in January, 1907, mentions an ad run in the Christian Science Journal for September, 1886: MASSACHUSETTS METAPHYSICAL COLLEGE REV. MARY BAKER G. EDDY, PRESIDENT 571 Columbus Avenue, Boston The collegiate course in Christian Science metaphysical healing includes twelve lessons. Tuition, three hundred dollars. Course in metaphysical obstetrics includes six daily lectures, and is open only to students from this college. Tuition, one hundred dollars. Class in theology, open (like the above) to graduates, receives six additional lectures on the Scriptures, and summary of the principle and practice of Christian Science, two hundred dollars. Normal (teachers) class is open to those who have taken the first course at this college; six daily lectures complete the Normal course. Tuition, two hundred dollars. Judge Septimus J. Hanna Upon Eddy's decease in December 1910, the By-laws of her church stipulated that the vice-president of the College would replace her as the College's President. This person was Judge Septimus J. Hanna who, with his wife, had been early students of Eddy and who occupied more positions of trust in the Christian Science Church than any other individual. The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, 1882–1889 While Eddy stated that she taught over 4000 students at her college, she might have actually meant the sum total of all students taught under her authority as president as the college, including the thousands of students taught when the college was reopened as an auxiliary to her church in 1899 under the Church's Board of Education. By that time, other teachers such as Eddy's adopted son, Ebenezer Foster-Eddy, Edward A. Kimball and Judge Septimus J. Hanna had taught many subsequent classes. Kimball, for example, himself, taught over 150 classes. Foster-Eddy, as well as Gen. Erastus Newton Bates, had also taught during the period while the College was open. By 1889, her Normal (teachers class) students had also been teaching under her authority and under her signed certificates in the US and overseas. She could have also included in the number those who attended her public preaching at the time. In any case, John V. Dittimore, former director and clerk of her church and later Eddy critic, gives a far shorter list in his biography on Eddy published in 1932. His list is probably limited to those students, at the college, personally taught by Eddy alone in a classroom setting, until she turned over the teaching to others. References Christian Science in Massachusetts