This is another popular program, and one easily prepared and discussed. Divide it into two parts: first, the great universities, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia; their history; their opportunities; show pictures of each campus. Follow with a paper on the small college; its advantages; the state universities; college athletics; fraternities, dangers of college life; does college prepare for a business life?
Next take girls' colleges in the same general way; describe Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Wellesley and Smith; and show pictures of them. Have papers on, Is a college education essential for all girls? and What are its advantages over the boarding-school, and its disadvantages? and What of athletics for girls? and Should their studies be those of men's colleges entirely?
Discuss these subjects, and add others: Does college life unfit a girl for life at home? Is a college girl likely to demand a career? Does she marry? Have some college songs sung: Fair Harvard, Old Nassau, Neath the Elms of Dear Old Yale, and others.
VIII—THE CARE OF CHILDREN AND THE AGED BY THE STATE
This is one of the subjects in line with the philanthropy of to-day, and will be found suggestive of social work for women's clubs.
The first paper might be on Orphan Asylums; the care of young children, their food, dress, education and personal oversight. What of adopting children from asylums? What of placing children in homes instead of asylums?
The second paper would take up: the defective children to be cared for in asylums. The blind, deaf, epileptic and idiots.
The third paper would be on the care of the aged; of almshouses, especially those of the county; are they sanitary, well cared for and cheerful? Are the old people well fed, clothed and amused? Are husbands and wives separated?
The last paper might touch upon English almshouses on the cottage plan and contrast them with our own large institutions.
Discuss the near-by almshouses, and question what can be done to better conditions.