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Lawrence University

1983

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Women At Lawrence University: The First Seventy-Five Years, 1849-1924, Pamela Ruth Paulsen Jan 1983

Women At Lawrence University: The First Seventy-Five Years, 1849-1924, Pamela Ruth Paulsen

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The women at Lawrence began to be “historical individuals” by gradually gathering rights and minimizing restrictions. Lawrence women did not have the same education as men for at least the first eighteen years of the university’s history; neither did they have the same restrictions or the same organizations. But the 674 women who graduated from Lawrence from 1857-1922 were given a unique and rare opportunity in their time.