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probably to the influence of Maria Mitchell, who for nearly a quarter 

 of a century made the college observatory her throne room, whence her 

 magnetic personality radiated far and wide. Here was trained her 

 able successor, Professor Mary W. Whitney, '68. Besides those teach- 

 ing astronomy, who are included in the general list of teachers, and those 

 who hare published astronomical papers, four have engaged in other 

 forms of astronomical work. In the second decade one has been a 

 computer at the Yale observatory; in the third decade are three, a 

 lecturer, for six years worker at the Harvard observatory, a computer 

 at the Yale observatory and a computer on the Nautical Almanac. 



No Vassar woman has yet been ordained a minister, but the legal 

 profession is beginning to attract a few graduates. There are three 

 in the third decade. A member of '88 has taken the degrees of LL.B. 

 and LL.M., was admitted to the New York state bar in 1895, and is 

 registered as a lawyer. She is also married and has two children, but 

 her marriage occurred previous to her legal studies and soon after 

 graduation from Vassar. A member of '89 was admitted to the 

 Illinois bar by examination in 1896, and was thereupon married. 

 She has one child. She is not registered in the catalogue as a lawyer, 

 but she has published the 'Municipal Code of Macomb, 111., Eevised 

 and Codified.' A member of '95 is registered as a clerk and student 

 in a law office in Chicago. Besides these three, two Vassar women have 

 acquired the degree of LL.B., evidently for the purpose of general 

 culture and not for legal practice. In 1887 the honorary degree of 

 LL.D. was conferred upon Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin of '69 in 

 recognition of her attainments in mathematics and logic. 



We now come to the twos and ones. In the first decade are two 

 bookkeepers; in the second decade, two lecturers; in the third decade, 

 two regents' examiners for the state of New York. A chemist is 

 catalogued in the first and in the third decade, and a water analyst for 

 the Massachusetts State Board of Health in the second. Two grad- 

 uates have undertaken nursing, one in the second decade becoming a 

 trained nurse; and one, Miss Eeubena H. Walworth, '96, acting as a 

 volunteer nurse in the Spanish War, dying in the service of her country. 

 In the second decade are a draughtsman, a government clerk and a 

 life insurance agent; and in the third decade are a translator from 

 the French, an actress, a kindergartner, a canvasser, a director of a 

 gymnasium, a director of a domestic science department, and a promis- 

 ing student of chemistry who has been an assistant, lecturer and docent 

 at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. 



An unusual record is that of a member of '83, a young woman of 

 brilliant literary gifts, who chose the life of a Salvation Army worker. 

 After laboring for twelve years amid the slums of London and attain- 

 ing the rank of Major, she became converted to the Roman Catholic 



