gainst
the State laws whose heathenism, despotism and absurdity were so
well shown by Mrs. Nichols in 1845--all these facts are proofs
that the sentiment of Vermont women is not represented by the
constitutional convention now in session at Montpelier.--[M. A.
L.

August 12, 1871, our Burlington correspondent says:

While conventions, picnics and bazar meetings, in the cause of
woman suffrage, have been held in our sister States, an event has
very quietly occurred with us which we deem an important step in
the right direction, viz.: the admission of women to the
University. By an almost unanimous vote of the corporation, a few
conservatives opposing it, the matter was referred to the
faculty, who are understood to be heartily in favor of the "new
departure." The college that has thus thrown its doors wide open
to all, is the University of Vermont and State Agricultural
College, founded by the munificence of General Ira Allen in 1791.
It commenced operations in 1800; the Federal troops used its
buildings for barracks in the war of 1812; the buildings (and
library) were burned in 1824, and reconstructed in the following
year, when the corner-stone was laid by General Lafayette. It
sent forth nearly all its sons to the great rebellion. Indeed, at
one time its condition served to remind one of the lines of
Holmes--

"Lord, how the _Senior_ knocked about
That Freshman class of _one_."

It has graduated such men as the late Senator Collamer, John G.
Smith, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad; William G. T.
Shedd, the learned theologian; the late Henry J. Raymond of the
New York _Times_; John A. Kasson of Iowa, Frederick Billings, and
a host of others, eminent in all the walks of life. Its late
president, who was an "Angell from Providence," and has just been
elected president of Michigan University, is heartily in favor of
the movement, and the president-elect, Matthew H. Buckham, is no
less so. With its new president and its "new departure" the
future bids fair even to outshine the past.

It may be well to inquire the reason why a college located in a
State regarded by outsiders "as the most conservative of the
Union on the woman suffrage question," should take a step so far
in advance of what has been deemed the