Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-11-25

MANY of the law and medical schools OF
the United States are open to women on the
same terms as 10 men. and at the majority
of the one hundred and twenty FIVE theolog-
ical semInares, exclusive of the Roman
Catholic opportunities of study similar to
those snjoyed by the young men are afforded
them. though they NAV be neither matricu-
lated nor receive degree. The number Of
| women praeticin4 Law is far greater in the
Western States than in the Eastern. and a
large proportion Of the schools. especially
Of those connected With the State universi-
ties, are free TO them.
or the three law schools in New Eng and.
! only one is open to both seXes-that of the
Boston University The school has. how
ever. am informed. not Yet graduated a
woman. The women OF the Ess, who de-
sire 10 read Kent and TO learn forms Of pro-
/ ccdurc prefer to obtain a legal education IN
the more private advantages Of a lawyers
1 office.
In the chaotic state of ecclesisstioal opin-
I ion regarding vomen's preaching, bu, few
| have been admitted either to the pulpit or 10
the theological seminary. Although the
number has greatly increased in the last de-
eaie. in 1870. OF 1854 elerg,men. only
sixty seven yer. women. The Methodist
and tn,ersalist churches have probably
/ proved more cordial in granting clerical
/ privileges 10 women than the churches of
other leading denominations. Yet the Gen
Z crll Conicrcnc. Of the former BODY, held al
I Cincinnati. IN 1850, refused to take posi-
/ tive position IN reference 10 the question.
Women, however. are occupying several
I Methodist pulpits. though without official
| appreciation. The tniver.alist Church has
ordained several women, Who are preaching
/ not only in the West hu, allen -, ~ o.,
I scrvatte States Of the East THREE are sta
/ toned in as many OF the country towns Of
| Maine. In the Congregational and Baptis,
| denominations the cases of the ordination
and installation OF women are rare. even II
single one has occurred. The sentiment
Of tnitarians on the question j. more akin
to the Universalist position. The opinion
OF a Church regarding the preaching Of
women indicates It's practice IN reference 10
/ admitting women to the full privileges Of
its divinity schools. Al the theological de-
/ partment Of the Boston University under
the supervision Of the Meihodists. a woman
has been a member Of nearly every class
since lis establishment. The theological
department, also Of the 81. Lawrence Uni
yersity. Of Canton, New York. controlled by
| tniyersalists. is open 20 women on the same
terms as TO men. and two graduated a, its
last Commencement. For many wears xom-
en- have attended the lectures Of Professor
! Park, AZ Andover, though the seminary
| gives no diploma TO them.
/ To the practice Of medicine q larger mum
/ her of women turn than enter both the legal
| profession and the clerical. The first medi-
| cal school for women ever esiahlished-the
/ Female Medical Educational Society,"
organized in Boston. in November, 1878. For
| thirty years, in both Europe and the United
States, measures for giving women thor
ough training in medicine have been pu.hsd d
very vigorously. At times the contest be-
tween those favoring and those opposing
their practice OF the healing art has been
waged With the bitterness 0! the aniI-siayery
struggle. The general result, however, has
been victory for the women. In Europe
are no less than twenty-five schools Of high
standing. in which they can receive a medi-
cal education. the large majority Of which
have been either opened to them or estab-
llshed within the last ten years. In India,
seventy millions of whose women are for
hidden by social custom from receiving the
attendance of male physicians at their
homes, several schools have been formed
since 1867 for affording women the oppor-
tunity Of obtaining a regular medical train
ing. OF the eighty eight medical schools
in the United States d considerable proper
ton admit women on the same terms as
men. The more important of these schools
are the Woman's Medical College of the
New York lnfrmary, the Female Medical
College Of Philadelphia, the Department, Of
| Nultrtpa and Anrr.rxr ~ Niehts,ap fTn,var
s,y, the Woman's Hospital Medical College
OF Chicago, and the School of Medicine of
Boston University. Their women gradu-
ates, in proportion to their men, are few,
yet increase each year. According TO the
census of 1870 there were in the United
States 62,3s3 physicians and surgeons, of
whom 525 were women.--C. If. Thwing, in
Harper's Magazine for December.