SIMMONS COLLEGE, located at Bos ton, Mass. It was founded in accordance with the will of John Simmons, for the purpose of providing education for women in such branches as will enable them to earn their livelihood. It was chartered in 1899 and opened in 1902. The _departments of study include household economics, secretarial course, library course, science courses (including general science, preparing for teaching and medical prepara tory), horticulture and courses in preparation for nursing. The last two were added to the curriculum in the year 1903-04. The full courses are four years in length, but college graduates and others who have had the academic work can complete the technical courses in one or two years. The course in commercial horticul ture can be completed in three years, hut a full course of four years is also provided; by ar rangement with the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass., only the work of the first two years of the horticultural course is done at Simmons College; the third or the third and fourth years' work is provided for at the Agricultural College. Besides the four years' course in preparation for nursing there is a one year's course, especially intended for those who have had college work and also a short summer course. Students are allowed to take single studies from the curriculum from any department, provided they are qualified for admission to the college and fitted to take up that particular study. Each department,
however, leads to a definite practical occupa tion. There are also evening classes in short hand, typewriting, languages, English, cookery, etc.; the evening work is not correlated in the same manner as the day work, and is mostly taken by -persons occupied during the day who wish to improve themselves in studies relating to their occupations. By an arrangement made with the Boston Cooking School, the property and management of that school was trans ferred to Simmons College, the cooking school being represented by a board of visitors. In accordance with this agreement the college of fers a special one-year course in cookery in place of the former normal course of the cook ing school, and private practice lessons. The funds of the cooking school become a perma nent fund for two scholarships. The college plant comprises Simmons Hall on the Fenway, School for Social Workers, Somerset Street, and eight dormitories. The property of the insti tution is valued at $.3,150,000, about 66 per cent of which is an endowment fund. The stu dents, in 1918, numbered 1,046; the faculty numbered 121; and the library contained 26,431 volumes.