for Howard to offer an apology, to which she refused. After Curtis’ resignation, Howard's position was reinstated. She also was made professor of literary criticism, rhetoric, and moral philosophy. During the June 1868 trustees’ meeting, a committee was created which was allowed to raise her salary. The next college president, Reverend John P. Gulliver promised to offer more opportunities for women, and in 1871 women were granted access to the College, and could take courses along with their male classmates. Women were able to get degrees rather than just Seminary Certificates. In 1891 Knox College became entirely co-ed. 1870s Before Western College, Howard returned to Mount Holyoke as a professor and then taught at Oxford Female Institute. She moved to New Jersey, where she ran a school for girls, Ivy Hall, in Bridgeton. She was president of Wellesley beginning in 1875. The founder, Henry Fowle Durant, was very involved in the administration and decision-making of the college. In placing a woman at its head and conferring upon her the full powers of president of a corporate college, Durant was enthusiastic in his confidence and said: "I have been for four years looking for a president. She will be a target to be shot at and for the present the position will be one of severe trials. I have for some time been closely investigating Miss Howard. I look upon her as appointed for this work not by the trustees, but by God, for whom the college was built." She followed his lead, but his insistence that staff be of the evangelical Christian faith made hiring staff difficult. There was a division in the college between faculty members hired by Durant that supported his position and other staff members who did not support Durant's nearly fanatical beliefs. Conflict at the college escalated at the same time that Durant and Howard's health declined. Durant stopped coming to the campus. Apart from this, her leadership at Wellesley College remained undocumented in their library except for an obituary with a statement that she was the first president. Durant died in 1881 and Howard resigned shortly after taking leave due to health reasons. She then lived in New York City, where she died in 1907. Death She died on Sunday, March 3, 1907, and her funeral took place in the Houghton Memorial Chapel, located on the Wellesley College campus, on Wednesday, March 7th. All classes