e took lessons of the Professor every evening when he had
leisure, and studied half the night the branches she was to teach
the next day, thus keeping ahead of her classes. Her intense
earnestness and mental grasp, the readiness with which she turned
from one subject to another, and her retentive memory of every rule
and fact he gave her, was a constant surprise to the Professor.

"All her vacation she devoted to training teachers. She was the
first to suggest the normal-school system. Remembering her deep
interest in the education of women, we can honor her in no more
worthy manner than to carry on her special lifework. As we look
around at all the educated women assembled here to-day and try to
estimate what each has done in her own sphere of action, the
schools founded, the teachers sent forth, the inspiration given to
girls in general, through the long chain of influences started by
our alma mater, we can form some light estimate of the momentous
and far-reaching consequences of Emma Willard's life. We have not
her difficulties to overcome, her trials to endure, but the
imperative duty is laid on each of us to finish the work she so
successfully began. Schools and colleges of a high order are now
everywhere open to women, public sentiment welcomes them to
whatever career they may desire, and our work is to help worthy
girls struggling for a higher education, by founding scholarships
in desirable institutions in every State in the Union. The most
fitting tribute we can pay to Emma Willard is to aid in the
production of a generation of thoroughly educated women.

"There are two kinds of scholarships, equally desirable; a
permanent one, where the interest of a fund from year to year will
support a succession of students, and a temporary one, to help some
worthy individual as she may require. Someone has suggested that
this association should help young girls in their primary
education. But as our public schools possess all the advantages for
a thorough education in the rudiments of learning and are free to
all, our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and
earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose
capacity for a higher education is fully shown.

"This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in