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Alma Mater Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to The 1930s

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ISBN-10: 0870238698

ISBN-13: 9780870238697

Edition: 2nd 1993 (Reprint)

Authors: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

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Book details

List price: $32.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 10/27/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Introduction to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Foundings
Plain, Though Very Neat: Mount Holyoke
More Lasting Than the Pyramids: Vassar
That Beauty Which Is Truth: Wellesley
Acting a Manly Part: The Beginnings of College Life
To Preserve Her Womanliness: Smith
The Advantages of the So-called "Cottage System" Wellesley, Vassar
As Unnoticed as the Daughters of Any Cambridge Residents: Radcliffe
A Certain Style of "Quaker Lady" Dress: Bryn Mawr
Behold They are Women!: Bryn Mawr
The Stately Columned Way: Barnard
Experience
The Life: Student Life
Households of Women: Faculty Life
The Classic Design
The Necessities Peculiar to Women of Today: Wellesley, Smith, Vassar
A Larger School Room: Mount Holyoke
The Day of Small Things Is Over: Radcliffe, Barnard
A Great Design: Wellesley
The Post-war Women's College
In Obedience to a Social Convention: College Life after 1920
In the Spirit of Our Times: Vassar, Mount Holyoke
The Training Which a College Can Give in Character and in the Art of Living: 1920s Dormitories
Without Reference to the Analogy of Colleges for Men: Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Scripps
Epilogue
Notes
Index