tals was accorded. The
faculty and students alike protested against the admission of women
into mixed classes; but as there was no provision to give them the
clinics alone, a protest against mixed classes was a protest
against such advantages to women altogether. One would have
supposed the men might have left the delicacy of the question to
the decision of the women themselves. But in this struggle for
education men have always been more concerned about the loss of
modesty than the acquirement of knowledge and wisdom. From the
opinions usually expressed by these self-constituted guardians of
the feminine character, we might be led to infer that the virtues
of women were not a part of the essential elements of their
organization, but a sort of temporary scaffolding, erected by
society to shield a naturally weak structure that any wind could
readily demolish.

At a meeting convened November 15 at the University of
Pennsylvania, to consider the subject of clinical instruction to
mixed classes the following remonstrance was unanimously adopted:

The undersigned, professors in the University of Pennsylvania,
professors in Jefferson Medical College, members of the medical
staff of various hospitals of Philadelphia, and members of the
medical profession in Philadelphia at large, out of respect for
their profession, and for the interests of the public, do feel it
to be their duty, at the present time, to express their
convictions upon the subject of "clinical instruction to _mixed
classes_ of male and female students of medicine." They are
induced to present their views on this question, which is of so
grave importance to medical education, from the fact that it is
misunderstood by the public, and because an attempt is now being
made to force it before the community in a shape which they
conceive to be injurious to the progress of medical science, and
to the efficiency of clinical teaching. They have no hesitation
in declaring that their deliberate conviction is adverse to
conducting clinical instruction in the presence of students of
_both sexes_. The judgment that has been arrived at is based upon
the following considerations:

I. Clinical instruction in practical medicine demands an
examination of all the organs and parts of the body, as far as
practicable; hence, personal exposure becomes for this purpose
ofte