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Primary source: Barbara Miller Solomon, "Marriage Rates of Alumnae . . . ," statistical table, 1820–1930.
Caption: This table shows the marriage rates of women who graduated from a variety of American colleges during the period of 1820–1930.
Table 4
Marriage Rates of Alumnae at Selected Schools by Graduating Class Cohort, 1820-1930
| Troy Seminary |
Oberlin |
Mount Holyoke |
Vassar |
Radcliffe |
| Years |
% |
Years |
% | Years |
% | Years |
% | Years |
% |
| 1821-32 |
87 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1833-42 |
83 |
1837-46 | 97.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1843-52 |
80 |
1847-56 | 80.6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1853-62 |
79 |
1857-66 |
77.8 |
Pre-1864 | 77.5 |
|
|
|
|
| 1863-72 |
75 |
1867-76 |
68.3 |
1864-73 |
72.1 |
1867-71 | 61.9 |
|
|
| |
|
1877-86 |
69.1 |
1874-83 |
57.1 |
1872-81 |
54.3 |
|
|
| |
| 1887-96 |
60.9 |
1884-93 |
78.2 |
1882-91 |
55.8 |
1883-90 | 40.9 |
| |
|
1897-1906 |
52.6 |
1894-1903 |
52.0 |
1892-1901 |
56.5 |
1891-1900 |
51.3 |
| |
|
1907-16 |
59.5 |
1904-13 |
52.0 |
1902-11 |
60.6 |
1901-10 |
51.1 |
| |
|
1917-21 |
43.7 |
1917-21 |
50.0 |
1912-21 |
75.0 |
1911-20 |
49.6 |
| |
|
|
|
1922-26 | 60.6 |
|
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| University of Michigan |
Bryn Mawr |
Wellesley |
ACA Census |
Van Kleeck Census of nine colleges |
| Years |
% | Years |
% | Years |
% | Years |
% | Years |
% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
1869-78 |
55.4 |
Pre-1880 |
57.4 |
| 1889-93 |
55 |
1889-93 |
43 |
1884-93 |
49 |
1879-88 | 50.3 |
1880-90 |
53.0 |
| 1894-1903 |
52 |
1894-1903 |
47 |
1893-1903 |
52 |
1889-98 |
22.5 |
1890-1900 |
50.2 |
| 1904-08 |
52 |
1904-08 |
44 |
1900-09 |
68.3 |
|
|
1900-10 |
46.6 |
| 1909-18 |
60 |
1909-18 |
67 |
1910-19 | 75.3 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
1920-29 |
83.3 |
|
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Sources:
Sophia Meranski, "A Census of Mount Holyoke College Alumnae," Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly 8, 3 (October 1924), 149-59.
Ann Miller, ed., A College in Dispersion: Women of Bryn Mawr, 1896-1975 (Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1976), 105.
Mabel Newcomer, A Century of Higher Education for American Women (Washington, D.C., 1959), 212.
Helene Kazanjian Sargeant, "Genus: Alumnae, Species: Wellesley," Wellesley Alumnae Magazine 49,1 (November 1964), 13.
Anne Firor Scott, "The Ever Widening Circle: The Diffusion of Feminist Values from the Troy Female Seminary, 1822-1872," in History of Education Quarterly 28 (Spring 1979), 16.
Barbara M. Solomon, Radcliffe Alumnae Information, 1928. Unpublished analysis of responses to questionnaire.
Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Census (revised). Prepared by The Class in Statistics under the direction of Ruth Olmsted Trux. Mount Holyoke College, Department of Economics and Sociology, January 1937.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, A Preliminary Statistical Study of College Graduates (Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1917), 121.
Roberta Frankfort, Collegiate Women: Domesticity and Career in Turn-of-the-Century America (New York, 1977), 56, 57, 112, 113.
Louis D. Hartson, "The Occupations of the Oberlin Alumnae," Oberlin Alumni Magazine 23, 4 (January 1927), 12.
Mary Van Kleeck, "A Census of College Women," Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae 11 (May 1918), 577.
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Based on a table from Barbara Miller Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 120.
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