The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-07

have done likewise. I doubt If any grad uating class of Vassar, Wellesley, Smith or Bryn Mawr can show as good a rec ord.
 In addition to this the alumni associa- tion has a dairy, gardens, chicken yard and a cake-malxing establishment. It runs a grocery store and in all of these institutions it employs the students who to large extent earn their way through school.
 Of the graduates. eight have recently gone to China to teach, and about 100 are taching in Japan. Others are report CTS and government clerks. Some are employed in the railway offices, some In the libraries and nine are studying so- cial reform
 Eight Hundred College Girls.
 If remember correctly Bryn Mawr has something like 600 students. Vassar has over 1000, Wellesley 120O and Smith 15oO This institution has now 1900 in attend ance, but about 500 of these should be put in the preparatory classes, as there are branches of the school running down to the kindergarten. This leaves about 800 in the university proper, which Is an ex- cellent showing for a college only eight years old As far as l can judge the ages of the students are about the same as those of our college girls. l have Smith College girl of the sophomore class trav- cling with me, and in order to show the respective sizes of the college girls of the two nations took a snapshot of three or these Japanese sophomores with the Smith sophomore standing beside them They are as a rule considerably shorter than our girls, but through their athletics promise soon to become quite as robust.
 Higher Education for Women.
 was taken through the buildings by Miss Hirano, the professor of ethics, a charming woman who spoke English per fectly- We went through classroom after classroom, each filled with bright-lookins students either reciting or listening to lectures In one hall there were 100 se- niors taking down the notes of lecture on sociology, and in others we listened to classes being taught literature, psy7 chology and ethics There are three courses in the university-preparato university and post graduate. The uni versity proper has three departments. One is devoted to domestic science, an other to Japanese literature and another to English literature. The department of domestic science covers such things as ethics, psychology, pedagogy, physiology. economies, law and science, and art, as well as physics chemistry and the other natural sciences The other two depart ments are still broader and there are many elective courses of study.
 The work done seems to me thorough. | oratories watching the girls analysing substances of various kinds They have a half dozen or more large rooms, well equipped with such appliances, and they are doing some original work. In one room, for instance. I was shown some thousands of bottles comprising analyses made by these girls of all the foods of Japan. vegetable and animal Who knows but that the Mime. Curie of the next gen eration may not have yellow skin and slant eyes.
 In the Dormitories. The dormitories of this university are especially interesting. There are N of them, divided up into little rooms. each of which is occupied by from two to four students. Some of the dormtories are purely Japcnese. Tn these the girls sleep on the floor, lying on futons or comforts, which they pack away In closets during the day time They rest their necKs on Japanese pillows. mere blocks Of wooo. about the size of brick, with roll or soft tissue paper on top The floors or all the dormitories are covered with mats about an inch thick so white ana cieaI that one would not fear to eat oh VI them.
 Other dormitories have mattresses on low shelves. SO arranged that the peus aro onvared lw,th boards during the day time Then they serve as taples anu desks. The girls take care of ther own rooms and do all the housework' one ser want only being in the employ or each dorm,tory. Every establishment has also a matron in charge
 The work of the students is required in order to make the expenses as low as nossible and I doubt if there is anywhere else in the world that one can get sooo oa,,cat t,on at such a low price as here. Tbe annual tuition is just under $14, and if ia payable in three miscellaneous. There is an additional fee of less than $3 for