![]() ![]() ![]() Hale that the trustees were deliberating. The board of trustees had appointed a committee to look into this whole matter, and in February 1864, Vassar wrote Mrs. Linner finds Hale’s antipathy to the word amusing since she herself in her columns before 1855 had spoken of “female vanity,” “female intellect,” and “female immigration.” But now she had turned against the word as being “inelegant” and “absurd.” She felt that the college should be called “Vassar College for Young Women.”īy June 1863. The use of the word “Female” in the title of the college turned into a crusade. Hale was against, and the subjects of the college calendar and a three-month vacation between December and April, which Mrs. Between 18, the correspondence between Hale and Vassar (which can be consulted in Special Collections) took up uniform dress for students, which Mrs. Hale and the college’s original trustees, led to the removal of the word “Female” from Vassar College’s name. ![]() ![]() Hale and Vassar, and a later one, between Mrs. Linner pointed out a wonderful exchange of correspondence between Sarah Josepha Hale and Matthew Vassar, as well as “seventeen notes or editorials” in the columns of Godey’s Lady’s Book dealing with Vassar Female College. In his Vassar, the Remarkable Growth of a Man and His College, a book that I edited and the college published, the late Vassar professor Edward R. ![]()
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