After having settled our affairs, fifty dollars remained as my share, and with this sum I set out for Cleveland, on the 16th of October, 1854. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell had supplied me with the necessary medical textbooks, so that I had no other expenses than those of my journey and the matriculation fees which together amounted to twenty dollars, leaving thirty dollars in my possession. CHAPTER XIV _Attends the medical course at Cleveland, learning English at the same time--Is befriended by the Dean, Dr. John J. Delamater, and by Mrs. Caroline M. Severance--Some professors and students object to women as students--Students petition faculty to exclude women--Petition by Harvard medical students against admission of Dr. Harriot K. Hunt to lectures in 1851--No minister would offer prayer at early Commencements of Female Medical College of Pennsylvania--Philadelphia County Medical Society not only refused to admit women as members but issued an edict of excommunication against any of its members who should teach in the woman’s medical college, or who should consult with women physicians or even with the male teachers of the medical women--Edict approved by Pennsylvania State Medical Society--Mrs. Mary A. Livermore witnesses on Chestnut St., Philadelphia, male students mobbing women students and pelting them with mud--Similar mobbing and pelting with mud of women medical students at the gates of the University of Edinburgh--Dr. Blackwell writes she is obliged to close her dispensary for lack of funds and assistance--Marie and her roommate ostracized at the table and in the parlor by the other boarders. (Twenty-five years of age: 1854.)_ I do not believe that many begin the study of medicine with so light a purse and so heavy a heart as did I. My heart was heavy for the reason that I did not know a single sentence of English. All of my study with Dr. Blackwell had been like raindrops falling upon stone; I had profited nothing. The lectures I did not care for, since there was more need of my studying English than medicine, but the subjects were well known to me, and I therefore reasoned that by hearing familiar things treated of in English, I must learn the language--and the logic held good. I have already told you that the faculty had agreed to give me credit for my lecture fees. Dr. Blackwell had written also to a lady in Cleveland, who had called upon her some time before in the capacity of president of a Physiological Society which, among other good things, had established a small fund for the assistance of women desirous of studying medicine. This lady (Mrs. Caroline M. Severance) replied in the most friendly manner, saying that I might come directly to her house, and that she would see that my board for the winter was secured by the Physiological Society over which she presided.