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词条 The College Club of Boston
释义

  1. History

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. External links

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| leader_name = Edith Toth
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}}The College Club of Boston is a private membership organization founded in 1890 as the first women's college club in the United States. Located in the historic Back Bay of Boston, Massachusetts at 44 Commonwealth Avenue, the College Club was established by nineteen college educated women whose mission was to form a social club where they and other like-minded women could meet and share companionship. The College Club of Boston the oldest residential college club in the United States.[1]

History

In December 1890, 76 Marlborough Street, also located in Boston's Back Bay, became the first home of The College Club.[2] The building at 76 Marlborough was purchased by Club member Mabel Cummings in 1893.

In April 1905, the College Club acquired the clubhouse at 40 Commonwealth Avenue, which contained an Old English drawing room, a fine big cafe with a male chef, and seven bedrooms, each of which "were furnished and decorated in the colors of various women's colleges: crimson rambler wallpaper for Radcliffe, blue silk curtains for Wellesley, white (with brass beds) for Smith, dawn pink and gray for Vassar."[3] At that time, the College Club served 600 members, which grew to 1,243 members by 1915.[3]

In 1924 the Club purchased 44 Commonwealth Avenue, which was the family home of Royal E. Robbins, a major stockholder in the Waltham Watch Company, and once the home of American stage actress Maude Adams.[4] The brownstone townhouse was built in 1864 and was designed in the High Victorian style.

From its earliest days, The College Club was host to literary luminaries such as Mark Twain, Vladimir Nabokov, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, and novelist F. Marion Crawford. Other well-known visitors to the Club have included actress Sarah Bernhardt, Dr. David Zelaya, social activist Julia Ward Howe, abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone, health care advocate Judy Norsigian and Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

Club members took up the cause of educational philanthropy in 1985 and established The College Club Scholarship Fund, Inc. as an IRS 501(c)(3) designated charitable organization. The endowed fund is administered by Club members. Each year since 1986, the Scholarship Fund has awarded college tuition assistance to deserving high school seniors from Boston Public Schools.

On May 20, 2002, the City of Boston certified the club's status as the oldest (i.e., first) women's college club in the United States.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}

See also

  • General Federation of Women's Clubs, founded 1890
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association, founded 1890

References

Notes
1. ^{{cite news |title=Topical Women |author=Kathleen Burge |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/59149506.html?dids=59149506:59149506&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+26%2C+1991&author=&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Topical+women&pqatl=google |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Boston Globe |page=14 |department=Editorial |date=February 26, 1991 |access-date=February 18, 2011}}
2. ^{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | year = 1890 | title = The Alpha Phi annual .| journal = The journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae | volume = 3-5 | pages = 79 | location = | publisher = Alpha Phi | accessdate = February 19, 2011 | url = https://books.google.com/?id=EdATAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA79&dq=%2276+Marlborough+Street%22#v=onepage&q=%2276%20Marlborough%20Street%22&f=false}}
3. ^{{cite news |title=Updating The College Club The Leisured Anna Alumna' of Yesteryear Has Given Way To Young Professionals |author=Margo Miller |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/663564201.html?dids=663564201:663564201&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+15%2C+1983&author=Margo+Miller+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=UPDATING+THE+COLLEGE+CLUB%3B+THE+LEISURED+ANNA+ALUMNA'+OF+YESTERYEAR+HAS+GIVEN+WAY+TO+YOUNG+PROFESSIONALS&pqatl=google |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Boston Globe |page= |department=Living |date=January 15, 1983 |access-date=February 18, 2011}}
4. ^{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | year = 1956| title = Shop Talk| journal = Publishers Weekly | volume = 169 | pages = | location = | publisher = Frederick Leypoldt | accessdate = February 19, 2011 | url = http://www.google.com/search?q=At+that+time%2C+Maude+Adams+and+Miss+Robbins+lived+at+44+Commonwealth+Avenue%2C+directly+behind+the+bookshop+and+now+the+Boston+headquarters+of+the+English-Speaking+Union%2C&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1}}
Sources{{Refbegin}}
  • {{cite news |title=School Colors: Local designers work their makeover magic on the College Club of Boston's guest rooms |author=Kathleen Burge |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/1148874431.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+19%2C+2006&author=Kathleen+Burge&pub=Boston+Globe&edition=&startpage=E.3&desc=SCHOOL+COLORS%3B+Local+designers+work+their+makeover+magic+on+the+College+Club+of+Boston%27s+guest+rooms |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Boston Globe |page=E3 |department=Style & Arts |date=October 19, 2006 |access-date=February 18, 2011}}
  • {{cite news |title=Golden Jubilee at Boston's College Club|first=Mabel F.|last=Knight|newspaper=Christian Science Monitor|page=14|date=October 26, 1940|accessdate=}}
  • {{cite news |title=Boston and the Woman's Club|first=Inez|last=Gardner|newspaper=New England Magazine|page=604|date=July 1906|volume=34|accessdate=}}
  • {{cite news |title=The College Club| first=Penny|last=Cherubino|first2=Ed|last2=Cherubino|newspaper=The Back Bay Sun|page=15|date=February 28, 2012|accessdate=|url=http://thecollegeclubofboston.com/documents/BackBaySun_2-28-2012.pdf}}
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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100517015118/http://www.thecollegeclubofboston.com/scholarshipfund12.html Official website] of The College Club of Boston
  • Neighborhood of The College Club of Boston
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