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Show WJwsricn end Incoming. Statistics collected by the regents eg tho University of New York shows that In the secondary schools there are 23,-656 23,-656 girls of academic grade and 18.24P hoys. Last year more than twothivdt of the 438 honor certificates went to girls. In the colleges there aro 2,926 girls and 4,048 in tho professional and technical schoola Many other young women are studying law, medicine, painting and music. Tho United States census of 1890 gave tho number of women wom-en teachers as 238,397. In their report upon these statistics the regents remark, "The remarkable development of woman's wom-an's higher education is due to widespread wide-spread recognition that a collego course Is needed as the best preparation for wifehood, motherhood and homo life as much as for a professional life." |