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ss rFeS FIRST REPORT.
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oI Aleher Education Ear Women.
 Brief bas4aessizc and to tho point IS tie iirst f5l3a.t which Radcliffe college through its officers, makes to the pub lie. In fonr pages Mrs Agassiz, the president, tells the now familiar story of the transformation of the Harvard annex into college last spring and all nounces the foundation of scholarship by all anonymous giver ill the name of "Widow Johanna Hoar" of Braintree, q contemporary of Anne Radcliffe. Mrs. Hoar was the mother of President Leon- ard Hoar of Harvard and ancestres3 of the Concord Hoars and of tho Adamses and Quineys.
 The report of Mir Henry L. Higgin- son, the treasurer, shows that on Aug. the college had $165, GOO in securities and cash, while from tho regents ae- count it appears that last year the fees for tuition alone paid for all the salaries and eurrent expenses and left a surplus. The Perkins bequest already amounts to $1o0, GOO, the Sweetser bequest will be at least $40, GOO and the Parker bequest more than $70, GOO. Three funds of So, :, 900 each for scholarships have beon giy- 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 tho report of the regent, Mr. Gilman, is that showing tho increase in the amount of tho instruction given to the young women sinco the 'ennex" has been brought into closer connection with Harvard. It is an effective answer to all who have looked on tho union as mat ter of form merely that 166 courses of instruction arc open to women this year, compared with III last year, an increase of 50 per cent, and that 63 of these courses are for graduates, 5l of them being courses i'll Harvard university, in which women graduates work i'll the same class with men. The other courses are all repetitions by Harvard instruct ors to women alone of courses regularly given in Harvard.
 In Sansllrit, in romance philology, Italian, Spanish, comparative literature, music, physics, astronomy, botany, zool- ogy and American archaeological that Harvard offers to its men is offered to the women of Radcliffe The same is practically true of the Semitic lan- guages, of English, Germanic philology, philosophy, history and mathematics, where Radoliffo's courses very nearly equal i'll number those of Harvard The divergence in the number of courses is greatest i'll the departments of classical philology, German, French, economics, chemistry and geology. In the case of the first three the difference is more ap- parent than real, for in them Harvard can afford to give parallel undergradu- ate courses of the same degree of diff culty, which Radcliffe cannot In the case of the others the difference is due either to the fact that department at Harvard is undermanned or to the laea of laboratory facilities ut Radcliffe. Still it Is perfectly fair to say that Rad eliffe college now offers to women sub stantially what Harvard offers to men. and that the day is not far off when it can offer identically the same instrue- tion. To attain this object money is needed, and the report points out how it can be used-for laboratories, for fireproof 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-two 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's colleges.
 The work of giving women a collegi- ate education in Cambridge has now been carried on for 16 years at won- derfully small cost, largely through the self devotion and personal sacrifice of the teachers and the men and women associated with them. The new college now officially under the wing of liar yard, is still i'll the same hands Every friend of the higher education of woman will wish it continued success. New York Sun