property by last will and testament as they have to convey it during
their life-time; but in some States, as Maryland, their right so to do
is restricted in certain respects. In many States a wife cannot by her
will deprive her husband of a certain share of her property. The laws of
descent and of intestate succession vary diversely in the several
States. In Tennessee it is expressly provided that absolute equality
shall be observed in the division of estates of deceased persons dying
intestate, and no difference of sex is known in the laws of succession
in North Carolina and Louisiana. In many States the distributive shares
of husband and widow, and their respective rights of curtesy and dower,
are similar; but in other States there are complicated differences; in
New York, for instance, the husband being favored with respect to
personal property, and the wife being better protected with regard to
real estate. In Louisiana women are declared incapable of being
witnesses to wills.
The laws of California, the Dakotas, Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio, and
Idaho expressly enact that the husband is the head of the family, and
that the wife is subject to him. The constitution of Kansas, however,
declares that the legislature shall provide for women equal rights with
the husband in the possession of their children. Such equality is also
provided by the laws of Washington. In Maine, California, the Dakotas,
and Georgia, the father is declared to have the right to the custody of
his minor child. In Louisiana, in case of difference between the
parents, the authority of the father prevails. The common law authority
of the husband and father is, with modifications, upheld in most of the
States, at least until abandonment, separation, or divorce.
The duty of the husband at common law to support the wife finds further
statutory recognition in acts making the husband’s failure to support
the wife cause for absolute or limited divorce. Alimony is usually
granted to the wife on a divorce for the husband’s fault. In North
Carolina, Kentucky, and Texas, divorce is granted for adultery only when
committed by the wife, unless the husband abandon the wife and live in
adultery with another woman.
While women, and particularly married women, still in the world of
activity, often labor under disabilities imposed upon them by law for
their protection and benefit—“so great a favorite is the female sex of
the laws of England”—it must be admitted that in the course of a century
woman has made a great advance in the direction of personal freedom.
When Blackstone wrote, the husband became entitled by marriage to all
the personal property of the wife, and to the rents and profits of her
lands, and the very being or legal existence of the woman was suspended
during marriage, or at least was incorporated and consolidated into that
of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and _cover_ she performed
everything. The emancipation of married women has been gradually,
silently, successfully accomplished.—ED.
APPENDIX F.—BIBLIOGRAPHY.
_The following works will be found useful by those who wish to pursue
further the subjects treated in the foregoing chapters._
ADAMS, OSCAR FAY
Handbook of American Authors. Boston, 1884.
BOONE, RICHARD G.
Education in the United States. New York, 1889.
BRACKETT, ANNA C. AND OTHERS
Education of American Girls. New York, 1886.
CAMPBELL, HELEN
Prisoners of Poverty. Boston, 1887.
Anne Bradstreet. Boston, 1891.
CLARKE, E. H.
Sex in Education. Boston, 1873.
DALL, CAROLINE H.
Life of Dr. Marie Zakrzewska; a Practical Illustration of Woman’s
Right to Labor. Boston.
DODGE, COLONEL RICHARD IRVING
Our Wild Indians. Hartford, 1882.
ELLET, E. F.
Women of the American Revolution. Philadelphia, 1853.
ENGLES, FREDERICK
Condition of the Working Classes in England in 1844. Translated by
Florence Kelly Wischnewetsky. New York, 1887.
GREELEY, HORACE
Recollections of a Busy Life. New York, 1867.
GRISWOLD, R. W.
Female Poets of America. New York, 1849.
D’HERICOURT, MME.
La Femme Affranchie. Paris.
HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH
Common Sense about Women. Boston, 1882.
Women and Men. New York, 1887.
HOWE, JULIA WARD AND OTHERS
Sex and Education. Boston, 1874.
JACKSON, HELEN HUNT (“H. H.”)
A Century of Dishonor. New York, 1881.
JACKSON, SHELDON, D.D.
Alaska. New York, 1880.
LARCOM, LUCY
The Story of a New England Girlhood. Boston, 1889.
LEAKE, GENERAL G. B.
Protection of Law for Indians.
LIVERMORE, MARY A.
My Story of the War. Hartford, 1888.
LOWELL OFFERING
MANYPENNY, COLONEL GEORGE
Our Indian Wards. Cincinnati, 1880.
MARTINEAU, HARRIET
Society in America. New York, 1837.
