New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-18
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE GOSSIP.
SUCCESS OF WOMEN IN FOREIGN SCHOOLS
EDUCATION OF COLORED CHILDREN
AII1 1,rY OLE WOMEN As TEACHERS.

St Petersburg has an institution for women ply
scians and pharmacst TO which the Car gave
in May 81 000 rubes. The success OF women IN
medicine and pharmacy is growing In many coun-
tries. the innate sympathy. delicacy and careful
ness Of the being recognized as valuable FACTORS
In the two professions. For the first time in Its
history the University OF Vienna, during April.
conferred the imperial degree Of doctor Of medicine
upon the Baroness Gabrie.e Passover Erenthal.
who took the two prescribed courses in medicine
and pharmacy during her university career. she
is said 10 be an unusually brilliant scholar
Three young women in Germany have been re-
Gently commended for their thorough work In
pharmacy. and Frau,ein Eva Bosse, daughter OF
the German minister of public worship. has been
pronounced by DR.. Fraulich, president Of the I'm.
of the most excellent and gifted scholars he has
ever met.
Among the buildings Of the large school for
negroes at Tuskegee, Ala Is the cottage for the
senior class girls. known the Parker Model
Home, from the name of the donor 1t Is hand
some two-story building, with wide halls running
it's full length. latticed upper and lower back
piazzas. and lower gallery across the entire front
and around one side. The first floor contains
paror library. teachers bedroom. dining-room.
kitchen and pantry. The second story Is devoted
to the girls bedrooms-whch large. light and
airy--the linen closet and the bathroom. In the
basement are laundry ana drying rooms SoIne
handsome pieces Of furniture in the first story were
presented by the New-York Exposition manage
ment, and were sent last fall from the New-York
State reception-room at the Atlanta Exposition.
The other furniture is plain and snlp.e. but SER
viceable and supplied by the school The
girls rooms are neatly furnished and the different
small articles of ornamentation were made or
bought by the girls themselves. Bookshelves and
dressng-cases have been improvsed out of boxes
and boards and prettily finished and covered
by bright. Powered chintzes. The girls are trained
TO take of their rooms. TO cook, wash. iron,
meals and keep the entire house in perfect
order They frequently entertain members of the
preparing the meals themselves, serving them and
afterward entertaining their guests
The teacher in charge Of this Senior Cottage Is
Miss Morse who educated at birmingham.
Mass She recently organized club among the
senior pupils for the purpose % aiding other needy
colored schools the institutions Mount Meigs
and Snow Hill having received gifts from the clUh
of boxes of clothing and Il few books. The girls
are under good discipline and the Senior Cottage
and its management, seem 10 fill a long-felt want.
"In the presen. agitation OF the question Of the
ability OF women principals as compared with
men for the same position would II not be well
to consider and remember" asks Mrs. /. d. G.
Hanks. the success of many private schools in
this city and other cities with at the head?
II a woman successfully conducts private school
fitting girls for admission to Barnard and other
colleges, and at the time managing the
finances Of the institution, keeping up its social
side and directing Its domestic affairs. she surely
shows the possession Of executive ability and
faculty for management in far greater degres
than is necessary for the head Of public school,
MANY of those principals by the way, were
pupils Of Miss Wadleigh. and though her mantle
probably has fallen upon none of them. they are
proud attribute their success TO her training.
ample and influence during their school life"