The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-27
THE WORK OF THE SOUTHERN
ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE WOMEN
10 lnculcate Proper Educational Ideals-Pont Out to
High School Girls What They Should Take Into Con-
sideration in Choosing College

address of Miss Eliza beth Avery
lion of College Women, delivered
Thursday ecening, April % at one of
the sessions Of the annual meetingD |
BY outlining briefly the work and |
aims of the Southern Association Of |
college Women. / hope To suggest |
ways IN which all intelligent women |
whether members of our association |
or not can help us inculcate proper |
educational ideals; for that has been
our leading aim since our organi3a-
ton twelve years ago.
Our membership is necessary limit
ed to graduates of standard colleges
though we realize fully that many
women who have not been to college
have acquired by inheritance, aSsoCia-
tlon private study, and experience an
education more valuable than that
which a college course alone could
give. But though only college women
are included among our members, in
order to do our most effective work
We need all Southern women to CO.
operate with US.
AS there are only thirty-one col
leges in the South recognized by tn.
Association Of Colleges and Secondary
| SCuOOiS Ol llc COutH0IH SldleS. ana as
| only twenty of these admit women,
our membership is small. The SIX
| standard colleges for Women-Agnes
| Scott Converse, GOucher, Randolph
| Macon, Sophie Newcomb, and West
| hampton-furnished US according to
| or last report a total Of one hundred
| and thirty 130) members; our nine
standard state universities admitting
women-Ala bama. Kentucky, Louisi-
ana. Mississippi, Wisconsin, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas ana West
| Virginia furnished only tiXty sever,
| G.G: and Of our six standard nom
tax suppoi ted co-educationa1 us; ,tu-
tinrs only Trinity and Wand e;hilt
have as yet supplied US With any
II ombers, the others-Baylor, chat
tanoOga, Ecie and Southern | NJ
versity-kaving only recently been
. rec ,gniZe6 by the Outhern College : s
scciation. Fully half of out ,eln-
bers, therefore, are graduAte1 e
: northern and western colleges hu,
each year we are expecting larger -
!, larser recruits from ouf Soltaecn
colleges.
We have twenty-three hr&nche.
distributed as follows: one, ea"h, il
Maryland Virginia, South Carolina
Georgia and Kentucky; two IL
,llisana and in Texas; three il, ala
, ta,ra an. in Tennessee, ana sever
l
t. make 4 study OF ;cca1 co'tdl-i',n
, arc. to ii in whatever retCt,oS ar
= | most needed in it's community 4 q
example, the Georgia Branch VA
instrumental! last year in securing tn
pc ssage Of a DILL for an industrial re
fern school for girls; and the No''il
t Branch conducted a campa S;n NhlCl
y secured a favorable vote on :, 5ch"o
e bond issue called for by the Cit
4 Commissioners. And all of Ou
u branches have taken a more ." les
r active interest in securing better ct'l
o labor and compulsory education laws
: This year we tried especially 10 NAL
3 our influence felt by urging our res
pective Senators and Representative
to vote for the PalmerOWen chn
labor bill. For the sake Of co-opera
- ton in all kinds Of social serVic
- work, a number Of our branches hav
:, joined the Federation of Women
II Clubs of their respective States.
- The main work Of our associate OF
= however, is carried on by means
- standing committees made up largel
= OF representatives from our variou
> branches. The Extension. Finance an
"a | I'Tess Committees carry on the wor
ca suggested by their respective name
- The committee on School Patrons
"a has as it's object especially the keeI
- ing in touch with the work Of otht
20 women's organizations; and durin
the past year this committee has bee
to investigating the actual illiterat
~ | conditions of each Southern State
st a first step in improving these col
ditions. But the distinctive work
~ | our association is in the hands of II
n Committees on Scholarships. Coolies
e. Days. and Standards of College
In These committees are working: {
# to interest girls in going to coileg
CD to differentiate between differe
,1t types of institutions calling then
n selves colleges; and 80 to persuat
institutions not to make false claim
The association holds twenty-thr
scholarships at standard northern al
western colleges, and each year t
or Scholarship Committee tries to fiji
er capaDle girls VINO heeu Sti!oiai 81
ry alo, and as many deserving si1lS ne
more than the amount covered by