80-year-old Graduates. Three sisters, Mary, Isabella, and Nancy Blackbutt, who are aged respectively 89, 86, and 78 years, recently graduated together from the Maine University, U.S.A. These ladies did not receive any education in their childhood. and they could not read or write until they were in the fifties. Entering the university four years ago, they passed all the examinations with success. Mary won a doctorship; of philosophy, Isabella graduated in’ arts, and Nancy qualified as a solicitor.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1933, Page 11
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