on of political rights, is strikingly evinced, as
appears to your remonstrant, in the organization and
administration of the city public schools. Though there are open
in this State and neighborhood, a great multitude of colleges and
professional schools for the education of boys and young men, yet
the city has very properly provided two High-Schools of its own,
one Latin, the other English, in which the "male graduates" of
the Grammar Schools may pursue their education still farther at
the public expense. And why is not a like provision made for the
girls? Why is their education stopped short, just as they have
attained the age best fitted for progress, and the preliminary
knowledge necessary to facilitate it, thus giving the advantage
of superior culture to sex, not to mind?

The fact that our colleges and professional schools are closed
against females, of which your remonstrant has had personal and
painful experience; having been in the year 1847, after twelve
years of medical practice in Boston, refused permission to attend
the lectures of Harvard Medical College. That fact would seem to
furnish an additional reason why the city should provide, at its
own expense, those means of superior education which, by
supplying our girls with occupation and objects of interest,
would not only save them from lives of frivolity and emptiness,
but which might open the way to many useful and lucrative
pursuits, and so raise them above that degrading dependence, so
fruitful a source of female misery.

Reserving a more full exposition of the subject to future
occasions, your remonstrant, in paying her tax for the current
year, begs leave to protest against the injustice and
inequalities above pointed out.

This is respectfully submitted, HARRIOT K. HUNT,
32 Green Street, Boston, Mass.

Harriot K. Hunt commenced the practice of medicine at the age of
thirty, in 1835; twelve years after, was refused admission to Harvard
Medical Lectures. She often said that as her love element had all
centered in her profession, she intended to celebrate her silver
wedding, which she did, in the summer of 1860. Her house was crowded
with a large circle of loving friends, who decorated it with flowers
and many bridal offerings, thus expressing their est