Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Today we are fzcqzzfzinting omfselzfes with through a depression, and through periods of svviftest change, Simmons has adapted and developed its capacities, and planned always for the future. For twenty-five years Miss Jane Louise Mesick has served as Dean, and for sixteen years Dr. Bancroft Beatley has served as President, During their administrations the early faculty has been completely replaced, the School of English has been established, the School of Social Work has been made a graduate school and the School of Preprofessional Studies instituted to take its place on an undergraduate level and to provide a wider scope of preprofessional studies. Placement service has been centralized, standards of admission and guidance have been revised and developed, the library facilities have been expanded and the library contains over 100,000 volumes. From the original four schools and 125 students, the College has grown to include Ar Olde Euglirb Djmzer Jerzforr and faculty join C brirtzmzf fefti zfitier. Af Stu-G open meefizzgf we air our apirziwzf and liftezz to otberf. VH il in qw:

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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

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our college, our clfzssmfztes, fzzzcl our worlol. .ftualefzi-faculty tem are one of the zmzzgv zvqyf we meet our ! 1z.rt1'zzcrorJ . N S A bay proved 4 gl'0lL'l7Ig ifzflzzezzce both among .rfzzflerztf on the 531721120111 cmfzpzzf and our I'6lzZ1'l0Il to Jtzzzlerzftr in nine schools and over 1600 registered stu- dents from almost every state in the coun- try and more than fourteen foreign coun- tries. Extensive plans have been made to enlarge the outgrown buildings, to build a new library, a new science building, a social and health unit, new residence halls and refectory. These are some of the plans for the future, for the second half- century for which the work of John Sim- mons, Dr. Lefavour, President Beatley, Miss Arnold, Dean Mesiclc, of all the faculty and students, will bear more and richer fruit. the ooznzffjy and the world. Ei., 13,4 .fe .- ff 1 ,??fii1lQ3??fffQ fi. 5? X gig, - f ' ff ' A, f fa 4 Q 1.7 -if f r -- f . '1:.f .'.. 4. -- TI - . , . - ' 4 L1 1+ +C 1'1- :fr?2'flll4M,.evfi- e if l ll 1m ' .Q '-am selilg-Flhf 12-lilaigoms : e ar- if ff w a v .-3lx,?EaLe'1'H el.ai,f: l Us si 5 :aft if is g' x..-'il1' L?lEg ' K 595. .. Q-: .,3H,. f f T-i7f1Y,'! 1 1:44,- ..,,y5.uf' . 'S ' 1 . ,fe-1 ' r 'f::f- -SM. f .,,.m-1 1'-, N X. , ,y -kr, - -311' , ll