{"id":2526,"date":"2013-06-06T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2013-06-06T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:55:08","slug":"dorm-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/dorm-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorm Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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North Slater Hall, North West corner, room 20. February 1910<\/p><\/div>\n

A quiet lull has settled upon campus following the Magnolia bloom, end of semester, and graduation. The dormitories are empty after a mad flurry of packing, shipping, and mountainous sidewalk disposals.<\/p>\n

A glimpse inside what typical student housing looks like on campus today can be had by taking a 360 virtual tour of the \u201cGreen Dorm Room<\/a>\u201d, but what was student housing like on campus during the first half of the 20th century? Photographs from the Brown University Archives, part of the recently published Images of Brown<\/a> collection, give an inkling to what dorm life looked like in days gone by.<\/p>\n

Up until 1935, students were able to furnish their own rooms in a style of their choosing. The image above shows Edgar G. Buzzell and Dana G. Munro <\/a>relaxing in their 4th floor Slater Hall <\/a>room, on a February night in 1910.<\/p>\n

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Student housing first became available at Brown with the completion of the second floor of University Hall<\/a> in 1772, but it wasn’t until October 1891 that the first female students arrived on Campus. The first dormitory for women students was a building known as the Slater Homestead<\/a>, on Benefit Street.\u00a0 John Slater’s widow gifted the building to the Women’s College at Brown University in 1900. In 1910, Miller Hall<\/a> was built to accommodate about fifty women students, replacing the Homestead (now a nursing home named Hallworth House<\/a>). The Women’s College became Pembroke College<\/a> in 1928, and over the\u00a0 years Pembroke and Brown merged student organizations and classes to become a truly co-educational university. 1969 brought the first co-ed dorm, when fifty-seven Pembroke Freshman moved into the top two floors of Diman House in the Wriston Quadrangle<\/a>. Below is a Brown News Agency photograph showing a group of Pembrokers (as they were then known) at leisure, playing cards, reading, knitting, and eating chocolates.<\/p>\n

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Dormitory scene in Pembroke College, 1949<\/p><\/div>\n

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