Women's Access to Higher Education by the End of the Century

Women's access to higher education by the end of the century:

A) only existed in graduate schools in Boston and Baltimore until the 1870s
B) was practically nonexistent until the 1920s, and even then was only available to elites
C) was resisted most strongly by state universities in the West
D) expanded significantly to the point that women made up one-third of all college students
E) was impossible until Vassar's founding in 1865