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The "Quickening Power" Of Education: Women Students At South Dakota State University, 1885-1920, Lisa R. Lindell
The "Quickening Power" Of Education: Women Students At South Dakota State University, 1885-1920, Lisa R. Lindell
Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications
"A DECISION AGAINST WOMAN," blazed a headline in the college newspaper, the Industrial Collegian, in June 1895, referring to an oratory contest in which a female college student was allegedly denied victory because of her gender. "SHALL WE PLAY BASKET BALL?" invited another story headline in the April 1897 Collegian. "The time has passed when the girl who would indulge in out door sports is not considered a lady." In 1911, an essay entitled "The Emancipation of Woman" appeared in the college's Jack Rabbit yearbook, proclaiming, "This is the age of the new woman." These items from the dawn of …