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and has collaborated on another with Carrie A. Harper of the class or So Josephine Preston Peabody has also won success as a playwright and au- l thor; her drama 'Marlowe" and her poetry having secured recognition as belonging to the better American liter ature of the day; a little book of child ren's poems in imitation of Robert Louis Stevensons child's verses being considered of special merit. Helen
 Keller's Story of My Life" was pub lished while the remarkable blind girl, who graduated from Radcliffe last
 June. was in the junior class and her
 name has Appeared frequently in peri
 odcial literature. Helen Leah Reed.
 author of the only fictional study of 1 Radcliffe life that has as yet appeared,
 has already made herself known by
 series of girls stories of a new, modern type; while Abbie Farwell Brown has | issued two volumes of folk lore and fairy stories Two Radcliffe girls are
 employed by leading publishing houses
 and one is in the office of a women's magazine.
 That highly educated women should
 go into such employment as these Is
 not surprising, but what is not com
 manly known, probably. is the extent
 to which they are carrying on the char | itable work of our great cities. A graduate of Radcliffe '95 is assistant
 secretary of the State Charitable Aid
 Association of New York, which has
 sort of general Hay" oversight of all
 the charitable and penal institutions of | the Empire State. Another. of '96, is head worker at Hartley House in New | York City, a third Is at the head of
 the Friendly Aid House competed with All Souls Church there; a<fourth has
 been head worker of the Neighborhood Settlement conducted by the students
 and teachers of Pratt Institute at | Greenpoint. Brooklyn, while fifth Is a
 "slum nurse" in St. Louis In some
 ways the most conspicuous and inter
 esting work of this sort being done by
 a Radcliffe girl is that of Miss Ada
 Eliot. who succeeded. Mrs. Rebecca Eos ter of New York as the "Tombs Angel" Here in Cambridge. in the other sub- urbS of Boston, and in the Hub" it.
 self. there is scarcely a branch of the
 Associated Charities which does not
 include among its officers at least one
 representative of this interesting body of alumnae
 Only to a limited extent have Rad
 clifte's daughters become business
 women. A few are trained nurses; one or two in their work as secretaries | have developed marked commercial ability; but only one instance of a
 downright business undertaking ap-
 pears in the fairly complete records
 This Is partnership between two
 Southern girls. one a Radcliffe student who starting with Laboratory
 kitchen" were, at first, only scientific
 baking was done. have now in very
 profitable operation two unique res | taurants In Boston.
 | There Is, too a class of graduates
 that shows most strikingly the aptitude | of the modern American girl in fields
 of advanced scolarship which, but a
 few years ago, 1t was thought only l men might enter. Undoubtedly the
 unequalled facilities Radcliffe has In
 the graduate school of Harvard Uni
 versity are a strong factor in this mat ! ter, for, every year, goodly propor- | tIon of the graduating class stays on for ost-graduate studies, and an increas- | ing number of graduates of other in- Istitutions all over the country come here to do advanced work, seeking tho
 A. M. or Ph. D. degree.s A great att traction for such students, besides the | splendid opportunities afforded by the close relationship with Harvard Uni versity, is the recognised worth of Radcliffes higher degrees which, like | all the rest of the colleges certificates of scholarship require work of precise ly the same character and standard as IS oemanoed by Harvard for identical | degrees. At least two scholars of no mean accomplishments have been developed among these girls. one now pursuing investigations in psychology with Pro- fessoF Muensterberg, the other, Miss Kate O. Petersen, for several vars en- gagged in researches in early English literature. The results of Miss Peter sens first investigation formed the l thesis upon which she qualified for her Ph. D., and were published among the | Radcliffe Monographs. Since then she has pursued the same lines of study for the mere pleasure of scholarship and a second monograph has appeared. Radcliffe Monographs, preserving in permanent from the work of advanced students; some of them, indeed. have become standards of reference in their special subjects.
 On the whole, the important and in- eresting fact that comes out in