Barnard Commencement 1914

(Library of Congress)

“Nearly a hundred years ago, some history-minded students braved the cold for another reason: to reenact George Washington’s famed Christmas crossing of the Delaware River. Starring Margaret Armstrong Howe ’14 as Washington, this makeshift crossing of February 22, 1914, honored Washington’s birthday.”

(Vassar Quarterly) 

vintagesmith:

Paradise Pond, 1914.

Emily Greene Balch (Bryn Mawr ‘89). Wellesley faculty photo, 1914.

Activist, painter, poet, Quaker, first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Wellesley College Archives)