With 40 unique, self-governing houses on campus, living at Smith feels a lot like coming home. Most students choose to live on campus for the duration of their college career, which means you get to live with people from all four class years, enjoying timeless traditions like Friday afternoon tea.
Less than two years after the invention of basketball, in 1891, Smith’s director of physical education, Senda Berenson, adapted the game for women. The first women’s basketball game was played in the Alumnae Gym in 1893, with the sophomores beating the first-years 5–4. Berenson was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
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“I have done a lot so far, but I know I still have so much to learn. I know I want to pursue Hudson Creek Canines, though, and I know what goes into that is education.”
