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A tongue-in-cheek poem from the 1910 Microcosm called "We Would Like to See" "“J. Van Liew Morris at a Suffragette Meeting” J. Van Liews was a physics and mathematics instructor.

“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…

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…

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…

On October 17, 1915, over eight thousand suffragists marched through Boston in support of women’s voting rights. Simmons students, including Blanche Castleman, were among the college students in attendance.

In an article about Boston’s suffrage parade on May 3, 1914, the Boston Globe reported that Simmons students were among the undergraduates who marched with the College Women’s Equal Suffrage League.

Mary Caroline Crawford was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1874 to James Crawford, a laundry worker, and Mary (Coburn) Crawford. She graduated from the Boston Girls’ Latin School in 1892 and went on to attend Radcliffe College between 1894 and…

Sara Cone Bryant, pictured here in a 1906 Boston Globe article, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts in 1873 to Dexter and Dorcas Anne (Hancock) Bryant. She received her A.B. in 1895 from Boston University, where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma…