irls have been educated together, it
has become a historical fact that women have taken a greater
number of honors, in proportion to their numbers, than men." It
is to be hoped that the next twenty years may work further
conversion in the mind of this learned president, and lead him to
see that equality in citizenship is as desirable as equality in
education.

One learned man prophesied that all educated women would become
somnambulists. Another declared that the perilous track to higher
education would be strewn with wrecks. There are now over thirty
thousand of these college-educated wrecks, the majority of them
engaged in the active work of the world. It was found in 1874,
when Dr. E. H. Clarke's evil prophecies as to higher education
were attracting attention, that at Antioch, opened to women in
1853, thirteen and one-half per cent. of the men graduates had
died, nine and three-fourths per cent. of the women. This did not
include war mortality or accidental death. Three of the men then
living were confirmed invalids; not one of the women was in such
a condition. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae has compiled
later and fuller statistics. The results show an increase during
the college course of from three to six per cent. in good health,
and the health after graduation to be twenty-two per cent. higher
among graduates than among women who have not been in college....

Elizabeth Blackwell applied to twelve colleges before she gained
admittance to the Geneva (N. Y.) Medical School in 1846, and
secured the first M. D. ever given to a woman in this country.
To-day 1,583 women are studying medicine. Not so full a measure
of freedom has been won in law or theology. In 1897, 131 women
were in the law schools, 193 in the theological schools, but
women are still handicapped in these professions....

Unfortunately, educational freedom has not been followed by
industrial freedom. Of the leading colleges for women but four
have women presidents; but one offers a free field to women on
its professional staff. In the majority of co-educational
colleges which give women any place as teachers, they appear in
small numbers as assistant professors and, more often, as
instructors....

With educational freedom partially won has come general intere