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Vassar College Student Letters

Crippen, Ruth H. | [no recipient], n.d.:

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VC 1904

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Crippen, Ruth H. | [no recipient], Oct. 1900:

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October 1900
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VC 1904

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Crippen, Ruth H. | [no recipient], Sep. 1900:

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September 1900
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VC 1904

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Vassar College Student Letters

Crippen, Ruth H. | to family, fall 1900:

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Fall 1900
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Vassar College Student Letters

Crippen, Ruth H. | to father, Dec. 1900:

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December 19090
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Vassar College Student Letters

Crippen, Ruth H. Letters, 1900

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1900
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5 letters from Crippen to her family and unmarked recipients. Praises the amenities of student life, such as rowing, the floral club, the post-office, and the Self-Government constitution (Oct 1900). She mentions that college offers the freedom to "listen or not" during lectures (Sep 1900). Crippen

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Critiquing Institutional Diversity: Ethnic Minorities' Racial Identity Formations in Ideological and Physical Counter-Spaces

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Margarita López
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
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Vassar Only
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The term diversity within institutions has been used as a selling point for colleges and universities. Verbally, institutions pride themselves in committing to increasing 'diversity'. But what happens after more students of color enter historically White- serving institutions? Through a...

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of smoking behaviour with central arterial haemodynamic measures: the Framingham Heart Study

Publication Date
2025-February-05
Authors
Cooper, Leroy
Majid, Sana
Wang, Na
Fetterman, Jessica L.
Palmisano, Joseph N.
Benjamin, Emelia J.
Vasan, Ramachandran S.
Mitchell, Gary F.
Hamburg, Naomi M.
Department or Program
Biology Department
Document Type
Article
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Aims: To assess the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of smoking behaviour with central arterial haemodynamic measures in samples of the Framingham Heart Study.

Methods and results: In 6597 participants [3606 (55%) women, 51.5% never smoked, 34.8% formerly quit, 4.3% recently...

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Reproductive Inequity among Incarcerated Black Women

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Danielle Quick Holmes
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
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In my thesis, I will argue that Black incarcerated women face increased reproductive disparities as a result of their multiple marginalized identities. Even though Black women have the fastest growth rate of incarceration there is minimal evidence on how imprisonment...

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