Word: womens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Annex, represented the petitioners. He showed the rapid progress that has been made by the Annex since it was started fifteen years ago. He said that the purpose of the college in furthering the enterprise had not been to found a distinct woman's college, but to give to women the benefit of its collegiate course. Although the officers of the University do not deem it advisable to incur the expense and responsibility that would be involved by conferring degrees upon graduates from the Annex, yet they wish to give the Annex all practical advantages that may be derived from...
...classes meet one hour each week and are conducted by Harvard students. Women as well as men are admitted. Lectures open to the public are given every Saturday evening. Next Saturday evening Professor F. C. de Sumichrast will lecture on "The Story Writers of Today...
...university for women is soon to be established in Germany. It will be the firs of its kind in that country...
...committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, says the New York Evening Post, has made a table showing the sums given by women during the last thirteen years to colleges for men only, for women only, and for men and women together. In spite of the fact that in 1880, with which year the report begins, Vassar College was already fifteen years old, and that the desirableness of the higher education for women was therefore already patent, it appears that during this time women have given five times as much for the education of men alone as for the education...
Perhaps the most marked result of Extension teaching in England, Mr. Collins says, is the effect which it has had upon the position and influence of women in educational circles. The solid scholarship displayed by women all over England in the Extension classes has caused the exclusive occupants of university privileges to stop and consider the equities of the situation, as they have never thought of doing before...