NAWSA Subject File Garrett, Mary Elizabeth Gift to Johns Hopkins Medical School for Women Provided For. Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett subscribes three hundred thousand to complete the half-million dollar fund- it will be a school for advanced study Baltimore, Dec. 31. 1892- Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett's gift of $306, 977 to Johns Hopkins University, in addition to the $47,787.50 which she had previously given to the fund for the Medical School, is a happy and interesting culmination to a long chapter of the university's history. Johns Hopkins and John W. Garrett, the father of Miss Mary Garrett and of Robert Garrett and President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, were strong and intimate friends. They were the two financial autocrats of Baltimore, and the power they wielded was enormous. Both made large fortunes. They bought Baltimore and Ohio stock when it was selling far below par, and lived to see it sell at a hundred per cent advance. Johns Hopkins was little more than a money man. He never married, and when old age began to warn him that he could not expect much more of life, he began considering the best way of disposing of his wealth. He consulted Mr. Garrett, and from the careful work and consultation of the two men the plan, purpose, and scope of the Johns Hopkins University and of the Johns Hopkins Hospital were determined. About $1,000,000 of his money went to his relatives. To the university he gave about $3,000,000, including 17,500 shares of the common stock of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and his country seat- a beautiful place called Clifton- several miles from the city. To the hospital, which he intended to be the finest institution of its kind in the world, he made an endowment worth about $3,400,000, including fourteen and a half acres of valuable land on Broadway, the splendid elevation on which the hospital now stands. After the death of Mr. Hopkins the carrying out of plans was begun. Mr. Garrett was one of the Trustees of the university. When the question of the location came up, Mr. Garrett stated that Mr. Hopkins desired that it should be at Clifton and that he had left his country seat to the university for that purpose. A majority of the Trustees objected to taking the institution into the country, and held that such a thing would operate enormously against its success. Then began a fight which is memorable in the annals of this city. Mr. Garrett fought with all the earnestness and vigor of his intense nature, and public letters and interviews kept warm the contest through seasons lively and seasons dull. The Trustees by a majority vote got authority from the Legislature to buy land in Baltimore, and gradually they acquired the ground on which the university is now built. But through it all the opposition of John W. Garrett never flagged, and to the end of his life he continued to reproach privately and publicly the action which he declared was treason to the wishes of his friend. The bitterness of this contest did not end with the death of Mr. Garrett in 1884. His son, Robert Garrett, was elected to succeed him as President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but it was not until nearly two years had elapsed and there had been a great deal of talk that the expected finally happened and he was chosen to fill the place of his father on the university board, where his name is still to be found, although he does not now actively participate in its meetings. Miss Mary Garrett came into possession of a fortune variously estimated at from $8,000,000 to $12,000,000, and for a time she was known as the richest unmarried woman in this country. She always possessed keen business ability, and her father had complete confidence in her judgment. She, in turn, entered earnestly into his work, and the result was a practical education that few women in the world possess. Since becoming wealthy in her own name she has not been idle, but has found her chief enjoyment in the work of attending to her affairs and in doing good. She has shown a sincere and a very intelligent interest in the higher education of her sex, and has done more to advance it in Baltimore than any other woman. The Bryn Mawr School, probably the most complete building of its kind in the country, was built and presented by her, and she shows a constant interest in its management. Miss Garrett sympathized with her father's preference but the wisdom of establishing the university in the city and keeping it here has been so completely shown in the institution's wonderful success that the matter of removing it to Clifton is no longer thought of. There was a general report some years ago that, if the Trustees would consent to the removal, Miss Garrett would heavily endow the university, but nothing ever came of the rumors. There are in Baltimore women of culture and means who have always regretted that the Johns Hopkins endowments made no special provision that women should have the same privileges of higher training as men. The institution has had such an effect upon the society of the city as to constantly emphasize this sentiment. Three years ago the opportunity came. President Gilman, in his fourteenth annual report, said that before a medical school in connection with the university could be established an endowment of $500,000 would be necessary. This was the opportunity, and the women of this city who had taken an interest in the subject, with Miss Garrett at their head, began to agitate it. In April, 