The Vision Realized
By Bertha June Richardson, A. B.
(Holder of the Mary Lowell Stone Fellowship 1903. From “The Woman Who Spends.”)
When the sweet faced New England woman, living her quiet life in the old town of Halfield, stretched out her strong, helpful hands to all the generations of girls to come, by making a woman’s college a possibility, she was called a dreamer, a visionary woman, who had better be looked after by some strong-minded man who could put her money to some practical use. That vision realized has given to hundreds of women ideals and standards which have made life full and rich.
Vocational Training for Girls
By Alice Henry
(Of Australian birth. For a number of years editor of “Life and Labor,” the official organ of the “Woman’s Trade Union League.” Well-known speaker on suffrage and labor problems. Author of “The Trade Union Woman,”[15] from which the following is taken.)
Harvard was opened in 1636. Two hundred years elapsed before there was any institution offering corresponding advantages to girls....
If these women have always lagged in the rear as increasing educational advantages of a literary or professional character have been provided or procured for boys, it is not strange, when, in reading over the records of work on the few lines of industrial, educational trade training and apprenticeship we detect the same influences at work, sigh before the same difficulties, and recognize the old, weary, threadbare arguments too, which one would surely think had been sufficiently disproved before to be at least in this connection....