New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-04
WOMEN AND THE LOBELL INSTITUTE.
REASONS WHY THE BAR SHOULD BE REMo'N D'
AND MISS EDWARDS, THE GREAT EGYPTol"


AND MISS EDWARDS, THE GREAT EGYPIOl"
oGIsT, ALLOWED TO LECTURE THERE.
TO the Edftor Of The Tribune.
SIR You justly correct In your cditorlA Vi
February % except point. Tho trustee ana
soc manager Il the Lowell Institute lectures In los On
is Mr. Augustus Lowell, who invite II no
chooses, Miss Amelia Il. Edwards to lecture at tho
institute But he has asked a woman 20 lecture
and he IS dlsncned to depart from his custom even
for so distinguished woman the lady In question:
Let IL hope that he Will make exception WIN
Miss Edwards who Is to lecture at tho PEABODY
Institute in Baltimore. In signing recent tesu-
monial 10 Dr Edwards in view Of her proposed vSi'
~ America TO people and to lecture mr.
james Russell Lowell added: a have great pleasure
In signing the above document"
You are correct in saying that DR.. Edwards is NOT
only one OF the greatest living EgyptoioRsts but Sho
has an almost unsurpassed knowledge " Greek art
and indeed OF general archaeology She is, thereio0
Just the sort Of lecturer the Lowell Institute audencoS
delight to hear
From all over Boston II Is tho one query to me
ais Miss Edwards to lecture at the Lowell lnsttu'o'
or the assertion that Of course she VIII On So
From our universities and Institutes l am ua'i'
written to in regard to her lectures, as 1t Is kn""n
that she Is expected to be here next winter anu '
am Intimately associated with her IN uio
Egypt Exploration Fund Her brilliant successes III
lecturng this winter the university centres 'H'
great cities Of England and Scotland before c1O"ucu
and enthusiastic audiences Il quote tho ednna'sl'
upon topics like " Tho Story Of all Egyptian MOunu'
Egypt the Cradle Of Crock Art" forecast the I@ro
profit and pleasure" to quote tho testimonaD IN Ie
serve for her American hearers.
l am gatfed 10 note tho praises bestowed upon
her vocal clocutonary powers, and that II Is posspo
TO hear her distinctly and with pleasure in largo mans
In her repcroy Of eight ten lectures must app"%r
tho most careful preparation as the result OF crHcai
and exhaustive study lIumor, scholarship, pictorial
power blend happily in her lectures, which arc NUS
raed with the latest and finest views of the Work "1
the Egypt Exploration Fund
II is Mr. Editor a striking fact at this 1unctIe vi
the woman question" that Mr. John Lowell the
founder Of the institute made his Will I'm relation 10
II al the ruins OF 1hchcs Everett al the intrOuuC,odd
10 hr FIRST lecture said The few sentences pehnH,
with tired hand 10y our follow citizen on the tOp o.
palace Of the Pharaohs VIII do moro for nome Iil-
provcmcnt than, for augh that appears, was done ny
I'll that gloomy dynasty that ever rcigncd' 49,.
And now Miss Edwards comes TO tell us OF mus
monuments that witnessed, II without signature une
Will Of John Lowell Her lectures are for hnmau
Improvement and let believe Mr.. Lowell VIII not
close the Of the institute against her. Ky a
kind courtesy her lecture The Social and Poltcal
Condition OF Women in Ancient Egypt could DO
omitted. WILLIAM Z. WlNsLOn'
Boson, March l. 1850