Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-15
s50,00),000 GIVEN ID EDUCATE MEN;
 NONE: F()R WOMEN
Woman's Christian College of Japan is to Do Good
 Work
lRv Elsie McCormick.l ]

bring the budget well beyond $50,- 0o0,000, all this money to be spent during the next few years"
 How interesting;" exclaimed the inquistive person, reaching for a note book s'And how much has been appropriated for the higher educa- tion of women?"
 Mot one yen," answered the w. I. NJ.
 In that brief answer was to be found the great Why behind the Women's Christian College of Japan Founded only two years ago, this in- .stitution will become the first col lege to offer courses equal to those of the mems universities and to confer the same degrees. At pres ent it has only freshmen and soph- more classes but as the students ad- vance a six years course will b. provided. The plan will follow thai of the Imperial University, where three years are given over to regu- lar college work and three years to postgraduate courses.
 Backed as it is by the foreign m;s- sion boards, of the Methodist Episca- pal church, the Methodist church in Canada, the Reformed church of America, the Congregational church, and the Northern Presbyterian church, the Womans, Christian Col lege is taking leading place among the interchurch world movement pro- iects of Japan. Its needs are a. great as the possibilities of it's flu ture Established only in temporary quarters, it is so hampered for room that it will be obliged to refuse a new class next year, If better equlp- : ment is not provided. Land is al most prohibitively high in Tokyo; and new law requiring that col lege. in order to confer degrees, must have an endowment of at least S15O.OOO has added another financial burden. Tentative estimates place the. budget of the institution at $977,- % part of which will be raised in Japan, but most of which is asked for through the interchurch world movement
 Women Tour Isles.
 President Ellen F. Pendleton of Wellesley College, head of the educa- ticnal commission is touring the Or tent for the women's federation of foreign mission boards, recently sus- yeyed the work of the college and attended meeting of it's board of trustees. q believe there is more danger of under estimating your fu- ture than estimating it, g"Presl- dent Pendleton declared. "Many col leges in the United States find themselves hampered for room be- cause their founders did not think in sufficiently large terms. As the first woman's college in Japan to adopt the standards of the men.s s universities, there is every posslbii- ity that the institution will some day reach the proportions of Weilsley You should take this into consldera- tion in securing new site. Economy in the amount of the land purchased may mean the crippling of the col . lege in later years"
 Miss Pendleton was accompanied on her tour of inspection by Miss Charlotte H. Conant, principal of Walnut Hill school in Natick, Massa- chusetts; Miss Bertha Harlan, sec retary of the Northficld Young We mems conference and Miss Ellen W. Martien. dean of Leland University Florida, all of whom are members or The deputation Miss Conant, be- lonps 10 the cooperating committee of the Women's Christian College ln inc Tinted States, assured the trus. tees that she was deeply impressed with the work and that she would nresent to the committee at home the urgent need for expansion.
 Government Aids.
 .The initiative of the Japanese in medical and educational work has closed many doors ct sefVice tg Christian agencies" declared pr. B. Benninghoff, president or the board of trustees. By faiilng 10 ] establish a great Christian uniVer' sity for men decade or two ago. mission boards have lost the oppor- tunity for Christian leadership in Inc .higher education of young men.
 AS .Japan is not yet alive to the de sirabilitv of giving higher education to her women, Christian Churches still have one field in which they .tmay become leaders. Whether the hest educated young women Tn Ja- nan's tomorrow will be trained un- der Christian or Buddise influence denends upon the support given the Women's Christian College"
 The the first, two classes or the collepe have total of 150 students, eiety per cent of whom are Christ ians. Despite it's youth, the instltu- tion has an unusually strong taculty, .,,any of the instructors holding pro fessorship in the Imperial Universa tv. The president, Dr. tnazo, Is known as 2 scholar through Japan and the dean, Miss Tetsu Iasnl, has \ oiyen many years to study in the col leres of America and England.
 Slow as 1t is to establish schools far the bieher education of women, the Japanese government has offereq every encouragement to the new col ledge. Hearing that the institutlon ,.-as cranped for room, the lmperial Household presented 1t with q build inc belonging to the Peeress School, The Government has also provided for two scholarships in the sociai service department. Count okuma, daclared his intention of visiting the college. The former premier refer red to his long-continued champion ssbin of women's education and con- pratulated the college upon it's pIaa to reach the standard of the menss Universities.
 The college maintains five cour- sas-iapanese literature, liberal arts, commerce, socitl service, and English literature, preparing to introduce a danartment of journalism, and as sanr as there is sufficient room for lahoratories. courses in advanced sci a,ca will be added Because of its ,rall- rounded curriculm, high stand aras and Christian ideas, the Wom- san,s Christian College promlses f,stnre of unlimited service to Jap anese girlhood.