eir
colleagues. We are indebted to them in large measure for the
educational opportunities of today. We are indebted to them for
the theory, and in some places for the reality, of equal pay for
men and women when the work performed is the same. We are
indebted to them for making it possible for us to spend our lives
in fruitful work rather than in idle tears. We are indebted to
these pioneer women for the substitution of a positive creed for
inertia and indifference. From them we also inherit the weighty
responsibility of passing on to others, in degree if not in kind,
all that we have received from them.

Professor Jordan, after considering the woman's college, said: "The
suffragists lent us Maria Mitchell and they felt severely the loss
they sustained in her increasing absorption in the class room and in
the requirements of modern scientific work. When we had taken Maria
Mitchell they turned to us in friendship, Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, Miss Anthony, Miss Elizabeth Peabody, Mrs. Cady Stanton,
Lucy Stone, Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Lois Anna Green, Mary
Dame--and never failed to stir our minds with their urgent appeals for
our thoughtful consideration of the causes they presented and the
interest they took for granted. The last was their strong point. They
simply implicated us in whatever was good and true. Their enthusiasm
was infectious and we 'caught' it--to our own lasting spiritual
benefit.... I do not believe that I was over-fanciful when I used to
feel that Lucy Stone and you, Miss Anthony, looked at us as if you
would say, 'Make the best of your freedom for we have bought it with a
great price.'"

PROFESSOR CALKINS: I wish to indicate this evening the definite
form in which I think the gratitude of all college women might be
expressed to Miss Anthony and to the other leaders of the equal
suffrage movement for their service to the cause of women's
education. In other words, I wish to ask what have these veteran
equal suffrage leaders a right to expect from university and
college students, and in particular from the students and
graduates of our women's colleges?... Equal suffragists, if I may
serve as interpreter, demand just this, that women trained to
scientific method shall make equal suffrage an object of
scientific analysis and logic and ask of college women that they
cease bei