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January 25, 1911. THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY. 3 THE WEEKLY DIRECTORY. Burlington (N. C.) Business Houses. Buy Dry Goods from B. A. Sellars & Sons. Sea Burlington Hardware Co. for Plumb ing. Get your Photographs at Anglin’s Studio. B. A. Sellars & Sons for Clothing and Gents’ Turnishings. See Dr. Morrow when in need of Dental Work. Real Estate, Insurance and Loans, Ala mance Insurance & Real Estate Co. Barber Shop, Brannoek & Matkins. Dr. J. H. Brooks, Dental Surgeon. See Freeman Drug Co. for Drugs. Elon College, N C. Eor an Education ao to Elon College. (Khson^Ue, N. C. Dr. G. E. Jordan, M. D. High Point, N. C. People’s House Furnishing Co Greensboro, N. C. Pierce Stamp Works for stamps. Hotel Huffine. Burtneo" Furniture Co., for furniture. women in 1876. Since that time Italian women have enjoyed a certain amount of higher scholastic training. In 1867, women petitioned for entrance to the univeisities of Russia. The petition was refused, but the professors, in ac cordance with their right to give free pub lic lectures; arranged lecture courses for women. This enabled the women of Rus sia to pursue university courses for ten years before they were finally admitted to the universities. At last in 1878, the University of Saint Petersburg com menced admitting women to its courses and degrees. Soon Moscow and others followed in line. Russian women are said to attend tlie universities in large num bers. It is a singular fact that women have never been debarred from the universi ties of Holland, however, they had not taken advantage of the opportunity ac corded them until in 1880 when women first entered the University of Amster dam. Belgium admitted women to her ^iniversities in the same year, and, since 1883, all Belgian Universities admit wo men to their degrees. In Norway Miss Cecele Thoresen asked to be admitted to the university of Chris tiana in 1880. According to the char ter of the institution, she was refused admittance; but no sooner was this known to the world than a bill was reported and passed through tlie Norwegian Parliament admitting women to the degi-ees in arts and philosophy. This became law in July, 1882. Miss Thoresen then entered, and the students, who had always favor ed the movement, sent an address of con gratulation and welcome. ^ Spain and portugal seem to have had no laws debarring women from their high er institutions of learning, althougli but few women in these countries have seiz ed the opportunity for higher education. Aurtria and Hungary seem, as yet, not to have joined in with the movement for the emancipation of woman. Perhaps the land of Maria Theresa will yet rise to that point where she can give woman the rights which naturally belong to her. We have but little evidence that our forefathers of early colonial days cared much for the education of their daugh ters. However, in the course of time, girls were admitted to. the public and pri vate schools of the different colonies. At first they were taught in separate schools from those in which the boys were taught and that idea still prevails in some quar ters of our country east of the Appala chian Mountains. But in the course of time the girls were admitted to the boys’ public and high schools more for econo mic than for prudential reasons. The same ideas of woman’s intellec tual inferiority that were originally held by the English people prevailed with our forefathers. But in the public and pri vate schools of early colonial days, the girls seized eagerly the opportunities of instruction and dissipated that fogy no tion of the fathers. The giils proved their superior strength of intellect and demonstrated the fact that they were equal to their brothers in power of mental grasp, and in their intellectual strength. When it had been proved beyond a doubt by the academies and seminaries for women which had sprung up in tlie earlier years of the Nineteenth Century, that sex differences were not of so great importance in education as had been sup posed, it was not long until institutions of still higher rank sprang up over the country. The academies added one or two years to their courses of study and took the more pretentious name of col lege or seminary; and new institutions made their appearance in considerable numbers. The colleges for men also, since tlie lower schools had demonstrat ed the entire feasibility of co-education, began to open their doors to women, and, as a result of these movements, we have to day three classes of institutions of higher learning admitting women to their courses of study and to their degrees: Colleges for Women only; Colleges for Women Atliliated with Universities for Men; and co-educational institutions where both sexes have Ihe same rijhts and privileges. Of these institutions, tl ■ women’s col leges on entirely separate and distinct foundations were first in the field. The first of these, seven in number, came in to existence in the decade between 1830 and 1840. A number of the earlier in stitutions never succeeded in making themselves permanent. Of the twenty two colleges for women founded before 1850, only two are today doing college work that ranks with the work done in colleges for men. These are Rockford College in Ilhnois and Mount Holyoke College at South Hadley, Massachusetts. The former was founded in 1849 and the latter in 1837. Mount Holyoke was founded by the efforts and through the self sacrifice of Mary Lyon who became a teacher when qirite young and early conceived the idea of establishing an in stitution wheie girls might have the best possible opportunities for gaining instruc tion and knowledge. Since 1893 this in stitution has been doing work of the highest class. It has a large faculty and is fully equipped for all college work. Mount Holyoke differs from other insti tutions of similar rank in that the stu dents are required to assist in the domes tic work connected with the dormitory life. Thus Mary Lyon made it possible for poor girls to receive the benefits of the very best instruction. About this time Wesleyan Female College was founded at Macon, Georgia, and au thorized to grant degrees. Soon after, in 1855, Elmira College at Elmira, New York, was opened. It as been claimed for this institution that it is the only college for women that made its courses from the start equal to the courses of study given in the colleges for men. Through the generosity of Matthew Vas- sar, Vassar College was founded in 1865. At the opening, this college had but two buildings, the main hall and the observa tory. The observatory has been made fa mous by its renowned director, the as tronomer Miss Maria Mitchell. From the first, Vassar has been crowded with stu dents, and she has taken the highest stand among the educational institutions of the country. New buildings have arisen arid the institution is highly endowed. About the same time that Vassar was founded, and less than 100 miles away, was found ed Wells College at Aurora, New York. For many years the number of students was limited to 75, but during recent years the number has been greatly increased.- (Concluded next week.) JERRY VARDELL. By Exodus Keene. In Ten ('hapters. Chapter VI. Coach Rowe laughed heartily at Dick Ross for refusing to play in the game with Jerry, and said: “He’s t«Jo much for you is he, Dick?” Of C(mrse Mr. Rowe thought that Dick would get ovr his mood m an hour or so, and that Jeri’y and the Big Half Back would become good natured rivals. “No, he isn’t any match for me,” said Dick, “but such an awkward rube as that, hasn’t any business in a foot-ball game,. I’ll bet he doesn’t even know now what position he played in the game this afternoon. Suppose we should put a guy like that in the ’Varsity game. There’d be a second ‘Comedy of Erors’ and we’d be the laughing stock of the town. He won’t have any such chance while I’m in the game.’’ “Dick, there’s no use clouding up so aWjiit Jerry. I think your pusition is safe yet unless he happens to run into you again. Ha! ha!” said the Coach. “And besides, he’ll have no op portunity to get in training for the ’Var sity game.” “Mr. Rowe, I’m not worry ing about my position,” Dick put in. “\\Hiat I was thinking about is, that that lubber is likely to cripple some of us be fore the game comes off.” This statement of Ross’s was ridiculously funny, especial ly to me, because I knew of another exper ience of Dick which Mr. Rowe had missed. Summarily the conversation changed to something pleasanter, and we quickly made our way to our rooms and prepared for supper. No further opposition to Jerry was shown irntil the next afternoon. When the Coach called up the same squads which had played the practice game of yesterday, Dick Ross caught up his sweater and started to leave the field. “What’s this about, Ross?” said Mr. Rowe. “You re member what I said to you yesterday af ternoon, don’t you?” responded Dick: “I won’t play another game if that ‘country rube’ has to walk all over a fellow.” At this Jerry with a big genial smile, which caused a person to forget the mul titude of freckles which it had to over come, came up to Mr. Rowe and said, “I don’t want to spoil the game, so I’ll just get out and wait. ’ ’ The Coach was loath to gi\«e Jerry up, but knew that he could not replace Ross easily, so “gave in,” and put another scrub in Jerry’s stead. “Shorty’’ James, called to Dick as .Ter ry was disappearing through the gate of the old athletic grounds, “Old pal, you’d better watch that guy, he’ll get your girl while you’re playin’ foot-ball.” I heard Edna say only yesterday, “Mr. Vardell will make a great Full Back some day.” Dick laughed. “He needs to fill it up some.” Then the teams were off iirto the game. Edna Harper was the daughter of Pres ident Harper, but no one seemed to think of that, for she was one of the jolliest girls in the entire school, and everybody thought of her as that. She was one of these smiling enthusiastic souls, who seems to know and like everybody, and whom everyone else seems to know and admire. In brief she was geniality and energy per sonified, and was an idol in student life, of course. There was nothing of ficious in her conduct, nor was she solic itous, just endowed with a nature well at tuned, and fed by an unending stream of beautiful impulses. At the tennis meets, at the games of baseball, basket-ball and t'oot-i all, and in every contest in which the students of Eron College were pitted against those of another, Edna Harper was there, and was life and inspiration to it. That , Dick Ross had gone into ex- stacies over the attention she had shown him, was nothing abnormal at all. SJie was attracted by the strength of the big man, and they had been college sweet hearts, during the two previous years, and that is why the boys were teasing Dick about it, the freakish notion of Jerry be coming his rival. Jerry had never met any of the girls he had been too timid to attend the re ception given the new students and for this reason was denied their acquaintance. The truth about the matter is Jerry had not cared to know any of them, if he had, he would have been too timid to say anj’thing to them, so what was the use. The liew student was cut deeply by the conducl of the Eron Full Back toward him, but he was the sort that keeps their troubles to themselves, and it was for this reason perhaps that Jerry Vardell decid- A NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY, 1910 Edition. FOR SALE Apply to The Elon College Weekly, A Bargain. LINEN MARKING OUTFTTS; Name Stamp, Indelible liii »nd Pad, 40c. Postpaid on receipt of price. PIERCE STAMP WOR.KS, Greensboro, N. C. 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