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Members of the Social and Civics club, including Chairman Margaret Riegel (seated, center), pose for a yearbook photograph in 1917.

During the 1916-1917 school year, members of the Social and Civics Club at Simmons heard political speeches, studied socialism, and held rallies for the 1916 presidential candidates. “Even if all of us cannot take an active part in the work of this…

In the 1917 Class Will, student Gertrude Dunmore expressed a desire for the Social and Civic Club to persist in its “undying faith in Woman” after her graduation, and left the organization a suffrage banner. Dunmore’s bequest suggests that the Social…

Comprised of subcommittees dedicated to various social and political issues, the Social and Civic Club discussed topics ranging from immigration to Red Cross work. The 1918 Microcosm listed suffrage as one of the concerns the group addressed in its…

Three unidentified students (plus 2 hidden) posed studying in the School of Social Work Library at 51 Commonwealth Avenue.

ID: APC001_05919

Part of the Simmons University Archives Photographs Collection.

E363425 U.S. Copyright Office 19150629 For voice and piano. "Dedicated to the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association." Staff notation.

From Miscellaneous collection of anti-suffrage material assembled by an officer of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1895-1921

Published in the Ladies' Home Journal in 1911, this survey of prominent women of the time indicates that the women interviewed were largely opposed to woman suffrage. The magazine was on record in opposition to women's right to vote.
Women quoted…

“Freshman Nightmare,” a poem published in the 1913 Microcosm, invented a series of unlikely events that might appear in a student’s dream, including a Mr. Rabe shouting in support of “Votes for Women!” Professor Hans Woldo Rabe was a professor of…