MILL, JOHN STUART
Subjection of Women. New York, 1870.
OWEN, G. W.
The Indian Question.
PANCOAST, HENRY S.
The Indian before the Law.
PENNY, VIRGINIA
Think and Act: Men and Women: Work and Wages. Philadelphia, 1868.
REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN HELD IN WASHINGTON, D. C.,
1888. Washington, 1888.
RIGGS, REV. STEPHEN R., D.D.
Mary and I. Chicago, 1880.
ROBINSON, H. H.
Massachusetts in Woman Suffrage Movement. Boston, 1881.
SEDGWICK, C. M.
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home. New York, 1841.
SIMS, MARION
Story of My Life. New York, 1884.
STANTON, THEODORE
The Woman Question in Europe. New York, 1884.
STEDMAN, E. C.
Poets of America. Boston, 1885.
STEDMAN, E. C. AND HUTCHINSON, E. M.
Library of American Literature. New York, 1887–1890.
TIFFANY, REV.
Life of Dorothea Dix. Boston, 1889.
WILLARD, FRANCES E.
Autobiography.
WOLLSTONECRAFT
The Rights of Women. Boston, 1890.
INDEX.
Abolitionists, character of, 261.
_See_ Garrison, Wm. Lloyd
Adams, Abigail, 257;
quoted, 5, 15;
on intellectual opportunities for girls in her time, 13;
rare abilities of, 15
Adams, Charles F., quoted on co-education, 26
Adams, Hannah, 108
Adamson, Sarah, 158
Affiliated college, the, 41, _note_, 42, _note_.
_See_ Collegiate instruction for women; Evelyn College; Barnard
College
Agricultural College Act, the, 57
Albert Lea College, 64, _note_
Alcott, Abby May, 265
Alcott, Louisa M., 123
American Revolution, woman in, 255
Angell, President, quoted on co-education, 78
Anthony, Susan B., 132, 264, 269, 397
Antioch College, 38, 70
Anti-Slavery women, Work of, 392
Aspasia, 249
Associations:
Co-operative Building, of Boston, 343
New York Moral Reform, 359
Society of Ethical Culture, Relief Works of, 357, _note_
Visiting Nurse Society, 357
Astell, Mary, 253
Avila, Saint, and the educated woman of to-day, 53
Bar Associations, woman’s international, 243
Barbauld, Mrs., quoted on education of women, 28
Barnard College, 40, _note_, 41, _note_;
history of, 44
Barney, Susan Hammond, 365;
chapter by, 359
Bartlett, President, quoted on co-education, 26
Barton, Clara, 266;
chapter by, 411;
life of, 411, _note_
Bascom, John, quoted on co-education, 80
Beecher, Henry Ward, and woman suffrage, 265
Bittenbender, Ada M., chapter by, 218
Blackwell, Rev. Antoinette Brown, 130, 264, 267;
first woman ordained, 212, _note_
Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, 147, 149, 150, 151, 156, 170, 172, 266, 348;
first woman of modern times to receive medical diploma, 152
Blackwell, Emily, 149, 152, 154, 156, 170, 172
Bologna, University of, admission of women to, 253;
women in, 13
Bonney, Mary L., 377, 385
Boone, Richard G., quoted, 13
Booth, Mary L., 132
Boston Athenæum open to women, 27
Boston Lyceum open to women, 27
Boston University, 39
Botta, Anna Lynch, 124
Bowles, Rev. Ada C., chapter by, 206
Bradstreet, Anne, 108
Bradwell, Myra, 222
Brent, Margaret, 220
Brooks, Rev. Charles T., 37
Brooks, Maria Gowen, 111
Bryn Mawr College, 49
Bryn Mawr Preparatory School, the, 103
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 121
Call, Emma, 188
Campbell, Helen, 318;
quoted, 320
Cary, Alice, 124
Channing, Rev. William H., and woman suffrage, 265
Chapman, Maria Weston, 398
Charity, necessity for discrimination, 333;
old and new methods compared, 334
Cheney, Ednah Dow, 265;
chapter by, 346
Child, Lydia Maria, 111, 128, 262, 397
Children’s Aid Society, the, of Boston, 332;
of Pennsylvania, 325
Christian Association, Young Women’s, 290, 337
Cincinnati Wesleyan Woman’s College, the, 62
Civilization, three curses on, 403
Civil War, effect of, 265;
influence on education in South, 93;
on the wage-worker, 285
Cleveland, Emmeline, 157, 162
Clubs, girl’s, 339.
