Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ezra Cornell described his plan in these words : "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," a statement certainly broad enough to embrace the female sex. Accordingly, President White, in 1872, admitted the first young woman who presented herself with a State certificate, without discussing the metaphysical question as to whether she was a "person" and so came within the limits of the charter...
...superior of the Convent of Notre Dame at St. Albans, Vt., says the Woman's Journal, is thinking of introducing a system of gymnastics contrived by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard, which is undoubtedly the best...
That to each young woman sustaining such examination there shall be awarded a suitable testimonial or diploma attesting her success...
That examinations and reviews should be held by the faculty of the college at which any young woman may present herself who shall have diligently pursued the courses prescribed...
...discussion of the higher education of women has been a prominent feature in the New York papers of late, and an exhaustive article appears in the Woman's Journal on the subject, of which the following is a brief summary: The article says that in Belgium the question of admitting women to the universities was brought up in 1875, but not until 1881 was the plan adopted at Brussels and Liege. At present there are women studying at both these places. France not only allows women to attend the lectures at most of her colleges, but graduates are permitted...