Word: sisterhood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members of the adjoining sisterhood object to being "annexed." (Fact...
ONLY four members of the adjoining sisterhood take the whole course, and three of these are daughters of Unitarian ministers...
...because of eminence in literature, science, or philosophy. Some college papers seem to see in this Board of Regents the seed of an institution which shall be to America what the London University is to England, and one enraptured journal talks about a grand national University, "where all the sisterhood of colleges shall be united into one." Surely it would be a pleasant sight to see America's thousands of students flocking to some city in order to be examined. Or perhaps the examining board is to be peripatetic, in which case to be a member would insure one extraordinary...