November 2, 2001

One Woman's Education

By JILL KER CONWAY

When I was approached about the Smith College presidency, in 1975, I could see that the board's interest was logical. I'd made my reputation as a historian writing on the history of women's education in the United States. I'd studied the historical circumstances and motives that produced the characteristic American pattern of coeducational higher-education institutions and elite colleges for a male or a female student body. So I'd had many years to reflect on how educational institutions

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