W. T. Gunison, L. S., won first place; W. T. Denison, '96, C. D. Booth, '96, E. K. Hall, L. S., and M. B. Jones, L. S., tied for second place. The Cercle Français has decided to present Le Malade Imaginaire at its annual autumn theatricals. The play is one of the most amusing of Molière's, and gives opportunity for the ballet, which has been successful in former plays of the Cercle. Parts were assigned provisionally at the beginning of the summer. Prof. de Sumichrast will, as usual, superintend the production, which promises to be more elaborate than any before. -The annual Spring Concert of the musical clubs was given in Sanders Theatre, May 23. The singing of the Glee Club, though good, was not quite up to the standard of former years. The Pierian Sodality, under the leadership of C. L. Safford, Jr., carried off the honors of the evening. The Freshman Musical Clubs gave a concert in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, May 17.—The Astronomical Observatory was open to Seniors on the evenings of May 30, 31, and June 1.-The Student Volunteer Committee made a second collection of clothing in the College dormitories, June 13. The Civil Service Reform Club sent J. H. Jones, '96, as a delegate to a convention held in Chicago, May 3, to form a league of College Civil Service Reform Clubs. A national association was formed and a constitution adopted. The club at Harvard, formed in 1894, began the movement among the Colleges.

RADCLIFFE COLLEGE.

G. H. Dorr, '97.

President Eliot, in his Report for 1893-94, in referring to the incorporation of Radcliffe College, writes: "The transactions above described obviously have great importance. In the first place, they secure the future of Radcliffe College as an institution where the highest instruction and the most significant degrees will be accessible to women." In 1894-95 Harvard College opened more than sixty of its courses of study described as "primarily for graduates" to members of Radcliffe who were properly qualified for admission to them; and the announcement of 1895-96 shows that there is no falling off in the amount and variety of advanced instruction. More than fifty of the one hundred and seventy courses offered for the year are intended "primarily for graduates."

Admission examinations for Radcliffe College were held, in June, in Minneapolis, Cleveland, Portland, Albany, Exeter, Concord, Groton, and Washington, as well as in Cambridge and New York. 82 candidates presented themselves for their final examinations and 103 for their preliminaries; 31 special students passed entrance examinations upon certain required subjects; 72 of the final candidates were admitted, 33 with

out condition, and 39 with conditions, and six were rejected. The others will complete their examination in September. Of these candidates, 186 are from Massachusetts, while the remaining applicants come from fourteen other States. These statistics seem to show that about the usual number of the undergraduates will come from New England.

On May 9, the botanical collection of Mary E. Gilbreth, which has been described in detail in a previous number, was formally presented. Prof. George L. Goodale gave an account of the collection and showed the relation which part of it bears to the great scientific problems of the time. Short addresses were made by Miss Irwin, Miss Cummings, the President of the Home and Field Club, and the Rev. James Reed, Miss Gilbreth's pastor.

At a meeting of the Associates, June 12, Prof. John C. Gray was elected a member of the Council for a term of seven years. The members of the Academic Board elected for 1895–96, are Professors Greenough, Mark, Macvane, Wright, B. O. Peirce, von Jagemann, Taussig, and Kittredge.

Scholarships for 1895-96 have been awarded as follows: the Maria Denney Fay scholarship, to Miss Edith A. Nickels; the Josiah M. Fiske scholarship, to Miss Isabel G. Winslow: the Widow Joanna Hoar scholarship, to Miss Frances M. Drury; the Agnes Irwin scholarship, to Miss Edith F. Claflin. The funds of the Widow Joanna Hoar scholarship were given "to assist in the education of girls at Radcliffe College who need assistance, with preference always to be given to natives or daughters of citizens of Concord." The other scholarships are assigned to students in need of aid who have already attained a high grade in their college studies, and thus enabled the Council and Miss Irwin to judge their intellectual power and willingness to work.

