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When women tried to enter the University of Michigan in 1858, the all-male Board of Regents slammed the door shut "for the sake of the young ladies themselves."

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This University has been organized and established for the education of young men ... to adapt it to the education of both sexes would require a complete revolution.

– Regent Donald McIntyre

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