The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
ALab0m0 Women VVanf Statg
 9O Make Appropriation Joy
 lie FuIia 1Nfh'iIer Annex
Present Quarters for Women Students at University Are nade quae the Doors of the University Were Opened to
 Women Students In 1896 They Have Taken High Rank
nY ANNIE KENDRIck wALKER.

E was very much impressed with a re-
 cent article by Miss L. Graham ero-
 zier. "A Crusade Against Ignorance -The Ignorance of the Educated" in which she points out that 1t is not 10 be expected in this day of speeialzee labor that the doctor, the lawyer ana tba merchant will turn himself into the school inspector but that 1t Is reas0n- able to demand that every citizen ao- -knowledging an individual responsipli- ,tv should actively set about informing binoaelf concerning the actual conditions of the schools and their equipment.
 Her crusade against the evident in difference in regard to any personal in- sneotion of our educational system might apply to conditions as they exist in Alabama concerning the equipment of the Julia Tutwiler annex at the uni- versity.
 II has now been five years since the doors of the university were opened to young women, and yet the important matter of state appropriation Tor prop erlv eouibping the annex has never been seriously discussed until recently when attention was called to its importance bv Mrs. Pryscilla Tyler Goodwin
 Probably nine-tenths of the readers ol tbis article know just as much about the equipment of the annex as they oo about one of the schools in the rurai districts of the state. and yet they near fiIv believe in the higher educauoh ., women and admit that a great lormaru war step was made when they were auiiii' ted to the university ., ..,,,-
 To those who have not taken the trou- hla to ascertain the facts for them selves. a study of the situation as pre- sented by Mrs. Goodwin will convince tbem that Alabama club women, III their educational work. have reahzeu that unless money is provided Tor eduip- ,nent little progress can be made 70. wards accomplishing the real purpose oi co-education. , 4. 4ho Mrs. Goodwin draws attention to the physical environment or the youhs men at the annex:
 ,aT,bis suhiect." she says, lis not so well understood as 1t should be and the eist of the matter Is that physical envl- ronnent has much to do with the max max ing or marring of results In education and character, which Emerson tells us Is better than intellect.
 s.One of our prominent educators man who exerted a positive Influence in opening the doors Of the university to girls. one who has thoroughly inVes- tigated and understands conditions per- taining to the annex, has recently said that the situation resolves itself to this; Either the state should make an appro- priation for the annex or close the uoors of the university to young women. rms is A strong statement and one the young women themselves would hardly en- dorse. They long for more cheerful con ditions in their school life, and they know the value of outdoor exercise and indoor rest, but rather than forego the larger intellectual gain the university affords, they are willing to endure hardness
 '"The state should and doubtless will. make an appropriation for the Julia Tutwiler annex-the very name deserves q substantial recognition for 1t, but the doors must never be closed while Ala bama girls can, in spite of physical dis comforts and lack of cheer, work their way so valiantly to the front. Six of them have already received the degree of master of arts.
 Alabama owes 1t to her future well fare to foster zealously every education- al advance. We, the people who love the state, do not hope to reach ideal con- dtions along any lines, but we want to feel that we are going forward not re- trograding. We want to keep in view the best methods and conditions, not be- cause we expect to reach them, but that we may always move in the right direc- ton.
 Some of the discomforts our universi- ty girls have to meet are unpleasant crowding in bed rooms. Last year the dining room had to be used as bed room and a hall without fire taken for a dining room; deficient sanitary ar engagements; want of room for outdoor exercise: no indoor nor outdoor games; no piano. and no appliances for exercise of any kind"
 Mrs. Goodwin points out that the uni versity was first opened to girls in 1896. Since then the attendance has increased