On May 4, several of the students gave an entertainment consisting of scenes from "Mother Goose," and music by the Glee and Banjo Clubs for the benefit of the Emmanuel Scholarship Fund. On May 9, the Idler Club held the second open meeting of the year. On May 22, the Pierian Sodality of Harvard gave a concert in the auditorium of Radcliffe before the Music Club. Professor Van Daell gave a very appreciative talk on Paul Bourget before the French Club; and Col. T. W. Higginson lectured before the German Club, on the "Influence of German Thought on American Literature;" he gave an entertaining account of the prominent men in Harvard College who were the first to be influenced by the German thought of their day. The Annex Ninetyfive Club held its first meeting Saturday, June 1, at Young's Hotel, Boston. This is a purely social club with a fixed membership, composed for the most part of graduates and past members of the College.

It is the first of its kind to be formed at Radcliffe. On July 10, the Summer School Committee gave an informal reception at Fay House to the students of the Summer School.

On Class Day, the members of the Senior Class entertained their friends at Fay House from eight to ten in the evening. The house was decorated with roses and palms, and the grounds were lighted with Japanese lanterns. Miss Irwin and Mrs. Gilman, with the President and Vice-president of the Class, Miss Whittemore and Miss Arnold, and the Chairman of the Class Day Committee, Miss Bytel, received the guests. On May 25 the Junior Class gave a lunch to the Seniors at Fay House. On the day before Commencement, Miss Longfellow invited the Senior Class to Craigie House, and on Commencement Day, Mrs. Gilman entertained the Seniors at breakfast. On June 24 Bishop Lawrence preached the Baccalaureate sermon in St. John's Chapel from the text, "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven,” and he showed that the final object of one's life should be not the doing of wonderful deeds, but rather the development of a certain spirit; and that the glory of a woman is not to be measured by her scholarship, but by her character, which should be strong, true, faithful, and joyous.

COMMENCEMENT.

Commencement Day was Tuesday, June 25. By arrangement with the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Radcliffe College held its Commencement this year in Sanders Theatre. The exercises were more formal than in the past at Fay House. On account of the absence of Mrs. Agassiz in Europe, Miss Irwin presided. After a prayer by the Rev. F. G. Peabody, a chorus of Radcliffe students who had been taught by Professor Greenough sang two verses in Latin from the tenth ode of the second book of Horace. Miss Irwin then made the following address:

"Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen : - In the absence of our honored President, it has fallen to my lot to speak the words of greeting appropriate to the occasion, and in her name to bid you a hearty welcome. I do indeed ardently wish for her sake and yours and for my own that she were here! here to see the outward sign of the growth and vigor of the institution that owes so much to her. Many of you will remember how she spoke to you last year of the days, now far behind us, when, at the first Commencement, four students gathered together in a friend's house and took their well-earned certificates from a friendly hand, and you will remember how she contrasted that little band, that few, that happy few,' with the twenty-two students of 1894. You will remember too, how, even then, we knew that we had outgrown our boundaries; there is no room in the Fay House large enough to hold our

undergraduates, and we have no place in which, on days like these, we can gather around us our students, past, present, and to come, and their friends and ours. But here we have that pleasure, and here it is my privilege to greet you; and for this pleasure and privilege we are indebted to the courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, and for this Radcliffe College desires to thank them. I have lately learned that it is one of the duties of a Dean to be grateful in the name of the College - an uncommonly easy and pleasant office, and never easier or pleasanter than now, for truly it is a memorable day for Radcliffe when it finds itself here. To those of my generation who remember the great war of 1861, and who believe now, as they believed then, that Harvard represents what is best in the life of the country, there is no spot on earth like this; and to us no daily use or other association can dim the thought built into these walls of Life and Death met nobly at the call of Duty. Surely this is a new stimulus, a new opportunity, and the history of the College has been a succession of opportunities taken and made the most of; the most and the best. Much, very much, has been done for us, and the College can never be grateful enough to the friends and teachers who have made it what it is - but the students of the Annex deserve much; faithful, diligent, docile, loving to learn and learning because they loved it; needing no spur or goad, craving no prize or reward; running a race, not the race in which all run and only one obtains the prize, but the race in which the runners pass from hand to hand the lamp of life that it may never cease to burn. Moved by the genuine love of learning and by no baser motive, such were the students of the Annex, such are the students of the ideal College for man or woman. And of such students as these we hope to hand down the 'self-perpetuating tradition.'

