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"This was simply a wonk race, like everything else at Harvard--and this time I just got out-wonked," Michael D. Kendall '79 said as he took his place at the end of the line.
Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Radcliffe. When the first was founded by a Massachusetts teacher named Mary Lyon in 1837, she called it a "peculiar institution"; it was designed solely for the post-secondary education of women. In the 1920s the colleges banded together as the Seven...
From the outset, each sister was clearly unique. After Mary Lyon, "the founders of the Seven proceed in a descending spiral of unlikelihood," says Kendall. Sophia Smith, for example, inherited a fortune from a skinflint bachelor brother and intended to open a school for deaf-mutes until she was told...
Much of Kendall's work is a social history of an age when a woman's intellectual capacity was not highly regarded. So few women were prepared for college that there were years when Vassar granted only one or two diplomas. Newspapers argued the wisdom of ignoring "great...
A difficult time for single-sex colleges began in the 1960s. When men's colleges started going coed, siphoning off some of the best women students, the Seven Sisters had to take a new look at their original charters. Radcliffe elected to become part of Harvard; Barnard tightened its...