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The name of Sophie Smith is remembered as the founder of Smith College at Northampton, Mass., the first woman's college in New England; the name of Annie N. Meyer as the founder of Barnard College, the woman's department of Columbia University in New York.
Marie Montessori was the inventor of a new system of teaching.
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