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Speech by Laura Jane Harper, "The Education of Women at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute: A Look at the Past and Present, with Predictions about the Future." It isn't clear where it was given, but it was first presented in 1962. It summarizes the…

This document provides a brief history of the home economics and human resources departments for women. It describes how certain buildings came to be, how the women lived at VPI for the first time, and what they studied, a well as President Burruss'…