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 academies enlarged their sphere of work, and secured the services of visiting masters to teach extra subjects such as elementary geography, history, music, arithmetic, and the like. Since those days the visiting master has become a declining quantity in our educational scheme, his services being requisitioned chiefly by private schools for foreign languages, advanced science, or mathematics, and even these subjects are by no means his monopoly. The teaching profession in elementary schools shows a tendency at present to fall into the hands of women, and women teachers in Higher Grade and Secondary Schools and Colleges take unquestioned rank with the masters in the same circumstances, though the amount of their remuneration is not yet the same. There are 172,000 Elementary School teachers, 43,000 men and 129,000 women. The number of teachers in Secondary Schools is 13,000, of which 6800 are women and 6700 men. Women are also University Professors and Science Demonstrators. The nation has been won at last to a belief in the value to women of an equal educational opportunity with men, and the capacity of women to teach what they have learned has been proved a thousand times over. But to return to the story.

The first famous school for girls was founded by Miss Buss in 1850, and called the North