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Letter about the dress code at Simmons from Dean Eleanor Clifton.

The College began using 240 Kent Street as the first of the houses in 1929, followed by No. 241 (1944) and No. 232 (1947), to help ease the housing shortage.

With the completion of Dix and Morse Halls in 1953, the College sold the majority of its…

Kathryn Wilson Moore, Class of 1941, with Colman Mockler Jr. and Franklin K. Hoyt during an architectural presentation of the new Science Center.

View of John Simmons birthplace home in Little Compton, Rhode Island, 1957.

John Simmons, with his arms folded across his chest, circa 1845.

Joanne Gitchell, Susie Richmond, and Sue Daniels, all Class of 1953, in a Morse Hall dorm room.

Jane Moss Chrysler, Head Resident of South Hall, and Barbara Howard, Class of 1960, having tea.

In February 1902, the Corporation began leasing office space in Huntington Chambers, 30 Huntington Ave, located just above Copley Square. The Corporation sold the Simmons Building later that spring to help fund the new Simmons Building Trust.

After over a decade of student advocacy for an athletics building, construction for the Holmes Sports Center began in October 1987. Turner (East House) and Hastings (Students' House) were demolished to make way for the long-anticipated Center.

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Helen Hirschfeld, Jeane Else, and Elizabeth Webster, all Home Economics Class of 1936, preparing food in Pilgrim House.