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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER IX
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Meeting Dr.Hill at a private party, I asked him if Harvard College would admit girls in fifty years.

He said one of the most conservative members of the faculty had said, within sixteen days, that it would come about in twenty years.

I asked him if I could go into one of Professor Peirce's recitations.

He said there was nothing to keep me out, and that he would let me know when they came.
"At eleven A.M., the next Friday, I stood at Professor Peirce's door.

As the professor came in I went towards him, and asked him if I might attend his lecture.


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