The college building is located near the western limits of Greensborough, in the centre of a campus embracing forty acres, a large portion of which is finely shaded. It is very large, commodious, and well adapted to school purposes, containing a capacious chapel and dining-room, study hall, lecture, recitation and music rooms, parlors, an art studio, and dormitories sufficient to accommodate two hundred boarders.

The authorities of the college have recently appropriated one thousand dollars for the purpose of purchasing books and adding to the chemical and philosophical apparatus. The patronage of the college is chiefly Methodist, although other denominations are represented.

Candidates for a full diploma must pass the required examination in the regular English course and in one ancient or modern language. Many of the graduates and former students of the college fill responsible places as teachers. The two past years have been the most prosperous ones in its history.

Four seminaries for women in Ohio report productive funds as follows: The Shepardson College, Granville, $65,000; Hillsborough Female College, $6,000; Western Female Seminary, Oxford, $29,500; Lake Erie Female Seminary, Painesville, $32,300.

The Shepardson College sustains co-operative relations with Denison University, although there is no organic union between the two. The relation secures to the college the benefit of the libraries and laboratories of the University.

The Western Female Seminary has received during the current year three gifts of money, amounting to sixteen thousand dollars, for a new building for scientific pur

poses.

The catalogue of Lake Erie Female Seminary for 1887-88 furnishes the following particulars: The seminary is an outgrowth of the educational work of Mary Lyon. In 1847 a school for girls taught by graduates of Mt. Holyoke Seminary was established at Willoughby, Ohio, but after several years' successful work the building was destroyed by fire. A question then arose as to the permanent location of a school which should be more completely upon the Mt. Holyoke plan.

Liberal offers were made by the citizens of Painesville which were accepted, and in 1856 Lake Erie Female Seminary was incorporated under the general statutes of Ohio. It was opened in September, 1859, most of the teachers being graduates or former teachers of Mt. Holyoke Seminary.

The seminary offers a course of study more extensive than that of most high schools, especially adapted to the needs of women, prominence being given to history, art, and literature, while it furnishes thorough drill in languages and mathematics and gives a large place to natural sciences. The seminary is not a preparatory school to any college, but special students may pursue its courses in mathematics and the languages embracing more than is required for entrance to college, while the completed seminary course, by its breadth and thoroughness, lays the foundation for advanced special training according to university methods. The seminary course gives time for the use of the library, for essay writing, music, training in household duties, and other means of culture necessary for the complete development of woman, whether the student is to enter a profession or take her place in a home. The seminary is to its students not only a school, but a safe and pleasant home, with regular hours for sleep, exercise, and study, together with the helpful influence of a large number of resident teachers, and the companionship of young ladies of kindred tastes from different parts of the country.

While the religious teaching is unsectarian, it is the constant aim to develop character founded upon Christian principle, and to prepare for duties of Christian womanhood. The seminary illustrates the principles of Christian union in its board of trustees, its teachers, and its religious life and instruction. Six missionary societies are sustained, representing as many branches of the church, and contributing to their separate treasuries; but the members of the seminary unite in Bible study, daily worship, and in the study of all movements, religious and philanthrophic, for the good of the world. The location of the seminary, half a mile west of the business centre of the town, is pleasant and healthful. The grounds comprise fourteen acres, including a fine grove, and furnish abundant opportunity for exercise and recreation. The main building contains, beside eighty rooms for teachers and students, a chapel, used also for public exercises, a reception room and drawing room, a reading room, well supplied with periodicals, and open free of charge; a well selected library; a large studio for classes in drawing and painting; lecture and recitation rooms, and a gymnasium. The wing contains, in the basement, six music rooms and a laboratory for practical work in chemistry. All the teachers and students board in the seminary, and the assignment of rooms is made by the principals with regard to health and the general good. No day scholars are admitted. This is for the sake of carrying on the school work with less interruption, and especially on account of the domestic system, which admits of no privileged class, exempt from the common duties and responsibilities of the one family.

