Word: womans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Barnard college, the woman's annex to Columbia, will soon be opened, and the examination of students for entrance will be held September 30th. A large house on Madison avenue has been rented and furnished by the trustees, and is already in readiness for the students. Many friends of woman's education have aided financially in the preparations for opening the college...
...Daily Themes" treat of a variety of topics, and are all well worth reading. "The Library" gives a possible clue to the success of Yale in athletics." "On the Cars" is an amusing sketch of a "fat fidgety old woman," and "A Beggar," one of the best, is full of pathos...
...last contribution, "Is there a Difference?" treats of the woman's rights question from a humorous point of view. The dialogue has the chatty and rambling nature of that of an afternoon call, but is not wholly natural at times...
...Stanislas Danion of the French Department is giving a series of ten lectures and readings, on Thursday afternoons at four o'clock, at the rooms of the Woman's Club, on Park street, Boston. The subjects of Mr. Danion's lectures are questions of contemporary life in France, literary, artistic, dramatic, religious...
...they exist at present in our country, and showed the evils which are constantly caused by them. Each state, said the speaker, has its own divorce law, which is as different from that of the other states as the North Pole is from the South. A man or woman who cannot obtain a divorce in one state has only to remove to some other state where the laws will suit the case in hand. Many attempts have been made to prevent this, but they are unsuccessful in lessening the evil, as the laws are constantly distorted in order...