Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.” When she came forward at Commencement, in a delightful little Greenaway gown of white mu
slin, peppered over with tiny dots, with the very smile of childhood in her wide blue eyes, and her curly hair clustering round her brows—the learned doctors, imported to adorn the Commencement exercises, blinked their eyes and looked twice, and hesitated, even then, to accept her as an established fact. Which detail most helps the reader infer that female doctors were unusual at this time? she came forward at Commencement smile of childhood in her wide blue eyes imported to adorn the Commencement blinked their eyes and looked twice
