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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…

Despite Vassar encouraging its students to have a wide breadth of knowledge, they have left students particularly uneducated on issues such as Women’s Suffrage. These students believe that if they are more educated on Women’s Suffrage they are not…

Vassar’s President Taylor refused to let the students meet on campus to discuss suffrage, so these students organized a lecture event in the cemetery that borders the northside of campus. It is recorded that “forty undergraduates, ten alumnae…” and…

Included in Elizabeth Babbott’s scrapbook of her years at Vassar, the book includes a whole page devoted to E. Sylvia Pankhurst’s pamphlet describing suffragettes and the appeal for suffrage.

Only one mention of suffrage, in the “Exchange” Column, under the Mississippi section, discussing Millsaps College’s vote on Women’s suffrage. The women are referred to as “co-eds” and 21 women voted against suffrage vs. 12 for adopting and the…

Only one mention of suffrage in a column about new equipment in brewery laboratories. “Mr. Root, like his brewery clients, has been a strong opponent of woman suffrage.”

Article entitled “Women’s Rights” in the Comedy section. A list of ways in which women were privileged over men in US society, for example, “if a woman’s husband dies, “she gets the estate; if she dies, he gets stuck with the funeral bill and her…

A digital archive of the Swarthmore College Annual Catalogue.

Speeches of various College presidents or administrators remark on the enfranchisement of white women voters, the impact this has on Swarthmore College moving forward. Features a speech…

The Swarthmore College Bulletin is the official alumni magazine of the college. It evolved from the Garnet Letter, a newsletter published by the Alumni Association beginning in 1935. After World War II, college staff assumed responsibility for the…

A speech on women’s suffrage, on Worthington’s “unique perspective on the capabilities, duties, and possibilities of women,” as was the focus of Bryn Mawr College’s Equal Suffrage League.