aught
in the college of letters or arts, for which they are
prepared." By optional I understand any of the studies
marked elective, since they are the only optional studies.
In the college of letters there is but one, and that is the
calculus. In the college of arts the optional studies are
generally, not always, those that they could not be prepared
for in the course prescribed by their own college. Under the
head of degrees we find a long account of the A. B., A. M.,
P. B., S. B., S. M., L. B., Ph. D., to which the fortunate
gentlemen are entitled after so much study. Lastly, the
students of the female college may receive "such appropriate
degrees as the regents may determine." I wonder how often
that solemn body deliberates as to whether a girl shall be
A. B., P. B., or A. M., or whether they ever give them any
degree at all. It makes little difference. With such a
college course a degree means nothing, and only serves to
cheapen what may be well earned by the young men of the
college.

In 1870, the stockholders of the Milwaukee Female College elected
three women on their board of trustees: Mrs. Wm. P. Lynde, Mrs.
Wm. Delos Love and Mrs. John Nazro. This is the first time in the
history of the institution that women have been represented in
the board of trustees.

Elizabeth R. Wentworth was an earnest and excellent writer and
kept up a healthy agitation through the columns of her husband's
paper at Racine.

RACINE, August 4, 1875.

MY DEAR MISS ANTHONY: Would it not be well for us women to
accept the hint afforded by these Englishmen, and bind
ourselves together by a constitution and by-laws. By so
doing we might sooner be enabled to secure the rights which
men seem so persistently determined to withhold from us.
Very respectfully yours,

E. R. WENTWORTH.

The growing strength of woman suffrage in England has caused
considerable commotion in that country, among officials and
others. Its growth has led the men to form a club in opposition
to it, composed of such men as Mr. Bouverie, a noted member of
Parliament; Sir Henry James, late att