Word: womens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee of prominent Providence women, with Miss Sarah E. Doyle as chairman, has undertaken to raise $75,-000 to be used in erecting a building for the Women's College of Brown University...
Tufts College will receive from the estate of Mrs. Cornelia M. Jackson, $75,000 to found a college for women, which is to be called the "Cornelia M. Jackson College for Women...
Among the persons whose names appear this year on the petition to the Massachusetts Legislature, asking that municipal suffrage be granted to women are: S. F. Smith '29, Professor F. G. Peabody, Professor George H. Palmer, and Professor N. S. Shaler...
...beginning of this new year is black upon us, but the dawn already lights the peaks of the eastern hills; there is more social spirit at work than ever before; more people are today occupied in helping their fellow beings than in any previous year. Men and women are now busily engaged by a desire to reach out and help those who are not so well off as themselves. Mechanical philanthropy is no longer of use. The new spirit of change is marked by the incessant efforts towards the reform of our politics which characterized the end of the past...
...silver decorations, carvings and clothes, of a civilization existing among these people rivalled only by that of Greece or Rome. The introduction of Christianity, which in other parts of the civilized world had such an ennobling effect upon mankind in general, is here marked by the fall of women from her position of the equal of man to that of his slave. She had previously been able to hold property in her own name and when thus held it could not be touched by the husband...