{"id":51533,"date":"2025-06-18T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=51533"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:11:46","slug":"seven-sisters-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=51533","title":{"rendered":"Seven Sisters Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday we learned that German mathematician Emmy Noether<\/strong> taught at one of the Seven Sisters colleges, Bryn Mawr College<\/strong> in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take a look at the Seven Sisters Colleges<\/strong>, and, most importantly, which college has the best dorm cafeteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Seven Sisters are a group of seven private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women’s colleges. Barnard College<\/strong>, Bryn Mawr College<\/strong>, Mount Holyoke College<\/strong>, Smith College<\/strong>, and Wellesley College<\/strong> are still women’s colleges. Vassar College<\/strong> became coeducational in 1969 and Radcliffe College’s undergraduate functions were absorbed in 1999 by Harvard College, also continuing on as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The name Seven Sisters<\/em> is a reference to the Greek myth of the Pleiades, goddesses immortalized as stars in the sky: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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These colleges were created in the 19th century to provide women with the educational equivalent to the historically all-male Ivy League colleges. (Cornell, one of the eight Ivy League schools, has been open to accepting women since its founding, and admitted Jennie Spencer in 1870).<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Elder G Nets It Out For Us<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Seven Sisters Colleges have a rich and radical history that intersects with women’s rights, education reform, and social class dynamics in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a brief overview of each of the Seven Sisters, originally founded to offer women an education equal to that of the Ivy League (back when the Ivies were still men-only):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Barnard College<\/strong> \u2013 New York, NY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n