Editor Constance Dimock Ellis (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD, no dust jacket as issued. Light wear on cover. Binding is tight and square. viii, 138 p. illus. 25 cm. . . . . . . . . FROM THE FOREWORD: Early in the fall of 1959, George B. Dowell, Executive Director of the Centennial, suggested a Vassar chronology as an appropriate project for the College's one hundredth year. The Central Committee for the Centennial approved, and two trial editions were circulated in mimeographed form to the faculty and administration and to many alumnae and friends of the College. It was decided, however, that for general publication, a different approach was desirable, and the manuscript was turned over to Constance Dimock Ellis, '38, for editing. Mrs. Ellis has skillfully selected highlights of Vassar for history and by the use of extensive quotations and additions to has given life and sparkle to the chronicle. The title chosen for the chronology, The Magnificent Enterprise, is an appropriate image for the college's centennial. The Founder's letters and diaries are full of references to "the enterprise." Mr. Vassar sometimes characterized it as the educational enterprise, the humble, the noble, the benevolent, the great and finally the magnificent enterprise. His phrase is being used not only for the title of this work but for other centennial that projects such as the traveling photographic exhibition.