RADCLIFFE COLLEGE REPORTS.

The advance sheets of the Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Radcliffe College have been received.

The report of the president expresses regret at the resignation of Mr. Arthur Gilman, the former regent, and embodies a set of resolutions which were adopted by the corporation of the college on the occasion of Mr. Gilman's resignation. An account is given of certain papers and memoirs prepared by advanced students. Some of these were considered by the professors worthy of publication and it was recommended that a fund be raised for the purpose. The paper considered the best one offered was written by Miss Follett on "The Speaker of the House of Representatives." This was too lengthy to be printed by the college and Miss Follett was fortunate enough, with the aid of Professor Hart, to have it published in book form by Longman's, Green and Co. It has attracted much attention both in America and England and received favorable reviews in such papers as the Nation and the Spectator.

Mention is also made of a gift of $1000 for the purchase of books by Mrs. Harriet Jackson Morse of Boston in memory of Mrs. Sarah Alden Ripley. A new scholarship, just founded, bears the name of the president, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. The Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames also offers for the first time a prize of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred, dollars for the best essay of sufficient merit on some subject connected with the Colonial History of New England.

The president's report closes with an expression of the loss sustained by the college in the death of Professor Child.

The report of the dean shows for the academic year 1895-96 a gain of 74 students over the preceding year. The number of students registered was 358, divided as follows:

Seniors, 31

Juniors, 28

Sophomores, 40

Freshmen, 60

Special students, 155

Graduate students, 44

Total, 358

At the commencement exercises last June the degree of A. B. was conferred on thirty-one candidates, and the degree of A. M. on eight.

The gifts of money to the college during the year amount to $42,381.51; to the library, $3,000. The financial statement of the treasurer of the college shows a balance on hand at the end of the year 1895-96 of $773.74.

The rest of the pamphlet is taken up with a list of the courses of instruction given during the year 1895-96 which were numerous and of great variety.