1891, they formally offered the sun of $109,000 to the Trustees, and it was accepted, with the proviso that it was to be increased to the round half million. The movement extended to all the large cities. New-York subscribed $5,400; Boston, $20,231.07; Chicago, $1,140; Washington, $2,087; Philadelphia, $8,075.77; the Pacific coast, $2,142; Baltimore, $68,882.56, and smaller amounts were received from most of the other cities of the country. All this money came from women, who gave it for the higher education of their sex in medicine and surgery, and in the list of names are nearly all of the leaders of society in the United States. When the sum reached $178,780.42 it seemed to stop, and there was not much hope of going beyond it. The interest, however, had brought it up to $193,023. Miss Garrett had already subscribed $47,787.50 of this amount, but she was too much interested in it to see it fail, and she decided to make up the difference. Hence her contribution of $306,977. Her letter transmitting this gift shows the thoroughness of her business training. There are conditions which, while not embarrassing in any way to the university, are plain and binding. Not more than $50,000 of the $500,000 shall be expended on buildings, and the chief buildings is to be known as the Women's Fund Memorial Building. The school shall be exclusively a graduate school, and shall form an integral part of the university. There shall be a committee of six women to pass upon the personal character of women applying for admission, and these women shall be Mrs. Henry M. Hurd, wife of Dr. Hurd; Mrs. Ira D. Remsen, wife of Prof. Remsen; Mrs. William Osler, wife of Dr. Osler, President of the Hopkins Hospital, and, to quote Miss Garrett's words, "Miss M. Carey Thomas and Miss Mary M. Gwinn, the two friends who have been most closely associated with me in promoting the opening of the Medical School both Gift to Johns Hopkins Medical School for Women Provided For. Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett subscribes three hundred thousand to complete the half-million dollar fund- it will be a school for advanced study Baltimore, Dec. 31. 1892- Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett's gift of $306, 977 to Johns Hopkins University, in addition to the $47,787.50 which she had previously given to the fund for the Medical School, is a happy and interesting culmination to a long chapter of the university's history. Johns Hopkins and John W. Garrett, the father of Miss Mary Garrett and of Robert Garrett and President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, were strong and intimate friends. They were the two financial autocrats of Baltimore, and the power they wielded was enormous. Both made large fortunes. They bought Baltimore and Ohio stock when it was selling far below par, and lived to see it sell at a hundred per cent advance. Johns Hopkins was little more than a money man. He never married, and when old age began to warn him that he could not expect much more of life, he began considering the best way of disposing of his wealth. He consulted Mr. Garrett, and from the careful work and consultation of the two men the plan, purpose, and scope of the Johns Hopkins University and of the Johns Hopkins Hospital were determined. About $1,000,000 of his money went to his relatives. To the university he gave about $3,000,000, including 17,500 shares of the common stock of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and his country seat- a beautiful place called Clifton- several miles from the city. To the hospital, which he intended to be the finest institution of its kind in the world, he made an endowment worth about $3,400,000, including fourteen and a half acres of valuable land on Broadway, the splendid elevation on which the hospital now stands. After the death of Mr. Hopkins the carrying out of plans was begun. Mr. Garrett was one of the Trustees of the university. When the question of the location came up, Mr. Garrett stated that Mr. Hopkins desired that it should be at Clifton and that he had left his country seat to the university for that purpose. A majority of the Trustees objected to taking the institution into the country, and held that such a thing would operate enormously against its success. Then began a fight which is memorable in the annals of this city. Mr. Garrett fought with all the earnestness and vigor of his intense nature, and public letters and interviews kept warm the contest through seasons lively and seasons dull. The Trustees by a majority vote got authority from the Legislature to buy land in Baltimore, and gradually they acquired the ground on which the university is now built. But through it all the opposition of John W. Garrett never flagged, and to the end of his life he continued to reproach privately and publicly the action which he declared was treason to the wishes of his friend. The bitterness of this contest did not end with the death of Mr. Garrett in 1884. His son, Robert Garrett, was elected to succeed him as President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but it was not until nearly two years had elapsed and there had been a great deal of talk that the expected finally happened and he was chosen to fill the place of his father on the university board, where his name is still to be found, although he does not now actively participate in its meetings. Miss Mary Garrett came into possession of a fortune variously estimated at from $8,000,000 to $12,000,000, and for a time she was known as the richest unmarried woman in this