International Women's Day or #IDW2016 for you Twitter kids was earlier in the week, March is Women's History (Herstory), and the Gopher Women's Hockey team is getting ready to repeat as NCAA champs. So I thought this was a great occasion to reprint an article that showed up in the The Ariel (the student newspaper before The Minnesota Daily) by Dr. Louis Cooke, then the Men's Basketball Coach at the U of M and the Director of the Department of Physical Education for Men (at the time this position was similar to today's Athletic Director role).
October 30, 1897
Necessity of Girl's Sports: They Should Take Advantage of Gymnasium.