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Celebrating 150 years of Yale women
We profile 20 extraordinary alumnae from all of the university s schools to represent a century and a half of achievement.
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An imagined view of Lucinda Foote, who in 1783 was deemed “fully qualified” for Yale “except in regard to sex.” View full image
In 1783, Yale president Ezra Stiles conducted an exam to determine whether a student from nearby Cheshire was qualified to enter Yale College. The student, who was only 12 years old, had learned some Cicero and much of the Aeneid in Latin, as well as the Gospel of St. John in Greek. The test was rigorous. Stiles chose passages from each work and asked for English translations. He also threw in a few quotations from other ancient texts. His judgment: the student had made laudable progress and was, he noted in his diary, “well fitted to be admitted into the Freshman Class.” Her name was Lucinda Foote. She would never go to colleg
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jytte klausen talks about the controversy over the 12 cartoons depicting the prophet mohammed that were published in a danish newspaper in 2005. she also discusses yale university press s decision not to republished the cartoons in . the hudson institute in washington, d.c., hosts this hour 15 minute talk. good afternoon. could everyone please take a seat. we are about to begin. it s my pleasure to welcome everyone to today s segment of our series on lifting the theocratic iron curtain, examining the application of muslim blasphemy and rules in the contemporary world. and today, we are very proud to be hosting jytte klausen, doctor jytte klausen who is the author of the new book just out by yale university press, the cartoons that shook the world. and we do have copies for anyone who wants to purchase them outside. outside, after the program. dr. klausen is a professor of contemporary politics at brandeis university, an affiliate of the center for european studies at harv
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