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Student perspective on College President’s participation in the Suffrage movement. Nathalie Gookin was a member of the class of 1920, and wrote extensively about her time on campus. In this letter, she discusses day-to-day life on campus, the…

Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, writes to Miss Powell. Acknowledging a note of appreciation for a lecture on Woman Suffrage and makes several comments on the lecture.

Reflection on the interest of the college population in the Bryn Mawr Suffrage Chapter, means of developing greater interest, and the degree of interest in the issues of “keen suffragists” among current participants in the Equal Suffrage League.…

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.

The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry was founded as a direct result of the 19th Amendment and white women’s newfound right to vote in both the US and UK. This intersectional outreach of Suffrage, class, and labor is discussed in…

Detailed daily entries from February of Ordway’s junior year to January of her senior year at Vassar College. Mentions her opinions on suffrage multiple times throughout the entries, in full support “that women should have equal suffrage with men.”

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…

Group portrait of the class of 1920. Students are wearing white dresses. Similar class year portraits are traditionally done in academic regalia; the shift from caps and gowns to white dresses for this singular portrait may indicate this portrait was…

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…

Although President Henry Noble MacCracken asserted he was a suffragist, he discouraged the gathering that was about to happen that intended to promote suffrage.