with its libraries, its lectures, its music, all the advantages offered by a large city; in touch with the universities, one of which is but a few miles distant, its professors in the strongest sympathy with it, and yet the college grows so slowly. Just the pitiful lack of money; the lack of endowment sufficient to establish chairs for the professors, so that such elective courses may be given as will suit individual needs. The college needs such endowment, so that the courses offered may be broader, fuller, that there may be more professors. In short, it needs endowment for purely college work. Professor Jordan is right when he says "there is an opening for such a college on this coast." Right in the sense that there is always an opening for a good school, as is shown by the fact that after the opening of Stanford University, the number of students at Berkeley increased largely. Let us have all the good schools we can; but when we have one already established and partially endowed,-buildings, laboratories, grounds, all complete, -and

only lacking the necessary endowment, why not strengthen it, and add to the prestige of long establishment, old-time associations, early California institutions,the money necessary for its endowment and its continuance, both as a reminder of the past and a monument for the future? President Jordan is right again when he says, "California will have a woman's college which, following neither the traditions of the colleges for men nor hampered by the restrictions of annexes and co-educational schools, will be the most advanced college for women of the whole United States." But when he says "no better location could be found than Pasadena," it does not at all militate against the fact that another location just as good might be found elsewhere. And when this other location has been found, and its traditions and associations enshrined within the hearts of thousands of women, both of the Pacific Coast and the world, it were indeed unfortunate to establish the woman's college of the Pacific Coast elsewhere.

When I read that Bryn-Mawr received a Christmas gift of one hundred thousand dollars, or that Wellesley has been given a donation of fifty thousand dollars, or that Mrs. Hearst and Miss Flood have generously given to the University of California, I am glad, heartily glad, that so much is being done for the cause of education; but at the same time, I am saddened with the thought, why are so few interested in the endowment of Mills College? Why cannot we be given large donations which we so sorely need? There is one fifty-thousand-dollar endowment, which supports one chair; we need ten more such endowments. There are fifty thousand dollars of endowments in scholarships; we need as much more, for though, when one takes into consideration the fact that matriculation and library fees, board, washing, lights, fuel, tuition, and class - singing, are furnished for one hundred and eighty dollars for the half-year, still there are many to whom that small sum is impossible, and they should receive the aid which they need.

There is of necessity, there always will be, a distinctive note in Californian education the note of the virile West, the note of individuality, the note of

advance, of progress. But when the conservatism of the East is blended by securing professors from Holyoke, Oxford, and Smith, to fill the chairs, the friction resulting is helpful, strengthening in the highest degree. While there is a strong feeling for co-education on the part of many, there is always the other side of the question, and there always will be found those who prefer to send their daughters to an exclusively woman's college. A course fitted for men cannot be, in all points, a course fitted for women; and so far from the universities objecting to colleges for women, they would be more than glad to see Mills College on a college basis entirely, and the number of its students catalogued far up in the hundreds.

With its advantages of climate, location, its beautiful grounds and buildings, Mills College should draw from the East as well as from the West, and properly endowed it will do so.

We appeal to the large-hearted men and women of the Pacific Coast for the endowment necessary to place us on a footing as broad and permanent as Bryn-Mawr, Smith, or any of the woman's colleges in the Eastern States.