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much that now passes current for wit and wisdom.ind-lledPREFERENCES.Preferences are usually odioti9 when students with like laudable desire for au* knowledge are studying together to at-'*r“ tain skill aud eminence. Women know | n£8 this to their cost, for have not the great *or universities of the world closed aud ans bolted their doors against women stu-dents? Have not medical schools and law schools (until persistent demands ;ro‘ | have recently forced some of the more liberal to stand their ponderous doors slightly ajar) done the same ?What with women aud men both for past centuries giving men the preference in all lucrative employments; in all opportunities for scientific research, ary anatomical investigation, and, indeed, all things that tend to make people r a learned, useful, or skillful, women ;ou' students and anxious women workers have had a goodchauce to judge of the injustice of preference when 9ex alone is the basis thereof.It is therefore a relief to see a woman fearless and just euough to give prefer-6 ence to her sister wortoen who always J at disadvantage pursue their studies in mediciue. We read of one, Susan Fletcher Smith, an American lady, who has bequeathed her body at death for dissection to the Royal College for Surgeons at Loudon, only asking that “women studeuts shall have the preference.”lereliediUf-9 of and As-bdc-‘res-“nATrm a vn awwa WATQnu •»
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Portland New Northwest
Portland, Oregon, US
Fri, Jan 05, 1877
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