this happens to be a team named the vassar resolutes, which was a women's baseball team. you might notice their uniforms look a lot different than our excellent ucla women's softball team, which is advancing to the finals, they play at easton stadium, our own beloved campus here. and i want to take just a minute to expand the slides. at first, women were only supposed to bring -- to be spectators. to bring refinement any given sport. but it was found that you can keep them out. they wanted to join exercise clubs. they wanted to go boating and swim, became very popular among young women in the 1860's, and 1870's, 1880's, 1890's. the gilded age. baseball and other sports flourished at the new women's colleges, like vassar, which you see here, where freshmen women in this depiction, formed a baseball team. and they really loved it. they really loved it. however, you should note that tragedy ensued, and that is because their mothers complained to the college. they complained that baseball was too violent for young ladies. and it was disbanded, only to be reformed when those m

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had a superb background and education, both for her prep school years as well as going two years to vassar, then to the sorbonne for junior year abroad in paris, and then finally, to finish up at george washington university. so one of really a relatively handful of first ladies up to that time with a bachelor's degree, an undergraduate degree. beschloss: and you know, as we talk about art, i think sometimes it's forgotten, her influence on historic preservation. you know, nowadays we take it as a given when there's a beautiful and historic building. there had better be a very good reason to take it down or else you do not do it. just 50 years ago, that was not the case. you know, that's when the term urban renewal was used. that something new was usually better than something old. if john kennedy and particularly jackie kennedy as first lady had not been the president and first lady in the early 1960s, the executive office building next to the white house would've been torn down, which dwight eisenhower was very eager to do, thought it was an eyesore. probably half of lafayette square, th