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The first class of eighty-seven women arrived on campus in 1932.

The College was the first to include the visual and performing arts as full-fledged elements of the liberal arts curriculum.

Every year since the College began in 1932, every Bennington College student has engaged in internships and volunteer opportunities each winter term.

Originally called the Winter Field & Reading Period, the two-month term was described by President Robert Devore Leigh in his 1928 Bennington College Prospectus as " a long winter recess giving students and faculty opportunity for travel, field work, and educational advantages of metropolitan life.

" This internship was renamed twice, as Non-Resident term and, as it is called today, Field Work Term.