country. She always possessed keen business ability, and her father had complete confidence in her judgment. She, in turn, entered earnestly into his work, and the result was a practical education that few women in the world possess. Since becoming wealthy in her own name she has not been idle, but has found her chief enjoyment in the work of attending to her affairs and in doing good. She has shown a sincere and a very intelligent interest in the higher education of her sex, and has done more to advance it in Baltimore than any other woman. The Bryn Mawr School, probably the most complete building of its kind in the country, was built and presented by her, and she shows a constant interest in its management. Miss Garrett sympathized with her father's preference but the wisdom of establishing the university in the city and keeping it here has been so completely shown in the institution's wonderful success that the matter of removing it to Clifton is no longer thought of. There was a general report some years ago that, if the Trustees would consent to the removal, Miss Garrett would heavily endow the university, but nothing ever came of the rumors. There are in Baltimore women of culture and means who have always regretted that the Johns Hopkins endowments made no special provision that women should have the same privileges of higher training as men. The institution has had such an effect upon the society of the city as to constantly emphasize this sentiment. Three years ago the opportunity came. President Gilman, in his fourteenth annual report, said that before a medical school in connection with the university could be established an endowment of $500,000 would be necessary. This was the opportunity, and the women of this city who had taken an interest in the subject, with Miss Garrett at their head, began to agitate it. In April, 1891, they formally offered the sun of $109,000 to the Trustees, and it was accepted, with the proviso that it was to be increased to the round half million. The movement extended to all the large cities. New-York subscribed $5,400; Boston, $20,231.07; Chicago, $1,140; Washington, $2,087; Philadelphia, $8,075.77; the Pacific coast, $2,142; Baltimore, $68,882.56, and smaller amounts were received from most of the other cities of the country. All this money came from women, who gave it for the higher education of their sex in medicine and surgery, and in the list of names are nearly all of the leaders of society in the United States. When the sum reached $178,780.42 it seemed to stop, and there was not much hope of going beyond it. The interest, however, had brought it up to $193,023. Miss Garrett had already subscribed $47,787.50 of this amount, but she was too much interested in it to see it fail, and she decided to make up the difference. Hence her contribution of $306,977. Her letter transmitting this gift shows the thoroughness of her business training. There are conditions which, while not embarrassing in any way to the university, are plain and binding. Not more than $50,000 of the $500,000 shall be expended on buildings, and the chief buildings is to be known as the Women's Fund Memorial Building. The school shall be exclusively a graduate school, and shall form an integral part of the university. There shall be a committee of six women to pass upon the personal character of women applying for admission, and these women shall be Mrs. Henry M. Hurd, wife of Dr. Hurd; Mrs. Ira D. Remsen, wife of Prof. Remsen; Mrs. William Osler, wife of Dr. Osler, President of the Hopkins Hospital, and, to quote Miss Garrett's words, "Miss M. Carey Thomas and Miss Mary M. Gwinn, the two friends who have been most closely associated with me in promoting the opening of the Medical School, both of whom are daughters of Trustees of the University, and myself." The school is to be opened in October, 1893. If the women are not given the same privileges as the men the money is to revert to the donor. The Trustees in a series of laudatory resolutions agreed to call the money the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Fund. The arrangements are already under way for the opening of the school. The purpose of the school is to afford facilities for advanced study higher than those of any of the other medical schools in the country. BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION. COL. BLISS'S POSITION ABOUT MESSENGER CALL-BOX CHARGES. Col. George Bliss said yesterday that the controversy between himself and the American District Telegraph Company had been virtually settled by the letter which he had received from Secretary C. S. Shivler, and which was printed in THE TIMES of yesterday. The last clause in this letter assured Col. Bliss that no rent would be charged for his call box, and expressed the hope that the company might "not be subjected to embarrassment or expense by reason of withdrawal of permission to maintain the wires as now suspended in the premises 54 West Thirty-ninth Street, which is Col. Bliss's residence. Inasmuch as the company's wires do not touch Col. Bliss's house except where they enter it to connect with the call box, but simply pass through the air above his roof, the Colonel says he will not chop them down as he threatened to do if no notice were taken of his complaint. "Upon the circuit which passes over my house," said Col. Bliss, "are probably ten houses, among them the Union League Club, and I do not feel justified in going ahead and breaking those connections when my own cause of complaint is removed. If my neighbors feel that they have a