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This broadsheet, containing marching instructions, a parade map, and song lyrics, advised suffrage supporters on how to participate in the Boston suffrage march of October 16, 1915.

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…

This broadsheet, containing marching instructions, a parade map, and song lyrics, advised suffrage supporters on how to participate in the Boston suffrage march of October 16, 1915. Simmons is the only college listed individually among the groups of…

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.

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.

Gertrude Barish, '19, addressed a suffrage committee in Boston and warned that Russian women would get the vote before American women. She was a sophomore at Simmons when she gave this speech.

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.

This suffrage-themed advertisement for an Economics class at Simmons in 1914 suggests the presence of pro-suffrage faculty and students in the Household Economics department.