Floretta Elmore Greeley letters, January-December 1907

Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Floretta Elmore Greely was a member of the Radcliffe College Class of 1909. These letters home to her family and friends describe her travels around New England, including the Monadnock area and Peterboro, New Hampshire. Greeley also mentions exams and schoolwork, attending plays and concerts, as well sewing, altering clothes, planning wardrobe and trimming hats. These letters also contain the outline of speech Greeley gave in favor of the point system at Radcliffe which restricted the number of offices a student could hold. Without it, one student might be heaped with offices, which would be thoroughly undemocratic and prevent the sharing of responsibility. Greeley felt herself to be an example of the western spirit: anti-tradition, democratic and open. She also refers briefly to “violent suffrage arguments” at college.

Floretta Elmore Greeley Letters. RA.A/G794, folder #2.

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Radcliffe College--Students

Radcliffe College. Class of 1909

Student activities--Massachusetts--Cambridge

Voyages and travels

Women college students--Massachusetts--Cambridge

Academics

Arts, Theater and Music

Dress

Home and Family

Political and Social Activism

Student Life

Greeley, Floretta Elmore

January-December 1907

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Correspondence

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