terms as young men." They may take the
regular course, or such a course as they may select, taking at
least two studies each term. They will room and board in families
in the village, and simply attend the required exercises at the
college. The next examination for entrance will be on Wednesday,
August 30. One young lady has already signified her purpose to
enter the regular course. Four New England colleges are now open
to women--Bates, at Lewiston; Colby, at Waterville, Me.; Vermont
University, at Burlington, Vt., and Wesleyan, at Middletown,
Conn. Let's have no more women's colleges established, for the
next decade will make them unnecessary, as by that time all the
colleges of the country will be opened to them.

October 26, 1872, another advance step was heralded abroad:

On motion of the Hon. James S. Milliken, Mrs. Clara Hapgood Nash,
of Columbia Falls, was formally admitted to the bar as an
attorney-at-law. During the session of the court in the forenoon,
Mrs. Nash had presented herself before the examining committee,
Messrs. Granger, Milliken and Walker, and had passed a more than
commonly creditable examination. After the opening of the court
in the afternoon, Mr. Milliken arose and said: "May it please the
court, I hold in my hand papers showing that Mrs. Hapgood Nash,
of Columbia Falls, has passed the committee appointed by the
court to examine candidates for admission to the bar as
attorneys-at-law and has paid to the county treasurer the duty
required by the statute; and I now move the court that she be
admitted to this bar as an attorney-at-law. In making the motion
I am not unaware that this is a novel and unusual proceeding. It
is the first instance in this county and this State, and, so far
as I am aware, the first instance in New England, of the
application of a woman to be formally admitted to the bar as a
practitioner. But knowing Mrs. Nash to be a modest and refined
lady, of literary and legal attainments, I feel safe in assuring
Your Honor that by a course of honorable practice, and by her
courteous intercourse with the members of the profession, she
will do her full part to conquer any prejudice that may now exist
against the idea of women being admitted as attorneys at law."
Judge Barrows, after examining the papers hande