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| | For two
happy hours yesterday girls and women splashed about in the swimming pool of the
University of Pennsylvania gymnasium. It was the first opportunity that the women
had to use the pool and they took good advantage of it.
Only two of the
women knew how to swim
Local Newspaper, 1911
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When the millennium comes we shall have a women's dormitory at
Pennsylvania, and there we shall hope to find a haven of rest at last. Beta
Alpha, Chapter History, 1912 |  |
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the games last fall, for the first time in the history of the University, co-eds,
valiantly cheered the team from the student section. They rejoiced in a victory,
though from afar; they stood and sang the "Alma Mater," when the stands
were gloomy and downcast with defeat. For the moment the co-ed could forget the
wide isolation of her college life, the oftimes thankless existence, and borne
on the refrain of the old songs, join in the spirit of Pennsylvania. Then college
meant something, other than a dull routine of class work, or a daily street car
ride into West Philadelphia. The
Red and Blue, February 1913 | | |
Merely to mention that more than four thousand women have been
awarded degrees, that more than four thousand women students are registered this
year in various courses of study, that the Board of Trustees has been responsible
for the education of both sexes for more than one hundred and eighty years, should
be sufficient evidence that Alma Mater is not the only female associated with
this institution, as seems to be the impression in some quarters. Karl
Greenwood Miller, 1915 B.A.; 1917 A.M.; 1921 Ph.D.; Dean of the College of Liberal
Arts for Women, 1936-1959 | | |
A co-ed is a woman student who patronizes a man's college and who makes strong
men giggle in Botany and Psychology classes. The
Pennsylvanian, 1916 | | |
I concluded [while still an undergraduate student] that I could not single-handedly
make any changes in the position of women at Penn or of the people of my race
and that it was best for me to secure an outstanding record and a solid education
so that when I entered public life I would have the background to assume responsibility
and leadership. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander,
1918 B.S. in Ed.; 1919 A.M.; 1921 Ph.D. in Economics; 1927, LL.B.; 1974, Hon.
LL.D. |  |
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offset the loss of more than 2000 students who have enlisted in various branches
of the Government service, all departments of the University of Pennsylvania will
be declared open to women, beginning with the second term in February, according
to an unofficial statement made yesterday by a University official.
Local Newspaper, 1918 |  |
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"flooded the campus," "crowded the corridors," "overran
the library," and "a handful of women students caused more anxiety than
thousands of the boys." We were undaunted, however, and had a jolly time.
The Record, 1918 |  |
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the
University has had women students for years and their presence has proved successful
in every way. It is also a fact that no university which has ever opened its doors
to women has afterward excluded them and more and more universities are letting
down the bars.
It is just as well for Pennsylvania to lead again, and I
am heartily in favor of extending all our facilities to women students. One must
also remember that we had 6900 students to register this fall, and 220 have since
left to serve in the army and navy. Edgar Fahs Smith,
Provost, 1910-1920 |  |
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before were there so many women at Pennsylvania, never were women so welcome and
never was there so much for each to do. Gravely we were assured last September
that the intellectual future of the world rested with us. Nothing daunted, we
assumed the responsibility. Rebecca Leaming, 1919
B.S. in Ed.; Ph.D. 1922; President of the Women's Undergraduate Association
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