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aloua fact. Drawing up a plan of 

 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. He 

 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 defi- 

 nite or distinct relation to home inter- 

 ests, and in which the "certificated" 

 young lady can come out as proficient- 

 ly ignorant of all these matters as 

 the " graduated " young gentleman. 

 His programme, which embraces nine 

 groups of subjects* to occupy four col- 

 lege years, and involves an elaborate 

 preparation for entrance, has not even 

 a corner for physiology, not to speak 

 of other subjects which should be fun- 

 damental in any rational system of 

 higher female education. 



The satirical writer on education 

 must have had Dr. Dix's plan in view in 

 penning the following well-known pas- 

 sage : " 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 conclud- 

 ing. ' I perceive here an elaborate prep- 

 aration 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. Mathe- 

 matics. 8. Physics, chemistry, and hygiene. 9. 

 Natural history, geology, paleontology, botany' 

 and zoOlogy. 



reading the books of extinct nations and 

 of co-existing nations (from which, in- 

 deed, it seems clear that these people 

 had very little worth reading in their 

 own tongue) ; but I find no reference 

 whatever to the bringing up of children. 

 They could not have been so absurd as 

 to omit all training for this gravest of 

 responsibilities. Evidently, then, this 

 was the school course of one of their 

 monastic orders.' " 



OPENING DA Y OF THE SUSPENDED 

 HIGHWA Y. 



Although all the world has been 

 abundantly apprised of the fact, yet 

 there is pleasure in still repeating that 

 the opening of the new and splen- 

 did bridge over the East River, con- 

 necting the cities of Brooklyn and New 

 York, on the 24th of May, was a most 

 successful affair. The grand structure, 

 a monument alike of the marvelous 

 progress of science and art, of con- 

 structive genius, and of business enter- 

 prise, was recognized by all as a credit 

 to the generation, and the impulse was 

 spontaneous and universal to join in the 

 tributes of honor to the founders and 

 promoters of the enterprise, living and 

 dead, on the occasion of the completion 

 of the work. Business was therefore 

 widely suspended in the two cities ; the 

 day of opening became a holiday, and 

 countless thousands of the people gath- 

 ered to witness the impressive cere- 

 monies, and to express the enthusiastic 

 gratification that filled all minds at the 

 triumphant event. The ceremonies were 

 appropriate and imposing. Parades and 

 salutes, festivities and fire-works, and 

 all the demonstrative accompaniments 

 of high satisfaction, made the day and 

 night memorable among popular cel- 

 ebrations. The oratorical garnishing 

 was, of course, profuse, varied, and ex- 

 cellent, for the theme was well calcu- 

 lated to bring out eloquence of utter- 

 ance. But the address of Hon. A. S. 

 Hewitt was perhaps the most felicitous 



