Records of the President of Radcliffe College

George Ellery Hale was an astrophysicist. He was the organizer and director of the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1904-1923, and was honorary director until his death in 1938. His principal scientific researches were made in stellar spectroscopy. From the description of Papers, 1903-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82798019 From the description of Papers, 1882-1937. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523501...

Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1855-1902

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Student at University of Michigan, later president of Wellesley College. From the description of Alice Freeman Palmer correspondence, 1874-1900. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419539 ...

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...

Flebbe, Beulah Dix, 1876-1970.

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Paton, Lucy Allen, 1865-1951.

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Gray, John Chipman, 1839-1915

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Gray (Harvard A.B. 1859; LL.B. 1861) was a legal scholar, founder (with classmate John C. Ropes) of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, and a professor of law at the Harvard Law School. His wife was Anna Lyman Mason. From the description of Correspondence, 1800-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81162043 Gray (Harvard A.B. 1859; LL.B. 1861) ) was a legal scholar, founder (with classmate John C. Ropes) of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, and a professor of...

Radcliffe, Ann, 1576-1661.

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Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, the first woman donor to Harvard College, gave the sum of one hundred pounds to aid "some poore Scholar" in 1643. President Eliot of Harvard recommended that the "Harvard Annex" be named in her honor. In 1894, The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women was rechartered and named Radcliffe College in her honor, adopting her coat of arms as its official seal. From the description of Collection relating to Ann Radcliffe, 1894-1977 (inclusive). (Harva...

MacDuffie, Abbie Parsons, 1860-1937.

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Farley, Caroline, 1847-1912.

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Radcliffe College. Quadrangle.

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Longfellow, A. W. (Alexander Wadsworth), 1854-1934

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Architect, of Portland, Me.; b. Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.; son of A.W. Longfellow (1814-1901) and nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of A.W. Longfellow scrapbook, ca. 1890-1915. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 226720896 Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr., was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Sr., a U.S. Coast Survey topographer, and nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Anne Longfellow Pierce. After...

Agassiz House (Cambridge, Mass.)

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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...

Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914

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Agnes Irwin was dean of Radcliffe College from 1894-1909. From the description of Letters, 1875, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007310 Agnes Irwin, school and college administrator, descendent of Benjamin Franklin, was born and educated in Washington, D.C. After teaching in New York, she became principal of the Penn Square Seminary, later the Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia (1869-1894). Appointed Dean of Radcliffe College in 1894, she maintained excelle...

Hooper, Edward William, 1839-1901

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Hooper was treasurer of Harvard College (1876-1898). During the Civil War, he served as additional aide-de-camp on the staff of General Rufus Saxton, Department of the South, and on the staff of General John Adams Dix, Department of the East. From the description of Letters, 1862-1892 (inclusive), 1862-1865 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367510 From the guide to the Edward William Hooper letters, 1862-1892 (inclusive), 1862-1865 (bulk)., (Houghton Libra...

Byerly, William Elwood, 1849-1935

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Byerly (1849-1935) taught mathematics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Elwood Byerly, 1934-1936 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972769 ...

Gilman, Arthur, 1841-1914.

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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...

Coes, Mary, 1861-1913.

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College administrator. Educated at Radcliffe, A.B. 1887; A.M. 1897. She was appointed Assistant Secretary at Radcliffe in 1890, Secretary 1894, Acting Dean 1909, and Dean 1910-1913. She was Secretary to the Council 1903, permanent associate 1904, and member of Council, 1906. Served as President of the Alumnae Association from 1905 to 1906. From the description of Papers of Mary Coes, 1880-1958 (inclusive), 1880-1913 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006472 ...

Briggs, Elizabeth, 1863-1937.

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Educator. Graduated from Radcliffe in 1887 (A.B.), graduate student 1887-1888, 1889-1890. Founded the Radcliffe Club of New York, served as president and historian of Radcliffe College Alumnae Association, and as Alumnae Associate. From the description of Papers of Elizabeth Briggs, 1883-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006503 ...

Harvard University. Graduate School of Education

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The Harvard University Graduate School of Education was established in 1920. From 1891 to 1920, the study of education at Harvard took place within two different divisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Until 1906, education faculty were appointed to the Division of Philosophy. In 1906, a separate Division of Education was established. Paul Henry Hanus held Harvard’s first faculty appointment in the field of education. Hanus was chair of the Division of Education from 1906 to 1912. Henr...

Hovey, Marion.

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Farlow, Lilian Horsford

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Hemenway, Harriet Lawrence.

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Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916

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Josiah Royce was born in Grass Valley, California, on November 20, 1855. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1885 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1878. Royce taught English and philosophy at both Berkeley and Harvard, and was also active in the study of the American West. He spent a significant amount of time from 1883 to 1891 writing both histories and novels relating to California history. Royce Hall at UCLA and the Grass Valley Library...

Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

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Woman's Education Association (Boston, Mass.)

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The Woman's Education Association, founded in Boston, Mass, in 1872, and disbanded in 1927, was the catalyst for many educational innovations for women. It instituted the Harvard Examinations for Women (1872), arranged with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to offer summer chemistry courses for women (1873), encouraged Harvard to offer botany courses (1879), raised money for Radcliffe College (1894), and helped found the summer laboratory (later the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's...

Warner, Joseph B. (Joseph Bangs), 1848-1923

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Whitman, Sarah

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