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in other professions, and with a large audience, the session of the woman suffrage convention opened last evening in the Lyric Theater. If the veteran suffragist thought of more than the pleasure of the event it must have been the contrast of this occasion with the times past, when, unhonored and unsung, she fought what must have often seemed a losing fight for principles for which the presence of these women proclaimed victory.... It had been announced as 'Colloge evening' but it might just as well have been called 'Susan B. Anthony evening,' for, while the addresses dealt with various phases of the woman question, all evolved into one strong tribute to Miss Anthony."

The following remarkable program was carried out:

College Evening

February 8, 1906

Presiding Officer

Ira Remsen, Ph.D., LL.D., President of Johns Hopkins University.

Ushers

Students of the Woman's College of Baltimore in Academic Dress.

Addresses

Mary E. Woolley, A.M., Litt.D., L.H.D., President of Mount Holyoke College.

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Lucy M. Salmon, A.M., Professor of History, Vassar College.

Mary A. Jordan, A.M., Professor of English, Smith College.

Mary W. Calkins, A.M.,Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Wellesley College.

Eva Perry Moore, A.B., Trustee Vassar College; President of the Association of Collegiate Alumne (over three thousand college women).

Maud Wood Park, A.B. (Radcliffe College), President of the Boston Branch of the Equal Suffrage League in Women's Colleges and Founder of the Leaque.

M. Carey Thomas, Ph.D., LL.D., President of Bryn Mawr College.

A tribute of gratitude from representatives of Women's Colleges.

What has been accomplished for the higher education of women by Susan B. Anthony and other woman suffragists.

The statement is sometimes questioned that all of the advantages which women enjoy today had their inception in the efforts of the pioneers suffragists. The addresses made on this occasion