within the faculty as Arnold B.
Chace did in the corporation. When in 1889 Elisha Benjamin Andrews
(who as professor had in 1887 indorsed the woman suffrage amendment)
became the president of the university, the cause of the higher
education of women took a great leap forward. In October, 1891, the
Women's College connected with Brown University was established and a
small building hired for its home. Six young women, among them the now
distinguished president of Mount Holyoke College, Miss Mary Woolley,
entered the class rooms. The results of the next ten years are thus
summed up in the official year-book for 1901:

The Women's College was founded in October, 1891. At first only
the privileges of university examinations and certificates of
proficiency were granted. In June, 1892, all the university
degrees and the graduate courses were opened. In November, 1897,
the institution was accepted by the corporation and officially
designated the Women's College of Brown University. The immediate
charge, subject to the direction of the president, was placed in
the hands of a dean. All instruction was required to be given by
members of the university faculty. Pembroke Hall, which was built
by the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of
Women, was formally transferred to the university in October,
1897, and was accepted as the recitation hall of the Women's
College.

The record of the admission of women to this ancient university is
part of the history of the Woman Suffrage Association, because all the
initial movements were taken by that body, the society which continued
the work was separated from the association only for purposes of
practical efficiency, and the first principle on which the movement
proceeded was that of absolute equality in educational opportunity,
which is the corollary of political democracy. With its actual opening
to women, however, other elements of leadership assumed control and
have secured later results.

On Jan. 16, 1892, the original association having practically secured
its object, the money in the treasury was turned over to the Women's
Educational and Industrial Union, and from that body finally found its
way to a scholarship fund for the Women's College, and the association
disbanded. Later the need for raising funds to meet the requirement
for buildings and endowments led to the reorganization of the work,
and