and individually in all their class-room work. Just how this influence was exerted it is far easier to understand than to clearly explain. It was always more through what she zvas. and was so unanimously felt to be, than through spoken words. And yet her words, at proper times, in our meetings for worship, and in our public collections, were words that silently and surely brought about in the minds of the students the results which she felt it important to produce. Whoever may have read her two little volumes, recently published, with the unambitious title of Words by the Way, will be convinced of this. One of the most important later results of her sixteen years of most valuable service may be said to be her successful introduction, among the young women, for the past two years, of an admirable and practical system of self-government. But if I dwell longer on this important theme I shall not cover, within the limits prescribed, the history of two-years, as I have usually done in each chapter in the past. I therefore reluctantly leave a theme which is worthy of far fuller treatment than is possible in this one chapter of history. The only other changes in the Faculty this year were the appointment of Benjamin Smith, A. M., Professor of Rhetoric and English; the resignation of Elizabeth Clarke Miller, A. B., Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, and the appointment of William Penn Holcomb, Ph. D., Professor of History and Political Science and Lecturer on Pedagogics. It will be seen that the condition of the College in that early day required a combination of so many subjects for each Professor that his title was almost as long as his program. The number of students in the College and Preparatory School remained nearly as last year, with the College slightly in the majority. This was the case for the first time last year (1885-6), and the majority of the students were always in the College after this so long as the Preparatory School was kept up; while in the early 8o ' s the Preparatory School outnumbered the College in the proportion of two to one; in the later 8o ' s the order was reversed. From that time onward, as our good Preparatory Schools increased, the standard of the College has been raised to meet present requirements, until the end so long sought was happily reached some years since, and Swarthmore became a College in full standing, without the incubus of an added Preparatory School, under the same management, and dwelling under the same roof. We by no means assert that this union was a mistake in the beginning, as it was adopted from the force of circumstances, and has doubtless been the means by which our one College has grown, at last, to a College of full stature, the equal of most of our Colleges, and surpassed by but few of the older Colleges of the country, and has attained to even more than a national, enjoying now an international reputation, a reputation which, on a careful examination of our announcements and our work will be freely acknowledged to be well deserved. 13
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