Women at Penn: Quotations

Many of these quotations were used in Jenny Holzer’s Hill Square sculpture commemorating 125 Years of Women at Penn

First women to matriculate at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the chemistry laboratory, 1878 (L to R: Gertrude K. Peirce, Anna L. Flanigen, and Mary T. Lewis)	1750-1900
“Ivy Girl” illustration, 1913	1910-1919
Betty Funston, with rifle, 1928	1920-1929
Women’s Crew, 1935	1930-1939
Women’s Sports Team, 1940	1940-1949
Student protest outside Eisenlohr Hall, 1952	1950-1959
Ivy Day, first co-ed program, 1963	1960-1969
Woman’s Dorm Room, 1978	1970-1979
Women’s Crew, 1981	1980-1989
Commencement, woman graduate in cap and gown, festooned with flowers, 1982	1990-2003

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