Quote#Wisdom
The third College which gives instruction and academic degrees to…
Quote bySophia Jex-Blake · 1840–1912
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Visit to Some American Schools and Colleges (1867), (quote from p. 121).
English (original)
The third College which gives instruction and academic degrees to both sexes is situated at , in Ohio, and being founded in 1852 by a sect calling themselves emphatically "Christians," was by the named , in allusion to Acts xi. 26. The characteristic feature distinguishing this College from the others already named, is the aim of its founders to establish it on a strictly unsectarian basis.
— Sophia Jex-Blake
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