The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1922-11-01
A. A. u. W. BASIS,
GIVE NOT GET
$4,000 College Alumnae Strive
for the Advancement of
Education.

The American Association Of Univer
sity Women, formerly known as the As.
sociation of Collegiate Alumnae, repre-.
sents 1900 college alumnae from l24
colleges, striving together for the ad.
vancement of education and the improve
ment of social conditions.
Join, not to get but to give" says the
association. Members of the organization
are kept in touch with the thought and
activities of other college women, from
all the colleges and universities. They
strive to influence educational and other
social legislation, both state and national
The Missouri division of the organiza-
lion has two principal purposes. One is
to encourage higher education among
Missouri girls and to get as many women
students in the colleges and universities
of the state as possible. The other is to
further legislation dealing with women
and children in industry. A definite
program has been formulated to improve
working conditions, hours of labor and
wages of Missouri's working women.
The organization gives the member
chance to pass on the opportunity she
has enjoyed. By herself she could not
support scholarship, but when she is
working with 1900 other women, she
can do that and more.
An European Fellowship and a Latin
American Fellowship are maintained by
the association. 1t also pays the expenses
of a woman student each year in the
Marine Laboratories in Naples.
Many committees are kept up by the
organization, which keeps the members
in touch with current affairs and gives
them a chance to help influence big ac.
tiYities.
Through the influence Of committee
on international relations, a similar na-
tional organization Of college women ha.
been formed in Canada, and branch Of
the association has been created in ia.
pan.
The committee on educational legisla-
tion has done much to connect up the
efforts OF the organization with progress
sive educational legislation.
A committee on vocational opportuni- |
ties for women has encouraged branches |
OF the organization to do vocational guild |
ance work both for Ugh school and col. |
lege students and to found and maintain |
bureaus of occupation for trained women. |
The organization also maintains a ma
tional committee for the study of the |
housing problem, problem which, with |
the conditions created by the war, has
become acute. Already a residence hall
Tor the college women has been provided
by the organization in Washington, d. c. |
In cooperation with the British FEEDER. !
alton Of University Women, the American
organization is endeavoring to establish |
an international hall of residence in Lon.
don for University women. Each year
more women go to London to take ad- |
vantage of educational and research fa-
cilities, but only few can be housed BY |
the residential colleges.
The British Federation has an opportu-
nifty to secure for a residence hall, the |
famous historical building of Crosby Hall |
which was built in the fifteenth century.
and was originally part of the mansion
of Sir John Crosby. 1t is one of the
few buildings that escaped the fire of
1000 and has many historical associa-
tions.
The Association has five branches in
MissOuri-at Columbia, Kansas City,
Maryville. ST. Louis and Warrenshnre