Elizabeth Kemper Adams - PhD
Daughter of Francis Kemper Adams and Mary Lee (Whiting) Adams.
Grand daughter of Commodore William Bradford Whiting and Mary Lee(Nichols) Whiting.
Grand niece of Daniel Powers and Indiana (Sanford) Whiting, our great, great, grand parents.
Brattleboro death notice states she was single, resident of Conway Mass.; died at Brattleboro Vt. Retreat; aged 76y 1m 20d; occupation was professor. Immediate cause of death was Chronic Myocarditis, due to manic depressive psychosis.
Funeral services were held at United Church in Conway, MA with the Rev George F Camp officiating.
Elizabeth Kemper Adams was born in Nashostah, Wisconsin. She attended Vassar College where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1893, going on to get her doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1904. Adams taught at Vassar College and Western Reserve University before becoming a Professor of Philosophy at Smith College in 1905. In 1911 she was named the first Director of the Education Department. Here she focused on the history of education and the place and needs of women in contemporary education. Adams wrote several books and articles, including: Open Marks versus Closed, The Vocational Movement and College Women and her doctoral thesis, The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in a Functional Psychology. During her time at Smith, Professor Adams also sat on the Faculty Committee on Recommendations and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae Committee on Vocational Opportunities for Women. Adams retired from teaching in 1916 due to prolonged illness. She continued to write and to take interest in Smith College until her death in 1948 in Brattleboro, Vermont.
[From the Smith College Archives, Northampton, Mass.]
[Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008 on ancestry.com]
[Photos courtesy of Smith, Case Western Reserve and Vassar College Archives]
"THE LIFT OF THE HEART.", Elizabeth Kemper Adams, 1893.
When we stand with the woods around us And the great boughs overhead; When the wind blows cool on our foreheads, And the breath of the pines is shed; When the song of the thrush is ringing- Wonderful, rich apart - Between the sound and the silence Comes a sudden lift of the heart. When we seek with the clearer vision That Grief the Revealer brings For the threads that arc shot together In the close-wrought Web of Things; And find that Pain is woven Into Love and Joy and Art, - Between the search and the solace Comes a sudden lift of the heart. And when life's farthing candle Gutters and flares and sinks; When the eye no longer wanders. And the brain no longer thinks ; When only the hand plucks idly At the sheet till the spirit part- Does there come between living and dying A sudden lift of the heart?
Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, and later in The Vassar Miscellany, April 1905, pp 321-322
Other Sources - Whiting family journals, diaries and manuscripts.
Daughter of Francis Kemper Adams and Mary Lee (Whiting) Adams.
Grand daughter of Commodore William Bradford Whiting and Mary Lee(Nichols) Whiting.
Grand niece of Daniel Powers and Indiana (Sanford) Whiting, our great, great, grand parents.
Brattleboro death notice states she was single, resident of Conway Mass.; died at Brattleboro Vt. Retreat; aged 76y 1m 20d; occupation was professor. Immediate cause of death was Chronic Myocarditis, due to manic depressive psychosis.
Funeral services were held at United Church in Conway, MA with the Rev George F Camp officiating.
Elizabeth Kemper Adams was born in Nashostah, Wisconsin. She attended Vassar College where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1893, going on to get her doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1904. Adams taught at Vassar College and Western Reserve University before becoming a Professor of Philosophy at Smith College in 1905. In 1911 she was named the first Director of the Education Department. Here she focused on the history of education and the place and needs of women in contemporary education. Adams wrote several books and articles, including: Open Marks versus Closed, The Vocational Movement and College Women and her doctoral thesis, The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in a Functional Psychology. During her time at Smith, Professor Adams also sat on the Faculty Committee on Recommendations and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae Committee on Vocational Opportunities for Women. Adams retired from teaching in 1916 due to prolonged illness. She continued to write and to take interest in Smith College until her death in 1948 in Brattleboro, Vermont.
[From the Smith College Archives, Northampton, Mass.]
[Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008 on ancestry.com]
[Photos courtesy of Smith, Case Western Reserve and Vassar College Archives]
"THE LIFT OF THE HEART.", Elizabeth Kemper Adams, 1893.
When we stand with the woods around us And the great boughs overhead; When the wind blows cool on our foreheads, And the breath of the pines is shed; When the song of the thrush is ringing- Wonderful, rich apart - Between the sound and the silence Comes a sudden lift of the heart. When we seek with the clearer vision That Grief the Revealer brings For the threads that arc shot together In the close-wrought Web of Things; And find that Pain is woven Into Love and Joy and Art, - Between the search and the solace Comes a sudden lift of the heart. And when life's farthing candle Gutters and flares and sinks; When the eye no longer wanders. And the brain no longer thinks ; When only the hand plucks idly At the sheet till the spirit part- Does there come between living and dying A sudden lift of the heart?
Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, and later in The Vassar Miscellany, April 1905, pp 321-322
Other Sources - Whiting family journals, diaries and manuscripts.
