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3. See Sklar, Kathryn Kish, “The Founding of Mount Holyoke College,” in Women of America: A History, eds. Berkin, Carol Ruth and Norton, Mary Beth (Boston, 1979); Scott, Ann Firor, “The Ever Widening Circle: The Diffusion of Feminist Values from the Troy Female Seminary, 1822–1872” and Allmendinger, David F. Jr., “Mount Holyoke Students Encounter the Need for Life Planning, 1837–1850,” History of Education Quarterly, 19, 1 (Spring, 1979).Google Scholar

4. See Royce, Marion V., “Arguments over the Education of Girls: Their Admission to Grammar Schools in this Province,” Ontario History, 67 (March, 1975); Gidney, R.D. and Lawr, D., “Egerton Ryerson and the Origins of the Ontario Secondary School,” Canadian Historical Review, 60, 4 (December, 1979); Gray, Ann Margaret, “Continuity in Change: The Effects on Girls of Coeducational Secondary Schooling in Ontario, 1860–1910,” (M.A. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1979).Google Scholar

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