New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-30

The presentation Of the certificates was made by
Chancellor MacCracken. The names or the grad
yates follows:
Miss Francis Ada BENJAMIN Mrs. Addie Lowell Mckinley
Miss Grace s,ainourn Brown Miss Mary Elizabeth Nc
M Ms. i9 Fora nrSson Mrs Fannie wore Mar
Mrs s Minerva ia North Dana Mis-, Florence Augusta
Miss Lucy Joslyn Cutler Myers ,
Miss Ella Jeanette Duggan Miss Christine Reid.
Ms Louise .srn p'lSear M. S Gertrude Grace h''n'
Mrs. EusenIa Northrup Mrs Eza Vai Rushmore,
Mrs. Lu-la CHASER Gear Miss ID, Shaw;
Miss BOYD Hethering Mss kathryn Lillian SNYDER.
Mrs Anna Reiecca Hahn. Miss Valerie Josephine
Mis- iie~n carrie Hornha Miss Josephine Peach
Miss Marian Thompson Hos Thomas ,. ,,
Miss Minnie Isaacs Mrs susie Hyand Roberts
Miss Miss M Snds" sasos Nsnyan Mss Emma Katharine yoz
ser. Mrs. Ellen Hardin Wal
Sis Ns Newly NJ Nay Wsry ,Sgi,' WHIT Whitney,
Professor Erwin. chairman Of the Committee on
Award q the University announced that the priz.
Mrs Fannie W Marshall. while Mss r. j. pug,
gan. Miss b. Pappcnheimer md Miss Mary Lowe
Mrs. M@TssaT and Mrs; +. H walxorth read ss,
and do Legislatures Make Laws?" respectively.
MR. DEPEws SPEECH
Chauncey NJ Depew. who. IN the course OF his re-
marks. excited frequent outburs;s of applause. He
said:
Ladies Of the Graduating Glass and Alumnae Of
the Law School-If our grandmothers and our grand
IA theirs OF the same mind as when they went 10
a better world. this gathering vii not only astonsh
but shock them. In all ages of the world and down
TO within the memory OF people still living. every
effort for the higher education Of woman or the en-
nS @ earning Hfr vn has ben op
posed and derded The familiar idea through all
time upon Which the poet has written and the
socologis, theorized has been that the sphere or
woman was within the h9nse ana me dSn wsn
beyond this limit she thought 20 endanger the
the present Emperor Of Germany is reported to have
said that woman's sphere can be covered by the
Church. the kitchen and the children. The flaming
sword. turning every way across the path OF prog
yourselves" NEWMAN and Clifton colleges In
England and those superb universities Of WELLESLEY.
Vassar. Smith Bryn Mawr and Holyoke, in this
country. have ali OF them been denounced in their
beginnings and hampered in their growth by this
the ages that the woman who advances unsexes
herself. In the brill liant period Of the arts.
most eminent orator and distinguished statesman
solemly proclaimed that the true sphere OF woman
to keep out OF sight.
THE MULTIPLIED vOCATIoNs OF WOMEN
Well. have go, far beyond that. Fortunately
for country and our times. women are In evil
dence in every department OF our American lie.
They are In literature. In journalism In the pro-
fessons in the trades in art and especially in edu
cation Their influence is benefcently felt by their
being in evidence in the church, in the state and in
As students of elemental law. you know that dur
Ing the Roman period women were treated under
that system OF Jurisprudence from which have
derived 40 much not "a human beings but as things
wives. our sisters and our sweethearts and their
mission here and hereafter. the philosophical Chi
nesc idea is much honest. That is that If she
performs her part worthly in this world she may be
permitted after death 10 come back and 20 through
In the complex Conditions OF our civilization there
many women dependent upon their re-
sources TO make living. or their own brains and
Judgment to protect and care for property. there
are men. That women fan to receive the same re-
Enumeration as their brothers that their services
rewarded with starvation and that the courts
are crowded with cases OF women OF property being
tirua working OF that scnseless and vicious max
i'm written large the doors of employment
and educa ton. You cannot pass these portals with
out becoming unsexel."
THE DANGER OF CHEAP LABOR
There Is much. and just. criticism of hardhearted
employers who live and thrive by sapping the life
blood OF their employees but. in many the
employers cannot help themselves. Ninety per
OF the value OF every article OF is
labor. Cheap labor-too cheap 10 give the opportu-
nifty FOR right living and right think.ns-is one OF
the dangers OF the future II threatens us from ia
pan. from China and from India because OF the
quick Accommodation by steam, and electricity
The manufacturer who can sell his shirts at twelve
dollars a dozen may be met by competitor who
can sell shirts of the same material and OF as good
make for ten dollars. lie does 1t because he gets
cheaper labor.
II brother and sister equally equipped 90 out
into the world for employment there are ten places
open for the brother where there Is for the
sister The resul, is that while the brother can
find employment at remunerative wages. the sister
is overwhelmed by the surplus OF energy applying
ir 0s nEi hands IS to-
for work which requires only hundred. they un-
derbld one another to the point of starvation But
work which requires one hundred. then the work
nan has his independence and opportunity; then
the employer be just and the empioye can
command respect. Women have always labored
ana are stu under rns ans
vocation been thrown open to her. that saddest
Within two years after the opening OF the Drexel
besn IN the In of
stresses acquired skill and KNOWLEDGE In branches
three TO ten and twenty and thirty dollars week.
EQUALITY OF THE SEXES IN WORK.
I believe that there is no work which man does
that should be equally accessible to woman. and
that there is place In the world OF physical or
intellectual effort which she should not be invited
to occupy. Let her position iaborer In any
department be recognized the same as her broth
which now agitate the church and society will be
solved.
1t is mistake to suppose that the prejudice
against higher education has died out that the
feeling against woman entering the professions
Ing the marvellous success OF these grand insttu-
lions OF learning, there Is stu everywhere to be
lieve that this equal opportunity for the develop
ment Of the mnd to the girl unn:s her for the
lighted when delivering an address Mt Smith Col
the the eds
by seriously debating the question "ne.ner "A liberal
yo Wits w eac man or domestic yonr.eves
women, who are largely to blame for these cond;