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Miss. Code Ann. § 37-117-3 (2024)

Purpose and aim of university

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The purpose and aim of the Mississippi State College for Women is the moral and intellectual advancement of the girls of the state by the maintenance of a first-class institution for their education in the arts and sciences, for their training in normal school methods and kindergarten, for their instruction in bookkeeping, photography, stenography, telegraphy, and typewriting, and in designing, drawing, engraving, and painting, and their industrial application, and for their instruction in fancy, general and practical needlework, and in such other industrial branches as experience, from time to time, shall suggest as necessary or proper to fit them for the practical affairs of life.

Codes, 1892, § 2296; 1906, § 2524; Hemingway's 1917, § 4949; 1930, § 7205; 1942, § 6711.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1981–1982 · leading case: Mississippi Univ. for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718 (1982).
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Mississippi Univ. for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718 (1982). · cites it 2× “" Miss. Code Ann. § 37-117-3 (1972). Mississippi maintains no other single-sex public university or college.”
Joe Hogan v. Mississippi Univ. for Women, 646 F.2d 1116 (5th Cir. 1981). “Miss.Code Ann. § 37-117-3 (1972). While this statute is based on role concepts for women that are no longer acceptable to many, our attention is focused on the provision aiming to advance the “girls of the state,” and the corresponding finding of the district court.”
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