Chatham College - Cornerstone Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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I i j 6- J i Stj p nnsyluantan .,01 j j I 0 I j i -6 Board of Trustees W. . Blackburn Mrs. Ogden M. Edwards, Jr. Mrs. William N. Frew Mrs. James H. Lockhart James C. Gray David McK. Lloyd Oliver McClintock. Rev. William L. McEwan, D.D. Rev. John K. McClurkin, D.D. Hon. Jacob J. Miller Mrs. William S. Miller Mrs. John I. Nevin Mrs. William Watson Smith Mrs. Charles Spencer JoHN B. FiNLEY William H. Rea ♦Deceased February 27, 1919.

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! ©ij P nnsijluantau in its widest scope. No type of training will achieve these ends more successfully than that which is given in the modern college for women. In the fourth place, Pittsburgh has the wealth to support a college for women of the highest rank. The investment necessary to provide for an initial unit of 500 students would not be prohibitive. All the women ' s colleges began with very modest initial investments; and a college such as we need here should not be projected along extravagant lines. Buildings antl equipment should be the best in material and design, but constructed with due regard to service and simplicity. That Pittsburgh has the financial ability to maintain such an insti- tution there is no question. We have in this great city a popu- lation certainly not less responsive to civic and educational ideals than can be found in other communities that have handsomely endowed and are generously supporting colleges for women of high rank. It is not unreasonable to believe that Pittsburgh will do the same thing when her attention is focused upon the need and advantages of such an institution. She has already given evidence of her deep interest in things educational by the provisions made for the University, and by her zeal for the prosperitv of everv worthy enterprise. To be sure, there are many urgent calls upon the benevolence of this city. This, however, will always be true. It is the price that men and women pay for residence in a community like our own. The more we invest in colleges and other enter- prises that have as their object our moral and social welfare, the better and more wholesome wdl our municipal life become. This brings us, therefore, to our conclusion, namely, that m the Pennsylvania College for Women we already have an institution nearly fifty years of age, whose record of splendid work and academic standards justifies its development into a larger and more commanding institution. The time is ripe for such a movement. The larger colleges for women in New England and the East are rapidly approaching their limits in respect to enrollment. Entrance lists in the larger of them are full for two or three years in advance. This condition calls for the establishment of other colleges of equal rank. What reason is there to believe that our own Pennsylvania College for Women may not become as strong as these larger institu- tions? Is Baltimore or Poughkeepsie necessarily more at- tractive than Pittsburgh as an educational center? Is there any reason why a strong woman ' s college should not draw students from the South and West as well as from our im- mediate environment? The same factors that have given the standard colleges for women their prestige will do the same for us here in Pittsburgh. A modern physical equipment, a cur- riculum developed under cultural ideals, but flexible enough to meet present-day conditions, and a faculty of sufficient size and academic equipment to attract and hold the best type of students — these are the requisites demanded tor a woman ' s col- lege of the highest type. Let us, then, as students and faculty, believe in the possi- bilities of growth and development that lie ahead of us. Let us think in terms of a larger Pennsylvania College for Women. Let us talk in terms of a larger Pennsylvania College for Women, and then by every means within our power let us concentrate on the achievement of this desirable and worthy object. John C. Acheson. 13

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I I j j Sti P nnsgluanian i j i ( Pennsylvanian Board EiUtof-iii-Chiii, . Business Alanager Associate Editors Marjorie Barron, ' 19 Catherine Caughey, ' 20 Phnlograph Manager Viola Cox, ' 19 Mary I,, Stevenson, ' 20 Gertrude Bair, ' ig Literary Eiiitors Eva Weston, ' 19 Betty Shipley, ' 20 Assistant Managers Florence Farr, ' ig Margaret Hare, ' 20