id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4lmpgx4bpvdjplozoeocl6t2pi Mary Dockray-Miller Feminine Preoccupations: English at the Seven Sisters 2017.0 20 .pdf application/pdf 8639 505 57 The Seven Sisters-Mount Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Barnard, Vassar, and Bryn Mawr-were founded throughout the nineteenth until the First World War. English studies at men's colleges and universities were an outgrowth of the Greek and Latin curricula, emphasizing etymology, syntax, and rhetoric rather than examining the meanings of the Bowdoin College's 1880 "English Literature" class, required of all third "throughout the course, the study of the history and structure of the English Language, and of English and American Literature, will be encourThis content downloaded from 108.49.191.51 on Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:32:40 UTC Bryn Mawr students in the nineteenth century did not graduate thinking that writing was done only in English class, or (even worse) that style 2 For instance, by 1914 English majors at Bowdoin College took a variety of literature courses but there was no major in the department of rhetoric and oratory, ./cache/work_4lmpgx4bpvdjplozoeocl6t2pi.pdf ./txt/work_4lmpgx4bpvdjplozoeocl6t2pi.txt