1873 | Education
Education
The University of California closes its Oakland campus and opens new ones at Berkeley and San Francisco (see 1857). Berkeley will award the first baccalaureates and become a leading research institution (see 1907).
The University of Mt. Allison College at Sackville, New Brunswick, opens its doors to women. It is the first Canadian college to admit women to all its courses and degrees on the same basis as men (see 1882).
Girton College opens in October on a 16-acre site about two miles from Cambridge under the direction of educational reformer Emily Davies, now 43, who established the small college for women under another name 4 years ago at Hitchin with Emily Shirreff to prepare women for the university examination. The women have excelled in the tripos (final examinations) for classics and mathematics. Equipped to accommodate about 21 students, the first building is one side of a proposed quadrangle. Davies will be mistress of the school until 1875 and Shirreff will succeed her (see 1874).
Only 16 percent of school-age Japanese girls are in elementary school as compared with 46 percent of school-age boys (see 1872; 1874).
William H. McGuffey of McGuffey's Readers fame dies at Charlottesville, Virginia, February 19 at age 78.