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Cooperative Cottages in Mid-West Universities
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By Jessica Megaw
Actual living expenses for college
women have °risen in the last ten
years from $288 for room and board
during the average college year of
thirty-eight weeks to $418 for the
same thing, according to statistics
submitted by an alumna. Other ex-
penses have risen accordingly so that
where once $500 was a sufficient sum
with which a woman to go through
a college year, it now does little more
than pay for room and board. Tui-
tion, books, clothes and incidentals
nearly double the group so that $900
is cited as the smallest amount that
the average woman attending the
middle western universities can live
on.
For many young women interested
in professions that require a college
degree $900 is an amount impossible
to acquire. A summer's work may
bring them from $200 to $300 and
perhaps they may be able to get an-
gther hundred from home. Any
further money they have to earn
themselves, and if they are untrained
this often means hardship.
Keeping these facts in mind, some
years ago a movement was started at
the University of Texas to provide a
house for women that should be
worked on a cooperative basis. Each
woman was expected to contribute
equally to a house fund which would
go to payfor food, rent and any other
incidental expenses, the university
bearing the light and heat items.
Every woman was expected to do
some work about the house, the
amount of work varying with the
amount of money she wished to earn.
In this way the women were provided
with comfortable, normal living quar-
ters and wholesome food ad enabled
to pay a large share of their expenses
without incurrin'g any social condem-
nation or stigma.
Shortly afterwards, the University
of Minnesota decided to try the same
plan that had proved so successful at
Texas. The students' section of the
Faculty Women's club in 1913 ob-
tained permission from the Regents
to use for a nominal rental one of the
empty houses that the recent enlarge-
ment of th'e campus had brought
'under the university's control. The
plan was considered purely experi-
mental and nothing much was really
expected of it, except by those who
knew what had been done at Texas.
The Faculty Women's club provided
the house with furniture gathered in
their attics and in 1914 the first cot-
tage was formally opened under the
name of Elibeth Northrup, after the
wife of the president of the university.
Nine women lived there with a faculty
chaperone and a housekeeper. .The
former was one of the women on the
staff of the home economics depart-
ment.
The expenses of each woman
amounted to $16 a month. All of the
work with the exception of the cook-
ing was done by the women them-
selves, some of course desiring to do
more than others. All the green gro-
ceries were purchased through the
university store house in the same
manner as the Minnesota Union and
the women's dormitories. Heat and
light were furnished by the univer-
sity plants and so the total expenses
per woman totaled for the entire year
only $138 as against the expenses in
the dormitory of $330 and in the out-
side house, $425. A splendid spirit
was prevalent and cooperation and
friendship were the foundations of
the house.
So successful was the plan that in
1914 the regents leased another of the
houses. This time the Alumnae club
worked with the Faculty Women's
club by furnishing the bedrooms. All
manner of generous donations poured
in and at length it was opened to 16
women and called Charlotte Winchell
cottage for the former owner of the
cottage who had been the donor ofj
many generous and needed gifts. I
The year 1917 saw two more coop-
erative cottages opened. The first
was given the name of Sarah Falwell
cottage after the wife of the first pres-
ident of the university and housed 36i
women. Mrs. Falwell gave the flat
silver and sent a check for an orien-
tal rug. Her family also were most!
generous. The student section of the
Faculty Women's club had raised
$800 by strenuous effort and used itI
to furnish the bedrooms. The social
section of the club furnished theE
living room and hall while the Alum-
nae club fitted out the dining room.
It was the best furnished of the cot-
tages and the opinion of the campus
was expressed as enthusiastic about
it. The second cottage opened at this
time was a memorial to Ruth Loring
whose mother gave $1,300 for furnish-
ings. Ever since the opening of the'
I cottage, Mrs. Loring has not failed to
remember the cottage at Christmas
with some gift.
In the following year the regents
felt it necessary to confiscate North-
rup Cottage as a home for nurses be-
cause war time had congested the us-
ual quarters used for this purpost.
At the same time Winchell Cottage
had to be sold and moved off thel
campus to make way for the' new
university library but another house
donated by them and given the same
name. It housed only eight women
but five more were accommodated on
the lower floor of a nearby house, eat-
ing at Winchell Cottage. At the end
of that year the whole of the nearby
house was acquired and called Win-
chell annex, and it was able to take
care of three more women as well as
the chaperone. All of the residents
of the annex ate at Winchell cottage
as before and it was more like two
wings of the same cottage rather than
separate houses.
A third house was added to this
same group in 1922 and called Win-
chell club. It takes care of 27 women,,
three chaperones, all chosen from the
faculty, and a housekeeper.
In all of the Minnesota cottages the
women do all the household work with
the exception of the household week-
ly cleaning and the cooking. Only
dinner is served formally, breakfast
and luncheon being served in the caf-
eteria fashion. A different woman is
appoiinted menu clerk every week.
She confers with the chaperone and
the cook regarding what materials
can be obtained and at what price.
In this way not only is variety as-
sured but the women themselves get
valuable training. It has been found
moresatisfactory to let the chatw-
rones do the actu'al buying.
The expenses in the cooperative cot-
tages average $237.50 a year as
against the dormitory expenses of
$330 and the expenses of organized
houses of from $380 to $425.
