Woman's work in America

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[82]. Report, loc. cit.

[83]. “To the fixedness and honesty of purpose of Dr. Mary H. Thompson, may be credited these satisfactory results of nineteen years’ work. They mean a devotion and self-sacrifice on her part that few can estimate.”—Report of results from 1884 to 1888.

[84]. Medical News, 1885. Reprint of address at Birmingham by Lawson Tait.

[85]. The establishment of such schools, professing to further the education of women, has continued to be the greatest bane to the movement for their effective education. So late as the current year (1890), a lady writes from Cincinnati: “The college already in existence is one of the unpardonable sins against a confiding public.”

[86]. Memorial of Trustees of Women’s Medical College of N. Y. Infirmary, 1887.

[87]. The same thing had happened at Harvard, when it raised its standard of requirements.

[88]. Memorial Trustees, loc. cit.

[89]. Ibid.

[90]. See history of the founding of the University of Michigan, chapter Education in the Western States.—Ed.

[91]. Letter from Chicago in Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, July, 1878.