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Published: 2015-07-13

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ISBN-13: 9781331289623

Excerpt from State Normal Magazine, Vol. 3: Greensboro, N. C., April, 1899 At times froth and scum have covered it over so completely as to conceal the deep strong current flowing far beneath. But the real movement, going forward with wonderful sweep and power, has already declared its significance and proved its beneficence. The real woman's movement has been not for woman suffrage, nor for the legal emancipation of woman from "male subjection," but for woman's better education. Its significance is that it aims to prepare woman by adequate training to accomplish for herself and for society what cannot be secured through legislation nor by the aid of man. It recognizes a truth which should scarcely need to be stated, to-wit: that women as well as men must make their own careers, and that they need for this purpose as well as men the broadest and most thorough training possible. The beneficence of the woman's movement is already manifest by its arousing the interest and active support of men and women everywhere conspicuous for philanthropy and broad-mindedness. Its advocates are no longer masculine-feminines and feminine-masculines but manly men and womanly women. The movement is now directed by the very best type of American and English mothers and wives, conspicuous for gentleness, refinement, culture, and domestic virtues, as well as for intelligent and sympathetic grasp of the great problems of life. Until the present century scant provision existed for the education of women, even among the most civilized and refined nations; but a marked and rapid change has taken place, especially during the latter half of the century. Not only have women's colleges been established with large equipment of faculty and teaching apparatus and with patronage exceeding the expectations of their founders, but colleges and universities established and long conducted exclusively for men have been opened to women both in America and in Europe. In England the University of London is open as freely to women as to men, while the universities of Oxford and Cambridge are actually, though not nominally, open also to women, for whose especial benefit at the latter have been established two endowed colleges, and at the former three endowed halls. The universities of the following countries are open to women and men on terms of equality: Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and Italy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.