The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-05
United Pun Give. Power.
ENGLISH SCHOLARSHIPS Fol
| AMERICAN WOMEN.

AMERICAN WOMEN'
BY Frances Squire Potter, University
OF Minnesota
When Cecil Rhodes founded his
scholarships for American and Colo
NAL students at oxford, he OWNED
the tendencies of the future, and di-
rected his efforts to be in accord
with them The tendencies of the
future are toward greater and ever
greater federation. There is just
now temporary reaction in this
world movement, and we hear an oc-
casional note Of disapproyal OF Cecil
Rhodes's project sounding along
with the temporary reaction. But
whatever reactionists may say against
the Cecil Rhodes scholarships, the fu-.
tture will prove the policy which
brought the higher life OF the two
English-speaking nations face to face
to have been the policy Of a great
statesman.
1t was an Englishman who gave to
American men an opportunity to inn
bibe the richest and highest ideas in
the culture life OF our mother coun-
try. Three years ago the Society Of
American Women in London adj
vanced the idea that what an Eng
lishman did for American men
American women should do for them
selves. The notable movers in this
project were Madame Thayer, ma
tive Of Louisiana, now a resident of
London, and president Of the Amer
lean Circle Of the Lyceum Club, Mrs.
Ella Dietz Clymer Glynes, president
of the Society of American Women in
London, who, when president Of
Sorosis in New York, gave to our
federated clubs the motto, Unity in
Diversity" and Madame Andre
Rieder, chairman of the Education
Committee of the Society of American
Women in London. Many English
and American women became inter-
ested in the enterprise.
At business meeting, April %,
1906, it was resolved that the
Society of American Women in Lon
don raise a fund to bring one student
from the District of Columbia to Ok
ford, Cambridge, or London. The
amount to be raised and the length of
the course Of study were left to the
Education Committee. In June, 1908,
a sufficient amount had been raised
by the society to offer scholarship
for one year to one American woman,
and it was accorded by the Society to
Miss Glare Howard of New York.
Miss Howard accepted the scholarship
and is now at Oxford.
At the 1906 Biennial of the Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs held at st.
Paul, communications relative to the
scholarship scheme were read from
| the Society of American Women in
London, and approved by the Fed
Grated Clubs of America. In order to
test the home interest in English
scholarships, the Federated Clubs
committed themselves to an effort to
raise a fund by voluntary state con-
tributions of 500 each, said fund to
be used for the support of one
American woman student at an Eng
lish university for the term of two
years. During the following year an
advisory committee and committee
of selection we're appointed to work
out suitable method for putting
such a scholarship into effect. At the
1908 Biennial held at Boston many
states contributed 500 or more
each. Recently, invitations to con-
tribute have been sent to the states
yet unheard from, in order that the
fund may be closed and student
may be sent to England next fall.
Special communications to each state
have been sent, also, relative to ex-
aminations and the qualification Of
candidates.
While no further contribution has
been asked from the Federated Clubs
of America, those interested in the
scholarship idea have hoped from the
first that eventually one or two
scholarships may be founded in each
state, whose income should provide
perpetually for the support of their
most brilliant minds in the British
universities. 1t is not a new idea.
For many years past our leading uni
versities have banded together, and
offered scholarships for study in
Athens or Rome or various other
Continental stations. There are COM
paratively many opportunities for our
young men, but, except in the arts,
very few for our women. American
women touch Europe on good many