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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER IX
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I saw the comet blaze out, just on the edge of the field, and I could read its declination only.
"On the 28th, 29th, and July 1st, I obtained good meridian passages, and the R.A.must be very good.
"Jan.

12, 1882.

There is a strange sentence in the last paragraph of Dr.
Jacobi's article on the study of medicine by women, to the effect that it would be better for the husband always to be superior to the wife.
Why?
And if so, does not it condemn the ablest women to a single life?
"March 13, 1882, 3 P.M.I start for faculty, and we probably shall elect what are called the 'honor girls.' I dread the struggle that is pretty certain to come.

Each of us has some favorite whom she wishes to put into the highest class, and whom she honestly believes to be of the highest order of merit.

I never have the whole ten to suit me, but I can truly say that at this minute I do not care.


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