1872: EDUCATION of WOMEN - short article; Railroad ad- CHICAGO & Canada Southern for Sale

1872: EDUCATION of WOMEN - short article; Railroad ad- CHICAGO & Canada Southern For Sale

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1872: EDUCATION of WOMEN - short article; Railroad ad- CHICAGO & Canada Southern:
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The Education of Women
1872* * * * *
(also, the Chicago &
Canada Southern Railway)This is a single sheet only which is over 150 years old. It was published in the Sept. 28, 1872 issue of The Christian Weekly, a religious paper put out by the American Tract Society in New York City. The paper was started in April, 1871, so this came from a rare early issue.The page measures 11 x 16 inches in size. It has a a few small dampstain spots along its blank outer margins, and some general browning from age (see photos), but is still in very good condition.It presents two items of some historic interest.* * * * *
The first is an article occupying the bottom left corner of the page, commenting on an advance in women\'s rights. It takes up five column inches of text, with the story saying, in its entirety:“EDUCATION OF WOMEN. In the light of light of the action of the authorities of Cornell University in favor of the co-education of the sexes end of the more recent majority report of the Committee of the Alumni of Williams College in opposition to it, and still later that of Harvard, and in face of all that is being said for and against this movement all over our land, it is interesting to note the working of the system elsewhere. There are in the University of Zürich, rather more than four hundred students, eighty of whom are women. About fifty of these eighty are students of medicine. At the late examinations the women stood the test as creditably as the men. One of them, a Miss Atkins, an English lady, passed with more than usual brilliancy, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. At the University of Edinburgh the female medical students have gained admittance as a right by a legal decision though they have long sought it as a favor. Meanwhile the movement for increasing the educational advantages of women in England is rising in importance and strength. It does not appear that the advocates of female education there feel themselves obliged to draw any great distinction between the knowledge which is most useful to men and that which is most useful to women. They place the sexes upon a par and desire that girl should be educated in the same fashion in which the boys now are. There has been formed a very important association which is which is put forth a clear programme, and stands before the public as a responsible body called the ‘National Union for Improving the Education of Women of all Classes.’ It has for its president the Princess Louise; its vice-presidents number among them the Bishop of Exeter, Lords Lawrence and Littleton, Mr. Stansfield, the Dean of Westminster, and other warrantable names, and the chairman of its Central Committee is Mrs. William Gray, one of the most indefatigable apostles of the cause of female education. This Central Committee is the executive body of the union, and eleven out of twenty-seven members are women.”* * * * *
The other piece of historical interest is an advertisement appearing in the center right column of the page. It is 10.5 inches long, and urges readers to invest in bonds being offered to finance a new railway line, the Chicago and Canada Southern Railway. The text of this ad is extensive, with some of its paragraphs saying, in part:“This road is the western link in the new AIR LINE from BUFFALO to CHICAGO and runs from the Detroit River to Chicago in nearly a straight line. . . .
“The road is a part of the same line as the Canada Southern and is being built by the same men. . . .
“The Road like the Canada Southern, will have steel rails (60 pounds to the yard) throughout; is practically straight and level; much shorter, and can be run more quickly and with greater safety than any other road connecting Buffalo and Chicago. . . .
“Twenty-five miles are finished and running; seventy-five miles more are so far advanced as to be finished by January. . . .
“The builders of the road control enough of its Chicago feeders to obtain for it a profitable business from the start, having projected the line to accommodate existing business, and having seen the necessity for another trunk line between Chicago and the Atlantic seaboard. . . .
“The branch lines will make the shortest connections between Chicago and Toledo, and Chicago and Detroit, as well as between all these points and Buffalo. . . .”
Etc., etc.(Unfortunately, the ad pitch must not have raised enough money for the project to be completed, as construction on the rail line was halted the following year during the financial “Panic of 1873.” The Canada Southern was eventually sold to the Detroit and Chicago Railroad, a subsidiary of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.)
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