Talk:Wesleyan College/Archive 1

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Surely the student-faculty ratio is 11:1, not 1:11?

--babbage 22:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


 * And I would question whether Catherine Benson was the first woman ever to earn a college degree? Really?  Ever? In the entire world?  Is this even the first women's college in America?  Perhaps she was the first in Georgia.  I think that Oberlin College was founded co-ed in 1833; at least one of the women might have graduated before Weselyan started. Rlquall 03:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Wesleyan claims to be the first college (I think in the world) chartered to grant degrees to women. Benson, then, could be the first woman with at least an American bachelor's degree. (http://www.womenscolleges.org/ backs up both of those claims; I can't vouch for its reliability but its member institutions include many prominent women's colleges.)
 * As for Oberlin, its website says it first graduated women in 1841; Wesleyan graduated Benson and several others in 1840. If you can find someone earlier, by all means post it here. --SuperNova |T|C| 03:50, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

It is correct. I go to school here and have studied the history of all women's colleges. Wesleyan College was the first in the world specifically chartered to grand women degrees, and graduated the first woman with a college degree shortly after. While other colleges such as your Oberlin College were founded earlier, they were not intended to grandt degrees, but merely educate women or serve as a finishing school. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.210.74.161 (talk) 22:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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