Student Life

Topics included: [Athletics] [Publications/Newsletters] [Student Organizations] [Student Government] [Religion][Student Culture]

Athletics

• Base Ball Club, Light Croquet Club
• Riding Instruction
• Three Baseball Clubs Formed
• Lawn Tennis
• First Annual Lawn Tennis Tournament
• Department of Physical Education
• Skating Rink Constructed
• Founding of Athletic Association
• First Woman's Field Day in America
• Constance M.K. Applebee Gives Field Hockey Instruction
• Brook Dammed to Form Lake for Skating
• Founder's Day 1919 Includes Faculty-Student Baseball Game
• Irish Hockey Team Defeats Vassar
• Touch-Football Team Defeated by Sienna College

Publications/Newsletters

• First Catalogue
• Founding of Vassariana
• Name Change of Vassariana to Vassar Transcript
• Student's Magazine Renamed Vassar Miscellany
• First Student Yearbook
• "Freshman Bible", First Student Handbook Published
• First Issue of Vassar Miscellany Weekly Published
• Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies Established
• Vassar Chronicle Begins Publishing
• Seniors Have Informal Portraits in the Yearbook
• "Vassar and Yale Study: The Whole Story" Published

Student Organizations

• Philaletheis Founded
• Missionary Society
• Cecilia Society
• Political Club
• Robin Wake Club
• Philaletheis Brings Joseph Jefferson
• French Club
• Debate Team Wins Over Wellesley
• Students' Building Given to Organizations
• Women's Suffrage Club
• Vassar Debates Cambridge
• Urfaust Presented by Philaletheis
• Vassar Broadcasting Association Goes on the Air
• Political Association Holds Conference on "The Changing South"
• Sigma XI Club Formed
• Young Republicans, Young Democrats Sponsor Lectures
• The Student Supper Club Perform
• The Vassar College and Lehigh University Glee Club Perform
• Glee Club Perform at the U.S. Naval Academy
• Vassar Committee for Civil Rights Sponsors an Information Program on Student Civil Rights.
• Students Collected Contributions for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
• German Club Present German Medieval Nativity Play
• The Vassar College and Haverford Glee Club and Madrigal Group Perform
• "The G-Stringers" Perform at Carnegie Hall
• The Kendrick Jug Band Performs
• First Annual Earth Day
• "The Madrigals Singers" Take Scandinavian Tour
• Students for a Guaranteed Adequate Income Sponsor Mother Earth Concert

Student Government

• First Student Association
• Self-Government
• New Charter Granted
• Gives Funds for Goodfellowship House
• Sponsors Pablo Casals Recital
• New Constitution Adopted
• Votes to Ban Smoking
• Political Association Formed
• Constitution Revised to Ensure More Representative Government
• Chief Justice Established
• College Government Association Formed
• Reorganization of College Government Association Begins
• Reorganization of College Government Association Completed
• Students Petition Administration for Better Communication
• Reaction to Police Action at Columbia University
• Court Fines 14-Day Sit-In Protesters

Religion

• Matthew Vassar's Expression to President Raymond
• Missionary Society
• Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey Conducted Chapel Service
• Celebration of Tercentary Anniversary of Publishing of King James Version of Bible
• Non-Sectarian Communion Services Instituted
• Attendance at Chapel Made Voluntary
• Christian Association Reorganized
• "Human Longing and Fulfillment" Lecture Series Given - 1957/58

Student Culture

• "Eating in French"
• Article in Poughkeepsie Eagle about Grads
• Steak for Breakfast
• Students Raise Funds for Wellesley Students
• Students Permitted to Have Male Guests on Sundays
• Students Give Performance for Alumnae
• College Provides "Smoking Room"
• Smoking Permitted Anywhere on Campus
• Liquor Laws and Vassar Girls
• Repeal of 18th Amendment
• Student Waitress Plan Inaugurated
• Mary Conover Mellon Foundation Established
• First Sophomore Fathers Weekend Held
• Democrats Win in Mock Election
• Students Win "College Bowl" Over Vanderbilt
• Senior Class Paid Tribute to Matthew Vassar and Centennial
• Students Build an Igloo.
• Students Demontrate for Peace in Washington D.C
• Students Participated in a Freedom Ride
• Students Demonstrate Against Nuclear Testing
• Carol Meritt '62 Arrested in Mississippi
• Vassar Students Travel to Italy
• Students Watch the Beatles Perform on the Ed Sullivan Show on TV
• Students Protest Recent Events in Selma, Alabama
• Students March in Anti-war Protest
• Students Receive Letters from Operation Match
• Drug Survey Little Student Interest in Drugs
• Kendrick Hall Became Maison Francaise
• Curfews Extended for Seniors
• Formalization of Anti-narcotic Policy
• Silent Protest Against U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
• Honor Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr
• Abolishment of Liquor Restrictions in Dormitories
• Abolishment of Curfews
• Abolishment of Parietals
• African-American Students Demand "Relevant Education"
• Lake Minnewaska Conference
• Demonstration in the Office of Nell Eurich
• Faculty Approved African-American Students' Demands
• Anti-Vietnam War Petition
• First College Council
• National Moratorium
• Protest New House on Sunset Lake Hill
• African American Students Submit "Nine Points"
• Siege of Main Building
• College Concedes with Demands of African-American Students
• Anti-War Resolution at IBM Joint-Stockholders' Meeting
• All-Black Residence Established
• Anti-Vietnam Lobby in Washington, D. C
• Students Against Vassar Institute of Technology
• 14-day Sit-In Protesting Dismissal Faculty
• Students Protest Development of Science Graduate Center

Last updated February 6, 1999, by Jeremy R. Linden, '00.