Papers, 1912-1969.

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Papers, 1912-1969.

Correspondence, published and unpublished writings, biographical materials, and photographs. Includes letters, 1915-1922, describing her activities as a Columbia University graduate student and teacher at Mount Holyoke College, which reflect her close friendships with a Mount Holyoke student, Helen G. Fisk, and Amy Hewes, a professor at Mount Holyoke.

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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Comstock, Alzada, 1888-1960

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Alzada Peckham Comstock was born on November 23, 1888 in Waterford, Connecticut. She received an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College in 1910, and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1913. Shortly after, she began teaching economics at Mount Holyoke College, and became a full professor in 1927. During the course of her lifetime, she wrote textbooks and various other publications. She was chair of the American Association of University Women for five years and represented the AAUW at various...

Hewes, Amy, 1877-1970

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