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

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Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930's, Horowitz 'analyzes the architecture of each college as a way of understanding its social and cultural history. Blending the usual stuff of institutional history with a keen understanding of esthetics and design, Mrs. Horowitz shows how the physical plan o, Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930's
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  • Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930's
  • Written by author Helen L. Horowitz
  • Published by A. A. Knopf, 1985
  • Horowitz 'analyzes the architecture of each college as a way of understanding its social and cultural history. Blending the usual stuff of institutional history with a keen understanding of esthetics and design, Mrs. Horowitz shows how the physical plan o
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Introduction to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Pt. 1 Foundings 1
1 Plain, Though Very Neat: Mount Holyoke 9
2 More Lasting Than the Pyramids: Vassar 28
3 That Beauty Which Is Truth: Wellesley 42
4 Acting a Manly Part: The Beginnings of College Life 56
5 To Preserve Her Womanliness: Smith 69
6 The Advantages of the So-called "Cottage System" Wellesley, Vassar 82
7 As Unnoticed as the Daughters of Any Cambridge Residents: Radcliffe 95
8 A Certain Style of "Quaker Lady" Dress: Bryn Mawr 105
9 Behold They are Women!: Bryn Mawr 117
10 The Stately Columned Way: Barnard 134
Pt. 2 Experience 143
11 The Life: Student Life 147
12 Households of Women: Faculty Life 179
Pt. 3 The Classic Design 199
13 The Necessities Peculiar to Women of Today: Wellesley, Smith, Vassar 203
14 A Larger School Room: Mount Holyoke 223
15 The Day of Small Things Is Over: Radcliffe, Barnard 237
16 A Great Design: Wellesley 262
Pt. 4 The Post-war Women's College 275
17 In Obedience to a Social Convention: College Life after 1920 279
18 In the Spirit of Our Times: Vassar, Mount Holyoke 295
19 The Training Which a College Can Give in Character and in the Art of Living: 1920s Dormitories 307
20 Without Reference to the Analogy of Colleges for Men: Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Scripps 319
Epilogue 351
Notes 357
Index 399


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