point where thorough education leaves off in existing ladies' seminaries and carrying them through a well-digested and well-balanced course of higher culture adapted to the sex."

President Raymond was born in New York in 1814. He was educated at Columbia and Union colleges; then pursued a course in theology at Hamilton, N. Y., after which he entered upon his work as a teacher. He was for fourteen years a member of the faculty at Madison University, for five years professor in the university at Rochester, president of the Brooklyn Polytechnic for nine years, and so was well prepared to guide a new institution through the dangers of its first years of existence.

Clear headed, judicious, sympathetic, enthusiastic, yet most careful in elaborating details, he seemed in every respect most admirably fitted to undertake the training and education of a body of young women. At the close of his first ten years of quiet work he was able to report that at least three results had been attained: The college had survived the perils of its infancy and had disappointed the predictions of skeptics; it had been true to the object of its founder that it should minister to woman's education and to that alone, and it had proved its ability to support itself. This success was due largely to the president's earnest effort and to his earnest belief in woman and in her abilities. His death occurred in the summer of 1878.

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