the cause moved on to complete
triumph, and to the disgrace and final exclusion from the
college of two of the most bitter leaders of the opposition.

In the fall of 1879 it was announced in the annual
catalogue, "that students will be admitted to the lectures
of Pulte college without distinction of sex," a very simple
result indeed, as the outcome of two years' warfare. At the
opening of lectures the first of October, four female
students presented themselves, and were admitted to
matriculation. Every prophecy of disaster had failed. The
class was an increase in numbers over that of any preceding
year, and showed a marked improvement in deportment and
moral tone from the presence of ladies, who from their high
character and bearing exerted a restraining influence, as
they always do, on those disposed to be gentlemen. At the
commencement exercises in March, 1881, three women, viz:
Miss S. C. O'Keefe, Mrs. Mary N. Street, and Mrs. M. J.
Taylor, received the degree of the college, after having
attended the same lectures and been submitted to the same
examination as the male graduates. The prize for the best
examination (in writing) in physiology, was awarded to Miss
Stella Hunt, of Cincinnati. The right of women to admittance
to this college cannot again be raised except by a
two-thirds vote of both faculty and trustees--a majority
which will be difficult to obtain after the record which the
women have already made as students in the institution.

Yours truly, J. D. BUCK.

After all this educational work and this seeming triumph for the
recognition of an equal status in the colleges for women, we find
this item going the rounds of the daily journals, under date of
Cleveland, March 29, 1885:

Considerable excitement prevails among the homeopathists of
Cleveland. Commencement exercises of the college are to be held
next Tuesday evening, and Miss Madge Dickson, of Chambers, Pa.,
was to have delivered the salutatory address. Dr. H. H. Baxter, a
prominent professor of the college, objected, saying a woman
salutatorian would disgrace the college. Miss Dickson resigned
the honor, and no address will b