Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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After looking back on '50 years M151 jane LOIlf.YE Mefick, .fecmmf Dean of 511111110111 B1z11c1'off Beaff 11, when be Lemme 5251111115 Prefiderzt. tional training on the best in the tradi- tion of liberal arts . He led the way with standards of the future without alienating those of the past. He is representative of the courage, wisdom, and foresight of the early f students, and the first dean, Miss Louise Arnold, who were the the very firm foundation of Simmons lege on what was then not very ground - anticipation of the chan the changing world. lt is to the World of which microcosm that we ovve our sponsibility, the world of liberal industries. During this first half over twelve thousand young 511111110111 College fadqv and the area 'Q'

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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.

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. . . We look ahead. I been graduated from Simmons College into this world, and that they were trained 2 . . to meet the needs of the changlng world IS A lx . L f y yaccug-ya-te proof of the successful IT12l1l'ltC- ' f a program that combines cultural S vzueuml mfgeraw . L . llliillu 1:64.32 'le',pocat1onal educatlon. 23? N i f: - 1 L a e 1deals of Boston and of New Eng- ' J V? . . 3 53121 5 the place from vvh1ch 1n essence the 2 . r lfge has sprung, are thrift, industry, -.Digit -w e . . iiifiijnfiii elpfulness. These are the qual1t1es -is X . 5?s J 3 JOl'11l S1mmons possessed. These are -,tfzii is E . . . iii Hgualnres wh1ch Dr. Lefavour recom- 11-Eiia -5 . . i n ed to h1s first class 1n 1902. And these 1 'S' f . . . . nigga Efhe qual1t1es wh1ch have sustamed the Hr - of an lndependent l1Vel1hood 1n fact lhfty years, through two wars, if . . . jg that will be med for new bzzzldzrzgr. l F ,- ' p- ,- -'WW Emily Hall, Up im! of the new cazzzpzu of the fzzfzzre