Civic improvement; Urban women; Women in public life
The committee confronted its first difficulty in securing a
lecturer, for the work is new and there are few trained speakers
available. Dr. Frances M. Greene of Cambridge, the president of the
society which initiated this work in California, who has made an
intensive study of the question in Europe, was engaged to give a
course of five lectures in the League rooms.... Announcements were
sent out to 725 people, most of whom were mothers of young children;
77 persons attended the first lecture, and this number has increased
with each succeeding meeting. A charge of $1.00 was made for the
course. The receipts for the lectures were over $170.00, a sum
sufficient to pay the expenses of the lecturer, postage and
stationery. The serious interest shown by those in attendance has
deepened the conviction of the committee, that the public wishes
enlightenment in regard to instructing the young in these
fundamental matters, and that the present generation of parents
having been brought up in ignorance wishes to give its children a
better point of view than it ever had itself.
The committee has arranged to have Miss Laura B. Garrett[16] of New
York City speak on “Some Methods of Teaching Sex Hygiene” at
Huntington Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... In
addition to League members 500 teachers are to be invited to attend
this lecture.
On April 14th the plans of the Committee on Social Hygiene were
presented, at 41 Brimmer Street, through the courtesy of Miss Ware,
to a group of one hundred or more, including representative persons
from Boston, Brookline, Worcester, Lawrence, Lowell, Springfield and
Providence. Dr. Frances M. Greene, Dr. Abner Post, Dr. William P.
Lucas and Dr. Hugh Cabot made short addresses. Mrs. William Lowell
Putnam presided.
With the results before us of the work carried on this spring, the
committee will form its plans for next year. The present purpose is
to hold in October a mass meeting, with speakers representing
various shades of opinion and various methods of handling the
subject. Best methods of approach to the smaller groups of girls
from department stores and factories, boys’ clubs, mothers’ clubs,
parents’ associations, etc., will be further considered and the type
of speaker best adapted to be most successful with each individual
group will be sought out and sent to these various portions of the
community as may be desired.
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