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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…

Swarthmore College Yearbook

Swarthmore yearbook covering the year white women on campus gained the right to vote. Interesting writeup from the Poli Sci department about the resulting increase of women enrolling in their courses and major track.…

Brief description of the purpose of the women’s suffrage movement in Anthony’s words.

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…

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…

Vassar graduates Julia Lathrop and Katherine B. Davis, were to speak with others on Women’s suffrage at the Masonic Temple.

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…

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

“Program that lists session details for the 25th Annual Convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Mariana Wright Chapman is listed as President of the Brooklyn Woman’s Suffrage Association.”