Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-24


4 nag e guide the battle of each day.
motto that viii peace and courage
If + + right, there is no other way
WISE words. that clear the tangles from
Pleasure may whisper. doubt may urge
And seIi may argue. but it speaks ia
III # is right. there is no other way!'
Ihls Is the voice of God, tAe eaii of
Happy the man who hears it to obey.
And fellows upwasd. onward, from his
s0ota -o..o
Women as College Trustees.
] soIiege trusteeship is one IF the more
recent concessions made TO women and
while. as is to be expected in every in
stance women trustees are greatly la
the minority among their men colleagues
| so many institutions have adopted the
innovation that il is simpler to sa,
| where they are not than to enGmerat I,
all of the prominent institutions whel e
the woman trustee has become an az
cepted fact. In the first class are the
state universities. as those of Kansas,
| Nebraska and Michigan. Here the uni
| verslties of Illinois, Wisconsin and Cali
fornia are the three notable exceptions,
To this class also belongs Leland Stan
ford, Jr university and the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, and the
southern colleges for women alone, as
Randolph Macon and Sweet Briar insti-
tute. III the second class may be count
ed. among others, the four great wo-
mems colleges, Yassar. Smith Wellesley
and Bryn Aiawr. Barnard college and
Radcliffe college, Oherlin, Boston uniyer-
Sity, Cornell university and Syracuse of
which these last four are eo-educatonal.
The proportion of women to men trus-
tees varies on different boards. Bryn
Mawr college for example. adopts n
liberal attitude toward the question OF
the fifteen members of its corporation
one is woman. and OF the eighteen
members constituting its board OF direc-
tors -four are women. Smith college has
a board Of trustees of fifteen members.
Of which three are women. Nassar has
board Of thirty-one members, of which
four are women. Boston university has
a corporation of thirty-three members, of
which two are women, and Cornell uni
versity has board of trustees of forty
two members, of which one is, at pres
ent. woman. Except in a few ia-
stances. the number of women varies
from four to one without reference TO
the number of men. Radcliffe is gov
erned by sixteen women out of thirty
three associates, as they are called, and
the Western Reserve university, in
Cleveland. o., has an advisory council
of w0laen of twenty-five members, sup
plementing a board of trustees of only
twenty-five representatives of the sterner
sex.
The woman trustee, as a class, comes
generally under one of three heads; she
is either the administrative officer Of the
college, or a donor, or an alumna. There
is Inherent logic In placing woman,
responsible for the conduct of 4 large in-
stitution, on its governing board. Miss
Caroline Hazard, president of Wellesley
college. is a trustee of that school ex-
oflicio, and, likewire. President Woolley
is trustee of Mount Holyoke college.
President M. Carey Thomas of Bryn
Mawr. who was first and for some years
an alumnae trustee of her alma mater.
Cornell university. was elected trustee of
Brvn Mawr college few s'eurs ago,
and recently a member also Of its cor
IpOration
Among women who have given of
themselves as well as of their silver and
gold to women's education, there are
many who have been dignilied by posi-
ton on the governing body of a college,
These are often donors IN the accepted
sense. women of wealth. Often they are
women of liberal service, who have spok-
en- and worked and plead in behalf of
the cause and object which they have
held dear Nearly all of the womeu's
colleges are fortunate In the friendship
of one such woman. Bryn Mawr has
Miss Garrett of Baltimore: Wellesley
has Mrs. Henry r. Durant, Nassar has
Mrs Fred r, Thompson, the University
of California has Mrs. Phoebe A.
Hearst. Barnard has two ladies among
its founders. All of these are trustees,
respectively, Of the institutions COM
manding their henefactions and their
service. Again there are other women
of influence remarkable rather for at
tainment, honorabIeness and character,
to whom colleges owe their very incep-
tiaH and existence. To such as these
Radcliffe and the Woman's College Of
Brown university are much indebted
After the donor trustee comes tho
alumnae representative. Just as 1t Is ns-
sumed thai no college admitting women
can consult the best interests Of its
women students without q woman ON it's
governing body. so it is assumed that
the interests Of its alumnae body. ipse
facto colleges best supporters, are SEE
cured by admitting their representatives
into its council chamber. And, vice YER
sa, their best and most enlightened SER
ices are secured. We find these alumnae
trustees on the boards of our greatcsr
colleges, Mt Vassar, Smith, Wellesley
and Egyn Mawr: at Barnard, Radcliffe
and Western Reserve: at Cornell and at
Mount Iolyoke. and her daughters,
| Lake Erie and Western.
The alumnae representatives, unlike
the other trustees. are not elected for
| long or underlined terms. Their periods
of service are short. OF the two aiumnae
| trustee directors at Bryn Mawr, onc Is
| elected for six years and one for three
| Those of Wellesley are elected for uni
| form terms of six years
| If one might only know the distinct
| services rendered by the women trustees
placed In positions Of high responsibility,
one would probably have fresh ara in
| teresting evidence Of woman's ability
! And one cannot but be gratifed that tie
worth IL their counsel and tho readiness
| of their claim TO these positions have
/ recogpized.-E. T.. in Vogue.
Uses Of Vanity.
"The longer / live" said Mr. Mac
| Blink "the more / think that the great
| est personal blessing youchsafed 10 man
| IL personal vanity.
Sd the mighty snub us? We smile
| and think that we are better than they
Are sOme men richer than WEI Why