Elsie Winchester Coolidge diary, 1893.

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

Diary kept by Elsie Winchester Coolidge (Radcliffe College, Class of 1895) during the year 1893. The diary includes short entries describing her social life, club activities--she was a member of the Idler, French, English, Musical, and Classical clubs, and her course work. There are descriptions of college officials, college events, and professors, and some references to her personal life and emotional disappointments. Specifically, she mentions attending church, singing lessons, teas, plays, lectures, and events such as commencement and the Harvard Yale football game. The diary includes Coolidge’s remarks about current events, including notable deaths (Lucy Stone Blackwell and Edwin Booth) and President Grover Cleveland’s inauguration. She also mentions the chartering of Radcliffe College and the renaming of the “Harvard Annex” to Radcliffe College.

Elsie Winchester Coolidge Papers. SC 14, folder #4v.

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Catalog record

Radcliffe College--Students

Radcliffe College. Class of 1895

Student activities--Massachusetts--Cambridge

Women--Education (Higher)--Massachusetts--Cambridge

Women college students--Massachusetts--Cambridge

Arts, Theater and Music

Faculty, Staff and Administrators

Home and Family

Student Life

Tradition and Ritual

Coolidge, Elsie Winchester, 1872-1954

1893

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Diaries

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