n the field were nine organizers, giving full
or half time. The State College Equal Suffrage League handled the
retail literature for the association and took charge of the office
hospitality. The Equal Franchise Committee, Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw,
president, had an important part in the campaign. The Men's League for
Woman Suffrage was reorganized with Oakes Ames as president and Joseph
Kelley as secretary. The Harvard Men's League cooperated in many ways.
The use of one of the University Halls for a speech by Mrs. Pankhurst
was refused to it, much to the chagrin of liberal-minded graduates and
undergraduates, but she held a very successful meeting in a nearby
hall. The use of a hall was refused also for Mrs. Florence Kelley,
although she had spoken at Harvard on other subjects. In order to
avoid further trouble the Harvard Corporation voted that thereafter no
woman should be allowed to lecture in the college halls except by its
special invitation. This rule was abandoned later and Miss Helen Todd
of California spoke on suffrage in Emerson Hall before a large
audience.

Other suffrage organizations sprang up or were enlarged, the Writers'
League, the Players' League, etc. Local branches were built up rapidly
under the leadership of Mrs. Pinkham, State organization chairman, and
by the spring of 1914 there were 138 leagues and committees. Just
before the vote in November, 1915, these had grown to 200. Monthly
conferences of the district leaders were held at State headquarters. A
systematic effort was made to build up strong suffrage organizations
in the cities outside of Boston. Workers and speakers were sent
through the State to help the local workers. In 1914 a series of
two-day conferences was held in eleven of the sixteen counties, the
first day devoted to discussion of work with local leaders and the
second to holding often as many as twenty meetings by a corps of
speakers, at factories, stores, men's clubs, labor unions, church
organizations, on the street, etc.

To educate the men who were to vote upon the question, a State-wide
canvass of voters was begun by Mrs. Crowley, which was carried on up
to election day. A body of from five to seven intelligent women,
informed on the question, re-enforced by local volunteers, called from
house to house, talking to the voter or his wife, leaving suffrage
literature and if possible getting the voter's signature to a card
pledge to vote yes. These canvassers moved from cit