_See_ Associations; Unions
Co-education, arguments against, 78;
at Columbian University, 96;
at Cornell University, 79;
at Massachusetts Inst. Technology, 52;
at University of Michigan, 78;
at Northwestern University, 80;
at University of Mississippi, 96;
at University of Wisconsin, 80;
at Tulane University, 97;
at Vanderbilt University, 98;
conditions of pioneer life favorable to, 71;
in graduate study, 176, _note_;
in medical schools, 173;
in medicine, 176;
in West, 61, 65;
social effects and tendencies of, 81;
number of students in Southern colleges, 98
College, the, influence of, in community, 60
College degrees and State legislatures, 41, _note_
College faculties, absence of women in, 87
College settlement, 340.
_See_ Neighborhood Guild
Colleges for women, function of, 64;
in the South, 101;
in the West, 61
Collegiate Alumnæ, Association of, standard adopted by, 83, 94
Collegiate Instruction for Women, Society for, 39, 40, _note_, 41,
_note_
Columbia College, and education of women, 41;
chartered, 260, _note_
Columbian University, 95
Comstock, Elizabeth, 363
Cone, Helen Gray, chapter by, 107
Cooke, Rose Terry, 124
Co-operation among women, value of, 295
Co-operative industries, 300
Cooper Institute, 288
Cornell University, 47
Corporations, women in, 251
Corson, Dr. Hiram, 178
Cotton-gin, influence of, 280;
invention of, 279
County Medical Society of Philadelphia, 177
Craddock, Charles Egbert. _See_ Murfree, Miss
Crandall, Prudence, 392
Craper, Margaret, 128
Criminals, care of, 359
Croly, Mrs. D. G., 131
Cummings, Joseph, quoted on co-education, 80
Dame-school, the, 7
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 120
Dawes, Hon. H. L., 387
Deaconesses, order of, 357, _note_
Deland, Margaret, 119
Dickinson, Anna, 266, 397
Dickinson, Mary Lowe, 385
Dickinson, Susan E., chapter by, 128
Dimock, Susan, 166
Dix, Dorothea, 193, 324, 362
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 123, 137
Eastman, Mary F., chapter by, 3
Education, prime motive to the encouragement of, in America, 5;
in West, relation of government to, 55
Education, Woman in, Daniel Defoe on, 253;
in the Eastern States, 3;
in the Southern States, 89;
in the Western States, 52
Elective system of education, influence on co-education, 76
Eliot, President, quoted on co-education, 26
Elizabeth, Queen, 253
Elizabethan era, woman in, 254
Ellet, Elizabeth F., 128
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted on education of women, 30;
and woman suffrage, 264
Evelyn College, 41, _note_
Everett, Prof. William, quoted on co-education, 26
Exchanges, woman’s, of New York, 295
Factory, the influence of, 280;
laws, disregard of, 316
Farmers’ Alliance, the, 300, _note_
Fletcher, Alice C., 375
Foley, Margaret, 283
Foltz, Clara S., 237
Foote, Mary Hallock, 121
Foster, Abby Kelly, 396
Foster, Hannah Webster, 109
Franklin, Christine Ladd, chapter by, 89
Free schools, admission of girls to, 5;
first in United States, 12;
founding of the system, 5;
not originated in America, 12;
French and Indian wars, woman in, 255
Fry, Elizabeth, 359, 363
Fuller, Margaret. _See_ Ossoli
Gage, Mrs. Frances D., 130
Garrison, Helen E., 398
Garrison, William Lloyd, 261, 263, 269
Geneva, Treaty of, code, 416;
nations adopting, list of, 417
Gilbert, Linda, 363
Gilder, Jeannette L., 137
Goodale, Elaine, quoted, 390
Goodell, R. Lavinia, 226, 232
Gordon, Laura de Force, 239
Granger Association of Western Farmers, 300
Green, Mrs. Nathaniel, the inventor of cotton-gin, 280
Greenwood, Grace, 129
Gregory, Samuel, 142
Grew, Mary, 397
Grey, Lady Jane, quoted, 6
Grimké sisters, 128, 262, 392
Gymnasiums. _See_ Physical Culture
Hamilton, Gail, 286
Hale, Sarah Josepha, 128
Hall, Mary, 229
Harvard Annex, the. _See_ Collegiate Instruction for Women
Harvard College, founding of, 4, 260, _note_
Harvard Medical School, 185
Heck, Barbara, 208, 209
H. H. _See_ Jackson, Helen Hunt
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 269;
