sociation has never yet been able to get me a maid," and then in an additional paragraph gives the answers which it might be well to make to each.

ASSOCIATION BUILDING NOTES

The new building in Newark, N. J., made possible by the raising of $300,000 in a campaign in February, 1911, was dedicated on November 3.

The Brooklyn Association opened in November its new residence, prepared to accommodate over 200 girls. Special accounts of these two buildings will appear in the next issue.

In August a new building was dedicated for the Bar Harbor, Maine, Association. This building cost something over $50,000 and was the gift of Mrs. John S. Kennedy.

The Springfield, Ohio, Association in October entered a combination administration and residence building which had been entirely remodeled and rebuilt to meet all the needs of the Association. The total cost was $80,000.

The Colorado Springs Association has occupied a new $80,000 building this fall. It serves both as residence and administration building.

The Keokuk, Iowa, Association opened a new building in September.

The new building of the Saginaw, Mich., Association, dedicated in September, was erected at a cost of $65,000.

The Association in Athens, Ga., has erected a very complete gymnasium, with pool and baths, at a cost of $20,000. This structure furnishes the nucleus around which a complete building will later be erected.

The Yonkers, N. Y., Association will soon enter a new combination building, for the erection of which $108,000 was raised by a campaign in 1912.

The Wichita, Kas., Association, which raised $125,000 in a campaign last spring, has purchased a building to be used as a residence and will later erect an administration building.

In Seattle, Wash., the exterior of the new building, to cost about $250,000, is practically complete.

New buildings are now under construction for the Associations in Charlotte, N. C., and Wheeling, W. Va.; $75,000 was raised by a campaign in Wheeling in April, 1912, and $63,000 in Charlotte in November, 1912.

The corner stone of the new administration building for Richmond, which will cost $84,000, was laid on August 1. In the spring of this year the Association occupied a new residence. Both of these build

ings were provided for by a campaign for $160,000 in 1911.

The new building for the Germantown, Philadelphia, Association is now under way, and plans are being prepared for the Kensington Branch building of the Philadelphia Association. These buildings were included in the fund of $500,000 raised in Philadelphia in May of this year.

A branch building for the Baltimore Association, estimated to cost $30,000, has been begun.

In September ground was broken in Oakland, Cal., for a new $188,000 building, to be four stories, with open court and roof garden, and providing accommodations for transient guests.

Plans for a building in Fort Dodge, Ia., have been submitted by the architect.

The St. Joseph, Mo., Association raised $150,000 in a building campaign last spring The building plans have been accepted and the construction will soon be under way.

The new building for the Eastern district branch of the Brooklyn Association will soon be begun. It is expected that the building will be ready in July, 1914, and will cost about $115,000.

BUILDING CAMPAIGNS

As this number goes to press a joint campaign of the Young Men's Christian Association and Young Women's Christian Association is in progress in New York City for $4,000,000, $3,000,000 of which is for Young Women's Christian Association buildings. A later issue will contain a more complete report of this campaign, which is of national and world import.

The following cities are also planning for campaigns to be held in the fall or early spring:

San Francisco, Cal.
Savannah, Ga.
Terre Haute, Ind.
Sioux City, Ia.
New Britain, Conn.
Louisville, Ky.
Baltimore, Md.
Kalamazoo, Mich.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Columbus, Ohio.
Chester, Pa.

New Castle, Pa.

Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Texas.

Then be ye glad, good people,
This night of all the year,
And light ye up your candles,
For his star it shineth clear.
-Old English.

STUDENT NEWS ITEMS

One of the most interesting pieces of work conducted among summer schools this past season was necessarily not included in the report of summer school work in the last AssoCIATION MONTHLY. Miss Farquhar, student secretary for the Northeastern Field, represented the Association at Chautauqua, New York. When it is realized that 50,000 people visit Chautauqua every season, and that of the 1,000 enrolled in the summer school the majority are young women, it can be seen what it means to have the Association undertake to have itself felt in this institution. Miss Farquhar identified herself with the "School of Religion," in whose building she held daily office hours. She also came and went among the girls at the "Women's Club," "The College Commons," "The School of Physical Education," etc. She was instrumental in establishing on the grounds two young women's Bible classes, one of which was formed especially for the girls who, because they were employed on the grounds as waitresses or in some other way, could not take advantage of the regular program. It was found that so many people in attendance at Chautauqua were connected with the Association in one way or another that a reception was held for all members and friends of the Association. It will be remembered that Camp Chedwel was established just across the lake from the Chautauqua grounds. Miss Jessie Field's part in the Chautauqua program during the "social center week" aroused such interest in the camp that a connection was maintained between it and the Chautauqua Institute by bulletins, distribution of literature, etc. The Chautauqua Daily was courteous in giving space for all Association mention, and it is felt that innumerable people came to know more about the Young Women's Christian Association because they were at Chautauqua this summer.

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A new kind of membership campaign was held lately by the Fresno Normal School in California, called "The Rivalry of the Seasons." A girl was chosen from the incoming class to represent the "Year," and she in turn chose four more girls for the "Seasons." The "Seasons" in turn chose "Months," and added still more to the Association membership by finding their allotted number of "Weeks." Some of the "Weeks" even went so far as to find "Days"-although the number of students in this school would not permit much more expansion. A calendar was hung in the school building, and as soon as each place was filled a gold star was

pasted to it by the corresponding "Season," "Month," "Week," or "Day." The result was 72 members and great enthusiasm.

