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...school called Ewha Haktang (Pear Flower Study House) did change the women of Korea, but the change consisted in raising them from their role as illiterate, housebound servants to a status they had never known before. This week, at 70, Ewha is not only the largest (4,800 students) women's university in Korea, it is also one of the most respected of all the nation's universities. Said President Syngman Rhee at the 70th anniversary celebration: "I express my thanks to God that our women's university has grown so large and will continue to grow...
Death of a Patron. Few campuses anywhere in the world have traveled more resolutely towards their goal over a more precarious road. Ewha was at first such a suspect place that its pupils went about in veils to conceal their identity. But the school did have one powerful patron-patriotic Queen Min, who in 1895 was to meet death in her own palace at the hands of Japanese infiltrators. By 1910, when Japan finally annexed Korea, the idea of education for women was so well established that Ewha began adding college courses...