Bright Epoch: Women and Coeducation in the American West

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Notes alsc Adelphian Literary Society Collection clshc Cliolian Literary Society, “History” Collection clsc Crescent Literary Society Collection isul/sc Iowa State University Library/Special Collections osua Oregon State University Archives unasc University of Nebraska Archives and Special Collections usua Utah State University Archives introduction 1. Clarke, Sex in Education. 2. Welch, Inaugural Address, 23. 3. Welch, Inaugural Address, 23. 4. Welch, Inaugural Address, 32. 5. Rosenberg, “The Limits of Access”; Miller-Bernal, Separate by Degree, 51–52. 6. Jeffrey, Frontier Women, 233. 7. Jeffrey, Frontier Women, 233. 8. Myres, “Suffering for Suffrage,” 213–37. 9. Gunn, “Industrialists Not Butterflies,” 5. 10. “Kansas Ahead,” The Industrialist (Manhattan), September 18, 1875, quoted in Gunn, “Industrialists Not Butterflies, 6. 11. Dzuback, “Gender and the Politics of Knowledge,” 171–95. 12. Bederman, Manliness and Civilization, 32–35. 13. Rosenberg, “The Limits of Access,” 112; see also Miller-Bernal, Separate by Degree; Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women; and Gordon, Gender and Higher Education. 14. Wharton, “Gender, Architecture,” 179. 15. Wharton, “Gender, Architecture,” 180. For another interesting study of women’s architectural place at Victorian women’s colleges in England, see Vickery,Buildings for Bluestockings. 305 306 | notes to pages 12–27 16. Bederman, Manliness and Civilization, 24. 17. Miller-Bernal, Separate by Degree, 3; see also Miller-Bernal and Poulson, Going Coed; Miller-Bernal and Poulson, Challenged by Coeducation. 18. Anderson, An American Girl. 19. Crawford, The College Girl of America; Olin, The Women of a State University. See also Horowitz, Alma Mater. 20. Woody, A History of Women’s Education, 2:256. 21. Conable, Women at Cornell. 22. Rosenberg, “The Limits of Access,” 110. 23. Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women, 44–61. 24. Gordon, Gender and Higher Education, 8. 25. Miller-Bernal, Separate by Degree. Especially useful is Table 4.1 on pages 88 and 89, which provides an overview of comparisons among the three colleges of her study. 1. making a welcome for women students 1. “Discourse” means the “set of ideas and practices which, taken together, organize both the way a society defines certain truths about itself and the way it deploys social power,” thus representing those ideas and practices that formulate and reinforce certain societal ideals; in other words, discourse is not just the journalistic language used to spread an idea, but also the physical and material practices of gender-specific behavior. See Bederman, Manliness and Civilization , 24. 2. Greene, “Social and Cultural Capital,” 153. Italics added. 3. Greene, “Social and Cultural Capital,” 158. 4. Welch, Inaugural Address, 23. 5. Welch, Inaugural Address, 29. 6. Welch, Inaugural Address, 30. Italics added. 7. Welch, Inaugural Address, 33. 8. Adonijah S. Welch, “Plan of Organization, 1868,” 10–11, Adonijah S. Welch Papers, isul/sc. 9. For a discussion of the influences on Anderson’s views on women and education , see Gunn, “Industrialists Not Butterflies,” 2–17. 10. John A. Anderson, “President’s Report to the Board of Regents, 1873,” Report of the Kansas State Agricultural College, 1873 (no imprint), 16, quoted in Gunn, “Industrialists Not Butterflies,” 6. 11. Fairfield, “Chancellor’s Address,” 22. 12. Fairfield, “Chancellor’s Address,” 23. 13. Aurora [Iowa Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa], July 1879, 4, isul/sc [hereafter cited as Aurora with date]. notes to pages 28–37 | 307 14. Hesperian Student [University of Nebraska, Lincoln], March 1872, unasc [hereafter cited as Hesperian Student with date]. 15. Aurora, April 1871. 16. The male pronoun is employed here because all but one of the editors were men. The first female editor of Nebraska’s Hesperian Student was Willa Cather, elected in 1894. 17. Miller-Bernal, Separate by Degree, 50. 18. Harris, ed., “Introduction,” in Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands, xxv and xxxiv. 19. Schultz, “Editing The Jabberwock: A Formative Experience for NineteenthCentury Girls,” in Harris, ed., Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands, 7. 20. Garvey, “Foreword,” in Harris, ed., Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands, xii. 21. Student Offering [Oregon Agricultural College], December 15, 1869, 15, micro- film, osua [hereafter cited as Student Offering with date]. 22. Hesperian Student, October 1871. 23. Hesperian Student, October 1871. 24. Hesperian Student, January 1878, 286. 25. “A Birthday Party: The University Celebrates Its Eighteenth Anniversary,” Hesperian Student, February 16, 1887, copied in Helen Aughey Fulmer, “Scrapbook, 1884–1889,” unasc [hereafter cited as Fulmer, “Scrapbook, 1884–1889”]. 26. “A Birthday Party” in Fulmer, “Scrapbook, 1884–1889.” 27. “Annual Meeting of the...