The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-16
TIE SOUTHERN STUDENT.
The Southern Woman Still Her At
tractiye Self. Though Hard at
Scientific Work and in Pub
lie Business.

IN the Omdn'S ColleTe, at mo- III
College avenue, the Southern stu
dent is already figure of much in
terest, with her neat little jacket,
her gray serge gown, Tam OShan-
Ter cap VI dark cloth, and daintily
gioved and shod; with her soft voice
and the winning manner so native
10 her. She represents the New
South, and, what is more, the warm
cooperation and interest of leading
Enaen in the Old South. These are
proud that their daughters can at
beast have such dignified outlook
for seIfsupport. The physicians
has ever been greatly respected
calling in the South, but the term
aSouthern student" among our
Philadelphia medical schools, now
unjust include these spirited little
representatives of the best woman
shOOd in their section. They are
watched from their distant homes
AS each one makes her mark. Eff
efarts throughout the Southern
States to make obligatory by stat.
cute what even progressive Pennsyl-
zVsnia law as yet only makes per-
sgnissive, that the position of physi
~cian-in. charge shall be held by
vwomep, only, in hospitals where in
ssone women are sent for treatment
aare of course stimulated blythe fact
Southern girls are ready to take
such positions, so the profession has
swider prospects for every year. In
1883 one Southern student was grad
cuated from the Pennsylvania Wom-
'=an's Medical College. This year
there are twenty-five in the college.
The following history of graduates
and matriculates has been careful
Ely prepared, and the fact that the
1855" graduate, young DIR. Calls
Lee Haynes, of South Carolina, has
aEilled the position of Resident Ply
7siciah in the Insane Asylum at
,Staunton, Va, for two years, speaks
volumes for that enlightened insti-
.stitution, and is reminder to all
aothers,of what should be. Nor does
sthe Southern girl lose one particle
~ot her charm for having scientific
Glznowledge added to it. They can
tell you in New Orleans, as every
gwhere between here and there, that
Southern men do not seem to be
=actuated by the harsh jealOuies and
Gannatural rivalries that so many
dNorthern women encountered in
seeking business or educational OPP
yfsortunities, until the success of the
asnedical woman actually smoothed
tf-ne way for all the rest. We will
ss;5orever maintain that there is not a
&sryn Mawr College or other strong
aanstitution of learning. not wom-
a ans art class, or woman student
lSn the University law school, to
say nothing of The biological, chem
zeal and other special students, or a
sas-ol!ege w0man's annex, but owes
S gEb existence, its liberation or its
l1riumphs to the position gained by
zhae women who would study modi-
cine here in 1850, and others else
aSTaere about that time. For forty
EzIO years, favored young women
"a to-day, those brave medical wom-
ss.sp, some of them powers, have bro
assn down and made straight and
2gasie fashionable these new roads
ny which you advance to distinc-
$ sssan and to the qualification of ear
a.sest study. There is not a diploma
s..ssrrsnted at Barnard College, or a
7sasrtificate of proficiency at Har-
1a7ssgtl, but is owed, in the first place,
e ~ the courage for forty years of the
,,7semen students and graduates in
) ,''Stiis single profession, to Emily and
Slaizabeth Blackwell of England
mad New York, and to Ann Pres.
7Esxn, Emeline Cleveland and Har-
r2eat Sartain, of Philadelphia. The
sSxRarch is quicker now, and the
=s5.x,uth--still preserving its ehivalry
0Eaere its women are concerned--is
snNoud of its daughters, who accept
s,sshe new ideas that labor is honOra-
sac business, and self-support, and
sxaentific lsbors eminently so. No
=.autEern man whose opinion is
.xnrth boot-lace would disgrace
szDnself by making professionalism
SKY harder for these sisters and
daughters than by its nature it
must be. On the contrary, the
-snath seems TO agree that Yhatev-
s II its daughters determine to do
'S.saoughtfully and well isswell done.
The question of medical attend
sxnace on the inmates of public insti-
szusions is at the present day deserv-
sxSs,y receiving more attention from