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100

Which of these activities did Alice Freeman Palmer not do in her free time:

read, write, visit the dentist, or take care of her dog?

She did not write
100
The Palmers left their Chicago home to sail for their European sabbatical on August 17, 1895. Name one city/country they stopped by during their trip.
Paris, France; Normandy and Brittany; Vienna and Florence, Italy; Germany; England
100
Who was Alice Freeman's fiancé in the 1870s?
Her tutor Thomas Barclay
100
According to the 1870 census, how many women were enrolled in some sort of higher education?
Over 11,000
100
Which university presented a new challenge and wide range of opportunities to AFP? 
The University of Chicago where she became the dean and basically did everything except teach. She also assured women an equal place in the University Community.
200
What main characteristics were needed to be addressed once AFP took the post of President at Wellesley College?

A defined and delineated presidency

An academic mission which needed to be re-defined and broadened

200
Alice Freeman and her father traveled between which two places in June of 1872? Name the city and state

Binghamton, New York 

Ann Arbor, Michigan

200
What years did Alice Freeman Palmer take the post of President at Wellesley College?
She took the post from 1881-1887.
200
What did AFP encourage at Wellesley? 
The increasing acceptance of varied religions. 
200
How did AFP unite commuter students at Chicago University? 
She raised money to build a Woman's Building which later became The Chicago Woman's Union in 1904.
300
What traditional influences of education did AFP utilize within her teaching methods?

Traditional style: Christian teachers, missionaries and clergymen's wives

English pattern:relationship with students, intimate interactions

Germanic traditions: professionalize faculty, emphasize science within curriculum and implement importance of research and scholarship

300

Why did AFP believed that coeducation was a new way for colleges to improve their education system?

She perceived it as the least expensive way in providing women and the most widespread. It stimulated occupation, an appreciation of diversity, a hospitality to new ideas, an ability in serving society, and the capacity to be a better wife and mother.

300
What type of beauty did George Herbert Palmer say Alice Freeman Palmer had?
Moral Beauty 
300
Who are the New Woman?
They represented a new generation of American Women, independent from male control. They depart from earlier nineteenth-century female innovators. 
300
What was one of the reasons why it took Alice Freeman Palmer so long to receive her Ph.D?
The economy affected AFP and her family; she tended to her family over her education.
400
Who was George Herbert Palmers previous wife?
Ellen Swedenborgian
400
What traditional influences of education did AFP utilize within her teaching methods?

Traditional style: Christian teachers, missionaries and clergymen's wives

English pattern: relationship with students, intimate interactions

Germanic tradition: professionalize faculty, emphasize science within the curriculum and implement importance of research and scholarship

400
What main characteristics were needed to be addressed once AFP took the post of President? 
A define and delineated presidency; an academic mission which needed to be re-defined and broadened
500
Alice Freeman Palmer had never spoken for money up until the year ______ during her spring lecture tour. 
1890
500
During the Palmer's and Katharine Coman's trip to Paris, Alice Freeman Palmer's health deteriorated. Where did George decide they must head. 
South for Venice's milder climate