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until 1890. During her last two years at Wellesley, she served as secretary for the Board of Examiners. On August 28, 1890, she was married to Albert W. Smith, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Cornell. In 1891, he was professor of machine design at the University of Wisconsin,
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For many years following her breakdown that significantly reduced her eminence in the field, Roberts was unable to gain employment in an academic position. This changed in 1918 when she was hired as professor at
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The strain of a dual career family proved too much for the couple, and they were divorced in 1904. This painful event led to a mental breakdown and she had a brief stay at a
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was in full force. In the book, she refutes anti-Chinese rhetoric and links anti-Chinese agitation in the state of California to the greed and prejudices of early settlers.
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O'Connor, Charles James; McLean, Francis H.; Artieda, Helen Swett; Motley, James Marvin; Peixotto, Jessica Blanche; Coolidge, Mary Roberts (1913).
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Deegan, Mary Jo (1998). "A Rose is not a Rosa is not a Roseann is not a Rosemary: The many names of Mary Elizabeth Roberts Smith Coolidge".
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Mary Roberts taught at public and private schools from 1880 until 1886, then was an instructor with the Department of History at
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San Francisco Relief Survey: The Organization and Methods of Relief Used After the Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906
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Almshouse Women: A Study of Two Hundred and Twenty-eight Women in the City and County Almshouse of San Francisco
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Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada
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Mary matriculated to Cornell, graduating with a Ph.B. in 1880 and a M.S. in 1882. She was a member of the
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published, which was considered by some a "remarkable book for its time", coming as it did when the
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Research Quarterly, American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation
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Smith, Mary Roberts (1898). "Shall the College Curriculum Be Modified for Women?".
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Coolidge, Mary Roberts (1909). "Chinese Labor Competition on the Pacific Coast".
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in 1873. He later became Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Director of the
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Coolidge, Mary Roberts (1941). "Clelia Duel Mosher, the Scientific Feminist".
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During 1910–1912, she served as president of the Settlement Council. Her work
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It was a few months later in 1906 that she married a former student of hers,
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Smith, Mary Roberts (1900). "Statistics of College and Non-college Women".
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Smith, Mary Roberts (1899). "The Social Aspect of New York Police Courts".
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Smith, Mary Roberts (1895). "Recent tendencies in the education of women".
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in 1862. Her father would go on to become Professor of Agriculture at the
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Owen, Elizabeth Kenyon (1945). "Mary Roberts Coolidge, An Appreciation".
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White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States
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Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries
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until 1907. Starting in 1905, she was a worker for the San Francisco
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Third Catalogue (first Quadrennial) of Kappa Alpha Theta, 1870-1894
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The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Roberts Smith Coolidge (1860—1945)
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What the Women of California Have Done with the Ballot
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Warner, Amos Griswold; Coolidge, Mary Roberts (1908).
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Coolidge was born Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Roberts in
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Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920
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Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae
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Publications of the American Statistical Association
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Stanford University Department of Sociology faculty
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Kingsbury, Indiana
Cornell University
Stanford University
Wellesley College
Stanford University
Mills College
Kingsbury, Indiana
Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Iowa Agricultural College
Cornell University
Experiment Station at Cornell
Kappa Alpha Theta
Phi Beta Kappa
Wellesley College
Clelia Duel Mosher
Stanford University
sanitorium
Carnegie Institution
Washington D.C.
Settlement
South Park Settlement
San Francisco Earthquake
Dane Coolidge
Russell Sage Foundation
Chinese Exclusion Act
Mills College
Almshouse Women: A Study of Two Hundred and Twenty-eight Women in the City and County Almshouse of San Francisco
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