April 29, 1904

Ex-secretary of the Navy John D. Long delivered the Founder’s Day address, which assessed the achievement of Matthew Vassar. “When Matthew Vassar founded the college,” he said, “it was an experiment; it was the first real college for women. Now the woman’s college is one of the settled institutions of our country, and that, too, without the slightest impairment of woman’s delicacy.” The New York Times