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Gribbin, William – 1988
The origin and development of two women's colleges, Mount Holyoke of Massachusetts and Meredith College of North Carolina, are compared, illustrating some of the early chapters of American higher education, when religious purposes for schools were common, but when schools for women were not. The social, historical, and religious contexts of the…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Educational History, Feminism, Higher Education
