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truth about the situation among women prisoners and he offered the
fullest co-operation in a most commendable manner.

"He was in thorough sympathy with our work and we feel very
grateful to him because we are sure we obtained a point of view
that could have been obtained in no other way and that will assist
him in making reforms that he feels are needed. As there were
two of us our evidence is doubly strong."—From the New York Sun,
November 15.

ALUMN/E INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

Never an inkling of college athletics for alumna? was heard until
January, 1913, when an appeal was made to the directors of the
Alumna? Association of Barnard College for an official committee
to take charge of athletics for Barnard alumna?. Now athletics for
graduates of women's colleges is so popular and accepted a thing
in New York that few will believe that this wonderfully successful
and firmly established movement is in reality something less than
a year old.

The demand for an authoritative alumna? athletic committee arose
because a certain group of Barnard alumna?, especially active in
athletics in undergraduate days, found that business hours were de-
priving them of their accustomed share of athletic exercise after
graduation. They looked high and low for a place which would meet
their needs for recreation, but found nothing which would offer them
exercise at times when they could take it, and more particularly,
which would offer it under inexpensive, congenial conditions. So
they decided to create a place for themselves, and asked the Barnard
Alumna? Association to appoint a committee to do this authoritatively.
Permission was readily granted, and within less than a week the
Barnard Alumna? Committee on Athletics was created, with the
object of arranging athletic activities for Barnard graduates outside
of business hours.

Teachers' College (a part of Columbia University) which has a
splendidly equipped gymnasium, was appealed to. The authorities
there received the idea with great zest, and offered specially low
terms whereby Barnard alumna? might use parts of the gymnasium
on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, when the building was open for
the regular extension work which the University carries on. The
Barnard committee sent out cards announcing its plans to a select
number of Barnard alumna?, and as a result gathered a group of per-
haps thirty enthusiasts who came from all corners of the city and