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Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Le Baron Russell Briggs grew up in Cambridge and was educated at Harvard. From 1903 to 1923, he was the part-time president of Radcliffe and the dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. During Briggs’s years as president, he raised Radcliffe’s endowment to $4 million and the College purchased the ...
This collection chronicles Radcliffe College from its beginning as the Harvard Annex, in 1879, through 1999, the year the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was founded. The archives are a rich resource for the study of women in higher education, the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship, and the lives of the many remarkable women who attended or ...
The Institute rests firmly on the foundation of its predecessor, Radcliffe College—a school created to ensure that the standard of education embodied in Harvard was accessible to women. Radcliffe’s unwavering commitment to women and the study of gender endures in the Institute’s programs and the world-class collections of its Schlesinger Library.
Jan 20, 2023 · Radcliffe College broke barriers for women seeking to earn the same educational opportunities presented to men. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and other women established the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women to offer classes taught by Harvard faculty and which came to be called the Harvard Annex.
Come and see us. Click here to find out more about the many different ways you can come and visit Ratcliffe College. We look forward to seeing you in the near future. Visit Us. Ratcliffe College is a Catholic independent school in Leicestershire. Providing a co-educational experience for ages 3-18, with boarding from age 11.
Feb 11, 2024 · The china originally belonged to Mary Glaser, who attended Radcliffe College in the 1930s. Open for research. Records of the Radcliffe Choral Society, 1957-1970, 1976-1986 and undated (HUD 3277.6000). The oldest women’s organization at Radcliffe and one of the oldest women’s choirs in the nation, the Radcliffe Choral Society was founded in ...
Our Mission. Established in the 1999 merger agreement between Radcliffe College and Harvard University, which created today’s Harvard Radcliffe Institute, our mission is broad and ambitious. The purpose of the Radcliffe Institute will be to create an academic community where individuals can pursue advanced work in the academic disciplines ...
