es of her efficiency as school director.
Miss Sarah E. Raymond, in Bloomington, and Miss Ludlow, in
Davenport (by the way, the Iowa State Teachers' Association
last year honored itself by electing her president),
abundantly proves woman's ability to superintend the schools
of large cities. M.A.W.

In _Zion's Herald_ 1873, on the origin of the Woman's College in
Evanston, Miss Frances E. Willard writes:

In 1866, when we were all tugging away to build Heck Hall
for ministers, I heard several thoughtful women say, "We
ought to be doing this for our own sex. Men have help from
every side, while no one thinks of women." In the summer of
1868 Mrs. Mary F. Haskins, who had been treasurer of the
American Methodist Ladies' Centenary Association, which
built Heck Hall, raising for the purpose $50,000, invited
the ladies of Evanston to her home to talk over the subject
of founding a Woman's College, which should secure to young
women the highest educational advantages. Mrs. Haskin
originated the thought--with her own hands assisted in
laying the corner-stone, and in her first address as
president she said: "I have often thought that to the
successful teacher the words must be full of hope and
promise, which a great writer uses of education: 'It is a
companion which no misfortune can distress, no crime
destroy, no enemy alienate, no despot enslave; at home a
friend, abroad an introduction; in solitude a solace, in
society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it
adds a grace to genius. Without it what is man?'--and I
would add with emphasis, Without an education, what is
woman?"

This Woman's College at Evanston is the first on record to which
a charter, granting full collegiate powers, was ever given by
legislative act, including only names of women in its board of
trustees. This board, elected Miss Frances E. Willard president,
who presided over the institution for two years, during which
term a class of young women was graduated, the first in history
to whom diplomas were voted and conferred by women. The degree of
A. M. was given Mrs. Jennie Fowler Willing, of Chicago, who
preached the baccala