Telegram-herald., 1891-01-11
THE DOINGs OF WOMEN.
What Becomes OF Some az Tie
College 0ix,A

= Number - Yhen 0atstng Messy 90
EsDe Thre~gh Thesr Jssrasiissis
Achievements College Presss-
ssrships Held ~ wsasn.
coPynIonT loo0-
"How Il n, asked = crusty old gSntIs-
man the other evening. there are 20 few
really clever womsnf With ali the Fub-
bisb that's talked about the vast Advas-
tages Of latter-day education, our girls
aren't in the race with their fnsolently
despised grandmother Their univer-
sity careers hatten al the sweet IN
evennesses Of originality. In spite Of
their restless and obtrusive craving after
notoriety, where II there . graduate
whom hattery itself could describe -
young who has approached to eminence
In any cult or professionf Where il
there one who In requirements. genius,
poetic gift, or literary power gives any
promise of impressing herself on her day
and generation a. did Mrs. Somerville,
or Miss Herschel, or Miss Martineau, or
George Eliot, or Nrs Barrett Browning.
The fact Is" continued the critic In
angry condemnation, "all pretensc to the
contrary notwithstanding, there's no
more conspicuous feature of modern
life than the learned mediocrity Of
women"
Begging the pardon Of the silvery-
haired praiser of days that are gone, It
requires no lattery 1T I'll to describe ~
young the considerable majority OF our
college girls who are not yet out of their
twenties and who are doing honest and
intelligent, II not Sensational, work in
just the modest sort Of way that COM
ports best with their youth and their
freshness, promises most brightly for the
future and disposes most effectually Of
the accusation of search after notoriety
They are on the newspapers There's
Miss Helen Leah Reed, who won the
Sargent prize last June at the Harvard
Annex by her translation of Horace's ode
"To Macenas," published in the Decem-
Der ''Scribner;" she has become the
literary editor of the Boston "Adyer-
tiser" There is the 'sWoman About
Town." whose column of tho New York
Evening Sun" has been q marked
journalistic success the past year; she is
Miss Helen Watterson, and she took
honors in the class of 1888 at Wooster
University. There is Miss Grace Soper,
Of the Boston Journal" and the class Of
'82 at Cornell, and Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell, of the "Woman's Journal
and the Boston University class of 81.
and Mrs. Florence Finch Kelly, Of the
San Francisco Examiner" and the Uni
versity of Kansas, class of 'S2, and the
Misses Ella S. Leonard and Caroline
Grey Lingle, business manager and sub
editor, respectively, of "Kate Fields
Washington" aad vassar graduates
of 'S5 and 'S6, and others, IL
there were space to name them.
They are, Of course, teaching. and SO
elevating the standard of secondary
schools that it is becoming harder and
without degree from a college of stand
ing to obtain responsible position in q
representative high grade school. A
niece of Maria Mitchell, who is Boston
University graduate of 80, is at the
head of the Girls High School in Wash
ington; daughter of Prof Runkle, of
the Massachusetts, Institute of Technol-
ogy, who was an honor student at the
Annex in sc, teaches Greek in the Brear-
ley School in New York; there is a
Cornell girl, class of 81, teaching in
tho famous Ogontz school, near Phila-
delphia: there are Eoston University,
and Wellesley and Northwestern Univer-
sity girls of recent classes teaching In
Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Mass
Wheaton Seminary has a Wellesley girl;
Packer Institute, Brooklyn, recruits its
staff of teachers chiefly from vasssr,
Smith and Wellesley; the New York
Normal College, the Connecticut State
Normal School at New Britain and the
Normal Institute at Hampton. Va. 20
to the girls colleges for responsible
teachers: SO does the Girls Latin School
of Boston, aud Bryn Mawr Preparatory
School and Pratt Institute. Brooklyn,
and so do the High Schools of Detroit.
Springfield, Mass. Newark, n j.. and.
in fact. most of the best ones of the
country.
In the wcmen's colleges and the CO.
educational colleges women hold an in
creasing number Of professorships yearly.
vassar has six of her own graduates on
the faculty and two graduates Of Michigan
University. Maria Mitchell's favorise
pupil succeeded her in the Astronomical
observatory in the person Of Professor
Mary Whitney. Professor Lucy salmon.
who has the Chair Of History, took her
A. NJ degree at Michigan in 50 and
held q fellowship sftcrward 1t Brnp
Nawr.
Smith College has four women she has
graduated On her list Of instructors and
one vassar graduate. Wellesley hsd Z
President from Michigan University in
Miss Alice Freeman. now Mrs. Palmer,
and has Miss Vida Sender. Of the class
of 81. ss lecturer on EngIish literature.
and Miss Katherine Cersas, Niehigsn 80,