Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-12
ARE MOSTLY TEACHERS
Vacations Adopted by Mount
Holyoke Graduates.
SUCCESS OF THE ALUMNAE
Honorable Positions Held by Many of
Them.
MARY. WEBSTER'S WITCHCRAFT
Evil Eye That Worked Disaster at Old
Hadley-Fishing in the
Connecticut.
MARY. WEBsTER'S WITCHCRAFT
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star and the
Record Herald.

Special Correspondence Of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass,
September 2, 1907
l asked the registrar of Mount Holyoke
college what became of the graduates
and other young women who have been
educated here. She replied that thus far in
the history of the Institution there had
been about 5000 graduates and about
10000 students, the majority of whom
adopted teaching as a temporary or a
permanent vocation. There is no record
OF the number of marriages, although a
general knowledge of the destiny of the
Mount Holyoke girls in that respect showed
that the percentage of marriages was as
large as among women generally. An at
tempt Is now being made to obtain definite
Information on this subject and other
facts concerning the post-college careers
OF the alumnae. An association has been
formed, record book has been opened and
700 responses have already been received
to inquiries by the secretary OF these the
largest number are from teachers or ex-
teachers There are also goodly number
of physicians, librarians nurses, editors
artists, designers, secretaries, clerks, Young
Women's Christian Association workers;
but large majority are wives and mothers
which is good evidence In support of the
theory that a higher education does not
disqualify young woman for home life.
l believe that has been demonstrated by the
alumnae of Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley,
Smith and other colleges. AS a rule hus-
band does not want a wife who Is wiser
or more highly educated than himself, but
there ought to be enough college-bred men
to marry all the graduates that the wom-
ems institutions can turn out.
Success Of Some Graduates.
The Mount Holvoke q l,,npaa ara varv nrou5
of some of their number who have attained
eminence in the educational world Mrs
Dascomb, for seventeen years lady princi-
pal of Oberlin; the first lady principal Of
Vassar; Miss Ada L. Howard, first presi-
dent of Wellesley; Miss Shafer and Miss
Morgan OF that institution; the presidents
of Mills College, the only institution for
the higher education of women exclusively
on the Pacific coast; Miss Ferguson. the
president of HugpenOt College at yelling
ton. Cape Colony: Lake Erie College at
gainesville, Ohio. the dean of Western
department Of Colby College. Maine; Alice
Gordon Gulick, director of the International
Institute of Spain: the principals Of Mon
ticello Seminary, Illinois; Birmingham Sem
mary of Pennsylvania, and several other
similar institutions are all Mount Holyoke
graduates. Mr.. .Durant. the founder of
Wellesley, said many times that his impulse
was inspired by Mount Holyoke and Mr..
Moody attributed the establishment of his
seminary at Mortified to Mary Lyons IN
fluence.
The number of Mount Holyoke alumnae
who among the faculties of secondary
and public schools and private seminaries
for girls Is very large. More than thirty
are employed in newspaper offices as edit
orS reporters, prOofreaderS and secretaries.
Several are readers and critics for publica-
ton houses. Two are employed in scien-
tific laboratories, and at least one Mount
Holyoke graduate is civil engineer en-
gagged in designing and building bridges.
She is undoubtedly the only woman who
has adopted that profession.
Demand for Admission.
Last year there were 72O students, of whom
four were taking postgraduate courses and
two were special students. They represent
ed twenty-seven states and India, Mexico
and Turkey. Massachusetts sent 267 of her
best girls. New York 100, Connecticut 90,
New Jersey, SO, New Hampshire and Maine
each 20. Illinois 10. Ohio IA, Iowa II, and
the rest were scattered.
1t is necessary to keep the number down
as near 100 as possible, because there is
room for only $50 in the dormitories, and
the resources of the village are so limited
that 1t is difficult to find boarding houses
for any more. In 1886, when Mary Lyon
laid the corner stone of the first luilding,
she stopped and wrote upon 1t: The Lord
hath remembered our low estate" But
Notwithstanding that spirit of humility, she
turned away 400 applicants the second year
her school was running, and more than
400 were turned away last year. notwith-
standing the Irecently-enlarged accOmoda-
lions. The lists for the approaching Sc
mester closed about one year ago;
the lists for 1908 have already closed. The
lists for 1900 are still open. but more than
half of the rooms which will probably be
available have already been taken. There
are applications in for several years in ad-
vance.
The applications come from all over the
world They include few wealthy girls
whose parents personally interested In
the institution desire their daughters to
be placed under the devout spiritual influ-
ences that exist here. Mount Holyoke is no
place for the frivolous. Its students are
expected to work hard and play hard and
have high purpose to inspire them. Their
gymnasium training and their outdoor life
are quite as strenuous as their study or
classroom exercises. and the girls who are
possessed of social ambition and desire to
shine as bellies would be more easily graft
fled somewhere else. Girls who go to col
lege for a good time' only would have to
flock by themselves at Mount HolyOke, al
though they tell me here that the liveliest
and the most popular of the underclassmen
are the hardest students.
Mount HOlyoke is the lowest-priced of all
the higher institutions for women. board
and tuition costing only $500 per year.