Harriet A. Brown

Brown learned of the long hours, hard work and small wages of which most of them complained, and her ardent desire was to alleviate their distress.

In opening her college, she had the cooperation of those who induced her to establish such a school in Boston, but the underlying ideas, the scientific rules for dress-cutting, the patented system used, and all the methods of instruction, were her own.

[1] The chief aim of the institution was to be one in which girls of ability and taste, who were engaged in stores, workshops and kitchens, could find employment for which they were better adapted.

[1] She received numerous medals and diplomas as testimonials of the superiority of her methods, and her system was used the leading industrial schools and colleges of the country.

Delegates from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, after investigating all the principal European methods, adopted Brown's system.