Addresses
Mary E. Woolley, A.M., Litt.D., L.H.D., President of Mount Holyoke College.
Lucy M. Salmon, A.M., Professor of History, Vassar College.
Mary A. Jordan, A.M., Professor of English, Smith College.
Mary W. Calkins, A.M., Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Wellesley College.
Eva Perry Moore, A.B., Trustee Vassar College; President of the Association of Collegiate Alumnæ (over three thousand college women).
Maud Wood Park, A.B. (Radcliffe College), President of the Boston Branch of the Equal Suffrage League in Women's Colleges and Founder of the League.
M. Carey Thomas, Ph.D., LL.D., President of Bryn Mawr College.
A tribute of gratitude from representatives of Women's Colleges.
What has been accomplished for the higher education of women by Susan B. Anthony and other woman suffragists.
The statement is sometimes questioned that all of the advantages which women enjoy today had their inception in the efforts of the pioneers suffragists. The addresses made on this occasion by some of the most distinguished women educators of the country certainly should sustain this claim so far as the higher education is concerned. It seems a sacrilege to use only brief quotations from these important contributions to the literature of the movement for woman suffrage.
President Woolley: It will not be possible in the limited time given to the representatives of colleges for women to do more than suggest what has been accomplished for the higher education of women by Miss Anthony and other suffragists, but it is a pleasure to have this opportunity to add our tribute of appreciation....
At a meeting called in 1851 at Seneca Falls, N. Y., to consider founding a People's College, Miss Anthony, Lucy Stone and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton were determined that the constitution and by-laws should be framed so as to admit women on the same terms as men and finally carried their point. The college, however, before it was fairly started was merged in Cornell University. Five years later Miss Anthony's lecture on "Co-education" brought that subject most forcibly to the attention of the public.... It was no part of Miss Anthony's plan to have work given to women for which they were not fitted but rather that they should be prepared to do well whatever they attempted. There were not to be two standards of efficiency, one for the man and another for the woman. "Think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best work, looking to your own conscience for approval," was her charge to women forty years ago.... The higher education of women should be added to the list of causes for which she and other women struggled. She has lived to see the work of her hands established in the gaining of educational and social rights for women which might well be called revolutionary, so momentous have been the changes....