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The Baltimore _American_ thus began its account: "With the great
pioneer suffrage worker, Susan B. Anthony, on the platform, surrounded
by women noted in the college world for their brilliant attainments,
as well as those famed for social work and in other professions, and
with a large audience, the session of the woman suffrage convention
opened last evening in the Lyric Theater. If the veteran suffragist
thought of more than the pleasure of the event it must have been the
contrast of this occasion with the times past, when, unhonored and
unsung, she fought what must have often seemed a losing fight for
principles for which the presence of these women proclaimed
victory.... It had been announced as 'Colloge evening' but it might
just as well have been called 'Susan B. Anthony evening,' for, while
the addresses dealt with various phases of the woman question, all
evolved into one strong tribute to Miss Anthony."
The following remarkable program was carried out:
COLLEGE EVENING
February 8, 1906
_Presiding Officer_
Ira Remsen, Ph.D., LL.D., _President of Johns Hopkins University_.
_Ushers_
Students of the Woman's College of Baltimore in Academic Dress.
_Addresses_
Mary E. Woolley, A.M., Litt.D., L.H.D., _President of Mount
Holyoke College_.
Lucy M. Salmon, A.M., _Professor of History_, _Vassar College_.
Mary A. Jordan, A.M., _Professor of English_, _Smith College_.
Mary W. Calkins, A.M., _Professor of Philosophy and Psychology_,
_Wellesley College_.
Eva Perry Moore, A.B., _Trustee Vassar College_; _President of
the Association of Collegiate Alumnae_ (_over three thousand
college women_).
Maud Wood Park, A.B. (_Radcliffe College_), _President of the
Boston Branch of the Equal Suffrage League in Women's
Colleges and Founder of the League_.
M. Carey Thomas, Ph.D., LL.D., _President of Bryn Mawr College_.
A tribute of gratitude from representatives of Women's Colleges.
What has been accomplished for the higher education of women by
Susan B. Anthony and other woman suffragists.
The statement is sometimes questioned that all of the advantages which
women enjoy today had their inception in the efforts of the pioneers
suffragists. The addresses made on this occasion by some of the most
distinguished women educators of the country certainly should sustain
this claim so far as the higher education is concerned. It seems a
sacrilege to use only brief quotations from these important
contributions to the literature of the movement for woman suffrage.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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