those who pay in full for
their advantages; and in many cases the best scholars have been
found from year to year among those who had the stimulus of
labor. As Miss Haskell and Mrs. Shiner have uniformly entertained
all the lyceum lecturers[365] at their beautiful homes, many have
had the pleasure of seeing and talking with these bright girls,
and the worthy presidents of the institutions.

We believe to Illinois belongs the distinction of being the
birthplace of the first woman admitted to the American Medical
Association--Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson, born at Buffalo Grove,
Ogle county. Dr. Stevenson was admitted to this time-honored
association June, 1876. The Philadelphia _Evening Bulletin_ thus
refers to the innovation:

The doctors have combined millennial with centennial
glories. The largest assemblage of the medical profession
ever held in America yesterday honored itself by bursting
the bonds of ancient prejudice, and admitting a woman to its
membership by a vote that proved the battle won, and that
henceforth professional qualification, and not sex, is to be
the test of standing in the medical world. Looking over the
past fierce resistance by which every advance of woman into
the field of medical life was met, yesterday's action seems
like the opening of a scientific millennium. It was a most
appropriate time and place for the beginning of this new era
of medical righteousness and peace. Here, in the centennial
year, in the "City of Brotherly Love," where the first
organized effort for the medical education of women was
made, where the oldest medical college for women in the
world is located, and where the fight against woman's entry
into the medical profession was most hotly waged, was the
place to take the manly new departure, which, so far as the
National Association is concerned, began yesterday in the
election of Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson as a member in full
standing from the State of Illinois.

Dr. Mary H. Thompson, who was graduated at Boston in 1863, and
who, removing to Chicago, succeeded in establishing a woman's
hospital, is included in a short list of notable alumnae of the
Boston Medical School. Dr. Lelia G.