Records of the Office of the President, 1884-1999 (inclusive).
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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...
Bunting, Mary Ingraham, 1910-1998
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Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University. Bunting was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry A. and Mary Shotwell Ingraham; she was known as "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Her father was an attorney; her mother was the head of th...
Jordan, W. K. (Wilbur Kitchener), 1902-1980
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Wilbur Kitchener Jordan (also known as W. K. Jordan), (1902-1980) was an American historian, specializing in sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain. Raised in Lynnville, Indiana, Jordan received a bachelor's degree from Oakland City College in 1923, before earning a master's (1926) and doctoral (1931) degree from Harvard University. Jordan went on to become a leading historian of sixteenth and seventeenth century England, accruing many honors, and producing books, including Men of Substanc...
Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973
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Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. Ada Louise Comstock was born on December 11, 1876, in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Solomon Gilman Comstock, an attorney, and Sarah Ball Comstock. Her father recognized her capabilities and potential and set about to cultivate them by encouraging an early and sound ...
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907
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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...
Horner, Matina S.
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Matina Horner, an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard, was named president of Radcliffe College in 1972. From the description of Speech [sound recording]. 1970. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 421972118 Educator. A.B. Bryn Mawr College 1961; M.S. University of Michigan 1963, Ph.D. 1968; LL.D. Dickinson College 1973. Assistant professor of psychology and social relations at Harvard University, 1969-72, president of Radcliffe College, 1972-1989. Author of va...
Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934
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Briggs (Harvard, A.B., 1875) taught English and served as Dean of Harvard College and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Overseer. From the description of Papers of Le Baron Russell Briggs, 1907-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972766 Educator. Harvard: A.B. 1875, A.M. 1882, LL.D. 1900. Assistant professor of English at Harvard, 1885-1890; professor of English, 1890; Dean of Harvard College, 1891-1902; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 190...
Dunn, Mary Maples
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Smith College President, 1985-1995. Born Apr. 6, 1931. College of William and Mary, A.B., 1954. Bryn Mawr, M.A., 1956; Ph. D., 1959. Bryn Mawr, Professor, History and Administrator, 1958-1985. From the description of Office of the President Mary Maples Dunn files, 1985-1995. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51214256 ...
Radcliffe College. Office of the President
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The Office of the President was created with the incorporation of The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women in 1882. The Society became Radcliffe College in 1894. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz held the office from 1882 until 1903. Succeeding presidents were LeBaron Russell Briggs (1903-1923); Ada Louise Comstock (1923-1943); Wilbur Kitchener Jordan (1943-1960); Mary Ingraham Bunting (1960-1972); Matina Souretis Horner (1972-1989); Linda S. Wilson (1989-1999); and Mary Maples Dunn (acting pres...
Wilson, Linda S., 1936-
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Linda S. Wilson, seventh president of Radcliffe College was appointed in 1989 and inaugurated in 1990. From the description of Papers, 1990-1998 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008877 Linda (Smith) Wilson, president of Radcliffe College, daughter of Fred M. and Virginia (Thompson) Smith, received her A.B. from Newcomb College (1957) and Ph. D. (1962) from the University of Wisconsin. She married Paul Allaby Wilson and they have two chil...
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...
