By Any Other Name
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Above the entrance to Memorial Hall, the words “Woman’s Memorial Dormitory” are engraved. However, when architect Birch D. Easterwood made the blueprints for the building, he labeled them “Women’s Memorial Dormitory” instead, beginning a long tradition of using “woman’s” and “women’s” interchangeably in the name.
This file appears in: Memorial Hall: Woman's Memorial Dormitory
Memorial Hall: Woman's Memorial Dormitory
Baylor University was the first coeducational university in the South, and only the second in the country. Even so, the education women received at Baylor for many years was fundamentally different…