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Two Successful Co-eds.

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Day
15
Month
July
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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The toHowlng dexeription of one of them is f:-om the N. Y. Press of July 5t.li: tAism Kane was amomg the first American women who wleeted law as a profession, and acliieved signal success. 8he commenced the study of laW at Ann Arbor, Mieh., and completcd lier course ín the office of A. A. ■Jackson, oí the Janeertlle (Wis.) bar. After a thorough and protracted oxnmination before a committee appointed hy the court for that purpose, she was íound well qualiíied to practico law, and on thcir recommenda-tion was admitted to the Janesville bar in 1878. Immediately after her ndiiuVsion she went to Milwaukee and practiced law there until 1883, when she went to Chicago and was admitted to the Illinois bar and practiced there. On the motion of Robort O. Ingersoll she was also admitted to the bar of the Snpreme Oourt of the United States nt Washington. Miss Kaoe devotos her atteiition ïnainly to criminal cases, but has a go l dtncrwlegde of civil practico, and levotee cntlre attwition to the practiee of her profession. The Detroit Evenins News Rives the following sketch of a lady gradúate of the university, that may be of interest to some of our university readers: The west, with its opportunities for enterpriso and oftentinips the necesnity for self-culture, has given us many a product of whtch the older civilization might be proud. From Milwaukee, ■with the tiest education to be obtained in the imiversity of MichIgaa, nOTwan Miss Elizaleth Jean Jord:in. apretty, dark-eyed, black-haired young girl, half Spanlsh in üescent. She takea assignments and goes about collecting news as if she were a man, and, wliat is more, she comes back to the office and writee up lier "story" in a way wlücli is the wivy oi many a man who claims that newspaper womcn are out of place in the journalistic ïii'Ul. and that they retaln thelr jiositions through favoritisin rather ilian eaarneat work. Miss Jordán contradiets this by every act of her journalistic 111e, nioving about -vvitli a swing and ui todependence that is all he.r own. One day mms her en route for the south, where, among the wilds of Virginia, she epends seven 4aya and nights in the saddle, looking up a story and stopping lor rest only whcn niglitfall forbids ïurther pursuit oí her inission. Another timo finds lier at a sudden snramons trom ha? editor Invadtng the morgue in company only with the keeper, in search of the body of a dead baby ■who.se tparents were too poor to give burial and who were obliged to Bend it to a morgue to be buried at the city's expense. With 'but two hours' notice, dinnerless, fatigued with the woa-k of the day. the plucky little woman looked up the baby, foimd its little fcody in its rough little coffin and wrote up the "story," tuniing in the copy before lnidnight, 6O that it miglit be in time for the next morning's paper. So pathetlc www tho details of the poverty and eorrow of the parents that before 10 o'clock in the morning enough money had been hubscribed to take the little one to its last poor resting place.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier