It was believed that young students should be quickened in their years of vague aspiration and purely speculative energy by possessing a share in this broad practical work.

The talk fell on the new economics, the new awakening of practical philanthropy in England, Toynbee Hall and the principles for which it stood.

[1] The CSA's immediate origin was due to the efforts of three Smith College women: Vida Dutton Scudder, Jean Gurney Fine Spahr, and Helen Rand Thayer.

Fannie W. McLean, Dora Freeman, Helena S. Dudley, and Katharine B. Davis acted as head workers.

[2] The work of these three settlements differed largely, according to the demands and needs of the neighborhood, and followed social educational, civic lines, as the case may be.

[1] It was agreed that the establishment of fellowships for women who sought to pursue sociological studies in college settlements would help the movement more than any other one thing.

After the Russell Sage Foundation and the schools of philanthropy undertook investigations, the association arranged to offer training fellowships which give a stipend of US$400, conditioned on residence in one of the college settlements, attendance at the local School of Philanthropy, and practical work under the direction of the head worker.

Among others, these fellowships were held by Amelia Shapleigh (1892-93); Ada S. Woolfolk, Isabelle Eaton, and Katharine Pearson Woods (1893-94); and Mabel Sanford (1894-95).

It was the one practical undertaking in which the college women of the U.S. were engaged collectively and widely aside from the fellowships of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.

[2] A special meeting of the CSA, at which thirty members of the Electoral Board were present, was held at Mount Ivy, New York, on May 5, 1917, to consider plans for reorganizing the association.

The report of the Reorganization Committee stated that the plan had been drawn up in answer to the feeling that the CSA needed a wider scope.