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women who had shed such luster on the land of their birth. 

 While foreign institutions were vying with one another 

 in showering honors on the two brilliant Englishwomen, 

 with whose praises the whole world was resounding, the 

 University of Cambridge was silent. The University of 

 St. Andrews conferred on them the degree of LL.D., while 

 conservative old Heidelberg, casting aside its age-old tra- 

 ditions, made haste to honor them with the degree of Doc- 

 tor of Divinity. In addition to this, Halle made Mrs. 

 Lewis a Doctor of Philosophy. One would have thought 

 that sheer shame, if not patriotic spirit, would have com- 

 pelled the university in whose shadows the two women had 

 their home, and in which Mrs. Lewis' husband had held for 

 years an official appointment, to show itself equally appre- 

 ciative of superlative merit and equally ready to reward 

 rare scholarship, regardless of the sex of the beneficiaries. 

 But no. The illustrious archaeologists and Biblical scholars 

 were women, and this fact alone was in the estimation of 

 the Cambridge authorities enough to withhold from them 

 that recognition which was so spontaneously accorded them 

 by the great universities of the Continent. 



Nor was this the only instance of the kind. While the 

 celebrated twin sisters just referred to were so materially 

 contributing to our knowledge of Biblical lore, another 

 Englishwoman, Jane E. Harrison, who lived within hearing 

 of the church bells of Cambridge, was lecturing to de- 

 lighted audiences in Newnham College on the history, 

 mythology and monuments of ancient Athens, and writing 

 those learned works on the religion and antiquities of 

 Greece which have given her so conspicuous a place among 

 modern archaeologists. 1 But, as in the case of her dis- 



i For an evidence of this learned lady >s competency to deal with 

 the most recondite stores of history and archaeology, the reader is 

 referred to two of her later works, viz., Primitive Athens as Described 

 by Thucydides, Cambridge, 1906, and Prolegomena to the Study of 

 Greek Religion, Cambridge University Press, 1903. 



