1875 | Education
Education
University of California president Henry Durant dies at Oakland January 22 at age 72.
Wellesley College for Women opens September 8 outside Boston in a lavishly landscaped park around 400-acre Lake Waban at Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a main building whose central hall has a four-story glass-roofed central hall (see 1870). It has an initial enrollment of 314 and a faculty made up entirely of women (its president will always be a woman) (see 1882).
Smith College opens at Northampton, Massachusetts, 24 hours after the opening of Wellesley, but with only 14 students (see 1871). Smith is the first U.S. women's college whose admissions standards and curriculum are the equivalent of those at male institutions (see Vassar, 1865; Bryn Mawr, 1885).