Smith In Lit
Colorful Campus
House History
Spooky Smith
Notable Northampton
400
Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College, five women experience the highs and lows of early adulthood in this book with a title meaning beginning, or a graduation ceremony
What is Commencement?
400
The Lyman Conservatory Plant House is the name for this type of building that houses plants requiring warmer temperatures
What is a greenhouse?
400
Washburn House served as the Spanish language house during this country's Civil War from 1936-39 since it was not possible to send students there for academic study
What is Spain?
400
Smith is ranked as the most this college in America for its ghost stories and colonial-era buildings
400
This artist and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar lived in Northampton for over 30 years
Who is Eric Carle?
800
Susan Toth '61 discusses her experiences leaving Iowa for Smith College in Ivy Days: Making my Way Out this cardinal direction
What is East?
800
Formally called The Goldstein Lounge, students refer to the pictured study space in the campus center by this alliterative nickname
What is the Red Room?
800
Session's famous secret passageway was not just a meeting spot for a love affair, but was later used as part of this network of safe houses in the Civil War
What is the Underground Railroad?
800
The ghost of Julia Child '34 is said to haunt this kitchen appliance, burning food she disapproves of, in Hubbard House where she lived while a student at Smith
800
This former Northampton resident created the cracker commonly used in s'mores which shares his name
Who is Graham?
Sylvester's (rip) was named after Sylvester Graham and operated in his former home
1200
Lauren Willig's Band of Sisters is based on the true story of the Smith College Relief Unit volunteering in this European country in World War I
What is France?
1200
Paradise Pond is the perfect background at this time of day right before sunset when the light appears warmer and softer
What is golden hour?
1200
Northrop House was named after Birdseye Grant Northrop, the founder of this national holiday for tree lovers
What is Arbor Day?
1200
Talbot house is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young boy named Thomas who died in this room just below the roof of the building
What is the attic?
1200
This author of Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle lived in Northampton when he joined the Smith College Faculty in 2000
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
1600
Bring Me one of these magical creatures is the first volume of Anne Lindbergh's '28 diary entries through her time at Smith College
What is a unicorn?
1600
The windows in Nielson Library are laced with a webbing pattern of this kind of light to prevent bird collisions
What is ultraviolet?
1600
Eliza Appleton Haven's family contested this document which bequeathed a large sum of her money to Smith to purchase Haven and Wesley Houses
What is a will?
1600
This name for deadly despair caused the death of Lucy when her beau John left for England and never returned, binding their ghosts to haunt their former rendezvous point in Sessions House
What is broken heart/heartbreak?
1600
This man was elected as Mayor of Northampton in 1910 before he became President of the country in 1924
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
2000
Jane Yolen '60 wrote a picture book about founder Sophia Smith in Tea with an Old this term for a ferocious and frightening older woman
What is a dragon?
2000
The Smith Botanic Garden contains one of these conservatories with a French name where fruit trees are grown and protected during the winter
What is an orangerie?
2000
The beds in Capen, Northrop, and Gillett were replaced with bunk beds when Smith became the training base for this program, named after swells on the surface of water, which trained the country's first women naval officers
What is WAVES?
(Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)
Find Out More Here https://www.smith.edu/news/waves-smith-college
2000
For years, Smith house phones would receive mysterious calls from a speaker that students named with this alliterative title for a murmuring lady
What is the Whispering Woman?
Read the story here
https://www.smith.edu/news-stories/2002/whisperingwoman.html
2000
This famous abolitionist and woman's rights activist joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry 18 years after escaping slavery
Who is Sojourner Truth?