One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that
a. the presence of women would distract men from learning.
b. women would be unable to participate in college athletics.
c. providing college education for women would take away from their rearing of children.
d. no one would donate funds to support women in colleges.
e. too much learning would injure women's brains and ruin their health.
e
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