New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-22

class, instead or emerging from a hospital after
performing several difficult surgical operations
Another remarkable feature of this remark
able scene was that among the attentive listen
ers to the doctors lecture students from
several foreign countries young Chinese
woman is in her third year at the college, and
when graduated i'll return to the Orient to
practise a more recently taught method of cur
ing human ills than that i'm vogue in the FIoverv
Land, where sharks fin tonic and dried frog
lozenges are considered potent medicants. An
other interesting student halls from CONSTANT
nople and intends to minister to the physical
needs of the women of the Sultan's domain
when she has won her degree; still others are
from Australia and New-Zealand, and one is an
Italian.
In order that the true significance of the pres
sent fiourishing condition Of the college may be
realized, it is only necessary to bark back to
the early days of the efforts of women to break
into the profession of medicine In a volume
written by the dean of the WOman's College of
Pennsylvania. DR.. Clara Marshall, the following
is extracted from one of the leading newspapers
of Philadelphia, the report having reference to
clinic at the Pennsylvania Hospital on Noyem-
Der 6, 1869:
The students of the male colleges knowing
that the ladies would be present, turned out sew
eral hundred strong, with the design of express
ing their disapproval of the action of the mana
SeIS OF the hospital particularly and of the
ADMISSION of women to the medical profession
generally.
Hanging themselves IN line these gallant gen
ueIheh assalled the young ladies as they passed
Uu' with lnsOIent and offensive language and
tneh followed them into the street, where the
Wnoie gang. with the huency of long practice,
Johieu IN insulting them. 1t was an action
Whlch deprived every man in the crowd of all
GlaIn 10 the title of gentleman. If these women
hdu given gross offence if they had INDUCED in
any uhWomanly behaviour, if they had intruded
themselves in the hospital in violation of the
IuIeS even then there would have been no ex-
CuSe LOT such Infamous conduct as this on the
part Oh the students. But these ladies' had
absolute rlsht there; they were admitted by
PIeSlSeIy the same authority that admits men
anu more than this, it was right tbat tbaI
should accept the privilege offered them if they
wished to do SO. "o'i' Il ''eS
Subsequently there appeared as = communal
cation TO the same PAPER the following:
When the ladies' entered the arnnbitba,. a.,
were greeted by ycs. Kisses caterUa,Il,S
mock applause offensive remarks upon rersoyoi
appearance, etc. During the last boTr
missiles OF paper. tinfoil. tobacco ouids ere
were thrown upon the ladies' while so,,o -
these men Cd deiiled the desks of the ia1io
near them with tobacco Juice i"uieS
1t Is but Just to the ladies to say that thew
maintained their position as scientific st',ddtty
by quiet and modest demeanor
1t seems a swift and dizzy flight from th,.
scene OF disorder at the clinic OF 1860 10 tba,
described in the opening paragraph in the vaor
Of grace 1903, but in reality the progress IA.