men and women. By amendment of the
Constitution in 1867, it was declared that the University
shall be open to female as well as male students, under such
regulations and restrictions as the board of regents may
deem proper. At first the students recited together, but Mr.
Chadbourne made it a condition of accepting the presidency
that they should be separated. I do not speak of the
separation of the sexes to find fault. I conceive that if
equal advantages be given women by the State, whether in
connection with or apart from men, they have no ground for
complaint. My object is to compare the advantages given to
the sexes and see the practical effect of legislation by men
alone in this department. From all the facts that are now
pressed upon us, confused, contradictory and obscure, we
begin to obtain a glimpse of the general law that informs
them. The University has a college of arts (including the
department of agriculture, of engraving and military
tactics), a college of letters, preparatory department, law
department, post-graduate course, last and certainly least,
a female college. The faculty and board of instructors
number twenty-one. The college of arts has nine professors,
one of natural philosophy, one each of mental philosophy,
modern languages, rhetoric, chemistry, mathematics,
agriculture, and comparative anatomy, and a tutor. In the
department of engineering is an officer of the United States
Army. In the college of letters is the same faculty, with
the addition of William F. Allen, professor of ancient
languages and history, one coming from a family of scholarly
teachers and thoroughly fitted for his post. In the law
department are such names as L. S. Dixon and Byron Paine.

Read now the names composing the faculty of the female
college, Paul A. Chadbourne, M. D., president; T. N.
Haskell, professor of rhetoric and English literature; Miss
Elizabeth Earle, preceptress; Miss Brown, teacher of music;
Miss Eliza Brewster, teacher of drawing and painting.
Compare these faculties and note what provision is made here
for the sciences and languages. Look at the c