spring a financial campaign which makes us practically safe. We shall supplement the amount by some further effort this winter. Our efforts to provide more kinds of technical training at home for Virginia women and to improve conditions for their work will this winter take three forms. One concerns itself with social work, involving on the one hand an investigation of all remunerative or volunteer positions in Virginia for trained social workers; on the other, an effort to co-ordinate all local forces helpful toward providing training for such work. The Medical College of Virginia through its dean, one of our best Virginia colleges for women, a girls' reformatory and a mountain mission school are among institutions whose interest has already been enlisted. Various other institutions will probably co-operate and the outlook for some significant action seems hopeful. It is not our idea to attempt rivalry with training schools of large equipment but to make provision for the many who could not incur the expense of study in the large cities where such schools are located. We are also making efforts, in cooperation with the business colleges, towards stricter requirements in general education and training in English as pre-requisite to the technical training for stenographers. We are, in this connection beginning a secretarial department, in which advisory work and the giving of tests will be among the chief duties. In co-operation with the Young Women's Christian Association of Richmond we are attacking also the very acute problem of household work in Virginia, whether in homes, institutions, or elsewhere and are planning a short series of public conferences on the problem and possible solutions. The Y. W. C. A. representatives will discuss the servant question in the light of their experience in their Employment Bureau and have it in mind to suggest improved conditions for such work as well as real training. Our representatives will speak of solutions offered by the higher type of training in domestic science, by modern forms of cooperation in domestic work, etc. The Bureau has had valuable help from young college women who feel the great need of our work here, and who have been willing to work consecutively either as volunteers or for a nominal sum, in order to see the work well under way and get experience for themselves. We need more of such help and can offer to suitable candidates careful training in research methods, and an interesting field to explore, as well as an opportunity for very significant constructive work. THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE WOMEN The invitation extended by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae to the Southern Association of College Women to hold a joint meeting with us at the Washington biennial has been accepted. It is very doubtful whether the work and problems of the Southern Association are so well understood among the membership of the A. C. A. as is the work of the A. C. A. among the members of the Southern Association. In order to remedy this condition we hope to print each month news items from the S. A. C. W. It is also possible that we may be able to present before the April meeting an article from the president or secretary of our sister organization on the work of their Association. The great problem that confronts the Southern Association is a problem of standardization, and their courageous and unremitting efforts to awaken in the South a public opinion that will demand high academic standards has won the respect and approbation of educational authorities everywhere, In a leaflet issued not long ago the Association sums up for the information of prospective members some of its achievements: "Standards of Southern Colleges have been investigated. Miss Elizabeth Avery Colton's reports on The Improvement in Standards of Southern Colleges and The Approximate Value of Recent Degrees of Southern Colleges have been distributed by the hundred. The United States Bureau of Education has ordered reprints, the leading Northern and Western universities employ them in assigning credits and Southern colleges are feeling the stimulus they have given to a better informed public. "Through College Day Committees high schools have been visited and celebrations held to interest students in going to college. Efforts are continually made to show what a standard college is. It is becoming harder for the nominal college which advertises falsely to secure students. Co-operation with state and local authorities has been secured wherever possible. "The Scholarships offered through the Association have increased in number to seventy. These vary in value from $75.00 (tuition fees) to $300.00, and the Association may also nominate candidates for the $600.00 Pulitzer Scholarship at Barnard. A loan fund has been started and candidates will be aided as far as means allow. "Pressing educational and social problems have been studied by the local branches and valuable service has been rendered. Pub licity campaigns, industrial schools for girls, better financial support for schools, compulsory education-each branch of the Association finds the problem closest at hand and helps to solve it. "The Association looks forward to the time when public opinion will so affect legislation that an institution that can not do college work may not be chartered as such to a time when many schools now calling themselves colleges will give themselves the name to which they are entitled-preparatory school, finishing school, conservatory, or junior college-to a time when the present work of the Association in promoting intellectual honesty in college standards may no longer be necessary and the forces of organization may turn to other forms of activity." In addition to the two reports mentioned above, Miss Colton has prepared a third on "The Various Types of Southern Colleges for Women" in which, without fear or favor, she assigns the southern colleges to the classes to which they belong according to the standard of their requirement for entrance and the work performed. She groups the 106 institutions that she has examined into (1) Standard