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final list includes alumnae from almost twenty colleges, among which
are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Smith, Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Wells,
Wellesley, Wesleyan, Adelphi, Goucher, Randolph-Macon, Oberlin,
Brown, Michigan, Cornell. Palmira. Iowa State and the University
of Wisconsin!

This group is now well organized, and the Committee is at pres-
ent arranging a series of intercollegiate basket ball and water polo
teams. A great many players who were athletic "stars" in college
days are taking part, and the games are particularly enjoyable be-
cause intercollegiate sports for women have not been possible until
this time, due to faculty rulings for undergraduates.

In addition to the Monday alumnae athletic evenings, the Committee
made arrangements this winter with one of the leading New York
academies to conduct a class in horseback riding on Tuesday evenings
throughout the indoor season. For a fee of ten dollars each mem-
ber has the privilege of eight two-hour rides, and this fee has in-
cluded instruction. The ring is used on Fridays by alumnae
exclusively. The exceptionally low rates, and the fact that girls
are able to ride in middy blouses and bloomers instead of habits,
have attracted a great many alumnae from all colleges who have pre-
viously been unable to ride because of the expense. The evening's
work includes general riding, drill, polo, basket ball on horseback
and games of all kinds. The first intercollegiate games of basket
ball on horseback ever played—by men or women—will be played
off this winter!

Plans for next year are extensive—they must be because of the
demand. Three general evenings and two riding evenings will
probably be run during the coming winter. The more immediate
spring plans, however, include every possible form o f ' outdoor
exercise—horseback riding, hockey, tennis, baseball, basket ball, and
perhaps even a series of week-end hikes!

A l l of this work is being carried on chiefly for college women
who are in business. They, particularly, feel the lack of play,
which was so important an element in undergraduate days. There
are of course any number of centers where women can find exercise,
but a college woman loves to play with college women, and the com-
mittee is trying to provide a center where this will be possible—
where a graduate can get away from the business atmosphere in
which she works and get back into the old college spirit of play.
The committee's list includes graduates from 1885 through 1913.
and counts among its members teachers, clerks, artists, architects,
social workers, musicians, private secretaries with salaries ranging

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