SIMMONS COLLEGE

at Boston, Ma achusetts; chartered, 1899; opened, 1902. The purpose of the founder John Simmons was to provide an education for women that would fit them for making their own living. The college departments include household economy, library, secretarial service, science, and nursing. Each course is4 years. College graduates may take a technical course of 1 or 2 years. Commercial and horticultural courses 3 or 4 years. The final year in each course is spent at the Ma a There are evening cla es for those occupied during the day, in shorthand, typewriting, cookery, etc. College property is valued at $3,200,000. Students, 1,305; teachers, 121. an American sculptor, 6. in Webster, Me. He studied in Rome and executed over one hundred portrait busts and numerous public monuments. _He made_ also statues of General Grant and Roger Williams which stand in the National Capitol. A fine specimen of his work, Promised Land, is in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. DEL (1854), United States in Jones county, N.C., s. of Furnifold Greene and Mary McLendel Simmons. He was educated at Trinity College, N.C. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and practiced at New Berne and Raleigh, N.C. until 1901. He was a member of the 50th Congre , 1887-9, 2nd N.C. Dist. and was United States Senator from N. Carolina for 4 terms, 1901-25. (1806-70), an American man of letters. Published A talant is, 1832, a good poem, The Yema ee, 1835, a good historical romance; Beauchampe, 1842, a border tale; and Mellichampe, 1836, a story of the revolutionary war. Eng. pretender; a youth trained to impersonate the young Earl of Warwick, Yorkist claimant to the throne against Henry VII.; captured and made a scullion in the royal kitchen.