=Smith college, Northampton, Massachusetts=—Founder, Sophia Smith;
intention, to provide “means and facilities for education equal to
those which are afforded in our colleges for young men;” opened,
1875; no preparatory department ever connected with the college;
president, one (man); 49 instructors (13 Ph. D.s.)—27 women, 9
without first degree; 12 men; 1,070 undergrad. s., 4 grad. s.; since
1891 no special s. admitted; productive funds, $900,000; two lecture
buildings; a lecture and gymnastic building; a science building; a
chemical laboratory; an observatory; a gymnasium; a plant house; a
music building; an art building; 13 halls of residence accommodating
520 students; a president’s house; total cost of buildings $786,000;
vols, in library, 8,000 (70,000 vols. in library in Northampton also
used by the students); laboratory equipment, $22,500; acres, 40;
music and art depts., technical work in both, amounting to between
one-sixth and one-seventh of the hours required for a degree, may be
counted toward bachelor’s degree; tuition fee, $100; lowest charge,
tuition, board and residence (beds made, rooms dusted by students),
$400.
=Bryn Mawr college, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania=—Founder, Joseph W.
Taylor; intention, to provide “an institution of learning for the
advanced education of women which should afford them all the
advantages of a college education which are so freely offered to
young men;” opened, 1885; no preparatory department ever connected
with the college; presidents, two (one man, one woman); 38
instructors (29 Ph. D.s. 1 D. Sc.)—15 women, 23 men; 269 undergrad,
s., 61 grad. s., 9 hearers; productive funds, $1,000,000; a lecture
and library building; a science building; a gymnasium; an infirmary;
five halls of residence and two cottages, accommodating 323
students; a president’s house; 6 professors’ houses; total cost,
$718,810; vols. in library, 32,000; laboratory equipment, $47,998;
acres, 50; no music department; no technical instruction in art;
tuition fee, $125; lowest charge, tuition, board and residence,
$400.
II. The women’s colleges not included in the list of the fifty-eight
most important colleges in the United States given on page 12, but of
exceedingly good academic standing as compared with the greater number
of the separate colleges for men and the coeducational colleges included
in the four hundred and eighty enumerated by the commissioner of
education.
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