Why Did Harvard Refuse to Give Mary Whiton Calkins the Doctorate Degree She Earned?
In 1836, Wesleyan became the first woman’s college in the world. Over the next few decades, other women’s colleges started to open up, and soon after, about 50 colleges for women opened in the United States between the years of 1836 and 1875. While earning a bachelor’s degree was widely accepted at the time, a […]
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