by Sylvia Plath
administration of, 527–8, 541, 546, 549, 586, 624, 848;
Alpha Awards, 911, 921;
Alpha-Phi Kappa Psi, 438–9, 709, 755, 911;
‘American Novel at Mid-Century, The’ (symposium), 899n, 1314;
‘Arts and Morals’ (symposium), 596–7, 601, 603–4;
Botanical Gardens, 321;
buildings: Albright House, 411, 506; Alumnae Gymnasium, 690; Alumnae House, 911; annex house, 177, 181, 183, 220, 244, 260; College Hall, 231, 287, 675, 677, 693–4, 856, 862; Davis Center, 303–4, 421; Dewey House, 667; Elizabeth Mason Infirmary, 196–7, 199, 311–13, 316–17, 383, 386, 410, 418, 537, 567–8, 600, 701, 738, 811, 855–7, 859, 903, 980, 988, 995, 1112; Franklin King House, 735n; German House, 280; Gillett House, 666, 1149; Graham Hall, 302n, 392n; Haven House, 173n, 174, 178n, 183n, 191n, 211, 232, 242–3, 247, 255, 260, 265, 271, 310–12, 316, 322, 325, 327, 403, 409, 422, 432, 443, 445, 449, 503, 506–7, 510, 516, 563, 578, 660, 667; Hopkins House, 291; John M. Greene Hall, 277n, 284n, 426n, 435n, 439n; Laura Scales House, 735n; Lawrence House, 175, 443, 503n, 504, 507, 508n, 510, 512–13, 531, 536–7, 551, 559, 578, 597, 601, 603, 606, 615, 617, 669, 674, 677, 685, 693–7, 707, 780, 802, 809, 811, 815–16, 825, 844, 850, 855, 902; Lyman Plant House, 674, 677, 693–4; Museum of Art, 382–3; Religious Center (7 College Lane), 727; Sage Hall, 191n, 395, 443, 508, 516, 592n, 628n, 686n, 699n, 724–5n; Scott Gymnasium, 233, 325, 410, 420, 610, 615, 624; Sessions House, 667; Tenny House, 816; Wesley House, 173n, 280; William Allan Neilson Library, 181, 183, 186–7, 217, 222–3, 226, 249, 253, 262–3, 268, 278, 294, 386, 411n, 422, 425n, 528, 539, 547, 629n, 700, 803, 817, 854; Ziskind House, 677n;
Charity Ball, 284, 401, 414, 419–20;
courses: Art 11 (art history), 439, 505–6; Art 13 (basic design), 185–6, 189, 199– 200, 214, 219, 226, 233, 243, 250, 253, 257, 262, 265–6, 276, 286, 290–1, 295– 6, 301, 315, 321, 323–4, 665n; Art 33b (medieval art), 674n, 678–9, 694; Art 210 (drawing and painting), 323, 374n, 375, 384, 399, 401, 403, 410, 412, 423, 431, 440; Botany 11 (general botany), 179, 181, 186, 194, 198, 200–2, 206, 211–12, 214, 218–19, 225, 233, 242, 248, 250, 252–4, 264–6, 268–9, 276, 290, 295, 299–302, 307, 309, 312–13, 316, 321–4, 329; English 11 (freshman English), 185–6, 189, 194, 196–9, 202, 204–5, 211–18, 222, 225, 228, 233, 240, 243, 248, 250, 253, 256–7, 262–5, 275, 284, 290, 293, 295, 300–2, 309, 311, 313, 315, 319, 321, 324, see also Smith College (SP as teacher at); English 36 (Shakespeare), 753, 803n, 805–6, 809, 826, 828, 830–1, 833, 848, 852, 856, 861, 866, 868, 889, 899, 903, 911; English 39 (Milton), 504n, 541, 546, 558–9, 570, 574–6, 583, 604, 606, 613, 615, 622, 629; English 40b (review unit), 803n, 848, 866; English 41b (special studies, poetry), 735, 740, 803n, 852, 855, 858–9, 862, 867–8, 871, 889, 892, 900, 911, 917; English 44b (Joyce, Yeats, Eliot), 558–9, 583; English 211 (19th- & 20th-century literature), 323, 374n, 388, 392, 399, 401, 406, 416, 423–4, 426, 436, 445; English 220 (practical writing), 323, 374n, 384, 395, 401, 403, 406, 410, 416, 423, 431, 606; English 321b (American fiction), 674n, 678, 694, 698, 701–2, 705, 741, 759; English 347a (style and form), 504n, 505–7, 510, 514–15, 525, 527, 534, 539–41, 546–7, 549–50, 559, 570, 576, 753, 803n, 833, 838, 842–3, 846, 852, 866, 871, 