The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-05
H1UcLIFFE's FIRST REPORT.

1t Is More Than Satisfactory TO the Friends
of Higher Education For Women.
Brief, businesslilze and to the point is
the first report which Radcliffe college,
through its officers, makes to the pub
lie. In four pages Mrs. Agassiz, the
president, tells the now familiar story
of the transformation Of the Harvard
annex into college last spring and an
nounces the foundation Of a scholarship
by an anonymous giver in the name Of
widow Johanna HOar' of Braintree,
a contemporary Of Ammo Radcliffe. Mrs.
BOar was the mother of President Leon
ard Boar of Harvard and ancestress of
the Concord Hears and Of the Adamses
and Quincys.
The report of Mr.. Henry L. Higgin-
son, the treasurer, shows that on Aug.
1 the college had $3.50, 600 in securities
and cash, while from the regents ac-
count it appears that last year the fees
for tuition alone paid for all the salaries
and current expenses and left q surplus.
The Perkins bequest already amounts to
800, Geo, the Syveetser bequest viii be
at least $40, 600 and the Parker beQuest
more than S70 600 Three funds Of So
GOO each for scholarships have been Civ
en- since the Incorporation, together
with other gifts. A unique gift is that
of the lawyer employed to oppose the in
corporation OF the college, who presents
to it the retainer paid to him.
BY far the most important portion of
the report of the regent, Mr.. Gilman, is
that showing the increase in the amount
Of the instruction given to the young
women since the annex has been
brought into closer connection with
Harvard. Tt Is an effective answer to all
who have looked on the union as a mat
Of
instruction are open to women this year,
compared with III last year, an increase
Of so per cent, and that 60 of these
courses are for graduates, 81 Of them
being courses in Harvard university, in
which women graduates work in the
same class with men. The other courses
are all repetitions by Harvard instruct
ors to women alone of courses regularly
given III Harvard.
In Sanskrit, in romance phllOlOgy,
italian, Spanish, comparative literature,
music, physics, astronomy, botany, zool-
ogy and American archaology-al that
Harvard offers to its men is offered to
the women Of Radcliffe The same IS
practically true Of the Semitic Ian
guages, of English, Germanic philology,
philosophy. history and mathematics,
where RadcIiffe's courses very nearly
equal in number those OF Harvard. The
divergence in the number of courses Is
greatest in the departments Of classical
philology. German, French, economies,
chemistry and geology In the case Of
the first three the difference Is more APP
parert than real, for in them Harvard
can afford to give parallel undereradu-
ate courses of the same degree ct iii
Guilty, which Radcliffe cannot In the
case Of the others the difference is due
either to the fact that a department at
Harvard is undetermined or 70 the lack
Of laboratory facilities at Radcliffe
Still It Is perfectly fair to say that Rad
cliTe college now offers to women sub
stantially what Harvard offers to men,
and that the day IS not far off when 1I
can offer identicaIly the same instruc-
tion. To attain this object money Is
needed, and the report points out how
it can be used=for laboratories, for
freproof library, for more scholarships,
for the means to house the students
more cheaply, for gymnasium, for
more recitation rooms
The total number Of students last year
was 255, of whom 100 were candidates
for the bachelor degree Twenty-Five
bachelors and three masters of arts grad
uated last June The special students
are to a great degree really specialists
and often graduates of other women >
colleges
The work Of giving women collegi-