The Humanities Statement is signed by all 8 members of the Phoenix movement and can be considered a charter or statement of their intentions. This statement is rather passionate, and at times melodramatic.

"We feel the malaise best expressed by W. B. Yeats:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

More anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity..."(pg 1).

This is a little bit ironic because the alumnae seem to be the ones "full of passionate intensity". The tone of this statement seems to be the complete opposite of the joint letter which was written only a day later.

Instead of being "heartened" by the faculty vote for chronology, this letter is rather pesimistic. According to what I think is Grace's voice (I think this is Grace's voice because in her individual letter to President Chandler the year before she also uses some of the same wording to describe Scripps. She is also most likely the leader of this group because she is the one who brought them together and the eldest). Scripps has lost "her" identity, and "as the years pass, Scripps' unuique character diminishes"(pg 2).

The Scripps at this time is nothing like the Scripps Grace Ferrier experienced. Many traditions did not survive past the 60's and 70's(see In Search of Traditions). While they "regret seeing the change in Scripps' character" they are not asking to "return to old programs"(pg 3). This rhetoric can be found within all the letters. The alumnae feel bad about interfering and they know that the program cannot go back to what it was for them, but they feel that chronology is so important to learning that they have to intervene.

"The result should be that the student has both a sense of the past and of her own place in the long history of the human race"(pg 4).  All the alumnae feel that their "sense of identity and self-worth" were formed at Scripps". With this in mind it is understandable that they feel so strongly in the changes of the humanities program. Something that is so integral not only to the college's identity, but to the student's should not be taken for granted or allowed to decline.

"Our education is, so to speak, a bank from which we constantly draw-for understanding, for beauty, for excellence. It is from a sense of gratitude and of obligation to future generations of students at Scripps that we submit this testimony"(pg 5).  This last quote speaks for itself.