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A scrap of streamer in Blanche Castleman's yearbook from the October 17 suffrage parade in Boston. According to the Boston Globe, on the day of the parade, "antis" (those opposed to women's suffrage) prepared over 100,000 red "blushing" roses for…

Blanche Castleman, who graduated with a B.S. in Library Science in 1919, poses near the entrance to North Hall.

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.

Gladys Corthell was born in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1890. She attended the University of Wyoming until 1913, when her parents decided to send her across the country for a year so that she could experience life beyond Wyoming before she married her…

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…

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…

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