CORPORATION RECORDS.

The following extracts from the records of the Corporation are of general interest.

Relations with Radcliffe College.June 10. "Whereas in view of the relations now established between Harvard University and Radcliffe College, it is expedient that Harvard examinations should be open to women only through the medium of Radcliffe College,- Voted 1. That Radcliffe College be authorized to provide in Cambridge and (with the approval of the President of the University) in other places where the Harvard admission examinations are held, arrangements by which women may take those examinations; to submit the work of its candidates to the committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Admission Examinations, and to certify the results to the candidates; provided that Radcliffe College shall assume the entire expense of these arrangements, charging its candidates such fees as may be deemed equitable. 2. That the certificate of the President of the University, hitherto given to successful candidates in the Examinations of Women, be discontinued after the examinations of 1896, and that Radclifle College be authorized to grant a similar certiflcate.

Graduate Beneficiaries and AssistantsVoted on recommendation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, that the acceptance of an assistantship by any person holding, or appointed to a fellowship or scholarship in the Graduate School, without the express permission of the Corporation to hold both appointments, be regarded as a resignation of the fellowship or scholarship; and that the acceptance of a fellowship; or scholarship in the Graduate School by an assistant, without express permission of the Corporation to hold both appointments, be regarded as a resignation of the assistantship.

Professor Ames Dean of the Law School.June 18, "The President having read to the Board a letter from Professor Langdell, asking to be relieved from further service in the office of Dean, and from one third of his duties as Dane Professor, and resigning the office of Dean ot the Law School, Voted that Professor Langdell's resignation of the Dean's office be accepted. Voted that Professor Langdell be henceforth relieved from one third of his duties as Dane Professor. Voted that in taking the above action at his request the President and Fellows desire to record their sense of the extraordinary educational and financial success which has attended Professor Langdell's labors as Dean and Professor, and to express the hope that the labors of his coming years may be as fruitful for the School and the legal profession as those of the past twenty-five years have been. Voted to proceed to the election of Dean of the Law Faculty, to serve from September 1, 1895; wereupon ballots being given in, it appeared that James Barr Ames, A. M., LL. B., was elected.

Alfred Hosmer Linder Scholarship.June 25. "The Treasurer submitted a letter from Professor W. L. Richardson inclosing a letter from Mr. George Linder, of which the following is a copy:

NEWTON, June 13, 1895.

Dear Sir:- I take pleasure in sending you the inclosed check for $5,000, with the request that it be used for the establishment of a scholarship to be called the Alfred Hosmer Linder Scholarship. I desire that the income of the fund be awarded annually to a student in the Harvard Medical School, who is needy, and shall have proven himself to be of sound principles and marked ability. Yours with respect,

Signed (Mrs. Geo.) MARY F. LINDER. TO WM. L. RICHARDSON, M.D.,

Dean of the Harvard Medical School. and reported that he had received said check for $5,000. It was thereupon Voted that Mrs. Linder's gift be gratefully accepted on the terms named in her letter. Voted to establish the Alfred Hosmer Linder Scholarship in the Medical School with an income at present of $200.

Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship.June 25. "Voted to accept the fund offered by the Wendell Phillips Memorial Association for the establishment of the "Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship" on the conditions now named by the association as follows: "This scholarship is to be known as The Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship. It is always to be awarded to one about to become a junior, who has completed his freshman and sophomore years in this College. The beneficiary must be one who has special oratorical powers, and so gives promise of becoming a real force as a public speaker; and he is to have the benefit of the scholarship for one or both of the last two years of his college course, as his attainments and character shall warrant. If for any reason this scholarship should become vacant during the period for which it is awarded, we would prefer that it should go to some other person in the same class.

John Harvard Fellowships."Voted to establish Fellowships without stipend in the Graduate School, to be called the John Harvard Fellowship."