T PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE HE Association of Collegiate Alumnae is now publishing at suitable intervals matter of interest to women college graduates and to others who are concerned in any way with education. The publications will give addresses of special note on educational topics, reports of the work of the Association, studies of educational problems and conditions by its members, and statistics bearing in various ways on the higher education of women. All publications of the Association are sent to members of the Association and to subscribers to the Publication Fund free of charge. The price of each issue to non-members, and of extra copies to members, will be stated in that issue. The present number will be sent post-paid for thirty-five cents a copy, three copies one dollar. For further information with regard to the publications, or to terms and conditions of membership in the Association, address the Secretary treasurer. (MRS.) ELIZABETH Lawrence Clarke Williamstown Mass. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae MAGAZINE CONTAINING PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD AT MILWAUKEE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY With the year just closing our Association has reached the period of its "coming of age." It is most fitting that this annual meeting should be held in the great Middle West, thereby in a measure typifying our growth in members and in strength. Since the days in November 1881, when a few college women met in the far East and proposed that a union be formed of women college graduates, our roll call has increased from seventeen to more than three thousand. Much can be said of these twenty-one years, but this is neither the time nor the place. Your Secretary would rather take the look forward, and out of the experience of her few months of office say what has impressed her. First of all, she would make an earnest plea that our members should turn the pages of these records, each for herself. She makes it with reason, for the general vagueness as to the aims and purposes of our Association is marked. The question is continually heard, especially among our younger alumnae, "What is the Association for? Why should I join an organization uncentered, scattered over the length and breadth of the land, with a general purpose so broadly defined that it seems limitless and intangible?" These queries might have had reason at the outset; they have no such grounds to support them now. There are many answers to them and our records have best defined them, but let us venture one other today. It can not too often be quoted that wisdom is knowing what to do, virtue is doing it. This organization of women is the only national one where the basis of membership is the college degree. It is 279955 |