Word: zurich
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years the university of Zurich has received women on equal terms with man. There are at present in the university thirty-one female students (twenty in medicine, ten in philosophy, and one in chemistry), distributed as follows: seven from Germany, two each from Baden and Schiswig, and one each from Bavaria, East Prussia and Sondershausen. Thirty women have received the Doctor's degree-twenty-three in medicine and seven in philosophy...
...what are called "compulsory lectures"-these regulations were not made by the university, but by the state, which was afterwards to admit candidates to these callings-At the same time the students had, and still have, perfect freedom to migrate from one German university to another, from Dorpat to Zurich, from Vienna to Gratz; and in each university they had free choice among the teachers of the same subject, without reference to their position as ordinary or extraordinary professors, or as private docents. The students are, in fact, free to acquire any part of their instruction from books...
There are four universities in Switzerland-at Basle, Berne, Geneva and Zurich-at which there are 543 medical students, of whom 51 are women...
...only allows women to attend the lectures at most of her colleges, but graduates are permitted to practice their chosen professions. The present attitude of the French government towards the movement is said to be very favorable. Several Russian ladies have followed the medical course at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Eight years ago, over a hundred lady students were at this university, but now the number is considerably less from political reasons. Nearly all the educational institutions of Italy are, and have been for years, open to women. In Bavaria since 1880, women are actually prohibited from taking...
Miss Edith Thomas, daughter of a professor of Johns Hopkins, has recently received the first degree of Ph. D. ever granted to a woman by the University of Zurich...