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room about ten years before, when the Chair had expressed an 

 opinion, the very opposite to the present one. "Well, Sir," said 

 Dr. Eliot, "if you are interested in that as a matter of history, I 

 am very glad. As for myself, I hope I have learned something in 

 ten years. We will proceed to vote," etc. He has ever since that 

 time been our strongest advocate and we desire to realize his faith 

 in US. And what does study of the present condition of College 

 women show us? We find the classics and mathematics deserted 

 after the requirement of the first College years has been passed, 

 except by those who have marked talent for these studies or who 

 wish to fit themselves to teach these subjects specifically. We find 

 them electing enthusiastically courses in history, sociology, eco- 

 nomics and literature — cultural courses all, and tending to fit the 

 students to fill the places in the social Community to which they 

 must go on leaving College. We find alumnae engaging in socio- 

 logical work to such an extent that this is becoming a profession 

 rivalling that of teaching, as eminently fit and proper for the edu- 

 cated woman. 



What place does science fill ? In my own College, Smith, a year's 

 work in either chemistry or physics is required of every Student; 

 the class usually divides itself about evenly between the two sub- 

 jects. Thereafter all work in these departments is elective. This 

 year about twenty-five per cent. of the class in elementary chemistry 

 have continued and twenty per cent. will continue through the rest of 

 their College course. This is ten per cent. of the whole class. I sup- 

 pose similar proportions prevail in other Colleges. My study of the 

 catalogs of our Eastern Colleges divides them into two classes : those 

 which teach and those which do not teach, home economics. The 

 former, Simmons and Teachers' College, might be called technical 

 schools ; the latter, Colleges of liberal arts. These technical schools 

 are doing a splendid work, not only in training women for a pro- 

 fessional career, but in raising the Standard of living and in applying 

 to daily tasks intelligent methods, lifting the drudgery of house- 

 keeping into the scientific methods of the laboratory. The agri- 

 cultural schools are offering courses to the farmers' wives. At a 

 reception in Geneseo a few years ago during a Orange meeting held 

 by the Cornell School of Agriculture, a woman talked enthusi- 



