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	What are the Seven Sisters?
		The Seven Sisters are liberal arts colleges on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
		The Seven Sisters were all founded in the 19th century with the goal of opening up educational opportunities to women, since most colleges were all male at the time.
		The colleges considered part of the Seven Sisters are: Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Radcliffe College, Bryn Mawr College, and Barnard College.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-are-the-seven-sisters.htm (714 words)

	Seven Sisters (colleges) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seven Sisters is the name given in 1927 to seven liberal arts women's colleges in the Northern United States.
		It was chartered as Radcliffe College by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1894.
		Vassar College declined an offer to merge with Yale University and was the first member of the Seven Sisters to adopt coeducation, in 1969.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seven_Sisters_(colleges) (835 words)

	A Closer Look At Women's Colleges - Who Attends Womens' College Today and Why She Should
		The Seven Sisters were treated as a separate group so that the remaining women's colleges were compared to a sample of women from small, coeducational institutions.
		Also, women's college respondents were more likely than their coeducational college peers to report parental, mentor, or role model influence and encouragement as very important in their reasons for attending college.
		Five years later, women who attended women's colleges but are now employed in a coeducational work force or attending coeducational graduate schools reported that they supported their decision to attend a women's college and would in fact do it again.
	www.ed.gov /pubs/WomensColleges/chap2fin.html (3701 words)

	difranco.net Sevens
		Seven vials that when their contents was poured out created seven plagues.
		Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters.
		The nickname applied to seven distinguished women's colleges, which came about came about when the schools self-organized in 1927 in order to promote private, independent women's colleges and the premise of "separate but equal" liberal arts education for women.
	www.difranco.net /sevens.htm (3144 words)

	Finding the Best Educational Fit
		Women’s colleges also appear to be transfer-friendly, in that the pattern of advantages also held for this group of students who are typically less engaged at other types of institutions.
		True to their word, these colleges appear to have created a climate where women are encouraged to realize their potential and become involved in various facets of campus life, inside and outside the classroom.
		For example, Alverno College’s “ability-based” curriculum explicitly identifies eight abilities including skills in analysis, social interaction, and effective citizenship that graduates must possess to be successful professionals in their chosen field.
	www.womenscolleges.org /perspective/nsse_study.htm (2200 words)

	Colgate University - Protecting Greek Life - sa4c
		At one time, most college students received a broad, general, rigorous education that pushed their knowledge and thinking ability well past those who had only a high school education.
		College students should experience the greatest works known to mankind, what Matthew Arnold called "the best that has been known and said." Nowadays, a student need only take one or two humanities courses— virtually any humanities courses—to fulfill the distribution requirement.
		To determine whether or not each of the colleges and universities surveyed has a true core curriculum, we chose seven subjects that we consider essential to a contemporary liberal arts education.
	www.sa4c.com /greeklife/hollowcore.htm (1940 words)

	Archived: Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges
		She found that these "colleges" were taking on non-academic goals; she said that they were over-burdened in trying to be "preparatory schools, finishing schools, and colleges." Colton’s objectives in publishing her report were to encourage women’s colleges to improve their standards.
		Pembroke College in Rhode Island is an example of a women’s college that disappeared as a women’s college, because it merged with a coeducational institution.
		A few women’s colleges were unique in that they were protected by large endowments and active alumnae, allowing them to keep their institutional missions of serving women in the face of many challenges by coeducational institutions, both public and private.
	www.ed.gov /offices/OERI/PLLI/webreprt.html (18646 words)

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		Barnard College (named for Columbia’s tenth President, A.P. Frederick Barnard), was organized and a provisional charter was granted to 22 initial faculty members in 1889.
		The origin of the name of The Seven Sisters is not obvious when watching this image taken from neighboring Crowsnest Mountain in Southern Alberta.
		The Seven Sisters were making the Honey Ants when they all got thirsty and they said to the younger sister, 'Go and look for some gubbee, some nice water.
	www.lycos.com /info/seven-sisters--miscellaneous.html (391 words)

	Seven Seas - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Seven Seas - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Seven Seas, ancient mariner's expression referring to all the oceans of the world, specifically the North and South Atlantic, the North and South...
		The Beaufort Scale is a system of recording wind velocity (speed) devised in 1806 by Francis Beaufort (1774–1857).
	encarta.msn.com /Seven_Seas.html (153 words)

	A Brief History of Women's Colleges
		Independent, nonprofit women's colleges, such as Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr, were created to be equal to the liberal arts colleges that existed for men.
		The colleges are: Barnard College; Bryn Mawr College; Mount Holyoke College; Radcliffe College; Smith College; Vassar College; and Wellesley College.
		The Seven Sisters label is linked in many minds with the eight schools of the Ivy League and indeed, many relationships between the two groups of schools exist, most notably between Harvard and Radcliffe (now one institution) and Columbia and Barnard.
	princetonreview.com /college/research/articles/find/womenscollege.asp (640 words)

