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To The New College Girl
It is fitting that you pause, serious and thoughtful; for you have not passed this way heretofore. The time has come when you must put away, with loving hands, the playthings of your childhood, the familiar habits and immunities and companions of your protected girlhood, leave solicitous friends and guardians, and enter, through the college door, upon the larger responsibilities and joys of womanhood...
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Title: To The New College Girl
From: Out Of The Dark
Creator: Helen Keller (author)
Date: 1920
Format: Article
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.107-114
Keywords: Blind; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Education; Educational Institutions; Helen Keller; Higher Education; Institutions; Schools; Sensory Disability; Women; Women & Gender
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations
Note: Youth’s Companion, June 8, 1905.


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