After graduating she undertook research in mathematics at Yale University. She studied mathematics and physics at Vassar College graduating with a BA in 1928. She spent the academic year at Hartridge School in Plainfield, New Jersey then entered Vassar College in 1924. Intending to enter Vassar College in 1923 she failed a Latin examination and was required to wait another year. Grace was educated at two private schools for girls, namely Graham School and Schoonmakers School both in New York City. Unable to reassemble it, she took to pieces the other seven clocks she found in the house before her mother discovered what was happening. There were certainly signs in Grace's childhood of her fascination with machines and in there is a delightful story of how, when she was seven years old, she took her alarm clock to pieces to find out how it worked. It also describes her hobbies of needlepoint, reading and playing the piano. It tells of summers spent with her cousins in their cottage on Lake Wentworth in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire and the games they played there such as kick-the-can, hide-and-seek and cops-and-robbers. The book contains a fascinating account of her childhood. Both Grace's parents believed that she and her sister should have an education of the same quality as her brother. Her father, Walter Murray, was an insurance broker while her mother, Mary Van Horne, had a love of mathematics which she passed on to her daughter. Biography Grace Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray, the oldest of three children.
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