Marjorie Phillips Wood Burroughs, Class of 1911: interview Side 1

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Contributor:: Wood Burroughs, Marjorie Phillips (interviewee); Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: Pembroke College (Brown University) > Curricula; College teachers; College students > Social life and customs; Student activities
Extent:: 1 mp3; 30:18

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Abstract:: Marjorie Phillips Wood Burroughs, from Taunton Massachusetts, discusses her time at Pembroke from 1907-1911. In this section of the interview, she remembers being disciplined as a freshman for the fun she had with her friends; Lida Shaw King, Dean of the Womens College; expectations for dress and behavior at Pembroke; the language courses she took at Pembroke and at Brown; becoming a librarian at Harvard; basketball, bowling, dances, sororities, and other extracurricular activities; and being a tomboy.

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"Marjorie Phillips Wood Burroughs, Class of 1911: interview Side 1 " Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:224414/

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Marjorie Phillips Wood Burroughs, Class of 1911: interview

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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …
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