Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-09-08

OF special merit. Helen Keller's
Story of My Life was published while
: the remarkable blind girl, who gradp.
ated from Radcliffe last June, was in
the junior class and her name has
appeared frequently in periodical lit
erature. Helen Leah Reed. author
OF the only fictional study Of Rad.
cliffe life that has as yet appeared,
has already made herself known by
4 series of girls stories of new,
modern type; while Abbie Farwell
Brown has issued two volumes of folk
lore and fairy stories. Two Radcliffe
girls are employed in leading publish.
ing houses and one is in the office of
womens magazine
That highly educated women
should so into such employments as
| these is not surprising, but what is
not commonly known, probably. is
, the extent to which they are carry
ing on the charitable work OF our
great cities. A graduate of Rad,
Ciitfe '95 is assistant secretary of
the State Charitable Aid Association
of New York, which has a sort of
general lay" oversight of all the
charitable and penal institutions of
the empire state. Another, of &c, is
head worker at Hartley House in
New York city. a third is at the head
of the Friendly Aid House connected
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 con
spicuous and interesting work of this
sort being done by Radcliffe girl is
that of Miss Ada Eliot, who succeed
! ed Mrs. Rebecca Foster of New York
as the "Tombs Angel" Here in
! Cambridge, in the other suburbs of
| Boston, and in "the Hub" itself, there
is scarcely branch of the associated
charities which does not include
| among its officers at least one repre-
sentative of this interesting body of
alumnae.
Only to a limited extent have Rad.
cliffe's daughters become business
women. A few are trained nurses;
one or two in their work as secretar-
les have developed marked CONNER.
Clal ability; but only one instance of
! a downright business undertaking ap-
I pears in the fairly complete records
This is partnership between two
! southern girls, one a Radcliffe stu
dent, who, starting with a 'labora-
/ tory kitchen" where, at first, only
scientific baking was tone, have now
in very profitable operation two
unique restaurants in Boston.
There is, too, class of graduates
that shows more strikingly the apti-
tude Of the modern American girl in
/ fields of advanced scholarship,
which. but few years ago. it was
thought only men might enter. Tn.
doubtedly the uneqUalIed facilities
B INdNCllllt UdS III AllG ri dNudlt StHODl
/ of Harvard University are strong
, factor in this matter, for every year,
a goodly proportion of the graduating
class stays on for postgraduate stud
les, and an increasing number of
graduates of other institutions all
/ over the country come here to do adj
vanced work. seeking the A. NJ. or
Phi. d. degree A great attraction
for such students, besides the SPLEEN
Gid opportunities afforded by the
close relationship with Harvard Uni.
versity. is the recognized worth Of
Radclffe's higher degrees, which,
fcates of scholarship, require work
Of precisely the same character and
standard as IS demanded by Harvard
for identical degrees.
At least two scholars OF no mean
| accomplishments have been deyel-
oped among these girls, one now pur,
suing investigations in psychology
with Professor MUensterberg, the
other Miss Kate 0. Peterson. for sew
eral years engaged in researches in
early English literature. The results
Of Miss Peterson's first investigation
formed the thesis upon which she
qualified for her Phi. D., and We're
published among the Radcliffe Mono.
graphs. Since then she has pursued
the same lines of study for the mere
pleasure Of scholarship and a second
monograph has appeared. Altogether
there have been thirteen Radcliffe
monographs, preserving in permanent
form 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
teresting fact that comes ont in a
glimpse Of the doings Of Radcliffe girls
after they have taken their diplomas
and Joined the breaGwinners is that.
given a real university education wo.