Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-07
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body of the hall. The chairman looked shocked,
hastily declared it impossible and was about to
put the matter by, when sweet voice fell upon
him from the gallery: John, if stay here shall
have another attack of bronchitis, and you will
have the doctors bill to pay Upon this the
chairman succumbed. He had not minded his
wife's discomfort, but the prospect of a doctors
bill was too much for him. The women of that
town have had seats on the floor ever since. Mrs.
Chant said: Il believe it is in some such undigri-
fled way as this that we shall get tbe suffrage.
Women will be let in by some miserable back door
but don't mind, so long as they get there. y"
In the last issue of the Nightingale there APP
pears an interesting article from the pen of E. B.
Bradley, a graduate of Bellevue, relative to an
effort that is now being made to have the medical
school of the John Hopkins University opened to
women, giving them the same advantages or terms
that are given to her male students. One notice.
able feature of the movement is the great interest
that the ladies of wealth and culture are taking in
the effort Owing to some trouble about the
funds this school is not open yet, and those advo-
eating the cause of our sex are doing their utmost
to raise 500, 900 by the LIST of June, which will be
given to the trustees Of the university if women
are admitted on the same footing as men.
One great advantage to be gained by the admis-
sion of women to this school will be that its doors
were opened from the first to both sexes on equal
terms, and another will be the gaining at home
the knowledge hitherto only to be procured from
sojourn abroad. 1t is intended that the advan-
tages offered here shall be equal to those of the
best European universities. The regular course
will require for graduation seven years, but the
three years preparatory may be taken elsewhere.
We clip the following in reference to the raising Of
the 500, 900, for which sum one lady of Boston,
has already subscribed $40 900, and another from
Baltimore similar amount:
at is difficult to see how money can be better
invested to do more lasting good, for the insttu-
ton being once in running order, will long continue
to work for the relief of human suffering. The
field for women physicians widens day by day,
especially as the work which they and they alone
can do in foreign lands is better understood. For
our own country trust the time is near when
there will be enough women doctors and men
nurses so that each sex can be independent of the
other for professional care in time of illness.
'Itisproposed to raise 100000 in Baltimore and
the rest in other places. Committees have been
appointed in the different cities as far east as Bos
ton and west as San Francisco. The chairmen Of
these committees, so far as known to the writer,
are Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Washington; Mrs.
Winter Davis, Baltimore; Mrs. Henry Whitman,
Boston, Mrs. Richard Irvine, New York.
''Some of the most active workers in the cause
are professors in women's medical colleges, as DR..
Emily Blackwell and Dr. Mary Putnam Jacob Of
New York. 1t is not the intention to supercede
the work of colleges already established, but to
give graduates opportunities of advanced study
heretnfnra To be obtained only In Enrnne ~