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MIC SM john Zmmom I796' 1870 It is my will to found and endow an institution to be called the Simmons Female College for the purpose of teaching medicine, music, drawing, designing. telegraphy and other branches of art, science and industry best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an independent livelihood. These words are the genesis of Simmons College. It has been said that an idea is as much ofan endowment as money. John Simmons gave both, and the College of today with its twenty-nine years of service represents the present accomplishment ofthose endowments. John Simmons, born in the small rural, town of Little Compton, Rhode Island, with the meagre education that the common schools of such a community could furnish, but with the character and habits that the family training gave in those days, came to Boston in 1817. at the age of sixteen to begin what was to be a busy, successful career as a business man. At first an employee in his brother's store, then the manager of his own small store which traded in men's clothing, and finally a leading manufacturer of ready-made clothes for men with a nation-wide business, together with an unusual shrewdness in real estate investments, he accumu- lated what was for those days a large fortune, and before he was sixty he had retired from active business. He had employed many girls in his factory and he had observed that beyond their ill-paid trade there were no opportunities for those with talent to achieve a self-supporting career in which their talents might be employed. Suitable opportunities for boys had been provided and this College was to be the supplemental institution for girls. Conditions and educational resources have been much changed in these sixty years, especially since our work began. But this College opened a pathway, and the many young women who entered its doors have reason to rise up and call its Founder blessed. fa-
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