e is to
bring the question of equal suffrage to college women, to help
them realize their debt to the women who have worked so hard for
them and to make them understand that one of the ways to pay that
debt is to fight the battle in the quarter of the field in which
it is still unwon; in short, to make them feel the obligation of
opportunity.

PRESIDENT THOMAS: In the year 1903 there were in the United
States 6,474 women studying in women's colleges and 24,863 women
studying in co-educational colleges. If the annual rate of
increase has continued the same, as it undoubtedly has, during
the past three years, there are in college at the present time
38,268 women students. Although there are in the United States
nearly 1,800,000 less women than men, women already constitute
considerably over one-third of the entire student body and are
steadily gaining on men. This means that in another generation or
two one-half of all the people who have been to college in the
United States will be women; and, just as surely as the seasons
of the year succeed one another or the law of gravitation works,
just so surely will this great body of educated women wish to use
their trained intelligence in making the towns, cities and States
of their country better places for themselves and their children
to live in; just so surely will the men with whom they have
worked side by side in college classes claim and receive their
aid in political as well as home life. The logic of events does
not lie. It is unthinkable that women who have learned to act for
themselves in college and have become awakened there to civic
duties should not care for the ballot to enforce their wishes.

[Illustration: PIONEERS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. Born, 1815.

LUCY STONE. Born, 1818.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Born, 1820.

LUCRETIA MOTT. Born, 1793.

MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT Born, 1846.]

The same is true of every woman's club and every individual woman
who tries to obtain laws to save little children from working
cruel hours in cotton mills or to open summer gardens for
homeless little waifs on the streets of a great city. These
women, too, are being irresistibly driven to desire equal
suffrage for the sake of the wrongs they try to right.... It
see