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ates, many of the graduate schools of the university having opened
their doors to women on equal terms with men. The evolution of
Barnard as an affiliated college has changed its status academically from
a collection of sections of Columbia classes, to a separate college, co-
ordinate with Columbia and preparing its students for the same degree.
Financially, Barnard, like the College of Physicians and Surgeons and
Teachers' College, respectively the medical and pedagogical schools of
Columbia, is a separate institution.

The friends of Barnard and its graduates are unanimous in claim-
ing for her the advantages both of the co-educational and of the
separate college, and freedom from the defects of both classes of in-
stitutions. The standard demanded and quality of instruction provided
by a great university, the boast of the co-educational college, are cer-
tainly hers; and separate instruction of the sexes in undergraduate work,
the pride of the separate college, is also secured to her students.

The present home of Barnard College consists of three hall.-, the
corridors on each floor being connected so as to make practically one
building. These halls are built around a court which opens to the south
on 119th Street. They occupy a city block extending from 119th to
120th Street and from Broadway to Clermont Avenue. The central hall,
extending along 120th Street, is known as Milbank Hall and is the gift
of Mrs. A. A. Anderson. Mrs. Van Wyck Brinckerhoff is the donor
of the east wing, Brinckerhoff Hall, on Broadway, and Fiske Hall, the
west wing on Clermont Avenue, is the gift of Mrs. Josiah M . Fiske. In
Milbank are the entrance hall, the reception room, the trustees' room,
the administrative offices, the Ella Weed Memorial reading room (the
gift of the Associate Alumnae), the class studies, the infirmary, the cloak
rooms, and several lecture rooms. The corridors and rooms have been
beautifully decorated and furnished by Tiffany and the walls are hung
with photographs and casts of examples of beautiful architecture and
works of art. In Brinckerhoff is the college theatre, so arranged that
the stage can be removed for dances and receptions. Beneath the theatre
is the gymnasium and a room on the main floor is reserved for the use
of the alumna?. The rest of the building is given over to laboratories
and lecture rooms. For several years the dean occupied a suite of rooms
in Brinckerhoff, but the space was finally taken for much-needed class
rooms. Fiske Hall, though planned for lecture rooms and laboratories,
was originally fitted up as a dormitory, but in 1902 it became necessary
to remodel the building, owing to the great increase in the number of
students. This hall now contains the college lunch rooms, in addition
to the lecture rooms and laboratories.

Since the alterations in Fiske Hall, Barnard has been without a dor-
mitory of her own, and such a building is today one of the pressing
needs of the college. A few of the students live at the fraternity apart-
ments, some board in the neighborhood, and others live at home. A
great many, however, are accommodated in Whittier Hall, a ten-story
structure used as a university dormitory for women students. Here an