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Episodes tagged "Women's colleges": 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. The 1859 Greenville Baptist Female College Commencement: Debunking the Myth of Male Intellectual Superiority
    date August 10, 1859map GREENVILLE, South Carolinatags Woman's College, Greenville, SC, Women's colleges, Greenville Female College

    On August 10, 1859, The Charleston Mercury printed a letter from a young man traveling in and around Greenville, South Carolina, who, during his travels, attended the commencement ceremony of the Greenville Baptist Female College. When he arrived, he found a hall overflowing with attendees and was forced to push his way into the room, along the way enduring several “such tight squeezes as no sensible...

  2. The Greenville Baptist Female College: A Gendered Education
    date 1857 to 1858map GREENVILLE, South Carolinatags Greenville Womans College, Greenville Female College, Greenville, SC, Women's colleges, South Carolina, Baptist Convention, Women

    Mary Mauldin, a member of the first graduating class of the Greenville Baptist Female College, would have been exposed to variety of subjects throughout her academic training. According to her college’s 1857 catalog, Mary would have taken a course of study much like that of her brothers at nearby Furman during her senior year. She would have taken advanced courses like history, botany, moral and...

  3. Women In The Education Arena
    date November 9, 1837 to July 4, 1838map HAMPSHIRE, Massachusettstags Emma Willard, Mary Lyon, Northeast, Women's colleges, Female Seminaries, Education, Women

    On November 9th, 1837, Mrs. Pamela Burr wrote a letter to Mary Lyon, a leader of the women’s rights leader and educator, urging her to consider her two daughters for admission to Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. The letter describes the qualifications of two young girls, Caroline and Mary Burr, in detail. Mrs. Burr says that she is not extremely wealthy but could pay tuition for both girls...