A number of celebrations in various parts of Holland tomorrow will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Aletta Jacobs, a leading feminist who became Holland’s first woman medical student and practicing physician. Mrs. Jacobs died in 1929 at the age of 75.
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