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I cannot let the bonnets in, on any conditions this term. The three public lectures will chiefly be on angles, degrees of colour-prisms (without any prunes) and other such things, of no use to the female mind and they would occupy the seats in mere disappointed puzzlement.

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— John Ruskin, Professor of Art, refusing to admit women to his lectures in 1871

Source

Morris, Jan (2009) [1978]. The Oxford Book of Oxford. Oxford University Press. p. 286. ISBN 9780192804075.