Holyoke College and Catherine Beecher's for the American Woman's Education Association are the most substantial individual achievements, though they are but types of what many women were doing and what women in general were backing up.

It was work of the highest constructive type--original in its conception, full of imagination and idealism, rich in its capacity for growth--a work to fit the aspiration of its day and so full of the future! Now, when conditions are such that a few rise to great eminence from the ordinary ranks of life, it means a good general average.

The multitude of women of rare achievements, distinguishing the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods of American history are the best evidences of the seriousness, idealism, and intelligence of the women in general.

Their services in the war are part of the traditions of every family whose line runs back to those days.

Loyal, spirited, ingenious, and uncomplaining, they are one of the finest proofs in history of the capacity of the women of the mass to respond whole-heartedly to noble ideals,--one of the finest illustrations, too, of the type of service needed from women in great crises.