...not quite finished, etc., and it all ended in her inviting me to make her a visit. "Oct. 31, 1866. Our faculty meetings always try me in this respect:...precedent, it never would have turned on its axis ! "Sept. 22, 1868. I have written to-day to give up the Nautical Almanac work. I do not feel sure that...

...her own views about the way teaching should be done, and did not hesitate to express them. Thus : " Our faculty meetings always try me in this respect...precedent. If the earth had waited for a precedent, it would never have turned on its axis ! " She thought teachers were inclined to talk too much ; that...

...her own views about the way teaching should be done, and did not hesitate to express them. Thus : " Our faculty meetings always try me in this respect...precedent. If the earth had waited for a precedent, it would never have turned on its axis ! " She thought teachers were inclined to talk too much ; that...

...God." "I do think, as a general rule, that teachers talk too much. A book is a very good institution." "We wait and ask for precedent. If the earth had waited...precedent, it never would have turned on its axis." "Mingle the starlight with your lives, and you won't be fretted by trifles." Courtesy Vassar College...

...Mitchell, a Vassar astronomer, found this particularly frustrating and wrote, "Our faculty meetings try me in this respect: we do things that other colleges have done before. We wait and ask for precedent."1 ' On one hand, some people at the colleges stressed the ability of women; on the other,...

...Massachusetts, and had she been a power, she would have burned me at the stake for heresy! . . . . . . Our faculty meetings always try me in this respect:...precedent, it never would have turned on its axis! ... I do think, as a general rule, teachers talk too much! A book is a very good institution! To read...