Word: womens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Relations with Radcliffe College.June 10. "Whereas in view of the relations now established between Harvard University and Radcliffe College, it is expedient that Harvard examinations should be open to women only through the medium of Radcliffe College,- Voted 1. That Radcliffe College be authorized to provide in Cambridge and (with the approval of the President of the University) in other places where the Harvard admission examinations are held, arrangements by which women may take those examinations; to submit the work of its candidates to the committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Admission Examinations, and to certify...
...full representative meeting of the Oxford Association for the Education of Women has voted, four to one, to memorialize Oxford University in behalf of conferring degrees upon women. The Association has hitherto been divided on the question of policy, and the vote shows a somewhat remarkable development of opinion. An act of Parliament is not necessary for Oxford and Cambridge in respect to this matter, but the board of Trinity College at Dublin, desiring to find some excuse for their unwillingness to admit women to lectures and degree examinations, have found out that the college's constitution will not allow...
...noted for his active work in all benevolent institutions, and held the offices of president of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, president of the Home for Aged Colored Women and trustee of the Asylum for Feeble-minded Youth. He was also an active member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society...
...impracticable. - (a) Young women must be separately cared for. - (1) Administration must be partly, at least, in hands of women. - (2) Separate gymnasium necessary. - (b) Present resources inadequate to accommodate large accession in numbers. - (1) Already a yearly deficit: Treasurer's Reports. - (2) Insufficient building room, e. g., Library. - (c) Legal difficulties in application of funds and properties explicitly devoted to men, e. g., bequests, scholarships, etc. - (d) Administrative work of college authorities already too great...
...unnecessary. - (a) Highest education already accessible to women: C. W. Eliot, Annual Report, Jan. 1895. - (1) Radcliffe College supplies it to undergraduates. - (x) Instruction of same grade as at Harvard. - (y) Given by Harvard teachers. - (2) Harvard supplies it to graduates. - (x) Graduate courses open to Radcliffe. - (b) This plan is practicable and efficient. - (1) Objections to co-education eliminated. - (2) It has been adopted successfully elsewhere. - (v) Newnham College, at Cambridge, Eng. (w) Giston College, Oxford. - (x) Barnard College, Columbia. - (y) Western Reserve University...