Sweet Briar College

Rosam Quae Meruit Ferat Unofficially

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Sweet Briar College students chat in the Dell, 1966.

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Sweet Briar College students chat in the Dell, 1966.

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Students sit outside of the entrance to Mary Helen Cochran Library at Sweet Briar College, c. 1960.

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Sweet Briar College

(Peter Stackpole. 1951)

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Sweet Briar College. No truer words spoken.

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“Alma mater, down in Dixie-land, we dream of you; Rose of old Sweet Briar through the years we turn to you; Mem'ries are calling where blue mists are falling, And the pines softly sigh as the breeze murmurs by.”

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“To students from the South, the college will offer a training peculiarly suited to their needs and to the social conditions in which they have been reared; and to all young women, from whatever section they may come, the institution will furnish a well-rounded college education, preparing them for teaching, fitting them for business professions and qualifying them for a more useful life in the home.  With a well-equipped corps of professors and carefully-arranged courses of study, with its admirable location, its beautiful surroundings, its atmosphere of repose and refinement, Sweet Briar possesses exception advantages, and should fulfill the wish of the directions to make it a worthy monument to the liberality of its founder.”

- original mission statement of the Sweet Briar Institute, Last Will & Testament of Indiana Fletcher Williams, 1899

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Today is Founders’ Day! It’s on this day that we pay our respects to the founders of Sweet Briar by walking up to Monument Hill and laying flowers on their graves. It’s also the first day that seniors wear their graduation robes, as you can see in this clip of a promotional film from 1939! If you want to see more digitized films from our collection, check out our Youtube channel!

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Sweet Briar College

(Peter Stackpole. 1951)

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1984 Briar Patch- the Pannell classroom, installed as an Art History seminar room

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2007 Alumnae Magazine- the annual Cardboard Boat Regatta on the Lower Lake, put on by the Engineering 101 students

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2007 Alumnae Magazine- a picture of Homecoming and SBC history displayed in the Prothro atrium. 

Note: The SBC blazer I dream of designing (really, someone holla at me!) 

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2007 Alumnae Magazine- a view of campus from Monument Hill. You can see the big white tents pitched  for the centennial homecoming celebration

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2007 Alumnae Magazine - Founders Day, walking up to Monument Hill

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1967 Briar Patch- a view of campus across the Dell

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1967 Briar Patch includes an older picture of students out front of Benedict (then called the Academic Building)