Broadbent papers, 1934-1936, 1938, 1963 1934-1936.

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Broadbent papers, 1934-1936, 1938, 1963 1934-1936.

The Margaret Broadbent Papers consist of letters dating from 1934-1936, a course paper, 1935, and photographs, 1938 and 1963. She wrote the letters to her parents in Rhode Island between her first and junior years at Mount Holyoke College. Letters refer to President Mary Emma Woolley; faculty members Leonora Branch, Anna Jean Mill, Blanche Brotherton Cox, Cornelia Catlin Coulter, Eleanor Catherine Doak, Ellen Deborah Ellis, Alice Browne Frame, and Bertha Haven Putnam; and classmates Rosamond Frame de Saint-Phalle, Gertrude Read Adams, Marjorie Stephens Belcher, Catherine Ryan Wasselle, Mary Evans Vorwerk, Mary Fletcher Terry, and Mary Charlotte Lane. Topics discussed in the letters include Mountain Day and other college traditions, cooperative housing for students, student employment, food, and social and cultural events such as dances, dates, and a lecture by Gertrude Stein. Letters also discuss examinations; course work in zoology, Latin, and physical education; soccer and other sports; the Outing Club and Glee Club, regulations concerning alcohol use and smoking. Other letters discuss the continuing impact of the 1929 economic depression on college students and families, and discuss political activities of students. The collection also contains a course paper regarding Sir Arthur Smith Woodward's "Progression of Life on Earth," most likely written for an introductory English class. Finally, the collection contains two photographs, one taken as a senior at Mount Holyoke College in 1938 and one in 1963.

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Broadbent, Margaret, 1917-

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Margaret Elizabeth Broadbent was born on January 21, 1917 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to Wilfred O. Broadbent, district manager of a coal company, and Alice Sweet Cole Broadbent. She grew up in Edgewood, Rhode Island, attended Cranston (Rhode Island) High School from 1930 to 1934, and went to Mount Holyoke College from 1934 to 1938. She majored in English Language and Literature with a minor in Latin and received her B.A. in 1938. She then attended the Katherine Gibbs School for secretarial train...

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The first official publication of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was a catalogue issued in 1837 containing information about trustees, teachers, terms of admission, the course of study, the schedule for the year, Family Accommodations, and the Moral and Religious Influence at the school. Subsequent catalogues (with periodic updates) trace the growth of the institution and provide detailed information about the academic program and residential life for students at the College. These publications h...

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