sed in the whole world.

The most brilliant session of the convention probably was that of the
College Women's Evening, with Dr. Shaw presiding. Miss Caroline Lexow
(N. Y.), secretary of the College Women's League, spoke of its
remarkable growth since its organization the preceding year and said
that it now had twenty-four branches in as many States and twenty-five
chapters in as many colleges. She called attention to the fact that no
College Anti-Suffrage Association had ever been formed and said that
college women remembered the words of one of the pioneers: "Make the
best use you can of your freedom for we have bought it at a great
price." Mrs. Eva Emery Dye (Ore.) gave an able address on College
Women in Civic Life. The Law and the Woman was the subject considered
by Miss Adella M. Parker, a popular lawyer, president of the
Washington College League. "I have been looking for years," she said,
"to find any legislation that does not affect women, from a tariff on
gloves to a declaration of war. The great problems which face the
human race demand the genius of both men and women to solve them. The
law needs women quite as much as women need the law." The closing
address on College Women and Democracy by Frances Squire Potter,
professor of English at the University of Minnesota, was a masterly
review of the relation of college women to the life of the present,
and later it was printed by the College League as a part of its
literature. In the course of it she said:

The admission of women began with Oberlin, Ohio, in 1833, then a
provincial institution, religious in its purpose and one where
the boys and girls did the work. From that time on the West was
committed to the co-educational State university. The influence
set back eastward and women demanded admittance successively in
this college and that college. It is to be remembered that they
did not go in naturally and pleasantly but at the point of the
sword and to the sound of the trumpet. And to-day the segregated
college life of the East illustrates the "last entrenchments of
the middle ages." Those monasteries and nunneries of learning
crown the hilltops from Boston to Washington and "watch the star
of intellectual empire westward take its way." ... Following upon
the democratization of the university we now see rising a tide
which is as inevitable as was that first movement, which will
be