Alma Mater

Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-century Beginnings to the 1930s

• Author(s): Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz,
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
• Pages: 420
• ISBN_13: 9780870238697
  ISBN_10: 0870238698
  
• Language: en
• Categories: EDUCATION / General , Education / Schools / Levels / Higher , Education / History , History / United States / 19th Century , Social Science / General , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... An examination of the founding and development of the Seven Sisters colleges--Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard--Alma Mater focuses on the ideas behind their establishment and the colleges' architectural, academic, and social histories, as well as those of their twentieth-century successors--Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps.