We women never can be sufficiently thankful to her for taking the hard blows and still harder criticisms, while we reaped the benefits." The press reports said: "Miss Anthony has gained in the estimation of the teachers' convention, and is now listened to with great attention." She gave her lecture on "Co-Education" to a crowded house of Lockport's prominent citizens, introduced by President George L.Farnham, of Syracuse, always her friend in those troublous days.

By this time more than a score of the eminent educators of the day had become her steadfast friends, and they welcomed her to these conventions, aiding her efforts in every possible manner.

Rev.Samuel J.May, who had delivered an address, upon his return home wrote: "You are a great girl, and I wish there were thousands more in the world like you.

Some foolish old conventionalisms would be utterly routed, and the legal and social disabilities of women would not long be what they are." Miss Anthony herself, writing to Antoinette Blackwell, said: "I wish I had time to tell you of my Lockport experience; it was rich.

I never felt so cool and self-possessed among the plannings and plottings of the few old fogies, and they never appeared so frantic with rage.