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Henrietta Noble Brown, 1893 In 1893, Henrietta Noble Brown received the first baccalaureate degree conferred on a woman by Tufts College. Her father, Benjamin G. Brown, was Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts. She was born in the house at 38 Professors Row, which for several years after 1949 served as headquarters for the Tufts Faculty Club. In 1895, she married Frank W. Durkee of the Class of 1888, who was later to hold the chairmanship of the Tufts Chemistry Department for almost a quarter of a century. In 1896 Henrietta Noble Brown also received the first master's degree conferred on a woman at Tufts. At her graduation in 1893, she also became the first woman to deliver the commencement oration. |
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