Excerpt from Doctor Paley's Foolish Pigeons, and Short Sermons to Workingmen Miss Kennedy rapidly rose to the front rank as an educator. She fought the battle of the women teachers until she succeeded in placing them on the same footing with men teachers in the matter of compensation. She was the first woman elected principal of a San Francisco grammar school with the salary of a man principal. The rule she established then prevails to-day. She held the principalship of North Cosmopolitan Grammar School to which she was first elected during life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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