68 Ellen Key programme. She spoke of the duty of the young to hold themselves sacred, to keep their minds pure and undefiled by the depravity which was often a consequence of the superficial and insipid jargon that the young people of oppo- site sex indulged in. With words aglow with tenderness and sincerity, she spoke of the duty of the woman-to-be to consider and to concen- trate herself for the high calling that awaited her, ... all that which our mothers with trembling hearts would have wished to have said to us, had they been able, and which our other teachers did not care to do, because their work was to cram our brains with as much book knowledge as possible in the shortest possible time, this, Ellen Key gave us with all the generosity of her warm heart and with the full brilliancy of her eloquence. To us, chits of girls of that horrid anaemic age of sweet- meats and undigested knowledge, she spoke in such a way that we bowed out heads in thought as well as shame. And we experienced at the same time a certain feeling of pride that we were being treated as human beings—or as if we were expected to become himian beings. A fourth writes about Ellen Key as follows: "She was so eager to form our minds in the right way, that when, as once happened while