Evening star., 1917-04-12
TRINITY ENTERTA|NS
COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE
Officers and Delegates Spend the Day
: at Brookland Institution in
Series of Conferences.

TIE Association OF Collegiate Aiumnae,
togcthcr with the Southern Association
OF College Women, meeting jointly
Herewith as far as open sessions are
concerned, is today the guest of Trinity
College. Brookland, d. c.. an institution
affiliated with the Catholic University
of America.
officers aud delegates generally OF
both organizations are spending the day
III a series of conferences largely de-
voted to educational topics. arranged
by the Erookiand institution and held
at the latter's buildings. These confer
enceS are similar TO those held under the
auspices Of Gouchcr College, Baltimore.
yesterdays host and those presiding
and partici pating include presidents.
deans and professors in American
women's colleges: executives of schoolS:
Orrin q. Cocks of the national board OF
review OF motion pictures and Mrs. L.
Addison Moore. vice president OF the
Vocational Supervision League, chi
CGgo. The visitors We're guests OF
Trinity College at luncheon.
The presidents of Bryn Mawr. Welles-
ley and Mount Holyoke colleges, all at
tending the convention, today person
ally offered to Secretary Baker the
services of the college women they rep
resent for any use the country mlShI
need.
APPOINTMENT of a committee to CO.
operate with the War Department in
training the women for war service
was suggested and approved by the
Secretary.
Tonight the \. c. A. will be guests
of the southern Association of College
Women. the organization doing the
same work in the south as that pur-
sued by the former in the north ana
charge of the open meeting scheduled
and Miss Elizabeth Avery Cotton, us
president, Will preside. Chancellor ).
H. kirkland of Vanderbilt university
and DR.. Samuel z. Capen, chief OF the
division of higher education OF the bu-
reau of education, are among those VINO
will address the gathering.
Fitness of a College Curriculum.
The fitness of a college curriculum
should be determined not by the inn
mediate use to which it is to be put
but by the entire probable active life
of its pursuant according to Prof
Margaret F. Washburn of Eassar, who
spoke last night before the joint open
meeting at the new Central liIgh
School The curriculum, she pointed
out, is a preparation for lite OF eN-
pausion. diversity and betterneht
schools and colleges should so arrange
their work that the average youth
might enter college at sixteen. gradu-
ate at twenty after a broad, intellectual
training. and then devote two years 10
some speciality. The result, she stated
would be special efficiency resting on
a solid foundation.
President Woolley of Mount Holyoke
made a plea for the old-fashloned cur
ricuIum as furnishing a necessary back
ground of fine discipline for intellec-
tual training which is, in these mod
ern times. too often only veneer
That weak points in curriculum are
often due to the lack of that quality
which ables a teacher to make a sub
ject appear vital enough to stimulate
the intellect, was the idea advanced by
Dean Ada l.. Comstock of Smith, while
President Thomas of Bryn Mawr up
held persistent. plodding work in such
staple subjects as the classics. mathe-
matics. history and science as the best
founda ton and intellectual background
for the well educated person. The
speakers We're introduced by Mrs. Mar
garita Spaulding Gerry. a member OF
the District board of education.