grievance, as I believe they do, and wish to have it remedied, I think I have shown them the way to go to work. I do not suppose that the American District Telegraph Company will issue any general order rescinding the rule of charging $6 a year rent for call boxes, but I do believe that nobody need pay that rent who will take a firm stand and refuse to pay it. It is only a question of a little backbone. "The statement made by Secretary Shivler that the accounts of the company were kept in such a manner that it was not possible to sort out the profitable and unprofitable call boxes, and that therefore the order for a six-dollar rent was made general is most awful nonsense on its face. I have no idea why he made such a statement. The idea that a rent is necessary in order to pay for the boxes seems to me equally absurd. I think that, say $2 for a box and $1 for putting it in position, would be a liberal estimate of cost, and then the boxes are not destroyed when they are put in a house; when they are taken from one place they can be put into another. They employ a lot of boys whom they pay from $3 to $5 per week. They work them seven days in the week, and I am sure each boy will bring in $3 per day to the company, and that is $21 per week. They make the boys buy their own uniforms, and I don't see but that the company is likely to get along without losing very much money. "This controversy has brought me a great many letters and callers, who are all agreed that the company's ways of doing business are outrageous and unbearable. It shows that I have touched a very sore spot. They want me to become the head of a protective league or something, but I am sure I don't know what I shall do. If they want me to stand by them and do the talking and act as spokesman or agent, I shall be glad to do what I can to help. But I haven't much time for organizing things. The simplest way is for everybody to go ahead and defend his own property as I have defended mine and refuse to pay the charge. There will be no trouble." Superintendent Frost of the American District Telegraph Company was asked what the action of the company would be in the matter of rents for call boxes. He aid: "There are about 33,000 call boxes now placed for work. It happens that about half of them are below Fourteenth Street and half above, but that is not the reason for drawing the line there. Most of the boxes below that line are either boxes which pay well in business from the shops or offices in which they are placed, or else they are boxes which are largely used to collect telegrams for the Western Union Telegraph Company, with whom we have a contract requiring us to keep them ready for such telegraph business. But many of the boxes in the up-town districts are a dead weight on us. We may get one call a year out of them -- likely enough on the day before Christmas. I think probably 20 per cent of the whole number of boxes will be taken out as a consequence of the new system of rents, which most certainly will be collected from all boxes whose business does not amount to $25 a year. This shrinkage will put the service in better shape and be a benefit in every way. "It is true that until the consolidation of the Whitnal and American Companies no rents were charged, since one company could not charge rent unless the other did. The consequence was that they cut each other's throats, and there was no money made by either. The consolidation will work for the benefit not only of the two companies, but of the public also, in increased efficiency and just as careful management as possible. "As to what Col. Bliss has to say about refusing to pay rent, I can only repeat that rents will be collected where the boxes do not pay $25 per year, or else they will be taken out. I have just got a letter from Mr. Schley, Col. Bliss's law partner, ordering all of our wires out of his a man sends us word that we must remove our wires from his property we do so immediately. There can be no argument on that point. A man need not have our wires attached to his house if he is unwilling they should be there. But many persons give us permission to stretch the wires upon their buildings, provided we keep the roofs in repair. This we always agree to do, and it seems to me I do nothing but audit bills for repairs to roofs. Some roofs cost us $150 a year to keep in order. "The people seem to think we take in a lot of money. They should consider that we do not, as compared with the telephone companies, for instance. They get $240 a year for the rent of each instrument -- we only get what boys can earn for us. It is hand work against machinery. The income of the company is only gained from this source, and in charging 50 cents a month as rental to persons who wish to have the luxury of call boxes in their houses and who don't bring us a revenue of more than $2 a month, we only take a proper method to keep the company from losing money in a very foolish way. "Then, again, the subway officers make us a great deal of trouble and expense. They arrest our men and fine them, and they are continually compelling us to put wires in the subways at considerable expense, in addition to the rent of the conduit. And all these expenses must be met by the work of boys, who must use their own hands and feet to do the work." MUST PROCURE A LICENSE. THE STATE LUNACY BOARD CONTROLS HOMES FOR THE INSANE ALBANY, Dec. 31. -- The Attorney General has handed down an opinion upon the application of the State Commission in Lunacy to compel the Brunswick Home, a corporation at Amityville, Suffolk County, for