Elizabeth Kemper Adams - PhD
Daughter of Francis Kemper Adams and Mary Lee (Whiting) Adams.
Grand daughter of Commodore William Bradford Whiting and Mary Lee(Nichols) Whiting.
Grand niece of Daniel Powers and Indiana (Sanford) Whiting, our great, great, grand parents.
Brattleboro death notice states she was single, resident of Conway Mass.; died at Brattleboro Vt. Retreat; aged 76y 1m 20d; occupation was professor. Immediate cause of death was Chronic Myocarditis, due to manic depressive psychosis.
Funeral services were held at United Church in Conway, MA with the Rev George F Camp officiating.
Elizabeth Kemper Adams was born in Nashostah, Wisconsin. She attended Vassar College where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1893, going on to get her doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1904. Adams taught at Vassar College and Western Reserve University before becoming a Professor of Philosophy at Smith College in 1905. In 1911 she was named the first Director of the Education Department. Here she focused on the history of education and the place and needs of women in contemporary education. Adams wrote several books and articles, including: Open Marks versus Closed, The Vocational Movement and College Women and her doctoral thesis, The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in a Functional Psychology. During her time at Smith, Professor Adams also sat on the Faculty Committee on Recommendations and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae Committee on Vocational Opportunities for Women. Adams retired from teaching in 1916 due to prolonged illness. She continued to write and to take interest in Smith College until her death in 1948 in Brattleboro, Vermont.
[From the Smith College Archives, Northampton, Mass.]
[Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008 on ancestry.com]
[Photos courtesy of Smith, Case Western Reserve and Vassar College Archives]
"THE LIFT OF THE HEART.", Elizabeth Kemper Adams, 1893.
When we stand with the woods around us And the great boughs overhead; When the wind blows cool on our foreheads, And the breath of the pines is shed; When the song of the thrush is ringing- Wonderful, rich apart - Between the sound and the silence Comes a sudden lift of the heart. When we seek with the clearer vision That Grief the Revealer brings For the threads that arc shot together In the close-wrought Web of Things; And find that Pain is woven Into Love and Joy and Art, - Between the search and the solace Comes a sudden lift of the heart. And when life's farthing candle Gutters and flares and sinks; When the eye no longer wanders. And the brain no longer thinks ; When only the hand plucks idly At the sheet till the spirit part- Does there come between living and dying A sudden lift of the heart?
Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, and later in The Vassar Miscellany, April 1905, pp 321-322
Other Sources - Whiting family journals, diaries and manuscripts.
Daughter of Francis Kemper Adams and Mary Lee (Whiting) Adams.
Grand daughter of Commodore William Bradford Whiting and Mary Lee(Nichols) Whiting.
Grand niece of Daniel Powers and Indiana (Sanford) Whiting, our great, great, grand parents.
Brattleboro death notice states she was single, resident of Conway Mass.; died at Brattleboro Vt. Retreat; aged 76y 1m 20d; occupation was professor. Immediate cause of death was Chronic Myocarditis, due to manic depressive psychosis.
Funeral services were held at United Church in Conway, MA with the Rev George F Camp officiating.
Elizabeth Kemper Adams was born in Nashostah, Wisconsin. She attended Vassar College where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1893, going on to get her doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1904. Adams taught at Vassar College and Western Reserve University before becoming a Professor of Philosophy at Smith College in 1905. In 1911 she was named the first Director of the Education Department. Here she focused on the history of education and the place and needs of women in contemporary education. Adams wrote several books and articles, including: Open Marks versus Closed, The Vocational Movement and College Women and her doctoral thesis, The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in a Functional Psychology. During her time at Smith, Professor Adams also sat on the Faculty Committee on Recommendations and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae Committee on Vocational Opportunities for Women. Adams retired from teaching in 1916 due to prolonged illness. She continued to write and to take interest in Smith College until her death in 1948 in Brattleboro, Vermont.
[From the Smith College Archives, Northampton, Mass.]
[Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008 on ancestry.com]
[Photos courtesy of Smith, Case Western Reserve and Vassar College Archives]
"THE LIFT OF THE HEART.", Elizabeth Kemper Adams, 1893.
When we stand with the woods around us And the great boughs overhead; When the wind blows cool on our foreheads, And the breath of the pines is shed; When the song of the thrush is ringing- Wonderful, rich apart - Between the sound and the silence Comes a sudden lift of the heart. When we seek with the clearer vision That Grief the Revealer brings For the threads that arc shot together In the close-wrought Web of Things; And find that Pain is woven Into Love and Joy and Art, - Between the search and the solace Comes a sudden lift of the heart. And when life's farthing candle Gutters and flares and sinks; When the eye no longer wanders. And the brain no longer thinks ; When only the hand plucks idly At the sheet till the spirit part- Does there come between living and dying A sudden lift of the heart?
Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, and later in The Vassar Miscellany, April 1905, pp 321-322
Other Sources - Whiting family journals, diaries and manuscripts.
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Elizabeth Kemper Adams
1872-1948
