Word: vassar
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THREE Japanese ladies are studying at Vassar...
...members of the Annex were fitted for college at Vassar, Smith College, the high schools in Newton, Somerville, Waltham, Beverly, and Brookline; Packer Institute, Bradford Academy, and Miss Hubbard's School in Boston. A few were prepared by aid of the Harvard Examinations for Women, and of the Society for the Encouragement of Studies at Home...
WOULD that my enemy would write a poem! We were in hopes that the Vassar Miscellany would contain a poem, that we might have a chance to return a kiss for a blow; but, alas! her only poems were quoted from the Crimson. If, however, we were to venture a criticism upon her review of our sonnet, we should say that the physiological ignorance which she displays is alarming in a college girl...
...Private College for Women begins its career with bright prospects for future success. As many as twenty candidates have presented themselves for admission, and among them students from Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, in spite of the fact that those colleges claim to offer to their students all the advantages of Harvard. We take the occasion to report to our Western exchanges, who have already begun to talk about women at "cultivated" Harvard, that the Private College for Women is entirely separate from the College. It is controlled by persons who have no connection with the University, and is merely...
...Vassar Miscellany is as earnest as usual, - so much so as to be a little heavy as well. It prints some excellent Commencement essays, and criticises the performances of Commencement and Class Day. Professor Mitchell seems to be a great favorite at Vassar. Stanzas have been written in her honor, of which the following is a specimen...