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Following the Elementary Education Act 1870, Davies was elected to the London School Board, representing Greenwich. She did not stand again in 1873, preferring to concentrate on Girton College. [ 1 ] In 1871, a second women-only college was founded by Anne Clough and Henry Sidgwick ; it was called Newnham College . [ 1 ]
Pope was born Lois Berrodin in suburban Philadelphia. [4] She attended, but did not graduate from, Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, [5] which later presented her with an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree in recognition of her philanthropic work. [5]
National media — including People Magazine and “Good Morning America” — picked up the story. For most of the year, though, she was ailing both physically and emotionally.
Ideas for a national institution for military education were circulated during the American Revolution. It wasn't until 1802 when Jefferson, following the advice of George Washington, John Adams and others, [ 14 ] finally convinced Congress to authorize the funding and building of the United States Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson ...
There is basically no difference between selling education and love for money and selling one's chastity for money. 'Prostitute' is a germ of contempt for a woman; a boy should not be reduced by his avaricous parents to get the name, 'a prostituted boy' or 'a boy that has been sold'. A father-in-law who has means, however miserly he may be by ...
It was established under the National Insurance Act 1946 and abolished and replaced by Widowed Parent's Allowance in 2001. William Beveridge's view was: "There is no reason why a childless widow should get a pension for life; if she is able to work, she should work. On the other hand, provision much better than at present should be made for ...
Maria Stewart was born Maria Miller in 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut to free African American parents. In 1806, by the age of three, she lost both parents and was sent to live with a white minister and his family where she worked as an indentured servant until around the age of 15, where she received no formal education.
Second marriages were discouraged, especially by making it legal to impose a condition that a widow's right to property should cease on remarriage, and the Leonine Constitutions at the end of the 9th century declared that third marriages were valid, but the spouse was subject to fines and provisions made by Church law.