Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...February, 1879, an announcement was circulated in Boston and Cambridge under the title of "Private College Instruction for Women", describing the provisions made and stating that "no instruction will be provided of a lower grade than that given in Harvard College." The circular was distributed with the signature of Mr. Gilman as secretary and the names of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly...
...slender. Tuition had to be $200 a year. $50 more than Harvard students paid, and representing a relatively much greater outlay today. Work was begun in four rented rooms in the house at 6 Appian Way. But thirtyeight Harvard instructors were eventually engaged to teach the twenty-seven young women who enrolled. The work was actually launched with the class of three in elementary Greek, taught by Le Baron Russell Briggs, who had been graduated from Harvard in 1875, and was destined to become the president of the new women's college...
...founders continued their devoted and untiring work. For three years Arthur Gilman, as secretary of the "Harvard Annex," as it soon came to be called, was sole executive officer of "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women by Professors and Other Instructors of Harvard College...
...students. It had become a centre for graduate study. Its physical equipment had been gradually enlarged. A full-time president had therefore become necessary, and the associates appointed Miss Ada Louise Comstock, then Dean of Smith College, to direct the administration. Miss Comstock had previously been Dean of Women at the University of Minnesota, which she had attended as an undergraduate, and had been Dean at Smith, of which she was a graduate, from...
Differentiated from other colleges for women by the quality of Harvard instruction available to its students and by the strong graduate character of its work, Radcliffe pauses for three days, beginning Thursday, to celebrate its past. Its first half-century of life has brought it firm establishment, academic prestige second to none among the women's colleges and a widening circle of friends. But if the college finds satisfaction in these things, it also feels that its success has given it larger responsibilities for the future. That way its eyes are turned