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1. www.bbc.com › news › world-us-canada-12367021How Liz Murray went from homelessness to Harvard - BBC News

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   Feb 8, 2011 · Yet, against all the odds and without a roof over her head, she returned to high school at 17 and went on to win a scholarship to study at Harvard. She told BBC World...

2. guides.library.harvard.edu › cWomen at Harvard University - Harvard Library Guides

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   Feb 11, 2024 · As Harvard did not admit women as students, nor did it offer any other official academic status, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz founded the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, known colloquially as “the Harvard Annex,” in 1879.

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   Did Harvard accept women as students?

   • This tradition of spousal collaboration has spanned centuries and is documented in many of our archival collections. As Harvard did not admit women as students, nor did it offer any other official academic status, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz founded the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, known colloquially as “the Harvard Annex,” in 1879.

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   Why did Elizabeth Murray leave Harvard?

   • The end music plays as a message appears on the screen: “Elizabeth Murray left Harvard in the Spring of 2003. She continues to pursue her college education.” This is where women’s television network Lifetime leaves Murray—the real world protagonist of their made-for-tv movie “Homeless to Harvard,” released last week.

   After Harvard, A New Home | News | The Harvard Crimson

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   Who was the first woman graduate of Harvard Divinity School?

   • In 1957, bachelor of divinity Emily Gage became the school's first woman graduate. W.H. Tobey / Harvard News Office In 1893, an alumni proposal reached the Divinity School, requesting that women be allowed to enroll. It took 60 years for the proposal to be granted by the Harvard Corporation, and in 1955, eight women joined the HDS ranks.

   At Home with Harvard: The Real History of Women at Harvard

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   What is the history of women at Harvard University?

   • The history of women at Harvard is long, layered, nuanced, and complex. Although they did not have any academic opportunities until the late 19th century, women participated in the University community from its founding in 1636, as family members of faculty, administrators, and students. Women were also some of the University’s earliest donors.

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4. www.ndsu.edu › pubweb › ~cinicholHomeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story: Questions - NDSU

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   Homeless to Harvard begins and ends with Murray saying these words: "I loved my mother so much. She was a drug addict. She was an alcoholic. She was legally blind. She was a schizophrenic. But I never forgot that she loved me, even if she did. All the time. All the time. All, all the time." In interview with NY Times people:

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Liz_MurrayLiz Murray - Wikipedia

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   She transferred from Harvard to Columbia University in 2003 to care for her ailing father. She earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology in June 2009. [14] As of August 2009, she began taking graduate courses at Harvard Summer School with plans to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology and become a counselor. [15]

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7. www.npr.org › 2010/09/09 › 129753532One Woman's Journey From Homeless To Harvard : NPR

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   Sep 9, 2010 · One Woman's Journey From Homeless To Harvard. Liz Murray's story of overcoming adversity became the subject of a movie for Lifetime Television. Growing up in the Bronx in the 1980s and...

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   Apr 14, 2003 · April 14, 2003. The camera pans out on actress Thora Birch, seated in what is supposed to be a Harvard classroom. The end music plays as a message appears on the screen: “Elizabeth Murray left...

9. www.harvardmagazine.com › 2020 › 04At Home with Harvard: The Real History of Women at Harvard

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   Apr 30, 2020 · In 1957, bachelor of divinity Emily Gage became the school's first woman graduate. W.H. Tobey / Harvard News Office. In 1893, an alumni proposal reached the Divinity School, requesting that women be allowed to enroll. It took 60 years for the proposal to be granted by the Harvard Corporation, and in 1955, eight women joined the HDS ranks.