Whilst in Sendai, 1 was invited mixed students (boys and girls in their early twenties) discussion group meeting and listened with interest to a debate in English on the "Emon-Jeipation of Women." I discovered that these young men, like their forefathers, "disapprove of their ]womenfolic receiving a higher education; and they even went 50 far as (0 say, it unfitted them to become good wives.
The young ladies, when their tu:
Jcame, were somewhat diffident in expressing their opinion; but privately they put up a strong argument for the maintenance of their newly ac-Jguired rights: which ore still far behind those enjoyed by their Western sisters. The geisha" question was raised by both parties; but here Jagain, the sexes found their views diametrically "opposed. One male [student got up and explained to us, fin the most lucid style, John Stuart MUI's ideas on the subject. These none of us. could refule or even challenge, as the orator was the only Jone present who had taken the trouble to learn what they were,
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