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Nancy Talbot Clark
1 2020-07-17T18:22:04+00:00 Christine Liebson 6faeb936e67a615bb9a88f40102e089038d20a54 9 4 In 1852 Nancy Elizabeth Talbot Clark was the first woman to graduate from Western Reserve's nine-year-old medical school. She was the second woman in the United States to receive a regular medical degree. plain 2020-09-10T20:06:46+00:00 00426 1850?-1855? 1850?-1855? Medicine ; R77000 Students unknown unknown CWRU Archives People Nancy Talbot Clark, 1850?-1855? Copyright status unknown Clark, Nancy Talbot Christine Liebson 6faeb936e67a615bb9a88f40102e089038d20a54This page is referenced by:
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1850-1899
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CWRU's First Women - Students, Graduates, Philanthropists, Staff, Honorees
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1833
Oberlin College opened - the first American college to grant undergraduate degrees to women.
1849
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree from a regular American medical school, Geneva Medical College.
Nancy Talbot Clark
1852
Nancy Elizabeth Talbot Clark was the first woman to graduate from Western Reserve's nine-year-old medical school.
1855
University of Iowa became the first state university to admit male and female students on an equal basis from its opening.
1870
University of Cincinnati was founded as a coeducational municipal university. 29% of American colleges were coeducational, 12% were women only, 59% were men only. Women represented 21% of all students enrolled in American higher education institutions. Ada Kepley became the first woman in the U.S. to receive a law degree, from Union College of Law.
Viola Smith Buell
1876
Fifty years after its establishment, Viola Smith Buell became the first woman to graduate from Western Reserve College.
1877
Helen Magill White was the first woman awarded the Ph.D. by an American university, Boston University.
1879
Harvard “Annex” opened for women’s instruction by Harvard faculty. In 1894 it was chartered as Radcliffe College.
Francisca Himmelsback painting of Laura Kerr Axtell
1885
Laura Kerr Axtell was the first woman to endow a Case School of Applied Science professorship.
1888
Western Reserve University ended undergraduate co-education and adopted the coordinate system, establishing the College for Women, later Flora Stone Mather College, as its women's college.
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Eliza Hardy Lord, Dean of the College for Women (1888-1892) was Western Reserve University's first woman faculty member and first woman dean.
1889
Columbia trustees approved the founding of Barnard College, Columbia’s “female annex.”
1890
43% of American colleges were coeducational, 20% were women only, 37% were men only.
Women represented just under 36% of all students enrolled in American higher education institutions.
Mary Louise French
1891
Mary Louisa French was the first graduate of the College for Women.
Brown adopted the coordinate system, establishing Pembroke as its women’s college.
1892
From its establishment, the University of Chicago admitted women and men.
1895
Mary Chilton Noyes was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from Western Reserve University when its three-year-old Department of Graduate Instruction awarded its first Ph.D. degrees.
Aida Louise Smith
1896
Aida Louise Smith was the first documented woman hired by Case School of Applied Science.
1898
First Phi Beta Kappa chapter at a woman’s college was established at Vassar College.
Louisa F. Randolph became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Western Reserve University.
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200 Events in 200 Years: 1850s
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This section provides detailed information about the university from 1850-1859
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1850
Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve Archives, February 2006.
1850
Once again showing how duties and responsibilities changed over time, the Western Reserve College faculty voted to recommend that the Trustees "pass a law to this effect: If any undergraduate member of the College shall enter into the marriage relation, his connexion with the College shall thereby cease."
1851
The first Western Reserve College Glee Club was formed.
1852
Nancy Talbot Clark graduated from the Medical Department of Western Reserve College. She was the second woman in the United States to receive a regular medical degree.
1853Pictured is a photograph of the Western Reserve College campus. It was purchased in 8 parcels at a total cost of $1,238.11.
1854
Western Reserve College faculty approved the establishment of prize declamations: "Voted: that Prof. Hosford be authorized to introduce a system of prize declamations; provided he become responsible for the expenses incurred. Wednesday evening before commencements was designated as the time. The privilege of awarding prizes was extended also to each of the other departments on the same conditions."
1855
Henry L. Hitchcock was inaugurated as Western Reserve College's third president.
1856Levi Bodley Wilson was elected a trustee. A graduate of Western Reserve College in 1848, he was the first alumnus so elected. Pictured here is a page from the trustee minutes.
1857
College laws regulated the behavior of students and the resulting disciplinary action, banning "all blasphemous, profane, and obscene language; intemperance, gambling, dissolute companionship…."
1858
The Collegiate Record, the first student magazine, was published. For an annual price of $1.00 subscribers could read student essays, reviews, and poetry.
1859
Originally the idea of the 2 literary societies at Western Reserve College, Tempus was a student event held off campus. The students had supper and performed music and skits, oftentimes poking fun at college life and their professors.