The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-10

the gross injustice, fragrant, crying.
shameful injustice, hardly creditable to
modern ears. to which in certain particu-
lars they were subjected. Well, great
changes have taken place. and still greater
changes. would say impending-but, at all
those greater changes that are SO much
discussed. and to which SO many look for
ward with eager anticipations. will be for
good, / will not undertake to say. | will
only say that believe that anything which
attempts or affects TO alter the fundamental
relation which the Almighty Himself
has established, and the designs which
He has marked out in our constitutions
and canacifies, to draw woman out of her
own sphere and to expect her either to ex-
change it for the sphere of man or to act
in both with the presumption that she can
act in both with efficiency schemes
that involve changes OF that kind. for my
own part / contemplate neither with APP
proval-it may speak of anything so in
a scheme-nor with sanguine expectation
of happy results.
.But do venture to think this. that so
far IS we have yet gone the alterations that
have been made, and that have in so con-
siderable degree at any rate met the wants
of woman, relieved the grievances of
woman. and improved her prospects and
creased responsibilities do firmly believe
that those changes have been, so far as i
am acquainted with them, entirely or
almost entirely good. / say almost en-
firely, because viewing the waywardness
and infirmity of human nature, whenever
we make any large changes. even If their
general character be beneficial. We must
not assume that they are in all respects
perfect. Undoubtedly you have before you
opportunities such as we're total Y unknown,
almost entirely unknown, to your mothers.
absolutely unknown to your grandmothers;
absolutely unknown, that is to say. to
those who were my contemporaries, and
one of whom has undertaken to distribute
YOUR prizes today.
"The openings that have now been made
for Won are not to be traced merely in the
changes of the law; they are not to be
traced solely as regards yourselves parfic-
ularIy in the great reconstruction OF this
school, which has given 1t new charac-
ter, new opportunities. and enormously
increased hopes and Prospec'ss LOT nse,G y;
that which will await you when you have
passed from this school and when
Won are beginning TO approach
ss,ult age. The great and glorious
universities of England, which were for
meriy the absolute monopoly OF the ma
culine moiety OF the human race, are now
in great degree open 70 YOU. ! VI. ven GU
ture here to say that in one point am
very sorry that they are no more open 70
Won than is actually the case
Tho ladies who betake themselves In
certain degree 20 Oxford. and IN mucn
larger degree to Cambridge. obtain inui-
recflv A great deal of benefit from the an
Gent endowments of those great univefsl-
ties and OF their colleges, because tney nave
nlsced at their command the adniraoie
machinery. the efficient and powerful and
varied staff which conducts instruction IN
those establishments, an instruction Mnlsu
;s verv inadeauately represented bv the
mere fees that are paid. Consequently, IN
doubtefilv. very much benent Is derived oy
ladies from the endowment OF the coieges
and universities / must confess that nope
that the time is not far distant when We shan
90 A little further. About the most var
uab,e I think. of our endowments Is that
which is applied in smoothing the iniuai
d tiiculties Of the Young ana provldins
,h,.m with the means OF making good their
stan.Iins yround in the universities before
their nowrrs are msiured, and when their
career is commencing.
The fleet of endowments OF tnat KIND
is very large in England. In Scouanu ~ =
enormous-iti is almost fncreo o'e. ~ - oy
m. ans of very small and mouerate lounos-
tons, il you merely take the money ngure,
that crowds and crowds OF the YOUTH OF
Scotland. of very humble origin. mo tnef
way to the universities OF that country,
most OF all. as regards the poorer men, 70
the University of Aberdeen. ana nave OPP
portunities given them that are invaiuAose'