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| The short courses had very open admissions policies. The original short-lived Two-Years Course, devised for "those of limited means," opened fall 1893 with 23 men. After only a few years, it was phased out, as the Short Winter Courses were established. Offered for 11 weeks, the winter courses were explicitly advertised as "open to persons of both sexes," yet the first (1896) roster of winter students numbered 16 men. However, the 1897 Annual Report notes that "The increased activity of women in the industrial pursuits, and the consequent demand for instruction, has led to the opening of special elective courses for them, in such branches as botany, entomology, floriculture, fruit culture, market gardening and the dairy." In the MAC Annual Report for 1902,the college announced its intention to offer "opportunities for women students," noting: | The short courses had very open admissions policies. The original short-lived Two-Years Course, devised for "those of limited means," opened fall 1893 with 23 men. After only a few years, it was phased out, as the Short Winter Courses were established. Offered for 11 weeks, the winter courses were explicitly advertised as "open to persons of both sexes," yet the first (1896) roster of winter students numbered 16 men. However, the 1897 Annual Report notes that "The increased activity of women in the industrial pursuits, and the consequent demand for instruction, has led to the opening of special elective courses for them, in such branches as botany, entomology, floriculture, fruit culture, market gardening and the dairy." In the MAC Annual Report for 1902,the college announced its intention to offer "opportunities for women students," noting: |
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| <html> | "To provide for the instruction of women, a special two-years course, in accordance with the vote of the trustees in 1897, has been prepared, in which the following subjects are offered from which to make up courses: zoology, entomology, bee culture, dairying, horticulture, floriculture, botany, greenhouse management, landscape gardening, market gardening, chemistry and agriculture. Tuition is free, and every facility offered for work." |
| <blockquote><p>"To provide for the instruction of women, a special two-years course, in accordance with the vote of the trustees in 1897, has been prepared, in which the following subjects are offered from which to make up courses: zoology, entomology, bee culture, dairying, horticulture, floriculture, botany, greenhouse management, landscape gardening, market gardening, chemistry and agriculture. Tuition is free, and every facility offered for work."</p></blockquote> | |
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| The first woman to complete a Short Winter Course was [[y:young_alla_frances|Alla Frances Young]] of Gloucester in 1901, but as it happened, the winter program continued to be dominated by men. Women such as Justine Hunt, the first female to complete the Two-Years Course for Women (1904), tended to enroll in that program or as Special Students (the first Special Student, a male, appears in the 1897 Annual Report). Once the summer program, geared toward educating teachers, opened in 1907, it brought in an enormous number of female enrollees. | The first woman to complete a Short Winter Course was [[y:young_alla_frances|Alla Frances Young]] of Gloucester in 1901, but as it happened, the winter program continued to be dominated by men. Women such as Justine Hunt, the first female to complete the Two-Years Course for Women (1904), tended to enroll in that program or as Special Students (the first Special Student, a male, appears in the 1897 Annual Report). Once the summer program, geared toward educating teachers, opened in 1907, it brought in an enormous number of female enrollees. |
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