Alma Mater

by Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

• ISBN13: 9780870238697
• ISBN10: 0870238698
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

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 of each college contained and implicit message about the way society perceived women, the limits placed on their aspirations, and the expectations about their relationship to one another.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Foundings	p. 1
Plain, Though Very Neat: Mount Holyoke	p. 9
More Lasting Than the Pyramids: Vassar	p. 28
That Beauty Which Is Truth: Wellesley	p. 42
Acting a Manly Part: The Beginnings of College Life	p. 56
To Preserve Her Womanliness: Smith	p. 69
The Advantages of the So-called "Cottage System" Wellesley, Vassar	p. 82
As Unnoticed as the Daughters of Any Cambridge Residents: Radcliffe	p. 95
A Certain Style of "Quaker Lady" Dress: Bryn Mawr	p. 105
Behold They are Women!: Bryn Mawr	p. 117
The Stately Columned Way: Barnard	p. 134
Experience	p. 143
The Life: Student Life	p. 147
Households of Women: Faculty Life	p. 179
The Classic Design	p. 199
The Necessities Peculiar to Women of Today: Wellesley, Smith, Vassar	p. 203
A Larger School Room: Mount Holyoke	p. 223
The Day of Small Things Is Over: Radcliffe, Barnard	p. 237
A Great Design: Wellesley	p. 262
The Post-war Women's College	p. 275
In Obedience to a Social Convention: College Life after 1920	p. 279
In the Spirit of Our Times: Vassar, Mount Holyoke	p. 295
The Training Which a College Can Give in Character and in the Art of Living: 1920s Dormitories	p. 307
Without Reference to the Analogy of Colleges for Men: Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Scripps	p. 319
Epilogue	p. 351
Notes	p. 357
Index	p. 399
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