Women's Education Movement Goddard Seminary Catalog, 1877

Goddard Seminary Catalog

Pamphlets

Women's Education Movement. Goddard Seminary Catalog, 1877. Pamphlet Catalog for the 1877 class of Goddard Seminary, a coeducational school in Barre, VT. Including the names of students. Goddard College began in 1863 in Barre, Vermont, as the Green Mountain Central Institute and in 1870 was renamed Goddard Seminary. Founded by Universalists, Goddard Seminary was a four-year preparatory high school, primarily for Tufts College. For many years the Seminary prospered. But the opening of many good public high schools made many of the New England academics obsolete. The trustees added a Junior College to the Seminary in 1935, and in 1938 Goddard College was chartered. It remains progressive Universalist institution. At the time that this description is being written, no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time.


Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States (seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800’s, the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular, non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial…When we shall have had our colleges, our professions, our trades, for a century, a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened, they filled up.

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