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seaboard, or held in connection with some enterprising institution of 

 learning. The student in pharmacy and chemistry can conduct her 

 researches on an equality with men, or, if she prefer, in laboratories 

 controlled and officered in large part by women themselves. 



The student in medicine now gains access to medical colleges in 

 nearly every State in the Union, and the legitimacy of her pursuit as 

 well as her ability to grapple with it gains increasing advocates. " She 

 is no longer regarded as too good and too stupid to study medicine." 

 The candidate for medical honors also finds in Boston, Philadelphia, 

 New York, and Chicago, well-appointed schools of medicine especially 

 adapted to her needs, with corps of trained and sympathizing instruc- 

 tors ready to lend a helping hand. 



Looking across the Atlantic, we find countries so lately intolerant 

 of the intellectual advancement of woman at last yielding, not always 

 gracefully, to the inevitable. The little republic of Switzerland and 

 the mighty empire of Russia have for many years manifested practi- 

 cal sympathy with the cause ; and now, slowly yet surely, conser- 

 vative England begins to recognize the fact that the Anglo-Saxon race, 

 with its boasted love of liberty, has been neglectful of its duty to wo- 

 mankind. 



To trace any more fully the history of the recent period does not 

 fall within the province of our address ; we look to the pioneers of 

 this movement who are still with us for an exhaustive and authen- 

 tic record such as participators and eye-witnesses alone can supply. 



METHODS IX INDUSTEIAL EDUCATIOK* 



Bt Professor SILVANUS P. THOMPSON. 



SHALL we have a school in the workshop, or a workshop in the 

 school ? Or what other combination can we devise that will per- 

 mit mental and scientific training to proceed after the age has been at- 

 tained at which serious manual labor must begin ? Hitherto we have 

 been contented at most to organize night schools, evening classes, and 

 so-called Mechanics' Listitutes for our apprentices, leaving it to their 

 own caprice whether they chose to employ their leisure hours in self- 

 improvement or squander them in self-indulgence. On the Continent 

 of Europe somewhat different ideas have prevailed. In Belgium, 

 Switzerland, Germany, France, and even Russia, there are innumerable 

 examples of Technical Schools and Polytechnic Schools of all descrip- 

 tions, which profess to teach with greater or less completeness the 



* Continuation of article from the September " Contemporary Review," entitled " The 

 Apprenticeship of the Future," the first part of which was published in the November 

 Monthly, under the title of " Education as a Hindrance to Manual Occupations." 



