to qualify in Berlin and Leipzig. Leipzig was her favorite and she attended the lectures of ten different professors, despite the rule that women were not admitted. She led a group of Wellesley students to visit the university in 1889. She was successful in obtaining her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg in October 1898. Her thesis was on the "Life and Works of Nicholas Pouissin".

She returned to America where she was employed by the University of Rochester in 1902. This was the