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faith, returned to New York, and in 1900 entered the novitiate of the 

 Dominican Sisters at Albany. Another individual career is that of 

 Miss Stematz Yamakawa, '82, the only Japanese girl ever graduated 

 from a college. Upon her return to her native land she married the 

 Marquis Iwao Oyama, a field marshal commanding the second army 

 of the empire. Closely associated with the Empress, and the only 

 Japanese woman of rank familiar with occidental civilization, she has 

 had a wide social and educational influence in her native land. 



The amount of club, philanthropic and general educational work 

 done by the graduates of Vassar has never been computed. As mem- 

 bers of school boards, trustees of various colleges, organizers and 

 directors of important societies, officers of charitable institutions, their 

 influence has been felt in every part of the land. Happily, work of 

 this kind by educated women is now so common as to call for little 

 comment. If the college has as yet produced no famous genius, it has 

 sent forth more than 2,000 daughters (2,332 in 1904) with well- 

 trained minds, accompanied in most instances by sound bodies, who 

 have quietly and gradually helped to raise the status of women wher- 

 ever the English language is spoken or read. 



