the
following official notice was sent to the branches of the National
League:

At the meeting of the annual council of the National College
Equal Suffrage League, held at the New Ebbitt Hotel in
Washington, D. C., on Dec. 15, 1917, it was unanimously voted on
recommendation of the president and executive secretary to close
its work and go out of existence. The delegates present, the
officers, and many other suffragists who had been consulted were
of the opinion that the objects for which the league was
originally organized had been fully attained and that there was
no reason for it to continue its work as a separate suffrage
organization....

At the time when the league began its work the subject of
suffrage could scarcely be mentioned in gatherings of college
students and college faculties and was forbidden even as a topic
for discussion in the annual conventions of the Association of
Collegiate Alumnae, but in the nine years that have elapsed since
then an overwhelming change of opinion has taken place. Many
colleges in which it was planned to organize chapters have stated
that there is no need for them, as practically all the members of
their faculties and most of their students are already
suffragists. At the last biennial convention of the Association
of Collegiate Alumnae held in Washington, D. C., in April, 1917,
by a unanimous vote it not only reaffirmed its belief in woman
suffrage but urged its members to win it for all American women
by working for the Federal Amendment. In bringing about this
revolution in educated opinion we are happy to believe that the
National College Equal Suffrage League has played an important
part....

There are belonging to the National League 5,000 members enrolled
in over fifty State leagues and chapters and it suggests that
they become "Federal Amendment Suffrage Clubs" and arrange for
speakers and student debates on the amendment.... Its officers
wish to make an urgent appeal to all its leagues and chapters and
to every one of its individual members to put their whole force
behind the drive for this amendment.... We can perform no more
patriotic service for our country or for the world than to win
woman suffrage while we are working with all our might to win the
war.[142]

This notice con