Miss Mary E. Staples, head of the
Women's Housing bureau of Minne-
sota says, "To those of us who have
Dragon Club of the senior class
agreed to sponsor one cooperative
cottage. The Chicago Alumnae asso-
ciation took charge of a second and
the Athletic Association of University
Women a third. These all proved suc-
cessful and popular with the women
of the university. The first of them
f was opened in 1919 and called Tabard
Inn. It housed 20 pilgrims, as they
were called. Charter house and the
Inn were run on the cooperative basis
but University house, opened at the
same time was a slight variation of
the cooperative plan and did not ad-
here strictly to it. At the same time
' one house was furnished by a loan
collected and offered by interested
women for one year without interest.
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house under the auspices of the Wom-
en's League. All the furniture was
purchased with the proceeds of the
annual opera of the Women's League.
At the present time there are three
cooperative houses, each housing fromI
10 to 12 girls. The expenses varyI
monthly from $25 to $30 apiece, com-;
pared with expenses of average wom-
en ranging from $50 to $55.'The over-f
head and running expenses are total-i
led and divided evenly among the
house members so that there is no1
standard rate for each month. Each
I woman is required to give not more
than an hour's service a day although
if she desires to give more she may
allowed to pay for the shar
expenses with farm produce. So far,
the house has worked together as a
whale and Miss Conrad believes that
the plan will work out successfully.
The University of Michigan has at
present only two cooperative cot-
tages, Adelia Cheever house and
Alumnae house. Alumnae house was
founded in 1917 through the efforts
of Michigan alumnae all over the
country. The furniture and the
house itself were contributed by them
although the house itself is governed
by its own board which is directly
responsible to the office of the dean
of WOMi i n It hnusc s 1A nino.n snmo
Five years ago the University of run on a cooperative basis.
Illinois established a cooperative women whose fathers are farn
Those
mers are
e of the
In 1918 through th'a efforts of the do so. The chaperone is selected by
Romance Language department, more the dean of women and it is hr duty of whom do three or four hours work
especially Professor Hugh A. Smith, to care for the social life and gen- a day, and others only an hour a
La Maison Francaise was established. eral ,,ttitude of those under her week, although all are required to do
It was intended primarily for those charge. some work which applies on their ex-
interested in teaching French. No! Miss Gladys Pennington, assistant penses. Expenses are $55 a semester
English was spoken in the house and dean of women at the University of for room and $26.50 a month for
every effort was given to make it a Illinois, says, "The social life is like board.
genuine and whole hearted group of that of any other organized house Adelia Cheever house originally be-
French students. As an innovation upon the campus. The women seem longed to Judge and Mrs. Noah Cheev-
the men interested in French were to enjoy their life together thorough- i er who were much interested in help-
permitted to eat at the house but all ly. . They enter activities like any ing young men and young women
conversation had to be carried on in other organized house. The president through the university. In 1905 Judge
French. Just how successful it was of each house sits on the first council Cheever died and left the house to
may be gathered from the fact that in of the Women's League just as the i Miss Pamela Noble, Mrs. Cheever's
1921 the Journalism house was estab- other presidents do. Last year one of sister. Upon her death the house
lished with the same idea for journal- the three cooperative houses won the 1 with all its furnish'ings was left to
ism students. All the members of the health week cup. We find that in the University to be used as a coop-
house were interested in journalism scholarship their averages are about erative dormitory for women and was
as a life profession. It formed a the same as elisewhere. There is, I officially opened as such in 1921. Two
group for social purposes that would am sure, a splendid spirit of coopera- years ago the Pamela Noble annex
be interested in the same things l tion between the organized houses and was moved on to the land belonging
throughout life. It bound its mem- the cooperative houses on the cam- to the original grant from the space
bers together by common association pus.' now occupied by the Lawyers' club.
of ideas into a closer and more con- Ohio State university has just start-. The stockholders payed for the mov-
tributive unit than had previously ed its first cooperative house this year. ing and the rehabilitation while the
been attempted or thought possible. There the problem is somewhat dif- University donated the house. It now
It was more like a professional so- ferent from those at most large uni- houses 17 women who do all the work
rority than a cooperative dormitory versities because Ohio State is situ- in the house except the cooking. Co-
had been so far and its members were ated in a large city. The problem, operative houses seem to have proved
more closely knit together than had according to Miss Elizabeth Conrad,' successful at Michigan since there are
been the case before. dean of women, that the university I always a great many more applica-
The women at Wisconsin are en- was forced to meet was to "find some tions than can be accepted.
thusiastic about their cooperative cot- way of providing good food and a nor-
tages and in forming professional mal, happy social life for the women
units they are opening a new and in- who come prepared to eat out of a Read the W ant Ads
teresting field that has not been i paper bag." Accordingly the univer-
touched elsewhere. sity rented a furnished house. It is
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No one was uiiite a surpried , i; s alnrtlia Osleno herself when
she was announced as the wimner of the $1 ,5U prize in a joint contest
conducted by a publishng firm, a magazine and a photoplay producer. The
prize was awarded for "The Passionale Flight," her first novel. It will be
serialized, then published in book form and made into a photoplay. She
is a native of Norway who, grew up in the northwest and is now a school
teacher in Manitoba.
made a study of housing problems at is ideal. There are all the advan-
colleges and universities, the cooper- tages of the sorority with none of the
ative cottage offers the ideal plan. diadvuntages. I am absolutely con-
We could fill five more houses and are I vined that no other form of housing
working to have such included in the compares with that of the co-opera-
building plan of the university. Dorm- I tive cottages."
itories cannot take the place of the In Wisconsin the same result has
smaller building without which many 1 bec achieved a little differently and
women could not have the advantage an entirely new phase developed as
of a college education. The house lif- well. In 1918 the women of the Blue
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Caramels, Honey Nougat, Fudge,
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