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Show makes it more of an object for girls than boys to pursue their studies to an extent that will provide a lucrative position po-sition to the one and deny it to the other sex. ! We do not like to reason lightly upon a subject so grave but it is suggestive nf thought and consideration. A SCHOOL UUKSTION. In Chicago a woman, Mrs. Mulligan, was elected superintendent of the publio pub-lio schools. This is a great honor to the sex which already monopolizes, practically, the American schoolroom. We remember howerer an objection, backed by a convincing array of figures, raised some time ago to this monopoly. It was shwn tbatof late years the number num-ber of female graduate In the high schools throughout the Country was rapidly Increasing while tho number of male attendants in the same grade was fast falling off and the conclusion derived de-rived from this remarkable fact was twofold. Either the boys at a more advanced age prosper less under the discipline of women, or the almost exclusive ex-clusive employment of lady teachers |