Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — Women Not “Immortals.” [ARTICLE]

Women Not “Immortals.”

Women have applied for admittance to the French Academy, but the "immortals" already there are not in favor of admitting them. M. Poincare is alone in courageously favoring the admission of women. If Mme. Garnier 'succeeds in forcing open the door, he says, he will not be the last of the Forty to congratulate her. M. Bourget holds that the traditions of the academy are against women being admitted. M. Emile Boutroux sees no objection—if it is the wish of the public. On the other hand, M, Alfred Capus cries, “Hands off the Academy I” He believes that on. the day when a woman, or a foreigner, Is admitted to the Institution it will be destroyed. M. Henri Regnier holds that the rules could not be altered to admit women. If they are to be admitted it can only be done by a presidential decree.