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rule be waived by the Warden. As a result of this legislation the responsibility for the general welfare and conduct of the outside women devolves henceforth upon the Warden and the branch of the Student Government Association among them is no longer a purely voluntary, unauthoritative organization, but can stand as confident of official backing and support in carrying through its measures as the branch in Sage.

To establish, nevertheless, any real system of supervision over the outside women in their present widely scattered and heterogeneous mode of living is practically impossible. The first step toward bringing them within reach as well as toward carrying out the second resolution of the Trustees will be the grouping of them in lodging houses reserved particularly for them near the campus. About twentyfive women this year have been living in houses of this sort engaged for them last spring. Next fall the number of women who can be so accomodated will be about seventy-five. Unless there should be a pronounced increase in the number entering the University, this provision should be sufficient. Of the one hundred and fifty women outside Sage this year over one half have either been at home or with relatives or have been working for room or board or both in private families or have been among the older students who room in the Cascadilla building. It is proposed to organize divisions of the Student Government Association in each of these lodging houses and to have house presidents elected who shall report frequently to the Warden on conditions in their respective houses. The closer the watch that can be kept over the various phases of life within these small centers, especially during the first years of their existence, the more successful, of course, they are likely to be.

The most important house of all will be cared for also by a committee of seven alumnae, residents of Ithaca, who have undertaken the financial management of it on a co-operative plan. The members of the Committee have for some time been interested in projects for providing an inexpensive home for women who cannot afford to pay the usual prices and have at length, by the aid of the alumnae trustee and others, obtained backing sufficient to warrant the engagement for next year of a house large enough to accomodate thirty. Women rooming there will be expected to perform among themselves all the lighter work of the establishment, such as sweeping, dish washing, preparing vegetables and waiting on table, amounting perhaps to about an hour's work a day for each

one, and will in return receive their board and lodging at the lowest possible price, according to present estimates about $4.50 a week. A college woman will be placed in charge and the members of the Alumnae Committee will in turn exercise general supervision. Gifts in the shape of furniture and money for equipment have been received and the enterprise bids fair to prosper. Similar experiments have succeeded elsewhere and nowhere surely could they supply a more serious need.

The work of the Young Women's Christian Association deserves, as usual, prominent mention. Letters were written last summer to prospective new students and many were met at the trains on their arrival, assisted in the search for desirable lodgings and made to feel themselves welcome to the University. The customary reception for all newcomers was held soon after work began. Almost one half of the total number of women in the University enrolled themselves in the Association and of these a large proportion joined one or more of the Bible and Mission Study Classes. Besides its regular weekly meetings the Association has held during the winter several special meetings in Sage drawing room where addresses were given by visitors, such as Mr. Robert E. Speer, Mrs. Mary S. Labaree of Persia, and Miss M. E. Landfear of the Huguenot College in South Africa. Other meetings have been occasionally held in conjunction with the Young Men's Christian Association, when the Rev. Hugh Black of Scotland, the Rev. Joseph Crane Hartzell, Bishop of Africa, and other distinguished clergymen were the speakers. In November the Student Volunteer Convention for the State of New York met at Cornell, bringing together over two hundred young men and women from every protestant college of standing in the State. Plans are on foot now for sending a delegation to the fifteenth conference for eastern college women at Silver Bay, which opens the twenty-first of June. In addition the Association has continued its direction of the philanthropic work of the Cornell women. One committee has furnished leaders for the three girls' clubs which meet weekly at the Inlet under the auspices of the Social Service League of Ithaca. Another has arranged for religious services monthly at the Old Ladies' Home and for pleasant entertainments there at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. Several teachers have been provided for the Sunday School held in the Mission Chapel.

The social events of Sage College life have been as numerous and

varied as usual. Formal dances and teas have been given by the four sororities, by several societies, by the women of the Medical School and of the College of Agriculture, by the Graduate Club, the Pennsylvania Club, the Spanish Club, and other combinations of students. The girls have diverted one another by parties of their own on Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving day and Washington's birthday, by the "Anti-Junior ball" in Junior week, and by other informal class and private functions. The annual class "stunts" grow, as such affairs are growing everywhere, more elaborate and spectacular. The women of Sage have once entertained the women outside the dormitories. The assistant to the Warden and the other residents of the Cottage have given three teas. The Dramatic Club has offered three performances, the last and most ambitious being a reproduction of "The Rivals". The annual reception to the Faculty was modified this year to a series of three afternoon teas held in December to each of which one third of the list of Trustees and Faculty was invited. In a further effort to reduce the crowding that has been an unpleasant feature of the receptions, only the upper class women and graduates were asked to help receive the guests, instead of the whole mass of students at Sage. Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, Miss Ruth Putnam, and Miss Mabel Carter Rhodes of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae have at different times met and addressed the students. The Warden has entertained the senior class and representatives of the outside women, has held informal readings Sunday evenings during the winter term, and has been at home to all students on Thursday evenings during the year.

Respectfully submitted,

LOUISE ROPES LOOMIS,

Warden of Sage College

APPENDIX XIV

REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR

To the President of the University:

SIR-I have the honor to submit here with my eleventh annual report as Registrar of the University. The report covers the academic year 1906-1907, including the Summer Session of 1907.

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In addition to the 241 days in session given above, the University Library was open every day in the year except holidays and there was no time during the year when college activities entirely ceased. The shops and some of the laboratories were also open during nearly all the vacation period.

STUDENTS

The following table, which shows the attendance for 1906-1907, gives the number who have received instruction this year, including those in the 1907 Summer Session and in the winter courses in agriculture, but excluding duplicates, as 4,225, an increase over last year's attendance of 103.

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