RADCLIFFE

The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Radcliffe which is being celebrated this week marks the close of a half century of intelligent progess in the education of women. Starting from obscure beginnings and having as assets only the ideals and hopes of its initiators, Radcliffe weathered a long period of financial worries, at last to emerge into an era of large endowments and prosperity. No college for men or women in the country can today boast of higher standards of scholarship and attainment than can Radcliffe.

In this development Harvard has necessarily played a large part. From the beginning the project had the warm support of President Eliot and the Harvard faculty without which it could scarcely have become firmly established. It was Harvard professors who gave their services, often at considerable sacrifice, to the construction and improvement of the newer institution. And finally it was under the regime of Dean Briggs as Radcliffe's president that the enormous physical expansion of the first two decades of this country took place. The Harvard influence throughout has guided and moulded Radcliffe into what it is today, an institution respected and revered wherever the pursuit of learning is regarded as an important and constructive consideration.