The life of Alice Freeman Palmer . he University, attend Com-mencement, and pass the entrance here her resolution met with a sharp rebuff. Shefailed. Good as the Academy had been for supplyinggeneral knowledge, it was poorly equipped for pre-paring pupils for college. The failure, however,proved as fortunate as everything else which befellthis favored girl, for it brought her to the notice ofthe remarkable man who from that day took herunder his peculiar charge. President Angell himselfshall tell the story: — In 1872, when Alice Freeman presented herselfat my oflSce, accompani
The life of Alice Freeman Palmer . he University, attend Com-mencement, and pass the entrance here her resolution met with a sharp rebuff. Shefailed. Good as the Academy had been for supplyinggeneral knowledge, it was poorly equipped for pre-paring pupils for college. The failure, however,proved as fortunate as everything else which befellthis favored girl, for it brought her to the notice ofthe remarkable man who from that day took herunder his peculiar charge. President Angell himselfshall tell the story: — In 1872, when Alice Freeman presented herselfat my oflSce, accompanied by her father, to applyfor admission to the University, she was a simple,modest girl of seventeen. She had pursued her studiesin the little Academy at Windsor. Her teachers re-garded her as a child of much promise, precocious,possessed of a bright, alert mind, of great industry,of quick sympathies, and of an instinctive desire tobe helpful to others. Her preparation for collegehad been meagre, and both she and her father were. H t-H o»—t w Q THE UNIVERSITY 45 doubtful of her ability to pass the required examina-tions. The doubts were not without examiners, on inspecting her work, were in-clined to decide that she ought to do more prepara-tory work before they could accept her. MeantimeI had had not a little conversation with her and herfather, and had been impressed with her high intel-ligence. At my request the examiners decided toallow her to enter on a trial of six weeks. I was con-fident she would demonstrate her capacity to go onwith her class. I need hardly add that it was soonapparent to her instructors that my confidence wasfully justified. She speedily gained and constantlyheld an excellent position as a scholar. But the deficiencies of the past hampered she was much in need of rest after the strainof preparation; yet all the summer before entrancehad to be spent in clearing away conditions, and sheremained in Ann Arbor through t
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