Word: womens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shows the number of students at the Institute of Technology this year to be 1158, a gain of 98 since last year. Of these, 457 are new students. Forty states and twenty foreign countries are represented in the catalogue. From Massachusetts alone there are 665 students. The number of women studying at the Institute is 47. Among the students are 79 graduates of institutions conferring degrees. Of these, 19 are from Harvard, 11 from the Institute of Technology, 4 from Yale, 3 each from Williams and Smith Colleges, while 38 other institutions are represented...
Endeavors to introduce out-of-door athletics at Wellesley have met with marked success. Up to the opening of 1892 no systematic out-of-door work had been given the students. Rowing was then introduced under careful supervision, and aroused such interest that 175 of the young women competed for positions on the crews. The class of '96 raised $2,500 to build a boat-house last year, and Dr. W. A. Brooks, a former oarsman of Harvard coached the crews...
Although Wendell Phillips had the misfortune of outliving the main pursuit of his life, yet even after the abolition of slavery, he maintained his position as reformer, firmly believing in the rights of women, in the prohibition movement and the abolition of capital punishment...
...Arthur Gilman, at present secretary of the Society and chairman of the Students' Committee respectively, is due the great credit of being the originators of the plan for the education of women by professors of Harvard College. It was their desire to make no direct advances to the corporation of the college, so that the responsibility of the experiment should rest only upon the persons interested in it; yet as the instruction was to be furnished by Harvard professors, it was evident that no action ought to be taken without consultation with the college authorities. Accordingly, having matured their plans...
...Gurney; and no time was lost in getting out the first circular, which was dated February 22. In spite of the careful wording of this, it was understood by many, as it has so often been understood since, that Harvard College was to be opened to women...