According to the report of an eye witness of the turbulent scene at Cambridge, "The undergraduate students appeared to be, as a body, viciously opposed to the proposal to give degrees to women, and became fairly riotous. They hooted those who supported the reform and fired crackers even in the Senate House and made the night lurid with bonfires and powder. They put up insulting effigies of girl students, and such mottoes as 'Get you to Girton, Beatrice. Get you to Newnham. Here is no place for maids!'" Verily, when such scenes are possible in one of the world's great intellectual centers--a place where, above all others, women should receive due recognition for their contributions toward the progress of knowledge--one is constrained to declare that what we call civilization is still far from the ideal. And, when one witnesses the total indifference of institutions like Cambridge and the French Academy to the splendid achievements of women like Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Gibson and Mme. Curie, one cannot but exclaim in words Apocalyptic: "How long, O Lord, holy and true," is this iniquitous discrimination against one-half of our race to endure? O Lord, how long? FOOTNOTES: [215] A. Michaelis, _A Century of Archaeological Discoveries_, p. 6, New York, 1908. [216] _The Most Illustrious Ladies of the Renaissance_, p. 152, by Christopher Hare, London, 1904. [217] Michaelis, Op. cit., p. 20, Cf. also Fiorelli's _Pompeinarum Antiquitatum Historia_, Vol. I, Pars. III, Naples, 1860. Arditi characterized Queen Caroline's interest in the excavations as "_entusiasmo veramente ammirabile_." [218] _Frauenarbeit in der Archaeologie in Deutsche Rundschau_, March, 1890, page 396. [219] _Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson_, pp. 296-297, by her niece, Geraldine Macpherson, London, 1878. [220] _Ilios, the City and Country of the Trojans_, pp. 657-658, by Dr. Henry Schliemann, New York, 1881. As an illustration of Mrs. Schliemann's devotion to the work which has rendered her, as well as her husband, immortal, a single passage from the volume just quoted, p. 261, is pertinent. Referring to the sufferings and privations which they endured during their third year's work at Hissarlik, Dr. Schliemann writes as follows: "My poor wife and myself, therefore, suffered very much since the icy north wind, which recalls Homer's frequent mention of the blasts of Boreas, blew with such violence through the chinks of our house-walls, which were made of planks, that we were not even able to light our lamps in the evening, while the water which stood near the hearth froze into solid masses. During the day we could, to some degree, bear the cold by working in the excavations; but, in the evenings, we had nothing to keep us warm except our enthusiasm for the great work of discovering Troy."