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culture specifically for a sex, nay, for "the sex," the all-controlling element of sex and its vital implications are passed by as if they had no existence. Dr. Dix has prepared a programme of feminine collegiate study in which there is no more recognition of the claims of the home as an object of cultivated thought than there is in the curriculums of colleges exclusively for men. proposes a course of training which will preoccupy woman for at least a dozen of her most impressible years with a range of acquisitions that have no definite or distinct relation to home interests, and in which the "certificated" young lady can come out as proficiently ignorant of all these matters as the " graduated" young gentleman. His programme, which embraces nine groups of subjects* to occupy four college years, and involves an elaborate preparation for entrance, has not even a corner for physiology, not to speak of other subjects which should be fundamental in any rational system of higher female education.

OPENING DAY OF THE SUS HIGHWAY.

ALTHOUGH all the world abundantly apprised of the there is pleasure in still repe the opening of the new a did bridge over the East R necting the cities of Brookly York, on the 24th of May, w successful affair. The grand a monument alike of the progress of science and art structive genius, and of busin prise, was recognized by all to the generation, and the im spontaneous and universal to tributes of honor to the fou promoters of the enterprise, dead, on the occasion of the o of the work. Business was widely suspended in the two day of opening became a ho countless thousands of the pe ered to witness the impres monies, and to express the er gratification that filled all mi triumphant event. The cerem appropriate and imposing. P salutes, festivities and fire-w all the demonstrative accom of high satisfaction, made th night memorable among po ebrations. The oratorical was, of course, profuse, varie cellent, for the theme was w lated to bring out eloquenc

The satirical writer on education must have had Dr. Dix's plan in view in penning the following well-known passage: "If by some strange chance not a vestige of us descended to the remote future save a pile of our school-books or some college examination-papers, we may imagine how puzzled an antiquary of the period would be in finding in them no indication that the learners were ever likely to be parents. This must have been the curriculum for their celibates,' we may fancy him concluding. 'I perceive here an elaborate preparation for many things, especially for

* Dr. Dix's college course for women: 1. The English language and literature. 2. Modern languages and foreign literature. 3. The Latin language and literature. 4. Greek language and literature. 5. History and political science. 6. Moral and intellectual philosophy. 7. Mathematics. 8. Physics, chemistry, and hygiene. 9.

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THE TYNDALL SCHOLARSHIPS. DR. LUCIEN J. BLAKE returns to this country at the present vacation from Berlin, where he has been studying physics in the university laboratory of Professor Helmholtz, as a Tyndall Scholar, for the past two years. He has distinguished himself in original work, and will be prepared to take an honorable position as professor in an American college. With the resignation of Dr. Blake there will be two vacant scholarships of the Tyndall Trust Fund, the revenue of which is devoted to the aid of American students of promise who desire to obtain Continental facilities for training in physical investigation. It will be remembered that Professor Tyndall consecrated the total profits of his American lectures ten years ago to this noble object. The proceeds of those lectures, beyond the payment of necessary expenses, he refused to regard as belonging to himself, but left them as a fund in the hands of trustees to be used for the benefit of American young men of capacity and ambition, to prepare themselves for a life of original experimental work in physical science. The provision was wise as it was generous, for while, on one hand, the students of pure science are without the strong incitements of pecuniary reward for their labors, on the other hand, the en

temptation In tnes science from the 1 fessor Tyndall has 1 his example, his tea stantial earnings to tain those youthful truth who would pu research from the s motive of a desire f valuable knowledge. obtain the benefits of should apply to its Joseph Lovering, of Cambridge, Massach F. A. P. Barnard, of New York; and the this periodical.

PROGRESS AND DR. EMILY BLACKW industrial position of that appears to us e cant at the present not long ago, "If the

that pervades and char called the 'woman's r the spirit of revolt aga and the determination it into the outer spheres will bring her into direct petition with men." Thi been criticised as unjus tainly did not mean to there may not be many oughly enlisted in the " ment," and who, nevertl strong home interest. was general, and simply a spread tendency, the unm of which, we think, the ar Industrial Position of W sively illustrates.

It will be seen that I writes as a student of soci She appeals to the primit of society, falls back upo progress, and forecasts the

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has been a relation of protection. more in the predatory life of the savage than in the highest civilized life, woman has been the protected sex. Her security, and through it the maintenance of the social order, and the progress that has resulted, have not arisen from the independent competitive struggles of woman, but from the identification of her interests with those of man, through the division of their spheres of action. We await the reasons which are to convince us that these deeply-grounded relations must not continue throughout the future of humanity. The precipitation of woman into the outer world of conflicts, where the strongest have their way, would involve a dissolution of human society, and is not even possible as an experiment. Granting that the protection of woman has always been, and is still, very imperfect, progress must consist in making it more perfect, and not in subverting the order of which it is a natural and necessary part.

And now let us note the correlative effect upon the home of Dr. Blackwell's thorough-going social reform, and point out its radical error. She says: "There is no reason why what is now done by domestic service should always continue to be so done. As weaving and tailoring have gone, so the making of women's and children's clothing is now going. There is no reason inherent in the nature of things why washing, cooking, mending, etc., should not go also, and be done by business organizations from outside, instead of by domestic service. Thus domestic work will be reduced to the minimum, to that part most intimately connected with the personal life of the family. The need of domestic service will diminish in the same proportion, and the problem it presents will be solved by its diminution or grad

still further, so as home the nurture children." "Ther would seem more a upon the mother training of very yo the careful study of training these earl come in with the K how far the nursery ing their needs; ho much skilled teache a variety of apparat help-are desirable ests of the child, as sistance of the moth

It is not surprisin well should anticipat objection "that so r the conditions of hou imply the destruction we at present underst timates that the dres she by no means rep tion. And that the tion leads inevitably undeniable. For, whe removing all that can 1 the domestic sphere, over to outside organ pleted, not a remnant o we at present underst main. As spinning and ing and drying fruits knitting, butter and have gone, so washing, ing, and cooking can go way, and the sick can be hospitals. And when t ten becomes a state in "compulsory education the "very young children for by outside arranger kinds of domestic occup eliminated, it might app home has been reduced mum as a place for the