The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-03

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brightly for the future and disposes
most effectually of the accusation of a
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, ITO M@cenas,;' published in
the December Scribaer; she has become the
literary editor Of the Boston Advertiser.
There is the "Woman About Town.
whose column in the New York Evening
Sun has bsen a marked journalistic
success the past year; she 10 Miss Helen
Watterson and she tool honors in the, class
Of 1888 at Wooster University. There is
Miss Grace soper, Of the Boston Journal
Alice Stone Blackwell, of the Woman's
journal aud the Boston university ella 90 Of
'S1. and Mrs. Florence Finch-Kelly, of the
San Francisco Examiner and the University
of Kansas, class of 1872, II the Misses EllG
3. Leonard and Caroline Grey Lingle, bug
of Kate Fields Washington and Vassar
graduates of '85 and 49,, ana others If there
were space to name them.
They are, of course, teaching, and 80 ele-
waiting the standard of secondary schools
that it is becoming harder and harder every
gree from a college Of standing to obtain a
responsible position in a representative
high grade school. A niece of Maria Mitch
ell, who is a Boston university graduate of
80 is ut the head Of the Girls High school
in Washington; a daughter of Prof. Runkle,
ogy, who was an honor student at the An
nox in 1885,. teaches Greek in the
Brearley school in New York;
there is a Cornell girl, class of 81,
teaching in the famous Ogontz school,
near Philadelphia; there are Boston univel-
sity and Wellesley and Northwestern univer-
sity girls OF recent classes teaching in Lasell
seminary, Auburndale, Mass; Wheaton
seminary has a Wellesley girl; Packer Insti-
tute, Brooklyn, recruits its staff Of teachers
chiefly from Vassar, Smith and Wellesley;
the New York Norma college, the Connect
cut State Normal school at New Britain,
and the Normal Institute at Hampton, Va,
90 to the girls colleges for responsible
teachers; SO does the Girls Latin school, of
Boston, and 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 women's colleges and the co-educa-
tional colleges women hold an increasing
number of professorships yearly. Vassar
has six of her own graduates on her faculty
and two graduates of Michigan University.
Maria Mitchelfs ~favorite pupil succeeded
her in the astronomical observatory in the
RtA6Oh Va A4uAy ASAO AtOAe l1uCy
Salmon. who has the chair of history. took
her A. M. degree at Michigan in 'S3 and
held q fellowship afterwards at Bryn Mawr.
Smith college has four women she has
graduated on her list of instructors and one
Vassar graduate. Wellesley had IA p,esi-
dent from Michigan university in Miss
Alice freeman. now Mrs. Palmer, and has
Miss Vida Scudder, of the class of "a, as
lecturer on English literature. and Miss
Katharine Conan, Michigan $50. in the
chair of history. together with n Cornell
graduate of 'S8. and lectures from Miss
Marion Talbot, of Boston university, 80, on
health topics. Bryn Mawr has a woman
president in Miss M. Carey Thomas, of
Cornell, III, and several women professors.
Elmira college and Girard college and the
University OF WISCONSIN and the Woman 8
college, Baltimore. Md, and Howard uni
versity, Washington, and Mills college,
California. and the Massachusetts Insti-
tnfe OF Technology, and the University of
Virginia and Mt. Holyoke college are only
a few Of the institutions which have women
who themsclves are college graduates on their
faculties. A daughter of the late Bishop
Haven. of the Methodist church, teaches in
Clark university, Atlanta. As far south as
Tulane university. New Orleans, You find
Mrs. Ordway, from the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. The women's medi-
cal colleges have women presidents and
faculties largely composed of women. Miss
Jane Bancroft. who is known in the lecture
field, il a Syracuse university graduate and
professor of history in Wesleyan college,
Delaware, Ohio.
The new president of the Association
OF Collegiate Alumna, Mrs. Bessie Bradwell
Helmer, of Chicago. belonged to 3he class
of 80 at Northwestern university, was ad-
united to the bar two years later ard hna
edited the last twelve volumes of BradweIl's
Appellate Court Reports. Another girl
graduate VINO mas become n lawyer ia Mrs.
Anna Christy. Fall Boston university,
's4. She practices at the Hub. Tie
Rev. Mia +. upper, who has an
important place on the programme of
the Woman's National council at Washing
ton in February. is one of the youngest of
the crop of women preachers; Cornell. 'ss.
In very practical fields are Miss Olga
Neymann, a daughter of Mrs. Clara Ney-
Manu.. a graduate of Cornell, 's2. and a
fiourislnng dentist in Now YORK city; DIR.
Mary Taylor Basel, Vassar. ~. who ia
medi:al director of the finest gymnasium
FOR women in the world. the Berklev Ly-
senm. New York; MIS-. Frances Fisher
Wood, vassar. ~, who started the first
farm in tie country for the preparation of
sterilized milk for the market: and Miss
Jeaunette Quincy Fine. Smith. 'S2, who IL
at the head and front of the College settle
ment in Rivington street. New York.
There are girl graduates. ono Of them a
niece of Marin Mitchell, at work on the Cen.
fury Dictionary: there are two in RESPONSE
Bile places in the agricultural dopartmen nj
at Washington; there are several in the
Columbia college library and one in the
state library at Albany. Mrs. Florence
Kelley WNchnewetsky. Cornell, 49,. a dauRh-
ter OF the late Judge Kelley, of Pennsyl.
vania. Is making her mark as a writer on
political economy along the more radical
lines. Mrs. Lizzie Williams Chnmpney and
Miss Helen Dawes Brown are both we'll