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...Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg, other Cabinet and Embassy ladies did the honors. Distinguished women, with and without LL.D.'s, were to be seen at every function. Two white-haired matrons were conspicuous by reason of their official positions and the eminence of their services to womankind...
...Williams College began when President Harry A. Garfield opened a service in Thompson Memorial Chapel, reminded his hearers that each of them was a responsible part of the collegiate whole. At South Hadley, Mass., President Mary E. Woolley launched Mount Holyoke College upon its 87th year by ruminating upon womankind's increasing importance in the world. At Wellesley, Mass., some 400 girls became Wellesley College freshmen, were made welcome by the Christian Association at a tea; by President Ellen F. Pendleton; by guides who spirited them off in groups of twelve to tour the Library. At Poughkeepsie...
...Finch was once selected as an exalted antithesis. Said the Yale Record, in verses illustrative of womankind's universal sorority: "The girl from Finch and the Chapel Street ginch Are sisters under the skin...
What gave the leaders of this cause the courage to keep on the struggle was not so much their own sense of personal injustice, but that of the great mass of womankind. Women have to pay every kind of tax that is laid, yet they have no hand in electing the officials who make them pay. Even in making laws in regard to infantile paralysis, child labor, free competition of women in business, and social questions of this kind, their opinion is not asked...
...privileges. Commenting on this, the Springfield Republican says: "Such a course is weak and censurable. The offending professor might have been discharged if he was guilty of indecency, or the young women might have been allowed to depart if they were prurient; but to issue a wholesale order against womankind is a mean retreat before a parcel of boys...