University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Clie new woman H toast Given at the Webster Society Banquet, january io isea OU ASK me to drink to the New WVoman's health, A tribute to pay to her womanly wealth Of intellect, sympathy, true heart and mind The heritage given to fair woman kind. I drink not to eyes that are limpid and blue, Nor lips that are carmined with delicate hue, I drink not to hands that are shapely and small, But I drink to the heart that is nobler than all. I drink to her intellect,-equal of man's, A mind that devises, and studies, and plans. I drink not to empress nor princess remote, But I drink to the woman who some day will vote The world has moved on and we do not neednow, The woman all smiles with the ball-room bow, Though some may prefer the old ' clinging ' kind, With heart' well developed-but minus the mind. Wfe need not the Dora's of Dickens' page, But Agnes, the type of a far better age, ' Not an insolent queen on her canopied. throne, But a Portia, pleading for justice alone. If our forefathers fought for their rights, years ago Can you blame t-he New Woman for now doing so P Is she wrong in opposing, with head lirm and brave, The common-law doctrine of master and slave? We voters forget, when the caresof state vex, A That a soul is a soul-regardless of sex, And that liberties dear to the masculine heart Should form of a woman's existence a part. I honor the woman whose mind can explore The wonderful depths of professional lore, Who struggles this nation of ours to improve, And shoves the world on in the way it should move I drink to the woman who fights her own way, And I trust the ff New M Wfoman is with us to stay HENRY ED Noir-roMP

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HORACE L. WILGUS