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Alma Mater : Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges From Their Nineteenth-century Beginnings to the 1930s
author
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Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870238698
print isbn13
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9780870238697
ebook isbn13
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9780585083667
language
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English
subject
Women's colleges--United States--History.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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LC1756.H67 1993eb
ddc
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376/.8/0973
subject
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Women's colleges--United States--History.
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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
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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.H671993 376' .8' 0973-dc2093-4393 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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TO Leona and David Lefkowitz, Jr. AND Miriam and William Horowitz
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CONTENTS
Introduction to the Second Edition
xv
Preface
xxi
Acknowledgments
xxvii
Part One Foundings
1
1 Plain, Though Very Neat Mount Holyoke
9
2 More Lasting Than the Pyramids Vassar
28
3 That Beauty Which Is Truth Wellesley
42
4 Acting a Manly Part The Beginnings of College Life
56
5 To Preserve Her Womanliness Smith
69
6 The Advantages of the So-called "Cottage System" Wellesley, Vassar
82
7 As Unnoticed as the Daughters of Any Cambridge Residents Radcliffe
95
8 A Certain Style of "Quaker Lady" Dress Bryn Mawr
105
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9 Behold They Are Women! Bryn Mawr
117
10 The Stately Columned Way Barnard
134
Part Two Experience
143
11 The Life Student Life
147
12 Households of Women Faculty Life
179
Part Three The Classic Design
199
13 The Necessities Peculiar to Women of Today Wellesley, Smith, Vassar
203
14 A Larger School Room Mount Holyoke
223
15 The Day of Small Things Is Over Radcliffe, Barnard
237
16 A Great Design Wellesley
262
Part Four The Post-war Women's College
275
17 In Obedience to a Social Convention College Life After 1920
279
18 In the Spirit of Our Times Vassar, Mount Holyoke
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