Word: women
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins has given notice that the American Economic Association, of which he is secretary, has received $500, to be awarded as prizes for the best essays on women as wage earners. The prizes will be $300 and $200. The essays must not exceed 25,000 words each and must be in the hands of the association previous to November 1, 1890. Any person is eligible to the competition. This series of prizes will probably be permanent. The next subject will be taxation with a still larger premium. The first competition was on the subject...
...Romans carried many of them away from Greece to adorn their villas. Their greatest value to us is that they give evidence of a noble and dignified family life in ancient Greece, and show, in contrast to the exaggerated and libelous plays of Aristophanes, that women were honored and respected in Athens while they lived, and mourned for by their families when they died...
When it was announced at the English university of Cambridge that women would henceforth be admitted to the university examinations, the students turned out in a body to cheer Miss Helen Gladstone and the incoming young woman students...
There are 1191 students at the University of New York this year, of whom 125 are undergraduates, 108 graduates, 133 law students, 650 medical students, and 175 students of pedagogy. Four women have been admitted to the graduate course...
...tenth annual report of Secretary Gilman of the Society for the College Education of Women contains many interesting facts and statistics concerning the work and growth of the Annex. So fast has been the growth that Fay House in now not large enough to accommodate the classes. The building contains a reception room, a lunch room, a small conversation room, two reading rooms (both together inadequate), a laboratory of botany, two small apartments for the librarian and secretary respectively and four lecture rooms. The laboratories of Physics, Chemistry and Zoology are in other buildings. The office of the secretary...