and again shown that the
authoresses of America are, with but two or three exceptions, in
favor of woman suffrage, and, therefore, instead of being
"sacramental," do not even belong to Professor Tyler's class of
"wisest, truest and best." He thus selects for compliment on one
page the very women whom he has traduced on another. His own
witnesses testify against him. It is a pity that such phrases of
discourtesy and unfairness should disfigure an essay which in
many respects says good words for women, recommends that they
should study Greek, and says, in closing, that their elevation
"is at once the measure and the means of the elevation of
mankind."

In the autumn of 1884 an effort was made to exclude women from
Adelbert College. We give an account thereof from the pen of Mrs.
Sarah Knowles Bolton, published in the _English Woman's Review_ of
January, 1885:

DEAR EDITOR: The city of Cleveland has been stirred for weeks on
this question of woman's higher education. Western Reserve
College, founded in 1826, at Hudson, was moved to Cleveland in
1874, because of a gift of $100,000 from Mr. Amasa Stone, with
the change of name to Adelbert College, in memory of an only son.
A few young women had been students since 1873. In Cleveland,
about twenty young ladies availed themselves of such admirable
home privileges. Their scholarship was excellent--higher than
that of the young men. They were absent from exercises only half
as much as the men. Their conduct was above reproach. A short
time since the faculty, except the president, Dr. Carroll Cutler,
petitioned the board of trustees to discontinue coeducation at
the college, for the assumed reasons that girls require different
training from boys, never "identical" education; that it is
trying to their health to recite before young men; "the strain
upon the nervous system from mortifying mistakes and serious
corrections is to many young ladies a cruel additional burden
laid upon them in the course of study"; "that the provision we
offer to girls is not the best, and is even dangerous"; that
"where women are admitted, the college becomes second or
third-rate, and that, worst of all, young men will be deterred
from coming to this college by the presence of ladies." An
"annex" was recommended, not with college deg