The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-13
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ft Is More Than Satisfactory to the Friends
Of higher Education For Women.

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Et Is More Than Satisfactory to the Friends
Of Higher Education For Women.
Eriof, businesslike and to the point is
| the flrst report which Radcliffe college,
through lis officers, makes to the pub
lie. iii fonr pages Mrs Agassiz, the
I president, tells the now familiar story
fof ITO transformation Of the harvard
l6arliA into college last spring and an
naunces the foundation Of a scholarship
| liy an anonymous giyer in the name Of
Widow Johanna Hoar" Of Braintree,
i contemporary Of Anne Radcliffe Mrs.
Hoar was the mother Of President Leon
ard Hoar Il Harvard and anceEtress Of
the Concord Hears and Of the Adamses
and Quincys,
The report Of Mr.. Henry L. Higgin-
son, the treasurer, shows that on Aug.
/ the college had sl6J. 600 in securities
and cash, while from the regents 90
count II appears that last year the fees
for tuition alone paid for all the salaries
and current expenses and lefta surplus.
The Perkins bequest already amounts to
800, 900, the Sweetser bequest will be
at least $40, 900 and the Parker bequsst
more than $40, 900. Three funds Of $5,-
900 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
i to IL 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. II isan effective answer to all
who have looked on the union as mat.
ter Of form merely that i66 courses Of
instruction are open to women this year,
compared with III last year, an increase
Of so Per cent, and that 03 Of these
courses are for graduates, 81 Of them
u beiug courses ia Harvard university, ii
Which wonFn graduates work II tho
saIne class with men. The other courses
ire all repetitions by Harvard instruct
ors 10 women alone Of courses regularly
given in Harvard.
| In Sanskrit, in romance philology,
Italian, Spanish, comparative literature,
music, physics. astronomy, botany. zool.
ogy and American archaeological that
Harvard offers to It's men is offered 10
the women Of Radcliffe. The same IL
practically true Of the Semitic Ian
| Fuages, Of English. Germanic philology,
philosophy, history and mathematics,
where Hadc Fa's courses very nearly
1 eqaal in mn tha of Harvard. TLe
! III anca II tie MN e 81 co5gss q
f8 ategt IL tila Departments 81 classical
Il. ErHl c9enssg
ara 90 TIE 81 ID
50 inst tlre0 81 81 orcI &c Is i-aFa
laa ysa, III u them
esn aifor ro parallel undglsgelu
ate cot IS u me SINE depgse OF Gl..s
Guilty, which Radcliffe cannot IA tlit
case of tie others the difference Is du.
either to the fact that department a
Harvard Is undermanned OF 70 the laci
OF laboratory facilities at Radcliffe.
/ Still ii + perfectly fair TO shy that Rad
clifEe college now offers to women sub
stautially what Harvard offers to men,
"a tlat tho day Is not far on when Il
~ o9ar identically tho same instruc
timl 70 attain this object money Il
! needed, and the report points ont how
Il can be used-for laboratories, for ,
hreproof library, for more scholarships
Tor the means to house the studenti
moro ohsaply, for q gymnasium, TO
more recitation rooms
The total number Of students last yea
YVES 255, Of whom 100 were candidates
for the bachelor degree. twenty-five
bachelors and three masters Of arts grad
uated last June The special STUDENT
are 70 q great degree really specialist
and often graduates Of other women
colleges.
The work Of giving women q collegi
ate education in Cambridge has nov
been carried on for 10 years at won
derfully small cost largely through th,
self devotion and personal sacrifice o
the teachers and the men and worner
associated with them. The new college
now officially under the wing Of Har
ward, Is still In the same hands Ever,
friend Of tho higher education Of woman
will wish 1t continued success New
York Sun.