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matics, who succeededj notwitlistanding tlie difBculties to be con- 

 tended with in the absence of preparatory study and the necessity 

 for private preparation. 



It is not, however, only in Berlin that the desire for university 

 study has taken a strong hold on the German women, but it is 

 shown in other places, not simply by the fact that many of them 

 attend the universities of Switzerland, which are everywhere open 

 to them, but by their also obtaining the advantages in their own 

 land which have so long been denied them. 



Heidelberg was the first university in Germany to grant the 

 doctor examination to women, and this was done several years 

 before lectures were open to them. The writer called upon Prof. 

 Kuno Fischer one day in the summer of 1890 to ask permission to 

 attend a lecture which he was to give that afternoon on Helm- 

 holtz. He said that he was very sorry indeed, but he was obliged 

 to refuse women the privilege of listening to him, as they were not 

 admitted to the university. I asked when they would probably 

 be admitted, and he replied, speaking in French, " Jamais, made- 

 moiselle, jamais ! " Four years later, however, a friend of mine 

 took her degree there in the department of philosophy, thus prov- 

 ing that the wisest of men sometimes make mistakes. 



Women have for years studied as Hospitanis in the Universi- 

 ties of Leipsic and Gottiugen, but since November, 1897, the con- 

 ditions of their admission in Gottingen have been made more 

 difficult. 



In Kiel the professors who are not willing to allow women to 

 attend their lectures put a star opposite their names in the uni- 

 versity programme of the lecture courses, and this star is unfor- 

 tunately seen opposite the names of all the professors of theology 

 and many of those of medicine. Women began to attend the Uni- 

 versity of Tubingen in the autumn of 1898, Dr. Maria Griifin von 

 Linden being the first, who was soon followed by many others. 



The degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa has been 

 conferred on two women by the University of Munich — in Dccemr 

 ber, 1897, on the Princess Theresa, and in October, 1898, on Lady 

 Blennerhassett, an author, for her researches in modern languages. 

 The Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, accompanied by three pro- 

 fessors, visited her in her home in Munich to communicate to her 

 the honor which she had received. 



The University of Breslau offers better conditions to women 

 than are provided elsewhere, as might naturally be exj)ected, espe- 

 cially in the department of medicine. 



Germany was represented in the International Council of 

 Women, held in London in June of this present year, by Frau 



