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Smith College Students: The First Ten Classes, 1879-1888.
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This article is published in History of Education Quarterly.The article was published on 1975-01-22. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Student engagement & Higher education.read more
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6: Education; Its History and Historiography
TL;DR: The truth of this poetry was illustrated by the zeal of settlers in founding schools, by subscription or through the constitution of a public taxing authority, frequently within days of their arrival.
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Bluestockings spinsters and pedagogues: women college graduates 1865-1910
TL;DR: An explanation based on changing labour market opportunities for educated men and women best explains this population's demographic patterns over time as well as their deviations from those of other women in their birth cohort.
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Occupational Segregation, Teachers' Wages, and American Economic Growth
TL;DR: This paper explored the implications of the crowding of educated women into the teaching profession in nineteenth-century America and found that the more young women attended school, the lower were teacher wages and the price of educational services.
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From Robust Appetites to Calorie Counting: The Emergence of Dieting among Smith College Students in the 1920s
TL;DR: The Smith College Weekly published a letter to the editor entitled "To Diet or Not to Die Yet?" as discussed by the authors, warning the campus community that if preventive measures against strenuous dieting are not taken soon, Smith College will become notorious, not for the sylph-like forms but for the haggard faces and dull, listless eyes of her students.
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