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Show THE REVIEW. her a fellowship meant to train the scholar and professor of the future. not only education, but the whole higher education of women was still but an impassioned idea. The first attempts to educate women on any large scale were then beginning only, and even such few practical results as had been obtained were obscured, as always in the first years of any great reform, by the vehemence of controversial opinion. Mr. Sage went to the very heart of the question of womens future . Her brother student working side by side with her in the class room feels that however she may equal or even outstrip him now, the prizes of a scholars life are all for him. rEduca-tio- n does not end when the last degree is taken; it is not to have equal facilities for education, for scholarship, to be debarred from just those posts in which alone a scholar may edu- devote to scholarship the working hours of life and not its playtime merely. Here, in Cornell already you are changing all this. In this moving toward a perfect cation when he said that until then wherever women had been educated with man in universities it had been by favor, but that here in the building of Sage College was recognized, for the first time in the world, her right to education, to all the education she will ask.' It was to him a source of the deepest satisfaction that Cornell University had pledged itself to the policy and duty of for ever maintaining equal facilities for the education of men and women; and that (in his own words) the structures now standing here and those which shall hereafter be added to them are to be used for ever for the education of woman with m in, to whom God gave her as a helpmate, and as the mother and chief educator of his race. He laid stress, as I said just now, on the right of women to equal facilities, equal advantages, in the institutions in which they studied. There is one respect, in which these equal rights are as yet for the most part unrecognized; and it is because of this remaining inequality, I think, that in our Eastern States, where separate womens colleges exist, women are so much disposed to prefer them. There ha been hitherto as a rule no place for them in the governing boards of the great institutions, no place for them on faculties. Ex- system of you are moving with the stream of the world. Great and real as is, and as I fear tween professors and students. The professor feels that the woman student, however swiftly she may respond to his influence, will not pass his influence on; it is with something like regret that he finds .himself compelled by her present industry and achievements in the present to award on We offer to anyone securing OIE HUNDRED YEIRLY -- PAID UP SUBSCRIBERS To The Review we will give a New High-Grad- e 98 WHITE BICYCLE. This wheel is handled by L. E. Hall of this city, and may be seen at No. 29 West First South Street. It is s in every detail and sellsoj r first-clas- $75.00. long will be the need of separate colleges for women, it is you who are FOR FIFTY SUBSCRIBERS main the with stream. Separmoving ate education for men and women We offer a Fine cannot ultimately prevail. It is a mad waste of educational endowments at a SILYER WATCH, time when all that we can spend is First-clas- s and Valued at $20.00. needed to keep anarchism and ignorLadies or gentlemens. ance at bay. It is a still madder guaranteed. waste of scholarly power. The great teacher, like the great poet, is born, FOR FORTY SUBSCRIBERS not made. 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