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Show Statistics collected by the regents d tho University of New York shows thai In tho secondary schools there are 23,-556 23,-556 girls of academic grade and 18,?4F boys. Last year more than two-thivdi of the 488 honor certificates went to girls. In the colleges there are 2,925 girls and 4,048 in the professional and technical schools. Many other young women are studying law, medicine, painting and music. Tho United State? census of 1890 gave tho number of women wom-en teachers as 238,397. In their report upon those statistics tho regents remark, "The remarkable development of woman's wom-an's higher education is duo to wi?-Bpread wi?-Bpread recognition that & collego conna 13 needed as the best preparation fca wifehood, motherhood and home life as much as for a professional life." |