[Gutenberg 34793] • Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College

Excerpt from Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College: Delivered in the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, (Rev. Dr. Crosby's), On Sabbath Evening, June 2d, 1867

It has been my custom, to make a personal address to the members of each graduating class, as they have gone forth from the quiet of the school to the busy walks of life. My heart now impels me to follow this usage, but the change that has taken place in this institution, during the past year, seems to make appropriate to the present occasion, a few preliminary statements of my Views as to what is the true position of woman, and what should be her education.

These are questions that deeply agitate the public mind. They are, in fact, the leading questions of the day; but in regard to them, I shall not shrink from the utterance of my opinions. Underlying the question of the education of woman, is the question' of her equality with man; for if woman be inferior to man, so should be her education.

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