Celebrating 150 years of Yale women | Features | Yale Alumni Magazine
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. Nov/Dec 2020 Illustration by Christina Dallorso Kortz 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 w...
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