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		<title>A Well-Connected Alumna</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Pierpont Barnum Hogan &#8217;24 died early in the twenty-first century, having lived well into her 90s.  Her obituary noted that she was the great-niece of the famous showman, P.T. Barnum.  In fact, she was his great-great niece, her great-grandfather, Milo Barnum, having been a brother of Phineas T.  (Good nineteenth century names in that family!)  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmathen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4250870&amp;post=226&amp;subd=emmathen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The election of 1920 was the first one in which women throughout the United States had the right to vote.  In anticipation of this new opportunity, the editors of Triangle wondered whether or not women would vote independently from the male members of their households and whether or not women would take the time to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmathen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4250870&amp;post=222&amp;subd=emmathen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;School in the Year 2000&#8243;&#8211;as imagined on Mount Ida in 1922</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1922, a day student in the &#8220;fourth intermediate&#8221; class at Emma Willard (eighth grader in modern terms) wrote an article for Triangle entitled &#8220;School in the Year 2000.&#8221;  Here&#8217;s what she envisioned: 1. &#8220;&#8230;aeroplanes [sic] will take the place of streetcars.&#8221;  Well, the streetcars have vanished from the streets of Troy, but air transportation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmathen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4250870&amp;post=219&amp;subd=emmathen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An early scholarship</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1917, the year that the United States entered World War I, the school catalogue advertised two scholarships, each worth $325.  They were earmarked for the daughters of commissioned officers of the United States Navy.  The scholarships were bequeathed to the school by Rear Admiral Nicoll Ludlow, a thirty-six-year veteran of the navy, who had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmathen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4250870&amp;post=214&amp;subd=emmathen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Memorial Day at Emma Willard</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an annual conversation, and annual grumbling, among students&#8211;and some staff&#8211;about the celebration of Memorial Day on Mount Ida.  The day has not been a holiday at Emma Willard for years and years, in large part because graduation comes so quickly on its heels.  This was not always the case, however.  In the late nineteenth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmathen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4250870&amp;post=210&amp;subd=emmathen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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