Columbia Athenaeum Offers Annual Girls’ School Week
calculus, columbia athenaeum, english literature, girls, history, physics, school, world history,
Girls learning calculus in the 1800s?
It was unheard of back then, except at the Columbia Athenaeum that flourished from 1852 to 1904. The girls-only school taught young women everything that well-educated young men would have learned at that time, including world history, physics, calculus and English literature.
The rectory at the Athenaeum is all that stands of the campus today, and the building is admired for its Moorish Gothic architecture. The site hosts an annual week where young girls dress in 1861 period costumes and take classes that would have been offered when the Athenaeum was in full operation.
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