Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sixteen were successful, or about seventy-three per cent; while forty-two per cent of the men passed. Only twenty-seven per cent of the men were placed in the first division, but sixty-eight per cent of the women reached that rank. That is to say, while every woman graduating but one was in the first division, only one man in three was so placed. The age of the women was slightly less than that of the men. Such facts as these will impress the most prejudiced person of woman's capacity for work; but, unhappily, zealots will...
...responses as especially worthy of condemnation. Possibly, if the boys and girls were in the same institution, the latter would content themselves with giving five-o'clock tea parties and similar entertainments. It is only when women isolate themselves from men that they try to imitate manly foibles. - [Woman's Journal...
After a long contest, the will of Barbara Scott, an eccentric and miserly woman in Montreal, has been pronounced valid. She willed a large property to public objects, giving $40,000 to McGill University for the foundation of a school of engineering, and leaving the remainder to hospitals, churches and public benefit institutions...
Apropos of higher education for women: Milton was asked if he intended to instruct his daughter in the different languages; to which he replied: "No, sir; one tongue is sufficient for a woman...
...body of the woman found in the pond of Mt. Auburn cemetery on Monday and for the past two days in charge of Undertaker Gregg of Watertown, was positively identified yesterday afternoon, by Mr. Sargent and his wife of Belmont, as Sophia Morrison...