Records, 1925-1947.
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Women's Recreation Association.
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In 1905, through the Buckman Act, the State Legislature reorganized higher education in Florida, establishing a school for male students in Gainesville, and a school for female students in Tallahassee. Florida State College in Tallahassee became the female school and was named the Florida Female College. This name was objectionable to friends and supporters of the college, thus in 1909 it was renamed the Florida State College for Women. In 1946, a flood of applicants see...
Florida State College for Women
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According to Robin Sellers' Femina Perfecta, in 1914 members of the even-year classes of Florida State College for Women (juniors and freshmen) wore their green and yellow class colors to chapel on the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving. A spontaneous pep rally ensued. On the following Wednesday, odd-year class members (seniors, sophomores, and sub-freshmen) carried canes wrapped with ribbons in their individual class colors of red, white, and purple. On Thanksgiving Day the odd-year classes d...