the cure of idiots, epileptics, and persons of unsound mind, to procure a license from the commission or go out of business. The Attorney General holds that the corporation is violating both the criminal and civil laws of the State; that the jurisdiction of the commission is complete, and that the home must procure a license or an action will be begun to restrain it from doing business. The question is a most important one, as it affects a large number of institutions for persons of unsound mind now conducted without a license. The home claimed at the hearing before the Attorney General that if the Lunacy Commission has a legal right to exact a license it substantially has a right to control the Institution. The commission claimed that they do not desire to appoint the Superintendents, but that they have the right to pass upon the qualifications of such as are appointed. The Attorney General states that it does not appear that any of the inmates have been judged insane by any person in authority. There are about 100 inmates sent to this institution by their friends who are able to pay for their care and support, and about forty who are paupers sent from different poorhouses in the State, and all are subject to restraint, control, and the rules and regulations of the hope that the company might "not be subjected to embarrassment or expense by reason of withdrawal of permission to maintain the wires as now suspended in the premises 54 West Thirty-ninth Street, which is Col. Bliss's residence. Inasmuch as the company's wires do not touch Col. Bliss's house except where they enter it to connect with the call box, but simply pass through the air above his roof, the Colonel says he will not chop them down as he threatened to do if no notice were taken of his complaint. "Upon the circuit which passes over my house," said Col. Bliss, "are probably ten houses, among them the Union League Club, and I do not feel justified in going ahead and breaking those connections when my own cause of complaint is removed. If my neighbors feel that they have a grievance, as I believe they do, and wish to have it remedied, I think I have shown them the way to go to work. I do not suppose that the American District Telegraph Company will issue any general order rescinding the rule of charging $6 a year rent for call boxes, but I do believe that nobody need pay that rent who will take a firm stand and refuse to pay it. It is only a question of a little backbone. "The statement made by Secretary Shivler that the accounts of the company were kept in such a manner that it was not possible to sort out the profitable and unprofitable call boxes, and that therefore the order for a six-dollar rent was made general is most awful nonsense on its face. I have no idea why he made such a statement. The idea that a rent is necessary in order to pay for the boxes seems to me equally absurd. I think that, say $2 for a box and $1 for putting it in position, would be a liberal estimate of cost, and then the boxes are not destroyed when they are put in a house; when they are taken from one place they can be put into another. They employ a lot of boys whom they pay from $3 to #5 per week. They work them seven days in the week, and I am sure each boy will bring in $3 per day to the company, and that is $21 per week. They make the boys buy their own uniforms, and I don't see but that the company is likely to get along without losing very much money. "This controversy has brought me a great many letters and callers, who are all agreed that the company's ways of doing business are outrageous and unbearable. It shows that I have touched a very sore spot. They want me to become the head of a protective league or something, but I am sure I don't know what I shall do. If they want me to stand by them and do the talking and act as a spokesman or agent, I shall be glad to do what I can to help. But I haven't much time for organizing things. The simplest way is for everybody to go ahead and defend his own property as I have defended mine, and refuse to pay the charge. There will be no trouble." Superintendent Frost of the American District Telegraph Company was asked what the action of the company would be in the matter of rents for call boxes. He said: "There are about 33,000 call boxes now placed for work. It happens that about half of them are below Fourteenth Street and half above, but that is not the reason for drawing the line there. Most of the boxes below that line are either boxes which pay well in business from the shops or offices in which they are placed, or else they are boxes which are largely used to collect telegrams for the Western Union Telegraph Company, with whom we have a contract requiring us to keep them ready for such telegraph business. But many of the boxes in the up-town districts are a dead weight on us. We may get one call a year out of them--likely enough on the day before Christmas. I think probably 20 per cent, of the whole number of boxes will be taken out as a consequence of the new system of rents, which most certainly will be collected from all the boxes whose business does not amount to $25 a year. This shrinkage will put the service in better shape and be a benefit in every way. "It is true that until the consolidation of the Whitnal and American Companies no rents were charged, since one company could not charge rent unless the other did. The consequence was that they cut each other's throats, and there was no money made by either. The consolidation will work for the benefit not only of the two companies, but