udents, at the risk of their reputation, secured the yellow ticket of
the prostitute rather than sacrifice their education. But the majority
went to other countries. The press has lately been interested in what
these seekers for light in foreign lands have accomplished, and reported
the successes of Fanny Berlin, who graduated from the University of
Berne as doctor of law _summa cum laude_, and of Miss Kanyevsky of
Zinkoff (Poltava), who was the first woman to take her degree as
engineer at the Ecole des Pontes et Chaussees, in Paris.

It is a curious fact--remarks a correspondent in the Pall Mall
Gazette--the majority [of lady doctors practicing in Paris] are
Russian Jewesses, just as are the greatest number of young women
medical students. At a rough calculation there are three hundred
ladies pursuing medical studies at the various schools, and
working side by side with the male students. The reason of the
invasion of the Jewess is, of course, the disabilities that
exist in Russia for those of the faith of Israel ...
disabilities that are hardly lessened in Germany. Moreover,
there exists only one university in Russia, and that is in St.
Petersburg. Some of the women who graduate in medicine do
extremely well afterwards in practice, and are greatly in vogue
in the highest society in Paris.... The lady doctor who is also
a Russian subject has likewise found a field for her energies in
China, where Russian influence is so dominant at the present
moment.

Another writer, in Harper's Bazaar, speaking of girl-students in Paris,
has this to say:

The Russian students are an interesting class in Paris. There
are some one hundred and thirty of them in all, nearly all
Hebrews, as the Russian universities admit only about four Jews
to every hundred students. Their monthly allowance from their
families is often no more than twenty dollars, and out of that
they must pay board, room-rent, and all outside expenses. These
Russian "new women" are extraordinary students. Mlle. Lepinska,
one of the first to graduate in medicine, presented a thesis six
hundred and sixty pages long to her astonished professors.

With pitying admiration the world looks on the struggle for
enlightenment of these brave sons and daughters of Judah. Their trials
and tribulations, their heart-burnings and disappointments, have
inspired poets and painters, n