50th Anniversary
Exhibition of Physical Training
131 plates
This series includes images of events that were not as large or well-photographed as Field Day, Founder's Day and commencement and reunion activities. The annual class tree ceremonies, proms, 50th college anniversary, maypole dances, conferences, protests, community work and other activities are included. Highlights include 50th college anniversary pageants and performances, the 1924 Institute for a Christian Basis of World Relations, and 1920's Township Day, which welcomed Arlington children to campus participate in athletics and dramatic performances.
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Exhibition of Physical Training
Exhibition of Physical Training
Exhibition of Physical Training
Pageant of Athena - Sappho
Pageant of Athena - Sappho
Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken and James M. Taylor with Julia Lathrop (VC 1880), Mary Augusta Jordan (VC 1876), Ellen Churchill Semple (VC 1882), and Louise Lawrence Meigs (VC 1891) on the steps of the chapel
Pageant of Athena - Sappho
Exhibition of Physical Training
Pageant of Athena - Sappho
Exhibition of Physical Training
Exhibition of Physical Training - running race
Exhibition of Physical Training - basketball game
Pageant of Athena - Sappho
Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken and James Monroe Taylor with Julia Lathrop (VC 1880), Mary Augusta Jordan (VC 1876), and Ellen Churchill Semple (VC 1882) on the steps of the east side of the chapel
Pageant of Athena - Isabelle d'Este
Vassar president James Monroe Taylor on the walk on the east side of the chapel
Pageant of Athena - Isabelle d'Este
Unidentified man walking toward the Chapel, most likely during the Fiftieth Anniversary
Pageant of Athena - Hilda
Pageant of Athena - Athena
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