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Show 130 Dr. White asked me what m^ reason was for the lack of coloring matter upon the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands of the Negro. My answer was that I thought the pigment was not there and we must account for that in The" same way that we did for the abundance in other parts. She asked how that was. I answered that I believed it to be a design of the great Creator, which like many of His other works is alike wonderful and incomprehensible. As she is one of the believers in Huxley and Darwin, I don't know what she thought of my answer. Doubtless smiles at my credulity. But I thank Heaven for the faith that illumines my soul. What would this life be without it.31 A bit of nineteenth century social protest and a flash of insight as to the funding of the Philadelphia Women's Medical College is included in the following: March 29th The faculty of the college passed a resolution to charge the students a fee of $2.50 for the use of apparatus in the Pharmaceutical Laboratory, which was not at all in accordance with the ideas of a number of the students who immediately made out a protest and obtained all the names of the students whose signatures it was possible for them to obtain and presented it to Dr. Pierce to be presented to the faculty. He read it and as a prelude to his Dentistry lecture, gave the students some very good advice, first explaining the situation to them-that the College received its support from gentlemen who were interested in the College in no way but for the advancement of woman, that what they gave was not for selfish interest, that they received no interest whatever on their money.32 Spring has announced itself in nature by April 2nd and the sabbath has produced a special quiet in the large city as Ellis remarks upon the numerous places and many modes of worship and looks forward to the time when "all the multitudes of the earth shall assemble together to worship at One Shrine..." There is an afternoon walk with Sister Pratt out to Monument Cemetery, the "beautiful and silent city of the dead." |