Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-07-07
TO THE PARIS SHOW
College Women Will Be Largely
Represented.
Expedition to he Enlightened by
Statistics - American Universal
ties VIII Have Great
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showing.
Interesting to women is an investi.
CATION OF statistics with regard col
iege women now being carried on by
the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.
The results, says the Chicago Chron-
icle, are to be tabulated and sent to the
Paris exposition. The institutions at
present included in this association
are: Barnard college, Boston uni
versity, Bryn Mawr college, University
of California, University of Chicago,
Cornell university, University of Kan
sas, Leland Stanford Junior university.
Massachusetts institute Of technology.
University of Michigan, University of
Minnesota, University of Nebraska,
Northwestern university, Oberlin col
lege, Radcliffe college. Smith college,
University OF Syracuse. Nassar college,
Wellesley college, Wesleyan university,
University of Wisconsin and the Wom-
ans College of Western Reserve uni
versity.
The association was organized in
1882, and has 1000 members out of the
10000 women graduates eligible for
membership. Twenty-Five local
branches cooperate with the national
association in its general work. 1t is
the only body which represents the col
lege women of the country as q whole,
and its object is practical educational
work. Among other things the assoc
fia .ll 11,.,
loWship and makes a yearly contribu-
ton towards the maintenance of an
American Woman's table at the zoolog-
zeal station at Naples. \ council to
accredit women for advanced work at
foreign universities awards certificates
of fitness which assist properly quail
fed women in obtaining the privileges
open to women in foreign universities.
An educational magazine and other
publications are printed and circulated
among the members.
Two previous attempts to get salts
factory statistics about the health of
college women have been inconclusive
because of the failure of the graduates
to reply In 1882 the association re-
ceived and had tabulated replies from
105 women of this country In 1887 the
health statistics of women students of
Cambridge and Oxford were collected
by Mrs. Henry Sidgwick and published
by the Cambridge University Press,
but only 562 graduates responded and
450 sisters or cousins who had not been
to college.
1T is hoped that the present investi-
cation will yield better results. To
each alumna have been sent three
blanks, one to be filled out by herself
another by her college brother or
cousin. twenty-five questions are to
be answered, which will make pretty
complete history of the young wom-
ans mental and physical life from her
earliestschool days. She is asked about
her health before her college course,
duringit and afterwarG. about her hab-
ITS III college, her living arrangements,
her expense, her attempts at sef-sup-
port if she made any, her exercise. her
postgraduate work, occupation, mar
rage or nonmarriage. Questions COW
ermg the same period are also pre-
pared for her noncollegiate sister and
her college brother. No names are
given, so that answers can be made
freely From the replies the associa-
ton hopes to be able to draw conclu-
sions which will not leave the health,
occupations and marriage rate of coll
lege women SO much in the dark as be-
fore. These statistics will be valuable
also as basis for comparison between
girls i'll the same social group.