On March 3, 1854, Minnesota’s Territorial Legislative Assembly approved An Act to Incorporate the Hamline University of Minnesota. Thus Hamline University was established as “an institution of learning for the education of youth of both sexes” – making it among the first dozen truly coeducational colleges in the United…
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“To add a glory … To the common life” – Nineteenth Century Methodism and Women’s Collegiate Education
Did you know that the first women in Minnesota to earn college degrees were Methodist Episcopal women who used their education for lives of service and social justice? In this video lecture, I discuss Methodist Episcopal attitudes toward women and collegiate education, especially as they took shape among those living…
That Guy on Hewitt outside the Bush Center
Quick facts: Bishop Hamline did not found the Methodist Church, he is the namesake of Hamline University He wears a size 4XL Leonidas Lent Hamline b. Connecticut, 1797 d. Iowa, 1865. As a young man, L.L. Hamline studied law and was admitted to the Ohio bar. In 1828 he converted…