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Girls Join Football Team, Every Pass Good (Satire)
As Drexel opens its football team to female students, turnout increases drastically.
Lexerd
Student yearbook meeting. The photo appeared in the newspaper, with the headline: “Woman is Yearbook editor in Technical College”
President Kolbe with Archduke Otto of Austria, 1941.
Kolbe with Archduke Otto of Austria, heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne, when the archduke spoke at Drexel's eighth annual Alexander Van Rensselaer Lecture, Jan. 14, 1941. Pictured with two Drexel students, Lucille Henebry and Jane Pryse.
Sorority Sister
Student paints her sorority’s emblem on a square of the sidewalk on Lancaster Walk, a tradition that is still carried out today.
War Courses for Women poster
During World War I, the Drexel Institute undertook a number of efforts to prepare its graduates to serve the nation in wartime, including initiating programs to prepare women for government jobs. A new major in dietetics, begun in 1918, was the first…