support the college she was founding. She then overcame the opposition of the Columbia University trustees by naming the college after Frederick Barnard, Columbia's then-recently deceased president who had been a strong advocate for coeducation. The college opened in 1889, across the street from Columbia. Writing about Meyer during a discussion of anthropologists, Charles King, professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, notes that "[a]fter the First World War, instruction in the social sciences—psychology, government, applied statistics, and anthropology—was at least as good at Barnard as at the main university and often better. Virginia Gildersleeve, Barnard's visionary and long-serving dean, placed a premium on hiring the best professors from Columbia for additional lectures west of Broadway." The college Meyer founded, Barnard College, is one of the Seven Sisters of women's colleges in America and ranks today as one of its most elite colleges. Although since its founding, women enrolled at Barnard have been able to attend the Columbia lectures on their level, only men were graduated from the undergraduate school of Columbia until 1983. Enrollment of women in Columbia graduate programs was dependent upon other guidelines and usually, having an undergraduate degree. At one time, Annie Nathan Meyer was the associate editor of Broadway Magazine. She edited Woman's Work in America (1891) and contributed a series of articles to the New York Evening Post. Meyer wrote several novels. Meyer's Robert Annys: A Poor Priest (1901) is set in Medieval England and features John Ball as a character. View on women's suffrage movement In direct conflict to her sister Maud Nathan, a suffragist, Meyer later became known as an opponent of suffrage for women. She considered improvement through the education of women as the first objective to be achieved to change the lives of women, rather than delving into politics. Selected works Barnard Beginnings (1935) Helen Brent, M. D. (1892) My Park Book (1898) Robert Annys: A Poor Priest (1901) The Dominant Sex (1911) The Dreamer; a Play in Three Acts (1912) Women's Work in America (1891) It's Been Fun: An Autobiography (1951) References Bibliography Dora Askowith, Three Outstanding Women: Mary Fels, Rebekah Kohut [and] Annie Nathan Meyer, 1941 Myrna Gallant Goldenberg, Annie Nathan Meyer: Barnard Godmother and Gotham Gadfly, 1987 External links Annie Nathan Meyer Papers Annie Nathan Mayer- Jewish Women's Archive Annie Nathan Marie-Columbia.edu biography 1867 births 1951 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers American Sephardic Jews