that, although pressed at three different
legislative sessions, no member of the committee could be found
with sufficient moral hardihood to present the bill.

In connection with this question, the necessity of "women as
police," was for some time a topic of discussion. They had proved
so efficient in many cases, that it was seriously proposed to have
a standing force in New York and Brooklyn, to look after young
girls,[206] new to the temptations and dangers of city life. In
_The Revolution_ of March 26, 1868, we find the following:

It is often asked, would you make women police officers? It has
already been done. At least a society of women exists in this
country, for the discovery of crimes, conspiracies and such
things. The chief of this band was Mrs. Kate Warn, a native of
this State, who lately died in Chicago. She was engaged in this
business, fifteen years ago, by Mr. Pinkerton, of the National
Police Agency. She did good service for many years in watching,
waylaying, exploring and detecting; especially on the critical
occasion of President Lincoln's journey to Washington in 1861. In
1865 she was sent to New Orleans, as head of the Female Police
Department there.

There was a general movement in these years for the more liberal
education of women in various departments of art and industry, as
well as in letters. First on the list stands Vassar College,
founded in 1861, richly endowed with fine grounds and spacious
buildings. We cannot estimate the civilizing influence of the
thousands of young women graduating at that institution, now, as
cultivated wives and mothers, presiding in households all over this
land. Cornell University[207] was opened to girls in 1872, more
richly endowed than Vassar, and in every way superior in its
environments; beautifully situated on the banks of Cayuga Lake,
with the added advantage and stimulus of the system of coeducation.
To Andrew D. White, its president, all women owe a debt of
gratitude for his able and persevering advocacy of the benefits to
both sexes, of coeducation. The university at Syracuse, in which
Lima College was incorporated, is also open alike to boys and
girls. Rochester University,[208] Brown, Columbia, Union, Hamilton,
and Hobart College at Geneva, still keep their doors barred against
the daughters of the State, and the three last, in the small number
of their students, and their gradual decline, sh