Editing Edith Hamilton (section)

===Education===
[[File:Edith Hamilton graduated.jpg|thumb|Edith Hamilton in graduation cap and gown]]
Because Edith's parents disliked the public school system's curriculum, they taught their children at home.<ref name=Hallett150/> As she once described him, "My father was well-to-do, but he wasn't interested in making money; he was interested in making people use their minds."<ref name=NYT>''New York Times'', Obituary, June 1, 1963.</ref> Edith, who learned to read at an early age, became an excellent storyteller. Hamilton credited her father for guiding her towards studies of the classics; he began teaching her [[Latin]] when she was seven years old. Her father also introduced her to [[Greek language]] and literature, where her mother taught the Hamilton children [[French language|French]] and had them tutored in [[German language|German]].<ref name=NYT/><ref name=Weber40/>

In 1884 Edith began two years of study at Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies (now known as [[Miss Porter's School]]) in [[Farmington, Connecticut]], where attendance was a family tradition for the Hamilton women.<ref name=Hallett150/> Three of Hamilton's aunts, three cousins, and her three sisters attended the school.<ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', p. 15.</ref>

Hamilton returned to Indiana in 1886 and began four years of preparation prior to her acceptance at [[Bryn Mawr College]] near [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], in 1891. She majored in Greek and Latin and was awarded a [[Bachelor of Arts]] and a [[Master of Arts]] degree in 1894. Hamilton spent the year after her graduation as a fellow in Latin at Bryn Mawr College and was awarded the Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship, the college's highest honor. The cash award from Bryn Mawr provided funds to enable Edith and Alice, who had completed her medical degree at the [[University of Michigan]] in 1893,  to pursue further studies in Germany for an academic year.<ref name=Hallett150/><ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', p. 89.</ref> Hamilton became the first woman to enroll at the [[University of Munich]].<ref name=Kort>
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====Studies in Germany====
In the fall of 1895 the Hamilton sisters departed for Germany,<ref name=Weber43>Weber, p. 43.</ref> where Alice intended to continue her studies in [[pathology]] at the [[University of Leipzig]] and Edith planned to study the classics and attend lectures.<ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', p. 90.</ref> At that time, most North American women, including Edith and Alice, registered as auditors for their classes.<ref>Their adventures in Germany are described in Alice's autobiography. See {{cite book | author =Alice Hamilton | author-link =Alice Hamilton | title =Exploring the Dangerous Trades: the Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. | publisher =Northeastern University Press | year =1985 | location =Boston | pages =[https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/44 44–51] | url =https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/44 | isbn =0-930350-81-2 }}</ref><ref name=Singer>{{cite book | author=Sandra L. Singer|title=Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-speaking Universities, 1868–1915|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |location=Westport, Connecticut|year=2003|pages =74–75| isbn =978-0-313-09686-0}}</ref> When the sisters arrived in [[Leipzig]], they found a fair number of foreign women studying at the university. They were informed that women could attend lectures, but they were expected to remain "invisible" and would not be allowed to participate in discussions.<ref name=Singer/>

According to Alice, "Edith was extremely disappointed with the lectures she attended."<ref name=Singer/> Although they were thorough, the lectures "lost sight of the beauty of literature by focusing on obscure grammatical points."<ref>Alice remarked, "Instead of the grandeur and beauty of [[Aeschylus]] and [[Sophocles]], it seemed that the important thing was their use of the [[Aorist (Ancient Greek)#Second|second aorist]]." See Singer, 74–75.</ref> As a result, they decided to enroll at the [[University of Munich]], but it was not much of an improvement. Initially, it was uncertain whether Edith would be allowed to audit lectures, but she was granted permission to do so, albeit under trying conditions.<ref name=Singer/> According to Alice, when Edith arrived at her first class, she was escorted to the lecture platform and seated in a chair beside the lecturer, facing the audience, "so that nobody would be contaminated by contact with her."<ref name=Singer/><ref name=Alice44-45>Hamilton, pp. 44–45.</ref> Edith is quoted as saying, "the head of the University used to stare at me, then shake his head and say sadly to a colleague, 'There now, you see what's happened? We're right in the midst of the woman question.'"<ref name=Singer/>