880; English 347b (techniques of fiction and criticism), 826n, 852, 911; English 417b (20th-century novel), 674n, 678, 694, 803n, 826n, 848, 866, 903; English unit (medieval literature), 504n, 505–7, 514–15, 520–1, 527, 532, 534, 547, 576, 902; English unit (modern poetry), 436n, 504n, 540, 545–6, 549, 554–5, 564, 570, 575–6, 604, 613, 615; French 13 (reading, grammar, and composition), 179; French 16 (introduction to French literature), 179, 181, 183, 185–6, 189, 198–202, 206, 211–12, 214, 222, 224, 233, 236, 250, 253–4, 264, 266, 267, 276–7, 290, 295, 299–301, 303, 316, 321–2, 324, 329, 332; German 12 (intermediate course), 753, 803n, 806n, 810, 813–14, 817, 822, 824, 826, 828, 833–4, 839, 843, 845–6, 848, 852, 856, 860–1, 866, 868, 889, 899–900, 903, 911, 917–18, 921; German 26 (Lessing, Goethe, Schiller), 780, 806n, 810, 815, 822, 826; Government 11 (introduction to politics), 323, 374n, 388, 392, 399, 401, 404, 406, 410, 413, 415, 423–4, 426, 436, 442, 445; History 11 (general European), 185–7, 189, 194–5, 198–9, 201–2, 205–6, 209–14, 222, 225, 231, 233, 235, 237, 239–40, 243, 250, 253–4, 256–7, 263–5, 268–9, 272, 274, 281, 286, 289–90, 293, 295, 300–2, 306, 309–10, 312, 316, 321–2, 324, 329, 332, 705; History 38b (19th-century European intellectual history), 674n, 678, 694, 701, 724, 726, 759; Physical Education 1a, b (body mechanics, dance, and sports), 199, 250, 256, 263, 265, 323; Physical Education 2a, b (dance and sports), 323, 374, 400, 426; Physical Science 193 (world of atoms), 438, 450, 456, 459, 466, 471, 483, 489–90, 504n, 505, 507, 514–15, 521, 526–8, 530, 532–3, 537, 539, 541, 546–7, 549–50, 554, 558–9, 566, 607; Religion 14 (introduction to religion), 323, 374, 383, 385–6, 392, 396, 399–401, 412, 416, 426, 434, 437, 552; Russian 35b (Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), 674n, 678, 694, 698, 701–2, 704–5, 724, 759;
Dean’s List, 284, 286, 373, 578;
Elizabeth Babcock poetry prize, 602n, 604, 630n, 755n, 1135;
Ethel Olin Corbin prize, 630n, 755n, 929, 1135;
exams and grades of, 173, 175, 179, 229, 236, 239, 256–7, 261, 265, 268–70, 273, 275–6, 281–2, 284, 286, 290, 293, 295, 298–300, 304–5, 307, 309, 312, 316, 321–2, 324, 329–32, 384, 396, 400, 404, 410, 412–13, 420–1, 424, 426, 429, 433–4, 436, 442, 444–5, 512, 521, 527, 532–3, 539, 541, 546, 549–50, 565–6, 576, 613, 615, 623, 628–9, 654, 701–2, 704–5, 724, 739, 741, 753, 757, 759, 808, 822, 826, 835, 838, 855–7, 861, 867–8, 889, 899–901, 903, 911, 916–17, 923, 928, 930;
extracurricular activities: Art Club, 325, 667; Decoration Committee, 302, 306, 400–1, 419–20, 434; Electoral Board, 419, 425, 561, 575–6, 578, 580, 582, 709; Glee Club, 749; Honor Board, 206, 425, 427, 441, 444, 483n, 505n, 513, 554, 561n, 575, 709; Judicial Board, 283–5, 287, 292, 419, 561n; News Office, 392, 414, 423, 439, 507, 543, 583, 586–7, 596, 599, 612, 617, 620, 622–5, 677, 683, 705, 709, 740, 744, 749, 753, 862, 927; Press Board, 373, 392, 396, 398, 401, 406, 411, 414, 423, 425, 426, 433, 436–7, 439–40, 444, 455, 463, 507, 510, 512, 515–16, 527, 533, 543, 558, 575, 583, 601, 612, 613n, 619, 631, 729, 748, 813, 816–18, 860; Push Committee, 440; Smith Review, 438–9, 484, 506–7, 513, 532, 575, 604, 616, 622–4, 626, 683, 708, 731, 843n, 845, 847, 852, 863, 871, 874, 921; Studio Club, 305–6, 325, 414; Honors Committee, 855; Friends of the Smith College Libraries, 439, 441;
