WOMEN AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE.

At a meeting of the trustees of Columbia College Monday afternoon a report was received from the special committee to which was referred in February the petition addressed to the board by the association for promoting the higher education of women in New York.

The plan which the committee propose includes the following particulars: That a course of study should be prepared to extend over a term of four years; that it should be arranged in groups; that of these groups one should be required for the first two years, and that with it another should be selected; that on the expiration of the first two years all the groups should become elective; that a general and very strict preparatory examination should be held for admission to the four years' course, and that this examination should have reference to the course in general, like the examination for entrance into the freshman class in college; that, unless under special circumstances, no young woman should be admitted to such entrance examination before she has attained the age of eighteen years; that every student so admitted should 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 and direction of any association interested in her welfare and advancement and providing her with the means of education; that examinations should 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; that at the end of her fourth year or of the completion of any of her prescribed courses, the student should receive a certificate stating the subjects which she has pursued and with what success.

If a considerable number of young women should avail themselves of what is thus offered, it will be an encouragement to wealthy and liberal citizens to contribute freely toward giving the plan a definite and permanent shape by founding and endowing a department for the education of women bearing to our college a relation analogous to that of that of what is commonly known as the Annex.

A course of collegiate study is offered to women, arranged under the following groups:

1. The English language and literature.

2. Modern languages and foreign literature.

3. The Latin language and literature.

4. Greek language and literature.

5. History and political science.

6. Moral and intellectual philosophy.

7. Mathematics.

8. Physics, chemistry, and hygiene.

9. Natural history, geology, palaeontology, botany and zoology.