Word: women
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have accepted the offer of Joseph M. Bennet to give properties adjoining the university buildings for a college for women in connection with the University of Pennsylvania...
Amelia E. Barr, Frank R, Stockton, Mark Twain, H. H. Boyesen and many other well known writers will furnish the fiction for the new volume, which is to be unusually strong, including several novels, illustrated novelettes, and short stories. "The Women of the French Salons" are to be described in a brilliant series of illustrated papers. The important discoveries made with the great Lick Telescope at San Francisco (the largest telescope in the world) and the latest explorations relating to prehistoric America (including the famous Serpent Mound, of Ohio) are to be chronicled in The Century...
...work thus opened, the Hon. Robert Treat Paine, president of the Boston Associated Charities had consented to describe the method of that organization. Mr. Paine said that the great problem which the Associated Charites had tried to solve was how to utilize the spare moments which busy men and women can give to the service of fellow beings less fortunately situated. It is the object of the association to send in to every family in distress some one to exert an influence as a friend. An occasional visit, with a careful investigation and a search for a remedy...
...most important feature of the college is the botanical laboratory, the gift of a few enthusiastic friends of botany. This has been fitted with apparatus mainly imported from Europe, and is considered the best fitted laboratory for women in the country. Especially does it offer superior opportunities for advanced courses in botany. The advantages offered in this department are for three classes of students. Those who hold first degrees from Barnard and other colleges, and desire to work for a higher degree, making a special study of botany; those who wish to study some one branch of botany, without reference...
...purpose of Barnard college to offer women as thorough and as broad a training as can be obtained anywhere, and the trustees are now at work pushing the construction of chemical and physical laboratories, dormitories and recitation halls...