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570 & Vision of the Good City, 1871–1933 [Princeton, N.J., 2002], 73–84; Joseph Siry, “The Abraham Lincoln Center in Chicago,”Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 50 [September 1991]: 235–65.) ••••••••• 287 • College Evening of the NationalAmerican Woman Suffrage Association Editorial note: M. Carey Thomas organized this special program of college students, alumnae, faculty, and presidents as a tribute to SBA. “I feel that college women and women’s colleges owe a great deal to pioneers like Miss Anthony,” Thomas wrote to the president of Mount Holyoke College, “and I should be delighted if we could make some recognition of this while she is able to take pleasure in it.” Newspapers sampled speeches that were later published in full, and in this text, the Baltimore American favored Thomas as a native daughter. SBA was very ill in Baltimore, and College Evening was one of the few events of the National-American’s convention that she attended. (M. C. Thomas to Mary E. Woolley, 21 December 1905, in Papers of M. Carey Thomas in the Bryn Mawr College Archives, Microfilm Collection, ed. Lucy Fisher West, [Woodbridge, Conn., 1981], 109:333–35; The College Evening of the Thirty-eighth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Held in Baltimore, February 8, 1906 [Baltimore, 1906].) [8 February 1906] With the great pioneer suffrage worker, Susan B. Anthony, upon 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. If the veteran suffragist thought of more than the pleasure of the event, it must have been to contrast the occasion with the times past when, unhonored and unsung, she fought what must often have seemed a losing fight for principles for which the presence of these women proclaimed victory. Miss Anthony was escorted to the stage by Dr.Ira Remsen, 1 of the Johns Hopkins University, who presided during the evening and introduced the speakers. In a box with Miss Mary Garrett was Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, 2 while upon the stage, in addition to the college women who made addresses , were Miss Clara Barton, 3 Rev. Anna Shaw, the president of the 20 january 1906 ^ 571 association, and Mrs. Florence Kelley, whose work against child labor has made her famous. The addresses were made by Mary E. Woolley, 4 president of Mount Holyoke College; Lucy M. Salmon, 5 professor of history, Vassar College; Mary A. Jordan, 6 professor of English, Smith College; Mary W. Calkins, 7 professor of philosophy and psychology, Wellesley College; Eva Perry Moore, 8 A.B., and trustee of Vassar College, president of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (over 3,000 college women); Maud Wood Park, 9 A.B., Radcliffe College, president Boston Branch of the Equal Suffrage League in Woman’s Colleges and founder of the league; M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College. College Evening. The evening had been announced as “college evening,” but it might just as well have been called “Susan B. Anthony evening,” for, while the addresses dealt with phases of the woman question, all evolved into one great tribute to Susan Anthony. At the close when she came forward to answer the addresses, the audience with one accord rose and greeted her standing, many giving the Chautauqua salute. “If there was any proof needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked I have it tonight,” she said. “The presence here on this stage of these college women, and of the young college girls who are acting as pages, 10 and will some day be the world’s greatest strength, is a great encouragement and joy to me. But I am not going to make a long speech, so I will say good night.” Miss Anthony looked well, and her voice was strong and very full for a person who will in a few days celebrate her eighty-sixth birthday.She wore a soft black silk gown, with white yoke and trimmed with white lace. One of the most interesting addresses of the evening was made by Miss Lucy M. Salmon, professor of history at Vassar College. She began by giving a short history of the various stages of development through which she had reached a conviction of the virtue of woman suffrage, and of the final acceptance of the college woman of the...

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