Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Why Go to College? An Address

Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1855-1902· 2 chapters· 7,778 words

To a largely increasing number of young girls college doors are opening every year. Every year adds to the number of men who feel as a friend of mine, a successful lawyer in a great city, felt when in talking of the future of his four little children he said, "For the two boys...

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1. Chapter 1

To a largely increasing number of young girls college doors are opening every year. Every year adds to the number of men who feel as a friend of mine, a successful lawyer in a g...

2. Chapter 2

I recall a superb girl of twenty as I overtook her one winter morning hurrying along Commonwealth Avenue. She spoke of a brilliant party at a friend's the previous evening. "But...