The ordinary daily housework, thoroughly systemized and lightened by many appliances for lifting weights and saving steps, is performed by the students, under the superintendence of the teachers. The time thus occupied, one hour daily, is so arranged as not to interfere with the hours of study. The economy of this arrangement was, at first, the chief consideration in the founding of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, but there are other and stronger reasons in its favor. It gives healthful exercise, cultivates a taste for home occupations, honors labor, and makes the institution not only less expensive, but more independent than it could be with the number of servants that would otherwise be required. The student sees what system, co-operation, and prompt action can do; and in time she finds herself able not only to take responsibility but to enjoy it. And thus, in future years, she will bear her part among the workers of the world with greater ease and success.

Candidates for entrance must be sixteen years of age and in good health. For admission to the regular course they are examined in

English.-Grammar, Composition, and Rhetoric, with selected works from standard

authors.

Latin.-Daniel and Collar's Beginner's Book, Jones's Prose Composition, Caesar's Gallic War, four books; Cicero, four orations.

Mathematics.-Arithmetic, through cube root, and Olney's Complete Algebra.
Physical Geography.

History.--History of the United States, Bible History, the Life of Christ.
Science.-Elements of Physiology and Hygiene.

The permanent funds, as will be seen by reference to Table 44, Column 25, amount to $32,300.

Most of the contributions to the school have come from citizens of Painesville and Northern Ohio, but the seminary is not local in character or design. Pupils have come from twenty-six States in the Union. Many of its graduates are settled in the far West, and some are teachers in foreign lands.

If the present low rates of board and tuition are to be maintained, the seminary must rely upon the friends of education for the funds necessary to equip it completely for the increasing demands of liberal culture. There should be a permanent fand for sustaining and enlarging the departments of instruction, and for making additions to the library and apparatus, and to the natural science collections.

The Nashville College for Young Ladies, Nashville, Tenn., was opened as a private enterprise in 1880, and the following year passed into the hands of a board of trustees.

The first care of the board was the purchase of a site and the erection of a commodious and substantial building. To meet the demands occasioned by the rapid growth of the institution additional grounds were soon after purchased, by which ample space has been secured.

The arrangement and furnishing of the building show due regard to the health and comfort of students.

For scientific instruction the college is allowed access to the splendid outfit of the Vanderbilt University, which having been purchased under the personal supervision of the chancellor and the professor of chem stry in London, Paris, Berlin, and New York, is of the finest kind and of the amplest variety.

Pupils belonging to advanced classes of this institution are permitted, in company with a teacher and under proper regulations, to attend the lectures of the Vanderbilt University and to enjoy the benefits of the museum, cabinets, library, and apparatus of the same. No attempt at co-education is designed. The young ladies are taught and drilled in the texts covering the ground of instruction by their own teachers, in the class-rooms of the college. Those who attend upon lectures under this arrangement are required to take notes of the subjects discussed, to prepare recitations, and to pass written examinations before their own teachers upon the topics thus studied. By this arrangement the ample resources of the university are brought within reach of such young ladies as are properly prepared to profit by them.

In order to enter the regular collegiate course of the institution pupils are required to pass approved examinations upon the following subjects or their equivalents: Geography, arithmetic, grammar, algebra to equations, history of the United States, history of England, elementary botany, elementary physics, composition, word analysis, and spelling.

To enter the Department of Languages they must present: (1) in Latin-grammar, elementary composition, Cæsar's De Bello Gallico (four books), and Sallust's Cataline; (2) in French or German -elementary grammar, pronunciation, and reading. For entrance into advanced collegiate classes the pupils must pass examinations upon the above with the topics of the intervening grades.

The Vermont Methodist Seminary and Female College was founded in 1834. The trustees are authorized and empowered to establish and confer on female pupils whom

they shall deem worthy thereof and who shall have completed the regular course of study prescribed in said college, all such literary honors and degrees as are usually conferred by the best academies, seminaries, or female colleges.

The curriculum is arranged in seven courses, as follows:

1. Modern, three years.

2. Music, three years.

3. Art, three years.

4. College Preparatory, four years.

5. Latin Scientific College Preparatory, four years.

6. Latin Scientific, four years.

7. Collegiate, four years.

An efficient corps of teachers is employed and high standards are maintained.

The amount of productive funds reported is twenty thousand dollars.

Hartford (40 Pratt St.).... Hartford Female Seminary............... M. Louise Bacon