	Seven Sisters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seven Sisters, London, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name
		Seven Sisters, Western Massachusetts, a group of seven mountaintops in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts.
		Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway, a group of waterfalls in the Geirangerfjord
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seven_Sisters (375 words)

	Boston.com / Latest News / Region
		Radcliffe College, one of the famed Seven Sisters, became the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study after merging with Harvard, its brother institution, in October 1999.
		In fact, the Seven Sisters are now five: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley, alma mater of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
		Women's colleges were essential when they were founded in the 18th and 19th centuries to provide women with the education that male-only schools denied them.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/01/womens_colleges.htm (913 words)

	The Bell Curve Flattened - By Nicholas Lemann - Slate Magazine
		Herrnstein and Murray say they came up with it by using a table they found "for converting the SAT of that era to IQ scores." When you go to the source, though, you find that they do not actually have the mean SAT scores for Ivy League students.
		What they have are the SAT scores of applicants to these colleges--and not all applicants, just those who happened to take the SAT in its first year of administration, when none of the colleges required it.
		Also, the IQ formula that Herrnstein and Murray used is an extremely primitive measure, obtained by adding the number of questions that the test-taker got right to a number for the student's age.
	www.slate.com /id/2416/sidebar/50882 (282 words)

	Seven Beauties - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Seven Beauties - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Seven Beauties, motion-picture comedy about an inept Mafioso who becomes a prisoner of war during World War II (1939-1945).
		Beauty, qualities in a person or object that give pleasure to the senses or spirit.
	encarta.msn.com /Seven_Beauties.html (117 words)

	College Girls: A Book that You Must Indulge In - Associated Content
		As someone who went to one of the few remaining single-sex Seven Sisters colleges still in existence, I had been drawn to this book and the history provided was interesting, thought-provoking and entertaining.
		Peril was witty in her discussions of the sociological studies that were used to justify how the curriculum for young women was developed and she deftly wove her own, personal anecdotes into the narrative.
		There was a single, brief chapter at the end of the book that did not graze the surface at all in regards to the challenges that modern women face on contemporary college campuses, regardless of whether they attend a coeducational institute or a single sex institution.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/119147/college_girls_a_book_that_you_must.html (581 words)

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		Seven Sisters Inn Bed and Breakfast, located in Ocala, Florida, was chosen "Inn of the Month" by Country Inns Bed and Breakfast Magazine and is located in the heart of the historic district.
		As the new president of Smith College, one of the storied "seven sisters" that has remained a women's college, she has a bully pulpit.
		Independent nonprofit women’s colleges, which included the "Seven Sisters" and other similar institutions, were founded to provide educational opportunities to women equal to those available to men and were geared toward women who wanted to study the liberal arts.
	www.lycos.com /info/seven-sisters.html (614 words)

	Bryn Mawr Now: SGA Presidents Hope to Revive Seven Sisters Conference
		Outgoing SGA President Lindsay Hills '04 and newly elected president Amanda Glendenning '05 discussed issues that face students at women's colleges with their counterparts from Wellesley and Barnard colleges at a retreat at Bryn Mawr on Saturday, April 24.
		Representatives of Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Mt. Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley — all of the Seven Sisters colleges that remain women's colleges — were invited.
		Bryn Mawr College · 101 North Merion Ave · Bryn Mawr · PA · 19010-2899 · Tel 610-526-5000
	www.brynmawr.edu /news/2004-04-29/sisters.shtml (543 words)

	luthersweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When it was time to prepare for college, the Look article was still in her mind, and she applied for admission only to members of the Seven Sisters.
		Peterson arrived at Bryn Mawr at seventeen and was soon awestruck by the college’s President, Katharine Elizabeth McBride, known to the students simply as Miss McBride.
		Prior to the momentous decisions to attend a Seven Sisters College and to be a college president, however, the young Shirley had made another decision.
	www.lutherinst.org /petersonbio.html (574 words)

	News -- Borough of Manhattan Community College
		More than ever, community college students – particularly older students – appeal to recruiters at some of the country’s most prestigious four-year colleges, because of their maturity, diversity of experience, and motivation.
		Recruiters are so enthusiastic about the potential of community college students to succeed in their programs, that they have stepped up efforts to attract them to their campuses.
		Tania Bruno, 25, who graduated from BMCC in June and is now attending Smith College, attests to the support she got at BMCC as the reason she was able to make the successful transfer to Smith.
	www.bmcc.cuny.edu /news/news.jsp?id=167 (657 words)

