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Baker points out that it is almost impossible to discuss where the Seven Sisters are going without prefacing remarks on their origins. The women's colleges were established late in the nineteenth century, and were pioneers in offering higher education for young women. There was a great deal of skepticism about the value of such education for women and, patterned after the widely respected, elitist colleges of the Ivy League, the Seven Sisters were particularly sensitive to public opinion. Baker shows the women's colleges' meticulous efforts to keep their academic standards equal to those of the Ivy League...
William Mayne and his successors set the nineteenth century trend of making shafts from ash or hazel and club heads of blackthorn, beech, apple, or pear...
HOLY HORATIO--The nineteenth century Harvard author who sold more copies of his works than Thoreau, Emerson, Parkman, Lowell, and Henry James combined was not a Transcendentalist. He was a Unitarian named "Holy" Horatio Alger Jr., so called because of his announced intention to follow his father's footsteps in the ministry. His 119 "rags-to-riches" novels--all with nearly the same plot--sold around 250,000,000 copies. No Harvard author to date has sold that many books...
...Library. King says 10 to 15 per cent of the library's users are now men, utilizing the resources either for women's history in particular or to supplement a more general history. The most requested papers recently have been those of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a nineteenth century feminist theoretician who believed economic independence to be the foremost need of all women. But perhaps more important, in a study King did recently of the Schlesinger Library's manuscript users, she found four subjects--education and educated women, employment and working class women, feminism and suffrage, and the woman...
...stopped, left 29 inmates and 10 correctional officers dead and 81 others wounded. The New York State Special Commission on Attica, the McKay Commission, called this event "the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War, with the exception of the Indian massacres in the late nineteenth century." Since then, the Attica massacre investigations have led to ten convictions of inmates and one indictment of a state trooper, subsequently dropped for lack of evidence...