Word: womans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor W. W. Goodwin will read a paper on "The American School for Classical Studies" before the New England Woman's Club this afternoon at half-past three o'clock...
...Union met last evening in Sever 11 to discuss the question of Woman Suffrage. The principal disputants were Messrs. Hayes, '84, and Richardson, '86, in the affirmative and Messrs. frost, '84, and Hansen, '85, in the negative. The following gentleman spool from the house: Mackintosh, Bowen, Carrier, Roundy, Fraser, in the affirmative and Barnes, Libby, Halbert, C. T. Davis, Lamont and Saunders in resulted as follows: On the merits of the question, affirmative 16, negative 37; on the might of the arguments of the principal disputants, affirmative 16, negative 52; on the whole debate, affirmative 10, negative 32. The question...
Whether or not the inevitable operation of this law had been observed by the promoters of the Annex, they have succeeded in opening a new matrimonial market for the superfluous woman of New England. The Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of the Higher Education of Women, under whose protecting wings the Annex has flourished to its present stage of success, has done more to solve the perplexing problem of super-abundant women and decreasing marriages that is distressing social philosophers, than all the theorizing and sad predictions of which the talking folk have been guilty.-[Globe...
...language. Without entering upon the vexed question of the higher education for women, we may illustrate our meaning by the schedule of studies offered the other day to women in Columbia College. The range of study in each branch consisted of bald text-books, compendiums, grammars. What thoughtful woman, for example, in a good library with one year's quiet reading, would not absorb an infinitely wider and truer knowledge of either history, language or literature than was included in this school curriculum for four years? It is the letter that kills in our whole present school system; the spirit...
Fourth - The motives for study induced by the system are, we believe, unworthy ones, and especially unworthy of students who are to go into the world as exponents of the higher education of woman. The spirit of emulation - the desire to shine, at any cost, on commencement day are not the motives which will develop the students of Vassar College into worthy daughters of their alma mater, and these are the incentives to work which the present honor system in too many cases engenders. In view, then, of these reasons, and in view of the fact that, as students...