Word: womens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American colleges which cooperate in the support of the school are over twenty in number. Three of these are women's colleges,- Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, and Vassar. All students who have taken the bachelor's degree in any one of these colleges, and a few others who are eminently qualified, are given free use of the privileges of the school. On the other hand, students are obliged to pay all their own expenses while living at Athens...
...sciences, under the name of Radcliffe College. It has taken the form of a petition which has been sent for signatures to members of the Alumnae Association. The petition states that the members of the association believe that the proposed incorporation of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, under the name of Radcliffe College departs from the original purpose of the society, which they believe...
Second.- To offer this fund when sufficient to Harvard University on condition that Harvard University provide instruction for such women as had passed the entrance examinations required for men, confer its own degrees upon them, and treat them in all respects as a department of the University...
Third.- To persist in this policy as long as need be until, with the changing attitude of the public in regard to the education of women, Harvard should be willing to acceed to your request...
Obviously only three courses were open to the Overseers in the matter of degrees. Either Radcliffe College had to confer degrees entirely independently of Harvard; or Harvard had to confer degrees to women on the same terms as to men; or a middle course such as was pursued was necessary. Now this middle course was a compromiseand the situation today is a compromise. Instead of pursuing either of the extreme courses a bridge has been put across between them. Right here, it seems to us, the petitioners have gone astray. They seem to look upon the new relations between Harvard...