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Alice Freeman Palmer (February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator. As Alice Freeman, she was Principal of Wellesley College from 1882 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer. From 1892 to 1895 she was Dean of Women at the newly founded University of Chicago. ==Early life== She was born Alice Elvira Freeman in Colesville, New York and brought up in Windsor, New York. Her parents both came from well-to-do families with interests in lumber, dairy farming, and land. Alice was born a farmer's daughter, but as her father knew there was no future in it, he let the family take care of the farm while he gained further education and became a doctor. He enrolled in medical school in 1861 and graduated in 1864. At Windsor, she met Thomas Barclay, a student at Yale who, to pay off his college expenses, was teaching at the time. He encouraged her intellectual curiosity and served as her mentor. They became close and were engaged by 1869. By 1871, however, she had broken off the engagement to attend college. Freeman showed determination at a young age by teaching herself to read by age four when she entered school. Her first job out of high school was at a private secondary school in Wisconsin, Lake Geneva Seminary. Freeman desperately wanted to also continue her education, but her family could not allow this unless she promised to assist them in supporting the family, while she was away at college. So while she attended college, she took teaching jobs to help her family. In 1872 Freeman took an entrance examination at the University of Michigan. Despite deficiency in some areas, she made a strong impression on James B. Angell, who admitted her "under condition." At the University of Michigan, because of her charisma and hardworking attitude, Freeman was invited to many social and academic events. She was one of four speakers at her commencement in 1876, despite the low numbers of women enrolled there. After she graduated, she taught at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (1876–77) and was head of the high school at Saginaw, Michigan (1877–79). Her father declared bankruptcy in 1877 after losing family funds in a mining investment; Alice then moved the family to Saginaw to a rented house that was paid for with her principal's salary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Freeman Palmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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