Interesting background from the University’s Alumni Association:  “Dr. Paul A. Chadbourne was chief administrator of UW, from 1867 to 1871. Chadbourne believed that because women were a distraction for men, they were not serious students.  He fought to have a sexually segregated campus. So, Ladies Hall was constructed in 1871 to house the Wisconsin Female College.  In 1874, after Chadbourne left UW, education was desegregated, and men and women began to share classes. It was then that Ladies Hall stopped housing classes and became just a women’s dormitory. In 1901, Dean Edward A. Birge renamed Ladies Hall as “Chadbourne Hall”.  The current Chadbourne Residential College, built in 1959, stands where old Chadbourne Hall previously stood. The Chadbourne facility was occupied by women only until 1995, when it opened its doors to coeducational living.”  And the postcard was mailed in 1909, with stamp and postmark, and written by a student whose concerns are timeless.  Grade: 1