Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-18
EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
International Institute in Spain Sub
ject of Addresses.

The Association of Collegiate Alumnae
spent most enjoyable afternoon recently
at the home of Miss Woodward on Wy
oming avenue The Subject of the meeting
was the Education of Spanish Women and
the work of the International Institute for
Girls in SPAIN
DR.. Edward Everett Hale who has been
interested for many years in the school
founded by Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulick, was
present and made an address. In his OPEN
ing remarks DR.. Hale spoke of the spirit of
the institute. the devotion of its founder
and of the needs of Spanish women for just
this kind of stimulus to intellectual prog
ress. He believes it is fitting that Ameri-
cans shall give this institute their support
that 1t may stand as peace monument be-
tween the United States and Spain.
After talking about fifteen minutes Dr.
Hale introduced Miss Josephine Short. who
represents the League of Schools and Col
reyes, which is working for the support of
the institute. She said in substance that
although the universities of Spain were
thrown open to women in 1868 vet as thev
nave no schools in which to prepare for en-
trance very few have awaited themselves
or the opportunity. There is one such
school, however, an American institution.
founded over twenty years ago by the late
Mrs. Gulick. In 1899 the school was incor-
porated under the laws of the state of
Massachusetts, 1t has among its endorsers
John Hay, Secretary of State; John W.
roster, former Secretary of State Stewart
L. Woodford, ex-minister to SPAIN Presi-
dent Eliot of Harvard University, and the
presidents of many of the leading colleges
although many of the pupils are from
very poor families, said Miss Short. they
are bright and eager to learn. Since 1891
girls from the school have taken the ex-
amlnations at the state institutions for
boys, passing with the highest honors and
carrying off prizes offered to the boys In
University of Madrid, where they were
graduated in 1897 with the highest honors
given by the university
In l9Vo, the speaker stated two other
students took the degree of the school of
pharmacy. In all nineteen girls from this
institute have taken the degree of b. A.
from the state universities. Over 3 900 chill
oren throughout Spain are now being
institute
AT the outbreak of the war, Miss Short
continued, the school moved over the bor-
DER INTO France, all the students with full
consent OF their parents, gladly following
their teachers. Later it seemed best to es-
tablish the school at Madrid, where its in
huence would be even greater The corpor.
alton secured an acre and half of land in
beautiful part of the city, and remodeled
an old building, into which the school was
moved In 1903. A much-needed new build
Ing is in process of erection for which only
S45.OOO of the $4,000 needed has been
raised. -
After the death of Mrs. Gulich the founder
and head of the institute, the college wo-
men of Massachusetts formed league to
interest the schools and colleges of the
United States and all friends of the educa-
ton of women in the work of the institute.
The league hopes by means of it's member
ships and donations to assist the school un
TIL 1t becomes self-supporting.
Most of the women's colleges in the east,
the league and many of the prominent pri-
vate schools have joined. Miss Short has
spoken in many Of the Washington schools.