Word: sac
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Nation, Vol. 44, pp. 310 and 362 (Apr. 14 and 28, 1887); Forum XVII, p. 406 (June 1894); Bib. Sac...
...Municipal suffrage for women would not purify municipal politics.- (a) Married women almost without exception, would vote as their husbands voted: Bib. Sac., Vol. 50, p. 331.- (b) Unmarried women would be likely to vote less wisely than men. For (1) Women are more bitterly partisan, and would be moved more by sympathies than by reason: Forum, XVII, 409.- (2) In Kansas, the elections result less wisely than before women had the suffrage: Nat. Vol. 44, p. 310.- (c) The better class of women would not go to the polls.- (d) The lower classes, under the influence of their husbands...
...Wichita, Kansas, out of thirty-five women qualified to vote, two hundred voted in 1887: Nation, Vol. 44, p. 362.- (b) In Massachusetts in 1886, only one woman in every two hundred and fifty four could be induced to go to the polls to exercise the school suffrage: Bib. Sac. Vol. 50, p. 331.- (c) When woman suffrage was brought before the people in 1894, only one-tenth of the women of Massachusetts expressed their wish to vote...
...intermediate step in the colleges. In this country there are two roads leading from high schools to professional schools, either through or around the college. Very few of the present high schools fit men for college; the high school curriculum is complete in itself, it is a cul de sac leading nowhere, and the high school graduate who wishes to change his mind and enter college must spend additional years in preparation...