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Sister Mary Aquinas, OSF

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Notre Dame Archives

Notre Dame celebrates 40 years of coeducation this fall.  While the women who arrived in 1972 were the first class to matriculate in the regular academic year, women had been earning bachelors’, masters’, and doctorate degrees since 1917 through the … Continue reading →

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WAVES at Notre Dame

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Notre Dame Archives

“Ahoy matey’s, and what’s buzzin’ Joe College? Somethin’ new has been added on the fair campus of Notre Dame”  [Scholastic issue 07/16/1943, page 11] Enrollment at Notre Dame declined during the Great Depression for economic reasons.  The need for men … Continue reading →

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Women & Spirit Exhibit

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Notre Dame Archives

The Women & Spirit:  Catholic Sisters in America traveling exhibit stops in South Bend from September 2 – December 31, 2011, at the Northern Indiana Center for History.  A number of photographs and audio-visual materials from the Notre Dame Archives … Continue reading →

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Notre Dame Summer School

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Notre Dame Archives

Notre Dame established a summer school program in 1918 “to help Religious teachers to make their work more interesting and more effective” [UPWC 41/44].  On a deeper level, the summer school program had a few other important side effects.  The … Continue reading →

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