THE EDUCATIONAL TREND OF? AMERICAN WOMEN.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9385, 8 April 1896, Page 4

THE EDUCATIONAL TREND OF? AMERICAN WOMEN.

The annual report of President m... of Harvard (says the same writer) « • ' ' out, and is interesting from the fact thatT for the first time contains a report from »l -■ Dean of Radoliffe College, the f ? ih * annexe, which was incorporated with^i! 6 University a year ago. During the i! year there were 284 female niveau <J?t of whom were from Massachusetts u'r the other New England Scatea an,jJS came from nineteen other Statea m • students of Radcliffe beiug allowed i choice of studies, their selections indf the trend of female education future. The subjects chosen were in S* following order of popularity :— Enellw history, German, French, philosophy lir* Greek, mathematics, and economics W two largest classes were those i Q yDv D vl composition and in Shakespeare n decadence of classical studies is v marked. In the first year of the eM* , Greek and Utiu formed 24 p ar cent ! the subjects taken, last year they f JL°i but 12 per cent. ; English the first yew 8 percent, of the subject?, lust yearit 27 per cent. ; mathematics decreased f 11 to 3 per cent. The doctor \£hv* means enthusiastic over the work ol tW female annexe, bus is hopeful that at the nature of the alliance between the collese aud the university becomea known the number of graduates iv the full courie »m increase. 4