Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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if EURPURHTIUH HDFHINISTRHTIUN 0 Simmone College if forty-twoyearf old, and if therefore quite young af collegeJ meafure age. At the fame time, .fzmmonf it old enough to he the pioneer of a new ideal in the education of women, and thier fact her hiftorian would no douht find much more important than mere yearf or ivy-clad wallf. Every .Yimmoner .rtudent knowf that ideal- found profef- .rional education hafed on hroad liheral Jtudiexf' When .S'i77Z77Z07l.f opened ity doorf, a college for women comhining cultural and profeffional Jtudief way unheard of. Faded clippingf from newfpaperf and magazinef of the time reveal that the venture way regarded elf Jenfational, if not revolutionary. There muft have heen quite a fluttering in the dovecotey. Thif .reemf amufing now, when relatively few pofitiony are clofed to women, ef- pecially in wartime. Changef have come quickly thefe patt four decadee. I t would he eagy to attrihute the gift of prophecy to the founderf of Simmonf, Jince the plan they evolved haf coincided with the Jocial and economic trend and hae now won fairbf general acceptance. The evidence indicatef that they were far-.fighted men, hut not prophetf. They knew that women were heing drawn into the economic world, and that they .rhould he given adequate preparation.