314 A Century of Science 



War has been attended with the creation of new 

 universities and the enlargement of the old ones 

 to such an extent as to show that the demand for 

 higher education more than keeps pace with the 

 increase of population. The last graduating class 

 in our Quinquennial Catalogue numbered 350 

 members. The University contains more than 3000 

 students. 1 The increase in number of instructors, 

 in courses of instruction, in laboratories and mu- 

 seums, in facilities and appliances of every sort, has 

 wrought changes like those in a fairy tale. The 

 Annual Catalogue is getting to be as multifarious 

 as Bradshaw's Guide, and a trained intellect is 

 required to read it. The little college of half a 

 century ago has bloomed forth as one of the world's 

 foremost universities. Such things can come from 

 great opportunities wielded and made the most 

 of by clearness of vision and administrative capa- 

 city. 



To this growth of the University must be added 

 the most happy inception and growth of Radcliffe 

 College, marking as it does the maturing of a new 

 era in the education of women. We may well wish 

 for Radcliffe a career as noble and as useful as that 

 of Harvard, and I doubt not that such is in store 



1 In 1898 the number had risen to 4660, besides 411 women 

 students in Radcliffe. 



