. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . movement heartily secondedb\- the alumni, who in entire ignorance of the new policy adoptedby the corporation, had on the same day on which this vote waspassed, adopted a resolution requesting the trustees to considerwhether they should not now offer the privileges of the Univer-sity to all pensons, male and female alike. One j-oung womanentered the classical course in the spring and six more in the fallof 1S72. At that time Vassar college was the only institution eastof the which pretended to supply to
. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . movement heartily secondedb\- the alumni, who in entire ignorance of the new policy adoptedby the corporation, had on the same day on which this vote waspassed, adopted a resolution requesting the trustees to considerwhether they should not now offer the privileges of the Univer-sity to all pensons, male and female alike. One j-oung womanentered the classical course in the spring and six more in the fallof 1S72. At that time Vassar college was the only institution eastof the which pretended to supply to women the advan-tages of a proper college training. For .some years the gains were small whether in funds orstudents. In iSSi, John P. Howard gave $50,000 to endow thechair of Natural HLstory, to preserve and increase the variouscollections, and to books for the library. John N. Pome-roy, LL. D., a graduate in 1809, bequeathed $20,000 toward theendowment of the chair of In 18S3 the Hon. Fred-erick Billings, of the class of 1844. purchased and presented to. RESIDENCE OF PROF. S. F. E HE US OX.
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