Arizona republican., 1921-12-01

organization of a committee for the
purpose of securing cooperation
among the women's church mission
boards OF the United States and of
Canada in their work along educa-
tional lines for the women OF China,
India and Japan. From these boards
a joint committee on the Union Chris
tian Colleges for the Women of the
Orient was formed. Seven colleges
were accepted to be the beneficiaries
of the cooperative boards, but be-
fore their fina' acceptance Miss Pen
dleton, Wellesley's president, at the
invitation of the committee, went to
China and Japan and made a thor
ough study of the colleges. Upon her
return Miss Pendleton gave the COL
leges her unqualified endorsement and
they were accordingly accepted by
the cooperating boards The seven
colleges are Ginning college. Nanl1-
ing. China; Yenching college, Pelxin,
China; Woman's Union Medical COL
lege, Peking, China: Woman's Chris
tan college, Madras, India; Union
Missionary Medical School for wom-
en-, Vellore. India: Isabella Thoburn
college, Lucknow. India: Woman's
Christian college. Togo. Japan.
Plan to Raise Money
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody of Bos-
ton, Mass, war made chairman of the
building committee, for the cooper
ating boards and after careful con-
sideration of what native govern
ments had done for the colIeges-it
should be stated that in every in
stance the native governments have
given their warmest support to the
embryo colleges-Mrs. Peabody and
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require 100000 to establish and to
equip the institutions on a self run
ming basis. The matter was then
laid before the trustees of the Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Memorial fund.
fund which was created by John
d. Rockefeller in the memory of his
wife. The trustees OF the memorial
fund took the proposition of the coll
leges under consideration and later
proposed to the committee that If
that body would raise s., 900, 600 the
memorial fund would contribute ST.
100000 to the colleges. The offer was
accepted and 100000 of the $1,000
600 has already been paid in, which
amount was increased by a gift of
S25O,O00 from the Memorial fund.
The building committee is now
planning through the church and the
club women or the country to raise
the remaining $1.500.000 by a swift
and concerted effort. The women's
colleges of the United States have
taken keen interest in the seven orr
entail colleges Wellesley has adopt
ed as sister college the Yenching
college at Picking; Vassar has adopt-
ed the college at Tokyo; Smith has
adopted Chilling college at Marking:
Holyoke has adopted the colleges at
Madras, NelIore and Ginning. The
college and church women through
out the country are cooperating with
Mrs. Peabody and her committee in
the plan whereby they hope to raise
the remainder of the $4,000, 900 with
in a very short time
Briefly outlined the plan is that a
hundred cities throughout the Unit
ed States will take pledges for the
Women's Christian Union colleges
during the next 30 days. In many
cities the sweep for subscriptions
will be made in two or three weeks
prior to day that is to be called
College Day. The effort for sub
scriptions will eliminate at a lunch
con which is to be held on date
selected by the respective towns,
when the pledges Will be turned in,
In other cities there will be no or
ganization and those who are inter-
ested will give through their church
and college organizations. All sub
scriptions VIII be sent to the building
committee, at 800 Ford building, Bos-
ton, Mass.