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Show Women and learning. Statistics collected by the regents ol the University of New York shows that in the secondary schools there are 28,-656 28,-656 girls of academic grade and 18,243 boys. Last year more than two thirds of the 438 honor certificates went to girls. In the colleges there are 2,92b girls and 4,043 in the professional and technical schools. Many other young women are studying law, medicine, painting and music. The United States census of 1890 gave the number of women wom-en teachers as 238,397. In their report npon these statistics the regents remark; "The remarkable development of woman's wom-an's higher education is duo to wido-Epread wido-Epread recognition that a college course is needed as the best preparation for Wifehood, motherhood and home life as much as for a professional life. |