ar the college woman, as it bears the college man, out of the
fostering shelter of the college hall into the great welter of
life, of full citizenship.... Since the colleges of America
opened to women, nothing so vital to the nourishment of this
spirit has happened as the formation of the College Equal
Suffrage League.... There are certain definite things for which a
college woman registers herself in joining this league. First, a
direct return to the country of the energy which it has trained.
A woman's whole education to-day is toward direct results. She
has been educated away from the old indirect ideal of the
boarding-school. There she was taught to be a persuasive
ornament, now she is taught to be an individual mind, will and
conscience and to use these in acting herself. I hold that there
is no more graphic illustration of inconsistent waste than the
spectacle of a college-trained woman falsifying her entire
education by shying away from suffrage.... The time has gone by
when a college woman can be allowed to be noncommittal on this
subject. If she has not thought about equal suffrage she must do
so now, exactly as persons of intelligence were compelled to
think about slavery in the time of Garrison, or about the
reformation in the time of Martin Luther. To those who try to get
out of it it is not unfitting to quote Thomas Huxley's famous
sentence: "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who dare not
reason is a coward; he who can not reason is a fool." ...

It devolves upon the college woman more than upon any other one
type to face and conquer a retarding tendency which is becoming
marked in this country. I refer to the anti-feminization
movement. Dr. Stanley Hall has given voice to it in education;
Dr. Lyman Abbott quavers about it in religion; the committee on
tariff revision is an example of it in politics. When women sent
a petition to the committee against raising the duties on certain
necessities of life of which they were the chief consumers, the
chairman said: "It doesn't make any difference whether these
women send in a petition signed by 500 or 5,000 names, they will
receive no consideration. Let them talk things over in their
clubs and other organizations; this will occupy them and do no
one any harm; but it will not affect t