Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
AS SOUTH'S TRIBUTE
Proposed to Build a Great Uni
versity for Women.
VIRGINIA URGED TO LEAD
Would Avoid Need Of Co. Education
at Charlottesville.
ASKED TO ATTEND CHAPEL
President Alderman, However, Does
Not Believe in Making Attendance
of Students Compulsory.
VIRGINIA URGED TO LEAD
ASKED TO ATTEND CHAPEL
Special Correspondence Of The Star

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
October IA. 1911.
The general discussion of subject
that has received unusual consideration
in the past few years in the columns
of College Topics. the chief news
medium of che University of Virginia,
has been the most interesting develop
ment of the past week here
1t is generally known by all those
who have followed the university affairs
in late years that on several distinct
occasions tile Virginia legislature has
defeated a motion to establish a CO.
ordinate college for women at the local
institution.
follows:
Tribute to Northern Women.
The announcement made. the other
day that movement had just been
launched in New York city to raise half
a million dollars to build a national
monument in Washington TO the memory
OF the northern women who suffered
during the civil war, brings home the
fact that the herOiSm and noble self
sacrifice displayed by the women of the
south during that bitter period are still
unprecedented in marble or stone.
movement to that end has been pro-
posed. and some of it's most ardent
supporters are to be found here in Nlr-
ginia, but so far as We know no official
action, beyond the passing of resolu-
tons favoring it, has ever been taken
in the matter by either the Daughters
or Sons OF the Confederacy, or any other
southern organization.
''One of the most enthusiastic advo-
Gates of such a monument is Don Z.
Halsey of Lynchburg, member of the
state senate. at its last session his loea
So. IC
was advanced by southern woman
nearly twenty years ago at the Chicago
worlds fair. She declared that 1t ought
TO take the form of great memorial
university for women. She called at
tention to the enduring beRefits that
would accrue from such an Institution
as contrasted with the unsu1- tantla. cnar-
acter of a mere monumental shaft, built
of bronze or marble however high.
Don p. Halsey sees In the plan TO
establish such a monument something
besides a memorial: he sees In 1T
means of averting the necessity of the
state founding a Coordinate college for
women at this university in order TO
afford the women of the state equal OPP
portunity with the men for acquiring
higher education.
Virginia Should Lead.
In an address he delivered June 3 be-
. fore the Veterans and Daughters of the
gested that the women of the state who
are favoring the plan of a coordinate
college combine their efforts with those
of the advocates of a suitable memorial
to the women of the Confederacy, and
ask that a separate institution, wom-
ems university. be founded by the state
of virginia. BY so combining their eff
forts and influence said Mr.. Halsey at
that time, they will secure far more
efficient and useful institution than
they can secure by working for an OBJ
Jectionab;e annex. Let Virginia lead the
way and perhaps the other southern
states and their people will join hands
with her in making the memorial tnSti-
tuition represent the entire south. Surely
no state is better entitled to lead than
Virginia. Let Virginia then make
the same appropriation and provide the
same annuity for great memorial uni
versity that will be asked for the pro-
posed annex. This will be sufficient for
a start, and by founding the institution
in memory of the Confederate women it
will ipso facto invite and receive support
from sources that would feel no interest
in woman's college as an annex to the
mems university 1t will give the annex
advocates what they want in an effective
and unobjectionabe way, and will cost
no more Of as much to the state. for the
reason that such a memorial institution
would attract contributions to its endow-
ment fund from individuals and organiza
tons which would give nothing to an an
mex. For instance, IL Is cOnceiVdDle t0aG
those organizations already at work to
raise money for a monument to southern
women would prefer to erect that mOnu-
nent in the form of a building perhaps
20 found a school of industrial training at
the proposed memorial university, and
members of the various southern soci-
cites all over the country, we'll in
dividuals, would doubtless consider 1t
privilege TO contribute to adequate
endowment.
Attendance at Chapel.
1t is the policy of the faculty commit
tee on religion at the University of Vir-
ginia To bring the strongest available
speakers in this vicinity here to lecture
in the university chapel.
Tomorrow DIR. Walter Ling1e will oc-
cupy the pulpit. DIR. Lingle is one Of the
leading ciergymen of the south. is a ma
tive of Rowan county. y. c., a graduate
of David son College and Union Theologi-
cal Seminary. where he has only recently
been male professor of Hebrew literature
For many years he has been president
OF the board of trustees at Davidson
College. During his stay in Charlottes-
Vile, he will be the guest Of President
and Mrs. Alderman OF the university.
DR. Alderman. the committee On re-
ligious exercises and a representation OF
The student body of the university. have
held numerous conferences of late in
regard 20 the general attitude toward
chapel exercises, the duties and response