J. R. E., 1917, “Vassar Miscellany, Volume 1, Number 8. 27 March 1914, “College Suffrage Meeting”,” LACOL Introduction to Digital Humanities, accessed December 23, 2025, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/lacol-dh/items/show/63.

Vassar Miscellany, Volume 1, Number 8. 27 March 1914, “College Suffrage Meeting”

Women's Suffrage

Vassar College

Students held a meeting on Women’s Suffrage. They had previously conducted a survey on student support for suffrage: “[Dorothy Holt] announced the results of the recent canvass of the college: for suffrage, 476; against, 154; neutral, 174.” They had students represent each opinion and debate, then suffrage literature and buttons were given out.

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J. R. E., 1917

Vassar Miscellany News, Volume 1, Number 8

Vassar College Digital Library

27 March 1914

Beck Morawski, Wren Jackson, Gemma Null, Emily Schmitt, and Lily McDonnell

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Vassar Miscellany News

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COLLEGE SUFFRAGE MEETING

J. R. E., 1917

An interesting suffrage meeting was held Thursday afternoon in Assembly Hall. Margot Cushing presided. Dorothy Holt opened the meeting by explaining that the coming suffrage campaign of New York in 1915 brought interest in this question near to all of us. She announced the results of the recent canvass of the college: for suffrage, 476; against, 154; neutral, 174. In the general discussion which followed, Blanche Ellsworth, Harriet Robbins. Martha Bull and Harriet White spoke for suffrage, and Adelaide Knight and Amie Lasalle spoke against it. After the meeting, suffrage literature was distributed and suffrage buttons were sold.