	Wellesley College Alumnae Association
		The Wellesley College Alumnae Association (WCAA) is an independent organization that was chartered in 1880 and incorporated in 1916.
		The original WCAA structure followed the traditional format shared by all alumnae associations of the Seven Sisters colleges at that time.
		The mission of the WCAA is to "further the interests of Wellesley College and its alumnae by connecting alumnae to the College and to each other.
	www.wellesley.edu /alum/About/history.html (229 words)

	H-Net Review: Joyce Miller on Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of ...
		The Seven Sisters colleges, for example, generally developed in close proximity--both geographically and philosophically--to male institutions and emphasized the importance of professionalism.
		Above all, Parrish maintains, southern women's colleges reflected and reinforced the region's paternalistic ideology: schools served as protective "fathers," lovingly guiding the intellectual and social development of their "daughters." The schools' primary mission was to produce "charming wives and competent mothers" (p.
		The college's official policy on integration is unclear and, with the exception of Anne Goodwyn Jones, members of the Hollins Group seem to have been relatively oblivious to the tremendous social unrest in the region.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17594928862089 (1550 words)

	bellcurve.html
		In 1990 the mean IQ for all attending college had remained about same a.8 standard deviations, while the mean IQ for the Ivy League and Seven sisters mean had increased to 2.7 standard deviations above the mean.
		Their method is to carry out a multiple correlation analysis with the independent variables being cognitive ability and the parents socioeconomic status (SES) (based on education, income, and occupational prestige) and a dependent variable which, in the first chapter, is poverty.
		For example, after controlling for IQ, the probability of graduating from college is higher for fls as is the probability of being in a high-IQ occupation and wage differentials shrink to a few hundred dollars.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~chance/course/topics/bellcurvex.html (5561 words)

	When She Graduates as He - The Boston Globe
		This is the latest subculture to emerge at the elite women’s colleges in the Northeast known as the Seven Sisters – young women, some still teenagers, who, like Bartlett, are exploring the possibility of growing up to be men.
		The Seven Sisters colleges were founded in the 19th century, and famous graduates have ranged from anthropologist Margaret Mead (Barnard) to actresses Stockard Channing (Radcliffe) and Meryl Streep (Vassar) to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (Wellesley).
		Therapists, doctors, and college administrators are concerned about students who decide to transition based on what sometimes seems to be shaky logic: growing pains such as insecurity or peer pressure, childhood trauma, depression, or even just the need to rebel.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/04/08/when_she_graduates_as_he/?p1=MEWell_Pos1 (2541 words)

	What are the Seven Sisters schools? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Seven Sisters schools make up a group of American women's colleges that was organized in 1927 to better promote female education.
		The Five Colleges are geographically close to one another, and free shuttle buses run between the campuses.
		The legend has Daphne representing Smith College and Velma as Mount Holyoke (though the two are sometimes reversed, particularly by those who perceive Velma — and Smith — as lesbian), with Fred representing Amherst College, Shaggy as Hampshire College, and Scooby as UMass Amherst.
	www.answerbag.com /a_view.php/7918 (550 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / AMERICAN HERITAGE BOOK SELECTION
		These prestigious eastern women’s colleges had a national, and often international, reputation; and alumnae were handed an image with their freshman registration forms that could be made to last a lifetime.
		Although her brothers and sisters were all rather remarkable in one way or another, Sophia herself was shy, plain, deaf, and, as she grew older, increasingly suspicious and melancholy.
		Durant rules the college,” wrote a member of the class of 1879, “from the amount of Latin we shall read to the kind of meat that we shall have for dinner.” Prayers, of course, were his particular dominion, and Sunday was his favorite time to inspect his handiwork.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1975/2/1975_2_33_print.shtml (10305 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Batts, Deborah A.
		This choice of a college undoubtedly made a significant influence on the rest of her life.
		Radcliffe, associated with Harvard University, was one of the Seven Sisters Colleges, a group of prestigious northeastern liberal arts institutions founded in the nineteenth century to educate women.
		Graduates of the Seven Sisters differed from women at coeducational schools by developing measurably higher levels of self-esteem and by often pursuing diplomas in traditionally male fields.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/batts_da.html (675 words)

	MHC Feminist Collective
		According to rumor, there were reps from all the Seven Sisters colleges there, and the Mount Holyoke rep is the one with her sash backwards.
		Their efforts have thus far been confined to four estates, comprising thousand of acres of land, on which live hundreds of colored people, yet in the darkness of ignorance and the grip of sin, miles away from churches and schools.
		Under the evil influences of plantation owners, and through no fault of their own, the condition of the colored people is, in some sections to-day no better than it was at the close of the war.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /org/feminist/history.html (2987 words)

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