Helen Magill White (1853-1944) was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. She earned her doctoral degree in Greek from Boston University in 1877. Raised in a Quaker family, White always believed that she was deserving of the same education as a man. Her father was the president of Swarthmore College, which she attended as an undergraduate. She taught at the Howard Collegiate Institute, Evelyn College for Women at Princeton University, … Wikipedia
Helen Magill completed her Ph.D. in Greek in 1877 at Boston University. She served as principal of the Howard Collegiate Institute, a girls' school in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts; taught briefly at Evelyn College, a short-lived women's annex to Princ rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM04107.html
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