Records of the Office of the Dean, 1851-1979

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration

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Initiated by Barbara Rimbach and sponsored by Radcliffe College Archives, the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project includes interviews with sixty-five women who graduated from the program between 1942 and 1963. The program offered a one-year course in business management at Radcliffe College, taught by faculty from the Harvard Business School. Women were admitted in 1959 to the second year of the MBA program at Harvard Business School. The HRPBA was discontin...

Radcliffe College. Office of the Dean

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The Office of the Dean was created in 1894, after the incorporation of Radciffe College, with overall responsibility for graduates' and undergraduates' academic and extra-curricular life. In 1934 the Radcliffe Graduate School became administratively separate, and the Dean's office was divided into the Office of the Graduate Dean and the Dean of the College. In 1946 the office was again divided. The Dean of Instruction took over responsibility for academic affairs while the Dean of th...

Phi Beta Kappa. Massachusetts Iota (Radcliffe College)

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Phi Beta Kappa, the national honor society, was organized in 1776. Radcliffe first showed an interest in having a chapter in 1907, but it was several years before the College could overcome "the belief held by some members of the fraternity that it was the duty of the Harvard Chapter either to admit Radcliffe students or to provide them with a kind of sub-chapter." The Radcliffe Chapter- Iota of Massachusetts- was finally organized in May 1914. The petitioners were twenty-one membe...

Baker, Christina Hopkinson, 1873-1959

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Historian and genealogist, of New Haven, Conn.; b. Christina Hopkinson. From the description of Christina Hopkinson Baker papers, 1932-1963. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 319540491 Christina Hopkinson Baker graduated from Radcliffe College in 1893 and the same year married George Pierce Baker, then involved in the "47 Workshop" in Cambridge. She was acting Dean at Radcliffe from 1913 to 1914 and again from 1922 to 1923. From 1919 to 1938 ...

Radcliffe College. Office of Women's Education

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Schwalbe, Marianne

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Sherman, Mildred Percival

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Walzer, Judith B.

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Elliott, Kathleen Overmyer

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Solomon, Barbara Miller

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Williston, Catharine

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Kerby-Miller, Wilma

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