The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

whenever in the opinion of the faculty
the standard of work merits such a pro-
cedure, The Newcomb art pottery, jew
elry. embroidery and glasswork are said
to find ready sale and secure consid-
cradle return in money to a number o
young women. Eight thousand dollars or
more will be distributed this year among
them as profits from this work.
An indication of it's quality will appear
from the fact that Newcomb pottery has
received medals in the Paris exposition
and in the Worlds fairs at Buffalo and
st. Louis. and the highest award gold
medal in the exposition at Jamestown
Va, Newcomb students have been de-
signers of jewellery for the courts of the
carnival balls in New Orleans and have
planned carnival pageants and costumes
worn at the carnival balls.
In the domestic science department there
is a dining room in which everything ex-
cept the tableware was designed or made
by the students The pottery. fixtures,
electric light domes, furniture, emhroid-
cries, all represent the combined activities
of various student groups. In this respect
the room can probably not be duplicated
in any other college.
Although experiences and skill are
sought work at Newcomb is educational
rather than industrial. Every effort is
made to maintain high and advancing
commercial value of the products the
economy of production and other consider
ations which would be of first Importance
in mere industry are subordinated to
the educational interests involved. Orig
inality and individual initiative are every
where encouraged. No design can be
copied, nor, except in rare instances, can
1t be repeated. Therefore, in the Newcomb
product, duplictes are not to be found
Domestic Careers
1t is matter of pride at Newcomb that
the system leads toward, rather than
away FROM domestic career. Yet the
college not only encourages, but insists
upon the greatest freedom consistent with
cooperative effort The student body
elects it's own student officers TO govern
it. The code of student honor is carefully
maintained and universally respected; the
relations between classes and between
students and faculty are exceptionally
close and cordial and the older students
accept large measure of responsibility
/ for the incoming casses-in short, the
college forms practical democracy,
where distnctinos of wealth or social po-
sition, of nationality or creed seem to
have been forgotten. That this indepen-
dent spirit is no bar to marriage is shown
by the record; 60 per cent of all the New
comb graduates have married, and OF
| those of 80 and upwards, over 10 per cent
| have married.
Newcomb has outgrown its present quar-
| ters and now intends to move to a larger
site, still farther from the center of the
! city. The plans. completed by James
! Gamble Rogers of New York, have been
accepted by the board of administration,
| who exject to begin work as soon as prac-
| ticabte. The plan contelnplates accommo-
dation for 1000 students.
! Speaking of the aims of the college
| DR.. Dixon said recently:
From it's organization its policy has
| consistently been to cherish and develop
those ideals of womanhood which have
always been dear to the south and to in
| sist that scholarship and culture should
be subordinate to them. Without yielding
to any other in the seriousness of its
work or the rigor of it's training 1t never
| theless insists that a woman's college
| should not be an imitation of college
! for men and that all discipline and cul-
ture should be there directed toward the
preparation of women's mission, without
narrowly prescribing the nature of that
mission or interfering in any way with
the free development of native endow-
ments. 1t assumes that under the exist
ing social conditions the vast majority
of women are and will be concerned in
the care of the home, that they will be
Ihome-keepers or home builders, and edu-
cation or 1ystem for women which fails
to take account ofs this essential fact
must necessarily be defective.
The vocational training Of young meg
is everywhere eagerly undertaken; mil
lions have been appropriated for this
purpose. but the great vocation of women,
the making of homes, one of the most
pressing needs of our present day civili-
zstion, is but meagerly considered by the
higher educational Institutions