A Christmas meeting with very real Christmas spirit and beauty was held last year by the University of Texas Association and is commented on, as other Associations are planning for this season. Three hundred University girls came together in a room glowing with soft light from candles and the glistening of tiny Christmas trees. Autumn leaves and crimson poinsettia added still more Christmas color to the scene. The program in addition to a very little of the right kind of music was simply three short talks by three different grown-ups who were filled deeply with the spirit of the meeting, talks on The First Christmas, The Christmas of Medieval Times (explaining the traditions from which our modern festivities have sprung), and The Christmas Spirit of Modern Times-in other words, "applied Christmas," or living it every day and hour of the year.

A joint finance campaign, held by the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations of Oberlin somewhat on the same principles of a city finance campaign, was so successful that a large surplus over the desired $2,000 was raised for each Association.

Another adaptation of city Association methods to college conditions was shown in the recent publicity campaign conducted by the University of Nebraska Association in Lincoln. The flourishing condition of this Association is shown by the fact that its Bible and mission classes include about 500 girls. The special aim of the Association for this year is to deepen the social consciousness among college women.

At the first under-graduates' pay-day held this fall each class and college organization had a booth in the Association room, at which members might pay their annual dues for everything from student government to the college missionary society.

Customary conditions were reversed by the Association of the University of Illinois, when groups of the membership gave a series of entertainments to the Association committees.

The college authorities of Knox University have honored the two Christian Associations by asking them to take charge of the general social functions of the college-this in the hope that a more democratic spirit might be infused in the student body.

Attendance at the opening meeting of the Beloit Association was ensured this year by the fact that each "old member" personally conducted a freshman to the meeting.

Another cabinet house party was held by the Association at Whitworth College, Washington, just before the opening of college this fall, in a bungalow on Puget Sound. This was a direct result of the suggestion made at the Gearhart Park Conference. The days of counsel, prayer and fun in this fir tree forest at the head of the Bay and around the great beach fires at night sent this cabinet into the year's work as a unit.

Three hundred of the four hundred girls in attendance at Blackstone Female Institute in Virginia are members of the Association thus early in the year. At Buford College in Tennessee every girl in the college is enrolled in the Association.

An early morning prayer service held by the Association girls who live in the dormitory of Murfreesboro Normal School in Tennessee is doing much for the spirit of the school.

ASSOCIATION WORK IN THE

COUNTRY

From the two-months'-old baby to the grandmother over-weary from attempting to visit all parts of the Chautauqua county fair, all who used the comforable and fully equipped rest room maintained by the county Young Women's Christian Association were genuinely, if sometimes inarticulately, grateful! Many wee babies were left in charge of the two trained nurses, while the volunteer committee supplemented with boiled water or bottled milk, or took gracious care of the tired girls and women. The undertaking paid all expenses and gave the Association five admission tickets daily. Over thirty babies were entered in the Better Babies Contest conducted in the rest room for mental and development measurements and physical tests.

Mission study in co-operation with the village churches is conducted in the Westfield Branch of the Chautauqua County Association. The secretary, Miss Shepard, discussed the general plan with three of the Westfield ministers, and as a result one of them conducted a course in foreign missions, one in home missions, and the third in Christian sociology-all the classes meeting at the Association headquarters.

MAIN BUILDING OF SIMMONS COLLEGE

A VOCATIONAL DAY IN BOSTON

Never has an Occupational Conference been more happily entertained than in Boston on November 8th, when Dean Arnold and the student Association at Simmons College welcomed ninety-five guests and speakers, not only to their buildings, but to the substantial luncheon in their cafeteria.

Among the guests of the day were Miss Amy Morris Homans, head of the physical department of Wellesley College; Miss Florence Jackson of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union, presidents and secretaries from Young Women's Christian Associations in the vicinity, ex-secretaries now serving young women through volunteer positions on local boards, young alumnæ proving their lances in various occupations before beginning preparation for Association secretaryships, and seniors from colleges of liberal arts and technical schools. Miss Katy Boyd George, metropolitan student secretary, was that invaluable official, the business manager; Mrs. Kendall Emerson of Worcester, Mass., a member of the Northeast Field Committee of the National Board, presided, and Mrs. Benjamin Tenney, president of the Boston Association, led in opening devotions.

The topics and speakers were as follows: "The Field for the Employed Officer in the City," by Miss Lena Farrar, city secretary, Northeast Field Committee; "The Field for the Employed Officer in the College," by Mrs. Frederick C. Hunter, formerly student secretary, Ohio and West Virginia Field Committee; "The Field for the Employed Officer in the Foreign Land," by Miss Margaret Burton, special_worker, Foreign Department, National Board; "The Spirit of Professional Service," by Dean Sarah L. Arnold, Simmons College; "The Secretary," by Miss Caroline B. Dow, Dean of the National

Why Have a Basis?

Any answer to this question must take into account the fact that when we use the word "basis" in reference to the Young Women's Christian Association we are talking about the basis of membership. To the degree that an organization is democratic, governed by the consent of all the governed, it follows that the basis of organization shall be also the basis of membership. When a group of people associate together, they do it for some reason. If it is reason enough to hold them together, as an organization, it would seem that it should assume the dignity of a real purpose. It is taken for granted that in associating thus together, they are committed to this purpose. The driving power which is generated by the fact of their being associated together is in proportion to the worth of the purpose. This driving power is also in proportion to the commitment to the purpose of all who belong. This is but to say that if a group of people desire to go somewhere, all the members of the group must agree upon the where, if they are to have any voice in the matter, and upon how worth while it is to get there.

One is reminded of a personal experience in helping to form a club for reading French literature, a club which has a name to fit its original purpose. Now, after a history of twenty winters, it still exists, but upon the basis of community of tastes, a club for good times for its members. Its present members have forgotten, if they have ever heard, the purpose for which it was organized, and seem not to have noticed the incongruity of the name of the club and what it is doing, although the explanation is simple enough, viz., that the original constitution did not provide that the members should be chosen on the basis of some knowledge of the French language.