lectures, 200–1, 213, 222–3, 374, 388, 392, 396, 398, 406, 411, 412n, 426, 433, 436, 439–40, 443, 541, 546, 549, 559, 586, 592, 607, 676, 679, 686–7, 695, 698–9, 701–2, 706, 726–7, 809, 826, 831;
Marjorie Hope Nicholson prize, 674n, 929;
Paradise Pond, 183, 201, 226, 235, 304, 322, 328, 383, 443, 548, 627, 668, 674, 677, 693–4, 792, 814;
Phi Beta Kappa, 303, 438, 566, 576, 606, 683, 709, 729, 735, 736, 738, 874;
programmes abroad, 168, 179, 203, 323, 418, 432, 463, 512;
Public Relations, 862;
Religious Association, 411n;
Smith College Associated News (SCAN), 175;
Sophian, The, 175n, 911n;
Sports, 667;
SP’s interpersonal relationships at, 687;
student life: advisors, 174–5, 668; artwork, renting of, 679; bridge playing of, 178, 195, 202, 255, 261, 327, 421, 505, 657, 664, 665, 679, 685, 694, 697, 701, 724, 808; Chapel, 199, 231, 305, 438, 589, 667, 701; Christmas vacations, 403, 405, 408, 531, 812, 841–2, 847, 867; commencement, 902, 922, 932; cooperative houses, 209, 313, 317, 319, 418, 423, 431, 519, 666; dating, 183, 185, 190, 203–4, 213, 220, 227, 230, 235–9, 241, 245, 255, 266, 271–2, 277–8, 307, 328, 411, 667; fire drills, 816; Float Night, 325, 328, 627, 668, 725, 759, 825; Freshman Dance, 306–7, 414; hosiery, selling of, 374; house dances, 215, 230, 236, 247–9, 254, 401–2, 405, 414, 529, 531, 564, 815–16, 844, 846, 850; house meetings, 219, 235, 242, 257, 296, 405, 426, 515, 530, 578, 816, 911; International Students’ Day, 396, 414; meals, 173
, 177, 180, 198, 202, 208, 216, 226, 228, 242, 245, 252–3, 267–8, 278, 303, 308, 311–12, 383, 438, 440, 444–5, 506, 508, 515, 534, 536, 542, 555, 584, 604, 627, 687, 700, 726, 735–6; Junior Prom, 304, 521, 572; Mountain Day, 187, 192–3, 395, 439, 513, 802, 812–14; Rally Day, 284, 286–7, 420, 558, 560–1, 564, 568, 690, 695; reading periods, 615, 741, 744; riotous living fund, 823; safety rules, 832; Smith Club, 306, 323; snow storms, 253–5, 269, 289–90, 294, 674, 677, 693–4; Sophomore Prom, 300, 401, 411, 413, 425, 438; spring, 321, 328, 432, 575, 690; spring vacations, 229, 275, 281, 283, 292, 295, 318, 418, 422, 424, 429, 432, 449, 570, 582–3, 601, 660, 675, 679, 702, 899, 902, 905, 906; tuition, 310, 423, 431, 667; waitressing, 503, 507, 512, 533, 622; Vocational Office, 307, 318, 893
‘Smith College Club Tea For Freshman And Undergraduates’, 560n
Smythe, Richard (‘Dick’), 524
Snerd, Mortimer, 67
Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 962
Snow Inn, 476
Snow White (legendary character), 121
Socrates, 1191, 1273
Soho (London), 965, 1055, 1058, 1062n, 1107
Sonnenfeld, Marion, 802, 803n, 806n, 822, 826, 831, 835
Sons of the American Revolution Prize, 415
Sophocles, 1085, 1099, 1130n; Electra, 1130; Oedipus Rex, 995n; Philoctetes, 1099–1100, 1102
Sotheby’s (firm), 274n, 651n
Sousa, John Philip, ‘Stars and Stripes Forever, The’, 82
South Africa, 967, 977, 1057, 1085
South America, 251, 489, 654, 1216, 1303
South Beach, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 115
South Dennis, Mass., 482, 489, 494
South Orange, New Jersey, 404, 407
South Pacific, 473, 476, 1103n;
‘A Cockeyed Optimist’, 1103n;
‘A Wonderful Guy’ (quotation from), 714n
South Station (Boston), 94, 101–2, 133
Southampton, UK, 1079, 1159, 1190–1
Southern Rhodesia, 37
Southward Inn (Orleans, Mass.), 435, 486, 704, 707, 856, 887
