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3 unusual facts about Julia Lathrop


Alice Masaryková

After she finished her studies, Masaryk was invited to stay at the University of Chicago Social Settlement (UCSS) where she metJulia Lathrop, Mary McDowell and Jane Addams.

The interfering was based on a public uproar in the USA, in which Masaryk was openly supported by prominent personalities like Julia Lathrop, Jane Addams and Mary McDowell.

Julia Lathrop

In 1890 Lathrop moved to Chicago where she joined Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr, Alzina Stevens, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Florence Kelley, Mary McDowell, Alice Hamilton, Sophonisba Breckinridge and other social reformers at Hull House.


Euthenics

After Richards' death in 1911, Julia Lathrop (1858–1932; VC '80), one of Vassar's most distinguished alumnae, continued to promote the development of an interdisciplinary program in euthenics at the college. Lathrop soon teamed with alumna Minnie Cumnock Blodgett (1862-1931; VC '84), who with her husband, John Wood Blodgett, offered financial support to create a program of euthenics at Vassar College.

Sophonisba Breckinridge

Breckinridge worked with Vassar College graduate and social reformer Julia Lathrop, social gospel minister Graham Taylor (founder of the settlement house, Chicago Commons) and others to create the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, becoming its first (and only) dean.


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