Endowments for Women

Many rich men's daughters attend the leading women's colleges. But not many rich fathers give money to their daughters' almae matres, nor do philanthropists at large seem to have the women's colleges in mind so often as the men's colleges when there is largesse to be passed around.

In recognition of these facts, 80 literary persons, most of them women, lunched in Manhattan last week with alumnae of Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Barnard, Smith and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. All present were urged to help create public interest in higher education for U. S. girls. President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley College complained that the seven colleges represented at the luncheon gave education.equivalent to that offered by seven highest ranking male institutions, but received only one-tenth the males' endowment. Said she: "The women's colleges are asking not a dole, but justice."

Though President Pendleton did not name her seven male colleges, she might have chosen the following seven Eastern institutions and compared their resources:

Endowment Gifts Enrolment (as of 1930) (1928-1930)

Harvard ....$108,087,463 $26,171,416 8,110

Yale 83,000,000 25,000,000 5,340

(more than)

Princeton ... 23,000,000 1,500,000 2,489

Dartmouth .. 14,800,000 5,000,000 2,274

Brown 10,129,000 399,000 1,365

Amherst .... 7,681,987 399,323 1,697

Williams .... 7,188,215 1,625,092 802

Total $253,886,665 $60,094,831 21,077

Figures for the seven complaining women's colleges:

Endowment Gifts Enrolment

(as of 1930) (1928-1930)

Wellesley $9,732,245 $1,306,964 1,556

Vassar 7,280,000 1,185,000 1,150

Bryn Mawr... 6,481,000 380,000 453

Smith 5,506,271 1,200,000 2,067

Radcliffe 5,134,000 578,745 956

Barnard 4,861,920 547,378 1,104

Mt. Holyoke.. 4,022,344 872,073 1,030

Total $43,017,780 $6,070,160 8,316

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