New-York tribune., 1901-10-28
COLLEGIATE ALUMNE.
ANNUAL MEETING N BUFFALo-LARGE
INCREASE N MEMBERSHIP.

Perhaps the most encouraging feature reported
Saturday az the meeting o, the Association OF Col
iegate Alumns held at Buffalo three days last
week was the fact that during the last year nearly
fourteen hundred women had 3oined the associs-
tion-an increase IN membership OF more than 50
per cent. There are stiu many eligible graduates
not included IN the association, but year after
year feeling more strongly the value OF organza-
t.on, they enter q.
The Buffalo meetings were especially important
because they marked the twentieth anniversary OF
The association. which started n lss2 with mem
bership OF sixty-sx women representing eight COL
lsges. The institutional Membership has increased
less rapidly than that OF individuals. FOR only
twenty-Ihree colleges among all those from which
women may be graduated IN this country were
entitled delegates 20 the recent annual meeting
The association IS rather slow IN admitting new
colleges 10 membership. because only by being con-
servstive can exert influence for raising coll
lege standards in the matter both OF entrance and
graduation requirements.
Besides the increase IN membership, second sig
nifcant thing brought oUt by this years reports OF
the various branches OF the association Is the IN
terest which the college woman IS taking n DO
nestc science For example, the Boston branch
for several years has had committee on domestic
service Some OF the facts which 81 has gathered
have been tabulated and embodied IN reports issued
by the Massachusetts Bureau o: Labor Statistics.
The latest ot these reports covered the relative
cost OF home cooked and purchased foods, and so
soon exhausted. The demand for copies came from
al parts Of the country. The same committee Will
issue similar report on the relative cost OF
laundry work. whether done IN the house or out
side OF Il. The Boston branch has also succeeded
n getting courses in domestic science introduced 70
certain extent IL some OF the high schools Of the
city. IN Washington the branch Of the collegiate
alumne feels repaid for its efforts by seeing DO
nestc science course established in the new Tech
niosl High School for Girls.
The EFFORT 10 encourage the study OF domestic
science in the public schools has been hardly sec
ondary in importance 10 that for forwarding the
interests Of the public schools The Rhode Island
branch for example, has gone thoroughly into the
subject OF the schools. The Buffalo and Boston
branches have made a complete investigation OF
the sanitary condition OF the Boston schoolhouses.
and in the latter city the result large special
appropriation for improving bad conditions.
A few years ago, when the Mercantile Inspection
bM was under consideration in NeW-York. the
Aeg-York branch sent out more than i've thousand
circulars and four hundred personal letters in
Practical educational work is. however. the first
oolect of ne organization. The presidents OF @ the
association have often been women OF national
reputation IN educational matters, among them
nts AAce Freeman Palmer, the FORMER prsslaeflt
q Wellesley: Miss Marion Talbot, dean OF Chicago
Sbbe sc ana IL ne rspg a be Work for fbe
higher education OF women has been most definite
Opportunities for two women annually 10 study
abroad and in This country. and they sun provide
ot high scholastic sttainments and ambitions, and
the women holding them have gone instructors
~ colleges and other institutions, where their Work
mas been of much greater value than il could have
oeen without the special training. The department
~ child study has also been profitable one tor
ne members OF the association. and the name Of
a4ss Mtlllcent Shtnn a guiding spirit IN thlS
-Ork shows how earnestly II has been undertaken
ne endoWtng OF a table at the Naples station for
NE use Of American women students is largely the
sork OF the collegiate alumne. and the women
VIC have this IN charge took further step toward
Eromotns scientific investigation by establishing a
pa1e OF s. 90 10 be awarded in April, 1903, TO the
woman who shah present the best thesis giving
NE result of her independent laboratory re-
sSfcn N the biological chemical ana physical SCI
enees The examiners Will include some OF the
America
BY the end OF another twenty years women
eIhoaates OF colleges may have permeated so
sLorongnly The various employments and profes-
Suns that the need OF organization ike the As
soeiaton OF Collegiate Alumne VIII not be felt. "
SC mem Der. But al present they can render
seoe service 10 the community by thus organizing
fssssnselVes Early IN their existence they pub
nsA.n OF college women. and within the last year
s~o they have been conducting a similar in
s,eslsston on q much larger scale. SO far as
l.~s.slcs can Il viii show how the health OF col
lsc women compares with women IN similar
N-,cnmstsnces outside of college"
-ALeef the speech Of welcome by Miss Poole the
rl..rls OF the variOu. committees We're given on
Isosy afternoon. IN the evening Miss Leach
Ssn van OF Barnard, described the Cuban teachers
ro.lhern expedition. Law a a Profession for
sonen" treated by Miss Elvs Young OF
rtt,.hghelo Mass. practising lawyer President
D. claims OF the proposed national university. and
f,s3lessor Emma N. Perkins. OF Western Reserve
University, described the rights and privileges OF