Papers, 1778-1939.

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Papers, 1778-1939.

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Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, writings on literary, historical, and scientific topics, printed matter, and other personal and professional papers; together with family correspondence and diaries of Gould's parents, Benjamin Apthorp Gould and Mary A. Q. Gould. Includes material relating to Gould's education at Bryn Mawr College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Chicago; activities as a teacher and mathematician; travels to Puerto Rico and Spain; and women's suffrage. Correspondents include Gould's parents (especially while her father was in charge of the astronomical observatory at Córdoba, Argentina), grandfather Josiah Quincy (1802-1882), and Mary E. Hoyt, Martha Carey Thomas (president of Bryn Mawr College), and other classmates and teachers at Bryn Mawr.

18 ft. (32 boxes, 59 notebooks, 5 folders, and oversize).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

Gould, Alice Bache, 1868-1953

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Alice Bache Gould, scion of a distinguished New England family, Bryn Mawr graduate, and university teacher in the field of mathematics, became a pioneer scholar of the history of early exploration in the Caribbean, and particularly of Chistopher Columbuss voyages. She pursued this work in many libraries and archives, and spent much of the last forty years of her life in Spain. The collection consists of correspondence between Alice Bache Gould and Samuel Vaughn, her trustee in Boston. The letter...