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Miss Thomas.... ("May Day At Thomas Garrett Settlement" -n.d.) no newspaper name / article in JMT files

She remained thee for six years.
The experiences at the Settlement House deepened her interest in costume design as a professional goal. At the same time, however, the shift from the Froebellian method of teaching young children concerned Thomas. As she recalled, "There was no more of the old ways of teaching. Now they used the Montessori method. I told my mother I would have to change my life, that technology was taking over." 14
Alma Thomas left Delaware and returned to Washington, D.C. in 1921; and, at the age of 30 enrolled at Howard University with the idea of pursuing a career as a costume designer in the Department of Home Economics. Howard University Chartered on March 2, 1867, and approved by the United States Congress, it provided for a University with the following departments: Normal, Collegiate, Theological, Law, Medical, Agriculture, and any other departments desired.* When it was first known that the University was opened, applications came from all kinds of people seeking admission. The University was "a new thing in the country - a university where black and white, old and young, married and single, ignorant and informed, male and female - all could enter, with or without money."*
March 2, 1917, was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Howard University. But a month later, on April 19, the United States entered WW I.
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