She studied from 1888 to 1892 at Girton College, Cambridge; and from 1892 to 1893, Graduate in Honours, Cambridge Classical Tripos. She earned her Ph.D. in 1895 at the University of Chicago with a comprehensive study of the Sophist and Neoplatonist influences in the literary work of Emperor Julian. She was a Fellow in Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1892–93; Fellow in Latin, University of Chicago, 1893–94, and Fellow in Greek, 1894–95.