Scope and content Letter from Ida Henrietta Hyde, from Strassburg, Feb. 8, 1894, to "My dear Dr. Whitman" [presumably Charles Otis Whitman, b. 1842-d. 1910] concerning her experiences at the University of Strassburg where she studied physiology, but was unable to obtain the Ph.D. degree because of University regulations. She comments on the general opposition to higher education for women to be found among the educated class in Germany and tells of her success in persuading the faculty of the University of...