Vassar College Thompson Library
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- Webseite
- http://library.vassar.edu/
- Beschreibung:
- When Vassar opened in 1865, the library was a mere room in Main with an embryo collection of some three thousand books. The main library collection today contains over 830,235 volumes and 3,500 serial, periodical and newspaper titles, as well as an extensive collection of microfilm and microfiche.
The stained glass window in the Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College appropriately represents a memorable event in the history of the higher education of women, namely, the conferring of the first Doctorate to a woman. In 1678 the University of Padua conferred the degree on Lady Elena Lucretia Cornaro-Piscopia, a young Venetian who, as a woman, had previously been denied the examination for the Doctor of Theology degree. The window comes from the studios of Messrs. John Hardman & Company of Birmingham, England, and of the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York, their U.S. representatives. It was installed in 1906 and has long served as an instrument of instruction and inspiration, as well as a beautiful architectural embellishment. The lights in the tracery represent Grammar, Dialectics, Music, Philosophy, Astronomy, Medicine, Geometry and Theology. - Hinzugefügt von
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- 8844
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