The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02

tention to their dress and personal
bearing than they used to do-that is
all.
Miss Laura Drake Gill A. M, is dean
of Barnard college, the girls depart
ment of Columbia university, New
York. Miss Gill was first graduated
from Smith college, Massachusetts, in
1891. then went to Europe and pursued
mathematical science in the universe
ties of Leipsic. Geneva and the Sor-
bonnie in Paris. During the Spanish
American war Dean Gill engaged zeal
ously in helping to place women nurses
where they would do good. She also
worked bravely for the orphans made
by that war. So much for another
American college woman.
Mary Ross Potter is dean of the wo-
mems department of the University OF
Chicago. Ella Flagg Young, Phi. D., of
the Chicago university, lately received
the unusual honor for woman" of be-
ing appointed superintendent of the
Chicago Normal college, which admits
both sexes among it's students. And
Jane hddams herself, who Justice
Brewer says would make model mayor
of Chicago, is a college woman, having
been graduated from Rockland, Ill, aft
erward studying in Philadelphia and
Europe.
At the beginning OF its present col
Iegiate year Johns Hopkins, one of the
most conservative institutions of learn
ing in this country, likewise among
those of the highest standing, for the
first time in its history opened with
an American college woman, DR.. Flor
ence r. Sabin, as a member OF its
faculty. Hundreds of other women
graduates are teaching in the many
schools and institutions of learning in
our country.
Josephine Dodge Daskam, now Mrs.
Bacon, the brilliant story writer. is
graduate of Smith college and earned
her living as she went along, an ex-
ample of clear grit to girl students.
Even with all the other things she had
to do at school Miss Daskam wrote
stories that convinced her fellow stu
dents and the Smith faculty that here.
was at least one college woman who
would make her mark in literature.
They were not mistaken. The author
who can write stories for girls which
are not lifeless and goody goody has
a rare gift
Ida Minerva TarbelI, historical and
biographical writer; she with the gift
Of fact hunting, who tests in all lights
the truth of every statement she pre-
pares to make, then lays it before the
world without fear or favor. Ida Tar
ben. too, is an American college wo-
man. born and reared in Pennsylvania,
graduated from Allegheny college, aft
erward student for several years at the
Sorbonne and College de France, Paris.
Miss Tarbell in Paris became familiar
with the French historical method, clear
and exact, especially as to statements
of fact. Out of her own head she had
already evolved the theory that on any
subject whatsoever Of a historical or
biographical nature. all the facts have
not been discovered and written down
however well the subject is known to
the public. On that theory she built
her Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
which made her fame among her coun-
trymen. She spent month after month
interviewing and collecting data from
persons still living who had known Lin
coin in his early days.
College girls not a few have turned
their faces away from Latin and Greek
and entered various industrial oceupa-