Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-14
Reunion of Graduates of Wom-
ans Colleges.
OVER TWO HUNDRED THERE
Responsibilities Shown by President
Wooley Of Mount Holyoke.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORK
Toasts Responded to by Miss Board
man, Miss Small, Mrs. Gait
and Miss Sawyer.

''College-bred women become the best
wives and -homemakers because of their
mental equipment to do more than any
other class for the public health, the
eradication Of disease and other evils
coming within the sphere Of female in
fluence. The field OF woman's influence
is charging every day, and 1t is the
women themselves, in every class of life,
who must be fully equipped to meet
these demands upon her."
The foregoing was the keynote of the
fourth annual dinner of the College
women's Club last night sounded by
Miss Mary E. Wooley, president of
guest Of honor, responded to the toast
What E,veEy Woman Knows"
Work for the College Woman.
Miss Wooley said in part
The college woman knows her respon-
sibility does not end with herself or her
home. The opportunities to work for
social righteousness are boundless. Think
of the present needs of our country. There
must be laws to protect the 100000 chill
dren under fourteen years of age in sweat
shops, factories. coal mines. defrauded of
the joys and chances which ought to be
the inalienable rights Of childhood.
There must be the elimination OF the
sweat shop, even at the sacrifice of every
bargain-loying drop OF blood In our veins.
There should be the substitution of play
grounds and the legitimate recreation In
place of cheap shows and perniclous
amusements which flourish in every city.
There should be limitation of the
hours of work, and provision for right
conditions for women and girls, that they
may not he exposed to the dangers of
physical, mental and moral weaknesses
the consequence of inordinate demands
upon their physical strength. There must
be legislation which would make impos-
sibie the herding together of human
beings in disease and sin breeding tene-
ments, a travesty on the name home,
Other Toasts.
The dinner was given in the banquet
hall of Rauscher's, Connecticut avenue
and l. street, and was presided over by
Mrs. Frank q. Wilkins. the clubs presi-
dent. Over 300 graduates of womans COL
leges and coeducational institutions were
present. Besides Miss Wooley the follow
ing responded to toasts: Miss Mabel L.
Boardman on why the Red Cross APP
peals to Women; Miss vivian Blanche
Small, president of Lake Erie College,
on Academic LEISURE; Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait of the International
Equal Suffrage League on "A Vanishing
Dream; Miss Mary Alma Sawyer, dean
of the Western College, on Some Prob
lens of College Development" and the
president of the club made an address OF
welcome.
The addresses of Mrs. Gait and Miss
Boardman dwelt at some length on the
position of TIER sex in the practical af-
lairs of the world, those of Miss Small
and Miss Sawyer were devoted to edu-
cational advancement Of women and the
development Of the higher institutions OF
learning for the sex. Between the toasts
Miss Edna ]. Sheehy sang number of
we'll chosen vocal selections. accompanied
by Miss Anna keyser. Other musical
numbers were rendered by the clubs
quartet