"For the students of Radcliffe have not fallen behind the students of the Annex. Look at the record of the year, as it stands before you in our twentythree candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in our three Masters of Arts; look at our honor-list with its good showing, and at our special students, one of whom has won final honors in English, and another highest final honors in History; and to them this year, as always, much of our distinction is due. Think of our widening sphere of influence: next year our students will be teaching what they have learned here, not only in New England and the East, but as far West as California, as far South as the Gulf. Look at our incoming Freshman Class, which is larger than ever before. Look at the great and vastly enlarged opportunity for work in the Graduate School of the University itself, the response to which shows that the offer of advanced instruction meets a real need. The women who have gone far on the road to learning and who wish to go farther are not many, it is true; in the very nature of things pioneers and leaders must always be few. But the hope of our civilization lies in the few in the men and women who have the strength and courage to press on and up into the clearer sky, the purer air. Thinking of these things, have we not reason to be proud of the past and hopeful of the future? We have lived and grown strong by the kindness of friends in Harvard College and out of it; they have never failed us, surely they never will; we may rely may we not ? on the sympathy and interest and generosity of the comVOL. IV. NO. 13.

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munity in which we live. If much is given to us, much will be required of us; but in the past we have been faithful stewards, and I think in the future we shall not be found wanting. New paths may be opened to us; I feel that we shall have strength to tread them. New questions will be put to us; I trust that we may have wisdom to answer them. New burdens will be laid upon us; I pray that we may have courage to bear them. We have never forgotten that our 'practical' business is to make our students good members of society, to fit them for the world; not the world of yesterday, but of to-day and to-morrow, the world which has need of the best in every one of us. We have tried to teach them that wisdom is better than knowledge, and that 'wisdom is a loving spirit;' we ask for them that they shall have what they deserve, no more, but no less, and we are glad to remember that it was the wisest of men who said of a good woman: 'Give her of the fruits of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.'"

On concluding, Miss Irwin introduced President Eliot, who said: :"This fair scene, so new within our College walls, may well quicken our interest in some aspects of the grave problem which is to be worked out by Radcliffe College under new conditions within quick-coming years.

"The experiment, as we still call it, of the education of women into the higher walks of learning has been going on now for about two generations in many countries, and some tangible and trustworthy results have been already achieved and recorded. I think I mentioned last year as one of these results that we now know that young women can acquire knowledge, and be trained to intellectual pursuits, as rapidly, tenaciously, and courageously as young men. The power of acquisition is assured. Young women will follow even the boldest leaders in intellectual fields with alertness, docility, courage, and comprehension; and the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts are therefore properly won by them, for these degrees represent chiefly acquisition, and such training as intelligent and vigorous men receive up to twenty-two or twenty-three years of age.

"We must wish, however, that Radcliffe College may push on, and soon give another degree which means more than acquisition, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; for there is the field for the most interesting experiment in the education of women which remains to be tried. We have yet to learn whether women, in as large proportion as men (and with men it is a very small proportion), will be capable of doing pioneer work, will be capable of discovery and investigation, of putting old facts into new forms, and of applying old knowledge in a new way. Are women in fair proportion to prove capable of this work also, of these creative intellectual processes? Some hopeful indications on this subject have already been obtained, both here and elsewhere; but we must all look forward with great interest to the prosecution here of this experiment, under conditions which we believe will be singularly favorable.

"We are familiar with the conservative, preservative function of women. We know already that they hold, save, store up, and transmit refinement, cultivation, and civilization. There is a beautiful line in the New Testament