Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01
Local Organization
Help Woman's State
College Committee


Cliffside Park, and Edgewater, the
purpose of which is to help raise
money for the endowment of the pro
posed Women's State College, has
won the cooperation of the Palisadt
Women's Club of Palisade, the Edge
water Library Club of Edgewater
the Women's Club of Cliffside Park
and several other organizations oil
public spirited residents of these foul
boroughs.
On April 80 at 8 o'clock p. M, the
Palisade Women's Club will give &
card party and dance in the schoo
hall of Palisade. The proceeds of the
admission, fifty cents, will go to the
State College fund.
The same energetic organization, at
the home of Mrs. S. E. Darby, OF
Palisade, will give another card party
and dance on June 4.
On May 4, II, and Is at 2:30 in
the afternoon, the Educational De-
partment of the Women's Club OF
Cliffside Park, will give series of
teas at the home of Mrs. Donald
Mckee on Winterburn road, Cliffside
Park 1t is expected that these teas
the charge for which is twenty-five
cents the person, will considerably
augment the already growing fund.
On May IA at 2:3O, the Edgewater
Library Club is going to take advan-
tage of the School Field Day, at
which there will be the much talked
of folk dance on the green as well
as many athletic events, by selling
refreshments, the proceeds to go to
swell the amount this active Local
Committee is collecting.
1t is fully expected that many other
organizations will shortly join in this
fine effort to give the State of New
Jersey it's first college for women.
The committee of which Mrs. ]. H
Koch, of Grantwood, is chairman
would be pleased to hear from any
one or any society wishing to join in
this work.
Need for WOmen's College
For many years agitation of one
sort or another for such college has
shown that the necessity was felt
But it took the New Jersey State
Federation of Women's Clubs to win
the assent of the trustees of Rutgers
College to found a Women's College
which would be in utilization with
Rutgers.
The project has progressed so far
that one of the trustees of Rutgers
has already donated a twelve-acre
strip of land right on the bluffs over
looking the Raritan river, near New
Brunswick and in close proximity to
the New Jersey College of Agri-
culture.
This site is regarded by every one
concerned with the great work as
absolutely perfect, and an admirable
solution of one part of the problem.
The Next Difficulty, Money
The only basis on which the trustees
of Rutgers will carry on the effort
further, is that the promoters shall
guarantee $4,000 to cover the first
four years.
That is, the trustees insist that they
must have $4,000 for the first year
and $4,000 a year for the three sue
ceeding years-surely not an eXorbi-
ton.
By the end of that time, the trus-
tees feel that the College will have
attracted to itself some substantial
endowments not alone from private
persons but from the State govern
ment itself.
To carry out this work of raising
the much needed money, local COM
mittees are now at work all over the
State and much progress has already
been made.
No New Jersey WOmen's College
This State is one of the very few in
the Union without a non-sectarian
college or university for the higher
education of women. The College OF
Saint Elizabeth, a Catholic institu-
ton, is the only place where college
course is open at all to women i'll
New Jersey.
Heretofore the daughters of this
State have had to go to other states
for all their education above the
regulation high school course.
But now it is proposed not merely
to have college for women but Q
free college under the direction of the
faculty of Rutgers.
1t is certainly the duty of every
citizen of New Jersey to do every.
thing in his or her power to further
this noble project.