lege,
Manchester, England, are seriously considering the propriety of the
measure for themselves.

[55] My professional work has lain in Grammar, High and Normal Schools
in Massachusetts, city and country; High and Normal School in
Charleston, S. C., for two years, during which time I knew perfectly
well the three large public schools in the city, modeled after the New
York schools; and in St. Louis for nine years, where I was necessarily
called to be familiar with almost every room of every school in that
rapidly-growing city. I am also acquainted with the Chicago schools, and
with the Normal schools in many States of the Union.

[56] _Sex in Education_, p. 29.

[57] _The First Duty of Woman._ By Mary Taylor. Pub. by Emily Faithfull.

[58] In this statement I find myself most unexpectedly endorsed:

"The deterioration in the health of American women is without doubt one
of the most serious among modern social problems. It outweighs, in real
importance, vast masses of questions usually claiming far more
attention.

"That some of this deterioration may be due to close application to
study is possible, but the numbers of those who have ever closely
applied themselves to study is so very small, compared with the number
of those in broken health, that, evidently, search must be made for
causes lying deeper and spreading wider.

"The want of success in grasping and presenting these causes hitherto by
men, seems to show that there should be brought to the question the
instinct, the knowledge, the tact of woman herself, and it would seem
that, for this, she has need of a system of education to give the mental
strength required for searching out those causes, and grappling with
them.

"More than this, it would seem that if the cause lies to any extent in
want of knowledge of great principles of health, or in want of firm
character to resist the inroads of certain vicious ideas in modern
civilization, a change of woman's education from its too frequent
namby-pamby character, into something calculated to give firmer mental
and moral texture, would help, rather than hurt in this
matter."--_Majority Report submitted to Trustees of Cornell University
on Mr. Sage's proposal to endow a college for women. February 13, 1872._

The concluding paragraphs will be found entire in the Appendix.

[59] Chancellor Winchell, of Syracuse University, makes this statement:

"It is not pertinent to the question for us to inquire whether