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The Higher Education of Women
Against the old alarm that educating women unsexes them, Cooper — herself one of the first Black women with an Oberlin degree — makes the case that the feminine principle is exactly what a hard, competitive civilization lacks, and asks pointedly why scholarships flow to boys taking theology while one lone colored woman studies at Cornell.
Women's right to the college courseThe 'feminine flavor' in civilizationOberlin and the pioneer graduatesScholarships for girls