and woman suffrage, 265
Higher education, defects of, in West, 83;
for women in the South, 93
Homes for working women, 293
Homes for unfortunates, 328
Hopper, Isaac T., Home, 361
Hospitals, admission of women students to, 189, 190, _note_;
admission of women physicians to, 191, 192, 353;
admitting women students, list of, 348;
earliest known, 346;
Mt. Sinai, first to appoint woman physician, 190;
New England, 156, 165, 354;
for women, Chicago, 167;
first in world, 153;
Minneapolis, 168;
New York Infirmary, 153;
Philadelphia, 165;
San Francisco, 168
Howard, Blanche Willis, 121
Howard, Caroline, 110
Howard, Grace, 389
Howe, Elias, inventor of the sewing-machine, 285
Howe, Julia Ward, 124, 132, 215, 269;
introduction by, 1
Hunt, Harriet K., 147, 148
Huntingdon, Countess of, 209
Hutchinson, Anne, 348;
begins work of women in Christian ministry, 206
Huxley, quoted on education, 38
“Hypatia,” 249
Indian Association, national, 384
Indian petition, 380
Indian Treaty-keeping and Protective Association, organization of, 381
Indiana, University of, admission of women to, 72
Indians, care of, 373
Industrial education in the South, 104;
New York association, 336
Industrial schools for girls, Dorchester, Mass., 331;
the Wilson, 288.
_See_ Cooper Institute
Industry, woman in, 276;
arguments against, 287;
average weekly earnings of, in cities, 312;
condition of, 303;
state interference in condition of wage-earners, 315;
state legislation for protection of, 319
Insane asylums, admission of women physicians to, 193, 194;
women physicians in, 195, 351
Inventive faculty, the, a gift of the American woman, 279
Italy, women in, 13
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 121, 374
Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam, 191;
chapter by, 139;
first woman admitted to the Paris _École de Médecine_, 184, _note_
Johnson, Mrs. E. C., 364
Joshee, Dr. Amandibai, 353
Journal, first medical, 141, _note_
Journalism, woman in, 128
Jurors, women as, 244
Kempin, Dr. Emile, 234
Kepley, Ada H., first woman graduate of law school, 233
Kilgore, Carrie Burnham, 235
Kindergarten system, the history of, in America, 335
Knights of Labor, the, women in, 299
Labor, a respect for, the foundation of democracy, 1
Lamb, Martha J., 17
Larcom, Lucy, 124, 283
Latin School for Girls, the, 23;
opening of, 27
Law, woman in, 218;
admission to Supreme Court, 225;
and the Roman Forum, 218;
in England, 219;
influence at bar, 243
Law schools for women, admission to, 233, 238
Lazarus, Emma, 125
Lee, Ann, 208
Leicester Academy, first for girls in New England, 18
Literature, woman in, 107
Livermore, Mary A., 132, 269;
chapter by, 245
Lockwood, Belva Ann, 224, 239
London University, women admitted to medical school, 148, _note_
Longevity, of college graduates, statistics of, 35
Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 365;
chapter by, 323
Lowell, Maria White, 124
Lowell Mills, the, 281;
contrasted with factories in large cities, 283
Lutes, Annie Cronise, 236
Luther. _See_ Reformation
Lyon, Mary, a pupil of Emerson, 30;
biographical sketch of, 34
Man-midwifery, crusade against, 142
Mann, Horace, and co-education, 38, 70;
and normal schools, 37
Mansfield, Arabella A., first woman to obtain admission to the bar, 221
Martia, Queen of London, 250
Martineau, Harriet, 29, 268
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 52
McNutt, Dr. Sarah, 191
Medical Education Society, Female, 151
Medical schools, first to admit women, 145;
co-education in, _See_ Co-education
Medical schools for women:
Baltimore, 175
Boston University, 146
Buffalo, 175
Chicago, 173
Cooper, 175
Johns Hopkins, 176
New York, 170
Pennsylvania, 146
Philadelphia, 157
Syracuse University, 175
University of Michigan, 173
Medical Society, Philadelphia County, passes resolutions of
excommunication, 162
Medicine, woman in, 139;
annual incomes, 200;
capacity for surgery, 202;
census of 1880, number registered, 197;
characteristics of, 201.
