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...last catalogue of Smith College for young women shows a rapidity of development in this institution comparable only to the growth of a city in the far West. The college was incorporated by the State with full power to grant such honors, degrees, and diplomas as are granted by any university or college in the United States. In appearance, the course of instruction does not suffer in comparison with any of the New England colleges. - [Nation...
...Arthur Gilman, secretary of the Harvard annex for women, has made his second annual report. During the year, 47 ladies have been enrolled in the classes, 16 of whom were students last year, and the majority of whom followed the classic courses, including the ancient languages. So much of the work was special that 29 classes were formed, under the direction of 8 professors, 3 assistant professors and 12 instructors from the university. The students were from the following-named States: Massachusetts, 39; Connecticut and New York, 2 each; Vermont, Illinois, Minnesota and South Carolina, 1 each...
...that women, like snakes, fancy themselves hidden from pursuit if their eyes are covered? Is the snake the origin of the female, - and the owl of the male? What we see of the intellects of the two sexes might give some foundation for such an opinion...
...women wring their hands...
...join our voice with that of others for the higher education of women; but we question the wisdom of educating them under the same roof with the other sex. We do not, with the Amherst Student, "fear the humiliation which the trousered sex must bear" when exposed to the "irresistible power of their beauty" But for their sake, for the sake of their dear mammas, if they come to Hamilton, we should feel compelled to recommend the dear ones to the watchful care of the matrons in our neighboring seminaries...