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Horowitz
to Give 350th Anniversary Lecture
In 1870, Sophia Smith signed
a will that left her estate to “furnish for my own sex
means and facilities for education equal to those which are
afforded now in our colleges for young men.” The next
year Smith College became the first women’s college
to be chartered in New England.
From its opening, Smith fashioned itself as distinct from
other women’s colleges of the day. Much more than simply
a finishing school, Smith set new standards for women’s
education as a high-quality liberal arts college that challenged
the traditional notions of women’s nature.
On Sunday, October 3, Helen Horowitz, Sydenham C. Parsons
Professor of American Studies, will explore the college’s
origins and evolution in her lecture “Alma Mater: Smith
College and Changing Conceptions of Educated Women.”
Her talk will take place at 2 p.m. in Weinstein Auditorium,
Wright Hall.
Horowitz’s lecture is the 11th in the yearlong series
commemorating Northampton’s 350th anniversary. The remaining
lectures, also at 2 p.m. in Weinstein Auditorium, are “The
View Through the Eye of a Needle: Gender, Artisanry and Craft
Tradition in New England,” by Marla Miller, chair of
the public history program at UMass, on November 14; and “The
Scarlet Professor: The Newton Arvin Scandal,” by Barry
Werth, author of The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin,
A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal.
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