4 p.m. Demonstration exam. Didn’t know the Acromion but got 13/20 marks.
Home to dinner.
7 p.m. Started on round of calls.
Home at 10 p.m. Not tired,—oh, dear no!”
“I don’t like you to be a perpetual battering ram,” writes Miss Du Pre, “for I suppose battering rams do wear out after a good many sieges; but still I thoroughly like and admire your ‘never say die’ feeling, and it is a fight with something worth fighting for to be got at the end, which is a great thing.
If only I could be with you!”
One must read the following letters, which were laid before the subsequent meetings of the Board, in order to realize how strong and sane the position of the women was:
“November 5, 1870.
My Lord and Gentlemen,—As lecturers in the Edinburgh Medical School we beg most respectfully to approach your honourable Board, on behalf of the eight female students of this school whom, we understand, you object to admit to the practice of the Royal Infirmary. On their behalf we beg to state:—
1. That they are regularly registered students of medicine in this school.