of any other State except New York. The College Equal
Suffrage League's prize of $100, for the best essay in favor of
suffrage by a college student, was won by Ava M. Stoddard of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The above is a sample of the
activities carried on year after year by the association during the
first decade of the century.

In 1901 the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government was
organized through the efforts of Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page, with
Pauline Agassiz (Mrs. Quincy A.) Shaw as president, Mrs. Fanny B.
Ames, chairman of Executive Committee, and Mrs. Park as executive
secretary.[80] It continued to be a power in the State till suffrage
was won and aimed to devote itself not only to suffrage but to all
activities in which women could be especially useful to the community.

The National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts, a smaller
organization, disbanded in 1901 after nearly twenty years of
existence. Mrs. Sarah A. P. Dickerman was acting president, Miss
Lavina A. Hatch secretary. It had held eleven monthly meetings during
the past year, done congressional work and contributed to the Susan B.
Anthony table at the national bazar in New York.

1902. At the annual meeting on January 23, Mrs. Park presided and a
work conference was substituted for the usual public meeting. The
Festival was held on May 28 with the Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer
presiding. Other speakers were the Rev. Dr. James H. Ecob, Professor
John Graham Brooks, the Rev. Ida C. Hultin, Colonel T. W. Higginson
and the Rev. Charles F. Dole. Miss Vida Goldstein of Australia
addressed a number of meetings this year. An enrollment of suffragists
was begun. There was an increase of women's registration for the
school vote in fourteen cities, in Boston of about 5,000. An
investigation of the tax records by Mr. Blackwell showed that in
Boston alone 18,500 women paid taxes on several hundred million
dollars' worth of property.

1903. At the annual meeting of the State association on January 13,
Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Park presided. Mrs. Livermore was made honorary
president and Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead president, Mrs. Mary Schlesinger,
vice-president; Miss Harriet E. Turner, corresponding secretary;
William Lloyd Garrison, treasurer; Mrs. Otto B. Cole, clerk; Mr.
Blackwell, member of the National Executive Committee. Mrs. Page,
chairman of the Organization Committee, reported that forty towns had
been visited. There were spe