Kudos to Wellesley

I referred to the Harvard President's controversial statements in my entry for February 24, at the time of my Harvard visit. In the Spring 2005 issue of Wellesley (alumnae magazine), President Diane Chapman Walsh wrote a great essay about women in education. Wellesley College founder Henry Durant specifically hired female full professors, taking issue with his Harvard faculty friend Edward Clarke. Clarke authored a book in 1873 entitled Sex in Education, or a Fair Chance for the Girls in reaction to a social movement to make higher quality education available for girls. According to Walsh, Clarke "...warned that educating women would damage their health and their ability to conceive children."

Go Wellesley! Just had to insert this little item, irrelevant as it is to my sabbatical...