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The first Simmons yearbook, published in 1906, featured these side-by-side portraits of College President Henry Lefavour and Dean Sarah Louise Arnold. Lefavour and Arnold had a contentious relationship, as Lefavour made his anti-suffrage views known…

In her essay “Our Chief Concern,” published in the Journal of Education in 1906, Arnold argued for the importance of individual attention in schools for all children, including young girls.

A newspaper article about Sarah Louise Arnold's new position as national president of the Girl Scouts. Arnold assumed this position after 20 years as Dean of Simmons College.

Daisie Miller Helyar, who graduated from Simmons in 1910, saved this newspaper clipping in her scrapbook. The article reported on Dean Arnold’s address to a citizenship class at the South Congregational Church in Boston, quoting Arnold’s argument…