most brilliant occasion of its kind ever arranged for a
convention. President Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins University presided,
and addresses were made by President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke,
Professor Lucy Salmon of Vassar, Professor Mary Jordan of Smith,
President Thomas herself, and many others.

From beginning to end the convention was probably the most notable yet
held in our history. Julia Ward Howe and her daughter, Florence Howe
Hall, were also guests of Miss Garrett, who, moreover, entertained all
the speakers of "College Night." Miss Anthony, now eighty-six, arrived
in Baltimore quite ill, and Mrs. Howe, who was ninety, was taken ill
soon after she reached there. The two great women made a dramatic
exchange on the programme, for on the first night, when Miss Anthony was
unable to speak, Mrs. Howe took her place, and on the second night,
when Mrs. Howe had succumbed, Miss Anthony had recovered sufficiently
to appear for her. Clara Barton was also an honored figure at the
convention, and Miss Anthony's joy in the presence of all these old and
dear friends was overflowing. With them, too, were the younger women,
ready to take up and carry on the work the old leaders were laying down;
and "Aunt Susan," as she surveyed them all, felt like a general whose
superb army is passing in review before him. At the close of the college
programme, when the final address had been made by Miss Thomas, Miss
Anthony rose and in a few words expressed her feeling that her life-work
was done, and her consciousness of the near approach of the end. After
that night she was unable to appear, and was indeed so ill that she
was confined to her bed in Miss Garrett's most hospitable home. Nothing
could have been more thoughtful or more beautiful than the care Miss
Garrett and Miss Thomas bestowed on her. They engaged for her one of the
best physicians in Baltimore, who, in turn, consulted with the leading
specialists of Johns Hopkins, and they also secured a trained nurse.
This final attention required special tact, for Miss Anthony's fear of
"giving trouble" was so great that she was not willing to have a nurse.
The nurse, therefore, wore a housemaid's uniform, and "Aunt Susan"
remained wholly unconscious that she was being cared for by one of the
best nurses in the famous hospital.

Between sessions of the convention I used to sit by "Aunt Susan's" bed
and tell her what was going on. She was triumphant over the immense
success of