UNBARRING THE DOOR.
'•: For'tie' 'flrst'\time in''its.->h'istpry; Tale University:- liasVcqnferred woman.', ■••.:The'hb , nbnred'';womani-:is Miss .;Jane .'Addams, one of .most intellectual women in' America, and mariy.. people think-.'that by .its. action .Yale, has,cbnr ferred, even -,a' greater, honour on ..itself than" 6n ; Miss, Addams;y.. In. presenting the degree, Professor Perriu-paid:a. warm .tribute to Hull House, : of whioh Miss lAddam's Ms; .the head.'. '] He spoke of it as ; tlie most -extensive . and important social' settlement, in the 'United;. States,' and said: "Behind'fhis; vital .institution ■ stan'ds ■'the- ''■ vital, .personality.:' .of., Miss ',' Slieyhas liad.'a prophetic vision: of .■'what: might .be:.';done, and .', militant courage,' united a ; higli ; "qi'der. of:administrative, ysooiali. anfJ.'ijolHical cap.a-, 'city; in' doing, and■ getting, it -done.-.;' She has■ initiated 'local ! and, national-'.activi-ties far "more .'beneficent than :those of ancient Carthage, and to our .wondering eyes,-as to those of pious Aeneas, Dux femina!facta." y ■ . . i ■'.'■.-»
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 912, 3 September 1910, Page 11
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141UNBARRING THE DOOR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 912, 3 September 1910, Page 11
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