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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Orton, James, 1830-1877. Liberal education of women. New York ; Chicago : A.S. Barnes & Co., 1873 (OCoLC)605062458 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Orton |
| OCLC Number: | 1200630 |
| Description: | x, 328 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Contents: | Historical sketch / from the British Quarterly Review -- The demand of the age for the liberal education of woman, and how it should be met / by President Raymond -- Woman's claim to a higher education / by Millicent Garrett Fawcett -- The testimony of Mary Somerville -- On the study of science by women / by Lydia Ernestine Becker -- Mental peculiarities of women / by Rev. J.M. Capes -- The question of health / from the College Courant -- The suppressed sex / from the Westminster Review -- The university system / from Fraser's Magazine -- The difficulties / from the Edinburgh Review -- Home education / from the London Quarterly Review -- A true college for women / from the London Quarterly Review -- Joint education / by Rev. Thomas Markby -- Lob-sided / by Rev. John Todd, D.D. -- On the way to college / by Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- The sexes in college / from the Nation -- Shall girls have colleges? / from the Williams Review -- Colleges for both / from the Golden Age -- Shall we admit women? / from the Amherst Student -- The other side: a reply / from the Amherst Student -- The argument for co-education / by Professor Bascom -- Effects of co-education on young women / by President White -- Mixed colleges, from various standpoints -- Co-education in Harvard / by James Freeman Clarke -- Experience at Oberlin College / by President Fairchild -- Experience at Wheaton College / by Professor Lumry -- Experience at Knox College / by President Blanchard -- Experience at the University of Michigan / by Professor Tyler -- Experience at Antioch College -- Vassar College -- Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association -- Hitchin College -- Lectures for women in Cambridge, Eng. -- The University of London -- University College, London -- Alexandra college, Dublin -- Appendix: Colonel Higginson, Professor Agassiz, President Eliot, and Wendell Phillips, on the higher education of women. |
| Responsibility: | edited by James Orton. |
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