Scope and Contents This collection contains two copies of “The Aesthetic: A Talk to Freshman Girls” written by Conrad between 1925 and 1928. In “The Aesthetic”, Conrad discusses “what place art, beauty, and the aesthetic have in life at the coeducational university of today,” and argues that while a young woman may have chosen to attend college in order to gain the knowledge and skills that will help her in the world, she cannot attain those things without “some vision of an ideal, and an appreciation of the...

Scope and Content

The collection consists of 7 volumes and 172 cassette tapes. The tapes contain over 200 oral histories from individuals in 37 states. The volumes contain the transcripts of the interviews. Also included are a published book that organizes the collection around key themes and findings from the interviews and the proceedings of the Seminar of Humanists and Homemakers.