Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-03-27
State Woman's College Meeting
Held In Pa[isade March 10
Mrs Vim. T. Ropes, President of State Federation of
Women s Clubs Tells of Proposed Work For
NelU College at Rutgeys.

There was large and enthusiastic
meeting on Friday evening of last
week at the home of Mrs. S. r.
Darby, Palisade, those present being
representatives of twenty-one social
organizations of this immediate sec
ton of the Palisades. The object of
the assembly was for the further
consideration of the Woman's Col
lege movement in New Jersey, and
to meet Mrs. VIM. T. Ropes, OF
Montclair, president of Federated
Woman's Clubs of the State.
The clubs represented included
the Woman's club of Cliffside Park,
the Woman's Club of Palisade, the
Fort Lee Borough Club, the Mems
Club of Grantwood, the Mems Club
of Coytesville, the Book Club of
Edgewater, the United Commercial
Travellers, of Grantwood, Cliffside
Council, the Epiphany Society, the
Madonna Club, the Camp Fire Girls,
the Mems Meeting Club, of Fairview,
the Seminar Club, Ladies Auxiliary
Civic Club, of Grantwood, the Wo-
mans Suffrage League of the Pail
sades, and several others.
Mrs. Ropes Talks
The meeting was called to order
by Mrs. J. H. Koch, of Grantwood.
chairman, Mrs. C. p. Berkey, PAIL
SADIE. secretary. After the minutes
of former meeting were read, Mrs.
Ropes was introduced and made a
general talk on the Woman's Col
lege question. She told of having
had plot of twelve acres donated
at New Brunswick on which a
small house stands, but which will
have to be torn down in all prob
ability if the movement goes through.
1t is proposed, she said, to rent a
building in New Brunswick with
thirty rooms for $50 per month as a
starter for boarding pupils, etc., The
idea proposed by the women Of the
state Mrs. Ropes said, was to have an
affiliated college with Rutgers, where
the best course of study could be OBJ
tanned and where auxiliary convent
ences, such as libraries, laboratories,
and the like could be used without
charge. The first $4,000 they pro-
pose to raise would take care of about
seventy-ive girls at Rutgers. A
regular four year course is proposed
with curriculum equal to the best
women's colleges anywhere, so that
the New Jersey Woman's College
would be as great an honor to gradu-
ate from as any other in the country.
Fine Prospects for Funds
Mrs. Ropes said that in addition to
the fine tract of twelve acres that had
been donated at New Brunswick, there
was one other possible donation of
$4,000 in sight, and maybe still an
other for the same sum. What is
wanted, she said, is immediate action.
We should know exactly where we
stand on the money question in the
next thirty days. Your clubs so well
represented, need to go out and
hustle a bit to help the cause wonder
fully. She said there were meetings
like this now going on all over the
state, and everybody hoped to see the
sum desired far exceeded. When the
college is ready to start, there will
be more definite organization plan
put on foot, and the public interest
at this time presages fine outlook
for the future. What is aimed at is to
have women's college for New Jer
sey quite as good as Barnard at
Columbia or anywhere, and there is
no reason why this should not be. Go
out, she said, and get from ten cents
to ten dollars-only get something
and get it now.
Ladies Pledge Funds
At this juncture Mrs. Darby in
terrupted and said she would pledge
to raise ten dollars of her own accord
(then she Immediately asked the
editor to contribute itD, and Mrs.
Koch said she would do likewise.
Some one wanted to know if Mrs.
Ropes knew what kind of plan was
being generally used to raise money,
and she replied, "No, there is no set
rule for raising money of this char
acter. The women of New Bruins
wick have made a house to house
canvass, and have literally raked
the town with a fine tooth comb.
That's the thing for everybody to do.
Go right to the homes of people and
tell them that this is the most i'm
portant thing for the daughters of
New Jersey that has ever been
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