Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-09-20
moMAN,S EDUCATION.
.,ar Deoade the Female May Out ih n an,aner the Male College Graduates

Tn Another Decaoe '" ,,,...os
 number the Male College oraa""'es'
 T,,o renort of Mir. Secretary Dewey to ..a hoard of regents of the university aotoina snu o great deal of information re- 0on onsino the progress of the secondary si hioher education in the Empire State ss Of special interest is the ngn' tbrown on the position occupied oy EeW 1as,, ,laJ" among American commonwealths -,;.b G-, rasnect to the facilities afforded sa,' @.'t tbe aeademieal, collegiate and pro sossional so. instruction of women.
 It appears from tho statistics collect. odIv Mir. Dewey that there were last a.r ea r' in the secondary schools of this ytato y9t. 93 556 girls of academic grade s,"i0 o,d only IS. 943 boys. Of 438 honor aradontiels a.,g issued, 298, or more than taro.thirds. were gained by girls In our oollages the number of women gradu- oteT otao Tose to 3, 923, one being reported Snon, ssOo Columbia. 83 from the city uni varsity. 76i from the coeduoatlon col leoes and 3, 078 from the eight women 5 aa1leoes. Tn the professional and toch- nicaI schools there were 1, O43 women, inclnding eight in law schools and 3Io i., nodical schools. The Universalist souinary at Canton reports threo fe- ,mole students in theology. By the 50 aaIIsd snecial schools 3, 808 women were ratnrued Of these, 3, 726 are credited to Pratt institute, 25G to the Teachers eollooe 183 to tho State Normal college, aoa to the Woman's s Art school. 198 to tho Grand Conservatory of Music and 1at to the Cooper Union night schools
 So far as the United States are con oeyned. New York has always held the Grst plaee in woman's education. ln- deed the Albany Female academy claims to he the first institution for tho higher oducation of women ever founded In tbo world This is no doubt true as re- pards establishments exclusively design ed for the female sex, but it must be remembered that i'll tho middle ages women were permitted not only to study bnt to teach in Italian universities. An early and well known rival of the Albany institution was Miss Emma Will lard's school at Troy.
 It is the boast of Elmira college that its charter of April I3, 1855. made it the first degree conferring college solely for women, while Vassar, which started with a generous endowment on Jan. IS, 1s61 immediately acquired recog- nized leadership as tho first of the great establishments for the higher instrac- ton of women Thus it appears that all fanr claimants to the honor of first hay- ing done effective work on large scale for woman s education are New York in- stitutions. Another fact is worth record ing: Although New York reports six colleges for women and four for coedu- cation, only Vassar, Cornell and Syra- cuse are included in the national asso- ciation yet these three alone furnish about 40 per cent of the list of women holding degrees from recognized col leges.
 Teaching is still the fayorite profes- sion of highly educated women. Ao- cording to the census of 1890, there were in the whole Union 195, 525 men and 288, 907 women teachers. Of the teach CTS in the New York common schools 26, S69 are women. But woman's s teach ing is no longer limited to primary grades. She has steadily won her way through grammar schools. high schools and colleges to chairs in universities. It should not be inferred, however, that a majority of the graduates of female col leges are animated with the purpose of pursuing any professional calling. The remarkable development attained of lato years by New York institutions for the higher education of women is due to q widespread recognition of the fact that Q college course wisely planned and in- dustrlously followed affords the best preparation for the intelligent discharge "a of the functions of wifehood and moth @ frhood and the duties of home life.
 The movement to which we have here referred is increasing at a surprising rate. The number of girls in this state who entered college last year from schools supervised by the board of re- gents was 84 per cent greater than 1t was the year before, and the number of thosenow preparing to enter will show, as we are informed, Q similar augmen- .alon Tho best colleges for women are iaf rom being able to receive all the qualified applicants New colleges are continually being founded, and, what VIII prove of even more utility tho old q colleges and universities are rapidly opening to women their facilities for in suuction. In American colleges gener-
 aiiy the proportion of female students z considerably larger than it was even 1 ie" years ago. For instance, the at s1auunee ot women at the University of s.ionlgan rose last year from 33 per sei' to S7 per cent. The author of this epoft expresses the belief that carly in
 n3 next century our colleges will gra6
 s"'o more women than men, just as tho aCademies do now.-New York Snn