New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-10
MOUNT HoLYoKEs WORK
Final Struggle to Secure Needed
Endowment.
~ Edltor of Nd TrIbune.

Sir: The year that witnesses the advent
OK a womans college al New LONDON
Conn, marks also the seventy -hfth
birthday OF the mother OF womens COL
leges. the Mount Holyoke OF Mary Lyon.
During those seventy-nve years the
higher education of giris-in the East, at
the publicly endowed institutions for
which Mary Lyon contended, in the west
at state colleges and universities-has
become an accepted part Of our democ-
racv. II is only when the colleges come
before Us with pleas for endowment
money. as Mount Holyoke does to-day
that we are reminded that they are pubic
institutions. chartered by the state, man
a1ed BIZ trustees. and financed by the
Gifts OF the public. We have. therefore
right 10 ask what return they are
making 10 the public. to which they owe
their life. What account are they giving
OF their stewardship9 To what purpose
did Mount Holyoke spend the egg ana
butter money" OF New England farmers
and their wives. and the hard-earned saw
jrgs OF doctor. minister. and teacher.
which went IN 1897 70 make up the Ao'""
fund % that pioneer institution
To such questions no college can make
better answer than Mount Holyoke. Inc
shirt o. sacrifice and service which
moved those early gtvsrs has remained
throughout tho seventv-hve years Of her
b,sto-v. No Better justification OF higher
education for women can to-day be found
than the record OF her four thousand
living graduates. The colleges wh'ch
have succeeded her pay tribute 70 this
spirit into whose inheritance they have
come. In the early DAYS Mount Holyoke
women went out 20 DO teachers. wives
and mothers. and missionaries. Nova
DAYS the range OF vacations IS broader.
bur tho spirit IS the same. The mission
a-v group would include large number
u young women who are engaged IN set
clement work playground supervision
yourS Vomen's Christian Association
work. and similar social service az horne.
These Young women do not wait -
aegir such service urtu their college
course is completed. n term time under
graduates from TIC college conduct
classes and clubs ro- factory girls IN
,re reIghboriug city - IIolyQkc. During
the summer months they carry on IN
South Hacley a vacation house for work
ing girls. and IN n crowded section Of
Boston successful Biole school. \
glance az the records compiled from a
recent census % graduates shows that the
alu-7nr are az active and as much IN
earnest as their younger sisters. Eighty
two per cent of them engage In some
Kind OF work IN tho Years preceding mar
rlage. and az large a percentage Of I'M
married graduates report themselves as
employed in some definite activity. BY
postgraduate as well "a Undergraduate
study the teachers keep themselves quail
aed 10 b. a real force IN tho Intellectual
~. % the communities which thev serve.
80 Mount Holyole comes % her sev-
ertv-ff.h annIverssrv with p proud record
of tho service which tho ten thousand
and more women who have gone ont from
ho- halls have rendered - home and
.~hool. 70 community and country. With
this record - her justification she IS
seeking means % continue this work
without raising her tuition fees 20 sum
which would shut out many girls ~
small means ~ tho S"o 30 which she Il
trying 10 raise fo- endowment purposes
before October e all but S13.oro has been
conditlonauy pledged Put the time IS
short. and tho circle 81 immediate friends
has responded almost 20 the utmost. II
So earnestly hoped that people 90 wealth
WI sec IN the chance 70 make up this
last 5000 an opportunity 70 assure Mount
Holvoke's continuance Or that good work
IN which she has already proved her sue
cess. r. NJ
Now York Aug :. or