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Show The First New Woman. In the club at tea time an old new woman, lighting a cigarette, 6ald; "We new women are really not so new as we think we are. In tho thirteenth thir-teenth century there were lots of us. Can anything 700 years old be new? The University of Bologna had for professor pro-fessor of Jurisprudence Movellu d'An-dria. d'An-dria. She was no more new than beautiful her charms were so overpowering over-powering that the trustees madj her lecture behind a curtain. When she lectured openly the students, thelf minds wholly occupied -with, her beauty, ould not attend to what sho said. Madorfna Manzolina was professor pro-fessor of auatomy, Matilda TrombonI taught lauguages, and Marie Magnesl held the chair of mathematics. This university was by no means a second-rate second-rate one. On the contrary, it was perhaps per-haps the leading university of Europe. It had 10,000 students." |