Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-03-30
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

A Degree From Johns IIopkl ls-iiarNard
Annex-A Great Roman school.
At the June commencement Johns
Hopkins university will bestow upon
woman the highest honor in the gift of
the university degree OF doctor Of
philosophy. Florence Bascom. the for
tunate young woman whose ability has
won the promise of the coveted degree
without dissenting vote from the
board Of the university, is already the
holder of four degrees from the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, and her principal
subject of study now, the one for
which her thesis will be presented, is
organic geology. The application OF
Miss Bascom has brought out the fact
that some time in 1877 the trustees OF
the university passed u minute that any
woman who follows the course of lee
lures at Johns Hopkins is eligible to
degree, but this minute has been prac-
tically a dead letter by reason of the
fact that women were not permitted TO
attend lectures And though Miss Bas-
CONS success promises well for the ulti-
mate recognition of woman's equality
in this conservative institution of learn
ing, at present the faculty have not abb
rogated any of their rules concerning
the admission of women, except in the
medical department They will act on
each individual case, and will not grant
to women in general the right to take
graduate lectures in non-professional
departments.
The directors Of the Harvard annex,
to dispel many erroneous ideas concern
ing the fund which the Woman 3 Edu-
cation association Is raising for the en-
downment of the annex, in the hope
that II may become apart Of the univer-
sity, state that the necessity of raising
such a fund arises from the fact
that the funds of Harvard college were
given for the education of young men,
and the managers have no right to d.
vert them to other purposes In view
of the larger number of students like
ly TO follow such a change of standing
in the annex, addition in expense would
naturally follow. The present income
of the annex is not large enough to pay
for the post graduate courses, which
are very expensive, and which offer
most desirable opportunity for advanced
study.
As the annex now stands IL is depen-
dent upon the leisure OF the college pro-
fessors, for instruction outside the
regular hours for work in the univer-
sity. Should extra college work arise
at any time the annex instruction
might have to be suspended There
are also literary privileges and
educational facilities in the college
which the annex students do not
enjoy In the fullest degree, and,
as is well-known, the college degree Is
of greater value than the annex certi-
ficates Women have been generous
in their gifts TO mems colleges; here Is
an opportunity for extending the same
privileges to their own sex.
The Scuola Professionals, the great
school for girls in Rome, which is rec
! ognized by the queen and the munich
pality as one of the most useful institu-
tions in the eternal city, was founded
by a woman, Signora Ribighini The
curriculum includes sewing by hand
and by machine, dressmaking, the
mending of all fabrics, embroidery in
gold and silver and silk, stocking weav-
ing, artificial flower making, washing,
ironing and cooking. Indeed, mending
is elevated among the intellectual arts,
by the regulation that girls who take
the course in mending must take also O
course in geometry, that they may UNI
derstand the designs of fabrics Geom-
etry is also considered an essential in
embroidery But besides these feminine
artS, there are courses in moral and
civil law, In domestic and commercial
mathematics and business forms, in
Guiding instruction in modern Ian
guages. In the dressmaking classes
gowns and costumes are made for the
queen and the ladies of the court The
course in artificial flower making be
gins with drawing and copying from
nature, and in the preparation fol
tho mending of laoes, the making
of Point venIee, and Gothic point
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