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Part Taken by Women in American History

AMY MORRIS ROMANS.

Born at Vassalboro, November 15, 1848. Daughter of Harrison and Sarah Bliss Bradley Homans. Prominent educator. Principal of the Hemenway School and McRae and Chadbourn private school; in charge of the educational work founded by the late Mrs. Mary Hemenway from 1877 to 1909. Organized and directed the Boston Normal School of Household Arts, Boston School of Gymnastics; director of Hygiene and Physical Education in Wellesley College since 1909.

MARY AUGUSTA SCOTT.

Daughter of Abram McLean and Julia Anne Boyer Scott. Has received degrees from Vassar and Cambridge, England; student in Romance languages at Johns Hopkins, and the first woman fellow of Yale, Ph.D., 1894. Professor of English language and literature at Smith College. Author of "Elizabethan Translations from the Italian." Editor of "Operative Gynecology," by Dr. Howard A. Kelly, "Walter Reed and Yellow Fever," by Dr. Kelly, "Bacon's Essays," and contributor to the Dial for many years. Writer of reviews and criticisms in literature for academic journals, American and foreign.

ELLEN BLISS TALBOT.

Born in Iowa City, Iowa, November 22, 1867. Daughter of Benjamin and Harriet Bliss Talbot. Professor and head of the department of philosophy of Mount Holyoke College. Author of "The Fundamental Principles of Fichte's Philosophy." Contributor to philosophical and psychological journals and reviews.

MARY VANCE YOUNG.

Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1866. Daughter of John Seavers and Jane Vance Young. Was instructor of the Romance languages of Smith College; professor of Romance languages at Mount Holyoke College since 1901; Ofticier dAcademie, French Government; member of the Modern Language Association of America; Societe Amicale Gaston, Paris, and author of Moliere's "Kunst Komodien," also an Italian grammar.

KATHERINE COMAN.

Born at Newark, Ohio, November 23, 1857. Daughter of Levi P. and Martha Seymour Coman. Was professor of economics since 1900 at Wellesley College; author of "The Growth of the English Nation," "History of England," "History of England for Beginners," "Industrial History of the United States" and other books.

ELLEN HAYES.

Born in Granville, Ohio, September 23, 185 1. Daughter of Charles C. and Ruth Wolcott Hayes. Was lecturer and writer on astronomy and other scientific