_See_ Surgery, woman in, Hospitals, Insane asylums
Methodism, founder of American. _See_ Heck, Barbara
Methodists, progressiveness of, in education, 61
Methodist University, the, 99
Meyer, Annie Nathan, 44
Midwifery, exclusive control of, by women, 140;
relation of men to, 140
Ministry, woman in, 206;
admission to theological schools, 212, 214, 215, 217;
ministerial conference, 215;
opening of Hartford Theological Seminary, 212;
order of deaconesses, 212;
order of sisterhoods, 213;
in the primitive Church, 216;
recognition in Methodist Episcopal Church, 210,
in Baptist Church, 211,
in German Lutheran Church, 212,
in Methodism, 209,
in Roman Catholic Church, 208,
in Universalist Church, 214,
in Presbyterian Church, 211.
_See_ Oberlin College
Mississippi, University of, 95
Missouri, University of, 75
Mitchell, Prof. Maria, 45, 91, _note_
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, quoted, 6
Moravian Brethren, the, found first private institution in America to
give girls better advantages than common schools, 17;
and secondary education of girls, 92
More, Hannah, and female education, 29
Mott, Lucretia, 207, 262, 263, 264, 395
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 132
Mount Holyoke Seminary, 149;
founding of, 35
Murfree, Miss, 122
Nashville College for young Ladies, the, 100
Nationalism explained, 321
National Woman Suffrage Convention, the first, 264
Neighborhood Guild, the, 340
Nicholson, Mrs. E. J., 133
Nightingale, Florence, 347, 354
New York Infirmary. _See_ Hospitals for women
Normal schools, defect of, in West, 85;
history of system in America, 37;
importance of, 36;
in the South, 104;
primitive beginnings in West, 73
Northwestern University, 76
Nurses, and colored women in South, 358;
past and present contrasted, 354;
training schools for, 354;
training schools for, statistics of, 356
Oberlin College, 266; admits women theological students, 212.
_See_ Co-education
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 114, 129;
work for prison reform, 361
Pacific Dispensary. _See_ Hospitals for women
Palmer, Alice Freeman, 47
Parish, Anne, 344
Parker, Theodore, and woman suffrage, 264
Peabody, Elizabeth, 335
Penn Charter School, the, 17
Pennsylvania, University of, admission of women to, 50
Penny, Virginia, 286
Perry, M. Fredrika, 233
Philanthropy—woman in, care of the criminal, 359;
care of the Indian, 373;
care of the sick, 346;
charity, 323;
difference between past and present methods, 293
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 119
Phelps, Mrs. Lincoln, 91
Phillips, Ann Green, 398
Phillips, Wendell, and woman suffrage, 265
Physical Culture, Normal Institute for, 38
Physicians, women, in State institutions, 351;
in insane asylums, 193
Police matrons, 367, 368
Porter, President, quoted on co-education, 26
Postmasters, women as, 230
Preparatory departments, connection with colleges deplored, 71
Press Association, Woman’s International, 133;
Woman’s National, 135
Prescott, Harriet, 118
Preston, Anne, 157, 163, 165
Prison Association, New York, 328, 360;
Rhode Island, 362
Prisons, reformatory at Sherburne, 351, 364;
reformatory for women and girls, 363
Professions, the keystone to the arch of woman’s liberty, 2
Public speaking by women, first in America, 393;
protests against, 394
Quakers, influence of, 207
Quincy, Josiah, quoted, 21
Quinton, Amelia Stone, 385;
chapter by, 373
Red Cross Society, American amendment to, 419;
not an order, 413;
Origin and Application of, 411
Reformation, influence of, 254
Ripon College, 59
Rhine, Alice Hyneman, chapter by, 276
Robinson, Lelia J., 228
Robinson, Mrs. H. H., 283
Rowson, Susanna, 109
Sanitary Commission, organization of, 166
Schools for girls, first grammar school, 9;
for Indians, 373
School suffrage, States conferring, 271
Secondary instruction in the South, 103
Sectarianism in the college, 59
Sedgwick, Catherine, 115
Semi-colleges, 94, 99
Sewall, Lucy, 166
Sewall, May Wright, 135;
chapter by, 52
Sewing-machine, the influence of, 285
Seymour, Mary F., 137
Shakers, essential doctrines of, 208
Sick, care of, 346
Sigourney, Lydia H., 110
