represented you and all which makes for liberty that we were so
well received; and I want you to feel that all the honors paid to us
were paid to you."

A paper to be remembered was that of Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows (Mass.) on
Woman's Work in Philanthropy. After tracing the various lines of
philanthropic effort in which women had been distinguished, she said
in conclusion that no woman who ever had lived had done more in the
line of philanthropy than Susan B. Anthony.

Miss Harriet May Mills (N. Y.) gave a fine address on The Winning of
Educational Freedom, saying in part:

Abigail Adams said of the conditions in the early part of the
nineteenth century: "Female education in the best families went
no farther than reading, writing and arithmetic and, in some rare
instances, music and dancing." A lady living in the first quarter
of the century relates that she returned from a school in
Charleston, where she had been sent to be "finished off," with
little besides a knowledge of sixty different lace stitches....

The majority of women were content, they asked no change; they
took no part in the movement for higher education except to
ridicule it. This, like every other battle for freedom which the
world has seen, was led by the few brave, strong souls who saw
the truth and dared proclaim it. In 1820 the world looked aghast
upon "bluestockings." Because a young woman was publicly examined
in geometry at one of Mrs. Emma Willard's school exhibitions, a
storm of ridicule broke forth at so scandalous a proceeding. It
was ten years after Holyoke was founded before Mary Lyon dared to
have Latin appear in the regular course, because the views of the
community would not allow it. Boston had a high school for girls
in 1825, which was maintained but eighteen months, Mayor Quincy
declaring that "no funds of any city could stand the expense."
The difficulty was that "too many girls attended." ...

In 1877 President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard protested against
the opening of the Boston Latin School to girls, saying: "I
resist the proposition for the sake of the boys, the girls, the
schools and the general interest of education." Nearly twenty
years later, he said to the Radcliffe graduates: "It is a quarter
of a century since the college doors were open to women. From
that time, where boys and g