"This new situation requires a readjustment or adaptation in university training. The ordinary academic courses in the universities do not give the practical connection with public affairs and public administration that brings adaptability and efficiency. Private business, while furnishing important technical knowledge and practical experience, does not give the comprehensive view of public affairs, the familiarity with the essentials of managementnot-for-profit and the attitude of mind, required in a public administrator. Party organization does not, and cannot, provide the technical training that is essential to meet the new requirements. It is the purpose of the Division of Municipal Administration and Public Service to provide not only academic instruction in government and politics, but practical training in the details of public administration."

VASSAR. With the opening of college in September Vassar offers for the first time independent instruction in municipal government. The college is fortunate in being able to command the services of a competent woman for the work. It will be under the direction of Miss Alice M. Holden, who has been assistant to Prof. William Bennett Munro of Harvard.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. The University of Chicago Press is about to issue an elaborate study of Truancy in the Chicago schools made by Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, former general secretary of the A. C. A., and Dr. Edith Abbott, at one time European fellow.

The opening of Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago gives to the women resources which are unequalled for the promotion of the social and physical interests of women students, the building is not only very beautiful architecturally, ranking in the minds of many as the most beautiful of all the University buildings, but it is most conveniently arranged and perfectly equipped.

Professor Marion Talbot of the Department of Household Administration of the University of Chicago is offering this fall a new course entitled "Elements of Home Economics." It will deal in outline with the principal activities of the household and their personal, family, social, and economic significance. It will lead naturally to more extended courses in the family, sanitation, nutrition and dietaries, administration of the house, the retail market, public aspects of the household and other allied topics.

In connection with the Quarter Centennial Celebration of the University of Chicago the Department of Household Administration held two important conferences. At the first an address on "The Significance of the Home" was delivered before a large and interested audience by Mrs. Mary Willcox Glenn of New York. Her interpretation of the task of departments of household administration would surprise some critics who seem to think their limits are cooking and sewing, both of very poor grade.

On the following day a private conference was held attended by the staff and holders of advanced degrees from the department. Important questions concerning the future work of the department were frankly discussed and all who were present found the occasion very profitable. The department also made a suggestive and interesting contribution to the general exhibit of the University.

The long fight waged in Georgia for the admission of women to the bar of that state has finally been won. The so-called "Portia" bill, recently passed by the general assembly of Georgia, has been signed by Governor Harris. The fight was begun by Mrs. Minnie Anderson Hale in 1911 immediately after her graduation from the Atlanta Law School and she has conducted a continuous campaign for recognition since then. She was the first woman lawyer registered under the new law.

Providence, R. I., has an Association called the Children's Library Helpers which devotes itself to raising money to supplement the always inadequate city appropriations. According to the last report of the librarian, this association during the past year increased the funds of the library by something like thirteen hundred dollars, largely the proceeds of entertainments given under its auspices.

WITH THE NATIONAL COMMITTEES

For the benefit of those of our members who have not kept in touch with the work of the national committees, and it is to be feared that they are rather numerous, we are printing herewith a list of the committees with the names and addresses of the chair

men:

Admission of Colleges and Universities, Miss Marion Reilly, 2015 De Lancey Place, Philadelphia, Pa.

Credentials, Miss Katherine E. Puncheon, 5103 Pulaski Ave., Germantown, Pa.

Educational Legislation, Mrs. F. C. Turner, 255 Ridgway Ave., Oakland, Cal.

York.

Fellowships, Miss Margaret E. Maltby, 400 W. 118th St., New

Finance, Miss Florence Cushing, 8 Walnut St., Boston, Mass. Foreign Students, Mrs. Lucien A. Howe, 522 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

Membership, Executive Secretary, 934 Stewart Ave., Ithaca,

N. Y.

N. Y.

Publication, Executive Secretary, 934 Stewart Ave., Ithaca,

Vocational Opportunities, Miss Florence Jackson, 264 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

Volunteer Service, Mrs. Margaret F. Lowenberg, 1260 Michigan Ave., Hyde Park, Cincinnati, O.

