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Show A Medical (.'oHega for Women. Through the efforts of Miss Mary Garrett Gar-rett and other influential ladies in this city a movement has been inaugurated looking to the admission of women to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. They have offered f 100,000 to the trustees on condition that they re-ceivo re-ceivo women on the same footing as men provided they have had the necessary training and the medical education required re-quired of the sterner sex. The school is to be a national institution. Local committees have already been formed in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, made up of ladies of wealth and influence. The Baltimore branch has already organized. It is proposed to raise $50,000 here and $25,000 in each of the other cities. Miss Garrett started the subscription here with $10,000, and others aro contributing from $250 to $1,000 each. Boston has already promised prom-ised its share, and tho Philadelphia ladies, la-dies, among whom are Mrs. Drexcl and Mrs. Lippincott, are now engaged in getting their quota. Mrs. Henry Winter Davis is the president of the Baltimore branch. The professors now at the Johns Hopkins Hop-kins hospital will have charge of the school. The object is to avoid the expense ex-pense attending the cost of a thorough education in the European universities. Only graduates will be admitted to the Hopkins school, and thoy will have ull the benefits of the great Johns Hopkins hospital. Baltimore Special. |