Show THE COLLEGE 1VOYEN S CLUB New and Interesting lr Organization Formed For the BcncAt of Aspiring j i Aspir-ing Students A new association of collegebred women wo-men unique of its kind has just been I formed in New York city The young organizations name The College Wo mens Club is the index to its character char-acter Its chief aim is to aid talented girls of limited means to obtain an education ed-ucation at any of the leadIng womens colleges or coeducational Institutions of learning throughout the country the beneficiary having the option of choosIng choos-Ing the one most to her liking Funds will be loaned without interest but not given to the candidates thus pres rIng r-ing the selfrespect of the student borrowing bor-rowing who becomes not the recipient of charity but simply a subject for benevolence be-nevolence for the time being When convenient after graduation the beneficiary ben-eficiary will repay to the society whatever what-ever may have been loaned her that some other young woman may in turn be benefltted by the same philanthropy philan-thropy Another object of the organization is to bring about stronger and more helpful help-ful relations among all collegebred women wo-men for greater individual enlightenment enlighten-ment and for general educational progress pro-gress There is to be a marked social side as well Already the project is on hand to occupy a building as the clubs permanent headquarters and a New York center for college women from all parts of the union and from the other side of the Atlantic as representatives of foreign Universities will be admitted admit-ted to the clubs membership It Is proposed to use the first floor as assembly assem-bly and dining rooms and the other floors to be entirely given up to bed within1 the reach of t roost Impecunious I 1 1 Impecun-ious student < Ii The founder of the College Womens club is Miss Carolyn Ha1s ed a Vassar l I young woman of much energy and fore I sight as well as a large supply ot practical common sense Though aMISS I S 1 v f h r J a a i 1 i i I i MISS OAJIOLYN HA1STBI r close and successful student at col Jege and thoroughly literary in her s tastes she is of opinion that no college t I col-lege woman can afford to be a bluestocking I blue-stocking as by so doing she loses her I grasp on the practical side of life and S her influence over a goodly quota oCher I oC-her neighbors I Miss Halsted dances rides a wheel I skates and feathers an ore and she even goes so far in her tenets as to hold that the womans college would advance l i ad-vance civilization if it added to its cur bhfl7E y f p D CL OThS dlJNG r 7 r 1 HP n i J I rooms at the disposal of college women the club members being given the pre ference Thus a Chicago girl being a member when taking a trip to New York could go directly to the club to locate during h ° r stay in the Empire city and would find herself at once in the midst of friends and pleasant associations as-sociations There will be no branches of the club in other places but it is hoped that the feminine college element in the large cities will follow the New York lead and form similar associations when a bond of fellowship would naturally arise among them all Graduates nongraduates and undergraduates under-graduates are eligible for membership and also present > or former college teachers These are known as regular members Another class will be termed associate members which may include any man or woman of intelligence and refinement who is acceptable to the club This class will not take part In the business meetings or affairs but will reap all other advantages For the firs year no initiation fee is I to be asked and all joining are to be considered charter members After I that period an entrance fee will be charged The annual dues to begin with are 2 a sum small enough to be I riculum a department of domestic I economy carried on along the most i scientific and erudite lines where the i modern young collegian should at 1 i least have the option furnished her of j learning the theory to a great extent y I the practice to a less because of the necessary limitations of the college environment I en-vironment of housekeeping house i sanitation sewing cooking the care I of small children and the management i of servants of domestic life in general i 1 gen-eral Miss Halsted is an entire believer i in women voting considering the ballot J i bal-lot compatible wth bread making as I with the higher education for the gent Iler t sex I She comes from patriotic as well as 1 i i scholastic lineage one ancestor Abraham I I Abra-ham Clark being a signer of the Declaration De-claration of Independence her grandfather grand-father Oliver Spencer Halsted was the first chancellor of New Jersey j while for four generations her family j have been graduates of Princeton college i col-lege EMMELINE TRAVERS 1 I j a t I ry A rl 4 i i S r r J I I 1 1f 3 1L t C n v r t a n t j J I Jh 9bL 4 I 1j I f l 1jJ 1jl ti J i j 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