The herald., 1895-11-17

west az given over to sxtrasaRance OF ut
terance. 10 may the old word look upon
this whole nation as too much inclined
to indulge in 6ippant and Dumpsious
speech.
WOMEN'S COLLEGES-In the Novem-
Der mum her of the Bach slor of Arts is an
article by Anna Mcclure Snoli on Wo-
mems Colleges, which presents an inter-
esting brief review of their history. She
begins with the year 1861. when 1t "oc-
CURED" to Matthew Vassar "that woman,
having received FROM her Creator the same
intellectual constitution as man, has the
same right as man to intellectual culture
and Development. Before that Oberlin
had been opened to women in 1898. while
two years earlier still. Mary Lvon had
founded Mount holyoke seminary. Vas.
graduating in 1868, numbered eight men,
bers. There were, of course, no mo1els
for Vassar to copy, and from confused
beginning has come q curciulum equal to
that OF mems colleges. by growth,
which, as the writer points out, is in in
the higher education" and to the abIl-
ity OF women to reap its benefrts.
The actual colleges for women and their
numb ers this wear are as follows: SIN itb,
founded in 1875, graduated IL students in
1870. in 1895, $50. Wellesley. founded in
euo same year, Rrauuhteu urSJ CLASS OF
lS, and in 1895 a class Of 49, Wells COL
lege at Aurora, N. Y. was made col
lePe from seminary in 1870, and though
small-whole number of students now II
has a high standard. Bryn Mawr was
founded in 1880, but was not opened un-
til 1885, and in 1894-5 it's students num-
bered 2S3, of whom as we're graduates.
Mount Holyoke seminary became COL
lege in 1898, and in 1895 so graduated
while the whole mum Der of students was
27S. Mount Holyoke gives the A. NJ. de-
gree. and Bryn Mawr the A. M. and the
Ph. D. The writer of the article under
consideration makes q mistake IN not
giving this last piece OF inform ton,
which Is som ewhat interesting. The Wo-
mans college of Baltimore was opened in
1888 and now contains about 2OO students.
Cambridge. England, has two colleges
for women. Newman and Girton, whose
students work under direction of the
oates" only. Somewhat on this plan
Harvard and Columbia proceeded with
the annex and Barnard. Now the Annex
is transformed to Radcliffe, with its own
degree of A. B., and in graduate courses
the women work with the men at Har-
given the Columbia degrees. even the NJ.
A. aud Pm. D., since the opening OF Bar.
nard collage in 1889. The University of
Pennsylvania, Yale and Johns Hopkins
OHer graduate courses to women. Cor
nell WIS made by its founder coed uca-
t:onal, though women did not enter for
the first few years after its opening in
1868. and in 1895 there wers 25 women IN
the graduating class. The University OF
Chicago, opened in 1890. and the Leland
Stanford, it,, opened in 1851, admit wo.
men to every advantage.
AS to the faculties Of women's colleges,
those OF Wellesley and Mount Hoiyoke
arr composed entirely OF women; Wells,
OF more than two-thirds; Smith, more
han one-half; Vassar, probably about
haif-thoush Miss Sholl gives in this case
an absolute mum Der, 81, which is annoy.
ing; Bryn Mawr. about ont fifth, while
cage university and of Leland Stanford.
The author has not given the proportions
nor the number. of the women on, the
1scultv OF the woman's college of Balti-