Silk industry in America, 278
Smith College, 46
Smith, Hannah Whitall, quoted, 388
Smith, Sydney, quoted on education of women, 29
Socialism defined, 320, _note_
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 132, 263, 269
State boards, women on, 324, 365
State Charities Aid Association, the, of New York, 324
State medical societies admitting women, summary of, 188;
of Massachusetts, admission of women to, 187;
of Philadelphia, admission of women to, 183
State recognition, value of, 173
State universities, argument for, 88;
origin in, 56;
democracy of, 56;
in West, table of, 57
State, Woman in the, 245
Stephens, Ann S., 128
Stevenson, Dr. Sarah Hackett, 183, 192
Stoddard, Mrs., 118
Stone, Lucy, 132, 264, 269, 397
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 116, 397
Straw industry, the, 278
Stuarts, reign of, in England, and disrespect for womanly intelligence,
6
Sullivan, Margaret Buchanan, 134
Surgery, women in, list of operations performed by, 203.
_See_ Medicine, woman in
Swarthmore College, 50
Sweden, education in, 13
Swisshelm, Jane G., 129, 264
Syracuse University, 48
Teachers, first recognition of women, 11
Temperance Union, Woman’s Christian, 137, 270, 399;
and the public school, 402;
character of meetings, 401;
methods of organization, 402;
prison department of, 365
Terhune, Mrs., 120
Texas, University of, 95
Thompson, Mary H., 167, 174
Troy Female Seminary, 149;
founding of, 33
Tulane University, 95
Tyler, Moses Coit, quoted on co-education, 79
Unions: Illinois Woman’s Alliance, 343;
Protective Agency for Women and Children, of Chicago, 342;
Woman’s National Industrial, 137;
women’s educational and industrial, 339;
Working Woman’s Protective, 291
Unions, trades, influence on women workers, 303;
women in, 301
Universalist Church first to open theological schools to women, 214
University Education of Women, the, Massachusetts Society for, 25.
_See_ Higher Education
Vassar College, 45, 266
Virginia, University of, 95
Walter, Dr. Josephine, 190, 357, _note_
Wanzer, Lucy, 175
Warren, Mrs. Mercy, 108, 256
Washington, George, quoted, 88
Wellesley College, 46
Wesley, Susanna, 208
Wesleyan Female College, the, 92
Western States and Territories, order of admission into Union, 55
Wheatley, Phillis, 108
White, Andrew D., quoted on co-education, 80
Wilkins, Mary, 120
Willard, Emma Hart, 91;
biographical sketch of, 30
Willard, Frances E., 270;
chapter by, 399
Willets, Mary, 184
William and Mary College, chartered, 260, _note_
Willis, Rev. Olympia Brown, 214
Wisconsin, University of, 74
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 28, 150, 260
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Footnote 1:
With the exception of the chapter on England, which is divided into
three parts.
Footnote 2:
I do not mean for an instant to imply that these principles required
emphasizing.
Footnote 3:
See also accounts of early education of American women authors in
chapter on Woman in Literature.—ED.
Footnote 4:
The graduates of the Harvard Annex are given a certificate issued by
The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. Although the work
of the “Annex” students is acknowledged to be the same as that of the
students of the University, and the instruction is given by the
University professors, the degrees that are bestowed on the graduates
of the University are refused to the graduates of the “Annex.” It
would certainly seem a more consistent position on the part of that
august institution if it disclaimed all belief in the collegiate
education of women. But Harvard smiles upon its Annex to the extent,
at least, of permitting its professors to give their valuable time to
instructing “the gentle sex.” Harvard apparently acknowledges the
capacity of the female mind to attain to the heights of Harvard
culture, but strangely enough it withholds the only proper recognition
which surely is due, and fitting.
The following certificate issued by The Society for the Collegiate
Instruction of Women will some day, let us hope, be preserved only as
a curious relic of an archaic past:
THE SOCIETY FOR THE COLLEGIATE INSTRUCTION OF WOMEN.