se of our constitution,
males and females have equal privileges in all schools controlled
by the State. The latest report of the State superintendent of
public instruction shows that over one-half of the pupils of the
Normal school, about two-fifths in the University, and nearly
one-third in the Agricultural College, are females.

In the private institutions of learning, including both
denominational and unsectarian, over one-half of the students are
females who study in the same classes as the males, except in
Washburn college which has a separate course for ladies.

Most of these institutions have one woman, or more, in their
faculties. One-half of the faculty of the State University is
composed of women. In the last report of the State superintendent
is the following:

The ratio of female teachers is greater than ever before,
some 69 per cent. of the entire number employed. It is,
indeed, a matter of congratulation that the work of the
schools, especially the primary teaching, is falling more
and more to the care of women.

The Republican State convention of 1882, by an overwhelming
majority endorsed woman suffrage, which action the Lincoln W. S.
A. promptly recognized as follows:

WHEREAS, The Republican party of the State of Kansas, by and
through its chosen representatives in the Republican State
convention at Topeka, August 9, 1882, did, by an
overwhelming majority, pledge itself to the support of the
principle of woman suffrage by the following:

_Resolved_, That we request the next legislature to submit
such an amendment to the constitution of the State as will
secure to woman the right of suffrage. And,

WHEREAS, By this action the Republican party of Kansas has
placed itself in line with the advanced thought of the times
in a manner worthy a great political party of the last
quarter of the nineteenth century, thereby proving itself
worthy the respect and confidence of the women of the State;
therefore,

_Resolved_, That the Lincoln Woman Suffrage Association, in
behalf of the women of Kansas, does hereby express thanks to
the Republican party for this recognition of the political
rights of the w