The New York herald., 1873-10-14

midwifery, pharmacy ana every department Of the
medical profession. II Is perhaps for that reason
jealousy or ignorance. 4 hoped added my
friend, to have nad the honor OF carrying my
female students through their studies and seeing
their ultimate success. Their example has proved
OF the utmost value TO the young men, In making
and more regular In their attendance on lectures
The more I see OF female students the more do
believe that well behaved, Intelligent women are
highly fitted to adorn the medical profession and
l trust the time may soon come when ali
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far on, and the history OF every human error u
"My own personal opinion, which can only be
taken for what IL Is WORTH" resumed Professor
Meyer, tho9ghtfnlly, lis that women generally WIZ
no reason why they should not have every fair
chance OF doing So
is all would desire to say the subject. Let
them try II, by all means. For the universities and
merely merely a question Of discipline. ' No nc man can
answer that question who had not had to deal
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ind fault with female students, either in the dis
g sect!ng room or in mixed classes They Gu. up
seems to me to try. the case upon . false issue
whether female students will prosper In the
learned professions. MY opinion Is that they win
study at universities Professor Spaath has fallen
into common error, and has clothed 1t In srrtk-
sThere is point to which my attention has often
been directed IN 9 somewhat ludicrons manner.
education general among female students. they
have seldom any solid foundation upon which to
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rom the Latin Or the Greek, sometimes nom the
teachers In chemistry. You may urge that
Ia. men slss.,,. ssO not anfregusntly experience
required OF them; but the as'p average A stanoard
OF education among men is lar higher than thas
as rule is previous preparation TO enable them
to understand technical terms. Therefore In the
restriction should be enforced upon iemaIe stu
dents, and they should be peremptoriy required to
pass creditable examination for matriculatlon at
Latin something OF Greek, something OF mathe.
mates IS far as trtgonometry and stereometry.
They should thoroughly q as
The female students who came to Zurich did not
always comprehend German, and study, therefore,
in that language was impossible to them No
doubt that they mixed themselves up with silly
sect OF people who call themselves nihilists Some
Zurich for persons who reside in private lodgings.
and most OF these nihlsts were more or less out
iation examinations Indispensable for admission
to our university, We should never have had the
selves ridiculous here. Their political machina.
tions were beneath attention. They consisted in
drinking republican heaths IN beer II is said that
they went backward and forward to Russia Two
or three times year with letters and parcels
earth were they to fetch or carry deserving
notice, They mad "a pr printing pressmtwo printing
Intelligence among them. The leaders or rrse
thought in Russia were not here; the rebel cap
all that the Russian government did with SO much
noise and unreason was to explode nest OF rack
Ing too badly and talking too loudly. Was their
conduct morally infamous is question which no
one can answer. They lived with the young men
HOUSES WITH TOO FEW ROOMS,
but nobody held q light to see what they did. Ny
impression is that their conduct was unladylike.
not indecent.
The best female students have known at Zurich
employed in an infirmary Tor women and children;
MIS- y! Louisa Atkins who is employed at Birmingham
uaing M ai Similar iancons at s and Mss
Susannah Dimock, Of Boston. All these four ladies
have taken highly credtaele degrees as Doctors Of
necessary for degree at the University Of Zurich
IL about i've years. Our female Students however,
& them have vanished T6e rst Russian girl % Who
came here was Suslowa Nsdiscnda, OF st. Peters
person of some note. She was clever woman,
and took her degree as Doctor OF Medicine:
sns snsssd Tns INTO pass sasa
Tnen came Maria Bokovs. Russian
cine Miss Walker, Miss DImock ana Miss Fechsiin.
however, were the real pioneers OF the advance
party. Tne most dill0ent student now at zurich Is
Miss Farmer, SWISS lady, but no female student
at present here has resided at the University long
enough to take degree.
ut was q lady from St. Petersburg who broughs
that wonderful Russian ukase down upon US, or
whose name, at least, has been frequently men
toned, semi-ofncially, as colorado pretext Tor
1t. She was caught crossing the Russian frontier
with some radical nonsense in her carpet-bag. II
had not been printed at Zurich, and was possibly
q Belgian production. Our press here is free
enough in all conscience, out 1t does not seem to
have been up to the mark for this lady. am in
cllned to think that the story about her Is an in
ventOn. When the Russian government had
allowed themselves to be deceived by an unwise
report they were obliged to say some thing, and
they said that.
absolutely blameiess In the lecture room. When
treating certain questions In anatomy, and while
they were making examinations at the same table
as the male Students there were no tricks among
them, no laughter, no teasing, such as often goes
on among medical students. The male and female
students behaved like people who have met in o
railway train, while on journey They were civil
and obligng in their intercourse with each other,
but not intimate.n
One OF the children OF Professor Meyer, bright
eyed little thing OF eight years Old, put her head,
ali curls and smiles into the room, Just fresh from
her lessons, and though the courteous gentleman
never turned his head, yet saw the fathers look
OF welcome steal into his eyes unbtdden, and
was reminded that had already trespassed too
long upon 30 much goodness and learning
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