Word: woman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...woman is trying for the degree of Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins...
...high a standard as exists today, and makes the courses so attractive that young women of an age which very often finds them interested in nothing but society, are glad to give up part of this for science and literature and art. Not many years ago the young woman who went into "higher education" was inseparably associated, at least in the minds of young men, with bowed spectacles and philosophy and was fought shy of as being "intellectual" and so uninteresting. Today a young woman may be as intellectual as she likes and still be decidedly interesting. Thus the Annex...
...interesting to note the change of the official name to Radcliffe College. Investigations which have recently been made, revealed the fact that the first woman who ever gave money to Harvard was, by her maiden name, Anne Radcliffe. Her bequest of L100 was made in the year 1640; and it seemed desirable to Mrs. Agassiz, the president of the present society, that a college for the education of women should remember, in the days of its prosperity, the first woman who showed an active interest in educational institutions...
...degree of Ph. D. has been conferred on a woman by the University of Heidelberg...
...Woman Suffrage is not politically expedient for: (a) Women have not shown an ability to deal with political subjects. (b) They could not aid in the enforcement of the laws. (c). It involves the right to hold office. (d) Woman's sphere is at home...