Nice counter-example from 1890 from article (condensed and paraphrased by me):
Johns Hopkins University wanted a medical school. It could not afford it, but had said they needed $500k.
Garrett, a lesbian, collaborated with her partner, M. Carey Thomas, and they successfully raised $100k and offered it to Hopkins on the condition that the medical school admit women “under the same terms as men.”
Hopkins’ trustees accepted the gift and the conditions the donors imposed and said they would invest the money until the rest of the $500k was sourced.
Hopkins president Daniel Coit Gilman then frantically tried to return the money. Although he never explicitly said so, Johnson suspects that was because he wanted the medical school to only admit men. “You do not realize Mr. Gilman’s grim determination,” Thomas wrote to Garrett, “it is with him a death struggle & money means nothing to him.”
In December 1892, Garrett made a second offer. She noted the fund given in 1890 had risen to $200k, and said she would donate the remaining $300k, provided the school would admit women on the same terms as men.
In 1893, the Hopkins trustees caved and accepted Garrett’s donation unconditionally. The Johns Hopkins medical school became a national model.
Johns Hopkins University wanted a medical school. It could not afford it, but had said they needed $500k.
Garrett, a lesbian, collaborated with her partner, M. Carey Thomas, and they successfully raised $100k and offered it to Hopkins on the condition that the medical school admit women “under the same terms as men.”
Hopkins’ trustees accepted the gift and the conditions the donors imposed and said they would invest the money until the rest of the $500k was sourced.
Hopkins president Daniel Coit Gilman then frantically tried to return the money. Although he never explicitly said so, Johnson suspects that was because he wanted the medical school to only admit men. “You do not realize Mr. Gilman’s grim determination,” Thomas wrote to Garrett, “it is with him a death struggle & money means nothing to him.”
In December 1892, Garrett made a second offer. She noted the fund given in 1890 had risen to $200k, and said she would donate the remaining $300k, provided the school would admit women on the same terms as men.
In 1893, the Hopkins trustees caved and accepted Garrett’s donation unconditionally. The Johns Hopkins medical school became a national model.