Sou’wester (restaurant), 481
Spain, 891, 1013, 1038, 1055, 1080, 1104, 1132, 1136, 1153, 1160–1, 1166, 1171, 1175, 1179, 1181, 1187, 1190, 1192, 1195, 1200, 1205, 1207, 1209–11, 1213–15, 1217, 1222–3, 1225–6, 1235, 1238–40, 1248, 1259, 1261, 1264, 1268, 1287, 1298–1300, 1308, 1316, 1321, 1323–4, 1326n, 1327–8, 1330; Spanish language, 891, 895
Spaulding, Myrtle, 771
Spencer, Edmund, 534
Spender, Natasha, 1311–12
Spender, Stephen, 962, 1094, 1117, 1120, 1152, 1253, 1257, 1285, 1311–13
Spillane, Mickey, 532, 926–7
Springfield, Mass., 270, 306, 412, 516, 550, 553, 571, 585, 627, 732
Springfield Cubs, 627
Springfield Daily News (Springfield, Mass.), 373n, 463, 484, 512, 587; SP’s work in, 512n, 516n
Springfield Sunday Republican (Springfield, Mass.), 373n
Springfield Union (Springfield, Mass.), 373n, 624, 628; SP’s work in, 411–12n, 425–6n, 439n, 613n
Stafford, Jean, 1084, 1256n, 1298; ‘The Mountain Day’, 1298n; ‘A Reading Problem’, 1256n, 1298n
Stair, Holly, see Greer, Holly
Stamper, John, 825, 857
Stanway, Arthur Gordon (‘Gord’), 359n, 360, 385, 391, 402
Star Island, Isles of Shoals, off Portsmouth, NH, 54, 56, 59, 145–6, 147n; Judy (Camper), 146
Star Market, 773, 938n
Starr, Eleanor, see Darcy, Eleanor Starr
Starr, Kay, 788n
Staten Island Ferry, 718
Statue of Liberty, 718
Steck, Jean, 10
Steele, Priscilla, 38, 45–6, 108
Stein, Dorothea Wormser, 1149
Stein, Gertrude, 652
Steinbeck, John, In Dubious Battle, 333; East of Eden, 1076; The Grapes of Wrath, 333
Steiner, George, 626n
Steiner, Nancy Hunter, 706, 724–5, 727–9, 732–3, 742, 747–9, 751, 753–4, 758–9, 773, 780, 782–3, 786, 791, 794–5, 805, 818, 828, 852, 858, 878, 911, 914, 969, 978, 1236, 1260, 1299
Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noire, 975, 986, 998, 1040, 1044, 1229
Steps of Age, The (motion picture), 717n
Sterling, W. Wayne, 46, 84–5, 113, 119, 129–30
Stern, Ernest, 259n
Stern, Marcia B. (‘Marty’, ‘Brownie’), 178n, 259, 262, 267, 272–80, 284, 287–8, 292–4, 296–7, 300–1, 306–8, 310–11, 313, 316, 318–20, 322, 326–7, 339–40, 345–6, 351, 353, 356–9, 361–4, 374, 376, 380, 382, 385, 390, 394, 396, 400, 403–4, 406–11, 415, 418, 421, 434, 437, 441, 445, 451, 489, 506–7, 510–12, 516– 17, 525, 527, 550, 554–5, 582, 584–5, 587–8, 590, 603, 615, 623, 637, 688, 692n, 695, 703, 713, 724–5, 726n, 729, 732, 742, 761, 766, 777, 782, 852, 903, 905–6, 943, 948, 952, 1006, 1041, 1052, 1102, 1189, 1193, 1195, 1197, 1206, 1234, 1250, 1299; marriage of, 698–9, 704, 707, 742, 755, 757, 758, 763, 781; SP’s correspondence with, 329–30, 332–7, 340–1, 343–5, 350–1, 367–70, 464–74, 1056–8, 1151–4
Sterne, Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 727
Stevens, Wallace, 920, 1311
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Erving), 475, 479, 516, 520, 523, 846–7, 932
Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 823
Stewart, David Hamish, 1120
Stix, John, 948n
Stocklan, Joyce, see Goldberg, Joyce Stocklan
Stockton, Frank R., ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’, 662, 743
Storer, Elizabeth, see Paynter, Elizabeth Storer
Stout, John Anthony (‘Tony’), 243, 247, 276, 696
Strahan, Derek, 1120
Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1026, 1042, 1048, 1171, 1177–9
Strauss, Harold, SP’s correspondence with, 463
