New-York tribune., 1908-11-12
A WOMAN'S EDUCATION
To Get a Husband Not Its Object,
SAYS DR.. Lyman abbott.

Once upon a time a missionary related the para
BILE Of the ten virgins to Indian congregation
and was puzzled to observe that 1t was not pro-
ducing the effect he intended. He was talking
through interpreter. and afterward ne thousht
wise to ascertain what the Interpreter had said
To his horror he leaEned that the ten virgins had
been converted into old maids. who had gone
forth with lanterns to look for husbands
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott told this story to
the Abbott Collegiate Association at its annual
meeting the chapel of the Brick Presbyterian
Church yesterday afternoon. when he presented on
its behalf to Wellesley College portrait or MS
uncle, Dr. Gorham d. Abbott, together with
memorial fund of $1,000 This story, he said, repre-
sented the old idea of female education which MS
uncle had done so much to change. Its object was
to furnish with a lantern TO aid her In
Fer search for a husband.
we have got wholly away" DR.. Abbott
said, from the idea that the object of woman
education is to make her a better ornament Tor
the parlor or a more capable hired servant. A
woman should more be educated TO be a Wfe
and mother than should be educated 10 be
a husband and father. She should be educated 10
be woman is educated to be a man 1t
is often said that the noblest office woman can
fill is that of wife and mother and 1 not going
to dispute that assertion. But l don't think any
Of you heard it said that the nobest office a
man can fill is that of husband and father. l be-
lieve can claim copyright that statement"
The portrait and a check for 100e which is to
be applied to the endowment fund of Wellesley Col
lege were accepted by Mrs. Frank Mason North.
one Of the trustees. 1t hoped that the college
might have been represented by its president Miss
Caroline Hazard, but she detained by Illness.
Dr. Gorham D. Abbott was the founder of Sping
Ter Institute. and it he who suggested TO
Matthew Vassar the adjustment of Vassar Col
lege. The Abbott association has established a
perpetual scholarship Vassar in his memory.
The Abbott association will be continued after
this as social organization holding only one meet
ing q year 1t was found impossible to find any
any one to take the place Of the late president.
Mrs. Melville Emory Mead. of Norwalk, Conn. who
died very suddenly in May, and as the membership
Is constantly decreasing one it is thought mad
visable 10 pledge the organization to any definite
work such it has done in the past Instead of
president and other officers. the association there
fore eqected yesterday the following executive COM
rnittee Mrs Everett p. Wheeler, Miss Gertrude F.
McNanee Mrs. r. A Carpenter, Mrs. J. Jarrett
Blodgett Mrs William II. Beadeston, Miss s Ed
wilma Brown Mrs. H. S. Church. Mrs. Albert Erd-
man Mrs Thomas Hooker, Mrs. Walter w Law,
Mrs William u. Moore, Mrs Cornelius B. Smith,
Mrs Arthur T. Sullivan, Mrs. Henry Y. Satterlee'
Tr Julia Holmes Smith, Mrs. A. V Wadhams and
Mrs F. E. Lathrop The executive committee Will
elect its own chairman, secretary and treasurer at
it's first meeting Mrs. J. Jarrett Blodgett presided
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