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When Vassar College opened its doors in 1865, women’s suffrage was becoming an important national issue. The suffrage cause gained adherents among the faculty and administration of the College, including the founder himself, Matthew Vassar. Even so, suffrage was slow to capture the imagination of students, and many maintained anti-suffrage attitudes. Nearly 30 years would pass before women’s voting rights became an important topic of debate in the College at large.<\/p>

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Matthew Vassar attended a lecture by the suffrage activist Anna Dickinson who was invited to speak by astronomy professor Maria Mitchell. The title of Dickinson’s lecture, “Idiots and Women,” referred to a long-standing legal formulation that denied the vote to “criminals, paupers, idiots, and women.” While Vassar clearly expresses his support for women’s suffrage, and hopes students at his college will work to secure voting rights, he does so by way of uncritical acceptance of this elitist, exclusionary construction.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Laura Brownell Collier (21 January 1886)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Suffrage leader Elizabeth Caddy Stanton visited Vassar as the guest of astronomy professor Maria Mitchell. However, like her daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Stanton expressed disappointment at the relative indifference to suffrage among the students.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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