[14]. Read before the Historical Society of South Carolina, August 6, 1883, and reprinted by the Bureau of Education, Circular of Information No. 3, 1888.
[15]. Mention is made of a charitable school for girls, which they were not allowed to attend after the age of twelve, and of a school, apparently for boys, kept open by Mrs. Gaston, the wife of Justice John Gaston, at Fishing Creek.
[16]. See chapter “Education in the East.”—Ed.
[17]. See chapter “Education in the East.”—Ed.
[18]. Quoted in the Am. Jour. of Education, September, 1868, p. 622.
[19]. Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. Willard, and Maria Mitchell were the first three women members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
[20]. The first college to grant real degrees to women was Oberlin. See chapter “Education in the West.”—Ed.
[21]. Bureau of Education, 1888.
[22]. Historical Sketch in the catalogue for 1888–9.
[23]. The Bureau of Education has been extremely kind in placing its collections at my disposal, and in making extracts for me from its manuscript statistics for 1889–90, which will not be published for two years to come.