Editing Colgate University (section)

=== Coeducation ===
[[File:Colgate University Campus Aerial.jpg|thumb|The Colgate University campus in Hamilton, New York]]At its inception, the institution was an all-male institution but started to see female students attend in a limited capacity as early as the mid-1800s when Emily Taylor, daughter of then-president Stephen W. Taylor (1851–56), attended her father's moral philosophy class.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://200.colgate.edu/looking-back/moments/enter-women-students|title=Enter Women Students|date=2019-01-01|publisher=Colgate University|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref>

The institution's first full-time female student was Mabel Dart (later Colegrove), who participated in classes from 1878 to 1882. At the time, university officials deemed it best that a female student not be embarrassed by graduating from an all-male college, and made arrangements for Dart to officially receive her degree from then all-female [[Vassar College]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://200.colgate.edu/looking-back/people/mabel-dart-colegrove-first-full-time-female-student|title=Mabel Dart Colegrove: First full-time female student|date=2019-01-01|publisher=Colgate University|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref>

In the ensuing years, additional female students participated in courses, including faculty spouses and the wives of enrolled veterans in the post-WWII era.<ref name="auto"/> Colgate became fully coeducational in 1970.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/01/21/archives/colgate-to-go-coed-in-the-fall-of-1970.html|title=COLGATE TO GO COED IN THE FALL OF 1970|date=1969-01-21|newspaper=New York Times|access-date=2009-08-05}}</ref>