Elizabeth Kemper Adams

Miss Talbot divides her book into three parts.

Part I describes the changes in women's activities—industrial, educational, civic, philanthropic, domestic, and social—during the last hundred years.

Part II compares the educational machinery of about fifty years ago with that of today, citing as examples the past and the present curricula of the Boston and Chicago public schools, of Vassar College, and of the University of Wisconsin, in order to show how far education has adapted itself to these changes.

Part III deals with the present collegiate education of women, pointing out its characteristics, limitations, and possible modifications in the light of modern social, economic, and psychological knowledge.