“Snow No Terror for College Maids” (The New York Tribune)
One hundred years ago … With the city still reeling from the effects of the recent storm, New Yorkers became enamored of the sight of Barnard College students shovelling snow on and near their campus, “on Broadway, Amsterdam and Claremont avenues, in the neighborhood 116th and 120th street” (The Sun and New York Herald, February 7, 1920, p. 2).
New York Herald, Saturday, February 7, 1920. p. 2.
Daily News, Saturday, February 7, 1920, p. 16.
New York Tribune, Saturday, February 7, 1920, p. 16.
Three separate newspapers would feature photos of the women (Barnard is of course an all-women institution) working, and the Herald would note that crowds “hung about watching them.” The article explained that the public attention to the effort was designed to advertise Barnard’s “campaign for an endowment fund of $500,000.”
The Sun and New York Herald February 7, 1920, p. 2.
One might assume that the students of the then all-male Columbia College across the street were safe and warm indoors, their endowment secure.