Word: woman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second place, at Yale women are admitted as graduate students, at Harvard they are not. There is only one woman enrolled as a Harvard student and she is taking a graduate course in the Medical School. At Yale there are 62 women enrolled as students. Some 40 of them are in the Graduate School and the rest chiefly in the School of Arts and School of Music. These names are taken from the lists, in order to put the comparison on exactly even terms...
...Marriage, which has had an immense run in England, no novel except Trilby being more in demand at the libraries, has just been issued in America by Macmillan and Co. In it Mr. Sladen advocates the most advanced hedonistic theories, and declares himself a strong advocate of the "New Woman" movement. "Any age," he says, "is golden in which women are as freed...
...Tennyson's elegy, "In Memoriam." Mr. Copeland said a few words by way of comparing, or rather contrasting, "In Memoriam," and the two other most famous elegies in English,- Milton's "Gycidus" and the "Adonais" of Shelly; and he commented on the suggestion once made by a clever woman that, although literary ambition would have been more highly gratified by writing "Adonais," there is, nevertheless, a more complete expression of personal and intimate human feeling in the lines in which Tennyson commemorated the lost friend of his youth...
...committee of thirty-five Rhode Island women who are trying to raise $50,000 for the Woman's College of Brown University announce that they have already raised $20,000. They hope to have the whole amount subscribed by next fall, so that the new building may be begun by September...
Yale has recently won much undesirable and undue notoriety from the thoughtless remarks of a woman reformer as to its moral character, which, at least, holds its own with that of other universities. Press comments have cesured the reformer rather than the object of her wrath...