Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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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

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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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iin.u.uun.nux,ul1:. llr'X' plilll lu vu H110 I . .H 'mor souls 'lflllllll -Iso . ' 1 l 'in M S QM SWL: For the past forty years M1cRocosM has been the official yearbook of Si ns Col- lege. During that time it has reflected the changes and developments in t College, its students, its curricula, and its relation to the outside world. Its - y name was chosen at that time to express this relationship of the Simmo student to the world about her. A little world within a world had been Q - theme behind the series of yearbooks and the College and activities that depicts. This year the fortieth volume in that series endeavors to show -. growth and changes that have ensued during this period of Simmons ' e e. many instances we find accounts of the same schools and eve ..... at we read of in the first yearbook. In many other, though, - been changes and additions that were required by changes in fj .u the college. And in some cases we have even looked to 714 1 ' of Simmons. But throughout the whole history of S' iwnmummmmnml rv- u '19 Simmons girl to meet the problems and needs ' . u .P of which she is a part. In this anniversary ed :Qu f lm' - . Y we have attempted to show this whole r .ln n h n 1 . forty years of a yearbook and forty-seven years ol KL? We have told of the history of its foundi 1 lui growth, the awareness of its changes ' I-i TZ 1 'D-L r... ul 5 I ' n Z S l,lllllu', f QL I X ns Q 'lilly' we land the same interest and ideal to train, te --- P- f -- 0 4 2 n ' 1 ll A D nl 1 nl el v' 1 , V ..- Lmwmwn future. And above all, the correlatio :sm- -'Q cosM and the outside world. G