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<\/a>IN FOUR PARTS<\/p>\n\n\n
I. THE FRESHMAN YEAR<\/p>\n
- \n
- The Two Little Girls who Laughed<\/a><\/li>\n
- Red Ink<\/a><\/li>\n
- Green Caps and Gowns<\/a><\/li>\n
- A Mysterious Disappearance<\/a><\/li>\n
- Being a Genius<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Fatal Black Bag<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n
II. THE SOPHOMORE YEAR<\/p>\n
- \n
- Myra\u2019s Little Ram<\/a><\/li>\n
- Knowing It All<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Jealous Fates<\/a><\/li>\n
- Valentines<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Mellowing of Lydia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
III. THE JUNIOR YEAR<\/p>\n
- \n
- Room for Contemporaries<\/a><\/li>\n
- All Kinds of Sense<\/a><\/li>\n
- A Screw Loose<\/a><\/li>\n
- A Day of Events<\/a><\/li>\n
- Cela M\u2019est \u00c9gal<\/a><\/li>\n
- Three Dummy Idiots<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
IV. THE SENIOR YEAR<\/p>\n\n\n
- \n
- Setting an Example<\/a><\/li>\n
- Elinor Takes Her Medicine<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Woes of Eminence<\/a><\/li>\n
- Blessed A Plenty<\/a><\/li>\n
- A Pretty Good Place<\/a><\/li>\n
- Benefits Remembered<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nILLUSTRATED BY
ELLEN WETHERAL AHRENS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nBOSTON<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1906<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nElinor arrives at Vassar College, one of America’s earliest secular colleges. Elinor’s college career takes place in the late 1890s, at a time when women’s higher education is still something of a curiosity. No one knows quite what to make of women who want higher education, and Elinor is seemingly at a loss as well: she has enrolled only because her mother, a first-generation graduate, has pressured her to do so. With time, Elinor comes to appreciate the slightly odd characters around her, and of course, the rarefied social environment that Vassar offered at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elinor arrives at Vassar College, one of America’s earliest secular colleges. Elinor’s college career takes place in the late 1890s, at a time when women’s higher education is still something of a curiosity. No one knows quite what to make of women who want higher education, and Elinor is seemingly at a loss as well: she has enrolled only because her mother, a first-generation graduate, has pressured her to do so. With time, Elinor comes to appreciate the slightly odd characters around her, and of course, the rarefied social environment that Vassar offered at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From Vassar’s graduates would come many of America’s prominent female intellectuals and activists. The authoress, Julia Schwartz, unfortunately does not propel herself into those ranks with this book, but it does offer a curated view of the challenges, joys, and frustrations of a 19th century women’s college student, by someone who was there to experience them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This book appears in several smashing<\/a> reading lists because the author was a graduate of Vassar College, writing about smashing<\/a> at Vassar College. The historical context of the book (turn of the 20th<\/sup> century) is a time when smashing was increasingly considered, both inside and outside of women’s colleges, as inappropriate, if not an outright mental disorder. The book must therefore be seen as counter-propaganda. All traces of homosexuality have been carefully omitted from the text,1<\/a><\/sup> even though there is ample historical evidence that a minority of cases had to do with it. Instead, the reader is left to ponder a culture of platonic idolization, which, history suggests, also took place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n1<\/a>.<\/span> At age 46, Julia Schwartz described herself to the Vassar College Alumnae office<\/a> as “a daughter, sister, aunt, neighbor, friend, voter, [and] citizen.” Everything but a wife and mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Elinor Takes Her Medicine<\/a><\/li>\n
- All Kinds of Sense<\/a><\/li>\n
- Knowing It All<\/a><\/li>\n
- Red Ink<\/a><\/li>\n