At the Council meeting in Chicago in April a new national committee on Housing was created. The Washington Branch, which has been much interested in the effort of the City of Washington to improve its housing conditions, presented at that meeting an interesting report on this subject and recommended to the Board of Directors the creation of a national standing Committee on Housing. This recommendation was subsequently accepted by the Council, but no chairman was elected. Until that can be done it is impossible to organize the work of the committee. Effort will be made at the earliest possible moment to secure workers for the committee and it is hoped that some definite accomplishment can be reported at the Biennial in April.

At a conference of the President, the Treasurer, and the Executive Secretary held in New York in July the advisability of creating several new national committees was discussed and the

proposal that two such committees be created, has been submitted to the Council to be voted on by mail. The proposed committees are an Americanization Committee, and a Committee on Student Aid.

The demand for an Americanization Committee within our Association had already been voiced by a number of our members, who had been shocked by the success of the propaganda of the belligerent nations in this country into a sudden consciousness of the incompleteness of our assimilation of the immigrant. Since the work of Americanization of the foreigners coming to us must be fundamentally a work of education, it would seem as if our Association, rather more than other women's organizations, had a duty here to perform.

Such a committee of our Association would find its work already very carefully outlined by the National Americanization Committee, a volunteer body of fifty-nine citizens from all parts of the country, who in May, 1915, organized themselves to promote a nationwide movement for the Americanization of the immigrant. Miss Frances A. Kellor, Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Immigrants in America and editor of the Immigrants in America Review has expressed her willingness to take the chairmanship of such a committee. What college women can do in this field she tells us in this issue of the Journal.

In proposing a Committee on Student Aid the officers of the Association had in mind a unification and a better organization of work now going forward in a somewhat hap-hazard and desultory way in many of the branches. The officers did not attempt to outline definitely nor exhaustively the work of this committee. That is for the committee itself to do. It was suggested, however, that the work of the committee would probably divide naturally into graduate, undergraduate, and high school aid, and might in time require three corresponding sub-committees.

In the field of graduate aid one thinks naturally of fellowships, and it was hoped indeed that the committee might find means of stimulating the creation of additional fellowships. The officers felt, however, that there exists a need not only for fellowships, open only to women who have already received or are about to receive the doctor's degree; but for graduate scholarships as well, open immediately upon graduation to young women of exceptional promise.

In the way of undergraduate assistance most of our branches are doing something. A few are providing full scholarships, many

of them partial scholarships, some of them loan funds. The total amount of money invested in this way each year by the Association is surprisingly large. There is, however, no clearing-house for this part of the Association's work. We are not letting our right hand know what our left hand does and therefore both hands are working more or less blindly and with less than their potential efficiency. A national committee could put at the service of each branch the experience of other branches. It could assist branches in finding effective methods for raising money for this purpose, could help to determine whether such aid can best be given in the form of scholarships or of loans, and could help to solve the very troublesome problem of what qualifications shall be demanded of candidates for such assistance.

While fewer of our branches have interested themselves in the assistance of high school students, those that have are enthusiastic in regard to the social need for this work and the social benefits accruing from it. A committee working in this field would unquestionably soon be able out of its experience to make recommendations to both the Committee on Volunteer Service and the Committee on Educational Legislation.

The advisability of the formation of one or two other committees was discussed at the conference but no recommendation was made to the Council. One of these possible committees was a committee on collegiate and university training for women. It was suggested that such a committee, made up partly of college presidents, deans of affiliated colleges, or deans of women from some of the co-educational universities and partly of lay members, would have a practically unexplored field if it set out to investigate how far the curriculum of to-day actually fits women for life under modern conditions; where and in what direction, if at all, it should be changed; what tendencies in the higher training of to-day should be encouraged and what combated; whether there is needed a woman's university as distinct from a woman's college; what amount of endowment is demanded for really efficient work with any given number of students; and numerous other questions of this sort for which as yet no answers are forthcoming.

It was also suggested that the Committee on Home Economics, or to use Mrs. Richards' term, Euthenics, should be reorganized; that it had much work to do.

The officers would welcome free discussion through the pages of the Journal of all these suggestions. The members of the Association know better than anyone else where, in their work a na