peared in Table 47, three colleges which, as is well known, are organized and conducted in strict accordance with the plan of the arts colleges, together with the Harvard Annex, whose standards are also definitely fixed.

Division B includes all other institutions reporting under the head of Superior Instruction of Women.

ADMISSION OF WOMEN TO COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK.

The following announcement, from the Hand-book of Information of Columbia College, explains in full the arrangements under which women have been admitted to its privileges:

"By a resolution of the trustees of Columbia College adopted June 8, 1883, it was ordered that a course of collegiate study equivalent to the course given to young men in the college should be offered to such women as may desire to avail themselves of it, to be pursued under the general direction of the faculty of the college in accordance with the following principles and regulations:

"1. That such course of study shall extend over a term of four years.

"2. That it shall be arranged in groups.

"3. That of these groups one shall be required for the first two years, and that with it another shall be selected.

"4. That on the expiration of the first two years all the groups shall become elective.

"5. That a general and very strict preliminary examination shall be held for admission to the four years' course, and that this examination shall have reference to the course in general, like the examination for entrance into the freshman class in college.

"6. That, unless under special circumstances, no young woman shall be admitted to such entrance examination before she shall have attained the age of seventeen years.

7. That every student so admitted shall be entirely free as to where and how to pursue her studies, whether in some school, private or public, or at home, or under the auspices or direction of any association interested in her welfare and advancement, and providing her with the means of education.

"8. That examinations shall be held as often as may be necessary, such examinations to be conducted by officers of the college or their duly appointed representatives, and to be in writing.

"In accordance with these principles a course of collegiate study is offered to women arranged under the following groups:

"1. English language and literature.

"2. Modern languages and foreign literature. "3. Latin language and literature.

"4. Greek language and literature.

"5. Mathematics.

"6. History and political science.

"7. Physics, chemistry, and hygiene.

"8. Natural history, geology, paleontology, botany, and zoology.

"9. Moral and intellectual philosophy.

"The course shall extend over four years, to be known simply as the first, second, third, and fourth.

"No woman shall be admitted to the course before she shall have attained the age of seventeen years, unless in case of extraordinary proficiency, of which the examiners shall be the judges.

"A preliminary examination for entrance shall be held annually at such time and place as shall be agreed upon hereafter. The fee for such preliminary examination shall be $5.

"Every person having passed the entrance examination shall pursue for the first and second years the first group, viz, English language and literature, and must in addition select at least one more group. At the end of the first year a new selection may be made in place of the group selected at the beginning of that year, and at the end of the second year the entire course is elective.

"The place and manner of pursuing her studies are left to the discretion of each student.

"Examinations shall be held as often as may be necessary; they shall be in writing and conducted by professors or officers of the college, to be appointed by the board of the college, and at such time and place as may be duly appointed. The fee at each examination shall be $5.

"The degree of bachelor of arts will be conferred on such students as shall have pursued during four years a course of study fully equivalent to that for which the same degree is conferred in the school of arts, and shall have passed all the examinations required.

"Any woman who shall have taken the degree of bachelor of arts in the collegiate course for women may study for higher degrees under the direction of the faculty of the college.

"Women graduates of other colleges in good repute who shall have satisfied the faculty of the college that the course of study for which they have received their degrees is equivalent to that for which similar degrees are conferred in the collegiate course for women, or shall have passed such examination as the faculty may prescribe, may be admitted to higher degrees on the same terms and conditions as are prescribed for the admission of graduates in the collegiate course for women to the same degrees. "To students not pursuing the full course required for the degree of bachelor of arts, but limiting themselves to one or more courses of inferior range, a certificate of proficiency in the subjects pursued will be given on the satisfactory completion of such course or courses of study, to be signed by the president of the college and the examining professor or professors.

"Special students may be admitted to the collegiate course for women. No entrance examination is required of such students, except such as may be necessary to ascertain whether they are qualified to pursue with profit the special course for which they apply."

TABLE 41.-Summary of statistics of institutions for the superior instruction of women.

United States..

2

24

189

213

20

38

70 213

751

5,200

240,000

19

138

400

25,000

2

42

44

70

9,000

150 350 1,210 1,851 3,195 5,926 20,772 239, 790 10,750,201 2,496, 307

a Financial statement taken from the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1685-83.

b Includes board.

TABLE 42, DIVISION B.-Statistics of institutions for the superior instruction of women

for 1886-87; from replies to inquiries by the United States Bureau of Education.