of the public also, in increased efficiency and just as careful management as possible. "As to what Col. Bliss has to say about refusing to pay rent, I can only repeat that rents will be collected where the boxes do not pay $25 per year, or else they will be taken out. I have just got a letter from Mr. Schley, Col. Bliss's law partner, ordering all of our wires out of his house. They will be taken out at once. Whenever a man sends us word that we must remove our wires from his property we do so immediately. There can be no argument on that point. A man need not have our wires attached to his house if he is unwilling they should be there. But many persons give us permission to stretch the wires upon their buildings, provided we keep the roofs in repair. This we always agree to do, and it seems to me I do nothing but audit bills for repairs to roofs. Some roofs cost us $150 a year to keep in order. "The people seem to think we take in a lot of money. They should consider that we do not, as compared with the telephone companies, for instance. They get $240 a year for the rent of each instrument--we only get what boys can earn for us. It is hand work against machinery. The income of the company is only gained from this source, and in charging 50 cents a month as rental to persons who wish to have the luxury of call boxes in their houses and who don't bring us a revenue of more than $2 a month, we only take a proper method to keep the company from losing money in a very foolish way. "Then, again, the subway officers make us a great deal of trouble and expense. They arrest our men and fine them, and they are continually compelling us to put wires in the subways at considerable expense, in addition to the rent of the conduit. And all these expenses must be met by the work of boys, who must use their own hands and feet to do the work." MUST PROCURE A LICENSE. THE STATE LUNACY BOARD CONTROLS HOMS FOR THE INSANE. ALBANY, Dec. 31.--The Attorney General has handed down an opinion upon the application of the State Commission in Lunacy to compel the Brunswick Home, a corporation at Amityville, Suffolk County, for the cure of idiots, epileptics, and persons of unsound mind, to procure a license from the commission or go out of business. The Attorney General holds that the corporation is violating both the criminal and civil laws of the State; that the jurisdiction of the commission is complete, and that the home must procure a license or an action will be begun to restrain it from doing business. The question is a most important one, as it affects a large number of institutions for persons of unsound mind now conducted without a license. The home claimed at the hearing before the Attorney General that if the Lunacy Commission has a legal right to exact a license it substantially has a right to control the institution. The commission claimed that they do not desire to appoint the Superintendents, but that they have the right to pass upon the qualifications of such as are appointed. The Attorney General states that it does not appear that any of the inmates have been judged insane by any person in authority. There are about 100 inmates sent to this institution by their friends who are able to pay for their care and support, and about forty who are paupers sent from different poorhouses in the State, and all are subject to restraint, control, and the rules and regulations of the institution. The commission simply insists that it has the right to know whether or not these inmates are kept clean and have suitable appliances and furniture, and necessary food, and, in general, are properly cared for. The Attorney General says that, in his opinion, to carry on the business stated in this home's charter without a proper license would be a direct violation of Sections 377 and 445 of the Penal Code, and therefore unlawful. It is clear to [[??]] law of 1890 ore- From Miss I. Maddisin Bryn Mawr, PA BRYN MAWR COLLEGE. The award of the three European Fellowships which are the principal academic honors awarded by the College has just been made by the Directors on the nomination of the Faculty. This is an event of great interest to the student body and affects the Senior Class, a member of which wins the Bryn Mawr European Fellowship; Graduate Students in their first year of residence, to whom the President M. Carey Thomas Fellowship is open; and Graduate Students of longer standing, for whom the Mary E. Garrett Fellowship is available. Each of these Fellowships is of the value of $500 and the money is to be devoted to the expenses of one year's study at some foreign university selected by the student and approved by the Faculty. The Bryn Mawr European Fellowship was founded by the Trustees in 1880 when the first Senior class graduated and has been awarded yearly since that time on the basis of the average grade obtained by the student on all the examinations she has taken on the work she offers for her degree. It is customary to announce the names of the ten students who have obtained the highest average grades and who are in a sense ' honor ' students. The Fellowship is awarded this year to Virginia Greer Hill of Philadelphia, who was prepared by the Friends's Select School of Philadelphia. Her principal subjects of study are Latin and mathematics. The other students who have high grades are Edith Florence Rice of Philadelphia, prepared by the Girls' High School of Philadelphia; Clara Lyford Smith, of Los Angeles, prepared by the High School, Los Angeles; Comfort Worthington Dorsey, of Baltimore, prepared by the Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore; Helen Lamberton, of Philadelphia, prepared by the Girls' High School of Philadelphia; Annabella Elliott Richards, of Philadelphia, prepared by Miss Hill's School, Philadelphia; Anna Thompson Hann, of Philadelphia, prepared by the Girls' High School of Philadelphia; Eunice Morgan Schenck, of Brroklyn, prepared by the Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn; Brownie Elizabeth Neff, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, prepared by the Harrisonburg High School; and Emma Sweet, of Downs, Kansas, prepared by the Philadelphia Collegiate Institute for Girls. Five of these students were prepared by private and five by public schools. The present holder of the Fellowship is Helen Moss Lowengrund of Philadelphia, who has continued this year in residence at Bryn Mawr College, Out of the 18 students who have held the Fellowship three have studied at the Collage de Franca, three at the University of Berlin, three at the University of Leipsic, two at the University of Zurich, one at the University of Heidelberg, one at the University of Munich, one at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, one at the University of Cambridge. Four have been deans in colleges and universities four hold professorships, three are principals or teachers in schools, five are married. The President's European Fellowship has been awarded this year to Esther Harmon of Toledo, Ohio, A.B. University of Michigan, 1906, Graduate Scholar in Teutonic Philology, Bryn Mawr College, 1906-07. This Fellowship has been awarded to eleven students - the present holder being Miss Nadine Nowlin, A.B. and A.M. of the University of Kansas. The Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship is won this year by Alice Middleton Boring of Philadelphia, A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1904, and A.M. 1905, Scholar in Biology, Bryn Mawr College, 1904-05, Fellow in Biology, 1906-07, and Fellow in Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 1905-06. Miss Boring's special subject is Morphology, and she has already published several articles on her researches in this field of biology. This is the fourteenth award of this Fellowship, the present holder is Miss Mary Louise Cady, now studying classics at the University of Berlin. An analysis of the past awards shows that the Fellowship has been awarded five times to students of classics, twice to students of mathematics, once each to students of romance languages, English, chemistry, physics, archaeology and biology. Ten of the holders have studied in Germany, one in Italy, one in Spain and France, and three in Greece. Five of the holders are now teaching in colleges, four are teaching in schools, two are studying abroad, four are studying in this country, one is married, eight are Doctors of Philosophy. BRYN MAWR Notes [Garreet] COPY From the Blackwell Family Paper, Library of Congress collection. Dr. Emily Blackwell to Dr. Elizabeth New York, Jan. 1, 1893 .....One of the New Year's items of interest is that Miss Garrett has made up the $500,000 endowment of the Johns Hopkins Medical School by a gift of $300,000. She stipulated that only $50,000 shall be spent for buildings - the College owns a site, and that the rest shall be kept in the Mary E. Garrett fund, and shall revert to her should they ever cease to receive women students, or fall to give them the same privileges as the men. A Committee of ladies are to cooperate with the Trustees, and they are to passion women students, and to regulate any questions College, and a very good group of Baltimore women are the Committee. I think it is a good providence, as one great difficulty in coeducation is the fact that men can not discipline or judge women fairly. They seem to find it impossible to take the impersonal business tone with them that they do with men students. I think this will be an important step forward in the medical education of women, though it will doubtless be far from perfect as all College education is. Education has to grow and broaden, and women can only slowly develop and grow beyond the great defects that they have ingrained in them as the result of their narrow and limited life and social position. Woman's Column - BOSTON, MASS., JANUARY 7, 1893. JOHNS HOPKINS AND WOMEN. It will be remembered that the Trustees of Johns Hopkins University two years ago promised to open a post-graduate Medical School at the University, to which men and women should be admitted on equal terms, whenever $500,000 should be subscribed for it. Committees of women, including Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland, took the matter in hand and raised $193,023. The fund remained stationary at that sum until the 24th of last month, when Miss Mary Garrett, of Baltimore, added $306,977 to the fund, to which she had contributed largely before, thus completing the necessary $500,000. This was offered to the trustees, and they have accepted the conditions. By the terms of Miss Garrett's contribution to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, men and women are to have equal advantages for study and for degrees. If at any time or for any reason this should cease to be true, the money reverts to Miss Garrett or her heirs. A committee of six women, which committee shall fill its own vacancies, is to have charge of questions affecting the women medical students. Thus carefully has Miss Garrett guarded the equal opportunities of her sex in this new onward and upward step. 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