Hollins University - Spinster Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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-A Y.-,ff--.-n-11-v -'--f N'---f- --- '-W -1- r--'- -4- -----'- '- -- -'-'-- 'v-- ---'-ef--T--f - - -'Ava H' ' ' '- H' Hollins alumnaf: know what Holli11s has meant to them. They know wl1at Hollins may mean to thousands of other girls to be educated there in years to come. Lives that have entered into the making of Hollins have left their impress, as real as it is intangible. Dreams a11d hopes, struggles and failures, successes, visio11 a11d determina- tion, love and faith-these are the qualities that have entered i11to Hollins. We know that Hollins cannot continue without CI1ClOXV1DCllf. VVe k11ow, too, that foundations and wealthy individuals are looking to the alumnae to place Hollins upon a public basis. Wheii the S65o,ooo necessary to effect the transfer has been raised, the College will be in a position to attract large gifts. For full national recognition Hollins lacks nothing but endowment. Girls holding its Bachelor of Arts degree are doing creditable work in the largest universities in the COLIIlfI'y. The Association of American Colleges has accepted Holli11s into its member- ship. Holli11s alumna are leaders i11 COIHITlLlI'll'CiCS i11 practically every state. In raising the endowment for Hollins we are 11ot merely perpetuating the college we love, the college that may educate our daughters a11d our daughters' daughters, 11Ot merely achieving for ourselves the academic status which our college work deserves, but we are also laboring for the cause of womanls education and testifying to our faith i11 an ideal worth preserving for posterity. Hollins typihes a merging of that which is best in progressive thought with those traditions worthy to be safeguarded. Alumnae and students, the task is ours. Let us bring about its speedy accomplishment! -EUDORA RAMSAY Riciirxizosox, VVestover Hills, Richmond, Virginia. 'iff' l +2-I 20 lie 41' ,N Z I 3 l L 4 l S 1 I

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J, f- , A e '.v.p-fe-Qv',..-,,,... .. ... . ' E' -144--ff - - The Endowment and Hollins N AN EFFORT to prove that girls possessed minds worth training, llflary Lyon, in 1837, founded at Ipswich, lylassachusetts, the seminary which became Moiiiit Holyoke College. Two years later Charles L. Cocke, then a lad of nineteen, expressed in a letter to a kinswoman a settled purpose to devote his life to the higher education of women. Nine years after llflary Lyon began her epochal experiment in New England, Dr. Cocke became the principal of Valley Union Seminary, a small coedu- cational school in Roanoke County, Virginia. ln 1852 he recommended to his board that boys be excluded in order that accommodations might be given girls applying for admission. Thus was born Hollins College, the oldest chartered college for women in Virginia. VVhen llflatthew Vassar testified to his faith in northern women by founding Vassar College, six women's colleges in the South that are still in existence had begun their careers. Only one of these has been able to secure the minimum endowment required for recognition by the American Association of University Woiiieii. The fault lies not with the institutions but with a public which, despite its prating of the cultural advantages possible only through the education of women, has not been willing to support its women's colleges. The educational problem, identical with most of the other problems confronting women to-day, is largely economic. Colleges, now that we have made a fetish of standardization, cannot be run without endowments. lfndowments must come through large gifts. Large givers are chiefly men, and men have not yet caught the vision of womenls education as interpreted in financial terms. The crisis that now confronts the women's colleges can be passed only when we translate belief into support. The debt which the South recognizes it is making little effort to pay. lylen have simply formed the habit of contributing to' their own institu- tions. -lust and kind they may be, but they are men-and as men they expect to be the recipients of the good things of this world. Une can understand their point of view, which adoring women have helped them to achieve. lt is amazing, moreover, that women with money should also in large numbers bestow their gifts upon institutions that educated their husbands or sons-amazing, yet according to their natures. VVomen love men more than they love each other. They love their sons more than they love their daughters. Through the ages they have denied themselves that men might have every desire gratified. The hope of the colleges lies in recent indications that women are undergoing a change of heart. justice and gratitude demand that we remember first those great poineers among colleges that opened to women the doors of educational opportunity. The debt long standing can never be fully paid, nor can it be accurately computed. For seventy-five years graduates of our oldest Southern colleges have carried culture into the homes of the South. From their ranks have been recruited teachers who have given their students more than mere learning. fill 19

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