Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-16

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Women In, the Professions.
MANY of the law and medical schools
OF the United States are open to women
on the same terms as to men, and at the
majority of the one hundred and twen-
ty-fve theological seminaries, exclusive
of the Roman Catholic, opportunities OF
study similar to those enjoyed by the
young men are afforded them, though
they may be neither matriculated nor
receive degree. The number of women
| practicing law in the Western States is
| far greater than in the Eastern, and a
large proportion of schools, especially
those connected with the State UNIVERSE
ties, are free to them. > ~ st,xoo, = G,
Of the three law schools in New Eng
| land, only one is open to both sexes
| that of the Boston University The
school has, however, I am informed,
not yet graduated woman. The wom-
en- of the East who desire to read Kent
and to learn forms of procedure prefer
to obtain legal education in the more
private advantages of lawyers Office.
+ I'm the chaotic state of ecclesiastical
opinion regarding women's preaching,
but few have been admitted either to the
pulpit or the theological seminary AL
though the number,has greatly increased
in the last decade, in 1870, of ass 74
clergymen, only sixty-seven were ,wom-
en-. The Methodist and Universal
ist Churches have probably proved
more cordial in granting cler-
ical privileges to women ! than
the churches of other leading denomin-
ations. Yet the General Conference of
the former body, held at Cincinnati in
1880, refused to take a positive position
in reference to the question. Women,
however, are occupying several Metho-
dist pulpits, though without official APP
probation. The Universalist Churchill has
ordained : several women, who are
preaching not only in the West, but also
in the conservative States of the East.
Three are stationed in as many of the
country towns of Maine. In the Con-
gregational and Baptist denominations
the cases of the ordination and installa-
ton of women are rare. even if single
one has occurred The sentiment of
Unitarians on the question is more akin
to the Universalist position. Thesopin-
ion of a Church regarding the preaching
of women indicates its practice in refer
ence to admitting women to the full
privileges of it's divinity schools. Atthe
department of the Boston
University, under the supervision of the
Methodists, woman has been a men,
Der of nearly every class since it's estab-
lishment., The theological department,
also, of the st. Lawrence University, of
Canton, New York, controlled by Uni
versalists, is open to women on the same
terms as to men, and two graduated at
its last commencement. For many
years women have attended the lectures
of Prof. Park, at Andover, though, the
seminary gives no diploma to them.
To the practice of medicine a,sTarger
number of women turn than enter both
the legal profession and the clerical.
The first medical school for women ever
Female Medical Edu-
cational Society-was organized in Bos- !
ton in November, 1S4S. For thirty years,
in both Europe and the United States,
measures for giving women thorough
training in medicine have been pushed \
very vigorously. At times the contest
between those favoring. and those OPP
posing their practice Of the healing art
has been waged with the bitterness of
the anti-slavery struggle. The general
result, however, has been victory for
the women. In Europe are no less than
twenty-five schools of high standing in 1
which they can receive medical edu-
cation, the large majority of which have
been either opened to them or estab-
lished within the last ten years. In In
dia, seventy millions of whose women
are. forbidden by social custom, from re-
ceivmg the attendanc of male physicians
at their homes, several schools have been
formed since 1867 for affording women
the opportunity of obtaining a regular
medical training. OF the lightweight
medical schools in the United States a
considerable proportion admit women
on the same terms as men. The more
important of these schools are the
-Woman's Medical College of the New
York Infirmary, the Female Medical
College of Philadelphia, the Department
of Medicine and Surgery of Michigan 4
University, the Woman's Hospital
Medical College of Chicago, and the
School of Medicine of Boston Universe 1
ty. Their women graduates, in pro-
portion to their men, are few, yet in
crease each year. According to the
census of 1870 there were in the United
States 62,3S3 physicians and surgeons,
of when 525 were women.-C. F.
7hving, in Harper's Magazine.
The Social Science Sisterhood of San 4
Francisco have rented house, and are
fitting it up for the purposes of their or
ganization- They have also opened a
silk school. To raise funds they give
"lunches" and ssdime entertainments"