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WOMEN OF DISTINCTION.
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occasion she said, "He is not a true teacher who is not both a true friend and teacher." Her class-room is said to be more characterized by enthusiasm and zeal than by military order. She is yet a hard student, working as hard as she ever did in college. She has written some articles and sketches for magazines and periodicals, but writing almost entirely under a nom de plune. The whole tenor of facts relative to her life and works present a clear proof not only of the ability and ambition of this rising star of the West, but a forcible setting forth of her good traits of character as an educator. She is a scholar, a profound teacher, a race lover, a Christian lady, struggling hard to make practical leaders for an oppressed people.