alf of the right of women to enter the college, I send you
the following from Dr. J. D. Buck:

Pulte Medical College, of Cincinnati, was organized under
the common law, and opened in 1872, for the admission of
students, with no provision, either for or against the
admission of women. From time to time, during the first
seven years, the subject of the admission of women was
broached, but generally bullied out of court amid sneers and
ridicule. The faculty stood five against and four for. The
opposition was the most pronounced and bitter imaginable,
the staple argument being that the mingling of the sexes in
medical colleges led always and necessarily to
licentiousness.

Finally, in the fall of 1877, seven of the nine members of
the faculty voted to admit women. One professor voted no,
and the leader of the opposition, Prof. S. R. Beckwith--a
life-long opponent of the broader culture of women--left the
meeting with the purpose of arresting all action. In this,
however, he failed; the vote was confirmed.

On the following day another meeting was held, when the vote
was re-considered and again confirmed, each of the seven
members agreeing to stand by it. Still again, another
meeting was called, at the instance of the leader of the
opposition, and in the absence of two of the staunch
friends, a bare majority of the whole faculty voted to
exclude women, as heretofore, and notified the applicants
for admission, who had been officially informed of the
previous resolution to admit them, that they would not be
admitted.

Forbearance on the part of the friends of justice was no
more to be thought of, and notice was given that the wrong
should be righted, at all hazards. For the next two years
war raged persistent and unflinching on the part of the
friends of the rights of women, bitter and slanderous on the
part of the opposition. All the tricks of the politician
were resorted to to defeat the cause of right, and more than
once by misrepresentation they obtained the announcement in
the public press that the case was decided, and women
forever excluded. Still