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The Seven Sisters are a group of seven private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. [1] [2] Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969 and Radcliffe College was ...
Hobart and William Smith Colleges are private liberal arts colleges in Geneva, New York.They trace their origins to Geneva Academy established in 1797. Students can choose from 45 majors and 68 minors with degrees in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Science in Management, and Master of Arts in Higher Education Leadership.
A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
When Smith College first opened its doors to students in 1875, there were few precedents for how a women's college should build its dorms. Unlike the two already existing women's colleges, Mount Holyoke and Vassar, the Smith trustees decided to abandon the model of a large building with many individual student rooms. Instead, they took over a ...
Eleanor Jack Gibson (7 December 1910 – 30 December 2002) was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants. Gibson began her career at Smith College as an instructor in 1932, publishing her first works on research conducted as an undergraduate student. Gibson was able to circumvent the many ...
Willis Adcock (1944), professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Willard Myron Allen, MD (1926), professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine. John D'Agata (1995), M.F. Carpenter Professor of English at the University of Iowa.
Secret societies were outlawed at Smith College in 1948 making the groups stop “all official activities.” [79] [78] But, Smith College Special Collections says, “records indicate that both organizations continued unofficially until the mid-1960s” with available documentation ceasing during the 1965-1966 academic year. [79] [78]
Ada Comstock, 1897, third and first full-time President of Radcliffe College; Rhoda Dorsey, 1946, longest serving and first woman President of Goucher College; Mary Patterson McPherson, 1957, sixth President of Bryn Mawr College, former Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Executive Officer of American Philosophical Society