William Jewell College - Tatler Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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n 1870, with misgivings in not afew minds, the admission of women to Allegheny was voted. This was the same year that the University of Michigan opened its doors to women, and two years before Cornell. In the six years before I entered ten women had graduated. When I came there were but two seniors, two juniors, and no sophomores. I was a lone freshman in a class of forty hostile or indifferent boys. The friendly . . . professor charged with the care of the young Ladies put it that I was 'cLost in the Wilderness of Boy. gig s ? 2 From the first I was dimly conscious that I was an invader, that there was abroad a spirit of masculinity challenging my right to be there, and there were taboos not to be disregarded .... The sloping green of the campus below Bentley HallCcon't P. 75

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3 as inviting. Between classes I made my way one day to a seat under a tree only to hear a horrified call from the walk above, Come back, come back quick!', An imperative summons from an upper class woman. You mustn't go on that side of the walk, only men go there. It was not so simple to find a spot where you could go and be comfortable. If Bentley Hall, where all the classes were held, was a beautiful piece of architecture, its interior could hardly have been more severe. The rooms were heated with potbellied castiron stoves, seated with the hardest wooden chairs, lighted by kerosene lamps .... But of all that I was unheeding .... I realized that I had found what I had come to college for, direction in the only field in which I was interested - science ..,. I was given the free run of the laboratory along with a few as crazy as myself ..,. And such good talks! Much of it was concerned with fresh scientific thought, the inventions and discoveries which were stirring the world. An omnivorous reader of the scientific publications of Europe and America, Professor Tingley, kept us excited, not only by what had been done but what fcon'l P- 95