Word: womens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...women engaged in a common work we owe another debt-a debt that is shared by all workers in libraries. To the administration of libraries he brought abilities of such an order as had rarely if ever before been so devoted, and he proved that such abilities are not wasted but on the contrary are demanded in the care of books. Whoever, therefore, shall devote himself to the care of books must find his work dignified, his place in the community elevated because of the life-work of Justin Winsor...
...costumes, also from designs by Pitts, are the typical Dutch dresses of the period, steeple-crowned hats, baggy coats and breeches for the men, and cap and full dress for the women. In the Harvard Square scene the chorus of students will be dressed in costumes of the present day, treated with a certain amount of poetic license...
...first sight it would seem that Moliere failed in his attacks upon the "precieuces," upon doctors and upon hypocracy. But as a matter of fact, Moliere succeeded only too well. His influence is the very thing that has retarded the education of women in France...
...Thomas Wentworth Higginson spoke before the Graduate Club at the Colonial Club House last evening. Col. Higginson's address was upon "Literary Society in London and Paris in 1878" and took the form of an extremely interesting series of anecdotes of men and women of letters. In his fascinating way Col. Higginson told of Froude, Carlyle, Darwin, Ellis, Browning, Tennyson, Victor Hugo and Du Maurier; briefly describing the characteristics of the men and giving some account of his meeting with them...
Still complaints come in that students are crowded out of Professor Moore's lectures by the inconsiderate army of Cambridge men and women. If these people, so ready to rage and roar at any disturbance of their piece by students, cannot be managed by the ordinary methods, officials of some sort should be provided to keep them out of the reserved sections...