Papers, 1909-1967 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1909-1967 (inclusive).

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This collection concerns Cooper's career, particularly her efforts to improve the teaching of secondary school mathematics. It contains her published articles, drafts of unpublished text books, lecture notes, course outlines and examinations, student responses to questionnaires, and correspondence. It also includes letters and diaries describing her academic and social life in England and her travels in France, 1924-1925, and material about Newark House, Co-operative Residence Club, a facility for elderly refugees founded in 1942 in New York City by the Society of Friends and Self Help of Emigres from Central Europe, in which she was active from 1942 to 1960. Biographical material, correspondence and photographs of Cooper are also included.

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