Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-12-05
Conditions Better For Women
At University of Michigan

medical advice and treatment from
the university health service. DIR. Ell
sic S. Pratt is the women's physician.
Opportunity for social service in
many lines is open TO all university
women at Newberry hall, the home
of the University Y. w. c. A, of
which Huldah Bancroft, Is, of Ann
Arbor, is president. Newberry hall
serves as a center for small women's
luncheons and other gathC- ings.
There is as definite a system of
recognition for scholarships, campus
work, and general worth in the wom-
ems honorary societies, as there is in
the mems. Mortar Board is the Sc
Nor honorary society, made up OF
twenty-five women, both sorority
members and independents. This So
ciety has established loan scholar
ship fund, TO help needy women in
college. Senior society is a smaller
group composed entirely of non-sori-
ty women. Wyvern, the Junior hon
orary society, originated and con-
ducts the junior advisor movement.
Omega Phi is a literary-social serv-
ice society to which sophomores and
upper-class women are eligible. The
Girls Glee club, the Women's Dra-
matte association, Cercle Francois,
Deutscher Verein and Stylus, a writ
ing club, are the more specialized
societies.
Women are eligible To certain of
the offices in all the classes and de-
partments, and take equal part with
men in class administration. They
manage, besides, traditional class ac-
tivities of their own, such as the
Junior and Senior plays. A new ven
ture this year is the kermess, to be
given by University women in Hill
Auditorium on December II, under
the auspices of the Women's League,
the Girls Glee Club, and Mosques,
the administrative body Of the WO-
mems Dramatic Association. Mildred
Rees, IS, Of Coudersport, Pa. is gen
eral chairman, and already has her
committees at work.
The Vocational Conference, to be
held under the auspices of the league
in Ann Arbor early in January is in
dicative of the broader outlook upon
life which university women are f0s-
tering. Women prominent in various
pursuits other than teaching, will
university women who wish TO enter
their fields. 1t is hoped to establish
mere, as a result of the conference, a
working vocational bureau in affilia-
ton with the Collegiate Bureau of De-
equations. Judith Ginsburg, IS, OF
Detroit, is general chairman.
The completion of the two new halls
of residence now in process of con-
struction will mark an epoch for
Michigan women. The Newberry hal
of residence on State street, given by
the Newberry family of Detroit, will
house sixty women. 1t will be com
peted in about two months, and will
be dedicated at May festival time
The building at South University and
Ingalls, streets is the gift of an alum
nus who wishes to remain anonymous
This beautiful hall will accommodate
one hundred and twenty-five women
Women Of all the classes will make
their homes in these halls, but the
freshmen will be in the majority in
both.
The great variety of activities open
to women at Michigan, together with
all Of the conveniences and safe
guards of a women's college in the
center of great university commun-
ity, with its superior academic Oppor-
tunities, affords the women and edu-
cational environment which makes in
evitably for superior development.