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All documents are contained in the Bryant College archives in the Edith M. Hodgson Memorial Library unless otherwise noted. All tape-recorded interviews are in the Bryant College archives, unless otherwise noted. The editors would like to thank everyone who helped make this history possible by commenting on manuscript drafts, identifying photographs, or sharing memories of Bryant.
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1. S. S. Packard, "The Evolution of Business Colleges" (abstract of opening speech), Proceedings of the International Congress of Education of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July 25-28, 1883 (New York: National Education Association, 1894), 788 .
Edwin G. Knepper, A History of Business Education in the United States (Bowling Green, Ohio: Edward Brothers, Inc., 1941),5°. 2.
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3. Elyce J. Rotella, From Home to Office: Women at Work, r870-r930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Research Press, 198 I), 61. 4. Cheesman A. Herrick, The Meaning and Practice of Commercial Education (New
York: The MacMillan Company, 1904), 200. 5. Ibid. 6. Dictionary of American Biography 18: 395. 7. Knepper, History, 64· 8. National Cyclopedia 3: 72. 9. Knepper, History, 64· 10. Quoted in Knepper, History, 51. 11. Bryant, Stratton and Mason's National Business College (Providence, Rhode Island: Pierce and Budlow, Printers, 1865), 4. (Rhode Island Historical Society Library.) 12. "Bryant and Stratton Opening Agreement." New York, January 14, r863. 13. Report Upon the Census of Rhode Island, r865 (Providence: Providence Press, 1867) p. 25, Table XVI. 14. Bryant, Stratton and Mason's National Business College (Circular, 1865), 24. 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid. 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid., 14. See also Bryant and Stratton's Mercantile College certificate, August 20,
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19. Knepper, History, 32. 20.
Bryant, Stratton and Mason's National Business College (Circular, 1865), 8.
21. Ibid., 14. 22.
Ibid., 18.
23. Herrick, Meaning, 185. 24. Garrett D. Byrnes, April 23, 1972.
'~LongTrail
to the Groves of Academe," Providence]ournal,
25. Nelson Gulski, '~History of Business Education as Seen by a Bryant College Administrator," 7. (Unpublished manuscript in the President's Office, Bryant College. ) 26. T. B. Stowell, Methods of a Business College (Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston: L. Barta and Company, Printers, 1892). 27. Margery W Davies, Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-193° (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982),37. 28. Ibid. 29. Rhode Island Bureau ofIndustrial Statistics, Third Annual Report, r 889. Table VI, '~verage Annual Weekly Wages of Each Occupation."
30. Rotella, From Home to Office, 69.
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