THE RADCLIFFE TRADITION 359 
remember that we are also giving a pledge? Granted 
that the whole field of literature and science shall be 
opened to women educationally, as it is to men, and 
that it shall form a part of their training for life, the 
question then comes up, What added service shall 
they bring in acknowledgment of this larger and 
more complete outfit? If in receiving a man’s educa- 
tion we were simply expected to duplicate a man’s 
work, the problem might at least theoretically be 
easier of solution. But taken in the larger sense, with 
the greater variety and freedom of occupation now 
opening to women, our first task (at least so it seems 
to me) is to adapt the new means put into our hands 
to the conditions and methods of a woman’s life, 
which must be in a great degree her own, and in 
accordance with her natural endowments and limita- 
tions. We have to show that the wider scope of 
knowledge and the severer training of the intellect 
may strengthen and enrich a woman’s life, and help 
her in her appointed or her chosen work, whatever 
that may prove to be, as much as it helps a man in 
his career. Wherever her future path may turn, 
whether she be the head of a house or hold some 
official position in a school, a college, or a hospital (I 
only name things with which she isso often associated), 
wherever, in short, she may rule or serve, her rule and 
her service should be the wiser, the more steady, 
gentle and healthful, because she has been trained 
to clear and logical methods of thinking, because her 
powers of concentration and observation have been 
cultivated. ... 