Colleges of which she finds only 7; (2) Approximate Colleges; (3) Normal and Industrial Colleges; (4) Junior Colleges; (5) "Unclassifiable" Colleges; and (6) Nominal and Imitation Colleges. The report ought to prove of the greatest value to parents and students seeking real information about educational conditions in the South. That it will not add greatly to Miss Colton's popularity in certain quarters goes without saying. Mary Leal Harkness, the secretary of the Southern Association, whose delightful articles on educational topics appear from time to time, but too infrequently, in the Atlantic, has found time during her summer travel to write for one of the July numbers of The Independent a charming article on Fairfield, Iowa, her home towna town that cares, as Miss Harkness puts it. In the winter the secretary keeps in touch with a growing organization from her position as head of the Latin department of Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. The Southern Association has an active press committee which last year prepared a bulletin for use in extension and had it published as widely as possible in all the cities where the Association has branches. This year the same committee purposes to publish in the local papers extracts from Miss Colton's last report and from the reports of state high school inspectors. Continued publication of definite statements from authoritative sources ought to help arouse the public conscience in regard to standards. NEWS FROM THE COLLEGES UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI.-The position of Dean of Women at the University of Cincinnati made vacant by the resignation last spring of Miss Emilie McVea, who accepted the presidency of Sweet Briar College, Va., has been filled by the appointment of Miss Loueen Pattee, formerly of Evanston, Ill. Miss Pattee took her first degree at Grinnell College, Iowa, and then went abroad for further study. Later she became the head of a school for girls at Munich, which she conducted until the breaking out of the European War. She has won especial honors in the field of modern languages and literatures, philosophy, and the history of art. Cornell UNIVERSITY.-No appointment has as yet been made to fill the vacancy created last spring by the resignation of Mrs. Gertrude S. Martin from the position of Adviser of Women. Meantime the academic recognition of the position, for which Cornell alumnae have so long striven in vain, has been granted by action of the Board of Trustees. At the June meeting of that body the following resolution was adopted: "That the Adviser of Women shall be ex officio a member of the University Faculty; that she shall be equal in qualifications and rank to a full professor, and that she shall have the general charge of the interests of women students, and advise them in regard to all matters, subject to the statutes and the rules and regulations of the Trustees and of the general and special Faculties." The Cornell Alumni News of June 29 makes the following comment upon this action: "The Trustees have enacted virtually all that was advocated by the women graduates who asked for the creation of the office of dean of women. Opposition to the use of the word dean for such an office was based on the fact that at Cornell the word has been used to designate the head of a college. In virtually everything but name the office of Adviser of Women will be equivalent to the office of dean of women as it is known in most co-educational institutions. The Adviser will be selected for qualifications equal to those of professor, will rank as a professor, and will be a member of the University Faculty. It will be her privilege and duty to advise women students in all matters educational and other." GOUCHER COLLEGE.-The new auditorium with a seating capacity of 1,200 will be ready for use by the reopening of the college and the new pipe organ which is being installed will add greatly to the musical advantages of the college. The floor below the auditorium will be used partly for indoor athletic contests and partly for other student purposes. The lunch room and lounge for town students will be transferred to this building and the student publications will also have their offices in Catherine Hooper Hall. Additional facilities for faculty offices and club rooms have been provided on the basement floor of Goucher Hall. The large enrollment of resident students has made it necessary to provide additional accommodations in the three halls of residence and to open another house recently acquired by the college for residential purposes. The Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland will meet as the guests of Goucher College during the Thanksgiving holidays. Curriculum Changes. The Art department offers a new course in the History of Architecture, to be given by Professor Hans Froelicher. Dr. Clara L. Smith of the department of Biblical Literature will give a new course on the History of Religions. The Chemistry department announces additional courses on the Chemistry of Foods and on the History of Chemistry by Associate Professor Grete Egerer and a course on Physical Chemistry by Dr. Howard H. Lloyd who will come to the college this fall from the Johns Hopkins University. The Department of Education will be reorganized under the direction of Associate Professor A. B. Gifford, Ph.D., of Teachers College, Columbia University. Miss Stella McCarty of the same department will give courses on Child Study and Primary Education. Miss Helen O. Mahin, recently appointed Instructor in English, offers two courses in Journalism which are attracting students of literary ability and especially those who are working on the staffs of the student publications. Several new courses along the less traditional lines are announced by the Department of History. Assistant Professor Mary Wilhelmine Williams will give a course on Latin America and another on the History of Canada regarded as a virtually independent unit rather than as a member of the British Empire. Dr. Katherine J. Gallagher will offer a course on the British Empire from 1815-1916 with special emphasis on the more recent develop |