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education of teacTiers ; the State Agricultural College, at 

 Manhattanj endowed with. 90,000 acres of fertile land; and 

 the State University, at Lawrence. Neither in the granting 

 of degrees, nor in the course of instruction, is the slightest 

 distinction made as to sex. '^ This, without doubt/' Says the 

 President of the University, ^^is both just and expedient- It 

 is no small honour that the Mediterranean State should be 

 the first to rccosnise the risrhts of woman in her educational 



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system." All through the States, in most ladies' schools, one 

 evening in the week is set apart for the reception of the male 

 friends and brothers of the girls, so that, from infancy, the 

 sexes are but little separated. The progressive school at Kansas 

 hopes soon to do away with ladies' academies altogether, so 

 that the gratifying sight now to be seen at these three high 

 schools, of young men and maidens reciting together in the 

 same classes, will become the universal custom. Can it 

 be wondered at, that scarcely a political contest takes 

 place anywhere in Kansas, at which petticoats are not well to 

 the front ; and that woman's suffrage and ec[ual rights form 

 a part of each platform in every election ? Bold, indeed, 

 would he the man in Kansas who dared to oppose openly 

 this phalanx of political Amazons. 



Let us, howcyer, bid good-bye to the busy towns and the 

 pushing traders, to the railway connections, the Missoiu'i 

 Eiver, and to the lady politicians. ''Westward, Hoi 

 is our watchword, as rapidly the railway takes us past 

 Lawrence, noted for its youtliful factories; Topeka, the 

 Kansas capital, famed for its State-house, now being built, 

 its college and its female institute, and Manhattan, re- 

 markable for the beauty of its situation, and agricultural 

 school. Fext comes Junction City, whose fine building 

 stone is the best in the State, and whose commercial 



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