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ISBN 13 : 9781334080876
Total Pages : 146 pages
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Download or read book Genevieve Grahame Grant (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Genevieve Grahame Grant Her first school, to which she was sent when about nine years of age, was a German and French institute taught by Professor Faulhaber, on Prairie avenue, near Sixteenth street. Subsequently the child was a student with Professor Babcock, on Eighteenth street. Her apti tude for languages was manifested in these schools; and her early attainments enabled her to be one among the first young women students admitted to the University of Chicago when its doors were parted to women by the liberal president, the late Dr. Burroughs. Genevieve remained in the university two years, keeping second place in a class of thirty boys studying Greek. Thence, well equipped in classics and mathematics, Genevieve went to Vassar, where she immediately arose to distinction by reason both of natural talents and unusual accomplish ments. Her health began rapidly to fail and at the end of a year she was obliged to withdraw. The principal, Miss Terry, wrote: I regret that Miss Jones must leave us, as Vassar would have been very proud of her. She is industrious, intellectual and scholarly. After an interval of rest, Genevieve was placed in the celebrated pension of Madame de Lignieres, Rue de Chateaubriand, Paris, where she acquired idiomatic ease in French and enjoyed music study with the best masters of the capital. Still seeking health, but still loving study, she was taken to Italy, where she became deeply engrossed with Italian literature and the Romance languages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
