college girl.
 This is Mss Cres5y's second vlsit to Bir- mingham. Her former visit resulted in or ganiz.ng associations at the Polloek-s.e- phens, the Rirm3ngham Seminary and the East Lake Atheneum. There are also as- soeations at Jacksonville, Anniston, L.v dngston, Montevallo and Blountsville. There are eigflty-six associations in the south, and out of this number twenty -four are in ishe Gulf states.
 While one fully realizes the Importance Of the usual devotional exercises held in col legcs, the organizing of Christian forces will increase the spiritual life of the young women, and the far-rea ching influences of hundreds of girl students who realize the responsibility for their example in daily liv- ing cannot be overestdmated The purpose of the college association is 10 unite and organize the Christian forces and influences of the college, and to interest all students in the Christian life of other colleges. The work of the association is carried through a number of student committees, serving under the direction of the usual officers.
 Miss Crosby emphasized, too, the great value of the summer conferences in the matter of promoting the work.
 "The southern conference" she said, "is held at Asheville. N. C., and the three conferences the past summer that were held in Asheville, Wisconsin and in New England, were attended by 1000 young wo- men, majority of them being undergrad uates.
 ''The student department of the Ameri- can committee" continued Miss Crosby, includes 96S associations in universities, colleges and semnaries." And as she con- tinued speaking of the progress of the work I was impressed with her earnest ness, but particularly with her bright way of conversing upon a subject, that the majority of persons seem to think requires a somewhat penetential air.
 Something of the extent of the work of the student department of the Young Women's Christian association may be judged from the following:
 The associations extend in their territory from Colby University of Maine, Radcliffe college and Brown University of Massa- chusetts, and Rhode Iselnad in the east to Leland Stanford, Jr., University and the State universities of California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington, in the west. From the State universities of North and South Dakota and of Minnesota, in the north, to Ft Worth university of Texas, Lucy Cobb institute of Georgia and Randolph Macon Woman's college of Virginia, in the south.
 This intercollegiate movement, the larg- est student organization among women In the world. is affiliated with the Worlds Student Christian federation, which unites eleven national and international stu dent Christian movements, these move ments including 1,212 student associatoins, with an aggregate membership of 55,350 Its missionary department is the Student Volunteer Movement of Foreign missions, whose rolls show nearly 4,000 student vol unteers, representing AS denominations, one-thtrd of these volunteers being women students.
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