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| | Contented to feed upon husks |
 | | Among the pupils on whom it worked stimulatingly well, were Zilpah Polly Grant of Norfolk, Connecticut, who installed his extended curriculum in her seminary at Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Mary Lyon, her assistant and fellow pupil under Emerson, who expanded what was done at Ipswich into the germ of the first American women's college. |
| | Willard established the first college for women to attract significant attention as an institution that offered "the same higher academic culture that colleges afforded young men." She was the principal of the Female Academy of Middlebury, Vermont, until she married. |
| | Horace Bushnell (1802-1876), was a Congregationalist minister in Hartford, Connecticut, who created controversy within the church ranks for rejecting orthodox Calvinistic views. |
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