Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

132 ART AND HANDICRAFT These institutions are quietly carrying on their work, and educat- ing- many women for teaching and professional life. Tufts College has followed their good example. . «. The Harvard Annex, as it is usually called, is a somewhat anomalous institution, having no connection with the university of that name, except that its professors, at their own pleasure, give lectures to the students. It is not a regular college conferring degrees, but its standard is high, its instruction, good, and it is thus helping the higher education, of women. I hope it will soon lead our most venerable university, for whose good name we are natu- rally jealous, to open its doors to the women of Massachusetts, who have done so much for it in the past and the present time. The opening of Boston University in all its branches has superseded the necessity of separate schools for women in. law and medicine. Its medical school is very flourishing, but it is greatly to be hoped that the Harvard Medical School will soon admit women, as the Massachusetts Medical Society has already done. The training schools for nurses are rapidly increasing, and the New England Hospital gives opportunity for clinical study. In plastic art and music the way is freely opened by many admirable schools. The introduction of the teaching of cooking, sewing, and gym- nastic instruction into the public schools, which was accomplished through the private beneficence of Mrs. Mary Hemenway, and of sanitary chemistry in the Institute of Technology, are leading up to a genuine training for the important business of household management, which should take its place among honorable and remunerative occupations. A club within the Association of Col- legiate Alumnæ has made a special study of this subject, doing admirable work in it. Mrs. Hemenway is a citizen whom Boston delights to honor. Besides the great outlay of time, energy, and capital made in the industrial improvement of our school system, she has for several years supported a course of free lectures on American history, at the Old South Church, and has founded and supported several educational institutions in the Southern States. An important object-lesson in the political education of women is furnished by the attainment of suffrage in the choice of school committees, the appointment in a single year of some hundred and fifty women to this office in Massachusetts, and the election of women as supervisors, superintendents, and on the Board of Edu- cation. This reform is rapidly spreading throughout many States. It being impossible to treat the question of woman’s education