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...territories are represented, Michigan ranking first in point of numbers, with 680, Ohio second, 162, Illinois third, 121, and New York fourth, 117. There are 15 students from Massachusetts and also a number from the Canadian provinces and other foreign countries. Both sexes are admitted, but the number of women is small in comparison with the males. The department of literature, science and the arts most nearly corresponds to our under-graduate department, and the scientific school degrees of different kinds are given, partly for proscribed, partly for elective work - the elective courses are very considerable in variety and range...
...gather from our exchanges that many people have an idea that to a certain degree co-education exists at Harvard. All fail to express just how far this degree extends, but it seems to be the general impression that Harvard possesses a department devoted to the instruction of women, and that that department is termed the Annex. It is difficult to see what should give rise to this thought; from the reports of the authorities certainly nothing can be construed, even by the liveliest imagination, to justify it, and it is well known that even the personal taste and desire...
...second question, 'Why not teach boys as well as young women to cook?' drew forth the response that the lecturer heartily approved of such a plan, and had actually taught a class at Harvard." - [From a report of a lecture by Miss Parloa...
...will of the late Hon. Louis H. Morgan leaves $100,000 for the use of his wife and son during their life. Afterward it goes to Rochester University, for educating women...
...horrid awful to think that some women want to vote; I know that I'd vote for the best-looking man, and so would all the girls; but I don't see that there's any fun in voting. I only voted once in my life, and that was at our church fair, when I voted for the handsomest girl there. It isn't so that I voted for myself, and that hateful Hurty Randall only said that because I beat her by one vote. Don't you think that gentlemen ought to wear evening dress at the theatre...