Presidents of Vassar College
| Name | Dates |
|---|---|
| Milo P. Jewett | 1861–1864 |
| John H. Raymond | 1864–1878 |
| Samuel L. Caldwell | 1878–1885 |
| James Monroe Taylor | 1886–1914 |
| Henry Noble MacCracken | 1915–1946 |
| Sarah Gibson Blanding | 1946–1964 |
| Alan Simpson | 1964–1977 |
| Virginia B. Smith | 1977–1986 |
| Frances D. Fergusson | 1986–2006 |
| Catharine "Cappy" Bond Hill | 2006— |
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Famous quotes containing the words presidents, vassar and/or college:
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“I saw the best minds of my generation
Reading their poems to Vassar girls,
Being interviewed by Mademoiselle.
Having their publicity handled by professionals.
When can I go into an editorial office
And have my stuff published because Im weird?
I could go on writing like this forever . . .”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me
why American men think that success is everything
when they know that eighty percent of them are not
going to succeed more than to just keep going and why
if they are not why do they not keep on being
interested in the things that interested them when
they were college men and why American men different
from English men do not get more interesting as they
get older.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)