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Alma Mater : Design and Experience in the title: Women's Colleges From Their Nineteenth- century Beginnings to the 1930s author: Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. publisher: University of Massachusetts Press isbn10 | asin: 0870238698 print isbn13: 9780870238697 ebook isbn13: 9780585083667 language: English subject Women's colleges--United States--History. publication date: 1993 lcc: LC1756.H67 1993eb ddc: 376/.8/0973 subject: Women's colleges--United States--History. Page iii Alma Mater Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz SECOND EDITION University of Massachusetts Press AMHERST Page iv Copyright © 1984 by The Sarah Esther Horowitz and Benjamin Horowitz Ten Year Trust Second edition copyright © 1993 by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz First published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1985 University of Massachusetts Press paperback edition, 1993 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma mater: design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz.2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-869-8 1. Women's collegesUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. LC1756.H67 1993 376' .8' 0973-dc20 93-4393 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. Page v TO Leona and David Lefkowitz, Jr. AND Miriam and William Horowitz Page vii CONTENTS Introduction to the Second Edition xv Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxvii Part One 1 Foundings 1 9 Plain, Though Very Neat Mount Holyoke 2 28 More Lasting Than the Pyramids Vassar 3 42 That Beauty Which Is Truth Wellesley 4 56 Acting a Manly Part The Beginnings of College Life 5 69 To Preserve Her Womanliness Smith 6 82 The Advantages of the So-called "Cottage System" Wellesley, Vassar 7 95 As Unnoticed as the Daughters of Any Cambridge Residents Radcliffe 8 105 A Certain Style of "Quaker Lady" Dress Bryn Mawr Page viii 9 117 Behold They Are Women! Bryn Mawr 10 134 The Stately Columned Way Barnard Part Two 143 Experience 11 147 The Life Student Life 12 179 Households of Women Faculty Life Part Three 199 The Classic Design 13 203 The Necessities Peculiar to Women of Today Wellesley, Smith, Vassar 14 223 A Larger School Room Mount Holyoke 15 237 The Day of Small Things Is Over Radcliffe, Barnard 16 262 A Great Design Wellesley Part Four 275 The Post-war Women's College 17 279 In Obedience to a Social Convention College Life After 1920 18 295 In the Spirit of Our Times Vassar, Mount Holyoke 19 307 The Training Which a College Can Give in Character and in the Art of Living 1920s Dormitories 20 319 Without Reference to the Analogy of Colleges for Men Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Scripps Epilogue 351 Notes 357 Index 399 Page ix ILLUSTRATIONS The seminary in 1838; engraving by John W. Barber; 20 Mount Holyoke College Library/Archives A corner of the dining room in the Seminary Building (ca. 23 1892); Mount Holyoke College Library/Archives Domestic work in the Seminary Building dining hall (ca. 23 1893); Mount Holyoke College Library/Archives Bird's-eye view, between 1889 and 1896; Mount Holyoke 26 College Library/Archives Vassar College, ca. 1865; Vassar College Library 34 Calisthenium; Vassar College Library 36 Library, Mount Holyoke Seminary; Mount Holyoke College45 Library/Archives College Hall; Wellesley College Archives 47 1894 class crew, College Hall in background; Wellesley 47 College Archives Plan of first story, College Hall; Wellesley College Archives 49 The Centre, College Hall; Wellesley College Archives 50 Browning Room, College Hall; Wellesley College Archives 52 Maria Mitchell with students on the stairs of the 61 Observatory parlor; Vassar College Library Vassar students in their room, ca. 1890; Vassar College 65 Library Trig ceremony; Vassar; Vassar College Library 67 College Hall; Smith College Archives, Smith College, 76 Northampton Massachusetts 01063 The cottages of Smith, taken from College Hall; Smith 79 College Archives Hatfield House, 1888; Mary Augusta Jordan at far right; 79 Smith College Archives Junior Tree Day, 1887, with honorary class member Lyman 86 Abbott and his wife; Alice Freeman and Eben Horsford in window; Wellesley College Archives
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