Squirrel Island, Aug. 7. 1890.<\/p>\n
My dear Miss Coburn,<\/p>\n
Many thanks for your I intended to go up to Skowhegan to see you I wish I might see you. I think we could 2 We can\u2019t change<\/span> anything, but is it right<\/span> and best<\/span> let the impression go abroad that everybody favors this new plan? I don\u2019t mean and we don\u2019t any of us mean that college and have her best interests and the interests of her Now, perhaps, the protest I have written may not be the I find, however, that these girls here and Miss Parmenter ceive any suggestions. If it weren\u2019t so long I would We do<\/span> want you to help us. It seems as if we can\u2019t<\/span> Please let me hear from you as soon as possible in Dr. Pepper talked the matter over with Mr. Carver<\/p>\n when he was in W-, and he says that the new plan Well, let me hear from you very soon.<\/p>\n With love Excuse pencil for my pen won\u2019t work well.<\/p>\n\n Squirrel Island, Aug. 7. 1890. My dear Miss Coburn, Many thanks for your beautiful letter. You cannot know how gratifying it is to me to find that we agree so well in re- gard to this matter. Indeed, as far as I have been able to ascertain, the Alumnae are a unit in their feelings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7698,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14663,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688\/revisions\/14663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbeautiful letter. You cannot know how gratifying it
\nis to me to find that we agree so well in re-
\ngard to this matter. Indeed, as far as I have
\nbeen able to ascertain, the Alumnae are a unit<\/span>
\nin their feelings and opinions although they may
\nperhaps, differ as to ways and means.<\/p>\n
\nbut Prof. Taylor and sister gave me so pressing
\nan invitation to come down here that I came
\nWednesday with my little girl. My husband came
\ndown for the Sabbath.<\/p>\n
\narrange something that we could agree on. Today I
\nhad a call from Alice Sawtelle, Mary Farr, Bessie<\/p>\n
\nMortimer and Mary Pray and we met afterwards and
\ntalked over matters and I read them what I had
\nwritten. I find we all agree and is as to their suggestion
\nthat I write to you. Our idea is this. We see
\nof course that it would be useless to expect to change
\nanything now. The thing is done. We couldn\u2019t have done
\nanything to prevent it, because we didn\u2019t know
\nthat it was to be done. We couldn\u2019t act, of course,
\ntill the trustees had acted. It looks as if the
\nresult had been precipitated, sprung on us, as you might
\nsay in such a way that neither we nor our friends
\ncould do anything to prevent it.<\/p>\n
\nfor us to remain silent? Is it right for us to re-
\nmain silent and thus really assent to this change?
\nI understand Pres. Small invites criticism and asks
\nthe girls to express their opinion about it. His ref-
\nerences to our modesty or want of it are of the na-
\nture of an insult. Although he may not have intended
\nthem to be so, yet we all feel that they are of that nature.
\nAnd then is it right for us to remain silent and<\/p>\n
\nShouldn\u2019t we do what we can to have matters understood
\nas they are<\/span>? He has given the impression that everybody and
\neven the girls themselves desire this change when we know
\nit is not so<\/span>. It seems to me that there are many reasons
\nwhy it is right<\/span> for us to speak. Another thing. Is it best<\/span>
\nfor us to be silent? What shall we gain by silence? Will
\nour influence have any effect-by-and-by if we don\u2019t try
\nto use it now? Won\u2019t these contemplated changes by \u201csprung
\non\u201d us again as this has been? And if we seem not to
\ncare now, will it be expected that we shall care by-and-
\nby? Shall we be given any chance to use our influence
\nif we don\u2019t attempt to do it now.<\/p>\n
\nwe will place ourselves in opposition<\/span> to the trustees. But
\ncan\u2019t we by the right kind<\/span> of a protest place ourselves
\nin such an attitude that they will see that we love our<\/p>\n
\nwomen students at heart? We know we have many friends
\namong the trustees and we think they all<\/span> respect us and
\nwould respect our opinions. We are educated women and
\nare supposed to have an opinion in this matter that so
\nnearly concerns ourselves. Why shouldn\u2019t we express it?<\/p>\n
\nright kind<\/span>. It is written from my own point of view.<\/p>\n
\nall agree that it is just the thing. Alice Sawtelle says she
\nwould sign it three times over. I think we could easily get
\n20 signatures and perhaps more. There are 33 Alumnae
\nin all and 1\/3 of them live in W-. What we propose to do
\nis this, to have it printed first without signatures and
\nsent around for the girls to sign. Then have another
\nset printed with the names printed underneath by
\nclasses and send these copies to the trustees and faculty.
\nI did wish that you might see the Ms. before it should
\nbe printed so that you might suggest any desirable changes.
\nI don\u2019t care anything, of course, about being the author
\nof it, but somebody<\/span> had to start and I should be glad to re-<\/p>\n
\nsend the Ms to you. I will<\/span> do so rather than have
\nyou say that you can\u2019t help us. I thought you might
\npossibly be coming down here before long so we could
\narrange a meeting. It would be just the thing if you could
\nmeet us all here. Can\u2019t it be brought about in some way?<\/p>\n
\nhave it otherwise<\/span>. Your name and influence would have
\nthe weight of a dozen of the other names. I think and
\nwe all<\/span> think that we ought to act together. We can\u2019t
\nafford to split up into factions. Now, can\u2019t you act with
\nus? We seem to be waiting for you, for I think there
\nis little doubt about the other girls, the majority of them.<\/p>\n
\nregard to it. I shall probably be here till the middle of
\nnext week; how much longer, I cannot say.<\/p>\n
\ncannot be carried out without considerable money and so will,
\nhe thinks be a failure, will work itself clear after a
\nwhile. What I am afraid of most is that the public will get
\nthis false impression to such an extent that some-
\nbody will be giving them money. Pres. Small will
\nleave no stone unturned to carry out this pet scheme
\nof his. I think he wants to signalize his administra-
\ntion by something new and marvelous<\/span>.<\/p>\n
\nMary L. Carver.<\/p>\n