THE 5-8 JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE П Board of Editors SUSAN WADE PEABODY, chairman, 5515 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, Ill. MARY ROSS POTTER, Willard Hall, Evanston, Ill. SOPHONISBA P. BRECKINRIDGE, 87 Lake St., Chicago, Ill. LOUISE ROTH, 1935 Warren Ave., Chicago, Ill. The Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae is published four times a year, in the months of January, March, April, and May, by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae at The University of Chicago Press, 5750-58 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscription price is $1.00 per year; the price of single copies is 25 cents (with the exception of the Register, Series IV, No. 5, which, if sold separately, is 40 cents; postpaid 45 cents). Postage is prepaid by the publishers on all orders from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama Canal Zone, Republic of Panama, Hawaiian Islands, Philippine Islands, Guam, Tutuila (Samoa), Shanghai. Postage is charged extra as follows: For Canada, 8 cents on annual subscriptions (total $1.08), on single copies, 2 cents (total 27 cents); for all other countries in the Postal Union, 16 cents on annual subscriptions (total $1.16), on single copies, 4 cents (total 29 cents). Remittances should be made payable to The University of Chicago Press, and should be in Chicago or New York exchange, postal or express money-order. If local check is used, 10 cents must be added for collection." Correspondence concerning publication matters, yearly subscriptions, and single copies of the Journal should be addressed to The University of Chicago Press, 5750-58 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Claims for missing numbers should be made within the month following the regular month of publication. The publishers expect to supply missing numbers free only when they have been lost in transit. Communications concerning editorial matters should be addressed to Miss Susan W. Peabody, 5515 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Communications concerning membership in the Association should be addressed to Mrs. S. F. Clarke, 50 South Street, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Entered as second-class matter January 24, 1911, at the Post-Office, Chicago, Illinois, under Act of July 16, 1894 University Forthwestern LIBRARY Journal of the Association of VOLUME V-No. 1 JANUARY 1912 THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE The Association of Collegiate Alumnae is the only national unprofessional organization of American college women having for its aim purely educational work. For this reason it is frequently consulted by national bodies and by government bureaus for information with regard to the higher education of women. The Association was organized in 1882 by seventeen women, graduates of eight American colleges. The representatives were as follows: three alumnae each from Michigan, Oberlin, and Vassar; two each from Boston University, Wellesley, and Wisconsin, and one each from Cornell and Smith. These eight colleges therefore constituted the charter members. At the first meeting of the Executive Committee in January, 1882, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wesleyan were admitted, and in December of the same year Kansas and Syracuse universities were added to the list. Northwestern University was admitted in 1883, and no more institutions were admitted for three years. While the organization originated in Boston and the annual meetings were held in that city until 1890, the constitution even as early as 1884 was amended to provide for branch organizations, and the first branch that was recognized was in Washington, New York following three years later. In 1886 the University of California was admitted to membership and the Pacific Coast branch recognized. In a short general account of the Association it is not best to go too far into historical details, and so the dates of later admissions of universities and the recognition of branches will not be given. The full present corporate membership of the Association can be found on d. 30, and the branches with their local officers are printed in the order of their recognition on pp. 7 to 13. The national work of the Association is carried on by its standing committees, while the local needs are cared for by the various activities |