Strauss, Johann, 153, 266, 379; ‘The Blue Danube’, 82; Die Fledermaus, 492; Voices of Spring, 104n
Street and Smith Publications, 659n, 673
Strindberg, August, 1043, 1046, 1060, 1085–6, 1090, 1122; The Ghost Sonata, 1043n
Strong, Joan, see Buell, Joan Strong
Struik, Dirk J. (Dirk Jan), 425
Stuart, Gilbert, 43n
Sudbury, Mass., 33
Suicide, 694–5; see also Plath, Sylvia (suicide attempt of)
Sullins, Bessie McAlpine, 265n, 266
Sullivan, Charles (‘Charlie’), 240
Summertime (motion picture), 959
Sunday Tribune (Sunday Herald Tribune), 176
‘Sunset in Seville’, 82
Sutcliffe’s Inn, 1275
Svengali (motion picture), 941n, 942
Swampscott, Mass., 306, 308, 318, 329–30, 340–2, 344, 347, 370
Swan Lake (choreographic work), 432, 611
Swarthmore College, 869
Swarz, Sahl, 1025
Sweden, 251, 406, 890, 993, 1074
Sweeney, Sean, 1014, 1038
Swenson, May, 1256n; ‘The Promontory Moment’, 1256n
Swift, Jonathan, 1287
Swinton, George, 325
Switzerland, 140, 1067, 1122, 1140, 1145
Sydney, Australia, 969n
Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1122, 1318n; Deirdre of the Sorrows, 1318
Szell, George, 277n
Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 516, 520, 523
Taj Mahal (restaurant), 1037, 1134, 1253
Tales of Hoffman (motion picture), 940n
Talking books, 1111
Tallchief, Maria, 637, 640
Tangier, Morocco, 889–92, 894, 956, 965
Tansley, Sir A. G. (Arthur George), 1003, 1043
Tansley, Edith, Lady, 1003n, 1017, 1043, 1049
Tansley, Katharine, 1003n, 1012–13, 1031, 1043, 1049
Tapley, Arden, see Ramrath, Arden Tapley
Tarot (cards), 1306, 1327
Tate, Allen, 597, 601, 1152
Tate Gallery, 1296
Tati, Jacques, 508n
Taylor,
Joshua, 1199, see also Joshua Taylor
Taylor, Marge, 10
Taylor, Susan Slye, 271
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, Eugene Onegin, 104n; Piano Concerto No. 1, 1026, 1040
Tchelitchew, Pavel, 779
Teasdale, Sara, 1012, 1181, 1237, 1268, 1289, 1330; ‘The Crystal Gazer’, 1012n; ‘Two Songs for Solitude’ (quotation from), 1012n
Teed, Nancy, see Shears, Nancy Teed
Telephone systems, 773, 881
Television, 160, 273, 336, 638–9, 642, 657, 879, 1210, 1248, 1254, 1269, 1281
Tennessee, 355n
Tennyson, Alfred, Baron, 332, 538n; ‘Break Break Break’, 538n; ‘The Eagle’, 332n; ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ 659
Terry, 1269
Texas, 273
Texas Christian University, 705n, 708
Thames River (England), 969, 1205
Thanksgiving Day, 139, 157, 177, 187, 196–8, 211–13, 217, 221–2, 225, 244, 384, 387, 400, 402–3, 431, 508n, 514, 519–21, 523, 525, 527–9, 531, 824, 834–8, 840, 1032
Themerson, Franciszka, 1037n, 1054n, 1056n
‘These Foolish Things’, 869
Thiébaux, Marcelle, 550
Thiel family, 28
Thomas, Dylan, 615, 634, 670–2, 682, 705, 709, 717, 770, 920, 1010, 1014, 1144n, 1164–7, 1173, 1177, 1179, 1185, 1200, 1203, 1278, 1312; ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’, 682; ‘Fern Hill’, 682n, 1144; ‘In the White Giant’s Thigh’, 682; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, 1200; Under Milk Wood (quotation from), 671, 762; ‘The Vest’, 898n
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, ‘The Hill People’, 480
Thompson, Alice, 259, 261n, 509n
Thompson, Peggy, ‘This is how it was’, 449n
Thompson, Sue, 544n
Thomson, Patricia May, 35
Thornell, Colleen Marie, 924–5
Thornell, Emma M. Takacs, 924–5
Thornell, Robert, 924–7
Thornell, Russell E., 924–5
Thornell, Susan, 974, 815, 924n
Thornton, Reese, 1087