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Women students are first admitted to Tufts, 1892 On July 15, 1892, the Tufts Board of Trustees voted "that the College be opened to women in the undergraduate departments on the same terms and conditions as men." At that same meeting, the trustees also voted to create a graduate school faculty and to offer the Ph.D. degree in biology and chemistry. That vote also included the line "that graduate courses at the College be opened to candidates of either sex." A newspaper reporter outside the meeting interviewed President Capen as he left the meeting. "At last," he said, "the die has been cast." When Tufts was founded, he told the reporter, "there was a strong movement in favor of coeducation, but for some reason it failed to accomplish anything… For ten years I have felt this must come. The whole growth of the College has been toward a broader field." The Boston Globe prominently displayed the news in an extended article. "Tufts College," it reported," is going to admit women… When [the trustees] took their seats the college was a place to nurture men only. When they arose to depart it was a full-fledged coeducational institution. Its doors had been thrown open to women, and a step had been taken that all present felt was of great moment to the future of the college." |
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