Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

Sauer, Anne

Branco, Jessica

Bennett, John

Crowley, Zachary

2000

All-Around Club, 1898-ca.1970

 

In 1898 the seventy-five women of Tufts College banded together to elect officers for a new social, literary, and 'democratic' club. The All-Around Club would last for over seventy years, serving the social and intellectual needs of Tufts and Jackson women.

Male students in 1898 were upset about the growing presence of women on campus. Their insecurity came through when, partly in response to the formation of the All-Around Club, they protested: "the time is not far distant when the matter of coeducation at Tufts will come to a crisis." Despite this opposition, in its first year the All-Around Club organized a faculty tea, a music night, and several receptions. Those successes opened a long, energetic history filled with operettas, an annual spring dance, music lectures, annual dinners, orientation breakfasts, sight-seeing tours, a fashion show in Packard Hall, and many more.

Mundane issues came under the jurisdiction of the All-Around Club in 1903, after the Tufts College Association of Women Self-Government joined with the All-Around Club and an organization for women's athletics to form a larger club. Though this loose association soon disbanded, the All-Around Club would continue to engage in serious endeavors, publishing Jackson College directories and guides, organizing food drives, and providing a representative for the Student Council. From 1903 on, every woman enrolled at the school was included as a member of the club.

The 1909 constitution of the club proclaimed as its goal "to promote unity and loyalty in the college; to further the social, intellectual, and athletic interests of the student body; and to encourage the personal responsibilities of its members."The goal remained unchanged until the club's disappearance.

The All-Around Club last receives mention in an Observer article in 1969.The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the demise of many long-standing organizations as changing student attitudes brought about a new era of student activities.

Sources:AO; JB; TCG; TW; JCOE; OBS

 
 
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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903
Dana, Charles A., 1881-1975
Dana Laboratory, 1963
Daniel Ounjian Prize in Economics,
Davies, Caroline Stodder, 1864-1939
Davies House, 1894
De Florez Prize in Human Engineering, 1964
de Pacheco, Kaye MacKinnon, ca. 1910-ca. 1985
Dean Hall, 1887-1963
Dean, Oliver, 1783-1871
Dearborn, Heman Allen, 1831-1897
Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 1893
Department of Anesthesia, 1970
Department of Art and Art History, 1930
Department of Biochemistry, 1893
Department of Chemistry, 1882
Department of Community Health, 1930
Department of Dermatology, 1897
The Department of Economics, 1946
Department of Medicine, 1893
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Department of Neurology, 1893
Department of Neuroscience, 1983
Department of Neurosurgery, 1951
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1893
Department of Ophthamology, 1893
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1906
Department of Otolaryngology, 1895
Department of Pathology, 1893
Department of Pediatrics, 1930
Department of Pharmacology, 1915
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1854
Department of Physiology, 1893
Department of Psychiatry, 1928
Department of Radiation Oncology, 1968
Department of Radiology, 1915
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1955
Department of Surgery, 1893
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, 1973
Department of Urology, 1910
Dental Health Sciences Building, 1969
Dewick, Cora Alma (Polk), 1875-1977
Dewick/MacPhie Dining Hall, 1959
Dickson Professorship of English and American History, 1913
Dirlam, Arland A., 1905-1979
Dog Cart, 1900
Dolbear, Amos Emerson, 1837-1910
Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship, 1946
Dr. Benjamin Andrews Professorship of Surgery, 1987
Dr. Philip E. A. Sheridan Prize, 1977
The Drug Bust, 1970
Dudley, Henry Watson, 1831-1906
Dugger, Edward Jr., 1919-75
Durkee, Frank W., 1861-1939
Durkee, Henrietta Noble Brown, 1871-1946
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