And second, the students had been handed the power to make serious mischief. First, their professors were cowards: too timid to reject this unprecedented request out of hand, not bold enough to embrace it. Two things were clear to the assembled young men.
Their prompt attention to this matter would be appreciated. The faculty at Geneva had decided to put the issue to a student vote, Lee continued, with the stipulation that a single nay could turn the decision against the unusual lady in question. Several prominent medical colleges had already refused her. He held, he announced with a quaver, the “most extraordinary request which had ever been made to the faculty.” A young lady, studying privately with an eminent physician in Philadelphia, had applied, with her mentor’s endorsement, for admission to their school.
The worry lines in his perennially concerned expression deeper than usual, Dr.
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