Word: womens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Resolved, That in the judgment of the Board of Overseers the degree of Bachelor of Arts should not be given by this University to women, inasmuch as they are not permitted to qualify themselves for it in Harvard College, and at present this form of qualification is implied by the said degree...
...resolutions adopted by the Overseers yesterday are probably the initial steps in the most radical move Harvard has yet made to wards the education of women. The resolution to the effect that degrees of Harvard shall not be conferred on students of Radcliffe simply insists that the relations between the two institutions shall not be confused. The soundness of this position is not to be questioned. The second resolution has more import, it admits Radcliffe students to all Harvard courses which are intended primarily for graduates. Practically speaking, Harvard is to have coeducation in the Graduate School...
...scholarships which Harvard has were given by men and women who believed that money, expended in making advanced education possible to young men, was well expended. The money given is ordinarily not reserved for specified individuals; it is given freely to persons with whom the donors have no previous connection. In a word, scholarships are a result of an interest in the general welfare. They are investments of the community,-the sacrifice of one generation for the sake of a future generation...
assistants, 10; non-resident lecturers, 2; making a total of 88, of whom 10 are at present absent. There are also 14 other assistants and officers connected mainly with administration, making a total of 102. The total registration is 975 (inclvding 297 women), an increase of 211 over the previous year...
When a country is conquered and taken possession of by an emigrating tribe who bring with them their women and children, the material of the population is changed, the aborigines take refuge in the mountains and their language perpetuates itself there, as snow maintains itself all summer in certain mountainclefts inaccessible to the sun. But here a nation is conquered by an invading army, where the dynasty or governing class alone is changed; only so much of the language of the conqueror infuses itself as is absolutely necessary to the commerce of life, and the speech of the people gradually...