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INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT

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I grant to the trustees the credit which is fairly due to them for a ready support, but I claim that the high position which the University holds to-day has been attained because of the high ideal and the conscientious work of its faculty. T w o things have often been remarked in regard to this body, the harmony among its members, and its hard work. I shall not forget how, in the early days of the University, the regent took a class in elementary mathematics, to I dp out the young professor who had charge of the three departments, mathematics, engineering, and military. T o the faculty belongs the credit of having given to women the right to a p p e a r as students in the University. This was done by the casting vote of Dr. Gregory, then president of the board of trustees, in March, 1870. Since then women have had an honored position in the University as students and teachers; and be it said to their credit, the\ have often held the highest rank in the University classes. T h e women who have been instructors have, as a rule, had high, scholarly a t t a i n m e n t s , gained at the best institutions at home and abroad. At present the corps of instructors in the University n u m b e r s seventy-eight persons, ten of whom are women. In view of what I have said, who can claim that women have not been fairly treated in this University. We welcome now the advent of a woman of culture and experi* as a m e m b e r of the board of t r u s t *s. Th culty lias had at its head, in these twenty-six y thr 3 .n i men, Dr. J. M. Gregory, [867 to [880; Dr. v S. If. Peabod , J 8 8 O to 1891; Dr. T. J. Burrill, i« 1 to [8 ach of th( : men w an honor to the University, and at the

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