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Rh Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis., both as a teacher and student. She received from the institution her degree of Master of Arts in 1876. In 1877, as professor of English literature at Wellesley College, she entered upon her next notable educational work, beginning a term of efficient antl highly appreciated service, that lasted fourteen years. The enterprise was a new one, and upon her devolved the task of arranging a course of study in her department suited to the needs of the times. In 1891 she resigned her professorship, that she might give her time solely to literary work. She has been successful both as an author and lecturer. Among the books that she has written may be named "Nineteenth Century Authors of Great Britain and the United States," "Study of the English Language," and "Via Christi," the last a fascinating volume of missionary annals, published by Macmillan in October, 1902, which in less than two years had reached a sale of nearly fifty thousand copies. Miss Hodgkins has edited Milton's Lyrics and Matthew Arnold's "Sohrab ami Rustum."

To the Woman'a Missionary Friend Miss Hodgkins, it is said, "has given a fresh impetus on many lines, and it is not surprising that its subscription list lengthens each year."

Miss Hodgkins has visited Europe four times for special studies, attending lectures at the College Français in Paris, studying in the Girls' Normal School at Hanover and with private tutors in Leipzig and Berlin, also in the University of Oxford. Her present home is in Auburndale, Mass.

, now Mrs. Lucy Jameson Scott, was born in Irasburg, Vt., November 27, 1843, daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Locke) Jameson. She completed her school studies at the Vermont Conference Seminary, and was graduated as the valedictorian of her class. On July 17, 1867, she became the wife of the Rev. Orange W. Scott, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after the organization of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Mr. Scott was pastor of a church in Haverhill, Mass. Joining an auxiliary, Mrs. Scott served for some time as its corresponding secretary, later as the first secretary of the New Hampshire Conference. In 1874 she represented the New England Branch at the executive committee meeting. As the years went on, she became more and more widely known as a worker in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and Woman's Christian Temperance Union and as a contributor to the Youth's Companion and other popular papers, as well as to religious periodicals, also as a writer of books for Sunday-school libraries. The latest of her productions is "Twelve Little Pilgrims," published by Revell, an interesting story and a valuable book to interest children in missionary work. Since this writer of children's books and stories became, in 1890, editor of the Children s Missionary Friend, this publication has reached a circulation of nearly thirty thousand. Time has shown that she is the right woman in the right place. Mrs. Scott is the mother of three sons and two daughters.

, chosen at the meeting in Philadelphia in November, 1882, to succeed Mrs. Daggett as the publishing agent of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, entered at once upon the duties of this position. As publisher of the four periodicals above mentioned and general manager of affairs at the Bromfield Street office, she has shown herself thoroughly qualified to administer the trusts committed to her charge, and can perhaps be best described in the words of a Boston business man of forty years' experience, "Why, according to her opportunity, she's one of the best business men in the city." She, too, is a New England woman. Born in Lynn, Mass., she is of mingled Methodist and Quaker ancestry.

In the summer of 1897 she visited England and Europe for the purpose of studying missionary work, giving considerable time to the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in Rome. In the spring and summer of 1903 she made a tour to the Pacific coast, visiting California, Oregon, and Washington, embracing the Columbia River and Pacific Branches of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, in the interests of the work. The total monthly output of the four periodicals is now (December, 1903) over ninety-five thousand.