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Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer

American educator
Also known as: Alice Elvira Freeman
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Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer (born Feb. 21, 1855, Colesville [near Binghamton], N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 6, 1902, Paris, France) was an American educator who exerted a strong and lasting influence on the academic and administrative character of Wellesley (Massachusetts) College during her brief tenure as its president. Alice Freeman had taught herself to read by the time she entered local district school at the age of four. In 1872 she sat for the entrance examination at...

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