Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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50 emfs 0 Tmining oung Women fabn 5fl7lll10lIJ', Fomzder. It was the will of John Simmons that there should be a school in Boston in which young women would be educated in those arts, sciences, and industries which would prepare them for an eco- nomically independent life. On October 9, tavf V . - ,,5.g: if? lxq-eX,,!iQ,,,jX:,'hff,,,,qgL52'ff' ,grlfi--'.,f't at t it -. v -4 . eavewf :.a:1:11i:'e-ffse1f1f3lf1i'5i?:Y-i --'fwl 9' i ,. ,F-'feiipijai ,i U.- Mi- J ,.,1 ' 11 rv' '-gf 'Eff my-ill'- f f-' '- -9-'5'-'i'951F Pflzmhla 1513 'l , i ,Yum K ft M P4 ,iq .111 1 Ln ,Z cgg.',,-if 1 gg.. Kg-gg :1:: .f iff --C -1- :f,i'f.l+1 ,--. - ., ji T, E W 's f Fig-gig-gat: -:p:ji,:::.L .ral a ,UjQS-ei Q., jlfgll i? :gl 7 E img, 1- Ali- -.:,,-5 --gf: 1 .Hz-- f gm-Q' 1-'-wa--. ...,, , --'fmffeffr -122214-Tifggiitfifi gil i if .f 'I , 31 T 2 ,whit 6 1902, this idea of john Simmons was actu- alized. Dr. Henry Lefavour, the first president of Simmons College, thanked the students that October morning for the courage they exhibited in registering in this new, un- proven college, for their confidence in the School and, implicitly, in themselves. For, as the second president of the College, Dr. Bancroft Beatley, has said, the final judg- ment of an educational institution is deter- mined by the characters of its graduates. Dr. Lefavour continued that every educa- tional undertaking expresses in good meas- ure the ideals of the place from which it springs. In terms of this statement the source of DY HKIZU Lefavamf, Fam? Preridezzt.

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to Sunzlv Lozzife Arnold, Firft Demi. Simmons College is twofold, and there is double-dutied responsibility charged to every young woman graduated from Sim- mons College. John Simmons worl-:ed within an area of industry that he per- sonally revolutionized, and his contacts in this industry brought him into touch with many women left destitute, without skill or training, after the Civil War, and with that economic class of women, seam- stresses, who made his own economic position possible. He was not one of the solid men of literary Boston, and he had no accurate conception of academic curricula. But he had extended his business to meet the 7 Gain me mlelbezzclem' LfU6!jb006l,.U new order of things , and now he made education a part of his business. ln his will he commanded that part of his estate be invested in the training of young women for an independent livelihood. The in- dustry of John Simmons, then, is one source of our College. Dr. Lefavour is the second source, or an indication of the source. He recognized the inadequacy of duplication, and in his recommendations to the Corporation in 1901 he outlined a completely new com- bination of course units that based voca- Tecbfv Walker, zubere Siilzzfzwzx fmt befd cfaffer.