Records of the Radcliffe Seminars, (inclusive) (bulk) 1950-1985 1950-1959

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Records of the Radcliffe Seminars, (inclusive) (bulk) 1950-1985 1950-1959

Records of the Radcliffe Seminars document the history and content of the program through correspondence, minutes, reports and course information.

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Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine. Together with Edwards A. Park, her research established that public health measures (dietary supplementation with vitamin...

Jordan, W. K. (Wilbur Kitchener), 1902-1980

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George La Piana

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Pease, Arthur Stanley, 1881-1964

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Arthur Stanley Pease (1881-1964) was a classics professor at the University of Illinois, Amherst, and Harvard. From 1927 to 1932 he was president of Amherst College. He was also an amateur botanist. From the description of Correspondence and compositions, 1870-1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122564002 From the guide to the Correspondence and compositions, 1870-1963., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Arthur Stanley Pease...

Philipp, Frank

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Ault, Warren O.

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Edwin Burke Wilson

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Paul S. Rockwell

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Fay, Sidney Bradshaw, 1876-1967

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Lyons, Louis Martin, 1897-1982

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Monroe Engel

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Chase, Philip Putnam, 1878-1978

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Van Courtlandt Elliott

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Radcliffe Seminars

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The Radcliffe Seminars were inaugurated in 1950 with initial funding from the Carnegie Corporation to provide non-credit liberal arts courses taught mainly by Harvard professors to women in mid-life. Currently, courses are offered in five areas: liberal arts, landscape design, management studies, non-credit enrichment courses, and study tours. From the description of Records of the Radcliffe Seminars, 1950-1985 (inclusive), 1950-1959 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: ...

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Jeffrey Butler

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George H. Gifford

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Sperry, Willard Learoyd, 1882-1954

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Congregational minister, dean of Harvard Divinity School. B.A. Olivet College, 1903; B.A. Oxford, 1907; M.A. Yale, 1909. Ordained a Congregational minister, 1908, serving churches in Fall River and Boston, Mass. (1908-1922). Dean, Harvard Divinity School (1922-1953), Plummer Professor of Christian Morals (1928-1953). See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Five. From the description of Papers, 1902-1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). Wo...

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Whitehead, Thomas North

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Albright, Raymond W.

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Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973

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McIlwain, Charles Howard, 1871-1968

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Newton, Earle W. (Earle Williams)

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Balderston, Katharine C.

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Winslow, Ola Elizabeth

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Gregory Tucker

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Maxine Kumin

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Borden, Elizabeth McGinley

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Guérard, Albert Léon, 1880-1959

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American educator; broadcaster, United States Office of War Information, 1942-1945. From the description of Albert Léon Guérard papers, 1942-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868930 Albert Léon Guérard, born in Paris in 1880, came to the United States in 1906 to teach at Williams College. He taught at Stanford from 1907 until 1946 when he retired, except for 12 years between 1913 and 1925 when he was at Rice University and served in the war. He died in Palo Alto, N...

Radcliffe College. Women's Archives

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